Wherever you are across the globe, we just welcome to the seat. We just welcome you in the seat, and may God bless you the strength of the hand of God just be upon you tonight. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for all those that have been sharing these podcasts. This back library that we got, as we just said that as you know, you can just get straight into Amazon, Music, Spotify, and on other platforms and you can find us so, so simply so many other teachings and different things that are on there, that we are doing, I just want to take us to Verse eight, is when I read this first, so the first eight, we're gonna reverse eight of Ephesians chapter two. And I just want to just try and take it steady this evening. And I really believe God is just speaking through His Word. And it says, in verse eight of Ephesians, chapter two, it says, For us by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourself, it is a gift from God. something so beautiful, something so powerful. When you look in verse eight, verse eight of Ephesians, chapter two, four, it is by grace you have been saved, when you look at Grace when you when we just try and spend a few moments just studying them pondering on that word alone, when you when you understand the the size, and the enormity of that word, grace, that that says so much it brings so much freedom to understand that it is God's grace, it is his his favor, it is his works, it is His will, it is his purpose got a bit tongue tied there, for it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourself, I think I need to draw comfort and to draw strength from that, to clearly understand that this is not about me, I did not create this salvation, I did not work my way to salvation, it is not by work so that no one can boast as we see it. He says in verse eight of Ephesians, chapter two, four, it is by grace you have been saved. Now we have been saved the Bible makes it very clear before the foundation of the world that he knew us before our parents even came together on what together and, and everything that goes along with marriage and life. And before we was even in existence in their thought pattern, their understanding their their cognitive processing of life, God created you and He created me. God is with us in every situation. And I pray right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, that you will clearly and clearly and clearly understand that it is by grace that I have been saved it is by grace, you have been saved, not by work. So this is so beautiful. This is so refreshing to me tonight that I can't work my way through. I can't. It's not like a score chart. It's not a scorecard that I might make my way up through to score and through my CV and for what I've done in a church and what I'm doing in the church and it's not by actions, Christ, God has the Holy Spirit, the deity when you look at everything we have been given the gift of salvation. It is so important for me to understand that when I was in my darkest moment when I was in my bleakest moment when I was in my most exhausting time of my life when I wasn't even thinking about Christ, Christ breathed into my lungs, Christ breathed over me, Christ saved me. And Christ gave me a hope and a future. And if he can give that gift of salvation, to a renegade like me, how much more can he do for each and every one of you? I pray tonight, that we just grab a handle or hold on to the word Silva. because it is such a beautiful word that we are saved, that we are redeemed, that we are justified, that we are sanctified, that we are washed in the blood of Jesus. And when we read verse a, it says, For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourself. This is not from a religious order. It is not from a denomination, it is not from me, it is not from a pastor, it is not from a leader, it is not from a teacher, a earthly teacher, it is not from an organization, we wasn't given this by, by the preacher and the teacher, given the otter call, it might have been a trigger may have been a trigger point for my body to understand, and to come in line with the Holy Word of God. And for me to come into a realization in my physical being, that yes, there is a holy God, but it wasn't my yes, that called him in it was he was already working in my life before the very foundations of the world. The scripture makes it very clear that before the very beginning of time before the foundation of the world, before the creation of this world before the before the worlds were formed, he knew you, he called you, He predestined you. The Scriptures are clear, and they are fact and they are on time, and they are on point we did not work our way to salvation, there is no way of working your way to the glory of God, there is no way of working your way to get more salvation, it has been given and presented to humanity as a gift it has been given. And it cannot be given back. So when you look at this, just just take a few moments for yourself, just just spend a moment just to pray over this text and come to a realization that it is not by our ability in our human form. It is not by my processing of the human mind, it is not by my articulation of trying to work it out through words and mathematics and calculations. It is not by my own understanding it is not by my