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God With Us (Part 1)

October 12, 2026 Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
right in. I want to thank God for this opportunity
to bring the word to us. And I also want to thank
the asteroid also for this opportunity they have
given me. And I pray that as you listen to the
word of God, that you're blessed. Amen. So this
morning, we're going to be looking at the topic
titled, Filled with the Spirit or God with Us.
Filled with the Spirit or God with Us. Amen.
Colossians chapter 2. Colossians chapter 2. This

Colossians 2 chapter mention Colossians 2 chapter mention
is Paul writing to Timothy and he says, in whom
are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Now this I say, lest anyone should deceive you
with persuasive word, for though I am absent
in flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing
to see your good order and the steadfastness
of your faith in Christ. As you, therefore, have
received Jesus Christ the Lord, so walk in him.
rooted and built up in him, established in the
faith, as you have been taught, abounding in
it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat
you through philosophies and empty deceits, according
to the tradition of men, according to the basic
principles of the world, not according to Christ.
For in him dwells all the fullness. of the Godhead
bodily, and you are complete in him who is the
head of all principalities and power. Amen. You
are complete in him. So we see here that he encourages
him to be established in faith. And one of the
things that we try to do, even in church, how
we're doing in church, is to get you to be established
in faith. Praise the Lord. that nothing deceives
you or nothing cheats you of the power of God
or the things that are found in Christ. Praise
the Lord. So today we're looking at being filled
in the Spirit or, like I said, God in us. He
said you're complete in Him in verse 20. You're
complete in Him. Praise the Lord. Can somebody
say I'm complete in Him? So He wants us to...
be established in faith, to be well established
in faith. In this season and in this time, it
is important that we as children of God continue
to grow, continue to know God for ourselves.
Praise the Lord. Like I said, what we do here
is to show you, or as we teach, is to show you
and then you go and find out for yourself. You
go and check again. Praise the Lord. As you listen
to a teaching, what you do is that you go and
read your Bible again to find out if these things
are true or if you understand them to be established.
Praise the Lord. You need to have a clear understanding
of the things of God or the Word of God. Hallelujah.
So this is not our main text, but I wanted to
just start from there. Praise the Lord. So you
need to read further. Right? That you are persuaded
by the scriptures. Praise the Lord. He said that
even though he's not present with them, praise
the Lord, even if you're far away, as most of
us are, from home, or even from, as you're far
away, let's say even from your pastors in church,
as we meet twice in a week, right? That you establish,
you're persuaded. Praise the Lord. That you know
God for yourself and your lifestyle, It's not
that which requires monitoring. Praise the Lord.
It's that which is established because you have
given yourself to understand the Scriptures.
Praise the Lord. We see in Ephesians 5, verse

Ephesians 5:18
18, God also tells there that be filled with
the Spirit. Ephesians 5, verse 18. He tells them

Ephesians 5:18
what? To be filled with the Spirit. To be filled
with the Spirit. Well, let's just go to our main
text. Matthew chapter 28, as you've been doing,

Matthew 28 chapter mention
or as I've been doing for a while now, Matthew

Matthew 28 chapter mention
chapter 28, Matthew chapter 28 and verse 18 to

Matthew 28 chapter mention
20. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying,
All authority has been given me in heaven and
on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of
all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. teaching
them to observe all things that I have commanded
you, and lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the age. So we're looking at this, we
want to understand what he means by saying that
I am with you always. I am with you even to the
end of the age. Mark chapter 16, Mark chapter

Mark 16 chapter mention Mark 16 chapter mention
16, the same thing, Mark chapter 16 verse 15.

Mark 16:15
Mark 16, verse 15. And he said to them, Go into

Mark 16:15
all the world and preach the gospel to every
creature. He who believes and is baptized will
be saved, for he who does not believe will be
condemned. These signs will follow those who
believe. In my name they will cast out demons,
they will speak with new tongues, they will take
up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly,
it will by no means hurt them. They will lay
their hands on the sick, and the sick will recover.
So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, he
was received up into heaven and sat down at the
right hand of God. And they went out and preached
everywhere, the Lord walking with them and confirming
their word through accompanying signs. We're
also going to look at this word, the Lord walking
with them. Praise the Lord. The same thing that
he's saying as Matthew, he said, I'm with you
always, right? The Lord walking with them. Praise
the Lord. We go back to that Matthew chapter

Matthew 28 chapter mention
28, and we see two things there, right? Or we
see something there, or we pay attention to what
is written there. It said, I am with you always,
verse 20, even to the end of the age. So this
word, I am with you, right? It's a proper name,
right? It is a name. So it's not just a set of
pronouns, right? It's a proper name. Praise the
Lord. I am with you is a proper name, right?
We also see something that is something similar
to this in Exodus chapter 3, verse 14. Exodus

