Revival continues Nehemiah 9

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continuing. So what has happened in the

previous chapters? We see that they have gathered

on the on the 7th month. The first day is the trumpets

and the 10th day is the Day of Atonement.

And from the 15th day till the 22nd day, they celebrate the

festival of booths or tabernacles.

And the 23rd day is a day of rest.

Now here we are coming to the 24th day.

On the 24th day of the same month, the Israelites gathered

together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on

their heads. Is it required for them to do

this? Do you expect them to be

behaving like this? You, you just celebrate a

festival you rejoiced in. God offered sacrifices.

Everything is done until the 22nd day. 23rd day is a day of

rest and 24th day you are putting on sackcloth, putting

dust and ashes on your head and turning up again in the public

square and humbling yourself and crying out to God for mercy.

Is it expected at all? Is anybody telling them to do

it? So the revival when it comes the

public will be motivated by themselves.

You don't need to tell them its not top down, its not from the

pastors telling oh the revival is here, you guys are going to

do it. No it is a people will be

turning towards the study of the word of God.

They will read the word of God and act upon the Word.

They will obey the word and when you do it, the revival is come

into your life. I can't force revival into

anybody. No pastor can force revival into

anybody. So on the 24th day of the same

month, Israel is gathered together, fasting and wearing

sackcloth and putting dust on the heads.

Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all

foreigners. They stood in their places and

confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

Now what is what are we reading in the verse today?

Israelites descendant had separated themselves from all

foreigners. Now by this time many of the

people had wives who belong to other than Jewish people.

They married, they had children. And now they are saying, OK, if

somebody is of a Jewish descent, he's standing there covered in

sackcloth, say Lord, I'm sorry and please forgive me.

He's putting away the wife and the children.

Is it right to do it Looks very harsh isn't it?

It is not about it is what is it about is about purity.

Its about purity and the people are willingly doing it willingly

wanting to separate everything that's foreign married to see.

This is one of the things that we keep telling again and again

and we want to reinforces if you are a believer, not married, if

you come across other, I mean opposite sex person, if they are

not believers, you don't have don't need to even stop and

think. You don't need to stop and

think. It is 100% not God's will to

start with. Well, there may be cases where

people have got married later on, they became believers.

That's not a, that's an exception, not a general rule.

General rule is you are not unequally yoked together with

unbelievers. It's very simple rule and that

applies to marriage and these people have broken it and that's

the reason why now they are saying, ah, we have messed up

our life but we want to change it.

It's a costly decision for them to make it.

To put away a wife and children is very costly, very costly.

To obey God is very costly. It's not easy.

And Jesus himself said those who want to follow me, they have to

take up the cross daily and follow me.

So is it any surprise that this is the same thing even in the

Old Testament and it's not no different in the New Testament?

It is very hard to follow God and one of the one of the things

is we need to be committed to study the word and obey the word

and that's what they are doing. So those who had of Israel

descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.

They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the

sins of their ancestors. That means this is not a new

sin, its been done by the father or the forefather, grandfather

and now they're confessing all the sin of their sins and their

forefathers saying we have sinned against you by marrying

into the foreigners. Now what is the problem?

Marrying somebody who is not a believer, who is not shared the

same faith? Go back to the time when they

were redeemed from Egypt and they were on their journey to

the Promised land and they come to the Mount Sinai and after the

Mount Sinai then they are going forward.

One of the things they came across is one of the one of the

kings, Balaam, wanted to curse Israelites, Balak and he hired a

false prophet called Balaam to curse the Israelites and he

failed because God did not allow Balaam to curse Israelites.

Ultimately what Balaam did was he told them he I got no power

to cast a spell on these people. But you can do one thing.

Let your women virgins come out dancing and celebrate festival

and let them see. Let the Israelites see and go

after them and when they get into sexual relationship they

will bring wrath of God on themselves.

That's what it happened and few thousands were dead.

After that when God gets them, few thousands were dead.

So the reason what is the importance is God wants to keep

a pure race. That is why he he has insisted

from the beginning, holiness is very important to God and that's

why I am holy, be holy, because I am holy.

