WEBVTT 00:00:01.260 --> 00:00:06.900 Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:09.900 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:14.140 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:18.160 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:35.280 right in. Hebrews chapter 10. Look at verse 26. 00:00:37.700 --> 00:00:43.520 Now we have been for a long time looking at a 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.679 crucial issue, which has been for some time a 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.240 matter of controversy, but it's not. And we'll 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.780 be looking at issues around women's liberty. 00:00:54.600 --> 00:01:01.429 Now the theme of the year, greater works and 00:01:01.429 --> 00:01:05.510 one important thing I want to note about greater 00:01:05.510 --> 00:01:14.489 works is that it cannot or let me say it should 00:01:14.489 --> 00:01:22.290 not or it won't be done in isolation. Amen? God 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:27.390 is not calling us to do His work in isolation, 00:01:27.810 --> 00:01:32.150 individually. Hallelujah. That's why we saw in 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:36.049 that text, John chapter 14, verse 12, those who 00:01:36.049 --> 00:01:40.189 believe in Him, He's speaking to not an individual, 00:01:40.569 --> 00:01:44.750 He's speaking to a group. Hallelujah. He's speaking 00:01:44.750 --> 00:01:49.230 to a group. If you is not talking about one person, 00:01:49.310 --> 00:01:52.709 so the you is not a single person. Are we together? 00:01:53.269 --> 00:01:56.739 You believe you will do greater works. Are we 00:01:56.739 --> 00:02:01.719 together? And so ministry, works of God, greater 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.599 works, is never done in isolation. And you will 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.800 do yourself a favor if your reading of scripture 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:17.400 is adjusted from I to we. Are we together? From 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.780 I to we. So even if you hear it says you, then 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:25.800 just automatically, Think he's talking to an 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.360 individual. Even when he says, you are the temple 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:34.599 of God, or you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:35.219 --> 00:02:37.599 He's not talking just as an individual. Yes, 00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:42.460 we are united with him. Yes, individually in 00:02:42.460 --> 00:02:49.759 the son, we are also, we are hosting God. Yes, 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:54.979 means that we are his house. Very importantly, 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.419 it's a community in a sense. It's a family. The 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:03.900 house is a family. So when you said, Christ in 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:06.539 you, the hope of glory, is not talking about 00:03:06.539 --> 00:03:10.979 an individual. He's also talking about a collective 00:03:10.979 --> 00:03:15.939 or a group of people, a community of believers. 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:22.479 And if you check the entirety of the plan of 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.229 God, It's only an individual. It's a family. 00:03:27.150 --> 00:03:30.789 It's a family. That's his intent. That's his 00:03:30.789 --> 00:03:34.330 blueprint from the foundation of the wall. So 00:03:34.330 --> 00:03:38.569 Christ's work came to bring many sons to glory. 00:03:39.729 --> 00:03:45.449 So even as we discuss the issue of issues about 00:03:45.449 --> 00:03:49.270 or around women's liberty, don't think because 00:03:49.270 --> 00:03:51.849 we said women, so it doesn't concern you as a 00:03:51.849 --> 00:03:57.960 man. No, because this family is male and female. 00:03:58.699 --> 00:04:02.580 And as we noted in most of our texts, in all 00:04:02.580 --> 00:04:06.780 our teachings, that the plan of God for creating 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:12.180 a man is the same plan for creating a woman. 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:16.540 Because the family he created is not physical 00:04:16.540 --> 00:04:21.500 family. It's a spiritual one. That's why in him, 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.560 there is no male or female. So we try to look 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:31.120 at a lot of issues. In the spirit, male and females 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.560 are called sons. Sons of God is not male. Sons 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:41.540 of God is a spiritual breed, a new creation. 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:50.829 So we can differ in our biological... or sex, 00:04:52.089 --> 00:04:57.629 or body, but in Christ, we are one. And that's 00:04:57.629 --> 00:05:00.990 the focus. So that you know that you need your 00:05:00.990 --> 00:05:04.269 sister in this ministry. You know that you need 00:05:04.269 --> 00:05:07.209 your brother in this ministry. To do greater 00:05:07.209 --> 00:05:09.170 works, you need your sister, you need your brother. 