1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned into a mega. Church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,560 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,560 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,760 And. If you need prayer for healing 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,680 or breakthrough what to find out more about Omega, get to our 8 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,760 website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,240 We've been talking about justification by faith. 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:38,480 We're talking about how we are called by God, you know, and how 11 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:41,920 he justifies us not because of we, we follow the law, but by 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,360 faith in his Son, Jesus Christ. It is very, very simple. 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:51,520 But then the question that raises arises is when did the 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:57,400 what happens to the law, The law that is come through Moses has 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,160 been honored, has been held revered and held in very high 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,920 esteem by the Jewish people. But that law is not the basis 17 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,600 for on which God is justifying people. 18 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:15,000 So how the law had a temporary place, That's what Paul is 19 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,480 trying to expound from verses 15 to the end of the chapter, how 20 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,760 it is important and what is its importance and why it is 21 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:28,720 important. At the same time, how promise is 22 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:34,040 superior to keeping the law, how you are justified by because of 23 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,480 a promise? The whole thing is like this. 24 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,760 Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life. 25 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,400 He is saying it's everyday life. It may not be for us everyday 26 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,920 life, but for Jewish people, they held Abraham in very high 27 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,320 esteem. So he says, hey, you think of 28 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,280 him every day. You are his descendants. 29 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,160 Now I want to tell you something which is very, very your it is 30 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,880 in the in the basic fabric of your existence. 31 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,800 You believe you are a child of Abraham, descendant of Abraham. 32 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,920 I want to talk about it. That is what Paul is saying. 33 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,639 Everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or 34 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,280 add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is 35 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,360 in this case. How many of us are aware of 36 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,000 something called will when it comes to property matters? 37 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,720 You write a will. Why? 38 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,880 Suddenly if we disappear, we die. 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,160 We want to know what is going to happen to the property, who is 40 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,760 going to get what. So that will is something very, 41 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:43,040 very important. But then if you have a will that 42 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:47,080 is binding on what you are going to do with the property, it is 43 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,840 no will. It becomes difficult to deal 44 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,800 with it. It is very, very crucial to have 45 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,480 a will, but if you have more than one will, like today I want 46 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,480 to say so my, I want to distribute my property. 47 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,320 Sema and I decide go to the lawyer and make a will. 48 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,040 And then after two years we change our mind. 49 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,760 No, no, we don't want this son to get so much. 50 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,120 We don't want this much, this son to get so much. 51 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,840 We want to change it. You go and make changes again 52 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,880 with sitting with the lawyer. Then what will is going to be 53 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,520 final, The last one, the first one will be cancelled. 54 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,440 The last one remains. That's that's what we see 55 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,000 happening in our in our community in the sense present 56 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,200 in the present world everywhere in every country. 57 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,280 That's how we do it. So what Paul is referring to 58 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:38,640 here is that God made a will, God made a covenant, God made a 59 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,040 contract with Abraham and that cannot be changed. 60 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,600 It is like a, it is a Greek culture, basically. 61 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,440 It is rooted in Greek culture. The Roman government, you have 62 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,920 to, you certify a will go to the government, say this is my final 63 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,320 way. I want my property to be 64 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,840 distributed. And you go to the government and 65 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,840 then they say, yeah, put a stamp on it. 66 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,480 That is it. That is final. 67 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,760 You cannot add to it. You cannot remove from it. 68 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,520 So what he's saying is it is the same way what God promised to 69 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,279 Abraham is not going to be cancelled, is not going to be 70 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:17,959 added. Nothing is going to be added to 71 00:04:17,959 --> 00:04:20,600 it. So what did God do with Abraham? 72 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,840 He made a covenant with him. What kind of covenant he made? 73 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,280 You'll have to read Genesis chapter 15 to understand what 74 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:30,840 Paul is saying. In Genesis chapter 15, Abraham, 75 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,440 God appeared Abraham and said, Abraham, I am your great reward. 76 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,200 Don't be afraid. I am your great reward. 77 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:38,760 I am, I am the one who is going to bless you. 78 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,880 He says, what blessing are you going to give me? 79 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,560 You gave me everything, but he didn't give me a son. 80 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,120 This servant is going to become my who is going to inherit all 81 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,120 that I have. The slave in my house is going 82 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:56,240 to inherit everything. And God says, no, your servant 83 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:57,400 is not the one who is going to inherit. 