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Who Do Men Say That I Am? (28.05.2023)

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  1. As we gather, me your spirit work within us. As we gather,

  2. May we glow, we fire your name, knowing well that as our hearts

  3. speakin to uship, that will be blessed because we came. We will be

  4. blessed because we came. We are learning the song together. So just read

  5. it on the screen. As we goad the me or spirit work within us.

  6. As we gather, as we God the mame, we glow, refine

  7. your name, knowing well, no go wing well than as she again to

  8. rush, We'll be blessed because we came, be blessed because we came.

  9. We'll be blessed because we came, will be blessed because we can. We

  10. do it for the last time as we gathered in your presence, Lord,

  11. as we God, may your spirit work within us. A sweet gather as

  12. we got the man we worry wild by name, knowing well, knowing well,

  13. knowing well that us so hard she again to ushha, that will be

  14. blessed because we can be blessed because we came. We'll be last because we

  15. can. You'll be blast because we came. I many know about the step

  16. first love of the Lord, the step last love the Lord. Never see

  17. merciesus, my seas man, come to an They knew every morning, low

  18. every morning. Where is thy faith forness, Oh Lord, where is thy

  19. far? For they knew every morning new every morning. Wayies I face forness,

  20. Oh Lord, wayni dayfulness. With your right hand lifted, say Father

  21. this morning, thank you for loving me with a great love. Say thank

  22. you for favoring me. Say thank you for showing me great mercies in Jesus's

  23. mighty name. Amen, please be seated in the presence of the Lord,

  24. and let's clap our hands and celebrate Jesus this morning for his goodness towards us.

  25. Amen. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you from

  26. the depths of our hearts because you have shown us great mercies. We pray

  27. that as your word comes, the Bible says, the entrance of your word

  28. brings light, and it brings understanding. Let light and our hearts enlighten the

  29. eyes of our understanding, that we may walk with you in revelation in jesus

  30. precious name. Let the heavens hear your loudest Amen, and please tell your

  31. neighbor to the left and to the right that you are welcome to church this

  32. morning. Please tell someone it's good to see you in church the Sunday morning.

  33. Tell someone I'm glad and exceedingly glad that you are in church today a

  34. man. We bless the Lord for favoring us a man, and blessing us

  35. with another Sunday a man. So you are specially welcome to church on behalf

  36. of our Father in the Lord, the Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams. You are

  37. welcome to church this morning. Amen. The first service group had a surprise

  38. visits by the Archbishop a man, and so perhaps you might also have a

  39. surprise visay one of these days. Amen. But God bless you richly for

  40. coming to church this morning. Amen. In the month of May we've been

  41. I've been teaching you on the subject how to be how to become a strong

  42. Christian, or what it means to become a strong Christian. Amen. Today,

  43. being the last Sunday of the month of May, I want to round

  44. it up for you, Amen, so that you leave with something that will

  45. be a great blessing to you. Amen. And so today, by the

  46. grace of God, I want to speak to you on the subject who do

  47. men say that I am? Who do men say that I am. The

  48. Lord kept prompting me about this message about two weeks ago. He always kept

  49. coming to me. And on Wednesday or was it Friday evening or was it

  50. last week Sunday as well, when Papa was preaching, he kept mentioning,

  51. who do men say I am? So then I got my confirmation that it

  52. is what God wants you to know. Amen. And so please take notes

  53. a man and pay rapt attention, because this is what you need in this

  54. season to help you grow and become a strong Christian. Amen would take our

  55. foundation. Scripture from Matthew chapter sixteen was thirteen to twenty. Matthew Chapter sixteen

  56. was thirteen to twenty. Amen. And the Bible says and Jesus. When

  57. Jesus came into the region of Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying,

  58. who do men say that I the son of Man am? They said,

  59. some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one

  60. of the prophets. He said to them, but who do you say that

  61. I am? Simon? Peter answered and said, you are the Christ,

  62. the son of the Living God. Jesus answered and said to him, blessed

  63. are you Simon Barjonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,

  64. but my father, who is in heaven. And I also say to

  65. you that you are Peter. And on this rock I will build my church,

  66. and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. Next verse,

  67. then he commanded his disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus

  68. the Christ Amen. And so this passage can also be found in Mark chapter

  69. eight, verse twenty seven to twenty nine, and look chapter nine, verse

  70. eighteen. And it is an interesting passage because after all that Jesus had done

  71. for people, after all the healings he had done, after all the miracles

  72. he had done. You know, when Jesus asked his disciples that, yes,

  73. you know the people what they say about me? Who do they say

  74. that I am? The answers he was expecting probably were not the answers he

  75. got. Because how many of you know that Jesus walked on water? He

  76. walked on the sea. So if I was Jesus, I would expect that

  77. they would tell me that the man who walked on the sea. How many

  78. know that Jesus turned fish and bread into plenty, that people ate, and

  79. there was supplus of twelve big baskets. If I was Jesus, I would

  80. expect that it would say, oh, the man that gave us plenty fish

  81. and bread to eat. But to the amazement of Jesus, they said that

  82. Jesus is John the Baptist. Just imagine, I know your name, and

  83. you ask me what your name is, and I tell you that, oh,

  84. your name is Kamin Abdu. They said his name is John the Baptist.

  85. Somebody said his name is Elijah. He said he is Elijah. Meanwhile,

  86. Elijah had died over two hundred years ago. But they said, Jesus,

  87. it is Elijah. Some said his name was Jeremiah. Says said is

  88. Jeremiah. They said he is one of the prophets. So, after all

  89. the miracles that Jesus are done, they didn't have a revelation of who he

  90. was. So then Jesus turned to his disciples and said, okay, so

  91. they got it wrong, But how about you. What do you say?

  92. Who do you say that I am? And out of the twelve disciples of

  93. Jesus Christ, only one person had the answer. Only Peter had the answer,

  94. and he said that you are the Christ. The Son of the Living

  95. God. Amen. So if anyone asks you who is Jesus, what do

  96. you say, Sorry, Jesus the or Jesus the Killer really sell somebody said

  97. Jesus is he a politician? Simon said, you are the Christ, the

  98. son of the Living God. Amen. And so Simon had a revelation of

  99. who Jesus is. And so when it came to identifying the nature of God,

  100. the Son of God, he didn't mince words. He said it as

  101. it was. Amen. To know God requires revelation. To walk with God

  102. requires revelation. Amen. You cannot just be called a Christian who has no

  103. revelation of who your Lord is. How many disciples of Jesus Christ do we

  104. have here? Give the Lord a wave? And so you see the same

  105. way Jesus asked, who do men say that I am? That they were

  106. calling him Elijah, it means they didn't have a revelation of who he is.

  107. But as disciples of Jesus Christ, we need to have a revelation of

  108. who he is so that we can walk with him in understanding. Amen.

  109. And so today we are speaking about who do men say that I am?

  110. Amen? And so Jesus when he started his ministry did so many fantastic miracles.

  111. So many miracles were wrought by him. He did so many miracles.

  112. He raised the dead, He healed a leper, he healed the sick,

  113. he healed the blind, the death dam could speak and hear. He raised

  114. the dead. He raised so many dead people that I'm sure if anyone hears

  115. him coming, go and bring their dead grandmother's for him to raise them up.

  116. Jesus did all this, but the people who enjoyed the blessings of Jesus

  117. and the miracles thereof had no revelation of him. Amen. And so God

  118. is telling you that in this season you need to walk by revelation. And

  119. the starting point of walking by revelation is knowing who Christ Jesus is. And

  120. Peter has helped us without answer that Jesus is the Christ, the son of

  121. the Living God. Amen. Oh, I said, Amen, are you

  122. in church? Amen? And so Jesus asked this very important question because a

  123. mistaken idea identity is very dangerous, and mistaken identity is very dangerous. Just

  124. imagine you are their minding your own business, you are walking mind your own

  125. business, and somebody stretches his son and say Hey, and not that boy.

