Living like a slave or a son Galatians 4 vs 1-7

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If we host it rightly, it is going to really keep increasing.

Praise God S We are studying the book of Galatians.

We done with chapter 3 last week and we go into chapter 4 now,

but it is not something different.

It is actually a continuation of the end part of chapter 3 is

spilling over into chapter 4 as well.

So you see in chapter 3 verses, particularly 23 to 25, it talks

about life before coming into Christ, what we were before we

believe in Jesus. So it talks about before this

faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up

until faith should be revealed and other things he talks about.

We were basically slaves to sin, slaves to the law.

And then what happens to those who believe in Jesus was 26

onwards. You are all sons of God through

faith in Christ Jesus. You are sons of God through

faith in Jesus Christ. That is the new status, new

standing. So you are no longer a slave,

but a son. Tell your neighbor you are no

longer a slave, but you are a son.

That's amazing, isn't it? One of the things we need to do

is to tell yourself every day I am a child of God.

I am a son of God. I am a daughter of God.

We have to make that proclamation to yourself.

Why you are likely to forget when you go, when you hit the

next emotional button alarming you of something that's

happening in your life, you are going to say, oh, what am I

going to do? Fear comes.

Somebody says a bad word to you, somebody threatens you.

You know, some relationship is being upset.

Your employer was unhappy, your boss was unhappy.

That is the time you need to know that you are the Son of

God, a daughter of God. It's very important.

We have to keep saying it to ourselves every day.

So you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

So baptized into Christ you will close with Christ.

So many other things he talks about, but now he's

transitioning into a little more further.

He wants to develop this idea again.

In chapter 4, verses one to three, he talks about our life

as a slave or before we believe in Jesus.

And from verses four to seven he talks about life in Christ, who,

who? Who we are in Christ before,

before we believe in Christ, after we believe in Christ.

That's being compared in this thing.

So here he is talking about basically he is talking about

slave and a son. Everybody say slave and a son.

So who is a slave and can he became a son in the Roman world

during the time of Paul and Jesus.

During that time slaves are slaves.

They traded. You can sell a slave, buy a

slave. That is how it happens.

But somebody desires to set a slave free.

He pays the money, he buys him, but he is not a slave anymore.

He says I set you free, go. He has a right to be set free.

So at the same time, when in matters of inheritance property,

what they used to do is you make up a will and you say this is my

will, this property, this land, this field goes to my son.

But the son is only now 4 year old, Oregon 3 year old, But he

will become entitled to this property, to this field, when he

attends the age of, let us say 18.

That is what we believe now. It is not 18 in Roman time, so

let us say 18 years of age. Until then, who takes care of

it? There are caretakers who take

care of it, wardens who take care of it.

So that property is owned by the child.

But it is no better than a slave because it has no right to

decide what to do with the property.

Am I communicating here? So the slave, the sun is like a

slave. Now, what is Paul trying to do

here is he's using a common illustration to drive home a

theological point, a theological point, a very important

theological point. He's driving home by using this

analogy of slave and the sun. Slave stands for your life under

the law and the sun stands for your life under Christ.

Am I making sense here? I don't want to rush through,

you know I can just blah blah, I can blast and go away, but you

do not benefit anyone. So I want you to understand and

let the Word sink in your heart. You are no longer under the law,

but you are in Christ set free as a sun.

So under the law you are a slave.

In Christ you are a son, you are free.

That is basically the thing. So how do we explain it?

How do we explain this one? An heir can be has not mature,

he is not attained the maturity to own things.

So when he touches that age prescribed by the Father, and

then he becomes entitled to entitled to it.

Now Paul is again, you know, his very brilliant brain.

It takes a long time of meditation to understand what

Paul is saying. What he was trying to say is in

the same way God has allowed the law to govern the people for

nearly 1500 years from the time of Moses.

He gave the 10 commandments and those 10 commandments were given

so that people can know that they cannot attain eternal life

by doing it because they are going to fail it.

