Hello, and welcome to Elim church swanley, you're joining myself, Reverend Ben Cooper for today's podcast. Good morning, wherever you are today, thank you so much for joining us as we gather around the mics as we have coffee and prayer. We are a tad late, but that is the normal stylee that we rock a roll in it. So we are not worried you know, time is of the essence, we must get right down into the Scripture. Good morning, wherever you are today. Wherever you are, come on, let us know where you are today. Thank you so much for joining us, wherever you are, may God bless you and strengthen you. And may the hand of the Lord always be upon you. It's so good to have you. With us wherever you are. And may the Lord just strengthen you and just let's just gather together this morning, wherever you are, you know, I know some people listen in coffee houses, some are at home or on the school run. I know there's half term and all sorts of things are happening this morning. But it's great to see your comments and through the different social media feeds that were on this morning, may God bless you and strengthen you. Thank you to all the podcasters out there, there are 1000s of downloads that we've had, through these online streaming services that we do we thank God for your lives and wherever you may be across the earth, we know on the other side of the world that you listen to us. So we thank you so much for that and all those that are local. And as we just gather for this morning, we thank you so much Don's with us and is with us. Glenn is with us. And I'm afraid I'm with you today. So we're here we're going to get into Scripture. And we're just going to trust God and God is going to lead us I believe God is going to lead us deeper today is going to lead us deeper. And I believe the word that has been just dropped in my spirit is the word courage. You got to have courage. This is a time when we are living when we got to have courage. You might feel tired, you might feel worn out exhausted with the children exhausted in your marriage, exhausted at home exhausted in your life, fed up with church, tired of religion, worn down with what pastors asking you to perform and do just weary exhausted. Children education, work, life worn out because of finances ain't making it. I just want to try and encourage you. We want to encourage all of us today even us sitting around the table, never give up, be strong, and be of good courage you get where I'm going to turn Courtney, you know exactly where we're going to go to small in the book of Joshua, chapter one. I will give you every place where you set your foot. As I promised Moses, your territory, I believe that we are living in very spiritual, and very fierce times territory is a very powerful and a very strong word. And I believe that the enemy is China. Take your territory, tried to take your coat, you know you're gonna go look at Joseph the story of Joseph and his brothers, you know, you're carrying a blessing whoever you are, wherever you are. If you are a Bible believing believer, you are following Christ, not about going into church. It's not about clocking into the building, we are talking about believers in the word from Genesis to Revelation. I believe this is this is for you this morning. This is for me this morning. This is for us this morning. Be of good courage. But also, as you be of good courage, God will strengthen you and guide you. But be careful of the people around you that are trying to snatch your blessing. You're carrying a blessing. Joseph was carrying a coat a tunic, the Scripture says. And as soon as he went to his brothers, and he said, Look what that has given me. As soon as you start being bold about what the Father has given you, and I'm not referring to the earthly father that we have, I'm referring to our Heavenly Father. As soon as you start being bold in the scripture, and you start talking about Scripture and you start talking about Jesus Christ, be careful. Because there's everyone for you, are you for me or against me, but the word that keeps a bound in in my spirit right now at this moment is Be strong. Be strong, be strong, be strong. It's really, really important to be strong and to be of good courage hold on to God's word. He says in Joshua, chapter one, verse three, I will give you every place that you set your foot as I promised Moses, your territory will extend from the desert to the Lebanon and from the great river, the Euphrates to all the Hittite country and down to the Mediterranean Sea into the West, no one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life as I was with Moses, so will I be with you, God is with you. However fragile you feel, however lonely, you feel. He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you. He says, No one. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life as I was with Moses. So will I be with you I will never leave you nor forsake you be strong and courageous. Because you will lead these people to inherit the land and I swore to their ancestors to give them verse seven, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey I believe We are reaching this point and we've reached that point. And we've been in this place for quite a while and, and I also really trust in the Word of God that God is opening our eyes. You know, I think we've been maybe could I put it like this spiritually blind for a long time. But now God is revealing God is removing the vow, God is removing the scours. And we're seeing things very differently, as we did before lockdown. So it is requiring everything, we got to be strong in the Lord. Because there are issues there are things coming against us as believers, it's in the church, the church is accepting it, the church is allowing certain things to go on religion, you know, denominations are accepting and allowing, but now is a time for, for us to exit the crowd and to stand up for Jesus. But it takes courage. It takes courage. And as God was telling Joshua, I'm going to strengthen you, I will make a way where it seems to be impossible. No one will be able to stand up against you. But look what that scripture says. He says, If you obey, I've got to keep in the Word of God. Keep this book of the law, always upon your lips, meditate day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it, then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous, do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged to those that are afraid out down to those that are being discouraged. Try to just step out in faith this morning. Be of good courage, be of good courage, my friends, wherever you are listening back a week later, a month later to this podcast is live stream wherever you're joining us this morning. Please brothers and sisters hold on to God's word. As David is very interested in in the Old Testament where David strengthened himself in the Lord, maybe you're at that point where we're church and pastors and leaders and we we realized that we reach a place that no human being can help me except the power of God. Maybe we're reaching a place where I've got a strength for myself in the Lord. Maybe I've got to stretch out and get into the Word of God, the richness of His Word, the beauty of His Word, that the purity of His Word, the grace that in you know, his salvation, you are saved, you are washed in the blood of Jesus. But now is the time for courage now is the moment now is this moment in your life, my life that we step out in faith, but it's gonna take everything we got to step to the right hand side of the crowd, and to focus on Jesus because the crowd is giving you a blurred vision, the crowd is blurring your vision, the the culture is blowing your vision there is such a big movement, such a big move of the enemy in every sector of life driving, who for the one that is the believer in the Word of God, and not the religious folk, not the one that is called in, in all the trappings that go along with that, but the one that believes in the Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, so God is telling you to be of good courage to be strong. Andy, carry on, come on my friend.
Andy Hammond:Joshua is one of my favorite books and I in fact, I've gotten underlined in my strong and courageous and Amen. In chapter one, God tells Joshua four times, Be strong and courageous. And almost as if to emphasize to Joshua, you know, I'm going to be with you, but be strong and courageous. Amen. Also, he says, you know, be careful to obey all the law. That's great. It's a yes, two sided arrangement, Be strong and courageous. And also, be careful to obey all the law. And I think that speaks to us. It certainly does. Yeah, and you're talking about scripture, that we need to look at what scripture tells us. Yeah, it's um, I've always considered this to be God's infallible Word to us today. Praise the Lord. And we need to be careful that we are people of the book.
Reverend Ben Cooper:brothers and sisters that stand in the Word of God. no, no, no, this is important. This is this is what we're about. This is an online streaming service. And this is about discussion. This is about prayer. This is about coffee. But this is about Jesus. This is about taking the bread together. And the Word of God needs to be the center of my life. And as Andy is saying the old And then no run beautifully together, sit, you can't break them. We need the old and we need to know we need to know. And we need to have good courage, Glenn.
Glenn Walsh:Yeah, I'm looking at John five and this complements, doesn't distract it complements. And Jesus said, You studied the Scriptures diligently. Because you think that in them, you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me. Yet you refuse to come to me and have life. Older, no point to Jesus. And they all point to Jesus, they're there to show us who he is. He speaks to us through him. And they point to him out, and we bought isn't that we become Bible intellectuals. But we become friends of Jesus. That's the whole point of it. And looking at John one, and this is this Jesus that we're talking about, if you want to know God, there's only one way and it says in John 118, no one has ever seen God. But the one and only son, who is Himself, God, hallelujah is in the closest relationship with the Father has made him know, the Bible points to Jesus. Oh, doesn't know. Jesus shows the weight of the father. What's God like? Even the angels don't know in the fullness only Jesus. Only Jesus right as seen God the Father, and made him known I am is no other way to the Father except through Jesus. There is no other revelation of God, except through Jesus. What's God like? Jesus. And he is he is very great reward.