That's the commandment. And here we see that these

people have read the word and understood that they have

sinned. And now they are confessing

their forefathers and their own sins and their fathers sins, and

they are repenting of these things.

And they stood where they were and read from the book of the

law of the Lord. They got for 1/4 of the day and

spent another quarter for confession, and in worshipping

the Lord they got. Now this is what revival is all

about. Before how long they were

standing in the previous chapter, morning 6 till

afternoon 12, whoever could understand was standing and Ezra

was reading from a pedestal, a high point and he used to read

from there. Many leavers were joining him

and there were many other leavers who were scattered

everywhere who are trying to give an interpretation of it so

people would understand when they understood it.

They are crying and weeping and now quarter of a day is 3 hours.

Now let us have a service of three hours of reading the Bible

and let us have another three hours of worshipping God and

confession. How many will be in the church?

You'll say no, that's crazy. I don't want to be part of the

church. In India, we have one particular

denomination where they have got too many things going on.

On Sunday you'll have one, one message, a lot of singing, 40

minutes to one hour singing, and then you have one message or one

hour for worshipping. And people will be worshipping

everywhere. And afterwards they have a

second message and that second message is again for one hour.

And then they have some type of intercession.

And then they have convenient, another message for convenient.

It starts at morning 10:00, ends at 4:00, and they serve a meal

after that. And people will be coming at

their own time. Some will want to decide to come

at the second message, some want to join the 3rd message, and

some want to cook and eat and then come here where they don't

like the food they eat there. Whatever.

See, that's not the way we have to do things.

The point I'm trying to make here is when the revival comes,

we don't have to force it. It is not by these things.

It is individuals who have to be touched by God.

And you must have longing for that word of God and the longing

to obey the word of God. And then there is revival.

So here the revival is continuing.

And then they read for 1/4 of a day and for another quarter of a

day they were confessing and worshipping the Lord their God.

Standing on the stairs of the Levites were Joshua Bani Kadmil,

Shabanaya Bhuni, Sharabaya, Bani Kenani and they cried out with

the loud watches the Lord their God.

Now why do you have to cry out? Is God deaf?

He can't hear you. What is this cry God business?

You know so many times religion is limited to only a cerebral

exercise. It is just mental.

You hear the gospel, Jesus dead for you on the cross, you

understand it. You are a Sinner.

You need to repent, you need to ask forgiveness, ask Jesus to

come into your heart, and this is all that happens in the mind.

Only the mind is involved and they think they are born again.

Yes, they are born again, there is no doubt about it.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Christ, or you

confess about His Lord and you believe that He is the Son of

God, He has come in the flesh. All those things are true, but

you have to let your emotions get involved at some point,

otherwise it is incomplete. You are not just a mind, you got

emotions as well in the soul has emotions as well.

So you need to let your emotions get involved and when you are

when you are excited about what God is doing, your emotions will

be involved in it. You cannot just help it.

So crying out is an expression of the that part of your

emotions and and that when your mind and your heart are

involved, that becomes complete. I myself have been a very for a

large part of my life. It was mostly cerebral.

I come from a Hindu background. I hear the gospel, I believe in

Jesus. And I learned that studying the

word is important. So I learned to study the word

and preach the word, all those things.

But emotion is not something a part of me getting involved from

for a long, long time. I would say for a long time and

now I realize that my mistake now I want to involve my

emotions, involve my emotions. So let us involve our emotions

in worshipping God. You cannot worship God without

involvement of your emotions. So we need to try out, we need

to do all those kind of things that that required of, of it.

And then these people stood up and the Levites, Joshua Cadmiel,

Bani Hejbanaya, Sharabaya Hodaya Sebanaya Petahaya said stand up

and praise the Lord your God who is from everlasting to

everlasting. That's a command.

So you have the 6-7 people standing up on the platform and

they are saying, guys, stand up, praise God.

It's a commandment. And the whole congregation rises

up, rises up to its feet, and then you see here, Blessed be

your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessings

and praise. You alone are the Lord.

You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all the

starry hosts, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all

that is in them. You give life to everything, and

the multitudes of heaven worship you.

A general kind of a worship. But do you think all seven

people are shouting the same prayer, all of them saying the

same prayer? If I call 2 of you and say, now

pray, are you going to say the same words?

So there should be 1 bird. Somebody should take leadership.

So out of the seven people, one must have loudly blessed God,

praise God so others can join in.

So somebody takes leadership and blessed be your glorious name.

Now observe the word blessed. What is blessed?

Can you bless God? How do you bless God?

You know so many times you come across the psalms and in many

places you use the word praise the Lord.

Hallelujah is praise the Lord. Basically praise the Lord.

So what do you do when you praise God?

You praise God for every benefit you receive from who God is.

You just thank Him for that. You praise Him.

You praise Him because of who He is, but the worship is for who

He is. You don't worship God for

healing. You thank Him for healing.

You praise Him for the healing, but worship is for His goodness.

You worship Him because He is holy.

He worship Him because He is merciful.

You worship Him because He is gracious.

You worship Him because He is infinite.

You worship Him because unchanging God.

You worship Him because he is so great.

You worship Him because He is souring.

He rules over the whole world without interfering with you

willpower. That is worship.

But after some time you come to an end of worshipping God.

You have you run out of the new new new words to say to Him.

That's the reason why when you have fellowship with Him, you

will know more and more and more of His nature and your worship

will not be stale. How many of us willing to eat

the bread that is bought 2 weeks ago?

It is stale. You don't eat it if you have

enough of our, I mean, we use our common sense not to eat a

stale bread. How can we bring a stale worship

to God? I'm just trying to challenge,

you know, So you need to have something fresh and that comes

by meditating on who He is, meditating on His works,

meditating on His works wonders that He's doing.

You know, in the scripture we see that the earth is filled

with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.

As the waters cover the seas, you open your eyes, you will not

see anything that does not show His glory.

You look at this wood, there's no life in it.

Look at a tree, there's life in it, and that tree also is

praising God, and that tree is full of the glory of God.

And this wood is also full of the glory of God.

The dust is full of the glory of God.

The air you breathe is full of the glory of God.

I tell you, you cannot escape it.

And atheist, he cannot escape from God in any way because he

is borrowing his life from the things that are around him.

He can never be proud of it and say, I can challenge God.

You know, it just doesn't make any sense.

So worship is a different thing and praise is a different thing.

And as you praise God, you you use the words like extol him,

exhort him. Why do we do all those things?

There's a continuous engagement with the greatness of God, His

goodness, His power. You know that is why you, you

extol and you exalt him. He's highly exalted already.

When you exalt him, what you're saying is you are so great, but

my mind is so small, my thoughts are so small.

But now I realize my thoughts are small.

I want to exalt you and see you as you are the highly exalted 1.

Is there a place for exalting him?

Yes or no? Can I hear a strong yes?

So we have to exalt him and you have to extol him.

I tell you there are so many different words are used, not

without a meaning or a purpose. It is to make your living a

dynamic experience. A dynamic experience because you

cannot be meeting this God and be a cold Christian.

You can't be a called Christian, lukewarm Christian.

No, because he's a consuming fire.

You approach to him. You approach him like Moses has

done. He looks at the burning Bush and

he comes towards a burning Bush. He hears a voice saying, Moses,

Moses, take off your shoes for the ground on which your

standing is holy. You cannot have an encounter

with God without worshipping him.

You cannot have an encounter with God without praising Him.

And when you do those things you will encounter God, you will

encounter God. So here they are praising God.

You all over the Lord you made the heavens, even the highest

heavens, and all the starry hosts, the earth and all that is

in it. What is He trying to say?

All things visible, invisible, are created by God.

God is the Creator and the He is worshipping God because He

created everything. You give life to everything, and

the multitudes of heaven worship you, multitudes of heaven,

heaven worship you. Actually in another version it

says multitude of heavens. The heaven that you see, the

planetary system and the stars and then galaxies is all that

you see is 1 heaven. But there's also a heaven, a

second heaven, and a third heaven, the heavens He has

created, the invisible heavens, even the angels that are there

surrounding his throne that's in the highest of the heavens.

And all that is created by God, all that is created by God.

And these Levites were trying to encourage people to engage with

this God. So now we see in verse 7, you

are the Lord God who chose Abraham.

Everybody say chose. That is just mind blowing to me.

That word itself. He chose Abraham and he changed

his name to Abraham. When did he do it?

When Abraham believed in God, He must be 75 years old.

He was in Mesopotamia, the modern day Iraq I think, and he

was worshipping moon God. He was an adulator.

But then God chose him and spoke to him and said come and follow

me. I will take you to the land that

I want to give to you and your ancestors.

Did he possess the land? He never possessed the land

during his lifetime. He made mistakes, He heard his

voice, advice, and he had another son called Ishmael.

It brought its own sorrow. And then God met him again at

the age of 99. He changed his name from Abraham

to Abraham, from the Prince to the father of nations.

And because God changed the name, you know that the simple

letter H stands for the Spirit of God, stands for the rock, the

Spirit of God. He changed his name, put that

Spirit of God into his name. Change of name is very powerful

in the Old Testament and when God changes the name with the

purpose you are Jacob, you are like a you are a thief.

But now you are no longer a thief.

I am changing your name to Israel the Prince.

God changes the name and I made a mistake in my life when I got

baptized. I think they wanted to give me a

Christian name. They want to take off my Ramana

and give me a Christian name. I resisted it.

I said no no I am Ramana. I remain Ramana forever and

after many years I realized that maybe I should change my name.

Its too late now. I can't change my name now.

Sometimes I prayed to God, I said God, if you tell me this is

what the name I am looking, I look at you and call you by this

name. I will change my name, but I

have not heard anything from it yet.

Maybe I should speak more vigorously about it.

But I said, what is in a name anymore?

There's nothing much there. It's just an ID for me.

Identity. But in the scripture, name means

a lot. That's the reason why we put a

lot of emphasis when we give names to the children.

We pray, we pray, we pray ask God, what is the name that you

you have called him from eternity past before the

foundation of the world. What is the name you give to the

child? What did you say come out so and

so very important. That's the how parents should

really pray and you know, give the names to the children

because that's something really good because that is going to

have it is going to prophetic impact upon the children and

that's how we do it. And well, so where we where we

are. He chose Abraham and brought him

out of her of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham.

There was a reason why God chose just one man Abraham.

He found his heart faithful to you.

He found his heart was faithful to Yahweh.

Yahweh. Sir, out of all these people, I

look at this man. I can trust this man.

Why? This man will instruct his

children and break them up in the fear of Maine, in the fear

of me. That is how he chose Abraham.

Can God trust us like that to bring up our children in the

fear of God? That was very simple.

Faithful is just that's what he is looking for.

That quality of faithfulness is being true to him, being

completely sold out to him. How much is the see faithfulness

is just shows only the only measuring rod with which you can

measure faithfulness is your obedience.

How do you measure faithfulness by can I hear it, obedience and

Abraham when he was asked sacrifice your son Isaac, he did

not think a second time I am I this is my you know, preachers

have a lot of imagination sometimes and my imagination is

he didn't even tell Sarah. God says sacrifice your son

Abraham. Oh, where is my wife Sarah?

I had to talk to her first. He would not have succeeded in

doing what he wanted to do if he had talked to Sarah.

She said. You are a mad guy.

You didn't really hear God. You think you're hearing God.

He's the one who promised a son. After 25 years gives you a son

or after 30 years he says no sacrifice.

You know, I don't think it is God.

That's the reason why he never talked with Sarah.

That's what I believe personally.

And he next day morning took the firewood and took the servants

and the Son and started walking. And the Son asked him, oh, we

have the fire, we have the firewood, but where is the

sacrifice? God will provide on the mount of

the Lord will be provided Jehovah Jireh.

So that is what it is. He was obedient to God 100%

thousand percent. He was obedient to God.

That's why the word faithful is in relation to obedience.

And Abraham was found faithful by God.

He said I know I can trust this man and he will obey me 100% and

he It was a prophetic act in that it was signifying our

foreshadow of Christ coming and dying for us with the Son of

God. Your life when called by God, is

there no private thing about your life?

There's nothing private about your life.

When God puts His finger on your life as it did on Abraham and

change his name to Abraham, your life becomes a prophetic life.

It is going to be a blessing to the future generations when He

blesses you. Your children are blessed.

Your grandchildren are blessed forever.

They are blessed. That's what we are looking for.

Sometimes we may not see very powerful demonstration of it.

Even in the life of Israel. We can see that they were not

always faithful to God. They did desobey God they did.

Even in this situation where we are right now studying, because

of the deservedience, they are sent to Assyria, they are taken

over to Babylon and now from there they are come back

rebuilding the temple and rebuilding the walls.

They are trying to work hard to re establish that connection

with God. It is never too late to connect

with God. It is never too late if we have

not lived consciously, if you have missed it, we can always

come back to God and say I'm sorry, I want to begin again.

And he will say that's fine, that's fine, I'm waiting for

you. So he gave them, He made a

covenant with him. Give his descendants the land of

the canons, heaters, amoral, sphericides, Jebusites,

girgasites. You have kept your promise

because you are righteous. He has kept his promise because

he's righteous. God is righteous.

You worship Him because he's righteous.

And now when you believe in Jesus, he gives you that

righteousness, that righteousness that he has.

He gives it to you for free by believing in Jesus, and he

clothes you his righteousness. Amazing, isn't it?

Is it amazing or not? God?

You close you with righteousness.

So verse 9, it says you saw the suffering of our ancestors in

Egypt. You heard they cry at the Red

Sea. You send signs and wonders

against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of

his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated

them. You made a name for yourself

which remains to this day. You divided the sea before them

so that they pass through it on dry ground, but you hurl their

pursuers into the depths like a stone into mighty waters.

By day you let them with a pillar of cloud, and by night

the pillar of fire, to give them light.

On the way you were to take, they were to take.

This is just whole of this prayer.

Up to 37 verses is a long prayer recounting the nature of what

God has done for these people. And somebody says, huh, so much

is said, but it's not a prayer. It doesn't look like a prayer

when you read all the 37 verses. It doesn't look like a prayer

anywhere, but it is acknowledging, recounting the

history, recounting His acts, recounting his power, display of

power. When you do all that, it is like

worship rising from your heart, which is pleasing to God.

There should be a time when you can sit down and look back into

your life and say how God helped you in different times, how God

helped you in different times. You just bow your head and

worship and that is one of the things God tells them is you

don't forget the newer slaves in Egypt.

What is he trying to say is you should not forget your past.

Don't forget your past, and when you bring the past before God,

it is like a sacrifice to God, a pleasing aroma to God.

Oh God, I was lost, but you had mercy on me.

And you say that you are bringing a sweet smelling savour

to God. So here you see certain things.

One of the things is that when God acted in the life of Israel,

He made a name to himself and that name stands today.

Do we know that our God in the Bible is the one who split the

Red Sea? We know it even today.

We know what He did to them stands even today.

It stands for His nature, power, His glory.

And then one of the things you see here is you see in this

recapitulation of the story, provision of a provision and

also protection and guidance. Did He guide them?

How did He guide them? There was a pillar of cloud by

day and pillar of fire by night. If they had to walk day and

night without getting tired, he had to give them the energy.

He had to give them the strength to walk.

During day and night you have this pillar of cloud and that

goes before them. Once it rises and lifts up, they

know it's time for them to pack up and they are following the

cloud. And after it is night, the cloud

becomes a pillar of fire. And then they are, it is going

before them, giving them the light so they can see.

So you have got protection and you have got provision and you

have got guidance. I have tell you it is the words

will not be enough to when, when I sit down and think of God in

my life, my words are not enough.

Because I was born in a idolatrous family.

All my ancestors were idolatrous.

They have a priestly family, but they were worshipping devil and

God had mercy on me. And when I sit down other day, I

was thinking about it all my cousins, there may be 60 or 80

of them and their children and their children, children.

I never heard even one became a Christian until now in this 4050

years. So my heart went out and said,

God, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you because you chose me

as you chose Abraham. You have blessed me as you

blessed Abraham. And I tell you this is just

amazing. Everyone of us must have this

encounter with God. We must be able to sit down and

give glory to God for his hand on our lives, how he chose us.

And Jesus himself says in you have not chosen me, but I have

chosen you. And that is in John 15.