Exodus 3:14 Exodus 3:14
chapter 3, verse 14. And God said to Moses, I
am who I am. Or you can say, I will be what I
will be. I am who I am, right? And he said, told
you shall say to the children of Israel, I am
have sent you. What does that mean? It's a name.
Somebody has sent you. I am who I am. I am has
sent you. So he's saying that someone has sent
you and that I am is a person. Praise the Lord.
It is someone. I am who I am or I will be what
I will be. It's the word haya, right? H -A -Y
-A or Yahweh. Praise the Lord. The same thing
as saying Yahweh has sent you. Praise the Lord.
It's also the same thing as egomai. Praise the
Lord. It's a Greek word, egomai. E -G -O -E -I
-M -I. E -G -O -E -I -M -I. Egomai. And in its
fullness, right, I am. with you, that is what
we saw in Matthew chapter 28, is egomai met haimon.

Matthew 28 chapter mention
I'm going to spell it. Egomai met haimon. It's
E -G -O -E -I -M -I -M -E -T -A -H -Y -M -O -N.
Egomai met haimon. I am with you. Praise the
Lord. He's saying that I am with you is God's
name. Praise the Lord. Yahweh, as I've said,
Yahweh or Hayah. Praise the Lord. So he's saying
that, so God's name is I am with you. Praise
the Lord. God's name is what? I am with you.
Not just I am, but I am with you. Praise the
Lord. So we see that in the gospel. He's not
just saying that I am, as we see here, I am who
I am. but he's saying, I am with you. That is
God's name, that God is with you. So this shows,
right, God's everlasting covenant to say, I am
with you. Praise the Lord. So this is showing
God's everlasting covenant to say that I am with
you. He's saying that I will not leave you nor
forsake you. Praise the Lord. He's saying, I
will not leave you nor forsake you. I am with
you. And he said, God walking with them. Praise
the Lord. So God is not apart from them. Praise
the Lord. God walking with them. Let's go back
to that Mark and see this walking with them.
Mark chapter 16, verse 20. Verse 20, he says

Mark 16:20
what? And they went out and preached everywhere.
The Lord walking with them through accompanying
signs. Praise the Lord. The Lord walking. with
them. So the Lord is working with them. Praise
the Lord. So if we say that, for example, as
a church, we work together. Let's say different
departments work together. And we give example
that Femi is in the ushering department and God's
voice is in the media. Praise the Lord. So although
they work in the same organization or they work
in the same church, but They are not doing the
same thing. Praise the Lord. They are not doing
the same thing. Although they walk in the same
place, right? They are not doing the same thing.
But this, this word, the Lord walking with them
is not the same. It's not the same as somebody
being in the same organization, but performing
different roles. Praise the Lord. It's not the
same as that, right? I am, or the Lord walking
with them. He's saying that. He is working together
with them. Praise the Lord. He is working together
with them. We see the same word in Romans chapter

Romans 8 chapter mention
8. Romans chapter 8, verse 28. He said, For we

Romans 8:28
know that all things work together for good to
those who love the Lord and to those who are
called according to his purpose. This thing,
all things work together for good, right? All
things work together for good. It's the same
thing as saying, working with them, right? It's
a Greek word, S -Y -N -E -R -G -E -O, sunageho,
right? Sunageho. That's what it means, working
with them. We also see the same thing in 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 16:16
16, verse 16, for laboring together. 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 16:16
16, verse 16, that you also submit to such and
to everyone who works and labors with you. The
same thing as that place, laboring with us. 2

2 Corinthians 6:1
Corinthians 6, verse 1. 2 Corinthians 6, verse

2 Corinthians 6:1
1. We then, as workers together with him, also
plead with you. Plead with you not to receive
the grace of God in vain. We then as walkers
wait. Right? It's that word. Tsunageho. So, and
we also see the same thing in James chapter 2.

James 2 chapter mention
James chapter 2. James chapter 2. James chapter

James 2 chapter mention James 2 chapter mention James 2:21–22
2 verse 21 to 22. Was not Abraham our father
justified by the works when he offered up Isaac
his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was
working together with his work? And by works,
faith was made perfect. Praise the Lord. So you
see what? See that faith was working, what? With
his work. Or working together with his work.
It's that same word we see there. So it means
that we are seeing his faith by his work. That
is from this place. Right? We also see that in
Romans chapter 16, verse 3, an adjective of this

Romans 16:3
word, sonageho. Romans chapter 16, verse 3. He

Romans 16:3
said, greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers
in Christ. My fellow workers, right? It's that
same word. And then we also see in verse 21 of
that same Romans chapter 16. He said, Timothy,

Romans 16 chapter mention
my fellow worker. Praise the Lord. Timothy, my
fellow workers. So it means that they are working
together. Praise the Lord. It means that they
are working together. When he says working with
them, right? We saw in Mark chapter 16, verse

