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The Issues About Women’s Liberty - Part 25: The Giving of the Law

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  1. Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is

  2. designed to uplift and strengthen you in your

  3. walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until

  4. the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive

  5. right in. Hebrews chapter 10. Look at verse 26.

    Hebrews 10 chapter mention

  6. Now we have been for a long time looking at a

  7. crucial issue, which has been for some time a

  8. matter of controversy, but it's not. And we'll

  9. be looking at issues around women's liberty.

  10. Now the theme of the year, greater works and

  11. one important thing I want to note about greater

  12. works is that it cannot or let me say it should

  13. not or it won't be done in isolation. Amen? God

  14. is not calling us to do His work in isolation,

  15. individually. Hallelujah. That's why we saw in

  16. that text, John chapter 14, verse 12, those who

    John 14:12

  17. believe in Him, He's speaking to not an individual,

  18. He's speaking to a group. Hallelujah. He's speaking

  19. to a group. If you is not talking about one person,

  20. so the you is not a single person. Are we together?

  21. You believe you will do greater works. Are we

  22. together? And so ministry, works of God, greater

  23. works, is never done in isolation. And you will

  24. do yourself a favor if your reading of scripture

  25. is adjusted from I to we. Are we together? From

  26. I to we. So even if you hear it says you, then

  27. just automatically, Think he's talking to an

  28. individual. Even when he says, you are the temple

  29. of God, or you are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

  30. He's not talking just as an individual. Yes,

  31. we are united with him. Yes, individually in

  32. the son, we are also, we are hosting God. Yes,

  33. means that we are his house. Very importantly,

  34. it's a community in a sense. It's a family. The

  35. house is a family. So when you said, Christ in

  36. you, the hope of glory, is not talking about

  37. an individual. He's also talking about a collective

  38. or a group of people, a community of believers.

  39. And if you check the entirety of the plan of

  40. God, It's only an individual. It's a family.

  41. It's a family. That's his intent. That's his

  42. blueprint from the foundation of the wall. So

  43. Christ's work came to bring many sons to glory.

  44. So even as we discuss the issue of issues about

  45. or around women's liberty, don't think because

  46. we said women, so it doesn't concern you as a

  47. man. No, because this family is male and female.

  48. And as we noted in most of our texts, in all

  49. our teachings, that the plan of God for creating

  50. a man is the same plan for creating a woman.

  51. Because the family he created is not physical

  52. family. It's a spiritual one. That's why in him,

  53. there is no male or female. So we try to look

  54. at a lot of issues. In the spirit, male and females

  55. are called sons. Sons of God is not male. Sons

  56. of God is a spiritual breed, a new creation.

  57. So we can differ in our biological... or sex,

  58. or body, but in Christ, we are one. And that's

  59. the focus. So that you know that you need your

  60. sister in this ministry. You know that you need

  61. your brother in this ministry. To do greater

  62. works, you need your sister, you need your brother.

  63. And that's what we've been trying to communicate.

  64. And we move on, move on, move on, up until now,

  65. we are in where we wanted to explain something.

  66. We arrive, on issues regarding dressing in the

  67. sun. And we started by looking at a scripture

  68. which we explore in Deuteronomy concerning a

  69. woman not wearing the things of a man or the

  70. man not wearing the things of a woman. Although

  71. it didn't say whichever it is, but we have already

  72. classified things. And that has been an issue

  73. of controversy. But then we said what we will

  74. do is to study in the first place What is the

  75. audience of Moses when he was writing them that

  76. text Who was he addressing it to And we look

  77. at it we saw that he was addressing it to the

  78. generation which are about to enter canon The

  79. latter generation that survived knows those ones

  80. that left Egypt. And we look at again, what was

  81. the identity of these people? We saw that their

  82. identity, they were unbelievers. We said, okay.

  83. And then we looked at these. And we said, okay,

  84. was that a law of the spirit of a law of Moses?

  85. Are we together? Remember, we looked at a lot

  86. of things concerning the difference between the

  87. Ten Commandments and the Law of Moses. And we

  88. make a striking distinction that if you check

  89. in the Law of Moses, we see all kinds of things.

