Adopted, Forgiven, Accepted

M hm h h h h. Good morning. Okay, So

we're doing the continue to sais family matters this morning.

The title of the lodgame this morning was adopted, forgiven, accepted.

I wrote it, written it down and wrote it in

the proclaim this morning, adopted, forgiven and accepted. As we

were singing, the Lord said to me, there's an anointing

here today to heal people. So healing anointing. There's anointing

for wholeness. That's anointing for restoration. So if the Holy

Spirit starts goosing you pushing you, don't ignore the Holy Spirit.

Do what you need to do with God. Okay was

how it goes. Because it's one of those moanings today

I think abdoctored, forgiven, accepted. John three sixteen says, for

God so loved the world that he gave his only

begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish,

but have everlasting life. For God not send his son

into the world to condemn the world, but that the

world through him might be saved. A very familiar scripture,

A very familiar scripture. Jesus was the second Adam. He

came into the world that we our lives may be changed.

He came. John three fourteen to fifteen says that he

came to be lifted up, that whoever believes in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life or eternal life.

And then we know it's through Jesus that the door

was opened for everyone to be adopted into God's family.

So found age those scriptures. You know in the fact,

in the family there's usually a blood connection. It's your mum,

and it's your dad, and it's your grandparents. That that

there's a blood connection unless you're adopted. And then you

were chosen, which is special. I remember i Kip saying, well,

you weren't chosen. I was chosen. My parents chose me

as obviously. Ribben them about being adopted, said I was chosen.

Your parents got what they got interest in taking it.

But here for him, he was adopted and that was special.

We're all adopted into God's family. Our connection is through

the blood of Jesus and through His Holy Spirit and God.

This one wants to talk about the family, which is

the body. Yeah, the Body of Christ. We all rock

up on the Sunday morning here from different different locations,

different jobs, different stuff. I've got a lot of students

sitting over here this morning, so he's got a lot

of canality there. But he's through his blood, and it's

through his spirit that we are connected. You know, Jesus

coming from a church without spot or wrinkle or any

such thing. But he is coming. He is coming. He

asked me to say, he is coming, and we need

to be ready. We need to re ready individually and collectively.

It's our responsibility to be ready. Romans eight fifteen says,

for he did not receive the spirit of bondage again

to fear, but you'll see the spirit of adoption by

whom we cried abba Father. Fear is the opposite of faith.

Fear kills, faith gives life. When we when we prayed

that prayer wherever we were, and we asked her geus

to do some of our lives, we prayed it in faith.

We didn't know what was actually going to happen, unless

you're a very good theologian at the time. But you know,

we didn't know what was going to happen. But then

the power of God came into our lives and started

changing from the inside out. As long as it continue

along the line of faith and not fear, everything's good.

You know. God accepts us as we are. Some people

want the changes to make us how they want us

to be, but God accepts us as we are. It

doesn't matter what you look like. You can have blue hair,

you can have pink hair, you can have piercings all

over your body, tattoos over your body, or it can

be a bloke in a suit and a tie. It

doesn't matter to God who you are, what you look like,

where you come from. He accepts you as you are.

He knows who we are. There's nothing hidden from God.

God knows that in the most thoughts, are in the

most challenges. So He wants us to surrender our lives

to him, to let him work through our lives. Doesn't

matter how long you've you started that journey. There are

always things in our lives we need to change. You know,

as a child grows and as a child develops, they

take responsibility. When they get order. They allowed the khakis

if they you know it's not their too expensive guy.

You get your mum and dad's khaki, not to drive

their car. You get a level of responsibility in the

kingdom God. It's the same thing. God gets his responsibility

when we are ready for it, so it's our responsibility

to develop two Koreingchan three eighteen says that we are

being transformed. The great word is metamorpho, where we get

the word metamorphosis into the same image from glory to glory.

We are being transformed into His image. In other words,

our spirits, not our physical bodies. You still look like yourself,

but our spirits are transformed into His image. Some people

you meet, you can see Jesus in their face. There's

something about their demeanor, how they how their body has

been broken. So His life flows through us, and God

wants us to be in that place, to be transformed.

A reminder of my biology from school with the chrystalist.

