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How to receive the Oracles of God - Dr. Reginald Klimionok

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  1. Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. Today we have an impactful

  2. teaching by Dr. Reginald Klimanok. Dr. Klimanok's preaching has touched the lives of many, inspiring

  3. and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian theology. Join

  4. us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom

  5. that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as

  6. we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klimanok's preaching.

  7. Let's start with the Word, shall we? As I said earlier, I'm going to see our brother

  8. who used to be on my team once. God bless you. Nice to have you here. I have an interesting

  9. message for you today. How to receive, I've called it the oracles of God. Because the

  10. promises in the Bible are spoken of as oracles. The Greek word is the word logion, L-O-G-I-O-N,

  11. I think, which means scripture, sentences rather, declaration, the utterances or the

  12. oracles of God or the sayings of God. That's what the word is. When we think of promises,

  13. we sort of at times minimize the power of them. But really they are the oracles of God.

  14. Stay with me. The oracles of God. Why can't we receive what God has promised us in this

  15. Word? Promises of guidance, promises of divine direction, thousands of promises in the Bible

  16. of comfort of strength. God makes it very clear these promises of healing, of provision,

  17. of victory. Why do we have at times such difficulty to receive them? In Deuteronomy chapter 8,

    Deuteronomy 8:3

  18. verse 3, the Bible says God led them through the wilderness, through all kinds of experiences,

  19. the latter part says that man should know they didn't live by bread alone, but by every

  20. word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord that man lived by. God led them to bring

  21. them to the place where they might trust him and his word and live in that living Word

  22. of God. Jesus Christ through John the Divine writes in the book of Revelation to the churches.

  23. To each of the churches he concludes by saying, this is a papyrus, we have it now in this

  24. form, but they received this letter and they read it to all the churches. Then he says

  25. at the end to every one of the churches, he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what

  26. the Spirit is saying to the churches. Amazing words. It wasn't just an ordinary piece of

  27. letter or words, it was literally the Spirit of God was speaking through that. And he said

  28. he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying. So the scriptures

  29. have been given that we might hear from God. The promises have been given, the oracles,

  30. the sayings of God that we might receive from God. In John chapter 10, Jesus when he talks

    John 10 chapter mention

  31. about him being the shepherd and we are the sheep, he says in verse 3, he says to him

  32. the port of Okeneth and the sheep hear his voice. Say hear his voice. And he called his

  33. sheep by name and lead them out. Verse 5, the stranger will not follow but will flee,

  34. for they know the voice of the stranger. His sheep do what? Hear his voice. Now in Hebrews

    Hebrews 3 chapter mention

  35. chapter 3, please, interesting development of truth here through these chapters in Hebrews.

  36. You notice here in verse 1 of chapter 3, we are holy brethren. What an amazing declaration

  37. about ourselves. Partakers of a heavenly calling. We are holy brethren. Partakers of a heavenly

  38. calling. This is considered the Apostle and High Priest of our really confession. And

  39. then he talks about Israel in the wilderness and it says in verse 7, therefore as the Holy

  40. Ghost said, today if you will hear his what? Voice. Hard not too hard. As they did in the

  41. publication, the temptation, the wilderness. When your fathers tempted me, they saw my

  42. works forty years, he says. Therefore I was grieved with them. They didn't know my ways,

  43. he says there. Amazing words. And then in the next chapter, chapter 4, verse 2, he says,

  44. let us therefore fear lest a promise, say a promise, be left us of entering into his

  45. rest. Any of you should seem to come short because of unbelief, a promise. So now he

  46. identifies it straight down to us, uses Israel as an example. But he says promises left to

  47. you. And then it says unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. So they received

  48. God's truth like we've received the gospel today. But the word preached did not profit

  49. them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. So it appears that our faith response

  50. is crucial. We have the promises of God. We have received the gospel. Can you say amen?