  90. It's focused on performance. It's about death.

  91. It's about evil. It's about diseases. You do

  92. this. You don't do this. You are killed. The

  93. question is that, where did that emanate? And

  94. we looked at that the law of Moses came later,

  95. 430 years after the promise was given to Hebra.

  96. And we started studying, trying to detail, okay,

  97. how was the law given in the first place? Where

  98. did we find killing and the rest coming into?

  99. Are we together? Are you with me? I'm trying

  100. to bring some of us that have not been with us.

  101. because it's a long journey we had. This is part

  102. 25, I think. And we're still moving. So the point

  103. is that now we're trying to study how the law

  104. was given. And the intent is for us at the end

  105. of the day to understand how many of the things

  106. that now has been accorded to God, you understand,

  107. arrive into the text we have. Hallelujah. And

  108. then by the time we arrive at the destination,

  109. you probably must have now understood how to

  110. read what we call the Old Testament and also

  111. how to know, to assess truth. How do we assess

  112. truth? Amen. Are we together? There are many

  113. things written in this text, especially in the

  114. Old Testament. How do we assess which one is

  115. God, which one is not God? Because even his prophet,

  116. his people said something that is not God. How

  117. do you know? Because the person is standing on

  118. the state of God and he said it. We see killing

  119. done by prophet of God. You understand? Are you

  120. with me? So we see even a lot of things if you

  121. have been following us in the Canonica You must

  122. have read we are Moses in the Sun and the Bible

  123. said and what said to Moses in the Sun one carry

  124. demand I see kill him stone him. Have you have

  125. you been following us? The question is that How

  126. do you know that instruction came from God? in

  127. the Sun How do you assess the truth? Who is?

  128. the standard of truths i don't know whether you

  129. understand what i'm trying to say we are not

  130. saying and then what makes a prophet of god who

  131. understand the things of god yet spoke in that

  132. way because it's not just only to say that it

  133. is not god that instructed that it's another

  134. thing to explain how did he you understand say

  135. such a thing amen are we together and i want

  136. you to understand something very important And

  137. that's why you have to follow very carefully

  138. and gradually. Because the point needs to be

  139. explained clearly. So we're still looking at

  140. the giving of the law. Amen. Hebrews chapter

    Hebrews 10 chapter mention

  141. 10, I said, right? Look at verse 26. For if we,

  142. sin willfully, after we have received the knowledge

  143. of God, the knowledge of truth, There is no longer

  144. remained a sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful

  145. expectation of judgment and fiery indignation

  146. which will devour the adversary. Look at verse

  147. 28. That is where I want you to see. Anyone who

  148. has rejected what? Moses' law. Do what? How?

  149. Without mercy. on the testimony of two or three

  150. witnesses. So what can we say about the law?

  151. In the law, there is no mercy. What did I say?

  152. In the law, there is not. What? There is no mercy.

  153. Psalms 103. Psalms 103 verse seven. What someone

  154. said, he made known his ways to Moses, his act

  155. to the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful

  156. and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in

  157. mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor

  158. will he keep his anger forever. He has not dealt

  159. with us according to our sins. nor punish us

  160. according to our iniquities. For as the heavens

  161. are high above the earth, so great is his mercy

  162. toward those who fear him. As far as the east

  163. is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions

  164. from us." Look at verse 7. I want you to pay

  165. attention, please. We have already noted in our

  166. previous teaching that the law came through who?

  167. Through Moses. We have already seen that there

  168. is no mess in the law. But look at the ways of

  169. the law, also already revealed to Moses. So when

  170. Moses wrote the law, he is already aware of the

  171. ways of God. Because we have said that the revelation

  172. of God is a gift. So it is the law that made

  173. his ways known. Moses didn't do anything to end

  174. it. Are we together with him? Are you together

  175. with him? So he said he made known his ways to

  176. Moses. He made known his ways to Moses. And his

  177. act to the children, of course, he has to only

  178. make his act to the children because they don't

  179. want to know the ways. Remember we have known

  180. that they... For 40 years they refused to believe.

