Good evening, God bless you. Thank you so much. Everyone jumping on line this evening. Thank you so much. Wherever you are across the earth, whatever you might be doing. Wherever you are this evening, may God be with you and strength for you. In the mighty name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, wherever you are this evening. God just be with you, thank you so much for joining us. If you just hop on line, as we just wait a few moments for everybody just jumping on line, wherever you are, whatever your situation is, today, wherever you've been today, whoever you've been in front of today, whatever is going on in your life, God is with each and every one of us. And as you can see, behind me the screens, I put the same image up again, purely because I believe that we are living in quiet, heartless times in the way of stress, worry and fear wherever we are, across the earth. And I just want to let you know tonight, as Christ said, and as we was looking yesterday for the Scripture, Peace be with you, whatever your situation is in your life, your family, your marriage, your children or your workplace. You know, whether you're University, whether you're at college, whether you're switching up schools, wherever you are, at this moment in time, whatever your life looks like, and wherever you are across this earth, I just pray that you will find peace at this very moment in time. And we're going to go into the Gospel of John, as everyone is starting to join us as we just wait a few moments as we just just drop online at this moment in time. Yes, I can see you God bless you, too. Thank you so much for joining us on the different social networks that we're on. But wherever you are at this moment in time, may God bless you and strengthen you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. 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Let's just jump straight into the Scripture and whatever you've been doing today, I pray that you will find strength you'll find rest, and whatever you are doing at this moment whether you are just at home sitting on the sofa capturing this broadcast, whether your other side of the world, whether you're at work still whether you're studying, whether you're reading, whether you're just doing whatever you are doing whether you are chopping down a conflict, I'll wherever you are tonight, if you're on holiday, and I know there's a few people on holiday tonight, our brother Donnie is away and Donnie, if you're sitting on the poolside at this moment in time, whatever you may be doing across this, if God is with you, wherever you are, come on, I gotta get serious tonight. I've got to get right on the bottom of it tonight. Let's dive straight in. Let's get straight into the Word of God. Let's not mess around. Let's not skirt around the edge. Let's get straight in and as the scripture says behind me, as the screen says Peace be with you wherever you are. I'm going to keep repeating myself tonight because I sense I pick up in my spirit people that are coming into contact with during the course of the day during the course of this week. The hours just just general life I believe there is a very heaviness like a heaviness or a weight on across many people fear and worry what's happening, what's coming next. What's happening in family, what's happening at work, what's happening with loved ones, sicknesses, fears, worries, doubt. Children issues with children at schools, universities, you know, we got many people experiencing this moment. Children have gone up a level in their schools, issues at schools, you know, university, we've got many youngsters from here, that have also left the church not left the church but you know what I'm saying that have gone to university this year. So, you know, children are moving around, families are moving around people are, there's so much going on across this nation across this world. And I honestly believe with all my heart and I'm picking this up in my innermost being that peace is that is the word for today. You know, peace, hope, love kindness, showing your neighbors showing your family showing your friends, you know, just an act of kindness. You know, I'd be careful how I present all that stuff that's out there, you know, but we are living in a time this especially if you're within the UK at this moment in time, and it is 737 here in the UK, that we need peace, families need peace, whether you're married individuals, divorce, getting married, looking to get married, whatever you are and whoever you are, and whatever culture you've come from, or whatever your background is, I honestly believe and and I believe this is all on my heart as we looked at yesterday through the Scripture, that we need peace. You know, many people are living on their nerves. Many people are anxious, many people are fearful. But as the scripture says, as John, let's turn to John, chapter 14, the Scripture is the one that tells us everything. We're in John chapter one we've, we've been in here recently, we've podcasted, we've summarized, we Bible studied, we've expository preaching line by line, opened up the words, you know, prayed over it, look through it. But this is still very relevant. This is so still very current. This is for us today. And yes, I can worry I used to suffer really bad with panic attacks. And thank God, I haven't had one for a long time. But I know what it's like to suddenly have a panic attack, to come out of nowhere to hit your body like an electric jolt, to suddenly change your thinking, your understanding every area of your thinking your life. You know, when fear comes in fear changes the character of a person, when fear starts to run wild, and you're thinking your mind. And let's remind ourselves what the Scripture says about us. Yes, we know what it says spiritually about us that we are children of the living God, you are either a son or your daughter, you are born again, you're filled with a spirit. You are