And that's true, we don't choose God, but He chooses us first

because it shows us we believe in Him.

Sometimes the devil will come in the way and stop us from

believing in Jesus. Even though he has chosen us, He

has given us the light of the gospel of Christ and we

sometimes can face the devil and we have to tell him.

You will not ruin my life anymore.

You will not say anything in my life.

I silence your voice in the name of Jesus.

I am running to Jesus. I am running to Jesus and you

will not stop me and go and run to Jesus and hug Him and say I

am really sorry, take me back, please take me back.

Put again that protection over me as I read it from Psalm 1:30

in the morning. He is holding us in the palm of

His hand. He is covering from above, from

before, from behind. This knowledge is too wonderful.

This protection, this provision, this guidance is too wonderful

for words. And one of the things that you

see here is verse 15. In the hunger you gave them

bread from heaven, and in the thirst you brought them water

from the rock. I want to make it on this few

words and then stop it there for today.

The rest of the chapter you read for yourself.

If I still feel inspired, maybe I'll cover it next week, but

otherwise we'll think that it is over for this chapter is over.

But he gave them bread from heaven and split the rock and

Prince their thirst. Now we think it is just one

event that happened in Israel. It's just a miracle.

It's OK, He made some provision. Praise God, it's not just over.

After 1500 years, nearly 2000 years, Jesus comes on the scene

and says you think Moses gave you bread from heaven, You think

Moses spit the rock for you to be to drink water.

But I tell you, it is my Father heavenly Father who has given

you the bread. And he said I am the bread of

life. I am the bread of life who has

come down from heaven. So who did the Israel feed on?

They were feeding on Christ. In Corinthians word Paul says

they drank from the rock that followed them.

The rock was following them. When they were thirsty, it

opened up and Jesus himself, he allowed his body to be broken up

for you and me so that you can drink from that rock that split

for us. He is pursuing you.

He is following you. Even when I was standing there

during the worship, I was feeling a heavy hand of the

enemy on my life. Myself, I have my I was not able

to focus but I remembered the bread and the wine.

I remembered how He gave His body and the blood for us.

That one second everything lifted up.

Everything lifted up. I start praising God, I tell you

can go through any difficult time.

I'm not saying you, we are believers.

We will be protected from difficult times.

No, we will go through it, but he is with us.

But the, the, the provision of the communion is to overcome

your difficulties. The provision of communion is to

turn against the enemy who is pursuing you, oppressing you.

That provision is given to us. We we can do it anytime in our

own homes if you want to. Nobody can stop you from having

communion in your own house. But it should not become a

regular thing where it has no meaning.

It has to be approached with reverence.

It should make a sick an impact on you.

Even you know, so many people talk about Smith Wigglesworth

who used to have communion on an everyday basis.

So a lot of Christians do come in and come in and everyday

morning, evening, afternoon, they keep it on the table ready,

take it and eat it. Thank you, partake in your body

and your blood. But look at the life.

Is anything changing in their life?

Nothing changes when you have communion meaningfully and give

glory to Him, worship him, praise him.

Power will be released into your life to destroy the yoke.

Power will be released to destroy the yoke.

Communion is not something that is you.

You know there are people, there was a theologian called Swingley

and he is the one who who came up with the idea that they were

just symbols, emblems. He said oh you just, it is just

nothing. Its just symbolizes his body and

the blood, but nothing more than just remembering that he died

for you. But it was a Luther who was

there and he said no, the Catholic Church was saying no,

it really becomes a body and the blood.

They are going to A1 extreme. That bread is still bread.

When you eat it, it doesn't become flesh.

That juice does not become turn into blood.

So there should be a right way of understanding the whole

thing. The right way is the right way

of understanding the communities.

When you partake in it by faith, at the point of partaking, it

becomes to you like flesh. It becomes you like blood and

the power of the flesh that's broken for you on the cross, the

power of the blood that shed for you on the cross gets released

into your life. That cloud has to lift from your

mind. That cloud, the heaviness of the

hand of enemy must lift from you because you're partnering in the

body and the bread of Christ. And a few times God had been

merciful to me and explained the importance of communion to me.

