God With Us (Part 2)

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right in. Good evening, everybody. I want to

thank you for coming out under this weather,

in the rain, and raining. And I pray that as

you listen to the word of God, that you will

be blessed. Thank God for this opportunity to

also bring the word to us. Amen. Matthew chapter

Matthew 28 · chapter mention

28. Matthew chapter 28. We're going to continue

Matthew 28 · chapter mention

from where we stopped on Sunday. It is God with

us. Right? Matthew chapter 28, verse 18. It says,

Matthew 28:18

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, the

Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to

observe all things I have commanded you, and

lo, I am with you always, even to the end of

the age. Praise the Lord. And on Sunday we establish

that I am with you is a person, praise the Lord,

that God is with us. all the time. Praise the

Lord. God is with us all the time. Mark chapter

Mark 1 · chapter mention

1, speaking of John the Baptist, Mark chapter

Mark 1 · chapter mention

1, Mark chapter 1, verse 4. John came baptizing

Mark 1:4

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 all baptized by him in the

Jordan River, confessing. their sins. And we

said that John deliberately went to the Jordan,

praise the Lord, because it was through the Jordan

that they came to the promised land, praise the

Lord. It was through the Jordan that they came

to the promised land. It was Joshua who took

them to the land, praise the Lord. And we said

that Jesus was given that name to represent what

he came to do, to save his people from sins.

Amen. So he took them to the Jordan to baptize

them. So I said that Jordan is how they entered

into that land, right? And we said that when

they got into that land, right, they thought,

oh, we're going to be free from our enemies.

There will be nothing else to worry about. But

they discovered that there were enemies as well

in the land. Praise the Lord. There was the enemy

of sin. There was the enemies around them and

within them. Praise the Lord. So they were looking

for something else, right? The enemies were there.

So the land was not what was promised, but a

Messiah that is God with us. They were waiting

for a Messiah. And John says that that Messiah

is here. He's pointing to them, right? John was

not pointing them to a land, but he was pointing

them to a person. Praise the Lord. So Jordan

was how they crossed into the land. And John

is saying that the kingdom is here. The Messiah

is here. We are close to it. If I call his name,

remember where we read, if I call his name, what?

Joshua, right? For he will save his people from

their sins. He will save his people from their

sins. And we said that how they were saved, right,

was that they were taken out of the land of Egypt,

that is the children of Israel. They were taken

out and they were taken into the land of promise.

So when John the Baptist came as a messenger,

right, to prepare the way before his face, Exodus

Exodus 23:20

chapter 23, verse 20. Exodus chapter 23, verse

Exodus 23:20

20. Behold, I send an angel, Malek, before you

to keep you in the way and to bring you into

the place which I have prepared. malachi chapter

Malachi 3:1

3 verse 1 malachi chapter 3 verse 1 behold i

Malachi 3:1

send my messenger the same thing right as the

angel there my leg right and he would prepare

the way before me and the lord whom you seek

will suddenly come to his temple even the messenger

of the covenant in whom you delight behold he's

coming says the lord of hosts isaiah chapter

Isaiah 40:3

40 verse 3 isaiah chapter 40 Verse three, the

Isaiah 40 · chapter mention

voice of the one, the voice of one crying in

the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord,

make straight in the desert, the highway for

our God. So John came to prepare the way of the

Lord, a voice of one that cries in the wilderness.

Praise the Lord, right? So the land has been

what? Replaced by whom? By the Lord. Praise the

Lord. The thing that they sought to, where they

sought to go to has been replaced by the Lord.

We'll see that in verse 9 of this Isaiah chapter

Isaiah 40 · chapter mention

40. He talks about, he said, O Zion, you who

bring good tidings, get up into the high mountain,

O Jerusalem, you who bring good tidings. Lift

up your voice with strength, lift it up. Do not

be afraid. Be not afraid, says... Say to the

cities of Judah, behold your God. Praise the

Lord. The land was a parable, like I said, right?

Because the land is God himself. He is our possession.

Behold your God. He is our prized possession.

He is the one that they were looking forward

to. He's the one that they were anticipating

for. Praise the Lord. But then... Is it possible

that somebody can be waiting for something and

they don't know how it looks? Praise the Lord.

They don't know how it looks. Praise the Lord.

