1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:03,960 You've tuned into. A mega church. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,720 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,200 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,200 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:13,720 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,880 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or to 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,040 find out more about Omega, get to our website or Facebook page 8 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:25,440 through the links below. So they wanted to take care of 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,000 him. So the one of the students goes 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,400 in the morning and says, brother, what would you like for 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,840 breakfast? He said only light, very light 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,160 breakfast. So he said, so still what do you 13 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,280 want for light breakfast? What? 14 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,200 What do you like to have? Something light? 15 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:48,960 Just two dozen bananas, two dozen eggs and one dozen 16 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,240 oranges. And you know, the list was going 17 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,720 on. This fellow said, if this is 18 00:00:53,720 --> 00:01:01,680 only light, what are you going to eat in a heavy meal this 19 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,560 morning? I want to preach very light, 20 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:14,720 only light. So I was thinking about it and I 21 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,160 said, God, what is the Scripture that you want me to speak about? 22 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:22,520 You know, all scripture is God inspired, inspired by the Holy 23 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,760 Spirit. But we need something that is in 24 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,040 season because resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth has 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,520 happened 2000 years ago and it looks very, I mean very far back 26 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,760 in time. What does it mean to us today? 27 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,400 There has to be practical relevance today. 28 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,120 What does it mean to me to celebrate the resurrection of 29 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,800 Jesus? And basically, I did not want to 30 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,040 do. Usually I refuse to do this 31 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,480 apologetic part. You know why? 32 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,080 We can believe that He rose again from the dead. 33 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,080 But I thought, let me do it in a light way again, just three 34 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,000 points #1 we can believe that Jesus rose again from the dead 35 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,400 because there is something undeniable existing in Israel, 36 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:15,560 an empty tomb. That empty tomb no one can deny. 37 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,800 Whether you are a friend of Jesus or enemy of Jesus, you are 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,200 going to acknowledge that the tomb is empty. 39 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,240 That is something that we need to explain. 40 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,840 And the only explanation is that heroes again from the dead. 41 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:32,760 That is the only explanation. You cannot explain in any other 42 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,600 way. So the empty tomb is undeniable 43 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,880 and enemies of Jesus also accepted the empty tomb. 44 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,240 They could not refute it but try to explain away. 45 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,480 Even after he was crucified and buried, the high priest go to 46 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,160 the pilot and say hey, when he was alive he said he's going to 47 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,000 rise up again. So let's make sure that his 48 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,280 disciples don't steal the body and spread the news that he rose 49 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,040 again. So they asked for Roman God to 50 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,840 be posted at the posted at the tomb and they put the Roman seal 51 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,840 on it so that no human can ever go. 52 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,760 And the Roman soldiers have very well known for their duty. 53 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,640 If they fall asleep on duty, they head will go. 54 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,520 That's very strict about it. So they have to guard the tomb 55 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,120 with their life. And when that happened in the 56 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,120 early morning of Sunday morning and there was an earthquake and 57 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,880 there were Angel of God, he rolled away the stone and he sat 58 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,040 upon it. The soldiers saw and they were 59 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,120 shaking in their boots and then they were running for their life 60 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,960 and then the body just disappears from there. 61 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,960 And then they know that Jesus body is not in the tomb. 62 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,360 So they go to the high priest and say hey, this is something 63 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:47,800 happened. We cannot handle this. 64 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,920 This is beyond our duty, beyond our explanation, beyond our 65 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:53,960 power. How do we do it? 66 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,400 They said, don't worry, take this money and say the disciples 67 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,160 came and stole the body and whether when the news goes up to 68 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,920 the governor, we will take care of you guys, protect you. 69 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,480 So they tried to spread a false rumor that he his body was 70 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,880 stolen. But it cannot be, it cannot hold 71 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,959 hold in the sense it cannot be really be held with honesty, 72 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,680 integrity, because those guys know that it is not stolen. 73 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,200 And we look into the lives of the disciples, everyone of them 74 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,680 was before the cross or during the crucifixion. 75 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:38,000 They all ran away, most of them except John the disciple and a 76 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,440 few women, most of them ran away for their life. 77 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:46,280 So these people who are full of fear, insecure, and those kind 78 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,200 of people, after the resurrection, they become very 79 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,640 bold, so bold that they are able to preach in the same streets of 80 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,640 Jerusalem. Jesus, this Jesus. 81 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,480 Whom you crucified God. Raised from the dead Not long 82 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,240 after they preached the same message on the day of Pentecost. 