1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Hello and welcome to Logan City Christian Church Podcast. Today we have an impactful 2 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:28,320 teaching by Dr. Reginald Klimanok. Dr. Klimanok's preaching has touched the lives of many, inspiring 3 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:34,080 and challenging audiences with his deep insights into the Bible and Christian theology. Join 4 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:40,620 us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom 5 00:00:40,620 --> 00:00:46,380 that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as 6 00:00:46,380 --> 00:00:50,720 we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klimanok's preaching. 7 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:58,320 During this morning I've gone through about 100 truths just pouring over what do you want 8 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:07,200 me to say Lord? And Thursday morning the way God speaks to me I was not awoken I was still 9 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:16,160 in that revelation dimension. God said preach on this. So for a week or two I'm going to 10 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:21,080 do this and I know I'm in the mind of God as clear as I stand here because I know when 11 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:29,840 God talks to me. And so I want you to turn to Matthew 26 please in your Bibles. Thank 12 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:48,880 you. From verse 36 onwards Jesus is in Matthew 26 from verse 36. He comes to a place called 13 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:56,720 Gethsemane and he said to his disciples, sit ye here when I go and pray yonder. He took 14 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:04,760 with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 15 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:10,320 Then said he unto them, he went back to them and said my soul is exceeding sorrowful even 16 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:20,920 unto death. Carry and watch with me. And he went to the father and fell on his face and 17 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:28,240 prayed saying, oh my father it would be possible that this cup pass from me and that's not 18 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:36,480 my will but is thou wilt. And he cometh unto his disciples and findeth them asleep and 19 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:47,280 saith unto Peter, what could you not watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray that 20 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:55,320 you enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. Tremendous 21 00:02:55,320 --> 00:03:02,040 amount of truth in these principles here. While the Littre Crusade used to have, I was 22 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,580 part of that for a long time in Australia and around the world, the hour that changes 23 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:13,840 the world. It is something about praying even for an hour that has tremendous power with 24 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:23,280 God. And then he uses, comes to this credible term, the spirit indeed is willing but the 25 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:31,720 flesh is weak. If you read through the Psalms frequently, the psalmist says quicken me, 26 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:42,960 oh God. Quicken me, oh God. Some of us need like a real quickening to go after God because 27 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:50,600 you're battling this thing called the flesh. The flesh has many derivatives in it. There's 28 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,040 the flesh, what Paul talks about in Romans chapter 7, the things you don't want to do 29 00:03:54,040 --> 00:04:01,480 you do. If you walk in the spirit, Romans 8, not in the flesh. But here he's talking 30 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:08,240 about even the natural, he's not talking about temptation here in my estimation. He's talking 31 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:15,960 about the flesh that prefers not to do the things of God, not to follow the Lord with 32 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:22,280 intensity. I preached about this last Sunday night, the struggles we have in these areas 33 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:31,920 to truly follow God with all of our passion. The spirit is so often willing with all this 34 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:39,920 packing going on and all these things everywhere now. I don't have that often the privacy I'd 35 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:48,920 like to have. And I kept crying out, God quicken me. Quicken me, oh God. Because we need that 36 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:55,800 quickening. Come on church. The spirit is willing. We want to do it. But the flesh is 37 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:02,080 weak. There's tremendous truth in that. So I don't know if there's something supernatural 38 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:08,560 when we pray for an hour. Jesus says pray, couldn't you watch with me for an hour? I 39 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:14,920 forgot there's a bit more here you have to read. And it says watch and pray. And he went 40 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:20,520 again the second time, verse 42, saying, oh fuck my father. He was drinking the cup of 41 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:26,840 sin. It was so strong as you know that even out of his corpuscles, the ooze blood, because 42 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:33,600 he was, I think Hebrews chapter five, this crime, you're not driven unto resisting, unto 43 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:40,400 blood striving against sin. The agony of that moment as he took the cup of sin, the sin 44 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:49,120 of the world upon his shoulder. He said, father, let this cup pass from me, for me except I 45 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:56,320 drink it, I will be done. He comes back and he finds them asleep again, for their eyes 46 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:04,400 were heavy. He didn't disturb them this time. And he left them again and prayed the third 47 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:12,320 time saying the same words. And he comes to his disciples and he says, sleep on now. Take 48 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:19,920 your rest. Behold the hour is at hand and the son of man is betrayed into the hands 49 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:30,720 of sinners. Rise, let us be going. Behold he is at hand, the death betraying me. Jesus 50 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:39,880 asking them to pray. Now turn to Luke, please. Luke is an amazing writer. In chapter one, 51 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:47,480 you'll notice here, many people that were very much against the book of Acts, Luke is 52 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:56,280 the author of it or the writer of it, two great scholars a century ago, not so long, 53 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:03,920 but who wrote strongly against the book of Acts, does not be historic. Went to Israel, 54 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,560 went through every phase of it. I can give you the names, but I can remember them now 55 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:16,280 and discovered the incredible accuracy of Luke as a historian and totally changed and 56 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:22,920 became Christians, two of the great historians of history. And here again he says, now for 57 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:29,880 as much as many have taken verse one of chapter one into hand to set an order, a declaration 58 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:36,400 of the things which are most surely believed amongst us. So these were Christians. He said, 59 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:42,040 to believe all this, he said, even as they deliver them unto us, which