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Are you called and chosen Galatians 3 vs 15-24

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  9. We've been talking about justification by faith.

  10. We're talking about how we are called by God, you know, and how

  11. he justifies us not because of we, we follow the law, but by

  12. faith in his Son, Jesus Christ. It is very, very simple.

  13. But then the question that raises arises is when did the

  14. what happens to the law, The law that is come through Moses has

  15. been honored, has been held revered and held in very high

  16. esteem by the Jewish people. But that law is not the basis

  17. for on which God is justifying people.

  18. So how the law had a temporary place, That's what Paul is

  19. trying to expound from verses 15 to the end of the chapter, how

  20. it is important and what is its importance and why it is

  21. important. At the same time, how promise is

  22. superior to keeping the law, how you are justified by because of

  23. a promise? The whole thing is like this.

  24. Brothers, let me take an example from everyday life.

  25. He is saying it's everyday life. It may not be for us everyday

  26. life, but for Jewish people, they held Abraham in very high

  27. esteem. So he says, hey, you think of

  28. him every day. You are his descendants.

  29. Now I want to tell you something which is very, very your it is

  30. in the in the basic fabric of your existence.

  31. You believe you are a child of Abraham, descendant of Abraham.

  32. I want to talk about it. That is what Paul is saying.

  33. Everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or

  34. add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is

  35. in this case. How many of us are aware of

  36. something called will when it comes to property matters?

  37. You write a will. Why?

  38. Suddenly if we disappear, we die.

  39. We want to know what is going to happen to the property, who is

  40. going to get what. So that will is something very,

  41. very important. But then if you have a will that

  42. is binding on what you are going to do with the property, it is

  43. no will. It becomes difficult to deal

  44. with it. It is very, very crucial to have

  45. a will, but if you have more than one will, like today I want

  46. to say so my, I want to distribute my property.

  47. Sema and I decide go to the lawyer and make a will.

  48. And then after two years we change our mind.

  49. No, no, we don't want this son to get so much.

  50. We don't want this much, this son to get so much.

  51. We want to change it. You go and make changes again

  52. with sitting with the lawyer. Then what will is going to be

  53. final, The last one, the first one will be cancelled.

  54. The last one remains. That's that's what we see

  55. happening in our in our community in the sense present

  56. in the present world everywhere in every country.

  57. That's how we do it. So what Paul is referring to

  58. here is that God made a will, God made a covenant, God made a

  59. contract with Abraham and that cannot be changed.

  60. It is like a, it is a Greek culture, basically.

  61. It is rooted in Greek culture. The Roman government, you have

  62. to, you certify a will go to the government, say this is my final

  63. way. I want my property to be

  64. distributed. And you go to the government and

  65. then they say, yeah, put a stamp on it.

  66. That is it. That is final.

  67. You cannot add to it. You cannot remove from it.

  68. So what he's saying is it is the same way what God promised to

  69. Abraham is not going to be cancelled, is not going to be

  70. added. Nothing is going to be added to

  71. it. So what did God do with Abraham?

  72. He made a covenant with him. What kind of covenant he made?

  73. You'll have to read Genesis chapter 15 to understand what

    Genesis 15 chapter mention

  74. Paul is saying. In Genesis chapter 15, Abraham,

    Genesis 15 chapter mention

  75. God appeared Abraham and said, Abraham, I am your great reward.

  76. Don't be afraid. I am your great reward.

  77. I am, I am the one who is going to bless you.

  78. He says, what blessing are you going to give me?

  79. You gave me everything, but he didn't give me a son.

  80. This servant is going to become my who is going to inherit all

  81. that I have. The slave in my house is going

  82. to inherit everything. And God says, no, your servant

  83. is not the one who is going to inherit.

  84. You will have a son and that son will inherit.

  85. How do I know what you are saying is true?

  86. You know this is how God talks with each one of us.

  87. There are times he gives you a promise and you go through some

  88. crises and you doubt whether it is going to be true.

  89. Am I communicating here? Is it all experience?

  90. Even as we were singing this morning, I was remembering when

  91. I was just 20 plus may be 21 year old and I was walking in a

  92. different state because of the job.

  93. I went there and I had no friends, no relatives.

  94. The language is different, everything is different.

  95. And after my work, I don't know what to do.

  96. So one day I was going with wherever the road was going, I

  97. was going. I came to the end of the city

  98. and kept walking and I asked myself, God, why did you bring

  99. me here? Why am I walking on this lonely

  100. Rd. Why am I?

  101. What is the purpose that you are accomplishing in my life?

  102. So there will be times when you will go through those wilderness

  103. movements, walking in the wilderness.