physical strength. It is not by any notoriety that anybody has. It's not by who we know on this earth, but it's by who knows us. It's not because we know him. It is because he knew us first and he created you and He created me. This word also has been sitting in my spirit for a long time, and others as well that talk and share and, and teach across this table here with me about the power of redemption. When I think of the word redemption redeemed, we have been bought with the blood of Christ, we see that Judas Iscariot was used in that in that plan in that salvation plan in that redemption plan in the 30 pieces of silver, you know, we might think to ourselves, wasn't Judas, his complete utterance and love for money? Was that was the trigger point. What was would that have happened? God loved us so much that he used humanity that he used, the platforms that he used, that he used the setting that he used the surrounding, to bring salvation to each and every one of us. When you look at Judas Iscariot, when you look at that man 30 pieces of silver given to him, you know the deal that was done, but it wasn't that deal. It got didn't need them. God already had a plan in position, and what we find Judas Iscariot and we find the higher priests, the chief priests and everybody that was involved in that dialogue on all what was going on, even though shouting Give us Barabbas, God was going to save us no matter what when you, when you really unpack the text, God does not need a human being to get His will and His purpose down. We see this time and time again, the plan of redemption, you go back to Genesis, you will find very clear, very clear cut understanding that redemption is already information is already in a particular press at that particular time. You know, because God already speaks about mortality, he speaks about death. And he makes that very clear that if you touch of that, you will surely die. So God was already in the posture, the position, my language has changed. My presentation of wording is being challenged every day as as I start to walk very differently where Christ so I, I am finding it very difficult to find the words what my innermost being is feeling. So the words that I used to use I feel that within me tonight, and for the last few weeks, they don't present how I'm feeling and I'm coming to the understanding that within the human language within the human race within the human language, there are no words that can actually describe this eternal God to an actual point where you know that you've reached the conclusion of yes, this is it. Words just get us so far words are powerful words, Journey us along these like the river Marvel word, it's so powerful words are extremely powerful. So the word redemption, you are redeemed, I am redeemed, we are washed in the blood of Jesus, we cannot reverse that. We cannot give that back. It doesn't matter how hard and how much we try to fight it, and how much we may look at ourselves, and keep beating our hands with the rod of iron. And saying, I am not worthy, I am not worthy. But I keep I keep saying that. And keep saying that God is not going to revoke God is not going to pull that back. God is not going to reverse that just because I'm saying God, I'm not worthy. God, I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy. As the Scripture makes it so clear, you are saved, I am saved. Do you know what I love so much about God. It is not about the religious organization. It is not about religion. God saved you God had a plan in place. Even before that preacher, even before you heard the word Jesus, even before you heard the message of salvation, God had you in the predestination or position for you to hear the message. And what that message was for was just for your buddy to almost trigger inside of you to flick the switch. I'm finding it difficult to explain it because I just literally want to jump up and down, you know, do a few cartwheels tonight, because I'm coming to the understanding that God save me. God saved me. No human being is capable of saving another human being. The text makes it very clear. But I'm coming to this position this walk as as I move in Christ as sometimes I feel that I slide back away from God, well, actually, we don't what happens is we suddenly realize how powerful his holiness is. And it just seems to push the flesh back because the flesh cannot withstand his holy glory. But one thing and one thing is for sure, the Scripture is clear that the gift of salvation has been given. And we have been given this gift. Can I just read from verse one in Ephesians, chapter two, it says, As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you used to live, and you follow the ways of this world, and the rulers of the kingdom of the air. And then it says, And the spirit of whom is now at work, then those that are disobedient. He says, all of us used to live that way at one time, gratifying the cravings of the flesh. Yes, the gratifications the cravings of the human flesh, they are still very alive. We have to crucify that now that across daily, and it says and following its desires and thoughts, desires, and thoughts, thinking and understanding, are so so powerful, but I got to remind myself, as the scripture says, like the rest, we were by very nature deserving of rough, and