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Is God your daddy Galatians 4 8-20

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  9. Oh yeah, this week it was very, very tough.

  10. You know some scriptures they so difficult to get out of it

  11. something you know, it was very, very tough study but I had to do

  12. but it was bit, it was bit struggle for me to understand

  13. some things there. But we will limit ours to few

  14. verses because we also have communion.

  15. So we need some time for that as well.

  16. So we will see how it goes. So what he was trying to do in

  17. in chapter 4 last week we started one to seven,

  18. particularly in verse 6, he says because you are sons, God sent

  19. the Spirit of his Son into our hearts.

  20. Now this is the mark of every Christian.

  21. You are sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.

  22. If if anybody says I don't have the Holy Spirit, then you are

  23. not a Christian. Anybody want to say I don't have

  24. Holy Spirit? Because that is the mark.

  25. The moment you say Jesus come into my heart, Holy Spirit comes

  26. not one second later, not one second later.

  27. So the same moment do you say Jesus come into my heart,

  28. forgive my sin. I believe you died for me.

  29. Bang, Holy Spirit. And he in fact comes in even

  30. before that, because you cannot say it without his help.

  31. It is he who helps you to see that Jesus is your Saviour.

  32. So now when this Holy Spirit comes into you, what happens is

  33. the Spirit who calls out ABBA, Father.

  34. Now ABBA is the Aramaic word for daddy.

  35. It is such a a condescending word.

  36. It is something you know, sometimes we think of God as

  37. very highly in terms of holy, sovereign, transcendent, you

  38. know, all big words we use and sometimes in all using the big

  39. words we missed to connect with this big God.

  40. But when you call him Daddy, it is so easy to connect with him.

  41. It is very easy. And sometimes, you know, it is

  42. just depending on our background.

  43. You know, we so many times I am praying for people for

  44. deliverance and things like that.

  45. And many times I mentioned about fathers who who have not been

  46. really good fathers to them. So it becomes a big struggle to

  47. connect with the Father God as Father.

  48. It becomes a bit difficult. But I tell you, even I

  49. personally have gone through the struggle.

  50. I had a father, but I don't remember I played with him.

  51. I don't remember he sat with me or gave me any lessons that I

  52. need to learn in the school I was I was bright, so I didn't

  53. need much lessons. I was learning by myself.

  54. But it is difficult. Why am I saying is when I

  55. thought about God as a father, I had a little bit of struggle.

  56. But I tell you there is no other word that can describe God

  57. better than Daddy. There is no other word that can

  58. make you feel the intimacy with the Father.

  59. That word is the essence of it and you do not have it in Islam,

  60. you do not have it in Hinduism, you do not have it in Buddhism,

  61. you do not have any any ISM. God the Father is.

  62. The biggest revelation that Jesus did was to call God the

  63. Father. Even the Jewish people were

  64. stunned because for him God is too far.

  65. And when he said ABBA, I know you hear me always.

  66. Powerful words, powerful words. He stood before Lazarus tomb and

  67. he said, ABBA, I know, hear me always.

  68. And he says, Lazarus, come out. Do we know this ABBA?

  69. Do we know this ABBA? Oh, my heart is being stirred,

  70. stirred inside, because this God is our ABBA.

  71. He is our Daddy, the one who can stand in front of a tomb and

  72. call out the man to come out. Because that ABBA is living

  73. ABBA. He is God.

  74. And when you know him, you are no longer a slave.

  75. You are no longer a slave, because a slave is not free at

  76. all. He is not free at all.

  77. But you are a son. You are a daughter.

  78. I would say even women should call them the sons because there

  79. is no male and female in the Kingdom of God.

  80. You are all sons of God. And when you know son, that you

  81. are a son, then you feel the power go through you.

  82. You don't feel like less than nothing.

  83. Sometimes problems come, sometimes issues come

  84. emotionally we are disturbed and they will attacks you.