From this caterpillar, we get a beautiful butterfly, and I

suppose there's analogy there. God takes us where we are

this ugly little caterpillar and become a beautiful butterfly. We've

been changed from glory to glory to glory. Ephesians five

twenty six to twenty seven says that you might sanctify

and clear says they might scientify and cleanse her talk

about the church by the washing of the water, by

the word that he might present her, so I might

present himself. Quotation read it a glorious church, not having

spot or wrinkle or any shuch thing, but that she

should be holy and without blemish. It's the word of

God that changes us from the inside out. Yeah, that's

why Dave puts that scripture upon the screen. It's not

really about chocolates, or that's a benefit of some of us.

It's about being changed, transformed into His into His image,

by the washing of the water of the word. Change

is never easy. I can have a straw pole who

likes change. Oh, one person, two people. Most of us

don't like change. There are always one or two pioneers

who like change. But most of us don't like change.

We like to do the same thing. We like things

to remain the same, because it's comfortable. With God. There

has always change. We're always being changed, We're always being stretched,

We're always being positioned for the next thing in the

Kingdom of God. If you haven't had a change for

a while, expect God to move and change and work

in your life, because that is what He does. And

sometimes it's uncomfortable, Sometimes it's peculiar, sometimes it's fun. Sometimes

a mixture of all those things. But God is wanting

to move and position us so that the life of

his son is manifested through us as individuals and as

a body. And it's easy to it's easy to move

with change when we know that we're adopted, we're forgiven,

and we're accepted. We don't have to hide from God,

do we. We can be ourselves with God. He's waiting.

He's waiting, Jonathan, h We're back. We're back, thank you.

He's waiting for us to come to him. He's waiting

for us to sit with him. He's waiting for us

to sit with him in his presence. He's knocking on

your door. He's knocking on your door. He looks for

to spending time with you every day whenever that is.

He looks for to spending that time with you because

he loves you. Did you know that? Yeah, So we

are transformed into his image from glory to glory to glory,

which is good. And now we need to talk about

build him. He wants to build individuals into a cohesive,

functioning body. Yeah, that's well, I hear today. The foundation

of that build is love. John thirteen thirty four to

thirty five puts it this way and your commandment. I

give you that you love one another as I have

loved you, that you also love one another. By this,

all will know that are my disciples. If you have

a love for one another. God bills with love. He

wants to encourage us today to refocus on his principles.

He builds on love. We're one body, we've got one spirit,

We've connected by his blood. But he builds us together,

He builds withers through his love. Okay, Paul said, if

you don't got love, you're like a clanging, clanging symbol.

God builds with love one John four fifteen to seventeen.

I'm going to read it from the amplified version, so

that might not be the thing on the screen. Anyone

who confesses acknowledges owns that Jesus, the Son of God,

God abides, lives, makes his home in Him, and He

abides lives and makes his home in God. And we know,

we understand, recognize our conscious of by observation and by experience,

and believe a dere too, and put faith in and

rely on the love God cherishes for us. God is love,

and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and

continues in God, and God dwells and continues in Him.

In this union and communion with Him, Love is brought

to completion and attains perfection with us. That we have

confidence for the day of judgment, because as is in

the world, so are we. So a long scripture, it's

the ampliphyte. So it's long. He who dwells and continues

in Love, or dwells and continues in God dwells and

continues in God, and God dwells and continue in Him.

Love is foundational. God wants to draw us into a

deeper relationship. He wants more of us because that's the

foundation he wants to build off. Yeah, when there's no love,

there's people not licked together. I remember a story of

so now I know who went to I went to

a church to speak on the recommendation of a friend,

rather than the recommendation of the Holy Spirit. He was

usually go to a church because the Holy Spirit said

go here. They went on the recommendtion of a friend.

And when he arrived he saw some people in the

car park taking a pew out of the church and

arguing about whose pew it was. I paid for this

pew and I want to take this pure home. And

there was the deacons were fighting in the car park.

He met the pastor and the pastor said didn't like

his congregation anyway. He died the meeting and the power

of God turned up and basically the pastor and his

wife and other church came forward, received salvation and God

worked in those people's lives. His friend in inverte Kama

said later, how did you find it? He said, it

was challenging. I said that to say this, those people,

we're not walking in love at that time. The later

I heard of that church is going quite well now

people going to that church. But when he turned if

it wasn't that way. John thirteen thirty four says that

if we love one another by this old people will

know that you are my disciples, or my church or

my body. Yeah. So that's a challenge from the Lord

to us to review our love work. He who dwells

and continuous in love dwells and continues in God, and

God dwells and continues in Him. So to be a

functioning part of the body. Love is foundational. So they

ask from God, is that we walk in love, that

we surrender to the Holy Spirit, and we let him

transformers into his image to let the love of God

flow through us. Yeah. Simple stuff, isn't it. But you

know you preach what you're give them. We are living

stones and we are being built into a spiritual house.

