Reverend Ben Cooper:

Good evening. Welcome wherever you are tonight God bless you, whoever you are, wherever you are, make God's strength for you. Because this is a day that the Lord has made I shall rejoice and be glad May God strengthen you tonight, whatever your timezone is 730 or a 736 here within the UK, we're going to be turning to the book of Romans, Romans chapter eight, verse 37. I don't even know if anyone can hear me at this moment in time. I'm trying something completely different tonight. I pray that God will bless you wherever you are, and you can hear me in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank you so much. We're gonna go into the book of Romans. Romans, chapter eight, verse 37. Romans chapter eight, verse 37, something so simple. And even from verse 35. We may take it from tonight, but wherever you are, we welcome you here tonight. Thank you for joining me. My name is Reverend Benjamin Leonard Cooper. Yes, my mom would always call me Benjamin Leonard when I was in trouble. You're joining me tonight on Apple Music. You're joining me here tonight on Amazon music, I Heart Radio Buzzsprout. And Spotify wherever you are across the globe. They got strep and you're in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And for all those in the water podcast that will capture this a week down the line. Let's turn straight. And let's get straight into this then to the scripture that we are in at this moment. Thank God for your lives and May God strengthen you. And may the hand of God always be upon you. Romans chapter eight. Romans chapter eight, verse 37. Let's start in verse 35, Who shall separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus? May God bless you tonight. Come on. This is such an interesting letter that the New Testament writer writes, this has just been really pressed on my heart the last few moments before we went to live streamed and I really believe that there are many across the platform of church, many across the platform of life, many across the platform of religion that are really struggling with issues and certain things are going on within their relationships, within their home, within their workplace, within their church within the religious connotations that they are in or whatever circle of life wherever you are, and are really worried that there feels and there seems to be a separation between myself and God, nothing can separate you. I just want to encourage you tonight that nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus as the scripture makes it so clear. Let's start in Romans, chapter eight, verse 35. We are coming to the table very, very soon as we just broke bread together as we share of this cup together. So wherever you are, just flick open the Scriptures to see what the Word of God says, Good evening, good evening, and God bless you wherever you are, across this earth this evening Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall travel a hardship persecution, famine, nakedness, or danger of sword or as it is written for your sake, we face death all day long, we are considered to be sheep to be slaughtered. Verse 37, if we could just pause a moment. And just really focus on this wherever you are across this earth. Just focus on the scriptures. Verse 37, no in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us For I am convinced neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons, neither the president nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. This is so simple. This is so easy tonight, I just want to encourage you that there is nothing on the earth within the earth. Within the spiritual layers of life, there is nothing within the spiritual realms that can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus first 35 In the book of Romans, who shall you know, the Roman writer, the as he writes the Epistles he writes this letter, as he writes, so clearly, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ, I just want to encourage you tonight, whoever, wherever, whatever you may be doing at this hour, you may feel unloved, you may feel there's a separation, you may feel that there are things going on in you and around you may feel that there is something very awkward about life at this moment. Maybe you've been in church for many years, maybe you've been in church and religion for a long time. And then there's been there's been a feeling of a separation, God is separating you from one thing and one thing, for sure, and that is religion. We are living in a time when religion is being separated very clearly from the kingdom of God. Yes, I understand that you can't bring the two together. But what I'm talking about bringing them together is in the way that the church has made it and as brought it and as looked at that and as and there's brought it together physically, but there has always been a separation between religion state and the kingdom of God. You cannot join religion stay And the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God is completely separated. But what has happened over the years and through generations, religion and preachers and teachers have tried to bring all this together and try to control and almost dictate to how God should be with us when actually it should be we are, we've got, and there are many in churches, there are many in religious settings, there are many in churches that are almost coming out of what has been their, their place for many years. And they have been been feeling very uncomfortable for years, but God is moving you God is migrating you. God is removing you out, God is removing out of certain settings, God is removing you, from certain places, God is removing you and putting you into new beginnings, and especially in the world and the context of the word that we look at church, God is moving you to a different place. God is removing you from very religious and very hard us places where