  51. The good news. And notice as it goes on then in that same chapter on that word, he says

  52. this, 12, for the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword,

  53. piercing even the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. It gets right inside of you and

  54. joins and marrow. It's a discern of the thoughts when you read the word. God does something

  55. with your thoughts. How many know what I'm talking about? And the intense of the heart,

  56. it gets right down into your intentions. What the real reason is behind your lifestyle or

  57. whatever is going on, he comes and touches the depth of your being. Can you say amen?

  58. And then in the next chapter, this promise, this logo, this word, he comes to the end

  59. of chapter five. He says of whom, verse 11, with many things to say, the heart to be uttered,

  60. sing ye a down of hearing, strong words. For when the time were you to be teachers, you

  61. have need that others teach you again the first principles of the, now the word is used

  62. here, oracles of God. And they become so poor was teaching, what was he teaching? The oracles

  63. of God and become such as need of milk and of not of strong meat. It worries me when

  64. I see the lack of any word preaching today. It really worries me. I have deep concern.

  65. You don't, but I do because it's like we want the milk all the time. Tell me how good

  66. I am and how nice I am. That's all that counts. It doesn't. God wants to do more than that.

  67. Can somebody say me? That says, verse 14, that's strong. The thing with you is milk

  68. is unskillful in the word of righteousness and he's a babe, but strong meat belongeth

  69. to them that are of full age. God is trying to make you grow up. Say grow up. Amen. Even

  70. those who by reason of use, say use, is the exercise of the word, is the constant use

  71. of the word, living in the word, meditating on the word, spending time in the word. It

  72. says of use, have their senses exercised. In other words, it does something to your very

  73. character, to your very nature. It has the power to affect your life, discern both good

  74. and evil, so that you come into something with God. Can somebody say amen? Notice the

  75. next chapter. It's all to do with the word. There's three great truths in that whole Hebrews.

  76. One is the word, the high priest, and the covenants. Three great things that I mentioned

  77. in Hebrews, amazing book. The word, the high priest and minister of Christ, and the covenants.

  78. Notice here in chapter six from verse 12, that ye be not slothful, but followers of

  79. them who through faith and, I wish this wasn't here, patience, inherit the promises. They

  80. don't come instant. Hello. Patience means you've got to fight it through. You don't

  81. give up. Hello, church. You inherit them how the promises, through how? Through faith.

  82. I wish it wasn't here. Patience. We want instant coffee, instant tea, instant God, and we do

  83. ... No, no, no, no. We have to have that something that pursues after God. Amen, church, to inherit

  84. all that God has for us. For when God promised to Abraham, he could not be swore by no greater.

  85. He swore by himself saying, surely I will bless thee. I will multiply. He's using it

  86. as an example. After you patiently endured, how many years, 25 years, endured, you obtained

  87. the promise. Many a person was healed like, I think, of

  88. William Burton. You would know William Burton is. One of the great mission... How many

  89. remember William Burton? Anybody in this room? Yes, some of you. The old missionary who... The

  90. man that established a Congo evangelistic mission in years when there was nothing there.

  91. He was like a David Livingston. Went there. Jimmy Slaughter and a few others went with

  92. him. But he got cancer and he stood on the word, by his stripes I'm healed. By his stripes,

  93. he told us, he confessed, by his stripes I'm healed. Years he fought that thing and it

  94. left him. Hallelujah. Faith and what? Patience. Oh God. Faith and patience to inherit all

  95. that God has for him. He wanted to bless him. Surely I will bless thee, verse 14. But he

  96. after he patiently endured, for men very swear by the greater and oath for confirmation and

  97. where in God willing more abundantly, say more abundantly. Say it again. More abundantly.

