Reverend Ben Cooper:

Good evening, God bless you wherever you are this evening. As we just wait a few moments as we normally do. Thank you so much for joining us tonight here at Ealing church. We are just going to dive into communion together as we rest as we be still, as we know that he's got a man like that text. Thank you, you can hear us. We are just recording this I receive for the process of podcasting, wherever you are. Across the globe tonight, whatever your time, may be, we are 730 What are we 733 here in the UK, wherever you are this evening, whether it's your morning or midday or your evening, God bless you. We thank you so much. From the very bottom of our heart for joining us on Apple Music, Amazon music, I Heart Radio, Buzzsprout, Spotify, and so many other multiple platforms. Thank you so much. And you can find that very clearly and very easily. If you just type in. Reverend Ben Cooper has podcasts you will find us popping up in a few places. God is with us. God is for us. We thank you so much for joining with us we are going to turn to Psalm 139. Psalm 139. As we come to Communion tonight, I pray that you've had a good day I pray that all is well in your life, that you just feel the real presence of God. And there may be some tonight maybe saying you know what? Sometimes I feel like given up sometimes I just feel like frying in the can. Sometimes I just feel like kicking my boots off and calling it a day. You know? Well, we all feel like that we all have moments like that. Do not allow that to grab hold of you because you are saved, you are sanctified, you are justified, you are redeemed that you are a child of the living God. And you know, what? Do you know what Guess what I'm going to say sometimes, I feel like kicking these boats off saying sometimes, Lord, what is going on. But God is with us. Faith is powerful. Faith is an instrument to draw us closer to God for our belief system. You know, we are living in glorious times we are living in very powerful times. But whatever your timezone is across the world tonight, we just asked you that you are draw time aside and come and just fellowship with us just for these 45 minutes or so as we break bread as we take the cup. And I just want to let you know this really keeps sitting in my spirit. You know, this is not from my thought pattern. This is not from not coming from me this is from deep with inside my spirit. I really just want to let you know again tonight, through the Scripture that you are saved, you are blessed doesn't matter what your physical situation looks like, doesn't matter what your physical life is all about. It doesn't matter about the lifestyle choices, whether they're good or they're bad. What we cannot escape from from sorry, that I really need to push over very, very gently, is something that's very clear that we cannot lose our salvation. We cannot work for it. We cannot it's not the amount of times we're clocking in and out of the religious building. It's not how many sermons we listened to it is God has come and presented himself to each and every one of us. And I believe tonight that through the word of God, through the writings of Christ through the psalmist that we're going to read in a few moments, it is very clear to see that God is for us so that we was not hidden from him that we did not go to him one Sunday morning and say, Lord, I've decided to come to church, I've decided to follow you. But it is God that presents Himself to us the orphaned vessels, the human beings, whether in faith out of faith, wherever whoever we are, I just love the fact that my physical being my body, every ounce of energy and strength that I can produce and push and do. It is no way and never will I be able to refuse what God has for us. There is a powerful word and that word is predestination also that follows very sweetly and very beautifully, the power of free will we understand very clearly, that free will is not the free will as in what a lot of ministries and churches are speaking about the free will to follow God, we do not have the free will to follow him, he has chosen you, He loves you he died and he sent his one only Son on the cross for you. Now this can throw a big spoke in the bicycle wheel of of teachings because we have been pressed in many cultures and in many lifestyles through different sermons through different services through through this and that that there are quite a few Few strong teachings out there that you that you can lose your salvation. Well, this scripture really tells me, the word of God tells me that he knew me before I was even in existence. So without any further rambling, let's just read very, very clearly, I pray that God will strengthen you, God will guide you, God will continue to draw you because he has always drawn you and he has drawn you before the very beginning of time. Timing is a very fascinating scientific element that we have before our very eyes time was not created by the watchmakers by the manufacturers of Time, time has been brought into existence, through the power of the living God, so he holds time, he holds creation, He is the King of kings, and he is the Lord of lords, but whatever and however we look, you know, we may have been called by God many, many years ago, we may have rejected it because we thought it was dressed up in religion, we may have just rejected that. But it's not that we've been rejecting God because we cannot reject God because there comes a time in the timeline of your body, your earth suit your innermost being, when suddenly the inner you suddenly realize is that through the time and the journey of the life that you are living and walking, that