1 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,360 All right, you ready to get in the Word today? 2 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,520 The Lord is so awesome. Do you know what? 3 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:25,320 You are? His choice, I said. 4 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,840 You're his choice. I'm going to say that again, 5 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,560 you've been personally picked by God. 6 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,840 Hallelujah, Amen. I said you've been personally 7 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,040 picked by God. In fact, we could, we could go, 8 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,480 let's go over to Ephesians chapter 2 and let me just back 9 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:47,840 up a few verses where he says maybe we'll start in verse 3 or 10 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,760 maybe verse 4. So why we were yet sinners, 11 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,600 while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, right? 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,800 And then in verse 6 it says this. 13 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,640 And he raised us up with him and seated us with him in heavenly 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,360 places in Christ Jesus. Now how did you get there? 15 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,200 Let's go back a chapter in Ephesians chapter 1 starting in 16 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,960 verse 3. Paul says blessed be the God and 17 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:17,480 Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every 18 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,560 spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ 19 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,280 because we've been raised up. I said we've been raised up. 20 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:34,240 But verse 4 just as he what chose us in him when before the 21 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,200 foundation of the world. Now talking about a choice, God 22 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:45,200 says I'm going to pick you before you are known, before you 23 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,480 even come out of your mother's womb, I'm picking you. 24 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:56,040 I mean, you did not have to show him a talent, a skill. 25 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,680 You did not have to prove yourself. 26 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,720 You did not have to do certain things like man, this person, 27 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,000 you know, like you know, when you pick for sports or back in 28 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,640 the day. Now you understand in my 29 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,240 generation, we were like tough kids because we did red Rover, 30 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,800 Red Rover, right? That is not for the faint of 31 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,520 heart. We did kickball and would hit 32 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:19,200 you in the face and it was legal. 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:22,080 All right. You understand that's the kind 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,600 of generation I grew up in. And so, but when you did a red 35 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,720 Rover line in elementary, I mean, you were looking, you were 36 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,080 looking at the out. You wanted to know there was 37 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,160 something about them that qualified them to come over here 38 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,040 and be on your team. God, before he even did the 39 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,640 foundations of the world already chose you. 40 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,200 It's amazing how many people feel like God. 41 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,160 Why would God want me? Well, before there was a you, He 42 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:58,160 wanted you. So your performance is not 43 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:04,760 required to be chosen. Your performance is not required 44 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:08,320 to be chosen. Because before you could ever 45 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:16,440 act with God, He chose you. You were his choice, Hallelujah. 46 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:21,360 So it says He chose you. Verse 4 in him before the 47 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,400 foundation of the world that we would be here. 48 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,400 It is holy and blameless before him. 49 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:33,680 Verse 5, or yeah, the going into verse 5. 50 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:39,360 In love He predestined us to adoptions as Son though Jesus 51 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,520 Christ, through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind 52 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,640 intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His 53 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,040 grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 54 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,760 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the 55 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,480 forgiveness of our sins according to the riches of His 56 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,600 grace. Now this verse here and another 57 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:06,160 verse that says the Lamb was slain before the foundations of 58 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:11,840 the world tells us that before God said let there be light, 59 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,600 before he created the heavens and the earth, before He ever 60 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:24,080 spoke beyond his own existence. He knew his plan for us. 61 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:29,160 He chose us. He had a destiny for us and He 62 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,200 knew there would be a problem, but He had the remedy to fix it. 63 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:40,880 And us, our works of ourselves is not what brought that 64 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,160 relationship. It is His word that establishes 65 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,400 this relationship 'cause He says in Genesis chapter one, verse 66 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,520 26. Let us make man in our image 67 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:58,120 according to our likeness. That means then Adam and Eve in 68 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:05,400 this garden experience prior to the fall of man were living holy 69 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:13,640 and blameless, But Adam ate the fruit sin enter the world. 