were from the 60 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:48,920 beginning where I witnessed, ministers of the word. So he began to put together the 61 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:58,280 things that Jesus from eye witnesses about Jesus. It seemed good unto me also having 62 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:07,560 a perfect understanding of all things from the very first to write unto thee in order, 63 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:15,600 most excellent theophilus. Thou mightest know the certainty of those rings they are thinking 64 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:22,560 where thou has been instructed. Now, Paul, in other words, Luke rather gathered the information 65 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:29,160 together and he says, I got this from eye witnesses who he was a Gentile. I've got this 66 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:37,200 together. The things we believe, the most certainty of those things. And he actually 67 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:48,480 gives us 23 parables. Only 18 of them only appear in this gospel. He gives us miracle 68 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:56,480 accounts, 20 miracles of Jesus, more than any other historian. And he gives us amazing 69 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:09,920 truths about the Lord and especially he emphasizes prayer. He talks about prayer here more than 70 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:17,800 any other gospel, recorded gospel. What's wrong with me? Never mind, I had a biscuit 71 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:33,560 and I shouldn't have had it. It's sticking my throat. Turn to Luke chapter 11, please. 72 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:41,160 It says, and it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place. So it's felt that Jesus 73 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:48,600 often went there to pray. When he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach 74 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:55,600 us to pray as John taught his disciples to pray. And he said to them, when you pray, 75 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:03,160 say, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be 76 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:17,800 done in heaven as in earth. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins. We forgive 77 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:23,640 everyone that is indebted to us. Lead us not in temptation, but deliver us from the evil 78 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:29,680 one or evil. And then he went on to say, Matthew goes on to say, with Zionist he came to the 79 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:35,360 temple. But in here it says, immediately then resorts to a man that went to a friend at 80 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:42,400 midnight and kept asking, which was very difficult those days because the way the houses were 81 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,920 constructed, there were no, often they'd put all the furniture against the door for the 82 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:53,000 night that nobody could get in. Well, they had to move furniture to get what they asked 83 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:00,360 for. And then he says to them, ask, and really the original says, and keep on asking, seek 84 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:08,880 and keep on seeking, knock and keep on knocking. Don't give up. Be persistent until you receive 85 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:18,000 what God says. In Luke 18, please. Again, he's talking and teaching a parable about 86 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:27,480 prayer, a woman who went to this unjust judge and because of her consistency, he starts 87 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,040 this chapter, one of the great scriptures of the Bible, men always to watch and pray 88 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:41,280 and not faint or never, never, never give up, never give up, not faint. He talks about 89 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:52,280 this unjust judge that went to this widow that went to this unjust judge and keep pushing 90 00:11:52,280 --> 00:12:00,200 and pushing and pushing until the father said, no matter what, I have to give it to her because 91 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:05,480 she wearies me. Don't buy prayer. And then he took another parable about two that went 92 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:12,560 to pray, the Pharisee and a publican. And one prayed with himself saying, I'm not as 93 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:19,600 bad as others are. I do all kinds of things. And the other came and simply said, Lord, 94 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:29,160 be merciful to me a sinner. And Jesus said that one went away justified because he came 95 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:38,000 in a certain way to God. Now here Jesus, when they asked him in Luke 11 to teach us to pray, 96 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:45,040 they must have seen the way he prayed, the power of his prayer life. And they said, we 97 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:54,320 want what you have, teach us. And Jesus started teaching them. Now, by many it's believed 98 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:03,720 that Jesus taught how the rabbis taught. The rabbis were masters in their teaching ability. 99 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:10,840 They used to teach topic upon topic upon topic. So when they would give a discourse, it would 100 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:20,040 be topic upon topic. It's believed when Jesus said, our father who art in heaven, hallowed 101 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:29,000 be thy name, he was touching on topic after topic after topic. And not just for 36 minutes, 102 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:36,600 36 seconds to say this and then leave it. He taught like this, that form of teaching 103 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,240 has never been improved. It's always been by people throughout the century. That's how 104 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:50,480 they taught truth upon truth. So here Jesus is teach, they say teach us how to pray. So 105 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:57,880 it's more than just saying this and then you pray. It's teaching us the way whereby we 106 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:08,320 enter the presence of God and you get upon truth upon truth. Now each day is different. 107 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:16,080 Each day has different burdens, different realities, but they can all be placed under 108 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:22,760 this kind of a topic. And I'll show you what I just do with one today, to show you how 109 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:29,960 the topics work and what they mean to us. That's why I've got that book on the Lord's 110 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:37,240 Prayer, How to Pray, because it's powerful. When I finish with you today, you'll see it's 111 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,920 like we used to, now it's finished anyway, used to walk along the beach. And when we 112 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:51,440 got to a certain place, we know we did so much, you know, we had got so far in our walk. 113 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:57,360 Walk to this point, turn around and come back and walk up here and come back. So there's 114 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:06,160 like Dr. Cho says there are points of demarcation, point after point after point to get to where 115 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:16,400 you're heading for the future. Now I want to teach you this morning how to pray because 116 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:22,880 some of us have problems how to pray, wandering minds, no clear direction. We pray a lot of 117 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:28,240 