Failure is not final Galatians 2 vs 11-16

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Very good. So we are continuing your study

from the book of Galatians chapter 2.

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We finished until was 10 last week.

We will continue from 11 onwards.

Now this is a very important scripture portion and we have

seen how Paul was very passionate to preserve the

gospel, the truth of the gospel, and didn't want to compromise.

But here we see sometimes leaders also make mistake.

Can leaders make mistake? Yes.

So here is a leader, Peter the Apostle, and he is visiting

these people at Antioch. So when Peter came to Antioch, I

oppose him to his face because he was clearly in the wrong.

Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the

Gentiles, but when they arrived he began to draw back and

separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid

of those who belong to the circumcision group.

So what is happening here is that Peter has come to visit the

people of Antioch, the church at Antioch, and he is now, he's

there for some time. So every day he would mingle

with everybody, Jews and Gentiles, and eat with them, sit

with them, have fellowship, talk, preach, everything is

going normal. Suddenly what happened is a

certain group of people, they came from Jerusalem to Antioch,

and they said that they belong to the Apostle James or

followers of Apostle James. But is it possible that Apostle

James would have done it? Would he have said go and check

on Peter whether he is eating with Gentiles or not?

I don't think so. Because in Acts chapter 15 we

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have, we have done this study before acts #15 James was the

one who gave a final verdict about what Gentiles should do,

that they should abstain from meat offered to idols and they

should not eat strangled animals with blood, avoid the blood and

avoid fornication. So that these are the only few

things he put on the Gentiles. Now what is the problem here?

Does it say they cannot eat food with Gentiles in that agreement?

No. So some people saw a loophole in

the direction and they came and they acted as if James sent

them. But when they came and started

influencing Peter, Peter got afraid, you know, and then he

withdrew, withdrew from the Gentiles.

He started eating separate. Like today everybody is sitting

and eating and suddenly you see Peter gets away from here and

sits separately and eats because he doesn't want to eat the

Gentiles. So Paul saw it and then came and

confronted Peter, confronted Peter, say you are wrong.

Now, if he did not do, what would happen?

If Paul did not confront Peter, what would happen?

The gospel will be compromised, the truth will be compromised.

That's the reason why Paul had to confront him.

So the problem with Peter is not a new problem, is it a new

problem? No, this is his nature.

He has been like that before he became a an apostle.

He has been from the building like that.

I would say he would just be like a pendulum.

He will be on one end one day and next within one second he

will go swing to the other end. Let's look at some of the

instances where Peter had changed, let's say when he was

talking. I mean Jesus asked, who do you

say I am? You are the Son of the living

God. And Jesus said flesh and blood

has not revealed this to you. Flesh and blood has not

revealed. This is from the revelation from

my Father. And then after some time he says

when Jesus is talking about, he says Son of Man will be betrayed

into the hands of the Gentiles. They are going to crucify him.

They are going to kill him. He takes him from the crowd and

says, takes him aside and says this will not happen to you.

No, no, no, it's not going to happen to you.

Then Jesus looks at him and said, get behind me, Satan.

Get behind me Satan, because one moment he is receiving

revelation from the Father that Jesus is the Son of the living

God, and the next moment says you will not face the cross,

which is against the will of the Father.

So sometimes we can have some kinds is not always possible,

but sometimes leaders can disappoint.

And here is an example of Peter swinging from one end to the

other revelation that is from the Father to being influenced

by the devil 100%. So from being influenced by the

Holy Spirit is going to the other extreme of being

influenced by the devil. And then he is also a man who we

are not trying to put some mud on Peter to make him look very,

very bad. No, that's not our purpose.

The purpose here is that we all have some of the Peters

characteristics. One day we are up spiritually,

another day we are down spiritually.

Today we are winning over our struggles and next day we are

being losing the defeat. We are losing our battle to the

devil and losing it. I prayed for a man 343 days ago

and he was struggling with an issue and I prayed for him to be

delivered and only this morning I wake up to see the phone and

he says I fell in my sin again. So I knew that the prayer that I

prayed is not 100% effective in the sense he is not fully set

free. So when I go home I'm going to

tell him hey we need to pray again.

Its not, it's not yet over. The battle is not yet over.

So the point I'm trying to make is there will be this kind of a

up and down in Christian life, but we need to learn to walk

with God in a steady way. It has to be a straight line,

not a wave, up and down wave, so that we have to learn.

So some people think it is automatic.

