1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,520 Welcome to the NECF Podcast, where we share our weekly sermons and faithfully interpret 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:17,520 the Bible to encourage and direct you on your spiritual path. 3 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:22,800 We are devoted pastors and special guests, devout to the depths of the Bible, exploring 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,580 its profound lessons and useful applications for your daily life. 5 00:00:27,580 --> 00:00:57,280 Join us as we explore the timeless truth that have the power to change people's hearts 6 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:05,880 and minds, promoting a closer relationship with God and a firm belief in His promises. 7 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:11,560 And the reason why we call this life eternal is because it's a life that cannot end. 8 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,600 And this is not because you do something to earn it. 9 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:21,240 It's not a life that you earned by works, but it's a life that you earned by what Christ 10 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:22,680 has done. 11 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:24,000 Hallelujah. 12 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,800 Christ is the one that died, Christ is the one that was raised from the dead by the Holy 13 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:35,280 Ghost, and Christ is the one that gave to you or has given you the gift of the Spirit. 14 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,640 And the gift of the Spirit in you is what guarantees that you are eternally secured 15 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,240 and preserved and protected. 16 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,240 Hallelujah. 17 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,400 That is your reality as a believer. 18 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,780 And that is what we've been trying to understand is spirit-led life. 19 00:01:48,780 --> 00:01:51,520 So we understand the gifts that we have. 20 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,200 You and I have been given a special gift. 21 00:01:54,200 --> 00:02:00,520 Now it's quite very important for us to study what we have, to understand what we have, 22 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,480 not only to understand it, but to appropriate it in our lives. 23 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,240 Some of the happenings in our lives is as a result of our lack of understanding of who 24 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:14,720 we are, is a lack of understanding of what Christ has done for us, is a lack of understanding 25 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,200 of the things that we have in Christ. 26 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,960 Oftentimes we suffer unnecessarily because we are not aware of what we have. 27 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,600 We are not aware of the authority that we have in Christ Jesus. 28 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:29,760 We are not aware of the resources, the riches, and the wealth that we have embedded in our 29 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,560 identity as the children of God. 30 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,920 Imagine the God of the universe, the father of all creation, the one who created the heavens 31 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:38,920 and the earth. 32 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:39,920 It's your father. 33 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:40,920 It's your father. 34 00:02:40,920 --> 00:02:41,920 He resides in you. 35 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:42,920 Hallelujah. 36 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:46,560 So we began looking at promises. 37 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,200 We say that this life that we have was promised. 38 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:50,200 Amen. 39 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,840 We say it was a promise that God made. 40 00:02:53,840 --> 00:03:00,320 And in the story of this promise, or rather promises in scriptures, we came across a time, 41 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:07,400 a covenant, and we say that God went into a covenant to ensure the delivery of his promise 42 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,400 to us. 43 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,400 Amen. 44 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,240 God made a covenant to ensure what? 45 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,680 The delivery of his promise to us. 46 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:22,200 He put his integrity on the line to ensure the successful completion of what he has promised. 47 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,120 And we say that all the promises of God are accomplished in who? 48 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,040 Are accomplished in the person of Christ Jesus. 49 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,640 So when you have Christ, you have all that it takes. 50 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,680 You have all the promises of God. 51 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:38,960 Because all the promises of God are yes, they are amen in Christ Jesus. 52 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,280 Hallelujah. 53 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,480 So we came across the word covenant, and we began studying what covenant is. 54 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,120 Just briefly, then we move. 55 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,880 We came across in scriptures, as though there are three different covenants. 56 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,960 And the first one we saw in the Old Testament part, the part of scripture we call the Old 57 00:03:54,960 --> 00:04:00,200 Testament especially, you know, when the Israelites were coming out of Egypt, and there was a 58 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,680 covenant that was instituted by Moses. 59 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:08,680 Covenant, and this covenant is what the scripture refer it to, what the first covenant. 60 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:15,440 And we agree with me that we saw that the word first does not mean timing, right? 61 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,120 It doesn't mean, oh, this is first, this is second, this is third, no. 62 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:24,040 So what the Israelites were given through Moses by angels is what we call the first 63 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,160 covenant, and it's also referred to as the Old Covenant. 64 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,160 It is the one given through Moses. 65 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:37,080 And there is a promise after that, that there will be a new covenant, the new covenant or 66 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,960 a second covenant that will come to be. 67 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,160 And in our story we discovered that this second or new covenant is actually not new per se 68 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,440 because it was a covenant that was already promised to Abraham even before what happened 69 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:54,440 in the Exodus, right? 70 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:55,440 After the Exodus in Egypt. 71 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:01,200 And what God gave to Abraham was a covenant of what? 72 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,120 Of salvation to mankind. 73 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,800 The promise was that man or humanity will be saved. 74 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:12,320 So actually what happened was that what we call the new covenant or the second covenant 75 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:20,040 is actually the previous covenant God made with Abraham even before, you know, the Exodus. 76 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:26,480 So why was the first, why was it, why was there a need for the statement of what God 77 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,760 has already done with Abraham? 78 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,880 Because the children of Israel were found in unbelief. 79 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:38,320 They were found in unbelief, therefore the enactment or the introduction, introduction 80 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:45,480 or the Old Covenant was added, meaning that it was introduced because they disbelieved 81 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:51,800 first and foremost the covenant of God through their fathers from Abraham to Isaac down to 82 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,740 Jacob and even to Moses. 83 00:05:53,740 --> 00:05:58,640 So because of unbelief, there was an introduction of another. 84 00:05:58,640 --> 00:05:59,960 Hallelujah. 