Yeah, God bless you. Thank you so much for joining us, wherever you are across the earth that is about 735 here within the UK and everybody in the world of podcasts and joins us, and shares everything that goes out. Thank you so much. You can find us on Alexa, you can find us on Amazon music, buzzsprout, Spotify, or many other multiple social network platforms that you can find us. Let's gather around the word of God for these 45 minutes, you know, about 3545 minutes, let's just see how far we press into the Word of God tonight, but let's just gather and be still on whatever your day has been like whoever you are across the earth. And for those that join us in Australia and New Zealand, we thank you so much for sharing all this this Bible studies, the coffee and prayer, the podcast and everything watching everything online. We thank you so much from the very bottom of our heart. But let's turn to the Book of Exodus chapter 12. Exodus chapter 12, I believe you can hear me okay. And thank you so much for putting so many nice comments up. I think I see a text went up on the timeline and so many going up there. I think it was Billy said loves the music. Well, thank you, Billy, in the name of Jesus, may God bless you and your house. And everybody else I can capture all these names that are coming through. But let's turn to Exodus chapter 12. And it's about the Passover. I love the word Passover. Because the church and religion has switched that around. And you know what they swapped it for over the last few years basically well for for a mass number of years they swapped and they've changed the word Passover for basically for the word Easter, because that's what we are looking at at this moment in time. The past, you know, that's what Christ was celebrating when Christ in the New Testament very, very clearly. He did not mention the word Easter, he did not talk about chocolate. He did not talk about the Easter Bunny. He did not talk about hot cross buns. He did not talk about the Easter bank holiday. He spoke very clearly about the Passover. Well, what is the Passover, the passing over of the angel of destruction? Who could that be? Could it be Lucifer? Who knows? It probably would be in certain areas of the church, but actually the angel that passed over and should we say it is God himself? Because he actually says I will pass over. So when we study and you look at the word Easter, especially this year for myself, what I've done is I've I'm asking God that He will erase the word Easter because the word Easter is a reflection on what the world is doing. And not what aren't not what the Bible is doing. Sorry, lefty, forgive me a bit tongue tied this evening. So I need to be very careful. We've done a few few studies recently, Steve and myself. And Steve takes a little bit deeper into the world of biblical language. But there is a stir in in my spirit very, very clear that I need to be very careful of my biblical language, and the way that I present things and where I sit in the world of the church, because if I keep using the word Easter, the word Easter has connotations that comes from the world, the world recognize the word Easter, it comes out of that fabric out of that layer, what we know of Easter, but actually when when we look at it as believers, the correct terminology is the Passover. Christ as I was a bit flippant, early on Christ, talking about our cross bands, we probably would have done at some point. But when you look at when you look at the Scripture, it really talks about the Passover, the passing over the passing over, and what is critical, really for us as believers at this moment in time, and I believe more than any time in all creation at this moment, is to understand the power of the blood of Christ and what goes along with the blood of Christ. Obviously, what happened at the cross of Calvary, the cross of Calvary is so so so important. Not that I lift up the cross as as a symbol and I elevate that higher than Christ. But when I look at the cross, it reminds me, from Genesis to Revelation, it reminds me that Christ went to the cross. It reminds me what happened at the cross. So my vocabulary has to change. Because the world is taking words and bringing words and using words and the church is actually using using them words and bringing them words into the church when actually they don't. They do not line up with what the kingdom of God says. So it's really important that I understand. Yes, we understand and we've spoken 1000 times in our lifetime about the word Easter. Easter is coming. Easter is approaching. The church is celebrating Easter, Easter, Easter, Easter, the shops, Easter signs up, we never see a sign. Within the mainstream supermarkets are the cross of Calvary we normally see chocolate eggs and Hot Cross Buns. So really, why would the church want to go and use the word A star and bring a secular word into the world of church when really the biblical language needs to change. And so what we are doing, we are celebrating the festival, the pass over the passing over of God, and where he struck the first bomb down. Whether the human or the animal is the Scripture says, without going too deep into that, in this moment, the blood will be assigned. So what is the blood, the blood is connected, the blood is connected to the word Passover, because that's what's out the passing