God bless you. God bless you, wherever you are. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. If you can hear me loud and clear. Sorry about the noise and the kerfuffle yesterday in church, right God bless you, wherever you are 734 across the earth, here within the UK, wherever you are this evening, as we just share the Word of God just for these moments in time. As we gather around the word of God, I pray that God will strengthen you and bless you. And you will feel his mighty presence in your home in your life and your workspace. You know what he's so glorious about the Kingdom of God. It's not about religion. It's not about all that stuff that we talk about. It's about being a disciple following. Following Christ, we are disciples of Christ that is so refreshing, that is liberating that he's been free, you know, because he lives I can face tomorrow. Isn't it great to know that religion is dead, religion is finished. And we are brothers and sisters in the kingdom of God, that we belong to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And I pray that wherever you join us tonight, and we thank you from the very depths of our heart, for those that that listen to these podcasts are 1000s of downloads people across the world, that listen to everything that we do here and you and as we say, you know, you can almost say it with me now, you can find this on Amazon music, and you can find us on Spotify Buzzsprout on all the platforms, the world of podcasting use, you will find us there. And also on the social networks, we're just trying to get the visuals and sound a little bit, well, not a little bit better. Quality a lot better. Because we know it's live streaming is not too good. But we try and keep the sound on point. So the sound is critical. Not so much the visual, but it's the sound, the sound is critical that we can hear. And I pray that you can hear me tonight very, very well. Wherever you are, whatever your timezone is, whatever your situation is across the world. May God bless you and strengthen you. As we break bread together tonight as we take this cup as we stand on the Word of God as we just remember who we are in Christ Jesus, we are not religious people, we are not churchgoers, we are believers. And when I understand that I am a believer, then I go to the Lord's house, I go to the Lord's house, the Lord's house doesn't belong to the system, the Lord's house doesn't belong to a man, human. It doesn't belong to an organization. It belongs to God, the house of the Lord, then it's clear. But we're going to look at a character just for a few moments, we're going to look at a character that I think that many people can reflect upon and almost draw a parallel and an understanding with and say, You know what, sometimes I have been or I might be like, I could be found in that arena that conversation with this character that we're going to read about to find out if we if we go to the Gospel of John Chapter 20, the Gospel of John Chapter 20. And if we go to verse 24, are we there, verse 24, if we go to verse 24. And we just read very clearly about a character that is very fascinating a character he's very open, a character, I believe, was not used just for the purpose of the Scripture, in the way that he speaks the way that he presents himself. There is a very strong possibility that this character, Thomas, cold, determined, this is a way that he was he questioned everything. And I think what we are seeing here is just his true character. But many, many, many, would always label him as Doubting Thomas, I would if we're going to put a label on him, I would literally say this, this man, this believer is a true believer, because he is saying very clearly to the audience around him unless I see. And we need to be very real. We need to be very authentic, we need to be very open, about our faith about everything that's happening in the world and the climate and in the press of life and say, Lord, I need you today. And being vocal is a very interesting thing, being very vocal, being very sure and what I say, not being frightened of bringing a request to government to departments to business, and not just bow down on rollover to what the system is saying, but no, I have a biblical standpoint here and I'm going to almost challenge the authorities to say this is what the Bible He says, and I expect you to deliver this. So when you look at Doubting Thomas, when you look at Thomas called Didymus, I believe the church is frightened at this moment of actually putting themselves into this bracket, we got to believe we got to believe we got to believe, yes, we believe, I believe. But there comes a point sometimes, in my human side that sometimes I may say, God, if you are there, help me, please go there. There comes a moment in someone's life where almost the flesh overtakes the spiritual you and the spiritual man, I say, God, what is all this world about? Lord this, this is, Lord, are you there. And I really believe that this man was placed into the Gospel of John, for those that are reaching a point for such a time as this and going, You know what, I've hit a point like that today. Last week, I hit a point like that, where I was very vocal, unless I see a clear move of God, I'm going to struggle in this situation. But we're in a in a society and a culture. That is that is very unusual at this moment. And I pray that wherever you are, at this moment, that you will join with