Even if they fail once in one matter all their life, it's all

going to be waste. That's the reason why law is

given so that it's like a it's like a school teacher leading or

teaching a small student, giving information and making them to

mature, become matures. The law is like a school teacher

leading you to Christ. That is a job.

That's a function that's in chapter 3.

Now in chapter 4 he is saying the same thing again here.

What am I saying is that as long as heir is a child, he is no

different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate.

Now many of us Christians are also living like a slave, not

like a son. We are not living like an heir.

We are living like a slave because we don't know what we

own, because we don't know what we possess, because we do not

know our new standing in Christ, because we do not know what is

ours in Christ. When you know it, you will

behave like it, you will practice it, you will believe

it, you will do it. But again, when you are a slave,

you have no right of your own. You are being controlled by your

master. But when your son, you are free,

nobody is going to force you. You are going to be freely going

to do what the law demands because love fulfills all law.

You will walk in love. But what I was thinking, more

and more I was thinking about it, I want to make something

visually stimulating and something that communicates.

I just want to volunteer. Can I have Simon here?

I don't see OK, I am going to say some things is not true

about you, OK, Let us say he is a Christian, OK?

He is a born again believer and I am the devil.

OK now OK, don't run away. Let us say he told a lie.

He just said some lie somewhere somebody asked him some

question. He says no, no, no.

He tells a lie. I am the devil.

So I look at Simon and say, hi, buddy, you are really doing

well. You know, I'll teach you how to

do more better. You can tell better lies without

being detected. How do you feel that?

See, this is how the devil is going to do that.

You tell a lie, you are partnering with Satan.

He is the father of lies. And Jesus said he's been telling

lies from the beginning. And the law is similar to it.

You are going to be under its power and you have no power to

overcome it. But when you are set free, you

can walk in freedom. You can walk in freedom same way

some other, let's say the job of devil is basically, you know, to

steal, kill and destroy. These are the three functions,

steal, kill and destroy. Suppose let's say again Simon

Sharp lifts something from the somewhere.

OK, then again my role is like a devil.

I will say well done, you know, well done.

I will tell you how to rob the bank next day.

Thank you Sir. OK, so this is how you partner

with devil when we I am not going into bigger sins, murder

and things. I am just taking simple stealing

and telling lies. You know, this is very common.

Very common. Believers are into it.

White lies, Gray lies, black lies, all kinds of lies.

Is not right. Is not right.

When we do it. You are walking into the

territory of the Saturn. And he says he puts his hand on

your shoulder. Let's go for a walk.

I like you very much. But when you say no to sin, when

you say no to sin, the Holy Spirit comes along, puts his

hand on you, say well done, thank you for resisting it.

I love to make you holy. I want to make you like Jesus.

I want to feel you with my power.

It is very simple. I want to communicate to the

down to the level, you know, to the extent that anybody can

understand. So this is how we need to

partner with God, not with the devil.

And it is going to be exciting walk with God.

We are going to walk with God. It is going to be very exciting

and that is what we need to know.

So he has the slave and the free son is free slave has no

freedom. But when when he Paul is talking

about this again in verse three, he says three verse 4.

But when the time had fully come, when the time had fully

come, what is he trying to say? He is again alluding to that

analogy of the heir who is a child but who has doesn't

possess everything. He has to wait for the time to

come. If the age when he becomes

possesses what is his is 18, he has to wait until his 18 years

of age. Same way for the whole timeline

from the time God created Adam and Eve, He has also set this

timeline. And He gave the law so that we

can be led to Christ, the law to make us helpless, to prove that

we cannot save ourselves. And now when the time is fully

come, that time when is fully come He sent His Son.

Why? Because you are going to walk

into the new freedom. So the more I was thinking

about, the more I was just rejoicing.

By God, who can beat your intelligence?

We can never teach anything to God.

He's the wisest, best person and he has planned everything.