it says, but because verse four, let's just hold this a moment what it says in verse four, but because of his great love for us, this absolutely just blows me to pieces. This just absolutely blows my heart just beyond human understanding. As for my small thinking, capacity, as for my small understanding of word in and life, and articulating and bring into the forefront, and trying to explain, I just cannot fathom and cannot grasp at this moment in time, the depth, the breadth, how wide How great. The scriptures are so clear even about the thoughts of God, as far as the Earth is from the heaven on the heavens, the heavens from the earth. His ways are higher than our ways his thoughts are far beyond our thoughts. So this, this, this loving God, I cannot grasp the enormity, His Majesty is His sovereignty, His power, His authority, he he chose to save me well, not only as he chose to save me now, when I speak about me, I bring everybody on the other side of this lens into this dialogue into this conversation into this chat into this, whatever we call this, what a byte whatever label is on this tonight, I bring all of us into this position into this posture, that his love is so vast is so wide. And I love the fact the way the Roman writer writes that he writes in Romans, nothing can separate us From, there is nothing too wide there is nothing too deep, there is nothing to hide, that can confirm in nakedness peril, danger of sword can can a ship wreck can travel can strife can worry come about what can separate, the Scripture says nothing is able, the key word there in that text is able, nothing is able from this world, from this physical world that we see before our very naturalize. And also in that realm, that spiritual realm and you might want to drop into Ephesians and study what it talks about the principalities and everything that goes on behind that, behind the veil that we can't see behind that screen that your eyes can't see in that supernatural world that exists that we know that is strong, the dark side, but we got to remind ourselves that dark side is not nowhere near as strong as the light light is greater than darkness. We understand we've seen this we've studied this, we've looked at the science behind darkness, darkness only exists because of the absence of light. So darkness is very weak, darkness cannot stand light. When light comes into a room when light, suddenly a small match is lit up, you see the light, when a headlight of a car, just have your torch on your phone, whatever it may be, there is power in light. And Jesus says I am the light of the world. So darkness has no power over us. Because Christ is the light of the world. And wherever you are, if you are a believer, and you may be struggling with your faith this evening, this hour, this moment that 755 across the world, wherever you are, whatever that timezone that you are in at this moment, whether it's evening, midday morning, wherever you are across the globe, I just want to encourage you at this moment, you are saved because he first loved us. It is not because we are living in complete purity. Now, gosh, there me if there's anyone on planet earth that Christ needs to deal with, I will present myself before anyone on the earth. I would say to anyone right now I'm not frightened of telling anyone the thoughts that are in my head, the the stuff that goes around just rumbles around my head on my heart and the thinking and the understanding. And that what gives me complete rest and peace is that God loves me even though my mind is crazy. Sometimes even though my my thinking isn't natural, even though I might feel a little bit strange or off point or, or I'm troubled or I'm worried or something is, is taking my focal point or or just feel disillusioned by something or, or something of this world that is just grabbing me anything. But what I must keep reminding myself I was saved. Before my thinking was even into the process in of my mind, I was saved, I was washed in the blood of Jesus through the power of predestination. And that is something that has been spoken about talked about looked at for a while for the podcast and everything that's going on through lockdown and more that we were saved in the power of pre destined the predestination or point of our lives. Some people struggle with predestination. Some people look at that I'm not quite sure about it, because they say, Well, my life is just all completely predestined, I tell you, what is talking about with predestination is that you are going to be saved at that particular point at that hour at that millisecond. And at that moment, and then from then onwards, we have the power of free will. We have the power of choice, we have the power of this, we have the power of that. But I can assure you now, lifestyle choices does not take salvation away from any believer, once saved, always saved, there are no scriptures, you cannot find anywhere in the Word of God. That was suppose that you could lose your salvation. If anyone could lose it. You're looking at someone right now that would not even have reached the mark of even getting a tiny piece of it, let alone losing every second every day because of the thinking the battlefield of the mind the processing of life. Sometimes it feels like I'm just absolutely just lost the whole