  181. Are we together? So definitely there is no how

  182. you can make your ways to a non -believer. Because

  183. he does not want to even understand. So he made

  184. his ways known to Moses. And look at, he now

  185. describes what actually is about that ways of

  186. God. Look at verse 8. He said the Lord is what?

  187. Merciful and what? And gracious. But then how

  188. come that the law had no mercy? If the same man

  189. who had known that the Lord is what? Is merciful

  190. and gracious. How comes the law is not without

  191. mercy? Once you see you do what? Is that why

  192. we say today? They acquire you. Are we together?

  193. So follow me gradually. You now said that It's

  194. what? It's slow to anger and abounding in mercy.

  195. You see that word? Slow to anger. If you don't

  196. read it correctly, you will think that the Lord

  197. gets angry, but He gets it slowly. Do you understand

  198. what I'm trying to say? That's what it means

  199. by what? Slow to anger. Amen. Now look at that

  200. word, slow. The word slow is translated from

  201. the word arrack. that is a -r -e -k a -r -e -k

  202. it means long actually it means long something

  203. long you know it could be long wind so it is

  204. used like you can say long wind or long suffering

  205. so you can you understand what I'm trying to

  206. say it's actually the word long you know so that's

  207. why I say slow to anger And the word to anger,

  208. that word to anger, is one word. To anger is

  209. one word in Hebrew. It means AP, just AP. And

  210. it's pronounced F. But it's a word AP. But it's

  211. pronounced F. It's actually used literally, truly.

  212. It means nose. You understand what I'm saying?

  213. Nose. It means nose. And if you look at Erek,

  214. it also means, literally, it's long. It means

  215. long. So if you are going to add the two, literally,

  216. it will mean what? Long nose. You understand

  217. what I'm saying? And actually, you're laughing.

  218. And actually in Hebrew, you understand, that's

  219. actually what it means, literally. Long nose.

  220. Amen. So you see, that word long nose is an idiomatic

  221. expression. It's an idiomatic expression which

  222. translates, and most times when translators were

  223. using it, they now say slow to anger because

  224. in some other places you can translate it as

  225. slow to anger. But it actually means long suffering.

  226. That is, you suffer long. Amen. It's what? You

  227. suffer what? Long. Long suffering. Long suffering.

  228. It means forbearing, that is patience. Long suffering.

  229. Long suffering. That's what it means. So most

  230. times when it is used in regards to God, is a

  231. description of God's patience. Of God's patience.

  232. Is a description of God's patience. So next time

  233. you see Slow to anger. It does not mean You understand

  234. that he gets angry but slowly What he's saying

  235. that he is patient is what long suffering? Let

  236. me show you where that same words appear in some

  237. of the things Exodus 34 Look at the exercise.

  238. This is all let us look at some places Exhaust

  239. 34 verse 6 Exodus 34 verse 6. He said, and the

    Exodus 34:6

  240. Lord passed before him and what? Proclaim. The

  241. Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. That

  242. what long suffering is that same word. You understand?

  243. I read. long suffering, and abounding in goodness

  244. and truth. And abounding in goodness and truth.

  245. Numbers chapter 14, verse 18. Numbers 14, 18.

    Numbers 14:18

  246. The Lord is long -suffering, that's the same

  247. word, and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity,

  248. and transgression, but he by no means cleared

  249. the guilty. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers

  250. on the children to the third and the fourth generation.

  251. We have done this study again in this church.

  252. We say that word visiting does not mean that

  253. God keep malice. If your father does something,

  254. he keeps it and wait for the children. When they

  255. come, he punish them. That's not what that means

  256. visiting. We said that what visiting is perquired

  257. which means to what to take care of something

  258. So he's saying I will take care of your iniquity

  259. means that God does not just say That's why he

  260. said he by no means keep clear the guilty me.

  261. You will not just say you go Yeah, yeah forgiveness

  262. means there is a penalty for it But what he does

  263. is to clear or to carry the penalty himself.

