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2nd July 2023 - Communion Service - Simon Chaffer - The Church is built by the Master

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  21. a right problem? Okay, I think I'm a rich size. But so

  22. this morning we're talking about a new topic and the topic is the churches.

  23. Mhmm, yeah, John, thank can you get up on the screenplasty.

  24. So the title of this this messages the churches built by the Master. So

  25. I'm told that we we think in pictures. I know what you call that.

  26. I'm an engineer, not a psychologist. But I'm told were thinking pictures.

  27. So if I was to say the work to you dog, what do

  28. people see? Do they see a dog or do they see the word the

  29. o G. You can put your hands up and tell me. It's just

  30. interesting. What do we see more in Do we see a dog or do

  31. we see we see a dogs? If I say the cat, do we

  32. see a cat? Okay? Is that interesting how we see in pictures?

  33. I'd thought about that. I guess if I say, some people chocolate or

  34. cake or something else that we like, you know, that might be slightly

  35. bigger in our sight. But what if I say the word church, what

  36. do we see? Do we see a big ornate building. We went on

  37. a holiday a number of years ago to a place in Pembrokeshire, which is

  38. South Wales, round the coast. There a lovely place night to visit the

  39. beaches and there's a cathedral that and it's a great, big, imposing building.

  40. And when I was praying about this, I thought that when you say

  41. church, what do you see? I remember that building, or I remember

  42. Western Trabbit, or I remember you're with Minster, which are very big ornate

  43. buildings. How that's the building. It is not the church. The church

  44. is a group of people from every nation, every tribe, every time.

  45. But by love of Jesus, that is what the church is. So when

  46. we talked about the church is built by the Master, we're not talking about

  47. a physical building. We're talking about people like you and like me. I

  48. was praying about this word to know what to say. I saw a picture

  49. of Jesus building a wall. Where I come from, there are lots of

  50. walls in this country. Come from Yorkshire and there's lots of stone New Yorkshire,

  51. so they build lots of walls in them. And a builder will pick

  52. a stone up, he won't put it down and use a stone that clot

  53. in his hand. That's how he builds the wall. And I saw Jesus

  54. and he had some stones in his hand, but they were lively stone to

  55. get thrown around, and then he'd put it on the wall and put another

  56. on the wall. And this wall was the build up. And he just

  57. picked the stone up and it was like moving. And he was just moving

  58. the stones in his hand and putting them on the wall. Well, that's

  59. very interesting. His life was placing each stone specifically in a particular place,

  60. and it's like he was making that stone into what he wanted before he placed

  61. it on the wall. He didn't throw it on the wall with his hands

  62. and placed it on the wall. And am reminded of the scripture in one

  63. Peter two and verse five, which I have read it from now, which

  64. says, this is the new King James version. You also are living stones,

  65. are being built into spiritual house wholly priested to offer up spiritual sacrifice.

  66. It's exceptable to God through Jesus Christ. You also are living stones. But

  67. that's interesting. We are living stones. And then I've got the thread of

  68. my son, so we you me have on missen own life. I say

  69. later, we are living stones. If you've come into the Kingdom of God

  70. through the word of Jesus, you've made a committity' left given your life to

  71. him. He's surrendered, as you're saying today, everything you have, you

  72. surrendered to him. We've come into the Kingdom of God, and we are

  73. living stones. And God takes us, Jesus takes us and places us.

  74. The Greek word here for living is z a over the hyphonosa. I'm in

  75. the butcher now. If if Nicky was here she told me about isn't here

  76. today. So if online, sorry Greek South African lady. So Brittany means

  77. alive. And when we're in simular we're dead. But when we're in Christ,

  78. we're alive for evermore. We are living, not in the flesh,

  79. but in the spirit, whe the soul, spirit body to try human being

  80. m the church or the Greek word is ecclesia, which means assembly. He's

  81. not a physical building, like I said, because he's built of people just

  82. like you and me. And like I said the title of this message,

  83. it's Jesus the master who builds. It's not the work of a man.