83 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,640 Peter preached it 3000. People believed in this new good 84 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,200 news and they were saved. If it was not true that Jesus 85 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,240 rose again from the dead, they could have produced the body and 86 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,440 the Christianity would die the same day. 87 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,040 It would not have come to us today. 88 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:21,920 They could not do it. They cannot do it. 89 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,800 They could not do it because it is just not possible to do it, 90 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,800 because he rose again from the dead and everyone of them died a 91 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,400 martyr. They gave their life to this 92 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,640 gospel to preserve it, to preach it, and to proclaim the power of 93 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:41,040 the name of Jesus. That is the second proof. 94 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:48,720 And Paul when was writing the letter to Corinthians, 1 95 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,760 Corinthians chapter 15, he gives a list of people who have seen 96 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,640 Jesus, list of people. And among them, one of the 97 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:03,120 things he says is that at one time more than 500 people have 98 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:09,840 seen the reason Jesus. How many people 500 Some people 99 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,120 think you know, you can have hallucination. 100 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:20,200 Hallucination is like if a if a woman has become a widow, the 101 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,560 husband dies and she's sitting in a corner taking of the 102 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,640 husband, taking of the love he showed, how much he sacrifice, 103 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,960 how he lived for the family all the time. 104 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,560 She's grieving and then suddenly she will see the husband walking 105 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,320 in the corner of the room. That's called hallucination 106 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,720 because she's been thinking and thinking and thinking and she 107 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,520 can literally see the man walking there and she would say, 108 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,800 oh, I see my husband is back again alive. 109 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,880 That's called hallucination. Hallucination can happen to one 110 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:52,720 person, but if two people are hallucinating, they will be 111 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,760 hallucinating two different things, not the same thing. 112 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,680 And here you have got 500 people seeing the reason Jesus, and 113 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,200 that is not hallucination, it is revelation. 114 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:09,640 It is encountering a living Jesus. 500 people and Paul says 115 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,560 some of them are still alive out of the 500, some are still 116 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,160 alive. You think this is something that 117 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,960 you're being duped you're being deceived by a news that Jesus 118 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,720 rose again from the dead. You can go and ask these people 119 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:30,320 because they're still alive those three I stopped there much 120 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,160 more to say about apologetics. I'm not a guy who's a big fan of 121 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,040 apologetic, but I studied it and I know what what it is all 122 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:46,000 about. And so I was thinking about the 123 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,120 scripture portion that will be relevant to us. 124 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,400 We now know that he rose again from the dead. 125 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,880 We can have, we don't have to commit an intellectual suicide 126 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,800 to believe that Jesus rose again from the dead. 127 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,400 One of the first things that I ever was exposed to when I was 128 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:08,040 taught the gospel of Jesus Christ is, is it reasonable to 129 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:09,920 believe that Jesus rose again from the dead? 130 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:14,160 Can we give any kind of a defense of the argument? 131 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,560 And when I heard the defense of the arguments in favor of 132 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,160 believing that Jesus rose, rose again from the dead, one truth 133 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,440 that came into my heart is that Jesus is not just dead and gone, 134 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,400 but is alive. As a Hindu boy, 15 year old, 135 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,000 when I hear the gospel, the first thought that I came to my 136 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,640 mind is to say I-1 evening I went and sat on a rock by myself 137 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,760 and said to Jesus, I hear that you are a living God. 138 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,520 If you are a living God, prove you're a living God. 139 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:52,760 In my life, I don't even know what to what prayer is, but I 140 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:57,600 said those words and you know Jesus heard those words of mine 141 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,240 and he has been proving to me for the last 48 years that He is 142 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,920 a living Christ. And what I am trying to say is 143 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,720 that we all can experience this living Jesus. 144 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:12,920 All that we need to do is to ask him. 145 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:15,960 So many times when I speak to people who don't believe in 146 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:17,720 Jesus, I tell them one simple thing. 147 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,480 See, you don't have to believe what I'm saying to you. 148 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,360 You sit down in a quiet place, calm down your mind and speak to 149 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,200 this Jesus. This Ramana told me that you are 150 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,200 a living Christ, can you prove yourself living God in my life? 151 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,760 Same thing I did, I tell them to do, but I have not come across 152 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,040 anyone guy saying yeah you told me. 153 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:41,120 I have done it. I know he is a living one. 154 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,000 No one has come back because people are not honest. 155 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,080 They are not really seeking Christ. 156 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,640 They are not really seeking truth. 157 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,000 When they do, they will ask the same question I asked when I was 158 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,360 a 15 year old guy. We need to have the hunger. 159 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,720 You need to have the kind of a desire to know the truth because 160 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:06,960 the truth will set you free. Many people are dishonest with 161 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:12,360 themselves. So there is a reason why we 162 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,240 don't see or meet Jesus in our lives. 