the earthly you the physical, the reality you suddenly the materially you, the person that is walking on this earth for you and me, that suddenly our bodies, our flesh, our blood, our DNA, our very earthly being suddenly realizes that there is an eternal God. It wasn't the fact that I had the strength and the capabilities to suddenly decide I want to be a follower of Jesus. Jesus decided to save you to save me, to set me free to set you free to give you a hope to give you a future he is given, and he has a perfect plan for your life. You are blessed and highly favored. You are wonderfully you are fearfully made. Your God is supplying for you Your God is for you and your God is not against you. Your God created you before he breathed before he spoke this world into creation our God creates our God saves our God is a rescuer. Our God is a redeemer. Our God is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But Psalm 191 I believe that we have given this enough time for everybody to hop online, and are welcome every one of you that is joining us tonight with this online service as basic and as simple as authentic as real as it can possibly be. You know, we don't need to put on any more shows because Jesus is not about showmanship, he's about common. Follow me now, what I've just said, Come and follow me. Well, you may be saying I may be saying, well, two minutes ago, you said that I don't have a choice. We don't have a choice in the in the wording of being saved. God saves God drawers, God calls God anoints God gives the gift of salvation, whether I decide through this earth suits or follow Him. That is not within my power. My remit. What it does, it gives me freewill. Now you've only got excusing, you've only got to look at the prodigal son. The prodigal son was in the father's house, the Father's house was supplying everything for the son. But the son had a glimmer had a moment in his life, let's say weakness, where he wanted to see if the grass was greener, because he is a human, I am a human, we are a human. And sometimes we get caught in this human world, and the traction of life and the physical press. And the busyness of life were not that we forget God or we, we try to run but things happen. And lifestyle choices, things happen in our lives, where we can also and suddenly become almost like a political. But let me remind you what the scripture says the Father's arms are always open. The Father's arms never close, the Father's arms are always open, and he welcomes any son or any daughter. Now a protocol as soon as we think about a protocol, we go straight into the text and we think about the sound that lived on lived and spent all his inheritance. It doesn't necessarily have to be like that today. We can be a practical in a way that doesn't reflect lifestyle choices because thinking no one really talks about what is going on in their mind in their psychological processing within their philosophy of life or the anger built or built up within the skin that we're living in. You know, there's a lot of issues in me that no one can't see, no one can't fathom no one can work out. And as human beings we try to put A facade a barrier up, especially excuse me, in the world of church where we think that we have to perform and dance to the past as June. We have to dance to the to the word of religion. And every time we go to church, everything is great past everything is great and wonderful, we are living the dream, we are living the plan that God has for us. But in our minds and our focus, we are quite disturbed, we are almost knocked off point sometimes the thinking, the waking up in the middle of the night, the the certain pattern and the rhythm of life that we might be living might not reflect a believer that as we have heard about a believer, but when you study the believers in the Word of God, when you look at Moses, when you look at Joshua, when you look at Caleb, David, when you look at the fisherman, when you look at the real character, when you look at the real character, the church portrays this position of St. Peter and St. Paul, as they're up in, in in the rooftops of the church is hidden. And when the sun comes through on the glass, you know, as you look at that stained glass window, you look at that, and you think goodness, that is what they're real saints, but actually, when you look at it, they are human beings, but the church paints this, this great big picture, this great big picture, that they've got lambs hanging around them, there's all this beautiful stuff going on around them when actually, that is not true to life. That is a false picture. That is a false facade that have been placed up there by religion. And when you look at the characters, the characters reflect my character, the characters reflect your characters. They are real men, they are real women in the Word of God. And we cannot and we mustn't try to live up to the lifestyle that the religion is painting, this picture that is up in the clouds that that can't be reachable, it's impossible. But God knows us. God created us He knows our innermost being. He created your DNA, he created my DNA, he knows everything about us, He created our character, he created our full process he created in a most been he created our DNA, he knows everything about us. And I pray that this psalm will bring comfort to our innermost being. Because there are some times and there are certain points in our lives, where we say to ourselves, God, if the church is offering what I see with my physical eyes, and what I hear with my physical hearing, if this is it, I actually can't partner with it. Because what my Bible tells me is very different to what