Good evening, God bless, I can see people jumping online. I hope you're well, wherever you are this evening across the earth. Thank you so much for joining us, as we just gather around the scriptures just for a short while for about 30 minutes or so, we're going to turn to the book of Hebrews, we're going to turn to the book of Hebrews. And we are in chapter 12. Hebrews, chapter 12. If you're joining us tonight, and let's turn to Hebrews chapter 12. Grab yourself a Bible wherever you are across the earth. May God bless you and strengthen you. Thank you for joining us, the time is 733. Here, within the UK, wherever you are this evening, may God just guide you and strengthen you. Blessings to you across the world. I see people texting in from wherever you are, God bless you to you, thank you so much for joining us. There is only one place I feel that I need to take myself tonight. And that is sort of word of God looking at everything that's happening within the framework within the UK what's happening around the world at this moment in time. But I really believe I really believe that God is speaking to the UK I really believe that we've all my complete fiber we've all my innermost being that God is really speaking through the events that is happening around the world and what's happening today. And we thank God for the life of Majesty and everything that's gone on today. But we are on a new dawn we are on the new beginning. You know God is moving very powerfully, we can see where we sit in the end times and and the question is, how do I keep myself strong? How when I say that I'm not talking about the physical me, I'm talking about the enemy? How do I keep myself strong? What do I do? How do I focus? What should I do? I think that we do need to get back into the Word. Now when I say we I'm referring to myself first, I'm referring to the church. What we've heard today was fantastic, the reading of Scripture, the singing of psalms, everything was just so good to hear the Holy Spirit spoken about Christ spoken about Jesus and God and everything that went along with that. Thank God for the scripture readings. And I do believe that we are we are on a new, a new wave and a new beginning a new beginning. And I just pray that wherever you are this evening if you are a true believer, a true believer in the Scripture, a true believer in Christ Jesus, let's forget let's throw out the throw out the arena have a conversation about whether we're churchgoers that's that's in the biome buyer that that's regardless, am I a believer? Do I believe from Genesis to Revelation? Do I believe in the Father, the Son the Holy Spirit? Do I believe in the fundamental points the Christian teachings do I believe in the word of God? Yes, I do that is it do I believe that my name is stamped in the Lamb's book of life? Do I believe we are living in a time when we just gotta just gotta believe you know, we thank God for the theologians ever gone before we thank God for those that can really unpack the Greek the the Hebrew and and come up with all these great words on this sound in all this and all this noise within literature and all that. But you know what? What is so beautiful about Christ? He says, just believe, and I believe I actually believe that we're in a position now, where we're coming back, you know, it's like a like, you know, we've heard through the through COVID, about flattening the curve and all that that went with that. I believe that we've peaked so high in in, in certain areas of the church, we're coming back when I say back to basics, coming back to the fundamental point is do you believe? Are you a believer in Christ Jesus, we've had all the fancy words without all the fancy regalia without all the fancy showmanship, you know, it's peaked, it's peaked. It's peaked, and it's actually shown us showed us sorry, that there is there is nothing in all that there's nothing in the height, there's nothing in the showmanship, what it is, it's stripped back to the Word of God, just believe. Now that will throw a lot of people off the twig, you know, because they will say you got to meet in church a certain amount of times a week you got to do this, you got to do that. You got to stand on one end, you got to do this and you got to, it's not about works. It's not about works. It's do I believe, do I believe so? How do we focus? How do we get through what we're all facing at this moment? What does the future look like? What what is the situation before us in our behind our front doors, in our homes, in our workspace, in our lives, in our relationships within our children within our families? What what does my life look like at the moment? What direction should I be going in? What is the way forward and it should be Christ? I believe that we are living in a time of coming back to the basic fundamental points of Christianity were the hyper grace, the hyper Church, the hyper movement, the the prophesied movement, the name it and climate and the prosperity movement have pushed it up right up there. And we've been looking at it so high in the sky thinking I can't get doesn't, doesn't seem right. Well, now is the time to realize that that is actually collapse and that is collapsing. So if you are a believer, it's a point of just believe, you know, do I understand it? No, I don't understand all this Christian area of faith. I don't get it. I can't because my because I'm mind body and soul. But my enemy I believe. So I believe my mind is playing catch up all the time. My mind is saying, Yes, Lord, if law but Lord, why law, but I believe arching over all that and throwing a blanket over all of my feelings and, and how I look at things I believe. So in my innermost being, I believe, do I understand everything? No, when I look at denominations, do I get all the breaking down or denominations? No. But by breaking it down, I can see this, I can see that. But I've got come away from all that I've got to come away from all this structure and his hype and everything. And I've got to get myself back into the Word of God straight into the word into the spoken word of God, the written word when I when I read, I keep in the Word of God, because the word of God is yes and amen. The Word of God is everything that I need. So how do I do this? I start off in Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, we've started this, we've looked at it, we've unpacked it, you know, we're, what Monday nights all about, as we just sit here as we just relax. And as we, as we just focus on what's going along, it's good to look at what the world is doing, to see what the Word says about where we sit in a calendar of time, you know, but