The Mystery of Christianity

Thank you pas today and thank you everybody for coming

today and those listening online. Yeah, ma'am okay, most of

you know me, but for the doubt of those who

don't know me and those online. My name is Juliet Naga.

I originally come from me Uganda.

Yay, but I live in the UK and I also

in my spare time, I do run an orphanage in

Uganda called.

Above Father's House, which you know and which you most

of you support, Thank you very much. As we all know,

we are in the season of lent, whereby each one

of us is dealing with remembering what Jesus has done

on the cross. Differently, however, they are led by the spirit.

So thank you Jesus. So to start the salmon, I'm

gonna reed from Collations one twenty four to twenty seven.

I really want to get to the last verse, but

it's incomplete if I start from the last verse and

it says, so Father, thank you for this day that

you've made Holy Spirit. I depend on you to speak

anything from you grace the word, grace, our ears, our hearts,

and help us to receive from you, and help me

to deliver in Jesus' name. Amen. So it says, now

I rejoice in my suffering for you, and fill up

in my flesh what is lacking in the affliction of

Christ for the sake of his body, which is the

Church of which I became a minister to the stewardship

from God, which was given to me to fulfill the Word.

The mystery has been hidden from ages and from generations,

but now has been revealed to his saints. To them,

God will to make known what are the riches of glory?

And the mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you,

the hope of glory. I think we are all here

for that one thing. Christ in us is the hope

of glory. I'm also going to read John one fourteen.

Sorry about I didn't tell you. The title match of

my sermon is the mystery of Christianity through the Cross.

So that's why I'm reading things to do with the Cross.

And we are in Lent and this ideal to speak

about the cross. So John one fourteen says, and the

Word became flesh and relt and mangers, and we beheld

his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of

the Father, full of grace and truth. Christ sacrificed by

death on the cross, and the resurrection refers to the

reconciliation between God and humanity achieved. The Trinity is one

of the central mysteries of Christianity, referring to the existence

of one God in three persons. I et God, the Father, Son,

and the Holy Spirit. So that was my introduction. Now

I'm going to talk about the journey of the mystery.

We are born in the world as human beings and

raised the way of the world. But at some point

a mystery happens in our destiny, anywhereby we encounter God

or someone shares faith with us, and the quickening takes

place where we become born again, not through our mother's womb,

but supernaturally. As you can identify with me. Everyone has

a different experience of this new bath or being born again,

or conversion if you like, but the same God does

the work and we are given a measure of faith.

When we get born again, we become a new creation.

As it's written in Second Corinthians five seventeen. He says, therefore,

if anyone is in Christ is a new creation, all

things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

This is a mystery whereby our lives changed on that inside.

When we get checked, we get changed on the inside.

The next day we look the same and we'll feel

the same. So that is a mystery in its own way. Yeah.

We but we are left with the responsibility to seek

out this new life. Yeah, and to learn to live

in both the spiritual world and the natural world. What

are we gonna do? Are we gonna handle this? Yeah?

This requires us to nature and feed our new man

in order to experience the evidence of faith as well

as bare fruit both in our in our own lives

and growth, and also in witnessing and advancing the Kingdom

of God. So this really is where the challenge keeps.

The challenge comes in. I'm born in the world of

my mother. My mom dad taught me to live this way.

So how am I have I changed? But inside of

you you feel the bubbling, You feel the change. And

the good thing is that the Holy Spirit God doesn't

leave us on our own. Once his begotness, he fills

us with the Holy Spirit and we start. This quickening

stirs you up to want to know to this God

like you would want to go to a party if

you're still in the world and your thing is dancing,

you look forward to dancing. Likewise, if your believer, you

look forward to meeting with God. Yeah, when we get

converted into the newness of life, which cannot be seen

or tested and proved through that test tube to prove

our salvation. Yet we believe God, we beyond a doubt

that he is God, though he's invisible. Many of us

experience some degrees of change, sometimes through miracles, sometimes through wonders.

These miracles are helpful to help us remember when doubt

it comes in and you say well, because at some

point doubt comes in and you wonder, did I actually

hear God? Am I actually saved? But if you've had

some of these experiences, you just will go back to

say that he said, but he did this, and that

helps you to keep going. Nonetheless, if you haven't, do

not worry if you haven't had any encounter with God,

because the Lord Jesus encourages us in his statement that

blessed are those who have not seen yet they believe.

And that's John twenty twenty nine. And that takes me

to my next point of trusting the Lord is key

to our faith. Re Genesis twelve from verse one to four.

God asked Abraham to leave his country. So let's read.