a believer, you belong to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And God loves us, we get that spiritually. But also what we have to remind ourselves just to take a raincheck sometimes just to step back and grab our breath and our thinking and understanding that the Bible tells us something very clear that we are the human race, that we are human beings, sinners, saved by grace through the power of redemption. And we've got our lovely brother and our lovely sister Adam and Eve to thank when God calls us home, for the situations that we are in at this moment in time, because God said very clearly, if you touch of that, if you touch that you will surely die. So when you look at life at this moment in time, when you look at the problems and the issues, the questions that people say why this? Why that? And the big question of the ifs and buts and the whys, the maybes and the possibilities. And we I don't know about you, brothers and sisters, but very, very truthfully, do you ever get tired when someone says we'll just seek the will of the Lord out? Yes, I know what the will of the Father is the Son, the Holy Spirit to a degree, but sometimes when you know what the will of the Father is, you have to surrender. When you come into surrender, it can be painful, you have to strip back, there are certain things in your life that have got to be shaken. Take them back, you know, areas, you know. So it's okay for when people say, Well, it's the will of the Father. And you should know that but not always. It's very difficult sometimes to to grasp what the will of the Father is. Because when Christ was in the Garden of Gethsemane, He said, Not my will, thy will be done. And there are other biblical references that we could turn to. And we could quite easily see very loud and very clear for fruit attacks where Christ says to the audience to the captured culture around him, I've come to do the will of the Father, not my will. So often, I've thought to myself, I wonder what the will of Christ was. I wonder what that and how and what he was thinking when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane? He said, he said, if it is possible, take this cut from me, but not My will Thy will be done. And no doubt we got people on the social we got people that will come back with an answer and and say, This is it and this is how it should be. But to think and to understand what the mind of Christ was, because what what I have to realize is that when I see and I read Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, clearly one thing I know for sure is, that is the man Christ Jesus fully living fully man, but fully God, fully Christ, fully savior, fully the King of kings and the Lord of lords. So every area that he lived his life, he lived in the fullness there there is, so when we see him in the garden, and we understand through science, and through extreme levels of stress, this gives me a lot of comfort, to know that Christ in that stressful time beyond human understanding, that the Bible says that he was sweating droplets of blood. Now, we don't just read that and just think that that's some form of a romantic way of presenting that that is actually fact science actually proves that when someone is under so much physical strain and stress that you do and you can sweat let's sweat droplets like, like beads of blood. So when the tech says Christ, was in that position, He was there, fully human, fully man, fully God because the book tells us very clearly in Colossians, Christ is the image of the invisible God. But when you look at him in the garden of Gethsemane, when you really study the Garden of Gethsemane, we see the man Christ Jesus, fully man, fully yielding to the will of the Father, and coming under the will of the Father because He says, Not my will, thy will be done. So when you study Christ Christ ology when you unpack Christ, when you look at Christ, when you study the man, Christ, the Messiah, Christ, everything about Christ, when you look at the different areas and the calling, that was on his life, what is so powerful, he says, I've come to do the will of the one that has sent me the will of the Father. So when we hear Christ, saying that through through the text and through the fabric of the page, we clearly understand that he is coming under obedience to the will of the Father. So obedience takes a lot out of a human being now obedience can bring a lot. Obedience will take you a different direction to what your flesh wants to do, what your will is, what my will is, what the desires are, what everything is. So, fear comes in, in different many layers of life. So when you look at Christ in the garden, we see him very clearly. In the man, Christ Jesus, he said, if it is possible, take this cut from me. So I look at that, and I see Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane in the fully human Christ Jesus, coming under the will of the Father. So when he comes under the will of the Father, I see that he's coming under extreme stress, worry and fear of what lies ahead. So if Christ was able, and he did sweat droplets of blood, because of extreme anxiety, and and everything that goes on because you have to study the Garden of Gethsemane, it's easy to look at Christ, and look at Christ as the savior of the world and forget his humanity. But the Bible says the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. So we have to look at Christ in the context of the biblical settings of where he is, yes, we understand after ascension, he is he is he is on the other side of the cross. But when he's on this side of the cross, when he's on this side of the cross, before he said, It is finished, we have to look at him as the man Christ Jesus. Yes, we understand what the prophets say what the Bible says what the Torah says, what the Word of God says about him that he is the one to come, here's the great I AM. We understand that, but the Bible says the Word became flesh. To