  104. Just because God promises doesn't necessarily mean

  105. everything is going to be fun all the time.

  106. But my, my, what I'm trying to say here is we need to believe

  107. that promise. When it is impossible to

  108. believe, when it's difficult to believe.

  109. You believe God, You're right. My feelings are not right, my

  110. emotions are not right. But I want to believe.

  111. And God said, OK, bring me a heifer, bring me a goat, bring

  112. me a ram, bring me a turtle now and bring me a pigeon.

  113. How many things I said? 5 and cut them into two.

  114. Arrange the pieces on the ground and Abraham obeyed.

  115. Next day morning there it was, 3 year old heifer.

  116. Now you know, I thought I knew English for a long time.

  117. Only yesterday I looked up the dictionary again.

  118. Heifer. What is a heifer?

  119. Can you say? Somebody give me a meaning of

  120. heifer. Thank you very much.

  121. Female cow. I thought it was male.

  122. Why did I think like that? Because Jesus is the one who

  123. fulfilled everything. I by default, I thought heffer

  124. means it's a should be a male one, but I opened the

  125. dictionary. It's a female.

  126. I said, oh, so language sometimes, you know, we keep

  127. growing in, you know, vocabulary and understanding and pardon

  128. correct before it had a cough. That's also very important.

  129. I want I was about to say it. Why does why does it matter?

  130. Why does it matter for a female cow before they had a calf that

  131. it should be sacrificed? You should be 3 year old and the

  132. goat should be 3 year old. Ram should be 3 year old.

  133. Three stands for perfection. Every animal is at his peak of

  134. reproduction ability. At the age of 3 is fully mature.

  135. So what God is saying is bring me mature heifer, bring me a

  136. mature goat and a ram. And you cut into half and the

  137. pieces were put apart from each other.

  138. Blood is still flowing out of the animals.

  139. You will have to imagine a little bit.

  140. There is one picture there in the drive.

  141. If you can find it, there is a picture.

  142. Please put it up. I forgot to mention it to you.

  143. Thank you. Apologies.

  144. So the whole issue is like the animal is cut into half.

  145. So how many pieces you have now? Six pieces of the three animals

  146. and then you have the turtle down and you have the pigeon.

  147. These birds were not allowed to be cut is always like that is

  148. always, they are not cut into pieces and they are often as a

  149. whole burnt offering in the thing.

  150. Later on, you see when the law was given in the book of

  151. Leviticus and new numbers and you see that heifer is used for

  152. cleansing, heifer is used for cleansing.

  153. They usually they find a red heifer.

  154. You know, there's so much of talk in Jerusalem going on about

  155. red heifer. Now they burn the red heifer

  156. outside Jerusalem, bring the ashes.

  157. When you mix water and sprinkle it on anything, it becomes

  158. clean. So God gave those things to

  159. Abraham heifer for cleansing. And then you got a goat.

  160. You got 2 goats, which we selected in the later on in the,

  161. in the in the, in the law and one goat.

  162. You put a hand and a priest puts his hand on his head and confess

  163. the sins of the whole is a nation of Israel and one is

  164. allowed to escape into the wilderness, but one is

  165. sacrificed sin offering ram a sin offering everything is for

  166. this kind of purposes and God says do this thing, then why is

  167. he asking all the sticks to be done is the local belief.

  168. When somebody is making a covered with another person.

  169. Let's say man A and a man B are making a covenant.

  170. They will cut the animal and walk between the pieces.

  171. And when they walk between the pieces they are saying to each

  172. other, if I fail to keep my contract, may I be dead like

  173. this animal? May I be dead but like this

  174. animal? But when God made a covenant

  175. with Abraham, he made it one sided on his own.

  176. What is the word? I forget suddenly.

  177. Pardon, unilateral, sorry. Thank you very much.

  178. She is a pastor's wife. So unilateral.

  179. What I mean is that Abraham is not going to be party to fulfill

  180. the terms. He may be living for some time

  181. and he will be dead, but who will be the one who will fulfill

  182. it? God.

  183. So what is God doing is I will come, come to a little later in

  184. a few seconds. So what Abraham did was he cut

  185. them, arranged them and he was trying to drive away.

