1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,200 Welcome to NECF sermons. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:11,120 Each message here is designed to uplift and strengthen you in your walk with God. 3 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:17,000 Don't miss out, stay with us until the end for our rewarding experience. 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:25,200 Let's dive right in. 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:31,760 Romans chapter 8 verse 14. 6 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,000 Welcome to church this morning. 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,560 Turn to your neighbor and say you're welcome to church. 8 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,480 Say it's time to learn the word of God. 9 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:45,080 It's time to learn from the word of God. 10 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:53,960 Romans chapter 4, verse 8 rather, from verse 14. 11 00:00:53,960 --> 00:01:01,160 We're reading from verse 14 down to verse 17. 12 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,160 Just look at your neighbor. 13 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:08,400 If your neighbor doesn't have a Bible, a hard copy Bible, not in the phone, a hard copy 14 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:19,240 Bible and you have share with your neighbor. 15 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,760 And if your neighbor does not have a hard copy Bible, ask the neighbor why didn't you 16 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,840 come with a Bible? 17 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,480 Ask the person why didn't you come with a Bible? 18 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:37,000 What's the person's reply? 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,200 Now move further and say brother or sister, next week I want to see with your hard copy 20 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,440 Bible. 21 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:51,960 I can hear many voices, it means that many people don't have their hard copy Bibles with 22 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:52,960 them. 23 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,760 Hallelujah. 24 00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:02,760 For as many as are led, see if you are led by the spirit of God, you carry your hard 25 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,760 copy Bible to church. 26 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,840 And if you didn't carry your hard copy Bible to church and you're usual in this place, 27 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:18,560 you may announce that you are living in disobedience. 28 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,560 Amen. 29 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,760 Because God speaks through men, right? 30 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:29,480 He speaks through men and often times we say bring your hard copy Bible. 31 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,400 It's very important for the study. 32 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,480 So I want to encourage you to do as we've been instructed. 33 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:45,440 For as many as are led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God. 34 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:53,760 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the spirit 35 00:02:53,760 --> 00:03:00,000 of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father. 36 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:08,680 The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. 37 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:17,040 And if children then hear us, heirs of God and join us with Christ, even did we suffer 38 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,040 with him that we may also be glorified with him. 39 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,400 Hallelujah. 40 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,780 So in Christ we are coheirs with him. 41 00:03:29,780 --> 00:03:34,760 And what this means is that all that belongs to God belongs to Christ and all that belongs 42 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:39,880 to Christ belongs to you that are in Christ because you have been brought into this union 43 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,200 that is everlasting. 44 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:51,200 So God has brought you into his family through Christ Jesus. 45 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:59,380 We said the last time that God was never referred to as Father in the Old Testament. 46 00:03:59,380 --> 00:04:06,280 God was never referred to as Father in the Old Testament part of the scriptures. 47 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:11,640 And it was abnormal actually for anyone to say that God is his Father. 48 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:18,440 Even up to today there are people that don't believe that God can be Father. 49 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:23,400 And even when we saw Jesus Christ in scriptures, Jesus who came under the Old Testament system 50 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:29,680 had troubles with the people of his day because he was referring to God as his Father. 51 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:36,680 After seeing him as a human, they see him, they know his supposedly biological family, 52 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:42,680 they know his siblings, they know his occupation is a carpenter that often comes to maybe fix 53 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,680 their furnitures. 54 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:52,160 And lo and behold one day he just rise up and say that God is his Father. 55 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,720 So it put him in trouble. 56 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:54,720 John chapter 5 verse 16. 57 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:03,800 John chapter 5 verse 16 says, for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill 58 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,800 him. 59 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:12,400 It was up to this extent that they wanted to kill him for identifying God as his Father 60 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,960 because he had done these things on the Sabbath. 61 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,040 Now he had performed a miracle, right? 62 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:25,840 John chapter 5 verse 16 verse 17. 63 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:33,240 But Jesus answered them, my Father has been working until now and I've been working. 64 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:40,600 Verse 18, therefore the Jewish sought all the more, their anger intensify, their rage 65 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:50,520 intensify to kill him because he not only broke their tradition, their Sabbath, Sabbath, 66 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:57,600 you know performing miracle on a Saturday was him working according to them, but also 67 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,200 said that God was what? 68 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:01,920 God was his Father. 69 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,460 So in saying God is his Father, what has he done? 70 00:06:05,460 --> 00:06:09,720 He has made himself equal with God. 71 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:16,540 He has made not equal, he has made himself of the same nature with God. 72 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:19,600 What he has said is that he has made himself divine. 73 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,120 He has made himself of a divine nature. 74 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,720 He's not a human but he's a divine nature by the virtue of identifying as the Son of 75 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,520 God. 76 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,200 So it was abnormal and they sought to kill him. 77 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:42,480 So Jesus himself in scriptures prior to his death, his burial and resurrection, Jesus 78 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:49,200 himself never faced God as the Father to any man except himself. 79 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,600 Why? 80 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,660 Why was it that? 81 00:06:52,660 --> 00:07:00,760 Because the family of God is the product of Christ's redemptive work and at this point 82 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,480 Jesus had not yet died. 83 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,840 He had not yet died and resurrected. 84 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:15,240 So never in scriptures do we see Jesus making mention of God being the Father of men. 85 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:21,320 We see clearly even in the altar seminar it was prophetic. 86 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:31,600 So no man has clearly in scriptures identified as the Son of God or has been of the same 87 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,680 kind with God except Jesus. 88 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,940 But at the resurrection we see a change. 89 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:43,720 We see God as Father to mankind, John 20 verse 11 to 18. 90 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:55,960 We see a change that Jesus is not only the Son of God but Jesus becomes the firstborn 91 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,200 among many sons. 92 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:03,280 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping and as she wept she stood down and looked 93 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,920 into the tomb and she saw two angels in the white seat in one at the head and the other 94 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,960 at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. 