  85. But deep down in your heart you know you are a son and that

  86. makes all the difference. That makes all the difference.

  87. So we need to know him as ABBA and we have the Holy Spirit

  88. dwelling in US and because of the Holy Spirit we can call him

  89. ABBA. Daddy, Oh, I love you so much.

  90. You know, sometimes we have a little Matthias come around

  91. playing around and suddenly he'll come and say I love you.

  92. I said no, I didn't say anything to you, but you say to me you

  93. love me. I am so much impressed with

  94. that. I love you too, Matthias.

  95. He goes around in the evening before going to bed, he comes

  96. and says good night. It's a, it's a very, very

  97. important ritual. We don't take phone calls.

  98. If we have one, we will say, Please wait for one minute and

  99. then go and finish it because we love that moment where we can

  100. say to the little one, we love you and he gives us a hug.

  101. He gives us a high 5 and sometimes he will say, give you

  102. a kiss. I said that's a big bonus.

  103. So it is the same thing with God the Father.

  104. When you know Him as ABBA, you can run into His presence

  105. without fear, without anything stopping you and without any

  106. hesitation and without any fear. You go to Him and you know that

  107. He is going to hear what you are going to say to Him.

  108. No, that's the relationship. Once you have the relationship,

  109. devil cannot touch you, you. He cannot touch you.

  110. He can try, but he cannot touch you.

  111. If you are a son, you are an heir.

  112. Ha, it is amazing how many of us we do not know.

  113. We are heirs of God, coheirs with Christ.

  114. Elsewhere Paul talks about it. He says we are coheirs with

  115. Christ. That means whatever is available

  116. to Jesus Christ is available to you.

  117. Whatever God is. The Father looks at the Son and

  118. says you are my son. With you.

  119. I am well pleased and I tell you he is saying the same thing to

  120. you. I am well.

  121. You are well pleased. I am well pleased with you.

  122. You are an heir. You have authority, you have the

  123. authority. You know we are going to partake

  124. in the communion and I actually wanted to.

  125. I was in two months last night. In the last minute I wanted to

  126. change my message and speech on the communion, but I will

  127. briefly share it now so I do not have to repeat myself for the

  128. communion in the Garden of Eden. What happened?

  129. They ate the fruit. They are told not to eat from

  130. the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

  131. You will not eat. If you eat it, you are going to

  132. die and certain company says you will not die.

  133. He just contradicts the word of God.

  134. Fast forward the story, she ate the fruit and Adam knew about it

  135. and Adam had to think a lot. Should he eat or not eat?

  136. I am telling you it was not a quick decision for Adam.

  137. It was not a quick decision and God was delaying waiting to see

  138. what Adam is going to do. And Adam was torn because she

  139. has sinned against God and if he does not eat it, he cannot have

  140. fellowship with her. He cannot be one with her

  141. because sin and holiness cannot well together.

  142. So it was a long thought after decision and the moment Adam

  143. ate, the sin was complete and they knew they were naked when

  144. he wait, did she feel I am naked?

  145. Oh, let me run after run away from run away from Adam.

  146. She didn't feel it after Adam ate.

  147. Because they have one spirit, they have one flesh.

  148. When he ate the fruit, the sin was complete and both of them

  149. felt ashamed and had to cover with the leaves.

  150. And what did God do? Later on in the story He says

  151. now we have the tree of life. If we don't do something about

  152. it, they will eat from the tree of life and sinful men will live

  153. forever. It is judgment in a in a way God

  154. is in mercy said let's not allow them to eat.

  155. So he puts a kerub there, a flaming sword, so they cannot

  156. reach out and eat from the tree of life.

  157. Is it a is it a forbidding? It is is it because God wanted

  158. to forbid them from eating that from the tree of life?

  159. It is an act of mercy is an act of mercy.

  160. He didn't want them to live forever in that condition.

  161. He didn't want them to live in sin forever and ever.

  162. So a provision had to be made, and that provision is Jesus

  163. Christ. Jesus Christ is actually the

  164. tree of life, and I will tell you why.