84 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,880 You will have a son and that son will inherit. 85 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,120 How do I know what you are saying is true? 86 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,120 You know this is how God talks with each one of us. 87 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,800 There are times he gives you a promise and you go through some 88 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,640 crises and you doubt whether it is going to be true. 89 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,240 Am I communicating here? Is it all experience? 90 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,760 Even as we were singing this morning, I was remembering when 91 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:30,720 I was just 20 plus may be 21 year old and I was walking in a 92 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,560 different state because of the job. 93 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,920 I went there and I had no friends, no relatives. 94 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,720 The language is different, everything is different. 95 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,200 And after my work, I don't know what to do. 96 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:46,080 So one day I was going with wherever the road was going, I 97 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,280 was going. I came to the end of the city 98 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,960 and kept walking and I asked myself, God, why did you bring 99 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:56,240 me here? Why am I walking on this lonely 100 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,520 Rd. Why am I? 101 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:01,480 What is the purpose that you are accomplishing in my life? 102 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:08,040 So there will be times when you will go through those wilderness 103 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,400 movements, walking in the wilderness. 104 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,920 Just because God promises doesn't necessarily mean 105 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,720 everything is going to be fun all the time. 106 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,760 But my, my, what I'm trying to say here is we need to believe 107 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,320 that promise. When it is impossible to 108 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,560 believe, when it's difficult to believe. 109 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,360 You believe God, You're right. My feelings are not right, my 110 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,200 emotions are not right. But I want to believe. 111 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:47,520 And God said, OK, bring me a heifer, bring me a goat, bring 112 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,320 me a ram, bring me a turtle now and bring me a pigeon. 113 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:58,400 How many things I said? 5 and cut them into two. 114 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:03,920 Arrange the pieces on the ground and Abraham obeyed. 115 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,640 Next day morning there it was, 3 year old heifer. 116 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:12,960 Now you know, I thought I knew English for a long time. 117 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,680 Only yesterday I looked up the dictionary again. 118 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:16,880 Heifer. What is a heifer? 119 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:19,880 Can you say? Somebody give me a meaning of 120 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,080 heifer. Thank you very much. 121 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,280 Female cow. I thought it was male. 122 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,560 Why did I think like that? Because Jesus is the one who 123 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,960 fulfilled everything. I by default, I thought heffer 124 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,640 means it's a should be a male one, but I opened the 125 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:35,680 dictionary. It's a female. 126 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,480 I said, oh, so language sometimes, you know, we keep 127 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,760 growing in, you know, vocabulary and understanding and pardon 128 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,160 correct before it had a cough. That's also very important. 129 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,560 I want I was about to say it. Why does why does it matter? 130 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:58,440 Why does it matter for a female cow before they had a calf that 131 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,360 it should be sacrificed? You should be 3 year old and the 132 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,120 goat should be 3 year old. Ram should be 3 year old. 133 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:11,600 Three stands for perfection. Every animal is at his peak of 134 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,120 reproduction ability. At the age of 3 is fully mature. 135 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:22,000 So what God is saying is bring me mature heifer, bring me a 136 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,280 mature goat and a ram. And you cut into half and the 137 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,760 pieces were put apart from each other. 138 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,799 Blood is still flowing out of the animals. 139 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:35,799 You will have to imagine a little bit. 140 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:37,600 There is one picture there in the drive. 141 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,559 If you can find it, there is a picture. 142 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,720 Please put it up. I forgot to mention it to you. 143 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,240 Thank you. Apologies. 144 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,840 So the whole issue is like the animal is cut into half. 145 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:06,000 So how many pieces you have now? Six pieces of the three animals 146 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:11,480 and then you have the turtle down and you have the pigeon. 147 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:18,160 These birds were not allowed to be cut is always like that is 148 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:23,080 always, they are not cut into pieces and they are often as a 149 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:24,800 whole burnt offering in the thing. 150 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,720 Later on, you see when the law was given in the book of 151 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:33,120 Leviticus and new numbers and you see that heifer is used for 152 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,080 cleansing, heifer is used for cleansing. 153 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:39,280 They usually they find a red heifer. 154 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,360 You know, there's so much of talk in Jerusalem going on about 155 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,840 red heifer. Now they burn the red heifer 156 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,040 outside Jerusalem, bring the ashes. 157 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,640 When you mix water and sprinkle it on anything, it becomes 158 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,360 clean. So God gave those things to 159 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,440 Abraham heifer for cleansing. And then you got a goat. 160 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,000 You got 2 goats, which we selected in the later on in the, 161 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,760 in the in the, in the law and one goat. 162 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,320 You put a hand and a priest puts his hand on his head and confess 163 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:12,360 the sins of the whole is a nation of Israel and one is 164 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:15,120 allowed to escape into the wilderness, but one is 165 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:21,520 sacrificed sin offering ram a sin offering everything is for 166 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:28,520 this kind of purposes and God says do this thing, then why is 167 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,320 he asking all the sticks to be done is the local belief. 