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:11.329 And that's what we've been trying to communicate. 00:05:11.970 --> 00:05:14.870 And we move on, move on, move on, up until now, 00:05:15.069 --> 00:05:17.430 we are in where we wanted to explain something. 00:05:17.949 --> 00:05:23.759 We arrive, on issues regarding dressing in the 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.920 sun. And we started by looking at a scripture 00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:31.480 which we explore in Deuteronomy concerning a 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:35.939 woman not wearing the things of a man or the 00:05:35.939 --> 00:05:42.120 man not wearing the things of a woman. Although 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.519 it didn't say whichever it is, but we have already 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:48.620 classified things. And that has been an issue 00:05:48.620 --> 00:05:52.939 of controversy. But then we said what we will 00:05:52.939 --> 00:06:01.199 do is to study in the first place What is the 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.920 audience of Moses when he was writing them that 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:11.920 text Who was he addressing it to And we look 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.300 at it we saw that he was addressing it to the 00:06:14.300 --> 00:06:19.629 generation which are about to enter canon The 00:06:19.629 --> 00:06:23.730 latter generation that survived knows those ones 00:06:23.730 --> 00:06:28.569 that left Egypt. And we look at again, what was 00:06:28.569 --> 00:06:31.829 the identity of these people? We saw that their 00:06:31.829 --> 00:06:35.629 identity, they were unbelievers. We said, okay. 00:06:36.550 --> 00:06:40.050 And then we looked at these. And we said, okay, 00:06:41.529 --> 00:06:45.910 was that a law of the spirit of a law of Moses? 00:06:46.110 --> 00:06:48.439 Are we together? Remember, we looked at a lot 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.920 of things concerning the difference between the 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:54.660 Ten Commandments and the Law of Moses. And we 00:06:54.660 --> 00:06:59.540 make a striking distinction that if you check 00:06:59.540 --> 00:07:03.079 in the Law of Moses, we see all kinds of things. 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:07.680 It's focused on performance. It's about death. 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:12.680 It's about evil. It's about diseases. You do 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.759 this. You don't do this. You are killed. The 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:20.899 question is that, where did that emanate? And 00:07:20.899 --> 00:07:23.839 we looked at that the law of Moses came later, 00:07:24.139 --> 00:07:28.079 430 years after the promise was given to Hebra. 00:07:28.980 --> 00:07:31.939 And we started studying, trying to detail, okay, 00:07:32.139 --> 00:07:35.980 how was the law given in the first place? Where 00:07:35.980 --> 00:07:39.220 did we find killing and the rest coming into? 00:07:40.259 --> 00:07:42.819 Are we together? Are you with me? I'm trying 00:07:42.819 --> 00:07:44.779 to bring some of us that have not been with us. 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:46.879 because it's a long journey we had. This is part 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:52.699 25, I think. And we're still moving. So the point 00:07:52.699 --> 00:07:56.199 is that now we're trying to study how the law 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.980 was given. And the intent is for us at the end 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:05.740 of the day to understand how many of the things 00:08:05.740 --> 00:08:10.800 that now has been accorded to God, you understand, 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:17.560 arrive into the text we have. Hallelujah. And 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.759 then by the time we arrive at the destination, 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:27.220 you probably must have now understood how to 00:08:27.220 --> 00:08:32.779 read what we call the Old Testament and also 00:08:32.779 --> 00:08:40.360 how to know, to assess truth. How do we assess 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:45.259 truth? Amen. Are we together? There are many 00:08:45.259 --> 00:08:49.279 things written in this text, especially in the 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:52.879 Old Testament. How do we assess which one is 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.700 God, which one is not God? Because even his prophet, 00:08:56.820 --> 00:09:00.840 his people said something that is not God. How 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:02.940 do you know? Because the person is standing on 00:09:02.940 --> 00:09:06.720 the state of God and he said it. We see killing 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:11.000 done by prophet of God. You understand? Are you 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:15.159 with me? So we see even a lot of things if you 00:09:15.159 --> 00:09:17.820 have been following us in the