God’s Plan for His Kingdom | Pr Stephen Kong

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your team that all may know. Somebody say that all may

know. Amen. Okay. So that is the team for our church this

year. Now, let me get this very straight. Okay. The vision

for the church has never changed. Okay. The vision the mission has never

changed. Okay. But the team can can be a built up every single

year. Okay. And just because we change the team every year does not

mean that the favorite teams don't work anymore. Okay. It just means that

it's a built up okay. And so last year our team was come on.

Last year our team was Amen. Okay, praise God. That means

you're doing well on the stage. Okay. So last year our team was

Heaven Rules. Okay. But just because last year's Heaven Rules doesn't mean DJ

is not. Okay, Heaven's struls whether you believe it or not, whether

you came to church last year or not, whether you are coming to church

next year, Heaven was still rule. Amen. So last year our team

was Heaven Rules, and this year our team is that All May Know.

Okay. So you will find that most of the preachers, in fact,

all the preachers will preach inn alignment with this team for the year. Okay,

so you may hear us. You know, we to you the Bible

worse, our key Bible wors again and again and again, and don't know

why. Okay, so that you can remember. Okay, so you remember

and you'll keep it in your heart and you will know that Heaven rules and

this year our team is that all may know. Okay. So let me

just quickly show it to you. The team key Bible worse for our church

this year, and I'll get the help of XTV is found in Daniel chapter

four, verse seventeen and twenty five. Okay, both the verses said pretty

much the same thing. But Daniel chapter four, verse seventeen and twenty five.

I'm gonna just read it to you, okay, so that you can

see it for yourself and know that this is where we found our team from.

Okay, a web pass the downloaded from the Lord the team for the

year, and this is where it's taken from. It's biblical, Okay.

You need to know that the church leadership is aligned with the Bible, and

we did not pluck this from the sky somewhere, but it is found in

the Bible. Amen. So this decision is by the decree of the watchers

and the sentenced by the word of the Holy Ones, in order that the

living may know that the most high rules in the Kingdom of Man gives it

to whoever he will and sets over it the lowest of men. Okay.

So Verse twenty five say the pretty much the same thing. So we can

stop here. It's fine. Verse seventeen okay, so it says in order

that the living may know. Okay, is there anybody living in this place?

Come on, yay. So it's a living may know, refers to

that all may know. Okay. So this is where we took our team

for a year, and of course I want joined. This was too much

for today. I'm going to go much into the kingdom because if you look

at the worst carefully, it says in order that the living may know,

they may know what that the most high rules were in the Kingdom of Men.

Okay. So today I'm going to continue to focus on the Kingdom of

Men, this part of the Kingdom of Men, okay. And if you

were there and our animal Civiy services, any service, anim service service,

and our combined services, you will know that pass cannot preach on the kingdom,

right, So I'm going to pick up from there and and continue to

go a little deeper because it's very important for us to know and understand the

Kingdom of God here on earth as it is in heaven before we can let

others know about it. Amen, It's very important for us to know ourselves

first. Okay, So our focus for the team for this year is on

witnessing. Okay, how do we let others know it's true witnessing? Amen

to that. It's going to be our focus for this year. And before

we can tell others, we ourselves need to need to know. We ourselves

need to know, because you can't tell others what you don't know. Does

that make sense, right? So we ourselves need to know. We ourselves

need to be sure. We have to be convinced. We have to be

convinced one hundred percent. We've got to believe it. There's got to be

no doubt in our minds. There's no doubt. There's no space for doubt

our in our hearts and our minds. Because if we ourselves don't know,

or we ourselves doubt, then how would you tell others? Right? So

we need to know, we need to be convinced, we need to be

sure, amen, and don't know whay it's gonna be. Okay, because

we now know, or we believe, that Heaven rules and God is in

control. God is with us and he's going to help us. Amen.

So it's important for us to understand and know God's kingdom and his plan.

Okay. So today I'm going to attempt to take us a little deeper into

God's plan and of course his kingdom. Are you ready? Here we go.