Reverend Ben Cooper:I've got a vision out of this this morning. This is imperative for the to you know, anyone come on Dee and know him. That's the big question. Yeah,
Glenn Walsh:I read the Bible. I went to church. I did this. I did that. But do you see those words we longed to hear when we see face to face.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen
Glenn Walsh:like Jesus said, too many I will say, away from me. I never know. Yeah. We need to know him. He is very great reward to be strong and courageous. Yeah. Don't just become students of the Bible. Do what the Bible tells you to do. Yeah, and walk with Him. Father, we pray that Your Holy Spirit, because our Lord Jesus, who revealed you who is God, also told us, that it's for our good that he went away. Because if he goes, he'll send His Spirit, the Spirit of the Father, the Spirit of the Son, the Holy Spirit, who is God, who will be with us, and show us you reveal you, to us remind us of everything you've said. So we do pray in these days where your church is being oppressed from every side and within, from people who want to distort the truth. We pray Holy Spirit, can victor of sin. Show us Jesus? Remind us, Jesus, come and be with us. We want to know you. We want we don't want to stop and just say, Yeah, I've read it. But we're follow the signs and find you and be known by you. sitcom and make yourself known. We ask, yeah, we want to be friends of you. Common Law, you don't call to serve. And she called us friends. Because friends know each other's business. Your word even reveals it as the secret plants. Come Holy Spirit. Yeah. And we want to thank you for your grace and Your mercy that before the creation of the world, you chose us to be holy and blameless in your site for Your good pleasure. And your good purpose. It says so in Ephesians one, we thank You, Lord, for Your Grace, make yourself known. And you say that when the Holy Spirit comes, He will convict the world in regards of righteousness, because they don't know you. Wake them up, Lord bring revival when revival even in this land that is so lost. We pray in the UK, in case where we live, that your name would break out, and that people would come to know yes or no with a choice. Yeah. Then you would know the truth and the truth will set you free. Lord, I want to thank you that freedom is found only in you. We know who we are when we found in you. Yeah. Come Lord Jesus. Make yourself nice.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, yeah. Can I just read you. Well, Lord woke me up about 20 parts for this morning I'll die and get back to sleep. But I wrote this again. It's almost what you just said. Can Aveda, as he gave it to me. He said, What are we doing in this prayer room, but ask him for help, as was Jesus in gift 70 as the disciples in the upper room Why not asking God to supply old in the strength for such days as is for it's impossible to live this Christian life without God's constant help. Just before Jesus left this world, he told us this truth that we would not be left alone, ever, that we will send a helper. And I want to read you that in a minute. To read it now. Okay, it's John 14, verse 16, to 18. If you love me, John 15 to 18 If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray that a father and he will give you another Helper, that He might abide with you forever. The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know Him, for He dwells with you, and will be with him and be in you. He will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you and help you. I'm not brave or courageous. When you say that word, it makes me say, but this Lord this God says He will supply all my needs all my strength, come on, Lord, Lord and you you've done that. The Holy Spirit is love. So we bequeaths love to us. And I found that in my life, I struggle quite often and but when the Holy Spirit comes, and I don't know when Jesus said that you don't know when he just comes I can when when he comes when he brings that divine love to me. I find it all so easy. I can get on the streets. I can love people or find it difficult to love. It's like summertime comes into my art, great relief. And the person of the Holy Spirit who God promised to give us the strength that we don't possess, to even to strengthen Jesus in gifts seminar, come on, and to strengthen the disciples in Upper womb, they pride constantly crying out to God for help. This prayer room Father God, we pray that you will shake it every prayer room in this nation, Lord in the world, down every little street down every little back alley in the cities Father God, we will your your workers all over your your people going out Lord with the Word of God, Father God in their little prayer rooms, shake it, Lord, shake it Lord will cry out to you for the Holy Spirit as did your