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 --> 00:00:40,600 us as we delve deep into his powerful messages uncovering timeless truth and practical wisdom 5 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:46,360 that can transform our lives today. Get ready to be inspired, encouraged and equipped as 6 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:50,360 we journey through the rich tapestry of Dr. Klimanok's preaching. 7 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:58,480 Let's start with the Word, shall we? As I said earlier, I'm going to see our brother 8 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:05,120 who used to be on my team once. God bless you. Nice to have you here. I have an interesting 9 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:15,760 message for you today. How to receive, I've called it the oracles of God. Because the 10 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:27,640 promises in the Bible are spoken of as oracles. The Greek word is the word logion, L-O-G-I-O-N, 11 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:37,440 I think, which means scripture, sentences rather, declaration, the utterances or the 12 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:49,280 oracles of God or the sayings of God. That's what the word is. When we think of promises, 13 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:59,520 we sort of at times minimize the power of them. But really they are the oracles of God. 14 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:09,440 Stay with me. The oracles of God. Why can't we receive what God has promised us in this 15 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:21,480 Word? Promises of guidance, promises of divine direction, thousands of promises in the Bible 16 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:32,440 of comfort of strength. God makes it very clear these promises of healing, of provision, 17 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:43,000 of victory. Why do we have at times such difficulty to receive them? In Deuteronomy chapter 8, 18 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:50,600 verse 3, the Bible says God led them through the wilderness, through all kinds of experiences, 19 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:58,480 the latter part says that man should know they didn't live by bread alone, but by every 20 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:06,400 word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord that man lived by. God led them to bring 21 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:14,080 them to the place where they might trust him and his word and live in that living Word 22 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:25,040 of God. Jesus Christ through John the Divine writes in the book of Revelation to the churches. 23 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:32,840 To each of the churches he concludes by saying, this is a papyrus, we have it now in this 24 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:41,160 form, but they received this letter and they read it to all the churches. Then he says 25 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:49,520 at the end to every one of the churches, he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what 26 00:03:49,520 --> 00:04:00,840 the Spirit is saying to the churches. Amazing words. It wasn't just an ordinary piece of 27 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:08,920 letter or words, it was literally the Spirit of God was speaking through that. And he said 28 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:19,880 he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying. So the scriptures 29 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:32,640 have been given that we might hear from God. The promises have been given, the oracles, 30 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:43,360 the sayings of God that we might receive from God. In John chapter 10, Jesus when he talks 31 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:52,240 about him being the shepherd and we are the sheep, he says in verse 3, he says to him 32 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:59,680 the port of Okeneth and the sheep hear his voice. Say hear his voice. And he called his 33 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:06,320 sheep by name and lead them out. Verse 5, the stranger will not follow but will flee, 34 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:15,560 for they know the voice of the stranger. His sheep do what? Hear his voice. Now in Hebrews 35 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:24,400 chapter 3, please, interesting development of truth here through these chapters in Hebrews. 36 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:31,640 You notice here in verse 1 of chapter 3, we are holy brethren. What an amazing declaration 37 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:41,040 about ourselves. Partakers of a heavenly calling. We are holy brethren. Partakers of a heavenly 38 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:46,520 calling. This is considered the Apostle and High Priest of our really confession. And 39 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:55,000 then he talks about Israel in the wilderness and it says in verse 7, therefore as the Holy 40 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:03,360 Ghost said, today if you will hear his what? Voice. Hard not too hard. As they did in the 41 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:07,880 publication, the temptation, the wilderness. When your fathers tempted me, they saw my 42 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:14,400 works forty years, he says. Therefore I was grieved with them. They didn't know my ways, 43 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:25,360 he says there. Amazing words. And then in the next chapter, chapter 4, verse 2, he says, 44 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:33,360 let us therefore fear lest a promise, say a promise, be left us of entering into his 45 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:42,320 rest. Any of you should seem to come short because of unbelief, a promise. So now he 46 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:49,800 identifies it straight down to us, uses Israel