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this, let's read the worst one, Paul, an apostle sent not from
men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who
raised him from the dead and all the brothers with me.
Now this is a very unusual beginning of an epistle that
Paul makes so many times. He will be exuberant and he will
be praising God and for the people giving thanks for them.
You know greetings here the no greeting greetings come later.
It comes in to the churches in aggression peace to you was in
verse 3. It comes So what was the
pressing thing that is in Pauls mind.
Why was Paul under pressure to sidestep and not follow the
protocol of letter writing. You know who is writing to whom
they are writing in a greetings and then you start with the
matter. But here is something is
troubling Paul. What is troubling Paul is that
his apostleship was being questioned.
People are questioning the apostleship and saying, oh, are
you an apostle? No, no, no.
Did you, did you see Jesus Christ?
You know when we look into that scripture portion in Acts
chapter 1/22/21 and 22 when they want to select one more apostle
to replace Judas who had committed suicide, they put few
conditions. One of the things they said is
that apostle should be eyewitness from the time of
Jesus baptism by John the Baptist till he appeared to
them. Reason.
So that is one of the condition. But I think even among the 12
not all were witnesses, witnesses of John, the baptism
of John from the way I look at the study the scripture.
But from that point on they should be knowing Jesus.
The second thing they said is eyewitness of resurrection.
They should have witnessed A risen Christ.
And thirdly, appointed directly by reason Jesus Christ.
Then empowered by Jesus, you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses.
Acts 1/8. When these things are all
fulfilled, then that person can be an apostle.
So with great difficulty they found two people.
They cost large selected one man called Matthias not almost has
so to be an apostle. There are qualifications, but
Paul says OK if they if these are the qualifications to be an
apostle to one who is born out of time.
He appeared to me also, he seen the reason Christ, but in a
vision as he was pursuing Judaism and he was persecuting
the Church and we was going to Damascus and then you know all
the story we have done when we studied the book of Acts,
basically many things that I want to say I am holding back
because I already have said it when we studied the book of
Acts, but I will remind a little bit here and there.
So he says he is an apostle sent not from men nor by man.
So two times the words used there is men and man is the
Greek root word is anthropos. Anthropos is in general for
mankind, not an individual man. Individual man is aner, Aner is
the Greek word for individual man and gynec or some word is
for the female if it is an individual female.
So here we see that it is not by man, not from men, not by man.
What does he mean by it? When he became blind on the day
Jesus appeared to him, he told him, go into the city, you'll be
told what to do. And he was waiting there for
fasting and praying for three days.
And God says to ananyas, go, there's a man called Saul living
in the street, and go and lay and lay your hands on him,
because he has seen you come and lay your hands on him to receive
his sight. He has become blind.
So was not Ananyas playing a very important key role in
Paul's life? But he has, he says, not by men,
not by man. So God can use people, but
behind the people is God. He's not trying to be ungrateful
to say ananyas. I don't care what he did for me.
He's not saying that. What he's saying is Gods hand is
on my life in my car. That's what he's saying.
And then and but by Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Now again he says he's, he's appointed an apostle by Jesus
Christ and by the Father. Now when he's saying these two
names together, what does he mean?
He's putting Jesus Christ on the same level as God the Father.
He's not trying to say 1 is lower, another is higher.
No, he's saying both are the same, both are equal, Co eternal
coexistent. You know, that's how the apostle
script goes, one of the apostle scripts.
So and he says God the Father who raised him from the dead,
who raised Jesus from the dead, God the Father.
And elsewhere he says I have, I have power to lay down my life
and take it back. So who raises himself?
He raised himself as well. And somewhere in Romans again,
Paul writes, he was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit raised him up. So all three persons are
involved in every act of the life of Christ.
It is not just only one anytime. So here we have all these things
and and going on at the same time.
So again when you when you look at this kind of a thing you have
to observe the little little words in in that verse Paul and
apostle sent not from men from that little preposition from
says that it is a source. What is the source of his
apathership? Jesus Christ and God the Father
and then he says again by nor nor by man agency is not through
any man's agency but God himself.
I always wondered why is Paul taking so much of pain to
establish his apathership? Because you know he, he made
three trips, three I mean Pauls missionary journey 1-2 and three
we see it and then this letter is written to where does he
where does he say to the churches in Galatia?