Mark 16:20
20, right? He's talking about that they are working
together to achieve the same goal. Praise the
Lord. They are working together to achieve the
same goal. God is saying that what God is working
with them with a company sign. He said that God
was working with the disciples, right? They were
working together to achieve the same goal. So
their goals and their priorities were alike.
Praise the Lord. So when he says working with
them, he's saying that they are achieving the
same thing. Their goals and their priorities
were the same. So, but it's actually quite stronger
than that. It's not just that they were working
together to achieve the same goal. Praise the
Lord. It means one walking through the other,
praise the Lord, and vice versa, right? It's
not just that they are walking together, you
know, we agree on the same thing. Let's say Femi,
who is in the ushering department with Caroline,
they're in the same place. They are walking together
to achieve the same goal in the church ordination,
getting people to see properly and all of that.
But he's saying he's just greater than that,
right? That word walking. That word walking with
them is saying that one is walking through the
other and vice versa. Praise the Lord. It means
that there is no separation. Hallelujah. It means
there is no separation. Fellow workers, people
who are doing the same thing, who are walking
the same way. Praise the Lord. So when he says,
or when you say that you have the spirit of God
in the inside of you, right? It means that you're
saying that you and God are working the same
way. Praise the Lord. You're saying that you
and God are working the same way, right? That
your goals are the same. Praise the Lord. You're
fellow workers. Hallelujah. Philemon chapter

Philemon 1:1
1 verse 1. We see that same word again. Fellow
laborers. Philemon chapter 1 verse 1. Fellow

Philemon 1:1
laborers. So it means that God is working, right?
Philemon chapter 1, it said, Paul, a prisoner

Philemon 1 chapter mention
of Christ, and Timothy, a brother, to Philemon,
a beloved friend and fellow laborer. Praise the
Lord. Fellow laborers. So it means that God was,
when he says God was working with them in Matthew

Matthew 16 chapter mention
chapter 16, right? He's saying that God was walking
through the world that he preached. Praise the
Lord. is that God was walking through the preaching
that they were doing. Praise the Lord. And the
word of God is walking through God. Like I said,
it's vice versa. Praise the Lord. The word is
walking through God. So you cannot separate the
message from God himself. Hallelujah. It means
that you cannot separate the message from God
himself. What they were doing cannot be separated
from God. Praise the Lord. So when you go out
to preach, or when you go to tell somebody about
Christ, what you're doing cannot be separated
from God. It's all a different walk. Praise the
Lord. It is God that is walking together or through
you. So the world cannot be separated, or God
cannot be separated from the message that we
preach. Praise the Lord. So when he says something
like another gospel, it means that they are preaching
something that God is not in the middle of it,
or God is not there. Praise the Lord. They're
teaching that which is not from God, which does
not originate from God. Praise the Lord. So we
cannot separate the message from God. So when
you preach the word, God's word is powerful,
right? God's word has God in it. So when you're
preaching, what you're doing is you're not just
saying things. You're not just wasting your time.
You're not just... Taking a time out of the afternoon
and saying something. Praise the Lord. It is
that the things that you're preaching, God is
in the inside of it. God is in his word. God
walking with them. God's word has God in it.
The message we preach has God in it. He said
what? A fellow laborer. He's a fellow laborer
with the message. Praise the Lord. The Lord is
walking with. with them with the lord is working
with so it means that when jesus uh told them
to go and preach or when jesus told them to go
and preach he gave them himself as well praise
the lord when jesus said go and preach go and
preach the gospel when he says what he should
preach where starting from jerusalem and to the
ultimate part of the earth he's saying that i'm
giving you myself with it praise the lord So
he's not telling them, oh, go and do this work.
And it's your responsibility. You are in charge
of it. I have no, I have no, I just come to judge
you on the result that you get. If somebody gives
you a workplace and it requires a result, right?
You go and figure out how that work is being
done, if it's difficult, if it's not. He's saying,
when he said he should go and preach, he also
gave himself to them. So that's what he's walking
through them. Praise the Lord. Do we have an
understanding of what I'm saying? Do we understand
what I'm saying? So when we say God with you
or God with us, you see what it is. That the
Lord is in the inside of you and is working as
you preach the word. Praise the Lord. As you
teach the gospel, the Lord is working. He gives
you himself. Praise the Lord. So we're not just
messengers of the message, right? We're not like
John the Baptist, okay? A voice of the one crying
out in the wilderness, right? We're not just
the messenger of the message, right? We are what?
The messengers of a person. Remember where we
started from? I am with you and we say it is
a proper name. Praise the Lord. Yahweh, right?
We are messengers of a person in a message. Hallelujah.
We are messengers of a person in a message. Luke

