Good evening, everybody. God bless you. Thank you so much for joining us wherever you are this evening. We hope you're all well as we gather around the word of God wherever you are across the earth. good evening to everybody in the world of podcasting, we thank you so much for joining us. Yes, good evening, I consider the jumping online for those that are going to stay with us. We are going to be turning into the New Testament and returning to the book of Matthew, Matthew, chapter 11, verse 28, just somewhere where we was yesterday, well, we didn't really stay too long. Because we we stretched and we went into the Old Testament. Well, good evening, God bless you. We're in the book of Matthew, the seventh, and we're in the New Testament, we break bread together as we take this cup together. And as the screen says, behind me, that you can see you are love, God loves you. God is for you, and God is not against you. You are in the perfect will of the Father, and whatever may be happening in your life and whatever it may be looking like for you at this moment. God is with you miracles happen. And wherever you are across this earth. I welcome you. We welcome you everybody here at Eden church. Wherever you are this evening, as we just gather around the word of God as we just be still and know that he's God. And for all those in the world of podcast, and we thank you so much for sharing on all the platforms for those on Buzzsprout, Spotify, I Heart Radio, Amazon music, and Alexa, may God bless you in the mighty name of Jesus. Let's turn straight to the New Testament, the book of Matthew, chapter 11, verse 28, and 29. We read this yesterday, or I should say, I read that aloud in front of every one of us. And I really believe God was speaking to many of us yesterday, and I thank God for the power of His word. His word is yes and amen. We are seeing some really interesting, and some really unusual, I will say unusual, because that's the language that I understand that we understand. We are seeing some unusual activity in the heavens above. And because the Scripture tells us where we sit in biblical times of what to expect. And I just want to encourage you tonight, God is with you, you are loved. And how do I say this? And how can I get this over easily and smoothly and just gently walk in faith. You know, God, God is with you. God is before you. God is behind you. He's to the left, he's to the right and northeast to south and Northwest. God is with you. And whatever your footprint is. And whatever your press across this earth is, God is for you and not against you. You are loved as the screen says behind me. And God is with you in all your circumstances. But there's coming a point and there is a point for me, for you. We are at different levels, we are at different layers. We are at different positions we are in different areas we are at different even though we might come to this church even though we belong to the same fellowship. Even though we might be live streaming together, even though we podcast together while we do all this stuff together. Each and every one of us is still in a very unique and a very different relationship with God. As we are to each other and God is with you. You are loved unconditionally. We have sinned nested across a Calvary. And I just want to remind you tonight and me tonight on all of us tonight, that God is expecting us to do this. In Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, come to me there's a time at a time now where God is expecting and he is he can always say waiting. I gotta be careful because God isn't waiting for me to react. Before he will move because God has already moved God is already doing what he is doing. But just like the protocol, if we look at the protocols, some just a few moments, if we look at the protocol, Son, what's really interesting, in the in the fabric of that text, it says the protocol son, or it says this son, when he came to his senses, he made his way back. So although God is not waiting for me to come back, or for us to come back, God is not just sitting on the throne and circled on the seat of the circle of the earth, as the scripture says, and just waiting and thinking, I can't do anything until Ben actually says, It doesn't work like that God is always acting, God is always moving. God it is, is in all things. He's before time, he's in time, time only exists because he spoke the world into being. So when we look at the scripture that we are in tonight, when it says Come to me, God is not waiting. Christ, the Holy Spirit is not waiting, waiting for me to react before he gives me a blessing or before he moves in my life. Because God has already moved, God has already saved God has already set free. But what happens when we look at certain texts, certain parts of the Word of God, when we realize when we know that we are saved, God isn't expecting a move from me that is going to make him change his love. And he sought and everything towards me. Before I came into existence, Christ died on the cross of Calvary, from me in all of my sin in all of my mess in everything Christ took everything on. But when I become a Christian, when I become a follower of the kingdom of God, when I become a believer, when I say God is expecting, he's not expecting in a way that we are before this person says, I will, I will do anticipate in God already knows how we're going to move. But there is a point when, when the father or the father in the prodigal son, texts, the Father's arms are open. The protocol was seen before, had the protocol started to realize that he was coming back. It says when he came to his senses, but the father saw him before there was even a move. So when the Scripture says, Come to me, God is not waiting for me to bless me until I come to him. He's just letting me know through this text. Listen, Ben, I sent my son to die on a cross is a bit raw tonight is the only way I can get this over. Forget what a fully theological word and forget all the great sounding bells and whistles, let's, let's