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  14. Good morning Church, it is an absolute pleasure to be with.

  15. You all here today.

  16. And for those of you who don't know me, my name.

  17. Is Tom Tom.

  18. And this is my beautiful wife Mary.

  19. Then says.

  20. Mary. We've been married for four years, but my lum

  21. dec and we come from Australia then from the South

  22. called Adelaide Against.

  23. Adelaide.

  24. We attend a church called Southland Church who supports.

  25. G I a Dogie Banama South Vine Church.

  26. Then, so we've heard about you for years and we've

  27. been praying for you, and to now be with you

  28. in person is a special privilege.

  29. Kali.

  30. This is a beautiful church and the presence of God

  31. is here. Then we want to extend a big thank

  32. you to Pastor Daniel and Mamally.

  33. Thank you for welcoming Usami and you have.

  34. Extended so much love, compassion, generosity, and Mary and I

  35. are really thankful for that. Thank you an In, she's

  36. been an amazing translator. We couldn't do this without you.

  37. Thank you, and also thank you for Chika Chica. So

  38. it is an absolute privilege to be here today. And

  39. I work as a physiotherapist, but I am also a

  40. pastor then so I do a bit of both and

  41. Mary is a doctor. Then before I begin, I would

  42. like to pray, Lord God, we just thank you so much.

  43. Thank you for your mercy upon our lives.

  44. We thank you for your love for us. God, we

  45. thank you for the power of the Cross. We thank

  46. you for the power of the Blood of Jesus. We

  47. thank you for the power of our resurrection.

  48. Then, in Christ and.

  49. God, thank you for sending us the Holy Spirit. And

  50. Holy Spirit. We welcome you.

  51. Then, and I pray that you would touch every heart

  52. here today.

  53. Then come up comed.

  54. As you've already been doing. Amen.

  55. Amen.

  56. I just feel to encourage the keyboard player. Okay, what's

  57. your name, Tino? Yeah, I just want to encourage you.

  58. Did Oh no, no, I'm I'm just just a word.

  59. Oh yeah, did you.

  60. I just really feel that God.

  61. Sees you did it, that you are a faithful man.

  62. And the way that you faithfully served Malayani. And you're

  63. very gifted on the piano.

  64. The talent and the main key book the piano, and you.

  65. Help others connect with God.

  66. Then it talk about.

  67. Real worship. And I also feel like you're a you

  68. have a father's heart. Then your wrong that when the

  69. church looks at you, you're like a father to them.

  70. Then Cony, that's so, and.

  71. You're a real blessing to the community.

  72. And so.

  73. Keep going, my brother, all right, John seventeen three, do.

  74. You honest to bless tiger? This is Jesus, then, Jesus

  75. you honest? Do you blessed Tiger?

  76. He says, Now this is eternal life in it that

  77. they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ

  78. whom you have sent.

  79. Then mana, yes, Christus.

  80. What's interesting is Jesus defines eternal life young Sung.

  81. Young Sung.

  82. As knowing God. I don't know about you, but where

  83. I can from. When people think about eternal life or heaven,

  84. they think about going to a place. If I am

  85. a good person, maybe one day I will go to heaven.

  86. Maybe one day I'll have eternal life. Do you experience that?

  87. Have you heard that? Because it could be Christians, Catholics, Protestants, done, Muslims.

  88. Muslim Hindus.

  89. We think we're going to place, but Jesus says, now,

  90. this is eternal life. I know you the only true God,

  91. and Jesus Christ, whom you said. So what I would

  92. like to propose today, how can you say is that

  93. Jesus is saying eternal life and heaven isn't necessarily a place. Did?

  94. It's the moment we know Himristus and the Greek word

  95. for no.

  96. Is genosco.

  97. Now do you know what means.

  98. It means to know through relationship? It means to know

  99. through personal experience. Did. It's not just about head knowledge,

  100. but it's about an experience of the heart. There's a

  101. difference between knowing about.

  102. God and.

  103. Really knowing God. Does that make sense? For example, when

  104. Mary and I are.

  105. In Adelaide, Adelaide.

  106. We heard about Indonesia, Indonesia, we heard about Bali.

  107. Come Bali.

  108. Bali is a place where Aussie's like to go on holiday.

  109. We learned about Samarang.

  110. Then come me to go Blad.

  111. We learned that Pastor Daniel and Mama Lily pastor this

  112. church here.

