Yes. Good evening and God bless you wherever you are across the earth. Thank you for joining us again this evening. As it is what is the time it is 44 minutes past 12 Sunday morning, May God strengthen you and bless you. It's lovely to have you with us. This moment in time may the hand of the Lord always be upon you. This is the day that the Lord has made we shall rejoice and be glad. We're turning to the book of Isaiah, we turn to the Book of Isiah and as everybody is coming online for this moment, I just want to welcome everybody. Thank you for all those that download these podcasts. Absolutely amazing. The stats that are coming through we thank God for everyone that is downloading and everyone that is listening and sharing everything that we are doing here. This is our first this is our third evening we went What do we do Thursday? Friday, tonight, Saturday, Sunday mornings difficult to get your head around. But everybody online at this moment thank you so much. Wherever you are across the earth, whatever your timezone is in your world. We welcome you right now you're doing it myself. Reverend Ben Cooper here at Elam church May God strengthen you and guide you. You can find us on Apple Music. You can find us on I Heart Radio. You can find us on Amazon Music, Spotify and Buzzsprout thank God bless you and strengthen you across this earth tonight. You know we're in Easter where we're celebrating the feast. Death, the resurrection. Now Sunday is upon us. Sunday is here it is loud, it is clear. You know the devil felt that he had him religion or thought that he had him. Yeah, and we all need Jesus right now. Wherever you are across this land. Do not put any weight on any human being do not put any way or may do not put any weight on pastors and leaders. Brothers and sisters. It might sound a bit brutal, but put everything you got into the King of kings and the Lord of lords because he is your guide. He is your rock. He's your king. He is the great I Am he is Jehovah Jireh you know, as these last two, three evenings as we just been pressing into the Word and God has been guiding us and strengthening us. You know, this is all about salvation. This is about salvation. This is about redemption. This is about the blood of Christ. This is about Holy Week. It is about Jesus. It is not about the church. It is not about religion. It is not about anyone else, but Jesus, you are saved. And I keep emphasizing I keep repeating myself because I believe God is stirring my spirit. And I just need to let you know tonight God has your life in the palm of his hands. But let's go to Isaiah 53 Isaiah 53 Let's get a bit of a build up of of what God is doing. But let's grab yourself a Bible grab yourself a Bible you've heard me say 1000 times Look at mine. Look, it's torn, it's ripped. It's marked even got Isaiah mark there the covers off it, it's torn. I've got bits and pieces missing off it but it's mine. It feels real, it's alive. It's lovely. I love it. It's beautiful. I just love this Bible. I gotta tell you that I love it. The spine look at the state of the spine of it bit like mine a bit buckled and a bit bent and a bit bit at it at the moment. But nevermind, God is good. Isaiah, let's jump straight into the book of Isaiah, wherever you are, across the earth tonight this week is a powerful week, in, in, in the world of Christianity within the church within even if you said and you press the drum of religion, whatever one you want to look at that, because this is about salvation, you are saved. You are a child of the living God, you might be the most anxious person on planet Earth. You may be going through sorts that you can't even tell your loved one your friend, your mom, your dad, your husband, your wife about you might be experiencing things in your life that you never thought you would experience. But let me tell you this, nothing can snatch you out of the love of God that is in Christ Jesus Romans makes that so clear. You know the battle belongs to the Lord. Romans chapter eight, verse one, there is now no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus. There is no condemnation on your life. You are washed through the blood of Jesus Christ through the Crimson Tide. He is your God He is your King. You are saved not because of any great preacher, not because of pastors not because of leaders, not because of me, not because of religion. You are not saved because you went to the altar call you are you are saved purely because the power of God has set you free and has set me free. It is God that is the Savior, it is Christ. That is the Redeemer. It is him that is the Lamb that was slain. He is the king. He is your God. He is your Redeemer. And you will keep hearing me repeat this even this morning when we jump into the pulpit and when we see what God has for us. Redemption is all over this. This is what it's about. It's not about performing arts by the church is not about performing arts by by great play writers. This is about the King of kings and the Lord of lords. You are saved doesn't matter what your life looks like. It doesn't matter. how you feel in your life, it doesn't matter what is going on around you, you are saved and you are blood washed, and you are a child of the living God and there is nothing too big. There is nothing too vast, there is nothing too wide for the love of God, maybe this things happen. Maybe there's things that have gone on, maybe there are things in relationships, maybe there are things at home, maybe the children may be at work, maybe just within yourself, things just don't seem right. Let me remind you, you are a child of the living God, you haven't just jumped onto this live stream service, just for the sake of skipping through God has led you to this place tonight. And I got to let you know that your Redeemer lives and because he lives you can face tomorrow, you might be going through trials, you might be going through tests, you might be going through the strain of life, you might be finding that everything is coming against your house, your front door, you might find everything is breaking out in you and around you. But what is very clear is that nothing can take salvation away from you. This week. I've said it night after night after night. You are a child of the living God and God loves you. It doesn't matter what the earthly circumstance is, it doesn't matter what the what the press is around you. It doesn't matter what the world is saying about you. It doesn't