Speaker 1: I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: I'm Deacon Timothy Degua from Parklands Baptist Church.
Speaker 1: What a wonderful season that God has entered us to.
Speaker 1: We are so grateful to what God is about to do in this season of Uncommon Justice.
Speaker 1: I bless the Lord that you've been able to tune in and be able to see what God is about to do in our lives.
Speaker 1: I am so blessed to say that this month is a month of uncommon justice.
Speaker 1: This is a thing that God did to show us his love, to show us that he loves us beyond words could ever tell, to show us that we are important into his heart and to show us that he can go a mile for us.
Speaker 1: This is the thing that made us and made God to turn around the tables for us.
Speaker 1: We are so blessed to be in this season and we thank God that he could give us this uncommon justice.
Speaker 1: I'd like us to go to Isaiah 53, verse 4 to 6.
Speaker 1: The Bible says he took up our pain and bore our suffering.
Speaker 1: Yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted.
Speaker 1: But he was pierced for our transgressions.
Speaker 1: He was crushed for our iniquities.
Speaker 1: The punishment that brought us peace was in him and by his wounds we are healed.
Speaker 1: We are all like sheep that have gone astray.
Speaker 1: Each of us has turned our own way and the Lord has read on him the iniquity of us all.
Speaker 1: This month, god has turned our tables.
Speaker 1: Instead of punishment, god has given us forgiveness.
Speaker 1: We had closed the rind, we had defiled God's command, we had made sin against God.
Speaker 1: We will not be part of anything else than a punishment.
Speaker 1: But God looked at our lives and decided he would send his son, jesus Christ, and the scripture we have read the Bible says that he was crushed for our transgressions.
Speaker 1: Instead of us being crushed, christ came in and God crushed on our behalf, and now the uncommon justice has turned the table of being crushed to a table of being forgiven.
Speaker 1: Another thing that the Bible speaks about is that God has brought us the uncommon justice that bring peace.
Speaker 1: The Bible says he was crushed and the punishment that came upon him brought off peace.
Speaker 1: We were with war with God, we were hostile to his commandment, we hated anything to do with God, and every time we found God we brought issues and we had fights with him.
Speaker 1: But the Bible says that he came and gave us peace.
Speaker 1: No wonder he is called Jehovah Shalom, the God of peace.
Speaker 1: He brought peace between us and him.
Speaker 1: And now the uncommon justice this month is telling us that we are turning from war, at point of being crushed, to a point of bringing peace.
Speaker 1: Everything was exchanged for peace.
Speaker 1: The scripture also says that this uncommon justice brings healing.
Speaker 1: The Bible says he by his wounds we are healed.
Speaker 1: But the punishment of our sins could have brought infirmities, sicknesses and being brought down by things that could have destroyed our own physical bodies.
Speaker 1: But he took the punishment.
Speaker 1: The uncommon justice entered into our space and now we're in a space where we can say we are forgiven and by his stripes.
Speaker 1: We are in a space where we can say we are forgiven and by his stripes we are healed.
Speaker 1: This is the benefit of uncommon justice that what was meant to destroy our bodies, god, turned it around and now we can enjoy the peace of our living God.
Speaker 1: Now we can enjoy the healing of our God.
Speaker 1: Now we can enjoy the forgiveness of our lives and therefore we are forgiven.
Speaker 1: We have peace with God and therefore we are forgiven.
Speaker 1: We have peace with God and also we are healed.
Speaker 1: The fourth thing is that uncommon justice brings life.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in the book of John, chapter 10, verse 10, that the enemy comes to steal, to kill and to destroy, to finish us and to make us to go with this body of death.
Speaker 1: But the scripture records and says that Jesus Christ came and brought this uncommon justice.
Speaker 1: And this uncommon justice, he brings to us peace, he brings to us healing, and now he gives us life, and this is life in abundance.
Speaker 1: We do not need to be crushed, we do not need to be dead, we do not need to be in that space where we feel condemned, dead.
Speaker 1: We do not need to be in that space where we feel condemned, but God has brought himself to us so that we can receive his healing, his peace and life in abundance and also the forgiveness.
Speaker 1: And so, in this thing, god has made sure that, therefore, there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 1: We are not condemned to death.
Speaker 1: We have been given uncommon justice that brings life and life in abundance.
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying life in abundance?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling crushed?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling a moment that you are peaceless?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling a moment that you're not forgiven?
Speaker 1: Are you feeling a moment that you're decaying?
Speaker 1: Christ is speaking to us this beautiful season that we have entered in uncommon justice.
Speaker 1: This is not something we deserved.
Speaker 1: It is by his grace, it is by his love, it is by his release that now we can enjoy what we could not have enjoyed While we were condemned to death.
Speaker 1: Christ has exchanged the condemnation to life, and life in abundance.
Speaker 1: I look forward that this will be a season that no one will be left for.
Speaker 1: The prize has been paid, the jails have been opened, the doors are flipped open and now, this season, the Bible is saying that your chains have been broken.
Speaker 1: What was condemned?
Speaker 1: How you are condemned.
Speaker 1: Put off those clothes of condemnation.
Speaker 1: Put off that shame that puts you down.
Speaker 1: Put that past that destroys and makes you decay.
Speaker 1: Put everything that has brought you down, just like the prodigal child.
Speaker 1: Make up your mind.
Speaker 1: Know that the price has been paid.
Speaker 1: Stand up and come back to the Father For everything you had lost.
Speaker 1: Christ has paid back for you.
Speaker 1: For everything that you had lost.
Speaker 1: Christ has brought it back for you so that you may have this life, and have it in abundance.
Speaker 1: Christ is calling each one of us to this space, to this space of a miracle working God, a God who makes everything work together for good.
Speaker 1: For it is in Jesus' name we pray, believe, trust and honor him.
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord shower you with his blessing.
Speaker 1: May the Lord show you his grace.
Speaker 1: May his grace be sufficient in all that you do.
Speaker 1: May the Lord open doors that has never opened before.
Speaker 1: May these chains set you free.
Speaker 1: May you know that the Lord has a good plan for each one of you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May the Lord favor you, for it is in Jesus' name we pray and we live.
Speaker 1: Amen.