you haven't been getting the word you haven't been getting the teaching, and you haven't been getting what God has for you not because God is not able to get that to you. But the leaders and the preachers, and certain denominations haven't. And they've been holding God's word back. We are living in a time when we really need what do we need, we need a move of God. And also with the mode of move of God, sorry, we also need the word of God, the Word of God hasn't been delivered from pulpits from areas of teaching, you know it has been watered down not because God is weak, but because man has not delivered the Word of God word that the uncompromising Word of God, we do not compromise. It is not wrong in any way, shape, or form that takes a lot for us to grasp, you know, as a human being is because we are taught and know in the world of the church, and in a in a big percentage of that, that clearly and simply that the priest and the vicar and the preacher and the teacher, are in charge and the denomination are in charge of God when actually, we are living in a time when there is a separation. And I believe this is a very powerful spiritual time. And there are many people feeling very uncomfortable and almost saying, God am I am I actually a child of the living God, it's not because you are not a child of the living God, because what is happening, God is removing you out of denominations. God is removing you out of certain churches, God is removing you from certain layers of church and placing you and even putting you I wouldn't even say into a wilderness, but into a place of unfamiliar territory, where you might not even be thinking about going to church, maybe you've left church in a way that you thought I can't go back there. I can't do this anymore. Because I'm not getting spiritually fed. That's what we are lacking in this nation. We are lacking preachers and teachers that will deliver the Word of God. But now God is turning things around. There is a sharp about time, and God is really breathing across the church, God is really moving powerfully, there is a fresh breath of heaven, God is moving really clearly, you know, and it's so clear, almost, it can be seen to be a bit of a fog of a bit of a situation where we can't seem to see in front of us. That's because there are many of you that are going by faith. God is working with you. God is moving in you. God is for you. God is not against you. Forget the lifestyle choices, because every one of us makes the wrong lifestyle choices. Every one of us as the disciples said yesterday, in the Scripture in the word that was in a way from me God away from me, Jesus, remove yourself away from the law because I am a sinful man, that is okay to recognize that and when you reach a layer, and a level of that, like that sort of lifestyle, speech and the way that you talk and the way you act, God is actually moving so powerfully in your life, and you are starting to realize that there is a move and it feels very, it feels very foreign. It feels strange, as if something the scripture says if there is something strange happening to us, and all most people are where people are being removed out of religion, and out of certain seats in churches that they've sat in. And certain areas of church that you've been familiar with God is extracting God's removing. God is putting you and God is placing you where he wants you to be. I really pray that wherever you are tonight, that you don't seek the church you don't seek the box of the church, that you seek Jesus, what in everything you do everything you say, every area of your life that you seek the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. It's not about coming into the box. It's not about walking into the box. It's not about coming into that yes, I understand what the Scripture says, Do not forsake the coming together for the for the talking together, the beans together the worshiping together, the being close the the closeness of being in the house of the Lord. But then we have to ask ourself, is it really the house of the Lord? What I have been seen on the for so long as that is that really the house of the Lord? That's why I've been really good it to the Scripture tonight that nothing you know, it has been drummed in us. It has been driven into us over years and over certain generations and certain times, and certain denominations drive it into us that if you don't come to church, God is not with you. We know they're not actually saying that out loud. But you can almost hear them saying that in a roundabout way, by their actions and by their attitude towards us, when we come back to church, when we go to church, if we miss church for one week, two weeks, three weeks, whatever it may be, it's not about the missing that a church, it's the leadership are looking to try and fill the auditoriums trying to fill the seats, trying to fear fear, fill up sorry, the theater space because that's what we've become as what we've become, we've become a performance rather than praising you know, there's such a difference, and we are living in very precarious times spiritually. And I pray that you seek Christ, that you look for Christ, that you seek Him with all of your heart, not about getting into the box, not about following the latest preacher or the teacher, but following Jesus, He is my first he is my last he is my Jehovah He is my God, He is my Jehovah Nissi, my Jehovah Shalom and so forth, he is my great I am He is the God that I serve. I am a worship are not of human beings, but I worship the God of Israel, I worship the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But I really believe that there are many people in the context of church, in the platform in the areas of leadership all the way through to congregations that feel that there's a separation between yourself, myself and the father, there is nothing on earth that can separate. But there is a foreign