  98. More abundantly. To show unto the heirs of promise. Who are the heirs of promise? You

  99. and me. Us. Heirs, what are we? The heirs of promise. Hallelujah. To show unto the heirs

  100. of promise the immutability or the unchangingness of his counsel confirmed it by swearing to

  101. it by an oath. That by two immutable things which is impossible for God to lie. God does

  102. not lie to you. Hello church. You might, we might have strong consolation who have fled

  103. for refuge to take hold of the hope set therein. In other words, our hope for eternity is in

  104. this. Amen church. And we do if God is in this. We have a hope as an anchor for the

  105. soul both steadfast and sure which entered into the, within the veil. The foreman Jesus

  106. Christ, the high priest in the next chapter talks about the high priest in ministry of

  107. Jesus Christ. Then in chapter 8, now coming to the covenants, chapter 8 verse 6 says that

  108. now have you obtained a more excellent ministry of Jesus by how much more he's the mediator,

  109. mediates a better covenant built upon what? Established upon what? Better promises. Better

  110. promises. That could be the end of the message. Marvellous. That alone should give you all

  111. that you need in God. He said it. His book says it. You have the promises of God Almighty.

  112. But some of we have to fight for them. Hallelujah. Amen church. We have to go after them to receive

  113. all that God has for us. All right. Number of principles. Number one, we have the oracles

  114. of God. I told you from Hebrews chapter 5 verse 12, Paul declares there that we have

    Hebrews 5:12

  115. received, he spoke as the oracles of God. Declaration, what is logion? Atfances of God

  116. Almighty. It means declarations of God, the promises, the sentences, the words of God.

  117. The Bible is the oracles of God. In Acts chapter 7, in your Bibles, Acts chapter 7 verse 38,

    Acts 7 chapter mention Acts 7:38

  118. it says this is he that was in the church in the wilderness. That's speaking of Israel

  119. that they were like the ecclesiast there. Where the angel would speak to him in Mount

  120. Sinai and with our fathers who receive the lively oracles of God. They receive them given

  121. to us. Now in 2nd Peter chapter 1, please, in the light of this, 2nd Peter chapter 1,

  122. Paul, Peter's writing says this in verse 16, we have not followed cunningly devised fables.

  123. We didn't do not just little stories. We made unto you the power and coming of our Lord

  124. Jesus Christ. He said, but were I witness of His majesty? We were once, he's saying

  125. there on the mountain and we saw the coming of Christ. We saw the power of it in that

  126. transfiguration experience. What is he saying there? Because he says we receive from God

  127. the Father glory when it came such a voice from the excellent glory. This is my beloved

  128. son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard and we were

  129. with him on the holy mount. Three men, remember Peter, James and John went to Jesus on mount

  130. transfiguration. Remember that? And they were eyewitnesses of what the coming of Christ

  131. would be like in that day. They saw the power, the majesty of it at that moment. Jesus was

  132. always veiled in humanity for a moment. They saw the glory of this living Christ, the awesomeness

  133. of His power and majesty. See, we saw this glorious thing. But notice what it says. We

  134. have also, say also, that is us now, a more sure word of prophecy. We have as much as

  135. they had. We have a more sure word. I remember years ago how this gripped me this verse.

  136. We have a more sure word of prophecy.

  137. Rondri duvall, the G. Take heed, is unto a light that shineth into a dark place unto

  138. the day dawn. Hallelujah. And the day star arise in our hearts. We have something even

  139. as much as they had on the mount. The word of God is sure word of prophecy. The word

  140. of the living God is called prophecy here. I explain, knowing this, that no prophecy

  141. of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy which came in old time by

  142. the word of man, did not come in old time, but holy men of God spake as the lot moved

  143. by the holy ghost. What is the word of God? Men wrote it, but God inspired it. God gave

  144. them the words. This is the divine record of events of thus said God directly as much

  145. as God spoke on mount Shinii and then they had the revelation upon mount Transfiguration.