disciples in APA whom Father God, that summer time will come into ours. That that strength that we don't possess those mountains we can't climb. We'll be we'll be able to do those things. Because you foresaw our weaknesses Lord, you for sold our phones. He foresaw the times when we just couldn't go and love someone we should love, even enable you for sold out. So you sent us that promise, Lord, you said wait for him to come. The Holy Spirit Lord, we pray now. I pray now, Father, that you will afresh outpouring on your church in this world, Lord, down every little back alley with those missionaries are working in every scholarly, low Lord, where they they pull out their lives for Jesus. He know says Lord when they face dangers constantly, Lord, pull out the Holy Spirit on them. Pull out that Divine Love, Father God that brings us summertime, and makes the courage that we don't possess. Come Lord, within our reach, so that we can do all you said so we can be obedient. Lord, we can't do it without your spirit. And so our pride, a fresh outpouring on this whole on your whole church, on your bride, Lord, on your beautiful blind on our last load your your church that you loved and died for, pour out Your Spirit on his Lord, enable us Father God, to do what is impossible to do without you. Lord, refresh us. We knew us. We strengthen us follow God. I ask this in Jesus name. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. The Scripture is very clear, very clear. Verse eight, Joshua chapter one, my eyes are locked on that. And it's just speaking directly to my spirit. I pray that you will just Google that you will find that on your device wherever you are, or if you're following this online streaming service with a paperback Bible as they are many around in our homes. You know, verse eight of Joshua chapter one, keep this book of the law. Always on your lips, meditate day and night, so that you will be careful to do everything. Be careful to do everything. The church has taken the teachings of Jesus Christ out and they're doing whatever they want. But the scripture says, Be careful. Be careful to do everything. Everything from Genesis says to Revelation. Stay in the Word. Keep this word on your list. meditate day and night. It's not just a Sunday thing, pastors. It's not just a Sunday thing, leaders. It's a life. Surrender. It's not just getting in the pulpit and doing ministry for a few hours. God wants your heart. And when you give him or when he takes that on our earth suit suddenly realizes that we've come into line with His Holy God because he's called us. And he has set us free and he has lined us up for salvation. I've got a follow. It's the toughest thing that you will ever do in your life, is to follow the word of God. Yes, it will be the hardest thing, the challenge that you face as a believer. And I'm speaking to me. I've done many things. And everything in the world is easy. It's easy. If you want to be a Bible believing believer even thought even the thought of following the Word of God will put shivers down your back. Even just looking at the word of God, because that's what the fear of the Lord is. Holy, be holy, because I am holy. If you wish to jump to Joshua chapter three. What is the requirement? consecrate yourself consecrate yourself, the church has lost the understanding of consecration of holiness, of walking deeply with the Father. We got liberal church, we got elasticated church. We got the Tiktok church. We got the skippered a church and I know I know what you're thinking. Not every church. No, not every church, but that brush is up our back, the broad brush, but there's coming a time and you know who you are. God is leading you to consecration. God is leading you and extracting you from the skipper, UK, his teachings and thinkings. The philosophy is the leading out there by culture and movements. Certain areas of life are trying to snatch your coat your blessing. But you've got to be strong, you've got to be courageous. And verse eight is just like a beacon to me this morning. Keep this book of the law on your lips. Keep this book of the law on your lips. I've got to keep saying it. I got to keep speaking it. I got to keep keep keep keep talking. I got to keep keep it going. Keep this book of the law. Always on your lips, meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful. Careful to do everything written in if from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible says do not add or do not take away. But there is many denominations taken away. They are skipping over certain text and they are manipulating and trying to shape the text to fit the lifestyle that the flesh is craving sexual indulgent money, notoriety, fame and fortune. Give me Give me Give me a God.
Glenn Walsh:Who are they led by?
Reverend Ben Cooper:Who are they? We know?
