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"Christ and His Anointed People" (Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 12)

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  1. It's about design. Good afternoon.

  2. Very good for our boy. So don't even say yeah, with

  3. Ireland coming on and we'll have and we are coming on and

  4. preaching that we will be hearing today.

  5. This afternoon is for is originally written and preached

  6. by Reverend Martin at the table. I preach first Evangelical

  7. Reformed Church, so Singapore and this was originally reached

  8. last two thousand 2120214. Those who worship Christ are

  9. called Christians at that point. I think that would be 1 of

  10. Christians people though initially for 11/19 11:19 the

  11. scripture in your new original and distinctions adding China,

  12. India again again within our Christians during the times of

  13. the apostles. Actually the early believers

  14. were not initially called as Christians but rather they were

  15. called disciples or specifically the disciples of the way into

  16. power. But as time passed and as

  17. Christianity became famous like even upon they are already

  18. starting to call them Christians as we know it.

  19. They were called Christians not for the sake of acknowledgement

  20. alone or not question our sign of respect towards those

  21. Christians, but rather detonated.

  22. It is part of how they ridicule those people, how they show

  23. insult by naming them Christians as it was named after Christ

  24. whom they worship. Who made the Manians Manoranjan

  25. in our million Christians as an insult?

  26. People who believe in Christ. They were for 1st called

  27. Christians in Antioch Yeah ask Chapter 11 and a good 12 years

  28. ago 12 years for Hindi one year after resurrection.

  29. Indeed five years after the resurrection of Christ, but

  30. rather a good 12 years after Christ's resurrection doing

  31. paramedic Simula that they now axilla not Christians.

  32. It was 12 years after his resurrection so he wouldn't

  33. start until dieting. However panels in the garage.

  34. Now Christians you know believers, but you another

  35. question is can and simulating. However, can you singers in

  36. Jesus Christ, if you if you may ask, when was the time when

  37. Jesus was already distinguished or cold as Christ?

  38. It was actually during his ministry he gathered 441 and

  39. this was when he was already casting out demons in which some

  40. verse 41 Michigan at Indigo. It says that and Dimas also came

  41. out of many of that person crying.

  42. You are the Son of God. That was the confession of those

  43. demons who were being passed out by Christ.

  44. But here's it says that Christ rebuked them and would not allow

  45. them to speak because they know that he was the Christ and only

  46. after this great Galilean ministry did his disciples

  47. acknowledge this and it was a very remarkable acknowledgement

  48. from the disciples were in they are starting to acknowledge that

  49. Christ or Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the Christ and that's why

  50. that is our sermon this afternoon.

  51. The title is Christ and his anointed people become

  52. tightening wedding ceremony now happened to and from her passage

  53. Matthew 16 have been fascinating.

  54. Kanina, we will examine 3 remarkable truths you bring

  55. argument appoints happily though first I remarkably confession

  56. made. That's the first point.

  57. Second, a remarkable Kingdom and vision and 3rd are remarkable

  58. condition realised. But before we proceed any

  59. further, want to let us go above our heads and pray before our

  60. God. Heavenly Father own word be are

  61. here to acknowledge the glory of your name and the truthfulness

  62. of your word in the scriptures that we have.

  63. We pray OHH God that by your Holy Spirit that you allow us to

  64. be able to be nurished, to fully appreciate and I just

  65. appreciate, but to have that delight to be fully transformed

  66. by your word when you establish us more with virtues, make us

  67. fail to make our faith grow stronger by hearing your work

  68. and they continue to surrender or steps to you.

  69. OHH God. Thank you for this afternoon all

  70. God and they speak to us and we we ask all have mercy on us all

  71. and speak to ourselves for we are in need of you more than

  72. anything else. So in coming before you over

  73. with reverence and fear and this we pray in this in Jesus name,

  74. Amen and Amen. So information first point.

  75. First point is our remarkable confession made.

  76. Do you think Karina Jesus had already finished his great

  77. Galilean ministry? Kakapo Slamannan.

  78. Ministerial or human running as a guiding and for context that

  79. joining the early parts of his ministry, Sobrang Daming Telecom

  80. thought we had even ridiculous rain.

  81. It's not just hundreds of people, but rather thousands of

  82. people. Even the point of 5000 men,

  83. women and children were already following him.

  84. But eventually, after time goes by as I see his medicine

  85. continued. But I mean indeed to, Malloy

  86. said. Anything even a funding pointing

  87. around United are nothing. The followers near the fire.