You should just believe in Jesus.

Everything is going to disable. All your problems will be gone,

your temptations will be gone. You become a St. overnight.

It doesn't happen because we have the same soul still.

The day before your conversion, the soul you have is the same

soul you have. The after conversion.

That soul needs to be submitted. That soul needs to be

surrendered to Jesus. It has to be crucified and we

have to train the soul, we have to train the body.

The flesh is the same. The day before he was born again

is the same body you have after the day you are born again.

So that flesh which was doing things is going to continue to

want to do the same things. And you have to tell the flesh,

no, you are dead, you cannot do the same things.

So what? What am I trying to say?

There is a place for dedication, there's a place for resisting,

there's a place for changing your habits.

Habit. It doesn't become.

You don't get a habit in a day, do you?

You had to do it repeatedly. Even the most alcoholic person

who talked to him the very first time you tasted alcohol, what

was it like? Ah, it wasn't so nice.

Then why did you become alcoholic?

Because I kept drinking and drinking until it became nice to

me. It's just like that.

Most of the sins are like that. You first time you commit, you,

you're, you have a conscience. You feel guilty about it.

You don't want to do it, you want to stop it.

But again, a second time you do. A third time we do, the

conscience is dead. It will not tell you anything

anymore now. And you are free to do the same

thing any number of times. We kill our conscience when we

keep doing the very things our consciousness not to do.

So that is how it is. Now look at this man.

He is now going back in the in the boat and in the middle of

the night they were rowing against the wind and it was very

difficult. And Jesus is going passing by,

walking on the sea and they thought he is a ghost.

They cry out and Jesus says no, I am the same.

I am not a ghost, I am Jesus. If you are Jesus, ask me to walk

on the water and come to you. OK, come.

He is the only disciple who had the courage to walk on water.

Were there not other disciples? Did they say we want to walk as

you are walking? So there's good thing about

Peter. We must have that characteristic

of Peter where we want to try and walk on water and to take up

the challenge. Only problem is he looked at the

wind and the waves. They did not stop, but he was

able to walk on the same water. The same wind, same waves did

not stop him from walking, but when he looked at them, he began

to sink. Your problems can be there, but

you don't look at the problem. Don't focus on the problems.

If you want to walk on water, don't focus on your problems.

That's very simple. You focus on the problem.

You are not going to walk on water.

So that is how it is. And this man 1 moment is walking

on water, another moment is sinking.

Jesus saved me and Jesus reached out into his hand, picked him up

and pulled him up and brought him to the boat again.

So one time it is something like that and justice before in the

Garden of Gethsemane, and when the people came to arrest Jesus,

he was impulsive, took out the sword that he had, and I cut off

the ear of the high priest servant, chop one second, the

ear is gone, is on the ground. And Jesus had to tell him, put

that sword back in the sheath, and then he took the ear and put

the man's ear and healed it. Even the last moment.

Jesus is the one who wants to heal.

He wants to heal and do miracles not because anything.

That is His nature. He is God and He cannot be any

other way. He was 100% man, 100% God and He

was wanting to do naturally what He would do.

Even though He is not going to be arrested, He will do the same

thing and He will do the same thing today.

He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

So he was an impulsive guy, foot washing just before, you know,

you see that in the scripture, before he was betrayed, before

he was, I mean, arrested. He wanted to tell the people

that his disciples some valuable lesson.

So he made them sit around and he tied a towel around his waist

and he took a basin of water, came to each one and wash their

feet and dried with the cloth and then goes to the next and

the next. And he comes to Peter.

Peter says no, no, no, you cannot wash my feet, Jesus.

And if I don't wash your feet, then you have no part in me.

OK, Is that so? Give me a bath now.

So one second he's here, another second he's here.

So today what you are seeing Peters behavior is he does not

mean he was not a man of God. He was a man of God.

And you see in Acts chapter 5 when he is walking on the

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streets, people laid the sick on the roadside so that the shadow

of Peter may fall upon them, so that some of them will be

healed. Everybody on whom the shadow

fell was healed. He is the man who was full of

the power of God. But when he look at the man, as

he looked at the waves, he looked at the men who came from

Jerusalem claiming to be men from James.

And he was afraid. He was afraid, influenced by

people. So he withdrew from fellowship

with Gentiles and started eating separately.

And Paul looked at the whole situation and said, Hey, Peter,

is Peter senior to Paul? Yeah.

He's been apostle from the beginning.

