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We hope this message will light up your day.

I'm going to share and basically follow up from what

I thought last week in the Christmas message that I

shared from John chapter one, and I'm still going to

be elaborating from today verses fourteen to eighteen. It may

go quite deep. So children, I hope you can stay

with me. If not, ask your parents to explain to

you later. Okay, Teachers, if they write any notes on

their piece of paper, just give them a reward seriously. Yeah, yeah,

if they catch anything I say today, halleluiash praise God.

This one all good children? Ready for the world.

Ready, Okay, I'm going to read the portion of Scripture

and I'm going to be talking about grace today. And

grace is such a wonderful is it's a very Christian term.

It's a wonderful Christian term. But I think it's important

that we understand it in dept to know what it's

all about. And more importantly, as we end the year

and we start the new year, I think it's important

how we position ourselves. The posture of our hearts is

going to be very, very very important. Twenty twenty six.

It's going to be a new start, a new beginning

for all of us. It's not so much a reset,

but really we look forward. We keep looking forward every year.

That is, we get to spend in the lawn. I

think we should look forward to it. That is what

past the candeman. If you actually saw the worship, not

worship the highlight reels, you know, he says we are

on the winning team, and that means every year we

start not defeated, we start victorious. It's important for us

to know that. Okay, why I've just entitled the message

grace after grace. Okay, it's actually taken from the scripture

uh itself. And John is one of those portions of scriptures,

or probably one of the slightly deeper or written in

a very deep sense of it, of all the gospels. Okay,

that's why there are the three other gospels. I can't

remember the alum together Matthew, Mark, and Luke. I think

the term is correct. Me If I'm wrong, it's either

syncratic or synoptic. I think it's synoptic. That means there

are similarities between Mark, Matthew, and Luke and then Sally.

You get John.

John is out of this a bit, a bit out

of the ordinary.

Uh.

In fact, Mark is probably the gospel that has written earlier,

and so Matthew and Luke use Mark as their reference

as they were also writing their God the Gospel and

writing the stories.

And so that's why you see similarity.

But when it came to John, John wrote the gospels

much later. His Gospel was written. He was probably the

one that lived the longest amongst all the disciples, and

he wrote it at his older age, having known, having

seen all that is happening. And this is the disciple

who claimed Jesus love him the most. Okay, so let's

stick for it that he's got a lot of wisdom

to share. But he writes in a very is deep

and so we have to study the words that he used.

I think it's very very important when we look and

when we study the Gospel of John. So I'm going

to read verses fourteen to eighteen, and it says this,

so the Word became human and made his home among us.

You know, this was also the Christmas message that I

was sharing with us last week. He was full of

unfailing love and faithfulness.

Okay.

Other translations for unfeeling love and faithfulness is actually grace

and truth. Okay, And then it goes on they and

we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father's

one and only son. John testified about him when he shouted,

and this John the Baptist, John the Baptist testified about

him when he shouted to the crowds, this is the

one I was talking about when I say someone is

coming after me who is far greater than I am,

for he existed long before me. Wow, it's interesting that

he says that someone is coming after me who existed.

Long before me.

And I gave a whole discourse last week on the

word becoming flesh and how the word was always there

right from the very beginning verse sixteen, he says this,

from his abundance, we have all received one gracious blessing

after another. This is what grace after grace actually means.

For the law was given through Moses. But God's unfeeling

love and faithfulness. Again, another translation is grace and truth

came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God,

but the unique one, who is himself God is near

to the Father's heart. He has revealed God to us

the Lord blessed the reading of his word. Okay, so

this is John's version of the Christmas story, and John's

version of the Christmas story is the word became flesh.

That's it. Matthew and Luke gave us.

A chapter after chapters of narrative of the Christmas story

is very detailed. Okay, that's why we get all the

man gi the wise man, a baby born, and major

Hallelujah praised the Lord. But John straight away the word

became flesh. Word became a human being. And that should

really leave you in a bit of a all in awe, actually,

because how can you get all of God in a.