not to engage in it. And what do I mean by engaging in is to do what the Israelites done when they went into the land of Canaan? They just said, Yes, God, we we will not do what their practices are. I don't engage in the practices of the culture of the Society of what is happening around me, I stand on the Word of God, and I stand on that word, and I stand on that word. I stand on the Word of God, I believe it, I believe I trust it, I live it, I walk it. Now I've just said live it. That is the hardest. That is the hardest thing to do, is to be a believer and actually try and walk this Christianity out, because you will have foxes at your ankles. You'll have the Barkers over there, you'll have the hyper stuff over here, you'll have to travel indoors, you'll have the trouble at work, you'll have the issue at schools, you'll have the trouble here, there and everywhere. And all through this life I've got to believe I've got to believe I've got to believe focusing on Jesus. So that brings us to the text where we are tonight. I focus on Jesus. How do I focus on Jesus? I understand that the scripture says that I will never leave you nor forsake you. I understand that you will not leave me as an orphan. But Lord, I don't have the tangible physical presence of you in that physical area where the disciples had the privilege of actually having to be able to touch his hands to see them now marks I don't have that privilege, Lord, it's, it's like Lord, I live in a world that everything is, is put into dimensions into the physical dimension, what I see I believe what I what I what I touch with, with my senses, through my taste, my smell, my eyesight, my air sight, the major senses within my body. So when I when my body engages with that with the physical realm, I believe because it's in front of me, but God, I've got to believe. I got to believe in a word in a very physical world, that everything has to be seen before it can be believed. But Lord, I've got to believe before I can see, that's where faith comes in. The Bible says the just shall live by faith. Isn't that frustrating when people like me go, just live by faith? Just live by how teach me how to live by faith. I keep in the Word of God. I keep in the word I keep reading. I keep reading. I keep listening. I keep it sitting in my innermost being Joshua is a great place to start. It says, God says meditate, meditate on this, meditate on it. Take a small amount of Scripture. Take a psalm. Just take one verse, don't don't start ripping off chapters. You know what it's like read the Bible in a year. I'm dyslexic. I'm severely dyslexic. I have probably have dyscalculia as well, and I'm a dyslexic. So reading for me is so so difficult. It is beyond human understanding. And there are so many times when I can get frustrated. But what I love about the Scripture, as we looked at last week, or whenever we was we're always in a podcast at sermonizing, or whether it was in Bible study in I can't remember what night was was looking about the two that was on the Emmaus road and it said God opened their heart got opened up their eyes, I should say Jesus, sorry, to the theologians that are out there, Jesus opened up their eyes opened their hearts up to him. And then we go a little bit further on in that text that was in I think, what was in Luke chapter 2223. Forgive me for not giving the actual point of reference. The exact point of reference, maybe you could just have a look through. And it's where and also it's where Christ reveals Himself, and He hates it, he eats the boiled fish with him. And he reveals himself and they was terrified, that was frightened. And it says that Christ opened their mind, Christ open the Scripture. So whether I'm a dyslexic whether I've got learning difficulties, whether I struggle reading, whether I, whether I can't comprehend the text, I can't get it, I can't understand it. You know, what is so beautiful about the Word of God, it's not down to the humans capability. It's not down to the skill set of the human being. It is not down to the academic stretch, it is not down to how we can verbalize it's not down to how we present it, how we look at it, how we think it because God opens up the word, Jesus opens up the word, the word is opened up to us. So what I have to do is I have to make the effort. So if I just take 111 particular text, and I just read it, if I take Psalm 91, Whoever dwells in the shelter the Most High, if I just dwell on that, Lord, I thank you that Whoever dwells in the shelter or the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I just keep speaking the word I just say Lord opened his word up to me, Lord, father opened the envelope in His scripture, Lord, get me into your word, because I'm hungry for your word. So if we was to turn if we should turn to Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, we have looked at this, we have sermonize, this we have done line by line precept we have, we have stretched it, we have looked at it, but I just feel that I've got to read this tonight. I just, I just, I just pick it up in my, my, my being, not in my not in my emotion, not in my thinking. But in my belief, I believe that I am being led to read to this tonight. So we're gonna go to Hebrews chapter 12, as we break bread together, and if you're living within the UK, and if you've been a part of some form of what's been going on today, through remembering our majesty, you might be picking up some things in in, in, in the areas of the spiritual atmosphere, anything is going on. And it's just the easiest way to explain the atmosphere at the moment. Well, let's just turn, turn to Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, and it says, fix your eyes on Jesus, it is that simple. Fix your eyes on Jesus, whatever is happening in your life. You know, it's not about coming into the church. It's not coming and clocking into a religious building. It's not about coming to every service. It's about believing. It's about believing, I believe in the God of Israel, I believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of the everlasting God, I believe in the Holy Spirit. I believe in the counselor, I believe in the word of God, I believe, but there is a difference between believing and understanding. Because as a human being, I understand things, but I'm limited to what I can understand. But to believe, I believe from Genesis to Revelation, I believe everything that God has written that God has ordained that God has put before us in our human eyes, I believe it I don't question that in my belief system. But how do I get myself to understand it, no human being can study it and understand