over. And as we read this in a moment, if you look in Exodus, chapter 12, if you jump ahead of me, Exodus, chapter 12, verse 12, and we will read it through to the end of verse 13. It's about the Passover, the Passover. So I'm going to change my my language, as in my Biblical understanding only because the word some words that I use, are more secular, to try and illustrate and try and portray a Christian festival when actually the word festival, you know, someone says the word festival, what they think about is people jumping up and down, blowing whistles, waving flags, and, and going to a festival in the summer, when actually you look at the word festival in the Bible, and the word festival, we see very, very clearly spring into life, when Moses talks to Pharaoh and Pharaoh and Moses are having a conversation and and Moses says, We want to go into the wilderness for three days, and celebrate and have a festival, and to celebrate to get ourselves ready. So the word festival, you know, in the word a study, we gotta be be really careful how we look at these terminologies and really understand what they mean. And to peel back the fabric of the terminology, and see what it says in the Greek and in the Hebrew, and chase it all the way down down the biblical line. So I'll get a clearer understanding. So without any further ado, let's read you probably read because I told you to read ahead ahead of myself, but and I hope you have had a quick little glimmer thrown your eyeballs over over the page a moment. So let's go Exodus chapter 12. Just want to keep it really simple tonight. And I'm going to go into the book of Colossians. So we got we are going to read something really, really, really clear, really clear. It's about the blood. So we're reading about the blood in the Old Testament, and then we will we will be taken further forward to a few 1000 years ahead into the book of Colossians chapter two. And we will find where it talks about the blood very, very clearly there. So the blood is irrelevant, we find that the scripture says there is life in the blood. So blood is really, really important. So when I look at sacrifice in the Old Testament, everything was done through animal sacrifice, through the blood of bulls and goats, heifer, and everything like that. But what we what we really need to look at here is about the blood of Jesus, and it is the past over. I know we're quite a number of months from Easter. We've even got Christmas not even upon us yet. But But this word Passover is really sitting in my spirit. So I asked that you might be forgive me for mentioning the word, Passover and Easter in a roundabout way, because many people live their lives by the calendar. Another really interesting thing. When we look at the Western calendar, it's very different to the calendar, Israel, and what's used out there, you know, and you look at how they use the calendar, and how they use the feasts. And without going down there and maybe we could look at that another time. So so the word Passover needs to be in my, in my vocabulary, the word Passover, because when I use the word Easter, there is a reflection of what the world is doing and not what the Bible is telling me about. So the word Passover, will bring me all the way back through through the genealogy and through through the text bring me right the way back to where will it bring me to it will bring me to the book of Exodus. So Exodus is a very critical place for me to start, because this is where we see and I'll use this very lightly, redemption, redemption through the blood, I will save you, you will be saved, I will pass over, I will bring you into a place of forgiveness, I will bring you into a place because the blood is a sign. So what God is doing here, and he talks about destruction, he talks about a plague. And there's so much going on in this tech that we are looking at and just it just in the two verses Exodus chapter 12, verse 12, and 13. It says, On the same night, I will pass through Egypt and I will strike down every foot firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the law Oh, the blood will be a sign for you on your houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over, you know, destructive plague will touch you. When I when I strike Egypt, there's a few words in there that are really striking to me tonight, there are a few words that are really penetrating my skin, and beyond my skin, they're penetrating the fabric of my heart. They're really penetrating the innermost part of my life. So as I look at they says, On the same night, I will pass through. So we are looking at the word past. And so past is a very critical word. For me as a believer and Christ, What did Christ do? In the upper room on Straight Street? What did he do? What did he say? And what was they celebrating? What was they being reminded of? Do we find a word Easter? No, we don't find that in the Gospel, you won't find that what you will find is the word Passover. Let's go and celebrate the past over really powerful text when we think about this, because what Christ was doing, he was celebrating, he was remembering what now I will say, he said, I will say he said, Because it says Christ is the image of the invisible God. But But But I understand what the theologians and the Bible scholars will say, when they hear me say this, but it's just, I think it