get straight to the point. Christ God, the Holy Spirit is saying, Come to me, he's, he's saying, Come to me not that he's waiting for me before he will deal with me, because he's already dealt with me. But he's just letting me know you are loved you are loved unconditionally, so come to meet. And I believe there are many people that you could put in a posture into position that may be afraid of coming to God in a roundabout way. The wrath of God, the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, the fear, the thrust of that everything there. But I just want to make this and try and get this so simple. And I'm praying God, I just pray tonight, Lord, that we will just get this so simple, Lord, that you're calling God is God is calling. So he's got waiting for a reaction before he saves? No. Is God waiting for a reaction from a prayer before he moves? No, God has already spoken God has already dealt with God is always moving. God is moving very, very powerfully, God, God has already dealt with everything in my life. God has already healed me God has already set me free God has already dealt with the fear. So God is already dealing with what I think of the lack of but the scripture says very clearly that My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches and glory. So when this scripture that we're in says, Come to me, all of you that are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest, there's already Rest, rest has already been prepared. God is not waiting to prepare the rest until I come to him. But he's already prepared, everything is prepared. Everything is is already laid out. The promises are already out that the prophecy is already out. The Scripture has already been spoken, it's already out. But what I gotta do is I got to recognize I've just got to recognize God is not waiting on me to say yes or I'm coming to you and as I come to you, can you prepare this table in Psalm 2023? The psalm speaks very clearly. Very, very clear. The Lord is my shepherd I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. Then it goes on. He says he prepares the table and in the presence of my enemies, the table is already prepared. The banquet is already prepared. The healing is already there. Now we've got to be careful with healing very, very careful with healing. As soon as we talk about healing automatically, I will say me because of my my upbringing as a Pentecostal pastor And the thread and the vein that I've been frosted into, and the spokes that have come out of the Pentecostal movement when it talks about healing, straight away, we think arms are gonna grow, legs are growing, sickness has gone, the greatest healing that I've come to realize and come to understanding that any human being will will receive the greatest healing. I will put it in, in this, I try and verbalize, I'll try and deliver it like this is salvation because I'm healed in a way that my heart has been healed. My heart has been taken out of the dark, taken out of certain areas of life, I'm already healed. But but the world of church, the world of, of healing ministries, always always looking for signs and wonders. Well, I am actually a sign on the one that already without a physical healing. And what's interesting as well, in the New Testament, the Bible, the great New Testament writer writes, he says Three times I pleaded with the Lord, will you take this from me, and God says this, he says, My grace is sufficient for you. So my body may have issues my body may be dealing with certain elements that are not good. There may be certain areas of life, I may be struggling within my body and my movement, and my physical stretch, and my and the way I feel, but the way I feel has nothing to do with the eternity stretched I have with God. This is just an Earth. So this is just flesh and blood. This is just a vehicle that God has chosen for a few years to carry the inner me this is just the physical me carrying the real spiritual Mesa, this is just an instrument that God has chosen. And God has brought into formation because we can't get away from the fact where the psalmist writes and through the book of Jeremiah, when we see across the Old Testament scripture really, really clear. He says, I formed who I created you before the foundation of the world, I knitted you together. So we was already knitted. We was already brought into physical, spiritual existence, before the physics physical us came into this world. So we've already been in existence. Now I got to be really careful because I don't want anybody jumping online thinking that pass is a little bit wacky he's talking about I've been here before my physical body was here, when actually, you got it right. In a nutshell. Yeah, you are absolutely right, or thinking that maybe I'm a little bit wacky, but the spiritual last let's look at as the spiritual formation of us was in existence before the foundation of the world, before God, God spoke the world into being before, atoms became before light became before anything was formed in all creation, through the power of the rhema word, the spoken word, the word that is seen through vision for eyesight through physical existence in what we know today. Before all this came into being I was and you was, but we was but not in earthly bodily form. So when the scripture says Come to me, what I've got to understand is, the scripture has already spoken 2000 years ago and more. So when when Jesus is saying, Come to me, what he's saying, is the way he's already been prepared for you. He is the waymaker He is the great time he said, Come to me, God is not gonna hold anything back. Because I haven't said the first word. So what I've got to come to an understanding is he's walking with Christ Jesus, is that the promises have already been put out, into into existence. God's word is already in existence. The promises are already before. So I'm just like an Israelite, just just just bear with me a minute just I'm having a mad mad Monday night, the pastor's out and about Mad