70 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:19,080 But God already knew I have a plan because what I say I will 71 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,800 perform. And so he sent his Son, and his 72 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,120 Son came in the likeness of a man as the last Adam, and he 73 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,120 fulfilled all the prophecies, and he lived a holy and 74 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,360 blameless life. And the one who knew no sin 75 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:38,520 became our sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God 76 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,760 in Christ. In essence, to place us back in 77 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:47,880 a holy, blameless position, not based upon our performance, but 78 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,040 based upon believing Him at His word. 79 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,800 Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah, so he chose 80 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,640 us. When you think about this more 81 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,520 and more, it doesn't matter what you're doing in the earth. 82 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,120 He already chose you before you came. 83 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,040 All you have to do is accept. I'm his choice. 84 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,720 He picked me, and he doesn't pick failures. 85 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,000 He doesn't pick a mistake. It's not because he's sitting 86 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,160 around saying, well, I have nobody better to pick. 87 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,520 I guess I'll pick you. Come on, be on my team. 88 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,000 You're not the last pick, you understand, The one that's like, 89 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,960 well, give me so and so. You don't ever have to. 90 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,000 Your pick is first. You're a first rounder. 91 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,320 I mean, before there's even a round, you've been chosen. 92 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,520 Whoo, Hallelujah. Isn't that amazing? 93 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:50,560 Look what it says in James chapter 2 verse 5. 94 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,600 Now I love the amplified classic it. 95 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,520 It really translates this well and I'll communicate what a 96 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,400 couple of other translations says so that it's not confusing. 97 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,560 It says, listen my beloved brethren, has not God chosen 98 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,440 those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith 99 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,840 and in their position as believers and to inherit the 100 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,000 Kingdom which he promised to those who loved him? 101 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,760 Now some translation says that God chose those who are poor of 102 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,760 the world and it gives this implication when you read it 103 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,480 that way, that God is just choosing poor people that have 104 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,160 no financial wealth. That is not true. 105 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:39,080 Plenty of people that had wealth came to know Christ and wealthy 106 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:43,960 people that hold wealth prior to Christ can be born again. 107 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:49,440 So really this translation accurately catches is that if 108 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:53,200 the world looks at you, they're like, oh poor pitiful, poor 109 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,040 pitiful you look at you hold on to that crutch called Jesus, 110 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,320 holding on to that crutch called the church. 111 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:05,200 Oh, poor pitiful, you yield into this make believe person. 112 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,680 I mean, that's how the world looks at the things of God, 113 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,000 right? And thinks, you know, it's cut, 114 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,600 but yet you're rich in faith. And then when you're rich in 115 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,400 faith, then you're rich because your dad owns the planet. 116 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,280 I said he owns the planet. I mean, there is no person with 117 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,400 money associated with their name that is wealthier than the 118 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,640 father that you have. And if you have faith in God 119 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:34,440 that you can have it all because what money can't buy, God can. 120 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:38,520 God can do. God is awesome. 121 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,600 So God chose us, right? He has chosen us that we would 122 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:47,400 inherit the Kingdom. He has promised this. 123 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:52,560 This is was in the mind of God, that God when he began to create 124 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:55,760 the heavens and the earth. And that's his territory that he 125 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,560 has dominion and power over. He says I'm going to have an 126 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:03,560 offspring of my likeness. It is going to be a man and he's 127 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,680 going to be in my image and he's going to be holy and blameless. 128 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,080 And this is how I choose him. I choose him to be like me. 129 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,040 I choose him to function like me. 130 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:17,120 I choose him to operate like me. I choose him to be without sin 131 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,400 like me. I choose him to be full of 132 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,200 light, not darkness. I choose him to walk in truth 133 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:27,160 and not a lie. I choose Him this way, and if 134 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:31,880 God chooses that, then a way to be that is available and that 135 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,720 way is not based upon us acquiring it of our own, but us 136 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:42,960 accepting what He has said about it and then acting on it through 137 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,960 faith. I believe God, I am what He says 138 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:52,080 I am, and that is a tangible thing. 139 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,960 It's tangible when faith is in action. 140 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:05,160 It's it's, it's known to God. Hallelujah, Thank you, Jesus. 141 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,760 Hallelujah. Come on, say Amen. 142 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:14,440 Glory to God. God is so good it is tangible. 