be flesh, you need to be something very distinct and very real, to be flesh, you you can only be a human being. So the Bible, maybe it's time that we do a podcast or a study on what it is to be a human being, and to be a follower of Christ. Because I seem to throw a blanket out there over over so much when we look at this stuff, because of time does not. He's never on my side. And maybe I should make that bit more of a push point of being a human being. Because when you look at Christ, and you look at the word, it talks about the human race, that we are the human race, and what is the human race, the human race is either a male or female, and you are you are a human being, and you have been created, and you have come in the same way and we go out the same way. And the scripture says, And the Word became flesh, so we understand that flesh, when flesh is on bone, when flesh is on sin, you You are a human being. And that's what is really interesting, in the Old Testament where it speaks about the Prophet, where you had to prophesy to the Valley of dryness, and it says that the bones started to rattle skin started to be formed and come on to the bones, sinew start to form, and everything. So the human race is spoken about in the Bible. And we can see very clearly that redemption is only needed on the human being. Because the human being has fallen and the fall has come from the Garden of Eden. It's very interesting that that we find that the fall of humanity is in the Garden of Eden. And also in the Garden of Gethsemane, we see the Savior of the world. So the garden experience is a very interesting part of the walk of humanity. Humanity fell in the garden in that great creation that God created, but also the human race. We start to see Christ in his in his human side in the Garden of Gethsemane in that stress point in that in that point of coming before the Father and actually saying very clearly if it is possible Could it could it be could it be done, but not my will, thy will be done. So you when you study Christ, it's very easy for the church and religion and certain ministries to shout on Halloween to dance all day long. And to sing these pray songs and to worship Jesus, when the clock is ticking well, but when the clock is ticking bad and, and culture has turned on you, and life has turned on you and family has turned on you, and everything has turned on you and everything just seems to be hitting the wall everywhere and everything just seemed to be go going wrong. It's very difficult. Let's be really honest to find that faith button within ourselves because we are built as human beings saved by grace. So the scripture that we are in tonight is very relevant. If you are a believer, if you are a human being and I know you are a human being, but what I'm just trying to get to tonight, Peace be with you. Christ comes into the context, Christ comes into the cultural settings of many of the disciples when they was at their fear points. And what did he say? Did he say Buck your ideas up? Why are you so down know he addressed their human side and he said, Peace be with you. See, Christ knows our fears. Christ knows our worries, there's nothing wrong with with being completely authentic and being completely real, with your Christian brothers and sisters around and being completely open and honest. Because you can't be in that posture all day long, shouting hallelujah, singing Kumbaya, sitting around a campfire, playing a guitar and doing all that stuff and dancing up and down and shouting out. Jesus loves me because as a human being, I will guarantee you this, I will guarantee you this as you live life, whether you're single, whether you're married, whether you're getting married, whether you're getting divorced, whether you're in a big family, little family, if you are breathing, and you are a human being I can guarantee there will be trouble in the circle of life. Because there was trouble at the garden. And all the way through, there is trouble there is there was areas of life of our lives, where we might go through green pastures where everything seems to be fine. Everything seems to be quite calm. And then suddenly, the sunrise is on the new day. And then there's trouble all day long every hour, and you're trying to balance things you're trying to deal with the kids you're trying to deal with, with family or trying to deal with Mum, Dad, you're trying to deal with issues at work, University School, you're trying to sort the, the chopping out workplace issues, emails, text you that is what we call the circle of life and the church. And I would say the hyper church, hypergrowth church, all that stuff can quite easily forget that we are human beings trying to live our lives, as brothers and sisters of Christ. The Bible says to live your life by faith that just Shall not the Judge shall live by faith, but it's easy to read that, but actually to get your human side to deliver that is a different story altogether. So I would put it like this, if you are breathing tonight and you are a human being, I would guarantee you that there is trouble in life because that's what life is the circle of life, the circle of living, you know, you might be suffering with sleep deprivation at the moment, you might be going to bed at night really early, waking up and you're tired, you're having two hour three hour sleep, you might not be sleeping well. There we are living in very powerful spiritual times. And if you are living within the UK, there will be a lot of a lot of pressure on you. Whatever culture you're from whatever background you're from, wherever you are buffed. Whatever your situation is there is a lot of pressure on you as a human being. And the pressure is coming from certain areas or political agendas, certain areas of what is happening in in time situations. Just being a human being can be absolutely exhausting. Sometimes just trying to get out the front door, get the kids to school, get to