give me's, give me this and give me this or whatever, or whatever, you don't do that, 118 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:33,000 that's wonderful. But many people do that. We're always asking things. But there's a 119 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:43,240 way to pray that brings answers from God. Now, all right, so let's get into it. Jesus 120 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:52,280 started off by saying our Father, we're supposed to come to God, the Father, through Jesus 121 00:15:52,280 --> 00:16:00,000 Christ. Remember, John 16, go to John 16 if you will, with me, not just listen. In John 122 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:08,760 16, 23 it says, in that day shall ask me nothing. What shall we ask the Father? The Father ask 123 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:19,520 who? The Father. In Ephesians 3, 14, Paul says, I bow my knee unto the Father of our 124 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:28,600 Lord Jesus Christ. We come to God, the Father, in Jesus' name. In John 15, verse 16, very 125 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:37,120 similar, again, he says, address come to the Father. You have not chosen me, verse 17, 126 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:43,240 that I have chosen you, then you should bring forth much fruit. What shall we ask the Father? 127 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:50,680 In my name, he will give it to you. So we come to the Father in the name of what? Jesus. 128 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:55,840 Now, I say, I pray to Jesus, okay, you pray to Jesus, but you're supposed to come to the 129 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:07,400 Father in Jesus' name. Now, what does this first topic mean? It firstly means relationship. 130 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:17,200 It means fellowship. It means communion. It's not just a word you use about Father. He is 131 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:27,040 your Father. You have entered into sonship through Jesus Christ. We are sons of God. 132 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:36,160 We're not sons of Jesus. Jesus is our elder brother. We are now the sons of God, and God 133 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:44,320 is our heavenly Father, or our Father, the God that fills eternity, whose throne is in 134 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:53,160 the heavens. The earth is His footstool. This awesome, powerful God is your Father. How 135 00:17:53,160 --> 00:18:01,240 close should God be to you, closer than any other person in the universe? This is the 136 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:09,480 mystery of communion and fellowship. Why did God originally make you? He made you for fellowship. 137 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:18,200 Years ago, when they declared their faith, they said, man's chief end is to glorify God 138 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:26,600 and to enjoy Him. Hello, church. To enjoy Him forever. You're supposed to be close, 139 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:34,080 but you say, with all of my garbage and so on, that's why you've got Luke 18. You come 140 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:39,600 with your garbage and lay it upon the altar. You give it to God. You get rid of all that 141 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:46,400 stuff. Now, this is very serious. You don't just say, you come and you present yourself. 142 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:52,160 You die to the flesh. You give yourself to God, and then you enter. You must come to 143 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:59,320 the point where He's your Daddy. Where there, at Romans 8, one says, there's therefore now 144 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:06,920 no condemnation, because you've come to God. You've laid upon the altar. You're not like 145 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:13,200 Roman Catholics, keep justizing yourself to think that that will bring God to you. No. 146 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:19,720 You lay upon the altar all that is wrong, and then you come to your Daddy. Hello, church. 147 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:28,200 You come to your Father. You are in fellowship. There's an intimacy described in this. Your 148 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:35,160 Father should be closer than anybody else in the world, even your wife. Hello, church. 149 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:43,160 Is He that close? You can tell Him things that nobody else needs to know. Hello, church. 150 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:49,400 You can pour out your heart, your feelings, your burdens, your stress. You can lay it 151 00:19:49,400 --> 00:20:00,680 all upon the living God, upon your Father, because He is your Father. Come on. The Greeks 152 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:09,120 didn't have any concept of this. God was far removed away from them. Neither did the Jews. 153 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:14,720 The Jews, when they came to Mount Sinai, had said to Phonemoses, when they saw the awesomeness 154 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:22,720 of God, said, You talk to Him. You can do this. They came to fire around Mount Sinai, 155 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:28,880 remember? They said, Look, you talk to God. The Jews even wouldn't mention God at all. 156 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:34,600 When they would write, describe, whatever, they're just, ah. They're frightened even 157 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:44,440 to use His name. No Mohammed has any concept like this. No Hindu has any concept like this. 158 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:51,280 No Shintoism or Confucianism, Buddhism has any concept like this. We're different to 159 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:59,320 anyone else. We have an intimacy with God. Come on, church. This is the first reason why 160 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:05,680 you pray. Now, the Greeks had a word for prayer, for Father, that was Pater, P-A-T-A-R, but 161 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:11,880 that wasn't a close term. Now, I've talked with this with the scholar that was in our 162 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:20,560 school that knows, and we chatted on this. As far as we know, the New Testament was first 163 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:28,760 written in Aramaic, and then it was translated to Greek. Now, Aramaic is a cognate language 164 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:36,760 of Hebrew, the dead language, as we know now. Jesus spoke Hebrew, a very colloquial Hebrew, 165 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:46,440 Jew, but He also spoke Aramaic. The Aramaic word for Father is Abba. It's a very endearing 166 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:57,040 Papa, Daddy, my Daddy. That's why the Jews were incensed with Jesus because He put God 167 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:06,600 so close. He called God His Father. Who does He think He is? He brought mankind so close 168 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:18,520 to God, because Abba is like saying, My Daddy. My son calls me Papa. His children call Him 169 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:28,520 Papa. It's an endearing word. I'm Poppy to them because I'm the grandfather, but Papa, 170 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:39,160 He is Abba, my Daddy. God should be very close to you. We know definitely before the cross 171 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:46,440 in the Garden of Gethsemane, He used the word Abba. Abba, Daddy, let this cup pass from 172 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:55,760 me. Then on the cross when He cried, Ipai, Ipai, Lama Sabakthinai. Actually, the word 173 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:06,240 is Daddy again. He was very close to God. Now, this to us today comes through the work 174 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:13,480 of the Holy Spirit. Notice to go to Romans chapter 8, please, very