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Sowing and reaping Galatians 6 6-18

Omega Church NZ

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  3. the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses

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  8. So we come to verse 6, Anyone who receives instruction in the

  9. world must share all good things, which is instructor.

  10. Now basically we started off in chapter 6 initially that we are

  11. to help each other to carry the burden.

  12. Somebody has a need, you go out of the way and help them so that

  13. they can bear that whatever they are going through, the situation

  14. they are going through, they will be supported in that.

  15. And now he comes to verse 2 says carry each other's burdens and

  16. in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

  17. So in the same way he is now coming to a practical situation

  18. where you have evangelist, you have pastors who are caring for

  19. the people. And he says if anyone who

  20. receives instruction in the world must share all good things

  21. with his instructor, what he means is that you care for their

  22. needs. What they do not spend their

  23. time working hard to make their bread and also pray and serve

  24. you and study the word you know. So if they care for you, they

  25. are ministering to you. You take care of them.

  26. That's what he means. I really don't want to talk

  27. about it much, basically because we here don't want to pass the

  28. basket around. We don't want to raise the kind

  29. of a make that as an issue, but instead we believe in

  30. responsible partnership with God and to receive a blessing.

  31. As you saw, that's how we what we believe.

  32. But I have a funny story to tell you.

  33. This is not applicable to Omega, but I'm telling you beforehand,

  34. the funny story is a village. The pastor died and the people

  35. of the church, they wanted a new pastor.

  36. So they wrote to a seminary, a Bible college and they gave a

  37. description of what kind of man they want to be sent.

  38. As a pastor. He must know Bible very well.

  39. He must be a man who is kind and compassionate.

  40. He must be able to help everybody, go out of his way and

  41. help people and all the good things they wanted in the pastor

  42. they made made a huge list, said if you find somebody like that,

  43. please send it to our church. We need a pastor.

  44. By the way, we used to pay £70 to the one who used to be pastor

  45. before and if you find a man like that we may increase it by

  46. 10 more pounds. This is how they wrote the

  47. letter. So they got a reply from the

  48. head of the seminary. You will better, you will do

  49. well to call the man who died. He has been in heaven for quite

  50. some time, so he won't need food and the £70 will take care of

  51. him. So this is a very funny story I

  52. read, but I said OK you should have some entertainment.

  53. So. But more than that, we believe

  54. in responsible partnership. You partnered with God, you are

  55. sowing into the field of God, you are becoming one with Gods

  56. call and purpose and then you receive your own blessing.

  57. Sowing and reaping. Everybody says sowing and

  58. reaping is a divine law. It is a divine law.

  59. You go back as far as even the book of Genesis, you will see

  60. the people sowing and reaping. And you look at the man Abraham.

  61. He did so and he did reap, and he was the richest man of his

  62. time. And you will see in the book of

  63. Job, he was a man completely blessed.

  64. There's no one more richer than Job.

  65. And so many times you see that God blesses those who partner

  66. with him, who enter into covenant relationship with him.

  67. He is not giving money. It is not giving money.

  68. Money is a very small part of what you are going to do.

  69. It's a hard posture. Your heart has to be in

  70. alignment with the will of God, mind of God, purpose of God, His

  71. Kingdom, His rule, and then every blessing will come.

  72. Money is in the small part as a token that you are in covenant

  73. with God. You partner with Him by sowing

  74. and you reap you. You don't sow wheat.

  75. And you know we have a favorite expression in New Zealand, you

  76. hear? Fingers crossed.

  77. We'll see what is going to come out.

  78. Are you going to do that? If you sow wheat?

  79. What are you going to get wheat? I'm not saying you sow money.

  80. You'll get money. I'm not saying that that is the

  81. prosperity gospel. But what I'm trying to say here

  82. is you sow and you reap. It is a spiritual law and you

  83. don't sow, you don't reap. And elsewhere, elsewhere, he, I

  84. mean Paul also talks about many other things.

  85. I will read the scripture from his letter to Corinthians

  86. chapter, first Corinthians chapter 911 onwards.

  87. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if you

  88. reap a material harvest from you?

  89. If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we

  90. have it all the more? But we did not use this right.