163 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,320 So one of the things that very much impressed me is we all will 164 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,520 be going through lots of problems. 165 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,080 And when Jesus was crucified, the atmosphere in Jerusalem was 166 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,560 not a jubilant 1. There were these disciples who 167 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:36,920 were fearful, hiding and when the news reached them that Jesus 168 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,000 rose again from the dead, they could not believe it. 169 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:43,840 It was just few women who visit the tomb and then this where 170 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,960 they were wondering who is going to roll away the stone for us. 171 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,920 And when they arrived there, the stone was already removed. 172 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,640 And they go in and see there is no body, but there were two 173 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,240 angels sitting, one at the place where Jesus head was laid at 174 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,080 rest and one at his feet. They said, why are you looking 175 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:03,080 for the one who is the living One among the dead? 176 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:07,480 He has risen. Go and tell the disciples and 177 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,280 tell them that he is going to meet them in Galilee. 178 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,120 You know, when you read all those kind of things, it really 179 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,680 challenges us. My question is how much do you 180 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:23,800 believe that Jesus rose again from the dead? 181 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,160 How much can you put a number on it? 182 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:40,440 On a zero to 101, 100%? Be honest, if you believe Jesus 183 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,920 rose again from 100%, If you believe with your heart, you 184 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:48,000 will see science wonders and miracles because there is power 185 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:55,200 in that belief. There is power and if there is, 186 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,720 you do not see power. I would ask you to examine how 187 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,120 much you really believe. This is greatest challenge for 188 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,720 me. Every day I ask God help me to 189 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:08,160 believe 100%. If there is only one person 190 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,840 missing, I want you to do something to change it. 191 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,280 Because I want to believe 100% with all my heart, with all my 192 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,440 soul, with all my mind, with all my strength. 193 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:19,760 I want to believe, I want to preach it, I want to experience 194 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:21,480 it. That is my desire. 195 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,800 And if you have the same desire this morning, I believe He is 196 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,520 going to visit you this morning. So there were two people who are 197 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:37,720 walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus and when they were walking they 198 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,800 were talking about what happened in Jerusalem. 199 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,320 And when you look into their psychological condition, it is 200 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,520 very surprising. Enjoy. 201 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:52,240 In Luke chapter 24, we see there were people, basically it was 7 202 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,000 miles from MIS, was 7 miles from Jerusalem. 203 00:12:55,400 --> 00:13:01,360 It's a couple of hours of walk and these people were walking 204 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,560 and talking about what happened in Jerusalem, how Jesus was 205 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:08,280 crucified, how he was buried, all those things. 206 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,480 They were talking and basically they were feeling very sad. 207 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,480 And when they were having uncertainty, when they were 208 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,080 having fear, when they are having doubts, when they are 209 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,320 having kind of don't know what is life holding for us? 210 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,200 This is something we expected. He's going to be the Messiah. 211 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,840 We thought he is a savior. We thought he's going to restore 212 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,320 Israel now and now he's dead and buried. 213 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,600 What is going to happen to us? We thought we are following him. 214 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:35,920 He is the worth following. We. 215 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,880 We want to sell everything we have to follow him. 216 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,560 We want to make him a master. And now he is. 217 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:48,160 Dead and buried. Is there any hope Indiana their 218 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,600 countenance? When you look into their face, 219 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,160 do you see hope? Nothing. 220 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,120 And when they were walking silently, Jesus joined them, 221 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,480 they started he, they were walking two of them, and Jesus 222 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,920 joined them and they were, he was walking along with them. 223 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:09,760 Many times in our life, when we are in the lowest point, Jesus 224 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,240 starts to walk with you and you don't know it. 225 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,680 He joins your walk of faith and your doubt, your struggle, your 226 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,200 pain, and he is stop walking with you. 227 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,280 But you don't see that He is with you. 228 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:32,600 And when this is happening to them, he asked them, what are 229 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,080 you discussing together as you walk along? 230 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,800 What are you guys talking, huh? Or is the only one in Jerusalem 231 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,080 who is a visitor and you don't know what's happening here. 232 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:50,680 And then they, they stood still first, their faces downcast. 233 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,320 Now look at these people. There's no hope. 234 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,560 Indiana them, they have no hope. They must have known Jesus for 235 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,160 three years and the three years of listening to him, seeing the 236 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,000 miracles, has not put any kind of faith in them. 237 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,520 There is no faith. Their faces are downcast. 238 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,480 One of them named Cleopas asked him, Are you only a visitor to 239 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,320 Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there 240 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,360 in these days? What things? 241 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,440 He asked about Jesus of Nazareth, they replied. 