Good evening, God bless you, wherever you are this evening across the earth, May God strengthen you and be with you. You know, thank you for joining us tonight as we just gather around the mics. And just before we go any further, just to remind you, it is obviously the first Wednesday in the month. And we will be having our Holy Communion tonight as well, at 12 o'clock midnight hour be live, myself and Donnie, and we will be here at 12 o'clock again this evening. So thank you so much for this morning, everybody that joined us with coffee and prayer this morning. And obviously at this moment in time Bible study, and then again at 12 o'clock tonight, to take us through till one o'clock in the morning, we will be here with Scripture and prayer, just as we gather around the word of God, and we just see how God will lead us. For everyone that was just jumping online. We'll be here again this evening, at 12 o'clock, until one o'clock this morning. And we just want to say thank you so much we're going to turn into we're going to keep in the New Testament this evening. I pray that wherever you are tonight, may God just be with you and strengthen you and may the hand of God lead you into new beginnings. God is with you. God has not left you nor forsaken you there are many at this moment in time, looking at the news within the UK especially, and seeing what what the Bible has already spoken about systems and governments, in the end time, start to fall and start to file. So what we have been looking at through the podcast, what we've been studying or been reading through the word of God, what we are seeing right now within the government, government within the UK, it should not be taken us by surprise. You know, we see very clearly what is happening. And the reason I mentioned this tonight is that please do not worry about what we see through the economics of this nation. Please do not worry, what we see through the mechanisms of this nation, please do not worry in what we see through the political agenda through the monarchy through religion, because we will see the collapse. But the kingdom of God the kingdom of God is pressing and is very alive. I'm keeping it very simple and keeping it very easy on the ears. I don't know about you, brothers and sisters, but I gotta be honest, life is pressing, like we've never had a press before. We may be tired, we may be weary, we may be almost exhausted. And I just want to encourage you tonight, as we turn into the scriptures, we are going to go to Hebrews chapter 12 Verse two, but before we go there, I would like us if we can, if you have yourself a Bible, please turn to Romans chapter five. And I'm going to read from verse one, through to the end of 11. We are in we are in a very glorious and a very fortunate position to be birthed. And for such a time as this we are in a very unusual, we are in a very unusual spiritual window in a very unusual season to be alive and I pray that wherever you are that you will not allow the fear of what we are hearing through the economical climate through the fear everything that's going on around us that you will just continue just to trust God and I think the computer has just died. I think we are just going on a restart, stay there it will go God bless you and may God strengthen you wherever you are this evening. Unbelievable. Let's just see what's happening. Thank you to all those in the world of podcast and and let's just see what happens tonight. I think we're still there. Online and Yes, last sound Please don't worry. I can I can. We're just waiting for this this machine to catch up with us. So we are almost there. So wherever you are, I can I can I can see that. Are you there? Silence in the world of podcasting, please excuse us, just as we come back on. And as we just, I believe I believe that we may be there. Can you? Are we there? Let's click into that. Let's get into that. So there were there were there. Yes. Are we there? Give it a moment just to pick up. Give it a moment to pick up. Unusual, very unusual. There we go. We're back. I believe we're back. We're back to all those Yeah, you're back, you're back. Can you believe it? Can you believe it the night, the night the laptop decides to do an update? Oh, Lord, give me strength in the name of Jesus. Thank you. And good evening, everybody that is joining us at this moment. Let's backtrack just a moment. You know, we are living in glorious and very powerful times. And thank God for technology. We love an update on our computer on a live stream, don't we? Oh, what a wonderful day. But it's very interesting is it where we sit where we sit, as a nation, where we sit as a globe where we sit in the world with everything that is going on around us. I just pray that you will just lean into Jesus like never before. We are finding we are finding that the system of life the system, whether whether it's governments, whether it's policies, whether it's economics, whether it's the Bank of England, whether it's global, whatever it may be, we are finding we are finding at this moment in time, the crash, and what a night to talk about a crash because the computer has just crashed. absolutely unbelievable. So when we look at technology, and we rely on technology, and we live by technology, isn't it interesting? Isn't it interesting, that technology just crashes and we just had that crash, but we are back online. And for all those that are in the world of podcasting, join us through this. There's been recorded that gets pushed out through iHeartRadio, and Spotify, known in other places, there may have been a bit of a silence there. But God is with us. And I thank God for your lives. I thank God for what you've experienced in your life. I thank God, even though I don't know you and I may never have the privilege of walking