  186. When the the eagles and the vultures were coming down to eat

  187. the carcasses, he was trying to drive them away.

  188. Basically, when does it happen? It takes at least 10 to 12 hours

  189. after an animal is cut that will begin to putrify and it emits a

  190. smell attracting the vultures. So the whole day he was standing

  191. there making sure that nothing will come and eat those

  192. sacrifice animals. And by evening he was exhausted.

  193. Driving away vultures. He was very exhausted.

  194. He fell into a trance and then he saw a smoking pot and a torch

  195. go between the parts for God. For God.

  196. What are the two things that went in between the parts?

  197. A smoking part and a torch, Let's say smoking pot stands for

  198. God the Father and the torch stands for the Holy Spirit.

  199. Where is God the Son? You know, everywhere all three

  200. are involved. Isn't it the animals that have

  201. been sacrificed? They stand for Jesus who is

  202. going to be crucified in the in the future.

  203. And God says Abraham, I promise that this blessing that I am

  204. giving to you is to you and to your offspring, to you and to

  205. your seed, not the proof singular, singular that is to

  206. Jesus Christ. So Jesus Jesus Christ received

  207. the promise through Abraham. God the Son received the promise

  208. through Abraham. I tell you when the more you

  209. think about these things, the more fear comes over us.

  210. Why? Because when you are dealing

  211. with God, when He gives you a promise, He is making a partner

  212. into His eternal plans. He makes you a partner in His

  213. eternal plan. You don't live for yourself.

  214. Abraham is not living to himself 3000 years after Abraham lived.

  215. We are talking about him today because he partnered with God

  216. and it is the same today. He's asking each one of you and

  217. me, do you want to partner with me in my plans, in my purposes?

  218. And it is not for yourself. Remember, the partnership is not

  219. for your own blessing. It's not for you to make you

  220. rich. It's not to make you Mr.

  221. Universe or whatever physically. No, it is to partnership is to

  222. bring His Kingdom into the world through your life for the glory

  223. of His name. He wants salvation to come

  224. through you to everyone else in the world.

  225. I tell you, if this part is gone, then we are doing nothing.

  226. We are. We are doing some.

  227. We are playing in the church. We are not doing the purpose for

  228. which God has called church into existence.

  229. God has called a church in existence.

  230. You and me to see that this gospel will go to every person

  231. in the world. It has to begin in the house.

  232. Where does it begin? In the house?

  233. Because later on when you see the Passover lamb, if they

  234. select a lamb and it will be in in the family for nearly two

  235. weeks, it becomes part of the family.

  236. Yet it will be sacrificed after two weeks.

  237. Why? So that the children would know

  238. what does it mean, the Passover mean?

  239. How God passed over these things, how God passed over

  240. every issue and how He saved them, how He delivered them from

  241. bondage in Egypt. That is how He wanted the family

  242. to know the gospel. Gospel has to be shared in the

  243. family first. That is very, very simple rule.

  244. And then He made the promise unilateral just on his own, and

  245. he passed through between the parts because no one is above

  246. God by which he can make a promise.

  247. You know, people promise, make a covenant or promise with

  248. somebody who with higher authority, somebody may.

  249. In the New Testament, you see people used to swear by the gold

  250. in the temple or the temple or whatever.

  251. It is something great because there is no one greater than

  252. God. He said, I will surely bless

  253. you. He is making a unital, unital

  254. promise, and that promise is going to fulfill it by His own

  255. power. Accomplish it.

  256. Now this is very important, very, very important.

  257. In the morning we talked about many are called, few are chosen.

  258. I was thinking about it yesterday, whole day.

  259. How do you know that you are chosen?

  260. If you are saved your car, how do you know you are chosen until

  261. you partner with the vision of God, until you partner with the

  262. purposes of God, until you partner with God for his Kingdom

  263. to come into the world. When that desire is the one that

  264. drives you, when that that consumes you and that is the one

  265. that makes you dream of it. That's the one that makes you

  266. think of it day and night, you are chosen.

  267. You are chosen. The other way that you can know

  268. is have you had a vision, a supernatural vision from God?

  269. Have you had a supernatural dream from God?

  270. Have you had, do you have some kind of a prophetic word that is

  271. released over your life? Sometimes somebody has

  272. prophesied over you say this is what God wants to do with your

  273. life. You are chosen.

  274. These are only symptoms. Sometimes you can have the naked

  275. faith and cast your future with the naked face.