So the first thing I want to bring us to is God's plan for

his kingdom. God's plan for his kingdom. Okay, I'm gonna give you

some points and then I'll read a Bible worse for us. So, of

course, in God's kingdom, his plan is that God would be the ruler

in the kingdom of Man. Okay. And of course when you say God

is the ruler, it simply means Heaven rules. That is why last year

our team was Heaven rules. This year is that all men know. So

God is the ruler of the kingdom and hence Heaven rules. Heaven rules just

simply means that Heaven is in control, or rather the God who is in

Heaven is in control, Amen. And when the ruler says go, people

will go. When he says come, people will come. Right. And

so we can picture in your mind when you look at a king or any

leader, or any minister you know, like a like for example, a

prime minister, right or a king whoever it is, right, when he

gives an instruction, people will move and everyone will will do it right.

So that's what a ruler, ruler does, okay. And nothing can go

against God's will or his will. Do you believe it? Nothing can go

against his will, not even Satan nothing okay, nothing was standing between whatever

he desires and whatever will he wills, it will come to pass. Do

you believe it? Amen? And so last week we had a lot of

messages about heaven rules. And this year, as I entered the new year,

I'm trying to read the whole Bible from cover to cover. So I'm

I just went to Exodus, and I realized that in the Book of Exodus

there are many verses that also talks about that you may know. He's referring

to Pharaoh, referring to the Egyptians, also spoke to the issues that you

may know that the most high rules if you're going to look at Exodus,

and I'll probably bring you to that in the weeks to come. But in

the book of Exodus, I found one example of heaven rules as well,

whereby okay, let's I'm gonna read it to you. Exodus, chapter thirteen,

verse twenty says took their journey from Sokov and kempt At in Atom at

the age of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by the by

day in a pill of cloud to lead the way, and by night in

a pillar of fire to give them light. And as to go by day

and night. He did not take away the pill of cloud by day or

the pill of fire by night before the people. And so when I read

this verse, as I toy, I'm reading the from Genesis all the way

this year, right, And as I read this verse, I realized that

this is another clear example that heaven rules, because this in this story,

right, the Lord is leading the Israelites out of Egypt. Okay, if

you're familiar with the Exodus, Exodus just means that they're exiting. You're going

to exit, They're going to depart from Egypt, right, I can't remember.

I think it was four hundred and thirty years if I got that that

number right. That they were in Egypt, right, and the Lord was

leading them out of Egypt, leading the Israls, the children of Israel,

out of Egypt. And when the children Isuel came out of Egypt and they

were facing the Red Sea. Okay, if you're familiar with the story,

Pharaoh and his army and his chaviots were chasing after the Israelites wanted to kill

them and to bring them back. Okay, because the Israels used to be

servants or used to be in bondage in Egypt. Okay, you can go

back and read Exodus. It's very very interesting. You can read how the

Lord fully is in control. You can read the ten plagues and what happened.

So this in this story is the time whereby the Lord was with the

Israelites in the wilderness, right, a pillar of cloud by day and a

pillar of fire by night, and it never went away for the whole time

that the Israelers were journeying in the wilderness. Have you ever wondered why there

was a pillar of cloud by day and a pill of fire by night,

Because in the wilderness, in the daytime it's really very hot, and in

the night it's the opposite, it's really cold, okay. And there why

the pill of cloud is to give them shit, right, is to give

them protection. In fact, the pill of cloud actually is to lead the

people, right, and a pill of fires to give them light at night.

Be course, it's dark in the wilderness and it's cold. Does that

make sense, right? And he never left the people, never left the

people, right. And if you read on in chapter fourteen, when the

Egyptian army was going to attack the Israelites, when they were stuck between the

rat Sea and the Egyptian army, that was the only time that the Lord

moved the pillar of cloud and a pillo of fires to behind the people,

between the army and between the Israelites. If we can read in Exodus chapter

fourteen, verse nineteen, and the Angel of the Lord, who went before

the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them. There you go behind

them, And a pill of cloud went from before them and stood behind them.

So he came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of the

of Israel. Thus it was a cloud of darkness to the one, and

it gave light by night to the other, so that the one that did

not come, so that one did not come near the other all night long.