168 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:35,480 When somebody is making a covered with another person. 169 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,200 Let's say man A and a man B are making a covenant. 170 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:43,640 They will cut the animal and walk between the pieces. 171 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,520 And when they walk between the pieces they are saying to each 172 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,800 other, if I fail to keep my contract, may I be dead like 173 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,600 this animal? May I be dead but like this 174 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,160 animal? But when God made a covenant 175 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,880 with Abraham, he made it one sided on his own. 176 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,440 What is the word? I forget suddenly. 177 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,600 Pardon, unilateral, sorry. Thank you very much. 178 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,440 She is a pastor's wife. So unilateral. 179 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,320 What I mean is that Abraham is not going to be party to fulfill 180 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:24,840 the terms. He may be living for some time 181 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,800 and he will be dead, but who will be the one who will fulfill 182 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,240 it? God. 183 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,720 So what is God doing is I will come, come to a little later in 184 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,600 a few seconds. So what Abraham did was he cut 185 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,560 them, arranged them and he was trying to drive away. 186 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:46,440 When the the eagles and the vultures were coming down to eat 187 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,240 the carcasses, he was trying to drive them away. 188 00:11:49,560 --> 00:11:55,400 Basically, when does it happen? It takes at least 10 to 12 hours 189 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,240 after an animal is cut that will begin to putrify and it emits a 190 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:07,040 smell attracting the vultures. So the whole day he was standing 191 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:10,520 there making sure that nothing will come and eat those 192 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,840 sacrifice animals. And by evening he was exhausted. 193 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,200 Driving away vultures. He was very exhausted. 194 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,400 He fell into a trance and then he saw a smoking pot and a torch 195 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:28,400 go between the parts for God. For God. 196 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,120 What are the two things that went in between the parts? 197 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:39,760 A smoking part and a torch, Let's say smoking pot stands for 198 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,960 God the Father and the torch stands for the Holy Spirit. 199 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:51,440 Where is God the Son? You know, everywhere all three 200 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,080 are involved. Isn't it the animals that have 201 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,440 been sacrificed? They stand for Jesus who is 202 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,640 going to be crucified in the in the future. 203 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:10,080 And God says Abraham, I promise that this blessing that I am 204 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:15,360 giving to you is to you and to your offspring, to you and to 205 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:20,040 your seed, not the proof singular, singular that is to 206 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:24,560 Jesus Christ. So Jesus Jesus Christ received 207 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,960 the promise through Abraham. God the Son received the promise 208 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,560 through Abraham. I tell you when the more you 209 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:35,520 think about these things, the more fear comes over us. 210 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,680 Why? Because when you are dealing 211 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:41,440 with God, when He gives you a promise, He is making a partner 212 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:47,800 into His eternal plans. He makes you a partner in His 213 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,320 eternal plan. You don't live for yourself. 214 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,840 Abraham is not living to himself 3000 years after Abraham lived. 215 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,720 We are talking about him today because he partnered with God 216 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:08,360 and it is the same today. He's asking each one of you and 217 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:13,040 me, do you want to partner with me in my plans, in my purposes? 218 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:20,360 And it is not for yourself. Remember, the partnership is not 219 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,720 for your own blessing. It's not for you to make you 220 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,880 rich. It's not to make you Mr. 221 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:30,000 Universe or whatever physically. No, it is to partnership is to 222 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,480 bring His Kingdom into the world through your life for the glory 223 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,160 of His name. He wants salvation to come 224 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:39,640 through you to everyone else in the world. 225 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,640 I tell you, if this part is gone, then we are doing nothing. 226 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:43,680 We are. We are doing some. 227 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,600 We are playing in the church. We are not doing the purpose for 228 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,520 which God has called church into existence. 229 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:51,280 God has called a church in existence. 230 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:55,920 You and me to see that this gospel will go to every person 231 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:01,280 in the world. It has to begin in the house. 232 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,560 Where does it begin? In the house? 233 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,960 Because later on when you see the Passover lamb, if they 234 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:11,960 select a lamb and it will be in in the family for nearly two 235 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,760 weeks, it becomes part of the family. 236 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,360 Yet it will be sacrificed after two weeks. 