important. He, when 175 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:22,560 Paul writes about a relationship with God, he says, for as many, verse 14, are led by 176 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,240 the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. He says, you've not received the Spirit of 177 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:35,040 bondage again to fear, but you received what? The Spirit of adoption. Now, adoption was 178 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:42,520 like, as far as I understand this, even in the ordinary family, when the son becomes 179 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:51,640 a mature son, he's then adopted into that mature sonship. It's not adoption. You're 180 00:23:51,640 --> 00:24:02,000 adopted. He says, you are my son. He says, whereby we cry what? Abba, Abba, Daddy, are 181 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:13,920 you with me? My father, my papa. You see, love, God so loved us. And love to be powerful 182 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:20,360 must have reciprocation. There's no love going on if any one loves the other doesn't 183 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:27,200 love. That's why in 1 John, he's so strong to save. You don't love, you don't know God 184 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:34,040 because God loves us. And when his love's inside of us, we love him and we love one 185 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:42,440 another. Come on, church. But you see, it's a close, endearing word. Now, how many of 186 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:49,320 us have come now with the son, how many of us have come to the place where we know the 187 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:56,400 love of the Father? What love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we, the Father, that 188 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:03,360 we should be called the sons of God, the Father. Paul says, Abba, many unto the Father. First, 189 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:10,040 Ephesians chapter 1, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who has blessed 190 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:17,440 us? Who has blessed us? The Father. With all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. Who pours 191 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:23,840 out his love in those verses? The Father. You read it. Planned us in love. Who did that? 192 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:30,840 The Father. Predestined us in love. Who did that? The Father. Read it for yourself. It's 193 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:40,600 the Father at work because Daddy loves you. And you're supposed to... He longs for your 194 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:50,760 followership. The Father now. We always talk to Jesus. But the Father wants you to come 195 00:25:50,760 --> 00:26:04,120 to him. Say, Abba, my Daddy, you're my Father. Sit in his presence. Say, Father, I love you. 196 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:15,280 I come to you. Give myself to you today. You come to him who loves and cares for you. Who 197 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:24,320 gave everything. Go to Galatians chapter 4. But when the fullness of time has come in 198 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:31,560 verse 4, God sent forth... You see, let me just say this. Even in that Nicaean council, 199 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:36,600 they still only spoke Aramaic. In all the debate about Christology in Christ, it was 200 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:44,440 still in Aramaic. But in Galatians chapter 4, in verse 4, when the fullness of time has 201 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:54,880 come, God sent forth a son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that are 202 00:26:54,880 --> 00:27:03,400 under the law, that they might receive the what? Adoption of what? Sons. And because 203 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:10,840 you're sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of the Son into your hearts, crying what? 204 00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:20,320 Papa, Daddy, Abba, your Father. And the more you work with the Holy Spirit, the more the 205 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:28,080 Holy Spirit wants you to understand the power of your sonship with God, the greatness of 206 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:37,200 our redemption. We are full-grown sons. Thou art my son, like a father says in the Hebrew 207 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:43,800 at the age of 11. You are my son. I've adopted you into the fullness of sonship. Everything 208 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:53,640 I have is yours. The Spirit of God comes to us, and because of His sonship, now we are 209 00:27:53,640 --> 00:28:01,760 the sons of God. These aren't theological terms, Church. You're supposed to cry. What? 210 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:13,280 Abba, Dad, my Father, who loves you, who has given everything for you, and come to Him 211 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:23,120 with your needs. Bring yourself to God. There should be an intimacy there that is indescribable. 212 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:30,400 A great man of God I knew, I know, I haven't been in touch in a long time, spoke of Dr. 213 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,520 Walker, one of the great Baptist leaders who was as much involved in prayer, the God of 214 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:44,640 God. The more childlike we would be to the Father, the more of a Father you'd be to 215 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,560 us. Robert Martin McChain, one of the greatest men of God in the world, said, when I was 216 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:59,720 God is worth a lifetime with men. Spend time with God. You have a daddy. Every word here 217 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:08,200 is pregnant with meaning. It says when you pray, say, hour. It's not singular. It is 218 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:13,040 plural. It's all right, brother. It's not making much noise. It's okay. Don't have 219 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:24,280 to go out. It is plural. You never stand alone. Even when you may be alone in your room to 220 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:31,480 shut the door, you're standing with a whole family of God. Now, notice in Matthew when 221 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:38,400 Jesus talks about this, the Lord's Prayer. He says there in the previous chapter, he 222 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:47,360 says when you come in verse 23 of Matthew 5, bring your gift to the altar and your brothers 223 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:54,600 and against you, deal with it first and then come to God. In the next chapter, you'll notice 224 00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:02,760 here, the Lord's Prayer again, and then he says in verse 12, forgive us our debts if 225 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:10,360 we forgive our debtors. But then he re-emphasizes that last, that forgiveness where he says 226 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:18,880 in verse 14, after the definition of the prayer, Lord's Prayer, if you forgive men, the trespasses, 227 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:27,440 your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you forgive not men, the trespasses, 228 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:34,160 neither will your heavenly father forgive your trespasses. That is very serious. That's very 229 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:42,800 serious. Not just nice words. God, that's why it's the hour is here, Father. You're 230 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,960 not coming alone. You're coming with everybody else. And when you get into the Bible, the 231 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:55,080 New Testament, you discover that forgiveness is very crucial. If you don't forgive, God 232 00:30:55,080 --> 00:31:04,360 can't forgive you. That sounds tough, but it's true. And you've got to forgive people 233 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:09,280 because you're coming to a father that's his kids too. You may not like them, but they're 234 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:16,040 his kids too. They're oldest children. And you must forgive. If you want to be divinely 235 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:23,280 effective with God, you have to forgive people. Somebody say, oh, me or something. You can't 236 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:29,560 live with bitterness. You can't live with unforgiveness of any nature because he says 237 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,840 that in the Lord's Prayer. If you don't forgive, and if you're unforgiven, you've got no right 238 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,800 to access to God. So you've got to get rid of all unforgiveness. You've got to forgive 239 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:46,000 everybody. You mean even that person? Yes, even that person. You mean my previous husband? 