1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,240 Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share today's message with you. Don't 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:17,480 go anywhere, stay with us to the end for some valuable resources to enrich your faith. 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:23,080 Here's today's sermon. 4 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:31,520 We're going to continue today on the teaching Manifesting the Kingdom of God. Manifesting 5 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:37,240 the Kingdom of God. I just want to thank God for this opportunity to bring the Word to 6 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:43,960 us. I also want to thank the pastorates for the opportunity. I just want to advise you 7 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:52,280 that whatever would distract you, whatever would make you want to go outside, they can 8 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:58,960 wait. Praise the Lord, they can wait. Just like Pastor Victor was leading us in prayers 9 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,240 and he said, and often time people that lead us in prayer will say, stop looking at me, 10 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,040 just pray, stop looking at me. What they're trying to say to you is that there is no benefit 11 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:16,160 looking at you. There is no profit. Your profit is by praying. Your profit is by paying attention 12 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:22,720 to what is going on. Your profit is by not being distracted in the service. Whoever wants 13 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:29,640 to call you can call you in the next two hours. Praise the Lord. The profit is that you have 14 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:36,000 come from your house. You have taken the time to prepare to dress very well. This is not 15 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,400 your usual, for some of you, this is not your usual dress in every day of the week. When 16 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,960 you come to the house of the Lord, you don't want that dressing to waste. You don't want 17 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:49,960 that energy to waste. You don't want that you took your time to make a lot of things. 18 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:55,120 You don't want it to waste. So how you can profit is by paying attention, by doing exactly 19 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:01,960 what brought you here. You came here to hear the word of the Lord. You came here to be 20 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,760 blessed. You came here to pray. You came here to receive from God. So just set your heart 21 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:13,880 like that. Once you're done, you can handle whatever theme that is waiting for you. Luke 22 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:20,720 chapter 17. Luke chapter 17 verse 11. Now it happened as he went to Jerusalem that he 23 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:28,640 passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Then as he entered a certain village, there 24 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:36,000 he met, he met him ten men who were, who were leopards, who stood afar off. And they lifted 25 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,360 up their voice and said, Jesus, master, have mercy on us. So when he saw them, he said 26 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:48,880 to them, go show yourself to the priest. And it was when that they had went, they were 27 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:54,360 cleansed. Verse 15. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, he turned with 28 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:02,180 a loud voice, glorifying God and fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks. 29 00:03:02,180 --> 00:03:10,320 And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, were there not ten cleansed, but 30 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:16,120 where are the, where are the nine, any found who returned to give glory to God, except 31 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:22,480 this foreigner. And he said to him, arise, go your way. Your faith has made you well. 32 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:30,800 Verse 20. Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, he answered 33 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:38,880 and said, the kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor would they say, see 34 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,920 there or see, see here or see there for indeed the kingdom of God is within you. Praise 35 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:50,360 the Lord. The kingdom of God is within you. So the Pharisees have seen something, they 36 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:56,800 have seen a sign, saw what had happened, that people were healed of their leprosy. They 37 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,400 saw a sign, something that they have never seen before, something that it was told them 38 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:08,800 that when the kingdom of God will come, this would be the realities that would follow. 39 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,720 They have seen a sign. And so they're trying to find out, could it be that the kingdom 40 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,480 of God has come? Right? They're trying to, what is really going on here? Praise the Lord. 41 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:25,120 So they asked, when would the kingdom of heaven come? And he's saying to them that the kingdom 42 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:30,800 of God does not come by observation. The kingdom of God does not come because you have seen 43 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,640 that. The kingdom of God does not come because you have seen a miracle. The kingdom of God 44 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:42,320 has, does not come because you have seen something that you have the knowledge of that this would 45 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:48,460 be the thing that will accompany the kingdom. Praise the Lord. It does not come by observation. 46 00:04:48,460 --> 00:04:53,560 So they have seen something and we will note throughout the scriptures that the Pharisees 47 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,120 were always asking him for a sign. They were always asking Jesus for a sign because they 48 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,320 want to know, is he truly the Messiah? Does he have the characteristics of what we have 49 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:09,640 been, what we have studied or what we have been taught? Praise the Lord. We see Matthew 50 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:16,120 chapter 16, Matthew chapter 16, from verse one to four. Then the Pharisees and the Pharisees 51 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:22,500 came testing him, asked that he would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said, 52 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:29,280 when it is evening, you said it will be fair weather for the sky is red. And in the morning, 53 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:35,920 it will be fall weather today for the sky is red and is threatening. Hypocrites, you 54 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,860 know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot design the sign of the times. We 55 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:48,960 can adore trust generation, seek, seek after a sign and no sign shall be given to you except 56 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,160 the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them and they perfect. Praise the Lord. So 57 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,400 there were always people who were seeking for sign. We also look at that in Mark chapter 58 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:04,520 eight, verse 11 to 12, Mark eight. Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with 59 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:10,880 him, seeking from him a sign from heaven testing him. And he sighed deeply in his spirit and 60 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:16,560 said, why does this generation seek a sign? And suddenly I say to you, no sign shall be 61 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:24,960 given to this generation. Luke chapter 28. Now when Harold saw Jesus, he was exceedingly 62 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:32,080 glad for he had desired for a long time to see him because he has had many things about 63 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:38,360 him and he hoped that he will see some miracle done by him. Praise the Lord. John chapter 64 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:45,480 six, John chapter six, 29 to 30. Then Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work 65 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:51,080 of God that you should believe in him. You should believe in him whom he sent. Therefore 66 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:56,520 they said to him, what sign will you perform that we will see it and believe you? What 67 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:03,080 work will you do? John chapter four, verse 48. Then Jesus said to him, unless you people 68 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:09,240 see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe. Praise the Lord. So we see that the 69 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:14,440 Pharisees have always, they're very curious. They always want to see signs. They want to 70 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:20,120 see wonders. They want to see something and believe. Praise the Lord. They want to see 71 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:25,640 something. And now they have seen a glimpse of something that lepers were healed, people 72 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:31,760 that were regarded as outcasts. They cannot live in a society where no more people live. 73 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,320 And then they asked them, when will the kingdom come? Praise the Lord. When will the kingdom 74 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:42,080 come? So the Pharisees have expectations. They have things in their mind concerning 75 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,960 the kingdom. They have seen something. Finally a sign was shown to them. Finally they have 76 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:52,200 seen something in many other scriptures. We see him doing a lot of things as well. So 77 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:57,560 now they now ask, when will the kingdom come? Praise the Lord. For they were expecting 78 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:03,400 the kingdom. As we have been taught, they were not looking to go to a kingdom. They 79 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,960 were expecting the kingdom to come to them. Praise the Lord. And they have seen some things 80 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:13,820 that is telling them that it's possible that the kingdom has come to them. Praise the Lord. 81 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:19,440 When will the kingdom come? They were expecting the kingdom. They were not looking forward 82 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:26,160 to a kingdom. It was a kingdom that was coming to them. Praise the Lord. It was a kingdom 83 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,980 that was coming to them. So throughout the teachings we have been saying or we have been 84 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:35,680 trying to understand or teach us what the kingdom is, or the kingdom of heaven. And 85 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:42,000 then we said from our studies and as we know that the word kingdom there is the word, Basilia, 86 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:49,360 which means dominion or royal power or rule. Praise the Lord. Or kingship. Right? But we 87 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:56,200 also, we also, the word there is not to be confused for kingdom. Like the kingdom that 88 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:01,940 you know, like the Benin kingdom, it should not be confused for those type of kingdoms. 89 00:09:01,940 --> 00:09:06,320 Like England, it should not be confused for those type of kingdoms. But rather the rights 90 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:12,360 or authority to rule. Praise the Lord. So he's not talking about a domain. He's not 91 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,920 talking about a place. He's not talking about, so what he says the kingdom of heaven, he's 92 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:22,040 not talking about a place. He was talking about dominion. He's talking about a royal 93 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:27,720 power. The right to rule. Praise the Lord. So we also see this Basilia used in Matthew 94 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:35,040 chapter 6. Matthew chapter 5 verse 10. It's the same word that we see here. Blessed are 95 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,160 those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 96 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:48,040 Right? This is exactly the same word that was used there. Verse 20 of Matthew chapter 97 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:53,560 5. For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and 98 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:57,920 the Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. He's talking about 99 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:03,320 the same thing. Matthew chapter 6 verse 9 to 10. In this manner therefore pray, our 100 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:10,600 Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. The word heaven there, so the word kingdom there 101 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:17,600 is the word Basilia. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven is 102 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,880 the same word Basilia. Matthew chapter 9 verse 35. Then Jesus went about all the cities and 103 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,760 the villages teaching in their synagogue, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every 104 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:33,880 sickness and every disease among the people. The word kingdom there is the same word as 105 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:41,160 Basilia which means royal power, which means dominion, which means rule. Matthew chapter 106 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:48,120 12 verse 28. Matthew chapter 12 verse 28. If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, 107 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:54,520 surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Praise the Lord. So it's the same word as 108 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:01,440 Basilia. If he cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of heaven has come 109 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:08,720 upon you. So the kingdom of heaven has possibilities, praise the Lord, that he say if I cast out 110 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:14,680 demons by the Spirit of God, the kingdom of God has come upon you. Matthew chapter 13 111 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:21,640 verse 31 to 32. Another parable, he put forth to them saying the kingdom of heaven is like 112 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:28,840 a mustard seed which a man too can sow on his field, which indeed at last of all the 113 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:35,160 seed is leavened of all the seeds, but when it's grown is a great grass among the house 114 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:40,920 and it becomes a tree so that the birds of the air can come and nest in its branches. 115 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:48,120 So the same word here that he used for kingdom is the same word as Basilia. Matthew chapter 116 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:55,640 33. Another parable he spoke to them, the kingdom of heaven is like a leaven when a 117 00:11:55,640 --> 00:12:02,800 woman takes and hides it in three measures of milk it is all leavened. Verse 44. Again 118 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:09,240 the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field which a man find and hides and 119 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:17,000 for joy over is he goes and sell all that he has and buys the field. Verse 45 to 46. 120 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,880 Again the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls. Verse 46. And when 121 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:28,080 he found one pearl of great price went and sold all he had and bought it. Praise the 122 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:36,600 Lord. So the word their place kingdom is the same word that was used in Luke chapter 17 123 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:42,160 and then Matthew chapter 16 verse 9. Do you not understand or remember? I think this is 124 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:49,640 the starting mug so the manifestation of the kingdom is, when we say 125 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,880 the manifestation of the kingdom we are talking about royal power of God. We're 126 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,580 talking about the royal power of God, we are talking about the manifestation of the 127 00:12:59,580 --> 00:13:04,240 royal power of God, we are talking about the manifestation of the dominion of God. We're 128 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:09,800 talking about the manifestation of the rule of God. This is what we are saying the manifestation 129 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:16,440 of the rule of God and then he tells them that it does not come by observation. The manifestation 130 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:22,040 of the rule or the dominion of God does not come by observation. Praise the Lord. He's telling to 131 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,440 say to them that it is not something that is physically seen. It is not something that you 132 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:31,240 physically discern. Praise the Lord. It's also something that you physically discern. It's also 133 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:36,440 something that you will say, look, there it is. Look, but it's something else. It's not something 134 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:43,160 that is humanly understood. Praise the Lord. The Pharisees cannot understand it. It's not something 135 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:50,600 that they can understand. That is why if you read 2 Corinthians chapter 4 from verse 3 to 6, 136 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:56,840 for our gospel, but even if our gospel is veiled, is veiled to those who are perishing, 137 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:03,240 whose mind the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe the least of the light of the gospel, 138 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,640 of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God and should shine on them. For we do not preach 139 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:17,320 ourself, but Christ the Lord and ourself, your bold servant for Christ. 6. For it is God who 140 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:24,680 commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the 141 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:30,840 knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord. If the gospel is veiled, 142 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:37,160 if it's not understood, it is not understood by those who are perishing. It is not physically 143 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:42,280 discerned. It is not intellectually discerned. Praise the Lord. They cannot understand it. So 144 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:48,200 that's why He's saying to them that it is not by observation. It is not by what you are able to 145 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:54,920 observe. It is not by your studies of what you have known or how you could understand matter or 146 00:14:54,920 --> 00:15:03,320 physics. Praise the Lord. It is not observed like that. So how does the kingdom come? How does the 147 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:12,600 kingdom come? So like we said, the kingdom of God is not about what is about what will come, not what 148 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:18,040 where you'll be going, right? It's not about what, it's not about where you'll be going, but what 149 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:25,160 will come. And then He said to them that the kingdom of God is within you. Praise the Lord. 150 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,560 The kingdom of God is within you. Our Emperor Victor was preaching. He made us to understand 151 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:35,240 that He's not talking about within as within the Pharisee. Praise the Lord. He's not talking about 152 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:40,440 in the inside of your heart. It's the fact that Christ is with them, physically there. Praise the 153 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,400 Lord. Christ is with them. So because that is, it means that the kingdom of God within you means that 154 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,680 Jesus is there with them. He was their expectation. He was the expectation. Whatever they were 155 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,960 expecting, Jesus was that expectation. That's why He said the kingdom of God is within you. He was 156 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:04,280 the expectation. It was what was to come. Praise the Lord. He