as an example. But he says promises left to 47 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:59,600 you. And then it says unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. So they received 48 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:07,720 God's truth like we've received the gospel today. But the word preached did not profit 49 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:18,920 them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. So it appears that our faith response 50 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:27,240 is crucial. We have the promises of God. We have received the gospel. Can you say amen? 51 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:37,160 The good news. And notice as it goes on then in that same chapter on that word, he says 52 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:46,960 this, 12, for the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, 53 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:53,880 piercing even the dividing asunder of soul and spirit. It gets right inside of you and 54 00:07:53,880 --> 00:08:01,520 joins and marrow. It's a discern of the thoughts when you read the word. God does something 55 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:07,360 with your thoughts. How many know what I'm talking about? And the intense of the heart, 56 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:15,920 it gets right down into your intentions. What the real reason is behind your lifestyle or 57 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:22,840 whatever is going on, he comes and touches the depth of your being. Can you say amen? 58 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:28,360 And then in the next chapter, this promise, this logo, this word, he comes to the end 59 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:36,480 of chapter five. He says of whom, verse 11, with many things to say, the heart to be uttered, 60 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:43,000 sing ye a down of hearing, strong words. For when the time were you to be teachers, you 61 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:50,280 have need that others teach you again the first principles of the, now the word is used 62 00:08:50,280 --> 00:09:00,760 here, oracles of God. And they become so poor was teaching, what was he teaching? The oracles 63 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:08,700 of God and become such as need of milk and of not of strong meat. It worries me when 64 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:17,080 I see the lack of any word preaching today. It really worries me. I have deep concern. 65 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:23,880 You don't, but I do because it's like we want the milk all the time. Tell me how good 66 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:30,760 I am and how nice I am. That's all that counts. It doesn't. God wants to do more than that. 67 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:37,160 Can somebody say me? That says, verse 14, that's strong. The thing with you is milk 68 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:44,320 is unskillful in the word of righteousness and he's a babe, but strong meat belongeth 69 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:52,040 to them that are of full age. God is trying to make you grow up. Say grow up. Amen. Even 70 00:09:52,040 --> 00:10:00,100 those who by reason of use, say use, is the exercise of the word, is the constant use 71 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:05,360 of the word, living in the word, meditating on the word, spending time in the word. It 72 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:12,240 says of use, have their senses exercised. In other words, it does something to your very 73 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:20,120 character, to your very nature. It has the power to affect your life, discern both good 74 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,720 and evil, so that you come into something with God. Can somebody say amen? Notice the 75 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:31,980 next chapter. It's all to do with the word. There's three great truths in that whole Hebrews. 76 00:10:31,980 --> 00:10:37,920 One is the word, the high priest, and the covenants. Three great things that I mentioned 77 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:46,200 in Hebrews, amazing book. The word, the high priest and minister of Christ, and the covenants. 78 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:56,880 Notice here in chapter six from verse 12, that ye be not slothful, but followers of 79 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:05,000 them who through faith and, I wish this wasn't here, patience, inherit the promises. They 80 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:11,080 don't come instant. Hello. Patience means you've got to fight it through. You don't 81 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:18,120 give up. Hello, church. You inherit them how the promises, through how? Through faith. 82 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:25,160 I wish it wasn't here. Patience. We want instant coffee, instant tea, instant God, and we do 83 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:32,480 ... No, no, no, no. We have to have that something that pursues after God. Amen, church, to inherit 84 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:40,280 all that God has for us. For when God promised to Abraham, he could not be swore by no greater. 85 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:46,080 He swore by himself saying, surely I will bless thee. I will multiply. He's using it 86 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:53,440 as an example. After you patiently endured, how many years, 25 years, endured, you obtained 87 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:59,400 the promise. Many a person was healed like, I think, of 88 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,280 William Burton. You would know William Burton is. One of the great mission... How many 89 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:08,400 remember William Burton? Anybody in this room? Yes, some of you. The old missionary who... The 90 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:14,240 man that established a Congo evangelistic mission in years when there was nothing there. 