Canonica You must 00:09:17.820 --> 00:09:21.259 have read we are Moses in the Sun and the Bible 00:09:21.259 --> 00:09:24.320 said and what said to Moses in the Sun one carry 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.600 demand I see kill him stone him. Have you have 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:32.960 you been following us? The question is that How 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:37.120 do you know that instruction came from God? in 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.360 the Sun How do you assess the truth? Who is? 00:09:41.529 --> 00:09:44.850 the standard of truths i don't know whether you 00:09:44.850 --> 00:09:47.389 understand what i'm trying to say we are not 00:09:47.389 --> 00:09:51.110 saying and then what makes a prophet of god who 00:09:51.110 --> 00:09:54.450 understand the things of god yet spoke in that 00:09:54.450 --> 00:09:57.289 way because it's not just only to say that it 00:09:57.289 --> 00:10:00.309 is not god that instructed that it's another 00:10:00.309 --> 00:10:04.110 thing to explain how did he you understand say 00:10:04.110 --> 00:10:08.049 such a thing amen are we together and i want 00:10:08.049 --> 00:10:11.440 you to understand something very important And 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:14.659 that's why you have to follow very carefully 00:10:14.659 --> 00:10:19.419 and gradually. Because the point needs to be 00:10:19.419 --> 00:10:22.919 explained clearly. So we're still looking at 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:27.220 the giving of the law. Amen. Hebrews chapter 00:10:27.220 --> 00:10:33.200 10, I said, right? Look at verse 26. For if we, 00:10:33.500 --> 00:10:37.399 sin willfully, after we have received the knowledge 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:42.580 of God, the knowledge of truth, There is no longer 00:10:42.580 --> 00:10:47.200 remained a sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:51.480 expectation of judgment and fiery indignation 00:10:51.480 --> 00:10:55.899 which will devour the adversary. Look at verse 00:10:55.899 --> 00:11:01.100 28. That is where I want you to see. Anyone who 00:11:01.100 --> 00:11:06.820 has rejected what? Moses' law. Do what? How? 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:12.289 Without mercy. on the testimony of two or three 00:11:12.289 --> 00:11:14.990 witnesses. So what can we say about the law? 00:11:15.370 --> 00:11:18.990 In the law, there is no mercy. What did I say? 00:11:19.610 --> 00:11:23.389 In the law, there is not. What? There is no mercy. 00:11:27.649 --> 00:11:45.549 Psalms 103. Psalms 103 verse seven. What someone 00:11:45.549 --> 00:11:50.649 said, he made known his ways to Moses, his act 00:11:50.649 --> 00:11:55.049 to the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful 00:11:55.049 --> 00:12:00.909 and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in 00:12:00.909 --> 00:12:06.269 mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor 00:12:06.269 --> 00:12:11.009 will he keep his anger forever. He has not dealt 00:12:11.009 --> 00:12:15.700 with us according to our sins. nor punish us 00:12:15.700 --> 00:12:19.799 according to our iniquities. For as the heavens 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:24.860 are high above the earth, so great is his mercy 00:12:24.860 --> 00:12:28.659 toward those who fear him. As far as the east 00:12:28.659 --> 00:12:36.120 is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:39.659 from us." Look at verse 7. I want you to pay 00:12:39.659 --> 00:12:42.740 attention, please. We have already noted in our 00:12:42.740 --> 00:12:45.450 previous teaching that the law came through who? 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:48.409 Through Moses. We have already seen that there 00:12:48.409 --> 00:12:53.149 is no mess in the law. But look at the ways of 00:12:53.149 --> 00:12:57.070 the law, also already revealed to Moses. So when 00:12:57.070 --> 00:13:00.929 Moses wrote the law, he is already aware of the 00:13:00.929 --> 00:13:05.149 ways of God. Because we have said that the revelation 00:13:05.149 --> 00:13:10.009 of God is a gift. So it is the law that made 00:13:10.009 --> 00:13:14.340 his ways known. Moses didn't do anything to end 00:13:14.340 --> 00:13:16.620 it. Are we together with him? Are you together 00:13:16.620 --> 00:13:21.679 with him? So he said he made known his ways to 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:30.340 Moses. He made known his ways to Moses. And his 00:13:30.340 --> 00:13:32.480 act to the children, of course, he has to only 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.980 make his act to the children because they don't 00:13:34.980 --> 00:13:38.399 want to know the ways. Remember we have known 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.399 that they... For 40 years they refused to believe. 