So that's the reason why we Christians believe in

progressive revelation. What's the progressive

revelation? You don't have it all in one go,

but little at a time. You understand the plans of God,

purposes of God. The more you study the Word of

God, the more you are filled with the mind of God.

How to draw the mind of God? Fill yourself with the Bible.

Why should you read Bible every day?

By the way, I just want to ask you this question.

How many of you have read Chapter 4 of Galatians 2 before

you came here? 1234 I was sitting down and

thinking, you know, every week I ask this question, one or two

hands go up. How many minutes do we have in a

week? It's more than 10,000, more than

10,000 minutes. And how long does it take to

read chapter 410 minutes out of the 10,000 minutes?

Can we not have 10 minutes to read and say what am I going to

hear this Sunday? I am not trying to accuse you,

my friends. No, no, I want to encourage you.

I want to encourage you. Is the Holy Spirit coming along

and putting his hand on your shoulder saying you can do it,

you can do it Now? Is there anybody here who

doesn't want to see a revival? I want to see your hand.

No, you all want to see revival, but what is the price?

The price is you invest into studying this word.

When you study the Word, you know the mind of God and when

you know the mind of God, you do it.

Riva welcomes the whole week I was praying God send new people,

send new people, send new people.

And of course we see some new people today praise God for

them. God is a God who answers prayer.

So we believe that we have to grow and make an impact upon the

city and that is possible only when you give yourself to study

the Word, read the word, study it, let it dominate your

thinking and your mind. That is how revival comes.

So next thing that we see here is God sent his Son.

And this is very important. God sent his Son is a very

important one. What does it mean?

Think of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit before anything was

created, before anything was created, they had a discussion.

And in the discussion part we are going to let us make you

know, that's what he talks about, man and woman.

And he said let us make man in our image.

But what about the rest of the creation?

Did they have a discussion? They did.

Did they discuss, OK, we are going to create a tree of

knowledge of good and evil and a tree of life.

And when they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil,

they are going to become sinners, they are going to

become shame, they will become aware of shame and they are

going to be separated from us. Then what should we do?

We have to save this people, that discussion between the

Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. And the Son says I will go.

And Father says, yes, you will go, I will send you.

So this kind of a thing happens much before the timeline begins.

Before the timeline, the clock started ticking, God the Father,

Son, the Holy Spirit of desire. So God sent his son then and

there before the timeline began. And which happened in time,

space history, 2000 years ago. Are we together?

So God sent his son. So when God sent his son, does

son have to say, yes, I want to go?

If father says go and son says no, I don't want to go.

Like we have a parable. Is it going to work?

It's not going to work. But what the father says, the

son says, what the son says, the Holy Spirit says.

There's a unity and uninterrupted flow of

communication between the fathers and the Holy Spirit so

that those words are very important.

God sent his Son is very important.

The initiative is taken by the Father and by the Son.

So that's very, very important for us.

And so when Jesus was sent, he was sent by the Father on a

mission. The mission begins before the

creation. The mission begins before

creation. Jesus was given.

That is the aspect of the love of the father.

When he says I will send my son, he's going to lose something

very big. He's going to die for the whole

humankind who all the people. He's going to die for the whole

human race. And that is not easy on the

father. So it is a great sacrifice.

It's a great sacrifice. I'm telling you, every parent

will know when the child gets sick.

If it is just a small core, you will not bother with just a

fever. OK, give some panadol, give some

paracetamol. He will be all right.

But if he falls down and breaks his head, or he falls down,

breaks his hand or a foot, then you are more concerned, more

worried. What's going to happen?

He will. Will he be all right?

Will he walk forever in his life?

Is it going to be crippled forever?

So much of tension comes upon you.

I tell you, human fathers, human mothers feel so bad for the

children. How that is going to be on the

Father when he thinks about human people whom he is going to

create in his own image with free will, are going to sin and

to set it right, he has to send his son Jesus into the world.

How painful that's going to be for the Father.