Body that length.

I don't know how you peck everything of God into

a baby. I ever thought about it. But that's exactly

what happened. The word became flesh. And then he goes

all to say and made his dwelling among us. So

we have seen his glory, the glory of the one

and only who came from the Father. That's what the

scripture says, word became flesh dwell among us or tabernacle

among us. That's the word that sometimes you see in

some translations, because the tabernacle of God in the Old

Testament was moving amongst the people.

It was not something that was far away. It was near.

So when it says the word tabernacle among us, he says,

it means the word is dwelling among us. And then

he says, we have seen his glory, the glory of

the one and only who came from the Father. And

so the early followers actually saw Jesus with their eyes.

They did.

They lived with him, They walked with him, they hung

out with him, because he came and lived among them.

He didn't come like a human being. He became a

human being. Interesting, right, know these words. Realize how these

words and the connotations that it means. He had a

body like mine and yours. He knew what it wants

to be hungry. He knew what it wants to be thirsty,

He knew what it wants to be tired, angry, surprised,

said he knew all the emotions because he was just

like us, but also not like us. Because when they

looked at his life, they saw a shining glory in

it that you have never seen in anybody else. And

that's something that you read testimony after testimony in the Gospels,

you were realized that there's something, there's something that's different,

because remember this, Jesus lived in difficult circumstances. He lived

in an occupied country. It was not a free country.

It was a country that was at that point of

time under Roman rule. He was full of turmoil, there

was violence, there was terrorism happening. But in that situation,

there is a life that's full of glory.

What does that even mean. It is actually the glory.

Of a perfect human life, which the world has not

seen until then. No one has ever witnessed that. But

it is a glory that is not only human. It

is a glory that is divine. Because essentially, if you

study the scriptures, what it is saying is Jesus radiated God.

That means everything about him was wow.

It was wow.

The Chicina glory of God was just illuminating from his life.

And as people looked at him, they said, that is

the Father's one and only son. The glory that shines

out of his life is a glory that you will

see in no other person. I don't think you can

say anyone, no, no matter how superstar you are, no

one can ever be compared to Jesus Christ. That is

why the study of his life is actually more important

for us to study then even the greatest person who

has ever lived, because he is the greatest person. I

mean some of us we love to read biographies and autobiographies.

I mean I something's very inspiring. No, I like to

sometimes read the biographies and autobiographies of all the martyrs

and those who died for their faith. But can I

encourage us if you want to really study about a

person's life, study the life of Jesus because this is

the life that radiated the glory of God, Harley Loujah.

Because for the first time a man walked this earth

who kept all the ten commandments perfectly, That's the truth.

And he is the first person who did justly, who

loved mercy, who walked humbly, and ultimately he became the

perfect sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin.

Why because he was un blemish.

Whatever sacrifices of the past before was always off. No

matter how perfect the animal was, there was still blemish

on them. But Jesus became the ultimate perfect sacrifice because

there was not an ounce of blemish in his life,

and so that is what resulted in him becoming the

most free men who ever lived. Think about it, because

this free man enjoyed the things of God but was

never enslaved by them. All of us, yes, we have

the freedom to enjoy all the things of God, but

a lot of us end up being and slaved by it.

But Jesus enjoyed everything that God has given.

He was never enslaved by it.

And this free man, who was God's son called Godfather,

and he taught us that you can call him that too.

That is why when Jesus.

Taught the disciples how to pray, he says, our father,

because if you love me, he will love you.

He will know you true me. Wow. That is an

amazing freedom.

And the great contrast between the all and the New

testamony is this in verse seventeen. The Law was given

true Moses, but grace and truth came true Jesus Christ.