with you, or having some form of communication with you. The reason I say that is very clearly that if you are a true believer, you are living in very unusual times, and God is doing very powerful things with unusual people in unusual times. At the end of time, we are living at end times and what what is really powerful about the time in which we live, we are actually seeing global economics crash we are seeing global governments being and coming together as one world government, we are seeing one economy coming together we are seeing one, one order coming together we are seeing that one that the Bible speaks about coming together. So wherever you are, I pray that you will not panic, you're not worried. You will not be fearful and all those that just joined us through that little bit of a technical hitch there. We will be back on line this evening at 12 o'clock for the midnight hour. As we gather around communion as we break bread and as we be still and know that he's gone. But as we just rest in this nation at this moment, we are seeing the political system buckling even more before our very eyes we are seeing governments buckle we are we are seeing healthcare areas buckling, we are seeing education buckling, we are seeing denominations buckling very clearly. So it is a privilege to be alive at this moment. But I just want to encourage you but we aren't going to go as I said earlier before that little technical hitch we had there. Before we go any further. Let's just read Hebrews chapter 12 Verse two, this is the main text. I would like to push this tonight I would like to leave this set in upon your heart tonight. And wherever you are, I want to encourage you and I just want to tell you to follow Jesus. The only person in this on this around this earth that we should be putting in front of any we should be lifting Christ up like never before we should be following Christ. We should be walking with Christ. We should be leaning into Christ we should be brothers and sisters of the word because the word of God is showing us very clearly now through the signs of the times. Christ said to those that audience around him, watch out for the signals watch out for the signs And we are the ones that are privileged to see the signs and the fulfillments of prophecies coming into being for the time in which we live and, and through the book of Revelation and through Thessalonians, and everything that's coming together through the word of God. So I just want to welcome you tonight, whether you are on holiday, whether you're at home, whether you're walking, maybe it's your first time dropping into this live stream service, whether you're capturing this podcast tonight, a week later, I just pray, I really pray, I may never walk with you, I may never journey with you, as a face to face. I mean, never had the privilege of shaking your hand or just are just being in your presence. I believe that you are unique, and God loves you. And God is with you. And God is with you through your Psalm 23. God is guiding you, even though I walk through the valley, whatever your press is on this life, whatever is your worry, whatever your fear is, I really believe God is drawing you deeper into a relationship with him. Forget church, forget religion. Forget me forget pastors and leaders and forget the system of what we all know and what we may have been brought up with. And there have been many that has been damaged by the system of religion and church. This is a breakaway time, this is a way this is a time when I really believe God is extracting those that are being caught in. I'm gonna say this very loud and clear, toxic relationships. I believe God is extracting those that have been caught in toxic denominations. I believe God is erasing people that have been in religion, and bad business errors and bad cultural moves, I believe God is lifting and drawing out and drawing brothers and sisters to himself. Now, I just want to take us to attacks in just a few moments. And I really, I really see this in such a different way. What lockdown has done to me is open up my heart more towards Christ, it has crushed the religious order that I was birthed and brought into and every area of that, and how that came into my life. Now I am free. I am free because the word of God has set me free. And I understand what my calling what my purpose is and what my stretch on this earth is. Now, let's let's read this Hebrews together. I want to try and keep this just so simple. Just keep it just without going too deep, because we're all tired. We're all weary of life. We're all exhausted, except for those that are sitting around poolside at the moment that are living the dream wherever you may be across the earth. And we want to welcome everybody tonight, everybody that drops into the services that were the that the families that that capture this service all the way in New Zealand, Australia, those in and all around the globe, and especially through the world of podcast and we want to thank you from the bottom of our heart for all of us. Because we're all journeying together. We're all learning. We're all walking. We're all asking God help me guide me strength for me. You know, each and every one of us is looking at life very differently to what it was before locked down. The system of this world is crashing, we are seeing we are seeing the elite, we are seeing them that everything around them is starting to crumble. We are seeing this because clearly that there has been a clear understanding of of political agendas being built on sand. When you build on sand, you will definitely fall with a great crash. The Bible says when you build upon the rock, see there is nothing. Nothing wrong with being a Christian and being in the political arena. There is nothing wrong with we've been