plot of life, but by His grace, and by His mercy, and by His goodness, and by His power and by grace and by sovereignty and by the glory of God. Guess what world God saved me. Guess what, everybody? Yes, God saved an inked vicar. God saved me. God wash me. God decided to choose and to use for whatever reason that may be a God has chosen you. God saved you with all the scars of life with all the historical events that have gone on even with the rumble and the scrum down of life that we may be in at this moment pushing against everything God still chose even if we look at our characters, even if we look at the things that are happening now. lives. God knew our character. God shaped us, God molded us, God loves us. Nothing can separate us from the love of God. You can't run from the text. It says in verse four, I'm so sorry, my glasses are there. And I can't even see when the glasses are verse four, it says in Ephesians chapter two, but because of his great love for us, this is absolutely beyond human comprehension. This is why we have revelation or knowledge, because the human mind and maybe our characters, and our lifestyles and our lifestyle choices don't fit what religion and church are saying. But God saved us, not because of the righteous way that we was living. But when he saved us. He saved us when we was at our darkest, bleakest, dirtiest, filthiest moment in all humanity. He did not wait until I suddenly got a white robe and walked into his room and said, Jesus, I'm ready for you to save me. I'm being flippant, but it's sometimes it's a way that we can only understand to present it like that. God did not sit back and say, I am not going to go down to earth until that young Ben sorts himself out but God saved us in the darkest, hardest, worst, bleakest moment of one's life. Because God is what God is a rescuer. When someone needs rescuing, they are not being rescued when everything is dandy, and wonderful, they are being rescued. When you are at the most bleakness at the place of death. You heard me speak very, very briefly once on when I was rescued off of a mountain face when I was skiing as a young teenager, and I went off peace with my friend, absolutely crazy. I know what it's like to be rescued, when it is bleak. When the weather elements are beating at you, and you cannot look and see any further than your nose, I tell you something, the Word Rescue means so much more to me, because I know what it's like to be rescued in the format in the understanding of a human being to be rescued off of a mountain face when death was breathing across my eyes, when I could feel around me that I am not going to make it. God saves a person. God sets the captives free, God does not wait. And he will not wait for anyone to leave the substances alone until they put themselves through rehab, until they put themselves through everything and present themselves to God and say, I'm ready, Jesus, I'm going to receive you now. God rescues those that are in need of being rescued. I know what it's like to be rescued in the physical world. And I know what it's like to be rescued in the spiritual world. I've felt it. I've seen it. I've experienced both hands of being rescued at the darkest point. And I remember being in one position in the darkest time of my life, and I heard God whisper it will be Oh, okay. When you're in your darkest press, and you're in your darkest moment, God does not wait to rescue a human being. Then we look at predestination. When I look very briefly at predestination without going deep into the to long study. I pray that my brother identified with us tonight, maybe our brother, Steve will, will open that open that Valve one night, or one afternoon or one day when God God speaks to him and maybe we could look at predestination and how deep and how wide and how interest in what predestination means but God predestined. Then we bring into the arena of the conversation freewill, the power of freewill, there is one place that I did not have the power of freewill. And that is in the gift of salvation. He gives the gifts he gives the anointing. He gives the calling. Now this there's a text in the New Testament that will absolutely floored us he gives the gifts without repentance, Lord, I'm just going to leave that sit in there tonight. Maybe I shouldn't have opened the envelope of that text. But I believe that there are some on the lens on on the other side of this mic tonight. Need to hear Our lifestyles do not reflect what they should reflect. But God does not hold back the call in or the anointing, because the Scripture says, All have sinned and fallen short of the glory. There is only one righteous one, and his name is Jesus. I am saved, you are saved, you might think why is Why is he laughing? Why am I sniggering because that is the reaction that my body has tonight that, that this eternal God, this eternal God, see, there's a no, there's no escaping the Eternal Father. If I was to die, I'm going to face him. If I try to run, I cannot run from his presence. The psalmist writes very clearly, if I was to go to the depths of the grave, if I was to go to the depths of the earth, if I was to be accelerated, if I was to be fired into the heavens above, if I was to go to the north, the east, the South, the West, wherever I go, I cannot escape your