  88. This is even said in in terms of what he's doing in terms of his

  89. ministry. The pharmacist said that he cast

  90. of Beyoncé not by the power of God, not by the power of Christ

  91. himself, but they proclaim or confessed that he is casting

  92. demons by the power of the devil.

  93. Venkat indeed you you you my buddy said ohh so so it was

  94. clear here to Jesus that the gospel seed were not always fall

  95. on good soil and that the Kingdom would be mix of wheat

  96. and theirs is how we could see it.

  97. So this is the time when he took the remaining disciples Simon

  98. come here and took them from Galilee to teach them these

  99. things when I cinnamony you might decide that since the fire

  100. and see them then you wouldn't then afternoon said the

  101. capitalists. And now here he does assessoria

  102. Filippi with signalling Abbasi in Matthew 16.

  103. It was in this Pagan lands that they saw that the Gentiles also

  104. are starting to believe in him. I think in Somalia, and we would

  105. miss animal disciple in there, that genitals are starting to

  106. believe in Christ more than the Jews do.

  107. So the table successfully appealed by detonating, throwing

  108. you might be simple again. And I think if I didn't do

  109. nothing go on having a toy thing to run anything people of view

  110. or in as they are being taught by Christ, they could see on the

  111. background Mount Hermon into Omaha kidnapping Nito Aladdin's

  112. accessory. Philippine, not Herman was the

  113. tallest and the largest mountain in Israel.

  114. That's their view while they are in this city, Varanasi.

  115. Take it back, look at the view and the island.

  116. Cesaria Philippi. I know I've been Storia meron

  117. dito Sanlucar necessary time passionate community certified

  118. by the soil or you look God. Typically the irony here Philip

  119. the second it eventually sorry open on the beginning of

  120. paramedics and left so sorry don't see Sharia Philippi

  121. actually Indian and it has already existed even before even

  122. the time of Abraham. The game exists and it is

  123. originally lined. Laish Union Panala and Roger

  124. Neto checking pastor currently few Sundays ago.

  125. Related interdisciplinary panel on your story and acronym Guerra

  126. between Kings Sakina and Unique going to battle against king on

  127. those place eventually the medics appointment even sailor

  128. Shinagami Hari but nothing that and that was in 11 Abraham told

  129. us how we could remember it as well from rescue and another guy

  130. sorry and then he he brought with him to fight against those

  131. kings and we all know the story that eventually they were able

  132. to successfully rescue love so you like ish you Laish now look

  133. at that area is somewhere within that larger in region which sign

  134. Nangyari installation. It is within this area judges in

  135. the book of judges specifically, surprisingly, dying Americans.

  136. You don't time and now he and Paris and eventually they

  137. travelled N to conquer that land which is called Laish Simon

  138. exceptionally long city don't seem like set up a stronghold

  139. bang so that's when we call it now the CP of Dan in a basement.

  140. It's all testament first need to city of thank you know Ireland

  141. please you upon Moses to join us and join us and he just said Dan

  142. nice to see that membership number ideas.

  143. That's what happened there. You missing Apple emojis running

  144. out of people. Fast forward in joining the

  145. Times of the Kings during the time of King Jeroboam long time

  146. ago published Calorie thing Jerod Bohemian power in an

  147. influence the Madam Sharp and you know what it's like

  148. establish now idle worship specifically for worship them,

  149. though not golden calf establishes a belonger is some

  150. longer is something established and new Paolo Lugar is Saddam.

  151. The reason is that parenting about Albanian Jerusalem, and

  152. instead, Ryan said Dan said Basil then preserve you power,

  153. your influence. But because of that desire we

  154. all know that it led to idolatry that ultimately destroyed that

  155. whole nation. Okay Jackson eventually during

  156. this city during the Greek times contained move forward patio.

  157. We displaces became well known for its worship of the Greek God

  158. made bang familiar. Dubai Don campaign Sipahi you

  159. Greek God were in on the children is around half human

  160. half kabayo without nothing take Valium, she finally surrender

  161. half human compass another one Bahyo aparam combing papers

  162. mention horns or medicine. Zoom in the parent company good

  163. they made my images and enjoying now we know worship and even in

  164. this place. The surrounding caves were

  165. commonly thought thought to be the entrance to hates you nobody

  166. will and like you know, Greek version Inanam Hill Now then, so

  167. gonna put in the young story the Irish at Vernon idolatry and

  168. paraguana solo varnado successfully defended by.