everything because the Scripture is revealed through revelation or knowledge. Paul explains that as he is writing one of the letters of the present in one of the letters as he writes that letter, it has been revealed to him by the power of God by the Holy Spirit, by by revelation of knowledge, it has been revealed to him as he starts to write the Holy Spirit, God, the anointing starts to reveal what God wants for humanity for life to be put down onto the page, and then what we have before us, I believe it so I believed in the 66 books, I believe it my belief doesn't question anything. I believe it, I just accept it, I believe it. So when I come down to the human side of me die, I understand it. I can't understand it, because if I could understand it, it wouldn't be supernatural. If I if I understood Genesis to Revelation, but I believe it so as I believe through the seed of faith, God opens up the world to me, and it becomes easier for me to understand it but to understand it, I understand certain Lazar scripture I understand it, because we are all skilled. We all have a certain academic stretch, we all have a certain understanding we can all we all learn in certain ways through picture form through Newton, from Numbers through through visual Frou Frou just learning we all have different ways of how we gather information, but that's gathering information. When I look at a word of God, I don't Look at the word of God as as information I look at it as Revelation, I look at it as God speaking to me, yes, it is informative, but I cannot leave it at that place of being a book of information. It is a book of the living God. It is the Holy Word of God. It shows me how to live he shows me how to treat others it it shows me what what being a believer is about. It tells me so much about life. It gives me history, it gives me poetry, it gives me the genealogy of Christ Jesus. So when I look at the book, you could say there are certain layers and certain areas as a human being that I can I can be informed of certain areas of it, but beyond the information beyond the understanding, so information and understanding sits in my human skill sets sits at a ceiling level, I am limited to my education, I am limited to the words that I can use, I am limited as a human being. And we all can grow in certain situations we all learn differently, we all understand differently. But what is so powerful about the Word of God, God's word is revealed. So it doesn't matter where I am birth, what my culture is, it doesn't matter if I can't read or write doesn't matter if it doesn't matter about my academic understanding of my studying. You know, some people look at theologians and think, Oh, if only I could be like that. God doesn't want me or you to be like that God wants me and you to be me. I knew God wants us to be you or me because he created you. And He created me he he doesn't need another we are not cloned. We are herded. As a nation. As society we are herded. And we are tried to be put into a box in different layers and different levels of life, through my academics, through my thinking through my financial stretch through my postcode, through where I live for where I work, for where to children go to school, where everything is, we are boxed on we are layered, and we are categorized, and we are placed in a certain drawers, within the system of the world we are, we are placed in a certain boxes. But that's not the kingdom of God because God created you as an individual. You are different to me, and I am different to you. God loves you and God loves me, God died for you as the individual God died for me, he did not do and he did not die for the culprit, buddy, He died for the individual. He died for the individual he he tells us that very clearly through the Scriptures, that you are loved, you are loved so much that the hairs on your head are numbered. You are beyond human understanding in his eyes, you are a child of the living God, you are a child, and you are distinctive, and you are unique, and you belong to God, and you are precious and your character and you and everything about you you are not part of a corporate movement. Yes, we are part of the body of Christ, but the body of Christ is not a corporate entity. It is not a place for the elite to sit in the corporation, the elite the establishment that is not the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God, if you are a believer, so we say to ourselves, what am I the I the year or the leg or whatever? What part do I play in the kingdom in the Kings domain, in the King setting you up, you have been chosen, you have been called you have been saved, you have been set apart just as you are. But we try to change ourselves for whatever denomination when we try to change ourselves for the family context that we're sitting in, we try to change ourselves, for the workplace area, we try to change ourselves. Because of this university, we try and check we try to adapt, we try to adapt to what what almost the world is expecting of us. And we we almost lose ourselves as in who we really are in Christ Jesus. So I think tonight is a good time to come to the to the Passover, the breaking of bread. And as we break bread and as we take that together to understand that you are loved as you are, wherever you are at this moment, wherever you may be doing crises you Christ knows you. He knows your heart, He loves you beyond human understanding. And he doesn't want us to be molded and shaped because the scripture says don't conform to the pattern. What what is what is happening in the world don't conform to that. You belong to that to the king, you are a child, you are a son or a daughter. You are a child of the living God and you belong to Him. And you belong to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and God loves you as you are. The world is trying to put bells and whistles on us. The work the world is trying to get us to do absolutely everything trying to shape us into the culprit person, the educated person, this person, that person and if do you ever have you ever picked up in your innermost being that you actually do not fit in the environments that you are working in, in the school setting? in a live setting, in the home setting in the workplace setting, in just this, have you ever felt that you don't fit, you're trying to make yourself fit into some puzzle that you don't fit into? That is because we have been herded so much through religion, through tradition, through the elite through the society, through the culprit for the entities through the establishment of trying to fit into boxes that they want us to fit. Well, you are