So what are the churches in Galatia?
I have explained these things. When we did the study on Book of
Acts, when he particularly came to the area of Bithynia, the
Holy Spirit would not allow him to preach the gospel there.
Instead, he had a vision of a man from Macedonia saying to
him, please come and help us. So they set sail again to Troas.
Remember these things we talked about, you know, I have not even
referred to them yesterday or day before.
Anytime. It's all from this study of
acts. So if he did not go into
Bithynia, that's called, that area is called Northern Galatia.
But he went through Antioch, PCD and all those kind of places,
Troas, that is the Southern Galatia.
Now what is all this about? In 3rd century BC, the soldiers
came from France. Those days they should call them
Gaul, Gaul, Gaul. And they came and attacked and
came in, I mean in war. And some of them settled in that
place. And when the Romans came, after
three centuries and when the Romans came, they have formed
one big district or one big province, and they called it
Galatia. So all the little cities that
are there in that region, they are called Galatia.
So Galatia is not one city, it's a province kind of a thing.
So the question the theologians have is, is he writing to the
churches in the northern Galatia or the southern Galatia?
But in the book of Acts, we don't have much reference to
northern Galatia at all. So most of the churches he
mentions in the book of Acts is southern Galatia.
So most probably the letter is written to southern Galatia.
I do not want to have an argument about that part because
it doesn't really matter to us now whether it is that or this.
We have the epistle and which is the earliest of the episodes
that he wrote and because of, and this is also called a mini
book of Romans. It's called a mini book of
Romans. Why?
In this episode, Paul defends or proves that justification is by
faith. And you know, two or three days
ago we had Halloween, but that is the time Joseph was saying it
is the Reformation day. Every year the same day.
Reformation Day falls on the same day as Halloween, or rather
Halloween falls on the same day as Reformation Day.
People don't celebrate Reformation day.
Book of Galatians, Galatians is all about that.
And this book was very dear to Martin Luther, one of the best
books. I mean, he has written
extensively on the book of Galatians and Martin Luther who
brought the big revival called Reformation.
And one of the key things he mentioned is that we are
justified by faith, which was something went against the Roman
Catholicism that was prevailing at that time.
The Catholic Church was trying to sell indulgences, you know,
certificates and put money here. Your father died all long time
ago. When you put the money, he will
jump from here to here. All those kinds of funny stories
were going on at that time until Martin Luther said, no, we are
justified by faith. And that particular thing that
you see is more fully expounded in the book of Romans, but he
also expounds it in the book of Galatians.
So what they say is Galatians is the first episode he wrote, and
he developed the idea from the book of Romans, from writing to
Galatians. He got the idea and further
expanded it into another letter to Romans and which is more
powerful and more in depth and has a greater scope.
We all grow. Martin Luther grew in his
understanding. We also grow in our
understanding. It is all step by step.
So what is the problem here is he has gone through these
churches and preached the gospel, established the
churches. But when he is coming again, the
second journey or sometime he saw, he saw that people are
leaving the faith because some people who wanted to distort the
gospel came and were preaching a different gospel, which I am
going to talk about it next Sunday because that is there in
verse 7. Today I am hoping to finish only
5 verses. If I finish 5 verses, I'll be
very glad. So that was his problem.
So he's challenging these people.
Hey guys, have you forgotten? Why are you leaving the gospel,
the gospel that I preached and why are you changing your faith?
Why are you believing which is not a gospel?
So that was his concern for writing this kind of a epistle.
And with the gospel comes challenge to his apostleship.
Why? If people have to, if somebody
who wants to change somebodies faith, first you will attack the
man, they will attack the teaching, both at the same time.
So that is what they were doing here.
You're attaching his attacking his teaching and you're
attacking the man. So he's saying, hey, you can't
do it because God had called me. God has called me and nobody has
called me. He's the one who appeared to me.
He's the one who called me. He's the one appointment to an
apostle. What is apostle?
It's simply in the Greek it simply means sent one.
But Jesus applied it to his disciples and called them
apostles and he gave them a different meaning.