  276. Say God, you are reliable, you are faithful, and you are like a

  277. mountain. You're unshakable.

  278. I put my trust in you and nothing can shake me and I

  279. believe in you. I believe in your plan for my

  280. life. I believe in your purposes for

  281. my life. You will be unshakable and you

  282. are chosen because your heart says I.

  283. My heart is with God. We can be chosen as a we can be

  284. called and live like as if we are not chosen.

  285. To be chosen, you need to align your life with the mind of God

  286. and the will of God. Nothing shall come between you

  287. and God. Whether it is a drink or a food

  288. or a pleasure or whatever it is, it will take second place.

  289. I was talking to a young man who was going through problems in

  290. marriage and he said, oh I don't have intimacy.

  291. I am not living with my wife. My kids are gone from me.

  292. What do you want me to do? I said confess the bread of

  293. flesh on your wife and your kids.

  294. Things will improve. And after one month he comes and

  295. says, oh, I did it for a week and then I gave it up.

  296. I said you are not fit to win. Why?

  297. Because you are hard to do that until you win.

  298. You cannot give up after one week.

  299. Personal lives, personal struggles, we overcome by the

  300. bread of the lamb and by the word of our testimony.

  301. Every struggle you see, every problem you come across, you are

  302. going to overcome it by the bread of the lamb.

  303. That blood you put upon the relationship, that blood you put

  304. upon the situation, that situation will yield.

  305. That situation will change because that blood will speak

  306. for you. Abraham sacrificed and that

  307. blood was speaking. That blood was representing the

  308. blood of Jesus. He is the one who makes a

  309. covenant with you. He is the one who will fulfill

  310. it for you. He is the one who gives you a

  311. promise. He is the one who will fulfill

  312. the promise for you. He will not fail.

  313. Possible. We are not denying it because we

  314. look at all the disciples. They were chosen.

  315. They were called Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth.

  316. He says come and follow me. He was called and he was chosen

  317. and he became a martyr for Christ.

  318. All the 12 disciples except John the disciple, everybody was

  319. martyred, beheaded, crucified upside down, crucified different

  320. ways. They were all become.

  321. So persecution is the part of the calling, part of the part of

  322. the choosing process. There was a time I I used to go

  323. to India very frequently every year, sometimes even twice in a

  324. year. I went for preaching and

  325. teaching and praying for people, healing, deliverance, all

  326. things. We were very excited in the

  327. initial days. Later I saw that became a

  328. financial burden. But what stopped me going was

  329. the persecution. I said don't want to go there

  330. and get stuck up there. So I stopped going.

  331. Think we need to be intelligent as well.

  332. We don't have to walk into it. Right now.

  333. There is persecution going on in Iran.

  334. They say there is no count what CNN says, what Fox News says.

  335. They only set out 2503 thousand people and some say 12,000

  336. people, but some people say it's 30,000 people.

  337. It is so the massacre on the streets because he hired Arabic

  338. speaking Shiite Muslims to come to rescue him and to stop to

  339. suppress the agitation. And they just came and

  340. slaughtered the people. And the people who are holding

  341. the dead bodies are demanding money to release the dead body.

  342. What are they going to do with the 30,000 bodies?

  343. It is depravity, I tell you. It is showing the depravity of

  344. Islam Khomeini is putting down. Islam is showing to the world

  345. what Islam is. Hey, I don't care for people,

  346. but Christianity says God loves people.

  347. People die for the gospel there. They want to kill people here.

  348. We die for the gospel. That's the difference between

  349. Islam and Christianity. And Jesus is appearing to many

  350. people in visions and dreams and people are just on mass

  351. believing in Jesus Families. Many, more than half of the

  352. masks are empty in Iran today. Nobody is going to mask anymore

  353. because they are believing in Jesus.

  354. Talk about persecution. Where there is persecution, God

  355. pours out His grace more. He pours out His grace more.

  356. So here we see again the scripture does not say and to

  357. seeds meaning many people, but to your seed meaning the one

  358. person who is Christ. How God speaks and fulfills it.

  359. After nearly 2000 years, it is just amazing only God can do.

  360. Abraham lived for certain number of years and died.

  361. But who is fulfilling the promise?

  362. God, God. So when, when we, when you

  363. believe, when I and you believe in Jesus is a contract formed

  364. between you and God which will go on to the children, It will

  365. go on to the children and children's children and to

  366. children's children to save generations.