presence, whether I was to live or whether I am to die, whether I am to walk this earth or to be taken off this word, earth, I cannot escape the fact that I will never escape this eternal God. Some things are impossible to escape certain areas of life, we we may we may emigrate, we may disappear, start a new life somewhere else, whatever, one one thing or another and all that, you know, escapism, you know, we understand what that means. But there is something there, Gosh, what a terrible way to present that I'm so sorry, God, we can never escape the presence of the eternal God. He is continually with us. He is continuingly guiding us, even in the awkwardest times of life, the press of life, He will never leave you, nor forsake you. Verse four, but but because of his great love for us, who is rich in mercy, His love and mercy when we look at love and mercy, and you just bring them to together love and mercy. There is no way there is no way of presenting those words. You cannot fathom the depths of God's love. You could go to John 316, For God so loved the world, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life for God chose God said, God brought before God's love is so strong. You know, we talk about love in the world. We talk about love for husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, friends, people around us, we, we talk about love, and we have different understandings of love. But there is a love that has no strings attached, there is a love, that the love of God that is so vast, so strong, so powerful, so enormous, so big, so fast. So beyond human intelligence, so big and so beyond human language, beyond any articulating, conversation that could arrive even beyond the science and the thought process and of life. It is beyond God's love is beyond. But John 316 is just a lovely text, For God so loved the world. For God so loved. Lord, I've read that more times than I can think, God have I really explored that, Lord, maybe, Lord, could you do in my heart, Lord, just show me. Explain to me the depth of this love God, could you just open up the word to me? Could you just open the word love to me, Lord, expound that word, you know, but because of his great love for us, God, I love the way the writer just frames that he just puts that God who is rich in mercy made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions, Lord, that has just blown my three pound brain, just all over the place. God who is rich in mercy made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in transgressions, something things I do believe and I understand, are not not not not able to be explained through the greatest articulator in the world. The the greatest thinker, the greatest philosopher, the greatest science mathematicians, some things are unexpected cleanable and that is all of God. So we find as humanity, we are always looking for the button of life to make ourselves level with God, the Hadron Collider is the the most classic thing that's happening in the world of science and has done for many, many years, looking for the button of life looking for the explosion at the beginning of time looking for this button that, that we have found that the ingredients of life because we created it, no human being will ever be able to create an understand life and form life and to present life I thank God for science and, and doctors and the formation of medicine and everything that runs along with that, because God works. And God uses that. And God has given us the gift and as God has given us great still skilled doctors and surgeons and medicine and everything runs with that. But no one will be able to ever be able to find the button of life, because it is God. It is God he is the Life Giver he gives life and he takes life. So when I look at this, this word, the love of God, how can anyone in their human form in their physical capability, in our understanding, in the logic in the processing of all humanity be able to grasp how wide how deep is the love of God? As as the scripture says, as his thoughts are higher than our thoughts, His ways are beyond our ways, as far as the heavens are from the earth. How far is that? We just, you know, through science and through calculations, it is just, I ain't going to use it. But come on, you know me I'm going to use it, as Buzz Lightyear says from infinity and beyond, you know, it is beyond it is just, it is just beyond the human eye. It is beyond the human thought. It is beyond the thought process in it is beyond the human intelligence of the mind, the greatness of the mind, how great the mind is and how powerful the mind is and how powerful philosophy is when you think and you work things out through mathematics and you bring mathematics together with science and you bring this together and you try and get the equation and the calculation of life. You can't get the calculation of life. It is impossible to understand the calculation of life. God is the creator of death and life. He is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE No one comes to the Father except through Him. It is Jesus. He is the Way maker he is your God. He is your King. He is the great I AM. He is your shepherd in the valley of despair. He is your word when you need that encouragement. He is your healer. He is your strength. He is your