They find out for the foundation is love. Yeah, you

can't build it. If you haven't got a foundation, you

can't build on it. Just look at the bi when

he talks about building on the stand or building on

the rock. Believe me, I know. I'm a civil engineer.

I know how to build. I built many structures that

a decent foundation. Technically you're stuffed, Okay. If you've got

a decent foundation, you build. God's foundation is love. Yeah.

But we are living stones and we're being built into

a spiritual house. Because it's coming for a bride without

spot or wrinkle or any such thing. I'm not gonna

do that. He is coming. He wants admit to shout,

but I'm not a shouter. He is coming. He is

coming for a bride without spot or Ringlisho's thing. We

need to be ready one Peter two, four to ten.

I think it's a new the NIV version. As you

come to him, the living stone rejected by humans, but

chosen by God and precious to him. You, also, like

living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to

be holy, to be a holy priestood, offering spiritual sacrifice

is acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. See, I have

laid the stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,

and the one who trusts in him will never be

put to shame. Now to you who believe, this stone

is precious, but to those who do not believe, the

stone the builders rejected has become the corner stone, and

a stone that causes people to stumble, and a rock

that makes them fall. They stumble because they disobey the message,

which is also what they were destined for. But you,

That means you and me are a chosen people, a

royal priestood, a holy nation, God's special possession. That you

may declare the praise of Him who called you out

of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not

a people, but now you are the people of God.

Once you had not received mercy, but now you have

received mercy. So we are living stones. We are God's

chosen people. That means we need to lay down our

agenda and follow his agenda. We need to walk in

His love. We need to choose to walk in unity,

not in strife. Some people live their Christian life like

a roller coaster. They chug up the hill and apply

their faith. No sfing happens to go woo down again

and come back up again. God doesn't want us to

live our lives like this. He wants to have our

lives like this. We go from glory to glory to glory. Yeah,

the only way we do that is by being consistent.

And who watch us sports or play sports will know

that if you are consistent in sport, you will generally

be in the top flight, you generally win. If you're inconsistent,

you don't train, you don't practice, you won't get there.

For the people who make it, they are probably significant

about who don't. In the Kingdom of God, God want

to everybody to make the grade. So that means we

need to learn not to live like this, but live

like this. To be consistent means to walk in love.

It means to be full of the Holy Spirit. It

means to be full of the Word of God. He

means it he's sensitive to the Holy Spirit and follow

his meetings. God wants his body to be a cohesive

unit working for one purpose, to glorify his name, to

bring people into the kingdom. Psalm hundred and thirty three says, Behold,

how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to

do all together in the unity. It is like the

precious ointment poured on the head that ran down on

the beard, even the beard of Aram that came down

upon the collar and skirts of his garments. It's like

the Jew of Mount Hermon and the Jew that comes

on the hills of Zion. For there the Lord has

commanded the blessing even life evermore. Where there's no unity,

the generally no love. So God wants to walk in unity.

Who wants to walk in love? Where there's unity and

there's love, and there's power, God's power to heal, there's

God's power to deliver. That's God's power to save. He's

coming back for a church without spot or rinkle. Eye

shows thing. That means you and I as individuals need

to without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. We

need to be ready. M HM said at the start

of this preach, there's annoying things here to do things today, right,

that's annointing for wholeness, there's annointing for healing. That was

annointing for restoration. We're gonna take a few moments and

well I've got to minister to us Emmanue which you

can play the piano, please, thank you. So look, I'm

not interested in embarrassing people whatsoever. So if I want

to comfort for prayer, think over. Here is outside of

the camera. If you don't do what you want to

do with God, Okay, it's not about a big show.

It's about doing something with a lot and thank God

working your life. If you need restoration, reach out to God.

If you need wholeness, reach out to God. If you

need healing, reach out to God. God is here. Yeah,

God is here listening online. God is a spirit, So

the same annoying you that's here can be in your

living room. Yeah, you need to reach out to him.

Apply your faith because God is a spirit. He's not restricted. Yeah.

If you live here later to the message, reach out

to God. But please don't miss the opportunity forgot to

do something in your heart and in your life this morning. Okay,

if you want to come out to a prayer, that's fine.

We'll get some people to pray with you. If you don't,

that's totally fine too. Okay, don't be pressurized, but make

sure you connect with the Lord. Okay, thank you, emanuel

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