  126. He's the one who came to steal the iPhone from the shop yesterday.

  127. And then all the boys in the neighborhood will get up, Hey, Uli

  128. thief, and they will come and beat him up. Well. Well,

  129. mistaken identity, Amen, mistaken identity is dangerous. So the people who enjoyed,

  130. I was expecting the five thousand people who ate the bread and the fish

  131. and drank water on top, and they were satisfied. I was expecting them

  132. to say that Jesus is God, because it is only God who can multiply

  133. bread and fish for me to eat him before four. But they didn't know

  134. who he was. Amen. And so out of the disciples of Jesus,

  135. the twelve disciples, it was only Peter, only one man, Amen.

  136. Only one man caught the revelation of who Jesus is. So it is possible

  137. to be in church and to be numbered among youth church members and yet not

  138. have a revelation of who Jesus is. It is very possible. Because the

  139. disciples that walked with Jesus, they act with him, they slept in the

  140. same space. They did not know who he was. Only one man had

  141. the revelation so please tell your neighbor for free. It is time to catch

  142. a revelation of who Jesus is. Amen. Please say to your other neighbor

  143. amen. And so it's very important when you study this passage. There are

  144. benefits in this passage for having a revelation of who Jesus is now. Revelation

  145. can come in two ways. You can study to have a revelation about someone.

  146. How many of you have heard about doctor kom and Chroma? How many

  147. of you were alive when he was president? Who was there when he was

  148. building? The term a motorway or Terma haabor or the you know all the

  149. other places? Please anybody, do we have a new z here? Who

  150. was there? There's no z here? So how do you know about doctor

  151. Kom and Chroma? It's revelation you've gotten through studying history. So by studying

  152. your Bible, you can catch a revelation of who God is. There is

  153. also the revelation that comes through experience. I was selling the first service people

  154. that when I was between eight years and thirteen years old, I used to

  155. struggle a lot with health issues. I used to be sick all the time.

  156. Every month. I being a hospital, I was even surprised how I

  157. used to pass my exams because every month I was in a hospital I was

  158. sick. I was sick. They'll take me, They'll put stuff for me,

  159. just to check what's wrong with the guy. I was very sick.

  160. It wasn't until I asked a lot to heal me that God healed me completely.

  161. That over twenty eight years or so. Since then, I've never been

  162. on a hospital bed before. Amen. So, by revelation, I know

  163. that God is a healer. By revelation, I know Jesus is a he

  164. By revelation, you might know God to be a provider. There's a story

  165. I heard about a single mother with four children who was struggling to get food

  166. for her children to eat. They just decided to stay home and praise God

  167. and thank God the power of thanksgiving. I'll teach you on that. One

  168. of these days, they thank God and praise God and club and worship God

  169. in the house, and before they knew there was someone knocking at the door.

  170. When they went to open the door, there was a big basket of

  171. food and goodies in there. There was no one there, but the food

  172. was there for them to eat. So by that experience, you know God

  173. to be a provider. If you have not been in a situation where you

  174. need to trust God to provide for you, you don't have that revelation.

  175. Amen, if you have not been to that point where you need to surrender

  176. or to God and say that God, if I look at the whole wide

  177. world, there is nobody who can help me, only you, Only you

  178. can save. Until you come to that point in your life, you have

  179. not caught the revelation of God being a helper. When the woman with the

  180. issue of blood, go and look for that scripture and study it. It

  181. will help you greatly. When she heard Jesus was passing, it was based

  182. on her revelation of who Jesus is as a healer, because perhaps she might

  183. have heard that Jesus had healed so many people at the time, and so

  184. she decided that, yes, there's a big crowd, but I will fight

  185. my way through the crowd. I don't need him to even stretch out his

  186. hand to touch me, because by revelation, I know that he is mighty

  187. enough that if I touched the hem of his garment, I'll be healed.