242 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,160 He was a prophet, powerful in Word and deed before God and all 243 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,560 the people. The chief priests and our rulers 244 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,920 handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified 245 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,080 him. But we had hoped that he was the 246 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,640 one who was going to redeem Israel. 247 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,400 And what is more, it is the third day since all this took 248 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,800 place. In addition, some of our women 249 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,600 amazed us. They surprised us. 250 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:45,440 What did? Why? 251 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,000 What did they do? They went to the tomb early this 252 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,440 morning but didn't find his body. 253 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,440 They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels. 254 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,480 Who said he was alive? Everybody say he is alive. 255 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:04,400 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it, as the 256 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,280 women had said. But him they did not see. 257 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:13,640 There's a time you are walking in fear, uncertainty. 258 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,400 He's walking with you and you don't see it. 259 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,080 And these people ran to see him where they expected him to find 260 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,000 him. They don't see him why he's not 261 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,360 there. They're looking in the wrong 262 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,840 place. Tomb is not the place to look 263 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,680 for a living. Jesus is not the place. 264 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:36,240 And they did not find him because that's not the place. 265 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:41,760 He is going to be forever there. He rebuked them. 266 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:44,600 He said to them, how foolish you are. 267 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,160 I am telling you every time you read the word, it speaks to you 268 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:53,560 and me, and so many times it rebukes me. 269 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:58,640 How foolish am I? How foolish, how foolish. 270 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,920 Why it is the such strong word did Jesus use? 271 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,280 You are slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have 272 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:09,839 spoken. The word of God is very 273 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:13,319 powerful. Anyone single sentence can 274 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:18,680 change your life. One sentence from the Bible, if 275 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,040 you believe it, it is going to change your life. 276 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,599 It has got that power. I can't hide it. 277 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:29,920 I cannot hide it. How many times I have been 278 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,960 heard, I have heard the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking the 279 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,640 Scripture and all the oppression of the enemy just lifts like 280 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,560 that in one second. I have experienced it and I tell 281 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,640 you there is power in meditation of the scriptures. 282 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,800 And if you go through this chapter, Luke 24, you see three 283 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,400 times the word Scriptures is used there three times once you 284 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,640 see in verse 27. And beginning with Moses and all 285 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:58,600 the prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the 286 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,040 scriptures concerning himself. What will you find in 287 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,120 Scriptures? Jesus? 288 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:10,160 Did they know the Scriptures? Did they have the Scriptures? 289 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:12,920 They did. Did they find Jesus? 290 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,920 No. So He had to teach them the 291 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:21,040 Scriptures again, beginning from Moses, all the prophets and the 292 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,680 Psalms. Oh, I tell you, yesterday I was 293 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,920 thinking about it and the question popped up in my mind So 294 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,480 many times these days in when you go into social media like 295 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:38,480 YouTube, you see so many videos that talk about Book of Enoch, 296 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,400 Book of Jubilees, Book of Estras and this and that Gospel of 297 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,800 Thomas, Gospel of so many different kind of pseudo kind of 298 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:51,160 things. The answer is in Luke 24. 299 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:57,480 Say it answer is in Luke 24. What is the answer in Luke 24? 300 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,960 Jesus explained the scriptures to them. 301 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,800 From where? Beginning from Moses. 302 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,760 That means the first five books and the prophets, all the 303 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,000 prophets, major and minor prophets, and the Psalms. 304 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,760 He explained to them about himself. 305 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:17,640 Now this is the Canon accepted by the Jewish people of the 1st 306 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,840 century. They accepted this 39 books that 307 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:26,120 you hold in your Bible as a final revelation of God in the 308 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:27,840 Old Testament, which they believe. 309 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,560 And you may have other books like Enoch and things, but like 310 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,160 they are not part of the Canon. They are not part of the Canon. 311 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,360 When Jesus was approving those 39 books when he mentioned these 312 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:42,800 things, I was wondering why should I have this 39 books are 313 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,960 not other books. And when I was reading this Luke 314 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,840 24 yesterday it struck me like a lightning. 315 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,840 I do not need this extra books anymore. 316 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,000 Why? Because Jesus said this is 317 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,160 enough to know him. You do not need Enoch. 318 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,440 You do not need Jubilees. You do not need one. 319 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:04,280 Is the 2nd through address 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees None of 320 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,880 these books that are in the Catholic Bible you need them or 321 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,320 in the Ethiopian Bible. They have 82 books, not 66. 