95 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,820 Then they said to her, woman why are you weeping? 96 00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:23,160 She said to them because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have 97 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,200 laid him. 98 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,600 Now when she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know 99 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:30,600 that it was Jesus. 100 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,760 Jesus said to her, woman why are you weeping? 101 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,600 Whom are you seeking? 102 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:42,200 She supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, sir if you have carried him away tell 103 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,360 me where you have laid him and I will take him away. 104 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:51,060 Jesus said to her, Mary. 105 00:08:51,060 --> 00:08:56,240 She turned and said to him, Rabboni, which is to say teacher. 106 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:02,360 Jesus said to her, do not clench to me for I have not yet ascended to my father but go 107 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:09,480 to my brethren that I say to them and say to them I am ascending to my father and your 108 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:15,600 father and to my God and to your God. 109 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:21,240 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had 110 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,740 spoken these things unto her. 111 00:09:23,740 --> 00:09:30,200 So we see here the first instance where there was a change in the way Jesus was referring 112 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,160 to God as his father. 113 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:40,720 God does not only become at this point in time the father to Jesus but also to men. 114 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:50,960 God is referred to as a father to men. 115 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:55,440 So the believer now calls God father. 116 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:01,240 We can call God father, Romans 8 verse 15, we can call God father because of the redemptive 117 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,240 work of Christ. 118 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:11,920 We receive adoption by whom we cry out word we cry out father. 119 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:21,360 So the idea of God being referred to as father was not an invention by Jesus in the New Testament. 120 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:30,840 Jesus didn't invent that idea of God becoming a father to men. 121 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,600 Jesus only came to fulfill the prophecies of what? 122 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,560 Of the Old Testament. 123 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:41,280 Jesus only came to do what? 124 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:48,640 To bring to completion or to bring to manifestation all the things that were prophesied by the 125 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,800 prophets in the Old Testament part of the scriptures. 126 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:59,840 Matthew chapter 5 verse 17 and 18 we'll see where Jesus was speaking about what he was 127 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:00,840 here to do. 128 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:06,360 He says do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. 129 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:13,960 That is Jesus did not come to nullify the writings of Moses and also the writings of 130 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:14,960 the prophets. 131 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,440 I did not come to destroy but to what? 132 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,040 But to fulfill. 133 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,560 But to fulfill. 134 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:31,040 For assuredly I say to you till heaven and earth pass away one jot or one title will 135 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,120 know by no means passed from the law. 136 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:42,600 Meaning you know will be ignored or will not come to manifestation till all is what is 137 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:43,600 fulfilled. 138 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,240 Till all is fulfilled. 139 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:54,040 Look 24 verse 44 we see Jesus emphasizing his role in this. 140 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:59,120 Then he said to them after resurrection these are the words which I spoke to you while I 141 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:00,760 was still with you. 142 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,840 That all things must be fulfilled. 143 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,840 That is all the things that the prophets have said must be fulfilled. 144 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:16,960 Which were written in the Lord of Moses and the prophets and the psalms concerning me, 145 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:18,680 concerning Jesus. 146 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:27,040 And then he opened their understanding that they might comprehend the scriptures so they 147 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:34,040 can see visibly the fulfillment of all the things that have been said by the prophets, 148 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:39,200 by the mouth of the prophets. 149 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:46,160 So the concept also of God's being father to men was not all also it wasn't an invention 150 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,100 of or creation of the apostles. 151 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:53,600 You know the apostles didn't just wake up one day and they found it to be a nice idea 152 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,920 since they are forming a new religion, a new movement, a new sect. 153 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:02,760 It will be a nice idea for us to sound different from the Pharisees and the scribes. 154 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,960 Please call God our father. 155 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:05,960 No. 156 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,520 It wasn't a new idea. 157 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:17,600 They also follow in the same way Jesus explained the scriptures. 158 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:24,000 All that the apostle would teach in scriptures or practice must find its roots from the Old 159 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Testament. 160 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,980 For example, now Paul explained the gospel. 161 00:13:26,980 --> 00:13:33,040 The idea of Jesus being the Messiah, you know, as explained in scriptures by the apostles, 162 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,080 we see it in scriptures. 163 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:41,240 For example, in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, we see how Paul explained the idea of salvation. 164 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:48,140 1 Corinthians 15 from verse 1. 165 00:13:48,140 --> 00:13:53,680 To see that the apostle never invented something new. 166 00:13:53,680 --> 00:14:00,720 Paul said, moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preach to you, which 167 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:09,840 also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved if you hold fast 168 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:16,880 that word which I preach to you only unless you believed in vain. 169 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,600 For I deliver to you first, what did he deliver? 170 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,500 The gospel message, right? 171 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:28,480 For I deliver to you first of all that which I also word, I also received. 172 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:36,520 So Paul never created something of himself. 173 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:42,560 It is that which he received that he word, that is presented to them. 174 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,720 For I deliver to you first of all that which I also received. 175 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,080 What did he receive? 176 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,040 That Christ died for our sins. 177 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,080 Where did he get that from? 178 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:58,920 According to the scriptures which means that he may have gone through the scriptures. 179 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,240 The scriptures here will refer to the Old Testament text. 180 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,880 That he has gone through the scriptures and the scriptures have confirmed that the Christ, 181 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:13,240 the Christ is an individual, is an office, is someone that will come and die for the 182 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:22,360 sins of men and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to what? 183 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,640 According to the scriptures. 