matter how vile it seems around you it doesn't matter how tough it seems it doesn't matter what is going on the outside. God saved you God is a rescuer. And God sees every area of your life and maybe you've never stepped into church. Maybe you just cracking into this live stream service. At this moment you're thinking What's this Inc vicar doing up this time of night? On this evening? What what is going on? What is all this about? Christ loves you you are saved not because the preacher told you you are you are not just say because the church has pushed you into a corner and said, he got to say this prayer. You gotta say that prayer. If you don't say the sinners prayer, you won't be saved. What a load of rubbish, God saved you. You didn't even need to move your lips. You didn't even need to say anything, because salvation dropped onto you. And no one can resist this holy God. Again, no one can resist this Holy God, his life. He's very clear his life he came and he came and he came to save he come to set the captives free. Let's get straight to the Scripture. verse, verse one, let's read very gently, Isaiah chapter 53, verse one, and it says, Who has believed our message, and whom as the arm of the Lord can be revealed, he grew up this is about Christ. This is about the Messiah hundreds of years before he even came into human existence. I will not say he was birth because the Scripture doesn't say that he was above it says And the Word became he was always always in existence. He is the living word, he is your God, He is your King. He is the word this scripture is about him. And it is for him. He gave this he opened the prophets heart to write this, but he's writing this is this is about redemption. This is about salvation. This is about hope. This is about the sovereignty of God, the power of the Holy Spirit. Nothing can snatch you out of the love of God. Maybe you've never tried over the threshold of church, maybe the only time you've gone to church is for a wedding or a funeral. Or for some other reason, whatever it may be. Maybe there is no intention in your life. As you look through this service tonight, about going to church, maybe you're just inquiring and looking and scrolling over the socials. You are not just looking and inquiring by your own hand on your phone. God has called you for such a time of this and God is working in many people's lives. You can put the label over your life, you can call yourself an agnostic, you can call yourself an atheist, you can call yourself a humanist, you can call yourself whatever you want. But one thing you can't run from is the power of the Holy Ghost. He is the King of kings and he is the Lord of Lords. He is the God that call to things that are not as though they are he put the stars in the heavens, He sent His one and only Son for this very week regardless of of where we sit in the calendar press regardless where we sit, whatever way we look at it, we should not be just looking at the resurrection of Christ and the crucifixion of Christ. Just because it is it is Holy Week, and it is Passover. And as the world says it is Easter, we got to remember that we should always be remembering the birth, the death and the resurrection of the living Christ. We got our understand how we came into the world through through the formation of Mary and how that happened. We got to understand the word became I got to understand that he became an he was into this world. So I got to remember how he got here. I've got to understand it this week is about that too, because he was created and he was brought into earthly existence purely to go to the cross of Calvary. It wasn't for church purposes. It wasn't for pastors to to go to US ceremonia on all the staff into Theological College, it wasn't just for the pastors in the church to say, I know Jesus, he came, he came into this earth, He created this earth, he formed this earth he he spoke everything into being because the Living Word was at the very beginning of time, you will find very clearly through the book of Genesis that very, very clear, very clear, very, very, very clear. I'm gonna say it again, very clear that God spoke the world into being, look, I'm speaking fast. I'm going too fast. I gotta slow down. I just can't help it. When I talk about Jesus. Let's read it from verse one I started then I stopped, and it says, Who will believe our message, and from whom as the arm of the Lord can be revealed, he grew up, he grew up a number of few 100 years, seven, 800 years, whatever it was roundabout, someone might put it online for us. He grew up before him. He grew up before him like attended shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty, to attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected. Here we go, hold time, this is for you. This is for me. If Christ has done it for me, how much more can he do it for you brothers and sisters. He says He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and familiar with pain, like one from who hid their faces. He was despised, and we held him in low esteem. This is Christ. surely love this verse For of Isaiah 50 fruit. Surely he took up our pain he has taken my pain he has taken your pain he took up is Surely he took up our pain and bore our sufferings. Yet we consider him punished by God really interesting, really deep, stricken by him and afflicted, but he was pierced for our transgressions, a New Testament scripture that we can bring that up to Lima, he was pierced for our transgressions. And he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him. By his wounds, we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray, even of us has turned to him on our own way. And the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of us all. He was opposed and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth. Isn't that interesting? What we read last night in front of Pilate in front of Herod in front of the crowd who just said it is as you say, he was he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and a sheep before the shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. Let's turn let's turn let's go into the New Testament. Let's jump into the Gospel of Matthew, the synoptic Gospel of Matthew as we go to chapter 26, as we go to 26 now he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered. He was pierced for our transgressions he was and he had nothing around him that was attractive in his physical being that would attract any