Jesus died upon the cross, but the pain goes into the heart of

the Father, and the pain afflicts the Holy Spirit.

You see it in the Book of Revelation that the Lamb of God

was appeared, I mean was appearing slain with the seven

horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God gone

into all the world. What does it mean?

That means you cannot separate the Son and the Holy Spirit.

You cannot separate the Son and the Holy Spirit.

You do not see the Holy Spirit. I mean, you cannot feel it.

You cannot see Him. But when Christ was suffering,

He was suffering too. And when Christ was suffering,

Father was suffering too. That pain is a pain to everyone

in the Godhead. So when God says He sent His

Son, He is saying, I feel for my people whom I made in my own

image to save them. I want to send my son.

I want to send my son. And that is a painful decision.

But God had to make it before the time began.

And then Jesus had to say, I go the obedience.

Jesus had to obey the Father. Yes, obey the Father and the

Father says Son is now. Time has come.

The full fullness of time has come.

Now we have to go down and become a human being.

I said yes long time ago, but now I have to think about it.

Is it going to be like that? No, in God things are fixed.

They don't change with time. They don't change with time.

I'm telling you these words that I'm speaking should encourage

everyone of us. Why?

Because in God things are fixed. He has decided to bless you and

in fact, He already has blessed you with every spiritual

blessing in Christ Jesus. And that is something that will

not be shaken. Unmovable fact.

You are blessed based on the character of God, you are

blessed. Nothing is going to change it.

The more you believe it, the more you will see the power of

God. Really.

City of situations you are going to be overcomer.

Knowing that in God things are fixed is a great comfort, a

great source of comfort. So you see, God gave his son.

John 316. That's where you see God gave

his son. Why did he give?

So whoever believes in Him may not perish, but have everlasting

life. And then you see in John 1628 I

came forth from the Father. Is Jesus saying I came forth

from the Father? He is the one who came, but God

sent him and He came. They are not two different

things that don't gel, but they gel together.

Father says I want you to go. Son says I want to go.

John 1628 and then John 11 say in the beginning was a word and

the word was with God and the word was God.

His pre existence is what makes his life precious.

Why Jesus life is more valuable because he existed before all

time before anything was created.

He was with the Father and he was God.

I mean, when people came and asked John the Baptist, who are

you or is the Christ, he said no.

But about Christ, what did he say?

He was before me. You and I, we come into

existence the moment the Father and mother decide to have

children and we are conceived and we begin, we begin to exist.

But it is not so with Jesus Christ.

He existed before all time. He was with the Father.

Some of us can impact our community in a greater way.

You can take Martin Luther King junior or senior, whatever,

Mahatma Gandhi. You can take many, many, many of

the people in history they have impacted, but it is not the same

as the life of Jesus because they were all sinners.

They were all sinners. They did sin, and because they

committed sin, but they also did some good things.

We talk about the good things, not the bad things, but it is

not so with Jesus. He was sinless Son of God, and

He lived and died without any sin in Him.

That's the reason why His life is precious, that life is able

to forgive sins of all mankind because He lived a sinless life.

That is why it has immense value.

It has got great power. His life has great power.

The best comparison is John the Baptist.

What did Jesus say about him? Jesus said among those who are

born of a woman, there is no one greater than John the Baptist,

but the one who is saying it was greater than John the Baptist.

Jesus himself was greater than John the Baptist, but he said

there is no one greater than John the Baptist.

So we have here one person being labeled as the best, and you

have Jesus who is better than the best.

He's better than the best. He became one with us so that we

may become one with Him. Ultimate purpose of God is that

He should come down, become like one of us so that we can become

like Him. This is not originating from

human mind. My friends, brothers and

sisters, this is the counsel of God.

This is the plan of God. This is the will of God.

This is the pleasure of God. This is the intelligence of God.

This is all that God is. The salvation is not a simple

salvation. Somebody told you Jesus died for

you. Say Jesus, forgive me, come into

my heart. It is not as simple as that.