So what is it that the law came with the

law actually came with demands. The ten Commandments is demanding,

and it's not just ten commandments. There is ten main commandments,

and derived from the ten Commandments are about six hundred

and thirteen other rules and regulations. The law came with demands,

but Jesus came with an offer of grace, and it

is this truth that sets us free. Okay, so today

I want to talk about this. I want to go

a little bit in them so that we understand, we

understand what this grace, what this shining glory of God is,

because the glory that is shining is in Jesus's life

is a glory made now of two things that rarely

go together in human being, grace and truth. Grace and truth.

You know, some people are gracious, but there isn't the

strength of truth and justice in them. Some people have

all the strength of truth and justice, but not enough grace.

But the scripture in verse fourteen says Jesus is full

of grace and full of truth. So the glorious thing

is that Jesus shares his grace with us. And there

is a wonderful phrase that says, from the fullness of

his grace, we have received grace in state of grace.

That's what the scripture is saying. Grace after grace, Grace

after grace. Jesus has everything you need, and that is

what from his fullness means.

That means he has everything.

He's got everything, He made everything, and so he has

got everything. And therefore everything you will ever need, you

will find in Jesus. And you know what the beauty

of it is, He's willing to give it. To think

that someone who has got everything is so generous, that's

how you have to think of Jesus. He is like

a multi multi, multi multi multi multi billionaire and he

just longs to give it all away. And that's why

the phrase grace in state of grace is extraordinary. Actually,

it means when Jesus has given you a grace gift

of his love and you have used it up, it

becomes full again. Grace in state of grace, in state

of race, in state of race is an unending amount

of grace that Jesus has offered to ear of his fullness.

We have received grace after grace, wave upon wave of blessing.

The blessings just.

Paur into the lives of those who walk in the light,

one blessing after the other. And so God wants you

to share and give the glory that was shown into

Jesus's life. Think of it as that constantly replenishing grace.

That's why I know some people when.

They think of grace and when they talk about grace,

they to them It's like wow, and it is God's grace.

Should wow everyone. It should until today. It is the

very reason why we are here. It is his grace.

What we deserve we don't get, and what we don't

deserve we get. That is God's grace. It is his

enabling grace in our lives. So not only have we

seen his glory, but we have also received his grace.

That's even more wonderful. Otherwise you would just look at

Jesus and say, I could never be like that. How

many of us are like this? When we look at Jesus,

we're like, ow, I can never be like that. That

life is too high. It's an ideal that I will

never be able to achieve. That glory is too great.

I could never be like that. But Jesus says, no,

you can't, But I can give you grace to be

like that.

This is the glory of the Gospel.

The great contrast between the Old and the New Testament

is the law was given true Moses, but grace and

truth came true Jesus Christ. So the law again came

with demands, but Jesus came with and offer the law,

said this is how you should live. Here are the

Ten Commandments. Here are all the rules and regulations. Now

live like that, or you will die. And every one

of us knows that that is actually a death sentence

over us. The Lord told us that told us what

to do, but it didn't help us to do it.

But Jesus came with grace and said, I will help you.

I will live.

You.

Don't try and be patient, Let my patients live in you.

Don't try and be pure. Let my purity feel you.

Don't try and be this or be that.

But let me give you blessing upon blessing, grace upon grace.

You see that this is the difference, because his grace

enables us to do what his father demands of us.

I'll say that again, God's grace, Jesus' grace and able

us to do what God, the Father demands of us.

I agree that we are no longer under the law.

The New Testament is clear and says that we are

not under the law. But does this mean that we

don't need to bother about the will of God? Because

sometimes we think, uh, we are set three uh tank

com moments can take and throw away. No, the Ten

Commandments is the one of the best guidelines as a lawyer,

I love the Ten Commandments or someone who was training

in law. Okay, I'm no longer a lawyer, but I

was training law, and I can tell you this is

every single legal system in the world derives itself from

the canonical laws, derives itself from Scripture.

It's taken from the Tank Commandments. That's the essence.