human being to him. He is God. He is the king. He is the Lord of Lord Matthew, chapter 27. Sorry, and we're going to read from verse. We'll take it from verse 57. As evening approach, when the rich man came from EREMA, Thea named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus go into Pilate, he asked him for the body, Jesus's body and Pilate ordered that it be given to him Joseph took the body body down, wrapped him in clean clothes and linen, and placed him in a new tomb that had been cut out of the rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance of the term, and went away Mary Magdalene. It says in the scripture in verse 61, Mary and the other Mary was sitting there opposite the tomb. All I want to say is tonight, very simply, our sins are buried with Christ, my sin, your sin, my old man, your old man has been now to the cross of Calvary. You are a child of the living God. Our lives might not reflect our lives might not reflect a Christians life but whose life now let's have a think about this a moment whose life can actually reflect a true believer we are trying, we are pressing into the Word. We are looking at him, we are trusting Him, we are leaning into him. Now what we got to understand tonight at this moment, very moment in time, our sicknesses, our disease, our fears, our worries, will now to the cross of Calvary. And they was buried with Christ, everything in our life that was against him and what he died for has been now to the cross of Calvary, you are free tonight. I am free tonight we are washed in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. The other gospel makes it so clear. He was pierced for our transgressions, blood and water flowed from his side. No man has the power or the capabilities or the understand or the logic or the computing or the natural remit in someone's mind and the cognitive processing and the philosophy and the understanding of life to be able to say, Yes, I actually receive you, Lord, now You can come into my life. When you look at what we are looking at. We are looking at prophecy from the book of Isaiah, round about 750 800 years you know someone God willing made stretch that on the social tonight for us and give us a more of a pinpoint in roughly and just an idea of how many years before this actually came. This prophecy came into physical being. So what we got to understand is when the Prophet was prophesied, he was speaking about the Messiah, he was pierced for our transgressions, they now add him to the cross of Calvary, there was nothing about him that was attractive. There was nothing about his persona, nothing about the physical Christ, he grew up as a tender chute he grew up out of dry ground you when you understand what we are looking at, this is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, completely the opposite to what we see, you might or might get beaten with a stick here to certain pastors and certain leaders, they got to have this they got to have that they got out the red carpet at church, they got to have the carpark space out the front, they got over A, B, C and D and Aaron's got to be right. But when you look at Christ, the one that has given us given us salvation, there was nothing about him that was attractive in any way, shape or form, in his physical being the saw the Prophet right, so clear in the book of Isaiah 53, but he is the king, and he is the Lord of lords, wherever you are tonight. I just want to emphasize and I just want to hold in verse 57, of Matthew chapter 27. When they buried Christ when he said it is finished, we entered into a new covenant. We all washed in the blood of Jesus. The scripture says not one of his bones was broken. Why was his bones not broken? Because very clearly his side had to be pierced for the scriptures to come into being. Excuse me, my child. Yes, we are drinking coffee. Yes, it is. 22 minutes past 12 the early hours of Sunday morning. Yes, it is Sunday, Sunday is honest, the Messiah is alive. The grave is empty. But we and I and at this moment in time, I must keep beating the drum of redemption. You are redeemed you are blood washed. You are a child of the living God God has you in the palm of his hand. Again, Holy Week, I'm going to repeat myself. We have to understand where we are and I'm not being condescending in any way, shape or form tonight, I must understand that my Redeemer lives and because he lives I can face tomorrow. Why can I face tomorrow? Romans chapter eight, verse one, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus us in I've been grafted in, you have been grafted in we are in through the power of the living word, not by our own stretch, not by our own strength, not by the altar call. How many times have we heard over and over and over again, come down and receive your salvation? Come and say the sinners prayer, we need to look and understand about the sinners prayer. What that says but that prayer, you got to be really clear that is not very biblical, and in many ways, shapes and form. The only prayer that we are given is the Lord's Prayer. That is the only prayer so God is not waiting. God is not sitting seated on the circle of the earth, twiddling his thumbs and thinking I've got to wait for that Reverend Benjamin learned Cooper to actually move his lips before I can actually put myself into his heart. Well, actually, it's the wrong way round. Christ has put himself into my heart before my heart even came into existence before my heart, and my lips were even formed in the formation of a human being before my lips had the power to articulate and even say the name Jesus, even to say, God, you are my savior before I even said that before I even spoke there before I even understood that he went to the cross of Calvary. And when they buried him in the tomb, what happened? Our sins How sicknesses are iniquitous our pain. Our suffering was now to the cross of Calvary, we were washed in the blood of Jesus. And when they buried him in that new to that was borrowed that was carved out of the rock face when they buried Christ, all of my existing life that is sinful, got buried with the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And no one can resurrect the old sin in your life. Yeah, there might be a tendency where we might lean into a bit of old stuff, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit brings us back, you know, we might call it, Lord, recalibrate me, bring me back to your word, Lord, or may I use biblical biblical