gives us a bit more of a punch sometimes to recognize that Christ, Christ is the image of the invisible God. So when we see Christ in the New Testament, yes, he is the man Christ Jesus, in His full deity and his full strength as Christ the man Christ Jesus, as the scripture says, but also, when when I go a little bit further, and I asked God, Lord, we'll let my mind go a little bit further. And Lord, can I use the can I use this in a way to say, when I when I look at this scripture, in the New Testament, I, I see God I see Christ, I see the deity, celebrating something that he ordained that he put together through the power of His Word. And here we have Christ, the image of the invisible God in the New Testament, celebrating a festival, getting ready for taking the cup, taking the bread. And remember what he says in doing this in remembrance of me. So when he breaks bread, and he takes a cut, and then when they have this time in the upper room, this is this is literally mind blowing to me, that the Christ, Christ, the Messiah, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords is sitting in the upper room with his disciples and He is breaking bread, and he is taken on a cup already for knowing what he is going to do. Because he, he said, he has said in the Scripture, not my will, but Thy will be done. So it's all about the will of the Father but the will of the Father, the will of the Father was to have blood shed, where was blood gonna be shed, we understand through the Old Testament, that bulls and goats and heifer could not, could not be enough to sacrifice, even though it was going on day in day out, there had to be the lamb, the Lamb without blemish, do you know the Word of God, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. So when we look at this scripture that we are in, this is really, really interesting, as you go a little bit deeper, and as you just study a little bit more, and as we have a little look, it says, On the same night, I will pass through and strike down the firstborn, people and animals, and I will bring judgment on the gods. I love the fact that God has said this, I will bring, I will bring judgment on the gods. So God is dealing with the gods, the lesser gods. God is dealing with the lesser gods of this world, the gods that we may be familiar with. The gods are the Old Testament, and even the gods coming up further. And the scripture that we are in I've just captured that, that that message come on line, we are in Exodus, chapter 12, verse 12, and verse 13. It is about the blood of the Lamb. It is about the sacrificial lamb. And we understand what John says in the New Testament. He says, Behold the Lamb of God before him and he knew that that was Christ. So when John was speaking that John the Baptizer, and it's important that I understand that he was John the Baptizer, and not John the Baptist. Be and when I refer to Baptist I'm people can get a little bit confused as, as the movement the Baptist movement got to remember that there was no evangelical there was no movements. There was no church at this particular point. So we need to erase all that away. So actually, his title was John the Baptist and He was the baptizer he he baptized and he wasn't the Baptist. As we know the Baptist movement, he was John the Baptizer. So, this this is a really interesting scripture, because in Exodus chapter 12, verse 12, through to 13, it talks about the blood of of the land, it makes a very clear understanding, it makes a very clear picture of what is to happen. And we can say this is a foreigner about the the blood will be a sign, and that is critical for us today, because the blood over our lives is a sign, what is the sign? And what does the blood say to the world? And to anybody that asks us the question, it says that we are washed in the blood of Christ, that were shared at the cross of Calvary, the Lamb of God, one sacrifice once, and once furl. Now, I'm just going to read this scripture back again, I just want to read back over this, because I believe in Revelation or knowledge, as the scripture says, I believe the more we read it, the more God reveals it, the more we're almost hungry for it. The more God feeds us, the you know, Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, what word comes out of the mouth of God, every word that you have in front of you, is the word of God. So this word that we have in front of us, whether the Bible is battered, torn bits and pieces missing off it, whatever, however, it looks to the human eye. It is the word of God and the Word of God is critical. For such a time as this, we are in an amazing season. We are in an amazing prophetic window at this moment, the spiritual atmosphere is high and is very strong. And I pray that wherever you are at this moment that God will reveal Himself to you, through the old and through the new because when you see, we see Christ, from Genesis all the way through God is revealing. God reveals God works through the old and he works through the new that you see the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, you see the deity from the old to the new, there is no separation, we can find references that cross the old to the new, the new to the old, and that is what is so beautiful, about a cross of Calvary. When we look at the cross. And just to my right, we have the empty cross. And