240 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:53,480 Yes, even your previous husband. Whoever it might be, you have to forgive them. Hello, 241 00:31:53,480 --> 00:32:02,520 church. If you want God to forgive you. He has many kids. And the big word with God is 242 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:11,360 relationship with him and with each other. There's no self seeking in this. You're praying 243 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:16,760 for everybody. You believe in God for everybody. You're approaching God together with everybody 244 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:22,500 else. Some of the greatest miracles I've seen and heard have been somebody was praying for 245 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,320 somebody else. Remember Ruth Carter? Ruth Carter, Christine Carter, I've shared with 246 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:33,320 you her miracle of the creative bone in her body. She was in a meeting in Garden City 247 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:39,440 when I was pastoring there. We had a speaker there. And she was praying for others. Never 248 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:45,520 even thought about herself. Just caring for everybody. God healed that person. God healed. 249 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:51,520 And when she got home, her husband said, you've got another rib. She had taken it out because 250 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:58,120 she had some problems physically years ago. And the operator took one of the ribs out 251 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:06,120 and it was restored back. Created a miracle. But she was involved with others. Praying for 252 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:11,200 others. There's nothing more powerful when you get selfless in prayer. Can you say amen? 253 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:16,880 Nothing more powerful. She was concerned for the whole... See, when you're praying, you're 254 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:23,960 praying with people in Korea and Africa, all over the world. And right now, I mean, you 255 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:28,680 asked me what's that picture that says there's a million people praying. Look at a big one 256 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:35,120 of that. When I was in Korea, I was in a prayer meeting of one million people. We prayed most 257 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:40,320 of the day. One million. Were you there? You were there for the one million, were you? 258 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,560 That was an incredible prayer meeting. Incredible prayer meeting. That's the biggest prayer 259 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,280 meeting I've been in. Now they've changed all that. They put buildings up. They can't 260 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:55,080 just use that for airplanes and so on. Just as I've talked to Joe's church. But they've 261 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,040 changed all that. But one million people. I've got the picture. I've got my wife in 262 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:04,320 it. Just got my wife in it. And the rest. And it's marvelous. You're praying with all 263 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,160 those Koreans that know how. You're praying with the Chinese. Come on, church. This is 264 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:14,960 a big prayer meeting. So all over the world, some people get up and pray all day. Great 265 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:23,000 prayer meetings. Great powerful times. And there's something about hour that brings the 266 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:30,600 whole hour together. The whole people of God around the world. Can somebody say amen? God 267 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:40,280 is big on relationship. Because you are having a relationship with God. He's Abba. He's your 268 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:48,880 daddy. You come in Jesus' name. We are sons of God. He's our elder brother. Often talks 269 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:55,480 about, see Christianity is not religion, but relationship. It's the kingdom. It's relationship 270 00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:02,960 and culture. It's not just laws. Yes, you follow God and all the principles of God. 271 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,960 But you're not made righteous by following the law. You're made righteous through the 272 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:12,720 blood of Jesus, through the cross. To all He's done for you. And you come to God. And 273 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:19,320 that's the time you ponder over the works of Jesus. How do you thank God? Like we sang 274 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:26,520 this morning, worthy is the lamb. When I began to prepare this, I was going on a walk and 275 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:34,760 I was singing all the songs like worthy is the lamb seated on the throne. The darling 276 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:43,400 of heaven crucified. You know, and I sang the songs of redemption because Jesus did 277 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:49,720 it all. Come on. But the father gave it all. Hallelujah. And we are redeemed by the blood 278 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:55,360 of the lamb. Come on church. When relations, we should be the happiest people on this earth. 279 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:02,360 But we forget what God has done. We get enmeshed in our difficulties. Ponder over the cross. 280 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:08,200 Ponder over the blood of Jesus. Now we're the sons of God. We are children of the most 281 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:18,000 high and God is our father. You got to get hold of that. And he's a good daddy. But that's 282 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,840 that is not just give me, give me, give me. You got to understand what's going on here. 283 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,120 You've got redemption through the blood of Jesus. Come on church. He was wounded for 284 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:32,960 you and everything that you might live eternally. Now the greatest way to pray is to know what 285 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:38,120 the Bible says on the given subject and then pray on that subject. And I pray the Bible 286 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,120 you know that I've told you that before. I like what Ryan Hart Bonke said when God raised 287 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,840 him up to be a powerful man of God around the world. The first time God said my words 288 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:54,040 in your mouth are as powerful as my words in my mouth. So you've got the word of God. 289 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:59,160 So when you get going in these areas, you pray the word, you speak the word, you declare 290 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:05,640 the word, you believe the word. Can you say amen? You're saying what God says and you're 291 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:12,640 talking to God in relationship. Sometimes you just pull out your heart. Father I need 292 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:18,160 you so much. But build relationship. Don't come give me, give me, give me. Just love 293 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:25,160 him. Father I love you. Thank you for sending Jesus. I'm your child. How about my daddy? 