It is full of depth and meaning and that has to transform your

life. When you look into the Son of

God who came into the world, it should not leave you the same.

If you do not change, you keep telling lies, compromise, cheat,

taxes, whatever we do, if you are Christians born again, we

are bringing disrepute to this Son of God who shared his

precious blood for us. That's the reason why sin and

Christian mutually they are not compatible.

We have nothing to do with the world, nothing to do with the

Satan, nothing to do with the sin.

We are saved from the world, taken out of the world and we

are children of God. It is so easy.

I find so many people, some someone.

I don't see them for a couple of weeks.

Let's say I run into them in the supermarket.

Hey, I didn't see you at the church for two weeks.

Oh, this, this is reason he gives.

And then later on I come to know he went for a holiday to

Queenstown. It's a lie.

What I meant to, what I mean to say is let's speak truth always.

Why am I so much hanging on the lie part?

Because Satan is the father of lies.

You don't partner with him. The moment we speak lies, we are

partnering with him. We are inviting him.

We are giving him keys to our life.

That is going to devastate your life.

Let's not do it. Let's be clean before God.

So when we say his born of the next thing that we see here is

that he is born of a woman, born to a woman.

This is the flashback is Genesis 315 after he spoke to Adam and

Eve and to the Satan. What did he say to Satan, to the

snake? Because what you have done is

not right. Because of this, I curse you

above all animals. You will be crawling on the

belly, you will eat the dust of the earth, and then he what will

say I put enmity between her offspring, her seed and your

seed. You will crush, he will crush

your head, but you will bruise his heel.

Seed, seed. The seed refers to Jesus Christ,

so he did not say to Adam and Eve your seed, Adam and Eve your

seed. No, from day one it is decided

that Adam seed is not going to partake there directly.

Is only indirectly. It is her seed.

Where does she come from? She comes from both Adam and

Eve. Mary is not just born aloof by

herself, she is coming down and Adam and Eve together are there

in her. But particularly because of the

virgin birth, she's not going to have a son through Joseph.

It is by the Holy Spirit. That's the reason why the day

sin entered the world. The Father said through her

seed, meaning the Savior is going to come through human

being. He's going to be a human being

born to Mary who is going to be a virgin birth.

I thought we talk about the wisdom of God there now

thousands of years in advance. He proclaims the gospel.

He proclaims the gospel. John, Genesis 315.

That's just quite amazing to me. As I was thinking about it, the

more and more I thought I said this is too much, but that's the

gospel, the depths of the gospel.

So his participate in the humanity, which includes being a

helpless baby, subject to struggles of growth,

experiencing pain, persecution, ultimately death.

When he says born of the woman he is inheriting.

Every problem you go through in life, he has tested it.

Why? To set you free from it.

Your sickness. He wants to set you free because

he has paid the price for it. He has paid the price for it.

You are not going to suffer all your life like that because you

have to believe it and receive it.

He is not going to do anything new.

Is Jesus going to say, let's say I have some some problem in my

body and I say God heal me. Oh, God says, oh, Ramana is

crying out for healing. I'll have to do something.

Nothing more to do 2000 years ago by his stripes, I am healed.

He did it already. He did already say he did

already. He's not going to do anything

more. You will have to believe it and

receive it. Enforce the Kingdom of the

Father in the name of Jesus, by the Father, Holy Ghost.

Father God looked down to see if there's anyone who can be a

solution to solve the dilemma of sin to save mankind.

But alas, there's no one, not even one.

Everybody has sinned and have gone away from the path from

which they should be walking like sheep.

They have strayed. But when the Son came into the

world, Father was joyful. Why now it is possible for

salvation to come to human race. My Son has entered the world.

You know there is joy and pain in the Father's heart.

Joy because he's going to save you and me.

Pain because Son is going to die on the cross.

Joy and pain. They go together, so his weight

from eternity is over when he was born of the woman.