Glenn Walsh:It's funny. We start this with nothing and we will say nothing but God gets the theme go doesn't it
Reverend Ben Cooper:consecrate
Glenn Walsh:later on there's the angel who Joshua meets when they want to take Jericho and Jericho says to Him Who are you for you for us or for them? Come on? And the angel says I'm not for any of you. I'm for the Lord of hosts. Who are they led by? Do you believe in God? Do you believe who is God? Who is he? He's the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, one God three persons. John 15. And we're saying do everything yet follow every everything in Scripture. What did Jesus say? So in John 14 starting at verse 15, Jesus said, If you love me keep my commands. Oh, and I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate to help you. Thank you and be with you forever. The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him fried leaves with you and we will be in your Oh yeah. We will not leave you as orphans we know I will come to you. Was Jesus And then Hebrews 10, verse 15, the Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says, this covenant I will make with them man, who's the God of our covenant, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is making this covenant with us the Holy Spirit. After that time says the Lord, please the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts. And I will write them on their minds who we lead by. We need to be led by the Holy Spirit, not by the latest faith, not what the world says, not by compromise. We need to be God fearing man, God's fearing Father, Son, Holy Spirit, come on law, I'm not going to negate two gods who he is and what it should look like. He tells me Yeah, then he acts our praise God for grace, then he adds their sins and lawless acts, I will remember no more. Thank you, Jesus, and were there were these have been forgiven. sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. Lord, I want to thank you for this covenant you bought, sent, paid for by your very self, we've been rent sent by your blood, we're free. We can't add to that we can't take anything away. You've given us Your very presence, to live in us to guide us Your Holy Spirit who reveals both the Father and the Son. Yes. Only through the Holy Spirit. Can we cry, Abba, Father. Lords, we're not going to tell you what you should look like. You tell us can't do your word. Yes, is revealed through Your Holy Spirit and only leads to some truth, everything and compliment you. And lead us to you. Yes, Your word leads us to the Sun. The Sun takes us to the Father. We can only go to the Sun if the Father draws us and it's through the Holy Spirit. What are Gods we'd go
Donny Stockburn:longer know that we can declare, Paul with Paul, nothing
Glenn Walsh:can snatch us from your hand. We are so secure. you've purchased us ransom Deus. And Satan himself has to be silent because you say hands off. Nothing can snatch us from your hands. Angel, no demon. Not the past, not the present or the future. No creating being can separate us from the love of God. That is true Christ Jesus our Lord. Now otherwise, we thank You for Your gospel. Lord, we don't go on we will not go beyond what is written. Lead us deeper into the truth through Your Holy Spirit into your revealed words through the one who reveals it. Amen. Come Holy Spirit, open our eyes to your word. Silence these lies that come into your church these yeasts for them to take over the whole batch. These doctrines of demons, these every wind of doctrine that gets blown here or there, keep us from and established in your choice. Thank you, Lord, through Your Holy Spirit, we let us be a spirit led people man once again, just like the church in the book of Acts, led by the Spirit that you are God. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Hallelujah.
Andy Hammond:Yeah, I just love that. Glenn, how the writer of Hebrews ties in with the Old Testament, because this is the covenant I will make with them. After that time Sith Lord, I'll put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds, which is, you know, from Jeremiah. Yeah. And so it's just bring you up to date. Really? We need both. Yes. And then of course, the writer of Hebrews carried on with this call to persevere. Yeah. And this is a word for us today, I think. Come on it. Yeah, no, well, what with 1819 months of, yes, this insurance, insurance, this virus and, but there's a call to persevere and so it says let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess. Yeah, so He who promised his faithful Yeah, and let us consider how we may spur one another on towards love and let us not give up meeting together. Somewhere in the habit of doing let us encourage one another. And all the more you see the day. Yeah, So Father, we just thank you and we just pray those words of scripture this morning, over all who are listening, that there is only one hope. Yes, hope is in Jesus. And we we say that we affirm that we declare it now. over the airwaves. There is only one hope he is the King Jesus. So we thank you for Jesus for all that he accomplished. That all those words that we've heard this morning in the face strong and courageous. Yes. Come on, Lord, your God is with you, wherever you go. Thank you for that, that. So we know that wherever we go, if we're in that relationship with Jesus, he's always with us, and never lets us go. He's always our hope. So we thank him. And it says here as we see the day approaching. Well, we do that. We do that we say that our approaching and Win Win must be carriers of the book, we must be readers of the book actually must be believers in Florida, and we must be dealers of the book. Yeah, thank you for that. Let us be doers. Yeah, the doers of the book. Yeah, come on. We pray that small Yeah. But Jesus.
Glenn Walsh:It's called faith. Fight. Yeah.