  113. Then comeing to go Bla Mama Lily.

  114. But Mary and I only knew about Indonesia.

  115. The people that walked with.

  116. We only knew about Bali, Indonesia, Bali.

  117. We only knew about Sammaranga.

  118. But now we come to Indonesia, Indonesia, now we come

  119. to Bali. Then now we come to Samarang.

  120. And so there's relationship with Pastor Daniel and Mama. Then

  121. we meet each other personally, then.

  122. We shake hands, we share a meal together, and.

  123. We get to know each other. And there's a difference

  124. between knowing about Godhan and having relationship with God. Does

  125. that make sense? So my question to you today is

  126. do you know about God Han or do you really

  127. know him from the heart? Because Jesus doesn't want you

  128. to know about him.

  129. Can I used to see.

  130. He wants you to really know him. And it doesn't

  131. matter who you are. It doesn't matter about how high

  132. your status or how low your.

  133. Status is thinking your soci Indonesia.

  134. It doesn't matter about your education level, whether you finish

  135. school or not, whether you can speak English or not,

  136. whether you have lots or little money. Jesus wants all

  137. of us to git some more. Jesus wants all of

  138. us to smell some to have relationship with him. Does

  139. that make sense? Now? Heaven is a play.

  140. Focus.

  141. When we die.

  142. If we believe in Christ Cristas, we're going to heaven,

  143. the New Jerusalem, the.

  144. New Creation where everything will be made right.

  145. But there will be no more suffering like you, and

  146. we will live in perfect relationship with God for eternity.

  147. Then Han, But that isn't it.

  148. Because it starts now. Eternal life starts now, Heaven starts now.

  149. Then when we know Jesus in relationship. Amen, Amen, I'm

  150. going to read from Ephesians one fifteen to twenty three.

  151. Passa ayatli my blass.

  152. If you'd like to follow in your Bible. Did the.

  153. My blas?

  154. Paul is speaking pa for this reason, ever since I

  155. heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus, Yesus, and

  156. your love for all God's people the Uncle. I have

  157. not stopped giving thanks for you, remember bring you in

  158. my prayers. I keep asking Allah that the God of

  159. our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Glorious Father, may give you

  160. the spirit of wisdom and revelations, so that you may

  161. know him better. I pray that the eyes of your

  162. heart then may be enlightened, in order that you may

  163. know the hope to which He has called Youanglan, the

  164. riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy.

  165. PEOPLEA and Burgus.

  166. And ready for this and his incomparably great power for

  167. us who believe. Are you following That power is the

  168. same as the mighty strength he exerted when He raised

  169. Christ from the dead and seated him at his right

  170. hand in the heavenly realms, far above all raw and authority,

  171. power and dominion, and every name that is in voked,

  172. not only in the present age, but also in the

  173. ones to come. Then and God placed all things under

  174. his feet.

  175. Thensos and appointed him to be head over everything for

  176. the church.

  177. Then the Atlanta there is.

  178. Which is his body young, the fullness of him who

  179. feels everything in every way.

  180. Young maman someone and.

  181. Wow, wow that's powerful. Amen. I mean, what's really interesting

  182. is that Paul says in verse seventeen.

  183. Would you blast pau Paulus.

  184. That he keeps asking that God.

  185. Then Maristos may give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

  186. Than you, so that you may know him better.

  187. BLA.

  188. Now remember johns seventeen three, Jesus says that he wants.

  189. All his children to know God.

  190. You unders do you blessigar?

  191. Or yes?

  192. That's more?

  193. Be some? And in this verse Paul says he prays

  194. that the church knows God more and more.

  195. Then, but I surprise some more, and you might be

  196. some luggy, lugged and luggy.

  197. In John seventeen three, the word for no is genosco.

  198. Did you undert did you blesssco?

  199. In this verse the Greek word is epi ginosco.

  200. Then the bless epig nosco.

  201. That's to intensify in osco.

  202. Then epi.

  203. U.

  204. You don't lug you.

  205. Jesus, as I really want you to know God?

  206. And yes is got apple.

  207. Han and Paul says, I really really want you to

  208. know God.

  209. Then the sung in the inlaidn luggy.

  210. Because do you know who Paul was before he encountered Christrists?

  211. He was so.

  212. Saul.

  213. He hated Christians, then Christian He hated Christ, but he

  214. loved God the mangasi Allah. He just needed revelation of

  215. who Jesus was.