Father's weight is over. Father's weight is over.

Then man's frailty, incompetence, insufficiency,

limitation is all obliterated. For the one who trace the wine

press alone has entered the human landscape.

You know, it talks about in the Bible, it talks about Jesus as

the one who trade the wine press.

His robes were like blood because of the the juice of the

grapes and he was trading the wine press all alone.

You know, he doesn't need you and me to contribute to our

salvation. In that sense it is all his

work. And when the Father says my son

has come into the world, he is rejoicing because there is one

who is going to tread the wine press alone to bring salvation

to mankind. Hallelujah.

I can't tell you how much I love studying this world.

I was just studying it and I said, oh God, I just can't

understand what you have done for me.

Your plan, your wisdom is great. I worship you, our Father, I

praise you. Born of a woman is not simple

words. There is full of meaning.

It meets my incapacity, it meets my limitation, it meets my

foolishness. It means a lack of strength.

Everything that I don't have, he has it because he is my saviour.

Man's helplessness is broken. When Jesus entered the world.

We are not helpless anymore because He has come.

He is our strength. He is our help.

Hebrews 214 Now since the children have flesh and blood,

He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might

destroy him. Who holds the power of death?

That is the devil. He partook in flesh and blood to

destroy Satan, who has power over you and me to set us free

from the grip of Satan. That's from Hebrews 214.

And when he became his born of the woman, Matthew 123 is

fulfilled. Behold, the Virgin will be with

child and will give birth to your Son, and they will call him

Emmanuel, which means God with us was not God with the people

before Jesus came into the world.

He was. But this is something entirely

different dimension, a different expression of the presence of

God. He is going to be with you

personally and makes it possible to be in you after His death,

burial, resurrection, and ascension to the Father.

When you believe in Him, He, you become one with Him.

He is going to be with you forever, born of the woman.

We got much to praise God, much to praise God and then born

under the law. Everybody said born under the

law. What does it mean when He is

born under the law? So that He can set you free, you

and me free from the law. He fulfilled the law on your

behalf, on my behalf. He never told a lie, He never

stole anything from anybody, He never broke any of the 10

commandments, and he was perfectly walking like a human

being without any sin to fulfill everything.

And at one point in Matthew he says I have come not to cancel

the law, but to fulfill the law. Every jot, every line, I have

come to fulfill it. What a savour we have.

If He has not fulfilled a small dot in the law, then you have to

work for it. No, we do not do anything now.

Why He has fulfilled it for you and me?

And that is how when you believe in Him, His righteousness is

being transferred into your account and you become

righteous. Why He fulfilled the law for you

and me. By entering under Mosaic Law,

Jesus was qualified to obey it perfectly.

The law he spoke from the Mount Sinai when the whole mountain

was shaking and the people were trembling in their in their

boots and their shoes. And when they were, they put a

barricade so no one can go up the mountain, even animals.

And they were shaking and there was earthquake and Thunder and

fields and everything was so fearful.

And from from the mountaintop he spoke those 10 commandments in

the language they understood. And they said we don't want to

hear God anymore because we are going to die by he listening to

his voice. But Jesus, he fulfilled the law

for you and me so that we don't fear God anymore to approach

him. No Fear, No Fear anymore.

His sinless life secured righteousness to create to

believers. Second Corinthians 5/21.

His death satisfied the lost penalty, redeeming those

enslaved by it. Galatians 45 and God worked out

everything so beautifully in time, space, history, when the

time came, when, when we say here, but when the time had

fully come, actually so many things happened.

There were times when I used to read this version when I was

younger, days I used to think when the time was perfect.

Jesus became a man long time ago, 2000 years ago, let's say.

Was the world better at the time or worse?

I used to walk into the villages, see people innocent.

They are not highly literate, they don't have skills, they

only know a few things. Get up in the morning, eat the

leftover food, go into the field, take some with them, walk

there under the sun, eat the lunch, take rest for half an

hour and again work till evening.