They are going to be his Commission commissioners, they
are going to be his ambassadors, they are going to be
representing Jesus and they are going to represent all that
Jesus taught, all that Jesus did, and they are going to
continue to do what Jesus did through their life.
And that is the reason why the word apostle has got a more
significant meaning, because of the meaning that Jesus put into
their disciples, whom we call apostles, and the way he used
them for the furtherance of the gospel and for the establishment
of the Kingdom of God and for establishing the churches.
That is the reason why the apostle has assumed a very big
meaning. But nowadays everybody calls
himself an apostle. I am not going into that.
But be careful. Whoever calls an apostle, I will
just, you know. So we have to be very careful.
I don't want to call myself an apostle.
No, I am not an apostle. I have seen Christ.
I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit.
I have seen Christ in a vision, but not that vision that you
know, the open vision. I have not seen Christ in open
vision. I have seen him in a spiritual
vision with my eyes closed. But open vision is when your
eyes are open. And that's why Paul lost his
eyesight because he saw the glory with his physical eyes and
he became blind. So I don't have this experience.
So I'm not an apostle. So I'm just.
So anyway, one of the things that is important to any church
is when there is a pastor, he should know his call.
If the pastor is not clear about his call, where is he going to
take them? It's like blind leading the
blind. So it's going to be a very, very
bad situation. So pastor should know that he is
called and very important and like Paul's relationship is
challenged, Moses relationship is challenged and in the
prophets were challenged like Jeremiah, he was challenged and
so many times you know they, I mean Jesus himself was
challenged and ultimately they crucified him.
So that thing is going to happen.
History will repeat itself. But we need to be careful what
we oppose. We need to be very careful
because there is a blessing in agreement which will be lost
when we don't agree. Cool.
So Paul and apostle sent not from men nor by man, but by
Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead and
all the brothers with me. So here he doesn't tell who are
with him. Probably Barnabas was with him
or if it is a in the second missionary journey they split
and Silverness was with him or another name.
Many, probably Timothy was with him and a few other people were
with him. So Paul had this magnetic
personality that people are able to leave their home, their
business and things like that and follow him and preach the
gospel and support him, be with him.
It amazes me in those days who would you leave your home?
You don't know when you are coming back.
You leave your wife, your children, your business and say,
hey, I'm going with Paul. It is very, very scary
experience, at least to me to sit now and think of these
people following Paul. It scares me and I always ask
God, Lord, why don't I attract anybody?
Nobody believes me so much like anyway, just leave it there.
That thought and yeah, so he is graciously giving the Co
authorship to the people who are with him.
He's not just saying I am writing this letter, He's saying
I am called, I am called to an apostle.
But we are all writing together, including other people with him
in writing this letter. And now he comes back to the
usual standard. Grace and peace to you from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you have heard me before, you know what I'm going to say,
isn't it? The grace is the Greek Paris and
the peace is the Shalom of Hebrew concept and he combines
them both and give makes a Christian greeting which is very
powerful in his depth and scope because grace is the foundation
for Our Calling. Grace is a foundation for us to
experience God. Grace is the foundation that is
drawing you to God. You cannot be drawn to God
unless he shows grace to you. And when he says peace, Shalom,
that's all-encompassing Shalom, peace, peace not just in your
mind, it is peace in your spirit, is peace in your soul
that includes your mind, is peace in your emotions.
There's peace in your health, peace in your body.
There will not be sickness, there will not be trouble.
There is peace. And I tell you, this is what we
need, grace and peace, everyone of us.
And that's Paul says to Galatians, yes, it is yours.
And when he says it to them, he is saying to us, grace and peace
is yours. Can we hear Amen, Amen.
From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Again, he puts both of them together in the same thing.
So you have it from the Father and from Jesus, grace and peace,
who gave himself for our sins, who gave himself for our sins.
He is saying that Jesus gave himself for our sins.
But we know John 316. What does it say?
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, who gave
the Father. Father gave Son to die.
And here Jesus says, Paul says Jesus gave himself up to die.
Did the Holy Spirit say Amen? Was he there?
He was there when he was conceived.
He was there upon Mary so that Jesus can come into the world,
so that he can die. You know, this is just amazing
how you have the Triune God acting all the time, in every
act, every, every, every minute detail.