So I told you the israel Lights were stuck at the Red Sea and

behind them with the Egyptian army coming to kill them, and this pillar of

fire and cloud moved behind them and stood in between the army and the Israelites.

And can you imagine how amazing this is? A the same pillar could

be darkness to one and light to the other. Darkness to one and yet

light to the other. It's like as though or you can, you can,

you can put the eyes on the fire and it's still an ice by

yet in fire. It doesn't make sense right in ours, in our mind

scientifically, it makes no sense right. How can one single pillar be light

to the other and yet darkness to the other. Heaven rules, Amen,

God is in control. So that Egyptian army was about to kill or to

snatch back the Israelites back into Egypt. Right if you read the story and

friends again, as I told you, nothing can stand against God's will and

his plan. If he have to put a pillar of cloud and fire in

between, he will do it, and his will will come to pass.

What there's a tongue twist. His will will come to pass a man.

If you believe it, say amen. So Heaven rules. So now the

question for us today is what is God's big plan or what is his overarching

plan? And that's what I attempt to bring to us today. Okay,

here's the thing God wanted and still wants. Okay, past ten present times.

God wanted and still wants to have his kingdom here on earth as it

is in heaven. If you believe it, say amen. Let me say

that again. He wants to have his kingdom here on earth as it is

in heaven. Where do we find that? When Jesus thought his disciples how

to pray, what did he say? Matthew chapter six, verse nine to

ten. Okay, when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, he said,

in this manner, therefore, pray our Father in heaven. Hello,

what be your name? Your kingdom? Come? Your will be done on

earth as it is in heaven. You see that. In fact, actually

I I was apparently I think I felt like to lead us into this prayer.

Why don't you put the whole pray up, Lily, Maybe we can

all say this prayer. Together. Sorry, I'll put you on the spot.

So I think it just put this maybe type Matthew chapter six and then

uh, first start from verse nine. Sorry, I put I put XTV

on the spot. Yeah, but it's gonna be good. Okay. So

this is the Lord's prayer, and if you can, I encourage you to

pray this every day. I'm trying to praise every single day today because this

is the model prayer the Lord taught the disciples how to pray lydia already okay,

can, okay, So let's why don't you just join me even as

we praise together this prayer together. Amen. So our Father in heaven,

Hello, what be your name? Your Kingdom? Come, Your will be

done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily

prayer. Forgive our debts. As we forgive our debtors, do not lead

us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, for Yours is

the kingdom and the power and the glory forever a man. Amen, praise

God. So in Matthew chapter six, verse nine, Jesus teaches us his

disciples to pray your Kingdom Come, Your will be done on earth as it

is in heaven. Now this was the model prayer. So it's no doubt

that God's kingdom was meant to be established here on Earth. And man,

so there was a plan. What was the plan? The plan was for

God's kingdom to be here on earth? Right, there was the plan,

and man was his idea for that plan to work. Man as me and

you? Okay, the plan was for God's kingdom to be here on earth,

and man was his idea for that plan to work. Without a plan,

there would have been no man. Think about that for a moment.

Without God's plan for his kingdom to be here on earth, you and I

wouldn't be here. What was the plan God's kingdom on earth? How is

it going to be done to men? Men here on earth for his kingdom

to be established? So without a plan, there would have been no man.

So may I suggest to Earth that if God did not have a plan,

we wouldn't exist today. But God had a plan and he wanted to

use men, and he created men to accomplish his plans. Amen. And

on the flip side, without man, there would have been no plan,

or rather I should say they could still have been a plan, but no

one to implement it. Without men, they would have been a plan,

but no one to implement it. So we must start with a plan first.

We must start with God's vision, his desire, his will, what

he wants for himself and only for his glory. You need to get that

right, what he wants for himself and only for his glory. Now you

know what some words are thinking. You might think that that's quite selfish.

Right, God wanted his plan to accomplish and only for his glory. It

just took selfish. We may think of it that God was thinking about himself

his will before hours, But how many of you know that's the truth.