I see the church within to a mass percentage of what is happening. And there is a very strong and a very visible difference between the Church of Jesus Christ, and the church of religion. And Lord, I'm bouncing in between, and Lord, I'm lost in the in between Lord, I need you to extract me from the religious order. And, Lord, I need to know, I need to know Lord, that I am secure in you. Because there are ministers, there are churches, there are preachers and teachers that have preached a long time in generations, that salvation can be lost that you need to earn it. The Bible says it is not about buy works, so that no one can boast. Salvation is a gift. Sorry, let me quickly let me go let me go. I've got it. Let me go. Let's quickly go Come back. Come back. Let's go back, go back, go back. Let's go into the new the new testament Ephesians chapter two Ephesians chapter two, I forgot my glasses again. I've got to get myself a chain of a hang around the neck. Oh, that sounds a bit crazy. Done it. Anyway. Look, we're in verse eight, verse eight of Ephesians, chapter two of Ephesians chapter two, verse eight, for it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves. It is the gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast. For we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Let me backtrack. Let me backpedal. And let me read this again. Ephesians chapter two, verse eight, this froze into the arena, this froze right out to the dogs, I'm gonna wolves, the teaching, and let the lions chew it up and let them just devour that teaching where it is out in there that you can lose your salvation. Well, I would have lost it because my thinking doesn't line up with a lot of things, let alone without physical action, let alone without verbal expression because as I speak, you know, salvation if it could be lost, I will be the first one to not even to to try and get to the bar, because the bar is not achievable in the physical, but in the spiritual because we serve a God Dakota things that are not we serve an eternal God and a God that has been in all of eternity that created eternity. That was before eternity before we even understood what the word eternity was and the value and the purpose and the strength of eternity. When you look at the word eternity, it has and it means no beginning, no middle and no end. But God is before the beginning God is before the end. So God is greater than eternity, because God is before eternity even came into existence. And there are certain science and laws and physics and calculations where science and laws and, and space travel and everything that goes with that, that cannot work out the rhythm of life, or the rhythm, or the clear thinking and the thought pattern of Time, time cannot be measured. We understand speed and time can be measured to a degree. But but it's Hannity cannot be measured because it is impossible for a human being to grasp. So what we are about to read, I'm going to quickly read Ephesians chapter two again, verse eight, and then we're going to flick back to where I started, that I didn't even even start to read yet. So let's read this and I won't stop I'll go straight back into Psalm 139. For it is by grace, you have been saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves. It is a gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast For we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus, to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Quick Let's dance quick, less dance ever quick shuffle. Now dropped back into Psalm 139. And I'm going to read this. I'm going to pick it up. I'm going to pick it up from verse, verse four. Before I word is on my tongue, Lord, you know it completely, your Hemi in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain verse seven of Psalm 139. Where can I go from the spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there, if I make my bed in the depths, or you are there, if I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on as far as the east, sorry, from the sea, or even as your hand will guide me, from right hand, you will hold me fast. If I say, surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me. Verse 12, of Psalm 139, even the darkness will not be dark to you. I love that scripture. The night will shine the light the day for darkness is as light to you. Verse 14, pretty famous, pretty instrumental in the church as in the prosperity gospel, they need to be careful with their scriptures, because it can be taken out of context, verse 14, I praise you, because I am wonderfully and fearfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know them full. Well, my frame, verse 15. Let's just pause a moment. Let's look at verse 15. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in a secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Very interesting what the scripture says. Verse 16, of Psalm 139. Your eyes saw my unformed body, Lord, that goes beyond the physics. Beyond graph then beyond pie charts, beyond logic beyond science, that goes beyond biology that goes beyond the greatness of the human mind. Verse 16, Your eyes saw my and formed body odor days, ordained for me, were written in your book before one of them came into being in verse 16 is such an enormous text for a human being for a believer in Christ Jesus just to grasp the enormity of what that says Your eyes saw my unformed body how Can anyone see anything that hasn't been made, it is impossible for any human being for anyone of the physical world, to see anything of us, that has not been created. I'm pushing this very poorly and in an atrocious way this evening, but my mind is absolutely