Monday night, right, just bear with me a minute. Now, the Promised Land was before the Israelites. But the Israelites had to make a physical step forward in faith. The just shall live by faith to live, there has to be action. Now faith and actions go together. Faith and actions are really important. And also what is important with faith and actions is the Bible says, Be still and know that I'm God. So I've got to be still spiritually be still we are living in a very turbulent world. We are living in a world that is very turbulent at the moment. And there is nothing out of control because the Good Book from Genesis to Revelation has already told us through prophecy, through what the Word of God said how it will be to the millisecond and to the heartbeat of this world. There is nothing new under the sun, there is nothing out of control. So when when the scripture says when Jesus says in Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, come to me. Come to me. Christ is not waiting for me to get to him before he will release his word. His Word has already been released, His Word has already gone. His Word has already been spoken, His Word has already gone before. Because the Bible says in the beginning was the Word. So the word was already in the began moment of time, because the word was before time. So if you're a scientist, if you're someone that is grappling and looking at creation, there are three major elements that we know that you have to have existence, space, time and matter. We understand that comes from Genesis. So in Genesis, we see physics we don't see understanding, we see creation, we see the power of the spoken word of the God of Israel. So in the New Testament, when the Scripture says, Come to me, the God of all creation, is calling you and me. How can you call him God? Because that scripture says, that is Jesus? That is correct. But if he was to go into the book of Colossians, chapter one, it says very, very clearly, and biblically, it says, Christ is the image of the invisible God. So Christ is the voice, the physical presence of the Holy God of Israel. So what does it mean in Genesis when it says, And God said, really interesting, don't go too deep theologically tonight, because I just want to stay in Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, God is calling in the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, He is calling you tonight you are loved, as the screen says, You are called you are chosen before the fabric of the world before. Now the Old Testament talks about the heavens, it talks about the heavens, it talks about the layers, it talks about the universe, it talks about the worlds that the art and the and the eye cannot see the UN's seen world that is out there that God created and it says that he is rolling out the heavens like a scroll. So God is always expanding the universe. We know science tells us that the universe is being all in is always driving at such a rate it cannot be measured. It is too fast, it is too great. So when we look at the universe, and the reason I'm looking at creation is because I want to get into my innermost being this God that created the heavens and the earth, as I look through the studio window that you can't see through the window, right through out into the sky. And as I look across the top of that camera that you see me on pointing to across there, I see the clouds, I see, I see the sun disappearing, I see the beautiful sky. So when I look out over the top of that camera, I'm looking now I'm not saying anything from Buzz Lightyear to infinity and beyond Come on, I wouldn't do a thing like that, would I? So as I look out into the universe, as I look out through the windows of the studio, right out across there, I am looking into creation. Now as I look into creation, above your beautiful headline, and above the camera there, I am looking into the world that the God of Israel created, the God of Israel created you, the God of all creation created you, you are loved unconditionally. So in Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, it says, Come to me, all of you that are weary and burdened, whatever my weariness is, whatever my burdens are, whatever my troubles are, can never be too big. For the God that said, let there be and there was my burdens, my worries, my fears are nothing to what God has done in creation. So I have to come to God, the God that said, let there be an there was the God that separated light from darkness, the different areas of creation, when we look so deep into creation, if you've got a chance to look out your window, look out your window, and just look into the heavens. Look into the beauty look, as I look across this camera, or look through the first sound window or look through the second window. And as I look right out, I see the glory of God, and the glory of God created the heavens and the earth by the spoken word. So when I read the word, I'm reading the words of God, and I'm reading God, and I'm reading God's heart, and I'm reading God's mind and God's understanding, and God's plan and redemption plan for all those that which was lost, but now, I am found. So as I look at this scripture, when it says Come to me, who is calling you tonight? The God that created that sky out that window, the God that created the fabric in his carpet before me, the God that created the fabric, the cotton, everything around us, this God that created this world in which we live in. He is the air that We breathe this God, Christ now. Now we understand that this is Christ. When we look at Matthew chapter 11, this is Christ. And he is saying, Come to me, who is Christ, He is the Savior of the world. He carries the name above all names and at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, on the roof under the authority of every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. So the Lord of hosts, the Lord of lords, the King of kings, the Lord of all gods, the king, above all kings, the greats, I am the beginning the end, I was dead, but