  146. It says we have, hallelujah, we have a more sure word of prophecy. It's a light that shines

  147. into the day dawn, until he comes, until we go home to him. Hallelujah church. Amen. What

  148. do we have? The book. We have the oracles. We have the promises. We have the word of

  149. God that shines as a light into the darkness of this earth, as much as they had it. So

  150. the word is the oracles of God. Hallelujah. The Bible, the word of God. Preachers have

  151. the oracles of God. It says, for example, in 1st Timothy chapter 4, I'm just telling

  152. you the Bible. No one can disagree with the Bible. Can you agree with that? Amen. If any

  153. man speak, verse 11, let him speak as the oracles of God. So my preparation should be

  154. not just a little word, not little examples, but I have to speak as the very what? Oracles

  155. of God. Amazing. The men in prelim speak as the oracles of God and let him do it as the

  156. ability which God giveth, that in God and all may be glorified through Jesus Christ,

  157. to whom be glory and praise and dominion. Always Jesus. Dominion and honor forever and

  158. ever. We have to speak how? As the very oracles of God. Preach as the very, Paul says in 1st

  159. Thessalonians chapter, I won't be able to finish this today. There's so much more in

  160. this. I just prefer in chapter 2 and I think it is verse, where are we? It's in 2 verse

  161. 13. It says, I'll find it for you. For this cause thank we God always without ceasing.

  162. Because when you receive the word of God which you heard of us, you receive it not as the

  163. word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which then if you receive it like

  164. that, it actually works in you that belief. If you have the ability to receive it like

  165. this, it has the power to keep working in you if you only have faith and belief. That

  166. word will operate powerfully in every area of your life. Can you say amen? It's amazing.

  167. I've got the scripture but it talks about Israel. It says in chapter 3 of Romans, what

  168. advantages have a Jew? Verse 1, in the midst of it it says, for every chiefly, because

  169. unto them were committed the oracles of God. The word came through us through Jewish people.

  170. Don't ever forget that. Mainly through Jews. The Jew, Paul was a Jew. And before that,

  171. Israel, the whole Old Testament, the Jews, to them was committed. We are blessed as the

  172. recipients. Can you say amen? In chapter 9, again, it talks about there have been set

  173. aside, it says, in verse 4, it says, who are Israelites? To whom pertained the adoption,

  174. the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law of God, and the promises to them was committed

  175. all this marvelous stuff. And we are the recipients of it. Can you say amen? Oh, hallelujah. Just

  176. a little bit longer. I won't be too long this morning. I'll surprise you. And I'll go on

  177. next week on the same subject, maybe a week or two. When God speaks to you through the

  178. oracles of God, God rarely addresses your problems. He always addresses your future.

  179. I'll explain to you why. It's the most amazing thing about God. He knows your problems. He

  180. knows all about you and your personality. But He rarely addresses your problems. He

  181. always addresses your future. Let me give an example, and I'll go on with this. I have

  182. much to say first, and then next week we'll continue. When God came to Moses in the wilderness,

  183. He'd been there for 40 years. He didn't address any of the promises that Moses, any of the

  184. problems that Moses had. He didn't say, Moses, it's because of your stupidity that brought

  185. you to this wilderness. Or we say, oh, God was molding him. Maybe it's true, but He brought

  186. it above. Let's understand this. You murdered someone. You did some stupid things. You couldn't

  187. control your temper. You thought it was the moment that I would deliver Israel. He didn't

  188. say any of that. You've been living now in the back side of the desert for 40 years,

  189. eight years of age, still very young, and everybody says, come on, all these, still

  190. very young, and everybody says, all right. God immediately addressed the future, and

  191. He told him what He wanted to do with it. He told him about the future of Israel, and

  192. how He would deliver them from bondage, how He would set them to do this. Moses kept addressing

  193. the problem until God got mad at him. Come on, Church. I could go through, and I'll

  194. do that next week through Peter, through all of these guys. He never addresses their problems.

  195. I'll explain. He addresses their future. Let me give you another one, for example. Hallelujah.

  196. Abraham. You say, what a mighty man of faith. Not always, Church. He did some ridiculous

  197. things. When God called him, He said, get out of your family. They voted him aside.

  198. He takes Lot with him. While Lot is there, God hasn't talked to him for years. Finally,

  199. through tremendous pressure, Lot has to go, because there were family disputes about to

  200. not enough land. As soon as he stops it, and Genesis 13, God makes His promises again.