feeling there is an uncertainty in the air, because religion has broken tradition is broken. And we are entering into new beginnings. We are entering into new days, we are entering into different ways of worshipping and different ways of praising because we are entering it into new beginnings. God says that He is doing a new thing and the answer and the question that we have is God when you're doing he says I'm doing it now. There is a new heartbeat. There is a new rhythm. There is a new drive, there is a new press, there is a new call in there is something that we've never felt before God is drawing. And God is drawing you where he's not drawing you into religion. He's drawing you out of religion. He's drawing you out of the box, and he's putting you and he's drawing you closer to him because it's about him. It's not about what denomination and it's not because we're under really not because we're under args not because we're under this. We're under that not because we were under the the Foursquare gospel movement Alliance. It's not because we're in a Pentecostal women. It's not because I go to the Church of England not because I'm a Catholic. It's not got nothing to do with going to a box. The kingdom of God is about following the king. It's about the kingship is about him. He is sovereign, He is God. His ways are just He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords is about following. I am a follower, and I am a worshiper, I follow the King, I follow the God of Israel, and I worship the God of Israel, I worship him and I love God with all my heart. But religion has become a stumbling block religion, and tradition has become a hurdle. And God is breaking all that down. God is breathing very clearly. You can hear the line of Judah breaking down, tearing down, smashing the Otters of bow because that's what religion has done. It has built otters to bow mat worship of man worship to foreign gods worshipped to mythological gods, you know, I'm getting a little bit tongue tied here, but God is with us. God is a jealous God, the God of Israel. The scripture says He is the God of gods very clear. We understand that through the through the word of God. The Scriptures tell us that there are gods that there are foreign gods, but there has been many false idols that have been made. There have been many false gods lifted up, especially within the West. Within the West, the West is building a threat a theatrical performing Church. The West is building a performance through prophetic art through through educators. But now we are living in a time when we are finding that that doesn't work in a crisis. What we need is the God of Israel. So I believe God is drawing you out. And there is not a separation, there has never been a separation between you and the Father. But that has been a very fun feeling. You are on a very unusual journey. You are journey in a way that you've never gone before. Now, God said that to the children of Israel, he said, You've got to trust me, and you've got to walk with me because the journey that I am going to take you on is a very different journey. And he says you have never been this way before. They had circled for years and years and years around in the wasteland. They'd circled and they'd circled and they're circled. And they've gotten nowhere and that's like us in religion or like mean religion. I've circled and I've circled and I've gone round and round, just the round the circle just like the Hadron Collider, trying to find going round at high speed at such a pace just going round and round around and coming up with no answer coming up with no formula coming up with just mathematic coming up with spreadsheets, pie charts, flowcharts coming up with physics and trying to come up with rationale answers to but we cannot rational. We cannot think rationally we cannot think logically because we serve a spiritual father, and he is the King of kings and he is the Lord of lords. And I pray that wherever you are tonight, God will strengthen you and bless you and guide you there is nothing on earth that can separate you from the love of God church, religion will try to feel and make you feel very uncomfortable and try and make you feel I haven't been to church. Oh dear, God doesn't love me when actually no. Before church was invented before church we came in being mature before church was spoken into being which before church come into the word before church was formed. You was before the fabric of the building you was loved unconditionally, before any building came into being Yes, I understand the purpose of church. Yes, I get it. I fully get what it's about. But the westernized church is very different and very looking very strange to certain people eyes at this moment in time, because God is drawing people out of the Western Church. God is drawing people out of the Western thinking pattern. The western church goes through thinking and goes through logic and goes through its own plans rather than going through the plan of God. We are always planning in the westernized church, we are always planning we are always trying to formulate we are always trying to get the next event in place. We are always trying to schedule God when actually the Bible says go by faith. God, we're going to show up tonight, Lord, we're going to we're going to show up in the house of the Lord. And Father, we're going to be still and we're going to resting you we're going to see what happens tonight. Lord, we're going to be quiet. We're not going to roadmap you. We're not going to try and pull you out of box at 730 on a Monday evening. Because it's community and in law. We're going to we're going to seek the Scripture we're going to, we're going to seek you we're going to look for you we're gonna ask you, God, what do you want from us, God, you know, God wants us to be a worshiper. God wants us to be a follower of God wants us to completely surrender our