91 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:19,920 He was like a David Livingston. Went there. Jimmy Slaughter and a few others went with 92 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:28,280 him. But he got cancer and he stood on the word, by his stripes I'm healed. By his stripes, 93 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:34,000 he told us, he confessed, by his stripes I'm healed. Years he fought that thing and it 94 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:43,800 left him. Hallelujah. Faith and what? Patience. Oh God. Faith and patience to inherit all 95 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:50,600 that God has for him. He wanted to bless him. Surely I will bless thee, verse 14. But he 96 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:56,880 after he patiently endured, for men very swear by the greater and oath for confirmation and 97 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:03,800 where in God willing more abundantly, say more abundantly. Say it again. More abundantly. 98 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:11,320 More abundantly. To show unto the heirs of promise. Who are the heirs of promise? You 99 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:19,680 and me. Us. Heirs, what are we? The heirs of promise. Hallelujah. To show unto the heirs 100 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:28,800 of promise the immutability or the unchangingness of his counsel confirmed it by swearing to 101 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:36,040 it by an oath. That by two immutable things which is impossible for God to lie. God does 102 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:44,400 not lie to you. Hello church. You might, we might have strong consolation who have fled 103 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:51,800 for refuge to take hold of the hope set therein. In other words, our hope for eternity is in 104 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,320 this. Amen church. And we do if God is in this. We have a hope as an anchor for the 105 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:06,120 soul both steadfast and sure which entered into the, within the veil. The foreman Jesus 106 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:11,360 Christ, the high priest in the next chapter talks about the high priest in ministry of 107 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:20,320 Jesus Christ. Then in chapter 8, now coming to the covenants, chapter 8 verse 6 says that 108 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:25,760 now have you obtained a more excellent ministry of Jesus by how much more he's the mediator, 109 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:35,880 mediates a better covenant built upon what? Established upon what? Better promises. Better 110 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:45,040 promises. That could be the end of the message. Marvellous. That alone should give you all 111 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:55,360 that you need in God. He said it. His book says it. You have the promises of God Almighty. 112 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:03,840 But some of we have to fight for them. Hallelujah. Amen church. We have to go after them to receive 113 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:14,400 all that God has for us. All right. Number of principles. Number one, we have the oracles 114 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:23,520 of God. I told you from Hebrews chapter 5 verse 12, Paul declares there that we have 115 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:34,520 received, he spoke as the oracles of God. Declaration, what is logion? Atfances of God 116 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:46,000 Almighty. It means declarations of God, the promises, the sentences, the words of God. 117 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:59,760 The Bible is the oracles of God. In Acts chapter 7, in your Bibles, Acts chapter 7 verse 38, 118 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:05,960 it says this is he that was in the church in the wilderness. That's speaking of Israel 119 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:11,080 that they were like the ecclesiast there. Where the angel would speak to him in Mount 120 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:20,240 Sinai and with our fathers who receive the lively oracles of God. They receive them given 121 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:30,720 to us. Now in 2nd Peter chapter 1, please, in the light of this, 2nd Peter chapter 1, 122 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:40,320 Paul, Peter's writing says this in verse 16, we have not followed cunningly devised fables. 123 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:46,920 We didn't do not just little stories. We made unto you the power and coming of our Lord 124 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:52,360 Jesus Christ. He said, but were I witness of His majesty? We were once, he's saying 125 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:58,320 there on the mountain and we saw the coming of Christ. We saw the power of it in that 126 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,720 transfiguration experience. What is he saying there? Because he says we receive from God 127 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:08,520 the Father glory when it came such a voice from the excellent glory. This is my beloved 128 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:15,120 son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard and we were 129 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:20,600 with him on the holy mount. Three men, remember Peter, James and John went to Jesus on mount 130 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:27,040 transfiguration. Remember that? And they were eyewitnesses of what the coming of Christ 131 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:33,040 would be like in that day. They saw the power, the majesty of it at that moment. Jesus was 132 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:39,440 always veiled in humanity for a moment. They saw the glory of this living Christ, the awesomeness 133 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:46,440 of His power and majesty. See, we saw this glorious thing. But notice what it says. We 134 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:53,840 have also, say also, that is us now, a more sure word of prophecy. We have as much as 135 00:17:53,840 --> 00:18:00,840 they had. We have a more sure word. I remember years ago how this gripped me this verse. 