He gave me revelation of it. But the first revelation comes

to Abraham when he went against 5 kings with his own men and

with the local leaders. He went against them and wore

upon them set free lot and all that belonged to him.

When he was coming back, he met with the king of Salem,

Melchizedek, and he brought out to him the bread and the wine,

and he gave 10% of everything he had.

He gave it to king of Salem Melchizedek.

That was the first occurrence of bread and and the wine being

given, which is symbolic of Jesus himself and Jesus is in

the order of milk is a high priest for us and He himself is

a sacrifice. He allowed his body broken for

us. He allowed his blood to be shed

for us. I tell you, words will not be

enough to understand this mystery.

Its a mystery. How God can first become flesh

is a mystery, and how he can die is more difficult for us to

understand. But I tell you, its the faith of

the heart. When you believe in the heart,

the truth becomes yours. Light shines into the dark part

of your heart and you understand.

And you say, oh God, I thank you, I thank you, I thank you.

I don't deserve it, but you died for me.

I praise you for that. Thank you for your life.

So today when we partake in the communion, I want you to

encounter this Jesus. I want you to encounter the

power of his death. I want you to encounter the

power of resurrection. I want you to encounter the

light to shine in your dark part of your heart.

I want you to experience the life of God.

Because when you partake in the body and the blood, you're

partaking in the life of Jesus. You're not partaking in the

piece of bread or a bit of juice.

No, you are parting in the life of Christ.

It is a mystery, but it is open to faith, to experience.

So what we are going to do is we will, we will get a piece of it

and I will pray for the communion elements.

Then you can go there and pick up a small chalet or whatever is

the cup there. You pick it up and take a piece

of bread, come back to your seat and we will partake together.

We have two places, one on the back, one on the front.

So what? Whatever is nearer, you can grab

it and you can come back and then we will pray about it and

we will partake in it. The elements are there for you.

You can go and grab it now. Thank you Jesus.

Rikka Ravarana saktareeni mahasarasthekareeni sarana mande

kastarani. Mahara Sastarani Cross, we

praise you, We praise you, We praise you, We praise you,

Father God, We thank you for your heart itself is split when

you're allowed your son to die on the cross.

And we thank you, Holy Spirit, for you are there with him on

the cross. We praise you, we praise you.

We praise you, Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, for the way you

have given yourself to US. 100%, 100% you've given yourself to

us. I worship you, Father, I bow

before you. We thank you for the broken body

and shed bread of your Son Jesus, so that we may be saved.

We worship you, we praise you. And now, Father, as you partake

in it, let the power of the Holy Ghost enter our spirit, soul and

body. I pray that healing will come

where somebody needs healing and deliverance will come to those

who need deliverance in the name of Jesus.

By the power of the bread of Jesus, by the power of the bread

of Jesus, by the power of the bread of Jesus, I decree healing

and deliverance in the name of Jesus.

Thank you Lord, as we partake in it.

Thankfully, Holy Spirit, yes, I thank you Holy Spirit, you are

right now ministering to people. I thank you Holy Spirit, for you

are making them know that you are there with them in their

heart, in their bodies. They can feel your presence

right now because when they partake is going to be partaking

in the life of Christ. We praise you, we praise you, we

praise you. Thank you, Lord, bless this

participation. In the name of Jesus we ask,

Amen. Let's party.

Let's give thanks. Again.

We thank you, Father, for the privilege have given us to have

faith in what Jesus did on the cross for us.

We worship you, we praise you. We thank you for the life that

is entering into us. We celebrate it, and we rejoice

in you, and we praise you, and we worship you.

We honor you. We extol your name.

We exalt your name for who you are, the Compassionate 1.

Merciful One, goodness full of goodness.

We praise you all for the grace you've given us to believe in

your Son Jesus, and to partake in his body and the blood.

We thank you for every blessing that's pursuing us because you

partake in it. Remember particularly our

Father, some of the people who are not well in the church, I

pray for them now. In the name of Jesus, put your

hand upon them, touch them. Those who are travelling, may

Angel be with them and protect them.

We praise you, we praise you, we praise you Father, we give you

glory, honor and praise. We bless your name in Jesus

mighty name. We ask and everybody says Amen,

Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.

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