294 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:33,400 You said I want to get to personal. Well it is personal. My father is you know was very 295 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:40,400 personal to me in many ways. Amen. But relationship, relationships, also friendship actually means 296 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:52,200 that God is our friend. Now my greatest friend in this world is my wife. She's not just my 297 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:58,320 wife but she's also my friend. And we hate being apart. We like doing things together. 298 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:05,320 I hate traveling overseas without being close to her. And it's always good to have your 299 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:12,680 close friend. She's my wife. She's the boss. No. But she's also my friend. And you see 300 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:23,000 now in our friendship with God, we have no fear. Perfect love cannot start what? All 301 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:29,040 fear. You've not received the spirit of bondage again to what? Fear. You receive the spirit 302 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:36,040 of adoption whereby you cry of a father. Most religions of the world have tremendous fear. 303 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,800 In the Muslim religion there's very little anything about a loving God. There's nothing 304 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:47,800 there of that. It's a God to be feared, an angry God. But we have a loving God. Amen. 305 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:54,800 We have a God that we can talk to like a friend. We can chat with him. You can tell him things 306 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:01,800 you don't even tell your wife. You can talk to him or your husband, vice versa. You see 307 00:39:02,220 --> 00:39:09,220 it says in Hebrews 4.16, let us therefore come boldly to the throne, that's God's throne, 308 00:39:09,220 --> 00:39:16,220 of grace. We may find grace to help in time of need. The literal translation would be 309 00:39:22,420 --> 00:39:29,420 in the nick of time. You can come boldly just at the right time. Find mercy and grace to 310 00:39:29,420 --> 00:39:36,420 help. The word boldly means great freedom of speech. It's used like in 1 John 5.4, this 311 00:39:39,340 --> 00:39:46,340 is the confidence or same word, this is the freedom of speech we have. If you ask anything 312 00:39:46,340 --> 00:39:50,940 according to his will, he hears us. The will of God is the word of God. Can you say amen? 313 00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:57,940 So we can come freely asking God great freedom of speech, not irreverently please. Not foolishly, 314 00:39:57,940 --> 00:40:04,940 not stupidly, I'm not saying that. He is God Almighty. But you can't come to daddy. You 315 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:12,100 can't say, Father, I'm tired of this. I give it to you. Take it Lord. Look Lord, like one 316 00:40:15,060 --> 00:40:20,100 guy did years ago and didn't have much money. He took off his shoe and said, look Lord, 317 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:27,100 I need a pair of shoes of the hole in there. And he got a pair of shoes. You come to God. 318 00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:34,340 Say God, you know my needs Father, but I'm supposed to come to you and I declare that 319 00:40:34,340 --> 00:40:39,660 you're the God that promised me. I confess your provisions. I confess what you've said. 320 00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:45,900 I believe what you've said. Can you say amen? And I ask you Father, take this burden away 321 00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:52,900 costing all, how many? All your care upon him. For he cares what? For you. All of your 322 00:40:56,740 --> 00:41:03,740 care, not some. In America they say all of your care. Put it all on God. That's why he 323 00:41:03,740 --> 00:41:10,740 came for. He bore it all. Can somebody say amen? He took it all Church. Understand, but 324 00:41:16,180 --> 00:41:22,460 I don't mean irreverently, but this is the story of the gospel. But God has done for 325 00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:29,460 us through Jesus Christ. Now notice, both in Luke 18 when this woman 326 00:41:29,460 --> 00:41:36,300 widow comes with his persistence, and then at the end it says when the son of man comes, 327 00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:40,540 will he find faith? No, it doesn't really say that. We look at the Amplifier. When the 328 00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:47,540 son of man comes, will he find this kind of faith that doesn't give up, that gets hold 329 00:41:47,580 --> 00:41:53,300 of God and stays there and stays there and stays there until you weary that judge, so 330 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:59,540 to speak. What did Jesus say when he asked his Lord teachers to pray? As soon as you 331 00:41:59,540 --> 00:42:04,980 finish the Lord's Prayer in Luke 11, he said about the man that had a friend, goes to him 332 00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:11,620 at midnight now in Israel, you go to sleep when the lights go out. In other words, there 333 00:42:11,620 --> 00:42:16,460 were no light streets in those days when the heavenly lights go out. You just have these 334 00:42:16,460 --> 00:42:20,100 little lanterns or something, different lights start. You didn't go down the street, you 335 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:24,620 didn't go down to the city because the lights were on. Everything just went off. You'd get 336 00:42:24,620 --> 00:42:28,100 up with the birds, you'd get up early in the morning with the crows, whatever, with the 337 00:42:28,100 --> 00:42:33,740 chickens. You'd get up early in the morning. A friend arrives at midnight, this is the 338 00:42:33,740 --> 00:42:40,740 income of Jesus. You come and you say, friend, give me some bread. He said, not because he's 339 00:42:41,220 --> 00:42:48,220 a friend, but he'll do it for you. Some people out with God are like that fellow that had 340 00:42:48,220 --> 00:42:55,220 a breakdown on the street, on the road, country road, and he couldn't find his jack. He's 341 00:42:56,060 --> 00:43:02,020 looking for his jack and he says, I need a jack. So he saw some lights on the farm. He 342 00:43:02,020 --> 00:43:06,020 says, walk into the farm. He says, they're going to throw me out. He gets closer and 343 00:43:06,020 --> 00:43:11,260 he's got a bad dog in the round. He got closer and he said, who knows what they'll do with 344 00:43:11,260 --> 00:43:17,660 me. He got nearer and he said, you can keep your jack. Some people are like that with 345 00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:24,660 God. They don't persist with God. They ask once and that's enough. Like one fellow said 346 00:43:28,060 --> 00:43:33,860 to his wife, I said, I love you and when I change my mind I will tell you. You're supposed 347 00:43:33,860 --> 00:43:40,860 to regularly say that. Come on. Likewise, when it comes to God, it says here, you persist, 348 00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:47,860 you push, you don't give up. You keep on asking. It's in the present tense. Ask and keep on 349 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:55,500 asking, keep on asking, keep on asking. That's free time. Keep on asking. Look at the original. 350 00:43:55,860 --> 00:44:02,860 You don't give up. You don't give up. I love you Lord, but in the name of Jesus. You're 351 00:44:02,860 --> 00:44:09,860 great, but in the name of Jesus. You're set in your name. You'll do anything for me. Jesus, 352 00:44:11,580 --> 00:44:17,140 you want. Then also there's lordship here. Remember, although you have such friendship, 353 00:44:17,140 --> 00:44:24,140 you are torn to the God of the universe. He is Lord. You don't come flippantly and irreverently. 