Luke 14 chapter mention
chapter 14, Luke chapter 24, verse 49. Luke chapter

Luke 24:49 Luke 24:49
24, verse 49. 1 verse 4. Remember, Luke was the
writer of the book of Acts. As they had been
assembled together, he commanded them not to
depart from Jerusalem and to wait for the promise
of the Father, which he said, you have heard
from me. Praise the Lord. So he had made the
promise. And he's the same writers of the same
scriptures. So he's the word promise. So that
word promise is a Greek word. I'm going to spell
it, and then E -P -A -N -G -E -L -I -A. It's
a word, epangelia. Praise the Lord. It's a word,
epangelia, right? Promise, right? That word for
promise. It means a self -commitment to do something
by yourself. Praise the Lord. So when he says,
what? The promise of the Father. It's something
that he has committed that he's going to do.
Right? Promise, epangelia. It means a self -commitment
to do it by yourself. Praise the Lord. And we
saw it in Acts chapter 1, verse 4. The promise

Acts 1:4
of the Father. So, look at verse 4 now, verse
5 of this Acts chapter 1. For John truly baptized

Acts 1 chapter mention
with water, but you shall be baptized with a
holy spirit. not many days from now. Verse 8.
Verse 8. But you shall receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall
be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Judea
and in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
Acts chapter 2, verse 38. The promise of the

Acts 2:38
Father, the Holy Spirit. Acts chapter 2, verse

Acts 2:38
38. Then Peter said to them, Repent, and let
every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins, that you shall
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Verse 39.
For the promise is to you and to your children,
and to all who are far off, as many as the Lord
our God will call. Praise the Lord. The promise
is what? Not just for you, but to your children.
and to all who are far off. Remember, we were
looking at this a few weeks ago about the intention
of God concerning salvation. Praise the Lord.
So Jesus is teaching them, right? And he keeps
mentioning to them what's the promise of the
Father, the promise of the Father. Luke chapter

Luke 4 chapter mention
4, sorry, Luke chapter 24, verse 27. He tells

Luke 24:27
us that what's... that he taught them from what?
Genesis to what? He taught them from Moses and
in all the prophets. He expounded to them in
all the scriptures the things consigning himself.
Praise the Lord. Verse 44 and 45. And he said
to them, These are the words which I spoke to
you while I was still with you, that all things
will be fulfilled which are written in the law
of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms
consigning me. Verse 45. And he opened the understanding
that they may comprehend the scriptures. We've
also dealt with that. So reading, right? So he
read from Genesis to Malachi to give them understanding.
So even you, as you read the scriptures, right?
You read now, you read the scriptures from Genesis,
right? To Malachi and to the four Gospels, you
regard them as a book, right? You consider them
as a book. I remember in the sound meeting where
we were dealing with... at the judgment seats
of Christ and we read in Matthew, right? And
I was asking them, I said, how do you explain
to somebody when in the scriptures in Matthew,
he talks about telling those, separating the
sheep from the goats and he's saying to them,
to those who have done good things to this side
and to those who have done bad things to the
other side. How do you explain to somebody who
is just a believer, who just became a believer
or somebody who does not, is curious to know
what is going on here? Or ask you the question,
does it mean that in my good deeds, I'm righteous
with God? How do you explain that? Seeing that
it is declared there in the scripture, that is
what he's suggesting. Praise the Lord. How do
you explain that? And we said that you explain
that by what? Explaining the entirety of the
scriptures. Praise the Lord. You explain that
by explaining the entirety of the scriptures.
So you see that and you become confused, like
what is going on here? So you read Genesis. and
to the four Gospels as one book. And then Matthew
to Acts, right? As the same as one book, and
then Romans to Revelation as a singular book.
So, in essence, they explain each other. Praise
the Lord. As somebody tells you that from Matthew,
you want to go to the epistle to explain to him
what was that about. Praise the Lord. So, when
you see a phrase in the epistle, or when he's
saying something, remember, we just read something
now. And it means that these things was written.
You will find this story or the narrative or
the concept of this in the Old Testament when
you see something in the epistle. So when Jesus
said, I am with you, right? We said it's a proper
name. Egomai is a single name, right? He said
always to the end, right? But it's not just the
first place that this thing was written. Praise
the Lord. It's not just the first time. Right?
Matthew writes about it. Matthew chapter 1. Matthew

Matthew 1 chapter mention Matthew 1 chapter mention
chapter 1. The angels, the Joseph encounter with
the angel. Matthew chapter 1, verse 21. And he

