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First thing you see here in 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:36,600 this, let's read the worst one, Paul, an apostle sent not from 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:44,320 men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,240 raised him from the dead and all the brothers with me. 12 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,040 Now this is a very unusual beginning of an epistle that 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,600 Paul makes so many times. He will be exuberant and he will 14 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,840 be praising God and for the people giving thanks for them. 15 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,840 You know greetings here the no greeting greetings come later. 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,040 It comes in to the churches in aggression peace to you was in 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,720 verse 3. It comes So what was the 18 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,240 pressing thing that is in Pauls mind. 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:19,000 Why was Paul under pressure to sidestep and not follow the 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,200 protocol of letter writing. You know who is writing to whom 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,200 they are writing in a greetings and then you start with the 22 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,160 matter. But here is something is 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,560 troubling Paul. What is troubling Paul is that 24 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,480 his apostleship was being questioned. 25 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,280 People are questioning the apostleship and saying, oh, are 26 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,080 you an apostle? No, no, no. 27 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,640 Did you, did you see Jesus Christ? 28 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,040 You know when we look into that scripture portion in Acts 29 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,560 chapter 1/22/21 and 22 when they want to select one more apostle 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,440 to replace Judas who had committed suicide, they put few 31 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,600 conditions. One of the things they said is 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,560 that apostle should be eyewitness from the time of 33 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,600 Jesus baptism by John the Baptist till he appeared to 34 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,000 them. Reason. 35 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,160 So that is one of the condition. But I think even among the 12 36 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,120 not all were witnesses, witnesses of John, the baptism 37 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,920 of John from the way I look at the study the scripture. 38 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,320 But from that point on they should be knowing Jesus. 39 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:31,120 The second thing they said is eyewitness of resurrection. 40 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,680 They should have witnessed A risen Christ. 41 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,760 And thirdly, appointed directly by reason Jesus Christ. 42 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,440 Then empowered by Jesus, you will receive power when the Holy 43 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:44,840 Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses. 44 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,600 Acts 1/8. When these things are all 45 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,520 fulfilled, then that person can be an apostle. 46 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,760 So with great difficulty they found two people. 47 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,800 They cost large selected one man called Matthias not almost has 48 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,640 so to be an apostle. There are qualifications, but 49 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:08,440 Paul says OK if they if these are the qualifications to be an 50 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,120 apostle to one who is born out of time. 51 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,560 He appeared to me also, he seen the reason Christ, but in a 52 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:21,680 vision as he was pursuing Judaism and he was persecuting 53 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:25,840 the Church and we was going to Damascus and then you know all 54 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,200 the story we have done when we studied the book of Acts, 55 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,600 basically many things that I want to say I am holding back 56 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,800 because I already have said it when we studied the book of 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,280 Acts, but I will remind a little bit here and there. 58 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:45,520 So he says he is an apostle sent not from men nor by man. 59 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,280 So two times the words used there is men and man is the 60 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,800 Greek root word is anthropos. Anthropos is in general for 61 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,760 mankind, not an individual man. Individual man is aner, Aner is 62 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:08,280 the Greek word for individual man and gynec or some word is 63 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,600 for the female if it is an individual female. 64 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:19,240 So here we see that it is not by man, not from men, not by man. 65 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,480 What does he mean by it? When he became blind on the day 66 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,120 Jesus appeared to him, he told him, go into the city, you'll be 67 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,280 told what to do. And he was waiting there for 68 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:30,920 fasting and praying for three days. 69 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,040 And God says to ananyas, go, there's a man called Saul living 70 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,120 in the street, and go and lay and lay your hands on him, 71 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,240 because he has seen you come and lay your hands on him to receive 72 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,440 his sight. He has become blind. 73 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,680 So was not Ananyas playing a very important key role in 74 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:53,680 Paul's life? But he has, he says, not by men, 75 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:58,480 not by man. So God can use people, but 76 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:03,560 behind the people is God. He's not trying to be ungrateful 77 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,280 to say ananyas. I don't care what he did for me. 78 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:10,600 He's not saying that. What he's saying is Gods hand is 79 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,480 on my life in my car. That's what he's saying. 80 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,400 And then and but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. 81 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,920 Now again he says he's, he's appointed an apostle by Jesus 82 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,320 Christ and by the Father. Now when he's saying these two 83 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:27,960 names together, what does he mean? 84 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,040 He's putting Jesus Christ on the same level as God the Father. 85 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,600 He's not trying to say 1 is lower, another is higher. 86 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:42,440 No, he's saying both are the same, both are equal, Co eternal 87 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,800 coexistent. You know, that's how the apostle 88 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,440 script goes, one of the apostle scripts. 89 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,600 So and he says God the Father who raised him from the dead, 90 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,640 who raised Jesus from the dead, God the Father. 91 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,840 And elsewhere he says I have, I have power to lay down my life 92 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,600 and take it back. So who raises himself? 93 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,240 He raised himself as well. And somewhere in Romans again, 94 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,400 Paul writes, he was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit. 95 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,480 Holy Spirit raised him up. So all three persons are 96 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,280 involved in every act of the life of Christ. 