God said to Abraham, get out of your country, from

your family, from your father's house, to a land which

I'll show you. Pretty much we can identify with that.

We didn't probably hear God saying get out of here,

But we are not residing with our parents. So somehow

we've been shifted and moved somewhere and there God is

separating us from in a kind of ways, separating us

from the world. Ma'm cooks this way. Dad says this.

And now he's exposing you to another life where you

can blossom, probably where you can hear him and start

working his way. And he says, I'll make you a

great nation. I'll bless you and make your name great,

and I'll be a blessing. How nice to be a blessing.

Our bless those who bless you. And I'll cuss him

who curses you, and in you all families of the

earth shall be blessed. What did Abraham do? He trusted God,

and so he departed as the Lord had spoken to him.

And Lord went with him. And Abraham was seventy five

years old when he departed from Haaren. Then Abrah, Abraham sorry.

Abraham took Sarah his wife, and Lot, his brother's son,

and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all

the people whom they had acquired in Aaron, and they

departed to go to the land of Canaan. So God

tells Abraham, but Abraham says, well, I'll take my people.

I need to go with my people. In Genesis fifteen,

verse five to six says to help God. For God

to help Abraham, it says God brought Abraham outside and said, look,

look now towards the heavens and count the stars. If

you're able to number them, and he said to him,

you shall, so shall your descendants be. And Abraham believed

the Lord, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

In various ways. We have also experienced this where God

has said something and we have believed, and it's accounted

to us again for righteousness. Although we are righteous in

Christ Jesus. Yeah, God is love, so faith must be present.

So love and faith must be present in us all times.

Upon these two we need add wisdom and knowledge, and

not the knowledge of the world, but the knowledge of

God to be able to discern right and wrong, not

only right and wrong. But as we live, we know

that we've had a generation Ma'm grandma, great great grandma.

Some of them were not believers. All shall we say

most of them are not believers. So then in this

discerning we need to examine as we read the word,

what is the words in? What is in me that

is not ideal? What is did I leard? What did

I carry forward that is not of the kingdom. It

is our responsibility to do that because many times we

fall we fall short because we've not taken trouble to

check what happens. Sometimes we can see similar patterns of something,

whether it's sickness. Where there's something, you will see it.

And at this point is when you need to bring

it to God to say, Dad, there is this in me,

deliver me from it and give me grace to not

take it on board. Yeah. And so by trusting and

applying God's truth in our lives, were able to see

manifestation of the mystery becoming tangible, where the impossible becomes possible.

I'm sure we have all seen areas in our lives

where what we thought was impossible God has made possible. Yeah,

let's take the example of Abraham a Kain and Sarah,

who were as past the age of child bearing in

Genesis twenty one, verse one to three. And he says,

the Lord visited Sarah, and and he said, And the

Lord so as he said, And the Lord did for

Sarah as he had spoken for Sarah conceived and boe

Abraham a son in his old age. That at the

time of which God had spoken to him, Abraham called

the name of his son who was born to him,

whom Sarah bow to him. It's like emphasizing it over

and over again. He called him Isaac. So we need

to be We also need to abide with God, abiding God,

pursue God. The things of the world are not the same.

We are bad. We are quickened from inside. So we

need also to abide with God. Great time with God,

so that we cannot identify. Oh God, allow God to

do some of the miracle through us as well. Now

that takes me to a simple question here. How can

we share the mystery with our communities? That was my

main focus here today. How can we share this mystery?

Because we know about the things I'm sharing already, well,

how can we effectively share this mystery with our communities? First,

Corinthians one eight one eighteen. I beg your pardon, he says,

for this for the message of the cross's foolishness, as

we sang earlier to those who are perishing, but to

us who are being saved. It is the power of God.

To most of our community, the ghost boils foolishness, if

not all. And some of them worship idols. Some of

them say I don't worship anything, but if you check,

they actually worship something. Yeah. First, and more importantly, we

need to let God's love when we are going to

reach out. That's when we are intending reach our We

need to get God's love take root in us in

order to be able to deal with the responses from

their community. Those who have been out. You know how

hard it is. You're gonna talk to somebody and he'll

give you a mouthful. So you need to have the

love of God to be able to bear up and

to find an answer, to say to him and to

forgive them and to let go. But your purpose is

wanting to succeed in this person. So first join four

seven from seven to eleven, says beloved, let us love

one another, for love is of God, and everyone who

is Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

He who does not love does not know God. For

God is love. In this the love of God was

manifested towards us. That God will has sent his only

begotten son into the world that we might live through

him in this love. Not that we loved God, but

He first loved us and sent his son to be

appropiation for our sins. Beloved, If God so loved us,

we also need ought to do it love another one another.