  169. So this was indeed a very significant city in that sense

  170. of those things that had happened on that place.

  171. It symbolised the vanity of man, his political and earthly

  172. ambition. And it also reflected the

  173. superstitions of man in terms of the spirituality and the beliefs

  174. of men. And here we could see the desire

  175. of man to be great for someone that to build a Kingdom for

  176. their own. And others wanted to have this

  177. strong religious influence in this place and this place called

  178. Syria. Philippi.

  179. Peter. Peter.

  180. Miss Moore, my love. It's a banana with Doctor Mount

  181. Hermon, something I know. Mama Disciples.

  182. Yeah, I know about at least no. And then we have read there that

  183. the design was heard that others believe that he was Elijah or

  184. jump to the Baptist or even Jeremiah or one of the prophets.

  185. But when he asked them who they thought he was, Peter answered

  186. in 1st 16. You are the Christ, the Son of

  187. the living God impressed with the having confession he Apostle

  188. Peter, Apostle Pedro and this was indeed a very remarkable

  189. confession. Imagine, I don't, I don't know,

  190. I don't even understand the Conservancy 18 damaging impact.

  191. Yes, Cortana on how he did his ministry and how he healed the

  192. sick, how he created miracles and how he breached and caused

  193. people towards her attendance and faith.

  194. And also they have seen here how his works became controversial

  195. among the religious peoples of those times, those religious

  196. lives of their time. And they also saw here how Zen

  197. parents are starting to believe in him.

  198. That's why something is already brewing in them.

  199. They saw in Jesus those characteristics of that very

  200. person they hope for in the Scriptures that even if not

  201. everyone is believing that he is, the price they are starting

  202. today believe that he is that person.

  203. And so they confessed that he was this Christ, the Son of the

  204. living God. And actually in Peter's answers,

  205. Aboriginal language, the pronoun you that is actually in an in

  206. fact the world because it made the Indian because I've been in

  207. a new people and apparently you are the Christ.

  208. I don't know. Maybe it's being a confession

  209. and I don't even sipping knocking manifestly people Sarah

  210. Mashad and Christo looks having Christ when we talk about Christ

  211. and when we hear the word Christ.

  212. This is actually the Greek equivalent of the name or the

  213. title Messiah. You you even said you know world

  214. Christ. Even Sabina is the anointed 1

  215. the anointed some of the events Helical Solana Galaxy,

  216. Pentecostal grounds. But I need to know anything and

  217. knowing that grabbing take it the anointing and commitment.

  218. Though most of the time it was taken in around direction and we

  219. were made, we were made to believe it in a different sense

  220. rather than what it really means in the Old Testament persona.

  221. Because thing. Annoying thing to anoint someone

  222. was to appoint them to a very special and very specific job.

  223. You know images of impacting are being annoying thing or to be

  224. anointed. You know, the cement times,

  225. priests were anointed with oil for them to become priests.

  226. Kings were also anointed with oil during their coronation as

  227. they are to become kings. And prophets were also anointed

  228. with oil to do the work of preaching or for them to start

  229. speaking the words of God. But here there was one person

  230. and that the people anticipated who went through all these three

  231. things, all these three roles in the Old Testament and that is

  232. the anointed one that is the Messiah that this Christ 13 have

  233. been acting Christ the pushpin legal united finances and Jesus

  234. Christ. You push a surname.

  235. It is a title that has this meaning has this defiance.

  236. But knowing that one, the Messiah, the Christ Moses spoke

  237. of him in Jahanam 18 were in God himself told mostly spoke of it

  238. that God himself will race up a prophet.

  239. That the Israeli airlines will listen to this having emotions

  240. and to Eli the negligent priest Sabitha prophet said to him in

  241. first somewhere to that God will raise up for himself a faithful

  242. priest that will obey God. And it's okay, Ella and God said

  243. that David in second son was 7, but he would raise up a king in

  244. David's household to be a king forever.

  245. We know that that's not someone he didn't live forever, but

  246. rather there is someone who would become a king and a king

  247. forever. We also met, She said that he

  248. was a priest and he was also a king, but he was not a prophet.

  249. We know someone, he was a priest and also a prophet, but he was

  250. not a king and we know so well as a king, the king soul.