as we look at that cross, as we focus on that cross, we see redemption we see hope we see power, we see authority, we we see where Christ was now to, and we understand it was not the power of the nows. It wasn't the power of of the soldiers that held him to the cross. It was the love, it was the Scripture. It was God's Will it was the will of the Father that kept him on the cross of Calvary. As I've said 1000 times you could have extracted those now lives off of the cross of Calvary and Christ I really believe this my heart would have stayed on that cross, because love nowt into the cross, you know, he was now to the cross of Calvary For God so loved the world. So when you look at that, then now is represent love to me, they represent so much then now's they are a very iconic, they are a very powerful image when you see three nouns in the formation with a hammer, and also the crown of thorns when you really see that at the Passover time when we celebrate Passover, in the world of the church, there is something very powerful about those three nouns. And I've always said it and I will continue to say one now was for my historical sin. The second now is always for my my present day and the way that I'm living in bad lifestyle choices. That second now is this one. And the third now is that is the sin that I haven't even committed yet. punched into Christ, three nails, three nails, three nails of hope, three nails of love, three nails of redemption, you know, we could you know, I say say certain things in certain ways. Just trying to get things over easier and clearer. I know that we could go a little bit deeper with some real heavy theological language and you know what we can get tired and fed up with with deep elongated words and pronunciations and all that sort of stuff. All I want to know right now at this moment in time is that Jesus loves me, I am saved the cross the scriptures has been fulfilled because of the cross of Calvary. And we just want to keep keep it very simple, because religion has made it very awkward and very difficult one to stand sometimes. And I pray right now that God will keep revealing the Old Testament and the New Testament through the power of the Holy Spirit. We understand that the scripture says that the Spirit of the Living God is our comforter is our advocate. Christ says I will not leave you as an orphan. I will send I will send I will give I will I will send to you. So we have been saying The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, we've all Christ has died for us. The Father in Heaven has sacrificed his one and only son. So when I look at this Passover, I will never, ever, I pray. That's quite a bold statement to say, I pray that I will never mention the word Easter in that fabric of that time, as as we celebrate Passover biblically that I got removed that word Easter from my vocabulary, because that's a very worldly wo word that is a word that is used and surgeon mentioned that it brings a different understanding to to what Passover means. But when I talk about Passover, the word Passover itself brings me very clearly to biblical understanding. So I need as a human being as a believer in Christ, I need to be someone that understands biblical structure and biblical terminology. What I don't want are preachers and teachers using very worldly terminologies, terminology, sorry, I'm bringing them to the pulpit, and just washing me with more worldly words. I want to be brought under conviction and the word Easter won't really bring me under conviction. If I think about it, it makes me think of chocolate I'm being honest, thank God there's no one on line with me at night because how can a vicar How can a potter talk that thing about chocolate when the word Easter Hot Cross Buns Easter that we think of the bank holiday we think of time off timeout, but when I think about the past, over, God help me when I think of the word Passover, it means this to me, because the Bible tells me this, the passing over so when I look at the passing over, let's just drill a little bit, let's just let's open up the fabric of the text. We've got time on our site at the moment. And then by God's God willing, we will we will just just naturally will, God will just take us into the New Testament in a few moments. And it says on the same night, Exodus chapter 12, verse 12, on the same night, I will pass this is this is beautiful God, because this gives me freedom. I will pass who is the I? The only i that the Bible is talking about? Is this i i Am that I Am, Moses said, Who am I gonna tell that law at the base of the mountain is sending us I am, that I am. So when I see this, I will pass over there is only one and that is the God of Israel. This is not demonic. This is not demonic oppression. This is not Lucifer. This is not his agents, this is not an affiliate, this is not the sons of gods. This is not no dark force. This is no satanic agents are not on this page at all. This is talking about the great I Am This is talking about the God of Israel, this is talking about the creator of heaven and earth. This is the I Am, it says on that same night, I will pass through, I will pass through. So that's another interesting part. For him to pass through. He is going to pass through the streets, he's going to pass through the village, he's going to pass through the air he's going to pass