a Christian and been in the world of business. This is not what it's about. There. This is really kind of a we need brothers and sisters we need warriors of the Word of God, to be in. Politics in business, education we need brothers and sisters of the word not religion. We need brothers and sisters of the word in business in politics, in every layer of life, every area of life to carry the word God is your rock. He is your strength. He is your rampart, he is your your yes and amen. He is your Jehovah Jireh Jehovah Nissi he is your peace. He's your shield. He is your rock and God is with you. And I just want to read this I'm going to stop speaking, which is a first and I'm gonna read Hebrews chapter 12 verse to fix your eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of your faith. For the joy that was set before him. He endured the cross scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Now, the simple part of that beginning of this text is very clear. Fix your eyes on Jesus, depending on what translation you're coming from, depending on what version you like read It sits well in your spirit. However you read and however you get you're studying, and you're learning make up, make the God of Israel, maybe just dropping it in your spirit, you may have trouble reading you may or may have trouble in education that is not an issue that is not a worry, I am severely dyslexic by it, but by His grace, He reveals His word to me through revelation or knowledge. So I just want to encourage you tonight, if you feel that we are you are, I am, we are missing out because of maybe dyscalculia, dyslexia, and many other areas of struggle with study, please do not worry. Because what I love about God, God does not limit us by education. You know, God reveals himself very simply and very powerfully through His Word, God reveals Himself through His Word, He gives us revelation or knowledge. And I pray that wherever you are tonight, please never worry about your education or upbringing, your stretch across the educational line, please do not worry about that. Because God loves you as you are. He created you as you are, he is with you as you are, he sees everything about you. Now we have just read from Hebrews chapter 12 verse to fix your eyes, fix your eyes on Jesus. Now, if he was capturing the news last night, if he was capturing it today, and you're seeing everything happening around government and departments and everything like that, we are starting to see and we have heard and we have seen a sudden, and almost a sudden slide in the political political arenas. But we will see a lot more of this we will see certain areas crashing, we are going to enter into a recession, we are going to enter into a tightening of finances, we are going to enter into an area where where we may be quite fearful. But I want to encourage you tonight, God has saved you, God is your provider. God is your Jehovah Jireh, God is with you. He's your Jehovah Nissi, he is your Jehovah Chalon, God will guide you and he will strengthen you. I urge you don't follow me. Don't follow the denominations don't. Let's not put our weight. Yes, I understand what the Bible says about structure. Biblical structure. Yes, I understand that. And that's what we have to follow the leadership in the Bible. So what and however, that may look within the fabric and the makeup of, of the church that is very different to what we send the fabric and the makeup of what the world is doing. I urge you like never before and I will continue to say this till God until God takes me off this planet. Follow Jesus Christ, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Don't follow me. Don't don't follow the denomination. Don't follow the latest hashtag and all that. Yes, check it out. Look at it. See if it's with the Word of God where it sits? Yes, obviously, because that is biblical. And that is correct. And that's the way that we should do this. Now. What I need to do as a believer is what it says in Hebrews, chapter 12, verse two, fix, fix and fix and fix. Fix my eyes, fix my eyes. Now eyes are extremely important. We know what they're for and how they got. We understand. Don't worry, Reverend Ben, don't worry, we understand what eyes are. But the way the Word of God is presenting it to us is critical. Fix your eyes. Now why would they say fix your eyes? They are speaking to us living at this generation at this moment. They are they are referring to us up the generational line up the line that they wasn't going to experience. The New Testament writers. Jesus actually said to the disciples and the audience around him, you're struggling to believe me, and I am right in front of you. Bless it all those that have not seen, but yet believe. So there is power in believing. But what I've got to be careful of is what I see. Does not distract me from what I believe. Not that it will snatch my belief away, but it could distract me from what I believe in. Because Roman says nothing can separate us from the love of God. That is in Christ Jesus. There is nothing in all Earth in all creation, devils, darknesses sicknesses, plagues, nothing can separate you from the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus, you are a son, and you are a daughter of the living God. And God has called you and God is calling you and God is drawing you and God is carrying you. We have just read keep your eyes. One translation says that another one says in the NIV that I am in, fix your eyes. I have to fix my eyes. Because at the moment if I was to look to the left and the right and See what is happening to the audience around me and see what is happening in the political areas in the political arenas, in the financial arenas in the business arenas. If I was to fix myself on policies, I would be building as it says