Sometimes we talk, we think about love and anything. We

go to the market. I love this, I love you,

I love your dress, something. But we are talking about

the love of God. He says, we need we ought

to love one another. And this is bath through our

seeking and hiding with God so that He melts away

the wrath, the corruptible seed that was so done in

us from the wicked one. When we are born, we

are born with these things, will live as the city lives.

If I live in this city, the people of this

city do things this way. So you need the love

of the love of God is what we are talking

about here. Secondly, we need to be aware of the

strongholds in the community that in the Gospel as God

shows us, and to root them out as we got

to witness to them. What are strongholds? Know that I'm

talking about strongholds? Are the deep rooted generation attachments or

if not, allow me to call them demons that affect

our lives, if not dealt with and deprove, deprive us

from advancing the kingdom. So we take from well read

from Detronomy away some of the ways God advised the

children of Israel, and how Jesus in the New Testament

tells us to handle these things. Tetronome trail of two

to three says you shall you shall utterly destroy all

the places where the nations which you shall possess, serve

their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and

under every green tree. And you shall destroy their oats,

break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire.

You shall cut down their carved images of their gods,

and destroy their name. From this place. So Jesus says

in the New Testament, I'm gonna take it only from

mark now mark three twenty seven. Now when one no

one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his

goods unless he first binds the strong man and then

he will plunder his house. Yes, we cannot well people

to Christ whilst they are still held by strongholds. We cannot.

So we need to go. We need to. Later on,

I'm gonna share about how we can raise others to

pray together to bring this stronghold down, one from us

first of all, and then from the community. So is

it says so and so he's got a stronghold. What

about you? Yeah, we can say we are born again,

but we are not flowing how God says we should.

We are still short of so many things. So we

need That's when I said we need to identify these strongholds.

Our faith has to be active, not that. Take for example,

the children of Visor Daniel Mischakabedigo. They had this story.

They lived their life that was godly. They were committed

to God. So now they are taken into captivity and

guess what they are told it? This is that? What

this is? How we live here? Worship this idol? And

they say, no, sir, even if it goes us life,

we ain't gonna do that. Can we do that? Life?

Time is coming? You see war going on. We never

know where we are ending. Yeah, but we need to

be prepared. We need It's not a joke. Christianity seems easy,

but it's challenging to live. So we need to get

ready to where we can be like these boys. Yeah,

so where is your missive? If I may ask you

a question, where are you in this journey of the mystery?

Where are you? I'm gonna say, encourage you and me

to say, we already a new creation. We are children

of God. If we have already invited Christ into our

life and given us God to be Lord in our lives.

So we already on a good record. We are already

in the right place. Shall I say? The Holy Seed

of God has been has already been sown into our hearts,

and we have been we have been given a measure

of faith. As it were. God didn't just damp us.

Gives us a measure of faith. It gives us the

Holy Spirit. It gives us the word of God. Now, child,

read your word and find me there. Yeah, so, Roman says.

Romans tell says, I said, though I say, through the

grace given to me, to everyone who is a mang

you not to think of himself highly than he ought

to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt

to each one of us a measure of faith. I'm

trying to prove what I said to you is also

give power doubt his love into our hearts, which we need.

The love was talking about earlier Romans. Fife says, So,

so Jesus Christ, the very seed of God is the

source of life. He's in us, and everything we need

is already in us and with us. If we just

need to believe, so ready in us. It's not visible.

You cannot test it, the doctor cannot test it, find it.

But it's there. Yes, So for that reason we need

I would say I would liken it too. When a

house is built, the houses we live in, we find

them built. There is power, there's water the thing. So

you enter into the house and all you got to

do is turn on the light. If you need the light,

you want the water, turn on the top. On the

other hand, if you are in that house and you

don't turn on the light, you live in darkness, won't you.

And then you go without a shower or cap of

tea because you've not done what turned on the tap

to get water out of it. So our faith is

within us. But the difference between one who sees God

more is that time they spend with God. Sometimes we

think sons it's called disanointed. There's a lot of investment

behind the scene for people to bring anything tangible. So

that's what we need to do. Are we there, That's

what I'm saying. Where is that? Where are we in

this mystery? Let's take Egham. We want to take Eggham,

but we are not just going to walk to Eggerm

and say hi, Egam, come here. No, we need to

really take individual responsibility and corporate responsibility to first of all,

wait on God to give us what is the stronghold

in this area, and then we pray the grace to

we pull it down. It may take forever, but we

will get there. And then obviously our one needs to

come out as well. For example, what shall I say

if I lived in a family that lived on stealing. Yeah,

I'm born again, but the spirit that I'm not quickly

going to stop stealing. Yeah. I give you a quick

example when we bought again, when we got born again,

that we were in a place we started arguing about alcohol.