184 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:30,040 So the explanation of the dead and the burial of Jesus Christ is found in the text of the 185 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,160 Old Testament scriptures. 186 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,360 Verse 5. 187 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:42,400 And that he was seen by Cephas then by the 12th. 188 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:50,400 After that he was seen by over 500 brethren at once of whom the greater part remained 189 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:54,520 to the present or some have fallen asleep. 190 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,560 After that he was seen by James then by all the apostles. 191 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:07,400 Then last of all he was seen by me also as by one born out of due time. 192 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:08,600 Hallelujah. 193 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:15,200 So he received something and then he is passing on to. 194 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,300 So consistently we see in the writings of the apostles, in the teachings of doctrines 195 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:23,840 of the apostles is that they never invented something new. 196 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:29,280 So also the idea of God being the father is not something that they themselves came up 197 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:37,560 with it as a beautiful idea but that they have to find its roots from the scriptures. 198 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:44,480 So if God is referred to as father in the New Testament we can also as a matter of importance 199 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,840 trace the origin of this concept from the Old Testament scriptures. 200 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:55,080 And we say that from Genesis to Malachi which is what we are referring to in the context 201 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:03,080 of this teaching the Old Testament scriptures is the collection of books that contains types 202 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:08,000 and shadows, promises and mysteries. 203 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,400 Hallelujah. 204 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,080 So when you read through the text what will you find? 205 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,440 You find symbolisms. 206 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:21,760 You find a mood of communication, a way of writing that there are symbols, there are 207 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:29,400 symbolisms, there are types, there are shadows, there are promises made in the text and there 208 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:36,360 are what there is what we call mystery contained in it which means that whatever is mystery 209 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:38,120 will need to be unraveled. 210 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:39,120 Hallelujah. 211 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,160 We need to be unraveled in mystery. 212 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:46,900 We need to be unraveled. 213 00:17:46,900 --> 00:17:53,120 What was spoken by God through the prophets are promises wrapped up in shadows and figures 214 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:56,760 of speech what we call mysteries. 215 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:03,560 And when we say mysteries or types and shadows or promises is actually what was fulfilled 216 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:05,480 in Christ Jesus. 217 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,440 So mystery here means something that requires an explanation. 218 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:14,520 We are not talking about something that is full of magic and spookiness. 219 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:19,800 When we say mystery here we mean something that requires what? 220 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,840 Requires an explanation. 221 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,520 Hallelujah. 222 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,840 It means that it requires an explanation which means that the writings of the Old Testament 223 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:29,940 text requires what? 224 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:30,940 Requires an explanation. 225 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:38,520 There is a specific explanation for the writings of the Old Testament text. 226 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:43,880 There are not many explanations to the writing of the Old Testament text because the writer 227 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:48,120 has an intention for writing a particular text. 228 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:54,640 Therefore, for you to come to a conclusion of what the writer was intending to communicate 229 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,280 you must seek the writer's interpretation of his writing. 230 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,280 Hallelujah. 231 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:07,460 So there are not many other explanations but there is only one explanation. 232 00:19:07,460 --> 00:19:12,120 So mystery here refers to what? 233 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,080 Something that requires an explanation. 234 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,440 So when Jesus died and rose again we see him giving explanation to the mysteries. 235 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,120 Luke 24 verse 25. 236 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:23,920 Luke 24, 25, 27. 237 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:29,720 Then he said to them, All foolish ones and slow of heart, believe in all that the prophets 238 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:30,720 have spoken. 239 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:36,080 Out not the Christ who hath suffered these things and entered into his glory. 240 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,680 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets he what? 241 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:43,160 He explained, he gave an explanation to them all the scriptures. 242 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,920 The things concerning himself. 243 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,920 So there was a need for an explanation. 244 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,400 And even when he rose again from the dead, 40 days he spent with them, what was he doing? 245 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,920 He was explaining to them the scriptures. 246 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:01,840 Explaining to them the things that were written in the text. 247 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:07,280 Expounding and expanding, interpreting to them the parables. 248 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,880 Explaining to them the symbolisms. 249 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:16,120 Only the things that concern him. 250 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:21,200 In the same light the epistles, the writings of the apostles, the New Testament part of 251 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:29,120 the scriptures by the early apostles are an explanation of the things concerning Christ 252 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:35,440 as promised through the prophecies in the Old Testament scriptures. 253 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:41,680 So the apostles themselves have to explain as Christ has explained to them the Old Testament 254 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,940 text. 255 00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:52,320 So in our understanding of God as Father, it is important that we go in the same way. 256 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,200 Now we will see a prophecy about this in Isaiah 53. 257 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,240 Now let's go to Isaiah 53, particularly verse 10, but let's begin from verse 1. 258 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,840 Isaiah 53. 259 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:09,360 Who has believed our report and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 260 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:14,980 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground. 261 00:21:14,980 --> 00:21:16,920 He has no form or comeliness. 262 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:21,520 And when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 263 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:26,720 He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. 264 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:34,720 And we hid as it were our faces from him, he was despised and we did not esteem him. 265 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:41,240 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteem him stricken, smitten 266 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,440 by God and afflicted. 267 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:49,600 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement 268 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:55,560 for our peace was upon him and by his tribes we are healed. 269 00:21:55,560 --> 00:22:01,960 All we like sheep have gone astray, we have torn everyone to his own way and the Lord 270 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,380 has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 271 00:22:06,380 --> 00:22:12,140 He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth. 272 00:22:12,140 --> 00:22:18,480 He was led at a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before his shearers is silent, 273 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,420 so he opened not his mouth. 