through. So So God was moving, God was going to pass he was going to go over. So there's a going over. So how do we get that we understand that that is the passing over. So that's what Christ was, was in reflection of. That's what we do. When we come to the table. We are remembering the breaking of bread, the breaking of Christ's body, the shedding of blood. But where did this start this started back here, blood will be assigned, the blood will be assigned. On that same night I will pass through Egypt I will strike down every sorry, every firstborn of both people and animals. And I will bring judgment there is only one that can bring judgment. There is only one that can judge. And the Bible says he judges the living and he's going to judge the dead. He is the judge. The judge, I believe is standing at the door. I believe in the book of Revelation. I believe in eschatology, the rapture of the church however we we look that and we understand that the UN however that what will be in however, our minds and our thinking works that one through but I believe the Reidar on that holes is being prepared through Scripture to return to this of how is he coming? He's coming as this word tells me right now. It says I will bring judgment on all the gods This is coming back To this off, judgment is coming back to this earth. Judgment is coming back. But what I see is religion and certain ministries, celebrating and and and going completely off Bible track completely offer that one degree out of error. And you will find it very difficult I put this out there someone please email me or text me, somewhere within the UK where there are preachers and teachers really preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. I would love to hear I would love to witness, I would love to come under a preacher and a teacher, where they are preaching and teaching on the blood on the blood of Christ, on judgment on eschatology, the rapture of the church, sin and all that we are at this moment in time, and it says I will. We don't say we are really having any press further forward at this moment. So let's just hold it here. It says I will pass over I'll repeat myself for the first bone. Let me put these glasses on that might help me you know, yeah, should have gone to Specsavers son should have done that in the first place. On the same night I will pass through Egypt, I will strike down the firstborn of both people and of animal and I will bring judgment, I will bring judgment. Now this is interesting, I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. So not only is he bringing judgment on the gods of Egypt, he is also he is also destroying he's taking life off the earth he is he's dealing with the gods, he's dealing with the firstborn. This is a brutal message. But this is biblical fact, this happened. And this is going to happen again. But we are in where can we say we are we in a season of grace? Are we in a season where we are not really seeing the rough rough of God, but I believe judgment is standing at the door within the UK? And where does the judgment start? The judgment starts at the door of the church, because the church has to preach God's word. You know, we the church is in a critical position is in a very critical position. Probably one of the most critical position spiritually it's it's ever been in before. Because if the church the church is denominations denomination is coming away from the Word of God, what is going to come to that door? Who who is going to bring judgment, God, Christ is going to bring judgment to the preachers and the teachers that did not preach and teach the Word of God. The Bible says about having blood on your hands, being accountable for every message, every word spoken, every word delivered every action, there is judgment coming. And that makes me shake in this chair almost when I think about it, how close are we I know we look at Israel. I know we look at all the structure, the biblical structure of that. But even when you put all that together, and you look at that, that there can't be there can't be much more. When you really think about we got wars, rumors of wars, we got all this stuff going on. But when you look at this scripture, it says the blood will be assigned. The blood has always been assigned the blood is critical for a believer. So when I look at the cross of Calvary, what am I reminded of, I'm reminded that blood was shed a brutal way. A brutal way to be executed was the cross The cross, an absolute brutal way to have your life taken, but even to death on a cross even he was obedient to death on a cross. The blood will be a sign it says I am the Lord. I am the Lord the blood will be a sign for you on your houses, where you are your houses where you are interested in again, we could open up a little bit more. Lord, were you saying what are you speaking through that, Lord, give us more Lord, expand the text in our spirit. The blood will be a sign for you, for me on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you know destructive plague. Wow, what we've come through what we've come through and his moment, the Bible talks about End Time plagues. The Bible talks very clearly about End Time destruction. So we are in a critical place, but the blood is a sign and the blood. As a believer we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit. We've been sealed