Some of you saw those of you who take alcohol,

and you were saying, oh, you can drink a little,

and I said to myself, what is this alcohol and

that can be equal to God? Yeah, at the time

I was taking alcohol, not as a drunkard. Yeah, but

when I thought, no, this cannot there is no way

compared to God. So I said, Holy Spirit helped me

to hate this thing. That's exactly what happened. I've never

desired a drink. And the one time I went with

my friends and tested wine for the we were not

drinking wine, but we were taking Holy Communion. At that night.

God told me that what you've done is what you

would have done before you got a bone. Again, those

from Africa and probably other places know that there are

things we don't say we don't eat. Yeah, I don't

know some of you identify with that. You don't eat

the cow, you don't eat that because our client doesn't

eat that. So he told me what you did is

like you would have done that. I said, I'm so sorry.

That's why you see me not even taking Holy communion

with with wine. But I'm not stopping those of you

who take it. By the way, for the record, that's

my thing. Yeah. So so we going on, going forward,

we need to take on board what God said to

the Israelized, take take that, pull down the otters, the

strongholds you're going to in the country where you're going.

You won't be able to live well with these, so

first take them down. And then of course even Jesus

tells us to buy the strong man. So we need

to buy these strong men in the city in us

so that we ask God for deliverance. You sit down,

ask the Holy Spirit to show you what is not right,

as Kim to help to deliver you from it, and

you be free from it. And the same thing goes

with when we are reaching out, we meet, we raise

up holders, to meet the community, and then God tells

you the community you're going theb this is the thing,

this is the stronghold. Deal with it. So by the

time you go, if you've already dealt with it, you're

able to speak to people's hearts and they are able

to listen to what we are supposed to do. Her

maney with time past a day, okay, and then we

need to continue our faith daily. It's not something we

visit once in a while. We need to continue daily.

We need to when we have identified this idols or

things that we are doing contrary, or somebody comes and

says that a wicked word to you, or anything. We

got to be like Jesus take it like Jesus didn't

look for for to twelve. I'm not gonna read there.

But Jesus overcame Satain by saying it's written, It's written. Whatever.

He says for us to say that we need to

know the word. So when anything comes, he says, their

voice written. Yeah, and once he knows you know what

you're saying, he will certainly depart from you for that day. Yeah, Satain.

Many users fear to attack us, and Isaiah fifty one

here tells us to not fear. As he says Isaiah

fifty one, I'm only just going to read verse thirteen D,

which says you have feared continually every day because of

the fury of the oppressor when he has prepared to destroy.

If you are devoid of the truth, the enemy will

take advantage and bring scary things, and you don't even

know how to to come out of them. You're gonna

run to pastor Dave, gonna run to somebody else to

pray for you. Sometimes they are not even available. Yeah,

and you stress. So Jesus has already overcome the devil,

and we needn't be intimidated by the devil any longer. So,

sister brother, make it. Let's make it our business. That

is what I'm requesting. Let's if you online, make it

your business. Two, routinely meet with God and make him

the anchor of your life. All these I mean. It's

too difficult to find time as it is, Yeah, too difficult.

But if it's priority, then I may not eat food

that day, the time I would have spent cooking and

sitting down to eat, I can invest it in doing

what in seeking God. Yeah, that's one way. Some of

us can stay on TV for hours, sow that to

God and see how He will quicken you. And that's

the more you do it, the more television will become

of no value to you. The more you do that,

you find most of the things stressing you are not

a point any longer because you've sown your life into

a into the right place. Yeah, and this is it's

important to raise alters. Yeah, we alters. What are olters? Though?

Outers are places where we can choose to meet God.

There secret places where individuals or a team of people

or churches can need to connect with God. These various

can be in video orters. You need to have an

ltar that is burning within you that even if you're

not talking or you're on the street, I see someone here,

I want to embarrass them. Praying in tanks all the time. Yeah,

and that's how we need to be. You need to

keep your focused on the Lord so that he can

show you things that you don't know, things that you

need to know, but you don't know them. Yeah. So

we need to learn from Jesus his example, like he

always separated himself from the crowd after teaching, he separated

himself from the crowd and prayed, and by the time

we came out was he knew what is going to happen.