  367. So your faith is not in vacuum. Your faith should impact your

  368. generations. Then you are an Abraham.

  369. When your faith is passed on to family, you become an Abraham.

  370. We need to pray about it. We need to seek with tears.

  371. If it is required, we need to do it.

  372. But God will not fail. He is a God of Abraham, Isaac,

  373. and Jacob of every generation, every generation.

  374. My purpose is not to put down anybody or to bring grief to

  375. anyone but my I want encourage people to believe this God and I

  376. want you to experience the power that comes through faith in this

  377. Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He will not fail.

  378. He will not fail. And then what I mean is this.

  379. The law introduced forward and 30 years later does not set

  380. aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do

  381. away with the promise. What he's trying to say, Paul

  382. here is God promised to Abraham and that is final.

  383. It is not going to be changed. Nothing is going to be added to

  384. it. Law came forward and 30 years

  385. later cannot cancel what God has promised to Abraham as He

  386. justified Abraham. So everybody is going to be

  387. justified by their faith in Jesus Christ, not by following

  388. the law, not by following the law.

  389. That's the reason why the gospel is superior and powerful than

  390. the law. It inward power comes into you

  391. when you believe in Jesus to fulfill the law, because you

  392. walk in love, you fulfill the whole of the law and that power

  393. comes. And what Paul was trying to say

  394. here is by faith you receive the Holy Spirit.

  395. We are talking about it last week.

  396. By faith in Jesus Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit and that

  397. is the promise. What did God promise to Abraham?

  398. The Holy Spirit. If you believe in Jesus Jesus

  399. Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit, you receive the Holy

  400. Spirit and that Holy Spirit is the seed that comes into your

  401. heart to make your blessing, make your blessing.

  402. I tell you the more I thought about it yesterday, my mind was

  403. just getting blown in different into smithereens to parts.

  404. I said, oh God you are great. You are so great.

  405. I am so small and you are faithful.

  406. You are eternal from eternity to eternity.

  407. You are God and you are so awesome.

  408. You are so holy. You are so full of grace and

  409. love. And what am I?

  410. What am I that you should choose me?

  411. What am I that you should also you should call me and choose

  412. me. John chapter 15 is all about

    John 15 chapter mention

  413. calling and choosing. You got to remain in Him by

  414. obedience to His commandment. So you may be fruitful, you may

  415. be fruitful. Why does God allow a problem?

  416. He allowed this little problem, not having children, infertility

  417. for Abraham, Why? He wanted him to know there is

  418. God who makes him or enables him to be fertile, enables him to

  419. have children. Every problem should drive you

  420. to God, not away from God. Every problem should drive you

  421. to God, to believe you believe in God, to have faith in God.

  422. My God, if you can't save me, there is no one else in this

  423. world who can save me. I want you to come through now

  424. for me. I want you to split the sky, the

  425. dark clouds and come down because I am looking to you for

  426. help. He will come down.

  427. God will fight for every desperate soul.

  428. When you are desperate, He will come down and help you.

  429. So have the message. So the next part is, what is the

  430. purpose of the law? That is, he goes on from verse

  431. 19 to almost the end of the chapter to verse 25, and then he

  432. finishes with few promises in verse 26 onwards.

  433. The number one purpose, he says, is the purpose of the law.

  434. It was added because of transgressions until the seat to

  435. whom the promise referred to had come.

  436. The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator.

  437. A mediator, however, does not represent just one party.

  438. But God is 1. So what he's trying to say here

  439. is why did the law? Why?

  440. What is the purpose of the law? God gave the 10 commandments so

  441. that everybody who is trying to do them will know that he cannot

  442. keep it. Everybody, whoever is born of a

  443. woman in the world, will be convinced that they cannot keep

  444. the law 100% of all the time in their life.

  445. There will be even one time you break it, you are guilty of

  446. breaking the whole of the law. That's the reason why the law

  447. was given, so that people can become desperate in their own

  448. lives. You know there I always tell

  449. this point in my in my own life, there are times I cried out to

  450. God. God, you have given me, you

  451. called me from a different faith to believe in your Son Jesus.

  452. But I am not seeing victory in this area of my life.

  453. I am falling in the sin again and again and again.

  454. This is not right. This is not why you died for me

  455. on the cross. When I cry out to Him, He has

  456. given me victory over the sin. You need to know the struggle

  457. with sin, and you need to know the victory over sin, because

  458. the gospel will not make sense. Until you know the power of sin,

  459. you will not know the power of salvation.