  251. But when he tried to offer a sacrifice, he was judged because

  252. of what he did. And while Iran was indeed

  253. anointed as priest, when he tried to take over Moses role as

  254. a leader to leave Israel, he was reprimanded because of it.

  255. But there was one who would be all three.

  256. For no one was able to do all these three things in the Old

  257. Testament times. So for this disciples, Jesus was

  258. the chosen one, Jesus was the Christ.

  259. Jesus was that Messiah, Messiah that they saw in him, a person

  260. whom the prophets spoke about. He was the prophet, priest and

  261. king who would rescue them from their enemies.

  262. And that's not how we they see it.

  263. And this is seen in some chapter 2 in a Barcelona beginning in

  264. our in our scripture reading where the sum is say that the

  265. world is against God and not just against God, but against

  266. God and his anointed. And she lavished songs to that

  267. those people, the world itself come together and rebel against

  268. God and not just in God, but also in his Christ.

  269. But here we could see the reaction of God Ohh against

  270. those people. He just laughed at them.

  271. You know why I didn't No, no, I didn't come in on and I happen

  272. again. I go on 11 though, because we

  273. know that no one can stop him and his group, and so he sent to

  274. his anointed, who he called Son, the Son of God.

  275. I will give you the whole earth to rule.

  276. It means not just the Jews but also the Jantas and the whole

  277. earth is commanded by God to power themselves to the Son of

  278. God who is the anointed. So he portrays a king with a

  279. Kingdom that even the agendas are part of it.

  280. It's not anymore just a single nation, for in they would have

  281. punished. There is a king, but it's a team

  282. that would represent all his people around the world was

  283. going back by using the word Christ in the confession of

  284. Peter. Peter attributed to Jesus all

  285. the hopes, all the promises, all the prophecies and all the

  286. honour and the scriptures about this matter, about this

  287. position, how about this calling and this title of the Messiah of

  288. Christ Jesus for them was not just a prophet who could do

  289. miracles, but was the Son of God, the King that would rule

  290. all the world from Zion. That's why Jesus told them or

  291. told him specifically some verse 17 Sabina I think again only so

  292. still beat Peter. Blessed are you Simon Barjona

  293. for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my

  294. Father who is in heaven. In other words, to regard Jesus

  295. as Christ. It is something that natural at

  296. all. It is something unnatural.

  297. It is something supernatural because it is only God who could

  298. reveal it to him. It is only seen God that it was

  299. revealed to him that Jesus is Christ.

  300. That is why the gender speed even though they were not, they

  301. were as ignorant as they are about that Christ that the Jews

  302. were talking about or that looking they're looking forward

  303. for that Messiah. Yet the Chantas believe because

  304. God revealed to them and that is also why the Pharisees rejected

  305. it, because they are hardened in their hearts and they were not

  306. able to see Jesus Christ because God Himself did not reveal to

  307. them. And that's the reason why they

  308. even said that the Americas of Christ are not from God but from

  309. Satan himself. They don't get indeed human

  310. blindness in the material if not because the work of God and his

  311. revealing work about Christ. I think that there are people

  312. who will indeed believe that Jesus is the Christ and also

  313. there are those who will not no matter what kind of presentation

  314. and going motor and preached at any pastor landscaping and it's

  315. not on the how they presented in a sense that would interest

  316. them. We're convinced them, but rather

  317. it depends purely on how God reveals Christ to them.

  318. The tapas dito satiate and issues because here to those who

  319. believe that Jesus is that Christ they will be part of our

  320. remarkable Kingdom that is envisioned and that is

  321. proclaimed in the Scriptures. But in point adding second point

  322. where I I think second remarkable truth about this

  323. matter in verse 18 and 19, Jesus said, and I tell you, you are

  324. Peter and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of

  325. hell shall not prevail against it.

  326. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven.

  327. You know inside you. It was okay Peter.

  328. And here we could see that Jesus is now giving us that vision or

  329. he is already envisioning a growing Kingdom in this world,

  330. which he called his church young Kingdom and church here is

  331. synonymous that and it will grow that not even the gates of Hades

  332. can stop this onward March of the Kingdom of God.

  333. So the Kingdom is expanding and will conquer the Kingdom of

  334. Satan. And of course, this is very

  335. significant because of where Jesus was speaking.

  336. This things, Nico said. Bongo, this is Syria, Philippi

  337. Sing. The kingdoms of the genitals,

  338. they're probably earthly kingdoms.