He was full is full of anction to function. That's

why we see that Jesus said get up and walk,

and he walked and people walked. But we think we

can do that without separating ourself and getting lead and

getting hot and quickened by God, we will only be

frustrated and we even start thinking that the world of

God doesn't work. But does Yeah, it does? Yes. So

if we learn from this, then also continue daily to

look at us this life is new, look at you

in a mirror or somewhere and say, boy, I'm a

child of God. I'm blessed, I'm favored, I am enriched

with spiritual, physical, financial grace. I lack nothing even if

you're skined. That's what you're saying to yourself, and you're

drawing the grace. The grace starts to man, I'm not accusable.

God is my defense. God is my representative. Yeah, do

not mess with me, this child, do not. So these

are things we do behind the scene, and faith begins

to increase and to bubble. And when you speak them

to yourself, confidence comes and you start believing what you

just declared. And then you practice it. Start with your card,

tell the cat to be well, tell that dog to

be well. Before you know it, you start seeing evidence.

Yeah and well. Faith. In closing, the Word says, faith

is a substance of things hoped for, the evidence of

things not seen. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by

the word of God. Let us increase our intake of

the Word to boost our faith and to keep convicted,

to keep alive and to overcome a stuccles as they come,

as they come out to attack us, and allow the

Holy Spirit to lead us. Yeah, if the things we

pay attention to, they will take pre eminence in us.

I can be a Christian who comes to charge on Sunday,

But if I'm the rest of the day and that

week I'm gonna be busy doing other things, they will

take over. They will take I will only be a

bubbly Christian without seeing any result. And it's not that good.

So if we want to see God at work, we

need to say to speak and eat the word and pray. Yeah,

and pray, And prayer can be a very very prayer

can be a very difficult thing, but it's key to

our faith, to our living. So many times we say

we are praying when we haven't actually even prayed. So

but what is the best way to pray? The Bible

says we know not what we pray for as we ought.

I think that's in romance hate. So what would we

do come before God? Surrender lies to him? Because trust

that God loves us, is the one who called us

to this faith, and he knows what we need, He

knows what we are going through, and praise him, magnify

him above the problems we are going through. And before

you know it, things issues begin to diminish, and the

faith of God and the Holy Spirit starts to minister

to you. The sonship, the belonging with God starts to come.

And then you who didn't know what to pray, you'll

find yourself with words to pray, because God has given

you those words declaring these things. One past time, you

gan that said shared something out of saying, you have

to declare these things to yourself. So he went to

preach the gospel in a certain area and in the

night he was attacked with the Islamic demons that were

in the area, and he felt something get enter his body.

But because he keeps profit, he kept declaring, and that

is his lifestyle. He had the demon saying, oh, we

can't get through another and saying you sent me here.

I'm on fire, please come send me, send me help,

and the others we can't do anything because the man

keeps speaking Jesus. He keeps declaring, Now we can't and

we are stuck here, you know what I mean. So

he had that and he tells us you need even

if it's a sickness, speak to the body, say be healed, sickness.

You're not part of me. And that's the advantage we

have as believers poverty. You're not my potion.

I'm rich.

My father owns a thousand cows on a hill cart

on you. And we have a limited time here on earth,

and once we are gone, everything we owned will not matter,

and only what we sold in the kingdom of our

father will matter. And I shared with you a problem

that I had on seventh of January, where I passed out.

I didn't elaborate too much, but I passed out. So

many things happened, But because I had these words within me,

when I saw things going funny, I stood there and declared,

I shall not die, but live to declare the Kingdom

of God. I'm a child of God. Not evil formed

against me will prosper. In that little time I managed

to put those words. And who knows whether that's what

saved me. One would say, well, Juliet, people pass out

all the time, and yes, well you, but some die.

Yeah yeah, So I pray that my sharing would have

touched you, would have encouraged you somehow. Young people, you

have a lord. The generation. The world is getting tougher

and you, young people, we are trusting you, and we

want to build and pray the Kingdom of God to

be so active in you that you may change the

culture of and godliness. Accept it and we will stand

with you. More importantly, the spirit of God will do

what will do a work in you and change this

generation for God. Yeah. Yeah, Now, if you're not born

again and you're in the house, we want to pray

with you because the things have been sharing and not

yours till you give your life to Jesus. Yeah. If

your unline is so simple, just call upon the name

of the Lord a scheme to forgive your saying and

come into your life and be your lord and king.

Praise the Lord, have a bless week, and thank you

for listening. Glory