in the book of Matthew, as we looked at this morning through coffee and prayer. And as we looked at communion, just for a moment, build on the rock. But it takes faith to build upon the rock, The just shall live by faith. Now, I just want to see if we can just bring a few things to maybe clear a few things up because there are many in cultures and in societies, and within the framework of church, still believing that you can lose your salvation. Let's just read this a moment. So the Bible is telling us now tonight, fix your eyes on Jesus. Fix your eyes on Jesus, we'll come back to this text. Now if you can, please turn with me to the book of Romans, chapter five. Romans chapter five. Just take a couple of moments to turn to Romans chapter five. And we will just read I will read this study. It's quite a stretch. It is quite a read tonight, whether you've got an electronic version, or you've got the paperback paperback version, I would urge you to open the Word of God tonight. Open it up on the app on your phone, or on one of your gadgets or on your computer wherever it may be. You know, as I said, there's nothing final look at my Bible. You I don't think you can see too well from where you are. I've got coffee, all stain on the edges of it. If you see what happened to me the other night, when I was in a getting ready for a sermon, I knocked a whole cup of coffee over straight over this and I was jumping up and down like a crazy person trying to dry it. The Word of God the Word My Word of God is torn, is battered, is beaten, is marked. It has no cover. It has no index, but it is the word of God. And I love this Bible. I love it. I just love the way that it feels. I love the way the pages are even though it smells a coffee, even though it is bruised. Even though I've got bits and pieces you can't really see missing out I've got to be so careful that I can't tear that anymore some 25 or come out the corner. So I would urge you to get yourself a Bible. You know, our good brother Andy, and I've just seen him pop online. Good brother, Andy Hammond, he will get you a Bible. Third, a great ministry that is involved in for many years. Good news for everyone formerly known as Gideon, the Bible is in printed version, and there is nothing like it. So if you have your word, please turn over to Romans chapter five. I'm speaking a bit too much. And I've got to keep it in the word. That's what I cannot do. I cannot be just speaking a load of old jargon. So Romans chapter five from verse one. And we'll go down to verse 11. It says, Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through whom we have gained access by faith, into his grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God, verse three of Romans chapter five. Not only so but we also glory in our sufferings because we know that sufferings produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character hope. Now, I'm not going to really speak or spend time in this, but I often mentioned the word character, you God knows your character. God knows everything about you. And it's so easy to look at our characters, and try and change our characters. Because the church and religion wants us to be holy Joe's, but our characters are clearly understood through God because God created us. So whoever you are, and however you are, and however you speak, and however, you present yourself to this world, God bless you in the name of Jesus because God created you in your uniqueness in your, in your beauty, and in your glory. And I'm not lifting you up as as, as you people might. What I'm saying is, is that you are a child of the living God, you are blessed and highly favored. And this is not about the skin me in the skin you This is about who is within us. You are blessed because God is with you. Your character is okay because God knows your character. Now, the Bible that that I'm reading from reference this word character. Now, you got to produce perseverance. Perseverance produces character and character hope. Hope is really important. We are living in times when we are needing hope. Because if I have put all my hope into the system of finances through retirement packages, if I put my my hope into property, if I put my hope and my life into government, what I am seeing is a crash. And that crash, it is falling beyond what we could ever imagine or think we are seeing people leaving, we are seeing people leaving governments, we are seeing, seeing businesses stop, we are seeing the wheels of industry grind to a halt, we are seeing the food chain, the food supplier, having bits of pieces missing in the cogs of movement in the industry. And we are starting to see areas of the supply chain in many trades and many areas, stalling and struggling to get to where we are, but I don't want you to worry, God is with you. The Holy Spirit is with you. The power of God is with you. Not because of the greatness of me or the greatness of you, or me in this flesh in your flesh. But because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. And the God that said, let there be light, the God that separated light from darkness to God that put the stars in the heavens, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, I'm trying to speak slower. I'm trying to be more careful how I present my words this evening. Now, let's go a little bit further into this scripture. It really is from verse six, I pray that we pick this up from verse six of Romans chapter five. You see, at just the right time, when we were powerless, I have to understand that I was powerless. I was powerless in the understanding that I had no power, or no authority or no thinking, or Nate no capability in my physical being, before God made my very physical being aware of his holiness. That there is and there is no one on planet earth