136 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,480 We have a more sure word of prophecy. 137 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Rondri duvall, the G. Take heed, is unto a light that shineth into a dark place unto 138 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:23,000 the day dawn. Hallelujah. And the day star arise in our hearts. We have something even 139 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:30,000 as much as they had on the mount. The word of God is sure word of prophecy. The word 140 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:36,520 of the living God is called prophecy here. I explain, knowing this, that no prophecy 141 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:43,520 of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy which came in old time by 142 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:50,920 the word of man, did not come in old time, but holy men of God spake as the lot moved 143 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:57,920 by the holy ghost. What is the word of God? Men wrote it, but God inspired it. God gave 144 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:04,920 them the words. This is the divine record of events of thus said God directly as much 145 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:12,680 as God spoke on mount Shinii and then they had the revelation upon mount Transfiguration. 146 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:19,680 It says we have, hallelujah, we have a more sure word of prophecy. It's a light that shines 147 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:29,680 into the day dawn, until he comes, until we go home to him. Hallelujah church. Amen. What 148 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:38,960 do we have? The book. We have the oracles. We have the promises. We have the word of 149 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:45,960 God that shines as a light into the darkness of this earth, as much as they had it. So 150 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:55,960 the word is the oracles of God. Hallelujah. The Bible, the word of God. Preachers have 151 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:04,320 the oracles of God. It says, for example, in 1st Timothy chapter 4, I'm just telling 152 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,440 you the Bible. No one can disagree with the Bible. Can you agree with that? Amen. If any 153 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:16,440 man speak, verse 11, let him speak as the oracles of God. So my preparation should be 154 00:20:17,260 --> 00:20:24,260 not just a little word, not little examples, but I have to speak as the very what? Oracles 155 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:31,260 of God. Amazing. The men in prelim speak as the oracles of God and let him do it as the 156 00:20:35,540 --> 00:20:42,540 ability which God giveth, that in God and all may be glorified through Jesus Christ, 157 00:20:43,620 --> 00:20:50,620 to whom be glory and praise and dominion. Always Jesus. Dominion and honor forever and 158 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:57,620 ever. We have to speak how? As the very oracles of God. Preach as the very, Paul says in 1st 159 00:21:00,340 --> 00:21:05,820 Thessalonians chapter, I won't be able to finish this today. There's so much more in 160 00:21:05,820 --> 00:21:12,820 this. I just prefer in chapter 2 and I think it is verse, where are we? It's in 2 verse 161 00:21:12,820 --> 00:21:19,820 13. It says, I'll find it for you. For this cause thank we God always without ceasing. 162 00:21:27,380 --> 00:21:33,380 Because when you receive the word of God which you heard of us, you receive it not as the 163 00:21:33,380 --> 00:21:40,380 word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which then if you receive it like 164 00:21:40,380 --> 00:21:47,380 that, it actually works in you that belief. If you have the ability to receive it like 165 00:21:47,540 --> 00:21:54,540 this, it has the power to keep working in you if you only have faith and belief. That 166 00:21:54,820 --> 00:22:01,140 word will operate powerfully in every area of your life. Can you say amen? It's amazing. 167 00:22:01,140 --> 00:22:08,140 I've got the scripture but it talks about Israel. It says in chapter 3 of Romans, what 168 00:22:08,140 --> 00:22:15,140 advantages have a Jew? Verse 1, in the midst of it it says, for every chiefly, because 169 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:24,260 unto them were committed the oracles of God. The word came through us through Jewish people. 170 00:22:24,780 --> 00:22:31,780 Don't ever forget that. Mainly through Jews. The Jew, Paul was a Jew. And before that, 171 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:38,780 Israel, the whole Old Testament, the Jews, to them was committed. We are blessed as the 172 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:44,300 recipients. Can you say amen? In chapter 9, again, it talks about there have been set 173 00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:49,740 aside, it says, in verse 4, it says, who are Israelites? To whom pertained the adoption, 174 00:22:49,740 --> 00:22:56,740 the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law of God, and the promises to them was committed 175 00:22:56,740 --> 00:23:03,740 all this marvelous stuff. And we are the recipients of it. Can you say amen? Oh, hallelujah. Just 176 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:11,240 a little bit longer. I won't be too long this morning. I'll surprise you. And I'll go on 177 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:18,680 next week on the same subject, maybe a week or two. When God speaks to you through the 178 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:25,680 oracles of God, God rarely addresses your problems. He always addresses your future. 