We're going to see that very shortly. So God

is their possession. So he's given a name, right,

of a man so that they will know what he's doing.

Praise the Lord. So he was giving that name Jesus

so that they will know what he's doing, his assignment.

Praise the Lord. The name. We said describes

or is descriptive of his function. He's given

the name Jesus. Remember we were talking about

and we said that that name Jesus was a common

name. People bear it today in different parts

of the world, especially in Brazil, right? So,

but what is important about him was that he is

Emmanuel, God with us, that God being with man,

a man like God. Praise the Lord. So he would

deliver his people. Right? From their saints.

Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Praise the Lord.

So today we'll continue from there. So we see

what Zechariah, the prophecy says, right? It

says in Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1, verse

Luke 1 · chapter mention Luke 1:68

68. Luke chapter 1, verse 68. It said, Blessed

Luke 1:68

is the Lord of Israel. for he has visited and

redeemed his people. Next verse. And has raised

up a horn of salvation for us in the house of

his servant, David. Praise the Lord. Now, verse

71. That we should be saved from our enemies

and from the hand of all who hate us. Praise

the Lord. So what is he doing? He's saving that

he should be saved from where? From their enemies.

From the hands of those who hate them. Right?

So Jesus has come forward for deliverance. Praise

the Lord. To liberate men. And then we also see

that he says in Matthew, in Mark, right? That

in his name, we will cast out demons. Praise

the Lord. In my name, you will cast out demons.

And if you drink any deadly thing, it will by

no means hurt you. Mark chapter 16, verse 17.

Mark 16:17

Mark chapter 16. Verse 17. He said, these signs

Mark 16 · chapter mention

will follow those who believe. In my name, they

will cast out demons. They will speak with new

tongues. In my name, they will cast out demons.

They will speak with new tongues. Luke chapter

Luke 24:47

24, verse 47. Luke chapter 24, verse 47. He said,

Luke 24:47

that repentance and remission of sin be preached

in his name. to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Right? That repentance and remission of sin be

preached in his name to all nations. John chapter

John 20:31

20, verse 31. John chapter 20, verse 31. But

John 20:31

these are written that you may believe that Jesus

is the Christ, the Son of God, that believing

you may have life in his name. Praise the Lord.

You may have life through his name. John chapter

John 14:12–13

14, verse 12 to 13. John chapter 14, verse 12

John 14:12–13

to 13. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes

in me, the works that I do, the works that I

do, he will do also. Greater works than these

he will do, because I go to my Father. And whatever

you ask in my name, That I will do, that my Father

may be glorified in the Son. Amen. In the name,

in that name. Praise the Lord. Exodus chapter

Exodus 6:3

6 verse 3. Exodus chapter 3, 6 verse 3. I appeared

Exodus 3 · chapter mention

to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty.

But by my name, by my name, Lord, I was not known

to them. Praise the Lord. Exodus chapter 3. 3,

Exodus 3 · chapter mention

verse 14. You see something interesting here,

no? He said, and God said to Moses, I am who

I am, right? Remember, we dealt with this. I

will be what I will be. He said, thus you shall

say to the children of Israel, I am have sent

you, right? That is the person that God has sent

you. I am, we said, is a person. Then Paul tells

us in Philippians chapter 2. So, speaking about

Philippians 2 · chapter mention

unity in the church or among believers. Philippians

2 .1 -3. Therefore, if there is any consolation

in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship

of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill

my joy. By being like -minded, having the same

love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing

be done through selfish ambition or concern.

But in loneliness of mind, let each esteem others

better than himself. Praise the Lord. Let what?

Esteem others better than himself. So, he's saying

that you should... Look at the interest of others.

Praise the Lord. Which in our generation now,

you know, people like the idea of self -love.

Praise the Lord. Okay, let's not go into that.

So people like the idea of self -love, which

is not the biblical love. Praise the Lord. Self

-love is not the biblical love. Praise the Lord.

Not sharing or not loving one another is not

biblical. Praise the Lord. God's love is to esteem

others better than ourselves. Let's see verse

4 to 9. Let each of you look out not only for

his own interest, but for the interest of others.