322 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,240 You don't need them because Jesus did not approve them. 323 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,680 Anybody with me? Can I see your hand? 324 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:27,400 Amen. So in this end times, this 325 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,200 everything to tickle your ear will come in in the social 326 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:36,000 media, but you need to be grounded in the world, be 327 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,240 grounded in the world, be unshakable in the world because 328 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,200 this word that you have in your hands is enough to reveal Jesus. 329 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,960 And Jesus did exactly that by talking to those two guys, 330 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,880 explained about himself from the Scriptures. 331 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,360 Prove that he is the Messiah. He should suffer and die and 332 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:55,880 rise again from the dead. Don't you know these things are 333 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,400 written already? Why are you slow of heart? 334 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:08,280 Why are you so foolish? I tried to read those books. 335 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,760 Basically I tried to read, you know, I tried to read other 336 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,560 books. It did not make sense to me. 337 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:18,600 I said, ah, we don't need them. You have this Bible with 66 338 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:25,080 books is enough revelation for knowing God, knowing salvation 339 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,240 and to have hope for the future and to reign with crush forever. 340 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:36,360 That's enough. And another time, you see again 341 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:41,400 in verse 32, they asked each other, were not our hearts 342 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,880 burning within us while He talked with us on the road and 343 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,280 opened the scriptures. That's the second time we the 344 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,960 word Scriptures is used. And the third time you see again 345 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,600 was 45. Then he opened their minds so 346 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,600 they could understand the scriptures. 347 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,920 What am I talking about here? You can be reading this Bible, 348 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,200 but I tell you, you will not understand unless the Holy 349 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,640 Spirit opens your mind. Unless it's the revelation of 350 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,800 the Holy Spirit, you will only be reading the words in black 351 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,880 and white but does not benefit your spirit. 352 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,960 The ministry of Jesus is continued by the Holy Spirit 353 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:20,920 now. So every time you open the 354 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,840 Bible, every day, you got to ask this Holy Spirit and say Jesus, 355 00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:29,760 Holy Spirit, give me revelation, teach me your word, teach me 356 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,680 your word, you know, in Omega. Why are we so focused on 357 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,280 studying the word week after week in home groups? 358 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:39,280 Because that's going to do something to you. 359 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:45,000 It will change you, will impart life to you, put hope Indiana 360 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,720 you and faith in you and to make you holy and so that you will 361 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,960 become like Jesus one day. That's the purpose of the Home 362 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,280 group, and some of us don't go there because they don't want to 363 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:02,880 become like Jesus. I'm just too harsh force, but 364 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,960 I'm just trying to exaggerate the situation. 365 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,320 What I'm trying to say is go to some Home group where the Word 366 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,680 is studied. Why? 367 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,040 When you go to the Home group, you're giving an occasion, an 368 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,760 opportunity for the Holy Spirit to speak to you and give you a 369 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,960 revelation because that revelation is what is going to 370 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:24,440 change your life. And now when they were all these 371 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,000 things were happening, when the the approach the Emmaus, they 372 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,680 wanted to stay for the night where they must be wanting to go 373 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:34,880 somewhere else next day morning. And Jesus acted as if he's going 374 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,120 farther. And they said, oh, please stay 375 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,560 with us tonight. It's already late and you may 376 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,440 not come back to another village for a few more hours. 377 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,920 It's very, very dark already. Please come and join us. 378 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:50,240 OK, Just sit down at the table. And he gives thanks to the 379 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:55,960 bread, and he breaks the bread. And as they were watching the 380 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,280 action of Jesus, their eyes were opened and they recognized that 381 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,120 the guest who walked with them is Jesus himself. 382 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:09,160 Jesus himself has walked with them for two hours. 383 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:14,720 Because to explain about himself from the from Moses, through 384 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,280 prophets, through the Psalms is going to take the two hours of 385 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,800 time. And I think it is very, very 386 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,920 short course. Three years of theology in 387 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,880 modern day seminary may not, may not do anything compared to the 388 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,280 two hours of walking with Jesus and hearing from Him. 389 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,840 He did teach them and that changed their life. 390 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,680 And when he broke the bread, when they saw his hands and the 391 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,280 bread in his hand, their eyes were opened. 392 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:49,000 Today, as we partake in the communion, I pray that the Holy 393 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,720 Spirit will open your eyes. Open your eyes to see Jesus. 394 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,160 I want the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to see Jesus. 395 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,280 We it's not. You are eating a piece of bread, 396 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,080 drinking a little bit of grape juice. 397 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,880 That's not the purpose. The purpose is encounter Jesus 398 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,920 through the communion. You are partaking. 