179 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:34,680 I'll explain to you why. It's the most amazing thing about God. He knows your problems. He 180 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:42,120 knows all about you and your personality. But He rarely addresses your problems. He 181 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:49,120 always addresses your future. Let me give an example, and I'll go on with this. I have 182 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:56,120 much to say first, and then next week we'll continue. When God came to Moses in the wilderness, 183 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:03,600 He'd been there for 40 years. He didn't address any of the promises that Moses, any of the 184 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:10,600 problems that Moses had. He didn't say, Moses, it's because of your stupidity that brought 185 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:19,800 you to this wilderness. Or we say, oh, God was molding him. Maybe it's true, but He brought 186 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:28,400 it above. Let's understand this. You murdered someone. You did some stupid things. You couldn't 187 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,800 control your temper. You thought it was the moment that I would deliver Israel. He didn't 188 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:40,800 say any of that. You've been living now in the back side of the desert for 40 years, 189 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:46,320 eight years of age, still very young, and everybody says, come on, all these, still 190 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:53,320 very young, and everybody says, all right. God immediately addressed the future, and 191 00:24:53,320 --> 00:25:00,320 He told him what He wanted to do with it. He told him about the future of Israel, and 192 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:08,040 how He would deliver them from bondage, how He would set them to do this. Moses kept addressing 193 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:15,040 the problem until God got mad at him. Come on, Church. I could go through, and I'll 194 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:22,040 do that next week through Peter, through all of these guys. He never addresses their problems. 195 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:31,240 I'll explain. He addresses their future. Let me give you another one, for example. Hallelujah. 196 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:40,080 Abraham. You say, what a mighty man of faith. Not always, Church. He did some ridiculous 197 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:47,080 things. When God called him, He said, get out of your family. They voted him aside. 198 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:56,240 He takes Lot with him. While Lot is there, God hasn't talked to him for years. Finally, 199 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:05,520 through tremendous pressure, Lot has to go, because there were family disputes about to 200 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:12,520 not enough land. As soon as he stops it, and Genesis 13, God makes His promises again. 201 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:23,240 He doesn't even say to him, you stupid fool, why didn't you get rid of Lot? Maybe he called 202 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:30,920 his own 25 years. I don't know. Then God says, God never wanted him to go down to Egypt. 203 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:37,920 How do I know that? Because in Genesis 26, He speaks to Isaac, don't do what your papa 204 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:44,920 did. Don't go down to Egypt. Abraham goes down to Egypt. This mighty man of faith, and 205 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,320 he says to his wife, don't tell them you're my wife. They'll kill me. You're so beautiful. 206 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:58,320 He calls her his sister, which is a teeny bit of truth, because he was some little relationship 207 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:05,320 to her like a sister. She ends up in the palace to be married to Abraham, to the king Pharaoh. 208 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:12,320 If it wasn't God warning this fellow, and then still God, He leaves Egypt blessed. Listen 209 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:19,320 carefully. Blessed in order to mess up, because he was a covenant child, he was a covenant 210 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:26,320 child. What's the word I'm going to use for it? Doesn't matter. To save his own life, 211 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:39,840 he says, God, you're a man of faith. You're a man of faith. You're a man of faith. You're 212 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:46,840 a man of faith. What's the word I'm going to use for it? Doesn't matter. To save his 213 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:56,000 own skin, he told fibs, if not lies. And yet God, and then when the promise doesn't come, 214 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:03,000 he goes into Hagar. His slave creates a child, Ishmael, which has been the problem of the 215 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:10,000 world since then. And God doesn't say, you stupid man. But when you go to the end of 216 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:22,320 his life, he says, when finally the promise comes to him, he says, I'm going to save my 217 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:29,320 life. God doesn't address the problems, but you have to deal with them. Now, why is it 218 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:36,320 done like this? I'll just explain to you a little bit this week and do more. I believe 219 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:44,680 God does this with all of us. He says, I'm going to save my life. I'm going to save my 220 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:54,240 life. I'm going to save my life. I'm going to save my life. I'm going to save my life. 221 00:28:54,240 --> 00:29:01,240 I believe God does this with all of us. He rarely addresses our problems. He always