00:13:41.500 --> 00:13:44.379 Are we together? So definitely there is no how 00:13:44.379 --> 00:13:47.580 you can make your ways to a non -believer. Because 00:13:47.580 --> 00:13:51.019 he does not want to even understand. So he made 00:13:51.019 --> 00:13:56.240 his ways known to Moses. And look at, he now 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.639 describes what actually is about that ways of 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:04.659 God. Look at verse 8. He said the Lord is what? 00:14:05.980 --> 00:14:09.419 Merciful and what? And gracious. But then how 00:14:09.419 --> 00:14:13.320 come that the law had no mercy? If the same man 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:19.820 who had known that the Lord is what? Is merciful 00:14:19.820 --> 00:14:24.539 and gracious. How comes the law is not without 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:27.980 mercy? Once you see you do what? Is that why 00:14:27.980 --> 00:14:32.559 we say today? They acquire you. Are we together? 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:38.629 So follow me gradually. You now said that It's 00:14:38.629 --> 00:14:42.789 what? It's slow to anger and abounding in mercy. 00:14:43.090 --> 00:14:47.870 You see that word? Slow to anger. If you don't 00:14:47.870 --> 00:14:50.129 read it correctly, you will think that the Lord 00:14:50.129 --> 00:14:54.669 gets angry, but He gets it slowly. Do you understand 00:14:54.669 --> 00:14:56.350 what I'm trying to say? That's what it means 00:14:56.350 --> 00:15:01.789 by what? Slow to anger. Amen. Now look at that 00:15:01.789 --> 00:15:05.590 word, slow. The word slow is translated from 00:15:05.590 --> 00:15:15.049 the word arrack. that is a -r -e -k a -r -e -k 00:15:15.049 --> 00:15:19.450 it means long actually it means long something 00:15:19.450 --> 00:15:24.070 long you know it could be long wind so it is 00:15:24.070 --> 00:15:28.450 used like you can say long wind or long suffering 00:15:28.450 --> 00:15:29.809 so you can you understand what I'm trying to 00:15:29.809 --> 00:15:33.710 say it's actually the word long you know so that's 00:15:33.710 --> 00:15:38.269 why I say slow to anger And the word to anger, 00:15:38.629 --> 00:15:43.870 that word to anger, is one word. To anger is 00:15:43.870 --> 00:15:48.330 one word in Hebrew. It means AP, just AP. And 00:15:48.330 --> 00:15:53.450 it's pronounced F. But it's a word AP. But it's 00:15:53.450 --> 00:15:59.269 pronounced F. It's actually used literally, truly. 00:16:00.250 --> 00:16:02.830 It means nose. You understand what I'm saying? 00:16:02.990 --> 00:16:07.830 Nose. It means nose. And if you look at Erek, 00:16:08.129 --> 00:16:11.210 it also means, literally, it's long. It means 00:16:11.210 --> 00:16:14.669 long. So if you are going to add the two, literally, 00:16:14.889 --> 00:16:17.710 it will mean what? Long nose. You understand 00:16:17.710 --> 00:16:20.509 what I'm saying? And actually, you're laughing. 00:16:21.889 --> 00:16:24.230 And actually in Hebrew, you understand, that's 00:16:24.230 --> 00:16:26.950 actually what it means, literally. Long nose. 00:16:28.690 --> 00:16:34.470 Amen. So you see, that word long nose is an idiomatic 00:16:34.470 --> 00:16:39.919 expression. It's an idiomatic expression which 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:42.700 translates, and most times when translators were 00:16:42.700 --> 00:16:45.220 using it, they now say slow to anger because 00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:47.600 in some other places you can translate it as 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:52.419 slow to anger. But it actually means long suffering. 00:16:53.720 --> 00:17:01.379 That is, you suffer long. Amen. It's what? You 00:17:01.379 --> 00:17:07.509 suffer what? Long. Long suffering. Long suffering. 00:17:08.410 --> 00:17:12.869 It means forbearing, that is patience. Long suffering. 00:17:13.930 --> 00:17:17.769 Long suffering. That's what it means. So most 00:17:17.769 --> 00:17:22.670 times when it is used in regards to God, is a 00:17:22.670 --> 00:17:27.250 description of God's patience. Of God's patience. 00:17:28.329 --> 00:17:31.970 Is a description of God's patience. So next time 00:17:31.970 --> 00:17:36.809 you see Slow to anger. It does not mean You understand 00:17:36.809 --> 00:17:40.509 that he gets angry but slowly What he's saying 00:17:40.509 --> 00:17:45.769 that he is patient is what long suffering? Let 00:17:45.769 --> 00:17:48.849 me show you where that same words appear in some 00:17:48.849 --> 00:17:53.589 of the things Exodus 34 Look at the exercise. 00:17:53.589 --> 00:18:00.910 This is all let us look at some places Exhaust 00:18:00.910 --> 00:18:14.349 34 verse 6 Exodus 34 verse 6. He said, and the 00:18:14.349 --> 00:18:19.589 Lord passed before him and what? Proclaim. The 00:18:19.589 --> 00:18:27.170 Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. That 00:18:27.170 --> 00:18:31.309 what long suffering is that same word. You understand? 00:18:32.410 --> 00:18:36.869 I read. long suffering, and abounding in goodness 00:18:36.869 --> 00:18:42.289 and truth. And abounding in goodness and truth. 00:18:43.509 --> 00:18:49.750 Numbers chapter 14, verse 18. Numbers 14, 18. 00:18:50.589 --> 00:18:53.990 The Lord is long -suffering, that's the same 00:18:53.990 --> 00:19:01.250 word, and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity, 00:19:01.289 --> 00:19:05.849 and transgression, but he by no means cleared 00:19:05.849 --> 00:19:10.450 the guilty. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers 00:19:10.450 --> 00:19:14.910 on the children to the third and the fourth generation. 00:19:15.029 --> 00:19:18.190 We have done this study again in this church. 