terms? This evening? I think I should do consider we're in the church and we are in the Word of God. So what do we look at? We look at the prodigal son, over and over and over there are many prodigal sons that do not even realize that they are protocols. You know, I am a protocol who has the faith who has the authenticity who has the actual understanding within their lives that I am a protocol, possibly more times than I can actually be faithful. Oh, Lord, that is very deep. Yes. But Lord, why oh, why? Oh, why? As Paul writes very clearly, a wretched man Amaya, why do I do the things that I hate? The greatest writer on planet Earth, Christ now all our sins, all our iniquity, all our pain, all our suffering, he now made it to the cross of Calvary. And once it was now to the cross of Calvary, and he said, It is finished. Once the temple curtain was torn into once darkness fell, once the holy ones came out of the groves, once he said, It is finished their man and Christ entered into a new covenant. And then suddenly Joseph comes and takes him off for the cross, His side was pierced for our transgressions. Then, as they buried him, our existence and our old man was buried to Christ was the one that came back. He is the resurrection, the truth and the life. Lord, I thank You that You are the only one that has been resurrected, that my old man has not been resurrected, because my old man was now to the cross of Calvary. Now I am a new creation in Christ Jesus, the old has gone and the new has come. All religion cannot give you all the greatest preachers and teachers, the theologians, everyone. No religious person can give you what Christ has given me and given you, you are free because of the blood of Jesus, you are a child of the living God, because of the blood of the Messiah, you are free, because he was led like a lamb to be slaughtered. You are free because of the beaten you are free because of the blood of the Messiah, you are free, because of the Scripture tells us So who the sun sets free, is free. Indeed. He says I am the Way, the Truth and the Life No one comes to the Father except through me. Everything is done through the living word. He is the living word. He is yes. And he is Amen. He is your bright morning star. He is your God He is your King. But let's just remind ourselves tonight, that we are wonderfully and we are fearfully made not in a Pentecostal drum skin. But we are wonderfully and fearfully made because the old has gone. And the new has come because of Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53 He was pierced for our transgressions, our iniquity was upon him. But God gave him the name and the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. God everything bows at the name of Jesus, sickness bows to the name of Jesus fear bows to the name of Jesus, He is your God and He is your King. And I pray that wherever you are tonight across this earth, whatever the timezone is in your life, we clearly understand that this week that we are in, it is not about the worldly, the church, either Christianity, and I use that word very carefully. The churchianity the Christianity label that so many are putting it over their door of their house, but they don't understand it is about the blood the blood will be assigned. I can call myself what I want. I can say a pastor, a reverend a leader, a B, C and D. But if I do not, if I do not know that my Redeemer lives if I do not, do not have the blood over my life, it is all for nothing. There is trouble without the blood of Jesus. There is trouble without the blood of Messiah. His plans are glorious for you and the plans that he has for you and he has for me are covered and they are ordained. He is the Living atonement. He is the one and only sacrifice. He is the one it is not the church. It is not religion. It is not this just because the church is going it's Holy Week, and the calendars are lined up and this and A, B, C and D we got our I got her understand, I'm speaking very reverently. And I'm speaking very openly that I have to understand tonight that this week is about Jesus. Yeah, there are many waving the palm leaves welcome in into Jerusalem. There are many welcoming in but they are the same ones carrying that palm leaf fruit that down to the floor that said Give us Barabbas Am I one that's calling for a Barabbas? A my one that was in the courtyard and said, I do not know him. What are you talking about? Or am I the one that is going to stand up and say I belong to Jesus, he's son died on the cross for me Christ, the Messiah died on the cross on a God sent His one and only Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Got to be careful with John 316, in the clear factor of this, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life, I do not have the power to believe until he presents the human mind the understanding when I'm in the sin formation of a human being before I know Christ, Christ has to present himself to me, because that comes in the formation. And that comes in the skin of salvation that comes in the Messiah, the Messiah comes to us first because the physical has no power of getting into the spiritual, believe it or believe it not. There are many ministries out there that are telling us that we are superhumans that we are little gods, and we can do all these weird and wonderful things. If we pay X amount of money, we will become an evangelist, we will become a prophet will become a teacher, we will become all this sort of stuff when actually the scripture says work out your salvation with fear and trembling, I ain't got to worry if I'm a pastor or a leader, what I got to understand is, am I saved? Am I truly saved? Am I washed in the blood of Jesus? This is not about lifestyle choices, because we all can I be honest, we all make lifestyle choices that do not represent the Messiah. We all make lifestyle choices that do not represent true Christ, we make lifestyle choices, due to whatever culture is doing, and due to whatever work is doing. And those lifestyle choices can be sometimes quite away from the will of the Father, how God do I bring myself to this position? I say, Dear God, in the name of Jesus, what do I do I repent. The Bible talks about repentance repenting is so powerful repentance is life changing, you can almost say there is there is a tiny thread of revival. And I'm not referring to a revival going out, skipping and dancing, barking like a dog and Mars will give you a dog biscuit if you're