addresses 222 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:12,480 our future. Not because he doesn't want us to change. Holiness and character is crucial 223 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:20,080 to God. Can somebody say amen? God wants us to be like Jesus. God wants us, his intention 224 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:27,080 is our freedom, our effectiveness. Does he want these things in our life? No. Does he 225 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:38,760 want to permit these things for our development? No. But he gives us a future and a hope. And 226 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:47,880 I want to show you why in a moment why he works like this. You see, we want to be sort 227 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:54,880 of zapped into perfection. Zapped into Christian character. Boom! For I was an angel never 228 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:07,040 to sin anymore. I wish it was like that. Christian easyism. But it doesn't work like that. You 229 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:14,800 have to work with the Word alone. You have to let the Word to discern good and evil. 230 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:21,800 You have to let the Word make you like Jesus. For example, now in Jeremiah 29, here's this 231 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:29,680 where I'm messing up terribly. The king may be responsible for this. He's talking after 232 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,680 70 years of accomplishing Babylon, verse 10, going through circumstances. Then he says 233 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:41,200 in verse 7, for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, said the Lord. The thoughts 234 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:48,200 of peace and not of evil. Hallelujah. I thank God for that. If God dealt with your problems, 235 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:56,960 wow! Which of us could cope with it? But he keeps telling us he's got good thoughts 236 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:06,760 towards us to give us an expected end. He says pray in verse 12. Now I tell you why 237 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:13,760 now. How many want to know why? Thank you, Beth. The rest of you can listen anyway. Number 238 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:21,760 one, I mean, because the blood covenant has sealed us into our destiny. I've been talking 239 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,600 about covenants, remember, for weeks? The blood covenant has sealed us because we're 240 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:39,600 not in probation, but we're in destiny. Say with me, I'm not in probation, I'm in destiny. 241 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,360 You're not sort of God is sitting back there in heaven saying, wait till he just trips 242 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:54,360 up and I will bang him on his blessed assurance and I will deal with him. We're in destiny, 243 00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:01,360 church. And he is pushing forward. You've become a child of God and he's pushing forward 244 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:11,960 in every way he can through our downness, through our flesh, to push us into the destiny 245 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:20,160 that God has for us. And he'll do anything, anything. He did so on the cross. He gave 246 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:27,160 everything. He's prepared the whole of heaven for us. It's not for angels, for ministering 247 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:37,000 spirits. It's for us, for the men of glory, eternity with God. Hallelujah. You see, he's 248 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:44,000 not... But you see, he has totally committed himself to you. He's not about to change his 249 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:59,400 mind. He doesn't change his mind. God cannot lie. Remember Hebrews 6? He's made an oath. 250 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:06,400 And the moment you accepted Christ as your savior, you came into something of the eternal 251 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:16,440 purpose of God that I talked about, which was planned before the foundations of the 252 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:25,440 world. You're in it now. Hallelujah. You're in it now. Because why does he do it this 253 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:32,440 way? I'll tell you why. Remember what happened to Peter when he failed? He said to Peter, 254 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:41,200 I'm praying that your what? Faith. Fail not. I'm praying that you won't let go, that you 255 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:51,560 won't give up, that you won't throw in the towel, that you won't think it's all over. 256 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:58,560 And he really didn't address that thing again with Peter. Did you notice that? Never addressed 257 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,600 it. When he went away again, he says, do you love me more than these? Peter just said, 258 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:10,600 Lord, you know everything. He said, feed my sheep. Feed my sheep. He never... And he even 259 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:19,360 went and remembered the resurrection when he says, go and... I love that. Go and tell 260 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:26,360 your disciples. And Peter, oh, the love of God. Oh, the mercy of God. Because why? You 261 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:39,880 see, why does God do it this way? Because hope and faith must remain. Your great growth 262 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:46,880 comes according to your hope and to your faith. Your growth comes according to your hunger 263 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:57,480 for God, your expectation that God will not let you go. Remember that Psalm I read with 264 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:04,480 you? Because of all this, he says, my expectation is in you. And man will rest in you because 265 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:11,480 of what you have promised. Oh, shan'diria kalasa, because of what... You're not being 266 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:20,040 tested. You're being prepared, molded, fashioned. You're here for eternity. Can somebody agree 267 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:28,600 with me? And if you're really redeemed, you'll feel miserable about that stupid stuff in 268 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:35,600 your life. You won't bring choice in sin if you're really born again. You don't habitually 269 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:44,800 deliberately sin because something has happened to you. You won't throw this stuff away anymore. 