  339. It is within that area that Christ is proclaiming these

  340. things and with their with with all their religious

  341. superstitions and with all the works and reins of Satan in the

  342. midst of this Pagan world. But we all know that all of them

  343. would be pushed back by the Kingdom of God.

  344. So how would this be achieved? I know about an individual and

  345. I've been planning on packing this out in the scriptures.

  346. How will the Kingdom grow? Grow in Kingdom now it will grow

  347. by the gospel of God. It would grow by the gospel

  348. through the keys of the Kingdom Christ Christ give gave the keys

  349. to Peter to open or close up the Kingdom of God in a pregnant and

  350. Sabina. Now this is somehow of

  351. controversial passage to say 11 position of Roman Catholics for

  352. the things about genital is that Christ will build the church on

  353. him on Peter genuinely clean my Catholic.

  354. But the thing Vito unclean Mila, is that Peter is the Bishop or

  355. was the Bishop of Rome, and that the acidic church, the Roman

  356. Catholic Church of Reno, seeing that their claim is they are the

  357. only true Church of God. You wouldn't claim that.

  358. But The thing is the position for and it is true that the

  359. Kingdom of God that the keys of the Kingdom according to this

  360. passage are given to Peter context.

  361. I think I need to because the pronoun used there was the word

  362. you are thou in which it is in second person singular so

  363. singularly become world leading depot.

  364. So in this particular passage, Christ is not addressing the

  365. other disciples action, but rather it is from to Peter and

  366. him was given the keys to open the Kingdom of heaven.

  367. So in one sense, yes, this is true and it also reflected in

  368. church history by for example, Peter preached in Acts chapter

    Acts 2 chapter mention

  369. 2. He preached the gospel and the

  370. Jews really believed in the gospel that he reach Peter and

  371. John went down to Samaria after Philip preached and they prayed

  372. that the Samaritans would receive the Holy Spirit.

  373. And what happened? They did receive the Holy

  374. Spirit. Peter was also necessary here.

  375. He preached the gospel to Cornelius and Cornelius believed

  376. and was feared by the Holy Spirit.

  377. He preached the gospel to Jerusalem, Judaea to Samaria,

  378. into the uppermost part of the earth.

  379. And this was being done and Peter was exemplifying it as

  380. this as key events, and he opened the Kingdom for these

  381. people. But here we are to be reminded

  382. that Peter was not the only one with the keys of the Kingdom,

  383. because we know that Philip also preach.

  384. We also know that Paul himself preached the gospel, Stephen

  385. preached the gospel, and all others with the gospel had the

  386. keys towards the Kingdom, and the Kingdom of God grew.

  387. And while the disciples loose and unlocks the doors of the

  388. Kingdom of God by the gospel of Christ, the pharmacies on the

  389. other hand bound and locked the doors to God's Kingdom by their

  390. gospel. Not of Christ, not of God, but

  391. their gospel of legalism. Belonging contrast, not going

  392. out, but I say you Home Depot. That's why Jesus Christ them in

  393. Matthew 23 verse 13. But who do you scribes and

    Matthew 23:13

  394. viruses hypocrites for you shutdown the Kingdom of heaven

  395. in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves

  396. nor allow those who would enter to go in.

  397. Gonna be cutting the pronouncement you are indeed a

  398. pizza Kingdom sleepy girl in your party.

  399. Cutting the curse now you know and this principle because of

  400. what they are teaching that is not from God.

  401. Think about it in detail and contrast the pronouncement of

  402. panorama discipulo at the same time we pronouncement and the

  403. curse of God towards the fire dishes.

  404. So you will be upon this confession my friends that this

  405. gospel the the Christ is Jesus himself, but Jesus is not Christ

  406. that they're talking about that he would build his Kingdom.

  407. It is through the gospel of Christ and against the

  408. background and I think you mount Hermon.

  409. It was a big rock. It was a rock.

  410. It is a bedrock, and that's the word used by God appeared when

  411. he talked about the Gospel foundation in which he would

  412. build his Kingdom, the rock. But on the other hand, I know

  413. how busy Peter, what was Peter actually?