237 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,480 Why? So that the children would know 238 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,120 what does it mean, the Passover mean? 239 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,240 How God passed over these things, how God passed over 240 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,080 every issue and how He saved them, how He delivered them from 241 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,080 bondage in Egypt. That is how He wanted the family 242 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,280 to know the gospel. Gospel has to be shared in the 243 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:43,080 family first. That is very, very simple rule. 244 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:51,760 And then He made the promise unilateral just on his own, and 245 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:56,920 he passed through between the parts because no one is above 246 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,960 God by which he can make a promise. 247 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:04,120 You know, people promise, make a covenant or promise with 248 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,280 somebody who with higher authority, somebody may. 249 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:13,040 In the New Testament, you see people used to swear by the gold 250 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:14,960 in the temple or the temple or whatever. 251 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,160 It is something great because there is no one greater than 252 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,560 God. He said, I will surely bless 253 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:25,880 you. He is making a unital, unital 254 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:30,240 promise, and that promise is going to fulfill it by His own 255 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,800 power. Accomplish it. 256 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,320 Now this is very important, very, very important. 257 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:43,800 In the morning we talked about many are called, few are chosen. 258 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,360 I was thinking about it yesterday, whole day. 259 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,200 How do you know that you are chosen? 260 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:58,160 If you are saved your car, how do you know you are chosen until 261 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,040 you partner with the vision of God, until you partner with the 262 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,200 purposes of God, until you partner with God for his Kingdom 263 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,160 to come into the world. When that desire is the one that 264 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,960 drives you, when that that consumes you and that is the one 265 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,240 that makes you dream of it. That's the one that makes you 266 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,240 think of it day and night, you are chosen. 267 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:24,960 You are chosen. The other way that you can know 268 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:29,880 is have you had a vision, a supernatural vision from God? 269 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,040 Have you had a supernatural dream from God? 270 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,600 Have you had, do you have some kind of a prophetic word that is 271 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,760 released over your life? Sometimes somebody has 272 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,520 prophesied over you say this is what God wants to do with your 273 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,680 life. You are chosen. 274 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:52,800 These are only symptoms. Sometimes you can have the naked 275 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:58,960 faith and cast your future with the naked face. 276 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,360 Say God, you are reliable, you are faithful, and you are like a 277 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,200 mountain. You're unshakable. 278 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,800 I put my trust in you and nothing can shake me and I 279 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,080 believe in you. I believe in your plan for my 280 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:12,800 life. I believe in your purposes for 281 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,440 my life. You will be unshakable and you 282 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,720 are chosen because your heart says I. 283 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:28,680 My heart is with God. We can be chosen as a we can be 284 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,160 called and live like as if we are not chosen. 285 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:39,000 To be chosen, you need to align your life with the mind of God 286 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,400 and the will of God. Nothing shall come between you 287 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,520 and God. Whether it is a drink or a food 288 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:53,440 or a pleasure or whatever it is, it will take second place. 289 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,000 I was talking to a young man who was going through problems in 290 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 marriage and he said, oh I don't have intimacy. 291 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,200 I am not living with my wife. My kids are gone from me. 292 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,720 What do you want me to do? I said confess the bread of 293 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,280 flesh on your wife and your kids. 294 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,160 Things will improve. And after one month he comes and 295 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,920 says, oh, I did it for a week and then I gave it up. 296 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:19,320 I said you are not fit to win. Why? 297 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,920 Because you are hard to do that until you win. 298 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,480 You cannot give up after one week. 299 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:31,160 Personal lives, personal struggles, we overcome by the 300 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,400 bread of the lamb and by the word of our testimony. 301 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,000 Every struggle you see, every problem you come across, you are 302 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,120 going to overcome it by the bread of the lamb. 303 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,920 That blood you put upon the relationship, that blood you put 304 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,000 upon the situation, that situation will yield. 305 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:50,200 That situation will change because that blood will speak 306 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:58,200 for you. Abraham sacrificed and that 307 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:03,200 blood was speaking. That blood was representing the 308 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:08,400 blood of Jesus. He is the one who makes a 309 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,040 covenant with you. He is the one who will fulfill 310 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,520 it for you. He is the one who gives you a 311 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,280 promise. He is the one who will fulfill 312 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,960 the promise for you. He will not fail. 313 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:32,680 Possible. We are not denying it because we 314 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,120 look at all the disciples. They were chosen. 315 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:42,240 They were called Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. 316 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,760 He says come and follow me. He was called and he was chosen 317 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,000 and he became a martyr for Christ. 318 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,680 All the 12 disciples except John the disciple, everybody was 319 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:58,480 martyred, beheaded, crucified upside down, crucified different 320 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,320 ways. They were all become. 