270 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:52,480 Glorious things have happened to you. You're a child of the redeemed. Philippians 3, I'm 271 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:59,480 nearly through this morning. We'll go on much more next week and so on. Philippians chapter 272 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:07,360 3, turn to it, the apostle Pius. We're conscious of our needs. He was. Where am I? You find 273 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:17,160 this. Philippians 3, 13, he says, brethren, I can't let myself to have apprehended, but 274 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:24,160 this one thing I do, this one thing I do, this one thing I do, forgetting those things 275 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:31,160 which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before. I press toward the 276 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:38,160 mark for the prize of the high calling. The word there is actually ministry, what I do 277 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:47,600 for God. That's what it means. That's the word I do for God. I press toward the mark 278 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:56,840 for the prize of the high calling. The word there is actually ministry, what I do for 279 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:03,840 God. That's what it means. That's the word they use there, for the high calling of God 280 00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:11,720 in Christ Jesus. This one thing I do. Because the past, unless you lose yourself from it, 281 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:23,080 will bind you. The chains must be released. It binds you emotionally. It binds you physically. 282 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:30,080 It binds you spiritually. If you let the past be lived in the present, because that's what 283 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:40,440 Satan does. Satan's biggest job is the accuser of the brethren to take the past, to intimidate 284 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:51,320 you, to undermine you, that you lose your effectiveness and your sense of... You cannot 285 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:57,600 enter the future until you release yourself from that past. That's where faith and hope 286 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:04,160 comes in. Faith in the blood, faith in the covenant. The biggest struggle you have is 287 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:11,160 in this area. Isaiah 43 says, oh, I love this word. I am getting blessed, even if you are 288 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:19,080 not. I'm getting blessed. It says, remember not the former things. Neither consider the 289 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:26,080 things of old. Behold, I do a new thing. This is the principle of God. Don't live in the 290 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:34,680 past. Behold, I do a new thing. It shall spring forth and you shall know it. I will make the 291 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:44,080 way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. I can do anything, God says. I let the wilderness 292 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:51,080 change by my power. Rivers in the desert. But you've got to forget the past, because 293 00:38:53,240 --> 00:39:00,240 the past will kill you. Satan will make sure it intimidates you and somehow defeats you 294 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:07,760 and lets you go under until you can't even breathe anymore. Forget it, he says. Go on 295 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:14,760 to the future. Will you do that? Notice what he says in the previous verse in the film. 296 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:26,280 Back to Philippians, I am. Philippians 3, 12. Not as though I've already attained. You 297 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:34,360 never feel you've reached it, even the apostle Paul. It was already perfect, but I follow 298 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:41,360 after. That I may apprehend that which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Jesus apprehended 299 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:52,720 me when He touched me in salvation. Amen. When He touched me by His awesome grace and 300 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:59,720 power many times, amazing visitations. When He touched me with the fullness of the Holy 301 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:10,600 Spirit, He apprehended me. Now I am pursuing that which He begun in me. I am going after 302 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:19,600 with all of my might and strength and power. Can you say amen? He took hold of me at the 303 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:26,600 baptism. Then He says, this one thing I do, forget the past. He says, I haven't taken 304 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:36,760 hold of everything yet. The greatest have moments. I think of John the Baptist. I told 305 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:43,800 you that before in Matthew 11. This man that heard the voice of God at the baptism saying, 306 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:50,800 this is my beloved Son whom I'm well pleased. This man that saw the Holy Ghost descend upon 307 00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:57,680 Him like a dove, knew that He was the Son of God. This man who before he knew anything 308 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:04,680 about Him says, behold the Lamb of God. This man of tremendous power is now in prison. 