  84. He's the work of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said in Matthew sixteen and verse

  85. eighteen, a very familiar passion, sieur to you. I'm not going to

  86. read it all, but I'm just going to focus on the piece which I

  87. want to emphasize. He was talking about building the church. He said,

  88. I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against

  89. it. I will build my church. Don't take up the contents but the

  90. of the dialogue in Matthew sixteen, verse eighteen. But Jesus said I will

  91. build my church. That statement possibly well over two thousand years ago. But

  92. Jesus is still building this church. Again. I'm going to give another Greek

  93. word, so look out. So the word church here is okay, demo,

  94. which is the same way they use for building a house or to construct

  95. something, or to build something. But how do we build people into an

  96. ecclesia or an assembly. I'm showing a smartphone to those people who are listening

  97. online. I can't see smartphones are made in the factory, either in China

  98. or else somewhere else of that nature. Depending on what you want you buy.

  99. All the volunteers go in it goes to production. All these people stand

  100. there putting their fairest bits in and spits out smart through the end, doesn't

  101. it. Or you go to a car production line, all the remotor materials

  102. come in, all the components and st build together. He doesn't work that

  103. way. In the Kingdom of Go, we don't get all the bits,

  104. press the button. You go through a production line and come out at the

  105. end. It doesn't work that way. That is not God's way of doing

  106. things. That is a craftsman, and he shapes and molds each individual.

  107. Each individual is a masterpiece. I'm not into art personally. I'm an engineer.

  108. That's pretty boring. When we go on holiday. Oh it takes me

  109. to a museum or something like that. Are great, Okay, So we

  110. go around the museum and they have to have look some pictures or what some

  111. of decall's art. I usually sit down and wait quietly. All my life

  112. finishes looking around the museum, just because it's not my thing. But there

  113. are there are sculptures, you know, and I can appreciate. The traditional

  114. sculpture is not of the weird things that people call that nowadays they've been something's

  115. taking time to chisel out and to shape. And that's like God. He

  116. takes us in our own form and he shapes us and he molds us into

  117. what he wants us to be. And you know, we go through stuff

  118. in life in a very technical world. Now, stuff in virtual commers something

  119. we like that. Some of it's good stuff and some of it's bad stuff.

  120. Some things we know about, something we don't know about. That's all

  121. part of our journey. But God works in those certain ants to shape and

  122. to molders to people who wants us to be. Stuff happens in life,

  123. and some stuff is good and some to is very bad. But God takes

  124. those things which are bad and turns them around for good because with God,

  125. all things are possible. M hm. So today that's just the introduction.

  126. I want to talk about the journey, the shaping and the molding journey.

  127. And let's see what the holyt Bit wants to say to us. So if

  128. you look at Jeremiah one and five, the context here is Jeremy is God

  129. is speaking to Jeremiah the prophet about his called jeremiahs of very young manuals called

  130. to the nation of Israel, of those who are who are remain of those

  131. who have to Babylon. And God is speaking to him, and he said

  132. to him, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before

  133. you were born. I sanctified you, I sanctified you, I ordained you

  134. before I formed you in the womb. I knew you before you were born.

  135. I sanctified you, and I I dained you. That's what God said

  136. to Jeremiah in that particular context, but in the context of what we talk

  137. about, that is true of us. God is no respect for a purpose.

  138. Person's what he does for Jeremias for us before he formed you in the

  139. womb, Maureen, he knew you. God as a plan and a purpose

  140. for every person in this room. Every person listened to me online now and

  141. have pers this message later. God is a purpose and a plan for you.