Do you know the Tank com moments is amazing if you

look at it, and you look at the how God

actually enacted laws is amazing. And I agree we are

not under the law. But does this mean that we

don't bother about the will of God? Because the Tank

Commandments is basically guidelines? Does that mean that we don't

even need to study the Commandments? It's not important, forget

about it. Actually, it's far from it, because that phrase

is concerned primarily with the basis of our relationship to God.

You see, if you read the scriptures, it is saying

very clearly that you cannot establish your relationship with God

by keeping the Ten Commandments. Clear you read relations you

read how Paul explains it, you cannot establish your relationship

with God by keeping the Ten Commandments. To do that,

it will put you under the law it would put

you under the curse of it because you cannot keep it.

None of us. If we think that all all we

need to do is come under the Ten Commandments and

follow it, then we have a relationship we've got, but

we will never have a relationship with God because none

of us can keep the Ten Commandments. To live under

the law is to have the Ten Commandments always hanging

over your head like there's a threat over you. And

it's something that Christians have left behind already because we

are not under law in the sense of having to

keep the commandments to be right with God. A lot

of times we think that we have to keep the

commandments to be right with Him. But you see, the

grace of God has produced a completely new basis for

our relationship with Him because we are no longer under law.

We are now under grace. We are still committed to

the law of God. We are everything that we do.

I don't think any of us want to infringe or

go against the Ten Commandments, and so we are still

committed to the law of God, but the motive for

keeping the law has changed totally.

That is what we need to know, that's what we

need to realize.

You See, the motive under the old law was to

get right with God and to earn the right, the

righteousness to enter heaven. That's what people are motivated. Or

I need to keep the ten commanments. I need to

get right. We've got because only when I follow the

commandments then I'm right with Him. And you know what,

they all fail, all of them feel miserable, miserably because

no one could do it. But the new motive for

keeping God's law is this, It's actually gratitude. The new

motive for keeping God's law is actually gratitude.

That's why Jesus.

Said, if you love me, you will keep my commandments,

and he includes them as an expression.

Of our love to him.

In other words, I no longer keep the ten commandments

in order to get to heaven. Sometimes we're all like, oh,

I need to keep the ten Commandments only I can

go to heaven. No, we no longer keep the tank

com moments in order to get to heaven. But because

I hope to go there one day. That makes the

law my servant, not my master. I'm no longer under it,

but there is that guidance always, and I'm grateful that

God's grace has enabled me to choose the truth of

living right for him in obedience.

That is what grace is.

Gratefulness is the motive that we must be driven by.

That's why prayer.

One of the most important things when we pray is

are we praying in thanksgiving?

Are we grateful? Or are we.

Angry when we pray? You know, sometimes we're like God?

Or are you allowed this to happen? Why are you

allowed that to happen? Or are we saying God, thank you,

thank you for your wonderful grace over my life? Because

if you think about it, grace instead of grace. Grace

after grace, there is only one response from our human heart,

and that should be a response of thankfulness, gratefulness, because

his grace not only enables us to live rightly, it

also enlightens us. Because no one has ever seen God.

How can we get to know someone we cannot see?

How can we actually get to know God? And this

is the climax of John's introduction. When he's telling the story,

he says, don't you see if Jesus is the same

as God, if Jesus is at the Father's side, if

he is this nature and in this relationship with God,

if you could get to know Jesus, you will know

his father. If you know Jesus, you will know God.

Because he who is the same as God and is

at God's side, has made the Father known to this world.

That is who Jesus is. That he is his function,

that is his role. That's why he said to Philip,

don't you know me? Even after I've been among you

such a long time, and yet you do not know

the Father. He's asking almost a rhetorical question, do you

not know me? He's saying that if you know me,

you will know the Father. And so we actually have

now come to this amazing privilege of knowing God if

we know Jesus. That's why we continue to teach about

who Jesus is. That's why you can never take Jesus

away from Christianity. It doesn't make sense. Sometimes we are like, oh,

let's just worship God. Let's not make things so complicated.