racing. And escaping because this text is so large is so enormous. It is beyond the human mindset beyond beyond the thinking pattern, beyond the depth of the mind, beyond the science behind the thoughts behind the cognitive processing of life. When you sit and you study life, even if one was just a study the power and the greatness of just your eyeball, the power, what is within the eye, what we see in the vision and the focus, just the just the eye alone is so is so majestic is so powerful, is so beyond human understanding, how powerful is just vision, and how powerful is sight, and hearing, and essential perception, touch, smell, taste and everything that runs along with the natural flow of life. But there is something so one that is greater that is beyond human conception beyond human physics, beyond the science of life beyond the processing, beyond the thinking capacity of the most greatest philosopher and theologian, and the greatest teacher the earth has ever seen or heard of. There is an eternal God that created the word eternity, because before eternity, he was before the word even came into the language of the world. And before the world even understood what eternity means. God was eternal, He is eternal. He is before all things he is the creator of heaven and earth. And we are living in very powerful times. And God is moving so clean and clear, and powerful his ways and his Marvel's to perform. But let's just spend a moment we got a few minutes where we can rest in verse 15, through 216, My frame was not hidden from you. So my frame, my physical being this physical meat was not hidden from him. So the scripture says before the foundations of the world, I created you before creation, before the God of Israel spoke before the very beginning of time, the scripture in Genesis, read what Genesis says about creation. I've been speaking a fair bit about creation, just the word creation, just the power of creation, and the enormity of creation to grasp that, to get a little bit of an understanding of creation will give me a real solid foundation in the birth, the death, the resurrection, the eschatology, the the rapture, the church, the Body of Christ, the fundamental preaching and teaching and the basic, foundational points of Christianity. My frame was not hidden from you, verse 15, of Psalm 139, My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in that secret place, when I was formed, or when I was woven when I was this NIV says woven, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth, in the depths of the earth before parent was even known to parent before humanity was known to humanity before the psychological processing of Adam and Eve before the earth became into existence. It says that our frame was not hidden from him. So before the earth was spoken into, into orbit before creation was spoken into being before the stars were created. In the heavens above, Bob before the grains of sand came out of the voice of the power of the God of Israel, before the oceans were filled before the seabed started teeming with life. Before the stars twinkled in the sky above before the sun, was placed into very existence, by the spoken word, by the rhema word, by the by the word of God when God speaks, situations, life forms, everything comes into being, but science is trying to box God in and science is trying to formulate the process, but the Scripture says, This is why faith is so important. Faith is really important for me and us as believers. It is by faith, we believe it what is faith? How did we How do we describe faith? How can we box faith? How can we measure faith? Where do we get faith from what what is faith? Faith comes from God. And the Scripture makes it very clear. faith comes from hearing the message. And the message is heard through the word of God. So it doesn't matter about the greatest theologians, the greatest writers, it doesn't matter about the extra biblical knowledge. What is important to me as a believer is the very root word, the word of God, and how I interpret that. And actually, do I interpret the word I don't interpret the word I don't. For know the word what actually happens is that God reveals that word. So as I study as a human being, as we study as brothers and sisters in Christ, as we start to read God through the power of the Holy Spirit, reveals his word to each and every one of us. So the word belief, Jesus says to His disciples just believe, see, this is where I need my faith. Because when I read scriptures of this vastness, and this eternal value, it could almost stop me in my tracks Well, as a human being, if I think in the human format, if I think logically, if I think as a, as a as a man or as a woman, if I think with my natural skill set, this word will not fit with what I know in my physical realm. But this is not about a physical realm. This is about an eternal God. So this is about belief. I believe what the Scripture says, in Psalm 139, my eyes are getting tired, my eyes are wearing out. Come on, Lord, give me some new lenses in the name of Jesus. Psalm 139, verse 15, my frame, my character, my being my bones, my, my complete me, it says, My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes. So this is this is really interesting, because now it talks about eyes, but I understand God, God, Benoit, God being invisible, so how can a invisible god how the eyes act, I've got a little I've got a little text that we might want to look at. If you go to the Gospel of John John chapter one, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Now, Jesus is the Word, He is the living word. So I understand Christ, in the formation and in creation. And as he