Matthew 1:21
shall bring forth a son, and he shall call his
name Jesus, for he will save his people from
their sins. Just pay attention to this. Verse
22. So all this was done that it might be fulfilled,
which was written by the Lord through the prophets,
saying, verse 23, Behold, the virgin shall be
with a child and shall bear a son, and they shall
call his name Emmanuel, which is translated God
with us. Praise the Lord. So we read, we see
that it seems like there is a contrast, right?
In verse 21, let's go back to 21. He said, she
shall bring forth a son and his name shall be
called, and you shall call his name what? Jesus.
What is Jesus going to do? He said he will save
his people from their sins. Just pay attention
to this because we're going to understand it
very soon. Verse 23 now. He said, Behold, the
virgin shall be with a child and bear a son.
Praise the Lord. And he shall call his name Emmanuel.
What is Emmanuel? He says what? God with us.
The first one said his name shall be who? Jesus.
And what is Jesus going to do? He's going to
save people from their sins. But Emmanuel is
what? He's talking about the same son. And he's
going to be what? Emmanuel, for you to know what?
He's translated God with us. Praise the Lord.
So he's not just saving, he's staying. Praise
the Lord. Hallelujah. He shall save his people
from their sin. We write down verse 21. And then
verse 23 says what? He shall call his name Emmanuel,
which is God with us. God with us. Jesus didn't
just say God with us in Matthew 28, but he says
what? I am with you. Praise the Lord. So when
we say I am with you, right? He's telling them
something that has been prophesied. I've already
said it, but he's saying God with us. But then
he's saying I am with you always. Praise the
Lord. Do you understand that? So he said, I am
with you. But then when you see the angels reporting,
verse 22, when we see what the angel was reporting,
he says what? And so this was done that it may
be fulfilled which was written, which was spoken
by the Lord through the prophet, saying. So when
we see the angel, the angel is the third party
here, saying this. He says what? God with us.
Praise the Lord. So the angel will say what?
God with us. Emmanuel. Praise the Lord. So, but
where is the angel referencing this from when
he says that it was spoken of the Lord through
the prophet? Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14. Isaiah

Isaiah 7:14 Isaiah 7:14
chapter 7, verse 14. Therefore, the Lord himself
will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall
conceive and bear a son and shall call his name
Emmanuel, God with us. So, Emmanuel. is two words
to put together. Praise the Lord. The manual
is two words put together. The first one is I
-W -M -A -N -U. Right? I -W -M -A -N -U. Right?
Emmanuel. Or Emmanuel. Right? And then we have
E -L. Right? That's the second word that was
put together. to bring Emmanuel. So, Emmanuel
is with us. That's the word, with us. Right?
E -L or L is God. So that is God with us. So
it's to say God with us. Then he referenced that
Emmanuel, he said God with us, Emmanuel, and
referenced a child. Right? He said what? Shall
conceive and bear a son. Right? And you shall
call him Emmanuel. So where did we see this?
Let's just look at this word with us. Right?
Or God with us. And let's see where it is first
also mentioned or where we can start seeing it.
Right? We see examples of this with Eve and Adam.
Genesis chapter 3 verse 16. Sorry, Genesis chapter

Genesis 3:16 Genesis 3:6
3 verse 6. Genesis 3, verse 6. So when the woman

Genesis 3:6
saw that the tree was good for food, that it
was present in the eyes, a tree desirable to
make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate.
She also gave her husband with her, and he ate.
Right? It's that word. It says what? With her
husband. Right? Right? Her husband with her.
Praise the Lord. It's also that same thing we
see there as wheat. So we see that wheat has,
so it means together with her, right? When he
says her husband with her, it means that her
husband was together with her, right? They were
in the same place. We also see in Genesis 2,