97 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,160 It is not just only one anytime. So here we have all these things 98 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,760 and and going on at the same time. 99 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,720 So again when you when you look at this kind of a thing you have 100 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,200 to observe the little little words in in that verse Paul and 101 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:36,000 apostle sent not from men from that little preposition from 102 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,120 says that it is a source. What is the source of his 103 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:45,200 apathership? Jesus Christ and God the Father 104 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:51,920 and then he says again by nor nor by man agency is not through 105 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,280 any man's agency but God himself. 106 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,400 I always wondered why is Paul taking so much of pain to 107 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,920 establish his apathership? Because you know he, he made 108 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,440 three trips, three I mean Pauls missionary journey 1-2 and three 109 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:11,840 we see it and then this letter is written to where does he 110 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,080 where does he say to the churches in Galatia? 111 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,360 So what are the churches in Galatia? 112 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,040 I have explained these things. When we did the study on Book of 113 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:24,320 Acts, when he particularly came to the area of Bithynia, the 114 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,480 Holy Spirit would not allow him to preach the gospel there. 115 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:32,480 Instead, he had a vision of a man from Macedonia saying to 116 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,880 him, please come and help us. So they set sail again to Troas. 117 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,480 Remember these things we talked about, you know, I have not even 118 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:41,440 referred to them yesterday or day before. 119 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,720 Anytime. It's all from this study of 120 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,680 acts. So if he did not go into 121 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,520 Bithynia, that's called, that area is called Northern Galatia. 122 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,880 But he went through Antioch, PCD and all those kind of places, 123 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,040 Troas, that is the Southern Galatia. 124 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:00,720 Now what is all this about? In 3rd century BC, the soldiers 125 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,680 came from France. Those days they should call them 126 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:09,560 Gaul, Gaul, Gaul. And they came and attacked and 127 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,760 came in, I mean in war. And some of them settled in that 128 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,240 place. And when the Romans came, after 129 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,120 three centuries and when the Romans came, they have formed 130 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:25,440 one big district or one big province, and they called it 131 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,360 Galatia. So all the little cities that 132 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,920 are there in that region, they are called Galatia. 133 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,880 So Galatia is not one city, it's a province kind of a thing. 134 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,000 So the question the theologians have is, is he writing to the 135 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:42,840 churches in the northern Galatia or the southern Galatia? 136 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,240 But in the book of Acts, we don't have much reference to 137 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,760 northern Galatia at all. So most of the churches he 138 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,480 mentions in the book of Acts is southern Galatia. 139 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,520 So most probably the letter is written to southern Galatia. 140 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:58,280 I do not want to have an argument about that part because 141 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,960 it doesn't really matter to us now whether it is that or this. 142 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,160 We have the epistle and which is the earliest of the episodes 143 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:12,400 that he wrote and because of, and this is also called a mini 144 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:17,280 book of Romans. It's called a mini book of 145 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,160 Romans. Why? 146 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:24,520 In this episode, Paul defends or proves that justification is by 147 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:29,840 faith. And you know, two or three days 148 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:36,320 ago we had Halloween, but that is the time Joseph was saying it 149 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,120 is the Reformation day. Every year the same day. 150 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,320 Reformation Day falls on the same day as Halloween, or rather 151 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,520 Halloween falls on the same day as Reformation Day. 152 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 People don't celebrate Reformation day. 153 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,440 Book of Galatians, Galatians is all about that. 154 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,640 And this book was very dear to Martin Luther, one of the best 155 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,200 books. I mean, he has written 156 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,160 extensively on the book of Galatians and Martin Luther who 157 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,360 brought the big revival called Reformation. 158 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,560 And one of the key things he mentioned is that we are 159 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:16,560 justified by faith, which was something went against the Roman 160 00:10:16,560 --> 00:10:19,040 Catholicism that was prevailing at that time. 161 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:23,040 The Catholic Church was trying to sell indulgences, you know, 162 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,880 certificates and put money here. Your father died all long time 163 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:28,640 ago. When you put the money, he will 164 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,880 jump from here to here. All those kinds of funny stories 165 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,200 were going on at that time until Martin Luther said, no, we are 166 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,800 justified by faith. And that particular thing that 167 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,800 you see is more fully expounded in the book of Romans, but he 168 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,880 also expounds it in the book of Galatians. 169 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,680 So what they say is Galatians is the first episode he wrote, and 170 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:56,320 he developed the idea from the book of Romans, from writing to 171 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,000 Galatians. He got the idea and further 172 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,080 expanded it into another letter to Romans and which is more 173 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,600 powerful and more in depth and has a greater scope. 174 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,640 We all grow. Martin Luther grew in his 175 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,240 understanding. We also grow in our 176 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,280 understanding. It is all step by step. 177 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,160 So what is the problem here is he has gone through these 178 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,880 churches and preached the gospel, established the 179 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,480 churches. But when he is coming again, the 180 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,640 second journey or sometime he saw, he saw that people are 181 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,840 leaving the faith because some people who wanted to distort the 182 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,200 gospel came and were preaching a different gospel, which I am 183 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:40,760 going to talk about it next Sunday because that is there in 184 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,360 verse 7. Today I am hoping to finish only 185 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,920 5 verses. If I finish 5 verses, I'll be 186 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:53,240 very glad. So that was his problem. 187 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,000 So he's challenging these people. 188 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,720 Hey guys, have you forgotten? Why are you leaving the gospel, 189 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,360 the gospel that I preached and why are you changing your faith? 190 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,400 Why are you believing which is not a gospel? 191 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,040 So that was his concern for writing this kind of a epistle. 192 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,320 And with the gospel comes challenge to his apostleship. 193 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,840 Why? If people have to, if somebody 194 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,640 who wants to change somebodies faith, first you will attack the 195 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,840 man, they will attack the teaching, both at the same time. 196 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,560 So that is what they were doing here. 197 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,280 You're attaching his attacking his teaching and you're 198 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,360 attacking the man. So he's saying, hey, you can't 199 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:37,880 do it because God had called me. God has called me and nobody has 200 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,560 called me. He's the one who appeared to me. 201 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,240 He's the one who called me. He's the one appointment to an 202 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,680 apostle. What is apostle? 203 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,600 It's simply in the Greek it simply means sent one. 204 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:54,080 But Jesus applied it to his disciples and called them 205 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,720 apostles and he gave them a different meaning. 206 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,120 They are going to be his Commission commissioners, they 207 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,840 are going to be his ambassadors, they are going to be 208 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,840 representing Jesus and they are going to represent all that 209 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,200 Jesus taught, all that Jesus did, and they are going to 210 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:11,280 continue to do what Jesus did through their life. 211 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:18,480 And that is the reason why the word apostle has got a more 212 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:23,440 significant meaning, because of the meaning that Jesus put into 213 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,520 their disciples, whom we call apostles, and the way he used 214 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,680 them for the furtherance of the gospel and for the establishment 215 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:33,280 of the Kingdom of God and for establishing the churches. 216 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,320 That is the reason why the apostle has assumed a very big 217 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,720 meaning. But nowadays everybody calls 218 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,760 himself an apostle. I am not going into that. 219 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,680 But be careful. Whoever calls an apostle, I will 220 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:54,040 just, you know. So we have to be very careful. 221 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:55,880 I don't want to call myself an apostle. 222 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,600 No, I am not an apostle. I have seen Christ. 223 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,600 I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit. 224 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,640 I have seen Christ in a vision, but not that vision that you 225 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:09,960 know, the open vision. I have not seen Christ in open 226 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:11,160 vision. I have seen him in a spiritual 227 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,840 vision with my eyes closed. But open vision is when your 228 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,800 eyes are open. And that's why Paul lost his 229 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:23,400 eyesight because he saw the glory with his physical eyes and 230 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,760 he became blind. So I don't have this experience. 231 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,400 So I'm not an apostle. So I'm just. 232 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,240 So anyway, one of the things that is important to any church 233 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,520 is when there is a pastor, he should know his call. 234 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,520 If the pastor is not clear about his call, where is he going to 235 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:46,800 take them? It's like blind leading the 236 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,520 blind. So it's going to be a very, very 237 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,120 bad situation. So pastor should know that he is 238 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,440 called and very important and like Paul's relationship is 239 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:03,840 challenged, Moses relationship is challenged and in the 240 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,320 prophets were challenged like Jeremiah, he was challenged and 241 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,600 so many times you know they, I mean Jesus himself was 242 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,040 challenged and ultimately they crucified him. 243 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,040 So that thing is going to happen. 244 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,320 History will repeat itself. But we need to be careful what 245 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,920 we oppose. We need to be very careful 246 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,400 because there is a blessing in agreement which will be lost 247 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,080 when we don't agree. Cool. 248 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:34,800 So Paul and apostle sent not from men nor by man, but by 249 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,920 Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead and 250 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,960 all the brothers with me. So here he doesn't tell who are 251 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,280 with him. Probably Barnabas was with him 252 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,200 or if it is a in the second missionary journey they split 253 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,680 and Silverness was with him or another name. 254 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,080 Many, probably Timothy was with him and a few other people were 255 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:01,920 with him. So Paul had this magnetic 256 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,480 personality that people are able to leave their home, their 257 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,280 business and things like that and follow him and preach the 258 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:10,920 gospel and support him, be with him. 259 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,400 It amazes me in those days who would you leave your home? 260 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:16,760 You don't know when you are coming back. 261 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,080 You leave your wife, your children, your business and say, 262 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:27,160 hey, I'm going with Paul. It is very, very scary 263 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,360 experience, at least to me to sit now and think of these 264 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:34,320 people following Paul. It scares me and I always ask 265 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:36,080 God, Lord, why don't I attract anybody? 266 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:44,200 Nobody believes me so much like anyway, just leave it there. 267 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:51,120 That thought and yeah, so he is graciously giving the Co 268 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:52,720 authorship to the people who are with him. 269 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,760 He's not just saying I am writing this letter, He's saying 270 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,040 I am called, I am called to an apostle. 271 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,520 But we are all writing together, including other people with him 272 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,920 in writing this letter. And now he comes back to the 273 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,119 usual standard. Grace and peace to you from God 274 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:11,440 our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 275 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,640 If you have heard me before, you know what I'm going to say, 276 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:19,400 isn't it? The grace is the Greek Paris and 277 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,000 the peace is the Shalom of Hebrew concept and he combines 278 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,400 them both and give makes a Christian greeting which is very 279 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:33,240 powerful in his depth and scope because grace is the foundation 280 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,480 for Our Calling. Grace is a foundation for us to 281 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,720 experience God. Grace is the foundation that is 282 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:42,760 drawing you to God. You cannot be drawn to God 283 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:48,480 unless he shows grace to you. And when he says peace, Shalom, 284 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,360 that's all-encompassing Shalom, peace, peace not just in your 285 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:55,760 mind, it is peace in your spirit, is peace in your soul 286 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,280 that includes your mind, is peace in your emotions. 287 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:00,600 There's peace in your health, peace in your body. 288 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,000 There will not be sickness, there will not be trouble. 289 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,960 There is peace. And I tell you, this is what we 290 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,400 need, grace and peace, everyone of us. 291 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,160 And that's Paul says to Galatians, yes, it is yours. 292 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,280 And when he says it to them, he is saying to us, grace and peace 293 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:22,680 is yours. Can we hear Amen, Amen. 294 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,640 From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 295 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,000 Again, he puts both of them together in the same thing. 296 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,240 So you have it from the Father and from Jesus, grace and peace, 297 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:39,360 who gave himself for our sins, who gave himself for our sins. 298 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,160 He is saying that Jesus gave himself for our sins. 299 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,880 But we know John 316. What does it say? 300 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:52,320 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, who gave 301 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,600 the Father. Father gave Son to die. 302 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:01,560 And here Jesus says, Paul says Jesus gave himself up to die. 303 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,440 Did the Holy Spirit say Amen? Was he there? 304 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:09,440 He was there when he was conceived. 305 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,920 He was there upon Mary so that Jesus can come into the world, 306 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,680 so that he can die. You know, this is just amazing 307 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,720 how you have the Triune God acting all the time, in every 308 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:24,640 act, every, every, every minute detail. 309 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:28,440 So he gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present 310 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,520 evil age. Everybody say rescue us from the 311 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:37,520 present evil age. Now rescue is a very big world. 312 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:44,640 Rescue is a very big world. Rescue is pulling someone out of 313 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,400 danger, forcefully taking them out of danger. 314 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,440 It's something like, imagine a house caught on fire and there's 315 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,120 a little baby there. What are you going to do? 316 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,280 You are going to rush through the fire, through the smoke, and 317 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,680 you're going to grab the child and pull the child out of the 318 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,280 danger. So you are going to do 2 things. 319 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:09,760 One is it is you. You are, you are pulling that 320 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,720 baby out of the danger. Is the baby saying please take 321 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,480 me off from here may not be able to say that, but you are 322 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,080 forcefully bringing the child out of the situation. 323 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,880 It is beyond your capacity, beyond your imagination even. 324 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,320 You don't even think you are going to live or you may not be 325 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:34,400 aware of the danger, but God says I rescue you, I rescue you 326 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,440 and the rescue. Did Paul experience powerful 327 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,640 rescue in his life? He did. 328 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:45,840 The way he was going, the road that on which he was going was a 329 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:49,400 murderous Rd., Rd. full of bloodshed. 330 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,480 And God rescued him from that kind of a situation or he 331 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,880 rescued him. So he knows what is to be 332 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,960 rescued from being distracted forever, his name being struck 333 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,680 off forever in the books of in the in the Book of Life, God 334 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,000 rescued him from going down that road and rescued him. 335 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,040 And then when mobs were attacking him, the centurion 336 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:25,800 rescued him, you know? Yeah, when he was talking to the 337 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,320 people, you know, people were wanting to kill him and they 338 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,520 surrounded him and they were trying to punch him. 339 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,000 And then the Century and orders his soldiers go bring him up 340 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,480 from there so that they lift him up from the crowd and bring him 341 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,520 inside. That's rescue. 342 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,280 He was rescued himself like that. 343 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,440 And then human agents become God's instruments of God's 344 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,840 productive purpose like that Centurion has become a even 345 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,280 though he was a human agent, he became a God's instrument to 346 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,200 rescue Paul from being killed in the situation. 347 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:01,040 And then in the in the in the life of Peter. 348 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,720 He was, he had wanted to kill him because he had success with 349 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,400 James and now he's OK. People are liking me what I have 350 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,440 done. So he puts Peter in the prison, 351 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:18,640 wanting him to execute him or to, you know, take his head away 352 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,560 after the festival and he was in the jail and you got 3. 353 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,680 It's a very high, high security prison. 354 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,360 And what did God do? The Angel goes into the cell. 355 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:36,120 He was asleep. He was very sound asleep and 356 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:41,120 people here in Mark's house, his parents house, all the people 357 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:43,240 are losing sleep and they are praying for him. 358 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,680 God rescue him, rescue him, rescue him. 359 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,600 And there's one said prayer is going on. 360 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,720 And this man, he was sleeping in a cell and the Angel comes and 361 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,000 taps him and shakes him and say get up. 362 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,520 He thought I am seeing a vision. I think he's in the days 363 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,200 condition. He's thinking he's a vision. 364 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:04,560 He's seeing a vision, and the fetus fell off. 365 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,440 He became free, and his coat must be hanging on a nail 366 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,680 somewhere there. He picks it up, puts on the 367 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,000 coat, and then the door opens by itself. 368 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,000 Then he comes to another door. The soldiers are all sleeping, 369 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:22,040 and that door opens and the last gate approaches the prison that 370 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,720 opens by itself. You know, that will be the most 371 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:30,040 heaviest door made out of iron, and even if you open, it will be 372 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,400 squeaking and making noise, and then that opens by itself. 373 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,520 And Peter was laid out and he walked few blocks and then the 374 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,840 Angel left him. And when he found himself, 375 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,960 probably he must have gone and hit the wall sidewall. 376 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,320 Oh, it's real. Oh, I thought it's a vision. 377 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:52,200 No, I've been rescued. That is a powerful world rescue. 378 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:58,080 So that is what Paul is saying, that Jesus Christ has rescued us 379 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:03,400 from the present evil age. Everybody say present evil age. 380 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,280 So what is the present evil age? What is the characteristic of 381 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,920 present evil age? He talks about in Ephesians 382 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:18,080 chapter 2 as well. It is you are all dead in your 383 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,840 sins and trespasses. You know when when you are dead 384 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,280 in your sins and trespasses, when you are obeying the Prince 385 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,200 of the present, Prince of the power of the air, you are 386 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,440 basically when you don't have salvation. 387 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,280 You are under the grip of Satan. Satan rules your life. 388 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:37,160 If Satan dictates your likes and dislikes, he makes you like 389 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,320 things that are contrary to the will of God, and you get deeper 390 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,840 and deeper into sin and that is what is the picture. 391 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:48,760 And God rescues us from the present evil age and gives us 392 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,160 salvation, forgiveness and a new title, son or daughter of God. 393 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,360 And he says, Yo, I have put you my own righteousness upon you. 394 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,520 You are no longer a Sinner anymore. 395 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,960 What a great, what a great good news is it? 396 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:09,720 It is just goodbye to your past. You just look at the past. 397 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,760 Goodbye. I have nothing to do with you 398 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,440 anymore. No, that's amazing good news. 399 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,000 And that good news is being corrupted by the people saying 400 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,680 you need to undergo circumcision, you need to follow 401 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,560 Mosaic law, you have to obey the Old Testament laws. 402 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,040 And that's why Paul was very angry with the people who are 403 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,720 distorting the gospel. And he says, OK, you're 404 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,520 attacking me and attacking the gospel. 405 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,560 I am not keeping quiet. I am called by God. 406 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:41,000 That's why he had to put his foot down in order that the 407 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,040 gospel will be unhindered and will be restored because of one 408 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,760 man, Paul. We have the gospel today in its 409 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:52,800 purest form because even Peter compromise. 410 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,240 You see it in Acts chapter 15. The he also joined the people 411 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:00,880 who wanted to disturb the gospel and he questioned him to his 412 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,200 face, why do you do this? Why are you separating yourself 413 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,240 from the non Jewish people, Gentiles, and eating only with 414 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,640 the Jewish people? Because of that one event. 415 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,760 Today we have the Bible and the gospel in the purest form. 416 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,800 Praise God. We need to praise God for Paul. 417 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,000 You know, the more I think of Paul, I don't know. 418 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,800 I'm a fan of Paul probably. And when I go to heaven, maybe I 419 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,080 look for the first person I want to meet is Paul. 420 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,120 When he was on earth, he was not very impressive at all. 421 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,400 He was very short man with a nose like an eagle. 422 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,520 That's what they say may not be so bad, but must be cold and 423 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:44,320 long. And I'm not trying to put down. 424 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:49,240 But he says himself says in one of the episodes you are in 425 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,240 appearance, you think I'm not very impressive in person but 426 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,240 very forceful in writing. What he was trying to say is 427 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:59,080 that I'm not so impressive in in my physical being, but he was 428 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,840 very impressive when it comes to writing the letters very 429 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,800 forceful. The revelation full of 430 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,560 revelation and authority of God. You know the apostle is marked 431 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,280 by the authority of Christ when they say things. 432 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,720 This is what I see God is saying. 433 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,600 They are bringing the authority of Christ into their words. 434 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,800 But we don't do it like other people think, you say, some of 435 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,440 the people who, particularly evangelicals, when they 436 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,280 criticize the Pentecostals about the prophecy about revelation, 437 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,280 they say revelation has ceased. We have the complete Bible. 438 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:32,640 Why? You won't have revelation. 439 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,240 But even though the Bible is complete, you still have, you 440 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:36,720 need revelation to understand that. 441 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,320 Without it you cannot. But the revelation is not on par 442 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,040 with the Bible, but it is enhancing the understanding and 443 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,440 it gives you more depth, it gives you more appreciation to 444 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,000 the Word of God. And it impulse you, it moves 445 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,240 your will to obey the Word. And that's the work of the Holy 446 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:59,440 Host. And when we need that work of 447 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,200 the Holy Spirit in our life all the time. 448 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:09,640 So here we see that what kind of he talks about the present age, 449 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,440 evil age and there are two kinds of ages. 450 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,160 One is talks about the present age is marked by sin, decay and 451 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,520 Satan's influence. Second Corinthians 4/4 and 452 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,120 there's another age to come That's in the future when that 453 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:27,520 age is we talk about it is characterized by Christ visible 454 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,240 reign, righteousness and restoration. 455 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,360 There will not be any tears anymore in that age. 456 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,880 There will not be the regrets anymore because Christ restores 457 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,440 everything at that time. It is in future age, so the 458 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,720 present evil age shows itself in many different ways. 459 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,840 So I may have to run through quickly. 460 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:56,120 Just bear with me #1 is secular humanism and relativism truth 461 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,240 treated as subjective, undermining biblical authority? 462 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,800 You think so when I say you may say a long sentence, 30 minutes. 463 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,080 Oh, that's what you think. So that means I don't think so. 464 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,080 I don't think so. So you go and preach the gospel. 465 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,640 The look, the man, oh, you think so that means he's not thinking 466 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,240 like you. So that word you think so detach 467 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,120 detaches the man who's saying his word from what you're 468 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,880 saying, he's protecting himself. He's saying no, no, I don't 469 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,760 belong to that kind of a man. I don't believe in that kind of 470 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,200 a faith. So that's what it is. 471 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,080 So secularism, a secular humanism and relativism, there 472 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,360 are no absolutes. Second thing is materialism and 473 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:47,040 consumer greed. This is the age characteristic 474 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:51,040 of the present ages. Materialism want more and more 475 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,960 and more, we just want to buy. Nowadays, buying online has 476 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:02,160 become the way to shop. You know, so the long time ago I 477 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:08,200 prayed for a man and his parents, particularly the mother 478 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,160 was still alive at the time and she became sick. 479 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,440 And when she became sick, they called the ambulance. 480 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,720 And when the ambulance came, they could not enter the house 481 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,520 because she would buy things and keep them in the same packaging 482 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,920 in the house, full up to the door. 483 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,440 So they had to break open the door and enter the house, take 484 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,920 away things and they put her in the hospital and then she says I 485 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:39,040 want my things here. So they had to carry 10 or 15 of 486 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,840 some other things and put around the bed for her to feel little 487 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,560 comfortable. It's just a sickness when you go 488 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,000 on a shopping spree without the need for them. 489 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,720 We are yielding to sickness. We need to be careful, OK? 490 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,440 I am not trying to terrify anybody. 491 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,400 It just when we preachers talk about something extreme to make 492 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,080 you aware of something that can be done in a somewhere in the 493 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,680 middle as well. You know, it doesn't mean I 494 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,640 don't buy things, but I'll buy only when we need it. 495 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,560 So that's how it is. Particularly I see this one, you 496 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,200 know, so many times, you know, I see people, they have different 497 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,080 cupboard, their house is not enough because they have shoes 498 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,400 50 colors and they have got dresses 50 colors. 499 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:28,840 Matching hat should be red, dress should be red, shoes 500 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,680 should be red. Let's not talk about that too 501 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,960 much. You may offend somebody, but I 502 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,680 want you to have a decent understanding or decent dress. 503 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,120 Clean, not necessarily expensive also. 504 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,400 You just need to be clean. That's all you need minimum. 505 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,880 And I tell you, if you smell no it's not acceptable. 506 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,640 Cool. 3rd sexual confusion and immorality. 507 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,520 That's the present evil age. You talk to your 4 year old, 6 508 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,520 year old. They are just brainwashing them 509 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:15,240 in the kindi and in the school they are trying to say hey oh 510 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,800 are you a girl? What's your name? 511 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,080 Maybe you could be boy. Why are you not a boy? 512 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,480 No, they just confuse them purposefully. 513 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,560 We need to resist it. That's not right. 514 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,680 That's the spirit of the age. Culture of death, abortion, 515 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,560 euthanasia, violence is becoming normal. 516 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,400 You don't agree with the government, you are going to be 517 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,200 hacked. Your accounts will be hacked, 518 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,280 and they are going to put trouble, put you trouble. 519 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:44,840 Sometimes they may even arrest you. 520 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,280 And in many countries, though they are called democratic 521 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,880 countries, you have no freedom of speech. 522 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,680 That's the present evil age. Technological idolatry. 523 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,080 What can we say about it? Trusting algorithms, Data above 524 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:07,560 divine wisdom. You just want to trust to you 525 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:08,920 make your money when you're sleeping. 526 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,280 You have bought the trades on your behalf and makes money for 527 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,200 you. You know, I don't know how far 528 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,960 it is right or wrong, but I would not go for it. 529 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:22,280 Personally, I'm happy with bread and beans. 530 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:24,440 You know, I'm not really worried. 531 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,400 I should have roast chicken and roast beef and roast this and 532 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,760 all every meal. No I'm not worried about it. 533 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,280 You just need to live and when the times come in the future 534 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,480 when there's going to be persecution against the church, 535 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,720 if you have bread and beans you will be praising God. 536 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,520 Enjoy while you can at the same time, but not over indulgence. 537 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,560 The next thing is entertainment saturated with occult blasphemy 538 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,360 and a mockery of righteousness. It is spiritual. 539 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:05,440 It is very, very spiritual. I counseled a man whose 540 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:10,280 profession was to take the stem cells from, you know, the baby 541 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,480 and the mother. There's a umbilical cord and 542 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,280 then they take cells from the stem cells and using those 543 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,159 cells, he in the lab can grow whatever you want. 544 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,560 The person wants. He wants a liver. 545 00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:25,400 They will turn those stem cells into a liver. 546 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,840 He wants a heart. They develop a heart in the 547 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,360 laboratory, Laboratory. And this is the job He was. 548 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,600 And when we prayed for him, he was manifesting a demon. 549 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:39,600 We cast it out and I said this is coming from your job. 550 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,320 And that man, he said, OK, if this is what it is, I am not 551 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,639 going back to my job. He's trying to find another 552 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,679 career now. IT science and technology, we 553 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:55,239 need to be careful. Not everything that is labeled 554 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,800 science is really science. It can be accord and without 555 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,760 your knowledge, the demon can work through that. 556 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,160 You need to have a simplified life. 557 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,560 That's all I would advocate. So we need to be very careful 558 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,760 how we live. So this is what Christ is 559 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,280 redeeming us, rescuing us in the present evil age from 560 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,520 technology, from sexual confusion, from materialism, 561 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,520 from humanism, and from entertainment saturated with 562 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,480 accord. You know, you go to Hollywood, 563 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,760 you know how much accord is in the Hollywood. 564 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,560 You are not part of the accord. You will not be successful. 565 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,560 Your song that you write, the song that you sing will not be 566 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,800 the top unless you are part of the accord. 567 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:47,760 Now, why do you want to listen to that song? 568 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,360 You're opening the door to the devil. 569 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,040 I'm not trying to terrify, you know, I'm not trying to put fear 570 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:00,040 in your heart, but I'm trying to say there is a way to live and 571 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:05,480 that is a simple way of living with the sane mind and a 572 00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:13,760 peaceful heart and your flesh at peace with our sickness and with 573 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,680 peace in your mind. Oh, that's just amazing. 574 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,880 OK, it's almost time. I should finish. 575 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,720 Rescuers from the presently village account. 576 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,520 To the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever 577 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:29,880 and ever. Amen. 578 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,120 Now that is what I want to finish off with verse #5 To whom 579 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:38,760 be glory for and ever, ever. The word to very small letter 580 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:44,600 TO2 is a preposition that sets the direction that that just 581 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,120 gives you the direction of praise. 582 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:55,080 To whom are you going to praise? It says, To whom be glory? 583 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,280 The word whom? Who is referring to the Father? 584 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,480 Whom refers to Father? So our praise should be directed 585 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:11,120 towards the Father through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ. 586 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:18,800 And the next thing that you see there is all things come from 587 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,560 God and all things return to God. 588 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,840 Where were where were we before we came into the world? 589 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:42,120 I think it was one of the famous painters. 590 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:48,120 He painted Adam and Eve, but before he got created Adam and 591 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:53,240 Eve, he he, they were in the mind of God before they appeared 592 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,760 on earth. He took the mud, formed it, 593 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,840 breathed into them, and they became a living being where the 594 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,520 concept was. The concept was in the mind of 595 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:07,000 God. We all have our origin in the 596 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,080 thinking of God. Anybody who is an atheist is 597 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:20,160 here by God's thought. So we have origin in God and we 598 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,400 go back to God. You live your life, run this 599 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,000 life, and then you, when you finish breathing, where do you 600 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,640 go? Back to God. 601 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,800 All of us. There is no exception unless 602 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,760 Jesus appears suddenly and we are caught up. 603 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,120 That's the only way to escape death. 604 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,840 And I hope to do it one day. Do you have a hope like that? 605 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,160 Because He's coming very soon, whether it happens or not. 606 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,720 Have that hope because when you hope, when that happens, you 607 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,480 will be part of it. That's the way it is. 608 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,880 That's the way to think about it. 609 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,960 And then you see the word be. Is there a small letter called 610 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,640 be To whom be glory? What does the word be mean? 611 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:10,360 It is the infinitive in grammar, you know, verb that can be used 612 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:16,240 as ease was, you know, being and all kinds of words that you have 613 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:18,280 has, has been, and all those things come from that little 614 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:23,400 word be. So that is not just talks about 615 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,720 the present tense, but it is something that talks about 616 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,160 presenters all the time into the future. 617 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:39,600 B is never ending presenters. So your praise should be 618 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:48,320 unending today You are I cannot say like Mathias IR Mathias is 619 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,880 IR we say Mathias say I am no IR. 620 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,920 So anyway, that's children's grammar that's really great. 621 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,920 It just entertains us and refreshes us to see how they 622 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:07,600 learn the grammar. So the B is today you are and 623 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,520 you praise God, and tomorrow you are again and you praise God and 624 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,960 day after. So it has to continue till the 625 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,600 end of age. So that is how it is. 626 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:24,280 So the to whom be glory forever and ever. 627 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,800 When you say forever itself is long unending time, when you 628 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:36,000 have an and and ever, that little conjunction called and 629 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:43,560 makes it, it really exaggerates that forever, forever and ever 630 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,960 it will never end. And that is the reason why we on 631 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:52,160 Sunday want to worship God. We want to praise Him because 632 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,240 that is due to him. He is worthy of that praise, 633 00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,920 worthy of that worship, forever and ever, forever and ever. 634 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:04,080 Everybody say forever and ever. So Christian is one who bases 635 00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,320 his life with one objective, one purpose, one end. 636 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:14,440 That is to praise God, whether he eat or drink pulses. 637 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,560 Do it all for the glory of God. So we do those things. 638 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,640 Shopping also included, OK, by the way. 639 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:25,440 So everything you do for the glory of God. 640 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,000 And that's where I would like to stop this morning. 641 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:30,640 We have finished the 1st 5 verses successfully. 642 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,040 So praise God for it. Many things, I have not said it, 643 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,960 but I think that should be quite good. 644 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,520 So I'll just summarize it. Blessings of salvation back to 645 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,640 the Father whom we know personally. 646 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,560 Paul commands that glory we ascribe to him, highlighting the 647 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,320 brilliant glory that shines through the gospel. 648 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:56,320 This praise is not momentary, but forever and ever a ceaseless 649 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,880 song. The Saints will echo with the 650 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,840 final Amen. We align ourselves with this 651 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,400 eternal purpose. God gets every ounce of honor 652 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:11,080 now and without end. And everybody says, what do you 653 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,240 mean by that? I agree. 654 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,080 I agree. Amen. 655 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,400 Amen. So we will go into the next is 656 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,640 the convenient thing. We had a wonderful time of 657 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,880 communion in the camp. Anybody remembers it? 658 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,400 Yeah. So communion is again, not just 659 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:40,480 only a celebration, but it is something a time to affirm. 660 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,800 Affirm your position in Christ. Affirm the blessing that comes 661 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,240 to you because you partake in his flesh, eat his flesh and 662 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:52,000 drink his blood. And Jesus said they are my, my 663 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,320 words are life and spirit. So you don't have to feel it. 664 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,880 If you feel that's good when you eat the flesh, when you drink 665 00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,080 the blood, you feel the power of the Holy Spirit. 666 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:05,960 Fantastic. Praise God, but if you don't 667 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,120 feel also you have that life and spirit and you have to act upon 668 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,000 it. You have to act upon it. 669 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,240 I'm telling you one of the number one weaknesses or 670 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:19,800 problems of Christians is they don't act on their knowledge. 671 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,080 You begin to act on any single verse of the Bible. 672 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,720 Your life will be different because God is looking for 673 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:30,640 people who will obey His word. His word stands for his 674 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,840 character. His word stands for His will. 675 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,400 His word stands for all that God is in essence that all that God 676 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,920 is, He put in this book Bible. And when you approach it with 677 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,560 reverence, when you, when you read it, when you believe it, 678 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,080 when you act upon it, life is released into your life and that 679 00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,080 becomes a river of living water in your belly. 680 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:57,560 So as you partake in the communion, let rivers of living 681 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:03,840 water flow out of your belly and say, as I eat his flesh, drink 682 00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:10,080 his blood, his life and spirit fill me, an overflow from me and 683 00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,000 become a blessing, OK, I'll just get one of those. 684 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,720 Somebody bring it to me. I'll pray, and then everybody 685 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:21,280 can come and take it. Thank you, Lord. 686 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:36,280 Hallelujah. Thank you. 687 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,000 Let's first pray for the bread and the juice. 688 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,560 Father, we thank you for your Son Jesus, whom you gave as we 689 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:46,880 studied so that we may be rescued from the present evil 690 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:48,760 age. We thank you, Lord, for the 691 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,360 gospel of Christ. We praise you, We praise you. 692 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:56,040 We praise you for the life that is ours by believing in Jesus, 693 00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,360 for the freedom that is ours for believing in Jesus, for the 694 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,880 righteousness that is ours by believing in Jesus. 695 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:06,120 We worship you, We honor your Lord Father, we thank you again 696 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:10,400 for this broken body of Jesus and the shed blood we praise and 697 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,400 we thank you as we partake in it. 698 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,080 Make it a participation in the body of crash and the blood of 699 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,560 rest as we eat his flesh, drink his blood, let his life and 700 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,400 spirit fill us and become a river flowing out of our belly 701 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,200 to the glory of your name. Thank you. 702 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:31,840 In Jesus name we ask, Amen. 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