00:19:19.009 --> 00:19:21.849 We say that word visiting does not mean that 00:19:21.849 --> 00:19:25.009 God keep malice. If your father does something, 00:19:25.549 --> 00:19:28.210 he keeps it and wait for the children. When they 00:19:28.210 --> 00:19:31.559 come, he punish them. That's not what that means 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:35.339 visiting. We said that what visiting is perquired 00:19:35.339 --> 00:19:38.920 which means to what to take care of something 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.119 So he's saying I will take care of your iniquity 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.640 means that God does not just say That's why he 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.640 said he by no means keep clear the guilty me. 00:19:48.700 --> 00:19:51.599 You will not just say you go Yeah, yeah forgiveness 00:19:51.599 --> 00:19:55.720 means there is a penalty for it But what he does 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.150 is to clear or to carry the penalty himself. 00:19:59.170 --> 00:20:02.109 That is means by taking care of. Did you understand 00:20:02.109 --> 00:20:03.910 what I'm trying to say? Yes. It doesn't mean 00:20:03.910 --> 00:20:06.569 that you will keep malice, your father did something 00:20:06.569 --> 00:20:08.650 and he will follow you, follow you, follow you 00:20:08.650 --> 00:20:11.250 to the other generation and punish your children 00:20:11.250 --> 00:20:14.809 for what the fathers did. No. In fact, look at 00:20:14.809 --> 00:20:17.369 in the same text what he said to understand that 00:20:17.369 --> 00:20:21.089 that's not what it means. Look at verse 31. Look 00:20:21.089 --> 00:20:24.650 at verse 31. He said, but your little ones, whom 00:20:24.650 --> 00:20:27.390 you set will be victims. So who are the people 00:20:27.390 --> 00:20:28.970 who are saying that their little ones will be 00:20:28.970 --> 00:20:32.349 victims of what they did? The people themselves, 00:20:32.589 --> 00:20:34.630 that is the Israelites, they say our children 00:20:34.630 --> 00:20:38.549 will be victims of it. In fact, they have carved 00:20:38.549 --> 00:20:42.509 what we call a prover. He said the father will 00:20:42.509 --> 00:20:45.789 eat the grapes and the children will what? Did 00:20:45.789 --> 00:20:47.630 you understand what I'm saying? So they have 00:20:47.630 --> 00:20:50.049 already carved that kind of things. We have done 00:20:50.049 --> 00:20:52.150 this study, so I don't want us to go over it 00:20:52.150 --> 00:20:57.660 now. But look at it. He said what? that but your 00:20:57.660 --> 00:21:02.440 little ones whom you set will be victims eh I 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:07.339 will bring in and they shall know the hand which 00:21:07.339 --> 00:21:11.980 you have despised but as for you your carcasses 00:21:11.980 --> 00:21:14.779 shall fall in the wilderness that means you are 00:21:14.779 --> 00:21:16.740 the one that did the nonsense you are the one 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:20.000 to bear it your children they didn't they didn't 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.000 do anything you are the one that said they will 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:24.359 be victims they will not I will take them to 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:27.559 that promised land which you despise. So in the 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:30.039 same text as already clear that one, it's not 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:32.119 saying God will keep malice and visit the children 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:35.619 with the trouble. No. That's why when you read 00:21:35.619 --> 00:21:38.319 it, you will now understand in that same context. 00:21:38.859 --> 00:21:41.660 That means the Lord is long -suffering. He's 00:21:41.660 --> 00:21:45.200 abundant in mercy. He is forgiving. You understand? 00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:48.140 Forgiving the iniquity. You understand? And the 00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:50.640 transgression. In fact, if you read it, how can 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.329 he forgive the iniquity? And then also carry 00:21:53.329 --> 00:21:56.569 and follow the iniquity again. In the same verse 00:21:56.569 --> 00:21:58.970 can be contradictory if you don't read it correctly. 00:21:59.670 --> 00:22:04.089 Are we together? So the point is that no, that 00:22:04.089 --> 00:22:09.049 is the Lord is long suffering or slow to anger. 00:22:09.089 --> 00:22:12.210 But I would prefer to use the word long suffering. 00:22:12.609 --> 00:22:15.410 I mean, maybe the choice of I mean, the translators, 00:22:15.430 --> 00:22:18.269 the choice of what they use in the sun is not 00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:21.329 actually clear. It would be proper if they use 00:22:21.579 --> 00:22:25.440 always long suffering instead of slow to anger. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:29.299 Amen. Are we together? Nehemiah chapter 9 verse 00:22:29.299 --> 00:22:45.680 17. Nehemiah chapter 9. Look at verse 17. He 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:50.160 said, look at it. He said they refused to obey. 00:22:50.569 --> 00:22:53.609 Please note that. They refused, talking about 00:22:53.609 --> 00:22:57.069 the Israelites, they refused to obey. And there 00:22:57.069 --> 00:23:01.730 we are not mindful of your wonders that you did 00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:07.150 among them. But they hardened their neck and 00:23:07.150 --> 00:23:11.690 in their rebellion they appointed a leader to 00:23:11.690 --> 00:23:15.890 return to bondage. That's Numbers. Again, those 00:23:15.890 --> 00:23:17.529 are words that have been following us. You understand? 00:23:18.109 --> 00:23:20.990 In Numbers chapter 14, you saw after they did 00:23:20.990 --> 00:23:23.890 all this nonsense, you understand? They now appointed, 00:23:24.289 --> 00:23:26.630 say this man Moses, we don't know where, you 00:23:26.630 --> 00:23:29.910 know, let's appoint a leader and return back 00:23:29.910 --> 00:23:33.109 to Egypt, you understand? But what did God do? 00:23:33.769 --> 00:23:37.009 Did He kill them? You understand? And then the 00:23:37.009 --> 00:23:41.549 Bible says, but you are God, ready to do all, 00:23:42.089 --> 00:23:46.599 to pardon, gracious and mercy. Slow to anger. 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:49.220 That word again, slow to anger. It means long 00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:52.539 suffering. You understand? Abundant in kindness 00:23:52.539 --> 00:23:56.700 and did not forsake them. And did not forsake 00:23:56.700 --> 00:24:00.819 them. This is the attitude of the Lord that was 00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:04.420 revealed to Moses. You understand? And the Lord 00:24:04.420 --> 00:24:23.490 made his ways known to Moses. Hallelujah! Yes! 00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:31.609 So, I want you to get note of that thing. Even 00:24:31.609 --> 00:24:33.970 though the people have rejected God, in fact, 00:24:34.130 --> 00:24:37.410 you can imagine, that time they were about to 00:24:37.410 --> 00:24:40.990 enter Egypt. Yes, sorry. They are about to enter 00:24:40.990 --> 00:24:46.430 Canaan in Numbers 14. You understand? When those 00:24:46.430 --> 00:24:50.799 10 people confused them, Those ten spies came 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:54.160 and confused them. Are we together? And say there 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:58.160 are giant in the what? In the promised land and 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:01.599 they cry they say we are going back We can't 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:06.119 die here. You understand? Are we together? That 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:10.259 is a kind of people. God said But you are God 00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:15.259 you are merciful. That's the kind of people They 00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:18.160 are rebellious people For 30 years remember they 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:26.859 have been rejecting you in the sun. Look at Psalms 00:25:26.859 --> 00:25:43.180 86. Psalms 86 verse 15. But you, O Lord, are 00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:49.589 God. This one say I God. Full of what? Compassion 00:25:49.589 --> 00:25:53.849 and what? Long -suffering. That what again is 00:25:53.849 --> 00:25:56.670 the same word, long -suffering. And abundant 00:25:56.670 --> 00:26:03.309 in mercy and truth. Go to 1 .45, Psalms 1 .45 00:26:03.309 --> 00:26:18.369 verse eight. Psalms 1 .45 verse eight. 145 verse 00:26:18.369 --> 00:26:21.750 8. The Lord is gracious, full of compassion, 00:26:22.390 --> 00:26:26.450 slow to anger, and great in mercy. Now what again? 00:26:26.509 --> 00:26:31.950 Slow to anger is long suffering. Joel chapter 00:26:31.950 --> 00:26:39.569 2 verse 13. Joel chapter 2 verse what? Verse 00:26:39.569 --> 00:26:44.910 13. So rent your heart and not your garment. 00:26:45.289 --> 00:26:49.430 wrong to the Lord your God for he is gracious 00:26:49.430 --> 00:26:55.609 and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness 00:26:55.609 --> 00:27:00.029 and he relents from doing harm again the word 00:27:00.029 --> 00:27:05.329 slow to anger means long suffering let's read 00:27:05.329 --> 00:27:12.210 this last text Jonah chapter 4 verse 2 Jonah 00:27:12.210 --> 00:27:16.559 chapter 4 verse 2 Let me even read from verse 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:19.980 one. He said, but it displaced Jonah accidentally 00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:24.599 and he became angry. Why? He says, so he prayed 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:29.900 to God, to the Lord and said, Oh Lord, was not 00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:34.180 this what I said when I was still in my country? 