321 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:07,360 So persecution is the part of the calling, part of the part of 322 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:12,360 the choosing process. There was a time I I used to go 323 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:16,800 to India very frequently every year, sometimes even twice in a 324 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,520 year. I went for preaching and 325 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,800 teaching and praying for people, healing, deliverance, all 326 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,640 things. We were very excited in the 327 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,240 initial days. Later I saw that became a 328 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,920 financial burden. But what stopped me going was 329 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,520 the persecution. I said don't want to go there 330 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:33,520 and get stuck up there. So I stopped going. 331 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,560 Think we need to be intelligent as well. 332 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,200 We don't have to walk into it. Right now. 333 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,120 There is persecution going on in Iran. 334 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:49,840 They say there is no count what CNN says, what Fox News says. 335 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:55,080 They only set out 2503 thousand people and some say 12,000 336 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,520 people, but some people say it's 30,000 people. 337 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:03,680 It is so the massacre on the streets because he hired Arabic 338 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,880 speaking Shiite Muslims to come to rescue him and to stop to 339 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,240 suppress the agitation. And they just came and 340 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:17,160 slaughtered the people. And the people who are holding 341 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,320 the dead bodies are demanding money to release the dead body. 342 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,560 What are they going to do with the 30,000 bodies? 343 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,080 It is depravity, I tell you. It is showing the depravity of 344 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:33,240 Islam Khomeini is putting down. Islam is showing to the world 345 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,440 what Islam is. Hey, I don't care for people, 346 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,360 but Christianity says God loves people. 347 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,200 People die for the gospel there. They want to kill people here. 348 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,440 We die for the gospel. That's the difference between 349 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,080 Islam and Christianity. And Jesus is appearing to many 350 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,560 people in visions and dreams and people are just on mass 351 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,320 believing in Jesus Families. Many, more than half of the 352 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,560 masks are empty in Iran today. Nobody is going to mask anymore 353 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,480 because they are believing in Jesus. 354 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,080 Talk about persecution. Where there is persecution, God 355 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:15,360 pours out His grace more. He pours out His grace more. 356 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,800 So here we see again the scripture does not say and to 357 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,280 seeds meaning many people, but to your seed meaning the one 358 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,920 person who is Christ. How God speaks and fulfills it. 359 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,800 After nearly 2000 years, it is just amazing only God can do. 360 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,920 Abraham lived for certain number of years and died. 361 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,040 But who is fulfilling the promise? 362 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:47,880 God, God. So when, when we, when you 363 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:53,840 believe, when I and you believe in Jesus is a contract formed 364 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:59,480 between you and God which will go on to the children, It will 365 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,600 go on to the children and children's children and to 366 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,640 children's children to save generations. 367 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:11,640 So your faith is not in vacuum. Your faith should impact your 368 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,200 generations. Then you are an Abraham. 369 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,400 When your faith is passed on to family, you become an Abraham. 370 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,200 We need to pray about it. We need to seek with tears. 371 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,800 If it is required, we need to do it. 372 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:34,000 But God will not fail. He is a God of Abraham, Isaac, 373 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,080 and Jacob of every generation, every generation. 374 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,160 My purpose is not to put down anybody or to bring grief to 375 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,520 anyone but my I want encourage people to believe this God and I 376 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:55,080 want you to experience the power that comes through faith in this 377 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,400 Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He will not fail. 378 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,800 He will not fail. And then what I mean is this. 379 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,560 The law introduced forward and 30 years later does not set 380 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,240 aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do 381 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,320 away with the promise. What he's trying to say, Paul 382 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,560 here is God promised to Abraham and that is final. 383 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,160 It is not going to be changed. Nothing is going to be added to 384 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,200 it. Law came forward and 30 years 385 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:23,120 later cannot cancel what God has promised to Abraham as He 386 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:26,320 justified Abraham. So everybody is going to be 387 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,760 justified by their faith in Jesus Christ, not by following 388 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,760 the law, not by following the law. 389 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:41,280 That's the reason why the gospel is superior and powerful than 390 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:46,280 the law. It inward power comes into you 391 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,160 when you believe in Jesus to fulfill the law, because you 392 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:54,640 walk in love, you fulfill the whole of the law and that power 393 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,960 comes. And what Paul was trying to say 394 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,000 here is by faith you receive the Holy Spirit. 395 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,360 We are talking about it last week. 396 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,440 By faith in Jesus Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit and that 397 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,040 is the promise. What did God promise to Abraham? 