  142. You're not a mistake, you know, an aberration. God is a

  143. person and a plan for you, person purpose and plan and purpose and a

  144. plan for you. M m h. He's a role for you. In

  145. is Ecclesia. There is a role forew in his body. Everyone has a

  146. purpose in the body and through that body to the local community. The key

  147. is to find our plan and to our purpose, and we are shaped,

  148. and we are molded by the Holy Spirit. Mm hmmm into the people that

  149. He wants us to be. Not all that wants, but step by step

  150. and each step America. So I've distilled this down, or we've distilled this

  151. down into three points traditional certain if all that sort of stuff. So I'll

  152. just give them by three points because I bring some context development. The first

  153. part is development is by surrender. Development is by surrender. The second point

  154. is to be transformed, we need to be washed in the word of God.

  155. And the third point is God's timing is perfect. Just give you a

  156. context of where we go in this morning. So development is surrender, or

  157. to paraphrase that it is really death to self. And again my mind went

  158. to John twelve twenty four, which is also a very familiar scripture, which

  159. is and Jesus is speaking to his disciples about his up and coming crucifixion.

  160. He said, most assuredly, I say to you, unless the grain of

  161. wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. If it dies,

  162. it produces much grain. Unless a corner of wheat falls into the ground

  163. and dies, it remains alone. If it dies, it produces much fruit.

  164. It's only when we surrender airs of our lives we should previously we said

  165. hang on to or put round the back, that the Holy Spirit can work

  166. in those areas. There's certain things which are easy to surrender. Those are

  167. things which ties you to surrender them. We all walk with a limp and

  168. some sort or other because we all come from somewhere. If you're perfect,

  169. shave my hand afterwards, I'd like to meet you. I haven't met a

  170. perfect person yet. I know we're all perfect in God's sight that we change

  171. from glory to glory to glory. But we all walk with a limp.

  172. And there's certain things which are easy to release and say, okay, I'll

  173. give you that to Jesus. And certain things that's ads a little more challenging.

  174. Shall we say, if we're honest, weich just turn the mask off

  175. today as being the open honest today, we're all friends here have but the

  176. host bit takes that which is damaged and makes them which is beautiful and something

  177. which was barren, and the makeshift something that is fruitful, because that is

  178. what he does when we allow him to do so. And these are painful

  179. experiences in the life of the believe that the life of the Christian that's how

  180. it is. You know. I went to the dentist recently. Of course,

  181. one of my teeth had a crack in it and the roots died from

  182. my face. Swell out, here's some great thanks so so you've got to

  183. have a crown, a great thank you. So they send you to this

  184. bloke who gives you to your root and also he basically clears out some acid

  185. all the way down to the root of your two You line and go,

  186. oh that's nice. That hurts, But that really does hurt, you know,

  187. And you know, I think he said, you feel like, yeah,

  188. I feel about it. Yeah, oh really, yeah, I feel

  189. a burning Yeah, they want to do that. Then the grind down.

  190. What's that to be tooth? And you smell the burning smell, I said,

  191. the dark and smell of burning. That my too. You smell that,

  192. Yeah, it just smells the burning thank you. You know, as

  193. we go through things in life, which I'm pleasant early, that's just an

  194. experience I had and reminded the old adage no pain, no gain in the

  195. in the Christian world. If I just still that down, that is that

  196. the reality sometimes you have to go through some pain to walk in thruthfulness,

  197. because not that God wants to walk. He walks. He walks around the

  198. limb. He wants to walk around home, but he wants to go through

  199. a process. So you know that your home, and you know who made

  200. your hope, and you know where you came from, but you know who

  201. made you hope. Because then he gets the glory in speed of suddenly he

  202. said, this is who I was, this is who I am now.

  203. It's not the work of a man. It is the work of the Holy

  204. Spirit. It's not I was dead. I am alive in Christ. God

  205. has taken my life, which was a mess, and made it into a

  206. message. He's taken my life something which was broken and made some which is

  207. beautiful. And that's what'll go on to communicate to us today. He wants

  208. us to understand there's a process that we go through. You know, if

  209. you're not in that process, you need to align during that process. Keep

  210. on going, don't nut stuff. Nobody ever arrives. We're all of work

  211. in process. The Master is always doing something. That's just how it is

  212. impossible. Paul said in that flicking three eight. This is from the Anchipyte

  213. classic which is not on the script. But I don't make it work last

  214. night, and enough so that the only Nu King James. Furthermore, I

  215. count everything has lost compare to the possession of the priceless privilege, the overwhelming

  216. preciousness as surpassing worth and supreme advantage, of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

  217. and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, of perceiving and

  218. recognizing and understanding him more fully and clearly for his sake. I have lost

  219. everything and consider it to be be a rubbish refuge. You know that I

  220. might gain and win Christ the anointed One, or so I consider it all.