was present with them, but not in 157 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:12,680 the heart of the Pharisees. John chapter 4, John chapter 4 verse 21. And Jesus said to her, 158 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,520 woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain or in Jerusalem 159 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:25,320 worship the father. For the father is seeking such to worship him. The God is spirit and those who 160 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:33,400 worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. How does the kingdom come? How does the 161 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:42,200 kingdom come? So He's making clear to her that it's not your usual way. It's not the normal way 162 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:48,440 again that you know of, that you seek God by going to Jerusalem, that you seek God by going 163 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:55,880 to a mountain, that you seek God or God is as they know, just with the Jews. Praise the Lord. He's 164 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:02,680 saying to her that the hour is coming and He said, now it is. Now is, right? So what He's also saying 165 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:09,960 to her is that the kingdom has come because He's there with her. Praise the Lord. He said, when the 166 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:16,600 true worshipers, when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth, for the 167 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:23,560 father seeks such to worship him. He said, God is spirit and those who worship him must worship him 168 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:30,600 in spirit and in truth, must worship him in spirit and in truth. It is spiritually disowned. 169 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:36,440 Praise the Lord. It is spiritually disowned. It is a spiritual worship. We saw in the, 170 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:45,320 in these cell meetings that the word heaven as well is synonymous to the word spirit. Praise the 171 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:55,160 Lord. So God seeks such to worship him. He said, now is because the kingdom has come. 1 Corinthians. 172 00:17:55,160 --> 00:18:08,920 How does the kingdom come? 1 Corinthians, chapter 20, 1 Corinthians 1 verse 20 to 25. 173 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:16,280 So where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disposer of this age? Has God, 174 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:23,960 has not God made foolishness the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God, 175 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:30,520 the world through wisdom did not know God. It pleased God through the foolishness of the message 176 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:37,240 preached to save those who believed. For Jews require sign and Greeks seek for wisdom. 177 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:44,520 But we preach Christ crucified to the Jews, the stumbling block and to the Greek foolishness. But 178 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:50,840 to those who are called both Jews and Greek, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 179 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:57,480 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 180 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:04,520 Praise the Lord. So he's saying today in verse 20 to 21 that the kingdom of God does not come 181 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,480 as men expect. It's not in the excellency of their expectation. It doesn't come like that. 182 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:16,440 Right? The kingdom does not come in the excellency of the expectation of men. It's not the way they 183 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:21,160 want it to be. It doesn't come like that. Praise the Lord. Can we put our scripture up here? 184 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,800 Verse 20 to 21. He said to them that where is the wise and where is the scribe, where is the 185 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:31,240 disposer of this age? Has God not made the foolishness of the, sorry, has God not made 186 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:36,760 foolishness the wisdom of this world? Verse 21. For since in the wisdom of God, the world through 187 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:43,000 wisdom did not know God. It pleased God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message 188 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:50,760 preached to those who believe. Praise the Lord. So the kingdom does not come by the 189 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,760 wisdom of men. Praise the Lord. He does not come in the excellency of the expectation. 190 00:19:55,640 --> 00:20:01,560 Maybe men suppose that the kingdom of God will come in a grand style, the way a king should come, 191 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:07,400 the way a kingdom should be dominated by the wars they have fought, by the things that they have 192 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:13,720 understood. It doesn't come in the expectations of men. It doesn't come in a way that the natural 193 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:22,680 man will understand. It comes in a way that men will regard foolishness. Praise the Lord. He comes 194 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:28,760 in a way that men will regard foolishness. In verse 22, he tells us that the Jews seek the sign, 195 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,760 and we have seen it through the scriptures. They have been asking him, show us a sign. 196 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:37,320 They want to believe by sight. They want to believe by a performance. They want to believe 197 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:43,800 by something. The Greek seek for wisdom, but it doesn't come like that. That's why they ask him, 198 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,600 when would the kingdom come? Because they have seen a sign. They have seen something. 199 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:56,520 The ten lepers were clings. So they ask him, when would the kingdom of God come? Because they saw 200 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:01,720 a sign. And the Greek, they seek wisdom, but God has made that foolishness. Right? 201 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:07,800 In verse 23 of that 1 Corinthians, that's Corinthians 1 verse 23. 202 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:18,280 But we preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greek foolishness. 