behold, I am alive. I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail. So when I read that line like that come to me all of you that are weary and burdened, I will give you rest God is calling you tonight. Whatever your press on on life, whatever your stretches on life, whatever your understanding on it in life, whether you just dropped on the socials tonight, whether you're just dipping in and out of social networks, and like just perusing through the social network networks like we all do, God is calling you. You may throw your toys out the pram, you may kick out and jump. I don't believe in God, that is your choice. And God bless you and may God strengthen you through that choice. But we are living in very powerful times the UK the world is dipping into a famine period. We are seeing the finance markets crash, we are seeing the world the cogs of the world of industry come into a point of closure. We are seeing the healthcare stretch beyond the human belief we are seeing the financial markets crashing we are hearing what he says in fact, in the book of testimonials, you will hear rewards rumors of wars. You will it talks about plagues, it talks about desolation, it talks about the Antichrist, it talks about the rise of the lawlessness it talks it depicts to where we sit at this moment. So as we come to break in on the bread tonight when we come to this table when we break this bread, what does the bread represent? It represents the body of Christ, who is who is Christ Christ is the one that we are looking at in the Scripture. And he is saying to you and to me tonight come to me, are you burdened? Are you heavy laden, are you weary or you're tired? I you're tired of chasing money trying to pay the bills, or you're tired and fed up of, of tiptoeing around work because of you're frightened of, of certain areas of life, or you are frightened of certain members of your family or you're worried about certain areas of life, or you're stressed because there is there is something on around your body. There's, there's a physical thing happening, you're worried you're fearful, whatever it is, bring it to Christ tonight because when I bring it, I'm laying it at his footstool. When I lay it a footstool, what happens there is a there is a transaction, I am handing it over. So when Christ says in Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, come to me, all of you that are weary and burdened, he says, Come to me, all of you that are weary and burdened, you've read that a few times, don't keep repeating it say st different for for pleased. That's what, that's what he's saying. Right when he says to me, come to me, all of you that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest, all that is burdened. When I lay that down at the feet of Christ, there is something really powerful that happens. I am handing over so I'm becoming obedient to Christ. He says, hand it over to me, what you have your worries, your fears, your doubts, the stress that the issues of life, hand, everything over to me the reason that I mentioned the sky, looking out that window through through the windows here in the studio looking out is that when I look out, and I look into all creation, and I try to get an understanding of how big this God is, suddenly the worries and the fears and the issues of my life suddenly just disappear, they dissolve. Because when I look into the glory of the heavens, and and just try to grasp the enormity of how God and how big God is, suddenly the worries and the fears are really quite tiny in my life. Because God is greater than any sickness, any disease, any lack of any worried if I'm worried about paying bills, if I'm worried about me in certain areas of life if I'm stressed because of what if I'm stressed because of family, marriages stretch, relationships are stretched, businesses stretched, I'm stretched I'm worried I'm fearful. Now in Hebrews if used to turn to Hebrews chapter 12, verse two it says, Keep your eyes on Jesus. Hebrews is talking about this God that we are looking at this Christ the man Christ Jesus. Jesus says Come to me all of you that are weary and burdened. I will give you read He will give you rest the world cannot give you the rest. See, as human beings, we what's built into the system of this world is, the more that you have materially, the more that you think that you will be more comfortable, the bigger the house, I will be more comfortable when I have more rooms, I'll get a loft extension. And we'll have more room and everything and be great, we'll get another car and it'll be great. We'll get a bigger vehicle it'd be great. We get some more tellers, it'll be great. We'll get no carpet we get decorated for we'll move house we do this we'll go more holidays. I believe, I believe in the spiritual world that was before this, this physical world because the Bible tells me that so we are when I say we, so can I can I can I use the royal way us us. Do you think? Do you think that the world is trying to fulfill the God given vacuum in our innermost being like this box that's built within us? Do we feel that we are trying to fulfill a vacuum, a spiritual vacuum with material possessions, if I get another car, if I get a new van, if I get if I get this, if I get that if I get a bigger house, if I go for the bigger career, if I climb the pole of success, if I if I get to the ivory tower, if we have more holidays, if we get to this place that place, if I do more traveling, if we get new carpets, if we get a new kitchen, if we get a new bathroom, if I get a bigger garden, if I get if I get if I get if I get I really believe that through COVID-19, humanity is experience that materialism cannot fill a spiritual void. But we are living in a very physical world and the physical world refer to governments and departments, and certain areas of our business and certain areas of establishments don't like us to use the word emotions, because we are not allowed to talk about emotions, and the spiritual journey that we're on because the