  91. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the

  92. gospel of Christ. Do not He know that those who

  93. serve in the temple get their food from the temple, and those

  94. who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar?

  95. In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach

  96. the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

  97. This is a biblical principle. I had to teach it, but we are

  98. not going to make it compulsory or anything like that.

  99. We believe in a different way of accomplishing things.

  100. So this is Paul. Stand up on it.

  101. And Christian life is compared to a farmer who sows and who

  102. reaps. Everybody say sow and reap.

  103. So what is the kind of a what do you sow and what do you reap?

  104. There is a question. So here he says do not be

  105. deceived. God cannot be mocked.

  106. The word mocked. If you want to translate in a,

  107. in a, in a, in a different way, it will say turning up your

  108. nose. I don't know what exactly it

  109. means. I read it and try to understand

  110. it. I am not going to do this to

  111. God, but that is what he is saying.

  112. You don't turn up your nose against God.

  113. You don't mock God, whatever you sow, that is what you reap and

  114. God is looking at everything you do, your heart posture, he knows

  115. you are sitting down, you're getting up, He knows and that's

  116. why you don't play with God. And then he says the one who

  117. sows to please his sinful nature from that nature will reap

  118. destruction. The one who sows to please to

  119. the Spirit from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

  120. So what is he trying to say here is life is like a farm, life is

  121. like a agricultural land. So you sow and you reap.

  122. So these things he has already mentioned in chapter 5 he talked

  123. about OK, how do I know whether I am sowing the right seed or

  124. wrong seed? Do you get any doubt about it?

  125. Do you evaluate your life sometime and sit back and think

  126. with a cup of coffee in your hand, sit down and ask yourself

  127. am I sowing the right seed in my life?

  128. This is an important question everyone of us must answer

  129. honestly before God. You have to take time.

  130. So the best way that you can know whether you are sowing the

  131. right kind of a seed in your life is to see outcome of your

  132. life. The actions you do, the things

  133. that you do, they reflect what you are sowing into your life.

  134. So Chapter 5, he says the acts of sinful nature are obvious.

  135. What is obvious? Hidden?

  136. No, it stands out. Plain sight.

  137. You can see it. You do not do not have to think

  138. about. Does it mean this?

  139. You know, No, it is all very, very clear.

  140. So he says this is this is all very clear.

  141. Sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry,

  142. witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish

  143. ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and

  144. the like and the like. That means the list is unending.

  145. So if we indulge in any of these things, we know that we are

  146. sowing the wrong seed. If we sow the wrong seed, you

  147. are going to reap wrong stuff. So he says those who sow through

  148. the flesh will reap destruction. It is very, very plain.

  149. And you may say, OK, what is a good seed?

  150. But the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience,

  151. kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and

  152. self-control. Against such things there is no

  153. law. If we are doing those things,

  154. then you are sowing the right seed.

  155. Does your life show Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness,

  156. goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control?

  157. If you demonstrate these things, you are sowing the right seed in

  158. your life and that is going to end in a harvest of eternal

  159. life. Eternal life.

  160. So is there any guess work to do here after let us say another

  161. 5-10 years we die. Will I go to heaven?

  162. Will I end up in hell? I do not know anything like

  163. that. You decide now.

  164. Your life, your future is decided now and that is in your

  165. hands. Your future lies in your hand

  166. now. Do not your neighbor, give him a

  167. high 5. Say your future lies in your

  168. hand now. So Paul is not leaving anything

  169. for guesswork. No guesswork whether you are

  170. going to go to heaven, whether you're going to go to hell.

  171. You don't need to do any guesswork.

  172. Look at what you're doing and you will know where you're going

  173. to end up. It's as simple as that.

  174. So there were two farmers, you know, the one farmer says I want

  175. to cheat the land, the ground. So he went and bought some seed

  176. which is substandard. Some were rotten seed in it

  177. mixed with rotten seed. And he went and liberally

  178. sprinkled everywhere on the field.

  179. But that next his friend who was another farmer, he went and

  180. bought the good seed and he sold in his farm.

  181. Then after some time, the first farmer looks at the second one.

  182. Hey, why is your field looking better than my field?

  183. He's comparing and is jealous of the good thing that is happening

  184. in the other man's field and he said the land does not lie.