  221. Everything has lost because I want to know Jesus my Lord, become more

  222. deeply, more intimately acquainted with him. Yeah, that should be where we

  223. want to be. That should be the space that we have it. That

  224. should be our goal to know him. Verse nine says that I might actually

  225. be found and known as in Him, not having any self achievement righteousness that

  226. can be called my own based on my own obedience to the law, but

  227. possessing the genuine righteousness which comes from faith in Christ. No pain, no

  228. gain. We tokount everything as lost in this journey where He shapes us and

  229. molds us. It can be any time in our lives where it's got married,

  230. he's got kids, whether eighty six, you're about to transfer from this

  231. earth to heaven. We need to have that mindset, We need to have

  232. that understanding. We need to whole things lightly. We are just traveling through

  233. this place which is called our destination is heaven. We're here to share the

  234. love of God and everybody else because some places that the speaker, the preacher

  235. can't go to, some people the preacher and speaking of a preacher will never

  236. speak to. Who will have the opportunity to That's pretty well. We have

  237. the opportunity to go and speak someday we have the connection to do that.

  238. As a surrender our lies become progressively more deeply and intimately equated with him.

  239. I'm going through that surrender that that happens for my determined purpose is that I

  240. might know him, that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with

  241. him, perceiving, recognizing, and understanding the wonders of his person more strongly

  242. and more clearly. That's Philippians three turned the amplifying mention that I may know

  243. him progressively. As a surrender, we get to know him more deeply.

  244. You're not a passionate equator your way through in the streets. Only have an

  245. intimate relationship with him. It's all about daily connection. As become more acquainted

  246. with him, we've come more acquainted with his resurrection power. Because God's power

  247. that changes lives. He's not the work of the man, is the work

  248. of this burger. Galatians two twenties says, I have been crucified with Christ.

  249. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me and

  250. the life I I live in the flesh. I live by faith in the

  251. Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I've been

  252. crucified. I've died to self. I've surrendered all my stuff. He's no

  253. longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. It's like we're a

  254. dead hand and we're dead. We're sorry of a glove. That's what I

  255. was thinking. We've got a glove like a tech at love. It's a

  256. a an object, isn't it. When you put your hand in it,

  257. it's alive. Jesus takes our audits and it filtered with yourself. When we've

  258. become His hands and his feet, we have become the conduit of His anointing,

  259. a smile or a relief of his healing for somebody. But we've got

  260. to be in the place of surrender to be able to give something. You

  261. cannot give what you have of God, and you cannot go to the shop

  262. and buy the anointing or the presence of God. It doesn't work that way.

  263. You've got to get on your knees. You've got to listen. You've

  264. got to surrender to fulfilled with the presence of God, so then you can

  265. minister God's grace to those people who are around you. There's not a quick

  266. way. There's not a three step book. You can buy it from the

  267. Christian bookshop in Stain's Kanaan. It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. There's

  268. lots of books about dying to self. I think I think Joyce Mayor,

  269. who has the Choyce Mayor Bible, really made his own death to self sept

  270. the corner we die to bude a lot rip. It dies, it brings

  271. forth us through that free the king change versus foot. You get my drift

  272. so we're all the journey. It is step by step, and each step

  273. is a miracle, and our lives are transformed step by step. So sometimes

  274. we don't see the incremental change what others do. The song isn't there years

  275. ago. Let my let that little light shine. That's let that looks art

  276. shine. That light is not my teeth or clean today. It is the

  277. presence of God in our lives. If the presence of gods and says to

  278. you, what is different about you? You're not saying everybody else They're not