399 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,840 The bread stands for Jesus himself, His body. 400 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,040 That's broken for us. And you learn to feed on the 401 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,360 broken body of Jesus. You learn to feed on the death 402 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:20,000 of Jesus. The effect of Jesus, the more 403 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,920 you think about it, the more you mediate upon it, the more you 404 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:28,600 feed upon it, the death of your flesh will occur, your flesh 405 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,640 will die, and the Spirit will be imparted with life. 406 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,320 It will be raised up with new life. 407 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,280 Do you want that to happen today? 408 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,920 So everything is symbolic then, full of deep meaning, because 409 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,760 Jesus said I am the bread of life. 410 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:59,400 And these Jewish people, they know that God Yahweh has fed 411 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,640 their ancestors with manna from heaven. 412 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,520 You neither sow nor reap, and you just have food. 413 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,840 Every morning you go out and collect it and they were able to 414 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,880 ferry it, bake it, cook it, boil it and eat it and never went 415 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,040 bad. But anything they purposefully 416 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:20,600 they leave it behind next day morning so rotting because they 417 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:25,440 were told to collect only as much as they need for the day. 418 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,840 And that manner rule has not changed. 419 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,840 Has it changed? No, you read Bible today, not 420 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,240 enough. That's only for today. 421 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,680 You cannot survive tomorrow again on that, you need to read 422 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,200 the Bible again tomorrow. Why? 423 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:48,200 That is how God designed human beings to feed on Him every day 424 00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:54,760 and derive life from His word. Your design like that, It's like 425 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,320 an aeroplane that cannot fly if there's no petrol in it. 426 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,120 Oh, I filled the petrol. We have already were flying for 427 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,600 the last 2000 kilometers and next 1000 kilometers it will not 428 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:06,880 run. You have to fill it again. 429 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,680 Same way we are designed to feed on the Word of God day daily, 430 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,840 daily, daily. And then you derive your life, 431 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,560 your strength, your hope, your everything, faith from that 432 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,760 word. So then what happened? 433 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,960 He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it 434 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,400 to them. Then their eyes were opened and 435 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,120 they recognized Him and He disappeared from their sight. 436 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,040 They asked each other. Were not our hearts burning 437 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,200 within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the 438 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,320 scriptures? Has it happened to you anytime 439 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:57,720 when you read the Bible? Did your heartburn anytime even 440 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,440 once? It happens in your lifetime. 441 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:01,920 That will change the way you read your Bible. 442 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,680 Sometimes it's just a scripture flashes in your mind. 443 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,920 I was reading a book by Martin Lloyd Jones. 444 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,440 He was called Prince of Preachers. 445 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:20,400 He was called Preaching on Fire, and he just quoted from Matthew 446 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,800 4. Man shall not leave a bread 447 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:27,800 alone in brackets, not in the main text, in the brackets. 448 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,400 And I was reading it, and strangely my heart became warm 449 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,440 and that warmth flushed through my body. 450 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:40,640 Man shall not leave my bread alone, but by every word that 451 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,760 proceeds from the mouth of God. We had to learn to feed on this 452 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,640 Word because that is the only way you can feed on Jesus. 453 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,320 The Word and Jesus synonymous in the beginning was the Word and 454 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,800 the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word 455 00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,960 became flesh and dwelt among us. We beheld His glory as of the 456 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,240 only begotten Son, full of glory, with grace and truth, 457 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:07,120 full of grace and truth. We have to learn to feed on this 458 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:12,000 Word because when you read the Word, your fellowship with 459 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,640 Jesus, when you believe the Word, you are believing in 460 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,000 Jesus. And what trouble can stand 461 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,440 before you when you carry Jesus in your heart? 462 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,080 Like the priests of the Old Testament, when they were 463 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:29,560 wanting to crossover the Jordan their their feet, they dipped 464 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,640 into the water and stood there with the ark of the covenant 465 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,640 held by them. And when the feet touched the 466 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,320 water, the waters were cut off from a kilo mile or so more, and 467 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,240 there was no drop of water flowing and more than 2 million 468 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,080 people crossed on dry ground in shortest time possible. 469 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,400 When you carry this presence of Jesus in your heart, when you 470 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,960 carry the presence of Jesus in your heart, that River Jordan 471 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,000 will stop. When you carry this presence of 472 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,240 Jesus in your heart, that Red Sea is going to split open and 473 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,840 give you the way. There will not be a trouble that 474 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,440 will put you down. There is no ocean that is going 475 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,320 to sink you down, and there is no trouble that is going to 476 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,120 defeat you because you have God dwelling in you. 477 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,640 And that's possible only by meditating on the Scripture, 478 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,120 studying the Scriptures, believing it, obeying it. 479 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:29,280 That is what God told. Joshua made it upon it day and 480 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,920 night, not 5 minutes in the morning, not 5 minutes in the 481 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:41,280 evening, day and night. So their hearts were burning 482 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,640 because their eyes were open to Scripture. 