me. There may be only one or two, but I'm going to be bold, because sometimes, my faith drops out at the end of these boats, sometimes the faith drops out at the end of my shoes, sometimes, faith just almost disappears to a degree. But then suddenly, within my Spirit, the Holy Spirit, like brings us to this place of saying, You know what, my Redeemer lives and because he lives I can face tomorrow, it's just my flesh, my mind, my cognitive process in my understanding of life, the rationale of life, the, the physics, the process of living, the understanding of life, just the logic sometimes gets a grip of me, and sometimes the logic and the process and of life. And just the general run of life can almost dictate to me when actually my faith deep inside my innermost being, faith is always sitting there, but but it doesn't mind. There's a sometimes there's a disconnect between my heart, the enemy, and my head, my head is controlled by my lips, most of the times, because some of the things I say, are a little bit strange. But out of your heart, out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. So in a time of panic and a ton of fear. And in a time of worry and doubt, our mind our thinking overtakes the adrenaline, you know what it's like when you're in that flight and fight mode, everything just takes over. But faith is a very powerful, a very powerful, I'll use it as instrument, a vehicle, a whatever, however, we look at faith, we can't we can't touch it, we can't box it. But faith is within faith is within. And I say tonight, Lord, I pray that my faith will increase well, we might say to one another, well, how does our faith increase? faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of God. So faith increases faith increases through the word of God. But if you've got a culture and a society, and a religion, and a church, not preaching faith, and what I mean by faith, I'm not talking the word of faith, as in it's taken out of context. And it's one degree of error, one degree of error, by the by the end of the week, by the end of a certain amount of time, one degree suddenly turns into an enormous amount of error. So that's why it's critical for me as a believer, to test everything to drill into the word to really ask God that I would, Father that you would expose the word very clearly that I will say it with my, with my eyes, and through my eyes, as soon as I speak it aloud. Because faith comes from here in faith comes from here, and how do I hear you know, when when we read we, we have this inner voice, the inner the inner voice of us. So it's not always about lip service, it's about reading the word face is a very powerful, either we worked it out, or we put it in, I don't know, we've all got our own different understanding about that. I'm starting to realize that through lockdown, and through my journey with Christ is very, very different from the very beginning of lockdown. And I'm starting to realize that I thought I had answers when actually I haven't got a clue. You know, everything has been revealed, you know, and that's what I love about the Word of God. It is revealed what I thought I know wasn't worth writing on paper. And you know, what I believe so there is something different between what I know and what I knew, to what I believe. So belief is very, very instrumental. And it's very important that my belief system I don't even like use the word system, I believe, Christ when He walked the shorelines of Galilee when he called the disciples, what did he say very clearly to them. On the end of everything that he spoke to them. He made this very clear and he said, Just believe this is where we are this evening. And I want to encourage you tonight, just believe it's great to have you in church. It's great for you to walk into the house and the All. But wherever you are tonight across the earth in the world of podcasting at home, whether you're you're wherever you are tonight, I just want to encourage you. Just remember if there's anything you take from me tonight this the pastor of this church, me is just remember these words, just belief. How do I how do my? Or how do I feed my belief system? faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of God. So no wonder we're in a spiritual crisis in the UK, when church and religion is just talking about a load of mumbo jumbo and, and a load of issues that are not relevant. And they're not speaking about the word, no wonder faith is on a low bounce at the moment. But if I always say this, and this is really important, because I believe God is leading me to this the endtime stuff, if the church would preach the gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, if it will preach creation, and everything we understand about the word, the fundamental points of Christianity, if if the church would take hold of the message of Jesus Christ, and just preach it and stand on it, and preach it, but there's a difference isn't now are you finding that there's a very clear and enormous difference between when the message is preached and we hear the word and not so much by the preacher? Because when I read it, I'm reading it aloud in my innermost being. So as I read the word, the word is edifying me, the word is encouraging me the word is strengthening me, because it is God that is, He is the Living Word and His Word is sharper than a double edged sword. So reading the Word of God is very important for a believer and