So he gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present
evil age. Everybody say rescue us from the
present evil age. Now rescue is a very big world.
Rescue is a very big world. Rescue is pulling someone out of
danger, forcefully taking them out of danger.
It's something like, imagine a house caught on fire and there's
a little baby there. What are you going to do?
You are going to rush through the fire, through the smoke, and
you're going to grab the child and pull the child out of the
danger. So you are going to do 2 things.
One is it is you. You are, you are pulling that
baby out of the danger. Is the baby saying please take
me off from here may not be able to say that, but you are
forcefully bringing the child out of the situation.
It is beyond your capacity, beyond your imagination even.
You don't even think you are going to live or you may not be
aware of the danger, but God says I rescue you, I rescue you
and the rescue. Did Paul experience powerful
rescue in his life? He did.
The way he was going, the road that on which he was going was a
murderous Rd., Rd. full of bloodshed.
And God rescued him from that kind of a situation or he
rescued him. So he knows what is to be
rescued from being distracted forever, his name being struck
off forever in the books of in the in the Book of Life, God
rescued him from going down that road and rescued him.
And then when mobs were attacking him, the centurion
rescued him, you know? Yeah, when he was talking to the
people, you know, people were wanting to kill him and they
surrounded him and they were trying to punch him.
And then the Century and orders his soldiers go bring him up
from there so that they lift him up from the crowd and bring him
inside. That's rescue.
He was rescued himself like that.
And then human agents become God's instruments of God's
productive purpose like that Centurion has become a even
though he was a human agent, he became a God's instrument to
rescue Paul from being killed in the situation.
And then in the in the in the life of Peter.
He was, he had wanted to kill him because he had success with
James and now he's OK. People are liking me what I have
done. So he puts Peter in the prison,
wanting him to execute him or to, you know, take his head away
after the festival and he was in the jail and you got 3.
It's a very high, high security prison.
And what did God do? The Angel goes into the cell.
He was asleep. He was very sound asleep and
people here in Mark's house, his parents house, all the people
are losing sleep and they are praying for him.
God rescue him, rescue him, rescue him.
And there's one said prayer is going on.
And this man, he was sleeping in a cell and the Angel comes and
taps him and shakes him and say get up.
He thought I am seeing a vision. I think he's in the days
condition. He's thinking he's a vision.
He's seeing a vision, and the fetus fell off.
He became free, and his coat must be hanging on a nail
somewhere there. He picks it up, puts on the
coat, and then the door opens by itself.
Then he comes to another door. The soldiers are all sleeping,
and that door opens and the last gate approaches the prison that
opens by itself. You know, that will be the most
heaviest door made out of iron, and even if you open, it will be
squeaking and making noise, and then that opens by itself.
And Peter was laid out and he walked few blocks and then the
Angel left him. And when he found himself,
probably he must have gone and hit the wall sidewall.
Oh, it's real. Oh, I thought it's a vision.
No, I've been rescued. That is a powerful world rescue.
So that is what Paul is saying, that Jesus Christ has rescued us
from the present evil age. Everybody say present evil age.
So what is the present evil age? What is the characteristic of
present evil age? He talks about in Ephesians
chapter 2 as well. It is you are all dead in your
sins and trespasses. You know when when you are dead
in your sins and trespasses, when you are obeying the Prince
of the present, Prince of the power of the air, you are
basically when you don't have salvation.
You are under the grip of Satan. Satan rules your life.
If Satan dictates your likes and dislikes, he makes you like
things that are contrary to the will of God, and you get deeper
and deeper into sin and that is what is the picture.
And God rescues us from the present evil age and gives us
salvation, forgiveness and a new title, son or daughter of God.
And he says, Yo, I have put you my own righteousness upon you.
You are no longer a Sinner anymore.
What a great, what a great good news is it?
It is just goodbye to your past. You just look at the past.
Goodbye. I have nothing to do with you
anymore. No, that's amazing good news.
And that good news is being corrupted by the people saying
you need to undergo circumcision, you need to follow
Mosaic law, you have to obey the Old Testament laws.
And that's why Paul was very angry with the people who are
distorting the gospel. And he says, OK, you're
attacking me and attacking the gospel.