  216. But what you want it?

  217. And Jesus said, so, so, why do you persecute me?

  218. Then when Paul went soul, when soul experienced Christ, masts.

  219. Had relationship with Christ. His life was forever changed.

  220. He was not the same manner, and that is true

  221. for every one of us when we encounter Christ, how young.

  222. And so my question to you is do you know

  223. about Christ? Or do you really really know him? I

  224. would like to share a story, a testimony from my life.

  225. Did you the moment?

  226. Two years ago on a Friday night, Mary and I

  227. were at our youth group at church.

  228. She didn't.

  229. I'm the youth pastor, and so we ran a youth

  230. service on the Friday night.

  231. Did you Malam?

  232. When we went home, Mary and I walked around the block.

  233. Oh didn't work, Jean Jean.

  234. Without home, which we would regularly do at the time.

  235. Then it was about ten thirty pm. We were walking

  236. and praying with God.

  237. Did this stung us bless Mala Maya disappined, And.

  238. For some reason I just prayed, Lord, I pray that

  239. you would baptize me in wind and fire.

  240. Then Malu Appi and Mary turned to me. Then Maria

  241. and she said, why wind, then onion?

  242. And I said, because the wind is the Holy Spirit.

  243. So I prayed that, and I believed that at some

  244. point in the future I would experience the wind of God.

  245. Then after that we went to sleep, then light on,

  246. and that night I had a dream.

  247. And in the dream, I was in the old church

  248. that I used to go to. I was standing at

  249. the front left of the church, the left, and there

  250. was a friend on my side. There was a friend

  251. next to me. Did and Mary was there?

  252. Did Tom?

  253. So I was facing this way. Did you friends here? Mary?

  254. There in the pew in the seats. Then, and we

  255. were in worship in the dream.

  256. Then the.

  257. Some summer, the church was full of people. Then did

  258. I'd never seen that church that fall? Then and there

  259. was a worship team at the front.

  260. Then did a team worship?

  261. It was a big team. There was about eight or

  262. ten musicians then and the worship was powerful then to sing,

  263. so just to remind you, this is my dream.

  264. Then reminder.

  265. I could feel God's presence in a way that I've

  266. never felt before. The presence of God was so strong

  267. it felt like the roof was going was gonna lift.

  268. Then do you And then at one point there was

  269. a woman on the other side.

  270. Do you see the young lion?

  271. And she was the pastor's wife. Then and she said

  272. to everyone in this dream at three at three a m.

  273. I was praying and Jesus said he would enter the room.

  274. Then yes, so this is still my dreaming following me.

  275. After that the dream stopped so that I do some

  276. And then in my right ear, then I started to

  277. hear wind.

  278. Onion.

  279. I heard the wind in my ear did and then

  280. I had this cool breeze, cool wind Hawaiian and it

  281. started to cover my whole body. You need to ling

  282. And for the first few seconds I was like what

  283. is going on? Then and then I realized it was

  284. very nice.

  285. Then I hear this other It was.

  286. Dealing, it was refreshing, and so I was still asleep

  287. and I was It felt like I was lying on

  288. my back and I was like, ah, this is nice.

  289. Did it this with.

  290. Meanwhile, the wind sound is still going did and my

  291. whole body was covered by this wind then and it

  292. felt like it lasted a few minutes.

  293. Then magasa itk okay bergan.

  294. And then it stopped. Then when I woke up, I

  295. wasn't lying on my back the young I was lying

  296. on my left side with my arm around Mary did

  297. this and I look at my watch. The time is

  298. around six forty a m. Then, Dom on the Saturday morning,

  299. do you remember what I prayed Friday night at ten

  300. thirty pm, dijum Lord, I pray that you would baptize

  301. me with wind and fire.

  302. Upped and onion.

  303. And it happened earlier than I thought.

  304. Then, and you'll get the expect Assican, And.

  305. I was I was shocked. I looked at Mary and

  306. she started to blink and so I realized she was awake.

  307. Then you do, and I said, very Mary, did you

  308. experience the wind? Did you did you feel that? Did

  309. you feel that?