  201. He doesn't even say to him, you stupid fool, why didn't you get rid of Lot? Maybe he called

  202. his own 25 years. I don't know. Then God says, God never wanted him to go down to Egypt.

  203. How do I know that? Because in Genesis 26, He speaks to Isaac, don't do what your papa

  204. did. Don't go down to Egypt. Abraham goes down to Egypt. This mighty man of faith, and

  205. he says to his wife, don't tell them you're my wife. They'll kill me. You're so beautiful.

  206. He calls her his sister, which is a teeny bit of truth, because he was some little relationship

  207. to her like a sister. She ends up in the palace to be married to Abraham, to the king Pharaoh.

  208. If it wasn't God warning this fellow, and then still God, He leaves Egypt blessed. Listen

  209. carefully. Blessed in order to mess up, because he was a covenant child, he was a covenant

  210. child. What's the word I'm going to use for it? Doesn't matter. To save his own life,

  211. he says, God, you're a man of faith. You're a man of faith. You're a man of faith. You're

  212. a man of faith. What's the word I'm going to use for it? Doesn't matter. To save his

  213. own skin, he told fibs, if not lies. And yet God, and then when the promise doesn't come,

  214. he goes into Hagar. His slave creates a child, Ishmael, which has been the problem of the

  215. world since then. And God doesn't say, you stupid man. But when you go to the end of

  216. his life, he says, when finally the promise comes to him, he says, I'm going to save my

  217. life. God doesn't address the problems, but you have to deal with them. Now, why is it

  218. done like this? I'll just explain to you a little bit this week and do more. I believe

  219. God does this with all of us. He says, I'm going to save my life. I'm going to save my

  220. life. I'm going to save my life. I'm going to save my life. I'm going to save my life.

  221. I believe God does this with all of us. He rarely addresses our problems. He always addresses

  222. our future. Not because he doesn't want us to change. Holiness and character is crucial

  223. to God. Can somebody say amen? God wants us to be like Jesus. God wants us, his intention

  224. is our freedom, our effectiveness. Does he want these things in our life? No. Does he

  225. want to permit these things for our development? No. But he gives us a future and a hope. And

  226. I want to show you why in a moment why he works like this. You see, we want to be sort

  227. of zapped into perfection. Zapped into Christian character. Boom! For I was an angel never

  228. to sin anymore. I wish it was like that. Christian easyism. But it doesn't work like that. You

  229. have to work with the Word alone. You have to let the Word to discern good and evil.

  230. You have to let the Word make you like Jesus. For example, now in Jeremiah 29, here's this

  231. where I'm messing up terribly. The king may be responsible for this. He's talking after

  232. 70 years of accomplishing Babylon, verse 10, going through circumstances. Then he says

  233. in verse 7, for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, said the Lord. The thoughts

  234. of peace and not of evil. Hallelujah. I thank God for that. If God dealt with your problems,

  235. wow! Which of us could cope with it? But he keeps telling us he's got good thoughts

  236. towards us to give us an expected end. He says pray in verse 12. Now I tell you why

  237. now. How many want to know why? Thank you, Beth. The rest of you can listen anyway. Number

  238. one, I mean, because the blood covenant has sealed us into our destiny. I've been talking

  239. about covenants, remember, for weeks? The blood covenant has sealed us because we're

  240. not in probation, but we're in destiny. Say with me, I'm not in probation, I'm in destiny.

  241. You're not sort of God is sitting back there in heaven saying, wait till he just trips

  242. up and I will bang him on his blessed assurance and I will deal with him. We're in destiny,

  243. church. And he is pushing forward. You've become a child of God and he's pushing forward

  244. in every way he can through our downness, through our flesh, to push us into the destiny

  245. that God has for us. And he'll do anything, anything. He did so on the cross. He gave

  246. everything. He's prepared the whole of heaven for us. It's not for angels, for ministering

  247. spirits. It's for us, for the men of glory, eternity with God. Hallelujah. You see, he's

  248. not... But you see, he has totally committed himself to you. He's not about to change his

  249. mind. He doesn't change his mind. God cannot lie. Remember Hebrews 6? He's made an oath.