398 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,560 The Holy Spirit. If you believe in Jesus Jesus 399 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,480 Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit, you receive the Holy 400 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,360 Spirit and that Holy Spirit is the seed that comes into your 401 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:26,280 heart to make your blessing, make your blessing. 402 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,160 I tell you the more I thought about it yesterday, my mind was 403 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,120 just getting blown in different into smithereens to parts. 404 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,400 I said, oh God you are great. You are so great. 405 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,040 I am so small and you are faithful. 406 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,160 You are eternal from eternity to eternity. 407 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,440 You are God and you are so awesome. 408 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,880 You are so holy. You are so full of grace and 409 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,720 love. And what am I? 410 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,480 What am I that you should choose me? 411 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:56,240 What am I that you should also you should call me and choose 412 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,640 me. John chapter 15 is all about 413 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:05,600 calling and choosing. You got to remain in Him by 414 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:13,720 obedience to His commandment. So you may be fruitful, you may 415 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:18,240 be fruitful. Why does God allow a problem? 416 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,960 He allowed this little problem, not having children, infertility 417 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,560 for Abraham, Why? He wanted him to know there is 418 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:32,880 God who makes him or enables him to be fertile, enables him to 419 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,200 have children. Every problem should drive you 420 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:43,360 to God, not away from God. Every problem should drive you 421 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:47,160 to God, to believe you believe in God, to have faith in God. 422 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,920 My God, if you can't save me, there is no one else in this 423 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,880 world who can save me. I want you to come through now 424 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:59,000 for me. I want you to split the sky, the 425 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:05,400 dark clouds and come down because I am looking to you for 426 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,960 help. He will come down. 427 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,680 God will fight for every desperate soul. 428 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:19,720 When you are desperate, He will come down and help you. 429 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:30,280 So have the message. So the next part is, what is the 430 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,440 purpose of the law? That is, he goes on from verse 431 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:38,160 19 to almost the end of the chapter to verse 25, and then he 432 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,840 finishes with few promises in verse 26 onwards. 433 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,560 The number one purpose, he says, is the purpose of the law. 434 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,000 It was added because of transgressions until the seat to 435 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,760 whom the promise referred to had come. 436 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,360 The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator. 437 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,520 A mediator, however, does not represent just one party. 438 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,040 But God is 1. So what he's trying to say here 439 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,520 is why did the law? Why? 440 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,360 What is the purpose of the law? God gave the 10 commandments so 441 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,640 that everybody who is trying to do them will know that he cannot 442 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,840 keep it. Everybody, whoever is born of a 443 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:19,000 woman in the world, will be convinced that they cannot keep 444 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 the law 100% of all the time in their life. 445 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:26,520 There will be even one time you break it, you are guilty of 446 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,640 breaking the whole of the law. That's the reason why the law 447 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,080 was given, so that people can become desperate in their own 448 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,760 lives. You know there I always tell 449 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,400 this point in my in my own life, there are times I cried out to 450 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,040 God. God, you have given me, you 451 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,480 called me from a different faith to believe in your Son Jesus. 452 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,240 But I am not seeing victory in this area of my life. 453 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,360 I am falling in the sin again and again and again. 454 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,680 This is not right. This is not why you died for me 455 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,280 on the cross. When I cry out to Him, He has 456 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,560 given me victory over the sin. You need to know the struggle 457 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:08,800 with sin, and you need to know the victory over sin, because 458 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,800 the gospel will not make sense. Until you know the power of sin, 459 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,560 you will not know the power of salvation. 460 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,760 So here he says it is given so that you will know that you are 461 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,320 helpless. You will know that you cannot by 462 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:27,880 your own strength fulfill the law. 463 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,200 So you look forward when Christ is coming, appearing on the 464 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,880 scene after 1500 years, and he dies up on the cross and rises 465 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,720 up again from the dead, and that gospel is preached. 466 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:43,280 You grab it now because you find hope in that gospel. 467 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:50,080 So the gospel is something God prepared in history. 468 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,920 He did not do it in one day. He gave, he called people, He 469 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,760 made them reveal himself to them. 470 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,480 Like how do you know that Abraham build in the right God? 471 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,400 Its a big question isn't it? Its a philosophical question. 