going to do that. That ain't nothing of Christ, that's for sure. You know, what I've got to understand is repentance. Repentance, repent. I got to repent of what repent of my wicked ways, repent of what? unforgiveness. I got to repent of pride, repent of arrogance, repent of bullying, repenting of an attitude that's not good, repenting of thinking that's not right, repenting of so many things, whatever it may be, the Scripture says all have sinned and fallen short of His glory. But this week is about Christ. It is not about the theatrical performance of religion, and what is going on across the performance of church. This is about redemption. You are redeemed, you are saved, not because of the preacher is setting us so you are saved not because clearly of religion is telling you to come and do this. walk down this corridor and come and receive Christ because if you don't come now, it is going to close what on earth is all that about? You are in the grip, you are in the hand you are in the understanding of Christ, you are on the pot as well and he is shaping you and he is shaping me. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, but we need I need to clearly understand stand right now. I am redeemed who is my Redeemer? He is my Redeemer, my god or my king. He's worthy of all praise. I pray that wherever you are tonight that the power of the Holy Spirit will descend upon your life like never before. I pray as we come to Communion tonight, you will filled up Power of God, you don't need to be delivered any more. You don't need to be set freed anymore, one sacrifice once and for all. So why do I keep having these incidents in my life? Why do I keep having this stuff going on because of the battlefield of the mind. Let me just say this Christ came into you, and the devil ran, the devil cannot take up residence, when Christ is living in you, Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. He's the living God and He is the Living king. The Scripture is very clear, Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. Who is the he in the world, Lucifer? The the activity of the dark side, so there is no dark in me. If I know that my Redeemer lives and because he lives I can face tomorrow, the devil is gone, the devil can do when the devil combos off and do what he likes. I do not need another deliverance service, because I am delivered. And I am redeemed and I am set free simply because Christ went to the cross of Calvary. That is it. I don't need another prayer of deliverance because I am delivered. What I gotta do is work out my salvation. with fear and trembling, I ain't got to worry about Lucifer, I ain't gotta worry about in the phillium the sons of God, I ain't gotta worry about all that hocus pocus, that deliverance ministers are trying to push on me. I am a son of the living God, you are a daughter of the living God, You were bought with a price and the price was the blood of the Messiah and your Redeemer lives and because he lives you can face tomorrow. So Lucifer has no strength over your life. There are many than a kid going to deliverance ministry, deliverance ministry, this prayer that prayer, jumping up and down, suddenly what happens there, we become caught in the devil's activity simply because we get caught in witchcraft, we get caught in so much activity on the wrong side of the cross. Now I gotta let you know tonight that you are saved, you are saved once and once only, you have been delivered once and once only, salvation cannot be taken. Salvation cannot be extracted. The devil is a liar, and you are a son and a daughter of the living God. And as we come to Communion tonight, you are blessed. You don't need to go to another deliverance ministry. You don't need any more prophecies over your life. You are heaven bound, because you are a daughter and a son of the living God. So how do I know what God wants for me, I get the word and I read the living Word of God. It's got all the prophecies. It's got everything that I need. I don't need to go far out looking for a deliverance ministry. I don't need to go out looking for this word from this pastor. And that pastor, all I need to know is what does Jesus say about me? And to me what prayer I don't need to go on and flick open the books on prayer and love 101 ways to pray another 105 ways to be delivered another 6000 ways to pray. When Jesus says pray like this. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. The Lord's Prayer will shake the gates of hell. The Lord's Prayer will put blessing in your pathway. If Jesus said, this is the prayer to pray, pray the prayer. I don't need another book from another pastor, another prophet, another great evangelist telling me how to pray. I just opened a word and I read the Word of God because his word is yes and amen. And He is the Way the Truth and the Life. No one goes or comes to the Father except through me. You are redeemed, you are not saved because religion called you that day, you are saved because the word set you free, you are washed in the blood before you even realize you are washed in the blood. You were saved before your physical person even understood what salvation was. God was not sitting on the throne and the mercy see he was not sitting in the high heavenly places, twiddling his thumbs and going on waiting for Reverend Ben Cooper to get ordained or when he's got ordained. And when he has said the center's prayer, and when he has heard that, that word from that preacher over there, then I'm waiting for Ben to actually say Yes, Lord, I'll let you in. What a load of baloney religious jargon is that God is not waiting for me to move my lips. How can you say that pastor, you're being a little bit flippant. I might be being a little bit flippant. I might be being a little blase. I might be being a little bit trapped Tonight, but all I know is that my Redeemer lives and because he lives I can face tomorrow, and I was saved before the cross of Calvary even came into being. Yes we was, yes you was because redemption plan, what does the cross of Calvary show us the cross of Calvary shows us that Christ's became flesh made his dwelling among us. And he made a spectacle to every dark entity across the earth. He was in charge of his his life and his death, the angels in heaven were watching his father in heaven was watching the Spirit of the Living God was watching and was with him. The Living Word was on the cross of Calvary, and the Living Word had the power and the