  250. And the moment you accepted Christ as your savior, you came into something of the eternal

  251. purpose of God that I talked about, which was planned before the foundations of the

  252. world. You're in it now. Hallelujah. You're in it now. Because why does he do it this

  253. way? I'll tell you why. Remember what happened to Peter when he failed? He said to Peter,

  254. I'm praying that your what? Faith. Fail not. I'm praying that you won't let go, that you

  255. won't give up, that you won't throw in the towel, that you won't think it's all over.

  256. And he really didn't address that thing again with Peter. Did you notice that? Never addressed

  257. it. When he went away again, he says, do you love me more than these? Peter just said,

  258. Lord, you know everything. He said, feed my sheep. Feed my sheep. He never... And he even

  259. went and remembered the resurrection when he says, go and... I love that. Go and tell

  260. your disciples. And Peter, oh, the love of God. Oh, the mercy of God. Because why? You

  261. see, why does God do it this way? Because hope and faith must remain. Your great growth

  262. comes according to your hope and to your faith. Your growth comes according to your hunger

  263. for God, your expectation that God will not let you go. Remember that Psalm I read with

  264. you? Because of all this, he says, my expectation is in you. And man will rest in you because

  265. of what you have promised. Oh, shan'diria kalasa, because of what... You're not being

  266. tested. You're being prepared, molded, fashioned. You're here for eternity. Can somebody agree

  267. with me? And if you're really redeemed, you'll feel miserable about that stupid stuff in

  268. your life. You won't bring choice in sin if you're really born again. You don't habitually

  269. deliberately sin because something has happened to you. You won't throw this stuff away anymore.

  270. Glorious things have happened to you. You're a child of the redeemed. Philippians 3, I'm

  271. nearly through this morning. We'll go on much more next week and so on. Philippians chapter

    Philippians 3 chapter mention

  272. 3, turn to it, the apostle Pius. We're conscious of our needs. He was. Where am I? You find

  273. this. Philippians 3, 13, he says, brethren, I can't let myself to have apprehended, but

  274. this one thing I do, this one thing I do, this one thing I do, forgetting those things

  275. which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the

  276. mark for the prize of the high calling. The word there is actually ministry, what I do

  277. for God. That's what it means. That's the word I do for God. I press toward the mark

  278. for the prize of the high calling. The word there is actually ministry, what I do for

  279. God. That's what it means. That's the word they use there, for the high calling of God

  280. in Christ Jesus. This one thing I do. Because the past, unless you lose yourself from it,

  281. will bind you. The chains must be released. It binds you emotionally. It binds you physically.

  282. It binds you spiritually. If you let the past be lived in the present, because that's what

  283. Satan does. Satan's biggest job is the accuser of the brethren to take the past, to intimidate

  284. you, to undermine you, that you lose your effectiveness and your sense of... You cannot

  285. enter the future until you release yourself from that past. That's where faith and hope

  286. comes in. Faith in the blood, faith in the covenant. The biggest struggle you have is

  287. in this area. Isaiah 43 says, oh, I love this word. I am getting blessed, even if you are

  288. not. I'm getting blessed. It says, remember not the former things. Neither consider the

  289. things of old. Behold, I do a new thing. This is the principle of God. Don't live in the

  290. past. Behold, I do a new thing. It shall spring forth and you shall know it. I will make the

  291. way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. I can do anything, God says. I let the wilderness

  292. change by my power. Rivers in the desert. But you've got to forget the past, because

  293. the past will kill you. Satan will make sure it intimidates you and somehow defeats you

  294. and lets you go under until you can't even breathe anymore. Forget it, he says. Go on

  295. to the future. Will you do that? Notice what he says in the previous verse in the film.