Genesis 2:24
verse 24, rendering it in another way as one
flesh, right? Therefore a man shall leave his
father. and his mother and be joined to his wife,
and they shall become one flesh. Ehad is a Greek
word, ehad. E -H -A -D, right? It's the same
word that is used for that first place we read
as with her or with her husband. It's used for
one here. Praise the Lord. So he's saying with
as alike, right? Or alike or by or in, right?
Let's not miss what we're saying, okay? So remember
where we came from. We said what? Emmanuel, God
with us. And we're trying to look at the word
with us, right? And we came here to say that
when he says with, he's saying as like or alike
or by or in. Remember where we started and we
said that he's walking through them. Praise the
Lord, right? I am with you always. He's walking.
through them. So he's saying that they are alike
or by or in. So it's the same thing that the
apostles explored and we have the words in the
epistles as in Christ or Christ in us. Praise
the Lord. So it means that they have a mutual
identity. Praise the Lord. With us. God with
us. That you have a mutual identity or a reflection.
Praise the Lord. or a reflection or a likeness.
Praise the Lord. Or a likeness. A light. So we
have God with us. God like us. Right? So we have...
So what he's saying is that when he says God
with us, he's saying a man like God. Praise the
Lord. Emmanuel. A man like God. He's not saying
a man like God. Right? A man like God. A reflection
of God. A man -like God. Which means that in
the incarnation, we are going to have a man -like
God. Praise the Lord. A man -like God. Emmanuel.
God reflecting as a man. Praise the Lord. God
reflecting as a man. So he's not going to be
walking through men, like in terms of... occasionally,
or the thing that Emmanuel is coming to do is
not something that is bestowed on particular
individuals. Praise the Lord. He's going to reflect
himself as a man. Praise the Lord. So when the
angel said, thou shalt call his name Jesus, right?
Two things are happening. So when he says Jesus,
remember when we said Jesus, it's the same word
as family has at that name, Joshua. Praise the
Lord. Or Yeshua. So it's the same word when he
says Jesus. It's the same word as Yeshua or Joshua.
Praise the Lord. So remember, there's one teaching
I was doing and I said that in theology, that
location is important and name is important.
Praise the Lord. It's important to understand
what God's intention is. When you're studying
the scriptures. Why did he use Joshua? Why did
he use Joshua? Why did he say you shall call
his name Yeshua? He says what? We read there,
what did he say? He will save his people from
their sins. He will save his people from their
sins. So we see that Emmanuel was prophesied
in the Old Testament, right? Emmanuel was prophesied
in the Old Testament, but not Yeshua. Right?
Or Jesus. Or that name, Jesus. So, we know where
we started seeing Joshua from. Right? The assistant
of Moses. Right? From the scriptures. He was
somebody who was assisting Moses and who took
the children of Israel to the promised land.
Praise the Lord. He was the one who took them
to the promised land. So, it means that Jesus,
right? It means that we regard Jesus or we would
look at Jesus as an event. And that event is
what? He will save his people from their sins.
Praise the Lord. Why? Because Jesus is a common
name, as we well know. Jesus is a common name.
Presently, we have some Arsenal players who are
Jesus. Praise the Lord. a lot of Brazilians who
bear Jesus. Praise the Lord. So now and before,
it was a common name. Praise the Lord. It was
a common name. It wasn't a peculiar name to just
our Lord and Savior. Praise the Lord. It was
not just the person bearing this name. So it
was a common name. So when you say Joshua, right,
it's also two words. Ave Yeshua. When you say
Joshua, it's two words. Ave Yeshua. A -V -A -H.
Then Yeshua. So, Ave is used for Yahweh. Then
Yeshua. So, we also see that we use that word
because they were in Exodus. Right? We use that
word because they were in Exodus. Why did they
use that word? The name shall be Jesus. Right?
We use that word because, well, that word is
used because it's also people of Exodus understand
it. Praise the Lord. People in Exodus understand
it. So, by the very name of Jesus, we need to
read that word. That's in Exodus. Exodus chapter

Exodus 4 chapter mention
4, chapter 2, verse 7. Exodus chapter 2, verse

Exodus 2:7
7. 2, verse 17. 2, 17. It said, Then the shepherd
came and drove them away. But Moses stood up
and helped them and watered their flock. He helped
them. Exodus chapter 14, verse 30. Exodus chapter

Exodus 14:30 Exodus 14:30
14, verse 30. The Lord saved Israel that day
out of the hands of the Egyptians. And Israel
saw the Egyptians died in the seashore. Saved.
Yeshua is an Exodus name. Numbers chapter 10,

Numbers 10:9
verse 9. Numbers chapter 10, verse 9. He said,

Numbers 10:9
When you go to war in your hand against the enemy
who oppress you, then you shall sound an alarm
with a trumpet, and you shall be remembered before
the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from
your enemies. We see that word again, what? You
shall be saved from your enemies. Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 20:4
chapter 20, verse 4. For the Lord your God is
he who goes with you. to fight for you against
your enemies, to save you, to fight for you against
your enemies, to save you, your enemies. Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 33:29
33, verse 29. Deuteronomy 33, verse 29. Happy

Deuteronomy 33:29
are you, O Israel, who is like you, O people,
saved by God, the shield of your health and the
sword of your majesty. Your enemies shall submit
to you, and you shall tread down their high places.
Praise the Lord. Saved by the Lord. These are
people saved by the Lord. So it is an Exodus
name, Joshua or Yeshua. Praise the Lord. So it
means that Jesus, therefore, right? When he says
you shall call his name, can we go back to that
place in the scripture where you shall call his
name Jesus? The angel was talking to Mary, Matthew
chapter one, verse 21. So when he said you shall,
Bring forth a son, and he shall call his name
Jesus, for he will save his people from their
sins. So it means that Jesus was given a proper
name. Praise the Lord. It means that what? Jesus
was given a proper name. Why? Because that word
Jesus, it means what? To save, right? To deliver.
Praise the Lord. To deliver. Because what does
Joshua did for them? He saved them or he took
them across the Jordan to the promised land.
So he was given a proper name. What does that
represent? So Joshua represented someone, a man
who took them to where? To the land. He took
them to the land. Praise the Lord. I wish we
had time to describe this, but I'm just going
to say it and then we'll come back to it again.
So the land, I think we have done a brief study
on this. describes, right, as a people. Isaiah
describes it as God himself, right? Jerusalem,
Zion, right? He calls it a person, right? Like
I said, we're going to come back to this. But
let's look at some of the promises concerning
the promised land, right? Genesis chapter 12,