Andy Hammond:I can tell you next chapter
Glenn Walsh:1031. It's not quoted much as this. It's a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. It's a terrible thing in the living God. Then it goes on to say remember those earlier days after you'd received the light when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering, or sometimes you are publicly exposed to insult and persecution. Other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated on Kijiji suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property. Because you know, that you yourselves had a better and lasting possession. So do not throw away your confidence, it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you've done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised. And then he was just saying that time is coming. But in just a little while he who is coming will come and will not delay and but my righteous one will live by faith. Yes, then I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back. This is not a time church to go into hiding. This is not a time to shrink back. This is not a time to be silent. It's the opposite. Because we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed. But to those who have faith and are saved. Destruction isn't going on the front line of proclaiming the gospel, it's the opposite. Destruction is letting Satan hem you in. Becoming fearful and so far that we need boldness. We need confidence and it comes from one place again, not from ourselves, but through Your Holy Spirit. We remember Peter who shrunk bank who denied knowing you even to a young slave girl. He said I never know him. And you saw him and he went out and despaired and wept bitterly. But when your Holy Spirit filled him mammon, it couldn't be so much. Praise the Lord Tom, Holy Spirit give us that boldness. Boldness that we won't be those not by our own flesh. Lord, we know what we are in ourselves a strong and then ourselves we will last a strong but in you can we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us I can send your Holy Spirit Lord makers, those who speak out who stand firm who will not be shaken, because you cannot be shaken.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, this is this is this is your sional This is the asking house. This is where we come to ask for what we haven't got. We are so new strength, new boldness, new courage, yes, follow everything, Father God, to follow this word. We can't live without your Holy Spirit. That's why you sent him Lord so far ago, which is again require for us it's sitting in here. And for all you listening, whenever that might be your wherever it might be, Lord, you too will be filled with God's Spirit, that he will enable you. I have many, many days, especially in these tough times. When I'm completely empty. I don't know I'll get that way, Lord. But that's why you sent your spirit to refill us to revive us who rely on us with your word, everything Lord, we were out we were in human form still an old you sent your spirit to remind us of all these wonderful truths that are coming up in the air today. Lord, we we do choir of or send your spirit Lord, we fresh we know we strengthened we everything of the kingdom of God into us Lord again, in Jesus name but where I live this life prior to your glory, Lord, that your glory will be seen in us that we can minister Your glory on this earth Father God as that last night Prayer tells us to do, Lord, Thy kingdom come Yeah, no lie kingdom come, your spirit. Come, Lord, fill us now. In Jesus name we pray, Lord, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Revelations chapter four, verse eight, each of the four living creatures, six wings. And their eyes were covered all around, even under its wings, night and day. They never stopped saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is, and is to come. He's coming back. Yeah, Christ is coming. The Messiah is coming back. Oh man, but all the time we walk this earth. The challenge is to be strong and courageous. But then he says, be holy. Because I am holy. Joshua was given a clear command, sit on the riverbank, sit closer where you're going to cross over. But consecrate yourself, we are in a crossing over period. The Scripture is strong and alive and sharper than a double edged sword this morning. And the clear messages, get ready across. We are going to cross into an area where angels fear to tread. If you are a Bible believing believer, I'm using this terminology a lot. If you are a Bible believing believer, wherever you are, stretch out to the King of glory. Because there is a wind blowing across this nation. There is the fight in the heavens. The battle belongs to the Lord. Yes, I get that I understand that. But I've still got to walk through this skip of a nation. I've still got to live and beat a human being and be that father and whoever I am in Christ, the husband or the wife or the brother or the sister or the child, whoever we are, and we need strength, the government will not strengthen us. The world cannot strengthen us. Our families cannot strengthen us. The system cannot strengthen us. Our strength comes from the Scripture and through the word of God. But they shouted, they screaming that you can hear you can hear so much going on in heaven is the things that are happening. You know, look what it says in Revelations for verse eight. Holy, holy, holy, is the church in the UK. Holy. The Bible says were His ambassadors. Is the church the face of God? Is the church representing the God of Israel. Question very deep, very deep, very deep. I need to make sure that I am following the King of Glory, the scriptures that have come out this morning, we're coming to the table. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. These your god, he's your king. Colossian says that Christ is the image of the invisible God. John says then the Word became flesh and made us dwelling among us. John says we have seen his glory. He is the Holy One. And he's coming back. And he's coming back for the bride. But the bride is not looking good in my eyes. Oh God, in the name of Jesus have mercy on this nation. Lord Mercy was spoken about this morning, father have mercy on me today, Lord, whatever's in my life that is not right. As we come to the table, Lord, Father, give me the strength give me the courage to stand up for Jesus. Give us the courage to stand on the Word of God. Lord, Father, Lord, you're leading us to new beginnings. But Lord, the New Beginnings begin with consecration. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. One God three persons Father, Son, Holy Spirit, as has been said this morning. We're coming to the table together. This has not been put in place by any leader of any denomination. This is scripture. This is out of the Word of God. You can track it all the way back through the Old Testament. The Lamb, the unblemished the lamb. And we see what it says in the Old Testament Exodus. Get yourself a lamb newborn without D Fact. What is John say? Behold, the Lamb of God. I believe it's been said this morning already. The price has been paid. The ransom, the ransom, we are slaves to righteousness. You are a child of the living God. That God is calling you to deep. God is calling you to holiness. God is calling you to walk deeper and deeper and deeper. I really believe it's going to take courage. It's going to take strength. He will give you every place that your soul or your foot shall tread upon. You are blessed and highly favored. But the challenge that we all have is be holy. Because I am holy. Holiness. What a word makes me shatter.