work, get this get that done. Live in life just life itself can be harder sometimes. But we go to church on Sunday we got certain ministers we watch things online and everything is jumping up and down praising the Lord and you look at the you look older, the environment they're in and everyone's shouting hallelujah, praise the Lord. And then even when I'm preaching and teaching sometimes I'm going to be honest because I'm always honest I don't feel like delivering it sometimes. I feel like just staying under the duvet and saying goodbye it's goodbye see a light of some some days. But it because I'm a human being not because it to be a believer in this time in which we live is the hardest thing that we will ever do. I love God I love the Word of God. I love the preaching. I love to teach and I love doing what I do. Don't get me wrong. I love every area of ministry like I love that I love people. I love talking with people but sometimes don't you ever just want to curl up color Go Leave me alone, because we are a human being. And when I realized that I am a human being, because what has happened over generations over generations, we've been built up, we've been built up to be some form of super human being. And that bar is impossible to reach. You've only got to study Christ and understand that life is hard. Jewess what what is a big chunk of Christ's life missing out of the Word of God is his early years. We understand what he was birthed. We understand that he came into being, we understand about the birth, the resurrection and the death. We get all that but what about his his young life as a young son, when he was brought up in a household of brothers, when there was family issues when there was squabbling? Imagine all the stuff imagined his brothers. This makes me chuckle sometimes I imagine his brothers and Christ, just being brothers and fighting together because we've got to remember, we got to remember that Christ came into this earth and he come through the roof and he come through the means that we are and when you look at everything that's going on very, very clearly. Christ when you look at that really, really clearly, Christ was just birthed and just brought into this world as a human being. It makes it so clear, so clear that Christ came into this world as a human being. I've just caught on the light. I hope anyone lost vocals at this moment. Can you hear me? Just someone put the thumbs up? Maybe there's been an in internet drop off somewhere. The good old internet. We love the old internet, or so we seem to have a lot of trouble here. God bless you. I see that. Yeah, yeah. Okay. It might be just dropping off. Can you hear me someone just tell me and then we can carry on? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. God bless you. Thank you so much. So what wherever we are, on wherever we are birthed and whatever culture were birthed into. What is very, very clear, for me is that we are human beings. We are human beings. And I love the fact that the Bible talks about the human race, God created the human race. God created you and me, he created the skin, he created the bone, he created the blood, he he created the human, the character, the thinking, the understanding, the concept, the circle of life, God created everything. There is nothing outside of God's creation, out of the spoken word, that Christ God the Holy Spirit isn't aware of. So what we got to remind ourselves is that I am, I am a human being. I am a son, and you are a human being and you are a daughter or your son, and you are chosen and you are blessed. We always remember the supernatural stuff in the Word of God. And so often that we look at the supernatural stuff, and we can shout, we can dance, I'm blessed and highly favored. I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. I'm a child of the living God, and because he lives I can face tomorrow. He's my redeemer. He's my rock, he's my king, he's my savior, we can shout, we can Allah, we can wave our hands in the air and praise Him. But what about them, then times when we leave the church, we go back to life, we live life, we go back to work, we go back to home, you know, we go back into the environment that we're in, and we go back what as we go back as children of the living God, still we are still believers, we are still saved and washed in the blood of Jesus. But we are still human beings. It's easy to praise God to lift them in the environment when you got your brothers and sisters around you. And you're all of one mind one, focus Christ, you're worshiping, you're praising, you're lifting God up, you're in that position of prayer and worship. But why was when you got to go back to your home and you're the only Christian? What happens when you got to go back to work and you're the only Christian once when you go go back to university, and you're the only believer and you're the only believer in your family, you're the only believer in in your life, you're the only believer, and and you've got almost some time, sometimes it is the hardest thing to do is to be a believer, and to hold on to the Word of God, to hold on to the Word of God, because there are many believers that come into church come into the safety net of church. And that time is very precious. And then suddenly they are catapulted back into the world, not because of bad lifestyle choices, but because they work in a hard environment. They work in a very worldly place. They're in a in a school setting. They're in a home setting. They're in a cultural setting where we are the only believers and going back to that is hard and and it's like enduring and you're gonna push through and you're trying to remember the message you're trying to remember the prayers. It's okay being a believer when you're believers together. But what about when we're walking not alone because he says I'll never leave you nor forsake you. So the text I'm going to read out tonight is Peace be with you. Wherever