  188. And so by revelation, she fought her way through the crowd and touched the

  189. hem of the garment of Jesus. And guess what she was healed. So

  190. by revelation and by experience, she had a better understanding and a great benefit

  191. from Christ Jesus. There's a man in the Bible is called blind Batimius.

  192. He was very blind. He couldn't see no code. And in those days

  193. they used to sit by the pool of Bethesda, where an angel will come

  194. and stare the water up once a year, and the first person to jump

  195. into the pool will be healed. I was wondering why he wasn't. He

  196. wasn't at the tip of the pool, because he had been sitting there for

  197. thirty years, and he wasn't me healed. If it was me, I

  198. won't put my leg inside the pool, so that the moment the angel touches

  199. the water, I'm healed already. But he wasn't. I know, I

  200. can't. I can't think far for him, but he had. Jesus was

  201. passing and he said, this is my last chance. He started to shout,

  202. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, son of David, help me save me.

  203. He was there, was my friend. Keep quiet. This is a

  204. diplomatic mission. He said, hey, by you, you don't know.

  205. He even shouted at them all, and Jesus heard him, and Jesus came

  206. to him. And by the time Jesus was done with him, his eyes

  207. were open. Amen. Oh, I thought you cloud for Jesus. By

  208. the time the Lord was done with him, his eyes were open. So

  209. by revelation, he knew that he's the only one who can help me in

  210. this situation. He's the only one who can save me in this situation.

  211. Amen. And so by revelation, many people in the Bible dealt with God

  212. based on the revelation of him. Amen. About eleven years ago, I

  213. used to be in the choir in the main church, FYI revelation for those

  214. of you who don't know. I used to sing in the choir. That

  215. was very powerful. I am so powerful. Amen. So one of the

  216. days we came to church and we're leading present worship, and our present was

  217. powerful. In those days, Sunday evening church people who come from all over.

  218. The whole place was full. But on this particular day, realized that

  219. the people there were some way somewhere sitting down somewhere pressing your phone. I'm

  220. sure they were doing sports beds and all those things and checking Instagram. So

  221. the situation troubled me a lot. So on my way home, I was

  222. just thinking to myself, how is it that we, the children of God,

  223. we come to church and we are some way And I was just thinking

  224. in my head, and then suddenly God spoke to me, and God said,

  225. your revelation of who God is determines your worship. You understand your revelation

  226. of who God is? How well you know God will determine your worship.

  227. So if we come to church and you are ministering powerfully here, don't let

  228. how the people are food at their arms determine your worship because you you know

  229. God on a different level. Those who don't know God, let them be

  230. the way they are. We who know God will worship God. Amen.

  231. So by revelation you can save God. Well, by revelation you can walk

  232. with God. Will. Can I hear you a louder Samen? Amen?

  233. So today I want to share with you three fantastic benefits of walking in revelation.

  234. Walking in revelation, and we're going to use Peter as an example.

  235. So a revelation or revelation simply means a surprising and previously known fact that has

  236. been disclosed to others. It is many of you, did you know?

  237. It used to be in the choir. So that's his revelation. So now

  238. it will change your outlook towards me. So when you are singing and you

  239. are banning the song, I can hear, and I know, and I

  240. can see the peasant who is banning the song. So if I come to

  241. you and I say, oh, Jack, you give me the mic,

  242. you should understand because by revelation, you are now aware that I know what

  243. you are trying to do. Amen. If I tell you that, oh,

  244. do you know that my favorite color is gray? Many of you don't

  245. know. So it's revelation. It is new information. It is something that

  246. has been disclosed to you. If I tell you that, or do you

  247. know I can eat banco and across to you seven days a week because it

  248. is my favorite food, it is a revelation. You understand. It is

  249. a revelation. Before me telling you, now you didn't know. So it

  250. is a revelation. So a revelation is a surprising and previously unknown fact or

  251. truth that has been disclosed to others. Amen. So the first benefit of

  252. walking in revelation is identity change. Identity change. Please tell your neighbor identity

  253. change. Amen. By walking in revelation, God changes your identity First Chapter

  254. two, verse nine, First Peach, Chapter two, verst. Number nine,

  255. and the Bible says that, but you are a chosen generation. You

  256. are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. You are

  257. a holy nation, a people belonging to God. That you may declare the

  258. praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful and marvelous light.