  165. When people crucified Jesus, they had done two big sins.

  166. Number one, they committed murder.

  167. An innocent man, a sinless man was crucified on the cross.

  168. And secondly, the the powerful blood, innocent blood was shed

  169. on the cross so that we can be forgiven of our sins.

  170. In that act of treachery, in that act of murder basically

  171. comes lifeout of it comes lifeout of it.

  172. So anybody who believes in this Jesus may receive for Eden's of

  173. sins and may be forgiven and accepted as a son and a daughter

  174. so that you can enjoy the benefits of communion with the

  175. Father, which has been cut off because of sin.

  176. So now after Noah's flood and things like that, what did what

  177. did God said to him? Do not eat the blood, because

  178. life is life of an animal is in the blood.

  179. So don't eat the blood. Now when we are having

  180. communion, what are we doing? We are eating the flesh of the

  181. Son of God and we are drinking the blood of Jesus Christ.

  182. Is it allowed to kill a man and also eat his body?

  183. Can you drink the blood? You are contravening all these

  184. Old Testament commandments. You are breaking it when we

  185. partake in the communion. Why did God forbid to allow it

  186. later? So that He when you partake in

  187. the blood, you are partaking in the life of the Son of God, and

  188. He, that tree of life in the Garden of Eden which was

  189. forbidden for Adam and you to reach out and eat.

  190. He is the tree of life now He came and became available to us,

  191. and He allowed sinful men to handle Him and crucify Him on

  192. the cross so that we can partake in His flesh and drink His blood

  193. and have life. And when He is giving you

  194. opportunity to say come partake in my body and my blood is not

  195. really we are talking about the flesh, we are not talking about

  196. real blood. Jesus himself says in John

    John 6 chapter mention

  197. chapter 6, my words are life and spirit.

  198. Everybody say life and spirit. When you believe in Jesus you

  199. receive life and spirit. When you partake in the body and

  200. the blood of flesh, you receive life and spirit.

  201. That invitation is to partake in the nature of God.

  202. Highest invitation you can ever get is to partake in the nature

  203. of God. Children, come, I want you to

  204. become like me. I am holy, be holy as I am holy.

  205. Does it make sense? So when you partake today, you

  206. are partaking in the life and spirit.

  207. That is why when you partake in the communion, your sickness

  208. will go, when you do it by faith, because you are partaking

  209. in the life of the Son of God. That problem that is challenging

  210. you has to disappear, be defeated, because you are

  211. partaking in the life of God. That challenging situation has

  212. to change, must yield, give way to you because you are partaking

  213. in the life of God. I want you to partake in it with

  214. that kind of reverence because you are not eating a piece of

  215. bread, bringing a little bit of juice, but you are partaking the

  216. life of God. And when you do it reverently,

  217. you will receive every blessing that is attached to partaking

  218. the body and the blood. Can I hear a Amen?

  219. So that was a detour. Let's go back to our scripture.

  220. So now in chapter AI mean verse 8, chapter 4, verse 8, basically

  221. 8 to 11, he's talking about something like this formerly.

  222. That means before when you did not know God, you were slaves to

  223. those who by nature are not gods.

  224. Basically, what is he referring to?

  225. He was referring to the idolatry the Galatian people were

  226. indulging in before they believed in Jesus.

  227. They were idolaters, they worshipped idols and elsewhere

  228. we see umm, I think it is on the drive, there are couple of

  229. slides. So basically the water idols,

  230. they are nothing, just piece of metal, piece of wood.

  231. But most of the time what happens behind them is there is

  232. a demon. So when you sacrifice your

  233. idols, you are sacrificing to demons.

  234. That is written in the book of Deuteronomy.

  235. We will have a verse. The reference will come up soon.

  236. When it comes you will read. So we when people are offering

  237. sacrifices to idols, they are sacrificing to demons.