unique, you are a child of the living God, you are blessed and highly favored and you are loved by Christ Jesus. And just as you are, as that Billy Graham, he says, Just come as you are, as you are, you know, just just come as you are. Because as you are, he knows as we are, but how how do I get through this line? How how do I press on through the rhetoric? How do I push on through the trouble how, how do I still get through this life? Let's just remind ourselves Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, come on, let's let's open the Scriptures up together. Let's get ourselves a Bible. Let's get ourselves a word of God. It's great to have the electric electronical devices, but there's nothing fine and they're in a paperback form, flick the Word of God open tonight, and see what it says in Hebrews chapter 12 verse to fix your eyes on Jesus, I fix my eyes, I fix my eyes, I how do I fix my eyes, as I said at the beginning of this tonight, he's not physically present with me. He's not physically walking with me, although he is walking with me, because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. So we are living in a world that is that is that is dictated and very practical. So everything that I see is happening now. So everything that I see that is happening now, it is exactly as my mind and my body wants to see it. But we are more than mind and body we are spiritual. Now. Now I'm not going off onto that super band of old I'm not jumping in or all that junk this out there hyper grace and all that sort of not looking at that. What I'm saying is that we are spiritual because if you are a believer, and you have the father, a son, the Holy Ghost, you can't get away from the fact that we have the Spirit of the Living God. So suddenly we become spiritual, we become alert, we become sharp, are you finding that your thinking is different at the moment? Are you finding that your your gaze into society into culture into living is very different? Are you finding you're looking into society, and especially today, if you are within the framework within the four walls of the UK, I believe that there are many people that had been picking up a certain presence, a certain understanding a certain layer of uncertainty within the UK. But as we've heard the scriptures today across the across the airwaves across the media, as we heard the scriptures read out, as we heard the songs being sung, as we've heard, and we've seen the scriptures and God being spoken about and the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ been spoken about, you know, there has been there has been a shift there has been there has been a change. Today there has been a serious change and as we say, as we see a change in other gods so to speak. God a God is moving God is really moving. But within the UK now there is there is a fresh wave. There is a move a new, a new beginning, there is a new beginning and we got to keep our eyes on Jesus. Christ has already put our feet upon the rock because he he puts us on the rock he he puts us literally on the rock, he is the Rock of Ages he is your God, He is your King. He is the great I Am he is your Savior, and you are saved. What I love what I love about Jesus and salvation, justification sanctification. Do you know what everything that happened at the cross of Calvary was before any cathedral was built before Elam came in at birth before EO G before Assemblies of God before this movement and that movement, the Church of England Catholicism before any of the church existed as we know it today, let's just remind ourselves Jesus said it is finished. Before any great building was built before Canterbury Cathedral comment have been before all of that was put into position by man. Christ saved us. The shed blood in the so the shedding of the blood of Christ on the cross of Calvary happen before any monumental building was constructed before any movement was put into position before the church was birthed. You know because then we entered into a new covenant when when you when we really look at the crowd us, we were saved because of the cross. We wasn't saved because of the Church of England or Catholicism because of the, or the Pentecostal movement. And I'm not putting anything down whatsoever. What I'm saying is clear fact, we was not saved by the church, we were saved by the high priest of the church, Jesus Christ, we were saved and we was washed in his blood. The church has come into being years after that you can see the birth and well, when we say the birth of the church, I refer to the birth of the biblical church. The biblical church is very different to what we see across the world today. Yes, there is the biblical church. But when you look at it, and you try and find it, it's very small. It's not because it is weak, but because of religion is on the outside. And you will always find that religion was always on the outside of Christ, Christ was always at the center, and it was built up of layers, Pharisees, Sadducees, the law give us the this person, that person, the world, learning all that all the great thing because we're on the outside, and when you break it down, there is power. In the church of Jesus Christ, there is power in the Word of God. There is power in God's word, there is power, in the Holy Spirit, there is power. In there is life in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Scripture tells us in the Book of Genesis, there is life in the blood. So keep my eyes on Jesus. I keep my eyes on Jesus. I've said this a few times, and I and you're going more how do I keep my eyes on this invisible God, where my eyes are capturing you now as I capture you now, as I capture this microphone. As I capture the table, I see the carpet, I see everything, I see the camera, I see the lens, I see everything. But I don't see Jesus in physical form. But what I do have is I have the word of God, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was gone. And he was with God. In the beginning, he is the living word. So as I look as I read this word, I have Christ right in front of me, I have the living word in front of me, I have am living and dwelling within this, this skin that I walk around in a is in these bones is in the innermost being, he is your God, He is your King, He is the living word. He says, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life No one comes to the Father except through me. So fix in my eyes, how do I fix my eyes on Jesus? The disciples were able to do that, because they had him in the physical formation. But after the ascension after the cross of Calvary, he was he ascended into the heavens, and he's coming back and