Genesis 12:2–3
verse 2 to 3. Genesis chapter 12, verse 2 to

Genesis 12:2–3
3. I will make you a great nation. I will bless
you and make your name great. You shall be a
blessing. I will bless those who bless you. I
will curse them who curse you. In you all the
families of the earth shall be blessed. Genesis

Genesis 15:5–8
chapter 15, verse 5 to 8. Then he brought him
outside and said, Look now towards the heaven
and count the stars if you are able to number
them. And he said to him, So shall your descendants
be. And he believed in the Lord. and he accounted
it to him for righteousness. And he said to him,
I am the Lord who brought you out of the land
of all of the Chaldeans to give you this land
to inherit. And he said, O God, how shall I know
I would inherit it? Genesis chapter 17, verse

Genesis 17:4–6
4 to 6. Genesis 17, verse 4 to 6. As for me,

Genesis 17:4–6
behold, my covenant is with you. and you shall
be a father of many nations. No longer shall
your name be called Abraham, but your name shall
be called Abraham, for I have made you father
of many nations. I will make you exceedingly
fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and
the king shall come from you. Genesis chapter

Genesis 22:16–18
22, verse 16 to 18. And said, By myself I have
sworn, says the Lord. Because you have done this
thing and you have not withdrawn your son, your
only son, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying
I will multiply your descendants as the stars
of the heavens and as the sand which is on the
seashore, and your descendants shall possess
the gates of the enemies. And in your seed all
the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because
you have obeyed my voice. Then to Jacob now.
Genesis chapter 28, verse 13 to 15. He was dreaming

Genesis 28:13–15
or seeing a vision. And behold, the Lord stood
above it and said, I am the Lord of Abraham your
father, the God of Isaac, the land of which you
lie I will give you and your descendants. And
all your descendants shall be as the dust of
the earth. You shall spread abroad to the west.
to the east, to the north, to the south. And
in you and in your seed, all the families of
the earth shall be blessed. Behold, I am with
you. You see that again. I'm with you and I will
keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you
back to this land for I will not leave you until
I have done what I have spoken to you. Praise
the Lord. So we see here that there's a lot of
land. There's a lot of things that we said. So
again, remember that there are several studies
and we said that God uses or permits something
to teach them what his divine purpose is. Or
he uses maybe something that they are used to,
to teach them what he wants to do. Praise the
Lord. And one of those is land because they were
farmers. They were capturers. Praise the Lord.
They were people who were into agriculture. Praise
the Lord. So he uses the land, right? He uses
the land because it is... the closest he can
use to describe what he is trying to get them
to believe, right? Because they were farmers,
they dealt with land and they produced and they
were into agriculture. So we said Joshua represented
the man who took them to the land. So it was
Moses who saved them, right? It was Moses who
saved them. It was Moses who sent them through
the waters, right? Joshua was the one who took
them to the land. So we see that even John the
Baptist, when he came to baptize, he went to
the Jordan. And I think Pastor Takunda was teaching
on this as well. He went to the Jordan, praise
the Lord, deliberately. He didn't just choose
any water to go to. Why? Because what? They crossed
through the Jordan. Praise the Lord. They crossed
through the Jordan. Mark chapter 1, verse 4 to