  279. looking at your actions, are looking at what what you've seen. M We're

  280. constantly been transformed or transfigured into his very image, from one degree of one

  281. degree of glory to another degree of growing glory turned back in which is two

  282. Corinthians three eighteen, and all of us are constantly been transfigured into his very

  283. own image in ever increasing splendor, from one degree of degree of glory to

  284. the degree abroad. I'd had the work from a degree, I actually have

  285. a degree, but the mind. So from one degree of glory to another

  286. degree of glory, we have been transformed. And it's not the work of

  287. an it's the work of the powers grew and it all starts with surrender.

  288. So maybe that's where you're at today and you don't get it what's going on

  289. here, But that's the process he goes through. He's not a production line,

  290. but it's a process, and God works with us. So my recommendation

  291. today is to align with this way of doing things. Read this, which

  292. is the Word of God on my phone. I'm going to take a by

  293. fine now and we start with surrender. That is the door. That's a

  294. point. One point two is to be transformed. We need to be washed

  295. with the word of God. Paula speaking of Jesus and the Ecclesia seven Ephesians

  296. five twenty six, that he might sanctify, which is make you holy,

  297. purify, cleanse you, purge you with the washing and bathing of the water

  298. by the word. The word actually worded as a riema word, But it's

  299. the word of God which changes us. Doesn't change it's a bit of flesh.

  300. It changes our spirit. The word of God changes us. It's powerful,

  301. it's living. As we immerse ourselves in the word of God, a

  302. transformation takes place. Hebrews four, verse twelve is a very familiar scripture,

  303. I'm sure for The Word of God is living, powerful and sharper than any

  304. two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing line of soul and spirit,

  305. and of the joints and marrow, and discern of the thoughts and intents of

  306. the arem. Notice the word of God is powerful. It's sharper than the

  307. two edged sword piercing to the dividing of soul and a spirit. He gets

  308. right down to the crops, He gets right down in there that viswee go.

  309. Oh, no, it knows about that. That's a bit I don't

  310. share with people I am, but God knows. Mhmm. Interesting in the

  311. way that God is discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart. That's not

  312. your it's the heart and the center of you as a person. God sees

  313. past all the masks. It's the real you. We can present well to

  314. the world. But God sees past that facade. He sees the real us,

  315. and He's interested in the real us. And that's where he wants to

  316. be so that people he can people can see his handiwork people and see his

  317. masterpiece, which is you, which is me. The way that God changes

  318. us and works through our circumstances Proverbs for twenty to twenty two says that we

  319. must give attention to the word of God, my son, give attention to

  320. my words. Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart

  321. from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart, in your

  322. heart, for they are life that we're life again to those that find them

  323. and their health. Where there is a medicine to their flesh. So God's

  324. words of medicine to your flesh. But notice, we have to give attention

  325. to those words. We're going to be washed with the word. You can't

  326. hide it around the back here. It's not going to really work because you've

  327. got to, you know, get in it to get washed. Put your

  328. toe in the bath. You're not going to get where not the wead pass

  329. nor they know your shower, isn't it. But bath You're going to get

  330. weight because look at the water. That's very nice. Should We used to

  331. have some dogs and they didn't like having a bath a bath. They'd look

  332. at the bath and then be out of the door. There you go.

  333. But we need to get well, we need to get into the water of

  334. the word. That means we need to get We need to daily wash otherwise,

  335. you know, we're not going to get the benefit if we don't wash

  336. regulation. It's somebody on the bus side of the train. They small,

  337. that's just a bath of life. We need to be washed in the word

  338. so that we can be changed from glory to glory to glory. How is

  339. it? You know? We start one step at a time, don't respect

  340. got to do it in two minutes. Okay, God, I'm ready.

  341. Now I've read that. I'll get it about of Simon's message. That's really

  342. good. So I'll give you ten minutes. Let's get a bit of wash

  343. him doing, and I'm sure you can sort of my problems out straight away.