That's the truth that God desired for him for his glory and his glory only

alone. And even when he came to man, you and I, God

was more interested in the image of God in earth than the man himself.

Again, I know it's quiet in this place because the truth is hard,

right, the truth is hard, But yet it is very honest and very

humbling because we men were meant to reflect His image on earth. Did you

know that God created you and I, each and everyone of us in the

image of God. So when God looks down on earth and looks at men,

he's basically looking at the mirror. Did you hear that He's basically looking

at the mirror? Because we were supposed to reflect God's image here on earth,

so we were part of his plan. Turn your nerbor and say you

are a part of God's plan. Amen, We are part of God's plan.

And even though the truth can be hard, it is yet very honest

and very humbling. We could never compare ourselves to God. How many of

you know that you know what the Bible say about us, We are nothing

but dos in Genesis, you can read it, okay, in Genesis,

so actually say nothing but we are. We are sorry from us we came.

Okay. Genesis chapter three, verse nineteen says, in the sweat of

your face you shall eat break Hu, we returned to the ground, for

out of it you were taken. For thus you are, and to thus

you shall return. That's why when you go to some of the traditions,

they actually when they do this ashsh Sunday, we actually actually you know a

calf that does the cross symbol on our on our fourheads. Because I come

from that bag. I know some of you may also know you're familiar with

that right, this thing called the ash ash Sunday or what Monday to say

or something like that. When I say yes, When I say yes,

sorry very long I've been access for after fourteen years, it is so yeah,

but that's where I grew up. So I know, you know,

and and I'm be minded every year that's you are from. Thus you came,

that's you shall return. So how can we compare with God? So

we are not even in the position to say, you know that that God

could be selfish even though it took like it is, because it's all for

his glory and his glory alone, and we are just a mirror to eat,

to mirror God's image here on earth, Friends, ladies and gentlemen.

Ultimately, we have to recognize that God is the creator of the universe,

and everything that we see and exists is there only because God has made it

or he has allowed it to happen. He owns everything and has every right

to do whatever he desires. We did amen. He owns it. He

owns everything, he has every right to do what he desires with it.

So we must start with God's plan. The plan was for himself and no

other. No matter what happens, God's plan will stand and it will come

to pass because God will fulfill it unto himself. Even if he had to

use a donkey. God was too fulfill it unto himself. But thank God

he used men, you and me because we are part of God's beautiful and

big plan. Can I hear good? Amen? And maybe that's why our

team for last year was having rules, because we must first recognize that God

rules first. God rules, He's solving right, he does whatever he wants.

Nothing can stand in between. And God will fulfill his plan and his

will unto himself. And thank God that He can use you and I.

He chose man to reflect his glory, and that itself, we would already

count it an honor and a privilege to reflect God's image. Amen. Some

chapter Territory, verse eleven says, but the plans of the Lord stand firm

forever. It is an every version. The kjvvision says, the counsel of

the Lord stands forever the plans of his heart, but to all generations.

The NIV version says, but the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,

the purposes of his heart to all generations. Amen. So his plans stand

forever. It would come to pass, it will come to pass. So

that's the first thing I wanted to wring to our attention, God's kingdom,

his plan for his kingdom a man, God's plan for his kingdom here on

earth as it is in heaven. The second thing I want to talk about

is God's plan for men. Okay, God's plan for man. So remember

I told you man was God's idea for him to fulfill the plan. Right,

So what was God's plan for men? If you were here in our

anniversary last Sunday, you would have heard this, But let me show it

to you today. Genesy, chapter one, verse twenty six to twenty eight.

Then God said, Then God said, let us make man in our

image. Now just pause there for a moment. If any of you need

clarity on why God is three in one, this is a very good example.

Okay, He didn't say, let me make man in my image.

He says, let us let us capital you. Let us make man in

our capital. Oh, in our image, according to our likeness. Let

them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the bursts of the

air, and over the kettle, over all the earth, and over every

creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own

image, in the image of God. He created him male and female.