you are, God is with you. When you're catapulted back to work, you're catapulted back to university catapulted back to school catapulted from church. I can almost see like the cab catapult people in the catapult being fired out back into the, into the circle of life. And you can almost be like a washing machine experience. You're thrown in and then you're thrown out, and you're spinning around, you're in church, everything's okay. There's calm this. Alright, it takes a moment to get out. You're with your brothers and sisters. And their Monday morning, Sunday afternoon. As I said yesterday, some Sunday nights I'm thinking oh, no, I don't want it to be Monday morning. I feel like I'm being catapulted back back into the environment. And you've got to try and stay focused on God, you got to, you know, it's all very well having people around you. And I get it, I have it a lot. Be strong brother, you know, trust in the Lord never give up. You know, God is with you. You know, you are a warrior. You are a prayer warrior. You audition. And it's, it's like, yeah, I get that. But I've got to go to work. I've got to live my life. I've got to, I've got to go shopping, I've got to go to blue, or I've got to do this. I've got to do that. And suddenly, we can't forget that we are human beings, but we are sinners saved by Christ, living in a very carnal, a very stressful environment. So no wonder Christians are under the oh, god help me Lord. Let's read the scriptures. Let's read the scriptures. I've done a lot of rambling and I'm in a lot of fire and a lot of words out but but as the screen says, tonight, Peace be with you. Peace be with you. And what is very important to many of us is that Christ came into the disciples lives in the book of Acts when they was locked down in fear. When they was very fearful of the outside environment. Christ came and stood into their situations. And he said, Peace be with you. So Christ knows when we were in. Christ knows when we are doubtful, because Christ deals with the doubts with His disciples. Christ deals with the worries, excuse me, Christ deals with the fears. See, Christ knows who we are. So let's let I'm gonna say this, I can't pretend to be the holy Joe, to be the one walk in 24 hours a day, seven days a week by faith, because I would be spinning a lie to you. I have moments of doubts, I have moments of fear. I have moments of joy. I have moments of strengthening I have moments of weakness, I have moments of, of praise and am I have moments of fry my Christian toys out of my prayers and saying, Lord, I'm send you my P 45. Today, are that enough? Today, Jesus. I'm not frightened of telling you that I'm not frightened of being open and honest. Because Christ knows my thinking, Christ knows my understanding. Christ created me and He created me as a human being. Human beings have failings, idiosyncrasies human beings have almost split personalities, split thinking, the Christian thinking and the worldly thinking, you know, because we are human beings. And, and sometimes, and I've seen this time and time and time and time again, preachers and teachers and ministries, and churches and different congregations have put so much pressure on you and me to be so super holy, that that bar is impossible to reach without submitting to Christ Jesus. Now, what I'm trying to say is, the more I surrender, the more I'm in the Garden of Gethsemane, the more I come under His will and His purpose, I find that I can live more like, like Christ be live as Christ lived to do what Christ did to walk as Christ, it is impossible to reach that bar, but you understand the model, the model Christ will look at Christ and say, Father, I want to be more like Jesus, I can never get you know what I'm saying, you know, time doesn't permit me to go right into it. So I have to just throw it out and just and just know that God will God will. What I thrown out like a load of bullets out I know that God will grab the bullets of words and he will grab them one by one and they will place him in your heart and at the right time, he will lift that word and he will let that word to sit in your heart. So yeah, my fro law goes out and it might sound so much coming out time and time again. But that is what the Holy Spirit that's what God that is what's coming out of my heart. Not out of my thinking not out of my philosophies not out of my, my understanding as a human being but but someone that is reading the word at this moment in time. I believe God is telling us tonight you are a human being. And I love you as the human being. I saved you as a human being. I created you as a human being not like some holy, supernatural person, that church and religion is trying to get you to a bar because you can't get to that bar. Because I created you as the human. I created you as my son and daughter, and I loved you and I rescued you, Ben, when he was in your most darkest, most dirtiest hour, I saved you at the lowest point. I saved you at the most darkest point, I set you free at your most lowest point in your life. I rescued you at your lowest at your darkest at your most disturbed time in your life. I I saved you at that point. Because God is a rescuer. God saves God sets free look, I've got to read the Scripture because a time we're in the Gospel of John Chapter 14, verse one, do not let your hearts be troubled. If you are a human being you have a heart. You have that muscle that organ that that heart beating inside of you, the heart, the the physical heart, and the inner heart of the human being. Do not let your hearts be trouble believing God. Believe also in me now skip over the page, skip over there dancing and singing with all the bells and whistles on yourself tonight, same tech, same chapter that we're in chapter 14, verse 27, Peace I leave you my peace I give you I do not give you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not be afraid. The very basic understanding points of the human being. Do