472 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,240 Did he believe in the wrong God? No, How do you know it? 473 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,320 Because of what things that have followed, we know that he build 474 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,360 in the right God. If they believe the wrong God, 475 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,720 people will be butchered. But you believe in the right 476 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:26,440 God, we will be saved. So that's how you know in 477 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,280 history that the gospel is ratified, certified over and 478 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:36,960 over and again that it is true by everybody who does contrary 479 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,680 to the gospel. Gospel will be more lifted up. 480 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,000 And then secondly, he says the law was proven defect through 481 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000 angels. That's OK. 482 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:51,480 And then he says if the law was given like a tutor is given like 483 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,080 a tutor. What's the job of a tutor? 484 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,840 Like a like a warden? Have you been in a hostel 485 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,080 anytime? If you, if you go to hostel, you 486 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,960 live in a hostel and you study and you, you grow up there. 487 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,080 You know the warden is like a tyrant. 488 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,480 He has complete control over you. 489 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,480 You're sitting down, you're sleeping, you're eating, 490 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,240 everything is in his control. But one day you'll come out of 491 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,960 the hostel. Same way. 492 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:27,080 The law is given to show us the tyranny of sin so that when we 493 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,440 receive the gospel, we know the life that's available in the 494 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,160 gospel. He is like a warden, He's like a 495 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,280 tutor. He teaches you, He leads you to 496 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,680 the truth. So that is how he explains all 497 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,240 that. I am just trying to finish it 498 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,200 basically, so I am not going into more detail. 499 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,600 But then he says in verse 26 onwards, you are all sons of God 500 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:56,400 through faith in Christ. Jesus is just somebody who want 501 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,280 to rejoice in hearing those words. 502 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:09,120 Only one person. You are all sons of God through 503 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:14,960 faith in Christ Jesus. And when it says your sons of 504 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,160 God, it also means your daughters of God. 505 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,080 Bible doesn't always say sons and daughters, sons and 506 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,120 daughters. Some by some Bibles have been 507 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,200 printed to do that. But don't worry about it when 508 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,800 the Bible says the sons of God is also talking about daughters. 509 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,360 When you believe your daughter will be a son, don't worry. 510 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,680 You can be a son, a powerful one. 511 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,080 Cool. For all of you who are baptized 512 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,000 into Christ have closed yourself with Christ. 513 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,920 You are closed with Christ. That's your identity. 514 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,560 You are all little Christ walking around everywhere. 515 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,560 When you get angry and shout at somebody, they look at your Is 516 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:59,400 this Christ? Not so much. 517 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,240 So let's be like we have put on Christ. 518 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,920 Let's live like we have put on Christ in love. 519 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:10,120 Walk in love. There's neither Jew nor Greek, 520 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:15,120 slave nor free, male nor female, but you are all one in Christ 521 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,880 Jesus. So there's a unity that you see 522 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,159 in Christ Jesus. We are all one in Christ Jesus. 523 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:22,960 He's the head. We're members of the body. 524 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,800 There's so many different ways Bible talks about the unity of 525 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,800 the believers. We are all one. 526 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,040 We are all children of God. We have put on Christ. 527 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,960 If you belong to Christ, then you're Abraham's seed. 528 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,400 The singular becomes plural. Now what was given as a singular 529 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,520 God promised to one seed, that is, Christ Jesus. 530 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,040 But when you believe in Jesus, you become the seed of Abraham. 531 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,239 You become the seed of Abraham. So one seed is promised to one 532 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,720 seed, but by faith that seed becomes multiplied now, 533 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:07,960 multiplied now, and is according to the promise, whatever is 534 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:12,120 promised to Christ. You are an heir to that promise. 535 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,480 You know it is. It is not that easy. 536 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,440 I recently talked to somebody and he said, brother, read 537 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,720 Isaiah 61 every day and pray over it and claim it. 538 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,960 Your life will change. I know when he talked about 539 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,520 Isaiah 61. I know what's there in Isaiah 540 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,960 61. So there's a big promise there. 541 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,640 There's a big promise there. So you need to be reading, 542 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,280 meditating and claiming it because you are an heir with 543 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,680 Christ. He said go into all the world, 544 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,200 preach the gospel, cast our demons, heal the sick, raise the 545 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:52,360 dead, let the blind see deaf hear downstream, lame walk, let 546 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,880 dead be raised. That is the promise. 547 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,800 That's the inheritance. That's your inheritance in 548 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,360 Christ Jesus. So you need to walk in. 549 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,040 It is not for only one pastor to do it or 1 elder to do it. 550 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,960 No, it's for everybody. That's why you are. 551 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,760 You can be called and live only as called, not as chosen. 552 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,840 When you are chosen and when you believe it, you will long for 553 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,560 your inheritance. You will be restless, You will 554 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,440 cry out to God. Why blind? 