  264. That is means by taking care of. Did you understand

  265. what I'm trying to say? Yes. It doesn't mean

  266. that you will keep malice, your father did something

  267. and he will follow you, follow you, follow you

  268. to the other generation and punish your children

  269. for what the fathers did. No. In fact, look at

  270. in the same text what he said to understand that

  271. that's not what it means. Look at verse 31. Look

  272. at verse 31. He said, but your little ones, whom

  273. you set will be victims. So who are the people

  274. who are saying that their little ones will be

  275. victims of what they did? The people themselves,

  276. that is the Israelites, they say our children

  277. will be victims of it. In fact, they have carved

  278. what we call a prover. He said the father will

  279. eat the grapes and the children will what? Did

  280. you understand what I'm saying? So they have

  281. already carved that kind of things. We have done

  282. this study, so I don't want us to go over it

  283. now. But look at it. He said what? that but your

  284. little ones whom you set will be victims eh I

  285. will bring in and they shall know the hand which

  286. you have despised but as for you your carcasses

  287. shall fall in the wilderness that means you are

  288. the one that did the nonsense you are the one

  289. to bear it your children they didn't they didn't

  290. do anything you are the one that said they will

  291. be victims they will not I will take them to

  292. that promised land which you despise. So in the

  293. same text as already clear that one, it's not

  294. saying God will keep malice and visit the children

  295. with the trouble. No. That's why when you read

  296. it, you will now understand in that same context.

  297. That means the Lord is long -suffering. He's

  298. abundant in mercy. He is forgiving. You understand?

  299. Forgiving the iniquity. You understand? And the

  300. transgression. In fact, if you read it, how can

  301. he forgive the iniquity? And then also carry

  302. and follow the iniquity again. In the same verse

  303. can be contradictory if you don't read it correctly.

  304. Are we together? So the point is that no, that

  305. is the Lord is long suffering or slow to anger.

  306. But I would prefer to use the word long suffering.

  307. I mean, maybe the choice of I mean, the translators,

  308. the choice of what they use in the sun is not

  309. actually clear. It would be proper if they use

  310. always long suffering instead of slow to anger.

  311. Amen. Are we together? Nehemiah chapter 9 verse

    Nehemiah 9:17

  312. 17. Nehemiah chapter 9. Look at verse 17. He

    Nehemiah 9 chapter mention

  313. said, look at it. He said they refused to obey.

  314. Please note that. They refused, talking about

  315. the Israelites, they refused to obey. And there

  316. we are not mindful of your wonders that you did

  317. among them. But they hardened their neck and

  318. in their rebellion they appointed a leader to

  319. return to bondage. That's Numbers. Again, those

  320. are words that have been following us. You understand?

  321. In Numbers chapter 14, you saw after they did

    Numbers 14 chapter mention

  322. all this nonsense, you understand? They now appointed,

  323. say this man Moses, we don't know where, you

  324. know, let's appoint a leader and return back

  325. to Egypt, you understand? But what did God do?

  326. Did He kill them? You understand? And then the

  327. Bible says, but you are God, ready to do all,

  328. to pardon, gracious and mercy. Slow to anger.

  329. That word again, slow to anger. It means long

  330. suffering. You understand? Abundant in kindness

  331. and did not forsake them. And did not forsake

  332. them. This is the attitude of the Lord that was

  333. revealed to Moses. You understand? And the Lord

  334. made his ways known to Moses. Hallelujah! Yes!

  335. So, I want you to get note of that thing. Even

  336. though the people have rejected God, in fact,

  337. you can imagine, that time they were about to

  338. enter Egypt. Yes, sorry. They are about to enter

  339. Canaan in Numbers 14. You understand? When those

  340. 10 people confused them, Those ten spies came

  341. and confused them. Are we together? And say there

  342. are giant in the what? In the promised land and

  343. they cry they say we are going back We can't

  344. die here. You understand? Are we together? That

  345. is a kind of people. God said But you are God

  346. you are merciful. That's the kind of people They

  347. are rebellious people For 30 years remember they

  348. have been rejecting you in the sun. Look at Psalms

  349. 86. Psalms 86 verse 15. But you, O Lord, are

    Psalms 86:15

  350. God. This one say I God. Full of what? Compassion

  351. and what? Long -suffering. That what again is

  352. the same word, long -suffering. And abundant

  353. in mercy and truth. Go to 1 .45, Psalms 1 .45

  354. verse eight. Psalms 1 .45 verse eight. 145 verse

  355. 8. The Lord is gracious, full of compassion,

  356. slow to anger, and great in mercy. Now what again?