lives to Him. But there is such an unusual feeling at the moment in the atmosphere. God am I saved yes God, am I a child living God? Yes, God, I feel separated, but what I feel separated from is religion. So there is a chasm that has been just been removed. There's a chasm, you know, there's a chasm not between us and God, but between us and religion, US and tradition, US and cultural trends in church. And God wants to let you know tonight I will boldly say through the Scripture of the living King of kings and the Lord of lords. I want to read it again wherever you are tonight, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall trouble hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness or danger of salt? As it is written you for your for your sake, we are facing death all day long. We are considered to be sheep as slaughtered no in all things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us fine convinced. Here we go. Verse 38. You know, this is a very common scripture that God is leading me too over this lockdown period. This is a very interesting place that God is leading me to. And I believe God is leading me to this tonight. And I'm not being big edit, because I am the least of the least of the least of the least I'm the lesser of anyone. And I'm starting to realize our wretched man of mind. And the thoughts I have and the issues I have and my character flaws and a's and the b's and the C's and the DS and the whole alphabet I got going on. In my being in my understanding that God is refining me. God has me on the potter's wheel. God has you on the potter's wheel. And it's not because we are ungodly that we are not children of the living God. It's because we are hungry for him. What happens is, the more that we are hungry for him, the more that we desire, the more that we want our living God, the more that we realize that the flesh is corrupt. Yes, the flesh is corrupted by a wretched man of mine, but by the grace of God and by the praise and the worship, that I lift up to him and by His Holiness and by His mercy, and by sovereignty, he comes down and he presents himself to us. Yes, I understand what the scripture says that there is access there is access when the temple cuts and was torn into but it's not the access that has been taught for many years and for many generations that we have access in a way that we can go to God Ask God for everything, and almost anything and he will give it to us on a plate and say thank you, Ben for asking that. There's a new car, there's a new house, there's this there's a beat. That is not what the access means. It means access to the Father, access, but how do we get access? Jesus says, I am the Way the Truth in life, no one comes to the Father, except through me. So everything is through Christ, everything is through the Messiah, everything is through the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Everything, I cannot get access to God, to the God of Israel, I've got access to other gods. I've got access to every other god, except the God. And the only way I got access through the God, the God of Israel, is through the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the gateway, the doorway, that the access point is closed, unless I go through Jesus Christ, I have to go through Jesus Christ. But when I go through Jesus Christ, I realized that there is a separation, not from the Trinity, not from the deity, not from the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. There is a separation from this natural, this carnal world, this physical world, this dimension that I see there is a separation between me and because there's two means not because I'm a schizophrenic, or not because there is something wrong with me, but because there is the physical me and there is the spiritual me there is the enemy and there is the flesh me there is the outward me, the Bible makes that very clear, a wretched man of my why do I do the things that I hate? And why can't I do the things that I should? The enemy, the enemy, the spiritual me, is hungry for God, but the flesh me, it's just looking out across the world and what the world is offering the body wants, the body is hungry for that, you know, every you know, everyone, the Scripture says, each man is drawn away by his own lust. The church doesn't talk about the lust, the cravings of the flesh, the what the flesh wants, what the flesh desires, because it doesn't know how to talk about it, because it tries to smooth everything over by saying God's love. Well, how do I deal with these feelings I have, how do I deal with these idiosyncrasies that I carry? How do I deal with these character flaws? I can't deal with the idiosyncrasies I can't deal with the character flaws. I can't deal with the cravings. But how do I do? What do I do is I seek ye first the kingdom of God. But when I seek Him, when I trust them, when I lean into Jesus, I find that there is a separation, not between me and him, but clearly between me and religion, because religion can't help me and can't deal with me, religion will condemn me religion will put a whip on me. But Christ will wrap me in in his love and bring me closer to the Father. Because the Scripture says something so, so clear, Jesus says, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life No one comes to the Father except through me. But there are many believers across the platform of life, that are feeling a separation, not the separation from the love of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, but a separation from the church from the denomination that they grew up in, in the context of church in the religious setting, because God is drawing we are living in the last days we are living in very powerful days, we are living in very spiritual times, but the UK is very thin spiritually, as I've said before, not because God has left us because He says I'll never leave you nor forsake you. But