  296. Back to Philippians, I am. Philippians 3, 12. Not as though I've already attained. You

  297. never feel you've reached it, even the apostle Paul. It was already perfect, but I follow

  298. after. That I may apprehend that which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Jesus apprehended

  299. me when He touched me in salvation. Amen. When He touched me by His awesome grace and

  300. power many times, amazing visitations. When He touched me with the fullness of the Holy

  301. Spirit, He apprehended me. Now I am pursuing that which He begun in me. I am going after

  302. with all of my might and strength and power. Can you say amen? He took hold of me at the

  303. baptism. Then He says, this one thing I do, forget the past. He says, I haven't taken

  304. hold of everything yet. The greatest have moments. I think of John the Baptist. I told

  305. you that before in Matthew 11. This man that heard the voice of God at the baptism saying,

  306. this is my beloved Son whom I'm well pleased. This man that saw the Holy Ghost descend upon

  307. Him like a dove, knew that He was the Son of God. This man who before he knew anything

  308. about Him says, behold the Lamb of God. This man of tremendous power is now in prison.

  309. Suddenly the humanity of John comes out. He says, He sends His disciples to Jesus. He

  310. says, are you the one? Even He, mighty man, or do you look for another? All of us have

  311. moments. All of us have things that we sometimes struggle with. Jesus answers and says, what

  312. He said in Luke 418. He doesn't say John Telemonte, but mystery. The blind receive

  313. that sign. The lame walker. He says, blessed are they which are not offended in Me. For

  314. let anything stop you. For let anything that you go through that was like an offense to

  315. John, he was in prison. Time had come and he would be chopped off. Don't get offended.

  316. May I say this is that close to all of you today. In your humanity, don't get offended.

  317. If the promises aren't yet fulfilled, don't get offended. In your limitations, don't

  318. get offended because offense will kill you. Offense will torture you, cause you to miss

  319. out on so much of God. I will tell you more yet why we don't receive the promises as we

  320. go on next week. Why we at times don't receive all that God asks for us. Say with me, I'm

  321. not in probation. I'm in destiny and God give me hope and faith to fulfill all His plan

  322. for my life. Give me bow and prayer. Father, help us as believers not to live in our humanity

  323. too much. Like John even, we question the divine. Give us the ability to trust you,

  324. to know even when things come our way, you cannot fail. You cannot fail. Lift your hands

  325. and say, He cannot fail, for He is God. He cannot fail. He's pledged His word. He cannot

  326. fail. He'll see you through. He cannot fail. He'll answer you. Thank you Father. Now, what's

  327. your bow and prayer? May I ask, is there anyone here that doesn't know Jesus? I wouldn't live

  328. one day without the presence of the King. Give your life to Christ today. That's the

  329. greatest thing in the world. Give your life to Jesus. See, I don't know if I'm saved,

  330. but I want to be saved. I want to give my heart to Jesus. If that is you this morning,

  331. would you raise your hand? Let me pray with you. God give us faith that our faith fail

  332. not. Come on church, give us hope to see that God will not fail us. Let no intimidation

  333. of the enemy ever undermine our effectiveness. None should feel they don't belong to God

  334. if they made an accompaniment with you and received Jesus. They belong to you. Hallelujah.

  335. Glory be to God. Can we stand please together and join hands?

  336. Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be

  337. done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us faith that our faith fail not. Give us hope

  338. that our faith fail not. Give us faith that our faith fail not. Give us hope that our

  339. faith fail not. Give us faith that our faith fail not. Give us hope that our faith fail

  340. not. Amen. Thank you for grace. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The grace, remember

  341. I preached on this, whereby you know you're accepted and the beloved. The grace that says

  342. you're perfect and the beloved. And the love of God, because God loves us with an everlasting

  343. love that is ever declared over our lives in so many marvelous ways. And the fellowship

  344. of the Holy Ghost, never lose the presence of the Holy Ghost. Be with you, for now and

  345. forever. Amen. Remember there's coffee and tea outside for two dollars with some bikis.

  346. And remember tonight on angels. God bless you. Please pray for that promise. Can you

  347. say amen? Thank you again for tuning in in today's powerful message from Dr. Reginald

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  349. in faith and love. Until next time, may God's blessing be with you always.