85 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:05,360 So the expectation of God was for what, for them to exercise faith, for them to exercise 86 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,360 what? 87 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:07,360 Faith. 88 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,160 But they were found to be in unbelief. 89 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,160 Hallelujah. 90 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:17,080 And we concluded that Jesus Christ coming was a fulfillment of the covenant God made 91 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,440 with Abraham, the promise through Abraham. 92 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:25,160 And we say that Abraham was not expected to do anything. 93 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,200 It was God himself. 94 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,400 The covenant is not between two equals. 95 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,960 It was not between one that would do a particular, play a particular role and another will play 96 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:33,960 his own part. 97 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:34,960 No. 98 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,040 It's God all by himself, entering into a covenant by himself. 99 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,500 The Bible says that he's so by himself because there's no other name that he can sway by. 100 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:50,560 So God went into a covenant with himself and he ensured and we look through history that 101 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:57,920 no calculation of man, no orchestration of certain could sabotage the promise of Christ 102 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:03,000 coming to the world, dying, resurrecting and giving us a promise. 103 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Hallelujah. 104 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:09,880 And we see Jesus in Luke chapter four, 24 verse 49, Luke chapter 24 verse 49. 105 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:15,240 We see when Jesus has resurrected, he told the disciples or rather the apostles, give 106 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,720 me Luke chapter 24 verse 49. 107 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:23,920 He says, and behold, I sent the promise of my father upon you. 108 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:31,120 Now, but tarry he in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endured power from on high. 109 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:36,040 So after Jesus have accomplished everything, he now deliver the promise that a father has 110 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:41,840 made and has accomplished in all that Christ has done. 111 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:42,840 Hallelujah. 112 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:44,320 Praise Jesus. 113 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,120 So today we'll continue in our study of the promises of God. 114 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,320 What has God promised? 115 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:51,920 What has God promised? 116 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,840 Romans 8 verse 14, let's go on to Romans 8 verse 14. 117 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:58,560 Romans 8 verse 14, we'll read to verse 17. 118 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:07,560 For as many as are led by the spirit of God, as many as are directed, as many as are led 119 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,760 by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 120 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:18,960 For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received a spirit 121 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:22,040 of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 122 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:28,480 The spirit himself, rather I will say himself, beareth witness with our spirit that we are 123 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,480 the children of God. 124 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:31,480 Verse 17. 125 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:37,400 And if children, then heirs, and heirs of God, and heirs with Christ. 126 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:42,440 If so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together. 127 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:43,440 Hallelujah. 128 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:49,840 Now the spirit of God only leads those who are what, who are sons, amen. 129 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:50,840 Say I am a son. 130 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:52,840 If you are not sure, don't say it. 131 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,440 If you are not born again, you are not a son. 132 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:59,160 How we came into sonship is by believing, amen. 133 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:00,160 Is by believing. 134 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:06,920 The moment you believe, you know, we're taught a doctrine some years ago, and we have actually 135 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,240 tried to teach that kind of doctrine. 136 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,560 That when you became born again, you are what? 137 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:15,740 You are a child of God. 138 00:09:15,740 --> 00:09:21,520 And then you grow into sonship, and I found out that it may not necessarily be accurate. 139 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:22,520 Hallelujah. 140 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,600 The day you are born again, you are what? 141 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,600 You are a son. 142 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,640 Meaning that all of these gods is yours in Christ Jesus. 143 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:37,060 Now your mind, right, may be conflicting with your identity. 144 00:09:37,060 --> 00:09:41,160 If God says you are a son, your mind should not say otherwise. 145 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,680 Oh, you know, I have sinned and I have fallen, I'm not worthy. 146 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:47,520 That is pride, amen. 147 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,400 That is seeing yourself beyond what God says you are. 148 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:52,880 Less or more is pride. 149 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,560 And it's walking in unbelief. 150 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:55,560 Hallelujah. 151 00:09:55,560 --> 00:10:02,280 So he says, as many as are led, when were you led by the spirit of salvation? 152 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,280 Amen. 153 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,680 The first leading you receive is that you receive the word of God. 154 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:09,440 What is the word of God you receive? 155 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,600 Receive the message concerning the promise of God. 156 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:13,600 What is the promise? 157 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:20,120 The promise is that God is forgiving sins through the eternal sacrifice of Jesus. 158 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,960 And you believe you've been led by the spirit of God into believing in that promise, and 159 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,120 you've received the gift of the spirit of God. 160 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:30,920 Therefore you are a son of God. 161 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,880 And sonship means that all that is God is yours through Christ Jesus. 162 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:36,880 Hallelujah. 163 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,880 I was thinking somebody will rejoice for this. 164 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:45,100 Because we are born of the spirit, we are led by the spirit. 165 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:47,680 We are born of God. 166 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:50,120 God becomes our father. 167 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,120 Imagine God. 168 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:56,400 See, we sometimes see God in a way that God doesn't want us to see him. 169 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:57,400 Amen. 170 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,040 We see God in a way that God doesn't want us to see him. 171 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,880 We'll see it briefly. 172 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,760 That God's will for you is to see him as your father. 173 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:06,760 Amen. 174 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,680 And that was his intention right from the beginning, from the foundation of the world. 175 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,560 Because God was interested in a family. 176 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:15,880 God is a family God. 177 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:16,880 Amen. 178 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:24,060 And what he wants to reflect to us is his loving kindness as father. 179 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:26,420 So God becomes your father. 180 00:11:26,420 --> 00:11:30,760 He becomes my father through the redemptive work of Christ. 181 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:31,760 When you believe. 182 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:32,760 Amen. 183 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:33,760 When you believe. 184 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:42,860 Now, father, the word father, listen, the word father was never used to God in the entire 185 00:11:42,860 --> 00:11:44,720 Old Testament scriptures. 186 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:49,600 If you've studied the Old Testament, what we call, when I say Old Testament contextually, 187 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,120 what I'm meaning is where Genesis to Malachi. 188 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:56,000 I'm very intentional about specifying what I mean by Old Testament. 189 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,260 All right? 190 00:11:57,260 --> 00:12:01,320 Because even what we call New Testament is part of Old Testament as well. 191 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,320 All right? 192 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:09,240 By the standard, what is old, what make old old is what? 193 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,520 The redemptive work, the resurrection of Christ. 194 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:12,520 Hallelujah. 195 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:18,360 So, God rather was never called a father in the Old Testament part of the scriptures, 196 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,140 from Genesis to Malachi. 197 00:12:20,140 --> 00:12:26,400 He was never referred to as father by any man who will see it introduced only in the 198 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,600 part of scripture we call the New Testament. 199 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,680 And the first person they introduced this is Jesus, even before his resurrection. 200 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:36,560 But at this time, he was God, he was Jesus' father. 201 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:37,840 Amen? 202 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,920 Not any man's father. 203 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:45,020 Let's look at the reaction of the Jews to Jesus calling God his father. 204 00:12:45,020 --> 00:12:48,040 He was in trouble with the Jewish people. 205 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,440 John chapter 15 verse, John chapter 5, rather, verse 16. 206 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:52,960 John chapter 5 verse 16. 207 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:59,280 For this reason, John 5, 16 to 18, for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought 208 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,700 to kill him because he had done these things on the Sabbath, verse 17. 209 00:13:03,700 --> 00:13:09,080 But Jesus answered them, my father, look at Jesus here, my father has been working until 210 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,640 now and I have been working. 211 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,800 Therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill him. 212 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,960 Why did they want to kill him? 213 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:23,720 Because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was what? 214 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:24,720 Was his father. 215 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,320 For them, for you to associate yourself with God and say God is your father is what is 216 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,360 blasphemy. 217 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,720 Because God cannot have a son, you are not worthy to be a son of God. 218 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,240 He is saying God is his father, do you know what he has done? 219 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,280 He has made himself equal, he has made himself divine. 220 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:42,280 Amen? 221 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,840 He has made himself divine, he has made himself of equal nature with God. 222 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:52,200 One of us because of our understanding of fatherhood, unfortunately, we have experienced 223 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:59,360 naturally in a sense, a bad example of a father, therefore when we are saying God is a father, 224 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:01,680 the first picture that comes to you is your biological father. 225 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:06,880 Oh, when the father comes to the house, everybody disappears and go into hiding. 226 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:13,040 You will be praying, when will this father travel so that we can play, so we can enjoy. 227 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:19,240 But if you are looking for a perfect example of fatherhood, you study God, hallelujah. 228 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,380 God is a perfect example of fatherhood. 229 00:14:21,380 --> 00:14:25,600 So these men here wanted to kill him, Jesus, because what? 230 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,200 They understood what Jesus was saying. 231 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,680 For you to call God your father, it means that you are of the same nature with God and 232 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:34,680 that is blasphemy. 233 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:41,280 Again, John chapter 10 verse 30, 29, we see another circumstances where, you know, the 234 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:46,040 Jewish leaders accused Jesus of blasphemy because he claimed unity with the father. 235 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,960 John chapter 10 verse 30, I and my father are what? 236 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:51,960 Are one. 237 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,440 Then the Jews took stones. 238 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:55,240 These people love carrying stones. 239 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,240 Whenever they hear something they don't understand, what they go for quickly is a stone. 240 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,600 And actually, actually, that is the behavior of many of us. 241 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:08,680 The moment light want to shine in your dark heart, you pick up stones to terminate the 242 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:09,680 light. 243 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:10,680 Amen. 244 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,080 So we can change of mind. 245 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,160 So we can, that prayer, you see, we are the problem for that prayer. 246 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,320 That prayer we prayed, grow in what? 247 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:19,320 In knowledge. 248 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:20,960 Grow, want to grow. 249 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,480 But the problem is not with God. 250 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,580 The biggest problem is not even any safe. 251 00:15:26,580 --> 00:15:27,840 The biggest problem is you. 252 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,320 So the Jews took up stones again to stun him. 253 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,440 Verse 32, quickly. 254 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:39,400 Jesus answered them, many good works I have shown you from my father for which those works 255 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,760 do you stun me? 256 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,720 The Jews answered him saying for a good work we do not stun you, but for blasphemy. 257 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,520 And because you, you, being what? 258 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,700 Being a man, make yourself God. 259 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:59,640 What he mean by saying he and God, he and the father are one, mean that he has equated 260 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:00,640 himself. 261 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,840 He has said I is equal to God. 262 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:04,840 Amen. 263 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,520 Now look at his continuation. 264 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,400 Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law? 265 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,840 I said ye are gods. 266 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:20,480 If ye call them gods, to whom the word of God came, who are those? 267 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:21,840 That is the men of old. 268 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,520 And the scripture cannot be broken. 269 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:32,460 Do you say of him whom the father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blaspheming? 270 00:16:32,460 --> 00:16:34,720 Because I said I am the son of God. 271 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,520 So they want to stun him because he said he is the son of God. 272 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:38,520 Verse 37. 273 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:44,760 If I do not do the works of my father, do not believe me. 274 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:52,080 But if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the works that you may know and believe 275 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,800 the father is where, is in me and I in him. 276 00:16:56,800 --> 00:17:01,960 So this is the same fact we lay claim of at salvation. 277 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:07,360 That the believer and God has come into what has come into oneness. 278 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:10,240 The believer and God has come into union. 279 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,000 The believer and God has come into this union that is eternal. 280 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,320 Into this union of a father and a son. 281 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,160 First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17. 282 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,000 First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17. 283 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:27,480 It says but he who is what, who is joined to the Lord in one is what? 284 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,080 Is one spirit with him. 285 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:31,080 Amen. 286 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,280 And what, who is joined, how do we become joined with the father? 287 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,320 When we believe the spirit of God and our spirit has come into union. 288 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,320 So we are what? 289 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:41,240 We are the sons of God. 290 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:42,680 We are one with God. 291 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,920 When are caught with God. 292 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:45,840 We are in union with God. 293 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,440 When agreement with God. 294 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,120 When eternal agreement with God. 295 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:54,260 We cannot be separated from this unity with God because you believe. 296 00:17:54,260 --> 00:17:58,240 Not also that Jesus never refers to God as a father to any man. 297 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:05,520 I've said this earlier on, up until now Jesus has never said God is a father to any man 298 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:06,520 except himself. 299 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:07,520 Amen. 300 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:08,960 So except himself. 301 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,320 But at the resurrection we see a change. 302 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:14,360 It's a change in the fatherhood of God. 303 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:15,920 John chapter 20 verse 11. 304 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,800 Let's see how it was changed. 305 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:22,120 When Jesus resurrected there was a change in the fatherhood of God. 306 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:26,440 But Mary stood outside by the tomb when Jesus has resurrected and the context is that oh 307 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,320 they came to the tomb looking for the body and the body was missing and then there were 308 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,680 a lot of shenanigans that happened and then Mary was there but Mary stood outside by the 309 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:41,840 tomb weeping and as she wept she stood down and looked into the tomb and she saw two angels 310 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:48,200 white sitting one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had laid 311 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,200 at land. 312 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,960 Then they said to her, woman why are you weeping? 313 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:57,840 She said to them because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have 314 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,360 laid him. 315 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:04,640 Now when she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know 316 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:05,640 that it was Jesus. 317 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,800 Jesus said to her, woman why are you weeping? 318 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,400 Whom are you seeking? 319 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:16,800 She said supposing him to be the gardener said to him, sir if you have carried him away 320 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,240 tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away. 321 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,760 Jesus said to her, Mary. 322 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,560 She turned and said to him, Rabboni, which is to say teacher. 323 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,840 Jesus said to her, do not cling to me for what? 324 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,080 For I have not yet ascended to the father. 325 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,080 To whose father here? 326 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,320 Look at this verse clearly. 327 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:37,720 I have not yet ascended to whose father? 328 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,160 To my father, right? 329 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:41,480 But go to where? 330 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,520 To my brethren. 331 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,280 Now this is family here. 332 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:46,280 To my brethren. 333 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,280 This is family here. 334 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,040 I say to them, I am ascended to my father and whose father? 335 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:53,920 And your father. 336 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,120 And my God and your God. 337 00:19:56,120 --> 00:20:02,960 So at the resurrection God did not only become a father to Jesus on earth but he became father 338 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,920 to all who believed. 339 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:05,920 Amen. 340 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:11,600 This is the point where we came into, you know, the family at the resurrection. 341 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,740 Jesus is no longer the only begotten son of God. 342 00:20:14,740 --> 00:20:18,280 He was the only begotten because he was the only son. 343 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,840 Because he came from God. 344 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,160 But at the resurrection Jesus is no longer the only begotten. 345 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,480 Jesus is the first begotten and we are many brethren. 346 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:29,480 Hallelujah. 347 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,240 We've come into the family of God. 348 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:33,040 We've come into fellowship with God. 349 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:34,680 We've come into union with God. 350 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,640 We've come into this family. 351 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:37,800 This oneness. 352 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,760 God becomes our source. 353 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,760 God becomes our provider. 354 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:45,440 And it's a comfort for you this morning that God is your source. 355 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:46,440 Amen. 356 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,120 God is your comfort. 357 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,880 God is your protection. 358 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:50,880 God is your father. 359 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,920 And if God is your father you have everything you need in Christ Jesus. 360 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,200 And all the promises of God are for you, a son. 361 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,620 The spirit of God is for you, a son. 362 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:06,000 To manifest the gifts is for you, the son. 363 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,280 To manifest the spirit life, the spirit life or rather the spirit of God that lives in 364 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:11,280 you is for you. 365 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:13,360 It is a right for you. 366 00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,020 It is what defines our family. 367 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:21,560 What makes us family and brethren is the indwelling of the spirit of God. 368 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:27,480 And all the activities that is expected of a man full of the spirit of God is for every 369 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,400 member of the family. 370 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:34,880 It's not because you've done something good that warrants you exercising all the wealth 371 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,680 and the riches that are in the kingdom, in the family. 372 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:38,680 Hallelujah. 373 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:43,480 The disciples are now breaded together with Christ at resurrection. 374 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,320 Now let's go back to Romans 8 verse 14, particularly verse 15. 375 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,080 Romans chapter 8 verse 15. 376 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,640 It says for you, you did not receive the spirit of bondage. 377 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:01,680 So the spirit we have is not a spirit that keeps us in bondage to fear, but you receive 378 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:11,040 the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father, Abba Father. 379 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:16,260 So the believer received that spirit that brings him into an intimate relationship with 380 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:17,260 God. 381 00:22:17,260 --> 00:22:22,200 He therefore can refer to God as Abba, amen, as Abba, Abba Father. 382 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,600 Now the word Abba is an Aramaic word. 383 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,080 It's not completely Hebrew. 384 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:37,200 It is like a colloquial expression of the Hebrew language. 385 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,840 It's in what we call the Pidgin or day to day language. 386 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,040 It's not an official language. 387 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:48,740 And this Abba expresses a sense of tenderness and affection to another. 388 00:22:48,740 --> 00:22:52,880 It expresses this sense of closeness and affection to another. 389 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:58,200 So we are to call God Abba because we've been brought into this union with him. 390 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,280 He is our Abba, Abba Father, amen. 391 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:06,560 Now, you know, when I was, I was told in, I came across a thought. 392 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:12,160 I said, there's a difference between having a father and having a daddy. 393 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,000 There's a difference between how anybody can be a father. 394 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,360 So long as you are matured biologically, you can be a father. 395 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:23,560 You know, I was watching a video of a kid, a baby, one of the shows, Steve Harvey, I'll 396 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,720 be very precise. 397 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:30,040 And the girl was brought to the show because she was smart, a little girl, you know, and 398 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:36,040 she was asked to identify a man from the crowd as this, you know, if he was her father. 399 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,400 And the young girl politely say he isn't, he isn't father, but he is daddy. 400 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,520 He know that he's not father, but he's daddy. 401 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,120 Some of you may have come across it. 402 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:48,480 And I was like, hmm, there's something intimate between this girl and this man. 403 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,640 He's not just a father to her, but he's a daddy. 404 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,680 Amen. 405 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,920 And then being daddy, it takes a special man. 406 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,760 Steve Harvey says you take a special man. 407 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,320 That any man can be a father, but it takes a special man. 408 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:06,120 They have done a special responsibility in the life of a child for the child to say you 409 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:09,040 are daddy, you are not just father, but you are daddy. 410 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:14,600 Daddy expresses this sense of closeness, expresses this sense of this sense of relationship that 411 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:19,080 is intimate, that is not just, it's not just official. 412 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,760 You know, some of us, our parents, we, we, before we, we ask our parents some things, 413 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:23,760 we have to write a letter. 414 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:24,760 It's a format. 415 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,200 We will write a letter and we don't give it to him directly. 416 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:33,440 We go to the mother and she will now prove, read the letter and ensure that the tune is 417 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,440 okay, that she can deliver to the father of the house. 418 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,600 No, no, no, no, no. 419 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,040 Abba is like saying daddy. 420 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,800 It's like saying in Nigeria we say pop see, pop man. 421 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,400 You know, it's not better English, right? 422 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,760 But it shows this sense of closeness, this sense of affection. 423 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,080 So because you are a son, you can say Abba. 424 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:57,400 So when you come to pray, you don't begin to say God of all nations, the ancients of 425 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:04,320 this, the I am that I am, the one who move mountains, the one who speak as smoke, come 426 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,540 out of the, say Abba, you know, in an attempt to sound spiritual. 427 00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:14,640 We invent names that are used in the shrine in Africa to call God, especially the Southwest 428 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:15,640 Nigeria. 429 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,640 I didn't say Yoruba. 430 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,640 Amen. 431 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,960 And what God wants from you is to see him as Abba. 432 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,000 Father is even, is even official. 433 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,580 Say Abba, father, say Abba. 434 00:25:25,580 --> 00:25:26,580 Say God is my Abba. 435 00:25:26,580 --> 00:25:27,580 He's my pop man. 436 00:25:27,580 --> 00:25:28,580 Amen. 437 00:25:28,580 --> 00:25:30,960 The word Abba shows this sense of affection. 438 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,760 It was from Arabic, but in the scriptures, it was never translated to English. 439 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,760 It maintains because how will it even translate it? 440 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:39,760 It will lose its meaning. 441 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,240 They just leave it as Abba. 442 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:46,520 We can say example in Mark, Mark chapter 14 verse 36, where it is used, Mark chapter 443 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,760 14 verse 36, Mark 14, that's specifically. 444 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,760 Yes. 445 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,600 And he said Abba, father, this is Jesus. 446 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,720 Things, all things are possible for you. 447 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,000 So you see Jesus, when Jesus was praying, he was not using the metal we are using, you 448 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,480 know, when he asked people to pray in church, that's when you, you see how people will try 449 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:09,560 to manifest how spiritual and how, you know, don't complicate it. 450 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:10,560 Don't complicate it. 451 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,520 Call, learn how to call God father. 452 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,680 Thunder will not strike you. 453 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,680 Right? 454 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:16,680 Nothing will happen to you. 455 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:17,680 He's your father. 456 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,680 That is a kind of confidence you come into. 457 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,600 Prayer, if you want to pray, that should be your mindset because you are a son. 458 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:25,680 So you call him father. 459 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:27,000 You call him Abba father. 460 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,480 So Jesus here says what? 461 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,120 Abba father, all things are possible for you. 462 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,760 Take this call away from me, nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will. 463 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:40,120 You will see also in Galatians 4 verse 6, where the word Abba was used. 464 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,680 And because you are sons, what happened? 465 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,000 God has sent for the spirit of his son into your hearts. 466 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 What is the spirit crying? 467 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,200 Ancient of this, the I am that I am, the God of Elijah, he's not even your God. 468 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:54,960 What does the spirit cries out? 469 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:55,960 He cries Abba. 470 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:56,960 Amen. 471 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:57,960 Say God is my daddy. 472 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,960 You know what is funny about us? 473 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:02,440 We sing my daddy, my daddy, your bikinis. 474 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,840 But we'll go back and we'll be, we're saying with our lips, but our mind is not allowing 475 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:09,160 what we're saying with our mouths. 476 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,160 In this church, we'll sing it. 477 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,160 We'll teach it. 478 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,240 We'll edify you with it. 479 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,800 We'll enforce it in your spirit until you come to the point that you begin to act it 480 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,080 and you begin to manifest your right as a son in this kingdom. 481 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,080 Amen. 482 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,840 That is why our message will never change. 483 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,200 Until you come to this realization of who you are in Christ, until you come to the realization 484 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,240 of what Christ has done and has brought you into our message will never change. 485 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,680 We see Abba father. 486 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,800 We see the word father from the good word pather. 487 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,840 P A T E R. 488 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:44,840 What does it mean? 489 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,120 It means ancestor. 490 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,640 It means originator. 491 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,560 We originated from God. 492 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:51,560 Amen. 493 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:57,840 You originated from God because you believe you originate, you were born in the spirit 494 00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,680 or rather by the spirit. 495 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,640 Because as I said, God intent was family. 496 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,760 God is a family God. 497 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,080 In creating Adam, God wanted a family. 498 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:09,080 That was his goal. 499 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,080 That was his purpose. 500 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:14,160 And God wants us to see him and know him as father. 501 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:18,400 Now we'll see Paul introduces God as father in Ephesians in the epistles now. 502 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:25,200 Going to the epistles to see where Paul begin to explain God as father. 503 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,560 Ephesians 31 verse 16. 504 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:28,560 Let's do this. 505 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,480 Ephesians 1, 16 to 18. 506 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:37,080 Do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God 507 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:45,920 of our Lord Jesus Christ, the word the father of glory, the word father, the father of glory 508 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,520 may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your 509 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:51,520 understanding. 510 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,520 The next verse. 511 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:57,400 Being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches 512 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,320 of the glory of his inheritance in a sense. 513 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,800 And then chapter 2 verse 18. 514 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:03,800 Chapter 2 verse 18. 515 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:11,560 For to him we both have access by one spirit to the father. 516 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,600 Now we see consistently the usage of the word father because at this point God has become 517 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,800 father to us. 518 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,880 After the resurrection he has become father. 519 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:20,880 Chapter 3 verse 14. 520 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:21,880 Ephesians 3 verse 14. 521 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:22,880 Ephesians 3 verse 14. 522 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:28,560 For this reason I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 523 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,040 Thing verse 15. 524 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,040 From whom what? 525 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,560 The whole family in heaven and on earth is named. 526 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,360 I'll leave that name there. 527 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,360 Let's leave it for people that know what named means. 528 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,600 Chapter 4 verse 1 to 6. 529 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,480 Chapter 4 verse 1 to 6. 530 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,760 I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to work worthy of the calling with which 531 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:49,760 you were called. 532 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:50,880 What calling were you called? 533 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,760 With all lordliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love because we 534 00:29:54,760 --> 00:30:01,480 are of this family together, enduring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bone of peace. 535 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:09,080 There is one word body, one spirit just as you were called into one hope of your calling. 536 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,400 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. 537 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,040 So we are calling to a family. 538 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,920 We are meant to keep the unity of this family. 539 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,600 Chapter 5 verse 1. 540 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,320 Therefore be imitators of God as what? 541 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,320 As what? 542 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,360 As children. 543 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,480 Not just children but as dear children. 544 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:33,440 Meaning affection, meaning intimacy, meaning just you are not a prodigal son, you are a 545 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,780 dear son, right? 546 00:30:34,780 --> 00:30:36,880 So we are of the household of God. 547 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:37,880 It's a family business. 548 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,560 It's a family thing. 549 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:40,800 We belong to the family. 550 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,960 There is a truth in seeing and knowing God as a father. 551 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,320 As, not a father, as the father. 552 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:48,880 There's truth in what? 553 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:54,560 In knowing and seeing God as the father. 554 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,440 So let me ask a question. 555 00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,480 How did the apostle came to the place of calling God father? 556 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,360 How did the early apostle go to the concept, you know, the concept of calling God father? 557 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,160 Was it something they just invented? 558 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,280 Was it something they just came, ah, if you call God father it will make sense. 559 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,280 It will bomb. 560 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,960 If God is now father it will be different from the Jewish people. 561 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:15,960 It will be nice. 562 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,840 You know, the Jews, the Pharisees, they didn't see God as father. 563 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:19,840 Now we know him. 564 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:20,840 He's close to us. 565 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,840 So let's just call him father. 566 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:22,840 Is that what happened? 567 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:23,840 Eh? 568 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:29,560 It is evident that nowhere in the Old Testament anyone called God father. 569 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,680 How did they come up with the concept of this concept? 570 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,560 Someone heard, I heard someone say it's from Jesus. 571 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,280 It's partly true. 572 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,560 But Jesus never invented anything when he came here. 573 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,880 He came to do, to fulfill. 574 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,700 He came to accomplish all that has been said. 575 00:31:45,700 --> 00:31:51,080 So if God is referred to as father in the New Testament, there must be a promise of 576 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,080 him. 577 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,560 You know, all this movement is to come to a point where we see in the scriptures, there 578 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,240 must be a promise of him being a father in the Old Testament scriptures. 579 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:05,440 And when we say the Old Testament, we're meaning toward from Genesis to Malachi. 580 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,720 We've met in this conversation here in the gospels. 581 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:16,560 So Genesis to Malachi contains both promises and mysteries, we've said it earlier on, which 582 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,920 are progressively revealed and fulfilled in Christ. 583 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:26,360 And this promise of God being father was spoken by God through the prophets and our promises 584 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:31,720 wrapped up in shadows and figures of speech, what we call mysteries. 585 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:38,520 So in between Genesis and Malachi, there is a conversation of God being a father, but 586 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:39,960 it's wrapped up in mysteries. 587 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,600 It's wrapped up in what we call parables. 588 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,280 And a parable must be taught. 589 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,360 Now nobody gives meaning to a parable. 590 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,400 The one who speaks the parable is the one who gives meaning to it. 591 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,760 So you can now come and say, oh, I think what Pastor Victor was meaning by this parable 592 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,280 is no, no, no, he is the one that spoke the parable. 593 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,440 So he is the one you can go to for the meaning of what he said. 594 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:07,400 And in scriptures there is meaning for what has been concealed, rightly explained in mysteries. 595 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:12,480 Here it means something that requires explanation, right? 596 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,840 Do we have time to look at where it is? 597 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,640 Let's do this briefly and then we go. 598 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,000 Isaiah 53 verse 10. 599 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,400 Isaiah 53 verse 10. 600 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,400 You mean there is a place in the Old Testament that prophesied about God being the father, 601 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,760 yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. 602 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:27,760 Who is it? 603 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:28,760 Who is the him here? 604 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,320 In the context, previous texts have confirmed who is speaking here. 605 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,000 Now let's look at Isaiah 7 verse 14 before we come back here. 606 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,840 Isaiah 7 verse 14, the same book, Isaiah 7 verse 14. 607 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:44,800 Isaiah 7 verse 14, therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign, behold, the virgin will 608 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:50,360 conceive and bear a son and shall call his name while Emmanuel. 609 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:51,360 Talking about Jesus. 610 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,960 Chapter 9 verse 17, also confirming that the conversation here is about Jesus. 611 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:58,680 Chapter 9 verse 17. 612 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:04,960 Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young, nor have mercy on their fatherless 613 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,360 and widows. 614 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,200 For everyone, my reading is right, please. 615 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,600 I got this text wrong. 616 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:10,600 Is it what? 617 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,600 Chapter 6, 9 verse 6. 618 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,600 Okay, 9 verse 6. 619 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:15,600 Yes. 620 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,960 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon 621 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,800 his shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting 622 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:29,000 Father, Prince of Peace, and we will see all along the previous scriptures pointing to 623 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000 Jesus Christ. 624 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,560 Now let's move to chapter 53 verse 10. 625 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,440 It is, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. 626 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,880 He put him, he has put him to grief. 627 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,560 When you make his soul an offering for sin, does it talk about the death, the burial, 628 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,960 and resurrection of Jesus Christ? 629 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:49,000 Is it talking about the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ? 630 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,560 Yet it pleased the Lord to do what? 631 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:56,880 To bruise him, he has put him into grief, when you make his soul an offering for what? 632 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:57,880 Sin. 633 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,000 Means Jesus offered for sin, sacrificed for sin. 634 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,080 He shall be, he shall what? 635 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:04,520 He shall see what? 636 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:05,940 He shall see his what? 637 00:35:05,940 --> 00:35:06,940 On the land that sit. 638 00:35:06,940 --> 00:35:09,360 Who shall see his seat? 639 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,320 He shall see his seat. 640 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:19,000 He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 641 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,200 In Texas, he shall see his seat. 642 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,840 The word seat is translated from a Hebrew word, zera, seat. 643 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,520 And it's oftentimes used for descendants. 644 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,840 It's used for descendants. 645 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,960 So he shall see his sons. 646 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:42,120 He shall see his descendants, meaning that there will be sons, meaning that there will 647 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,680 be family, meaning that there will be a community. 648 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:53,600 He shall see his seat, and seat normally is used to refer to descendants. 649 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:59,480 Prolong his days mean a rock, and is a word that means to lengthen something. 650 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:04,280 His days have been prolonged at the word of resurrection, which means that it is eternal. 651 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,140 We'll explain that much more better next time. 652 00:36:07,140 --> 00:36:11,520 So in the resurrection of Jesus, there shall be a family or a people. 653 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,040 It means there will be descendants or children or sons. 654 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,840 His days will prolong. 655 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:23,640 The text carries in it the promise of a resurrection, and what will come forth is a seat, right? 656 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,440 It carries a promise of the resurrection, the death, the burial, the resurrection of 657 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,640 Jesus Christ, and then the promise of a seat that will be bathed out of this that will 658 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:33,640 happen. 659 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,080 So when Christ died and he rose again, there was a bath. 660 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,080 Amen? 661 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:46,920 In Isaiah 53, verse 10, we see the promise of the new creation, the promise of sons in 662 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:47,920 Jesus Christ. 663 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:49,720 The promise of sons in Jesus Christ. 664 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:53,640 So we're going to double more into sonship next time, but I want you to know when you 665 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,000 leave this place that you're not a second-class son. 666 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Amen? 667 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000 It's a common salvation, common spirit, one body, one spirit. 668 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,920 So the spirit in you is not a counterfeit spirit. 669 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:08,920 The spirit in you is not the prototype of another. 670 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:13,640 It's not different from the spirit that is in your pastor. 671 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:20,400 The spirit in you is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the death, the same spirit 672 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:29,560 that men are healed of diseases, the same spirit that yokes are broken, the same spirit 673 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:36,280 by which we cast out devils, the same spirit by which we give revelational knowledge and 674 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:43,600 prophetic words, the same spirit by which we teach the world, the same spirit by which 675 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:51,840 we do every work in this kingdom, same quality, the same person, the same individual, the 676 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:57,000 same work he is doing in me, the same work he's doing in you. 677 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,840 Our result must be same. 678 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:07,160 We must allow him to be expressed through us and we see him manifested. 679 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:14,080 You see, all the things we see in the eyewitnesses in the book of Acts is for every son. 680 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,080 Hallelujah. 681 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,680 And you are a son. 682 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,360 You are a son. 683 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:23,320 So when Pastor says we heal the sick, I heal the sick, you heal the sick. 684 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:24,480 You appreciate the gospel. 685 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,160 You win souls for Christ by the spirit. 686 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,160 Amen. 687 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,960 You give a word by the spirit. 688 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:30,960 Amen. 689 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,760 You give a prophetic word by the spirit. 690 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,160 You teach the word by the spirit. 691 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,720 You heal by the spirit because you are a son. 692 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:39,880 The spirit lives in you. 693 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:40,880 He's your father. 694 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:49,120 And we will see next time that God giving to his children, there is no partiality. 695 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,800 There is no finding fault in his giving to his children. 696 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,840 Oh, I think Izzy was naughty this week. 697 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,480 So she will not manifest a gift of healing this week. 698 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,160 He gives without finding fault. 699 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:09,560 Your father can find fault in his giving to you, but God is not in that class of father. 700 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:15,360 There is no kind of father like Abba Father, the God that created you and regenerated you 701 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,360 in Christ. 702 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:26,080 So be confident to come to him in the most weakest, in the most rebellious, in the most 703 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,000 unlikely manner you can ever think of. 704 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,480 He wants to relate with you as a father and a son. 705 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:36,840 And speaking to somebody right here, God wants to reason with you as a loving father and 706 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,840 as a son. 707 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:45,200 We will see in the nature of this father that he does not, he does not, if I start, I will 708 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,400 not stop, but let me just say he does not find fault. 709 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,840 He does not punish the way our Adulterate Fathers punish. 710 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,040 Close your eyes and say, Father, thank you for being my father. 711 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,880 Help me to understand your fatherhood in the course of my life, in the course of my days, 712 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,120 in the course of my activities. 713 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:06,800 Let me understand and experience your fatherhood and let my life be governed by your fatherhood, 714 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:12,080 by my understanding of you being my father, my source, my originator, my provider, my 715 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,080 everything. 716 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:17,120 Thank you for listening to our sermon today. 717 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,780 We hope you were blessed by this teaching. 718 00:40:19,780 --> 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