He was with Jesus for 3 1/2 years.

And did he deny him? Yeah.

I don't know him. Oh, you guys, what you're

saying? I don't know at all.

I don't know him. I don't know him.

I don't know him. He denied him three times.

And when when Jesus was there being questioned by the thing

and when he was denying, he looked at Peter through the

crowd. And Peter knew what Jesus meant

and he went out and he was convicted of his sin.

He cried, he cried, he cried, and then he was restored.

And even before that, Jesus himself says you are going to

deny me. You are going to tell me 3

times. And afterwards when you are

restored, take care of the sheep.

That means there was a comfort even in the last minute.

Jesus says that's not your end, you deny me is not the end of

your life. You disappointed me is not the

end of your life. You have failed me is not the

end of your life. And today God is telling

somebody here, your failure is not final.

Your failure is not final. He wants to give you a life in

the Spirit, walking in the Spirit victorious over sin and

Satan is not end is not the end. So this this Peter, he when he

walked, he shouted fell on the people.

It healed in chapter 5. And now when you come back to

chapter whatever, maybe after chapter a few more chapter 10

chapters here or 11 chapters, he is now withdrawing from the

crowd. I don't think he's really

actually written in Acts. It's only here in Galatians

about this instance and here Paul had to confront him.

Paul is much younger in age and much younger in his walk with

the Lord and in being an apostle.

Peter was senior to Paul, but it he did not stop Paul from

confronting a senior servant of God, an apostle For us.

Sometimes we say if there's a senior pastor and assistant

pastor, assistant pastor will not dare to go and tell the

senior pastor, Sir, you are wrong.

It is very hard. If he, if he says that, he will

say OK, out of the door. So many churches are like that

happening. But we must have humility to

receive correction. We must have humility to receive

correction, which Peter had. Peter had the humility.

He repented of it. He didn't repeat it.

But you know what great lessons with great cost did not stop

this man from fluctuating. Why in Acts chapter 10, when he

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wanted to, when he was before he went into Cornelius house, what

happened? He had a vision when he was

waiting in the Tanners house, Simon, the Tanners house, he had

a vision. And in the vision he saw heaven

open and the sheet laid down and there were so many kinds of

animals and unclean animals in it, snakes and all kinds of

unclean animals. And he heard a voice saying,

Peter, raw rice, get up, kill and eat because he was hungry at

that time and the food was cooking downstairs.

He was upstairs and the smell must be wafted into the air and

increase his hunger. And he fell into a trance and he

heard the voice saying, arise, kill and eat.

And what did Peter say? Lord, nothing unclean has

entered this mouth. And then God says don't call

unclean what God has called clean.

And this happened how many times?

Three times the sheet came down. He hears the voice, He says, I

cannot eat it. I never eaten anything unclean.

And God says don't call unclean what God has called clean.

So after this such powerful lesson, maybe after another six

months or two years, less than two years, he is travelling from

Jerusalem to Antioch, only to separate himself by looking at

some people, few people, not a big crowd, not the whole church,

just some men from James. He looks at them and he was

afraid and started withdrawing from the rest of the believers,

was eating separately. Until then he was eating every

day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, he was eating with everybody.

But when he saw the men, he withdrew and Paul had to

confront him. So he before certain men came

from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles.

He used to eat is that's what the NIV says.

And when you look into the Greek imp imperfect tense, it means it

was happening all the time. It's just every day was

happening. It was every day happening.

He was eating with everybody, sitting on, eating with

everybody. And then it changed.

So the problem, what is the problem with sin, what is the

problem with any kind of a mistake is it spreads to other

people. It has got a what effect is that

cascading effect? So there is somebody with him,

Barnabas, who was actually a companion of Paul and who was

who took leadership in bringing power from obscurity, from being

unknown, to bring him to the church and to make him a

powerful tool in the church. And Burnabus himself was carried

away into the same mistake and he started joining Peter.

And when this happened, Paul lost it and he went straight to

Peter and said, Peter, you are wrong in this matter.

You are wrong. So we need the kind of those

kind of people and the other Jews join him in his hypocrisy

so that by the hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.

That is what caused Paul more grief.

He was not worried about Peter himself, but he was more worried

that even Barnabas was joining him.

And tomorrow the whole church will become the same thing.

And the very purpose for which God chose Paul, the very purpose

for which he chose the apostles and to take the gospel to the

whole world is going to go into the rubbish bin by that kind of

behavior is going to be canned forever.