that has the physical strength to choose God through the physical press. And through the Academic Press. God comes to you, and God comes to me. And as the word and as the envelope of God's word is open to us tonight. And as God reveals His word to you, because you are his son, and you are his daughter, you are His child, and he is your father, and he is in heaven. And he is walking this earth and He is your King. He is your supplier, he is your yes and amen. He is your Redeemer. He is your rock and he is your God. And he is as Jesus tells us very clearly, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. This is the God that you serve that I serve. God loves you unconditionally, unconditionally. How can you say that Rev? Well, if we, if we would look at this Scripture together, I don't have to labor or press this at all, because the word of God speaks loud and clear. Let's read from verse six. So this takes salvation out of the hands of the preacher, out of the hands of the theologian out of the hands of the one that thinks that he holds the power to tell you to come and receive your altar call, or whoever and however we look at that it is God that reveals, then the human body suddenly is alerted to the supernatural power of the living God. Let's read verse six. You see, at just the right time, when you were still parallel, powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. What does ungodly mean? We understand what the ungodly means someone or a community or a human being that is not interested in God whatsoever. So while I was ungodly, I'm churchy. I'm not even thinking, I want to keep this simple without going too deep tonight. While I was still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. He died Not for the Holy Joe's, not for the Pharisees and the Sadducees that standing on the street corners, not for those for the shouting and hollering and begun themselves up in religious courts. He died for the sinner. He died for the wretch like me. He died for the lowly. He died for the week, he set the week free. He set the ungodly, what is a ungodly person, someone that is living in the skip of sin, and almost enjoying its filthy nests. To that degree, ungodly. You cannot get that you cannot get removed any further away, using this terminology, while I was ungodly, unchurched, unsaved not looking for God, not thinking about church, not interested in going to church on a Sunday morning, not understanding that I will be wherever I am at this moment when I was on godly and power less. The cross happened for me and for you. While I was ungodly, while I was singing, so great and so powerfully while I was so ungodly, let's read the text ourselves. I urge you to get yourself a Bible to get yourself a written word. My good friend and partner in the Gospel Andy Hammond will get you a Bible. It costs nothing the great ministry, the great ministry of Gideons, that ad then I have to use the word Gideons because that's how we remember it. That has been changed and it has been switched around to good news for everyone. But we will remember it and it is still the same Gideons get yourself a Bible, the group, even if we can't afford one, we will get you a Bible, we will get you the Word of God, it's great to have it on the device is great to have it electronically. But there is nothing so more. Nothing more powerful than holding the written word of God. And God is speaking to you tonight. Wherever you are, across this earth, whatever you are doing. God is with you. How can you say that? Because I am reading from the Word of God, the God of Israel that spoke this world into being and this is what His Word says, about me and you and everyone that is not saved. When I say not saved yet. I'm not referring to the strength of their physical, saying, I decided to follow Jesus. What happens in salvation is that God saves us before we realize we are saved. You cannot lose your salvation because your salvation is not dependent on you calling on God. God stretched out God created you God called you. God called me and saved me in my darkest part of my life, because it says that he saved me when I was ungodly, unchurched, not even thinking about being a pastor living in the skip of sin. I was bathing in sin. I was foreflight and sin and God said, I am going to save that man. I'm going to save that woman. They are my children. They are my children, and they do not belong to Lucifer. Salvation is powerful. While I was a sinner, not interested in church, not praying, not thinking, not understanding, not going to a church. And i fall i fell sorry, in the bracket that we're in tonight. Absolutely, completely 100% Bathing in ungodliness. Let's read. You see at just the right time, when you were powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rare. Will you find anyone dying for a righteous person, though for a good person someone may possibly dare to die. Verse eight of Romans chapter five. But God demonstrated His own love for us while we were still sinners, religion, preachers and teachers that are holding and think that you hold the key to someone salvation. I got to be kidding. Phulera say this. It's over. The rhetoric, religion, holding the key and lording this over someone's life and saying, if you don't decide to run down now and give your life to Jesus, this is your last John. John's had dare any human being, try to tell me and put the fear of that human in me, if I don't run that I've gone down to more altar calls, and I can count, because I thought that I wasn't safe because I thought that I got saved when I decided to get saved. And when I said, I want to follow Jesus, oh, my goodness. How, how have we been hoodwinked? How have we? Well, we know why. And I want you I won't use that word hoodwinked, because that comes from Masonic