the church religion and a big percentage of that has come away from the teachings of Jesus Christ. It has got its own gospel, got it going on, it has got its own gods going on, there is paganism there is witchcraft. You've only got to look in the book of Acts Simon the sorcerer, Simon, the Sorcerer is a very interesting character, the audience around Simon the sorcerer, in within certain ministries within certain areas of church, we're in certain areas of religion and whatever skin and label on the tin we want to put on that. We have. We have magicians who might laugh, we have sorcerers, we have magic, we have black magic, we have white magic, we have many layers. Now people may say it's signs and wonders. But where are the signs and the wonders coming from? Are they coming from God? Are they coming from sorceress, a sorcerer in the New Testament and if you go into the Old Testament, that the God that we serve the God of Israel says do not get caught in divination. Do not get caught in spiritual activity outside the kingdom of God. Do not worship foreign gods do not get caught in sorcery do not create Ashleigh poles do not create false idols and false otters. I think we've hit a point within the UK because that's where we are at this moment. And God bless everybody on the outside of the threat on the fringe of the UK tonight. You'll have to forgive me my lips are tight. What what we are experience in the UK is a washing machine cycle of a spin. It's spinning so fast. It's almost at what I would say is out of controlled areas. You could there isn't even organized chaos, there is so much going on, through the world of business through the world of what we see what we have as managers. We are living in a nation that on every layer of life, there are managers, managing managers. And when you are a manager, an earthly manager, a worldly manager, you cannot manage spiritual times with physical management, the only way and what this actually drops off, you can't manage God you can't manage the Bible, what what has to happen, the management style of, of life of church and religion has to be laid at the foot of Christ, there comes a point when, when leaders in the context of church have to lay everything down at the footstool of Christ, even my myself now like number four, same Father, I cannot navigate the way forward for this church, I cannot navigate the way forward for myself, I cannot find the way forward in this crazy spin of the UK. It is Lord, it is out of control. There is a storm, there is all things happening under the sun upon us. We cannot navigate our way thought forward, we cannot manage our way forward. It's time that the managers lay everything down. It's now we are entering in a time of faith, The just shall go by faith. I cannot manage my way forward. I managed my life. I managed the work diary, I managed certain things in my life, but I cannot marriage, my spiritual walk, my spiritual walk is given to me. So how do I know what is the next step of God for me, I cannot manage it, I cannot articulate it. I cannot anticipate it. I've got to go by faith. But by going by faith, it almost feels that there is a separation. It's not a separation. I believe that there are many tonight that are starting to walk by faith. And it feels very foreign. It feels very delicate. And it almost feels like there is a separation. That's why I'm reading Romans chapter right out, nothing can separate you. You are walking the right path God has you and God is calling you. And God is saying jump out of the boat of religion, jump out of the boat of tradition, jump out of the boat, come on, walk on water. But when you walk afresh, do not take your eyes off of Jesus. Because when you look at the storm, when you look to the left and the right is not there is a separation, because nothing can separate us from the love of God. But what it is, is that we suddenly realize that we are not in control of our destiny. A man does not like the fact that it cannot dictate to God because God is not interested in me dictating to him. A god is very interested in me walking by faith without faith. It is impossible to please God. Without faith, it is impossible. It doesn't please God, I've got to go by faith. Even though I might be struggling in my faith. I've got a walk by faith. Lip service is different to going by faith. We can all speak the Christian lifestyle, we can all speak and we can all sound good. But living it walk in it is completely different. To speak in it such a difference. But now I must encourage you wherever you are. You are not separated from God. You are separated from religion, and you are separated from tradition. And God is also removing you from certain ministries that you've been kin to for a long time. Now the ministries that we've been kin to that we've been partnering with, are they really ministers of God? Are Are they being controlled by sorceress? Magicians are godly leaders? That is the question. I believe God is asking us tonight. Are there sorcerers? Are there magicians? Is there paganistic activity going on? Is there devil worship? Is there satanic activity. We shout about signs and wonders but Simon the sorcerer was doing signs on wonders because the scripture says in the book of Acts, something's very clear. The audience around Simon the sorcerer, see that he had godly there was things happening. But he but was it from God. There is such a fine line and when the to decide folks come into town, and Simon, the sorcerer see something very clear. He said, Give me that gift, I want to buy that gift. And the disciples said to him, may your money perish with you. If now I have to be very careful how I say this. I understand that it takes money to run the house. One of my biggest stresses to be honest with you, is the finances with the in the purse of the church, I understand how hard and how difficult it is to run and to move. Now you might be saying, you've