  344. He doesn't work like that. He'll start at the beginning where he chooses

  345. to startle you know, your beginning mind, not at his beginning. You're

  346. beginning might be, well, let's deal with this bit aginning. God,

  347. actually I like that bit over there. Oh I'm not sure about that bit

  348. over there. That's the bit we don't talk about. And this that I'm

  349. really sure we want to deal with that bit back and then then that's where

  350. want to start. And you go around the mountain until they say okay,

  351. and they okay, we'll start that bit that is a per passion and plan.

  352. Even we're dealing with that our stuff like living stones. He molds us

  353. into the people he wants us to be into that so that in that ecclesia,

  354. that assembly, we fit where it puts us, bounce us. How

  355. good a plan it is. The breathren dwell together in unity I think starts

  356. from thirty three in the unity means something many to be chipped away or removed

  357. from one of us. You know, perish the thought that we might not

  358. be in the perfect distance. But you know he knows what needs to happen

  359. to us to make us fruitful and make us productive. I could talk by

  360. John pi Deem, but I'm want to do that right now. As we

  361. attend to the Word of God. We had changed from glory to glory,

  362. which is two Grinthians three eighteen a ment of it previously. So let's knowh

  363. to surrender on God's terms, not our turns. Let's not to get into

  364. the Word and be washed with the blood on God's terms, not our turns.

  365. If we do, we'll be changed from glory to glory. I want

  366. to fill that purpose and that plan on the earth. If you only hit

  367. a little while. Once you're out of here, you're not coming back until

  368. the time. So make the impact that you need to make in your generation.

  369. What's the generation is Eddie still here? See you have a very young

  370. generation children next door to older people, but we all have an impact on

  371. our generation. Don't miss your opportunity because I'm surrendered and got into the word

  372. because when we're out of it, we can't change it. There's opportunity now

  373. to do what he wants to do. And you might not be your plan

  374. at you might not be your plan, be God, what brought. God

  375. might have brought from the other side of the world to a play without my

  376. name. But you're here because because a plan and purpose for you. It's

  377. a step into that plan, step into that purpose. Do not miss what

  378. there has for you. So the final point is God's time and is perfect

  379. in the shaping and the molding process. Time is everything. God is never

  380. early, He's never late. Altho it's sometime thinking you know, it's like

  381. now God, now, no hear it, and then all of a sudden

  382. he's like, well were you well? Now is the time? Now is

  383. the chirost moment he had that you know, come on, God, it

  384. is now. It's got to be now, and it never is now unless

  385. you're walking here in the rhythm and miracles. And he said, now is

  386. the time. So now the time. So we've got to be aligned with

  387. him for his perfect timing. So that means we've got something called patience,

  388. which might be a dirty work for some people, dirty life, or I

  389. don't like to be patient. I want it now. I picked up this

  390. smartphone he happened, go into an app pressure button and immediately I get something.

  391. We want to order something from Anderson or something like that, a type

  392. of it at a press send. I can pay ext money, but immediate

  393. gratification. It comes tomorrow or it comes in so many hours, and I

  394. get where I want to get. That is the world. That is the

  395. way that we're doing is they're providing the service. We're in the world,

  396. but we're not of the world. We're in God's kingdom, God's way of

  397. doing things. And sometimes it might be instant. He gets on the sort

  398. of out, but that's not his normal. Normally is his timing. He's

  399. the master. He takes the time he needs to do what he needs to

  400. do. He's not constrained by time He created time. I started to talk

  401. about the pot and the clannel because it's easy to talk about, and when

  402. we're trying to make a part of it was a mistake. The man puts

  403. a player on the wheel and pumping the wheel. He's supposed to shape it,

  404. and it looked quite easier. But when we start doing it spread everywhere,

  405. so again there a part, some weird looking thing when I've made it.