spiritual world doesn't exist. Because everything that you have is that you are where you are, because of how good you are, and what you have created. But we are trying to fulfill and trying to find fulfillment in what we may want, because the grass can always be greener on the other side of the fence. When actually when I get over that fence, there'll be another fence there's another, you know, the the physical world, and what I mean by the physical world, everything that is before my eyes, that is tangible. And which is made of materialism, the material material world cannot give me fulfill or cannot give me fulfillment rather, because we are spiritual before the we are spiritual before physical came into existence. So there has to be an infilling of the God of Israel, to fill the physical void with the spiritual father. So I can only find peace, love and understanding and fulfillment when I seek him first. So when it says Come to me, all of you that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest, the only place I will find rest. And as when Christ said, he said, drop your nets come and follow me to drop everything of this material world and to follow the living Christ. Then the Bible says, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and everything else shall be added unto thee. God knows everything, because My God shall supply all my needs according to the riches in glory. So I might be trying to find fulfillment, and that a spiritual fulfillment, but I'm not allowed to talk about spiritual fulfillment, because maybe the area of where I work, where we go to school, or where we live, or whatever culture we're in, we're not allowed really to talk too much lately, within the UK about spiritual fulfillment, because everything is focused on me that I can, everything is possible because of me, because because of me, I am able to achieve, but by looking at me if I don't achieve and get the fulfillment that everybody else has, I feel that I've lacked when actually, there is nothing new under the sun. And everything has a shelf life. And what do you mean by shelf life, it says, where moth and rust destroy it. Everything is temporal within the physical world. But there is an eternity out there and I go back to looking for the studio window and I go looking over the camera and I look out through the top window. There is a world in existence that was before the formation of this world began. And I pray for every one of you tonight and me that all of us that we will come to Jesus come to me all view that aware in heavy laden and I will give you rest. I believe the world is heavily laden, it is finding, and it needs rest. But we may be looking for fulfillment in other areas of physical life, when really the only place we will find that is in the spiritual existence of the God of Israel. So when God says, When Christ says, Come to me, all of you that are weary and heavy, later, I will give you rest. As we come to the table tonight, if you are looking for rest, rest will only be found in Christ Jesus, rest will not be found in ministry, rest will not be found in culture, rest will not be found in your husband, or your wife, or your friend or your brother or sister to that level. Because first we are spiritual before we become physical. How do you know that because it says, Before I formed you, I knew you. So for me to come into formation, I had to be in some form of existence. The Bible says in the Old Testament, I believe in the book of Psalms, and forgive me, because I don't have the biblical reference. It says this, before any word that you spoke before any physical movement of your body, I knew every word that you would speak and I knew every every footstep that you would take. So God see. Now, this is just beyond human conception and beyond human understanding. And beyond the physics and beyond logic of life, beyond the computing, that God knew which path I would choose, before I had the choice of choosing that path, completely mind blowing to the human mind. But His ways are higher than our ways his thoughts are far above our thoughts. So in this scripture, the simple text and I'm in tonight, and I pray that I haven't confused it. And I just got to emphasize as the screen says, behind me, you are loved. Not only are you love the God that created the heavens and the earth, the God in His fullness has sent His one and only son, and his son has died upon the cross over 2000 years ago, for you and for the son that took know, the suffering and the pain of the world upon His shoulder has given us hope, and a future. And that son is speaking very clearly through his word, because that's his word. And his word is speaking tonight. And His Word is saying to every one of us, come to me, all of you that are weary, heavy laden, and I will give you rest, you will only find rest in Christ, I will only find rest in the Messiah. So as we come to the table tonight, I pray that as we break bread, and as we take this right now, we clearly understand that this this is a symbol of the Body of Christ, the Messiah, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. And if I go a little bit further into into the Word of God, if I if I unpack it a bit more, through revelation or knowledge and through what God does and how he teaches, because what I haven't read what is really interesting, it says, that Christ says, and learn from me and learn from me, I learned everything from God, I learned everything from the word, I learned everything through the power of the Holy Spirit. So through revelation or knowledge and through the Bible's way that it speaks to me the way that I interpret and the way I understand, and the way that I look at the word of God, I believe that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. I believe, I believe in Genesis through to Revelation, I believe, in the eternal God, I believe in the Creator. I believe in heaven and hell, I believe in the first and the last. I believe that God is stretching out the universes as we speak, I