strength because he is the living word. And he said, It is finished. Then, me you all of existence, was swept into a new covenant was drawn, we had no choice, because we don't have the power to resist this eternal God. There are many cultures, there are many teachings out there that are telling us and trying to show through through the manipulation of Scripture, there is a possibility that because this little word here, you might lose yours, it doesn't tie up with the rest of God, you have been saved by grace, the key word is grace. Grace says and covers everything, you are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, you are blood washed, you are a child of the living God. God loves you. Even though the world may be kicking you, even though you might have forces and agents coming towards you in different areas of your life, they cannot attach they cannot get you because once saved, always saved, once washed, always washed. There comes a time in one's life, when suddenly we realize that no devil in hell can catch us. Yes, yes, yes, who who who is under our feet, I looked down. And beyond the carpet beyond the Earth, the devil is under our feet. And that's where he stays. That's where he stays because he was crushed the cross of Calvary. Lucifer was crushed at the cross of Calvary, when he was kicked out of heaven. And Christ said to the audience around him, I saw Satan fall like lightning who Chuck's Satan out of heaven. God Christ, Satan has no power, he was cast out of the heavenlies and his train and his towel swept all the agents out. It doesn't matter how many demonic forces, people tell you there are coming at you. When you know your Redeemer lives. You can stand and sit on the sofa and say, Hang on a minute, Lucifer. Let me tell you a story. You was kicked out of heaven, and I'm on my way to heaven, you was cast to the earth. I'm being taken from the earth. Let me tell you this, Lucifer, you fought that you had my Christ, my God on the cross of Calvary. He just rested for three days. He just gathered his breath. He just gathered his faults he just laid in that place. And when he said it is finished, on the third day, God, Christ himself when you bring all this together, God breathed into the lungs of Christ. And then suddenly the stone was rolled away. The angels came down from Heaven's glory sat at one at his head, one at his foot one where he laid and isn't interested in the Mary's ran, the disciples ran. The church is always trying to find Christ in a dead place. Well, he is risen, Lucifer, My God is alive. My God is gonna whip you so hard, and he already has whipped you because he's kicked you out of heaven. And let me just remind you, Lucifer, who created you, My God, My God created everything my god created the most beautiful angels in the world could ever exist and beyond human existence, the angels are so beautiful. And God even says in the in the Old Testament, I created you, you was beautiful. You was completely beautiful, then you God created Him in His beauty. But then he fell, because he wanted to be worshipped. So there is no dark force. There is no dark dominion. There is nothing that can attach itself to you. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil because you are with me, your rod and your staff. They come from me Psalm 119 105, check the tax please. Your word is a lamp unto my feet a light for my path. If my God is for me, who can be against me? No weapon formed against me shall prosper. Every tongue that rises up them up against me shall be condemned. If God is for me who can be against me, in the book of Exodus, I love this text. I absolutely love this text, God said to the Israelites, to motives, to those that are around him. He said, Listen, we didn't actually say like that. But this is scripture when he said, I will be an enemy to your enemies. Yeah, oh, my God, oh, Lord, it makes me want to lay back on the sofa, kick me trainers off, and say Lucifer, have a look at my god, actually, Lucifer, my God created you. My God went to the cross. And my God was in charge of every breath. And every word upon him, he looked like he was, he was been beaten black and blue, ripped all over the place. And he didn't have the physical strength to make it. But he hung on the cross a Calvary, as the King of kings and as the Lord of lords, as the man Christ Jesus. But as He hung on the cross of Calvary, he said, It is finished. It wasn't the physical that took him out. It was the spoken word, and the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. And if was to go in Genesis, and it says, And God said, Let there be light, that same power that spoke universes that spoke structure that spoke life that pulled humanity from the dust of the earth, the same God that spoke everything into existence. And in Colossians, it says this, And Christ is the image of the invisible God. So Christ is the image of the invisible God. So the spoken word, the rhema word, the Living Word is on the cross of Calvary. And the Living Word is just speaking across the platform of humanity. And he said, It is finished. And as he said, that you can imagine a loud war, you could hear a maybe a loud rumble, and everything was happening, darkness descended, the temple curtain was torn into, and by Christ saying it is finished, it was like a vacuum, an access, an access point was made to the God of Israel, through the blood of Jesus Christ. And when Joseph took Christ's body, and he placed him and he wrapped him in new linen, and he dressed him, and he done everything is the Scripture says, And he laid him in the Borah term, guess what? Our old man laid that light that stayed there with Christ, and your old man, my old man, and I'm not referring to my dad, I'm talking about the old me my old ways, the old person, the old Ben, the sinful, was kept in the grave, never to be resurrected, never to be lifted out again, because it was now to the cross of Calvary. Now, one sacrifice, once and for all, the book tells us, the Lamb of God, you are washed, you are blood washed, you are saturated in the blood of Jesus, you are a child of the living God, it doesn't matter what religion is trying to say to you. It doesn't matter what and how you may have been caught up in church for so many years, you may or may may have been caught up in so much religion, and junk everything has gone on in your life. And you've wondered, God am I actually saved if we are questioning that if we are actually asking them