got to go by faith. Yes, I do go by faith, we do go by faith. But what we got to look at? Is money, the controlling is money, the drive, or is Christ, what we are going for. My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches and glory. There's such as a fine line, we are always we are always saying God, please, we need that supply. Lord, will You supply Lord, will you help us pay for the electric? Lord, will you put this in our path? God, we got to do this, we got bills to meet that that is always going to be a continuum. Because that God will always supply and you will find them very godly ministries. When when when godly people set up orphanage, they would set these orphanages up, they would sit at the table and they say God is going to supply the food. We have nothing in the cupboard, the door will be not. And they would open the door and there'll be Mills supplied for them. So there is there is a very closer is a very thin line by going by faith God. We got to pay the bills. God, we got to pay this little we got to make sure this is here. That's there. Yes, yes, that always has to happen. But there are a lot of ministries that are going on signs and wonders and signs on one that wonders are very attractive to the human being because they are supernatural, but with the supernatural element with the supernatural focus, are they from God? Are they from the other side of the cross? And I just got into there's so much to speak about there's so much to bring into this to the arena of conversation tonight. And I've got to emphasize and I gotta say again, nothing can separate you from the love of God. Nothing can separate me from the love of God. But there is a separation. And I'll repeat myself. There is a separation God is God is drawing many out of certain ministries. God is drawing many out of certain because you've been kin and you've been partnering with certain ministries, but are they godly? That is the question I can't answer only you can answer. Are the ministers godly? And what I mean by that it is it Christ centered. Is it Christ centered? Now, the question is, is is the leader living by the word, no one can actually live completely by the word. So all of us have failings. I have tremendous amount of failings in my life. But I know my failings and I'm presenting my failings to Christ. And I'm asking God, Please, Lord, help me in my failings helped me in my flesh, helped me in my wisdom helped me Lord, in my walk with you helped me as I, Lord, I need you in my life. I need you in every area, Lord, I need you. But the more we cry, and Lord, I need you, the more the Holy Spirit highlights our flesh, not by bringing condemnation because Romans chapter eight verse one says, There is now no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus. So God never condemns. But what happens? It brings repentance. It brings a highlights it's a sin, not because God is condemning but because through the power of the Holy Spirit, and through the power of God's mercy and God's sovereignty and his love. It brings an understanding to our spiritual loss that as we walk with Christ, as we walk closer with Christ, there becomes around me a highlighter in my life, that the areas that I can't walk in anymore, A, B, C, and D, I've got a walk for Jesus. It's not because God is contaminate us because the scripture says in Romans eight chapter one, there is now no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus, because the law is always on was always condemning. Religion is always condemning religion has always given us hurdles. Religion has always given us Barrow barriers. But in the kingdom of God, there is freedom, who the sun sets free, is free indeed, but there are many in the world, in the word in in the language of Christianity, that feel that they are being condemned. You are not being condemned through Christ, you are not being condemned. I'm not being condemned through the devotee for the Trinity. What we are finding is religion is always condemning religion is always trying to, it makes us feel quite gritty religion makes us feel uncomfortable. The kingdom of God is peace, the kingdom of God, His hope, the Kings domain so if I'm in the kingdom, the King's domain, I am in in the Word of God, if I'm in the Word of God, I've got hope. If I've got hope I've got future, if I've got future, I've got destiny, I got power, I've got anointing not for me to become a little God. But for me to realize that I am a worshiper, I worship the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Whoever you are, wherever you are, we are coming to the table tonight. And I pray that God will strengthen you and guide you. But I want to read this again, I just want to read this again tonight. And if you give me a moment, just to put these older these glasses on, first 35 of Romans chapter eight, it is a very familiar text that we've been in. And I haven't spent a lot of time in this text tonight, because communion night is just a maybe just a bit of a chat in time, just a bit of a time when I can just speak without going too deep because it's about the table. But I want you to know, I really want you to know that nothing can separate you from the love of God. There is nothing on planet Earth. There is no one on planet Earth, nothing can separate you. You are saved, you are sanctified, you are justified. You are a son, and you are a daughter of the living God and God loves you. God loves you. Don't worry about what the pastors are saying. Don't worry about what the leaders are saying, Don't worry what the priests are trying to get you to do. Don't worry about what the bishops are trying to say. Don't worry about what the law is trying to say. Don't worry about what religion is saying. I want to let you know that Jesus, Jesus loves you. God loves you, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. They put the redemption plan in place, not the church, not