we know how he's coming back. Because the book of Revelation clearly clearly tells us about how do I keep my eyes on this Christ? How do I keep my eyes on him? Now the physical Christ has ascended into heaven. I keep my eyes on the word because as I look at the word, I look at the living Christ as I look at the word as I read the word, I hear Christ, I hear his word. I hear his word to humanity. You know, Christ is speaking to humanity. Christ is speaking to the world through the Scripture. Christ was speaking today through His Word, across the media Christ was, was being the the Psalms were being sung out. God's Holy Word was being sung out across the media today. God was speaking to the world today. And Christ is speaking to you today, through the Scripture, and he is telling me today as well as you today, fix your eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and the perfecter of your faith. He is the pioneer era. And he is the Perfecter he is the high priest, He is the King of kings, he is the Lord of lords, He is the great I AM, he is worthy of all praise, he is your God, and He is your King, you know, we have looked at and I believe that we are being led to this to to analyze to, to maybe focus a little bit more on what we understand as what an altar call is an altar call. Doesn't really doesn't allow me as the human being to have the power to let Jesus in. Because Jesus was already in because he created my innermost being. And he saved me before I even understand what I even understood about save salvation was so I was saved before I even understood what salvation was, I was justified before I understood what justification was, I was under grace before I realized what what grace meant because I was in the plan, and you was in the plan you were saved before we even understood that what Christ what Christ meant before salvation meant we were saved before the world was even came and into being because he says I knew you before the foundation of the world. So if he knew us, he knew everything about us if he knew us, he knew that the Adam and Eve would fall in the Garden of Eden he knew that there would have to be a redemption plan. He didn't panic when when the tree of life was touched. He he didn't panic when the when that happened when they acted too. Unless of course he didn't react in a panic or a fearful moment he knew because he is the God he knows the beginning. From the end and the end from the beginning. He knows everything in the layers of life. He knows everything in the fabric of creation because He created everything. He is before all things and in Him all things consist. It says that very clearly in the book of Colossians nothing that has been made that has been made. He has created all things and that means he has created salvation. He has created justification. He has created every language on this earth He has created. Every fiber of your being he has created every stars in the heavens above and as far as the universe stretch out, he is on the outside of the universe. He is acts as Isaiah says he is stretching out the worlds at this moment, he is unrolling the skies, the universe's the heavens above like a scroll, he is rolling it already out. He is bigger than time itself. He is on the outside of time, time cannot go any further than him. He holds time in his hands, he holds time. And he allows time to move he allows allows oxygen, oxygen he allows air to come in he allows the stars to shine, he allows the wind to move he allows the the sun to rise and the sun to set he created the heavens and the earth. Every angelic being has been spoken into being by your God, your King, your Creator. So there is no way in heaven and earth that any human being holds the power of salvation, on and in the skin that they are in. What happens at an altar call is that we go down and we we listen to what the preacher and the teacher says. And now Earth, us our Earth suit my mind and my concept of my processing is suddenly what it is alerted just like the two on the Mayas road. See, they walk with Jesus, they spoke with Jesus, their eyes see Jesus, but they didn't recognize him until he opened up. It is God that opens up. It is Christ that opens up. No man has the power to open himself up to God. Because God created up your fibers of your being. God created the muscles in your body. God created the tendons God created your fiber. God knows exactly everything about the blood that is running through your veins. God created your veins, God created your thoughts your thinking, God created your character. God created all things when the Bible says He created all things and all things x exist. Because of him. He created everything that gives me peace. But Lord, how do I focus on you now, in a very visual society, a very hard press world. What do I do? How do I keep my eyes on Jesus, the Word of God. I keep my eyes. God told Moses meditate, meditate on this word. Do not leave your lips. Do not let leave your heart meditate day and night, then you will be then you will be meditate day and night then you will be meditate day and night then you will be that's when then you will be comes into being. If I meditate day and night if I think if I rest if I be still, if I maybe put the scripture to song if I if I maybe put it in poetic format, if I put it to, to, to music, if I put what however I need to get God's Word into my heart, I do what I do, I do what I have to do. But as I make that effort as I make the effort of faith and actions go together. So I make a conscious physical effort to read the Word of God. As my eyes lock on to the Holy Word of God. I'm looking at locking on to the root. I'm looking onto the power. I'm locking on to Jesus Christ as I sing the Scripture as I sing the song, you know, look at look at the Lord's prayer today. Take today as an example. When the cameras panned around when the Lord's Prayer was read out, I think twice. Forgive me if I've got that wrong. When the Lord's Prayer was read out whether it was believed or not, whatever way the atheists said it. The believers said it but whatever you say about it, God's prayer, the prayer the model prayer that Jesus Christ put into the scripture was read out today. Our Father who art in heaven isn't a great isn't it powerful that other parts of the world owed other parts of humanity, maybe just hearing the Word of God for the first time? Could that be just a thought for this moment? Because the Scripture says very clearly, you will see another sign for the end to come, when the whole globe when the whole globe hears about Jesus. Isn't it interesting that on all four corners of the globe, how many people were