203 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:23,800 Praise the Lord. So the preaching of the gospel is stumbling block to the Jews and to the Greek 204 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:29,080 foolishness. Praise the Lord. But that is how the kingdom comes. But that is how the kingdom 205 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:36,120 comes. That is how the kingdom comes to men. That is how the kingdom comes to the heart of men. 206 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:41,480 The sick sign and the sick wisdom. But that's not how it comes. It's how we preach Christ 207 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,200 crucified. And to them that is a stumbling block. What are you saying? I'm seeking for something 208 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:51,800 tangible. I'm seeking for something that I can hold on to. I'm seeking for something that's, 209 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:57,560 oh, this is a sign. I'm seeking for a wisdom. Make it make sense to me. Let it be beyond my 210 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,760 imagination. But then the preaching of the gospel become a stumbling block to them. Praise the Lord. 211 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:11,560 Because the sick sign and the sick wisdom. Verse 24 of that 1 Corinthians. But those who are called 212 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:18,280 both Jews and Greek, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Praise the Lord. So Christ is 213 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:26,520 the kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. Christ is the kingdom of God. Christ is the kingdom 214 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:33,000 of God. Christ is the kingdom of God. It is God's wisdom to make it that way. Praise the 215 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:39,800 Lord. It is God's wisdom to make this that way. So the kingdom of God is spiritually the Son. The 216 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:49,400 kingdom of God is spiritually the Son. So the kingdom of God is within you means that the coming 217 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:57,400 of Jesus was the coming of the kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. The coming of Jesus was the coming 218 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:04,440 of the kingdom. The coming of Jesus was a was a coming of the kingdom because he was there with 219 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:12,440 them. He said for it is within you. So the kingdom of God or the royal power of God is the coming of 220 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:24,440 the Christ. The dominion of God is the coming of the Christ. John chapter 6. How will the kingdom 221 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:36,920 come? John chapter 6 from verse 30 to 40. John chapter 6 from verse 30 to 40. 222 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:42,680 Still seeking for your sight they said. Therefore they said to him, what sign will you perform that 223 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:49,800 we may see it and believe? What work will you do? Our fathers ate meat, ate the manna in the desert 224 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:55,400 as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them, 225 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:02,680 most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven but my father gave you 226 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:10,680 the true bread from heaven. Praise the Lord. So they did not understand what actually 227 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:16,440 happened or what the coming of Christ meant. Praise the Lord. So the bread from heaven, 228 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,320 if it is truly the bread from heaven that Moses gave them, it means that they were going to be 229 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,080 sustained forever. There was no going to be hunger. Praise the Lord. Because it is spiritual. 230 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:32,360 It is something that should not, they should never hunger again. There should not be any need for 231 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:37,160 taste again. But he is not trying to correct them. He is trying to correct their doctrines and the 232 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:42,920 things they have believed. He said for Moses, he said Moses did not give you the bread from heaven 233 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:49,400 but my father gave you the true bread from heaven. He was speaking of himself. Praise the Lord. 234 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:56,680 For the bread of heaven, firstly, for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives 235 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:04,520 life to the world. How does the kingdom come? The kingdom of God comes because Christ has come. 236 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:12,760 He said he came down from heaven and gave life to the world. Then they said to him, Lord give us 237 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:20,440 this bread always. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never 238 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:26,040 hunger. Praise the Lord. Did we see? He is trying to correct the thing they have belief. So if they 239 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:32,920 have truly ate the bread of life, they will never hunger. Right? They will not be separated from God. 240 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:38,360 Praise the Lord. There will not be a disconnection from God. But then he tells them that I am the 241 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:43,480 bread of life and he who comes to me shall not hunger and he who believes in me shall never 242 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:49,800 thirst. But then I said to you, but I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 243 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:57,240 Praise the Lord. They were still seeking for a sign. Praise the Lord. He said he that has 244 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,880 has brought life to you is with you and yet you do not believe. Praise the Lord. 245 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:07,080 And this would make me begin to think about 246 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:18,760 the many people who have grown up in church and maybe they will find out that they are not safe 247 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:23,560 later on in life. What do we think was what was happening to them? That the message has always 248 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:30,920 been there. It has always been taught. Right? They have always been amiss where it is preached. 249 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,800 Like every day, like all of us are sitting here right now, like every Sunday, like every Wednesday, 250 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,720 like every Friday, the word keeps coming. You go online, you will find the word. But then there is 251 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:47,080 no salvation. There is nothing that has happened to you. Praise the Lord. Is it that you are seeking 252 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:54,200 for a sign? Or to them that believe later on was it that they were seeking for a sign? Maybe 253 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:59,240 somebody has not laid hands and you see a creeper walk, so I have not yet believed. You have never 254 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,240 experienced that. You have never been in the surrounding where such things happen. So you are 255 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:08,840 still, you are not sure about these things. Praise the Lord. Because to you it has not made sense 256 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,960 yet. To you, you have not seen the power yet. Praise the Lord. Remember, he says, the kingdom 257 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:20,200 