  185. You have sown rotten seed and gives you back the rotten

  186. output. You say I sowed the good seed,

  187. so now I am having the good crop coming up.

  188. So your life is like the land that will not lie.

  189. You cannot do wrong stuff and expect good thing to come out of

  190. your life. Just not possible.

  191. Sometimes we may see somebody flourishing, somebody who is

  192. wicked. He may flourish for a while.

  193. Maybe he will make some money, extra money.

  194. Maybe he will make $1,000,000, but a time comes when you will

  195. be exposed. Do you see in the press in

  196. America there is a one guy who has ruined hundreds of

  197. millionaires and people in power in politics.

  198. Its all being exposed now and some people are being arrested

  199. because of that, what they did with them.

  200. So you cannot hide it your our life.

  201. We may think nobody is watching. I am making sure nobody is

  202. watching me. I am doing these things and I am

  203. going to get away with it. No, we cannot get away with it.

  204. That is the reason why Paul says do not think that you can mock

  205. God. You cannot mock God.

  206. Whatever you sow, that is what you are going to reap.

  207. So the how do you, how do you sow?

  208. That's another question. OK, you, you know, you have to

  209. sow the good seed and but how do you do it?

  210. He talks about elsewhere in one Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 9.

  211. Remember this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap

  212. sparingly and whoever sows generously will also reap

  213. generously. So I wanted to experiment with

  214. beans. So I went to my hotel and got a

  215. packet of seeds and I said how many seeds in this packet may be

  216. 40 seeds, But I said I'm not going to use all of them, I'll

  217. use a dozen of them. So I planted the 12 of them and

  218. I think the ten of them have come out.

  219. So I'm watering it regularly and the cycle is in three months I

  220. will have beans is going to be pardon, I looked into all that

  221. beforehand. Before I put the seed, I did all

  222. the Googling and things. So in three months I'm going to

  223. have some beans. So that is what is going to give

  224. me courage to put more beans next time.

  225. So this is how in spiritual life also, you need to do it.

  226. You need to experiment. Somebody asked me for a big sum

  227. of money, something like 4000 New Zealand dollars.

  228. I need 4000 New Zealand dollars. I just laughed at him and he

  229. said why do you laugh? I didn't give any answer but I

  230. was thinking about should I really help this man or not.

  231. I said he didn't give me any reason.

  232. He didn't tell me why he needs the money.

  233. He simply said give me money. I said no, I am not giving the

  234. money I have given 3/4 times in the past to the tune of 4005

  235. thousand New Zealand dollars and I have not got them back.

  236. All are fine believers, very good believers.

  237. So now I am thinking should I sow here?

  238. I am little worried about it. But still this morning also I

  239. asked myself God should I really bother about losing money?

  240. Should I really help him? You tell me what you want me to

  241. do, I will do it. If I have to lose it, I will

  242. lose it, but I will do your will.

  243. See that it should be. That should be our attitude.

  244. You do not cling to money, you do not cling to what belongs to

  245. you. Do not say this is mine, this is

  246. very Western thinking. This is my money, my food, my

  247. breakfast, My lunch is Western thinking.

  248. Eastern people, they do not think like that.

  249. If I am opening my lunch and if you are sitting there, I push my

  250. box. Take some from here and I may

  251. not put my hand and take from somebody, but I will share what

  252. I have. That's the Eastern thinking.

  253. So when I was working in a factory, I there was a one guy

  254. by name Shannon. I said, Shannon, what did you

  255. bring for lunch? It looks very interesting.

  256. You think I can pinch a little bit of it to taste, He said.

  257. He pulled the food towards him and this is my lunch, he said.

  258. I laughed at that man. Then another day there was

  259. another guy who was from Cambodia and he looked at my

  260. food and said that is very interesting.

  261. I said have some and he ate some of it.

  262. It's very nice. He said why do you eat your food

  263. which is not tasty every day? That was not right for me to do

  264. that. But so sometimes we need to.

  265. This is all about attitude, how you sow, how you reap.

  266. First you change the mind how to think rightly and you will not

  267. be possessive about money, you will not be possible about your

  268. things. You will be open to share

  269. because when you share it is going to bring back fruit

  270. multiplied many times more. Sometimes you know it is just a

  271. cup of tea you offer to somebody, but it will transform

  272. somebodies life. There was a guy who was staying

  273. with me who said I want to quit study, I want to go home.