Let his mind be in you which was also in Christ

Jesus. who, being in the form of God, did not

consider its robbery to be equal with God, but

made himself of no reputation, taking the form

of a born servant, coming in the likeness of

man, being found in their appearance as a man,

he humbled himself, being obedient to the point

of death, even death of the cross. Therefore

God has highly exalted him and has... and given

him the name which is above every other name.

He came in the likeness of man, being found in

the appearance of man. Praise the Lord. So we

see, you know, we can also see where this, where

we find, we see the, he's talking about God and

man, right? giving a description of God and man

together. Praise the Lord. Talking about how

Jesus came. Let's go back to verse 7. He said,

He made himself of no reputation, taking the

form of a born servant and coming in the likeness

of man. Praise the Lord. God coming in the likeness

of man. Verse 8. Being found in the appearance

as a man. Praise the Lord. So they found God

like a man. Praise the Lord. He humbled himself

and became obedient to the point of death, even

the death of the cross. Praise the Lord. So it's

not the first time we see the description of

man and God together. Genesis chapter 1 verse

Genesis 1:26

26. Genesis chapter 1 verse 26. Then God said,

Genesis 1:26

let us make man in our image, according to our

likeness. Right? Let him have dominion over the

fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over

the caters, over all earth and over every creeping

thing that creeps on the earth. Let us make man

in our likeness, in our image. Let's make him

in our image, male and female. Who are mankind?

Praise the Lord. But we don't see what Paul was

reflecting here. Let's go back to Philippians

2. Philippians 2, from verse 9 to 11. Philippians

Philippians 2:9–10

2, verse 9 to 10. Therefore God also has highly

exalted him and given him the name which is above

every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee

should bow of those in heaven and those on earth,

of those underneath the earth. That every tongue,

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus

is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Praise

the Lord. Right? He's giving him a name that

is above every other name. Right? That at the

name of Jesus, every knee should bow. Right?

Every knee should bow. So he's not just saying,

just mention, he's not like saying, mention Jesus.

Like I said, it is a common name. Praise the

Lord. But it is in that which Christ has done.

Praise the Lord. It is in that which Christ has

done. It's not just mentioning a name, right?

It's said at the name. Every knee should bow

in heaven and on earth and beneath the earth.

Every tongue should confess what? That Jesus

is Yahweh, is Lord. Right? Jesus is Lord. That

is the word, Yahweh. In the Greek word, it's

Adonai. Praise the Lord. Yahweh, to the glory

of God the Father. To the glory of God. So, where

was Paul writing from? Where was Paul writing

from? Meanwhile, let's read Isaiah chapter 42,

Isaiah 42:8

verse 8. I am the Lord, that is my name, and

my glory I will not give. to another, nor my

praise to curved images. Praise the Lord. I am

the Lord. That is my name. My glory he will give

to no other. But we were just reading something

in Philippians. He said what? He gave him what?

Go back to Philippians chapter 10. He said, That

at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow.

No, verse 9, where he gave him the name. Okay.

He said, therefore God has highly exalted him

and given him the name, which is above what?

Every other name. He gave him a name, which is

above every other name. But then in Isaiah 42,

Isaiah 42:8

verse 8, what do we see? Isaiah 42. He said,

I am the Lord, that is my name. My glory I will

not give to another, nor my praise to carved

images. Praise the Lord. He will not what? I

will not give my name, that's what it means,

to another. Praise the Lord. I will not give

my name to another. I am what? The Lord. I am

Yahweh. I will not give my name to another. My

glory I will not give to another. So what Paul

was telling us was, that God gave his glory to,

he gave his glory to Jesus. The father gave it

to Jesus. So let's see where he was reading from.

Isaiah chapter 45, verse 21 to 24. Isaiah 45,

Isaiah 45:21–24

21 to 24. Tell and bring forth your case. Yes,

let them take counsel together who I declare

is from the ancient time. who are told it from

that time. Have I not I, the Lord, and there

is no other God beside me? A just God and a Savior.

There is none beside me. Look at me and be safe,

all you ends of the earth, for I am God and there

is no other. I have sworn by myself. The word

has gone out of my mouth in righteousness. and

shall not return that to me every knee should

bow, every tongue should take an oath. He shall

say, Surely in the Lord I have righteousness

and strength. To him men shall come, and all

shall be ashamed who are incensed against him.