143 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,880 Without faith it's impossible to please God. 144 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,400 God is functioning from His Word and His Word alone because He 145 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,520 will uphold His word. His Word will not return unto 146 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,000 Him void, but it shall accomplish that which it was 147 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,400 sent to do. His word He will perform. 148 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,520 He's awesome at it. If you want to participate, you 149 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:41,000 can, through a simple submission and a firm persuasion that God 150 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,040 has the power to perform His Word. 151 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:50,680 It's His work. Your process is belief, but 152 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:54,840 belief is tangible. Your side of the equation is a 153 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:57,600 reality. It has to be in play. 154 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,680 If it's not in play, then it's not recognized. 155 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,560 It's not recognized. Jesus. 156 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,400 I'll give you a great example. Jesus is walking in a crowd 157 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,160 trying to get to a religious man's house because his daughter 158 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,520 is sick to the point of dying. And he has instructed this 159 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:24,000 particular father that I will come to the house and I will 160 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,120 heal your daughter. So he has the word on it. 161 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:33,560 However, in the process of the crowd pressing on him, you know, 162 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:36,840 he's just stuck in this crowd and he can only go so fast. 163 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,360 And you understand, the father definitely probably has some 164 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,000 kind of anxiousness about him. Like can you get out of the way 165 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,520 so Jesus can get to my house? It's not like they had an 166 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,920 ambulance where they could just turn on sirens and go. 167 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:50,800 All right. Well, while this events taking 168 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:54,640 place of which it must have taken some time because a 169 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,960 particular woman in the same community has had an issue of 170 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:04,200 blood for 12 years. And in that society she cannot 171 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,560 and is not supposed to go out in public without proclaiming 172 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:13,480 unclean, unclean. Because if she touches somebody 173 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:19,120 in the infirmity that she has, they become unclean for the rest 174 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,480 of the day. However, she hears that Jesus is 175 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,800 going through the streets and she says to herself, after she 176 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,360 has spent all of her money through the physicians to try to 177 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,080 be well, and none of their remedies are working, everything 178 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,600 they prescribe doesn't work. It only is worse. 179 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:43,120 She concludes, based upon what she has already heard about 180 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,120 Jesus, that if he lays hands on the sick, they're healed. 181 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:52,720 So she says to herself, if I can just touch the hem of his 182 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,040 garment, I'm going to be made whole. 183 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:02,000 So she makes a conscious choice. I am going to get to Jesus. 184 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:09,120 She, not God. She on her own accord in faith 185 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:14,720 that His word will come to pass and be performed by Him, puts 186 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:19,080 into action this belief and begins to move through the 187 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,880 crowd. And the reason she concluded 188 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:26,040 that if I just touches him, which is the lowest part of his 189 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,520 garment, which you know, I'm wearing my fancy socks today to 190 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,920 match my shirt. If I can just get down here, 191 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:43,140 meaning if I get to this guy, she does not lack determination. 192 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:50,800 She has based it on if I don't get to him, I'm not going to get 193 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,080 it. And my state is so weak I don't 194 00:13:54,080 --> 00:14:01,240 know that I can, but I'm going to go for it none the less. 195 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,320 And I don't care who's there because if I do reach him, I'm 196 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,200 probably only going to be strong enough. 197 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,200 I'm dragging myself to get to him. 198 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,400 Come on, some we need to drag ourselves sometimes. 199 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,680 And if I just touches him, I'll be made whole. 200 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,760 Now that is not, oh, I'm not doing anything attitude. 201 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:31,280 See, faith is tangible and it's faith in his ability to perform 202 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:35,880 what he says. And she acted on that belief. 203 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:42,080 Not a work of herself, but she did do the effort to get where 204 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,320 she needed to be. And when she touched his him, 205 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:49,680 the Bible says Jesus, who was highly focused to go to Gyruss's 206 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:54,040 house or however you pronounce this particular high, this 207 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:59,240 priest or religious leader to get to his house. 208 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,760 He's focused on this that she only touches his, him, not even 209 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,640 his body, but to close her own, his body. 210 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:13,440 That power leaves him. This surge of healing anointing 211 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:19,800 flows out of his being. And he stops and says, who 212 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:21,120 touched me? Now? 213 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:26,840 Peter's response is really, I mean, do you see the crowd? 