with the blood when washed in the blood and we completely completely redeemed. I love the fact that we are redeemed before I even lived? Well, we'll get to that maybe we'll get to that maybe in a moment. He says no destructive plague will touch you. Nothing can touch you. Let's remind ourselves this evening, whatever the timeline is in your world at this moment, nothing can touch you, when the blood has watched you. Yes, I might have sickness, I might have some ailment on my body. But the church and certain ministers are always looking for signs and wonders, when actually the greatest sign and the actual, the greatest wonder is actually the cross of Calvary. Because what the cross of Calvary done, it brought me healing, because I was dead. But now I am alive. You know, I was dead. But now I'm alive. I'm free. So the greatest healing I could ever expect to never want woods to be to be saved by by the God of Israel, who sent His Son, Christ Jesus salvation, save set free. But there is many ministries and churches out there driving deliverance ministries, when actually the scripture says that Christ disarmed all the principalities and all the ill 30s At the cross of Calvary. So everything comes back to the cross of Calvary, everything revolves, I will use this, I will use this, just very simply like this. Could we could I say, could we say, Christianity from the very beginning of creation, let's say the very, shall we say from the very beginning of Genesis, right up to the end of Revelation, everything spins around the cross of Calvary, everything spins around the cross of Calvary, everything moves around the cross of Calvary, here, everything spins around it, but everything is focused to the center, because the cross is the center point. When we look at the Old Testament, and you go to Genesis, it started, obviously, in the beginning. And when that started, there was a redemption plan. And that redemption plan was fulfilled in the Old Testament format, when we look at that. So when Christ went to the cross of Calvary, when Christ went to the cross of Calvary, the old scriptures were fulfilled, because what we spoke about earlier about the blood sacrifice of lambs of balls of Hefa. And go was not able and could not cope with the sin and every the law, it couldn't do that it needed the Lamb of God, which is Christ Jesus. So when I look at Genesis from Genesis, all the way up the Old Testament all the way through, everything was building up, everything was like an arrow, let's say is like an arrow, it was being fired to where it was been fired, all the way from Genesis redemption plan, we understand redemption started where man fell. And actually you will find it started before that, because we don't have time to unpack the scripture. But when you look, God always knew God knew that humanity would fall at the taken of the tree. The reason we know that is because the Old Testament God says if you touch her, that you will surely die. So there was already in the dialogue, in the conversation, in the plan, in the structure in the formation in creation, to be created, there had to be redemption. Really, really interesting, really powerful, really powerful at the very beginning of time. Before we even understood before the fall of the garden, there was a plan in process, there was a move, God was already moving there was there was a flow of God's word there was already this move of God very powerful and very clear, you know? So from the from the Garden of Eden, right the way up now we hear about another garden from the Garden of Eden, where the fall of humanity, but then we understand the Garden of Gethsemane is where Christ, put everything out and he kneeled down and He sweated droplets of blood, so from one garden, to the other garden, all the way 1000s of years of chronological through history, from poetry, through through psalms, through wars, through kings through prophets, all the way out the Old Testament was was being fired like an arrow, were to to Calvary, because that's where the Old Testament scripture was fulfilled. Everything was fulfilled at the cross of Calvary, and it wasn't fulfilled until one line had been completed until Christ said It is finished. Suddenly, a sudden move of heaven and earth, the opening of graves, the tearing of the curtain in the temple, ripped straight down into torn apart, you know, man having access because of the cross, because the scriptures to that point had been fulfilled. And then we know that as Christ said, It is finished, we entered into the New Covenant. So everything is up to the cross, and then everything is from the cross to the book of Revelation. But when we look, if we could do a 360 degree turn around Christianity, what will we find in the center, we will find Christ, and what will we find at the center with Christ, the cross the Calvary, because everything comes to the cross, everything is about the cross, not the timber, and not the structure of the cross. But what happened at the cross, the shedding of blood, God mentions judgment very, very clearly, we mentioned that he says, I will pass over, I will not bring death and I will not bring destruction, because the blood will be assigned. Now if we was to accelerate and if we was to, to skip and to run up to the to the cross, and then from the cross when Christ said It is finished. Now let's turn