  238. That is why offering idolatry is not right, idolatry is not right

  239. and idolatry is to distract people from appreciating the

  240. real sacrifice that is Jesus himself.

  241. Some places on the earth are so horrible you may even warm it

  242. when you go to that place. In India there is a temple in

  243. Calcutta and every second there is an animal cut there and

  244. people when they have to go into the temple they will have to

  245. walk through knee deep blood. And some people when who are

  246. demonized by the same and they come near the temple, they will

  247. be manifesting because the demons are stirred up by the

  248. presence of the temple. So do not think idols are

  249. nothing and particularly those who people who go on holidays

  250. and you know it is a big craze to go on holiday.

  251. See the world, I am going to this country, I am going to that

  252. country. There is nothing wrong in it.

  253. You go to the places, but do not go to the temples.

  254. Even if you walk through that area, sometimes the Spirit may

  255. follow you without your knowledge.

  256. They do not come by invitation. They just jump on you because

  257. you are in the presence. In their presence.

  258. Somebody we prayed for in in America, when we were praying, I

  259. said there is a presence of this demon there, but how are you

  260. connected to this demon? Back into Mother's?

  261. Mother never lived in that place but she is from a village place

  262. and there was a temple next to her house.

  263. So because children go to visit the grandparents house, they are

  264. in the presence of the temple there next door and the Spirit

  265. has followed her from there. I said in the name of Jesus come

  266. out and she was manifesting and it left, left the person.

  267. So what I'm trying to communicate here is Paul knows

  268. these things. He says idols are nothing, but

  269. he also knows that there is a demon behind every idol.

  270. So when they offer sacrifices, they are offering it to the

  271. demons, not just to the idol. And particularly, you know,

  272. India and Thailand and Cambodia and many other places full of

  273. temples and idolatry. And many things go, many things

  274. happen. One thing they do when they

  275. build the temple is to put an idol there in it.

  276. And after they put the idol before they, they have a

  277. ceremony where they say we pour life into the idol.

  278. Until then it's only a stone or a metal.

  279. So they chant things anointed with maybe milk or yogurt and

  280. things like that and then invite the spirits to come into the

  281. tent into that idol. The word they use in India is

  282. pranapatista. That means pouring life into it.

  283. Until then it is just an idol, just an image.

  284. But after that thing, demons coming.

  285. That is why idolatry is not right because they will comes

  286. behind it. So all that I know, I have told

  287. you there will be more behind it, but all that I know I had

  288. told you. So we need to be careful when we

  289. walk into when you go on holidays, be cable, do not walk

  290. into those places just like that.

  291. I went to Amritsar in India and there the Golden Temple is very

  292. famous. So when we came nearer to that,

  293. I said can anybody go and visit the Golden Temple?

  294. They said you have to walk barefoot.

  295. I said I am not interested in it.

  296. I don't want to be barefoot and I don't want to visit that

  297. place. I am not interested with

  298. anything, whether it is gold or even made of diamonds.

  299. It doesn't. I don't care for it.

  300. It's got no value for me. So this is how a Christian has

  301. to train his mind not to align with the culture and things that

  302. are around you. Because when you give some room

  303. that they will jumps on you. Enough about that, let's go, go

  304. on. But now.

  305. But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is

  306. that you are turning back to those weak and miserable

  307. principles? What are the Galatians 4

  308. Deuteronomy 3217? They sacrificed to demons, not

  309. to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods,

  310. which your father's did not fear is from Deuteronomy 32 verse 17.

    Deuteronomy 32:17

  311. So that is how it is. And I think this verse 4,

  312. chapter 4, verse eight in Galatians is more clearly

  313. explained in the What version is that amplified?