He created them. Then God bless them, and God say to them,

be fruitful and multiply. Feel the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over

the fish of the sea, over the bursts of the air, and over

every living thing that moves on the earth. So that was the plan for

men, ladies and gentlemen. For men, we have actually three important tasks.

Number One, to populate the earth. Be food for a multiply,

so the Bible says, be food for a multiply. So when you get

there, I also say to you, be foot for and multiply. Most

of you here, students, so not yet when you get there. And

you get there, so we are supposed to feel the earth, populate the

earth, be fooitful, and multiply. Leave right now, okay. Second

is to have dominion over the earth. God's plan for men is that man

is supposed to have dominion over every living creature that moves on the earth.

The Bible says that right over every bird, every creature that creeps on the

ground. We are supposed to have dominion over the earth. Right But when

you look back, do you anything. We have dominion over the earth today.

Right. I think your response tells it right, because there's so much

evil on the face of the earth. And what's the third thing they were

supposed to do? The third plan for men was to reflect His glory and

his image because we were made in this image. We were made in this

image. I told you alert like a mirror. Right, We're supposed to

mirror his image, his glory back onto him and unto God and God alone.

Amen. So remember every time we give God glory, every time we

point the glory back to God, every time we give him back the praise

the glory, we are actually reflecting his glory and to him a man,

we are reflecting his image. Praise the Lord. What else is our duty

of our world? Okay, I'm going to bring us to he Brews chapter

two, verse five to eight. Let me show you how much God really

thinks about us, that he even set us in charge over the work of

his hands. If you okay, if you have a bible's one, if

you turn to hebrew chapter two, verse five, because this verse is quite

long, so I'm going to give you some time. Why don't you turn

your bibles to Hebrews, Chapter two, verse five. Okay. If you're

there, say yeah, okay, not not there yet. If there,

say yeah, okay, all right, He bows Chapter two, verse five.

I'm going to read it to you in the NKGB version first it's on

the screen, and then after I'm going to read it to you in the

NLT version because it's easier to understand. Okay. Verse five says, for

to which of the angels did he ever say you are my son? Today?

I have begotten begotten you, and again I will be to him a

father, and he shall be to me a son. But when he again

brings the first born into the world. Oh, so sorry, I actually

got the wrong verse. Hebrows Chapter two. So real was what chapter one?

He bows chapter two, verse five for or he has not put the

world to come of which we speak in subjection to angels, but one testified

in a certain place, saying, what is man that you are mindful of

him? Or the son of man that you took, that you take care

of him? You have made him a little lower than the angels. You

have crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of

your hands. You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For

in that he put all in subjection under him. He left nothing that is

not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put

under him. Okay, so you can see in verse six what is man

that you are mindful of him? Can you imagine that God put such a

heavy task and responsibility on human on earth, mankind to take care of his

creation. Friends, that is not a simple task. That's a heavy task

because the Bible says we are to take care of the work of his hands.

Imagine God is telling us as men, as male mortals, to take

care of the work of his hands. Did you know in order for us

to do that we need his help only with God said we can do that,

we can't do it? And on. Because God created, haven't said

the earth? He created everything that's on the earth right, and and we

are supposed to have dominion. He's supposed to rule over it and take care

of the work of his hands. That is not an easy task for us.

In fact, he didn't give it to angels. Think about it.

Man was made a little lower than angels. But yet we were crowned with

glory and honor and have dominion over the entire earth. God first granted this

responsibility to Adam and Eve in the garden, if you're reading Genesis, God

gave this responsibility and this mandate to Adam and Eve. In fact, it

was Adam who name every creature that you see today. Right. Of course

those creatures that they and today's may be different because some mutation and whatnot.