Lang, language and satanic language. But we basically have, we have been deceived, because there are false preachers and teachers and law givers out there that are holding what they call the key to salvation. You've got to call on Jesus. Well, actually, my Bible tells that he saved me while I was bathing in the ungodliness of sin. Let me read some more. But God demonstrated His own love for us. In this while we were, we were, we were, what does that mean? We were, all are still sinners. Christ died for us, while I was a sinner, while I was ungodly. While I was not even thinking about the cross of Calvary, the cross of Calvary, over 2000 years ago, the scriptures were fulfilled. For a sinner like me, saved by grace, the church hasn't saved me. Religion hasn't saved me, religion has pressurize me, and almost destroyed me. But through lockdown by the grace and the glory, and the power of God, I have come to the understanding that God, Christ, he is going to build his church, he is in charge of the Bride of Christ, and all power and all authority is sitting upon him. And I have no power and authority to tell anybody that this is the window of salvation for you. Because God chose you and chose me while us and we were ungodly. There are many people don't even like to think that any particular point in their life that they were ungodly. I have seriously been ungodly. I have bathed, I have danced with the devil, but God, but God, in grace and power, and by the blood of Jesus Christ. The enemy's work is broken. The enemy's work is destroyed because of the old rugged cross. What a beautiful What a beautiful him the old rugged cross because of the cross of Calvary, because of the the piercing of the side of the Messiah, because the scriptures were fulfilled, because he chose to die for you. And for me, we can live and we can face tomorrow. He has saved us he has set us free. Let me read a little bit further. So let's just recap very quickly because time is pressing really quickly. So let's just recap a moment. Right Hebrews chapter 12 verse to keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfecter of our faith. keep our eyes on Jesus. I've got to keep my eyes on Jesus. I keep my eyes on Jesus. I keep my eyes on Jesus I keep I keep speaking that scripture. Hebrews 12 Verse two, Hebrews 12 Verse two, keep my eyes on Jesus, the author. I love the fact that the writer writes the author and the perfecter of our faith, keep my eyes on Jesus keep my eyes on Jesus. He's the author. He is the author. He is the perfecter of our faith. And not only is the as everything that I've just said, comes into Completion through Hebrews chapter 12. But this is also Christ, our Redeemer. Now, verse eight of Romans chapter five. I'm going to read this to the end of verse 11. But God demonstrated His own love for us while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him. For if, for if, while we were God's enemies, God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his son, how much more having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life. Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, whom he has not refused reconciliation. Whatever way, and however, we try to stretch it, and remove it, and try and put the weight on some other forms of teaching, no one can choose God. No one has the power and the capabilities within the physical understanding and the realms of salvation, to choose him. The Scripture is loud and clear. All have sinned, while I was a sinner, while I was ungodly, God reconciled me to Christ through sorry to God through Christ, by sending Christ to the cross of Calvary, and sacrificing his one and beloved and only Son, so that there will be one sacrifice, once and for all. You are redeemed and you are bought with a price price the world does not own you, your family do not own you. No one in this world owns you. The government does not own you, you are a slave to righteousness, you are a prisoner of hope, as it says in the Book of Zechariah, you are a prisoner of hope. You are a slave to righteousness, you are a son and a daughter of the living God, you are blessed and highly favored. You are wonderfully and fearfully made, and you are reconciled to God through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who has made a sacrifice, as the book tells us one sacrifice once and once for all, through the precious blood of the King of kings and the Lord of lords. It is too big for the human processing of the mind. It is too big for the cognitive works of the brain, it is too big for the theologians. It is too big for the academia. Press that is out there is too big for knowledge to clearly understand that no human being has the power to say I decided to follow Jesus before He said, Listen, your earth suit on this day, at this hour on the Mayas road, on the Damascus Road, or whatever Road, your earth suit and your Earth view is going to realize that I am the Holy God of Israel, not because your earth suit has the power and the capabilities that will tell me when I'm going to give you salvation, because I sent my son to the cross of Calvary before I birthed you and brought you into physical existence before you came into this dimension, in which you see with your physical eyes, through the perception of life before you perceive life before you understand life. Before you engage in life. I knew you and I knitted you together in your mother's womb. I created the world and the heavens there are and before they came into existence, you was in the plan of redemption. No human being has the power, to turn to say to their supernatural God. I decide to follow you when I decide to follow you. God has called you. God has saved you. God has delivered you through the outworking of the cross of Calvary that the scriptures