  259. That is your identity now. And so by serving God with revelation,

  260. you receive an identity change. Amen. For many of us, if we

  261. trace our backgrounds, we realize that even if we go to the fourth and

  262. fifth generation, realize that the people that were there, they didn't like God,

  263. they didn't like Church, they didn't like anything they had to do with

  264. God, the mention of Jesus. They didn't like They like to boost,

  265. they like to funny kids. They like to commit adultery, they like to

  266. do idol worship, they like to do all the bad things under the sun.

  267. But because now by the grace of God, we have come to know

  268. Jesus, God has changed our identity, and that now He has made us

  269. a chosen people, a chosen generation. That God has chosen us out of

  270. our families as a generation that he can use as a generation that he himself

  271. has chosen. God said that Jacob, I love is so I hate.

  272. God loves us, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. And

  273. because we are chosen people, God has also made us a royal priesthood.

  274. And so you can come and stand here and saying great are you low?

  275. You are exercising your priesthood prowess because God has made you a priest and a

  276. king unto himself. Amen. And so God has made you a special person

  277. to him. So your identity in the spirit has changed. Please tell your

  278. neighbor for free, your identity has changed. Please tell your other neighbor your

  279. identity has changed. Amen. And so you see, like Jesus asked,

  280. who do men say that I am? He wanted to find out what identity

  281. they knew him by. And so if you were called Cofee the thief,

  282. by coming to Christ Jesus, you are no longer confit the thief. By

  283. you are cold Fee, the beloved of the most High God, Amen,

  284. that it doesn't matter how your life started. It is where you are going

  285. that is more important. Amen, it is where you are going that is

  286. more importance. So there are many people in the Bible that God physically changed

  287. their names because the old names they had had to do with where they were

  288. coming from. That name would not pass where He's taking them too. So

  289. when God called Abraham, his name was not Abraham. His name was Abrahm.

  290. But because of the purpose of God and where God was taking him to,

  291. he changed his name from Abraham to Abraham, and Abraham meant barrenness.

  292. Nothing was moving. He was wakened abrego. Nothing was moving. But the

  293. moment God changed his name to Abraham, he said that you will be a

  294. father of many nations. And God made him a father of many nations.

  295. Amen. His wife was called sarahi barrenness. Nothing was moving. After the

  296. day they started their honeymoon child, nothing happened. But when God changed her

  297. name to Sarah, she became the mother of many nations. Amen. And

  298. fast forward when he got to Isaac and Jacob and Esaul, Oh my God,

  299. God changed Jacob's name from Jacob the swindler, the four one nine guy

  300. the fore one nine, the Yahoo plus plus guy. God changed his name

  301. to Israel Amen. When he came to Saul, Saul of Tarsus, who

  302. was a murderer, he was the accuser of the brethren. He used to

  303. beat Christians. If he catches you that you're a Christian, he will lock

  304. you up to give you lashes, flog you. When he encountered Jesus and

  305. he had revelation, his name changed to Paul. That he became an apostle

  306. of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles that in one of his letters he said that

  307. I might know you and the power of your resurrection, to the point that

  308. he desired more revelation about God. When he came to Peter in Matthew sixteen,

  309. Let's go back to the scripture when he came to Peter. After Peter

  310. had said to Jesus that you are the Christ, the son of the Living

  311. God. Where's the scripture? Not fast Peter. Let's go back to Matthew.

  312. Here, when he said you are the son of the Living God,

  313. Jesus said to him, blessed are you so? Before Peter got that revelation,

  314. he was not blessed. He was an angry fisherman with a sword.