of God does not come by observation. Praise the Lord. It does not come by observation. It does not 258 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:30,600 come by observation. Verse 36. But I say to you that you have seen me and you do not believe, 259 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:38,920 and yet do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me. And the one who comes to me 260 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:46,200 I will by no means hast away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will 261 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:53,400 of he who sends me. And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all he had given me that 262 00:27:53,400 --> 00:28:01,000 I should lose nothing, but should be raised up, raised it up at the last day. And this is the will 263 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,520 of he who sent me, that everyone should see the Son and believe in him, that he may have everlasting 264 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:15,000 life, I will be raised up with him at the last day. Praise the Lord. So Jesus is the kingdom of heaven. 265 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,240 Praise the Lord. He said this is the will of he who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and 266 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:27,720 believes in him may have everlasting life and will be raised up at the last day. Praise the Lord. 267 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:35,160 So this is how the kingdom comes. This is how the kingdom comes. And the most popular place 268 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:43,720 that we know of is Nicodemus in John chapter 3. John chapter 3. John chapter 3, from verse 3 to 8. 269 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:54,520 And Jesus replied, very truly I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. 270 00:28:54,520 --> 00:29:02,680 How can a man be born again when they are old Nicodemus acts? Surely they cannot enter the second time 271 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:08,520 into their mother's womb to be born. And Jesus answered, very truly I say to you, no one can see, 272 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,920 no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born again. They are born of water and the Spirit. 273 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:17,640 Flesh gives birth to flesh. I'm reading a different translation. I have two. Okay. 274 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:25,160 Jesus answered and said, verse 3, and said to him, most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born 275 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:31,960 again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he's old? 276 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,760 Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? And Jesus answered, most assuredly 277 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:43,320 I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 278 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:50,120 That which is flesh is flesh. And that which is born of flesh is flesh. And that which is born of 279 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:57,400 Spirit is Spirit. Do not marvel that I say to you, you must be born again. The wind blows where it 280 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:03,960 wishes. And you hear the sound of it but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is 281 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:12,040 anyone who is born of the Spirit. Praise the Lord. He's saying to them that it cannot be 282 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,560 physically discerned, right? It cannot be by understanding. It cannot be by that which you 283 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:23,000 understand. And Basavito really made a very good point when he was preaching. And he said that 284 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,240 the man asked Jesus, he said, he said, Rabbi, he said to him, this man came to Jesus by night and 285 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:35,480 said, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God. No one can see, no one can do this sign 286 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:41,640 that you do unless God is with him. Praise the Lord. So he wanted to put Jesus in a box. He said 287 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:47,560 to him, you are a teacher, right? But then Jesus said to him that most assuredly I say to you, 288 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,360 unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. So he's trying to, 289 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:58,120 he said, Basavito said, he's trying to push his attention to see that he is the kingdom of God. 290 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:03,240 He's not a teacher come from God. Praise the Lord. He's not a prophet. Do you know what that means? 291 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:09,000 A teacher comes from God. Isaiah is a teacher come from God. Jeremiah is a teacher come from God. 292 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:14,840 Praise the Lord. You're a teacher come from God. But Jesus is not a teacher come from God. 293 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,480 Praise the Lord. So the man is trying to, he's trying to bring him down to the level of 294 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:26,120 where he's not even what to be. And he told him that unless you are born again, you cannot see the 295 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:35,080 kingdom of God. Praise the Lord. So he's not a teacher come from God. Verse three. So you cannot 296 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:41,640 see the rule or the dominion of God, except you are born again. You cannot see the royal power of 297 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:53,240 God. You cannot see the dominion of God unless you are born again. So he means that the man that does 298 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:59,640 not have a preview or does not have a view of the reality of God, you cannot see the kingdom of God. 299 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:06,760 You cannot you don't have a view of the realities of God. You don't have a view of the the realities 300 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,640 of the spirit. It doesn't make sense to you. It can never make sense to you. In verse five he tells 301 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:18,120 him that of God. Praise the Lord. He cannot enter the kingdom of God. He cannot have the experience. 302 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,120 He can never have the experience. He can never experience the dominion of God. 303 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:26,920 He can never experience the power of God. He can never experience the rule of God. 304 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,320 Praise the Lord. He means that that man is in darkness, he's in bondage, 305 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,480 will continue to be in bondage. Praise the Lord. It means that that man does not 306 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,360 have an experience of the realities of God. 307 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,520 Unless, he said, except you are born a king, 308 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,800 you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Verse 6, the Lord said, 309 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,280 that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. 