  460. So here he says it is given so that you will know that you are

  461. helpless. You will know that you cannot by

  462. your own strength fulfill the law.

  463. So you look forward when Christ is coming, appearing on the

  464. scene after 1500 years, and he dies up on the cross and rises

  465. up again from the dead, and that gospel is preached.

  466. You grab it now because you find hope in that gospel.

  467. So the gospel is something God prepared in history.

  468. He did not do it in one day. He gave, he called people, He

  469. made them reveal himself to them.

  470. Like how do you know that Abraham build in the right God?

  471. Its a big question isn't it? Its a philosophical question.

  472. Did he believe in the wrong God? No, How do you know it?

  473. Because of what things that have followed, we know that he build

  474. in the right God. If they believe the wrong God,

  475. people will be butchered. But you believe in the right

  476. God, we will be saved. So that's how you know in

  477. history that the gospel is ratified, certified over and

  478. over and again that it is true by everybody who does contrary

  479. to the gospel. Gospel will be more lifted up.

  480. And then secondly, he says the law was proven defect through

  481. angels. That's OK.

  482. And then he says if the law was given like a tutor is given like

  483. a tutor. What's the job of a tutor?

  484. Like a like a warden? Have you been in a hostel

  485. anytime? If you, if you go to hostel, you

  486. live in a hostel and you study and you, you grow up there.

  487. You know the warden is like a tyrant.

  488. He has complete control over you.

  489. You're sitting down, you're sleeping, you're eating,

  490. everything is in his control. But one day you'll come out of

  491. the hostel. Same way.

  492. The law is given to show us the tyranny of sin so that when we

  493. receive the gospel, we know the life that's available in the

  494. gospel. He is like a warden, He's like a

  495. tutor. He teaches you, He leads you to

  496. the truth. So that is how he explains all

  497. that. I am just trying to finish it

  498. basically, so I am not going into more detail.

  499. But then he says in verse 26 onwards, you are all sons of God

  500. through faith in Christ. Jesus is just somebody who want

  501. to rejoice in hearing those words.

  502. Only one person. You are all sons of God through

  503. faith in Christ Jesus. And when it says your sons of

  504. God, it also means your daughters of God.

  505. Bible doesn't always say sons and daughters, sons and

  506. daughters. Some by some Bibles have been

  507. printed to do that. But don't worry about it when

  508. the Bible says the sons of God is also talking about daughters.

  509. When you believe your daughter will be a son, don't worry.

  510. You can be a son, a powerful one.

  511. Cool. For all of you who are baptized

  512. into Christ have closed yourself with Christ.

  513. You are closed with Christ. That's your identity.

  514. You are all little Christ walking around everywhere.

  515. When you get angry and shout at somebody, they look at your Is

  516. this Christ? Not so much.

  517. So let's be like we have put on Christ.

  518. Let's live like we have put on Christ in love.

  519. Walk in love. There's neither Jew nor Greek,

  520. slave nor free, male nor female, but you are all one in Christ

  521. Jesus. So there's a unity that you see

  522. in Christ Jesus. We are all one in Christ Jesus.

  523. He's the head. We're members of the body.

  524. There's so many different ways Bible talks about the unity of

  525. the believers. We are all one.

  526. We are all children of God. We have put on Christ.

  527. If you belong to Christ, then you're Abraham's seed.

  528. The singular becomes plural. Now what was given as a singular

  529. God promised to one seed, that is, Christ Jesus.

  530. But when you believe in Jesus, you become the seed of Abraham.

  531. You become the seed of Abraham. So one seed is promised to one

  532. seed, but by faith that seed becomes multiplied now,

  533. multiplied now, and is according to the promise, whatever is

  534. promised to Christ. You are an heir to that promise.

  535. You know it is. It is not that easy.

  536. I recently talked to somebody and he said, brother, read

  537. Isaiah 61 every day and pray over it and claim it.

  538. Your life will change. I know when he talked about

  539. Isaiah 61. I know what's there in Isaiah

  540. 61. So there's a big promise there.

  541. There's a big promise there. So you need to be reading,

  542. meditating and claiming it because you are an heir with

  543. Christ. He said go into all the world,

  544. preach the gospel, cast our demons, heal the sick, raise the

  545. dead, let the blind see deaf hear downstream, lame walk, let

  546. dead be raised. That is the promise.