  315. If you play the who you cut your ear, you beat you my yibonque

  316. he will beat you. Well. Well, he was not blessed. But

  317. the moment he caught that revelation of who Jesus is, Jesus called him blessed.

  318. He said, blessed are you, Simon by Jonah. Blessed are you

  319. Simon, son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to

  320. you, But my Father, who is in heaven. Look at the next

  321. verse and it says, and I also say to you that you are Peter.

  322. Identity change that you are Peter, and Peter means a rock or stone.

  323. Identity change. The moment he caught a revelation of Christ Jesus is,

  324. identity changed. He changed from being a fisherman to being a rock. And

  325. God's Jesus said, I will build my church on you, and the gates

  326. of hell will not prevail against it. That day his life changed from being

  327. a fisherman Simon bar Jonah fisherman Simon Barjonah. His name changed to Peter Hey,

  328. Peter the Rock, Peter the Rock. So the first benefit of revelation

  329. of who Jesus is is that God changes your identity. Can I hear you?

  330. Amen? God changes your identity. My name, the name I was

  331. born with, I was named when I was born, is Renato Chiarelli.

  332. It's an Italian name. If you go to it, I say, I'll

  333. be there. Yes, wayn go to Italy. You here day. That

  334. was the name I was given when I was born. That was the name

  335. my father. That's the name my father has. My father has the same

  336. name. That is the name my father's father had. But you see in

  337. the Italian bloodline, they like women. They play around and full around.

  338. But when I surrendered my life to God, God said, you cannot be

  339. called Renato Kiarebi. God said your name is Ron. So I change my

  340. name from Renato to Ron. You'll be calling me. You think that Italian

  341. man with my name. God has changed my name to Ron. And the

  342. meaning of my name is a wise ruler who rules with counsel. Joanna stand

  343. so by revelation of who Jesus is, God will change your identity. Amen,

  344. God would change some of you. You still maintain your name. Your

  345. name is wat You'll still be could Watting. But in the spirit God will

  346. change your identity. You will not be there because you're watching in the spirit

  347. anymore. Amen, Because identity change comes when you have a revelation of who

  348. God is. Can I hear? Amen? Amen? So let's look at

  349. the second benefit that we get from having a revelation of who Jesus is.

  350. The second benefit we have is a change of purpose. A change of purpose,

  351. your purpose changes. A wise man once said that where purpose is not

  352. known, abuse is inevitable. Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.

  353. If you don't know the purpose of this pulpit, you will come and

  354. hang your denty clothes on it. You come and put your wet towel on

  355. it. When you are making garisoking, you come and make it here because

  356. you don't know the purpose of this Where purpose is not known, abuse is

  357. inevitable. For our young ladies. When you don't know your purpose, the

  358. purpose of your body as a vessel of God, where the Spirit of God

  359. dwells, you will let foolish boys abuse you. But may it be far

  360. from you. Lift your hand, I said, may it be far from

  361. you that some foolish boy will abuse you the mighty name of Jesus. For

  362. our brothers, where purpose is not known, the Bible says that the heart

  363. of a man is full of foolishness. Foolishness will erupt, but may it

  364. be far from you, a man, that you're a child of God,

  365. and foolishness will be found in your heart a man. And so the second

  366. change, the second benefit is that we receive a change of purpose. We

  367. received a change of purpose. We become someone that God can use. See,

  368. God doesn't use just anybody. We become someone that God can use.

  369. Your purpose now becomes God's purpose. And because of that, he calls you

  370. blessed so that you can be a blessing to others. Can I hear your

  371. amen? Amen? And so in Matthew chapter sixteen, verse eighteen, Jesus

  372. said, I tell you you are Peter, and on this rock I will

  373. build my church. Peter's purpose in life changed when he caught a revelation of

  374. who Jesus is. So to Peter, all he knew was fishing. All

  375. he knew was fishing. He didn't know anything about winning men for God.