to the to the book, let's go into Colossians. If we turn to Colossians, I've got it marked ready. Somewhere in here we have the book of Colossians. Now. So even from the from the Old Testament, right up until now, every heartbeat is about the cross of Calvary. Let's let's say this, again, it's not about the timber. It's not about the structure. It is about what happened at Calvary, it is about what Christ done at Calvary, it is about blood that was shed at Calvary, victory was at the cross of Calvary, because Christ was in full charge of his breath of His death of gardening with I don't know go in, don't go any further than the cross. I'll just hold it there. Sorry, I could have gone on a little bit further. But let's jump into the book of Colossians chapter one Colossians chapter one. First, there's a there's a there's an area that I just I just want to go to. And that is verse 18, of Colossians chapter one Colossians chapter one. In the New Testament, now we start to see very clearly, even let me quickly read it from verse 15. The sun is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created, creation, creation again, For in him all things were created things in heaven, things on earth, visible, invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities or things had been created through him. And for Him, He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, or Hallelujah Jesus, He is the head of the body, the church, he is the beginning and the first bone among the dead. So that's in everything. He may have supremacy, For God was pleased to have his fullness, dwelling him really interested in theological texts where God was pleased to have his fullness dwell in him, when just at the beginning of the text and verse 15, of Colossians, chapter one it says, The Sun is the image of the invisible God. So suddenly, we see this fullness coming. How can I I'm so limited on my vocabulary. I'm so limited on my educational stretch that I actually can't even put what is bubbling in my spirit and in my heart, actually into the English language. I can't share because I do not have the vocabulary. I'm not educated enough I cannot find the word. So I pray as I stop this now and to speak about this. God I pray, Lord, as everyone online on the water podcast in here's the scripture, God, you will reveal that and you will take them deeper in the name of Jesus. And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the firstborn over all the dead. So that's in everything he might have supremacy, for God was pleasing him to have the fullness dwelling him and through him to reconcile to himself or things, whether things on earth or things in heaven. Here we go by marking peace through his blood, his blood, his blood, shed on the cross. Chapter Two, same book that we're in Colossians chapter two, verse 13, as we bring this to you A bit of a pause but just a bit of a pause Colossians chapter two, verse 13, when, when we were dead, or it says when you actually the Scripture says, when you were dead in your sin, and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sin, having cancelled any charge of legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us, he has taken it away. Now get to the cross, verse 15, of Colossians, chapter two, now get to the cross, and has this armed, this armed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross The cross, the blood will be assigned Genesis chapter 12, the blood will be assigned, then we come up very clearly. Also, that runs with Exodus chapter 12, verse 12, and 13. It talks about judgment, the blood will be a sign and then we then we Quicken ourselves and get out to the book of Colossians. It says in verse 15, of Colossians, chapter one, the sun is the image of the invisible God, and God was pleased to have his fullness dwell in him. Absolutely. deep theological texts when you when you try and unravel and find the end of the string, or that one, you're going to, you're never going to find the end of that one, because that is really deep and powerful. Suddenly, we have God's saying that, that, yes, my son, but actually, my Son is the image of me, the invisible God. So I have given myself but I presented myself to you, as the Messiah, as the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. And I presented myself as the word of God, I am the Word of God, I am the living one, I was dead, but now I am alive. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So you can't find any separation. So that blows out so much false teaching straight away. So God gave His Son, and His Son is the image of the invisible God. So when you bring a line and you pencil, this one together, you will find so much coming together, and what you will find out the center you will find Christ at the center. And what does it say in the Old Testament says God is our Redeemer, he is our rock, God is my salvation. And my salvation is found in Christ Jesus, and Christ Jesus is the son of the invisible God, it is getting bigger and bigger and more mind blowing, the further I speak to me for for sure thing. So I've got to try and just put a full stop somewhere on this, but I can't put a full stop on it. We're just gonna put a comma on it, because this will be continuing. This is a continuum this this is, this is this is going this is going further and further. So when I, when I look