was presented to this world, I clearly understand that He came as a human being, but also the scripture tells me it was 100% Man 100%, Christ, 100% deity, God, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, we cannot separate that, but we can find texts that will will will tell us very clearly that in the formation of Christ, he is completely Christ, in the formation of God. And how can you say God, how can you bring these together because in the book of Colossians, Colossians says, this, Christ is the image of the invisible God. So if he is invisible, he cannot have eyes if he his spirit, he you, if you try to work this out, trying to think about this logically, we understand a spirit cannot have eyes. So I understand that a body has to have eyes, a physical being. Now this is where Christ comes into being. So now we know that Christ was at the very beginning of time, because everything the Scripture says, everything was created for him and by him, in Him, nothing has an cannot be sustained. He holds all things together. Now this is speaking about Christ. So there is no way that you can take Christ out of creation, as the living Christ Father, Son, Holy Spirit, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God. So wave we understand that there has to be for it to become with there has to be two. So we understand the Holy Spirit through the power of Genesis makes it very clearly it says In the beginning, yeah. The Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the deep, the Holy Ghost straight away at the at the launching point at the foundational point of the Word of God, we find the deity we find Father, Son, and Holy Ghost we find everything that we need at the very beginning of Genesis. In the beginning, God said. So for speech to come into being there has to be a physical now, we don't have the time to break this down into the Father, Son, Holy Spirit. So this is just a blanket outlay. This is just throwing that out, and God will give us revelation or knowledge. So we understand that Christ is the creator, Christ is the father, the father created this, everything. So when we talk about creation, we cannot and you have without any shape or any other format, you cannot erase the deity from Genesis through to Revelations, you have Father, Son, Holy Ghost, you have Holy Ghost, you have son, you have God, you have Jesus, you have Spirit of the Living God, you have Holy Ghost, you have God. So wherever you go, you will find that God is before all things he is about all things, and in him all things exist. Now Jesus says, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father, except through me. So when you look at this now, straightaway, I see Christ in his text, sorry that I've had to go around the long distance to bring us to this point. It says My frame was not hidden from you. When I was made in a secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, saw my unformed body. I love the fact that the psalm s is talking about the body. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Now, if we were still, if I can find this quick enough, if I can, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, come on, John, stay where you are. Come on, son. Stay there. It Right now we got the Gospel of John Chapter One. It's best that I read it. John chapter one, verse one, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning, through Him, all things were made without him. Nothing was made that has been made in Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. Now we can reference he talks about life. He is the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE No one comes to the Father except through me. Now I can also put a reference very clearly, and very quickly from Psalm 119 105. Your Word, in the beginning was the Word, your word is a lamp, light, your word is a lamp unto my feet, a light for my path, I am the light of the world. I am the King of kings and the Lord of lords, I am the God of Israel, I am the door, I am the way I am the truth, I am the life I am the good shepherd, I am. So whatever way we look at this, we will find Father, Son, Holy Ghost, Genesis to Revelation, Revelation to Psalm Psalm to New Testament, whatever way you want to try and formulate or read God's word, you will always find Father, Son, Holy Spirit, you will always find Jesus God, Spirit of the Living God, you will always find a connection with the deity. Now there is a clear that clear connection with the deity in creation. Now it says In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. What is the word? The word is Jesus Christ. Now let's find this out and see what the scripture says for itself. Now, verse 14, of John, chapter one, The Word became flesh. So for it to become the word that is the key word there at this moment in time is the word become. Its it doesn't say the word was a bone, the word became, for it to become or it to become, it had to be in existence. So for it to be in existence, it had to already be so if it was already in being where would it be, it would be at the very beginning of time. So the connection of one John, one through to 14 is this, In the beginning was the word in the beginning in creation, in the beginning of time in the beginning of today, in the beginning of tomorrow in the beginning or What's the word in the beginning of all things is the living word and Christ is the living word we understand. The reference point is Colossians Colossians makes it so clear. Christ is the image of the invisible God. What does God say? In the book of Genesis, let's make man in our image. Now Colossians says, God, sorry, Christ is the image of the invisible