Glenn Walsh:Hebrews 1014 really complements that as well. says, For by one sacrifice, he has made perfect forever, hallelujah, those who are being made. Holy. Yes, law not he is made perfect forever. Those who feel what is right, or those who do what they feel well, those who ponder things. It says, For by one sacrifice, thank you, God has made perfect forever. Those who are being made holy. We've been transformed into His image. He's doing it he is and we're being transformed into His image hallelujah. Not into an image we think is good now into His image, a perfect one.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah. And as Glenn is reading, that it's dropping in my spirit, seek Him as all these scriptures are just flowing together this morning as God leads. And God is God is with you. You are saved. You are saved. You're not who the world tells you. You are. You are a daughter. And you are a son of the living God. And he loves you unconditionally. And he is transforming you because I cannot transform me. The seeker friendly church will tell me the liberal church will tell me it's all about me. Ethics and science. But the scripture says he is he is always transforming us. He is working within us. He is stretching us. He is setting us three, free, he is our salvation. He is our God is He is it's about him. It's not about me. It's about Jesus.
Andy Hammond:We need to stand firm, and amen. Andy on on the word. I've just got Daniel, chapter three open. And I think a lot of us know the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. And inverse, you know, they were about to be thrown into the furnace. And they said, The God we serve is able to save us from it. Lovely, and he will rescue us from your hand oh king, but this is a good bit. But even if he does not, we want you to know King that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of God, you have set up. And I think that's an encouragement to us today because there's so many other gods so many other gods and we're not going to be put to death for them at the moment that the moment. But there's this encouragement even you know, right back in Yeah, Daniels time. Thank you. He was gonna serve God, the One True God. And I then turned to Haggai or hacker AI, as someone would say. There's the promise glory of the new house. And I think this is an encouragement to us all today. This is what the Lord Lord Almighty says, In a little while I will want to shake the heavens on the earth, the sea, and the dry land. I will shake all nations and the desired of all nations will come and I will fill this house with glory says the lord almighty thank you Jesus celebrates mine and the gold is mine declares the Lord Almighty, the glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house. So greater things to come. We have that promise. And the word goes on to say And I will grant peace to all my Thank You, Lord. So if we want peace today, just that come into that relationship with God through Jesus. And as we come to take the bread and the wine, give you a moment or two to get that ready. And we are all sitting around the table here with bread and wine, we've all kind of take loaded up in, in memory of what Jesus has done. For each one of our SAT perfect sacrifice. He was the perfect Lamb of God. So we thank you, Jesus for what you've done. For each one of us. And we come to you again this morning. And we've just asked you to bring your cleansing and forgiveness for each one of us. We haven't stood up to the mark sometime this week. Today, even we haven't done what we should have done, no Lord. So we ask you to forgive us so that we can come before you. And we thank you for the blood of the lab that cleanses us. So we take the spread now in remember to what you've done.