310 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,280 Praise the Lord. The kingdom can only come by the Spirit. It is spiritual. 311 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,960 Praise the Lord. It is not physically designed. It's not something that 312 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:04,440 it can only come by the Spirit. It is the Spirit that does it. Praise the Lord. 313 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,520 So he's trying to say to him that we come to the kingdom of God 314 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,640 when we have accepted that which Christ has done. 315 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,600 We saw it when you have believed. So this is the will of God 316 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,920 that those who see him may believe in him and they will have everlasting life. 317 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,200 Praise the Lord. That is how a man comes to the kingdom 318 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,120 when we have accepted the gospel. Praise the Lord. 319 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:32,280 I was saying, I will go back and see the analogy I said earlier 320 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,040 that for those who have sat in church for a long time, 321 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,320 right, and the message have come every Sunday and Sunday and Sunday and 322 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,320 Sunday, are you waiting for a sign? Are you 323 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,600 waiting for a sign? Are you waiting for a sign? Have you 324 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:53,560 accepted the gospel? Have you accepted the gospel? 325 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,240 Or are you preaching the gospel, you who have accepted? Have you accepted the 326 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,560 gospel? So God has called us into the kingdom 327 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,320 to bring men, to bring men to the kingdom. Praise the Lord. To bring men to the 328 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,760 kingdom. So the manifestation of the kingdom of 329 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:13,480 God, we can say is the manifestation of the 330 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,640 dominion of God. We can say it's the manifestation 331 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,720 of the royal power of God. We can say it's a manifestation 332 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:26,760 of the rule of God, which is Christ. Praise the Lord. Do we understand it? 333 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:32,360 The manifestation of the kingdom of God is a manifestation of the royal power of 334 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,000 God. It is the manifestation of the dominion 335 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:42,600 of God. It is a manifestation of the rule of God which is Christ. Praise the Lord. 336 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:49,720 The manifestation, he says, is within you. Praise the Lord. So there is a manifestation. 337 00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:54,620 There is a manifestation to those who have believed God. There is a manifestation to 338 00:34:54,620 --> 00:34:59,600 our faith. There is a manifestation to the belief that we have in Christ. There is a 339 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:00,600 manifestation. 340 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:09,280 One of those manifestations is that the believer speaks. Praise the Lord. We speak. We speak. 341 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:14,760 They are our operations. Praise the Lord. They are our operations. And because you are 342 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:21,240 spiritual, because you were born again, because you are in Christ, you can walk in this manifestation. 343 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,240 You can walk in these operations. 344 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:32,200 John 4. Again to this Hamaritan woman. John 4 from verse 23 to 24. He said, 345 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:39,640 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers would worship the Father 346 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:46,280 in spirit and in truth. For God seeks such to worship him. For God is spirit, and those 347 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:51,600 who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. You are spiritual. Praise the 348 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:56,880 Lord. And part of the studies we are doing in the Salmi team, one of the manifestations, 349 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:03,560 one of the realities of heaven, or spiritual reality, is Christ and the believer. You are 350 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:10,760 spiritual. Praise the Lord. Spiritual beings are not sustained by physical things. Right? 351 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,920 That's why Christ would say, that man shall not live by bread alone. He is not saying 352 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:22,360 that bread is not good. You need bread. Praise the Lord. Man shall not live by bread alone, 353 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,400 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The man that can live by bread 354 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:32,280 alone is a man that is not spiritual. The man that is not in Christ. Not the man that 355 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:38,000 is not spiritual, because it means a lot of things. Right? So specifically, the man that 356 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,800 is not in Christ. The man that is not in Christ. So the man that is not in Christ can live 357 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:49,800 by bread alone. Praise the Lord. He can be sustained by bread alone. You cannot be sustained 358 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,960 by bread alone. He said, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So 359 00:36:54,960 --> 00:37:01,840 to study the word of God, for example, right? To read the word of God or to pray or to speak 360 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:07,000 the word of God is not something that is strange to you. Right? It shouldn't be strange to 361 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,440 you because that's how your sustenance is. There are people, a lot of people here, that 362 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,720 if I ask who are eating breakfast, they will raise their hands. Right? They know that they 363 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:20,200 will have, they will not be able to speak to people properly if they don't eat. Praise 364 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:25,080 the Lord. They understand that. Right? So as a spiritual being, you also understand 365 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:31,960 that you cannot perform properly if you are not eating. You cannot perform properly. You 366 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,960 cannot speak to people properly if you are not studying the word. You cannot operate 367 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,560 in the way you should operate. They can be, you will not see any manifestation if you 368 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,800 don't eat the things you're supposed to eat. Praise the Lord because you're spiritual. 