Godland one b God cannot. You must always talk about

Jesus because Jesus is the foundation.

Of our faith. He was there right from the very beginning.

You see, God is not concerned with what we give

to him, but how we live before him. Very very

important God is not concerned with what he wants from us.

It is what he wants in us that is far

more important. God is not concerned about what we give

to him in state, He wants us to live for him.

We are sometimes very focused on what we give to him,

what we are doing for him. God wants to do

something in us. Humans are always concerned about working things outside.

First show that it's doing. We are doing something, we

think it is our doing. In our doing, we become

right with him. But God works in and through us.

He works from the inside out. This is the work

of the Holy Spirit that's being imparted in us. That's

why grace cannot be fully understood without the work of

the Holy Spirit as well. It's very very important for

us to remember that, to realize that. And I want

to encourage us this morning, you know, as I'm reading John,

and as I realize how wonderful God's grace is. You know,

John chapter fourteen, verses twelve to seventeen, He says this.

This is further into the Gospel, and John writes, I

tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will

do the same works I have done. Of course, these

are the words of Jesus and even greater works because

I'm going to be with the Father. So this is

him preparing the disciples, okay. And he says, you can

ask for anything in my name and I will do

it so that the sun can bring glory to the

far there. And then he says, yes, ask me for

anything in my name, and I will do it if

you love me. Again, the reminder is, obey my commandments,

and I will ask the Father, and he will give

you another advocate who will never leave you. He is

the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. The world

cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and

doesn't recognize him. But you know him because he leaves

with you now and later will be in you. That

is the difference between us believers and the world. The

world does not have the Holy Spirit, and the world

will tell you that the Holy Spirit does not exist.

But in order for you to understand Jesus, in order

for you to fully comprehend what grace and what truth is,

you need the Holy Spirit. That's what the scripture is

telling us. Because what does the Holy Spirit do well

and done? The name for the Holy Spirit is actually

the executor okay, not the one that execute people.

Okay.

The executor in the will, okay, if you, if you,

if you can not, many of you probably don't really

have to deal with wills. But this is the person

that's usually naming the will, and he's supposed to carry

out all the provisions in the will. That means he

makes sures that what someone else has died. After they

have died, they want to leave some things with their

love ones. The executor carries out the provision, goes to

call and gets everything done. That's the work of the

Holy Spirit. Because Jesus, what does Jesus want us to inherit?

If you think about if Jesus wants us to inherit

his peace, my peace I leave with you. And that's

why at the Christmas worship Faster, Cannon was preaching about

the peace of God. Christmas is us experiencing God's peace.

Peace be among you.

That's the great thing that the early believers actually always greetish.

Are the peace be with you? Or shalom? Think about it.

Jerusalem is also known as is part of the word

peace is in the word Jerusalem. Salem is another word

for shalom, so peace God Jesus's peace. He wants to

live with us, and the Holy Spirit makes the peace

of Jesus ours. He is actually executing it because what

the Father wills and the Son makes possible, the Holy

Spirit does. The Father wals for us to be reconcile

with him one day. The son Jesus is the one

that made the reconciliation possible. If it was not for

what Jesus Christ, the Perfect Sacrifice did for us on

the Cross of Calvary, we will not be able to

carry out the will and the intention of God the Father.

And so the Holy Spirit is the one that is doing.

You see, if you understand the scriptures, you will understand God.

And when you understand God.

It's going to be very, very powerful because look at

what the Holy Spirit has been doing right from the

very start. If you think about it, every part of

Jesus's ministry on earth was done in the power of

the Holy Spirit. Jesus became man, and yes he's fully man.

Fully man means that he needed to depend on the

Holy Spirit. And so Jesus became man, the Son of

Mary through the Holy Spirit. Think about it. If it

wasn't for the Immaculate conception, Jesus would not ever have been.