  406. But with the Lord, it's not like that. He starts with the

  407. clay and it put the water to the clay, which is the word of

  408. God, and it starts to shape us, and it starts to mold it

  409. into that into that markepiece that he wants us to be. And shaping and

  410. molding it can be uncomfortable, almost shaped and molded as a pot. We

  411. have put to dry, completely dry until the next step in in the process,

  412. and then the clay is trimmed off from the pottery point of view,

  413. which is more work at the Holy Great shaping and getting us ready for the

  414. next phase, which if I get this right, if the initial firing or

  415. the biscayde firing they call it here, the pot's putting the very into a

  416. killm and far to a certain temperature. I felt like the heat is on

  417. and God's doing something, and you think, oh, I don't like this,

  418. mister, and it's like and then if you stay there, there's no

  419. very comfortable here. I'm getting a out of the hot. The pot is

  420. fired. God is working in our lives and it's not very pleasant as well,

  421. because we're being tried when we're being tested, and that's where God to

  422. be patient. We're want to get out of there, but there's no You

  423. stay where you are. You've been tried and tested. After that that that

  424. initial firing and the pot's cooled, then they apply a glaze, don't they.

  425. If we've all seen that on the TV, or you may see it

  426. in yourself, and we go and the pot goes to a transformation process.

  427. Once it's glazed, is then put into another firing process with the grape.

  428. The glaze is fused to the pot and it creates like a glassy surface of

  429. your seed. If you seen pots and God ad to us and that glaze

  430. when we come out, we reflect the presence from the person of God,

  431. the reflections of him, not of us, because that partwers a diet to

  432. self, and it's a life to Christ. This happens once to a pot

  433. if it happens to us many times as where it changed from glory to glory.

  434. What did Paul say? It is not the life that I live,

  435. it's Christ who lives in me. So when God push through this processes so

  436. that you can shine force, you can project because it's inside you, it's

  437. upon you, the presence of God, the image of Christ. Let me

  438. find that again. I've been crucified with Christ. He's no longer right to

  439. live. But Christ, who lives in me life it shine out of in

  440. the flesh added by faith in the Son of God. Galatians two twenty two.

  441. Printhians three eighteen says they're canty being transformed into his very image. So

  442. when you go through the process, you're transformed. It's not nice, will

  443. become more christ Like Jeremiah eighteen. It talks about the pot and that's when

  444. Jeremiah is got to speaking about Jeremiah thinking about the child, the visual,

  445. about what's going to do to them. But I think Jeremiah eighteen out with

  446. their six He says, after plays in the potter's hand, so are you

  447. in my hand? So in that context, we are just clay and her

  448. molds is any shapes, and that's people he wants us to be. We

  449. have a covenment with better promises through the other Jesus, not through bulls,

  450. sheep and goats. One Peter two nine says that we are chosen generation.

  451. We are a royal priesthood. We're a holy nation his own special people that

  452. we may proclaim the praise of Him will call us out of darkness into his

  453. marvelous life. And when when the light was to be without shaping and that

  454. moaning process, except before it starts with surrender, then washed in the world

  455. go through testing so that we reflect the image of Christ. It's my body

  456. for his life. We want to have that image of Jesus through us.

  457. There are some people you meet. I think the guy and let's stay in

  458. the number of years when I first met him, Oh, that's all was

  459. Jesus. It was very evidence, it was very evident. And that's what

  460. happened by going through the patray excuse me, that happens by going through the

  461. school of the Holy Spirit. He takes us from glory to glory to glory.

  462. It's not the work of the man it's the work of the Holy Spirit.

  463. Jesus builds the ecclesia, or his church so that we are people without

  464. spot or ricome. So wherever you are on the journey today, yeah,

  465. stay with it. Do not take a diversion, don't take a detail.

  466. Percy there, yeah or man, it's impossible, but with God all things

  467. are possible, which is Matthew nineteen twenty six. So let's let's wrap it

  468. there. I'm done dusted. What are we doing now? Oh? Community,

  469. I'm not done dusted. I think Chang