I wouldn't get into the details. But Adam named every anymore right and every

anymorey. He called it. So was it. So he was supposed to

rule over the earth. And we were elevated to a status of reigning over

the earth and given glory and honor. And I say to us, it

is an immense honor to be granted that authority. And so the Bible says

we were crowned. We were crowned with glory and honor to have nose meaning

over this earth. So we experienced it to some extent. We know what

it's like to see a king being being inaugurated. Right. For example,

recently you see our young peopleton are going that was sworn in right, And

usually whenever a king or a prime minister, or any young peopleton are going

for that matter, gets sworn it's always a big celebration. Right of course,

this year we didn't have holiday because I think I think they're young with

they are going to say that he didn't want to make a precedents, right

because because you should know that militias lot holidays we have. We have a

lot of holidays. I think one of the I don't know to how many

in the world, number of holidays we have. And so I think the

argo fact that you know every time we have a holiday, there's a lot

of that, there's money they spend. You know that this disruption to the

economy to whatnot. So anyway, I I side tracked. So you know,

when when when a king or someone influential or someone powerful is ineugurrated,

we we we see how there's a celebration. We see how there's glory,

there's honor placed on him. Right and likewise you and I we were given

that, we were given that honor, that glory to take care of his

of of of his creation here on earth. And that responsibly was first given

to Adam. And if and how never know the aedment if failed the responsibility

when they this obeyed God, when they this obeyed God and took the food

of the knowledge of good and evil. You can read it in Genesis.

And so Edamin I was given first given and mandate, and yet they obeyed

God. And that's why in the scripture in the Bible, in verse eight,

did you realize that when I read this now it says, but now

we do not yet see all things put under him. But now we do

not yet see all things put under him? What does the word yet?

Y e t yet? What does that word mean? Yes? Right,

let me see, haven't come yet? Haven't come the past yet? It

will it will come the past, but not yet. So clearly we see

today that man is not really fully in control because there's so much chaos.

There's violence on this on the face of this earth, only because sin has

come into our hearts, and because because because evil, it's on the face

of this earth. And and and shared this you know, and that the

evil when the time of Noah, when God wiped the whole earth except Noah

and his family in the arm right and wanted to we start again. And

yet evil or still on the face of the earth. Have you ever wondered

why? Because he's an Internet problem. So let me say to you,

maybe for some of us. We may think that we've got a tough collique,

or a tough boss at work, or a tough friend, or anything

that is tough for that matter, and we pray God, please remove this

person from a life, or please move me from this place to another place.

Did you know they've got me moved that person? There will be another

person like that, or I've got moved you. The other company will also

have people like that. Why, just like how when God remove and God

wiped the face of the earth, he needed to show us that it's not

an external problem. It's an internal problem. Wherever you go, you will

still find trouble. You know, people who irritate you. Right, And

even though I pray God remove them, if you go to another place,

there will still be another person like that. And it's to it's it's to

build us. It's is to is to develop the character in us. Amen.

It's because of an internal problem sin and even that it's in our hearts.

So we can't solve an internal problem with an external solution, right.

Only God can solve the problem with an internal solution, which is our hearts.

Amen. So this this word says in the world, yet not yet

come, not yet come in this word, yet is embedded an amazing PROMI

is that the world will be redeemed to its original design, and that will

include restoring humanity as its ruler under the lordship of Jesus Christ. Together we

will rule as as heirs and the sons and daughters of the Kingdom of Heaven

here on earth. Amen. So it will come, It will come.

Not yet it has not yet come to pass, But it will come to

pass. Amen. There was God's plan for men, And let me take

you to my last lap, which is God's plan for redemption. So I

told you that men failed. In fact, they failed twice, first edem

Eve at the garden and then Noah's family after they came out of the ark.

Ever was to remain, and so God had a plan for redemption.

Amen. Men failed. We needed a savior to save us once and for

all. So I'm going to continue on from Hebrews chapter two, verse nine

that I just read. But we see Jesus, who was made a little

lower than the angels. Well need to know that, because when Jesus came

down to earth, he took on the nature of men, and the man

was made a little lower than angels. So Jesus was one hundred percent God,

he was one hundred percent men. He took on the nature of men,

and that's why he was also written that he was a little lower than

angels. I'm going to continue reading, for the suffering of death, crown

with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, might

taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for him for whom all things,

so for whom are all things, and by whom are all things?