That's the reason why Paul had to stand up for the truth.

When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of

the gospel, in line with the truth of the gospel.

So this is how we have to train our mind.

You don't need everything written there.

Don't eat pork, don't eat this, don't eat that.

You don't need a full, full list of the don'ts.

Don't don't. You don't need it.

You need to understand the gospel in such a way that when

you say something, is it in line with the gospel or is out of

line with the gospel, and that is how you train your mind.

So some people say, oh, where is it written?

You should not drink. Don't worry about where is

written. Is it going to help you to be

holy? Will it help you to be a

prophet? Will help you to raise the rate,

will help you to heal somebody? I tell you, whoever is

compromising never walks in miracles.

No, that is a proof that that thing is not right.

You, you want to know how something is right or wrong.

You will know by its effect upon you.

You will know what it is stopping you from doing.

If it is stopping you from becoming like Jesus, that is a

sin to you. You don't need somebody write

something here. If it is stopping you from

becoming like Jesus, that is a sin to you.

That is very simple. So I said to Peter in front of

the mall, You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and are not

like a Jew. How is it then that you force

Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?

Now this is law versus grace. You have the laws, 10

commandments. You are not able to follow it.

You are failing it every day. And when you are failing from

doing what the law is commanding, you are living like

a Gentile. So you are a Jew living like a

Gentile. Then why do you force Gentiles

live like Jews, which you yourself are not able to walk?

Many times when you speak against somebody's behavior,

somebody what they have done is wrong and you do the same thing,

you are condemning yourself. You don't need a judge with a

gavel, bang, bang, bang, you're done wrong.

You don't need anybody to say it.

You do what you disapprove in somebody, the same moment we are

condemning ourselves. That's how it works.

So what we see here is very interesting thing I found here

is let's say Paul is confronting Peter, But what is said about

Paul when you see particularly I'll read from you, from

Corinthians, Yeah, comparing Paul and Peter,

what we can learn. Paul says I was becoming a Jew

to a Jew so that I can win some Jews.

I became a like the one like a somebody under a law.

I became like one who is under the law to win those who are

under the law. And to those who are without the

law, I became like 1 without the law so that I can win them too.

So how is Paul compromising things different from Peter not

eating with the Gentiles? They are two different things.

Two different things Paul is doing for a purpose.

He's adapting. He's adapting so that the gospel

will have more impact, whereas Peters choice of not eating with

the Gentiles is actually having a negative effect of

discouraging people from believing in the gospel.

Authenticity of the gospel is watered down by his withdrawing

from the people. So he is adapting for further in

the gospel and Peter is doing something to bring down the

effect of the gospel. That's why Paul is right and

Peter is wrong. Are we together here?

Compromise is wrong where it distorts the gospel or creates

division. The difference lies in motive,

love versus fear. Paul loved the people, so he was

going out of his way to show them that he is with them and

helping them to encourage to believe in Jesus.

Whereas Peter is acting out of fear, not out of love.

So this is one of those things, when you are doing something,

check in your heart, is it fear that's making you do or is it

love that's making you do? If you love somebody, then you

are going to do mostly the right thing.

But if it's a fear that is making you do something, then

you are going to do something that is wrong.

So that's why we need to check ourselves.

Now, sometimes this whole, this is a very important thing I'm

going to talk about is that how do we solve in the generation?

How do we live with the authentic Christian life?

How do we live? I bring before you an example of

a missionary called Hudson Taylor.

Anybody heard his name? Hudson Taylor was a missionary

to China. So when he went to China, what

he did was that he adapted their clothes.

He adapted their hairstyle. You know, they shave off in the

front and then they have this long hair and they braid the

hair in the in the back and to wear their clothes and eat with

chopsticks and not live in a luxurious home, but a home like

any other Chinese would live. Many of the many of the

missionaries, they will have a missionary bungalow, a big

palace, a big mansion with many rooms and luxurious lifestyle.

It will be inside, it will be America or UK and outside they

are living with poor people. That's how you see many

missionaries happening. But when Hudson Teller went to

China, he said, no, I want to be like them.

So he would shave off his friend and put the would take the hair

to the back and long hair and braid it and wear those long

clothes and eat with chopsticks. Live in a simple, simple home

and learn Chinese and different dialects.

There's not one language there in the each region has a

different language. And he would learn different

languages and would preach in Chinese, write in Chinese.

When you do that, you are transforming the gospel into a

friendly gospel, a gospel that they can receive without

suspicion, without fear, without rejection.

That is how we have to give flesh to the gospel.

You become transformed in a way that the people to whom you are

going, they will say this man, he loves me, this man he loves

us and he has a authentic message because you are living

the gospel before them. So that is how it has to be.

Cultural identification has to be done.

Language has to be changed. The heart language has to become

the local language and then lifestyle simplicity.

He lived in Chinese style housing and when people wanted

to come as missionary to China, he would tell them, hey, you

want to be a white man here when you come from London and be a

missionary, I don't want you here.

You must be willing to adopt the same lifestyle like I do.

So they have to go through this training where they have to

learn to eat with chopsticks instead of the fork and the

knife and they have to wear those clothes.

They have to live in simple housing.

It is a rigorous training and no wonder he had a huge mass of

missionaries. I think I am from my memory, I

think at least 400 missionaries were there who went into all

four corners of every corner of China to impact with the gospel.

So today you have underground church, but the foundation was

laid by Hudson Taylor. Today the church is going

through tribulation and is still surviving because somebody laid

a strong foundation, unshakable foundation.

So we need to be very, very clear about the power of the

gospel, its impact, its scope, its its depth, its grander, its

glory. I tell you, many Christians

don't know the glory of the gospel.

We don't know. We should not be ashamed to

confess, say I didn't know there many years, even though I was

preaching from the Word, I didn't understand the glory of

the gospel. It is the power of God to say

everybody, everyone, and we need to know the depth and power of

the gospel. Only then you, when you speak

the authentic gospel will flow out of your lips because it has

to be in the heart first. How glorious is the gospel?

How powerful is the gospel? We don't know it.

Then you will go and say tap on somebody's shoulder.

I want to tell you about Jesus for spiritual laws.

I'm not talking against for spiritual laws.

It has changed many people. It saved many people brought to

the Kingdom. It brought many people to the

Kingdom. But the point I'm trying to make

is it has to go from inside your heart and go out of your mouth.

And the person who listens to the gospel will know that this

is the truth, the living truth of the living God.

And it will come like a revelation to him.

It will come like a powerful revelation to him.

And that is how it is. It will make an impact upon the

person who is listening. Some of us are Christians for

1020 years without knowing the power of the Gospel.

We don't know how power, how much power is in the bread of

Jesus. We don't know how much power in

the in the the stripes that he has went through.

We don't know how much power is in the cross on which he died.

We don't know it. It is time for us to have a

fresh look at the cross, a fresh look at the direction of Jesus,

a fresh look at the power of the world.

We who are Jews by birth and not gentle sinners.

He is not trying to put down Gentiles as sinners down.

No, it was a usual Jewish language.

They are called Gentiles who are non Jew as a Sinner because they

did not have the law of God. They did not have the 10

commandments. That is the reason why Jews call

Gentiles as sinners. But he says we who are Jews by

birth and not gentle sinners, know that a man is not justified

by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.

Hallelujah. You are not saved by obeying the

commandments. You are saved by faith in Jesus

Christ. Only Jesus plus nothing.

Jesus plus nothing, no more of circumcision, no more of doing

this. The tabernacles festival of

tabernacles are Passover. He is ultimate Passover down in

dusted its all over. We have to believe in that

Jesus, the historical Jesus who did everything required by the

law and he has completed the law.

He has satisfied everything He said, Sanam, and came not about

His law, but to fulfill every dot and iota, because in the

language of Hebrews, in the Hebrew language, a dot can

change the whole way. You say something, so you say

remove a dot, you will say you have to say differently.

You got a dash. You say something and the dash

is not there. You say something else.

So He came even the invisible things to emphasize the

invisible things to emphasize everything.

That is what is funny about Hebrew language is there are no

vowels in it. You only have consonants, the

words. How do you learn?

Only by hearing. It is much later.

The Masorets, when they came and they translated the Bible, they

are the ones who put how to say it and developed a system.

You put a dot, it is he. You put this one, it is AO.

You don't know otherwise. But Jesus says I came to fulfill

every part of the law, and he did it.

He did it. Paul, who knew Hebrew and Greek

and Aramaic, he knew what Jesus meant when he says he I came to

fulfill the law. He knows it.

The breadth of it, the depth of it, the power of it.

He knew it. So here we see again in verse

16, know that a man is not justified by observing the law,

but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in

Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ,

not by observing the law, because by observing the law no

one will be justified. No one is going to be justified

by observing the law. That's the reason why Jesus came

and fulfilled the law for you and me, so that we may receive

the righteousness that comes by faith, by believing in Him as if

you have followed the law, as if you have followed the law, as

you obeyed the law all your life, whatever righteousness you

are going to get, He is giving you the moment you believe in

Jesus justification by faith. He is one of those doctrines of

reformation and that is the one that has split the church from

Catholic domination. You have the Protestants

justification by faith. Type it in your Google and ask

what is justification by faith. You will have all that doctrine

of it. Study it, read it.

It is it is important tenet or basic faith statement that we

all believe and many churches are stopped talking about it.

When do they have time to talk about justification by faith?

I don't think many churches have a time to talk about it.

I tell you is a very basic doctrine on which your faith

leaves, stands or false. It's as powerful.

It is not just only giving you a clean slate.

It's easy to say all your past is gone when you believe in

Jesus. What's next?

Where do I stand? You are given the righteousness

of Jesus so that the moment even the thief on the cross, they

said Remember Me in your Kingdom.

When he died, he said you will be with me in paradise today.

The same second. He did not have time to fight

temptations and sanctification and all this kind of process,

but the moment on the cross he said Remember Me in your

Kingdom. Jesus said you will be with me

in paradise today. It is as powerful.

The word of Jesus is powerful. What he said to the thief, he is

telling to everybody, I am not waiting for you to do this,

this, this, this. I give you my righteousness

because you believe in what I have done for you and you are

ready to receive a reward that is due to a righteous living.

When you believe in Jesus and go to the Father, he says well done

my son, well done my daughter. I want to reward you for the

righteousness that you received from my son and give you the

reward for it. The practical implication of

doing or obeying the law, doing the things that are demanded by

law, or our volitional willful actions.

Because we believe we don't do those things because we are

going to be saved, because we are saved, we are going to do

those things. We cannot divorce the right

living and the right confession. You cannot divorce them.

Both go together and we cannot. We cannot separate it.

The truth of the Gospel 1500 years under the Law of Moses has

not changed the people to obey the law.

And the Jews are living like Gentiles, those who don't have

the law. So was 1516 justification by

faith and not by works. Jews have to put their faith in

Jesus and are not justified by observing the law.

They have to believe in Jesus. Every Jew has to believe in

Jesus and every gentle has to believe in Jesus.

There's no other way. There's no other way any man can

be saved. So what I'm trying to encourage

today is let us look at our, let us look into our own heart and

see when and how we failed God and tell yourself that is not

the end of my life. That is not my destiny.

I must have failed God, but that's not the end of my life.

I want to surrender to Jesus. I want to my I want to renew my

mind with the word of God. I want my soul to be transformed

by the impact of the world because I love Jesus, because I

worship him, because I obey him. And as you do it, you will be

transformed to the likeness of Jesus.

Shall we pray, Father, in the name of Jesus?

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

Like Peter himself, oh, Godfather has been your son, but

he wavered so much, but yet you made him a pillar in the church

and you made him over. You gave him the keys of heaven.

We praise you Jesus. And you said, I will build my

church upon this rock, and the gates of shall not prevail

against it. We thank you, Father.

You are not depending on a weak vessel, but you are depending

upon a rock. By your power, by the power of

the Holy Ghost, you are going to make him a rock and build your

church. So I pray, take us all with our

weaknesses, make us like a rock as you turn Peter who is a Reed,

Simon, a Reed into a rock. Peter, I pray same way.

Turn us in from inside out and make us strong and build your

church. And we thank you, for the gates

of us shall not prevail against it.

We worship, we honor you, we praise you Jesus.

Now you want to say, yeah, I want to surrender my life to

Jesus. Just quickly stand where you

are. And I want to pray for you that

the Lord will have mercy and touch you right now and remove

those faltering heart and put a steady heart in that place, that

he will remove the heart of flesh, heart of stone, and give

you a heart of flesh in the name of Jesus.

Surrender, surrender, surrender. The Lord says, like Moses, he

gave the law to set people free, but they were enslaved by it.

But I give you life, says the Lord this morning.

He wants to give you life. Take it, take it, take it, take

it, take it. He is giving you life.

Take it, take it, take it, take it, take it, take it now.

Holy Ghost, fall upon the children now.

Refresh them now in the name of Jesus.

Refresh them now in the name of Jesus.

Refresh them now in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord, bless your children this morning.

Jesus name, we ask? Amen.

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