354 00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:31,940 You come with a consciousness of the greatness, the supreme rulership of God Almighty, but 355 00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:38,940 he is your daddy. You come with a sense of awesomeness. You surrender. You don't come 356 00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:45,940 in rebellion. You don't come with moods. You don't come with a chip on your shoulder. It 357 00:44:46,020 --> 00:44:51,100 doesn't work like that. You can walk around with a chip on your shoulder, but not to God. 358 00:44:51,100 --> 00:44:58,100 You can't do that. He is God. Come on church. You've got to get yourself. Then there's worship. 359 00:44:58,100 --> 00:45:05,100 Your comment says, you worship in spirit and in truth. The word is proskuneo, which means 360 00:45:05,260 --> 00:45:10,860 reverence to bow down. In first Corinthians 14, 25, it says, thus are the secrets of his 361 00:45:10,860 --> 00:45:17,860 heart manifest. So falling down on his face, he will worship God. Revelation nine, seven 362 00:45:17,940 --> 00:45:24,860 11 says the angel stood on the throne and worshiped him. So worship is crucial. You 363 00:45:24,860 --> 00:45:31,860 come to a God you worship with him, to him rather. It's not a flippancy here. You understand 364 00:45:31,860 --> 00:45:38,860 that? There's an intimacy. You can come to your daddy, but he is still God Almighty. 365 00:45:38,940 --> 00:45:44,700 Through Jesus Christ and through his blood, you have the right to come boldly to the throne 366 00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:51,700 and expect much from God. Can somebody say amen? So you consecrate your relationship 367 00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:58,700 to God. You prepare your heart. You then talk to God about your relationship. You are sanctified 368 00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:08,620 in the name of Jesus. Now why build relationship just quickly? You're getting cold? That's 369 00:46:08,620 --> 00:46:15,620 okay. Just keep moving or something. Why do we build relationship? Some people are cold 370 00:46:15,620 --> 00:46:22,620 up here, brother. You do what you like, Bert, but I'm just giving you a hint because this 371 00:46:22,620 --> 00:46:29,620 is particularly, listen carefully, what Satan attacks. Are you listening? If anything Satan 372 00:46:31,780 --> 00:46:38,780 wants to attack is your relationship. Most people crumble because they don't have a good 373 00:46:38,780 --> 00:46:45,780 relationship with God. They don't know how to secure their relationship. Relationship 374 00:46:49,940 --> 00:46:54,700 with your wife is something you build. Now it can be strange, especially moving from 375 00:46:54,700 --> 00:47:01,700 house to house, but it's something you build. If you're a good husband, you've got some 376 00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:08,700 nows up here. You know how to build relationship. You tell her you love her. Can somebody say 377 00:47:11,340 --> 00:47:18,340 amen? You do things to build your relationship. Remember what the devil particularly attacked 378 00:47:22,340 --> 00:47:28,540 with Job? He said you've got this relationship and you're looking after him. You're looking, 379 00:47:28,540 --> 00:47:35,540 you're doing everything for him. I love this thought though. You build a hedge around him. 380 00:47:35,540 --> 00:47:42,540 Hallelujah! There's a hedge around us. Come on church. Remove the hedge and he'll curse 381 00:47:43,340 --> 00:47:50,340 you. So much devil and then he came back. Ah, skin for skin. Then he touched his body 382 00:47:50,340 --> 00:47:57,340 and he'll curse you. So relationship. What is he in Revelation 12.1, Satan, the accuser 383 00:48:02,820 --> 00:48:09,820 of the brethren? What does he accuse us for? To tear our relationship. Some people allow 384 00:48:11,300 --> 00:48:17,740 that up and down like yo-yos. One Sunday, one Sunday not. Encourage him for a while, 385 00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:24,740 better for a while, down again. Build strong relationship where nothing moves you. Come 386 00:48:25,860 --> 00:48:30,700 on church. Well you know that you know that you know. 387 00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:37,380 But in anything in the book Giants and Grasshoppers, the last chapter, the most insidious attack 388 00:48:37,380 --> 00:48:44,380 of the devil is the Jebusite spirit. When the devil comes and says give up on God. Give 389 00:48:44,380 --> 00:48:51,380 up your position now. Throw thought worth it. He undermines the blood of Christ. He 390 00:48:51,940 --> 00:48:58,940 wants to take away from you the power of your relationship with God Almighty. Come on church. 391 00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:08,500 Also because your relationship is the strongest bond you have in God. There's nothing greater. 392 00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:15,500 It says in Ephesians 2.1, you once were not a people of God but now are you what? The 393 00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:22,580 people of God. And frequently in various ways. The language of the Bible is strong relationship. 394 00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:28,260 In a marriage you build your relationship with your children. I'm so sorry my son's 395 00:49:28,260 --> 00:49:33,140 not around. We call him every day. But you build relationship with your children. You 396 00:49:33,140 --> 00:49:38,660 talk to them. You encourage them. You help them. You lift them. You inspire them. You 397 00:49:38,660 --> 00:49:45,100 did this with your wife. You talk to her with your husband. My greatest inspiration is my 398 00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:52,100 wife. She encourages me. She's my strength. She keeps saying things to me. Good things. 399 00:49:54,700 --> 00:50:01,700 Helpful things. No matter what it might be. Build relationship with God because that's 400 00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:08,700 the strongest thing you have. Build security into God. Make sure that you have this security 401 00:50:10,140 --> 00:50:17,140 that you know what the Bible says about your relationship with God. And tell God. He wants 402 00:50:18,500 --> 00:50:25,500 to hear it. Don't just assume it. He wants to hear your love. Jesus, John 14, he talks 403 00:50:25,500 --> 00:50:32,500 about love. First John has filled this man that walks so close with God about incredible 404 00:50:34,340 --> 00:50:41,340 love. Think of the scripture in John 10. Tell God about it. In John 10 Jesus said, if I 405 00:50:42,740 --> 00:50:49,740 can find it here quickly. He said in verse 28, he says, and I give unto them eternal 406 00:50:49,740 --> 00:50:56,740 life and they shall never, and the words there in the original is never, no never, no never, 407 00:50:56,740 --> 00:51:03,740 no never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father, which is, 408 00:51:05,580 --> 00:51:12,580 which gave them unto me is greater than all. And no man is able to pluck them out of my 409 00:51:12,580 --> 00:51:19,580 father's hand. I and my father are one. He talks about this relationship. He said, I 410 00:51:20,180 --> 00:51:27,180 will never, no never leave you, John 13 and 5. What a security. Great is he that is not 411 00:51:27,180 --> 00:51:33,180 and neither is in the world. You've overcome the world. First John 4, Romans 8, 4, you 412 00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:40,180 can cry out the Father. Build strength into God. Build strength into God. Build strength 413 00:51:40,180 --> 00:51:47,180 into my Father. Build strong relationship. Tell God. Talk to God about this. Now if you 414 00:51:48,300 --> 00:51:53,740 don't know what to do, get my book. I have a lot of those confessions there because it's 415 00:51:53,740 --> 00:52:00,740 a relationship that secures us for eternity. We have eternal life. We are eternal beings. 