Or there's a tongue tister, for it was fitting for him, for whom

are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many signs

to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. You

see that, So Jesus was also redemption. I'm going to read it to

you in the Nalty vision because it's easier, because when I read that,

I don't I think your his It just proved by your head. Okay,

I'm gonna read in the Nalty vision. For what what we do see is

Jesus, who for a little while was given a position a little lower than

the angels, and because he suffered death for us, he is now crowned

with glory and honor. Yes, by God grace, Jesus tasted death for

everyone. God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to

bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make

Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into

starvation, bring us into starvation. So now Jesus and the ones he make

holy have the same father. Did you see that? Now Jesus and the

ones who he make holy, you and I have the same father. That

that is why Jesus is not a shame to call them his brothers and sisters.

So that is the plan for redemption. When Jesus, as the savior,

had to redeem us back to the father. Jesus is the one who

makes us holy, has the same father. Right have the same father.

And that is why Jesus can call us us and sisters. Did you know

that? That's why we are called sons and daughters of the Kingdom. Amen.

So God had a plan for redemption. Man failed. We needed a

savior. We could never do it on our own, and God sent his

only son, Jesus Christ John three sixteen. We are very familiar with his

words. He says for God, So loved the world that he gave his

only begodden son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have

everlasting life. I'm gonna read a few more verses for you and now close

tewod Peter three nine. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as

some count slackness, But it's long suffering towards us, not willing that any

should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Amen. God is

long suffing toward us, and he does not will that any should perish,

but all come to repentance. God had a plan for with them. He

does not want us to He does not want us to be perish in eternal

fire, but he wants to give us eternal life to his son Jesus Christ.

And the last scripture I'm going to wait to you for today is found

in Roman chapter six, verse twenty three, for the wages of seeing his

death. But the gift of God is eternal life. Come on, is

eternal life in Christ, Jesus our Lord. So it's like close. I

want to remind us that God had a plan. God had a plan.

He had a plan for his kingdom here on earth. As it is in

heaven. He had a plan for men. In fact, man was part

of the plan. Man was God's idea of how He's going to implement that

plan. He had a plan for men. We were supposed to populate the

earth, have the million over the everything on the earth, and we were

men to reflect his image and his glory. So if you are still looking

for a purpose in life, remember ask God, your creator, for a

purpose, because only a creator can give you a purpose, because He created

us to reflect his image and his glory. So if you are seeking for

a purpose in life, ask the creator and he will show it to you.

Amen. God had a plan, and all of us he has heated

are part of that big and beautiful planet. Can I hear a good amen?

The gospel will be preached to all, and then the end will come.

Matthew Chapter twenty four was fourteen. And this Gospel of the Kingdom will

be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and

then the end will come. So, ladies and gentlemen, we are part

of that plan. The gospel is to be preached to all the nations.

Who are preached, who are preached you? And I amen? So this

year, we are going to focus a lot on witnessing. Witnessing to your

friends, to your colleagues, to your family, to your neighbors, to

those around you everyone. That's our team for this year. That all may

know. Amen. But first you and I need to know. We need

to know that we are part of God's plan. Of course, we need

to know that God had a plan for us, right, God had a

plan. We are part of God's plan and we have to play our role

and our part in his plan to accomplish his will. A man, I

mean the lot help us friends. Heaven rules. God is in control.

God has sent his Holy Spirit to help us because he knows that we need

his help. He knows, He knows that we are does. Really we

are does. And only by the power and the help of the Holy Spirit

will we be able to witness for Him and preach the Gospel to the ends

of the earth. And that's why I said, Church, we have very

big ommissions. The Bible tells us to preach to the nations, to the

nations, even CITD in this room, if you look around, we think

about it, we have more than one nation represented here. So I dare

to say in this room. We have nations represented even in this room.

Look far, Look at our campus across the street, Nottingham. Look at

so many, so many as a lot of families coming over to stay.

Now. Our campus Nottingham has so many nationalities, so many. Look at

the different campuses around us, in New Era, in Katj, so many

other campuses and schools around here. You can see there there are many nations

there. The Lord's going to send us. The Lord's going to send us

to preach to those around us. Amen, Church, are you ready?

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