  314. But at that time, when you did not know the true God and were

  315. unacquainted with Him, you Gentiles were slaves to those

  316. Pagan things which by their very nature were not or could not be

  317. gods at all. So the whole world, 8060 to 80%

  318. of people are caught by idolatry.

  319. It is just surprising to me. You, you can, you can make a

  320. rocket and land on the Mars, but it does not make you stop you

  321. from Bovington idol. Most of the scientists, they

  322. bought some idol, and in fact, they even do some kind of a

  323. ceremony to the gods in the science labs because they think

  324. they receive all this wisdom, ability to do things from those

  325. dumb idols. They have eyes to see, they

  326. cannot see. They have ears, but they cannot

  327. hear. They have mouth, but they cannot

  328. speak. Their hands but they cannot help

  329. their feet, but they cannot walk.

  330. That is how Isaiah talks about it.

  331. That is how Samish talks about it.

  332. Idols are dumb. They are nothing but people.

  333. Bow down to them because what makes them bow down to the idol

  334. is not the piece of metal or wood, but the demon that's

  335. behind it. It makes them to bow down to it.

  336. Highly educated people bow down to idols.

  337. It is. I am very surprised in my

  338. younger age I did too. I didn't know it, but when I

  339. heard the gospel I said OK, this is better.

  340. And I believed in Jesus. So that is how we we go into the

  341. subject Now, how is it that you're turning back to those

  342. weak and miserable principles? What is he talking about, him

  343. weak and miserable principles. He's talking about whole Jewish

  344. system. He is talking about the whole

  345. Jewish system and he talks about what else do you wish to be

  346. ensured by them all over again? He says what they were doing.

  347. You are observing special days and months and seasons and

  348. years. What is he talking about?

  349. Special month is a new new moon day in a month you get once one

  350. once you get a new moon and new moon they have sacrificed to

  351. offer according to the book of Leviticus.

  352. So they were observing those things.

  353. And then you have got different festivals, you have festival of

  354. the booths and then you have got Passover and all these things.

  355. But now what? Jesus, What Paul is saying is

  356. Jesus is our Passover lamb. He writes to the Corinthians.

  357. Jesus is our Passover lamb. Because you believe in Jesus,

  358. you are not born by the Jewish system anymore.

  359. I do not find fault with the Jewish believers.

  360. They sometimes, you know, they want to be accepted by his

  361. relatives. They want their children to be

  362. married. If they say they have become

  363. Christians, they may not find brides and bridegrooms.

  364. So they want to be on the middle, somewhere on the wall.

  365. Sunday, step into the church, back again on the wall.

  366. Another Jewish man meets this side.

  367. Is that gospel? You have to be unequally equally

  368. devoted to Jesus. He is your Lord, He is your

  369. King. And any kind of a sacrifice we

  370. have to make for it. We have to make it.

  371. And we should not be going that side.

  372. They should come this side. Couple of times I had an

  373. opportunity to pay for people who are not Jewish people.

  374. They are non Jewish, but they adopt all those things.

  375. They want to do Passover, they want to do Festival of

  376. Tabernacles, they want to do festival lights descend that.

  377. And I tell you when you go back, sometimes a demon can come

  378. because it's nothing to do with you.

  379. You are not born into it. You are not born into it.

  380. We had to cast out a spirit. So we need to be very careful.

  381. Don't mix the gospel, don't dilute it, don't adulterate it.

  382. Don't mix. You know in India we we have a

  383. big trade nowadays. It is now gone down much.

  384. But in my younger days when you want to buy milk from any, any

  385. person who is selling you milk, he will adulterate his water.

  386. And you say hey, what is this? You are mixing water it for that

  387. price. You cannot get anything better

  388. than that because they want to sell you cheap as well.

  389. You don't need to add any more water straight.

  390. You put tea powder and you have tea.

  391. If you dispute milk, you'll have to mix little bit of water in

  392. it. You know, half and half, but you

  393. don't need because they already have mixed water in it.