important for me that I read the Word and when I get to a place or a full stop, or a position in the word, that I'm struggling with it, the Lord will reveal for revelation or knowledge. So as we look at this character, here we are looking at Thomas called Ditmas. We are, he has been labeled for many years as Doubting Thomas. But I think that needs to be removed myself personally. But that's just my personal opinion. And I try to keep my opinions away from everything we do. But I honestly feel my heart my mind, that that that label should be erased off of this this person because he was just being very real. And that's what we lack. That's what we lack. I've got to be honest, we lack the very real authentic believer that would walk in church and go you know what, I've had a bad week this week, I've had a rough hold run this week, you know what my mind is just shot this week. I'm, I'm not where I should be. But by the grace of God, he will get me there because it is by grace, that I've been saved. And God saved me. I did not save myself, I don't have the capabilities and the human strength, and within the human makeup to actually save myself because it is by grace, I've been saved. So I believe that God is stirring the pot of the church stir in our hearts, and drawing us to just believe, but by just believing it throws everything out. It throws everything out of what was in the the old church, the old way that the Jacob place that the traditional place. Christ said to the woman at the world, why are you looking? And why are you trying to draw from this old world when I am the living water? And Christ was sitting at the well we said, I am the living water, I will give you living water. It's no look no good looking down in the Jacob's well, because that's finished. And that's coming to an end. If you want, if you are thirsty, come to me. And I will give you living water. And here we have a character that is very raw. And you can imagine what's gone on in the dialogue and what's gone on in the life and what's happening around Christ being crucified and everything that goes on. So let's read this. Let's let's get into the Scripture. So verse 24, of John chapter 20. says Now Thomas, also known as did immerse one of the 12, I find that really, really important to understand that John, the writer of the Gospel of John, he makes it very clear at the very kick point at the very pressured place of writing this scripture, one of the 12 he makes a very clear distinction, one of the 12 the one that was chosen the one that Christ spoke to one of the 12 and I feel that that's very important to me, because when I have a moment of doubt, when a doubt, when I have a moment of almost not relapse, when I have a moment of almost panic stations. God Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? God, where are you? God, I need you today. Father, I need you help me. Help me get through the trial helped me get through the press of life. Take the tiredness take the fear. Take the worry. Take the doubt Lord, I keep looking at what what's happening in the world and Lord just helped me to understand where we are and where we sit, you know, something very powerful about being real with Christ, because Christ sees through all the lip service crises through all that, and he sees our heart. So why should I hide that? Because he sees that anyway, you know, so it says, Now Thomas, also known, called Didymus, one of the 12 was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see the now marks in his hands, or put my finger where the nouns were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe I love this character. I love him so much. Because this is a real man, a real human being, that is saying who to the other disciples and the church? I am not going to believe unless I see with these eyes, if I do not see him, I will not believe he's not he's not waving a revival flag. He's not jumping up and down and, and saying, Yeah, wow, you seen Christ hallelujah, praise the Lord is saying, Do you know what? If I don't, I ain't gonna believe and that's it. That fact. I love this character. And the more that we look at this, this character on the fabric of this pose that we're on, he says, But he said to them, Unless I see the now marks, I'm going to read it again from verse 25. But unless I see the now marks in his hands and put my finger in the side, where the nouns were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe a week later, Lord, you left them a week later, you left your disciple. A week later, when you got the flag wavers jumping up and down and praising God and we've got a miracle. We send the glory, we send the power, they're singing, and they're speaking in tongues, and they're, they're seeing manifestations of the Holy Spirit. In church. We've all been there and people around us are bouncing up and down. Praise the Lord hallelujah. And I'm sitting there thinking, God, what is what is all this about? Where are you Lord in my life, suddenly, a week later, I love verse 26. A week later, his disciples were in the house again. So all the flag wavers all the praises all the worshipers, they had sin, Christ that walked with him that experience, and they had heard and seen, and Thomas was with them again, in verse 26, of John chapter 20. It says, and Thomas was with them, Though the doors were locked. Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you. And he said to Thomas, Put your finger here, see my hands, reach out your hand, and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe. That is refreshing to my heart tonight, Jesus, the Scripture is refreshing to my innermost being. The Scripture is really speaking to me tonight. Thank you, Jesus. Thank You, Lord, just believe Christ came back. He see the others on the peripheral, he, he said, Peace be with you. He knew the turmoil. He knew the stress. He knew the strain that Thomas was going through in this particular point in this, this walk with Christ, he had seen Christ, he had been with Christ. He was being honest, I don't want to hear any more. I don't want to hear how great that preacher was over there because I didn't get the message. When I sat in that healing service, and everyone was being prayed for, I went out with the same issue that I walked in with. So don't tell me any more, unless I see, I will not believe Jesus comes into Thomas's world. And he walks through the masonry, he walks through the stone wall. And he just appears into Thomas's vision, because he knew how much strain and stress and trouble and worry this man was because everybody else had a slice of the pie of Jesus. And he was left in the center of the church service, when everyone around him was bouncing up and down and praising and worshipping and lifting up in the name of Jesus. And everyone else was getting their miracle and everything else was being fed from the word. And I was sitting in the church service and I'm sitting there thinking, what am I doing here? I can't get this. I can't understand this. Lord, are you really real? Are these people real? Why is everybody else speaking in tongues? Why is everyone else praising the name of Jesus? Why is the preacher preaching this message? Everyone else is hooping and hollering dance and shout and cartwheels backflips. But I'm sitting here, still with pain and anxiety. I've had enough. Thomas walks out they walk out and the scripture says A week later, very interest in it says, a week later. God knows all things. Christ knows all things. The Holy Spirit knows all things. So here we have a very interesting dialogue conversation. We have a very interesting situation here with a believer a week later. Now, if the church was in charge of bringing Christ out when they on all that razzmatazz that goes with that, we will see such a different area of life. But thanks be to God, God, and Christ and the Holy Spirit is not controlled by the church. He is not pulled out of that box, and displayed when religion and we want here he comes. And he walks. And he reveals when the timing is absolutely critical for the individual. A week later, a week later, a full stretch, a full seven, day five, day six, whatever however, we look at that, a full stretch a week later. I find this quite interesting that, but they were still gathered together, doors were locked windows were bolted. Thomas was with them. So he'd gone through this journey, gone through a journey of seven days, six days, five days, whatever way we want to look at that had gone through this journey of maybe one Sunday to another Sunday where everyone was shouting and hollering and praising God, and worshiping on the roof was lifting off. But he was in that congregation. He was in that position. He was very vocal. He said, You know what? You've seen him. I haven't seen him. You're showering about a miracle. You have seen the Messiah. I haven't seen him. He's blessed you. But I feel that he hasn't blessed me. So do you know what church? Do you know what disciples? Do you know what brothers and sisters? Unless I see, he laid down a very interesting line. Unless I see. Unless I see I won't believe. But if you would go to the end of the text, if you would go to the end of the text before we come to the table. What is quite interesting here it says, Jesus told him, because you have seen me you have believed. So here we have Thomas putting everything his faith stretch, his faith strength on his visual. My eyes have to see for me to believe. And Jesus addresses that with him here. And he says, Jesus told him because you have seen me, you have believed it's easy because I showed up for you. But this is what's gonna happen in generation after generation after generation. Thomas, once you leave this earth, this is what's going to happen. Bless it. Bless it. I love when Christ addresses and brings us into the arena of His ministry. Blessed are those who have not seen me and yet have believed, Wow, Lord, that gives fuel for me that gives hope for me tonight. Bless it are those that have not seen me with their physical eyes. I have come back for you, Thomas. I have walked through this wall. I have defied and broken all the laws of logic. I have broken all the laws of mathematics and reasoning. I have broken all the scientific understandings of masonry, concrete, stonework, walls structure, and I have walked through this wall. I have presented myself to you not only do you see me, but as you looked at that wall, for one moment, I wasn't before you and then suddenly I walked and I appeared and Christ came into I came in to this, I stepped through this dimension. I came from my dimension, the spiritual dimension, and I came into a physical dimension. So I've come from the spiritual that is not seen with the physical eyes. And I have come from that place and I presented myself before you again as the man Christ Jesus. Unbelievable text, unbelievable