  376. But when he caught the revelation Jesus said, on you, I will build

  377. my church. His purpose changed. Now he wasn't interested in going to catch

  378. tuna or Paula or herrings. It wasn't his cup of tea anymore. His

  379. purpose now was to fulfill the purpose of God. And in the Book of

  380. Acts, on the day of Penticles, when the Holy Ghost came after Peter

  381. stood and preached and three thousand men gave their lives to Christ. That is

  382. what God can do with a fisherman. So you that you're not a fisherman,

  383. just imagine what God can do with your life. Just imagine what God

  384. can do with your life. So having a revelation of who God is will

  385. change your purpose in life. So your whole purpose will be driven by the

  386. purpose of God. So you can be a doctor. Yes, you can

  387. be any of your doctor's salary by your whole purpos what drives you is to

  388. save God and to be useful to God's kingdom. You can be an engineer,

  389. but what drives you is God's purpose and fulfilling God's assignment your on earth.

  390. When you come to that place of revelation where God can use you to

  391. do his will and his deed and his papos, you become a purpose for

  392. fair person. So then your papos in life now changes because you have caught

  393. a revelation of who God is Moses, who are said of Moses, Brada

  394. Moses, Brada Moses was born in Egypt in a difficult time. Bradamoses.

  395. They didn't have classmates where his agemates, because they killed all of them.

  396. He was adopted to become the son of the daughter of Pharaoh in Egypt.

  397. So Bradha Moses now assumed the role of a prince. So in the morning

  398. he eat cuscus, the afternoon he eats spaghetti Alfredo, and on and on

  399. and on. He was enjoying life until he killed somebody, and because he

  400. feared for his life, he ran away. So for forty years of Moses'

  401. life he was a prince in Egypt. But when he ran away to Midian,

  402. he had to go and learn all that he had known. For another

  403. forty years, And while shepherding God and sheep May on the mountain of the

  404. Lord, he encountered God, and God revealed himself to him. And you

  405. see that day God revealed himself to him. God revealed himself to him that

  406. I am that I am. By revelation, Moses's purpose in life changed.

  407. He was no longer a follower of sheep May his purpose now was to deliver

  408. God's people who are in Egypt. And so by revelation God will change your

  409. purpose in life. Please tell your neighbor for free. By revelation, God

  410. will change your purpose in life. Amen. The third point or benefit of

  411. having a revelation of Jesus Christ is that you receive the keys to the Kingdom

  412. of God. You receive access in the Kingdom of God. I have my

  413. car keys here with me. If for any reason I lose these car keys,

  414. that car is going nowhere, I will walk home or take an uber.

  415. You have house keys. If you lose your keys, you will be

  416. struck outside. The rain will fall. It will be to you because you

  417. don't have access. Yes, in the Kingdom of God, there are gates

  418. in the Kingdom of God that has keys. And because Peter had a revelation

  419. of who Christ is, Jesus said, I will give you the keys of

  420. the Kingdom of God. And whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in

  421. heaven. Whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And so

  422. there are people who have keys who can say to the rain, hold your

  423. peace, the rain will stop, it won't fall again. They can say

  424. to the rain, rain fall, The rain will fall a few years back.

  425. Who heard about that? I think you guys are young. You remember

  426. Atomic There was a gas explosion at Atomic. My wife I think it's about

  427. five years Yeah, my wife was about eight months pregnant. Were home watching

  428. the STV. Yes, chilasin, you know, and then we had boom.