  414. He was a bad boy. I gotta look, leaving now would

  415. be the beeper. So greed and panelling is agreed

  416. I petros, which means a small paper money took my son.

  417. They can get the second bid number structure damage, and so

  418. that the citizens of that Kingdom would be built up on the

  419. rock. And that's rockets, Christiana

  420. Peter. So first Peter 2 verse 5 to 6

    1 Peter 2:5–6

  421. call Pedro clarified that specify one other meetings to be

  422. into services said first Peter 2/5 to six you yourselves like

  423. livingstones are being built up as a spiritual house to be a

  424. holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable

  425. to God through Jesus Christ. For instance, in Scripture,

  426. Behold, I am laying in Zionist stone a cornerstone chosen and

  427. precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.

  428. And we know that that's not the third The driving that is Christ

  429. Jesus as the Christ is that cornerstone, that bedrock.

  430. We who believe the gospel are like that.

  431. Stones built on him. Anything I think you know if I

  432. don't need to either. So verse 9 and suddenly the

  433. repeater. But you are a chosen race, a

  434. royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession,

  435. that you may proclaim the excellences of him who called

  436. you out of the darkness into his marvelous light.

  437. We are people. We are kings and priests, my

  438. friends, because we are our royal priesthood.

  439. You're kings and priests, and we are prophets, for we are to show

  440. forth or proclaim the excellencies of Him or the

  441. praises of Him in this world. And we also know that the Church

  442. has officers that function as prophets.

  443. Singapore. There are those who preach the

  444. word of God towards His people. There are also kings, the elders

  445. who ruled not by themselves, not by their own authority, not by

  446. their own power, but according only through the Word of God.

  447. And you have priests, the deacons, who show mercy to

  448. exemplify the Word of God through ministry.

  449. Acts of service and mercy usher us in worship, but every

  450. Christian is also called to teach one another.

  451. Nilama pastoral mendapat natural the time is my dad encourage

  452. stability. So we are all supposed to pray

  453. for one another and we are also called to hold one another

  454. accountable. It's because we are cold for

  455. that purpose, my friends. But there is a condition

  456. required for every profit, there is a condition required for

  457. every priest and also there is every penny, all a condition

  458. required for every king. And that's the third

  459. acknowledgement. And I think that young people

  460. are remarkable condition realised, then going back home

  461. they decide was only wanted Jesus to be Christ.

  462. We all know that the League also want that to be for him to be

  463. the answer to all their problems.

  464. But anyway, he would come and teach the people about God,

  465. about his ways to destroy the enemies of the world of the

  466. destroy the enemies of God. And these are blink for him to

  467. be that access for him to be that way towards God like all

  468. their heroes of the past 12 in the Moses, Elijah that David,

  469. but here he is all in one in Christ.

  470. And when I hear someone to you my no I didn't buy any issues

  471. and Crystal Mashallah and hiring in the head and we are looking

  472. position and thing establishment Kingdom.

  473. They could have thought of it that way.

  474. I mean subscriptions. Ohh.

  475. I continue as they were always arguing about who would be the

  476. first in the Kingdom. Pennsylvania is a whole though

  477. idea. Oh, oh, are you devastated?

  478. People breathing, speculating, being busy.

  479. Judas something been kati wala compare Russia and Treasurer

  480. Martin Bhasha passing by the acid jeans back acid Peter Jones

  481. Cortana the Hacienda plowing nandun supposition.

  482. That's the reason why I think would argue about these things.

  483. It would be the first in the Kingdom of God.

  484. Even the disciples themselves are really arguing about this.

  485. They're going to pull out 1000 to have this self-centered

  486. tendency even in the presence of God.

  487. And this was what Caesarea Philippi his significant signify

  488. that all men aspire to greatness.

  489. All men inspire this great glory in this world.

  490. Incidentally, they tried to do it through conquering or through

  491. wrong means like deceit or theft.

  492. For one's own sake or one's own glory, but here Christ revealed

  493. a very important point to them. So the bassinet is scripture

  494. after they left Cesaria Philippi verse 21 Jesus began to show his

  495. disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and to suffer many

  496. things and that he would be killed and eventually be

  497. resurrected. Now what do you think would

  498. there would be their response to this.

  499. Remember they really always also want to be little kings like in

  500. them of God and Peter said in verse 2248 be from you Lord.

  501. This will never happen to you. What we waiting people?

  502. What kind of person? One thing that people didn't

  503. understand was that as like Christ being pulled by Christ,

  504. before he would drain and have his Kingdom, he needed to

  505. perform the role of a priest to offer up a sacrifice for his

  506. people. But the sacrifice here is not

  507. another animal, not another sheep or cafe or anything, but

  508. rather the sacrifice his overall was himself as prophesied in the

  509. scriptures. Before he would train, he had to

  510. die. And therefore Peter's denial of

  511. this was truly satanic in a sense that this remark is

  512. totally against the will of God and the redemptive plan of God.