214 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,040 I mean, who's not touching you right now? 215 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,880 I mean, you're you're being bounced around so much. 216 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:34,720 What? How can you say who touched me? 217 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:39,000 He said no, no, no, no power has left me. 218 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,160 Now you're saying the woman has touched, she's immediately 219 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,840 healed and she's backing out of the process, right, because she 220 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,720 already knows. I'm not technically supposed to 221 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,320 be in this crowd. I've touched way too many 222 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,400 people. If they only know according to 223 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,160 the law, they are unclean right now. 224 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:58,520 But I am rejoicing. I am healed. 225 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,920 I've had this for 12 years and man, I'm up out of this thing. 226 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:07,640 Glory to God, I got it. I'm gone, but God will not come 227 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:14,600 on, let you leave without acknowledging who is the source, 228 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,360 'cause He wants you to praise Him. 229 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,760 So he says who touched me? And he said no power has left 230 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:25,200 me. And when the woman recognized 231 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,440 she has not gone unnoticed, even though he did not see her 232 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:33,120 physically, he spiritually hit the healing anointing left him 233 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,760 and he knows somebody received this. 234 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,160 She comes back, tells him the whole context and then what he 235 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:46,680 says is very powerful. He says, woman, your faith, your 236 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:51,400 faith has made you whole, your faith, Hallelujah. 237 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,280 My point is, is that faith is tangible. 238 00:16:56,400 --> 00:17:05,200 So this relationship of his choice is a result of a tangible 239 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:16,880 faith moment, because from heaven he's chosen you and your 240 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:24,000 separation from him, your sin, your wrongdoing means nothing to 241 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 him 'cause he's paid the price for that. 242 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:33,960 It's finished to get you out of the problem you're in, however, 243 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:40,080 there must be a tangible realization that he is going to 244 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,960 be Lord of your life. That is a position by which 245 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:51,160 there is a firm persuasion that I will follow Him forever. 246 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,280 Not just in this life, not just for a week, not just till I get 247 00:17:56,280 --> 00:18:00,000 baptized, not till the first trial comes, not till the first 248 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,400 attack comes. No forever, for all eternity. 249 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,240 He's always my Lord. He'll always be my Lord. 250 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,560 I'll always be firmly persuaded that He'll always perform His 251 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:10,360 word. Word. 252 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:14,680 He does His word. I am his and his alone. 253 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,800 My allegiance is to the King of Glory. 254 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:21,800 Hallelujah. And here's the thing he's 255 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,000 saying. Before you were in the position 256 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,160 to believe that I already chose you. 257 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:34,560 I just need you to act on it. I need you to do the part you 258 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,880 have to do and you have to do. It is faith and faith alone. 259 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,320 It is faith and faith alone. I'm going to say it again. 260 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:48,320 It is faith and faith alone, because God has done it all 261 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:54,360 according to His Word. It's our faith in that Word that 262 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:57,880 causes it to come to pass, because if we're not believing 263 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,640 Him at His Word, then we do not receive that which is of His 264 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:03,480 Word. Are you hearing me? 265 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:10,000 John 1516 says it this way. You did not choose me, but I 266 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:18,120 chose you. Now He goes on and he says and 267 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,760 appointed you that you would go and bear fruit. 268 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:29,280 So being chosen is not a static choice or position. 269 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,840 His choice for you is not to let you just be static. 270 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:43,040 There's a purpose for the choice Hallelujah, of which there is an 271 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:49,200 appointment and the appointment is for you and that you would go 272 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:55,040 and bear something and that your fruit then would what remain. 273 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,760 So whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give 274 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,280 it to you. Jump over to verse 19. 275 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,960 He says if you were of the world, the world would love its 276 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:07,560 own, but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out 277 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:12,320 of the world, because of this, the world hates you. 278 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Now in 2026, I am going to keep in front of you persecution. 279 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:29,320 I believe my nephew who's pastoring a church over in Pace, 280 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:35,080 FL, is doing a really good job of keeping persecution in front 281 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:41,480 of his church body. In our Western society, we are 282 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,000 not persecuted like it is in other places. 283 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,920 And this creates a laziness, a lack of zeal. 284 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,520 And I, you know, have seen some things that he's posted 285 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,400 concerning certain stuff. And I'm like, you know, I think 286 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:09,320 he's got the right angle here because he is keeping in front 287 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:16,560 of a Western church who can prosper and live luxury. 288 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,840 Be reminded that not everyone shares this. 289 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:28,320 And at minimum, we should be passionate in prayer about it. 290 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:34,000 And then secondly, be active to make sure it doesn't show up in 291 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,520 our nation and there are things happening in our nation so that 292 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,920 it can become like other nations that are highly persecuted. 293 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:55,640 Say Amen. Anyway, our choice, our being 294 00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:01,920 chosen by God, was not so that we could sit back, have a 295 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:05,480 retirement mentality, and wait to graduate to heaven. 296 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:09,960 There is way bigger. The reigning church is not a 297 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:15,080 retired church. The reigning church is actually 298 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,160 a conquering church. And a reigning church is so much 299 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,200 different than the way the world functions that they know they're 300 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,640 not of the world because the world attacks them. 301 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,480 When's the last time you had serious persecution for the 302 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:40,720 position you're in? It's not like another place. 303 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,440 And now again, I'm not here saying bring on persecution. 304 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,680 I'm just saying the Bible tells us we're not. 305 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,240 The world should hate us. You should not be friendly with 306 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,640 the world in this context. They're your friend. 307 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,520 It is. I'm showing them the light and I 308 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,440 know there's going to be plenty who hate me and I'm going to 309 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:02,360 live at peace. The Bible tells us to live at 310 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:07,040 peace with all men as far as you can, and some you're never going 311 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,440 to have peace with. Not because you're not at peace, 312 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,920 but they're not at peace with you because you're not of the 313 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:18,000 same people. See, when we talk about His 314 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,160 choice, we're talking about the people of God. 315 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,360 And there are people on the planet that are not people of 316 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:28,000 God, although He wants them to be His people. 317 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,160 From the beginning, He only wanted a people like Him in His 318 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,040 image. However, Adam ate the fruit and 319 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,400 all have fallen short now of the glory of God. 320 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,600 But there's a redemptive plan for all of us to come back to be 321 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,240 a people of God. But not everyone's going to be a 322 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,480 people of God, because not everyone is going to accept the 323 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,560 finished work of Jesus. First Peter chapter 2 verse 9 324 00:23:53,560 --> 00:24:01,160 and 10 says this. But you are chosen race, a royal 325 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:06,000 priesthood, a holy nation. Notice this is not a religion. 326 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:14,520 This is not being relegated to Christianity, although you 327 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,880 should be a Christian or Christ like. 328 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,160 And Christ like means you reign like a king in this life. 329 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,680 All right? We are a chosen race, a royal 330 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,640 priesthood, a holy nation, because the Bible's about a 331 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,360 king, his Kingdom, and his royal offspring. 332 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,280 Why are we God's own, a people for God's own possession, so 333 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:39,240 that you and myself may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has 334 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:45,000 called us what out of darkness into His marvelous light? 335 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:50,760 For you once we're not a people, but now you are people of God. 336 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:56,080 You had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 337 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,280 So at one time we were not a people of God, although before 338 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,800 the foundation of the world, He only saw us as a people of God. 339 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,880 And when humanity fell out of the position of being people of 340 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:14,680 God, he made a way through his Christ Jesus so that we could 341 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,720 become a people of God again. So we were not a people, but now 342 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,200 we are people and we are a chosen race now in the in the 343 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,720 Western society or just even globally to some degree. 344 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:35,200 You understand when we say race, we begin to think outwardly, but 345 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,120 God doesn't see race outwardly alone. 346 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,320 Now, it's not that God's blind to our outside. 347 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,080 And here's the thing, God is just way too creative. 348 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:55,480 I mean, what would you think about a dealership that only put 349 00:25:55,480 --> 00:26:01,160 out their cars white? Are their cars black? 350 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:08,120 You could never get another very no car dealership limits their 351 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,760 vehicles to one color. Why? 352 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,160 Because it's too they're too creative. 353 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,240 And again, if we go into the parking lot, I've used this 354 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,080 example before, all of you who are driving a white car right 355 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,560 now are not parked only by the white cars. 356 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,400 And all of you that drive black cars are not only parked by the 357 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,560 black cars and all of you riding driving red cars are by the red 358 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,080 cars color coordinator parking lot, which that would probably 359 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,840 be pretty interesting if we did that one Sunday for fun. 360 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:46,080 But all the blue cars here, you know, but we don't do this. 361 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,320 I mean, here we are driving the vehicle. 362 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,120 And you know what the red car doesn't say to the orange car. 363 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,040 You don't look like me. Don't be by me. 364 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,920 Well, this is how we're made on the outside and God's too 365 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,920 created to make us exact same pattern. 366 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:14,920 Hallelujah reminds me of that movie that Will Smith was in. 367 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:17,800 Oh, y'all going to help me with the name of it here in a second 368 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,840 where the robot, you know, I robot. 369 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,040 Thank you. They all look the same. 370 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,560 I mean sometimes when you get around people, you you want to I 371 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,640 like you just want us all to look the same. 372 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,040 God's like I'm way too creative to just make robots. 373 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,720 So yes, God has us in suits that look different. 374 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,880 No problem with that. And God never used that to 375 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:49,800 divide us, to separate us because he's just too creative. 376 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,320 Hallelujah. I mean, again, I can get all the 377 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,280 self-proclaimed whites or Caucasians and we don't look the 378 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:06,120 same because now some of you are like, extreme white and need to 379 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:13,560 find some vitamin D, right? During the summer, you know, I 380 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,080 go to a whole nother shade. In fact, I always do this with, 381 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,120 you know, one of our elders, John Green. 382 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,280 I like to come back from the summer and pull my leg up and 383 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,560 put my leg next to his. You know what, John? 384 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,080 Do you actually wear shorts much during the summer at all? 385 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,960 You do, OK. You don't tan them a whole lot, 386 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,960 but man, my leg will match his leg. 387 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:36,960 And I feel very, is that not true? 388 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,760 And I'm very stand up so everybody can see you. 389 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,480 That's what I'm talking about. I mean, I'm like, come on now. 390 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,520 I can't do it. Now we're in December. 391 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,600 I fade way more than you. You know, our melatonin is 392 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:57,080 different, but you know what? We are a chosen race together. 393 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,440 So when God chooses a race, he would never choose just one 394 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,880 color. That's why in his Kingdom 395 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,640 there's every tribe, every tongue and every nation, every 396 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,080 type of people group. Why? 397 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:18,320 Because God's nation is too. There's too much creativity in 398 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,160 our Father. I mean, we don't even have one 399 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,560 green anymore. You know, you can't even look at 400 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,720 trees and see the same green. I mean, why would we think that 401 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,200 this with us? It's the sin nature that divide. 402 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,360 It's not the God nature. So we are a chosen race. 403 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:42,120 We are a large group of persons regarded as being biologically 404 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,880 related, and we are because we are of the same bloodline. 405 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:53,240 His name is Jesus. Hallelujah, I said Hallelujah. 406 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,040 If you have called on the name of the Lord, we are of the same 407 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:01,040 bloodline. Because when you're chosen by 408 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,280 God, he's bringing you into His family. 409 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,840 It's his blood that's brought us in, which means it doesn't 410 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,160 matter what you look like on the outside, it's what you're 411 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,280 looking like on the inside that brings us into the family. 412 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,800 But then we are our people and a people is a group again, a 413 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,440 tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language 414 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,280 of a great part of the population gathered together 415 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,320 anywhere. I like this and the and the 416 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:31,440 Greek word they use here is is is demonstrated that on a global 417 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:36,160 perspective, God has made it available for any person 418 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,480 anywhere to come back into the Kingdom and be his choice. 419 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,960 And yet there are groups of them in each nation because every 420 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:53,240 nation has groups of believers. They do. 421 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,680 There are believers there. Now, I understand we talk about, 422 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,160 you know, they're unreached people group. 423 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,200 Well, they're, you know, I think you got to do a little more 424 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,600 history because at the end of the day, if you take some time 425 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:15,440 to think, the gospel started in Jerusalem right after Jesus 426 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,800 death, burial, resurrection and the day of Pentecost. 427 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,560 The gospel was hot in Jerusalem. Then it began to spread to 428 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,720 Samaria. That's that region of the Middle 429 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,640 East. Then it began to expand out. 430 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:32,920 They believe that Thomas his bones are in India and it began 431 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,560 to expand. Well, you know, when Jesus said 432 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,240 you're going to be a witness for me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria 433 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,600 and the remotest parts of the world. 434 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:44,560 Well, the United States is remotest part as opposed to 435 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,400 Jerusalem. So when we talk about the 10:40 436 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,120 window in the Middle East, well, you know the Middle East has 437 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:59,760 heard the gospel longer and for more years than we have now. 438 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,880 Should we be in those regions? Absolutely no problem. 439 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,800 But for us to think that these individuals because of their 440 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,640 governments and the way they have persecuted the church and 441 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,480 they won't allow them to be in and allowed other religions. 442 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,240 You understand if you look at the timeline of the Bible when 443 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,760 God was in communities that then they began to reject his truth, 444 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,760 then Les began to follow more challenges. 445 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,240 And it's not because they're not, it's not been preached 446 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,600 there. It's because we've gone multiple 447 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:37,040 generations that now have either perverted, changed or ignored 448 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,840 it. Hallelujah. 449 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,160 So really we're on the other side. 450 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,600 So the gospel here brings it closer to the end than ever 451 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,280 because we are the remotest part. 452 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,520 We're on the other side of the hemisphere. 453 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,880 Say Amen. Anyway, Romans Chapter 9 verse 454 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,800 25 to 26 says this. It says and he who, and he says 455 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,640 also in Hosea, I will call those who are not my people, my 456 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:11,120 people, and her who was not beloved, beloved. 457 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,560 Now who's the her? It's his church. 458 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,520 It's the bride of Christ. And it shall be that in the 459 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:22,240 place where it was said to them, You are not my people there they 460 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,240 shall be called sons of the living God. 461 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,240 Hallelujah. You are children of the living 462 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:37,280 God. Let that seek in for a moment. 463 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,760 You are children of the living God through a profession that 464 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,960 Christ came, died and was resurrected and his sacrifice 465 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,840 pays for your wrongdoing to the Kingdom. 466 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,960 And by acknowledging Jesus as Lord, you are saved from the 467 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,400 sentence of eternal separation from God. 468 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,360 Hallelujah, I said. Hallelujah. 469 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,840 Oh my goodness, this next verse will mess you up. 470 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,760 Now, why do I say this? Because I'm going to quote a 471 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,880 scripture you already know. But if you'll just stop for a 472 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:23,920 moment and let it just marinate, man, let it become revelation 473 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:31,760 again. Let it become real again. 2nd 474 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:37,239 Corinthians 6 verse 16 and I'm moving into the verse a little 475 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,679 bit because I want to focus on this statement alone. 476 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:49,679 It says for we are the temples of the living God, just as God 477 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:54,080 said, I will dwell in them and walk among them. 478 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,240 I will be their God and they shall be my people. 479 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,960 I mean, can we just for a moment sit here and just meditate on 480 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:08,040 this one thought? The Holy Spirit dwells in me. 481 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:18,400 The Holy Spirit dwells in. He's made his abode in me. 482 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,120 I have the greater One on the inside. 483 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:37,080 What can man do to me? I have the third person of the 484 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,880 Godhead dwelling within my being. 485 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:47,000 What can sickness and disease? How can it stay in the soup? 486 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:56,040 I have God Almighty, the Spirit of God living in me, bearing 487 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:01,960 witness with my spirit. I am a child of God. 488 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:11,960 I'm a child of God and I'm a child of God by His choice. 489 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,280 He always wanted me to rule and reign and have dominion. 490 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:21,920 He wanted me free from sickness, disease, from sin, from poverty, 491 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,400 from life. He never wanted me to experience 492 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:34,080 and He's resident inside me now. Woo the dispensation of grace 493 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,600 we're in now as at a whole nother level than the old 494 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:43,200 covenant. We left cause in the Old 495 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:49,000 Covenant, the Holy Spirit was exclusive to the nation of 496 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:54,880 Israel and upon the kings and priests and prophets of that 497 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:59,840 nation. Very rarely did He move out in 498 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:06,080 some other arenas. However, in this one, He has 499 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,640 poured out His Spirit on all flesh. 500 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:17,200 We no longer have to go to a place where the fire or the 501 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:21,240 power of God would manifest, where we would see the glory of 502 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:24,160 God in such a way that we couldn't even stand in His 503 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:29,240 presence. That glory is resident in US, on 504 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:33,080 the inside of us. And if we don't watch out, we 505 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:39,800 can make this so common when there's nothing common about it 506 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:48,520 'cause we have God living in US. I mean, again, we are the most 507 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,960 powerful thing on the planet. We are a people of God. 508 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,240 We are a chosen race. We are a royal priesthood. 509 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:02,680 We are a holy nation. We are no longer bound to the 510 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,120 things of the flesh. Glory. 511 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:13,880 I mean, you would when you meditate on that as a true 512 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:19,400 believer, you would no longer allow yourself to rehearse 513 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,640 fleshly things. You wouldn't do it. 514 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,480 You would no longer want to be around the crowd. 515 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:35,680 That, that, that comforts my flesh, my weaknesses. 516 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,760 You wouldn't want to do it. You're like, man, I've been 517 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,480 liberated. I've truly been set free. 518 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,200 I don't have to think that way. I'll have to act that way. 519 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,720 I'll have to respond that way. I've been chosen. 520 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,760 I'm chosen of God. I mean, think about it. 521 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,760 How in the world, why would they want to pick our king when the 522 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,240 people that he is over acts no different than them? 523 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,560 But when you do, man, it's different. 524 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,920 Hallelujah. Aren't you glad you're picked by 525 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,600 the king? And again, none of us were here 526 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,320 when He chose us. I'm just walking into His 527 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,240 choice. I'm just walking into His 528 00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:20,720 choice. Galatians 4 six to seven says it 529 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:23,360 this way. Because you are sons. 530 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,960 God has sent forth the spirit of His Son into our hearts. 531 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:33,680 Crying What, ABBA Father? Therefore you are no longer a 532 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,880 slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. 533 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,880 You know what King Jesus, who sits on the throne at the right 534 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:45,000 hand of the Father, and he's raised us to sit with him in 535 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,600 heavenly places, is not wringing his hand. 536 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,280 I don't know, Lord, I don't know. 537 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,680 I don't know if I can deal with this today. 538 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:53,800 I don't know that I can overcome this today. 539 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,440 I don't know if I can resist the temptation today. 540 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,240 Jesus is not doing that. Well, guess what? 541 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,840 Because he's not a slave, I'm not a slave. 542 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,200 Because he broke me out of bondage. 543 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,280 He's broke me out of bondage. I am broken out of bondage. 544 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,840 Bondage has no hope. I have the Spirit of God that 545 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,480 has the power for me to just act on by faith. 546 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:29,000 Everything God says His chosen ones will do. 547 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:32,320 And it will come to pass because God will perform that word in my 548 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:36,320 life. I just need to do my faith 549 00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,280 expression, my firm persuasion, Hallelujah. 550 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,280 And I'm going to dive into that a little more in 2026. 551 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:50,840 Hallelujah Galatians 326 to 29 last verse today says this. 552 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:55,280 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 553 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,680 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed 554 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,560 yourself with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. 555 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,920 There's neither slave nor slave nor free. 556 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:12,080 There's neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ. 557 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:23,800 And if conditional statement, if you belong to Christ, then you 558 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:29,200 are Abraham's descendants and heirs according to the promise 559 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:38,920 before you were born, before the foundations of the world, in the 560 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:46,000 infinite wisdom of God, He knew you, He knew your name, He knew 561 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:53,280 what you'd look like. And there's only one way he was 562 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:57,920 looking at you, not in your sinful state, but in your 563 00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:03,160 redeemed. And the reality was he never 564 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,040 wanted you to have to be redeemed because he did not 565 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:13,800 create something broken. God created man perfect, without 566 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,000 spot or wrinkle. Man broke himself. 567 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:26,720 But God, because of His word, His choice for man, how did he 568 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:29,800 choose you? Let us make man in our image 569 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:33,240 according to our likeness, and let them have dominion. 570 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,760 And so, Son, you go get back what Adam lost. 571 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:49,960 So that man by faith, should he choose, can be mended, can be 572 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,040 put back together.