  274. I took him out offered him a cup of tea and told him see you have

  275. worked hard for three years, put some more work I will help you.

  276. I sent him to a couple of people to get extra coaching and he

  277. finished the course and I not not seen him for next 20 plus

  278. years. But then he passed that exam and

  279. he went and found a job, got married, has children, and he

  280. contacted me after 20 and I said, you remember how you took

  281. me out and offered me a cup of tea?

  282. That changed my life. So do whatever you do, do as

  283. unto the Lord, don't look at, oh, I want to help so and so A

  284. or B or C what you do, do unto the Lord and it will never go

  285. waste. Never go waste what you sow in

  286. the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

  287. And whatever help you give, even a cup of water, it will not go

  288. waste. That's his promise.

  289. He himself told it next. How do you do it?

  290. You have to do it patiently, consistently.

  291. Everybody say patiently and consistently.

  292. The reward comes in its season because sometimes it is just not

  293. going to happen quickly. How many of us know?

  294. I didn't know until yesterday. When you want to sow bamboo, how

  295. long does it take for it to sprout?

  296. Pardon. Yeah, it takes one year is a

  297. better answer than no answer Nearly takes three years for it

  298. to sprout. You pour water.

  299. You are pouring water and pouring water and pouring water.

  300. Nothing is seen. The guy who is next to you will

  301. say, hey, what are you doing? Since three years you're pouring

  302. water, nothing is happening. And he in this three years he

  303. must have ripped 6 or 8 crops the other guy, but when it

  304. started sprouting after three years, bang, it starts growing.

  305. And how much does it grow? 91 centimetres a day, that's a

  306. lot. It's about four or five inches

  307. everyone hour and then shoots up.

  308. It grows the maximum height in 60 or 70 days.

  309. It doesn't grow after that, but doesn't become mature.

  310. It takes three to five years for the bamboo to mature, and then

  311. you cut it and use it. Christian life is more closer to

  312. sowing bamboo than sowing wheat. I'm not saying sowing wheat is

  313. wrong. I'm not going to sow bamboo.

  314. The point I'm trying to make is it requires patience and you

  315. have to do things consistently. You cannot give up on people.

  316. You cannot help the man. He did not benefit from it.

  317. I don't want to help him anymore.

  318. It is possible we can become negative after trying for a

  319. while, but what we have to do is do it consistently.

  320. That is, do it all the time until you see the result you

  321. want to see. Some relationships are like

  322. that. They take long, hard work.

  323. But we will see the fruit if we do it consistently with faith in

  324. the one who is going to change the situation.

  325. We had to have the faith in God who is going to change the

  326. situation. And then Paul talks about many

  327. other things, very short, short things.

  328. I want to conclude it with one major idea in verse 14 in verse

  329. 14 says May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus

  330. Christ through which the world has been crucified to me, I to

  331. the world. Sometimes we read and we think

  332. we understand it, but sometimes you have to read again and again

  333. until the light comes. So here, what is he trying to

  334. say? Here is Paul is saying, when I

  335. look at my my life, I look at myself crucified with Christ,

  336. that cross that Jesus went on, my life is put there and when

  337. the world is competing with me, the world wants to get into me.

  338. When the worldly disaster wanted to conquer me, I see at the same

  339. cross and see the world is on. The cross is crucified to me.

  340. Am I communicating here? The same cross, the same cross

  341. you are crucified to the world and the same cross the world is

  342. crucified to you. Basically it simply means the

  343. world has no power over you and me.

  344. Lust of the flesh, lust of eyes, pride of life has no power over

  345. us because it is dealt with the on the cross already.

  346. It is nothing new he's writing. He already talked about in

  347. Galatians 220 where he says I don't live any longer, but I

  348. live not, not I which Christ Jesus who lives in me and reigns

  349. in me. That means his contribution, he

  350. says, is 0. I am a zero.