416 00:52:00,740 --> 00:52:07,740 We are saved forever. Come on church. We are not home yet. This is just a stepping stone 417 00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:17,180 in the presence of God one day. But you've got to get out of you that fear, that lack 418 00:52:17,180 --> 00:52:24,180 of relationship, that excitement of coming to God and just sitting down and being with 419 00:52:24,180 --> 00:52:31,180 God. Say, Father here I am. Daddy here I am. I want to be with you for a while. Just be 420 00:52:32,340 --> 00:52:39,340 in your presence. Whatever. But Lord, I love you. Don't understand it all, but I do love 421 00:52:40,100 --> 00:52:46,300 you. Thank you for giving us Jesus. Thank you for eternal life and I'll never, no never, 422 00:52:46,300 --> 00:52:52,420 no never perish. Thank you. I'm redeemed by your blood. And in that book I've got all 423 00:52:52,420 --> 00:52:59,420 the powerful confessions you can make to God regularly. You know, you're trying to become 424 00:52:59,700 --> 00:53:06,700 so great as the apostle Paul said, I'm in a straight detrick, too, in Philippians 1.23. 425 00:53:07,620 --> 00:53:12,540 I want to be with Christ, which is far better. But for your sake it's needful that I stay 426 00:53:12,540 --> 00:53:19,540 here. He wanted so much to be with his master, his Lord. There's so much in this area. I've 427 00:53:19,540 --> 00:53:26,540 got all the confessions of, for example, in John 5.24 it says, He that hears my words 428 00:53:26,820 --> 00:53:33,820 and liveth them that sent me hath everlasting, everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, 429 00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:40,900 judgment, but is passed now from death to life. That relationship. You know, Hebrews 430 00:53:40,900 --> 00:53:47,900 chapter 10 is a powerful chapter to pray with God and to confess to God time and time again. 431 00:53:48,300 --> 00:53:55,300 I'm nearly through. For example, it says in verse 12, verse 1 and 2 says, There is no 432 00:53:55,340 --> 00:54:02,340 conscience of sin. But this man, Jesus, after he'd offered one sacrifice for sins forever, 433 00:54:02,340 --> 00:54:09,340 sat down at the right hand of God, from henceforth, expecting till his enemies be made his footstone. 434 00:54:10,380 --> 00:54:17,380 That's true, you and me. For by one offering hath he perfected forever them who are being 435 00:54:18,580 --> 00:54:24,580 sanctified. That's what the word actually means. Wherefore the Holy Ghost also is a 436 00:54:24,580 --> 00:54:31,580 witness to us. For after he had said before this, the covenant that I will make with them, 437 00:54:32,580 --> 00:54:39,580 after these days, saith the Lord, I'll put my laws in the hearts and bright them in the 438 00:54:39,620 --> 00:54:46,620 minds, and their sins and inequities I'll remember no more. Come on, church. Where there 439 00:54:46,620 --> 00:54:53,620 is a mission, a removal of sins, there's no more offering for sin. Having the verboteness, 440 00:54:56,220 --> 00:55:03,220 brethren, there we are in this family, to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. 441 00:55:03,220 --> 00:55:10,220 It's all through the blood, all through the cross. That is drawn near, it says, with full 442 00:55:10,260 --> 00:55:16,380 assurance of faith, a heart sprinkled and so on. And there's so many confessions I have 443 00:55:16,380 --> 00:55:22,460 about this. And then in that book, it's on prayer, I finish with the love of God. I give 444 00:55:22,460 --> 00:55:29,460 you many scriptures, how much God loves us, how much He cares for us. The love of God 445 00:55:29,740 --> 00:55:34,700 now, I'm talking about the love of God the Father, not so much the love of the Son. People 446 00:55:34,700 --> 00:55:41,700 don't say, I can relate to the Son, but the Father? Yes, Daddy, your Father loves you 447 00:55:41,700 --> 00:55:48,700 unconditionally. But give yourself to Him. There must be reciprocity. And you can read 448 00:55:54,020 --> 00:56:01,020 Ephesians 2, 4-7 and other scriptures in regards to this. We have promises through these words, 449 00:56:03,460 --> 00:56:10,460 I take us, of all that God has for us. Can somebody say amen? You've got a wonderful 450 00:56:10,460 --> 00:56:17,460 Father. Would you please stand, please? Will you pray to Him? I've just taken our Father. 451 00:56:20,700 --> 00:56:27,700 Next week I take which art in heaven, the authority to control the worship of God. But 452 00:56:27,700 --> 00:56:34,700 our Daddy, our Father, He's an amazing God. And I guarantee most of us don't cry of this. 453 00:56:34,700 --> 00:56:41,700 How great He is. Father, I adore you, brother. No, Father, I adore you. Lay my life before 454 00:56:41,700 --> 00:56:56,700 you. Father, I adore you, brother. No, Father, I adore you. Lay my life before you. Father, 455 00:56:56,700 --> 00:57:15,700 I adore you. Lay my life before you. Now this time, sing it to Him. Lift your hands. Father, 456 00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:22,700 I adore you. Lay my life before you. How I love you. Another one that's just the first 457 00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:29,700 verse, it's okay. But I love you, I love you, my Lord. Love you, my Lord. I adore you. I 458 00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:59,700 love you. I love you. I love you. My Lord, I love you. Yes, Lord, I love you, Father. 459 00:57:59,700 --> 00:58:06,700 You, I love you. My Lord, I love you. Yes, Lord, I love you, Father. You, I love you. 460 00:58:06,700 --> 00:58:13,700 My Lord, I love you. Yes, Lord, I love you, Father. You, I love you. My Lord, you're worthy 461 00:58:13,700 --> 00:58:20,700 to be praised. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. 462 00:58:43,700 --> 00:58:50,700 Father, it seems to be so hard for us to grasp that God so loved the world. I love you. I 463 00:59:13,700 --> 00:59:20,700 love you. And God loves me that I'm your child, son of God. That Jesus is my elder brother. 464 00:59:23,340 --> 00:59:30,340 God's redemption through your blood. Now come boldly, come on, talk to God. Father, let 465 00:59:31,100 --> 00:59:38,100 me understand your amazing love, oh love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and 466 00:59:38,100 --> 00:59:46,260 are measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure. The saints and angels song. 467 00:59:47,300 --> 00:59:54,580 We give ourselves to you today, Lord. They'll bring us back tonight. Oh God, I just want you to know 468 00:59:55,780 --> 01:00:04,660 I love you. I thank you, Father, for loving me so much. Come on, tell Him you love Him. 469 01:00:04,660 --> 01:00:12,820 I love you. I understand what all the burdens have been gone, but I declare you greatness. 470 01:00:14,820 --> 01:00:29,780 I love you, Father. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. 471 01:00:29,780 --> 01:00:50,980 I love you. My Lord, I love you. I love you. 472 01:00:50,980 --> 01:01:00,580 I love you. I love you. My Lord. 473 01:01:00,580 --> 01:01:07,300 Can I ask you, would you talk to your daddy this week? Would you tell him how much you love him? 474 01:01:08,340 --> 01:01:11,220 You know what to do. I'm sure most of you got that book on the Lord's Prayer. 475 01:01:12,500 --> 01:01:18,900 Just talk to him. You have a relationship with God. Give him time. 476 01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:25,300 If you don't know what to say, just sit there. Say, Father, here I am. I love you. 477 01:01:26,180 --> 01:01:29,620 Come to me. Show me how to reach your presence, Holy Spirit. 478 01:01:30,740 --> 01:01:36,020 Quicken the sonship I have. May the Lord bless and keep you this week. 479 01:01:37,140 --> 01:01:39,620 May the Lord bless you. You're going out. You're coming in. 480 01:01:40,340 --> 01:01:44,660 You're laying your labor and your leisure. May God be with you. 481 01:01:44,660 --> 01:01:50,980 May God be with you. May He quicken every part of your body. May you live in that sonship 482 01:01:51,540 --> 01:01:57,940 and relationship. May God perform miracles for you. May you see that He's a God of miracles. 483 01:01:58,660 --> 01:02:03,620 Remember what Jesus was. He said, ask the Father in my name. He will give it to you. 484 01:02:04,260 --> 01:02:10,980 He said, you've asked nothing in my name. Ask and receive that your joy may be for once. Give 485 01:02:10,980 --> 01:02:18,420 you some joy. Hallelujah. God bless you. See you tonight. God be with you. Bye-bye. 486 01:02:27,060 --> 01:02:32,340 Thank you again for tuning in in today's powerful message from Dr. Reginald Klimanov. We hope this 487 01:02:32,340 --> 01:02:36,820 has touched your heart and inspired your spirit. Stay connected with Logan City Christian Church 488 01:02:36,820 --> 01:02:42,420 for more uplifting sermons and spiritual guidance. Follow us on social media to join our community 489 01:02:42,420 --> 01:02:48,580 and stay updated on all our latest happenings. Remember, together we grow in faith and love. 490 01:02:48,580 --> 01:03:07,300 Until next time, may God's blessing be with you always.