Every stage of his ministry, if you think about it,

was touched by the influence of the Holy Spirit and

his baptism. What happened, Holy Spirit descended visibly in the

form of a dearth. He began his first sermon shortly

after that. If you study the scriptures, you see and

how did Jesus begin his first money He says, the

Spirit of the Lord is upon me.

His miracles were the work of the Spirit.

If I, by the Spirit of God cast out demons,

and then you realize that every phase of his life,

everything that he did, his ministry, his death, his resurrection,

the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, was involved.

It is how do we experience and understand grace and truth?

We need the Holy Spirit because in his fullness Jesus

claim to bring us grace and truth. You need the

Holy Spirit to fully comprehend and understand what this grace

and what this truth is, because unless that happens, you

will never be able to change your motive from trying

to do and trying to fulfill the law, to get

right with God, to coming to a place where I

am so grateful that I want to fulfill the law.

I am so grateful because Christ has saved me, and

because He has saved me, I now want to choose

to do what is right, that is what is man

by God working from the inside out, because a lot

of times we are trying. When you try, it's going

to be hard. Because I can tell you this, the

world temptation. The world is very tempting. Everything in this

world is very tempting. And sometimes to go against the

temptation of the world, you need a greater motivation. And

I can't think of anything else to motivate us other

than the fact that we are grateful that once upon

a time we were dead, but now as believers in

Christ Jesus, we are alive. Once upon a time all

of us only had one eventuality, and that eventuality is

the end of it all. But because of what Jesus

has done on the cross of Calvary, today, those who

say I believe in God, we are saved by grace

through faith. Amen, save by grace, true faith, and then

we will live for Him. So the Holy Spirit is

the one that really activates it in our life.

Think about it.

Look at how the church, how the Holy Spirit was

given to the church because after the Resurrection, Jesus' followers

were frightened. There were a subdued group of men. They

were actually in a bit of a disarray. They didn't

know what to do. But it took the Resurrection and

then the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to

get them going and to get them sent out. Because

if you just look at the disciples right after.

The Crucifixion, they were everywhere.

This group would never have brought Christianity to where it

is today. Think about it. It was a group of

nobodies actually, But subsequently every aspect of the life of

the Church has been marked by the work of the

Holy Spirit, from his worship to his ministry, to evangelism

to service. Everything is marked by the Holy Spirit. Because

without the Holy Spirit, the Church is merely a club. Yes,

can raise money, can recruit members, can erect buildings, can

perform rituals. But without the Holy Spirit, it will not

be the church. But with Jesus as the heat of

the Church, where's Jesus now back in Heaven and his

body the church where here on earth? A substitute was

needed to guide and to sustain all the life of

the Church.

The whole.

The Holy Spirit is the true substitute of Christ here on

earth today.

He is.

Very important for us to know that, to understand that,

because without the Holy Spirit, we shall achieve nothing of

any lasting value, however impressive our visible achievements are. And

if we keep on neglecting the Holy Spirit, it'll be

very obvious in the life of the Church. Because you

keep neglecting the Holy Spirit, it will always be just sameness, dullness.

There will be no creativity, it will be dead. You

ignore the Holy Spirit, the Church will be dead.

There will be no life.

If you ignore the Holy Spirit, there's going to be

sinfulness because there's no sanctification. There's no work of purification

in the church. And that's why I want to encourage

all of us with this teaching this morning. The Church

cannot be full of the Holy Spirit unless each individual

partner is full of the Holy Spirit. And to achieve that,

there must be a genuine terst for the Holy Spirit together,

a genuine willingness to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

All of us need to desire that. So many people

in the church are like that. We always think that

there's a shortage of the Holy Spirit, but you know,

he is here.

He is here. You know.

I've heard people say, oh, the church is dying. Yes,

in some places, the church is dying by year. At

the same time, I still see life in the church,

not just our church. But I still see life in churches.