  351. I want Christ to live in me, through me.

  352. I desire things because Christ wants to desire.

  353. I do things because Christ wants to do those things.

  354. I say things because Christ wants to say those things.

  355. And Jesus himself modeled it. And he said the words I speak

  356. are not my words, they are my Father's words.

  357. The things that I do, I do because I see my Father doing.

  358. That is the pattern for each Christian to live.

  359. And he says because of his preaching the gospel, people are

  360. persecuting him and they're trying to distort his ministry.

  361. He they wanted to take away people back to the Jewish way of

  362. lifestyle, circumcision and all kinds of things.

  363. And he was fighting it tooth and nail.

  364. And then he says because of the persecutions that were coming

  365. against him, he says, don't persecute me anymore.

  366. Now the circumcision, he says, OK, where is it?

  367. Oh yeah, in verse 12, those who want to make a good impression

  368. outwardly are trying to compel it to be circumcised.

  369. The only reason they do is to avoid being persecuted for the

  370. cross of Christ. Oh, not that I bear the marks of

  371. Christ, he says. Can somebody help me quickly?

  372. Oh yeah, verse 17 I didn't highlight it.

  373. That's why finally let no one Causeway me trouble, for I bear

  374. on my body the marks of Jesus. Everybody say mark, you know

  375. this marking is nothing new. You see in the book of Exodus,

  376. they mark their houses with the blood of Passover lamp.

  377. They put the blood on top, on the on the sides.

  378. When the Angel of death passed through and saw the blood, no

  379. one died in that house because they put the blood on it.

  380. So it is something that you do. You have to believe that

  381. instruction, put that blood and the Angel of death passes over

  382. it. It's very simple.

  383. And you see again in the book of Ezekiel, God gives him the in

  384. the in the vision he is telling 1 Angel to go and destroy the

  385. people, punish them. And he says beginning from the

  386. House of God, judgment begins where House of God the church

  387. will be. The beginning of judgment begins

  388. with the church. But he said don't do it until

  389. there is another Angel who is going around putting a mark on

  390. their forests of the people. And if you see the mark, don't

  391. touch them, do not touch them. You know what is the mark that

  392. is talked about? The mark talked about is in the

  393. book of physically he says put Tau.

  394. Tau is the last alphabet of Hebrew alphabet Tau.

  395. And how does it look like a cross?

  396. In our logo we have a cross which is like a wood fire

  397. burning wood is basically stands for the Tau.

  398. Just you know, Omega logo Tau. So Tau is like a cross.

  399. So the Angel puts Tau on the forehead so that the destroying

  400. Angel will not touch those people who are marked in the New

  401. Testament. You see, when you believe in

  402. Jesus Christ, you are marked by the Holy Spirit which come comes

  403. into your life. How are you marked now with Holy

  404. Spirit? So that mark on your forehead is

  405. symbolic of the mark of the Holy Spirit that's in your heart.

  406. If you have the Holy Spirit, you are saved.

  407. You don't have the Holy Spirit, you are not saved.

  408. There is no two ways of talking about it.

  409. You need everybody who believes in Jesus will receive the Holy

  410. Spirit. And if there is no symptom of

  411. the Holy Spirit living in you, we had to question whether you

  412. really repented and believed and received Jesus.

  413. If the Holy Spirit is there, you will not sow in the wrong place.

  414. You will not do the wrong stuff. And then in the Book of

  415. Revelation you see again the mark being put on the forests of

  416. people, and the devil does the same thing.

  417. Devil also puts the mark on the people's forehead or on the

  418. hand. And you see in the Book of

  419. Revelation that Angel was given instruction.

  420. If you see the mark of the beast on their forests or on their

  421. hand, they will be thrown into the lake of fire.

  422. But if you have the mark of God, the bread of Jesus upon your for

  423. it, and if His name is written upon your for it, the name of

  424. His Father, there is Father of Father of Jesus Christ, there is

  425. the Father God. His name will be written, and

  426. the name of Jesus will be written on your forehead.

  427. And when the Angel of destruction comes, the judgment

  428. comes, He looks at the name of the Father and the Son on your

  429. forehead, and you are spared from being thrown into the lake

  430. of fire. There are only two kinds of

  431. marks in the world. You will be marked by God or by

  432. Satan. You will be marked either by God

  433. or by Satan. You are marked by God.