God. So we find all the way Genesis to Revelations, revelations to Psalms, Psalms, to the Gospels, the Gospels to Leviticus, Leviticus, to Exodus, Exodus, to to Deuteronomy, wherever we go, and wherever we are reading, you will find the Spirit of the Living God the Holy Ghost, you will find the living word, the creator, Jesus Christ, you will find the creator, the Godhead, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, you will not find anything but the Trinity Father, Son, Holy Ghost, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Now, quack, quack, quack, let's dance. Let's skip. Let's do a handstand all the way back to Psalm 139, verse 16, Your eyes saw, for me to see, I need eyes. For me to see there has to be a formation of a human being, a human being did not pop out of nowhere, we have not come up the escalator. From evolution, we have come up the escalator, through faith. For God's said, Let's make man in our image, what is the image of a human being is the image of Christ. So when we look at the image of humanity, we find the living word. So now we are carriers of the living word. We see for the first time Mary was chosen, Mary was given the gift to carry the supernatural word. The word in the beginning was the Word and when you think what Mary was carrying, and what Mary gave birth to, and the scripture says in John chapter one, verse 14, and the Word became, and the Word became, and the and the Word became into physical existence, not because it needed the vehicle of marriage, but it is because God chose humanity to get his work done. Now we have the question of scratching my free pound brain, head and mind and thinking, why did God bring all of us law into creation? The Scripture says, that He created us before the very beginning of time for His good pleasure, His good purpose, and for his good reason, and will, that is it. So now we have faith, now we have belief, now we have the word of God so I can get an understanding of what this is speaking about your eyes. So my unformed body, all the days ordained for me were written in your book, what book, the book of life, such a powerful book so, so powerful. Now it says, Now, how precious to me are your thoughts God? How precious are your thoughts, God, I just want to come to Communion for a few moments if we can. I'm looking at the enemy in the top corner over there, that clock sitting up there. I just want to back, backpedal just a few moments Your eyes saw my unformed body, all the days ordained for me, were written in your book before one of them even came or came into being. Now when I look. Look at that. Verse 16. Again, I'll read it very slowly. And I pray and I asked God, God, I pray that you reveal this scripture to me and to everybody on the other side of the lens tonight, Lord, that you will give us revelation or knowledge that Lord if, if creation is a mystery, Lord, will you open up the mystery of creation? Will you speak directly into us tonight in the name of Jesus? So let's see what the text says just before we come to breaking bread. Your eyes so my unformed, buddy, all the days ordained for me, were written in your book, before one of them before one of them came to be. My life was written about my life was spoken about. My life was brought into existence before my existence, even came into into being before my physical Been came into walking this earth, God saw, Christ saw because we have the Scripture reference of eyes, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And we understand that Christ is the image of the invisible God. So, forgive me as we come to the table tonight as we just break bread together as we rest as we be still. So this brings something up very quickly. How can I? How can I ever imagine that I could choose this eternal God? It just can't be. It cannot be that, that I think that I have the strength and the capabilities in the human format of life, to choose this eternal God. It is absolutely impossible. So I pray tonight, that you will draw comfort from the Word of God. That you will find rest for your body, that you will find stillness for your heart, that it is not by your works, it is not by my works. It is not by my preaching, it is not by my teaching. It is not by how much I do for the church, because that has no forbearance on one salvation. Salvation clearly is told to us very clearly and powerfully in the book of Ephesians chapter two, I believe, that salvation is a gift from the eternal God. So when I understand the power of the word eternity, before eternity was even recognize, in the human format, in the in the language of the English language before eternity was even grasped by a human being eternity existed. But he is the God of all eternity before even eternity, even came to existence, even before time was formed even before the formation of the world. He is before before before before he is just before. So how can I, in the stillness and in life, choose this eternal God, I cannot do this. He has chosen he has saved, he has brought life to you he has brought life to me. He has saved us and set each and every one of us free. You are free. Even this inked vicar that has more tattoos more ink on me than I do have in the in the printer out in the machine now. God save me even knowing even though the screen a everything that has gone on in our lives, God for new god, new God, God brought into existence, every one of us. God loves us, God's redeemed us. We are saved, we are washed in the blood of Jesus, you are a child of the living God. And Roman says this. Nothing can separate us from the love. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Separation is impossible. Separation cannot exist. Separation cannot be found. Because you was found you was created before the word separation even came into existence in any thesaurus or any dictionary or any vocabulary spoken by the greatest and the most eloquent person on planet Earth. The understanding of languages the understanding of words and the rhythms of speech. God is before the rhythms and the understanding of speech, God is before all things and He is the creator of heaven and earth. So how can religion tell me that I cannot take from the bread and the cup of Christ? Because my Bible tells me as often as you come together, Do this in remembrance of me is in remembrance of Christ. So I asked you wherever you are at this moment in time Don't worry about the preachers and the teachers and the ministries and the denominations that have said and are still saying, you cannot take off this cup. You cannot take off this bread until you dance and jump through hoops. Jesus said I create At GQ, I formed you, I, I woven I brought you, I spoke you I brought you into existence. So how dare any religious leader, dare to tell me, I cannot take from the top of Calvary, and the and the body of Christ, because you think that you hold the power of salvation in your hands. jugan no way in the name of Jesus, I am saved because he saved me. I am washed because he washed me. I am blessed because he blessed me. I am a child of the living God, because He created me before he put the stars in the heavens. Before the church was even formed. He created me and he brought us into existence because of unconditional love. Let's take a table come on, let's let's gather around. I pray that wherever you are tonight, that God will reveal the supernatural. The mystery now when I'm using the word mystery, I'm not talking out of Harry Potter language. The Scripture talks about mystery. The greatest righton on the earth says, this is a mystery. But the mystery is being revealed as I write. It is a mystery to the human being. It is a mystery to the church. It is a mystery to all and everyone that is walking this earth. God has the power, and God will hold the power. And he will not release his word until we are ready until he releases his word to us. That's the power of revelational knowledge. But right now never let anyone within the format and the creation. And I say creation, the creativity of Church and the wider brushstroke of church to tell you that you are not worthy of taking that. Tell them to bows and to fly off very gently, because I am a son and I am a daughter. And with the greatest respect on this earth, my God tells me through His Word, as often as we are together. Take this in remembrance of me. Who is the ME The ME is the great I Am the me is the living word. So all of a sudden, this explodes religion out of the camp of this Christ brought through the land God brought through the land, the Holy Ghost you will find the deity when you talk about Exodus, the past over the church is always referring to Easter. When Easter is a very pagan word. It is the past over the passing over of what the angel of death It is about the blood. It is not about the hot cross bun and the chocolate bunny rabbit. It is not about that that. Yes, thank god wonderful, whatever. But this to me is about the passing over the crossing over of the angel of death. If you put the blood over the doorposts over the lintel of your house. The scripture says God says the blood will be assigned church talk preach about the blood of Jesus. Don't give me another treasure hunt. Don't give me another time to hide and to find another easter egg wrapped around the church building. I want Jesus. I've had enough chocolate you can see I've had enough chocolate to last me all of eternity. I need Jesus without being flippant without being rash. without exposing and bringing all this to us tonight. This is not we are bringing up and we are coming up to it is so critical for the church. Not to keep talking about Easter. But it's the pass over it's the passing over. It is about the death It is about the resurrection. So what is what what is this about? It is about the blood there has to be shedding of blood. I'm gonna say it very flippantly doesn't talk about chocolate. It's not the shedding of chocolate. All we think about Easter is chocolate or not crust bonds and everything that runs around with that. It is about the shedding of the blood of the lamb it is about the pass over What are what am I remembering in the New Testament? I am remembering the past over where was the past over 1000s of years. Set in Exodus, God said to them, now get yourself a lamb and unblemished lamb, a younger than a year, take that lamb, sacrifice that lamb, get the blood of that lamb do it quickly. This is how you do it. Your roast it your your tie your belt, your tyre coat you do or what it says do it quickly, without haste. And when you've done that, take the blood of the lamb puts it at the basin at the forefront of the front door of your house. Dip the reed did the hyssop. dip that in there. Paint that over your house over the lintel. The reason it talks about the lintel is what is is created over the top of a gateway over a doorway to hold it up. Without a lintel information. It cannot stand put it down the door post the door posts are pillars, put it across the lintel of your house, the structure, put it over you put it over your house, why God? Why have I got to do this because the blood will be a sign. I'm going to leave you with this and we are going to take this this cup and this together. Does the church in the UK represent Jesus Christ? Does the church within the UK represent the Holy God of Israel? We