  357. Slow to anger is long suffering. Joel chapter

    Joel 2:13

  358. 2 verse 13. Joel chapter 2 verse what? Verse

    Joel 2 chapter mention

  359. 13. So rent your heart and not your garment.

  360. wrong to the Lord your God for he is gracious

  361. and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness

  362. and he relents from doing harm again the word

  363. slow to anger means long suffering let's read

  364. this last text Jonah chapter 4 verse 2 Jonah

    Jonah 4:2 Jonah 4:2

  365. chapter 4 verse 2 Let me even read from verse

  366. one. He said, but it displaced Jonah accidentally

  367. and he became angry. Why? He says, so he prayed

  368. to God, to the Lord and said, Oh Lord, was not

  369. this what I said when I was still in my country?

  370. Therefore I fled previously to Tashish. For I

  371. know that you are what? You are gracious and

  372. you are merciful. God Slow to anger that what

  373. again Abundant and long in loving kindness one

  374. who relents from doing harm you see The same

  375. thing to go and preach because he already knew

  376. he knew that are we together? He knew that this

  377. God He will not kill this people, you know, sir.

  378. He knew it That was why I say I will not go because

  379. he think it's a waste of time You know, that's

  380. why some of us were angry that your father is

  381. a loving God. So many believers are angry that

  382. why will God not be harsh, not be a terrible

  383. person? That's how some of us are. That when

  384. you hear he loves even his enemies, he gives

  385. you rain, you understand? You don't like it.

  386. When they say, no, praying fire, let my enemies

  387. die is not a Christ -like prayer. He said, no,

  388. no, no, no. Even David said it. You see the problem?

  389. That's why we say, you see, you do not have a

  390. way of assessing what is true. David is a prophet,

  391. but you are in the reality of what David was

  392. looking for. You are in a standing that the David

  393. of before, you understand, was looking for. That's

  394. why you don't appreciate what you have to do.

  395. You want to go back to the old system, that old

  396. system. of no mercy. Don't we I do you. Why won't

  397. you be listening to these songs? You will definitely

  398. be listening to those songs. God no go versed.

  399. You see that kind of a thing? Amen. Jonah knew

  400. it. And he confirmed it, even when he went grudgingly.

  401. And God did it. He said, you see, I said it.

  402. That is the reason why I wanted to run away because

  403. I know what he will do. We have more better standing

  404. than Jonah. Hallelujah! We go to preach not because

  405. we want to see people suffer. You know some of

  406. us go to preach so that they will not say they

  407. didn't preach. Don't believe you are going to

  408. hell. Hell straight! The way I'm looking at you,

  409. you're going to hell. See the scan of it. Your

  410. message is not the gospel. Go back to that psalm.

  411. Psalm 103. So next time you read the lost soul

  412. in the son to anger. Noda is talking about his

  413. long -suffering. Are we together? He's talking

  414. about what? His long -suffering. Look at verse

  415. 9 of that Psalms 103 verse 9. He said he will

    Psalms 103:9

  416. not always strike in the son. Now what we ask

  417. is it lies, which means it was just added. It's

  418. not in the original. You will see also his anger

  419. for, that what his anger is also not in the original.

  420. So you could see that he will not always strive,

  421. nor will he keep forever. Are we together? Amen.

  422. Yes. I think we've studied the issue of, okay,

  423. that's in training center. God not striving forever

  424. with man. Are we together? Genesis chapter 6,

    Genesis 6 chapter mention

  425. right? Yes. We talked about that. Of course,

  426. He keeps calling you, keep calling you. If He

  427. insists on where you want to go, He can't push

  428. you back. Amen. We saw that with Noah, through

  429. Noah, the Spirit of God, keep on what? He was

  430. reaching out to them. for about 120 years preaching

  431. to them. They never repented. There's nothing

  432. they can do. Verse 10, He has not dealt with

  433. us according to our sins, nor punished us according

  434. to our iniquities. Verse 11, as the heavens are

  435. high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward

  436. those who fear Him. As far as the east is from

  437. the east, west. So has He removed our transgressions

  438. from us. And you keep reading. That is a waste

  439. of God revealed to Moses. And Jesus told us clearly

  440. that Moses knew the waste of God. He presented

  441. it to them. They rejected it. That's why Jesus

  442. told the Jews then. John chapter 5. He said,

    John 5 chapter mention

  443. if you have believed Moses, you would have what?