  434. You have eternal life. You will go to heaven.

  435. You will reign with Christ, you will live in his Kingdom.

  436. If you are marked by Satan, you will be thrown into the lake of

  437. fire. But what is Paul saying is I

  438. have marks on my body for suffering for Jesus, for

  439. suffering for Jesus. He gives a big list of all the

  440. suffering he has gone through. I think in Second Corinthians

  441. somewhere he writes a long list of what he has gone through.

  442. Shipwreck and being beaten 3 * 39 lashes.

  443. And once he was considered dead, they thought he's dead and they

  444. left his body and go away. And the disciples gathered

  445. around him. And when they gather around him

  446. with this man sits up and he goes to the next town to preach

  447. the gospel next day. That is that passage has always

  448. puzzled me where he they stoned him, they dragged his body, they

  449. dragged his bodies. You, you, you stone him inside

  450. the city and they don't want him to die in the city.

  451. Why? If the he dies in the city, they

  452. are these Jewish people think that they are going to be cursed

  453. because of the death of this man.

  454. So they don't want him to die in the city.

  455. They don't want the curse that comes by the death.

  456. So they drag his body. I'm sure his legs would have

  457. been worn out, some flesh gone out and he's dumped outside.

  458. The guys must have come and put hand near his nose.

  459. Look at his chest, is it going up and down?

  460. No, I think he's dead 100%. Put the hand near the nose.

  461. Any breath, no breath, I think he's dead.

  462. So they leave the body and walk away, and the disciples come

  463. around, stand around him, and he gets up.

  464. You know, what is the desire of Paul?

  465. Paul says that I may know Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that I may

  466. know his suffering, that I may partake in his suffering, that I

  467. may rise up with him as he rose up from the dead.

  468. I may partake in the resurrection of Jesus.

  469. Did he experience it on that day?

  470. I believe he did. He came back from, they killed

  471. him in one second. He stood up on the same place,

  472. and next day he walked to another city to preach the

  473. gospel. Again.

  474. He carries the marks. I'm telling you, we have the

  475. mark of being born again. I believe in Jesus.

  476. I confess my sin. God puts the mark.

  477. I have a seat reserved in heaven.

  478. Angels of God will come and take me in a special flight when I

  479. die. That's not the point.

  480. The point is when you are sold out to God, you are willing to

  481. bear the marks on your body for Christ, suffering for Christ,

  482. suffering for the gospel. And I tell you, this is going to

  483. come more in these end times. We already have stepped into the

  484. end times. We are in the end times.

  485. Christ is coming back very soon, but my, my, all that I am trying

  486. to say is what are we sowing and where are we sowing and what are

  487. we going to reap? This question we need to decide

  488. today. If you decide today the answer

  489. to that question, you will not be the same.

  490. You will not be the same. What are you sowing?

  491. Where are you sowing? What are you going to reap?

  492. Have you been marked by the Holy Spirit?

  493. Have been marked by God? I am not using the word mocked.

  494. It is marked, marked by God because if you are marked by

  495. God, you will have a place in heaven, in his Kingdom.

  496. You are going to reign with Christ.

  497. It always puzzles me, if everybody is going to reign, who

  498. are they going to reign over? I have no answer to that

  499. question. But we all will reign with

  500. Christ. It all begins with faith.

  501. I'm telling you guys, there's no other way we can ever know it.

  502. In my own life, I just don't know why I believe in Jesus.

  503. I was an idolator, going to temples, going around and

  504. worshipping temples. But I heard about Jesus Christ,

  505. I said this makes sense to me and I wanted to believe in

  506. Jesus. And people came and asked me,

  507. what do you not find in our books, in the Hindu books that

  508. you want to believe in Jesus and believe in the Bible?

  509. I didn't have an answer at that time.

  510. It took me years to have an answer to that question.

  511. But I believed against all challenges.

  512. People look down on me sometimes if they, if I eat in a plate in

  513. their house, they will put that plate away because it is defiled

  514. by a Christian eating in the plate.