rock. He is your Redeemer. He is the great I AM. He is the God that commands the angelic activity in Psalm 91, he will command his angels concerning you. Everything is his everything was created for him and by him. The Scripture says in Colossians I believe everything that has been brought into existence has been created for him and by him, we serve a God the cause of things that are not as though they are he speaks life and atoms come into formation. He speaks and the waves Crashdown he speaks and the sun beams. He speaks at life. And children come into the world he speaks and he takes people from the earth he speaks and the seasons go into process. He speaks and as the sun stopped as it says in the Old Testament, he held the sun still as he spoke across the Jordan, as he spoke across every area of life the Jordan was heat back as he as he spoke life into Lazarus tomb, Lazarus come forth, he he brings life he takes life. He gives a life he is the Life Giver. So how can I ever say in front of a pulpit and a human being preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, I decided to follow Jesus. No, no, no. Jesus decided to save me. But what happens in the altar call and around that word, the altar call and the preaching of salvation, my humanity, my body. My physical Ben has just been alerted to this supernatural God. Not because I have the capabilities within myself to hold salvation off because I am encountered control, that is never going to happen. No one can resist the power of the eternal God, the gift of salvation has been given. He has been spoken into, and over and into your life or my life. No one can resist the eternal God. His love is so powerful. There are no strings attached. But verse four, but because of his great love for us, God, God in who is rich in mercy made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions, it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ, and seated us with Him in heavenly realms, in Christ Jesus in order that the coming ages he might show his incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in his kindness to us, in Christ Jesus. Everything is in Christ Jesus, everything is through Christ Jesus, the seven items in the Gospel of John, I am the way I am the truth, I am the good shepherd, I am the door and so forth. I am, He is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE no one can get into glory except going through him. The Scripture says, Christ is the image of the invisible God. So when I look at salvation, when I understand that word, I could spend a lifetime in just studying that word salvation. The scripture makes something very clear. And I believe God is speaking to me, and to all of us tonight and across across the globe, work out your salvation, with fear and trembling. So working out my salvation, takes my eyes off of anybody else, and just makes me look into me. When I take my eyes off of what the world is doing, and I look into me, I suddenly realize, a wretched man Amaya, but by His grace, by His mercy, buys on comparable riches, by favor by grace, by sanctification by justification, by the power of adoption and sonship we cannot we cannot resist salvation, someone show me, someone tell me of a human being that resisted salvation until they said, I am ready to receive Jesus. No one is ever gonna be ready in the physical realm to receive Christ Jesus. Because all the time I am breathing and walking this earth I am in now I gotta be careful how I present this because of the time. And I don't want to take us down a rabbit hole without bringing us back round. Now, lifestyle choices, lifestyle choices, habits, the habitual way of living, the very robotic way of living, I would say a massive percentage of how do I say this without being offensive of believers? And no, I would, let me retract, let me pull that back. My life does not reflect everything that God wants for me, because of lifestyle choices, because of scenarios because of situations because of the world is always trying to draw me into the world. There is a fight that is going on and around and within the flesh Slee draw the Scripture, I love the way the Gospel of Matthew presents it. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The spirit is willing God willing, God God, God, I'm willing, Lord, keep me in the Garden of Gethsemane, Lord, keep me in the posture of Lord presenting myself to you, because not My will your will be done. The power of free will, the power of free will is not to resist salvation. The power of free will, is the choice of the lifestyle choices to follow Him, and we will continue to follow him but even when I make bad choices, he still does not reject me. What happens is the power of the Holy Spirit brings me under conviction, and then the power of repentance and then I understand the power of redemption. So the power of redemption, the power of being redeemed, I am redeemed. I am set free. I am free from I am blessed and highly favored. Gosh, Lord, this text I got it. I've got to say this tonight. The more I read, the more I study, the more I listen, the more I be still, the more I realize how far I'm going to say this, like this, probably get myself whipped tonight. How far the greatest theologian, the greatest preacher, the greatest teacher on this earth, how far we are