555 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,400 Don't see? Why deaf don't hear? 556 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,960 Why lame don't walk. Why did I not raise you groan in 557 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,960 your spirit? You're longing for it. 558 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,880 You want to be a prophet. You want to bring the Word. 559 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,160 You want to heal. You want to see peoples has 560 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,680 changed. If that hunger is there in you, 561 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:48,920 you are chosen. If you don't see it, it simply 562 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,920 means you will see it very soon. Why? 563 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,560 You can't be called and chosen and be fruitless? 564 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,760 It's just impossible. It is just impossible. 565 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:07,120 Shake somebody, give them a hype and say it's impossible not to 566 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:15,790 bear fruit. You're called, you're chosen. 567 00:37:16,310 --> 00:37:17,830 Abraham was called. He was chosen. 568 00:37:19,390 --> 00:37:22,590 That problem of childlessness is gone. 569 00:37:22,790 --> 00:37:29,200 He had one son at the age of 100, wife being 90 years old, 570 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:34,440 beyond childbearing. Yes, she was beautiful enough to 571 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:39,360 be taken away by a king. Just mind. 572 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,200 It's mind blowing. And when I think of Sarah's 573 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,200 beauty or Rebecca's beauty, riches, beauty, I always think 574 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,960 it is just you don't see those kind of people these days. 575 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,960 Somebody who is 90 years old and looks like a 60 year old or 40 576 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,920 year old. It's very difficult because this 577 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,280 is part of the sin problem. You know, it just has an effect 578 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,480 on the body. It runs you down. 579 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,520 But what I am trying to say here is in the Spirit we must be 580 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,640 young. In the Spirit we must be like 581 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,160 eagles which renew their strength and mount up with 582 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,760 strength and family high. That is our inheritance. 583 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:24,840 That is our inheritance. Your problem is the gateway to 584 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:31,400 see the power of God. Your problem is the door to see 585 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,360 the power of God in your life. Can you surrender your problem 586 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:38,280 to God this morning? Shall we pray? 587 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,640 Thank you Jesus. Surrender your problem to Jesus. 588 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:51,360 He wants to make that a door of hope, a door of power, door of 589 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:56,800 salvation, door of finding a solution to your problem, a door 590 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,080 for revelation. You will see the power of God 591 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,920 through your problem, surrendering to God, surrender 592 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,760 it to God, surrender it to God, surrender and say God take over, 593 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,600 take over. Take over my life, take over my 594 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,440 problem, take over my future, take over the year 2026. 595 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,880 I want to see your blessing. I want to see your power. 596 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:23,360 I want to see your power. And God will say you are chosen. 597 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,800 Not only your call, but your chosen. 598 00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,720 Father, we thank you this morning again. 599 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,400 We give you glory, honor and praise for speaking to us. 600 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:37,960 We worship you. We honor you. 601 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,120 We bless your name. We magnify your name. 602 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,920 Oh Father, I pray take our problem. 603 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:47,880 As the children are surrendering their problem, let your glory 604 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,400 come through the problem. Let them see your glory in the 605 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,040 problem. Let them see that the problem 606 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,280 will become a door that opens to see your glory. 607 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,920 Sarabhaste samaro maka sere sendere sandas Toro rosha 608 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,480 bahanda sarano re banas hasta koroni. 609 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,720 The Lord says I am committed to see you come out of your 610 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:11,680 problem. As much as you're crying out to 611 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,760 me, I am committed to pull you out of your problem. 612 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:17,920 I am committed to you, says the Lord. 613 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,840 I am committed to you. Rabbarani Mandastoro, Hoshe Kaha 614 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:27,880 Samaro Hosta Koroni. Let that sleep lift off from 615 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:29,480 you. Don't sleep anymore. 616 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,760 Don't sleep. Let sleep cover your problem. 617 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,480 No, don't go into that hibernation mode. 618 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:40,600 Bring it before God because He wants to give you a 619 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,640 breakthrough. He wants to break away that 620 00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,400 problem for you. He wants to let the light come 621 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,040 in through the darkness and He wants to save you. 622 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,240 He wants to rescue you. He wants to prove to you that He 623 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:54,880 is a living God. Open your heart now. 624 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,560 Open your heart now. Surrender to Him. 625 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,920 We praise you, Godfather, for those hearts that are praying in 626 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:06,600 their own hearts, crying out to you and God who can look into 627 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,920 our hearts. I praise you for you see those 628 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:14,440 hearts and you're saying to them, my daughter, my son, I 629 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,520 have called you and I've chosen you to bear fruit, much food to 630 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,080 my glory. Thank you Father, for your word. 631 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,000 Bless this word to your children and let there be joy in our 632 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,920 hearts because we have heard your word and let it change your 633 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,560 lifestyle to the glory of Your name. 634 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,000 Jesus, Mighty name, we ask and everybody says Amen. 635 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,000 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 636 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,920 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 637 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,240 our website or Facebook page in the links below.