not let your heart be troubled. Do not be afraid. Trust. So Christ here through the Gospel of John through the through the writer of John God, Christ, the Holy Spirit is addressing the human being. The human being that is fearful. The human being that has a heart, the human being that is afraid. How many times does Christ I believe off the top of my noggin and I think in the Bible talks and mentions fear 365 times I believe that you'll have to check that out for yourself. Christ addresses fear, if I wasn't a human being and I wasn't in fear, he wouldn't be addressing that. But Christ deals with the human. When you look at the fisherman, when you look at the tentmakers. When you look at the disciples, when you look at the prophets, when you look at everyone in the Bible, they were human beings, they were human beings, the only time that we see a distinct difference is in the race of the phillium. The Fallen Angels, then then you see a crossing over, even when you look at all the ones that God used and the gods spoke to and God delivered and God saved. That was the human race, the human being. So God is telling us tonight, me and you wherever you are across this earth tonight, whatever your timezone it is, it is 806 here in the UK, I want to say this tonight to you. Peace be with you, wherever you are, whether you're driving, whether you're capturing us in the podcast, whether you're walking, whether you're sitting at home, whatever you are doing tonight, I pray that you will find peace and rest in God. Don't worry about them human beings that are coming against you. The Bible addresses the humans that come against you. Let's remind ourselves what our God the God of Israel says to the Israelites, in the Old Testament, I will be an enemy to your enemies. That just does my brain in that just throws me off my perch, for God to say that I will be an enemy to your enemies. The battle belongs to the Lord. There are so many scriptures that we could go to that would almost try and get us into the posture of saying to us that we are absolutely super, absolutely wonderful. Absolutely. There has been many preachers recently saying that we are we are Gods we are not gods. We are sinners saved by grace. We are human beings. The only way that we have the spiritual impartation is through the Spirit of the Living God. And then we do not become Gods we are sinners. So Bike race, carrying redemption washed in the blood of Jesus. And all the time I am breathing all the time I am walking all the time I am living all the time I am working all the time my heart beats, I will be known as a sinner saved by grace, but I will also be known as a son of the living God, all the time I am breathing, I will have many protocol experiences, because I am a human being, and I will fail you, I will foul my family, I will fail my work colleagues, I will fail society, I will fall I will slip our I will slide on the ice of life because I am a human being. And if you are breathing, praise God, if you are alive, hallelujah. You will find that there will be times when faith almost could disappear out of your boots. And fear is running the earth. So fear is alive and well beating your heart. And what fear does it changes the characteristics of who you really are, you will find that favor and love and goodness and kindness. The gifts and the fruits of the Spirit are are evident very clearly in unbelievers life. But if you are surrounded by people in your life, however you look at that, that are trying and coming against you, you find that they try and squash the real character. It's not until you meet people you meet others in your life that are that have the same and following and walking with you. As a believer. It's not until you reach that point, that you are very different to what your enemy think that you are. The character that you are God knows your character and you are a human being. You are either a son or a daughter of the living God, I can tell you this you are blessed and highly favored. Greater is He that is living in you than he that is living in the world. You are saved and washed in the blood of Jesus, you are blessed beyond measure, you will make it your name is stamped in the lamp book of life. I could sit here and quote you hundreds of scriptures of how supernatural Our God is and how powerful he is, and how we are and how we are meant to be. But sometimes the church, the ministries, the preachers and the teachers just need to remind ourselves it's okay. Just remind ourselves that I'm a human being. And I have failings. I have angers. I have jealousy. I'm prideful. I am doubtful. I have all these areas because I'm a human being. But I cannot deal with these because I am a human. How do I get these dealt with? I come to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. And I say God, help me deal with my pride, I deal with my arrogance, deal with my failings, deal with my sin, deal with the temptations deal with the fear, deal with the doubt deal with me, God help me now. That's where we can jump back into the Old Testament. You know that we can't separate the old and the new they run beautifully together. The Old Testament and the New. The new is with the old the always with the new you will find Christ speaking about the old and then you will find that the the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. Yes, there is a pause from the end of the old to the new there is a time gap of we understand theologians serve about for 400 years. It's not to say God left but there was just a silence. But what we cannot do, we cannot separate them. Because the old is with the new the new is with the old they run beautifully together. And we always can reference the new of the old, the old with the new. So going back into the Old Testament very very clearly. The Bible tells us that God is our Savior, He is our rock he is our Redeemer. The Psalmist tells us this very very clearly. You are a child of the living