483 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,800 He opened the Scriptures and that brought that burning in the 484 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:57,760 heart and they recognized Jesus. I tell you, this revelation has 485 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,680 to come. And when the revelation comes, 486 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,160 the life will be completely changed, completely changed. 487 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:10,000 So I was just thinking about to tie it around, we need something 488 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,720 because we are people who want something that we can feel, 489 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,760 something we can imagine, something we can connect with, 490 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,960 relate. So I was looking for a story 491 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,960 that will help us remember these things. 492 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,880 So the story is set in the Second World War. 493 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,720 You know how Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 494 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,960 the hydrogen bomb and completely Japan was surrendered and had to 495 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,720 surrender. And the war was called up after 496 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,080 that. Basically it came to an end. 497 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:50,280 And there is a man who is an American pilot, his name is 498 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:58,120 Jacob de Schezer. And he was captured even though 499 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,840 they won the war, he was captured and he was rotting in 500 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,120 Japanese jail for many years. And he they would torture him 501 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,520 every day, torture, torture, torture. 502 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,800 And ultimately he was set free. But when he was in the jail 503 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,360 being tortured, he was given opportunity to read this Bible 504 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,320 for three weeks, only three weeks. 505 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,440 And those three weeks he read the Bible. 506 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,600 He was hungry man. Every word. 507 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:30,040 He was reading it 3-3 weeks, day and night, he read the Bible and 508 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,760 something changed in his heart. He forgave his captors. 509 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,600 He forgave the people who were torturing him. 510 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,480 He forgave everybody. And when he was afterwards set 511 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,560 free, he went back to America and then did some theological 512 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:49,640 core training and he got married and then went back to Japan to 513 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,520 preach the gospel. The same people who tortured 514 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,800 him, he went back with the gospel of Christ. 515 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:01,960 And he wrote a small pamphlet thing, 11 sheet of paper about 516 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,280 his testimony, why he is preaching the gospel now, and 517 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,800 that is distributed widely. And there was another man, a 518 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:15,560 Japanese, and this man's name is Mitsuo Fuchira. 519 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,800 Mitsuo Fuchira. He was involved in bombing of 520 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,640 the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. And then he had different 521 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,080 assignments. He arrived into Hiroshima, 522 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,160 Nagasaki, 2 days after the bombing. 523 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,120 So many times in between he was close to death. 524 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:43,240 He would escape it only by a very little chance, and he never 525 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,760 understood what is the purpose of life. 526 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,280 After the war he went back home completely disillusioned, 527 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,080 depressed, had no hope and didn't know why he was living. 528 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,240 I tell you, what can war do to man? 529 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,600 Man is not made to live with violence. 530 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,720 No, the more a man is indulging in violence, the more his soul 531 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,440 dies inside. And why so many soldiers have to 532 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,960 be counseled, put into psychiatry wars when they go 533 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,400 into war, because it does something, it devastates them to 534 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,080 kill another man, divestes the man. 535 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,920 Even the people who are sitting behind somewhere, somewhere in 536 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:28,159 America and they are trying to put, I mean, bomb a place in 537 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,480 Iran, they may be sitting here and controlling through 538 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,199 computers and they are not directly involved in killing 539 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:40,639 anybody, but they are causing those things to happen. 540 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,600 And sitting in America, that man needs psychological treatment 541 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,800 because he cannot imagine that he can sit here and push a 542 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:52,600 button and the people are dead there. 543 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,800 Buildings are collapsing. Many, much of much of a 544 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,520 devastation is happening. Why? 545 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:04,760 Why is man so fragile? And this man, Mitsuo Fuchiro 546 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:11,240 Fuchira, was also a fragile man. He was broken completely and one 547 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:18,360 day he got to read Jacob Deshazes testimony. 548 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,720 He read that and then he he wanted to buy a Bible and he 549 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,800 went and bought the Bible. He was reading it very, very 550 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,160 carefully. And as he was reading he was he 551 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,520 came to Luke chapter 23 and he saw Jesus hanging up on the 552 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,960 cross and he said those words. Father forgive them, for they 553 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,200 don't know what they are doing when he read that. 554 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,720 Words, I tell you, he heard the voice of God. 555 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:49,000 He said this gospel is true. And he forgave the Americans 556 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,160 because they came and bombed Japan. 557 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,200 You cannot talk about these things without feeling. 558 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:03,160 Emotional if I am dead. Inside I can read and not be 559 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,560 affected. But I am a human being. 