  513. And as the first country says, For you are not sending your

  514. mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.

  515. And that is a problem if we set our minds and the things of this

  516. world, of the things that would take gold and entities, our

  517. desires. This was the pattern of Caesarea

  518. Philippi that they think that they have left behind, but

  519. actually they have nothing left it at all.

  520. Ohh, no anyone or anyone in the garden again.

  521. And then Akisha Soto me when you're looking for dancing, you

  522. know the masala when I seen the Buchan Umalis, actually they

  523. desire some gardening in the money and open appointment.

  524. They struggled to see the things of God and focus on the things

  525. of this world. But here we are being reminded

  526. that if Christ is to reign, he had to die.

  527. And this was the lesson for this Christians of this time.

  528. This was the lesson for those disciples who are with Christ,

  529. the followers of Jesus. And these are also lessons for

  530. all of us. And verse 12 Jesus told his

  531. disciples, If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself

  532. and take up his cross, and follow me, not for your sake,

  533. but for Christ. Because as Jesus died for sin,

  534. we are to die to sin. And as Jesus denied himself the

  535. honour due to him for others, we are to serve others and become

  536. servants. For the first would be the last

  537. and the last would be the first, and whoever wishes to be the

  538. first should be the servant of all.

  539. And as Jesus took off his cross, we are to take up that shame as

  540. how he did. And when we do so, Christ

  541. rewards us openly to 11 inside the vaccination.

  542. So verse 27 that he will come back and he will repay each

  543. person according to what he has done.

  544. And the wonderful thing is this really belonged, that we are

  545. exactly the disciples in this picture.

  546. You have all of those tendencies as well.

  547. Even in this place of worship, we can still have our sinful

  548. tendencies and selfishness. Selfishness, Italy, Buhari

  549. meeting Pala Pala away there and I think my attitude about even

  550. talking about, but at 9% sure we have this self-serving attitude.

  551. We have this tendency to be proud to be selfish.

  552. We have the sinful mindset. That is why, my friends, we need

  553. Christ, someone to teach us our need of salvation, someone to

  554. subdue our sinful hearts, and someone to save us from the

  555. wrath of God. And as Christians, we need Him

  556. to as a prophet to teach us how to live to him and to holy

  557. lives, our King. We must serve in a priest who

  558. will pray for us daily because we are weak.

  559. That's right, your complication. Never forget that Jesus calls us

  560. his church. He said on this rock I will

  561. build my church, but I'm running sound from outside and and we

  562. are his Nina Pattaya Nabubuhay Palace.

  563. Now my diet. Like Arlene and Rohingya Parasa,

  564. I've been Nanjan Samahan. I think that the island that I'm

  565. lagging boy Nina and Pakistan and Christians as Christians to

  566. one another. We who are limping along in this

  567. life. We need to teach one another how

  568. wonderfully Christ is. Let's continue with this one

  569. another. How wonderful He is if it's

  570. faithful to one another and show mercy.

  571. Let us bear each other's burdens, my friends, and let us

  572. keep one another close to God, but not in hand.

  573. Me when I did nothing on competing, that guy, nothing at

  574. all. Nothing is of spending in this

  575. election meeting that they have been.

  576. So let us never forget that we are the anointed people of God

  577. only in the Lord Jesus Christ. Going to the one.

  578. I mean. I mean because of bothering

  579. hints, you know, I mean just when I'm Donato.

  580. But divided better than them in the family from Manhattan

  581. yesterday, no doubt. Then tablets.

  582. Anyway, Super League naming Neelam Salahaddin this evening.

  583. Things that he did, but only we'll see.

  584. Valley Lahan in India that you are king and you will always be

  585. there for us, but you will be our peace and you will always be

  586. the way for us towards God and you are a prophet.

  587. It would continuously guide us and teach us the marvel.

  588. Come, we are lost without you. We deserve him, if not because

  589. of you. That's why we thank you and we

  590. worship you today and may you be pleased with the worshippers of

  591. your sins. And then you transform our lives

  592. and protect us as we continue our days and we look forward

  593. again for another week that we will be with you in our people.

  594. And this we pray in Jesus name, Amen.