Come home, eat food, feed the cattle, tie them up, pour water

for them to drink, some other things at home and then go to

bed where there no electricity. You have to go to bed as early

as you can and get up again in the morning.

And when I looked at them I said, why did Jesus come 2000

years ago? What things better?

They were better. I tell you.

Roman law was very, very prevalent all over the whole,

whole whole Kingdom of the Romans.

They enforced, particularly when Alexander, he lived only for 10

years, but when he invaded and conquered large swaths of land,

many countries he subjugated. And when he conquered, he

enforced the Greek language everywhere he went.

And so you have Roman government which has got huge territory

everywhere. Greek is understood now the

gospel can go without interpretation, without

translation, go through whole land.

That was the right time. People had many ways of

punishing people who, whoever committed murder or revolt

against the king, they were failed by the Assyrians.

You know, the sharp thing will go from bottom and go up through

the head. And different kinds of tortured

brothers were there, but. The crucifixion was invented,

perfected by the Romans, which had to be to fulfill the law

that he became a curse and was lifted up on a tree to fulfill

that. The Roman government was there

to enforce this crucifixion in so many ways.

The time was made perfect and when God said now it is time go

and the sun says yes and comes into the world born under the

law to redeem those under the law.

You know this is just we are not under the law anymore.

If you're under the law, we are slaves.

If you believe in Jesus, you are a son who is free to obey every

demand of the law. You have a new power indwelling

Holy Spirit who gives you power to obey, which was not there

under the law. Power of the Holy Spirit was not

present for the people. So what does it mean to us?

What does it mean to us? Assurance.

The same God who timed Christ's coming governs our own seasons.

We are not living in a helpless world, in a helpless condition.

Whatever situation you are going through, whatever trouble you

are going through, whatever challenge you are going through,

you are not helpless. Why?

God, who has planned it before the foundation of the world and

He made things happen at the right time, sent His Son.

He is on the throne and your life is secure in His hand when

you yield it to Him. I was praying for somebody.

God, show me something about this man.

He is not a believer and God showed me a snake and he was

spitting the snake with his hand.

That's a powerful picture. He is befriending Satan by not

believing in Jesus. He knows the gospel but doesn't

believe, doesn't want to believe.

He says, ah, I want God to speak to me.

I want God appear to me. I said, my friend, by

challenging God, you know, you don't go anywhere because God is

so big, so sovereign, omnipotent, omnipresent,

powerful, no one can challenge him.

The only way you draw his favor is by submission and by faith,

not by challenging and not by questioning.

So if we are revolting against God in any matter, particularly,

you know, when we are growing up, growing up is a difficult

stage and I have gone through it in my 20s, I used to sometimes

rebel against God and say, hey, I have prayed to you so many

times. You didn't answer my prayer.

Now I will not pray to you anymore.

That kind of a thing. But after six months down the

line, I'll say, OK, I'm wrong now I'm not going to pray, but I

still believe you and follow you.

There's so many different ways I used to argue with God, but God

has been patient with me. He showed love, concern, and

help me along in my weakness. That I may know Him, that I may

love Him, that I may obey Him. His hand is on your life now.

Your His hand, the mighty hand, is upon your life now, whether

you know it or don't know it. His hand is upon you.

His hand is upon you. His hand is upon you.

Secondly, patience. If he could align empires,

languages, prophecies for Bethlehem's Manger, he can align

details in our lives. You know, what did he say

through Micah? He said, Bethlehem, don't think

you are very little among all the cities, but the one who is

going to be born, Mesa will be born in you to make it possible.

Joseph and Mary were living in Nazareth.

They must be brought to Bethlehem.

So the King orders everybody you go to back to your place and

register yourself from the place where you hail from.

And he had to carry on a donkey, this lady who was fully

pregnant, so that when they arrived to Bethlehem, it was

also the time for her to deliver the baby.

How much God had to plan in your life.