the religious organization, but Jesus, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and you belong to the Father, you belong to the God of Israel, you belong to the Jehovah Jireh you belong to Jehovah Nissi you belong to the God that created the heavens and earth. And this is what is saying about you tonight. Romans chapter eight, verse 35, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship persecution, famine nakedness, danger or SOT verse 37. No, in all things we are more than conquerors no in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us For I am convinced Paul writes, For I am convinced, neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, not anything else, in all creation will be able to separate us. That's you, and that's me. Nothing can separate races separate, nothing is able to separate us from the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. You are saved, you are loved, you are justified, you are sanctified. God is with you. God is in your house. God is in your home. God is in your workspace God is in your being. God created your DNA, God is your king, and he is your Savior, He is your Redeemer, he is your yes and Amen is your bright morning star God is with you and no human being on planet Earth can separate you know demonic force can separate you know controller can separate you know government can separate you know teacher can separate you know, system can separate you know, religious order can separate you. Nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. But if there is a separation that you are feeling, it is a separation from religion, because God is separating you from religion. God is separating you from tradition, and God is breaking you out and bringing you out. God is leading you out. God is guiding you out of the system of life. And God is leading you God is leading you to new pastures. God is your shepherd. He is your winemaker. He is your provider. He is your yes and amen. God is your everything. He created your DNA, every blood vessel in your being every bone structure that you have. He created you. He loves you and He will not forsake you. He is with you in your business deals. He is with you in the staff room he is with you at home. He is with you when you are frustrated he is with you when when we are just annoyed and angry he is with you when you are not thinking right he's with me when I'm not thinking right when I'm not acting right when I'm not walking right. He's with me. He's with you. He's with me. Nothing can separate us nothing on this earth and you know what? Whatever you see physical I cannot separate you, whatever you can't see, with your natural eyes and that that exists in that world that we can't see, no demonic force can separate, you know, sons of Gods can't separate, you know, angelic activity can separate you. Nothing can separate you from God, the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus, do you realize you are in Jesus Christ? Do you realize that you're not in religion that you are in Jesus Christ? Do you realize that God saved you d? And I'm saying, Do you realize, because I want to encourage you what ever the situation you are in tonight, God is with you. We're going to break bread together tonight. And I pray that God will be with your family. You know what, why am I even bothering saying that? Ben? I don't know why, Ben, Ben, you're talking to yourself, you're Krakens? Why am I bothering saying that when I say God is with you. God is already with you before my lips move. God has already ordained you. God has already created you. God is with you. God doesn't need me God, I'm just an instrument just for a few few years on the free school years and 10 Whatever that may be. God is with you. And nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, you are in Jesus, not because you decided to choose him. But because he decided to save you. He decided through redemption, he decided for each salvation, he decided because He is God. And that is it. Let the Hadron Collider clap and dance and do what it's going to do. But they won't find the answer they're looking for. Because you can't find a spiritual God in a physical way. Without going into physics without going, you can't explain a supernatural God with human lips. You can't create a spiritual God, the God of Israel, through through quantum physics, through through logic, through mathematics through test tubes, you can't create this supernatural God, it's the other way round, God create ated us. God has given us the ability. What science used to do, was back up the Scripture. What science used to do was tell us that there is an existence of a supernatural God. But what science has done over the years, it has tried to turn itself up higher than God and tell us that God doesn't exist when science was created for humans to understand that through science, that through study of science through the study of nature through the study of science and the great power of science, what the scripture says science, just encourages just cements is science is the foundation for anyone to understand that. Yes, that is right. What the Bible tells me science has just said, Yes, God is with you. We don't need to worry about what what the world may be saying, Go by faith go by faith, let's come to the table. May God bless you and strengthen you. We're just got a few moments left. But Romans chapter eight, you are not separated from the love of God. You are separated from religion and culture and tradition. Do you feel that you don't fit any more? Do you feel that you don't fit? It's not because you don't fit you wasn't created to fit in man system. You was created for God's will, His pleasure and His purpose, His pleasure and His will and His purpose is not the same as what the physical world wants you to be. God has you. God created you and God is for you. And you had access. You have access purely because