  310. Did you?

  311. And she was like, no, what wind? Then? And I

  312. was like the wind? And then I looked outside our

  313. bedroom window. Then there was no wind, onion, some scar

  314. the trees were still, they were not moving, and I

  315. realized Jesus came into my room. Then well, yes, the

  316. Holy Spirit came into Genosco. That was a moment where

  317. I really really knew God. Han, what I don't understand you?

  318. Why didn't Mary experience it? To you? And while she

  319. was happy for me this, she felt a little bit

  320. left out the almost dig THI And I don't blame

  321. her because what I experienced was amazing and I wanted

  322. that for her as well.

  323. Then you got India Mona.

  324. My encouragement to you is don't be discouraged because God

  325. reveals himself to us all the time, some more sometimes

  326. like a pente cost he comes like a rushing wind.

  327. A lot of the time he comes through a still

  328. small voice. And do you know what's the greatest threat

  329. for us to hear God's voice? It's distraction being on

  330. our phone all the time, you watching movies all the time,

  331. watching TV shows all the time. And while those things

  332. aren't wrong, then I believe that in this day and age,

  333. whether you live in Indonesia.

  334. U s A or Australia, America Nostalia, the enemy is trying.

  335. To distract us.

  336. Han.

  337. The enemy might not be able to take away your faith,

  338. but he might affect how much you really know Jesus

  339. through distraction. So my encouragement to you is God really

  340. wants you to know him then by but we need

  341. to have a heart that is hungry. Cristus, if I

  342. didn't pray Lord baptize me in the wind, do you

  343. think he would have showed up in my room that morning?

  344. Under So, if you're there and you're like, God doesn't

  345. speak to me, I don't feel his presence. My question

  346. is are you hungry for him? Are you thirsty for him?

  347. Under House can han so?

  348. I'm forty two you, David says, as the deer pants

  349. for streams of water. So my soul thirst for God,

  350. my soul thirst for.

  351. The living Gods. Ito House, I can't house, I can't

  352. do han House, I can to hanan.

  353. Do Jesus says in Matthew Matak.

  354. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.

  355. Young House, then Lapa and Cristas.

  356. For they will be filled filled with what the sting

  357. a napper, filled with what in a napper, the Holy Spirit.

  358. And I feel like today that God is inviting each

  359. and every one of you then into deeper relationship with him.

  360. Lucky but it starts with a hungry heart, a thirsty.

  361. Heart, and HATI young House, then Lapa and Cristas.

  362. He doesn't want us to I don't care, it doesn't matter.

  363. It's too hard. I've tried all this time that sometimes

  364. we all feel that way. But God says, I want

  365. you to know me. Paul says epig in Oscar, I

  366. want you to really really know him. And so after

  367. that Saturday morning, when God showed up in the wind,

  368. Mary and I went into our living room did and

  369. we turned on worship music on the TV, didn't.

  370. Worship music, and the.

  371. Song Revival is in the Air by Bethel came on.

  372. But look if I fall in the air but I.

  373. And one of the lyrics then is He's moving on

  374. the wind.

  375. But to han Malali Onion loves returning, then BALI, for

  376. everything you've lost.

  377. Someone.

  378. Loves returning. And when I heard those lyrics, I was

  379. bursting in tears. Nangis because God was moving in the wind.

  380. And I met Jesus more, I knew him more then.

  381. Christ Luggy.

  382. I had my head on Mary's thighs and I was

  383. sobbing like a little baby had because Jesus touched my heart.

  384. Use amen. I mean now that was a big experience,

  385. and I can't say that's happened too many times in

  386. my life.

  387. They need to be so.

  388. But the amazing thing from that experience of the wind

  389. that that be how into is that since that moment

  390. two years ago, you need to do every single day

  391. of my life. I felt God's present.

  392. Since han suggest.

  393. Sometimes very small, sometimes very strong. Then this morning during worship,

  394. then the is wrong, I'm gonna come back here, okay.

  395. So I hope that is. I hope that it's just

  396. an example that is clear about how God wants us

  397. to know him. Do you know the thing about God

  398. is most of the time he's a gentleman. Then gentleman,

  399. he doesn't force himself on you. Apart from Saul, he

  400. got kicked off a donkey can so sometimes God kicks

  401. us off a donkey get our attention.

  402. But most of the time he doesn't force himself on usa.

  403. But do you know that's a beautiful thing then, Inda,

  404. because Jesus doesn't want you to feel forced to come

  405. to him used to see. He wants you to want

  406. to come to him the amount. So do you know

  407. do you want God to han let me tell you

  408. that he has given you an invitation to a wedding.