away from fully understanding how great our God is. God gives us a glimmer. But it is a mystery. God keeps it as a mystery he reveals. You know, we think that we are great thinkers, we think that we are great study, as we think that we are great theologians. And we are and there are, and there are wonderful preachers, and there are great Bible teachers that, that bring the text out, and they're only being able to bring the text out, because God brings the text out within them, it is not because of their skill set. It is not because of their educational press, it is not because they are fine sounding. And they speak very well. And they got beautiful words and they they have a beautiful ring to their, to their speech and the way they present things. It is the power of revelation or knowledge, God reveals His Word. So suddenly, what we find is education just drops out the door in the kingdom of God. We understand knowledge just passes away, Knowledge puffs up but God reveals. So it doesn't matter if I, if it doesn't matter if I can't read or write, it doesn't matter if I can't add up. It doesn't matter what my educational standpoint is. God reveals Himself to you and to me, God reveals God opens up God draws in. That is the mystery that is the power of our God. He is not relying on me to work it out and get to a certain age in a certain position of my life and go yes, I've worked it out God. Now let me in God drew me in God created us and formed us before the foundations of the world. Before the universe was spoken into being he knew you, He created you. This text tonight is just absolutely rocked me off this chair that the scriptures are just so powerful, they are so wide, they are so vast, it feels like God just opens up, he just opens up the envelope of the Scripture. And you look in and you see this depth that is so deep, and you're trying to work all this stuff out and as you speak, and as you read, it is like living water the Word of God is just running it is teeming with life. It is it is alive. It feels like it's you're looking at these beautiful jewels, the shining in the light of Christ in the power. It is like looking into this, this beautiful place and what you see is the word of God just just shining in all its brilliance. But to understand the inhuman formation is impossible. Is it absolutely impossible. I've actually had to look at myself lately, because I've started laughing so much at religion at church, what I see because I think to myself, what's Have I ever thought in my entire ministry, 25 years of ministry God, I thought that I could pop you out, pull you out, roll your around. When I wanted you out for church, what in the world was I thinking? But through the the bringing up through the journey through the through the evangelical movement for the Pentecostal movement, through certain denominations, through certain teachings, we have been given a mind set that has been the problem. We have been given a mindset, when actually the mind has no power over salvation. The flesh has no power over this supernatural God, that God presented himself to me and to you in our most bleakest, darkest formation of life, even when we think how could God How could God get me saved and free from that? God is rescuing now as we are here. As we are speaking as you our listeners, as you are communicating online as you are thinking, God is rescuing people from the darkest positions where the church will not tread. God has already gone before where religion draws a line in the sand and says, We will not go down into that area. We want Happy Sunday services and we will only allow certain people into into this fellowship if they look right dressed right smell right smile nice and have two kids Labrador nice cars, beautiful house. You're only coming into this fellowship. But God is the God that is a rescuer. God is rescuing those that are caught on crack cocaine. God is rescuing those that are addicted to the world. God is speaking to the alcoholic right now. God is separating God is drawing out those that are caught in prostitution, human trafficking, God is separating God is in the darkest place where the church will not go. God has gone before, and where that person feels that they are falling into the abyss. If they were so locked down, they would see the eternity of God, lifting them and carrying them and he has put angels to fly in many people's life that don't even know Jesus. He is revealing Himself to those that are in other religions. He is presenting himself through visions and dreams. He is awakened people's heart, mind, body and spirit to the God of Israel. He is saving people from from from the suicidal press. He is setting the captives free, he is gone, he is going into areas where the church within the UK won't even go near the church in the UK, once roses and flowers and tea parties and revival chats. When God is a God that is rescuing. And God is giving salvation he is not waiting for a preacher to get a nice glory message together. God is saving those that need to be saved. God is setting for those that are in the darkest, occultic activity. God is not worried about those that are caught in witchcraft, wizardry, caught up in in paganism, God goes straight in and he takes them out of Lucifers grip, and he sets the captives free. He cannot he