00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:39.400 Therefore I fled previously to Tashish. For I 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:43.500 know that you are what? You are gracious and 00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:48.000 you are merciful. God Slow to anger that what 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:54.039 again Abundant and long in loving kindness one 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:58.160 who relents from doing harm you see The same 00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:00.819 thing to go and preach because he already knew 00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:04.579 he knew that are we together? He knew that this 00:28:04.579 --> 00:28:08.380 God He will not kill this people, you know, sir. 00:28:08.380 --> 00:28:11.960 He knew it That was why I say I will not go because 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:14.859 he think it's a waste of time You know, that's 00:28:14.859 --> 00:28:17.680 why some of us were angry that your father is 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:21.920 a loving God. So many believers are angry that 00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:25.920 why will God not be harsh, not be a terrible 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:28.539 person? That's how some of us are. That when 00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:31.519 you hear he loves even his enemies, he gives 00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:34.500 you rain, you understand? You don't like it. 00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:38.099 When they say, no, praying fire, let my enemies 00:28:38.099 --> 00:28:42.359 die is not a Christ -like prayer. He said, no, 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:44.900 no, no, no. Even David said it. You see the problem? 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:47.480 That's why we say, you see, you do not have a 00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:50.779 way of assessing what is true. David is a prophet, 00:28:51.339 --> 00:28:55.079 but you are in the reality of what David was 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:59.400 looking for. You are in a standing that the David 00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:03.200 of before, you understand, was looking for. That's 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:06.200 why you don't appreciate what you have to do. 00:29:06.460 --> 00:29:09.960 You want to go back to the old system, that old 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:14.730 system. of no mercy. Don't we I do you. Why won't 00:29:14.730 --> 00:29:16.609 you be listening to these songs? You will definitely 00:29:16.609 --> 00:29:20.849 be listening to those songs. God no go versed. 00:29:21.130 --> 00:29:31.890 You see that kind of a thing? Amen. Jonah knew 00:29:31.890 --> 00:29:36.069 it. And he confirmed it, even when he went grudgingly. 00:29:36.769 --> 00:29:39.890 And God did it. He said, you see, I said it. 00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:42.759 That is the reason why I wanted to run away because 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:46.779 I know what he will do. We have more better standing 00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:51.640 than Jonah. Hallelujah! We go to preach not because 00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:57.599 we want to see people suffer. You know some of 00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:59.700 us go to preach so that they will not say they 00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:08.519 didn't preach. Don't believe you are going to 00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:15.190 hell. Hell straight! The way I'm looking at you, 00:30:15.269 --> 00:30:22.289 you're going to hell. See the scan of it. Your 00:30:22.289 --> 00:30:28.730 message is not the gospel. Go back to that psalm. 00:30:28.730 --> 00:30:41.359 Psalm 103. So next time you read the lost soul 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.460 in the son to anger. Noda is talking about his 00:30:45.460 --> 00:30:48.519 long -suffering. Are we together? He's talking 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.319 about what? His long -suffering. Look at verse 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:58.299 9 of that Psalms 103 verse 9. He said he will 00:30:58.299 --> 00:31:03.700 not always strike in the son. Now what we ask 00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:07.380 is it lies, which means it was just added. It's 00:31:07.380 --> 00:31:10.509 not in the original. You will see also his anger 00:31:10.509 --> 00:31:13.970 for, that what his anger is also not in the original. 00:31:14.589 --> 00:31:17.769 So you could see that he will not always strive, 00:31:18.650 --> 00:31:24.589 nor will he keep forever. Are we together? Amen. 00:31:26.009 --> 00:31:32.430 Yes. I think we've studied the issue of, okay, 00:31:32.549 --> 00:31:37.519 that's in training center. God not striving forever 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:42.599 with man. Are we together? Genesis chapter 6, 00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:48.059 right? Yes. We talked about that. Of course, 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:50.140 He keeps calling you, keep calling you. If He 00:31:50.140 --> 00:31:52.779 insists on where you want to go, He can't push 00:31:52.779 --> 00:31:59.380 you back. Amen. We saw that with Noah, through 00:31:59.380 --> 00:32:03.579 Noah, the Spirit of God, keep on what? He was 00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:06.710 reaching out to them. for about 120 years preaching 00:32:06.710 --> 00:32:10.849 to them. They never repented. There's nothing 00:32:10.849 --> 00:32:18.930 they can do. Verse 10, He has not dealt with 00:32:18.930 --> 00:32:22.690 us according to our sins, nor punished us according 