Donny Stockburn:Word here in Matthew seven, seven, you will all know it as Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find, knock and it will be open to you. For everyone who asked everyone who asks receives an he who seeks fines, and to him who knocks it will be opened. I love those words, Lord, they go straight to the spirit is no small print. And it says to everyone who asked, it will be given a lot of we cry out to you again, Lord, that you will fill us with your spirit. enable us Lord, to live your gospel, and to carry the gospel Lord, out to whoever you send us Lord, and Father God we just come together and gather together now with this type of blood Lord. To me, we love to so much wash this from all our sins in his own blood. Take away our sins alone for Thank you just cover them up is not a cover up job. Our sins are gone. Because not even the ashes had been written out of history, they do not exist. And this is a blood safely This is a blood that stood up from the lizard of blood that claims me innocent, holy and righteous. And all Oh take it alone which is give you the thanks for in Jesus name now. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you Lord. washed in the blood washed in the blood of Jesus washed in the Crimson Tide. Father, we thank you for these moments. We thank you for these moments law that were able to gather around together across the other side of the world, for the power of technology are able to be on the other side of the lens to our brothers and sisters and we are sure Lord, Your word Father, God will run through them like living water that your word Father Yes will be in them so strong that today, our online church brothers and sisters will feel the power of God will feel the power of the Holy Spirit. And they feel the power of the word just in their DNA in their bones that they will feel that they are alive, that they are alive. washed in the blood of Jesus completely forgiven, set freed from historical events that the enemy thought had set us up to take us out what the enemy meant for home. God has turned for good places we thank you Father that you set the enemy up from the very beginning of time. We thank you Lord that our names are stamped in the Lamb's book of life. We thank you Father that your word is within us. We thank you for Glenn and for Andy and brother dawn this morning we thank you for everybody online we thank you for you. But Lord, I asked you that you will help us to stand away from the crowd. You're standing in the Word of God. Lord, let your word father, be our breath. Let your word be our fuel. Let your word be, the energy, the strength that we require. Let your word father, be like Lord described out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water that rivers, let your word be there. As it says rivers Let the rivers flow today, Lord, let your word father almost pound our innermost being like the waves crashing against the shore Father, let us feel the presence of you. Let us feel the glory of you. Let us let us father know, Lord God that all is well all is well today. Father, we stand and we trust in you. There is nowhere else to go, Lord. Where else can we go? Where else can we go? There is nowhere else. We've tried it. We've exhausted it. And it's meaningless. But there is one and his name is Jesus. Oh, man.
Donny Stockburn:Thank you, Lord.
Reverend Ben Cooper:His name is Jesus. Bless us. We pray we thank You, Lord, for these podcasts. We thank you for this online service. And as we asked Donnie to close in a moment in prayer, before he does, Andy is just going to share something regarding the Bible that he has to his right hand side. And as he always does, Andy, over to you,
Andy Hammond:yeah, just to offer this as a gift to anyone who needs a copy of God's word. We give these testaments and Bibles away if you need a copy, just get in touch. And it contains the Gospels in this New Testament. And just a word from Romans one. I'm not ashamed of the gospel, because because it is the power of God, for the salvation of everyone who believes.
Reverend Ben Cooper:There we are, man, that's it done. Could we ask you to close in Bradley? Yeah,
Donny Stockburn:thank you, Father of your presence here. You said where two or more gathered, there shall be, Lord. It's not, not a vision, not not just a describing word is a true Father God That Your Spirit is with us now. And with all of gathering your name, Father, God. Thanks for explaining so many things to me, Lord, and that other deities want to mention that other day, I want to sit in praying over the fields, Lord. And I asked you a question why? Why is it I seem to spend so much time in the bottom of the barrel, troubled waters? And Jesus just replied, that's, well, I'll do my best work. And Lord, and, Lord, send us out and just remind us that these truths by your Spirit, Lord, that's where you work amongst most of those who are suffering, Lord, and that's where you operate amongst those who have fallen back, Lord. And that's where you love to be less, where you will only serve Lord, along with the sinners, not with the Pharisees and the scribes and things like that far ago, your work was still going on today, exactly the same as when you was on a farm to God, you said you would do what I do. And that wasn't all miracles that was working amongst those who are lonely, those who are broken, and I was finding it hard to get by in these days, especially ignored, and all caught up in so many lies and untruths. Father God, we pray now, Lord, your bikes, though, without Word of God, that word of God that brings life and truth into their lives, Lord, and joy and peace will follow it. And we ask this in Jesus name, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Thank you, Lord, we just thank you so much. Wherever you are across the earth today, May, May you be in the word like never before. Thank you, Glenn. Thank you, Andy. Thank you, Don. Thank you, everybody that's joining us online this morning, wherever you are. Have a great day. Remember, never give up God is with you. And if God is for us, who can be against us, we'll see you this time next. And just continue to be in God's Word in Jesus precious name. Amen.
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