will not wait for the human being to get their lives right. Because no one can get their lives right. It is impossible to get my life right. Oh, Lord, oh my Lord Jesus, oh my lord. I went off on one there the night Come on, we got to bring us to a land that says in verse eight, four, it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from your selves, church, religion. Whoever you are, wherever you are pastor Ben, Reverend Ben, whatever title I carry. Listen, listen to God's word. You did not save yourself, you are not capable of saving yourself, church, you just because you you wear a t shirt that says Welcome to church, Jesus loves you. You do not hold the key to life and to death, you hold the key to the religious order, but you do not give life you cannot take life. And it is not your sermons that is getting people saved. It is the power of God's Word. God is using the voice of the preacher and the teacher to get that over. But God has already saved before the preacher and the teacher, as written that sermon got to say before the calling of the altar call God is not waiting for the preacher and the teacher to roll up and he's nice car to get out of his helicopter to come onto the screen and say, God is telling me that you're going to God he's already working. God is already moving. God has bypassed the TV evangelist God is pressing out and into the dark areas of life. Who needs saving everyone, and anyone that is lost? I was lost. But now I am found verse nine as we bring this to a pause just for a few hours. And it says let me read from verse eight again. Ephesians chapter two, verse eight, for it is by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not from yourselves. It is a gift from God. Preachers, teachers, evangelists, Ben, listen, you do not hold the keys to any one salvation. You do not have the right to say I am going to give you the chance to run down to this altar. If you do not run down to this altar. The window of salvation has closed. What absolute tripe and rubbish Have I ever heard in all my life, God is moving. God is unshakable, he will not allow anyone to withhold His glory God has already saved before the religion has spoken. God has already set the captives free. Before the preacher got out his car. God has already set the captives free before he got out of his helicopter. Before he got out of this before he got out of bed. God already saved and set the captives free. God does not need a human being to save anybody. That is a sermon, and a study and a podcast and a teaching all on its own. God saves because that's God's choice. God sets the captives free because that is God. He is not waiting in the peripherals of the wings of the church standing now waiting for the preacher to please teefin and to speak very eloquently and nicely and do an altar call. God has already saved that person before that person was even created and brought into existence, because He created us and formed us and He predestined this human body to understand that there will be a time in my life, a calendar point when the earthly Ben recognizes that there is a supernatural God, not because of the earthly Ben is stronger than an eternal God. It is because the earthly Ben suddenly realizes that he is wholly a wretched man, am I but he saved me in my wretchedness. He saved me in my sinful states. When does God save he saves the sinner. Oh my Lord. Oh, Jesus, Lord, come on, Lord. I love you, Jesus, verse 10. For we are God's handiwork. For we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do, complete, different plain, to what we wish to understand. I'll read that one more time. And I will leave you with that text, verse 10, of Ephesians chapter two, For we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. I'm inked. I'm a vicar out of here, you are blessed and highly favored. You are a child of the living God, you are blessed beyond measure. You was chosen, you was loved before your earthly formation came into existence through your mom and your father. God created you God saved you Redemption was in position before a preacher even called you to the front, before any existence of human language was ever information. When God said let there be there was May God bless you and strengthen you. For those that are on the streaming or podcasting. You've been listening to myself. Reverend Ben Cooper here at Elim church in Swanee. You can find us on Apple Music you can find us on Amazon music, I Heart Radio, Spotify, Buzzsprout, and so many other platforms, please we ask you that you share everything out across your social networks. You know, let's get the word of God out. Let's just say thank you, Jesus. God is with you. God is not against you. He has saved you. He has set you free when the sun sets free is free indeed. I will leave you with that. Who the sun sets free is free indeed. We will catch you very soon. I will see you when am I going to see you again. Someone tell me. Someone tell me I can't remember where we are Wednesday evening. I will see you well. Sunday morning 1045. In the Lord's house online, have a great few days. And remember, God saved me and God saved you have a great rest of the evening. Whatever the timezone is in your life. Continue to smile because God saved you in Jesus name. Amen. God bless. And we'll see you soon.