I still see creativity in churches, and I still see

people overcoming sin in churches because I know the Holy

Spirit is working in and through his people. There is

no shortage of the Holy Spirit. He is all around.

He's just waiting for us to receive him. Remember this,

when past the Chat the Christmas Message, he says, we

all love gifts, all of us love gifts.

But what's a gift if you live in the box.

You know.

I've got my little nephew. He's like, okay, I don't

want to open my present. Uh, it's Christmas Day And

he said, I don't want to open my present. And

they're like, if you don't open the present, how are

you gonna how are you going to receive the gift.

So we're trying to understand. No usually kids, so just

want everything opening. He says, I want to open my

presence slowly so that he can I will enjoy them

all throughout the year.

I'm like, but this one there is one Lord to

be us away.

Ah, But I mean presence and gifts are man to

be received and open, very very important.

Actually you think about it.

The Holy Spirit is the only person in the god

Head in which we can receive today personally, because God

the Father is in heaven Jesus, thank you for the

amazing work that he has done in and through our

lives for mankind. But he is also seated next to

God the Father in heaven. The Holy Spirit we have

with us. But we must receive this gift. We must

receive the Holy Spirit in our lives. And so I'm

praying twenty twenty six, let it be a year of

revival of the Holy Spirit in our lives, because how

are we to experience and how are we to fully

understand the fullness of grace and truth of Jesus Christ

in us is when we have the Holy Spirit in us.

I'm going to invite the bandam I'm done. It's not wrong,

but I hope it's simple enough. As we look forward

to the coming year, don't shelf the Holy Spirit in

one corner. Sometimes we are like, oh, we are still waiting.

I'm still waiting for the Holy Spirit to do something.

Our Holy Spirit is around us, but he doesn't just

want to remain around us.

He wants to be in us.

And we need the Holy Spirit to activate us to

holy living, working in and through us to make the

difference in our communities.

I really believe.

Ex Church, God has an amazing plan and purpose forever,

every single one.

Of you, wherever you are.

Yes, we may be in multiple locations, you know, even

today it's two locations represented here, but just in the

Clan Valley we are in twelve different places. I don't

think it's by chance or by fluke that we are

in all these different places. I really believe God wants

us to be a beacon of hope in our communities.

The Holy Spirit lives in us that we can also

execute the peace of God. And I'm telling you this

world needs peace. It is not the kind of peace

that sometimes we envision no wars. No, it's the kind

of peace that would allow Jesus, the Prince of Peace,

to walk the way he walked, to live the way

he lived, even in the midst of turmoil, even in

the midst of challenges, even in the midst of being

in that at that time probably one of the most

tumultuous moments of history. But yet he walked full of shalloh,

full of peace. Things are not going to get any easier.

You want to take this as a prophecy, go ahead.

I believe things are not going to be easier. I

don't think the economy is going to be super duper good.

I don't think politically everything is going to be great. Really,

when I look at the future, I actually believe that

it's going to get more and more challenging. But I

still look forward to it because I know, as believers

of Jesus Christ, if we fully understand grace and truth,

we can experience the peace that He wants us all

to inherit. This is the same piece that will say

I believe in Jesus even if someone is saying, renounce

your faith if you want things to be better for you,

if someone is forcing you. But yet we are called

to hang on to our faith. That means hang on

to it even when everything is against us, hanging on.

To it because you will face that.

And I pray the church we will still have God's

peace upon them. I pray every believer we'll still be

able to look heaven and say thank you Jesus. It

is my honor. It is my privilege to live out

the Ten Commandments. It is my wonderful privilege to live

for you in the way that you want me to

live for you, in accordance to the boundaries and the

rules that you have set. And you realize this. The

Ten Commandments was not set so that people will die. No,

it was there so that people can live on. God

put guidance boundaries for us to keep us safe, and

that's what He will continue to do as long as

we continue to receive the spirit of God in our lives.

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