274 00:22:20,420 --> 00:22:26,720 He was taken from the prison and from judgment and who will declare his generation for he 275 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:31,000 was caught up from the land of the living for the transgressions of my people he was 276 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,760 stricken. 277 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:37,200 And they made his grave with the wicked but with the rich at his death because he had 278 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:42,420 done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth. 279 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:48,600 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he has put into him grief. 280 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:55,280 He has put him to grief when you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his 281 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:04,320 seat, he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 282 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:10,960 He shall see the labor of his soul and be satisfied by his knowledge my righteous servant 283 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:15,880 shall justify many for he shall bear their iniquities. 284 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:22,720 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide a spoil with 285 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:29,080 a strong because he poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors 286 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:34,360 and he bore the sin of many and made intercessions for the transgressors. 287 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:35,360 Hallelujah. 288 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:43,080 Now with your understanding of the New Testament when you read this definitely you will see 289 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,560 Christ painted in this part of the text. 290 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:56,120 But imagine in those days even before the coming of Christ the prophet Isaiah have prophesied 291 00:23:56,120 --> 00:24:03,800 he has foretold what God will do in Christ and for us we can see vividly this promise 292 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,260 being fulfilled in Christ Jesus. 293 00:24:06,260 --> 00:24:15,480 Now let's focus on verse 10 particularly verse 10 we see in it a profound prophecy about 294 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:24,320 Jesus Christ the Messiah capturing his redemptive work, his suffering, his death and his resurrection 295 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:32,520 in that verse and the result will come from that which he will suffer. 296 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:40,600 In this verse let's see it again it says yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him so God was 297 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:46,000 entrusted in afflicting Christ. 298 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,160 It pleased the Lord to bruise him. 299 00:24:50,160 --> 00:25:00,240 He was put he has put him rather to grief when you make his soul an offering for sin 300 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:05,680 he shall see his seed and we try to explain what this seed is from the last week. 301 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:16,400 He shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall do what shall prosper. 302 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:21,320 Shall prolong his days. 303 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:32,120 The word prolong is the Hebrew word araq and we see another word zira that is for seed 304 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:35,920 or descendants seed or descendants. 305 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,560 This holds deep significance in understanding God's promise for a family. 306 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:48,480 These two concepts araq and zira that is prolonging his days and the seed which will come as a 307 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:56,280 result of what he will do holds a significant importance for us in understanding God's promise 308 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:02,320 for a family to arise through Jesus Christ. 309 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:10,080 It speaks to the continuity of Jesus's influence and life beyond just his death that through 310 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:17,100 the seed or through descendants that will come forth as a result of his sacrifice. 311 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:24,440 So here we see there's an explanation that the Christ will be put to death and then out 312 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:33,360 of it we see that a seed shall come from that experience. 313 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:39,080 Now the word zira symbolizes not only fiscal lineage but spiritual descendants that is 314 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:43,800 a new creation that will birth from the resurrection of Christ. 315 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:49,280 This is essential, this is very important for us to understand and this aligns with 316 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:55,800 other texts that speaks about you know the anguish and the pain that the Messiah will 317 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:56,800 go through. 318 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:05,400 Isaiah 7 verse 14, Isaiah 9 verse 6 for telling the Messiah who will be God with us and also 319 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,680 establish it an internal kingdom. 320 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:15,200 Now the promise to prolong his days implies that his life and mission will extend beyond 321 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,720 his earthly life through the life of those who will believe. 322 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,400 Him prolonging his days means that what? 323 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,640 That the effect of what will happen is not only in his earthly days but even after he 324 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,640 has left the earth. 325 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:40,240 This is one of the scriptures we see in the Old Testament that seems or that gives us 326 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:48,400 a hint about gospel and concerning you know a family, the idea of seed that is there of 327 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:54,160 descendants, the idea of God having descendants and these descendants will come from what? 328 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,080 From the redemptive work of Christ. 329 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,080 Now let's look at some few. 330 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:03,320 Let's look at one in Hosea. 331 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,960 Let's look at Romans, Romans 9 verse 25 and 26. 332 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:14,920 Romans 9 verse 25 and 26. 333 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:21,920 And it says also in Hosea, now the writer of Romans 9 is making reference to which book? 334 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,360 To the book of Hosea and Hosea is found where? 335 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,120 In the Old Testament, right? 336 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:33,560 So and he says also in Hosea, I will call them who? 337 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:34,560 My people. 338 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,960 So in the book of Hosea we're going to make look at the cross reference. 339 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,600 I will call them my people. 340 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,000 Not that I am calling them my people but I will what? 341 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:51,600 I will call them my people who were not my people and her beloved who was not beloved. 342 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:59,200 And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people. 343 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,640 There they shall be called sons of the living God. 344 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:09,920 These two verses are two different places in the book of Hosea. 345 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:16,760 Now for Hosea, verse 25, give me verse 25, verse 25, let's read verse 25. 346 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:23,120 And it says also in Hosea, I will call them my people who were not my people and her beloved 347 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:25,120 who was not beloved. 348 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:33,720 We will see that in Hosea chapter 2, verse 23. 349 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,920 Hosea chapter 2, verse 23. 350 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:44,360 Then I will sow her for myself in the earth. 351 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,000 Now what we saw in Romans is the interpretation of this verse, explanation of this verse. 352 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,880 Then I will sow her for myself in the earth. 353 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:59,600 And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy. 354 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,200 Then I will say to those who were not my people, you are what? 355 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,360 You are my people. 356 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,520 And they shall say, you are my God. 357 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,440 Hallelujah. 358 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:17,760 And then the verse 26 of Romans 9 can be found in Hosea chapter 1, verse 10. 359 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:22,880 Hosea chapter 1, verse 10. 360 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:29,680 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as a son of the sea. 361 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:30,680 Amen. 362 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:38,880 Is it literally true that the children of Israel are as a son of the sea? 363 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:45,320 If you are smart enough and you put simple logic, you discover that this is not exactly 364 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,320 what he's saying. 365 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:47,320 Hallelujah. 366 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,880 But it's a way of communication, right? 367 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:56,560 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the son of the sea, which cannot be 368 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,400 measured or numbered. 369 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,720 And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people. 370 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,800 There it shall be said to them, you are not just my people. 371 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,120 But you are what? 372 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,280 You are sons of who? 373 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:13,560 Of the living God. 374 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:23,200 So this is another place where there was a prophetic declaration of the plan of God having 375 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,120 a family of sons. 376 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,920 Hallelujah. 377 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,680 We also see 2 Corinthians. 378 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:40,880 2 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 18. 379 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,520 Paul said, it was caught in here. 380 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:43,520 It's a quotation from the Old Testament. 381 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:49,240 It says, I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord 382 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:50,240 Almighty. 383 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:58,240 We can find this from 2 Samuel chapter 7, verse 14. 384 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,360 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. 385 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:08,440 If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the wrath of men and with the blows of 386 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,440 the sons of men. 387 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:16,520 And we can see also other texts, Isaiah 43, verse 6, Jeremiah 31, verse 9. 388 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:23,760 Paul uses, you know, this 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 18. 389 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:29,480 He rather uses these scriptures to explain or to emphasize what Christ will do. 390 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:33,400 Now let's go back to Romans 8. 391 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:51,080 Romans 8, verse 29. 392 00:32:51,080 --> 00:33:01,000 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that 393 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:06,240 he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 394 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,240 Hallelujah. 395 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:13,720 The he is talking about here, the be the firstborn among many brethren is who? 396 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,280 Is Jesus Christ. 397 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:20,320 So through Jesus, we have come into the family of God. 398 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:26,240 We that believe have come into the family of God. 399 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,760 So in this text, we will see the plan of God. 400 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:38,080 The word foreknew prognosco, P-R-O-G-I-N-O-S-K-O, means to have knowledge beforehand, which 401 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:45,240 means that God right beforehand has predestined, which means that he preplanned, which means 402 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,880 that God in his knowledge has planned before the foundation of the world. 403 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:55,620 Which means that we coming into the family of God is not something that just shows up 404 00:33:55,620 --> 00:34:02,200 in history, but right from the foundation of the world, the intention of God for you 405 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:10,200 and I is that we become part of his family, that we become a family. 406 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:23,520 From here is a Greek word that is spelled, let me spell it for you, S-Y-M-M-O-R-P-H-O-S, 407 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:24,680 sumophores. 408 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:30,120 It means having the same form as another. 409 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:35,920 The plan of God is that we might be what we will have, we will be conformed, that is that 410 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:44,480 we will have the same image as who, as Jesus, similar to him, just like he is, and essential 411 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:49,080 identity just as Jesus Christ. 412 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,800 We see this word also used in Philippians 3 verse 21. 413 00:34:53,800 --> 00:35:07,480 Philippians 3 verse 21, the word sumophores was used to explain how we will be when we 414 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,480 see him. 415 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,560 Give me yes. 416 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:17,520 Who will transform our lowly bodies that he may be conformed to his glorious body according 417 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:22,500 to the walking by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself. 418 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:27,520 So the confirmation here is that the same body that Jesus Christ will have, right, at 419 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,040 the resurrection, at his appearing, is the same body that the believer will have. 420 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:42,360 So the same word is what was used in verse 29 of Romans 8, meaning that as Jesus is, 421 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:48,300 so we have come to be as a result of what, of his redemptive work. 422 00:35:48,300 --> 00:35:52,760 We are fashioned in similar nature as he is. 423 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,840 We have the same nature as Christ. 424 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:02,840 Now the word conformed here is different from the one used in Romans 12 verse 2 because 425 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:09,160 sometimes the English dictionary or the English word, the English language uses the word conformed 426 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:16,040 and, yes, let's look at Romans 12 verse 2. 427 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:33,520 The conform in Romans 12 verse 2 is the words su, let me spell it, C-Y-S-C-H-E-M-A-T-I-Z-O, 428 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:44,000 su schematizo, su schematizo, the Y there is double O in the pronunciation, su schematizo, 429 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:50,760 which is to conform oneself, that is one's mind or character to another pattern. 430 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:56,240 Now the way it is used here, you know, we usually tell you that in the context of a 431 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:02,960 text we find the interpretation, right, and do not be conformed to this world, but be 432 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:09,560 what, be metamorphosized, the word transformed here, there is a word conformed and there 433 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:17,640 is a word metamorphosis by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is good 434 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:23,960 and acceptable and perfect will of God, all right. 435 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,880 So in this text here it says do not be conformed, which means that you have an image already, 436 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:37,260 okay, because for you to transform, for a lover to transform into a purple in biology, 437 00:37:37,260 --> 00:37:41,440 it means that he has, he is not transforming into an outside identity, isn't it? 438 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:48,280 The potential of that transformation is within, the metamorphosis happen from within. 439 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:56,180 So the believer here in Romans chapter 12, right there, is not Stuart to copy the world 440 00:37:56,180 --> 00:38:00,160 because that is not his nature, are we together? 441 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,360 But he is to be transformed from what, from the inside. 442 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:10,120 So the conformed use in Romans 12 is not the same as used in Romans 8-29. 443 00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:19,200 Romans 8-29 is a nature that we have as Christ, the conformity is what happened at salvation, 444 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,440 is what has already happened. 445 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,000 You're not trying to become like Christ, you're not trying to become like the Son of God, 446 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:35,720 you are already the Son of God by virtue of salvation. 447 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:44,360 So we are conformed to the first begotten at salvation, he is the prototype, he is the 448 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:50,400 firstborn and then we are his siblings. 449 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,760 And obviously we can get this interpretation from where we read in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 450 00:38:54,760 --> 00:39:01,440 10, we bring the seed, a product of what, of his redemptive work. 451 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:07,720 So we have been conformed, say I have been conformed, I have been conformed into the image 452 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,520 of the Son. 453 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,440 Hallelujah. 454 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:17,220 So how did this confirmation happens? 455 00:39:17,220 --> 00:39:20,160 It happened when we believed, amen. 456 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:24,880 It happened when we believe. 457 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,600 We are given the right to become the children of God by what? 458 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,040 By believing. 459 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,580 By believing. 460 00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:42,720 So if someone believes today, he automatically becomes a Son of God. 461 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:45,000 Automatically becomes a Son of God. 462 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:52,040 In John chapter 1 verse 12 to 13 we see Jesus Christ making reference to that, he says, 463 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:57,080 but as many as are, what? 464 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:03,600 Not led though, look up, it's all Romans 820, it's all Romans 8 here, it's all Romans 814. 465 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:08,560 But as many as received him, receiving him here will mean what? 466 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,280 Believing in him. 467 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:18,120 To them he gave the right to what? to become children of God to those who what? 468 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,840 Who believe in his name. 469 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,280 Who were born not of blood. 470 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,240 This birth is not what? 471 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,280 Is not natural birth. 472 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:32,720 When I say you are the Son of God, what we are referring to is not natural. 473 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:33,720 Amen? 474 00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:35,720 It's not natural. 475 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:41,960 When we say Jesus is the Son of God, we are not referring to natural. 476 00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:42,960 Amen? 477 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:49,040 Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh. 478 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:55,240 I was telling my people in the ceremony, I say there are some certain things that happened. 479 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:59,960 Jesus Christ decided to what? 480 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,680 To appear in this world. 481 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:02,680 Amen? 482 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:07,960 His appearance in this world was his decision, as many as are following the teaching, the 483 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:08,960 ceremony things. 484 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,000 His appearance to this world was his decision. 485 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:19,760 But you and I, a young man fell in love with a young damsel. 486 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:26,400 They decided that they want to make this love a life long thing. 487 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:33,400 They went to a court or to a registry or to a church and they saw an oath, right? 488 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,640 That they are going to live together for the rest of their lives. 489 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,440 And they sat down and they decided that they are going to give back to you. 490 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,260 And they did some things that they are supposed to do and then you appeared. 491 00:41:45,260 --> 00:41:46,960 You never made a choice. 492 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,640 Absolutely, there's no choice. 493 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:51,480 You don't choose to come. 494 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,360 But then you appeared. 495 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,000 Amen? 496 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,040 Therefore when we say Jesus is the son of God, we are not saying that Jesus became a 497 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,040 son of God or he was born without his will. 498 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,040 No. 499 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,200 Jesus decided to manifest as son. 500 00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:08,200 Amen? 501 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:14,520 And the scripture says that he didn't withhold, he didn't count it what? 502 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,720 Equality with God. 503 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:22,040 He stood so low to become a man like you and I. 504 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:30,440 So here to be born again, let's read from the previous verse, verse 12. 505 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:35,480 It says, but as many as received him to them, he gave the right to become a children of 506 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,160 God to those who believe in his name. 507 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,400 The next verse, who were born, how were we born? 508 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,440 We were not born by what? 509 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:49,680 By flesh and blood, nor of the will of the flesh. 510 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,840 Of course this flesh is different, thinking about works, nor of the will of man, of course 511 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:58,320 the will of man here, but who will that you be born again? 512 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,040 It was an act of God. 513 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,520 God himself, doing what? 514 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,480 Effecting this new birth, bringing you. 515 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:09,880 And how did you come into this? 516 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,840 Is by believing. 517 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,680 Hallelujah. 518 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:14,680 So what makes you? 519 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:19,320 Sometimes we think, oh, I'm a proud child of God. 520 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,960 I feel like I'm a child of God today because I'm in my best conduct. 521 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:28,440 And oftentimes we feel, no, today I don't feel like I'm a child of God. 522 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:35,120 It's not a product of your will, but that you just believe and a new birth is what Christ 523 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:37,120 has achieved for us. 524 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,120 Hallelujah. 525 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,720 Galatians of the three, verse 26. 526 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:47,600 Galatians three, 26. 527 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,960 For you are all what? 528 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:51,960 Sons of God. 529 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:52,960 Through what? 530 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:53,960 Through your works? 531 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,960 How did he become a son? 532 00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,720 Through faith in who? 533 00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:03,640 In Christ Jesus. 534 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,960 Remember we explained Isaiah 53, verse 10, right? 535 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:12,080 And we said that our sonship is a product of what? 536 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:13,960 Of his redemptive work. 537 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:20,640 And for us to become sons, we believe in our redemptive work. 538 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:27,200 So for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 539 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,600 28, 27. 540 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:37,760 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, put on Christ. 541 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:41,160 There is neither Jew nor Greek. 542 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,920 There's neither slave nor free. 543 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,760 There's neither male nor female. 544 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:53,320 For you are all one in Christ Jesus. 545 00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,000 And if you are Christ, then you are what? 546 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:02,600 You are Abraham's descendants and as according to what? 547 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,600 To the promise. 548 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:06,460 Hallelujah. 549 00:45:06,460 --> 00:45:09,400 So we are John Ayers. 550 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:14,160 John was brought into the context here because he believed himself. 551 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:21,520 So we are coerced with Christ just as Abraham believed God and he obtained the promise. 552 00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:28,240 So you also believed in the promise that we see manifested through the redemptive work 553 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:31,240 of Christ. 554 00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:33,400 Hallelujah. 555 00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,000 We are now members of the household of God. 556 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,880 It's John chapter three, verse one to two. 557 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,560 We are not going to be members of God's family. 558 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,840 We are not waiting for a family to be formed. 559 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,000 Beloved now we are what? 560 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,560 We are now. 561 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,280 We are the children of God. 562 00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,660 Even though it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. 563 00:45:55,660 --> 00:46:02,760 But we know that when he is revealed, when he is raptured, when he's revealed, when he's 564 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:18,760 manifested, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. 565 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,280 Ephesians chapter two, verse 19. 566 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:26,960 Ephesians chapter two, verse 19. 567 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,600 Now therefore you are no longer strangers. 568 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,000 Now he's referring to the one that has believed. 569 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:34,000 Amen. 570 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,000 You are no longer what? 571 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:41,400 You are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with who? 572 00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,160 With the saints and members of the household of God. 573 00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:51,600 Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. 574 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,080 What is the foundation of the apostles and the prophets? 575 00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:58,600 Jesus Christ himself being what? 576 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,960 In the chief cornerstone. 577 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:10,400 In whom the whole building being fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 578 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:11,540 I love this one. 579 00:47:11,540 --> 00:47:15,040 In whom you are what? 580 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:20,600 Is it been built brethren? 581 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,400 Is it been built or built? 582 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:31,480 Pastor Victor will call this syntax error right? 583 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:37,560 In whom you also are built, being means it is present continuousness. 584 00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:38,560 No. 585 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,280 You are built together for a what? 586 00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,480 For a dwelling place of God in the spirit. 587 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,060 What happened in the spirit is once and for all. 588 00:47:47,060 --> 00:47:50,160 So you are already been built into that. 589 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,680 You have been, it is not physical building brethren. 590 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:57,920 Don't think of architecture in explaining this verse. 591 00:47:57,920 --> 00:47:59,260 Alright? 592 00:47:59,260 --> 00:48:00,760 Think of family. 593 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,900 Think of inclusion into a family. 594 00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:06,840 Think of being included in God's work. 595 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,440 The fellowship that we have together. 596 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:09,440 Hallelujah. 597 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,360 So you have already partake. 598 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,800 You have partook in what Christ has done. 599 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:21,080 You have come into what Christ has established. 600 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:22,080 Hallelujah. 601 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,560 Hebrews 2 verse 10. 602 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,560 No, no before that 1 Peter 2 verse 9 and 10. 603 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,360 1 Peter 2 verse 9 and 10. 604 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,680 But you are a chosen generation. 605 00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:36,680 A royal priesthood. 606 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,400 A holy nation. 607 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,920 His own peculiar. 608 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,960 His own special people. 609 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:48,400 And you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous 610 00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:49,760 light. 611 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,600 Once you were not a people. 612 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:56,240 Listen, this is like paraphrasing some text in the Old Testament that we just read earlier 613 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:57,240 on. 614 00:48:57,240 --> 00:49:01,960 Once you were not a people, but now who are you? 615 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:10,320 Now you are the people of God who have not obtained mercy, but now, now, now, now. 616 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,240 We have obtained mercy. 617 00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:19,200 See, we have already obtained mercy. 618 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,840 We have already obtained favor. 619 00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,160 You are the favored one. 620 00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:25,160 Amen. 621 00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:30,880 You are the one that the Lord has shown mercy. 622 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,280 Amen. 623 00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:40,400 You are the one that God had loved. 624 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:48,320 So your external doesn't define what he had done in the past in you when you believe. 625 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,080 Hallelujah. 626 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,640 Hebrews 2 verse 10. 627 00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,640 Hebrews 2 verse 10. 628 00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:58,680 Oh Lord. 629 00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:02,220 Hebrews 2 verse 10. 630 00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:09,680 For it was fitting for him, that is God, for whom all things and by whom all things in 631 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,000 bringing many sons to glory, to do what? 632 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:25,320 To make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 633 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:32,960 For both he who sanctifies and those who are, remove that bin. 634 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:41,640 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of what? 635 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,080 Of one. 636 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:48,320 For which reason he is not ashamed to call them what? 637 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,600 To call them brethren. 638 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,280 Say, I have been sanctified. 639 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,840 I have been sanctified. 640 00:50:56,840 --> 00:50:58,600 Sanctification is not in works. 641 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,040 It's your product of faith. 642 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,200 I have been sanctified. 643 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,440 Hallelujah. 644 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,120 He's not ashamed of you. 645 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,960 He's not ashamed to identify with who you are. 646 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,440 God in Christ is not ashamed to say you are my family. 647 00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:23,120 You know there are some people when they see their siblings, they don't want to identify 648 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:28,560 with them, especially when they are not looking well kept. 649 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:32,720 We are your friends, your friends in the town and then suddenly you see your brother with 650 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:37,600 a torn clothes, dirty without shoes and he's calling you sister. 651 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,320 Don't disgrace me. 652 00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:57,440 But listen, in your most unkept way, in your most, which word will I use now? 653 00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,040 Unwelcoming way. 654 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:11,640 In your most devious behavior, in your most unlikely and the most disobedient status. 