  409. Haney too, But to a wedding you got R s

  410. v P. You gotta tell the bride and groom, I'm

  411. coming to the wedding.

  412. Bye mamboa.

  413. And then after you tell them you're coming, you got

  414. to get ready and go to the wedding on the day.

  415. That's so good?

  416. Did you.

  417. We can walk?

  418. So Jesus has given each and every one of you

  419. an invitation to his wedding.

  420. Did you to hand to don't?

  421. Jesus has given you an invitation to every one of

  422. you to know him. Did you do you get the

  423. invitation and chuck it? Just let it sit on the table,

  424. don't get you accidentally throw it in the bin? Or

  425. do you get it? I thought.

  426. It?

  427. Do you write your R s v P config Do

  428. you send it back to Jesus?

  429. I thought, I know Christals Cristas.

  430. And you say I'm coming.

  431. Then Christmas to han in Ako.

  432. And after you say you're coming, do you go then? Han?

  433. So if you are here today and you're like, oh,

  434. I don't really know him that much.

  435. Calorang.

  436. Han, don't be afraid, don't be shameful.

  437. Jesus says, just come, Can, I.

  438. I want you my child Sayah saying.

  439. So come now, because in Jesus we have freedom. Can

  440. And Jesus says, I want you to know me. Then

  441. is Paul says, I really really want you.

  442. To know Pristas.

  443. Paul says, I pray that you have the spirit of

  444. wisdom and revelations so that you may know Him better.

  445. You bless.

  446. It's the Holy Spirit that reveals christrists it. So if

  447. you want to know God more, ask God to reveal

  448. himself to you. Because the word for revelation in the

  449. Greek did you.

  450. Wahu the lambasa yunani ito.

  451. Ready for this one? Ready? Apocalypsios apocalypsios like apocalypse? Did

  452. he did this?

  453. Apocalypse?

  454. Do you know what it means? It means to unveil

  455. what was hidden?

  456. Did heap?

  457. It means to make sense of what didn't make sense.

  458. Some of mohammiy that longist.

  459. When I was a teenager, the Bible didn't make sense.

  460. To me.

  461. My single mind, did you said Bahami?

  462. I found it boring. But when I was sixteen, I

  463. had an encounter with God.

  464. On a calami cristals, money and cristals.

  465. And He changed my life forever. I don't know where

  466. I would be if Jesus didn't reveal himself to me, saying,

  467. I told you I would be a slave to sin

  468. because I was living a life of sin. Can I say,

  469. but Jesus set me free? Uncle on that camp. That

  470. is when I had nosco it because when I was

  471. a teenager, I went to church and I learnt about Jesus.

  472. I learned the Christmas story.

  473. Jesus.

  474. I learned that he was born in a stable. Then

  475. I learned his parents, Mary and Joseph. Then I learned

  476. that he was a carpenter. Then and I learned that

  477. as the story. Then you go. But I didn't know

  478. him personally. So my encouragement to parents for your children

  479. did say, just trust that when you pray and to

  480. God to reveal Jesus to your children and grandchildren, then

  481. if you have faith, then one day they will gin us.

  482. Go Jesus, Issus. You don't have to force them. Sometimes

  483. we need to challenge them then, but we challenge out

  484. of love. We don't be harsh with our children because

  485. ultimately they are God's children. You think that your child

  486. is your responsibility, and while that is true, then they're

  487. ultimately gods. And I'm feeling right now from the Holy

  488. Spirit that God's grace is on the children of.

  489. G i A.

  490. Then, oh, the children will know Jesus. You won't have

  491. to force them to come to church. Drag you along

  492. to church, and when you feel tired, the children will

  493. bring you to church. I believe that God is going

  494. to empower your children to shine the light of the

  495. gospel to Samarang. God loves God loves the people of Samara.

  496. There's millions of lost people in Samarang. But Jesus is

  497. on the moon. If you don't know Jesus, if you.

  498. Don't have relationship with Himus, then you don't know his

  499. heart for your own city.

  500. Ask God to break your heart for Samara. Ask God

  501. to give you opportunities to share the love of Jesus

  502. with Samara. And you are.

  503. Already doing this.

  504. You're giving food to the poor, you're feeding the Muslimslim.

  505. You're speaking about Isa then and they will know him. Then,

  506. trust that God will reveal him. He'll uncover what was

  507. hidden then so they will not go to Mohammad.