560 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:12,720 I love people. I wanted to be saved and this 561 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:16,920 man he met. Jacob D. 562 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,840 In Japan they were enemies before the war, but now they are 563 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,960 brothers in the Lord. They are preaching the gospel 564 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:30,560 together. I want you to know that this 565 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:36,080 Jesus is alive, the one who met Jacob Dsenger, the one who 566 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,280 meets, meets you of Fuchida. He is the same one who wants to 567 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,960 meet you today. And I want. 568 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,480 Your eyes to be opened. When you eat that bread and 569 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,960 drink that juice, I want your eyes to be opened. 570 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,040 I want you to fellowship with this Jesus. 571 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,960 I want you to know Him and His power of resurrection. 572 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:01,040 My Friends, Life is incomplete if you don't know this Jesus in 573 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:06,120 a dynamic way, if your heart is not burning, if your eyes are 574 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,640 not being opened, you are eating a piece of bread and drinking a 575 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,800 bit of juice. But I want you to do go beyond 576 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 eating a piece of bread. I want you to partake in the 577 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,880 living Jesus. I want you to feed upon the 578 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,240 living Jesus. And I want you to fellowship 579 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:26,760 with this Jesus. I want you to have walk in 580 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:34,040 Revelation. I welcome you to walk with Jesus 581 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:38,600 to MIS today. And in that, in where they 582 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,000 stopped as he broke the bread, their eyes were open to 583 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,640 recognize him. Today I want you to have that 584 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,520 experience of meeting living Jesus. 585 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:57,520 Not an idea, not a philosophy. It is a person who lived 2000 586 00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,960 years ago and allowed you and died for you. 587 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,920 He rolls again from the dead. He's seated by the redhead of 588 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:10,040 the Father, as he is there, you are there, not here, and he 589 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,680 gives you power. To trounce down, to trample down 590 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,120 snakes, carving all the power of the enemy and he. 591 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,000 Wants to give you the. Power to open the eyes of the 592 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,240 blind to make the deaf. Here don't speak lamb walk and 593 00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:25,800 then to raise the dead. Do you want to partner? 594 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,800 And partake. In this Jesus, this. 595 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:34,800 Morning we have two tables, feel free to pick up piece of bread 596 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:39,360 and little bit of juice and come back to your seat and we will 597 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,920 partake together. And you encounter Jesus as you 598 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,720 eat his bread, as you eat his body and drink his blood. 599 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,000 Can somebody play music when this is going on? 600 00:38:50,760 --> 00:39:04,560 Thank you, Jesus. Castre Barano, Mastakuroni, 601 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:11,160 Shahastre Sarano, Rabasoni rehasse Karasandarano. 602 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,160 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 603 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:25,360 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 604 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:39,880 Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus. 605 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:49,600 I hear the Lord Jesus say now I have not held back, not even oh 606 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:54,240 .001% on the cross. I didn't hold back myself. 607 00:39:54,800 --> 00:40:00,160 I had given myself to 100%. I have loved you 100% and I gave 608 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:06,240 my life 100%. Not 99% receive that life. 609 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,000 Let's give thanks for his broken body and the shed blood. 610 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,960 Father, we thank you for your son Jesus. 611 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:14,200 We thank you, Lord, for the broken body and the shed blood 612 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,760 as we partake in this body and the bread of Jesus. 613 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,200 Open our eyes to see Jesus, that we may recognize Him. 614 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,720 That we may know Him, That we may fellowship with Him, That we 615 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:30,160 may receive revelation of him. That we may encounter him from 616 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,000 the Genesis to revelation as we read the Bible every day. 617 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,160 That we may encounter him. That we may derive life from 618 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,360 him. That we may feed upon him, be 619 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,720 energized by him, be strengthened by Him being built 620 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:48,840 on hope and faith To walk like Him, to love like him, to 621 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,880 forgive like him. We thank you again for your Son 622 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:57,280 Jesus, and the precious blood is shed as you partake in it. 623 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,560 Make it a living encounter with Jesus through your Holy Spirit. 624 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,520 Thank you Lord, for answering this prayer in Jesus mighty 625 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,480 name, Amen. Let's partake together. 626 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:14,600 Talk to him, talk to him, talk to Jesus, talk to him, talk to 627 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,160 him. That He may open your eyes, that 628 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:22,000 your hearts may burn when read the Word, that you may know Him 629 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,240 and His power of resurrection in your daily life. 630 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,720 The glory of His name. Father, we praise you again for 631 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:30,600 feeding us with the body and the bread of Christ. 632 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,160 Thank you for this experience today. 633 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,160 We thank you Lord. May it not end today. 634 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,160 We will continue every day to the glory of Your name. 635 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,880 We worship your Father, we worship with Jesus, we worship 636 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,040 you. Holy Ghost, thank you again for 637 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,040 your word. Cause it to bear fruit to the 638 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,000 glory of your name and Jesus Mighty name. 639 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,360 We have asked and everybody says Amen. 640 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,320 Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega. 641 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,520 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to 642 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,520 find out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in 643 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:07,280 the links below.