  547. That's the inheritance. That's your inheritance in

  548. Christ Jesus. So you need to walk in.

  549. It is not for only one pastor to do it or 1 elder to do it.

  550. No, it's for everybody. That's why you are.

  551. You can be called and live only as called, not as chosen.

  552. When you are chosen and when you believe it, you will long for

  553. your inheritance. You will be restless, You will

  554. cry out to God. Why blind?

  555. Don't see? Why deaf don't hear?

  556. Why lame don't walk. Why did I not raise you groan in

  557. your spirit? You're longing for it.

  558. You want to be a prophet. You want to bring the Word.

  559. You want to heal. You want to see peoples has

  560. changed. If that hunger is there in you,

  561. you are chosen. If you don't see it, it simply

  562. means you will see it very soon. Why?

  563. You can't be called and chosen and be fruitless?

  564. It's just impossible. It is just impossible.

  565. Shake somebody, give them a hype and say it's impossible not to

  566. bear fruit. You're called, you're chosen.

  567. Abraham was called. He was chosen.

  568. That problem of childlessness is gone.

  569. He had one son at the age of 100, wife being 90 years old,

  570. beyond childbearing. Yes, she was beautiful enough to

  571. be taken away by a king. Just mind.

  572. It's mind blowing. And when I think of Sarah's

  573. beauty or Rebecca's beauty, riches, beauty, I always think

  574. it is just you don't see those kind of people these days.

  575. Somebody who is 90 years old and looks like a 60 year old or 40

  576. year old. It's very difficult because this

  577. is part of the sin problem. You know, it just has an effect

  578. on the body. It runs you down.

  579. But what I am trying to say here is in the Spirit we must be

  580. young. In the Spirit we must be like

  581. eagles which renew their strength and mount up with

  582. strength and family high. That is our inheritance.

  583. That is our inheritance. Your problem is the gateway to

  584. see the power of God. Your problem is the door to see

  585. the power of God in your life. Can you surrender your problem

  586. to God this morning? Shall we pray?

  587. Thank you Jesus. Surrender your problem to Jesus.

  588. He wants to make that a door of hope, a door of power, door of

  589. salvation, door of finding a solution to your problem, a door

  590. for revelation. You will see the power of God

  591. through your problem, surrendering to God, surrender

  592. it to God, surrender it to God, surrender and say God take over,

  593. take over. Take over my life, take over my

  594. problem, take over my future, take over the year 2026.

  595. I want to see your blessing. I want to see your power.

  596. I want to see your power. And God will say you are chosen.

  597. Not only your call, but your chosen.

  598. Father, we thank you this morning again.

  599. We give you glory, honor and praise for speaking to us.

  600. We worship you. We honor you.

  601. We bless your name. We magnify your name.

  602. Oh Father, I pray take our problem.

  603. As the children are surrendering their problem, let your glory

  604. come through the problem. Let them see your glory in the

  605. problem. Let them see that the problem

  606. will become a door that opens to see your glory.

  607. Sarabhaste samaro maka sere sendere sandas Toro rosha

  608. bahanda sarano re banas hasta koroni.

  609. The Lord says I am committed to see you come out of your

  610. problem. As much as you're crying out to

  611. me, I am committed to pull you out of your problem.

  612. I am committed to you, says the Lord.

  613. I am committed to you. Rabbarani Mandastoro, Hoshe Kaha

  614. Samaro Hosta Koroni. Let that sleep lift off from

  615. you. Don't sleep anymore.

  616. Don't sleep. Let sleep cover your problem.

  617. No, don't go into that hibernation mode.

  618. Bring it before God because He wants to give you a

  619. breakthrough. He wants to break away that

  620. problem for you. He wants to let the light come

  621. in through the darkness and He wants to save you.

  622. He wants to rescue you. He wants to prove to you that He

  623. is a living God. Open your heart now.

  624. Open your heart now. Surrender to Him.

  625. We praise you, Godfather, for those hearts that are praying in

  626. their own hearts, crying out to you and God who can look into

  627. our hearts. I praise you for you see those

  628. hearts and you're saying to them, my daughter, my son, I

  629. have called you and I've chosen you to bear fruit, much food to

  630. my glory. Thank you Father, for your word.

  631. Bless this word to your children and let there be joy in our

  632. hearts because we have heard your word and let it change your

  633. lifestyle to the glory of Your name.

  634. Jesus, Mighty name, we ask and everybody says Amen.

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

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

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