might be fulfilled that at x o'clock at extra time. And the scripture says at his time in verse six of Romans chapter five you see at just the right time Who's time? His times? His ways are higher than our ways his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. His plans and His ways are just so how can any preacher and teacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ, really preach and teach that they are given a human being a window of opportunity to receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior? If that is the case, this Bible is not correct. But this Bible is correct. And there is error within the teachings and the preachings of the church. His ways are just his timings are perfect. From Genesis to Revelation, His Word is yes and amen. His word is as sure as you look at your family and your friends around you. And as you look at this life, God is so real, it is beyond human understanding. No scientists can prove that he does not exist. No one can prove that he does not exist, because it is impossible. The God that said, let there be and there was saved you. The God that put the stars in the heavens has set you free. God has blessed you. God has guided you. God has strengthened you. God has anointed you. God has called you. And the scripture in Romans chapter five, verse six, you see at just the right time. God's clock is not the same as our timings. God has sent His Son to save us. We are saved by grace, unconditional favor, through the power of the spoken and written word of God, there is no one the more I look and speak, and we talk and we share this, and we come and we reason together, I cannot be persuaded in any way shape, or form, that I have the power or the capabilities to call God when I want God to and when I want to be saved. There is no scripture that can back that up. The more I realized that I am a wretched man no more I realized he saved me in the ungodly ness of the way that I was, while I was ungodly. And while I was still sinning, God saved, then we understand. And then we get to the part in the New Testament where it says whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. That is a different area to where we are speaking tonight. But what we got to remember is, in certain areas of our lives, we was ungodly. And in the ungodliness, we did not think of a holy God. The scripture tells us that we were enemies. While I was still an enemy, he chose to reconcile me and you to him through the outworking power through his Son, Jesus Christ. So while I was completely anti God, anti faith, anti not looking and thinking of him. He was already out working his plan of salvation in me and they knew we got with we're finishing we're out. So I'm just going to remember and just just say this, this text one more time. Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, fix your eyes. Now. This is the time for really fixing my eyes. Because if I look at governments, they're they're falling, they're sliding away as we speak. money markets are sliding away. Businesses are sliding away, economics are sliding away. The system of the world is sliding away. But when I fix my eyes on Jesus, the author the perfecter of my faith, what does the psalmist write what does he say in Psalm 91? Read what it says in Psalm 91. Tonight, Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will serve the Lord He is my refuge my my God in whom I trust read further on down 1000 at this side 10,000 at this sign, but no harm or disaster will come near my 10 Because He loves me says the Lord. I will rescue him. And With long life will I show him my salvation. I've paraphrase that a bit because I don't have the scripture in front of me. But the Scripture clearly says, because God has revealed this to me, I will show him my salvation. It is him that saves, it is him in his time in reveals to the earth me and you that he is holy, and he has saved us with long life and my salvation. I will rescue him, says the Lord who needs rescuing someone that is ungodly. Someone that is a sinner, someone that is not thinking of this holy God, I will rescue I will deliver, I will set free, I will save, I will redeem, I will heal. I will tear down the walls of Jericho. I will i am the God of Israel, I am your Jehovah. I am your God. I am your king. I am your father. I am your salvation. The scripture makes it clear in the Old Testament. He is our rock allow salvation. God bless you. And I pray as we finish this right now. May God strengthen you in all his ways. Thank you so much for joining us. Wherever you are at this moment in time. Just continue in the Word of God. Continue to keep your eyes and fix your eyes on Jesus. And when I say please follow us on the socials and, and follow us through the podcast and everything like that. I'm not referring to following us as human beings. I'm referring to us as a movement together. We are a movement together we are the body of Christ. We are children of of the Most High. You are a daughter and you are a son of the living God. And I pray that wherever you are tonight, fix your eyes on Jesus. Don't look at me. Don't look at those that gather around this table. Don't look at the bishops. Don't look at the leaders of the denomination. Don't look at those that are that are building their ministries. Look to the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Look to Jesus, fix your eyes on Jesus. He's with you. Because He created you. He loves you unconditionally. God bless. We will see you tonight at 12 o'clock for the midnight hour as we break bread together. So wherever you are tonight, never give up. Never give up. We are prisoners of hope. As the Old Testament says, We are slaves to righteousness. God bless you. In Jesus name. Amen.
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