  444. Believe me, because Moses did what? He wrote

  445. of me. But again, before then, he told them,

  446. I'm not going to accuse you. Moses have done

  447. so. Moses, whom you trust, has accused you. He

  448. has brought a chart that you are a stiff -necked

  449. people. You are a rebellious people. You are

  450. a people who have no faiths. Understand? And

  451. by so he treated you. He treated you as unbelievers.

  452. Why then? Matthew 19. Did Moses offer us access

  453. to give a certificate of divorce? He said, because

  454. of the hardness of your heart. That means there

  455. were things that were introduced because of the

  456. kind of the people. Are we together? We read

  457. last time when we were discussing about the law

  458. of Moses, that the Moses law was given to guard

  459. a people that are terribly rebellious. You know,

  460. the only person, are we together? If you have

  461. a hardened criminal that refused to believe,

  462. I mean, refused to believe the law of the land

  463. and don't want to follow it. He is a hardened

  464. criminal, killing everybody. What do you think

  465. they do to him? They carry him and put him in

  466. a confined place. There are prisoners there.

  467. They don't combine them. They circulate. I mean,

  468. they give them a demication. That's how you do

  469. to a rebellious people. Moses knew that the only

  470. way to guard these people is to bring all kinds

  471. of stiff laws to the guardrails. Sometimes you

  472. are amazed. How did Moses go detail? This is

  473. how you should do. Don't do this. This is how

  474. you should do. Don't do this. He knew the people

  475. he was dealing with. So the law was given to

  476. rebellious people. Me, I said divorce is a way

  477. to protect the rights of the other women. Moses

  478. knew that if he didn't do that, these rebellious

  479. people are terrible. They will destroy the order.

  480. The only way, sir, is to say, okay, you don't

  481. want her, you have her problem with her. just

  482. give us a together a great JJ JJ right JJ let

  483. her go you know sir that's a way he has put certain

  484. things to us but Jesus said in the beginning

  485. it was not so it was introduced because of this

  486. hardness of your heart but Moses knew the ways

  487. of the law he kept telling them look at Hebrews

    Hebrews 11 chapter mention

  488. chapter 11 come with me quickly Hebrews chapter

    Hebrews 11 chapter mention

  489. 11 Look at verse 24. In verse 24, he said, by

  490. faith, Moses, when he became of it, he refused

  491. to be called the sons of Pharaoh's daughter,

  492. choosing rather to suffer affliction with the

  493. people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasure

  494. of sin. Look at 26. He said, esteeming. esteeming

  495. the reproach of Christ greater riches than the

  496. treasure in Egypt for he looked to the reward

  497. he looked to the reward esteeming the reproach

  498. of Christ Moses knew God Moses knew the Lord

  499. he left the house of Pharaoh because of what

  500. he knew He really knew the ways of God. He knew

  501. he saw Jesus. So the question is that since Moses

  502. knew these things about God, he knew the ways

  503. of God. The question is that when he wrote and

  504. gave them the law. Who was dealing with these

  505. people? Who was killing the people? He knew the

  506. Lord is merciful. But in the law, there is no

  507. mercy. Who was killing the Israelites? Who disobeyed

  508. the law? We say they die with that mercy. Since

  509. Moses knew the law, that is merciful and gracious.

  510. Abandoning mercy. Who was getting angry? When

  511. they say, and the Lord, and it kindled the anger

  512. of God. Did you understand what I'm saying? Eh?

  513. Oh, you have not been reading. And the anger

  514. of the Lord had been kindled. Who was killing

  515. the people? Who was getting angry? But then,

  516. they are called it that it is God. I don't want

  517. you to forget what we have already said. That

  518. it came, the law came through the instrumentality

  519. of what? Of angels. Are we together? Through

  520. the instrumentality of angels. Quickly, let's

  521. see something before we come. These are questions

  522. I'm answering as we go gradually in the sun.

  523. Who was killing? Who was getting angry? Why did

  524. they write it that way? That it was God that

  525. was angry While he was not the one angry the

  526. son He revealed himself To them you know his

  527. wish He knows that the Lord does not get angry

  528. that is slow in what in mercy he knows Genesis

  529. 19 Genesis 19 verse 13. Look at 13. Are you 13?