309 00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:11,680 Suddenly the humanity of John comes out. He says, He sends His disciples to Jesus. He 310 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:22,800 says, are you the one? Even He, mighty man, or do you look for another? All of us have 311 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:29,800 moments. All of us have things that we sometimes struggle with. Jesus answers and says, what 312 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:45,480 He said in Luke 418. He doesn't say John Telemonte, but mystery. The blind receive 313 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:52,480 that sign. The lame walker. He says, blessed are they which are not offended in Me. For 314 00:41:55,640 --> 00:42:02,280 let anything stop you. For let anything that you go through that was like an offense to 315 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:09,280 John, he was in prison. Time had come and he would be chopped off. Don't get offended. 316 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:16,280 May I say this is that close to all of you today. In your humanity, don't get offended. 317 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:24,400 If the promises aren't yet fulfilled, don't get offended. In your limitations, don't 318 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:31,520 get offended because offense will kill you. Offense will torture you, cause you to miss 319 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:38,520 out on so much of God. I will tell you more yet why we don't receive the promises as we 320 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:49,640 go on next week. Why we at times don't receive all that God asks for us. Say with me, I'm 321 00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:56,640 not in probation. I'm in destiny and God give me hope and faith to fulfill all His plan 322 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:08,280 for my life. Give me bow and prayer. Father, help us as believers not to live in our humanity 323 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:15,280 too much. Like John even, we question the divine. Give us the ability to trust you, 324 00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:25,720 to know even when things come our way, you cannot fail. You cannot fail. Lift your hands 325 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:32,720 and say, He cannot fail, for He is God. He cannot fail. He's pledged His word. He cannot 326 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:53,720 fail. He'll see you through. He cannot fail. He'll answer you. Thank you Father. Now, what's 327 00:43:53,720 --> 00:44:00,720 your bow and prayer? May I ask, is there anyone here that doesn't know Jesus? I wouldn't live 328 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:10,680 one day without the presence of the King. Give your life to Christ today. That's the 329 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:18,320 greatest thing in the world. Give your life to Jesus. See, I don't know if I'm saved, 330 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:25,320 but I want to be saved. I want to give my heart to Jesus. If that is you this morning, 331 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:33,560 would you raise your hand? Let me pray with you. God give us faith that our faith fail 332 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:43,640 not. Come on church, give us hope to see that God will not fail us. Let no intimidation 333 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:49,880 of the enemy ever undermine our effectiveness. None should feel they don't belong to God 334 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:54,880 if they made an accompaniment with you and received Jesus. They belong to you. Hallelujah. 335 00:44:54,880 --> 00:45:01,880 Glory be to God. Can we stand please together and join hands? 336 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:08,880 Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be 337 00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:39,880 done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us faith that our faith fail not. Give us hope 338 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:46,880 that our faith fail not. Give us faith that our faith fail not. Give us hope that our 339 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:16,880 faith fail not. Give us faith that our faith fail not. Give us hope that our faith fail 340 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:47,400 not. Amen. Thank you for grace. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The grace, remember 341 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:58,040 I preached on this, whereby you know you're accepted and the beloved. The grace that says 342 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:05,040 you're perfect and the beloved. And the love of God, because God loves us with an everlasting 343 00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:12,040 love that is ever declared over our lives in so many marvelous ways. And the fellowship 344 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:19,200 of the Holy Ghost, never lose the presence of the Holy Ghost. Be with you, for now and 345 00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:26,280 forever. Amen. Remember there's coffee and tea outside for two dollars with some bikis. 346 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:33,280 And remember tonight on angels. God bless you. Please pray for that promise. Can you 347 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:59,280 say amen? Thank you again for tuning in in today's powerful message from Dr. Reginald 348 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:05,200 our community and stay updated on all our latest happenings. Remember, together we grow 349 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,440 in faith and love. Until next time, may God's blessing be with you always.