  515. And if they gave me water, they would give me a different cup.

  516. I have gone through it, but I'm glad I've gone through it.

  517. But I thank the Holy Spirit who has given me the ability not to

  518. look at the insult, not to look at being put down, but to keep

  519. believing in Jesus. And in his right time, He

  520. visited me, He gave me he, he made me hear his voice, He spoke

  521. to me, He spoke to me. But that is later.

  522. First you believe and then comes the proof.

  523. It's never the other way around. You don't go to God and

  524. challenge him and say, hey, are you there?

  525. I want you to appear here in front of me.

  526. Now he's not going to do it. Whole of the book of the Bible,

  527. it never tries to prove God. It assumes God exists and the

  528. only way you can know him is believing that he exists.

  529. He exists and he is the unmoved mover.

  530. He is the beginning without being created.

  531. He doesn't belong to this category at all.

  532. People ask the question, oh who? Who created God?

  533. God doesn't need to be created because he is not a thing.

  534. He is a different class. He is a spirit, eternal spirit

  535. who has neither beginning or end.

  536. There are two different words. Yesterday I was thinking about

  537. it. One is the word eternal and the

  538. other word is eternity. We will live into eternity means

  539. we have a beginning but no ending.

  540. But God is eternal, He neither has beginning nor ending.

  541. Are we together? So for us to have eternal life,

  542. we have a beginning, but God has no beginning, He is eternal, He

  543. has no beginning, no ending. That one big straight line.

  544. The creation has a beginning and creation of that ending.

  545. This earth will disappear, it will be recreated, it will be

  546. made new, and the new heavenly Jerusalem is going to come down

  547. from heaven, and we belong to that heavenly Jerusalem.

  548. That's what book Our Revelation talks about.

  549. So this world is the passage through which you go through to

  550. enter into that heavenly Jerusalem.

  551. He says this is not where you are going to get stuck up.

  552. You are going to end up in a different world created by God,

  553. by his power. But the way to that place is

  554. faith. Where to the eternal life is

  555. faith. Now and forever Shall we pray?

  556. Father God, we thank you again. You are the eternal one.

  557. No beginning, no ending. But we thank you for making us

  558. with a beginning and a no ending.

  559. This resurrection. What we sow now is going to what

  560. we are going to reap is what we sow.

  561. And those people who sow into wickedness will reap judgment

  562. and destruction, and we are all going to be raised with a

  563. heavenly body. Those who are going to be saved

  564. and reigned with Christ, and those who are going to go to

  565. eternal Hellfire, both will be raised with the supernatural

  566. body. But one will be in bliss, but

  567. other one will be in torment. So in the name of Jesus, we

  568. thank you for all the things that you're teaching us.

  569. We thank you for you have ordained everything, and thank

  570. you for the grace that you marked us with that mark on our

  571. forehead. You put that mark of cross upon

  572. our forehead, and you have put the bread of us and Jesus upon

  573. us, and you have put the Holy Spirit in us to mark us as

  574. belonging to you. We praise you with all our heart

  575. because of all that you have done for us.

  576. We cannot do any other things you have done.

  577. We receive it by faith as a gift from your hand.

  578. We love you Jesus, we love your Father, we love you Holy Spirit.

  579. And now I pray for some people here of my father who are yet to

  580. make a decision. In the name of Jesus, I bind the

  581. power of state and upon the lives of people who are yet to

  582. be marked by the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus I pray.

  583. Now, Oh my God, I pray may angels be released to minister

  584. to the people and remove what they should be removed, plant

  585. what they should be planted and write it upon their forests.

  586. That mark you put it now in Jesus mighty name I am calling

  587. upon you. I am asking you, do you visit

  588. us? Touch us and those who believe

  589. in you. I pray, Father, that they may

  590. know that they're sowing into the right field, the right seed,

  591. and let them do it generously and let them do consistently

  592. with patience because the crop is coming, because the reward is

  593. coming. And you do not fail.

  594. And we praise you. You are a God who rewards

  595. faithfulness. You are a God who rewards faith.

  596. You are a God who rewards. Oh my God, we worship, we honor

  597. you. Bless every child here who has

  598. committed their life to you and are sowing by faith.

  599. May the reap also by faith to the glory of your name.

  600. Thank you again for speaking to us in Jesus mighty name.

  601. We have asked. And everybody says Amen, Amen.

  602. Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing

  603. or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to

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