  508. Did Youma go to Jesus im in.

  509. Just to finish it? Paul says, I pray that the

  510. eyes of your heart may be enlightened so.

  511. They in order that you may know the hope.

  512. Epi in oscop to the hope to which he has

  513. called you. Do you know what hope means from a

  514. biblical perspective, because I didn't until a few months ago.

  515. Gonna bloom in Alia the Australia, when we talk.

  516. About things in the future, we might say, I hope

  517. I get a good job, I hope I buy a house.

  518. But off or for sport, I hope my team wins

  519. and then they lose then, so the hope we have

  520. isn't confidence my in in Australia, the Australia, we have

  521. a f L Australian Football. Did It's a sport that

  522. is only played in Australia a professional level.

  523. Did you start?

  524. And I love it? I think it's the best sport

  525. in the world. Can I? But everyone I've met overseas

  526. disagrees with me, then we're gonna go And that's okay.

  527. Soccer is the world game. Can I? Last year? Sorry?

  528. This year? This is my team that Adelaide Crows.

  529. Did he tim you?

  530. We finished on top of the ladder.

  531. Did he ad.

  532. But when the there's eighteen teams did them and the

  533. top eight go to finals, then finals, and there's a

  534. series of finals, semi final, the.

  535. Semi final, there's three semi five semi.

  536. Final and then the grand final, then finale winter and

  537. two teams play off on the grand final and the

  538. winner is the champion. Then for that year, Deep and

  539. my team that Adelaide CROs.

  540. Jedd Adelaide course.

  541. They finished on top of the ladder and we hadn't

  542. been in the finals for eight years then, so the

  543. whole year I was skeptical about them.

  544. Then they did.

  545. The whole year I didn't trust them.

  546. They did disa.

  547. But they kept winning and they finished first. Then then

  548. they went to finals, final, winch and I said, I

  549. hope they win the.

  550. Kamana.

  551. I hope they win the Grand final.

  552. But my hope wasn't confident that because.

  553. I couldn't trust them, kind of are you following me?

  554. Then in final, then the caffeine now and they lost,

  555. and after they lost they had a second chance, and

  556. now I was worried. I said, I hope they win.

  557. I hope they win. And guess what happened? Then they

  558. lost and after winning all year.

  559. Did you said that monoes we lost and we lost callakala.

  560. Over like that, sir, see you in twenty twenty six.

  561. Then well we have to start again.

  562. Then how is.

  563. However that be? When the Bible talks about hope.

  564. The Galagapan, it's a ground it's grounded in a hope

  565. that is confident.

  566. Pan young young yakim, because we know Jesus died and rose.

  567. Again, gonna kita Cristus young bank, and we.

  568. Know he's coming back. Jesus is one hundred percent coming back.

  569. Lui.

  570. So when the Bible says to have hope, did it's

  571. a hope that is grounded in the truth that Jesus

  572. is coming. It's a hope that's grounded that in your

  573. situations you might not feel like there's a way through.

  574. Did You might say, how are we going to get

  575. through this obstacle? But because of our hope in Christristus,

  576. he will bring us through. So we will get to

  577. the end of our life and we can look back

  578. and we can say, by the grace of God, Jesus

  579. got me through. I speak to the elder people, do

  580. you know this is true? Jesus has got you through

  581. every challenge. There were times in your life when you

  582. said I don't know if I will get through. But

  583. you sit here today and you can say Jesus got.

  584. Me through.

  585. Some true Amen. Amen? So does that make sense? Our

  586. hope isn't it might happen? Did you? Jerdy? The truth

  587. is it will happen, Jerdy. So Paul says, did he

  588. polish in your heart? I want you to know the

  589. hope we have in Jesus.

  590. Did he polish monarchs?

  591. Because we have a sure Jesus, young pasty, we can

  592. trust Jesus, but Cristals he won't let us. I mean,

  593. does that make sense? Nearly there? And he says, I

  594. want you to know the glorious inheritance.

  595. The holy people, the bay Paul, Spaya, y Man and

  596. and Kmerian.