Mark 1:4–5
5. Mark chapter 1, verse 4 to 5. John came baptizing

Mark 1:4–5
in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of
repentance for the remission of sins. Then all
the land of Judea and those from Jerusalem went
out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan
River, confessing their sins. So he took them
to Jordan to baptize them. Jordan, we said, was
how they entered into the land. This is the land.
Praise the Lord. So they are in the land. They
are in the land. So why is he going to Jordan
again? Praise the Lord. So they thought, okay,
when they get to the land, they're going to be
free from their enemies, right? There's nothing
that will happen, but their enemies were also
there. Praise the Lord. So if God was promising
them a land that is flowing with milk and honey,
but then they go there and they found that there
were bees. that were wild beasts. They were coming
after their life. Praise the Lord. So they were
not free of troubles, but they were not free
of enemies. Praise the Lord. They were not free
of enemies. It means that the land was not the
promise. There was something else that was bigger
than that. Praise the Lord. They were looking
forward to something. Emmanuel. Praise the Lord.
God with us. A Messiah. Right? God with us. They
are waiting a Messiah. So John is saying that
the Messiah is here by going to the Jordan. Praise
the Lord. Because now you are able to cross into
the proper land in which God intended for. Praise
the Lord. They were going to cross into the proper
land in which was promised. Praise the Lord.
So John was pointing them not to a land because
they were already in the land. He pointed them
to a person. If you read down, you will see that
he's pointing them to a person. Praise the Lord,
because they were already in the land. So John
is saying that the kingdom is here. We are close
to it. We are at the border of it. The Messiah
is close to coming. So when he said you shall
call his name Joshua, right? His father understood
what he was saying. That is Joseph, right? He
will save his people, right? Not from their enemies.
Praise the Lord. This Joshua. He's not saving
his people, what? From their enemies, what? But
he's saving them from their sins, right? Their
greatest enemy. Praise the Lord. So when they
were taken out of Egypt, right? He took them
out, right? To the promised land. So John the
Baptist, right? He's a messenger that is going
before his face to prepare the way for the Messiah.
Because of time, I will not be able to talk about
that. The use of the land was a parable, right?
The land is God himself. Praise the Lord. The
land is God himself. He is their possession.
He is that which they have been waiting for.
And God is our possession now. God with us. So
he was given a name of a man that is Jesus. We
said it was a common name so that they would
know what he came to do. Praise the Lord. He
was given that name, Jesus, so that the people
would know that this one had a purpose. He came
to do something. He was given the name of a man
so that they would know what he's doing. So the
name describes his function, tells about the
function of the Christ or Jesus. So like I said,
Jesus was a common name. There were many people
who were called Jesus, right, in that land or
in this thing. So what is important? Why is he
important? Praise the Lord. There were so many
people who were called by that name. Why is it
important? It is important because what? It is
Emmanuel, God with us. Praise the Lord. It is
important because what? God with us. Yes, he
was given a name, right? Joshua or Yeshua, right?
To describe what he came to do. But many people
will say, oh, okay, my son is also called Jesus.
So who are you? It is important because he is
what? Emmanuel, God with us. A man like God.
Praise the Lord. There is a man, Yeshua, right?
For God will deliver, right? Yeshua means that
what? God will deliver. Joshua means God will
deliver, right? Then you have Emmanuel. So God
is delivering and God is with us. Praise the
Lord. Do we get that? God is delivering and God
is with us. So the man like God is reflecting
man and God at the same time. Praise the Lord.
So he's Yeshua and he's also Emmanuel. Praise
the Lord. He's reflecting or God is reflecting
a man and vice versa. Praise the Lord. So Jesus...
Like I said, it was a common name that God bought
to show his mission on the earth. Praise the
Lord. To show his mission on the earth, to save
his people from their sins. Amen. Praise the
Lord. So Wednesday, we're going to continue to
discuss more. But one thing that, or two things
we can learn from these things, right? Is one,
as believers, we need to recognize the presence
of God in our lives daily. Praise the Lord. We
need to recognize what? The presence of God in
our lives daily. I am with you. You live with
that confidence that God is with you. God is
present with you. Whether you're at home, whether
you're in school, whether you're in workplace,
whether you're facing difficulties, God is with
you. If you've lived long enough, you'll realize
that trouble does not finish. Hallelujah. Do
you know that? That even the person that you
are thinking that you want to become has a challenge.
Praise the Lord. Has something that is in his
face that he needs to deal with. Praise the Lord.
But he's saying what? God is with you. So when
God is with me, what do I do? I'm confident.
Oh, sorry. When I have this assurance or when
I have this knowing in the inside of me, I can
face anything. Praise the Lord. It means I can
pray about anything. It means I can speak to
God about any situation. It means I can communicate
with Him. He says what? He is in us. Praise the
Lord. He is in the things that we preach. Praise
the Lord. So, we sang the song, You Are Not Alone.
Praise the Lord. It means that you are not alone.
Praise the Lord. So, no matter the situation
or no matter the difficulties you face, You will
not say you are alone. Praise the Lord. You are
encouraged. Praise the Lord. All of a sudden,
there is a joy that comes from the inside of
your heart. Knowing that you are not alone. Knowing
that God has not left you. Knowing that you are
not forsaken. Praise the Lord. No matter the
challenges that come upon your life, you know
that you are not alone. You don't go through
it alone. Praise the Lord. So what the devil
wants to do is to... Make you not to see that
reality. Make you not to recognize that reality
at every circumstance, at every junction of your
life. So when you face your challenges, what
do you do? As we have been taught, you begin
to find out what you're supposed to do at this
time and at this season, to hear what he will
say to you now. Praise the Lord. God with us.
Hallelujah. Let us just pray and just thank God
for his presence with us. We appreciate you being
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