text when we really when we when we get the fabric and we open the envelope of the theological depth of this. I have presented myself to you Thomas, he says it says let's just backtrack. We got cut 12 minutes, he said, Now Thomas also known as did a must, one of the 12 was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples have said to him, we have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see the now marks, put my hands in the finger and aside, I own put my hand on the side, I will not believe. A week later, later, a week later, his disciples were together in a house again, and Thomas was with them. Though doors and windows were locked, Jesus came and stood among them, Peace be with you. It's very, very important for me as a believer that I pick up the text where it says, The doors are locked, the windows were bolted, everything was in lockdown. So Christ did not knock on the door, and go, Alright fellas, let's in Kenya, I'm back to come and see this chap over here. The Scripture is very, very clear. It says that the doors were locked. The windows were bolted. They was in a locked down scenario. They was locked down in a stone box. They was locked down because of fear. So fear was in them fear was around them, even though that they had sin Christ isn't that isn't that nice to know. It says fear of fear of the Jews fear of life, fear of society, fear of culture. It says The Lord says it was all it was in lockdown. They was they was in lockdown. And he says A week later, we were in the house again. and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were were locked, Jesus came and stood among them peace be with you. Why were the doors locked, they was in lockdown. Because they was in fear. They was worried. Everything was in lockdown. They couldn't allow the authorities to see that they was coming and standing and praying and being and worshiping together. They was in the lockdown scenario. So Christ, you know, there there are areas where we may go Genoa, for that I can't get that because we've me with the logic of understanding the understanding and the principles of building and how fabric and how masonry and how this dimension is created, that no one can walk through that wall, no one can step through this wall, no one can suddenly present themselves to us. Unless they have a key to that door. Unless they know the combination, they can't get into this room, because the doors are locked, the windows are not open. So the only way you're gonna get in is either to take the door straight off the hinges, or you're gonna physically come through the wall, but no one can physically and we have never seen this it can't happen. You cannot get from one room to another room, you cannot get from one dimension to another dimension, without physically open a door and going through a doorway. But the scripture here is very clear. doors were locked windows were bolted. They was in a lockdown. But Christ comes back. And it's it's quite clear that when he says Peace be with you what the word peace means obviously, we understand it is the complete opposite to what fear means. So that was a very, very beautiful way that Christ entered into their world. He had physically, spiritually, powerfully walk from one dimension through another dimension, he does not need the door, even though he says I am the Way the Truth and the Life No one comes to the Father except for me, I am the door I am the way I am the truth, I am the life I am the good shepherd, even though we understand that he uses the analogies and he uses the picture form or uses picture, to bring life to store it through agricultural, through fishing, we understand that he brings that because that's was relevant to the culture, the fishing was relevant to them. The agricultural speak was very clear. So he would use and he would bring picture form into speech. So that's very, very interesting the way Christ was speaking, their humanity, their language at that point. So I love the fact that Christ always comes to the human. Christ always comes to the believer. Christ always comes into our space, you know, but the church religion always go to we are going to, we are going to get to him when actually he comes to us. When you look at the Scripture, Christ comes to us Christ is revealed. Christ is with us. He says I'll never leave you nor forsake you. So if he's with us, how? How will he reveal he reveals himself for revelation or knowledge? And you've only got a look on the two on the Emmaus road. They was walking with Jesus. There are many people walking with Jesus at this moment. There's a walk, there is a journey going on in their life. They are walking, they are walking, they're walking, and you are talking you are talking you are talking with people around you. But Christ is so close to you Christ is keeping, let's say, let's say a screen between you and him, because he will He will reveal Himself when the time is critical. That's what happens Christ reveals Himself, Christ revealed Himself to those on the Mayas road, when it was time for him to present himself to them not When the human being the believer wants to see that, because Christ is always in charge of time, Christ created time he created the heavens and the earth and Christ will walk through, and Christ will step through Christ will come into. So when we look at the text that we are in tonight, just for these moments, it's really, really, really important