at verse 13, I'm just going to read verse 13, through to the end of Lord help me, Jesus, verse 15, I'm just going to read Colossians chapter one, verse 13, through 215, again, and I will try to read it slow. And I will try to be more allow my pronounciation to come through. And I pray that God will reveal this because this is the last scripture that we will read. But it is by grace, you have been saved, not by works. That just absolutely irritates the life out of religion done it, when you think about that, that, that makes them just want to go wild in it go wild with anger. Because it says by grace, you have been saved, not by work so that no one can boast. We've been saved by the grace by the eternal grace of the Eternal Father. And when you get grace, you get favor when you get favor. Favor is another continuum. It is always going on. And the scripture that we read out earlier on the has just come to our hearts tonight, it very clearly tells us that salvation goes on and redemption on on, it goes on it goes on that God's saved us before our sin was actually physically committed. Because when we look at the text that were in verse 13, I'm going to read it, and then we're off. Here we go. Verse 13, all the way down to verse 15, of Colossians chapter two Colossians chapter two Now, verse 13, I read it. I've read it before tonight, and I'm going to read it again tonight. It says when you were dead in your sin, actually, I haven't pronounced that very well because it says when you were dead In your sins, sins, it is speaking about more than one. When you are dead in your sins in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive. When I was dead in the pit, and the muck, and the mud, and the Maya and the scummy way, that was, when I was dead, in my sins, and in the uncircumcision of my flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave. So it has been forgiven. Before I delivered the sin, oh Lord, this gets deeper Jesus. So at the cross of Calvary, and I can go all the way back to Exodus, the blood will be a sign No, no destructive plague, no destructive, no angel of death, no death will visit you. Because I see that there is blood over the doorposts and over the lintels of your house, I see where you are, Lord. This raises salvation, away from the physical strength of a human being, because no one can save themself. It is the blood is the sign, and it is God that sends his one and only Son, Christ Jesus, when Christ is actually the image of the invisible God. And when God presents himself to humanity, he presents himself as the Son of the living God. Verse 13, I'm going to read it all the way through to verse 15. And then I'm going to get on your BMX, and I'm going to ride out of town, in the name of Jesus. When you are dead in your sins, and your uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ and for gave us all our sins, all of our sins, all of our sins have been canceled the charge of the legal indebtedness which stood against us, and condemned us, he has taken it away, now that to the cross. And having this armed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing them over the cross. There we are. Amazing. Beyond the word amazing, so powerful. My mind my concept, my understanding my my philosophy, or the way I think, the way I operate, the way I compute things, the way i i live and the way I move across the earth. impossible to understand. So it has to be revealed. So God reveals so I pray that wherever you are tonight, that God will strengthen you and guide you. And you will come to a realization, even greater than where you are at this moment, that you are saved because of the love of the God of Israel. Desert decided to present himself to all humanity, as the Sun as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But actually, when you look at Colossians, chapter one, it says the sun is the image of the invisible God. And God gave him the name, which is above every other name, his name is Emmanuel, God with us, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Whatever way we look at this, God is with you. The Holy Spirit is with you. Christ is with you. And I pray tonight, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, that you will just feel the love of the Father, the love of the Son and the love of the Holy Spirit. Because you were saved, I was saved, our sins will now to the cross of Calvary. At that point that Christ went to the cross. He saved those that wasn't even in, in the formation of human likeness. Every sin that I think about, walk in decide to do was already now before my physical bend, became and is what we see today. My sin was now to the cross of Calvary. That is it. I'm out of here. May God bless you and strengthen you. You know, God is with you. Wherever you are, God is with you. And I pray that the power of the Holy Spirit will strengthen you like never before, and the Word of God will just come alive in your innermost being Have a wonderful evening. We've had to just just just put a comma on it for a moment that you are saved. You are chosen. God is with you. We will see you soon the next time we will see you Sunday morning at 1045. And I pray and I thank God that the sound will be better. In the name of Jesus, the screens will stay on. For all those in the world of podcasting. 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