    Genesis 19:13

  530. For we will destroy this place because the outcry

  531. against them has grown great. before the face

  532. of the Lord and the Lord has sent us to destroy

  533. it. This is the angels saying, so who destroys

  534. Sodom and Gomorrah? Oh, are you with me? Are

  535. you with me? Who destroys Sodom and Gomorrah?

  536. Eh? The angels said they were saying to Lord,

  537. get out, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. We're

  538. going to destroy this place. We're going to destroy

  539. this place because there's an outcry that has

  540. grown great before the face of the Lord. As if

  541. they have seen his face before. What do you say

  542. is his face? The face is a presence, the person

  543. of God. Are we together? No one has seen God

  544. at any time. We have done that and we are coming.

  545. They said we are sent by the Lord. Listen, I

  546. want you to follow me closely That's why I said

  547. you have to because this is trying to address

  548. a lot of things. So that means in the Bible There

  549. are many things prophets said There are many

  550. things angels said There are many things even

  551. angels of God I don't mean evil angels who like

  552. the devil who deliberately is the focus is to

  553. twist the Bible That's not what I'm saying. I

  554. mean the angels of God understand There are many

  555. things liars said. There are many things the

  556. devil said. You understand? So there are a lot

  557. of things that have been said. The question is

  558. that how do you assess which one is true, which

  559. one is not true? If I come like a pastor today,

  560. and that's why we're teaching you something.

  561. If I come like a pastor today and I tell you

  562. something, how do you assess that what I'm saying

  563. is not true? Or is true? How? This is what we

  564. are teaching you. That your faith we risked in

  565. the power of God That is why Paul will see because

  566. he knew that the truth is independent of the

  567. one who speaks the truth That's why he said even

  568. if we come and tell you another gospel He said

  569. consider was who a cost not even he said even

  570. the angels that means he's saying The angels

  571. are not the standard of truth. We ourselves that

  572. teach the truth are not the standard of truth.

  573. Truth is independent of who spoke it. If you

  574. don't understand this, you will get confused

  575. in reading Bible. And many of the mistakes, we

  576. are not saying they are deliberate. Are you together

  577. with me? Even in your life, even though you are

  578. born again, most of the truth you have learned

  579. in life, when you were growing up, the mistake

  580. you have done, It's not that some of the mistakes

  581. are not deliberate. You did it in ignorance.

  582. Now that you have grown you understand. But there

  583. are ones that you know the stubbornness was deliberate.

  584. You knew it. So what we are saying is that there

  585. is a type of lack of understanding that even

  586. the engine of God can say it. Are we together?

  587. Not because it's malicious, but because it's

  588. coming out of ignorance. Are we together? is

  589. coming out of ignorance. So you must have a way

  590. of reading the Bible carefully and assessing

  591. the truth. Are we together? We must have a way

  592. of assessing the truth and thank God we have.

  593. and thank God we have. The days of confusion

  594. of who say what and what say what has passed.

  595. Sometimes the lack, the inability to communicate

  596. or to say the truth. Listen, I've said this often

  597. that the fact that you are accurate does not

  598. mean that you are saying the truth. Did you understand

  599. what I'm saying? And I try always for you to

  600. understand that if you see something written

  601. by angels or by even the prophet, like when you

  602. read the Psalms, we're coming to read the Psalms,

  603. you see all kinds of things and you're wondering,

  604. is it that same prophet that prophesied about

  605. Jesus? That said this, this, this, and this,

  606. and now he's saying this. Listen, David is the

  607. one who seen who he has committed all kinds of

  608. atrocities. And when he's praying for himself,

  609. he said, Lord, you should have mercy on me. Lord,

  610. you should have mercy on me." But now when he's

  611. praying against his enemy, he said, Lord, don't

  612. allow them to die a natural death. Do you understand

  613. what I'm trying to say? The same person, that

  614. means his view of God is somehow, there is no

  615. perfection in his view of God. Understand? That's

  616. why, but if you have a perfection in the view

  617. of God, you know that, that he has no variation.