  597. But we have an inheritance in Jesus, Jesus.

  598. On when our parents pass away, they give us an inheritance.

  599. And sometimes we are in a family where we get

  600. a lot then and sometimes we're in a family where

  601. we get nothing. But as God's child, as God's son,

  602. as God's daughter, we have a glorious Inheritancelia, and we

  603. have relationship with Jesus Jesus. Relationship with Jesus is the

  604. most important thing in our life, Cristos, because only Jesus fulfills,

  605. not education, not luxury, book and not all these good

  606. things in our lives. That they are a blessing. It is,

  607. but not when it comes before Jesus. Only Jesus satisfied,

  608. and Jesus has given so much we have relationship with him, then, Cristos,

  609. we have a new identity.

  610. Esus.

  611. He says he will protect us. Then he says he

  612. will provide every need. Then he says he has a

  613. calling for our lives. Each and every one of us

  614. has purpose. And we can only know our purpose if

  615. we have Osco with if we have episco with Jesus.

  616. You know, so many people strive their purpose. When I try,

  617. I try, I try, Some people give up. They say

  618. it's too hard. When and when you look around your

  619. situation from a worldly perspective, house it might make sense.

  620. But from a kingdom perspective, we have a greater reality.

  621. We have a purpose. So today did God wants you

  622. to know him better. He wants you to know your

  623. identity in Christ. And as part of that, he will

  624. show us our purpose. Then and part of that is

  625. to love people. Then you have a transformed her. That

  626. we aren't full of lust, that we aren't full of greed,

  627. then that we aren't full of desire for wealth, that

  628. we aren't full of slander and gossip, but we deeply

  629. care about people. We deeply love people. Through the can

  630. and on that, Paul says, I want you to know

  631. in your heart the incomparably great power. Then for us

  632. who believe the same power that raised Christ Christ and

  633. seated him next to the throne of God, that power

  634. is in you. That power is in you, That power

  635. is in the child. That's what Paul is saying. The

  636. power that is so big, young, that is so great

  637. you you can't measure it, you can't compare. That is

  638. our inheritance in Christristus. So are we walking in power?

  639. I don't know about you, but where I come from,

  640. lots of Christians don't walk in power, Tuhan, because we

  641. don't have EPI in Osco with ges. So God wants

  642. you right now to open.

  643. Your heart say I need you, I desire you, change

  644. my heart.

  645. Help me to see Holy Spirit reveal Gesus to me,

  646. reveal the Father's lacause Ephesian three says we have to

  647. be rooted and grounded in love. We're not meant to

  648. be rooted and grounded in fear. We're not meant to

  649. be rooted and grounded in worry. I need because Jesus

  650. has given us everything.

  651. Can I.

  652. That, amen? I mean? And we see that Jesus is

  653. above every power in heaven and dinner, and Godess placed

  654. all things under his feet. Then, and he is the

  655. head over everything for the church, which is his body,

  656. young man, the fullness of him young He feels everything

  657. in every way. Jesus wants to feel you, Yes, with

  658. more of Him and with the Holy Spirit. And and

  659. to finish I keep asking, then see when I had

  660. my wind experience that was powerful? Yeah, it was. But

  661. if I said God revealed himself to me, then now

  662. I just do whatever I want. I would go away

  663. from christalk Cristals, I would lose. I would lose. But

  664. that experience encouraged me to hunger for more of God.

  665. You don't like Cristals because I've heard this analogy?

  666. Can I say, I'm a.

  667. When we eat food in the physical, the more we get,

  668. the more fool we get, and we gotta undo the

  669. belts and we gotta go.

  670. I had too much then, and your grandma, they.

  671. Say you're too skinny. Lug eat more, and he said,

  672. I'm two fold. No more lag, but with kingdom, with

  673. the spiritual food.

  674. So as the more we.

  675. Taste of Jesus, the hungry are weak. So when I

  676. tasted Jesus through the winds, did.

  677. Onion ito, it made me want more of him. Don't

  678. tell that slug you don't like.

  679. You, Cristals, because my heart is free in Jesus Lass.

  680. So after that Friday night at ten thirty, did the

  681. next day I pray more of you Lord, have you Sunday,

  682. more of your Lord.

  683. Like you lucky.

  684. Monday, more of you Lord is an Indian. And Tuesday,

  685. maybe I get busy, then book, maybe I get distracted.

  686. Distra God says, don't worry my child, just come back belong.

  687. We don't need to beat ourselves up if we forget

  688. to read the Bible one day. We don't need to

  689. beat ourselves up if we forget to pray one day.

  690. Jesus isn't worried it. Come, I want relationship. Come amen, amen.

  691. Thank you, thank you for listening, Thank.

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