hearing the Lord's Prayer, how many people were hearing the Gospel of John being read out today, we look at technology. And there are many that look at technology and want to discuss it in the world of Christianity, the electronical church, you don't want that you don't. But just maybe it's in part of the plan that God has for the whole globe, at one particular time, in all creation, to hear the Word of God, almost at the same point around the globe. God uses technology. We see this today, the world was locking in, the world was locking in. And when they locked into what they locked into, you cannot get away from the fact that you heard the Lord's Prayer, the word of God reached around the world, the Scripture tells us another signal, another sign, when all four corners of the world, Hear the Word of God, another signal to the end is near. We are living in very powerful times. And I would ask you now, to focus on Jesus, whatever is going on in your life, I would ask you to focus on Christ, not engage in social media activity at this moment, in conversations that might be happening online, whatever it may be, but to focus on Jesus, to concentrate on Christ, to focus on Him. To look at Jesus as in the word of God, we're going to break bread together now. And I pray that wherever you are across this globe, and we know that this hits parts of the corners of the world, and God uses technology to get his word out all around the world, you know, there are tribes there are cultures in the back end of what we will call most nowhere, that have these devices that we have in the can hear the Word of God, but don't have a church in in walking distance, but are hearing the Word of God for the power of radio, through the power of podcast for the power of broadcast that the Word of God is getting around the globe. It is time to focus on Jesus. We are coming to the table we are coming to the Passover. As I said, back at Easter, I believe that we got to strip the word Easter out of our vocabulary and talk about it as the Passover, the passing over. It's not about hot cross bun. It's not about Easter rabbit. It's not about a bar of chocolate. It is about Jesus Christ. What does the Passover mean? Why are we celebrating this Parson Passover, it is the passing over of the angel of destruction or the angel of death depends on what you're reading from. And who was that that was God that was that was God's presence that whenever you wherever you unpack that, however you want to speak that out, however you want to look at that God passed over, when I see the blood, the blood will be a sign. So we are looking at a time now where we're coming to the table of the passing over. We can always look at ourselves, and we can always look at and judge ourselves. And we can always say, am I saved? I don't believe I'm saved. That's not for us to make that decision. Because God saved you and God saved me before I am before you. And before any human being understood what salvation actually means. I cannot save myself. You cannot save yourself. So no matter how much I've beat myself up about it, how much you'd beat yourself up about it. How often we get on the floor and go God am I saved? I believe that is a physical action of what the Scripture says, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Yes, there comes a point when we go God help me. But you cannot save yourself. I cannot save myself. No human being can save him or herself. It is Christ because He says I am the Savior of the world. So he saves before I realized what salvation was and what salvation meant. There are many uncountable All human beings been snatched out of other religions and being drawn into the kingdom of God, because God is pulling them, not because they are thinking about him, or they are thinking about Christianity in the persecuted church, but God is stretching out and saving them. So God is the Savior, Christ is the Savior, the Holy Spirit is the Savior. I understand when you look at that, what do you mean Holy Spirit, when you look at the deity because they are all they are woven together, yes, they have their individual markers. Yes. But when you put it all together, it says God is our salvation. Christ is the Savior of the world, the Holy Spirit is, is our comforter, so the comforter saves us from what times of trouble. So we are always been, when I say redeemed, once saved, always saved, saved from the penalty of death from the from that from the pit of hell saved from that, but I'm always been redeemed because redemption and salvation, I have been saved, my name is stamped in the Lamb's book of life, but, but repentance. So the retime of repenting so repenting, and redemption and saved and washed in the blood of Jesus, there are certain areas of Christianity that are always moving, that are always crossing over, and found to be entwined and woven together in the fabric of Christianity. I am a sinner, and I'm saved by grace, I will always be a sinner until I get called home to glory. So I will always been saved in a way of being redeemed from from my sin that I might be living in. But I have been saved, once saved, and always saved, I am saved from the gates of hell from the flames of hell, because my name is stamped in the lamp book of life. So I am saved. But I'm always been rescued from the sins that I live in. So there is a difference. I'm saved from hell itself. I'm saved from the gates, I'm saved from the flames and the eternal death of hell. I'm saved from the darkness of hell. And I'm a child of the living God, and I am born again. And I am an I am a believer. But just because I am born again. And I'm a believer, does that mean that sometimes that when I drop into fear and worry, and I cry, God am I saved? That is because I am working out my salvation with fear and trembling. So there are times in my life when I might go, am I saved? That that is not questioning God's ability and God's power to save me, that is questioning myself, God to save me. God has saved me, God, God has rescued me. Because there is no human being that has the power has the skill, there is no one strong enough to be able to say I decided to follow Jesus, actually, Jesus at that point of decision making, to what we call ourselves. The altar call is that God done a Christ and the Holy Spirit done, what was done on the amyas road. He opened our hearts to Him. He opens us up to him. Not that I have the power to receive him that I'm going not today Jesus, not today. Jesus, no God, no Holy Spirit, I'm gonna have another day of seminar. I'm gonna I'm going to be a No not today. I'll let you in tomorrow. No way. No way Jose, never in the world has