questions. That is because we are saved. And we are just want to make sure that we are secure in our salvation, you are saved. Again, I'll repeat myself. And it wasn't the message that the preacher preached. It wasn't the shout of the religious order. It wasn't what the 12 steps to Jesus that got you stave. It wasn't the disciple course that warmed you up and got you ready for salvation. It wasn't the Alpha course that actually got you saved. It wasn't anything of man that got you saved. God uses them to assist the and to help and to engineer the human being to get to a position of realization that yes, he is alive, and I am saved not because of any course not because of a discipleship course not because of a real a meal around the table with pastors and leaders, brothers, sisters and deacons. Not because the church has stroked my back and said welcome to church, but because my God sent His Son to the cross of Calvary and By the blood of the living Christ, I am saved by grace, you are being saved. Oh, come on, let's get to the bread. Come on, let's get to this bread and the wine wherever you are this evening. You know, many might be on the line already. Take it easy, take it easy, take it easy. You know, come on, let's break some bread together. Let's take a cup together. Wherever you are, across the earth tonight, whether you're sharing this out through the power of podcasts, whether you're watching this live stream service, may be a little bit flippant. Maybe you might think I'm arrogant. I don't mean to be in any way, shape or form. I just realized that I am a prodigal son saved by grace. I just realized that I am a human being saved by the blood of Jesus, I just realized that my title means nothing. In the kingdom of God. The only title that I carry is a son of the living God titles are extinct. They are quite like the dinosaur, they are on their way out. You know, titles actually mean nothing in the kingdom of God. What actually means is that you are a daughter, and you are a son, I am a son, whatever we are, we are who we are in Christ Jesus. We are worshipers. The Bible tells us that we are worshipers, we worship the Messiah. We don't worship pastors and leaders, brothers and sisters and deacons. We thank God for their lives, and we encourage them, and we help each other in the faith. But we don't look up to pastors and leaders don't look to me, I will fail you over and over and over and over my I will fail you just like a continuum I will let you down more times and I will help you. But that is just humanity. And that that is just the phone in of life. But there is someone and his name is Jesus that has saved you before eternity even came into the thesaurus or into any language of this earth before any human being understood the word eternity before any human being spoke and studied the word eternity, you was already on his heart. You is already saved. We are just pressing the boards of life and our body and our mind. We are just doing what for God foretold through His Word. And he loves you. Father, as we come to the table tonight, Lord. Lord, this is about the Passover. This is the passing over of the angel of death. This is the Passover, the passing over. You are the Lamb that was slain. You are the King of kings and the Lord of lords. You are Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah shalom, you are our God, you are our King, you are our Redeemer. And because he lives I can face tomorrow, again, and again. And again. I'm going to keep repeating myself as we come to the table tonight. You are not saved because you just go to church. Actually, do we realize that God is saving people that don't even go to church? Do we realize that in the world of the persecuted church, God is revealing himself to others that are in other religions. And as He reveals Himself to them, they came, they come out of that religious idolatry, and I ideology, whatever we want to call it, however, we look at that, and then suddenly they realize that this Jesus is alive. But they've never gone into a Christian church. They've never read the Bible. They've never heard of Jesus, like we have heard him, but God saves. God doesn't need the fabric of a building. To give salvation. He is saving people outside of what we call church, of what we have made church. If you don't come to church, you won't get saved. If you don't come down and do the sinners prayer and fall on your face so we can give you a tick box, then we can give you this welcome, pack that welcome pack, and then we'll forget all about you. Because that's what the church does, is always looking for the number of statistics rather than disciple in what is around or Gosh, he's hitting some drum skins tonight. That's for sure. Jesus is saving people that don't even know what salvation is. Jesus is not waiting for humanity to walk into a church on a Sunday morning and sit in a chair when the heating is on and listening and thinking. Shall I have Jesus today? Shall I received Jesus? Jesus has already saved before the person even put their foot over the fresh shoulder chair arch. Jesus is saving those that are in war torn countries at this very moment and I got his saving people that are in desolation, God is rescuing the prostitute God is rescuing the drug dealer. God is rescuing the single parent family. God is rescuing that person that he's alone. God is rescuing God is a rescuer. God is helping those that are caught up in suicidal thoughts. God is rescuing those that are in depression. God is rescuing those that have never even heard of Christianity that have been brought up in a nation that that doesn't even speak the word Jesus God is saving right now. And setting the captives free. How crazy? Can the westernized church think that it can hold the power of salvation in the westernized box of church and think that on a Sunday morning, I will give the altar call and they will come running? No, no, no, oh no, salvation has been given. And salvation will be given when the Messiah says now. Now is the hour of salvation. God is moving in every church, every nation, God is moving in all religions, God is removed, God is moving. And he is working in religions that are not even Christianity. He is saving people from world religions. He is setting people free from narcissistic controllers. He is saving people around the world because he is the Redeemer and to be a need a redeemer. I've got to be set freed from something that has captured me. Do we realize