Praise the Lord. He said, Unto me every knee

should bow, every tongue. She swear, she take

an oath. My name, I will not give another. But

Paul therefore said that God became what? A man.

And his name is Jesus, Yeshua. Then he gave him

a name, right? And that Yeshua is the very, sorry,

and he gave him the very name of God. Praise

the Lord. He gave him the name of God, right?

We see that he's sharing, God is sharing his

name. with a man, and that man is himself. Praise

the Lord. That man is himself. I remember this

week, I came to this faculty to see one of the

professors, and he was asking one of his students,

apparently he has been asking her a lot of questions,

and part of the question he's been asking is,

how is Jesus God? praise the lord how is jesus

god and going through these studies i was like

okay let me let me be ready the next time i go

back to his office right so that i will know

what to tell him praise the lord so even him

is asking the question how is jesus god how do

you explain that praise the lord he has shared

his name with a man and that man is himself he

said i will share my glory with no order. Right?

But in the resurrection, what did he do? Right?

In the resurrection, what did he do? Right? In

the name of Jesus, that is the name who came,

that is the one who came to die for a sin, he

is God himself. And that every knee should bow

and every tongue should confess that Jesus is

who? Jesus is God. Jesus is the Lord. Yahweh.

So, This is the same one, this is the same Yahweh

who appeared to Moses. This is the same one who

appeared to Abraham. This is the same one who

appeared to Jacob, to the glory of God, the Father.

We also see that Paul writes in 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 8:6

8, verse 6, Yet for us there is one God, the

Father, of whom are all things, and we for him.

and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all

things, and through whom we live. Praise the

Lord. Where was he reading from? Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 6:4

chapter 6, verse 4. Deuteronomy chapter 6, verse

Deuteronomy 6:4

4. He said, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God,

the Lord is one. Praise the Lord. The Lord is

one. The Lord Jesus Christ, the one, and that

is the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom all things,

and by him God has done all things. God has become

a man. He bore a man's name, Yeshua. And what

will he do? He said that he will save his people

from their sins. He will save his people from

their sins. His name is God. His name is God.

When we say at the name of Jesus, right? We are

saying that what? We are saying that Jesus Christ

is God. Praise the Lord. When we say in the name

of Jesus, right? What we are saying is what?

That Jesus Christ is God. He's God. He's the

I am. In the name of Jesus, right? Above all

name. It is the name of God. God is Christ. God

is a son. He bears the name. Yeshua. So we remember

we're talking about that land where John was

pointing them to. He was pointing them to God.

He was pointing them to Yahweh. He was pointing

them to their Messiah. He said, let's go to our

God. That he takes away the sins of the world.

Let's go to God. Let's leave darkness to our

God. That's what he's saying to them. Let's leave

sin and go to God. Let's leave darkness and go

to God. Let's go from ourselves, right? And go

to God. He is the promised land. He is that land

that is promised. He's our precious possession.

Hallelujah. He's our precious possession in the

name of Jesus. So you can write this down. So

Jesus simply means the name of God and all his

promises. The name of Jesus simply means the

name of God and all his promises. The name of

Jesus simply means we are united with God. We

are united with God. Our sins are forgiven, right?

and that God has carried out his promise. He

has carried out which he had promised. Praise

the Lord. He has carried out which he had promised.

So we notice that in Paul's writing, he will

always write and address the people, and we use

words like grace and peace from our Lord Jesus,

or grace and peace from the Father. from God

the Father, praise the Lord, and our Lord Jesus.

We always write and say, grace and peace from

God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. So

we see that throughout his letters, grace and

peace, right, from God the Father and our Lord

Jesus Christ, right? He's not just greeting,

he's not just a greeting, praise the Lord. He's

not just giving a salutation, right? He's declaring

a message, praise the Lord. He's declaring a

message. He's declaring a message. So he also

writes to us, he says, well, to be content with

such things as you have. And he said, for I will

not leave you nor forsake you. The promise of

the Father is God himself. God did not promise

us things. Praise the Lord. He promised us to

give himself, God, with us. is to give himself

to us. So when John goes to the Jordan, he's

saying that God is about to show up. But like

I said earlier, is it possible that people go

to expect something, but they don't know what

it looks like? Praise the Lord. Is it possible

to go in expectation of something, but then you

are disappointed by the package? Praise the Lord.