anyone has that. And when they come to talking about free will, that is not what it's referring to. I do not have the capabilities of pushing God back and saying, I'll choose to walk with you when I want to walk with you. Salvation justification, Grace, power, anointing is given. It is given when the giver decides to give. So what the human may suddenly come to the realization is, is that I am a human being live in on a very natural world that God created and then suddenly my natural skill, my natural believing, my natural May has just been alerted to the holiness of the living God, because on the amass road, they was walking with Christ, two of them, their hearts were beating. They was they they were speaking about the events that happen. And they said to Christ, where have you you're the only one that doesn't know what's going on. They are talking to the one that was now to the cross of Calvary, about the cross of Calvary. So it just shows you you might walk with Christ longer than you realize. You might speak about him, but he reveals him self to you. And for me, there is no way that I can let him in when I want to let him in. He is in before I realized what Ian was, because he says, I knew you before the foundation, and the creation of the world. But what my body, my human, Ben, my human, Ben, I might have reacted to an article that I thought, I'm going to follow Jesus. But actually, I was having an A minus road experience, where I went to that place, that pulpit, that church, that moment, I have given my life to Him, when actually his life was given for me 2000 years ago at the cross of Calvary, and the human me, was just walking to the pulpit, or putting my hand up and saying, I decided to follow Jesus, when actually, Jesus decided to say, Now Ben is the time for you to realize who I am, I'm going to open your heart, I'm going to open your mind. I'm going to let you know the earth Ben, know that you are saved today. It's Jesus. It is Jesus that saves, it is Jesus that sets free, who the sun sets free, is free. Indeed. It's the sun. There's a clock ticking, a salvation clock, for the human bend to understand. But there's always I've always been saved to that degree, let's not get into the depths of theological speech on that. Because I was saved. Before my physical Ben was even birthed into existence through my mother's womb. And through the biological process of bringing people into the world before that act ever happened. God created God knew. There is a timeline in this world that no one can see but God, and that timeline does what God tells that timeline to do your birth today, Out you come today, you're created the Day Out you come today, you're safe. Today, I'm taking you home today. I'm saving you I'm rescued. There is a tight if we could see an invisible timeline of what God is doing. But we have a very physical clock, our lives are dictated to by the electronical devices by by social media and all that will come to the table. I've got to finish it because I didn't I'm so sorry. I didn't realize I stretch this tonight in time, but I pray that wherever you are across the earth and whatever, and however you capture this broadcast, I just want to remind you that you are saved. Because Jesus loves you. You are saved because God decided to send His Son to save you. You are safe, because who the sun sets free, is free indeed. So you can wrestle with the understanding and a Conte concept of salvation. You can throw your holy toys out the pram, you can throw all your Christian books out the window and say I'm walking the other way. I'm doing a Jonah. I'm doing a prodigal son. But you're still saved. You can kick create foam at the mouth. Stand on your hands. Throw yourself under the duvet. But God still with you. You can say what you want, act how you want, but God's still with you. Because God loves you. God loves you and we're coming to the table. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Imagine if we could just God just open up in our air tonight. Let us hear the angelic activity of Heaven shouting, holy, holy is the Lord most worthy of all praise. He is so holy, He is so gracious. He is so powerful. The universe is the creation of existence as in all of existence is only here. Because of God said let there be light and there was so salvation. We can wrestle it. We can shout about it. We can pull it apart. We can do this and we can say that am I save? Why am I saved? Why would he save me? What would he do? How if buts why why why why? Why? Have all the questions, write it across the wall of your your living room, do whatever you're going to do. But you still can't get away from the fact is when you've exhausted yourself of wrestling with yourself, you're still going to come up with the same Biblical understanding who this On sets free is free indeed. So you can wrestle salvation you can wrestle justification. You can wrestle this factor that factor you can wrestle the theologians, you can wrestle the teachings, you can send the emails, texts, do what you like, however you want to do it, you can write on the wall, you can use your pen, you can use your lipstick, you can write all over your house, and you can try and tear it apart. But what you won't get away from is Romans, the book of Romans, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, you cannot be separated, your mind will try and tell you you're separated, your physical actions will try and operate like you think you are separated. But nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. John 316, For God so loved the world. That's it. And then we go into that stretch that great theological, mathematical scientific debate of the human being has the right. John 316, For God so loved the world that whosoever shall believe in Him. Do I have the power to believe he gives me the seed of faith, he drops in everything on the timeline of God's Blackboard. This day, that hour, that millisecond that person, this person in his plan, For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, before the spreadsheet, even came into existence, before all the gadgets so the world were birthed into being before anything came into being For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, I hear you going on further. If you follow me over your heart, but the plans were for you, to follow him before I even decided, not today, Jesus, I can say as much as I like not today, Jesus, but he doesn't get away from the fact that nothing can separate me from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, I can act bad, I can act frustrated I can, from a toys out there Christian pram, I can kick and do what