  618. He has no shadow of turning. You understand?

  619. When he say he love, he doesn't have great love,

  620. small love. Are we together? So if he says he

  621. love the world, his love for the believer is

  622. not different from a non -believer. Because he

  623. does not love small and love great there. Do

  624. you understand what I'm saying? Amen. So that

  625. you will know when you are praying, Lord, I am

  626. the apple of your eyes. You understand? And feel

  627. that the people that are not apple, Yeah, what?

  628. I don't know. And incidentally, because of this

  629. kind of understanding, even us, even in the church,

  630. we have created classes. Do you understand what

  631. I'm saying? Because of this kind of imperfection

  632. of the knowledge we are carrying, we have created

  633. all kinds of cadre and classes in the sun. There

  634. are ones we call, even though we interpret the

  635. wrong way. there are ones we call the anointed

  636. of God there are ones that are not anointed in

  637. the same place oh so that if you are the pastor

  638. see you're joking with me ha ha ha thoughts not

  639. that anointed and do his prophet know how joke

  640. amen our God is a loving God Don't be angry with

  641. your father that he is loving. Are we together?

  642. Don't be angry with your father that is what?

  643. He is loving, he is kind, he is merciful. That

  644. is who he is. He is long -suffering. Are we together?

  645. He is always that. He is always that. Don't be

  646. angry in the son. Be happy because you have a

  647. father that is consistent. Are we together? You

  648. have a father that is consistent. Imagine you

  649. know your dad is unpredictable in your house.

  650. Sometimes when you arrive, you say daddy, he

  651. will give you blow. Or sometimes when you enter,

  652. say daddy, there my daughter, my daughter come.

  653. How do you think you approach your father? You

  654. don't know whether he's mood. That means once

  655. he wakes up from the bed, whatever mood he is,

  656. if you appear and you don't know when you have

  657. the other mood, there is a swinging pendulum.

  658. How do you expect to trust you? There can't be

  659. trust without reliability. Why we say we trust

  660. God is because of his consistency, because his

  661. predictability. We know from start to finish

  662. what we will obtain from him. That's what means

  663. by trust. Even here, once you begin to see somebody

  664. has double tongue, what happened before you?

  665. The trust about that person do or drop. But the

  666. more the person show consistency he become a

  667. friend that means you can trust it you can predict

  668. his actions You can say no, I know him. That's

  669. what means by trust and your relationship becomes

  670. stronger and better Because you know the person

  671. is consistent when we come on When is he we will

  672. continue to see some things that are very important

  673. Even the text we've over read We'll read it and

  674. then assess. What are we going to see? We're

  675. going to see that the perfect standard of truth

  676. is God himself. And he has come in the flesh

  677. that no longer anyone be confused about who he

  678. is. Are we together? I will end with this. Give

  679. me John 5 19. As you go, you know. He said, then

  680. Jesus answered and said to them, most assuredly,

  681. assuredly I say to you, the what? The son can

  682. do nothing of himself. But what he sees the father

  683. do, for whatever he does, the son also, do what?

  684. Does in like manner. Jesus is a standard of truth.

  685. Whatever Jesus did was what God did. Whatever

  686. you did not see Jesus, you understand, God never

  687. did it. Are you with me? Whoever said it, angels,

  688. whoever, whatever Jesus did not do, God never

  689. did it. So I want you to hold this, that hold

  690. Jesus. Who is the light? Move to the territory

  691. of darkness. You are confused about texts of

  692. scripture. Who did it? Who did the Lord do it?

  693. Just hold Jesus. Already He's in you. Walk with

  694. Him through the texts. He is the control. You

  695. know, most of us in science, when you want to

  696. do some tests, we have what we call control.

  697. by which every parameter is tested and every

  698. parameter is interpreted by the control that's

  699. why if you don't have control they will reject

  700. it yes sir right because we have reviewers here

  701. you know sir immediately your walk doesn't have

  702. control once they see they say this is why they

  703. look at you Jesus is the control everything said

  704. about God everything told about God is actually

  705. assessed to him. Thank you Jesus. Share this

  706. message with someone you care about. Until next

  707. time, stay blessed.