You're disappointed. by the package. So when

he says them, right, that God is about to show

up, right, the people were disappointed because

he showed up as a man. Praise the Lord. And a

man that they know. Praise the Lord. A man from

where? Galilee of the Gentiles. Praise the Lord.

So they become very disappointed because that

was not their expectation, right, that he would

show up as somebody that they know. or they have

knowledge of. And he's coming from the Galilee

of the Gentiles, of all places. He could come

from every other place, right? But he came from

the Galilee of the Gentiles. He showed up as

a man. And we said that what? He's a man -like

God. He showed up as a man. Praise the Lord.

So they were not expecting that he comes the

way he comes. Right? God becoming a man. So we

see that in the scriptures, he writes a lot of

things about this. In the Synoptic Gospels, Matthew

Matthew 1:1

chapter 1 verse 1. Matthew chapter 1 verse 1.

Matthew 1:1

He says what? The book of the genealogy of Jesus

Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

He's just saying the book of the genealogy, right?

It is the genesis of what? Of Jesus Christ. Praise

the Lord. where he came from. Our genealogy is

Genesis. That is the Genesis of Jesus Christ.

We can read the Genesis of Jesus Christ. So in

Genesis, what we have in the beginning was chaos.

What we have in the beginning in Genesis was

chaos. Things were not in place. Things were

not... in order. Praise the Lord. And God brought

calmness to it. Right? We have light and darkness.

Right? Genesis 1 and 2. Right? Light and darkness.

But then, what is the genesis of Jesus Christ?

What does the genesis of Jesus Christ say? What

does the genealogy of Jesus Christ say? Right?

He says what? There is a new beginning. Praise

the Lord. There is a new beginning. It is no

longer a time of chaos. It is no longer a time

of disorder. Praise the Lord. It is not a time

of disorder. A new beginning of what? Of God

amongst men. Praise the Lord. God amongst men.

Right? It is God's new creation. Light out of

darkness. Matthew chapter 1 verse 1 as we saw.

Matthew 1:1

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the

son of David, the son of Abraham. So John the

Baptist is announcing the coming of God as a

man. He will save his people from their sins.

And what will he do? He's not just saving his

people from their sins. Remember when we said

that he's not just a name, Jesus, but what is

important is Emmanuel, God with us, that he's

taking those people to himself. Hallelujah. He's

taking them to himself. He saves his people from

their sins and he will take them to themselves.

So what is the beauty or what is the important

thing about the gospel? What is the important

thing about the gospel? What is so important

about the gospel? What is the blessing of it?

The blessing of it is God himself. Praise the

Lord. The package that we receive is what? God

himself. That is the beauty of the gospel. So

when you're preaching to somebody, what you're

doing is that you're presenting God to the person

as a gift. Praise the Lord. When you preach to

a person, you're presenting God to them. We receive

at salvation God. Praise the Lord. So at salvation,

we receive God. In Exodus, he said he would deliver

them, right? And what? And bring them to himself.

Exodus, Exodus chapter six, verse three. I am

Yahweh, said I am God, right? Exodus chapter,

he says, I've heard to Abraham and to Isaac and

to Jacob as God almighty. But by my name, Lord,

I was not known to them. Verse four, I have also

established my covenant with them. to give them

the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage,

in which they were strangers. Verse 6 now. Therefore

say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord.

I will bring you out from under the bondage of

the Egyptians. I will rescue you from the bondage,

and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm

and with a great judgment. Verse 7. He said,

I will take you. As what? My people. Praise the

Lord. I will take you as my people and I will

be your God. Then you shall know that I am the

Lord, your God, who brings you out from under

the bondage, under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Praise the Lord. What? He will take them what?

To himself. Right? I will take you as my people

and I will be your God. Praise the Lord. And

then you will know that he's the one that has

brought you out of that place. Praise the Lord.

So what they are inheriting, in essence, is God

himself. Praise the Lord. He said, I will bring

you, I will take you as my people and I will

be your God. Then you shall know that I am the

Lord your God who brings you out from under the

burdens of the Egyptians. Right? So they are

not going there to build houses. They are not

going there to inherit some land. but that they

are inheriting God for my people. You will be,

and I will be your God. Verse 8. And I will bring

you into the land which I swore to give Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a

heritage. I am the Lord. So what does God give

us? He gives us himself. He gives us himself.