I want to do. Say I don't believe I can say whatever. But the raw fact of salvation is who the sun sets free is free. Indeed. The power does not sit within the chest of a human being. The power does not sit on the shoulders of a human being. Predestination, salvation justification. So tonight, as we come to the table right now, wherever you are, if you are wrestling with your life, why are you exhausting yourself? Why do you want to exhaust yourself, wrestling, trying to change you, I can't change me, you can't change you. But through the power of God through the power of justification through the power of redemption, through the power of His Word, through the journey of Christianity and being a believer, one degree, moment by moment. Second, by second, time after time. God loves you. God loves you. Let's break bread. Father, we thank you for the Passover. We thank you for the passing over. We thank you for the old we thank you for the new, we thank you for redemption, we thank you for the power of justification. We thank you for the power of predestination. We thank you for the power of your word. And Lord, I do not have the power, I do not have the strength, I do not have the skill set. I do not have the academic understanding, I do not have the philosophies. I do not have the theories of how to work out how do I get saved? Because you save me and my body just starts to come to a realization. Jesus saved me. Because the Bible tells me so. So I just believe I believe tonight, Lord, that your body was broken in the garden. I believe that Jesus Christ came into physical existence to be the Messiah to be the Savior of the world. I believe that the body of Christ was broken. To show the demonstration of the physical demonstration of the living Word of God. I believe in the power of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. I believe in the glory of God. I believe in creation. I believe in the birth, the death and the resurrection of Christ. I believe in eschaton ology of the rapture of the church, I believe in the Christ is coming back as the savior of the world. I believe that he's coming on the horse that the Scripture tells us about, I believe in in what is going to happen to the earth. I believe in, in in God just said, let it be and I believe that but Lord as I walked with you helped me to understand it in my humanity because Lord I want to know more. I want to walk a deeper level I want to walk Lord at a at a more holy a level because Lord, you know, I'm not holy. You know, Lord, there's some marks on my back. You know, Lord, I need dealing with but it is only can be dealt with through Christ. Because you need to change me, Jesus, and only you can change me So Lord, change me, melt me, mold me, shape me, Lord. But I thank you that it's all about Jesus. It's all about Jesus. Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author, the perfecter of our faith, bless this bread as we take this bread as we believe this spread is the body of Christ in Jesus name, amen. Just take a couple of moments, just take a couple of moment moments to pause wherever you are. Just take a couple of moments out just to pray, just to be still before the living God. God is with you. This is not edited. I'm drinking coffee as we are having communion. I'm taking a break for a moment. We are just resting in God's presence. We are breaking bread together. We are recording a podcast we are broadcasting this moment in time you are in your front room, you might be in your car listening to this, you might be walking you might be at your desk, you might capture this six months a year, however, download a timeline of, of, of history or future whatever way you look at that. Wherever you are at this moment, just let's just remind ourselves, that nothing can separate us from the love of the love of God. Dear God, Heavenly Father, as we break bread as we take the cup, we think about the Passover, the passing over the passing over. And the washing and the importance of what the Scripture says, the blood will be a sign the blood will be a sign. Thank you, Jesus, that the blood is a sign. Thank you Holy Spirit that the blood is a sign a sign of what? A sign of life a sign of eternal living with Christ, a sign of of being saved from sin, a sign of being saved from hell itself. Being saved from eternal damnation, a sign of being washed in the blood of Jesus. Father, I thank you for tonight as I walk this earth as I live, and as I move in a circle of life, I thank you that Jesus Christ, body was broken, and blood was shed. And I thank you for the Passover as Christ says. Let's get ready for the Passover. He didn't say let's get ready for Easter. He said let's get ready for Passover. The passing over let's remember the passing over. Let's remember. Exodus chapter 12, verses 12 and 13. Let's remember that the blood is a sign let's remember what this really means. So tonight Jesus, I thank you. Board that feels very weak to say that tonight Jesus thank you. Lord, that word Thank you seem so weak, and it doesn't have no power. How? Lord My heart is just overflowing. Lord, we are overflowing with thankfulness. We are overflowing with joy. We are overflowing inwardly that we are saved. So tonight Lord, I take a moment out and say thank you for salvation. A wash me in the blood of Jesus, amen. God bless you wherever you are this evening. I apologize for stretching into the hour. All just pushing over, we're gonna get out of here. I pray that you will find strength flight, you've never found it before in the Word of God. If you are on the Mayas road experience at this moment, I just pray that you will just rest in God's words. God's word will strengthen you, God's word will guide you God's word has saved you. God's word has given you a cut from God's Word is speaking to you. God's word is your yes and amen. God, God's word is your foundation. God's word is everything. So wherever you are, thank god us seven, sorry, 833 Tonight 833 We've been one hour within one hour 42 seconds. Have a wonderful evening on this very unusual Monday here within the UK. And I pray that your sleep will be sweet as the word of God says, we will find rest for your soul, that you will find rest for your mind that you will find rest for your innermost being. And a psalm 91 says, verse 11, and 12 For he will command his angels concerning you, to lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone are chosen. You are blessed. Have a wonderful rest of the evening, wherever you are within the UK and across the world. We'll see you very very soon. In Jesus name. Amen Kabbalists.
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