369 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:52,720 And he said that those, he seek those to worship him. He said they must worship him in spirit 370 00:37:52,720 --> 00:38:02,160 and in truth. Galatians chapter four, Galatians chapter four verse four to seven. But when 371 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:08,240 the fullness of time had come, God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law to 372 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:17,320 redeem those who are under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because 373 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:24,080 you are sons, God has sent his spirit, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into 374 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:31,200 your heart, crying, Abba, father. Therefore you are no longer slaves, but a son. And if 375 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:36,760 you have a son, then you are an heir of God through Christ. Praise the Lord. He said, 376 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:42,320 for he has sent his son, the spirit of his son into our hearts. They were able to cry 377 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:47,340 Abba, father. Praise the Lord. They were able to speak. They were able to call upon the 378 00:38:47,340 --> 00:38:53,680 name of the Lord. Praise the Lord. They were able to call the name of the Lord. You are 379 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:59,960 an heir. You're spiritual. There are manifestations. There are operations. Praise the Lord. There 380 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:04,640 are operations. There are manifestations. And for you to be sustained, for you to try, 381 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:13,440 for you to max in the possibilities of God, you need to understand that you need to feed 382 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:18,400 yourself with things that will sustain you. Praise the Lord. You need to feed your things 383 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:25,000 with the things that will sustain you. I think I've said it before. The work of the devil 384 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:33,040 is not to, he doesn't want you to, he knows you can't live. Right? But he wants to make 385 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:39,840 you ineffective. Right? He wants to make you have a mixture of many things. Right? You 386 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:49,840 are in church. You are a child of God. You put that in your bio and your profile. But 387 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,520 then he wants you to have a mix of many things. Praise the Lord. Because he knows that in 388 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:59,680 that there is no manifestation. He knows in that there's going to be rising and falling. 389 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:04,880 Today I'm up. I'm firing. Tomorrow I'm walking backward. Praise the Lord. Today I'm up and 390 00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:10,360 I'm going. Tomorrow I'm tied down to an addiction. Today I'm walking and I'm going and I'm tied 391 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:16,160 down to this. I'm tied down to that. He knows that if he allows you to remain, to continue 392 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,640 to receive the word, to continue to pray, to continue to practice the things of the 393 00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:26,160 spirit, that he will not be able to stop you. So he will introduce many things. Just many 394 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,600 things. He knows some vibes here and there. Praise the Lord. So that you are not able 395 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,480 to be effective. They say lay hands on your brother and pray for them. You're supposed 396 00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:38,680 to hear, clear and sound. But there's so many things on your mind. You lay hands, you are 397 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,960 praying, you are praying. You cannot hear. Praise the Lord. Because your mind is, let 398 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:48,760 me use the word, combated with many things. Praise the Lord. There's so many things that 399 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,080 have happened. You start seeing yourself, ah, will God even hear this prayer? Will I 400 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:57,200 even be able to receive? Because there's a lot of things that he has introduced you to. 401 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,920 Praise the Lord. Or they say pray for the sick. You say, ah, me pray for the sick. Where? 402 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:07,960 No, let's wait for pastor to confess. Praise the Lord. The air manifestation. The air manifestation. 403 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:13,480 He says you're spiritual. You're an air of God. Praise the Lord. You carry the spirit 404 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:19,040 of God. And lastly I will just tell you to cherish the word. Cherish the word. Especially 405 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:25,000 the word that is coming from here. From this house of God. Many of us are very confused 406 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,800 for a very long time. Very, very long time. You don't need that confusion. Praise the 407 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,400 Lord. Especially in regards to the word. What is this? What is that? You don't understand 408 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,260 the love of God. You know, you struggle to understand the love of God. You struggle to 409 00:41:38,260 --> 00:41:43,160 understand salvation. You struggle to understand many things. But the word is coming from 410 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:49,880 here so that confusions will cease. So you need to cherish the word. That's what I said 411 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:55,480 from the beginning. There is nothing as important as to distract you from what has brought you 412 00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:59,880 to the house of the Lord. Because if anything distracts you, those things are gone. You're 413 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:05,480 waiting for next, hopefully next Sunday. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. This is by our head 414 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:12,800 as we pray. Thank you for listening to today's sermon. Your journey matters to us. Let's 415 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:19,040 keep walking together. Visit our website for more resources and follow us on social media 416 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:25,520 to stay updated. Feel free to check the show notes for additional insights. If today's 417 00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:43,120 message was a blessing, share it with a friend. Till next time, be blessed.