you are in Jesus. And the access you have is Jesus says I am the Way, the Truth and the Life No one comes to the Father except through me. So you've got access to the Father, because you are in Jesus. May God bless you and strengthen you. As we come to the table tonight Father in the name of Jesus, thank You, Lord that don't fit. I don't fit in a world and I wasn't created to fit in the world. I was created for the Kings domain. I was created for the Father's will. My brothers, my sisters, anyone on the line tonight Lord, I thank you that you created them. Not to fit in the puzzle of the world but to fit in the kingdom of God. And they was created for you and by you. They was created for your will and your good pleasure and your purpose. But Lord, the theatrical church has been performing to us, Lord, and Lord, the performance has run out. Now we need the Redeemer. Sir, Come Holy Spirit, bring us to a place of worship in the God of Israel. But tonight Lord, we recognize this is bread in itself. And Father, we understand that this is symbolic. And as we take this tonight we thank you that your body was broken for us. And dear God in heaven, I thank you for salvation. Thank you for saving a wretch like me, a renegade like me, that I have a hope. There is a plan. There is eternity is ahead of us because of salvation. And all those Lord that are scratching their head, trying to work it out, we can work it out. Help us to relax in our faith in our walk with you. In Jesus name, amen. Bless this bread in the glorious Lamb of Jesus Christ, amen. The God in heaven as we stand as we rest as we be still, as we take this cup tonight, Father, we thank you for the cleansing. The cleansing power of the blood of Jesus cleanses us from the crown of our head to the soles of our feet. In our most outermost Father, we thank You, Lord, as we take this cup. Now, Lord, I pray that those might go to one Corinthians. As we turn farther into chapter 11 Fathers, we see the scripture from verse 23 onwards, Father, I thank You, Lord, I'm not doing this in haste, Lord, I examine myself and I say, Lord, I thank you that as I examine myself, Lord, I see areas of my life that can only be changed by the supernatural God of Israel, changed me melt me, shaped me, molded me into the person you created me to be, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ washed me from the crown of my head, to the soles of my feet, in Jesus name, Amen. May God bless you tonight, wherever you are across the earth. May the fire of God, sit on your heart tonight, sit upon you tonight. And I pray that the love of God will just wrap around you that the power of the Holy Spirit will just give you the comfort that you need. That God will just refresh you that you will find the refreshing breeze of heaven there you will find that you are refreshed and you haven't been and you are not separated from God. But there's a new drumbeat there's a new rhythm. There's a new rhythm there's there's a new call in it. There's a there's a new there's a drawing that you've never felt before. There's a drawing. Not a drawing away from Christ but a drawing into Christ. A drawing into the Father's arms are drawn into the word a drawing into the kingdom. But there's a drawing out as a drawn out as well. You're being drawn out of religion, you're being drawn out of culture, you're being drawn out of certain lifestyle choices, you're being drawn out. And I'm referring to me as well I know I've remained I've mentioned you, you you. But that you is me because I'm on the other side of the lens tonight. I'm with you tonight and I work with you. And I stand with you and I cry with you. I laugh with you, I pray with you. We're all together We're all sons and daughters of the living God and, and God is drawing you tonight God is drawing me to walk very differently. And that how what walk is that walk by faith, but to walk by faith. I'm not going by sight. Because my sight is of this dimension. My sight is of this natural realm that my sight is of this material world. Everything I do is by material sight by vision by sight by focus, by what I see what I hear by perception of what is here what is now what is in my vision what is in my focus, but but the Bible is saying, Come on, walk by faith. Come on, walk by faith. Come on, walk with me. Come on, trust me. Come on. Come on, come on, lean into me. Come and come and live your life come and trust me, give me your life. But God already has our life. But he wants our heart. But your talk you talk about passive and you talk about predestination, salvation, salvation is predestined. But now I have the choice to walk by faith or to walk by sight. Now I have the choice to walk by the word or walk by the world. Now I have the choice to walk by the power of God or walk by the power of what the world is offering. Now I have a choice because I'm, I'm saved. I pray tonight that me you whoever we are. We walk by faith. We walk by the word All of us, all of us, all of us on Earth. We might be making still strange decisions, wrong decisions. But God sees the strange and the wrong decisions. So whatever the decisions and the press of life that we're on, I pray that we will just lean into Jesus. So wherever you are tonight, have a wonderful evening, may God bless you and strengthen you. We've been I've been pressing this drum skin for like 15 minutes and 30 seconds. Have a wonderful rest of the evening. And may God bless you, in the powerful name of Jesus Christ. Never give up. Never give up wherever you are tonight. Never give up. I'm gonna finish this coffee. Take your time. We'll press the buttons in a few moments. God is with you. He's not leaving you and he has not forsaken you. He is with you to the very end of this age. But you have access to the Father because Jesus Christ went to the cross of calvery God bless. We'll catch you soon. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen.