What are we saved from - Galatians 1 vs 1-5

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this, let's read the worst one, Paul, an apostle sent not from

men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who

raised him from the dead and all the brothers with me.

Now this is a very unusual beginning of an epistle that

Paul makes so many times. He will be exuberant and he will

be praising God and for the people giving thanks for them.

You know greetings here the no greeting greetings come later.

It comes in to the churches in aggression peace to you was in

verse 3. It comes So what was the

pressing thing that is in Pauls mind.

Why was Paul under pressure to sidestep and not follow the

protocol of letter writing. You know who is writing to whom

they are writing in a greetings and then you start with the

matter. But here is something is

troubling Paul. What is troubling Paul is that

his apostleship was being questioned.

People are questioning the apostleship and saying, oh, are

you an apostle? No, no, no.

Did you, did you see Jesus Christ?

You know when we look into that scripture portion in Acts

Acts 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1/22/21 and 22 when they want to select one more apostle

to replace Judas who had committed suicide, they put few

conditions. One of the things they said is

that apostle should be eyewitness from the time of

Jesus baptism by John the Baptist till he appeared to

them. Reason.

So that is one of the condition. But I think even among the 12

not all were witnesses, witnesses of John, the baptism

of John from the way I look at the study the scripture.

But from that point on they should be knowing Jesus.

The second thing they said is eyewitness of resurrection.

They should have witnessed A risen Christ.

And thirdly, appointed directly by reason Jesus Christ.

Then empowered by Jesus, you will receive power when the Holy

Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses.

Acts 1/8. When these things are all

fulfilled, then that person can be an apostle.

So with great difficulty they found two people.

They cost large selected one man called Matthias not almost has

so to be an apostle. There are qualifications, but

Paul says OK if they if these are the qualifications to be an

apostle to one who is born out of time.

He appeared to me also, he seen the reason Christ, but in a

vision as he was pursuing Judaism and he was persecuting

the Church and we was going to Damascus and then you know all

the story we have done when we studied the book of Acts,

basically many things that I want to say I am holding back

because I already have said it when we studied the book of

Acts, but I will remind a little bit here and there.

So he says he is an apostle sent not from men nor by man.

So two times the words used there is men and man is the

Greek root word is anthropos. Anthropos is in general for

mankind, not an individual man. Individual man is aner, Aner is

the Greek word for individual man and gynec or some word is

for the female if it is an individual female.

So here we see that it is not by man, not from men, not by man.

What does he mean by it? When he became blind on the day

Jesus appeared to him, he told him, go into the city, you'll be

told what to do. And he was waiting there for

fasting and praying for three days.

And God says to ananyas, go, there's a man called Saul living

in the street, and go and lay and lay your hands on him,

because he has seen you come and lay your hands on him to receive

his sight. He has become blind.

So was not Ananyas playing a very important key role in

Paul's life? But he has, he says, not by men,

not by man. So God can use people, but

behind the people is God. He's not trying to be ungrateful

to say ananyas. I don't care what he did for me.

He's not saying that. What he's saying is Gods hand is

on my life in my car. That's what he's saying.

And then and but by Jesus Christ and God the Father.

Now again he says he's, he's appointed an apostle by Jesus

Christ and by the Father. Now when he's saying these two

names together, what does he mean?

He's putting Jesus Christ on the same level as God the Father.

He's not trying to say 1 is lower, another is higher.

No, he's saying both are the same, both are equal, Co eternal

coexistent. You know, that's how the apostle

script goes, one of the apostle scripts.

So and he says God the Father who raised him from the dead,

who raised Jesus from the dead, God the Father.

And elsewhere he says I have, I have power to lay down my life

and take it back. So who raises himself?

He raised himself as well. And somewhere in Romans again,

Paul writes, he was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit raised him up. So all three persons are

involved in every act of the life of Christ.

It is not just only one anytime. So here we have all these things

and and going on at the same time.

So again when you when you look at this kind of a thing you have

to observe the little little words in in that verse Paul and

apostle sent not from men from that little preposition from

says that it is a source. What is the source of his

apathership? Jesus Christ and God the Father

and then he says again by nor nor by man agency is not through

any man's agency but God himself.

I always wondered why is Paul taking so much of pain to

establish his apathership? Because you know he, he made

three trips, three I mean Pauls missionary journey 1-2 and three

we see it and then this letter is written to where does he

where does he say to the churches in Galatia?

So what are the churches in Galatia?

I have explained these things. When we did the study on Book of

Acts, when he particularly came to the area of Bithynia, the

Holy Spirit would not allow him to preach the gospel there.

Instead, he had a vision of a man from Macedonia saying to

him, please come and help us. So they set sail again to Troas.

Remember these things we talked about, you know, I have not even

referred to them yesterday or day before.

Anytime. It's all from this study of

acts. So if he did not go into

Bithynia, that's called, that area is called Northern Galatia.

But he went through Antioch, PCD and all those kind of places,

Troas, that is the Southern Galatia.

Now what is all this about? In 3rd century BC, the soldiers

came from France. Those days they should call them

Gaul, Gaul, Gaul. And they came and attacked and

came in, I mean in war. And some of them settled in that

place. And when the Romans came, after

three centuries and when the Romans came, they have formed

one big district or one big province, and they called it

Galatia. So all the little cities that

are there in that region, they are called Galatia.

So Galatia is not one city, it's a province kind of a thing.

So the question the theologians have is, is he writing to the

churches in the northern Galatia or the southern Galatia?

But in the book of Acts, we don't have much reference to

northern Galatia at all. So most of the churches he

mentions in the book of Acts is southern Galatia.

So most probably the letter is written to southern Galatia.

I do not want to have an argument about that part because

it doesn't really matter to us now whether it is that or this.

We have the epistle and which is the earliest of the episodes

that he wrote and because of, and this is also called a mini

book of Romans. It's called a mini book of

Romans. Why?

In this episode, Paul defends or proves that justification is by

faith. And you know, two or three days

ago we had Halloween, but that is the time Joseph was saying it

is the Reformation day. Every year the same day.

Reformation Day falls on the same day as Halloween, or rather

Halloween falls on the same day as Reformation Day.

People don't celebrate Reformation day.

Book of Galatians, Galatians is all about that.

And this book was very dear to Martin Luther, one of the best

books. I mean, he has written

extensively on the book of Galatians and Martin Luther who

brought the big revival called Reformation.

And one of the key things he mentioned is that we are

justified by faith, which was something went against the Roman

Catholicism that was prevailing at that time.

The Catholic Church was trying to sell indulgences, you know,

certificates and put money here. Your father died all long time

ago. When you put the money, he will

jump from here to here. All those kinds of funny stories

were going on at that time until Martin Luther said, no, we are

justified by faith. And that particular thing that

you see is more fully expounded in the book of Romans, but he

also expounds it in the book of Galatians.

So what they say is Galatians is the first episode he wrote, and

he developed the idea from the book of Romans, from writing to

Galatians. He got the idea and further

expanded it into another letter to Romans and which is more

powerful and more in depth and has a greater scope.

We all grow. Martin Luther grew in his

understanding. We also grow in our

understanding. It is all step by step.

So what is the problem here is he has gone through these

churches and preached the gospel, established the

churches. But when he is coming again, the

second journey or sometime he saw, he saw that people are

leaving the faith because some people who wanted to distort the

gospel came and were preaching a different gospel, which I am

going to talk about it next Sunday because that is there in

verse 7. Today I am hoping to finish only

5 verses. If I finish 5 verses, I'll be

very glad. So that was his problem.

So he's challenging these people.

Hey guys, have you forgotten? Why are you leaving the gospel,

the gospel that I preached and why are you changing your faith?

Why are you believing which is not a gospel?

So that was his concern for writing this kind of a epistle.

And with the gospel comes challenge to his apostleship.

Why? If people have to, if somebody

who wants to change somebodies faith, first you will attack the

man, they will attack the teaching, both at the same time.

So that is what they were doing here.

You're attaching his attacking his teaching and you're

attacking the man. So he's saying, hey, you can't

do it because God had called me. God has called me and nobody has

called me. He's the one who appeared to me.

He's the one who called me. He's the one appointment to an

apostle. What is apostle?

It's simply in the Greek it simply means sent one.

But Jesus applied it to his disciples and called them

apostles and he gave them a different meaning.

They are going to be his Commission commissioners, they

are going to be his ambassadors, they are going to be

representing Jesus and they are going to represent all that

Jesus taught, all that Jesus did, and they are going to

continue to do what Jesus did through their life.

And that is the reason why the word apostle has got a more

significant meaning, because of the meaning that Jesus put into

their disciples, whom we call apostles, and the way he used

them for the furtherance of the gospel and for the establishment

of the Kingdom of God and for establishing the churches.

That is the reason why the apostle has assumed a very big

meaning. But nowadays everybody calls

himself an apostle. I am not going into that.

But be careful. Whoever calls an apostle, I will

just, you know. So we have to be very careful.

I don't want to call myself an apostle.

No, I am not an apostle. I have seen Christ.

I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit.

I have seen Christ in a vision, but not that vision that you

know, the open vision. I have not seen Christ in open

vision. I have seen him in a spiritual

vision with my eyes closed. But open vision is when your

eyes are open. And that's why Paul lost his

eyesight because he saw the glory with his physical eyes and

he became blind. So I don't have this experience.

So I'm not an apostle. So I'm just.

So anyway, one of the things that is important to any church

is when there is a pastor, he should know his call.

If the pastor is not clear about his call, where is he going to

take them? It's like blind leading the

blind. So it's going to be a very, very

bad situation. So pastor should know that he is

called and very important and like Paul's relationship is

challenged, Moses relationship is challenged and in the

prophets were challenged like Jeremiah, he was challenged and

so many times you know they, I mean Jesus himself was

challenged and ultimately they crucified him.

So that thing is going to happen.

History will repeat itself. But we need to be careful what

we oppose. We need to be very careful

because there is a blessing in agreement which will be lost

when we don't agree. Cool.

So Paul and apostle sent not from men nor by man, but by

Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead and

all the brothers with me. So here he doesn't tell who are

with him. Probably Barnabas was with him

or if it is a in the second missionary journey they split

and Silverness was with him or another name.

Many, probably Timothy was with him and a few other people were

with him. So Paul had this magnetic

personality that people are able to leave their home, their

business and things like that and follow him and preach the

gospel and support him, be with him.

It amazes me in those days who would you leave your home?

You don't know when you are coming back.

You leave your wife, your children, your business and say,

hey, I'm going with Paul. It is very, very scary

experience, at least to me to sit now and think of these

people following Paul. It scares me and I always ask

God, Lord, why don't I attract anybody?

Nobody believes me so much like anyway, just leave it there.

That thought and yeah, so he is graciously giving the Co

authorship to the people who are with him.

He's not just saying I am writing this letter, He's saying

I am called, I am called to an apostle.

But we are all writing together, including other people with him

in writing this letter. And now he comes back to the

usual standard. Grace and peace to you from God

our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you have heard me before, you know what I'm going to say,

isn't it? The grace is the Greek Paris and

the peace is the Shalom of Hebrew concept and he combines

them both and give makes a Christian greeting which is very

powerful in his depth and scope because grace is the foundation

for Our Calling. Grace is a foundation for us to

experience God. Grace is the foundation that is

drawing you to God. You cannot be drawn to God

unless he shows grace to you. And when he says peace, Shalom,

that's all-encompassing Shalom, peace, peace not just in your

mind, it is peace in your spirit, is peace in your soul

that includes your mind, is peace in your emotions.

There's peace in your health, peace in your body.

There will not be sickness, there will not be trouble.

There is peace. And I tell you, this is what we

need, grace and peace, everyone of us.

And that's Paul says to Galatians, yes, it is yours.

And when he says it to them, he is saying to us, grace and peace

is yours. Can we hear Amen, Amen.

From God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Again, he puts both of them together in the same thing.

So you have it from the Father and from Jesus, grace and peace,

who gave himself for our sins, who gave himself for our sins.

He is saying that Jesus gave himself for our sins.

But we know John 316. What does it say?

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, who gave

the Father. Father gave Son to die.

And here Jesus says, Paul says Jesus gave himself up to die.

Did the Holy Spirit say Amen? Was he there?

He was there when he was conceived.

He was there upon Mary so that Jesus can come into the world,

so that he can die. You know, this is just amazing

how you have the Triune God acting all the time, in every

act, every, every, every minute detail.

So he gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present

evil age. Everybody say rescue us from the

present evil age. Now rescue is a very big world.

Rescue is a very big world. Rescue is pulling someone out of

danger, forcefully taking them out of danger.

It's something like, imagine a house caught on fire and there's

a little baby there. What are you going to do?

You are going to rush through the fire, through the smoke, and

you're going to grab the child and pull the child out of the

danger. So you are going to do 2 things.

One is it is you. You are, you are pulling that

baby out of the danger. Is the baby saying please take

me off from here may not be able to say that, but you are

forcefully bringing the child out of the situation.

It is beyond your capacity, beyond your imagination even.

You don't even think you are going to live or you may not be

aware of the danger, but God says I rescue you, I rescue you

and the rescue. Did Paul experience powerful

rescue in his life? He did.

The way he was going, the road that on which he was going was a

murderous Rd., Rd. full of bloodshed.

And God rescued him from that kind of a situation or he

rescued him. So he knows what is to be

rescued from being distracted forever, his name being struck

off forever in the books of in the in the Book of Life, God

rescued him from going down that road and rescued him.

And then when mobs were attacking him, the centurion

rescued him, you know? Yeah, when he was talking to the

people, you know, people were wanting to kill him and they

surrounded him and they were trying to punch him.

And then the Century and orders his soldiers go bring him up

from there so that they lift him up from the crowd and bring him

inside. That's rescue.

He was rescued himself like that.

And then human agents become God's instruments of God's

productive purpose like that Centurion has become a even

though he was a human agent, he became a God's instrument to

rescue Paul from being killed in the situation.

And then in the in the in the life of Peter.

He was, he had wanted to kill him because he had success with

James and now he's OK. People are liking me what I have

done. So he puts Peter in the prison,

wanting him to execute him or to, you know, take his head away

after the festival and he was in the jail and you got 3.

It's a very high, high security prison.

And what did God do? The Angel goes into the cell.

He was asleep. He was very sound asleep and

people here in Mark's house, his parents house, all the people

are losing sleep and they are praying for him.

God rescue him, rescue him, rescue him.

And there's one said prayer is going on.

And this man, he was sleeping in a cell and the Angel comes and

taps him and shakes him and say get up.

He thought I am seeing a vision. I think he's in the days

condition. He's thinking he's a vision.

He's seeing a vision, and the fetus fell off.

He became free, and his coat must be hanging on a nail

somewhere there. He picks it up, puts on the

coat, and then the door opens by itself.

Then he comes to another door. The soldiers are all sleeping,

and that door opens and the last gate approaches the prison that

opens by itself. You know, that will be the most

heaviest door made out of iron, and even if you open, it will be

squeaking and making noise, and then that opens by itself.

And Peter was laid out and he walked few blocks and then the

Angel left him. And when he found himself,

probably he must have gone and hit the wall sidewall.

Oh, it's real. Oh, I thought it's a vision.

No, I've been rescued. That is a powerful world rescue.

So that is what Paul is saying, that Jesus Christ has rescued us

from the present evil age. Everybody say present evil age.

So what is the present evil age? What is the characteristic of

present evil age? He talks about in Ephesians

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chapter 2 as well. It is you are all dead in your

sins and trespasses. You know when when you are dead

in your sins and trespasses, when you are obeying the Prince

of the present, Prince of the power of the air, you are

basically when you don't have salvation.

You are under the grip of Satan. Satan rules your life.

If Satan dictates your likes and dislikes, he makes you like

things that are contrary to the will of God, and you get deeper

and deeper into sin and that is what is the picture.

And God rescues us from the present evil age and gives us

salvation, forgiveness and a new title, son or daughter of God.

And he says, Yo, I have put you my own righteousness upon you.

You are no longer a Sinner anymore.

What a great, what a great good news is it?

It is just goodbye to your past. You just look at the past.

Goodbye. I have nothing to do with you

anymore. No, that's amazing good news.

And that good news is being corrupted by the people saying

you need to undergo circumcision, you need to follow

Mosaic law, you have to obey the Old Testament laws.

And that's why Paul was very angry with the people who are

distorting the gospel. And he says, OK, you're

attacking me and attacking the gospel.

I am not keeping quiet. I am called by God.

That's why he had to put his foot down in order that the

gospel will be unhindered and will be restored because of one

man, Paul. We have the gospel today in its

purest form because even Peter compromise.

You see it in Acts chapter 15. The he also joined the people

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who wanted to disturb the gospel and he questioned him to his

face, why do you do this? Why are you separating yourself

from the non Jewish people, Gentiles, and eating only with

the Jewish people? Because of that one event.

Today we have the Bible and the gospel in the purest form.

Praise God. We need to praise God for Paul.

You know, the more I think of Paul, I don't know.

I'm a fan of Paul probably. And when I go to heaven, maybe I

look for the first person I want to meet is Paul.

When he was on earth, he was not very impressive at all.

He was very short man with a nose like an eagle.

That's what they say may not be so bad, but must be cold and

long. And I'm not trying to put down.

But he says himself says in one of the episodes you are in

appearance, you think I'm not very impressive in person but

very forceful in writing. What he was trying to say is

that I'm not so impressive in in my physical being, but he was

very impressive when it comes to writing the letters very

forceful. The revelation full of

revelation and authority of God. You know the apostle is marked

by the authority of Christ when they say things.

This is what I see God is saying.

They are bringing the authority of Christ into their words.

But we don't do it like other people think, you say, some of

the people who, particularly evangelicals, when they

criticize the Pentecostals about the prophecy about revelation,

they say revelation has ceased. We have the complete Bible.

Why? You won't have revelation.

But even though the Bible is complete, you still have, you

need revelation to understand that.

Without it you cannot. But the revelation is not on par

with the Bible, but it is enhancing the understanding and

it gives you more depth, it gives you more appreciation to

the Word of God. And it impulse you, it moves

your will to obey the Word. And that's the work of the Holy

Host. And when we need that work of

the Holy Spirit in our life all the time.

So here we see that what kind of he talks about the present age,

evil age and there are two kinds of ages.

One is talks about the present age is marked by sin, decay and

Satan's influence. Second Corinthians 4/4 and

there's another age to come That's in the future when that

age is we talk about it is characterized by Christ visible

reign, righteousness and restoration.

There will not be any tears anymore in that age.

There will not be the regrets anymore because Christ restores

everything at that time. It is in future age, so the

present evil age shows itself in many different ways.

So I may have to run through quickly.

Just bear with me #1 is secular humanism and relativism truth

treated as subjective, undermining biblical authority?

You think so when I say you may say a long sentence, 30 minutes.

Oh, that's what you think. So that means I don't think so.

I don't think so. So you go and preach the gospel.

The look, the man, oh, you think so that means he's not thinking

like you. So that word you think so detach

detaches the man who's saying his word from what you're

saying, he's protecting himself. He's saying no, no, I don't

belong to that kind of a man. I don't believe in that kind of

a faith. So that's what it is.

So secularism, a secular humanism and relativism, there

are no absolutes. Second thing is materialism and

consumer greed. This is the age characteristic

of the present ages. Materialism want more and more

and more, we just want to buy. Nowadays, buying online has

become the way to shop. You know, so the long time ago I

prayed for a man and his parents, particularly the mother

was still alive at the time and she became sick.

And when she became sick, they called the ambulance.

And when the ambulance came, they could not enter the house

because she would buy things and keep them in the same packaging

in the house, full up to the door.

So they had to break open the door and enter the house, take

away things and they put her in the hospital and then she says I

want my things here. So they had to carry 10 or 15 of

some other things and put around the bed for her to feel little

comfortable. It's just a sickness when you go

on a shopping spree without the need for them.

We are yielding to sickness. We need to be careful, OK?

I am not trying to terrify anybody.

It just when we preachers talk about something extreme to make

you aware of something that can be done in a somewhere in the

middle as well. You know, it doesn't mean I

don't buy things, but I'll buy only when we need it.

So that's how it is. Particularly I see this one, you

know, so many times, you know, I see people, they have different

cupboard, their house is not enough because they have shoes

50 colors and they have got dresses 50 colors.

Matching hat should be red, dress should be red, shoes

should be red. Let's not talk about that too

much. You may offend somebody, but I

want you to have a decent understanding or decent dress.

Clean, not necessarily expensive also.

You just need to be clean. That's all you need minimum.

And I tell you, if you smell no it's not acceptable.

Cool. 3rd sexual confusion and immorality.

That's the present evil age. You talk to your 4 year old, 6

year old. They are just brainwashing them

in the kindi and in the school they are trying to say hey oh

are you a girl? What's your name?

Maybe you could be boy. Why are you not a boy?

No, they just confuse them purposefully.

We need to resist it. That's not right.

That's the spirit of the age. Culture of death, abortion,

euthanasia, violence is becoming normal.

You don't agree with the government, you are going to be

hacked. Your accounts will be hacked,

and they are going to put trouble, put you trouble.

Sometimes they may even arrest you.

And in many countries, though they are called democratic

countries, you have no freedom of speech.

That's the present evil age. Technological idolatry.

What can we say about it? Trusting algorithms, Data above

divine wisdom. You just want to trust to you

make your money when you're sleeping.

You have bought the trades on your behalf and makes money for

you. You know, I don't know how far

it is right or wrong, but I would not go for it.

Personally, I'm happy with bread and beans.

You know, I'm not really worried.

I should have roast chicken and roast beef and roast this and

all every meal. No I'm not worried about it.

You just need to live and when the times come in the future

when there's going to be persecution against the church,

if you have bread and beans you will be praising God.

Enjoy while you can at the same time, but not over indulgence.

The next thing is entertainment saturated with occult blasphemy

and a mockery of righteousness. It is spiritual.

It is very, very spiritual. I counseled a man whose

profession was to take the stem cells from, you know, the baby

and the mother. There's a umbilical cord and

then they take cells from the stem cells and using those

cells, he in the lab can grow whatever you want.

The person wants. He wants a liver.

They will turn those stem cells into a liver.

He wants a heart. They develop a heart in the

laboratory, Laboratory. And this is the job He was.

And when we prayed for him, he was manifesting a demon.

We cast it out and I said this is coming from your job.

And that man, he said, OK, if this is what it is, I am not

going back to my job. He's trying to find another

career now. IT science and technology, we

need to be careful. Not everything that is labeled

science is really science. It can be accord and without

your knowledge, the demon can work through that.

You need to have a simplified life.

That's all I would advocate. So we need to be very careful

how we live. So this is what Christ is

redeeming us, rescuing us in the present evil age from

technology, from sexual confusion, from materialism,

from humanism, and from entertainment saturated with

accord. You know, you go to Hollywood,

you know how much accord is in the Hollywood.

You are not part of the accord. You will not be successful.

Your song that you write, the song that you sing will not be

the top unless you are part of the accord.

Now, why do you want to listen to that song?

You're opening the door to the devil.

I'm not trying to terrify, you know, I'm not trying to put fear

in your heart, but I'm trying to say there is a way to live and

that is a simple way of living with the sane mind and a

peaceful heart and your flesh at peace with our sickness and with

peace in your mind. Oh, that's just amazing.

OK, it's almost time. I should finish.

Rescuers from the presently village account.

To the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever

and ever. Amen.

Now that is what I want to finish off with verse #5 To whom

be glory for and ever, ever. The word to very small letter

TO2 is a preposition that sets the direction that that just

gives you the direction of praise.

To whom are you going to praise? It says, To whom be glory?

The word whom? Who is referring to the Father?

Whom refers to Father? So our praise should be directed

towards the Father through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ.

And the next thing that you see there is all things come from

God and all things return to God.

Where were where were we before we came into the world?

I think it was one of the famous painters.

He painted Adam and Eve, but before he got created Adam and

Eve, he he, they were in the mind of God before they appeared

on earth. He took the mud, formed it,

breathed into them, and they became a living being where the

concept was. The concept was in the mind of

God. We all have our origin in the

thinking of God. Anybody who is an atheist is

here by God's thought. So we have origin in God and we

go back to God. You live your life, run this

life, and then you, when you finish breathing, where do you

go? Back to God.

All of us. There is no exception unless

Jesus appears suddenly and we are caught up.

That's the only way to escape death.

And I hope to do it one day. Do you have a hope like that?

Because He's coming very soon, whether it happens or not.

Have that hope because when you hope, when that happens, you

will be part of it. That's the way it is.

That's the way to think about it.

And then you see the word be. Is there a small letter called

be To whom be glory? What does the word be mean?

It is the infinitive in grammar, you know, verb that can be used

as ease was, you know, being and all kinds of words that you have

has, has been, and all those things come from that little

word be. So that is not just talks about

the present tense, but it is something that talks about

presenters all the time into the future.

B is never ending presenters. So your praise should be

unending today You are I cannot say like Mathias IR Mathias is

IR we say Mathias say I am no IR.

So anyway, that's children's grammar that's really great.

It just entertains us and refreshes us to see how they

learn the grammar. So the B is today you are and

you praise God, and tomorrow you are again and you praise God and

day after. So it has to continue till the

end of age. So that is how it is.

So the to whom be glory forever and ever.

When you say forever itself is long unending time, when you

have an and and ever, that little conjunction called and

makes it, it really exaggerates that forever, forever and ever

it will never end. And that is the reason why we on

Sunday want to worship God. We want to praise Him because

that is due to him. He is worthy of that praise,

worthy of that worship, forever and ever, forever and ever.

Everybody say forever and ever. So Christian is one who bases

his life with one objective, one purpose, one end.

That is to praise God, whether he eat or drink pulses.

Do it all for the glory of God. So we do those things.

Shopping also included, OK, by the way.

So everything you do for the glory of God.

And that's where I would like to stop this morning.

We have finished the 1st 5 verses successfully.

So praise God for it. Many things, I have not said it,

but I think that should be quite good.

So I'll just summarize it. Blessings of salvation back to

the Father whom we know personally.

Paul commands that glory we ascribe to him, highlighting the

brilliant glory that shines through the gospel.

This praise is not momentary, but forever and ever a ceaseless

song. The Saints will echo with the

final Amen. We align ourselves with this

eternal purpose. God gets every ounce of honor

now and without end. And everybody says, what do you

mean by that? I agree.

I agree. Amen.

Amen. So we will go into the next is

the convenient thing. We had a wonderful time of

communion in the camp. Anybody remembers it?

Yeah. So communion is again, not just

only a celebration, but it is something a time to affirm.

Affirm your position in Christ. Affirm the blessing that comes

to you because you partake in his flesh, eat his flesh and

drink his blood. And Jesus said they are my, my

words are life and spirit. So you don't have to feel it.

If you feel that's good when you eat the flesh, when you drink

the blood, you feel the power of the Holy Spirit.

Fantastic. Praise God, but if you don't

feel also you have that life and spirit and you have to act upon

it. You have to act upon it.

I'm telling you one of the number one weaknesses or

problems of Christians is they don't act on their knowledge.

You begin to act on any single verse of the Bible.

Your life will be different because God is looking for

people who will obey His word. His word stands for his

character. His word stands for His will.

His word stands for all that God is in essence that all that God

is, He put in this book Bible. And when you approach it with

reverence, when you, when you read it, when you believe it,

when you act upon it, life is released into your life and that

becomes a river of living water in your belly.

So as you partake in the communion, let rivers of living

water flow out of your belly and say, as I eat his flesh, drink

his blood, his life and spirit fill me, an overflow from me and

become a blessing, OK, I'll just get one of those.

Somebody bring it to me. I'll pray, and then everybody

can come and take it. Thank you, Lord.

Hallelujah. Thank you.

Let's first pray for the bread and the juice.

Father, we thank you for your Son Jesus, whom you gave as we

studied so that we may be rescued from the present evil

age. We thank you, Lord, for the

gospel of Christ. We praise you, We praise you.

We praise you for the life that is ours by believing in Jesus,

for the freedom that is ours for believing in Jesus, for the

righteousness that is ours by believing in Jesus.

We worship you, We honor your Lord Father, we thank you again

for this broken body of Jesus and the shed blood we praise and

we thank you as we partake in it.

Make it a participation in the body of crash and the blood of

rest as we eat his flesh, drink his blood, let his life and

spirit fill us and become a river flowing out of our belly

to the glory of your name. Thank you.

In Jesus name we ask, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

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