that we are slaves of righteousness? Father right now lawn right now in the name of Jesus as we break bread together. Father, we clearly understand that this has not been put together by the Institute or the church. This has not been put together by the Institute of Religion. This has not been put into place because of the institute says on a Sunday morning or a Monday evening we will do this. God, I want to repent, Lord, of all the wrong teachings that I have given over this over the years. I am doing this in remembrance of the Father This bread symbolizes the body of Christ. And right now, Lord, I thank you that your body was broken and your life was given. For me. I'm free. Because he took my transgressions, I'm free because he sighed was pissed. I'm free because of the blood of the Messiah, who the sun sets free, is free indeed. No more deliverance. No more shouting and hollering and dancing and rolling around on the floor, legs up in the air barking like a dog no more of that. Crazy, absolutely beyond human understanding. God is a God of order. And he will not be mocked. He is a jealous God. And he created with sound speech. There was no confusion there is no confusion in the kingdom of God. So Father, I thank you that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. And as we come before you tonight, Lord, at this hour, at 1257. Sunday morning, Resurrection Day, Sunday is here. We thank You Father, that you breathe life into Christ's lungs. You brought him you set him in. Come Lord, bless his bread in Jesus name, Amen. Wherever you are, whoever you are, I would be so bold. Maybe you might say you're arrogant. Because what I'm about to say, no human being can resist the God of Israel. You can resist religion. You can resist false prophets and teachers. You can laugh at the church and you can you can resist religion, because even I resist in religion, but no human being has the power and the physical capabilities of stopping salvation descending onto one's life. No one has the power. No one can decide. No one you can decide. I'm not following religion. But when the kingdom of God breathes over your life, when the kingdom of God breathes in your lungs, when the king speaks into your and over your life, you will never be the same again. You will never be the same again. Never be the same again. Yes, but why do I feel the same again? Rev. Why do I feel the same again? vicar. Why do I feel the same as I used to? Because the flesh is willing, as Matthew says, clearly, in the synoptic gospel, the flesh is willing, the flesh is weak, sorry, the flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing, there is a battle, a battle that a believer has the battle, even though I hear you saying on the socials, the battle belongs to the Lord. But yes, there is still a battle of refusing to drop back into the old ways. Don't let the old man rise. Remember what the Scripture says about the burial of Christ buried and gone. The oldest gun and the newest come. But the battlefield on my mind and my thinking, I gotta be careful that my thoughts don't become action, action gets birthed. Once action is birthed. I've sinned. I'm back to being a protocol. But how many times you've got to forgive me, God, over and over, and over, and over, and over and over? No one can resist the God of Israel. We're going to take the cup. So shall we do this? How am I going to do this? Why am I going to do this? What's the purpose of doing this? I'm doing this because he says Do this in remembrance of me. For in the same way after supper he took the cup saying, This cup is a new covenant in my blood, do this whenever you drink it and eat it, in remembrance of me. For us, however, Whosoever shall take of this cup in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of sinning against the body and the blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he takes of the cup. Lord, I examine myself. Lord, I understand our wretched man am I I don't deserve salvation. But salvation is a gift. It is by grace you have been saved when not by work so that no one can boast. So Lord, I thank you that you saved me that you set me free. Wash me in the blood of Jesus. In Jesus name, Amen. Father, forgive me for our sin and falling short of your glory. Isn't this glorious? That Christianity isn't about lip service. Religion is all lip service. Christianity is about Christ in me. Christ in I'm in Christ, Christ is in me. Study Christ ology. I pray that as we drop off the socials, as we say, goodbye, we'll see you in a few hours for all those that are going to be in church with us in a few hours. May God bless you and strengthen you. You brothers and sisters are on the other side of the lens on the other side of the world tonight, as you join us and as you link into the church services, I pray that God will continue to bless you how what what a crazy prayer, what crazy thing to say. I pray that God will continue. He's going to do that whether I say Yes, amen or what? Because His ways are just and his blessings are new every morning. His blessings are new every morning. I pray that wherever you are across the world, you will sleep well. Let your sleep be sweet. And may God may God just keep revealing his word to you have a wonderful, wonderful rest this evening. Tonight this morning, whatever the time is. Three minutes past three minutes past one. Sunday is here. The Messiah has left the grave. The stone had been rolled away. No devil in hell could keep him from coming back. Because he says I owe the keys, the death henselae and the gates of hell shall not prevail. Good night and God bless. And I'll see you in church. Tomorrow at 1045 in church today 1045 In a few hours, or I may capture online, same time may God bless you and strengthen you. You are saved. You are redeemed. You are loved. You are a child of the living God. You belong to Jesus. God bless. Thank you for joining us tonight. You can find us on Apple Music, Amazon music, I Heart Radio, Spotify and Buzzsprout and so many oval, so many other social networks. Please share this out, please go and find the podcast we will be really grateful for that. To dig into the podcast and listen to him, to chew them over to meditate over them to bring scripts to them. See what we're what we're all saying in the Word of God. And just to rest in the Word of God. God bless. Have a wonderful few hours sleep and we will catch you soon. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. God bless