So at salvation, We receive God, we receive God,

right, as our possession, as our precious possession.

He is our precious possession. So we said at

incarnation, what do we have? We have what? A

man like God, right? So he says that his name

shall be Joshua. It means he will do this for

his people and he will save his people. So at

the name of a man, God will send, right? He will

save his people. So he's God himself. So he will

bear both the name of man and the name of God.

Luke chapter 1, verse 31, verse 35. He said,

Luke 1:31

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, bring

forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus. He

will be great and he will be called the son of

the Most High. And the Lord God will give him

the throne of his father, David. And he will

reign over the houses of Jacob forever. And of

his kingdom there will be no end. Then Mary said

to the angel, How can this be, since I do not

know a man? And the angel answered and said,

The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power

of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore

also the Holy One who is to be born will be called

the Son of God. Praise the Lord. So it means

that the virgin conceiving is a sign that God

is among us. Praise the Lord. God is among us.

Praise the Lord. I know that I used to say that

I have an orthodox background. Some of those

still believe that she's a virgin. She has so

many other children and they were not by the

power of the Holy Spirit. Amen? Amen? Okay. So

God with us. So what do we do? What is our response

to knowing that God is with us? Right? What is

our... What is our attitude going to be? That

God is with us. That God is with us. Remember

we started on Sunday by saying that one of the

things that we need to do is to be what? Established

in faith. Praise the Lord. We need to be established

in faith. A man who has no knowledge, a man who

does not know who he is, can be influenced by

any and by every information. So we need to be

what? Established in faith. Praise the Lord.

To be able to benefit or walk like them that

have God in the inside of them. Praise the Lord.

And he also promised that what? He said, I will

not leave you nor forsake you. Right? And we

said that. It demonstrates God's eternal covenant

or everlasting covenant, right? Of his presence

with his people. That God is always with his

people. And so when God is always with you, what

do you do? How do you live your life? Praise

the Lord. How do you live your life? I remember

I was having this conversation with someone one

time and he was just talking about many things

that are happening in church. and this person

is doing this. I mean, not this church, obviously,

just talking about the body of Christ in large

and talking about how people are not living as

they should live, right? When you hear some stories

about people and they're like, this person, I

mean, if you know God, right? Or if you have

any sense of being in the body of Christ, this

type of behaviors should not be found in you.

or should not be seen in you. Praise the Lord.

Because what? God is with you. Praise the Lord.

God is with you. And I was like, for me, I've

been in church, I think all my life. There's

never been a time where I've never been in church.

Okay. Even in times where I was walking, I still

try to find time to walk that demands that I

be there on Sundays. Right. I still find time

to come to church. So, My parents, they raised

us to go to church every day. It was not, it

was not even a conversation. It's not something

that you rebel against. So you say, ah, today

I don't feel like doing this, but you just go

to church. You sit in the front row, you get

quiet, you do as you're told. And I think over

time, you begin to ask yourself the question,

like, okay, this thing that we are doing, right?

This thing that is happening, of what? benefit

does it have to me praise the lord of what benefits

does it have to me right so you you when you

begin to ask those questions you now begin to

question why you are in the place in the first

place why you are going to church and then once

you begin to discover what god has done for you

right or the life of god that you have in the

inside of you you will see that he wants a relationship

praise the lord you will see that what He wants

a relationship with you. And that relationship

is such that He wants you to know Him for yourself.

Right? It's not that somebody is going to be,

maybe like your parents or let's say your pastors

are going to be chasing you up and that's your

behavior. You need to start. Do you understand?

God in the inside of you transforms you. He transforms

your character. You are not the same. The you

that we see tomorrow should be more patient.

Praise the Lord. The you that we see next tomorrow

should be more patient and kind and more self

-controlled. Praise the Lord. More patient and

kind and what? Self -control. Praise the Lord.

And that you're not somebody who brings shame

or who makes people begin to say, ah, this Christian

life self, what are we doing? Praise the Lord.

Is it the way they are doing it? Why should I

join them? Praise the Lord. So sometimes I say

that you take seriously what we come here to

do. Like we didn't come to waste your time. Praise

the Lord. We didn't come to waste your time.