have we have an eternal God. You have an eternal God. We have the same God he is the way he is the beginning. He is the bright morning star he is in all things he is on the present. He is on the potent he is in all hears about all He created all and he says Do this in remembrance of me. Hang on a minute. So in remembrance of me, let me think a minute Lord, the Pentecostal movement wasn't birthed. The evangelical movement wasn't birth. The Church of England wasn't buff, Catholicism wasn't buffed. So what am I doing? I am remembering the creator of heaven and earth. I Am that I Am. This blows everything of religion out the barn doors Barbae religion, see you some time. Do not attach yourself to me anymore. Because my God through His Word speaks to me and tells me as a believer in him, because let me tell religion, we are grafted in we was in before we was even in existence. Oh my Lord, what a rumble we've had tonight. Let's take this bread farther, we clearly understand. We clearly understand that this bread is symbolic, to the body of Christ. And before the Pentecostal movement was birthed, before any denominational press was birthed before the Church of England, before Catholicism before any church was birthed. But I know what you're saying. Jesus says, I am the head of the body, which is the church. We're not trying to trip ourselves the church was at at because he is the head of the church. He is the church. He is the living word. So whatever we look at that, and what I'm referring to is denominations. denominations was not around the Passover table. Now, does the Scripture say the Easter table? Or does it say the Passover? It says the Passover, it mentions it's three times the Passover, go on, make preparation for Easter, no, go and make preparation for the Passover, get everything ready for the pass over, we are going to have the pass over. So it is about the passing over. I gotta be very careful about the English language of how the English language and how language within itself has been stretched and elongated and has been switched. So I got to make sure I know what that clearly means. So I have to go back, go back through the Greek go back through the Hebrew and I want to know what that root word means. It is important for us as believers so the Scripture clearly says, Do this in remembrance of me. doesn't talk about denomination does Until about evangelical movement. It doesn't talk about revival. It doesn't talk about the church as in the formation of the structure of the buildings. It is talking about Christ. When it talks about Christ, it is talking about Christ as the Passover lamb. It is talking about Christ as the image of the invisible God. It is talking about the Christ that created the heavens and the earth, for the power of the word, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. I am remembering Jesus Christ as the Messiah, as the one that has come to save and to set the captives free. His name is Emmanuel, what does Emmanuel mean? God with us. It says, God has given him the name, the greatest name in heaven on earth, and at the name of Jesus. Every knee shall bow on the earth, under the fruity of every tongue, confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. So what's this about tonight? This is about Jesus. It is not about denominations. It is not about division. It is not about anyone that is beating the drum in any nation, that we are the church. If you are saying you are the church, you better get the teachings, right, because there is judgment on anyone that says we are the church and is not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. There are many churches there are many Jesus's because the Bible tells me so. Sisters and brothers were at the point of breaking a bread. Father, this bread symbolizes the body of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. I thank you, that as I break bread right now in Jesus name. Thank you, Lord, we break bread together now, in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, amen. Sisters and brothers. I've got to push this. And I'll tell you why. A little red light has come up on that machine, and he's telling me battery is low. God, get us through in the name of Jesus. It says your MacBook will sleep unless plugged in. Plug yourself into Jesus. Don't let your battery run out. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for the shed blood of Christ. Wash me and cleanse me in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Thank you, Lord, that my sins are now to the cross a Calvary, wash me and cleanse me in Jesus name. Amen. I'm sorry to rush and I'm not rushing. I'm trying to be as common as Reverend Reverend as I possibly can. But my eye is capturing that flashing light there. May God bless you May God strengthen you. God will continue his word to you. God will continue to reveal Himself to you have a wonderful evening whatever your timezone is. It is 831 According to the clock, wherever you are across the world, have a great evening. You've been listening to us here at Elam church. My name is Reverend Ben Cooper, just type that into Google. Please. I asked you to share to download all the podcasts that we've been doing the teaching from my brothers and sisters that have been gathering around the mics please push this out. You have been joining us here for our live streaming service. You can find us on Apple Music. You can find us on Amazon music I Heart Radio Buzzsprout, Spotify and multiple platforms have a great evening. Stay in the Word of God God is with you. He has saved you and he has set you free in Jesus name. I'm pressing the band's we are gone in the name of Jesus. Amen.