God you are blessed and highly favored. When you look at the Israelites, the Israelites are a very interesting culture to study. They was God's chosen God's chosen nation. They found him How many times did they fail him? How many times did they melt the gold that they had started partying started cracking open the stellar our tourists started having barbecues die party and orgies. Everything was breaking out with the children of Israel. God said to them listen, when you go into the land of Cana do not copy what they are doing. No God we won't do what they are doing as soon as their passport changed as soon as they entered into that land. Hallelujah. They started copying, God actually said do not. He said do not mimic, do not copy. Don't do not follow their culture because if you follow their culture, you will be partying, you will be drinking, you will be on the smoke, you will be on the Gold Rush, you will be doing all the things that they are doing. No God, we won't do that. Trust us. We are your children. They found him and found him and found him and found him and found him. Moses at one point said, God do not wipe us away. You promised it promised us. And when if you could look down the mountain and see what they are up to. Moses was up there getting the word of God, His countenance changed. He comes down the mountain and what are they up to? Oh my days, what are they up to? They are up to everything. They would melt in the golden made idols. There was orgies, there was partying, there was trade, there was idol worship, there was satanic, they was in it. They were in that to win that they was living at large, you only have to look at the children of Israel has chosen to see their failings and go hang on a minute. They are human beings, called and chosen. With all the failings God said, I am going to wipe you out. You stiff neck people I've had enough. Moses could hold Moses, we're coming to the table. And we are going to break bread. And we are going to break this bread. And we are going to take this cut. Why do I do this? I do this because I'm a human being. And I'm a sinner saved by grace. So I need time out in my life to come before the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and come before Christ and say, Jesus, I'm sorry today that I found. I'm sorry, Lord, that I let you down. I'm sorry, Lord, that, that I acted out of line of by word, but by the power of redemption, by the power of this time of coming to Jesus coming to the Father, and I come to the Father only through this way. He says I am the Way the Truth and the Life No one comes to the Father, except through me. So the only way that I can get to the Father is through Christ Jesus. That's the only way that I can I can get to that place. That place the father, the Father's throne room is simply is by going through Christ. He says I am the Way the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Excuse me, I'm uncomfortable sitting here all this time. Right? Come on, let's break bread together. Let's do this. Get this. This is Bosch, this fro Come on. Let's break bread wherever you are at this moment in time. Just be you. Because I'm going to tell you this. God loves you. God loves you. God loves you. I'm going to repeat this again and again and again. God loves you. Whatever is going on in my head, my think in my life. Certain things are very private. And it's the same for all of us. So when we come to this very powerful time together as believers, it can be very difficult to target one thing, Lord, where I found today. Oh, yeah, Lord, I see the blackboard. I've got hundreds of filings. Lord, Did I did I say that? Did I do that? Did I act that? Did I think that? Did I walk that? Was that me Jesus. But let's just remind ourselves about the cross of Calvary. Redemption, Why did Christ have to come to this earth? Did he come to this earth because the human race was in revival and just praising God. Christ had to come to be a sacrifice, to be a sacrifice for all human beings, that all might be saved, all might be washed in the blood of Jesus. Because the Bible says in John 316, For God so loved the world. That's a very difficult text John 316 Because that has been taken and been presented in many ways. And I believe that is a text that all of us can remember that we can recite it very quickly. But do I actually know what John 316 means? I can, I can shout and holler it For God so loved the world. But what is the depth what is the when I when I when I take John? John 316 and I open up the envelope with that and I do some study on that you will find some very deep meaning in that. Now, I just want to I just want to let you know I've got to let You know that God loves you. I have to let you know that God loves you. Now I'm not referring to feelings and all that I'm talking about that Agha pay love. That Agha pay love that the Bible talks about that that love that, that took the Messiah, from the very beginning of time, took the Living Word that brought him and crossed all the generations, as the Bible says in Matthew, Christ came down 14 generations. And he crossed through and he moved through rehab, he move through the different contexts. And I have to mention Rahab, I have to mention that very clear. Because when you understand who and what Rahab was, but how she got redemption, as we understand redemption, when you look at that that woman used by the genealogy, in in the Word of God, and God referenced that very clearly, in the New Testament, very, very clear, very critical. And God referenced very clearly the, the ones that he used, and when you look at the ones that he used, I can assure you, they found at every high level possible. But God used them in, in the seed in the family tree line of Christ. And that's very important to understand that, that when we look at Christianity, it could be the stained glass window approach. And you're looking up into the heavens and you see all this stuff, in the way