There's nothing that's happening without His seeing your

condition, without seeing your tears, without seeing your pain.

Nothing is happening in our lives.

We have to look at Him and say thank you.

You are upon the throne. Give me Your grace to go through

this time now and He will bring you through.

He will bring you through. He is God who is committed to

bring you through. He's not going to leave your

hand. He's not going to say you're on

your own bro no more. I'm I'm not interested in you

anymore. He's not going to say it.

He says my hand is upon you. I love you.

I have plan and purpose for you. I am intend to fulfill every

plan in my heart which I have thought about before the

foundation of the world for you before the foundation of the

world. I have thought about you.

I have thought about you, I have thought about you.

Nothing is happening in your life.

He's handed upon your life. At the same time, some things

are urgent, Mark 115 reminds The time is fulfilled, The Kingdom

of God is near. Today is the moment of trust and

proclaim this perfectly time to Savior God is a God of history.

Timeline is in his hand, but our time comes today.

Today everybody said today. Today is a time to believe and

trust and surrender to him. Why He is God over your life?

And Galatians 44, we see a divinely set clock, a Savior

stepping into history at the precise second humanity's most

needed him, and a God whose timing is perfect then and now.

2000 years ago was a perfect moment.

He came into the world, and today is a perfect moment to

enter your life. All that we need to say is come

Lord into my life. So now I had to.

I think I shot my time already. I will leave it to cover next

week. There's much more to say.

I told you I got 4 pairs of notes here and much more I have

not written there. But the there's so much of glory

in the world. You study it.

You made it upon it. It becomes your life.

It becomes a truth. It becomes light in your life.

And you had to skew your time to it.

It doesn't yield to a casual reader.

I take my Bible. I read 2 minutes.

Oh, I read the Bible. We'll do you nothing.

We'll do you nothing. You'll dwell in it.

Allow it to speak to you. You got a problem.

You go to the doctor, he takes you say go into the machine, MRI

scan, CT scan. I tell you, when you come to the

word of God, it scans you what is wrong in you.

It tells this is what is wrong in you.

And you say, yes, I agree. The problem goes, problem goes.

Shall we bow our heads in prayer?

Father God, we thank you. We are overheard by your glory.

We are all overcome by your holiness.

We are all overcome by your love.

We are all overcome by your goodness.

My Father, I thank you. You are on the throne.

Thank you. You're holding your life in your

hand. Thank you, Lord, for your eyes

are set upon us. Thank you.

You're saying, son, daughter, open your heart.

I want to come into your life. Lord, I pray right now come into

the heart of somebody who is desperately longing for your

touch, longing for your light, longing for your power, longing

for the breakthrough, longing for that pain to go away,

longing for the sickness to go away.

Step into their world now, in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. Father.

Thank you, Lord. And if you are, if you're living

like a slave, today is the time to say I am a son, no longer a

slave. And you want to declare it, and

you want the Holy Spirit come into my heart and make your

presence real to me. Stand up where you are.

And I want to ask that Holy Spirit to fill you now because

to those who believe in him, he is given.

He is sent into our hearts. He is going to come right now.

He is going to flood your heart right now.

Just you have to stand and say, come Holy Ghost.

Come, Holy Ghost, come, Holy Ghost.

Yeah, I am desperate for you. He is going to come and fill

your heart now, Shastri Sarano, the Lord is saying you have not

seen my power yet. I am going to show you my power,

raw power. I am going to unfold my hand for

you, my son, my daughter, and I ask you, Holy Spirit, to come

into their heart now. Those who are standing right

now, flood their hearts, spirit and soul.

Come Holy Ghost, come Holy Ghost, come, Holy Ghost, let

your glory come, let your glory come, let your glory come, let

your glory come. Touch them now.

And everybody who is here who are under the influence of my

voice, fill them with the Holy Spirit to the glory of Your

name. Thank you again for your

presence. Thank you for speaking to us

through your word in Jesus mighty name and everybody says

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