  394. So, so that kind of adulteration, we don't do this

  395. business of adulteration with the gospel.

  396. We need to have the pure gospel, Jesus and Jesus alone and

  397. nothing else, none besides him. He is King, He is Lord, He is

  398. Savior, He is a Redeemer, He is a bondage breaker, He is a

  399. healer, He is God. That is how you you need to

  400. adopt. So what Paul was concerned is

  401. you get a glimpse of the heart of Paul when you read it here.

  402. And he says, I fear for you that somehow I have wasted my efforts

  403. on you. You guys were pagans worshipping

  404. idols, but I came along because of infirmity, because of a

  405. problem, health problem. I came along and I have preached

  406. the gospel to you. That's what he writes in the was

  407. 12 onwards. I pray with you, brothers,

  408. become like me. If I became like you, you've

  409. done me no wrong. As you know, it was because of

  410. an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

  411. He was traveling by land with different places.

  412. He didn't have a plan to go to Galatia, Galatian places and he

  413. didn't have a plan to preach the gospel there.

  414. He wanted to pass by that places probably and then he had a

  415. problem. People think it could be an eye

  416. inflammation or something because he talks about it.

  417. If it were possible, you were on your own eyes and given it to

  418. me. You treated me like an Angel or

  419. like a God himself, like Jesus Christ himself.

  420. So there was so much of emotion built between Paul and the

  421. people of Galatia and they were. Now he says, have I wasted my

  422. time on you? Have I wasted my efforts upon

  423. you? And I tell you, some deceased, a

  424. lot of many pastors, they travel for people, therefore go after

  425. them. They pray for them, they teach

  426. them and all kinds of things. And suddenly one day they say, I

  427. think enough, I want to go to and try in another church.

  428. They go away. I'm not saying you should not

  429. go. When you want to go, let me

  430. know. I will tell you, I will bless

  431. you and send you. That's not a problem for me.

  432. But this is what Pauls agony was.

  433. He said I have travelled much for you, I have took all the

  434. pains. He further again in another

  435. place he talks about I want to be in childbirth, pains of

  436. childbirth again for you. Who will do that?

  437. A mother goes through pain only once for a child and a child is

  438. born. Will she say I want to go

  439. through pains again to bring you out into the world?

  440. She doesn't. Its just once, but here because

  441. these people were deserting the gospel, turning away from

  442. Christ, he says, I want to be in childbirth pains again for you.

  443. I want to have the birth pangs again for you until Christ is

  444. formed in you. I long for you.

  445. I want to impart something to you.

  446. I want to change your life. You see, Galatians don't just

  447. quit. Hold on to the gospel, hold on

  448. to the gospel. Thank you, Lord, Father

  449. Hallelujah. So he says how have I wasted my

  450. efforts on you. In fact, he he even even in the

  451. beginning of the chapter. Also, I think it was Galatians

  452. 16. I'm astonished that you are so

  453. quickly deserting the one who called you.

  454. I'm so astonished. I'm surprised.

  455. How come you are leaving this Christ.

  456. I tell you so many times our walk with crashes like that, up

  457. and down, up and down. I have I shared the secret of

  458. how to walk victoriously before it is confessing the blood of

  459. Christ. If you are tired of committing

  460. sins, confess the blood of Christ every day.

  461. Put that blood on your spirit, soul and body and tell yourself

  462. I am not under any obligation to commit sin anymore.

  463. I am not under the mean of sin or Satan anymore.

  464. I've been set free and you will walk out free.

  465. It's very simple as that. So the Galatian churches, these

  466. people, they just were deserting the Christ.

  467. That's why he said, I plead with you, brothers.

  468. Now he is oscillating. You know, one time he's angry.

  469. I am perplexed. I am astonished how quickly a

  470. deserting Christ and now his brothers is now pouring out love

  471. again. This is the heart of a pastor,

  472. heart of a pastor. And he says, brothers become

  473. like me, for I became like you. What does it mean by that?

  474. He lived among them as if he doesn't have a law.

  475. But does he not have a law? He knows the Old Testament.

  476. It doesn't contradict it. It doesn't stop practicing it or

  477. fulfilling it. But he says, I became like you,

  478. now you become like me. Let's exchange our life.

  479. And for I became like you, You had done me no wrong.

  480. As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached

  481. the gospel to you. Even though my illness was a

  482. trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn.

  483. Instead, you welcomed me as if an Angel of God, as if I were

  484. Christ Jesus himself. Now what a reception these

  485. Galatians gave to Paul, probably because of the sickness.

  486. I don't know. He must have been looking

  487. different. He was whether people think it

  488. could be the eye problem, most probably they think it is an eye

  489. problem because in chapter 6 he says you know how I'm using my

  490. hand to with such big letters I'm using probably he did not

  491. appear aspects in those days. There are no respects were not

  492. invented at that time. So he must be having problem

  493. with seeing and he says I use my handwriting.

  494. I am writing with the big letters.

  495. Pardon me for that. And that could be because of an

  496. eye infection, that that's what commentators talk about it.

  497. But whatever it was, he was not completely what he said.

  498. He what is the word he used, contempt or scorn.

  499. You did not treat me with contempt or scorn.

  500. That means there was something about his physical appearance

  501. that could have easily made them to scorn at him and put him

  502. down. But they said no, no, no, no, we

  503. they treated him like an Angel of God, like Jesus himself.

  504. So there was a noble approach on the part of the Galatians.

  505. But now what is happening? What is happening now, though

  506. they loved Paul, they received the gospel with joy and they

  507. were converted and they had faith in him.

  508. All things are going good. But there was set of people who

  509. came and said, Hey you guys, Gentiles, unless you're

  510. circumcised, you will not be able to enjoy the full benefits

  511. of Christ's death. So they said I think that is a

  512. good idea. And he said that's not a good

  513. idea. The people who came to you are

  514. coming with a wrong motive. They are coming with a wrong

  515. motive. They have a zeal, but that zeal

  516. is not for your good, it's not for your good.

  517. So he says that those people are jealous to win you over, but for

  518. no good. What they want is to alienate

  519. you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.

  520. Is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be

  521. so always, and not just when I'm with you.

  522. So the zeal is important, but that should be for good, not for

  523. bad. And then he says, My dear

  524. children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until

  525. Christ is formed in you. Until Christ is formed in you.

  526. This is the passion of a pastors heart that is Saint Paul.

  527. Paul had a heart for these people that they should be

  528. formed into the likeness of Jesus Christ.

  529. Like a mother who carries a child for 9 long months and goes

  530. through a lot of pain to deliver and bring it into the world.

  531. He has put efforts and now he says I want to go through it all

  532. over again for you. There is no mother says that to

  533. any child. But here Paul says I want to do

  534. it all over again for you because you are going away from

  535. the gospel. I want you to become like

  536. Christ. So the more I thought about it,

  537. the more I felt challenged. Do I have that kind of a love

  538. for people? I need to have that kind of love

  539. for people. Sometimes I reach out to people,

  540. I reach out to those who are, who don't want to come to church

  541. and say would you like to consider?

  542. I want to pray for you and they don't reply.

  543. I can see on the WhatsApp, you know the blue tick.

  544. That means they have seen the message but no reply.

  545. It's OK, it's OK. I have to do my job as a pastor.

  546. I had to long for the people's welfare.

  547. I need to feel like Paul felt for Galatians.

  548. I need them to be. They should be confirmed to the

  549. image of Christ. I want them to.

  550. I want to pray for people so they can be set free from every

  551. spirit that is hindering them from walking for Christ.

  552. I want people to go free. I want to pray for deliverance

  553. for people. Why?

  554. Because that's my heart. That's my calling.

  555. That's my calling. And I tell you, I'm not trying

  556. to boast before you guys. This is not this.

  557. I get nothing by boasting about it.

  558. I stand before God with a clean conscience.

  559. I'm here to serve, not to be served.

  560. I am not here to make myself fat from what I receive from the

  561. church. No, that's not my purpose at

  562. all. I was thinking about should I

  563. say these words or not? I had the choice.

  564. But I want to tell you who I am because you should know who I

  565. am, otherwise you will not know who is this pastor?

  566. It is easy to shake hands when you enter the church.

  567. Easy to shake hands when you leave the church.

  568. God bless you. How was your holiday?

  569. How is the weather? Ah, beautiful sunshine.

  570. I want to do more than that. I want to do more than that.

  571. That's my commitment to you, to the church.

  572. I long for people who are not anywhere here.

  573. I pray for people in Australia, for those in US, those who are

  574. in India or elsewhere, anywhere. That's my heart.

  575. I want them to be set free, I want them to be healed.

  576. I want them to walk in Christ. I want them to be conformed to

  577. the image of Christ. I want the revival to come all

  578. over the world. I cannot say to somebody you're

  579. too far away, you are of no good to me, so I'm not going to pray

  580. for you. That's not my heart, that's not

  581. my heart. We are committed to pray for

  582. people. So he was very perplexed because

  583. they are deserting Christ. I think now we will stop there

  584. and let's prepare our hearts to partake in the communion.

  585. As I want to remind you again, the invitation is open to

  586. partake in the flesh of the Son of God and to drink the bread of

  587. Jesus. That invitation is to partake in

  588. the life of God Himself, the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit.

  589. You are partaking, not eating a piece of bread and bringing

  590. little bit of juice. You are partaking in the Father,

  591. Son and the Holy Spirit. And that is something beyond

  592. human imagination, because the people who are thrown out of the

  593. garden are allowed to go back to the tree, take from the tree of

  594. life and eat. And that is the invitation for

  595. you today. So we have got 2 tables, one on

  596. my left, one on the end of it. Feel free.

  597. Go grab the piece of bread and your juice and come back to your

  598. seat. And we will pray about.

  599. Let's give thanks. Father, we thank you for your

  600. Son Jesus, whom you sent into the world.

  601. And he came into the world and he suffered unjustly.

  602. A righteous man, a holy man, a man without sin, offered himself

  603. as a perfect sacrifice. It was killed for us.

  604. His body was bruised for us. He shed that powerful blood so

  605. that our sins will be covered. Atonement made for our sins.

  606. We praise you, Jesus. You are the Lamb of God who was

  607. slain for us. We worship you, we honor you.

  608. We thank you, Jesus, as you partake in your body and the

  609. blood. Help us to partake in your life

  610. and your Spirit who dwells in US.

  611. It is not something that's going to happen later.

  612. We already have him because of our faith.

  613. And as we, as you partake in your body and breath, we

  614. proclaim that you are our Lord, you are our King, you are our

  615. God, you are our Savior, and we give you glory, honor and

  616. praise. Thank you again for your love

  617. for us. Thank you for your body and your

  618. blood in Jesus mighty name, Amen.

  619. Let's partake together. Let's give thanks.

  620. We again thank you for the privilege you have given us as

  621. you partake in your life. I command every sickness, every

  622. pain to leave the bodies of your children in the name of Jesus.

  623. Healing we receive because we are parting in the body and the

  624. bread of Christ. A breakthrough we receive in any

  625. area of our struggle. We receive the breakthrough.

  626. We receive the breakthrough. We receive the breakthrough.

  627. We receive the breakthrough for the growth of the Church as

  628. well. Because you have done what needs

  629. to be done for the revival to come and we believe we receive

  630. the revival in our generation. The glory of your name.

  631. Thank you again for your body and the blood in Jesus mighty

  632. name. Everybody says Amen.

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

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

  635. our website or Facebook page in the links below.