that I understand that here we have the natural dimension of living we have the natural press of life, the setting of, of senses, that the setting before them was of their, their central perception world of smell, touch, the physicality, the understanding, the the understanding of the five basic sentence, sentence senses of a human being, that's what's important. But Christ bypasses all the senses and all the logic, and Christ presents himself into that room that was in lockdown. And I'm just going to bring us to the table and you might be ahead of me and just get yourself ready. Very clearly in the Gospel of John, chapter 20. At the end of that text, Christ says this as we come to the table, then Jesus told him, because you have seen me you have believed, blessed are those who have not seen me and yet believe, who's he referring to those that was after the ascension, after Christ had been under Christ have gone after the Christhood after Christ's or he had left the earth. Blessed are those that just believe. As we come to the table tonight, I pray that, that when we understand that, we are believing, we are believing now we are many generations up from this scripture, we are a long stretch up when Christ presented this to Thomas. And when Christ revealed this to the culture at this time, we are many, many generate we are we are 2000 years up the prophetic line of life. So we are far far up, you know, we are living in very powerful we are living in in times. So this is really important. I really believe this is what the word is saying to us tonight. Blessing are those who believe that have not seen, we have not seen him. But we are living in a world where there are many saying that I'm elevating backwards or forwards to heaven every day. God is revealing, you know, we've I don't want to go down that road tonight. But you know what I'm saying? Bless it are those that believe, not going into church, not beating the drum of religion, not doing all the things that religion tells us. Blessings are those that believe. I believe Jesus, I believe in Genesis, I believe all the way through to Revelation. I believe that you are the Messiah. I believe that as I come to the table tonight, I believe that this bread is symbolic to the body of Christ. I believe in this cup that I'm going to drink from whether it's rhiwbina, whether it's wine, whatever it may be in that, Lord, I believe that this is symbolic to the blood of Jesus. I believe in creation. I believe in the Old Testament, I believe in your word. I believe you saved me, I believe that Christ went to the cross for me. I believe in the birth, the death and the resurrection. I believe in what the Bible tells me I believe, then I speak this very clearly, I believe, but sometimes Lord, I struggle to understand the difference between understanding and belief. Belief is above understanding understanding is quite low. Because understanding is of the natural realm understanding is of what my brain and my mind and what my educational stretch has been through, through school, university college, whatever my skill set is my skill set is irrelevant to my belief system. My vocabulary is irrelevant to my belief system. The where I sit in the world is irrelevant to my belief system. Money is irrelevant to my belief. My upbringing is or is irrelevant to my belief, every everything is is is meaningless to that degree because It is of this natural world, but my belief is about faith. Faith comes by hearing the message. And the message is heard through the word of God. John, chapter one, you've heard me say this 1000 times over the last number of months. In the beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. And the Word was with God. There's this. There's this unbreakable, unshakable, I can't separate, I can't move. I can't pull it apart. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word is God. He was with God. In the beginning, there is this. You can't you can't you can't separate you. Yes, there are theological Scriptures where we see the the individual, the individual, I will use this the individual character, I don't Oh, Ben, what are you talking about? You're not presenting this? Well. I see the deity I see the deity in it's in the full Godhead, the full Christ, the full Holy Spirit, I see that. So there is no there is no separation. Christ makes it clear. I am the Father are one. He says that Philip, in a very clear conversation as they are eyeball to eyeball. Philip says, Show us the Father. The Father is before you. The fight but you can't see. I pray tonight, that, that I when I say all that I take all that we take tonight away from tonight is just believe. Just believe. Then we say what do I believe in? People say you go to church. Wow, what is the church? What do you do? What is church about? Why do you go to church? Why do you believe there's a good possibility that the UK could be up in the 10% of the people bracket where we are very spiritually thin and going along with very being very spiritually thin, is biblically illiterate. You might not be, you may be in the word, whoever you are, you may be right up on the scriptures. But I would say religion and certain denominations are illiterate to the Scripture, how can he say that? Because they are not believing for a start point of what the Word says. So there is no biblical foundation in where they are coming from in certain areas without going down that that road