believe that God has placed and is still set in the stars in the skies above. I believe God is breathing in our lungs tonight, I believe. So when I believe, I believe and my belief is greater than and is stronger than my knowledge, because my knowledge only has an earthly stretch. My knowledge has has is limited, and can limit me because knowledge limits the mind and the computing and the logic of life. So knowledge really doesn't help in certain areas of faith, because knowledge will get me so far, but my belief, and then when I put my belief and my and I speak, and I thank God and I bring God's word to my lips, and the Bible says out of your belly, Flo rivers of living water. So when we speak God's Word, we are speaking the Word of God over our life we are believing and confessing. So tonight Lord, I thank you for the power of repentance. I believe and confess that Christ went to the cross for me. And I thank you for the cross of Calvary. And what it represents that the scriptures were fulfilled. And the one that fulfilled the scriptures is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. No one else, no Bishop, no leader, no teacher, no Pastor, no denomination, no human being. But Jesus, as it says, In the book of Isaiah, there was nothing in His Majesty or his beauty that was attracting to us. But what was was his glory is power is anointing. And may God bless you, wherever you are tonight. Let's break this bread. Let's take this bread in these moments of closing. So Father, I thank you that your son went to the cross of Calvary. And your body was broken for me in Jesus name, amen. There is power in the name of Jesus, wherever you are tonight. Whatever your press, whatever your walk is, whatever your your tread on this terra firma, whatever your your stretch is on your life. I just pray that you will just completely and I will just surrender everything to God, that we will hand everything just over to God that we will hand everything, just hand everything over. And I just thank you for the power of your Word tonight, Lord, because I believe in the birth, the death, the resurrection of Christ. I believe in the Messiah, I believe in the word I believe, I believe. And as I come tonight, Lord, to this really powerful point, as I stand before you as I come before your throne as I stand in front of your throne, as I stretch out to you tonight, God, as I look to your word, as I look to you, I believe in the blood of Jesus, I believe that I'm Washington cleanse. So wherever we are, I pray that as you take this cup, not this cup, because that's a coffee cup. So let's get this right. You know, we gotta be raw, it's raw. It's unedited, it is straight out the can. And there is no messing about and I've just dropped me glasses. He doesn't need that tonight, that's for sure. So Father, I thank You, Lord, as I take this cup, I believe in the blood of Jesus, I believe that I'm cleansed from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. I believe that Christ went to the cross of Calvary, and that I am saved. I believe in the birth, the death, the resurrection, I believe in the cross and through the cross of Calvary, the scriptures had been fulfilled, to cleanse me from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, in the powerful name of Jesus Christ. There is power in the name of Jesus, wherever you are. I thank God for your life. I really thank God for for you. I thank God that you've stayed with us and you are staying with us. And I just pray that you share everything out through whether you listen through the podcasting, whether on the on the Online church, this hybrid church that we got, I know it's very difficult a feel very uncomfortable sometimes but but at least at least that we can gather at least whenever the next lockdowns are coming whenever the world goes into the next lock and everything that's coming. And we are in a form of locking down by by the hijacking of fuel is very interesting by the hike enough fuel. And by the measures that are being put in place. It is locking us in a way that is stopping out our stretch on on life, we are maybe looking already at saying well, I ain't actually going to go that far anymore. So it is locking us down without using the word lock. Very interesting. They all started from anyway, we got to finish we got to finish. I pray that wherever you are tonight that the power of the Word of God will strengthen you like never before I pray that for revelational knowledge that God will continue to guide you and to strengthen you and to draw you in into his world. You are loved unconditionally. God is with you. God is not against you. So whatever. However you may be wherever you are this evening. I just say God, as I think about this, as I take time, God in closing this service. I ask you, Lord, that the scripture that we've read out to Light, whether through this hybrid service through this media press, whether through the podcast and a week later, I asked you, Lord, that you will help us to come to you to make that faith step to say, Lord, take my life. Take everything within me, there with everything around me. Help me, Lord, to lean into Jesus. Because when I lean into Jesus, when I lean into Jesus, all as well can't lean back to when I lean back, lean in the world. And when I lean forward, I lean into Jesus may God bless you and strengthen you. And the biblical reference for this evening is Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, through to verse 30. Read that, at your leisure, at your will, whenever you feel drinking a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, and just sit and be still look out across the world. Look out the window, wherever you are, at this moment, go go and look out and see what and how powerful life is and how glorious creation is. God bless. We'll catch you soon. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We'll see you Wednesday evening. for Bible study around about 730 In Jesus name, amen.
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