I am not keeping quiet. I am called by God.
That's why he had to put his foot down in order that the
gospel will be unhindered and will be restored because of one
man, Paul. We have the gospel today in its
purest form because even Peter compromise.
You see it in Acts chapter 15. The he also joined the people
who wanted to disturb the gospel and he questioned him to his
face, why do you do this? Why are you separating yourself
from the non Jewish people, Gentiles, and eating only with
the Jewish people? Because of that one event.
Today we have the Bible and the gospel in the purest form.
Praise God. We need to praise God for Paul.
You know, the more I think of Paul, I don't know.
I'm a fan of Paul probably. And when I go to heaven, maybe I
look for the first person I want to meet is Paul.
When he was on earth, he was not very impressive at all.
He was very short man with a nose like an eagle.
That's what they say may not be so bad, but must be cold and
long. And I'm not trying to put down.
But he says himself says in one of the episodes you are in
appearance, you think I'm not very impressive in person but
very forceful in writing. What he was trying to say is
that I'm not so impressive in in my physical being, but he was
very impressive when it comes to writing the letters very
forceful. The revelation full of
revelation and authority of God. You know the apostle is marked
by the authority of Christ when they say things.
This is what I see God is saying.
They are bringing the authority of Christ into their words.
But we don't do it like other people think, you say, some of
the people who, particularly evangelicals, when they
criticize the Pentecostals about the prophecy about revelation,
they say revelation has ceased. We have the complete Bible.
Why? You won't have revelation.
But even though the Bible is complete, you still have, you
need revelation to understand that.
Without it you cannot. But the revelation is not on par
with the Bible, but it is enhancing the understanding and
it gives you more depth, it gives you more appreciation to
the Word of God. And it impulse you, it moves
your will to obey the Word. And that's the work of the Holy
Host. And when we need that work of
the Holy Spirit in our life all the time.
So here we see that what kind of he talks about the present age,
evil age and there are two kinds of ages.
One is talks about the present age is marked by sin, decay and
Satan's influence. Second Corinthians 4/4 and
there's another age to come That's in the future when that
age is we talk about it is characterized by Christ visible
reign, righteousness and restoration.
There will not be any tears anymore in that age.
There will not be the regrets anymore because Christ restores
everything at that time. It is in future age, so the
present evil age shows itself in many different ways.
So I may have to run through quickly.
Just bear with me #1 is secular humanism and relativism truth
treated as subjective, undermining biblical authority?
You think so when I say you may say a long sentence, 30 minutes.
Oh, that's what you think. So that means I don't think so.
I don't think so. So you go and preach the gospel.
The look, the man, oh, you think so that means he's not thinking
like you. So that word you think so detach
detaches the man who's saying his word from what you're
saying, he's protecting himself. He's saying no, no, I don't
belong to that kind of a man. I don't believe in that kind of
a faith. So that's what it is.
So secularism, a secular humanism and relativism, there
are no absolutes. Second thing is materialism and
consumer greed. This is the age characteristic
of the present ages. Materialism want more and more
and more, we just want to buy. Nowadays, buying online has
become the way to shop. You know, so the long time ago I
prayed for a man and his parents, particularly the mother
was still alive at the time and she became sick.
And when she became sick, they called the ambulance.
And when the ambulance came, they could not enter the house
because she would buy things and keep them in the same packaging
in the house, full up to the door.
So they had to break open the door and enter the house, take
away things and they put her in the hospital and then she says I
want my things here. So they had to carry 10 or 15 of
some other things and put around the bed for her to feel little
comfortable. It's just a sickness when you go
on a shopping spree without the need for them.
We are yielding to sickness. We need to be careful, OK?
I am not trying to terrify anybody.
It just when we preachers talk about something extreme to make
you aware of something that can be done in a somewhere in the
middle as well. You know, it doesn't mean I
don't buy things, but I'll buy only when we need it.
So that's how it is. Particularly I see this one, you
know, so many times, you know, I see people, they have different
cupboard, their house is not enough because they have shoes
50 colors and they have got dresses 50 colors.
Matching hat should be red, dress should be red, shoes
should be red. Let's not talk about that too
much. You may offend somebody, but I
want you to have a decent understanding or decent dress.
Clean, not necessarily expensive also.
You just need to be clean. That's all you need minimum.
And I tell you, if you smell no it's not acceptable.
Cool. 3rd sexual confusion and immorality.
That's the present evil age. You talk to your 4 year old, 6
year old. They are just brainwashing them
in the kindi and in the school they are trying to say hey oh
are you a girl? What's your name?
Maybe you could be boy. Why are you not a boy?
No, they just confuse them purposefully.
We need to resist it. That's not right.
That's the spirit of the age. Culture of death, abortion,
euthanasia, violence is becoming normal.
You don't agree with the government, you are going to be
hacked. Your accounts will be hacked,
and they are going to put trouble, put you trouble.
Sometimes they may even arrest you.
And in many countries, though they are called democratic
countries, you have no freedom of speech.
That's the present evil age. Technological idolatry.
What can we say about it? Trusting algorithms, Data above
divine wisdom. You just want to trust to you
make your money when you're sleeping.
You have bought the trades on your behalf and makes money for
you. You know, I don't know how far
it is right or wrong, but I would not go for it.
Personally, I'm happy with bread and beans.
You know, I'm not really worried.
I should have roast chicken and roast beef and roast this and
all every meal. No I'm not worried about it.
You just need to live and when the times come in the future
when there's going to be persecution against the church,
if you have bread and beans you will be praising God.
Enjoy while you can at the same time, but not over indulgence.
The next thing is entertainment saturated with occult blasphemy
and a mockery of righteousness. It is spiritual.
It is very, very spiritual. I counseled a man whose
profession was to take the stem cells from, you know, the baby
and the mother. There's a umbilical cord and
then they take cells from the stem cells and using those
cells, he in the lab can grow whatever you want.
The person wants. He wants a liver.
They will turn those stem cells into a liver.
He wants a heart. They develop a heart in the
laboratory, Laboratory. And this is the job He was.
And when we prayed for him, he was manifesting a demon.
We cast it out and I said this is coming from your job.
And that man, he said, OK, if this is what it is, I am not
going back to my job. He's trying to find another
career now. IT science and technology, we
need to be careful. Not everything that is labeled
science is really science. It can be accord and without
your knowledge, the demon can work through that.
You need to have a simplified life.
That's all I would advocate. So we need to be very careful
how we live. So this is what Christ is
redeeming us, rescuing us in the present evil age from
technology, from sexual confusion, from materialism,
from humanism, and from entertainment saturated with
accord. You know, you go to Hollywood,
you know how much accord is in the Hollywood.
You are not part of the accord. You will not be successful.
Your song that you write, the song that you sing will not be
the top unless you are part of the accord.
Now, why do you want to listen to that song?
You're opening the door to the devil.
I'm not trying to terrify, you know, I'm not trying to put fear
in your heart, but I'm trying to say there is a way to live and
that is a simple way of living with the sane mind and a
peaceful heart and your flesh at peace with our sickness and with
peace in your mind. Oh, that's just amazing.
OK, it's almost time. I should finish.
Rescuers from the presently village account.
To the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever
and ever. Amen.
Now that is what I want to finish off with verse #5 To whom
be glory for and ever, ever. The word to very small letter
TO2 is a preposition that sets the direction that that just
gives you the direction of praise.
To whom are you going to praise? It says, To whom be glory?
The word whom? Who is referring to the Father?
Whom refers to Father? So our praise should be directed
towards the Father through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ.
And the next thing that you see there is all things come from
God and all things return to God.
Where were where were we before we came into the world?
I think it was one of the famous painters.
He painted Adam and Eve, but before he got created Adam and
Eve, he he, they were in the mind of God before they appeared
on earth. He took the mud, formed it,
breathed into them, and they became a living being where the
concept was. The concept was in the mind of
God. We all have our origin in the
thinking of God. Anybody who is an atheist is
here by God's thought. So we have origin in God and we
go back to God. You live your life, run this
life, and then you, when you finish breathing, where do you
go? Back to God.
All of us. There is no exception unless
Jesus appears suddenly and we are caught up.
That's the only way to escape death.
And I hope to do it one day. Do you have a hope like that?
Because He's coming very soon, whether it happens or not.
Have that hope because when you hope, when that happens, you
will be part of it. That's the way it is.
That's the way to think about it.
And then you see the word be. Is there a small letter called
be To whom be glory? What does the word be mean?
It is the infinitive in grammar, you know, verb that can be used
as ease was, you know, being and all kinds of words that you have
has, has been, and all those things come from that little
word be. So that is not just talks about
the present tense, but it is something that talks about
presenters all the time into the future.
B is never ending presenters. So your praise should be
unending today You are I cannot say like Mathias IR Mathias is
IR we say Mathias say I am no IR.
So anyway, that's children's grammar that's really great.
It just entertains us and refreshes us to see how they
learn the grammar. So the B is today you are and
you praise God, and tomorrow you are again and you praise God and
day after. So it has to continue till the
end of age. So that is how it is.
So the to whom be glory forever and ever.
When you say forever itself is long unending time, when you
have an and and ever, that little conjunction called and
makes it, it really exaggerates that forever, forever and ever
it will never end. And that is the reason why we on
Sunday want to worship God. We want to praise Him because
that is due to him. He is worthy of that praise,
worthy of that worship, forever and ever, forever and ever.
Everybody say forever and ever. So Christian is one who bases
his life with one objective, one purpose, one end.
That is to praise God, whether he eat or drink pulses.
Do it all for the glory of God. So we do those things.
Shopping also included, OK, by the way.
So everything you do for the glory of God.
And that's where I would like to stop this morning.
We have finished the 1st 5 verses successfully.
So praise God for it. Many things, I have not said it,
but I think that should be quite good.
So I'll just summarize it. Blessings of salvation back to
the Father whom we know personally.
Paul commands that glory we ascribe to him, highlighting the
brilliant glory that shines through the gospel.
This praise is not momentary, but forever and ever a ceaseless
song. The Saints will echo with the
final Amen. We align ourselves with this
eternal purpose. God gets every ounce of honor
now and without end. And everybody says, what do you
mean by that? I agree.
Amen.
So we will go into the next is
the convenient thing. We had a wonderful time of
communion in the camp. Anybody remembers it?
Yeah. So communion is again, not just
only a celebration, but it is something a time to affirm.
Affirm your position in Christ. Affirm the blessing that comes
to you because you partake in his flesh, eat his flesh and
drink his blood. And Jesus said they are my, my
words are life and spirit. So you don't have to feel it.
If you feel that's good when you eat the flesh, when you drink
the blood, you feel the power of the Holy Spirit.
Fantastic. Praise God, but if you don't
feel also you have that life and spirit and you have to act upon
it. You have to act upon it.
I'm telling you one of the number one weaknesses or
problems of Christians is they don't act on their knowledge.
You begin to act on any single verse of the Bible.
Your life will be different because God is looking for
people who will obey His word. His word stands for his
character. His word stands for His will.
His word stands for all that God is in essence that all that God
is, He put in this book Bible. And when you approach it with
reverence, when you, when you read it, when you believe it,
when you act upon it, life is released into your life and that
becomes a river of living water in your belly.
So as you partake in the communion, let rivers of living
water flow out of your belly and say, as I eat his flesh, drink
his blood, his life and spirit fill me, an overflow from me and
become a blessing, OK, I'll just get one of those.
Somebody bring it to me. I'll pray, and then everybody
can come and take it. Thank you, Lord.
Hallelujah. Thank you.
Let's first pray for the bread and the juice.
Father, we thank you for your Son Jesus, whom you gave as we
studied so that we may be rescued from the present evil
age. We thank you, Lord, for the
gospel of Christ. We praise you, We praise you.
We praise you for the life that is ours by believing in Jesus,
for the freedom that is ours for believing in Jesus, for the
righteousness that is ours by believing in Jesus.
We worship you, We honor your Lord Father, we thank you again
for this broken body of Jesus and the shed blood we praise and
we thank you as we partake in it.
Make it a participation in the body of crash and the blood of
rest as we eat his flesh, drink his blood, let his life and
spirit fill us and become a river flowing out of our belly
to the glory of your name. Thank you.
In Jesus name we ask, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.
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