tonight. So I would encourage any one of you if there is anyone left on the earth that is with me tonight, please, Lord, don't left me behind Lord, the retro nap, and does it in the name of Jesus. Just believe, because Jesus said, Blessed are those that have not seen me, but believe. So no wonder I have moments in my life where I might wobble on the journey of Christianity, because I am You are we are over 2000 years up from when Christ was speaking this to the audience who around him. It's all right for you. I am before you and you are still struggling. But wait till 100 200 300 400 1000 years and then another millennium is on top of that. Wait till they are 2000 years up the timeline of life, and they are going on faith. Faith. Let's pray Father in the name of Jesus, I thank you for this bread. That symbolizes the body of Christ. And I believe I believe that this bread symbolizes and sim is symbolic to the body of Christ. So I break this tonight, Lord and I say thank you that I'm able to break bread in the name of Jesus Christ, my Savior, my God and my king, in Jesus name, amen. God is good. God is good. The scriptures are true. The word is true. The word is sharper than a double edged sword. And as we come to to the table. And as we come to the cup together Lord, I Love You, Holy Spirit, I love you, Father, I love you Christ, I love you. I love the Word of God. But Lord, I believe it. So Lord, help my mind and my thinking to process it. But law where my thinking in my mind is a stumbling block. I thank you that my faith is telling me just belief. So tonight, Lord, I just believe in the chaos of life, in the stress of life, in order hard press of life, I believe in the deity I believe in the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, I believe in your word. So tonight, Lord, I believe where it says in the Word of God, as often as you come together, Do this in remembrance of me. I take this cup and Lord, I ask you that you will wash me and cover me in the blood of Christ in Jesus name. Amen. Forgive me of my sins, Forgive me, Lord, of my thinking, Forgive me, lord of the chaos in my head. Law today, my head, my mind is like a washing machine. But Lord, cleanse me from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. And Lord, I thank you that I don't belong to religion. I'm a son of the living God, you might be the daughter, you might be a son of the living God. And I pray tonight, that you will just believe, just believe. So tonight, Lord, I believe that as I take this cup in Jesus name, Amen. We believe what we may ask, I believe, I am redeemed. That will throw the religious pomp and ceremony upside down inside out, they can wear their grass, hula skirts, they can, they can roll up and down, they can dance and dress up in theatrical clothing, they can be very performing. But you know what, God saved me. God chose to save me. And you know what? Religion is busted is broken. It was crushed at the cross of Calvary. It was done but religion wants to regurgitate itself, and presenting itself. That is the face of God. Well, there's no way in this Bible that it can do that. Because it was crushed at Calvary. And if you are a believer, you are a child of the living God. Bone again, wow. Something that we don't talk about much is about you must be born again. You must be born again. That is what is so beautiful about the Word of God. It pushes it crushes religion, and the structure of what we know as church structure, and what it does the cross what it represents and Christ. It gives us access to the Father that is only accessible through Jesus Christ. Everything is possible through him. It's through Jesus. So wherever you are tonight, the Scripture says, just believe. Thomas said, I want believe Christ said to his disciples, just believe and wherever you are tonight as I press the buttons, as I disappear out of air tonight as I puff off in a puff of smoke, I will say this, just believe God bless you. May the hand of God always be upon you. You are chosen, you are blessed. You are rich in Jesus, you are brimming over with the glory. Because, once saved, always saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with the Father filled with the sun, filled with a power nine tid blessed chosen dynamite you are dynamite. You are you are armed and you are dangerous. In the face of religion. You are blessed. You are filled with the Word of God. Because great you greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. So when Christ comes in, he surely comes in and he fills every area of your innermost being. He pushes everything else out. Gone. You are filled to the full measure the full measure of the glory of God. Whether we get it or whether we don't get it, whether we understand it whether we never understand it. You are filled With the power of God's word, have a wonderful evening. It's 20 Pastor eight here in the UK. And I pray that you will Well rest well tonight and you will sleep well. And as the psalmist says, the Scripture says, Let your sleep be sweet. God bless you all, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We'll see you Wednesday 730 for a bit of people start all people study, Bible study. I'm tired my lips are jamming up Bible study or we might want to call it Bible study however we are tonight. May God bless you have a wonderful evening. Thank you, AJ and stay blessed in Jesus name, amen.
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