655 00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:16,000 I'm speaking to somebody here. 656 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,840 God is not ashamed to identify with you. 657 00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:27,680 Jesus is not ashamed to identify with you as a brother. 658 00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,680 That is comforting. 659 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:41,880 He is not ashamed to identify with you as his because of his redemptive work. 660 00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:47,800 So you can come boldly, you can come with confidence that there is acceptance in the 661 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:49,280 beloved. 662 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:51,000 Hallelujah. 663 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,840 You can come boldly that there is an acceptance in the beloved. 664 00:52:54,840 --> 00:53:03,560 Now what he did on the cross is important concerning everything that you've done. 665 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:07,160 Hallelujah. 666 00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:17,720 First Corinthians chapter 12 verse 12 and 13. 667 00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:24,640 For as the body is one has many members, but all the members of that one body, be many 668 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:25,640 are what? 669 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,040 Are one body. 670 00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,000 So also is Christ. 671 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:35,120 For by one spirit we are all baptized into one body. 672 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:41,260 See when we come to the next phase of this teaching, I'm going to be revealing to us 673 00:53:41,260 --> 00:53:47,200 how we should relate as a family because we are members of what? 674 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,240 Of one family. 675 00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:50,800 Hallelujah. 676 00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:55,760 Now all this is to set us up to a place when we begin to say that we are brothers, you 677 00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,200 understand how we became brothers. 678 00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:03,840 How we became of one family and how we should relate to one another. 679 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:07,920 How we should relate to those who are not of this family and who should be your friend 680 00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:14,420 and who shouldn't be your friend. 681 00:54:14,420 --> 00:54:21,120 For by one spirit we were all baptized into one body whether Jew, whether you are from 682 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:29,560 Zimbabwe or you are from Kenya, from Mozambique, from Nigeria, whether you are a slave or you 683 00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:31,300 are free. 684 00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:41,420 So long as you believe in Jesus as a Messiah, you have all been made to drink into one spirit 685 00:54:41,420 --> 00:54:42,420 believing. 686 00:54:42,420 --> 00:54:46,080 All right? 687 00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:50,480 We are of the same family, we are of the same stock. 688 00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:57,240 Ephesians 1 verse 4 and 5. 689 00:54:57,240 --> 00:55:06,160 One Lord and one faith and one baptism. 690 00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:14,240 Ephesians 1 verse 4 and 5. 691 00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:21,080 Just as He chose us in Him, when did He choose you? 692 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:25,140 When did God choose the believer? 693 00:55:25,140 --> 00:55:36,480 Just as He chose us in Him when before the foundation of the world that we should be 694 00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:42,080 holy and without blame, before Him in love. 695 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:43,360 Verse 5. 696 00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,360 Having what? 697 00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:50,720 Predestined us toward to inclusion as sons. 698 00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:51,840 How? 699 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:53,600 By Jesus Christ to Himself. 700 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,120 According to what? 701 00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:57,120 It pleases Him. 702 00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,320 That is what He wanted from the beginning. 703 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:05,600 According to His good pleasure, according to what God has intended from the beginning. 704 00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,480 Hallelujah. 705 00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:12,360 So what should this understanding bring to you as you walk through your life, as you 706 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,720 go through the week? 707 00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:17,440 Does that build confidence in you that you are a son of God? 708 00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,440 You are not unfortunate. 709 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:24,240 You are not unfortunate. 710 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:28,760 You are not an accident. 711 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:36,440 Your status as a child of God is not a product of a man's will, but is what God has willed 712 00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:41,200 by Himself. 713 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:49,600 Just want you to begin to speak to God and say, Lord, let this revelation influence my 714 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,360 living. 715 00:56:53,360 --> 00:57:01,400 Let this revelation influence my living. 716 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:07,280 Let this revelation of my identity as a son influence my living. 717 00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,680 Colossians 1 verse 9. 718 00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:10,680 Please pray. 719 00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:24,800 Please pray this prayer and say, Lord, let the revelation of my identity stir up the 720 00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:25,800 way I live my life. 721 00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:32,240 Colossians 1 verse 9 says, for this reason, we also since the day we had it, do not cease 722 00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:37,000 to pray for you that and to ask, what is he praying? 723 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:42,720 That you may be filled with the knowledge of his will. 724 00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:47,760 Now the will of God, we've seen that is that you become part of his family. 725 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:53,440 Is that you are a son, whether male or female, that you are a son regardless of your nationality, 726 00:57:53,440 --> 00:58:04,480 Greek or Jew, slave or free, that you be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom 727 00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:05,640 and spiritual understanding. 728 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:10,680 Now this is the effect in verse 10. 729 00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:15,640 That you may work worthy of the Lord. 730 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:22,440 The knowledge you have about your identity concerning the will of God, your identity 731 00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:25,960 in the will of God should influence the way you walk. 732 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,080 That you will work worthy of the Lord. 733 00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:32,000 And in working worthy of the Lord, you are pleasing him. 734 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,040 And in pleasing him, we see you being fruitful. 735 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,280 And your fruitfulness is in good works. 736 00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:39,480 And good works refers to what the work of ministry. 737 00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:44,360 That I live with the consciousness that I am a son. 738 00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:50,480 I am not a slave, I am a son. 739 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:55,080 And I enjoy all the privileges of sonship in Christ. 740 00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:59,600 All that Christ has are mine. 741 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:05,800 All that his redemptive work has brought is mine because I believe and I have been brought 742 00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:12,840 into this family so I enjoy the commonwealth of God. 743 00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,520 And this reality influences the way I live. 744 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:23,760 My conduct, my life, I live as one who belongs to God. 745 00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,080 We appreciate you being here today. 746 00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,720 We hope you carry this word with you throughout your week. 747 00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:33,000 Don't forget to check the show notes for additional insights. 748 00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:38,080 Stay connected with us through our website or follow us on social media. 749 00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:42,320 If you are encouraged, share this message with someone you care about. 750 00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:56,560 Until next time, stay blessed.