that the church paints it and the way that is through art form and the way that is presented and the way that you we see things, when actually, if I want to look at real characters, or take my eyes off of the stained glass windows or take my eyes off the eyes of the fine art work. And I look in the Scripture, I study those that God used Moses, a murderer, David, David done everything under the sun. But he was chosen to be king before he done everything under the sun. Rahab when you understand, study, Rahab the deal that she struck up with the two men, the way that she lied very openly and very verbally and wasn't frightened of, of spinning that yarn and saying that lie to the king's men, to make sure that she would get freedom. I love the way God has used a human being, to orchestrate, to blend to move, to fabric to construct, to bring into existence, when you when you look at Christ, when you go back before time existed when you go right back to the very beginning of time. Christ was before time, and he's come all the way up through he's come all the way up through and, and through the seed and through the line or through the generations and he and he is brought out through the expression of speech and through the language of how we convey and now we understand and the Word became flesh and made his dwelling. So when he made his dwelling from that birth point from that, from that first cry from that nursing of his mother, right up until the age of 33. Wouldn't it be interesting to see every area of his life, every area of Christ's life as a young boy, a young man going through adult hood going through puberty, going through every area of life because Christ went through it. Because the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. He lived fully God fully man, fully Christ fully Savior. I don't have the time to theologically unpack all that. But I pray that God would the bullets that are spoken out of the words that I've said tonight, I pray that God and I know that God will take those and he will lay and he will lay hold of those words. And he will release those words in your heart, your mind and your being at the correct time. Let's pray Father, I thank you. I thank you that the massage body was broken. And as I remember that now I thank you Jesus, I thank you that your body was broken for a sinner like me. And for anyone that is bold enough to say yes, I've sinned and fallen short i glory. But I thank you for redemption, justification, sanctification, salvation, I thank you that I'm saved by grace, not by work so that no one can boast. So I believe tonight Jesus, I believe in your word. But tonight, Lord, if we're tired and we're weary. Please Father, bring us to that place of peace as the scripture said. Peace be with you. Do not let your hearts be troubled and as we break this bread, Lord, let our hearts not be troubled tonight in Jesus name. Amen. You are loved You are blessed. You are saved. You are human. You are a daughter, you are a son of the living God. You are blessed and highly favored. Yeah, we can go on and talk about the Jehovah Jireh as Jehovah Witnesses, we can say all that we can quote all that. But when the rubber hits the road when life is punching and pressing, when on when the Northeast, the south and the west and you look around, and all we see is Trouble, trouble trouble. Lord, help me live by faith. Help me Lord, to rise in the name of Jesus. The scripture says you will rise on wings as of eagles. So Lord, I pray Lord out of the ashes of the bonfire, Lord of Life, helped me to rise up in the name of Jesus helped me to rise above the storm. As the ego does the eagle rises above the storm helped me to rise up Lord to rise on wings as of eagles. But tonight Lord, I thank you that your your blood was shed Christ, that Christ blood was shed at the cross of Calvary. Wash me and cleanse me in the Crimson Tide tonight, Lord, in Jesus name, amen. I'm sorry, Lord, that I found you. I'm sorry, Lord, that I've sinned, but by the blood. And I come to you, Lord, and are humbled myself in the presence of everyone online tonight and say, Father, forgive me, in Jesus name, amen. sinners saved by grace, wash in the blood of Jesus. That great sermon that was preached sinners in the hands of an angry God, or what a sermon that was, what a sermon that was. sinners in the hands of an angry God. great preacher, our brothers and sisters, I'm gonna bash I got to see a man a bad dog. May God bless you and strengthen you, wherever you are, in the name of Jesus. But as the screen says, as the word of God says, Peace be with you. Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, and also be unbelieving me. Then he addresses again. He says, My peace I leave you, I do not give you as the world gives you. Do not let your heart be troubled. And do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. We was in the Gospel of John Chapter 14. Maybe do a Google search on all the times that the Bible has the hit points of peace, of fear. Have a look at the humans that God used in the Bible. Because they were humans. They were spirit filled. God breathed on them Holy Spirit was given to them. The human race. Have a wonderful evening, whatever your time is, across the earth tonight. May God bless you and strengthen you. In the Nighty night in the nightie in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Have a wonderful evening, whatever your evening looks like wherever you are, across this beautiful earth that God has created. Just breathe and rest. Because God is with you. And his love endures forever, and he will never fail us. He will never let us down his ways I just God bless. We'll catch you soon. See you Wednesday for coffee and prayer in the morning around about 930 then Wednesday evening for Bible study. Take care keeping the Word of God. Never give up. Never give up. Hope as always hope in Jesus name. God bless you.
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