  429. So we came out and we saw a fireball, big fireball like Hiroshima

  430. Nagasaki atomic bomb. And people were running away. Somebody came and say,

  431. oh, an't you running away. We are going to the mountain. The

  432. fire is coming. You should hear the cars. The Holy Spirit stared me

  433. up and I went to stand outside and I just started praying. Cleared that

  434. to scrubber taskel. Let the rain of God fall, Let the rain of

  435. God fall, Let the rain of God. I pray for thirty minutes,

  436. and the Lord said, pray, let the limits be lifted. I said,

  437. limits be lifted, open, let it rain. Thirty five minutes the

  438. rain started falling, heavy rain. I said this one. I'm not even

  439. going inside. I stood in the rain. I prayed some more. I

  440. said, the keys of the Kingdom of God. When you have the keys

  441. of the kingdom. When somebody is dying, they'll come to your door.

  442. You pray, come back to like, you'll get up because you have keys

  443. of the kingdom. And it is based on revelation, Amen, It is

  444. based on revelation. So the third one, Jesus said, I will give

  445. you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatever you bind on earth the

  446. keys. A sister gave a testimony. She's actually prayed for how many minutes?

  447. Five minutes, and what's called if she gets ninety four, those are

  448. called keys. You know, some people are praying three hours, they go

  449. they boom, boom. No keys. They have no revelation because they think

  450. it is magic. Seven. God, revelation has benefits, Amen. And

  451. when you walk with God in benefits, God will give you keys. There

  452. are certain accesses God will give to you because of the revelation you have about

  453. Him. Amen. So it will be well with you all the time.

  454. Can I hear your amen? Amen? And So they are keys, and

  455. they are gates both on earth and in heaven, and it requires keys to

  456. unlock them. Amen. But if you have a revelation of God, you're

  457. seven. With revelation Christ, Jesus will give you the keys to these gates,

  458. both on heaven and in earth. So Jesus is asking you this morning,

  459. who do you say that I am? Who do you say that I

  460. am? So he asked the disciples, who do you say? He said,

  461. who do men say that I am? They got it wrong, He

  462. asked his disciples. Out of twelve disciples, only one person had the revelation.

  463. So Jesus is asking you today, who do you say that I am?

  464. Can you bow down your heads? Just briefly? Who do you say

  465. that I am? Paul in his letter to the church in philipp I,

  466. said that I might. I might. I mean know you the power of

  467. his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering being made conformable to his death,

  468. if by any means that I may attain onto the resurrection of the dead.

  469. Who do men say that I am? Who do you say that I am?

  470. Jesus said that I'm coming soon. He says, I stand at the

  471. door of your heart, and I knock. If anyone will hear my voice

  472. and open the door, I'll come in and dine with him. So you

  473. are here. You don't know, Jesus, if you want to open the

  474. gate of your heart for Jesus to coming this morning. Just left your hand.

  475. Wherever you are. Let's say a short prayer that God will have mercy

  476. and draft you into the newness of life. Anyone here who wants Jesus?

  477. Is there anyone here who wants Jesus? Or you're born again? But you're

  478. born again is only a title. You are not living like a born again

  479. believer. You want to rededicate your life to Jesus. Just give the Lord

  480. a wave wherever you are and let's say a short prayer together. Jesus wants

  481. disciples that walk with him in revelation. Jesus needs disciples that walk with him

  482. in revelation. So Father, we give you thanks, We give your praise.

  483. Please be on your feet, Please be on your feet and say this

  484. prayer with me. Say Lord, Jesus, I thank you for dying on

  485. the cross for me. I thank you that you left your throne in heaven

  486. and came just for me. I thank you that when you died, you

  487. didn't remain dead, but that you rose again just for me. Say Lord,

  488. Jesus, I submit my will to yours. I submit my purpose to

  489. yours. Say have your way in my life, rule over me. As

  490. my Lord, Rule over me as my savior. Rule over my heart,

  491. Rule over the content of my heart, Rule over my desires, rule over

  492. my will. Oh God, and help me to be a good disciple that

  493. is eagerly anticipate in your coming. We bless your name, and we give

  494. your praise in Jesus Mighty name. Can I hear your loud and say,

  495. man, and please be seated a man in heavenly places while we work