We didn't become pastors because we were hungry.

Or we didn't become leaders of church because

we were hungry. Or there was nothing else that

our life can become. Praise the Lord. So as you

come to... the house of God, as you are a child

of God, one of the things that your heart should

be yearning towards is continual transformation.

Praise the Lord. And how do you do that? By being

established in faith, by being trained, by allowing

yourself to be taught, by allowing the word of

God to shape your thoughts and your patterns,

that you see things come up in your mind and

you ask yourself, am I supposed to think like

that or am I supposed to behave in that way?

Praise the Lord. And it does not inhabit you

or stop you from doing your work. Praise the

Lord. So you can be a nurse. It doesn't stop

you from doing your work. Praise the Lord. It

does not stop you from doing your work. So one

of the things again that we said that God being

with us is also understanding that as we preach

the word, what we preach is God. That God is

walking through his word. Praise the Lord. That

God is walking through the world that we preach.

So the gospel message we preach is God. So when

you preach to a person, remember I said, the

blessing that you're giving that person is God.

So you will not be doubting, should I preach

or should I not preach? That should not be the

attitude you should have. Should I preach or

should I not preach? God in the inside of you

means that you should tell that person about

God. Praise the Lord. You should tell that person.

about God, because the word of God, it carries

power in the inside of it. Praise the Lord. So

lastly, one of the things that we do is that

as knowing that God is with us, we do the things

we do daily with confidence, right? That God

is faithful. Praise the Lord. We do the things

that we do. Knowing fully well that God is with

us and we live our lives with the confidence

of God's faithfulness. Praise the Lord. That

God will not leave us nor forsake us. That you

will not come to a point in your life and say

that they all left me. Praise the Lord. You're

not somebody who would, you're seeking for validations

by the things outside of what people are saying

concerning you. Praise the Lord. That you find

validation in God. That you find confidence in

God. You're not looking for somebody to hype

you up. You're not looking for somebody to tell

you so many nice things. Praise the Lord. It's

that you move with this confidence that God is

in the inside of you. Right? And that joy comes

from the inside of you. That you do not need

to stand out things to be joyful. Can somebody

find that place for us? I don't know where that

is. That talks about... So he reads like this,

be content with such as you have. This is Paul's

writing, right? He said, for I will not leave

you nor forsake you. Can you just find that scripture

for me? So we move with this confidence that

God is with us. There were not people that are

wanting. We don't lack ideas. Praise the Lord.

We don't lack ideas, right? We are not, we are

not, we are both and we are not beneath. That

God gives us wisdom. that the world cannot think

about. Praise the Lord. That we provide solution

to our generation. We are people that provide

solutions to our families. Praise the Lord. We

are people that, he said, Hebrews, okay, let

your conduct be without of righteousness, but

be content with such as you have. For he himself

said, has said, I will not leave you nor forsake

you. Praise the Lord. So let your conduct be

without covetousness, that you're somebody who

is content with what you have. Praise the Lord.

You're not looking for... Those are people, what

they want is what is overshadowing them. They

desire something that is not going to either

make their life any better. They just want it

because society demands that you should have

it. Praise the Lord. And they put themselves

on undue pressure. Example, you know that you

cannot afford certain type of laptops at this

time of your life or certain type of phone, but

in your heart, every time you see it, you're

just, ah, God, when? Praise the Lord. Praise

the Lord. He said what? To be content with such

as you have. For he said what? He will not leave

us nor forsake us. God will not leave you. Praise

the Lord. Nor will he forsake you. If somebody

that is forsaken, I was like, ah, God, when?

Praise the Lord. That's the thinking. The way

that feels forsaken was like, ah, when would

good things start coming to my life? Or maybe

you see that somebody is, something good happened

to somebody, right? Rather than rejoicing with

the person, you start feeling envious or you

are angry. You don't become angry at your situation.

It's like, ah, when can I also give a testimony?

Praise the Lord. And it's a beautiful thing to

seek for good things, but it becomes a thing

of envy. It becomes a thing where, You no longer

know how to rejoice without which is good. Or

when you begin to see the progress of your brothers

or your sisters. Praise the Lord. So we move

with this confidence that God is with us. We're

not stranded. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Let's

just rise on our feet and just pray. We appreciate

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