00:32:22.690 --> 00:32:27.029 to our iniquities. Verse 11, as the heavens are 00:32:27.029 --> 00:32:29.910 high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward 00:32:29.910 --> 00:32:33.789 those who fear Him. As far as the east is from 00:32:33.789 --> 00:32:39.190 the east, west. So has He removed our transgressions 00:32:39.190 --> 00:32:43.049 from us. And you keep reading. That is a waste 00:32:43.049 --> 00:32:49.630 of God revealed to Moses. And Jesus told us clearly 00:32:49.630 --> 00:32:53.869 that Moses knew the waste of God. He presented 00:32:53.869 --> 00:32:57.609 it to them. They rejected it. That's why Jesus 00:32:57.609 --> 00:33:02.569 told the Jews then. John chapter 5. He said, 00:33:02.690 --> 00:33:05.369 if you have believed Moses, you would have what? 00:33:05.609 --> 00:33:08.210 Believe me, because Moses did what? He wrote 00:33:08.210 --> 00:33:11.390 of me. But again, before then, he told them, 00:33:11.710 --> 00:33:14.609 I'm not going to accuse you. Moses have done 00:33:14.609 --> 00:33:21.849 so. Moses, whom you trust, has accused you. He 00:33:21.849 --> 00:33:26.049 has brought a chart that you are a stiff -necked 00:33:26.049 --> 00:33:30.410 people. You are a rebellious people. You are 00:33:30.410 --> 00:33:36.930 a people who have no faiths. Understand? And 00:33:36.930 --> 00:33:40.990 by so he treated you. He treated you as unbelievers. 00:33:42.009 --> 00:33:47.950 Why then? Matthew 19. Did Moses offer us access 00:33:47.950 --> 00:33:50.670 to give a certificate of divorce? He said, because 00:33:50.670 --> 00:33:53.490 of the hardness of your heart. That means there 00:33:53.490 --> 00:33:56.190 were things that were introduced because of the 00:33:56.190 --> 00:33:59.390 kind of the people. Are we together? We read 00:33:59.390 --> 00:34:01.230 last time when we were discussing about the law 00:34:01.230 --> 00:34:04.410 of Moses, that the Moses law was given to guard 00:34:04.410 --> 00:34:08.429 a people that are terribly rebellious. You know, 00:34:08.590 --> 00:34:11.949 the only person, are we together? If you have 00:34:11.949 --> 00:34:14.469 a hardened criminal that refused to believe, 00:34:15.570 --> 00:34:17.730 I mean, refused to believe the law of the land 00:34:17.730 --> 00:34:20.050 and don't want to follow it. He is a hardened 00:34:20.050 --> 00:34:22.469 criminal, killing everybody. What do you think 00:34:22.469 --> 00:34:25.110 they do to him? They carry him and put him in 00:34:25.110 --> 00:34:27.460 a confined place. There are prisoners there. 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:30.940 They don't combine them. They circulate. I mean, 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.420 they give them a demication. That's how you do 00:34:34.420 --> 00:34:37.840 to a rebellious people. Moses knew that the only 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.079 way to guard these people is to bring all kinds 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:43.760 of stiff laws to the guardrails. Sometimes you 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:46.519 are amazed. How did Moses go detail? This is 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:48.960 how you should do. Don't do this. This is how 00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:52.420 you should do. Don't do this. He knew the people 00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:57.739 he was dealing with. So the law was given to 00:34:57.739 --> 00:35:05.300 rebellious people. Me, I said divorce is a way 00:35:05.300 --> 00:35:09.179 to protect the rights of the other women. Moses 00:35:09.179 --> 00:35:12.619 knew that if he didn't do that, these rebellious 00:35:12.619 --> 00:35:17.679 people are terrible. They will destroy the order. 00:35:17.860 --> 00:35:20.880 The only way, sir, is to say, okay, you don't 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:23.630 want her, you have her problem with her. just 00:35:23.630 --> 00:35:26.690 give us a together a great JJ JJ right JJ let 00:35:26.690 --> 00:35:30.969 her go you know sir that's a way he has put certain 00:35:30.969 --> 00:35:33.269 things to us but Jesus said in the beginning 00:35:33.269 --> 00:35:36.989 it was not so it was introduced because of this 00:35:36.989 --> 00:35:41.690 hardness of your heart but Moses knew the ways 00:35:41.690 --> 00:35:44.949 of the law he kept telling them look at Hebrews 00:35:44.949 --> 00:35:49.590 chapter 11 come with me quickly Hebrews chapter 00:35:49.590 --> 00:35:56.360 11 Look at verse 24. In verse 24, he said, by 00:35:56.360 --> 00:36:01.719 faith, Moses, when he became of it, he refused 00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:05.539 to be called the sons of Pharaoh's daughter, 00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:09.639 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the 00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:14.440 people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasure 00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:20.900 of sin. Look at 26. He said, esteeming. esteeming 00:36:20.900 --> 00:36:24.980 the reproach of Christ greater riches than the 00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:29.460 treasure in Egypt for he looked to the reward 00:36:29.460 --> 00:36:34.300 he looked to the reward esteeming the reproach 00:36:34.300 --> 00:36:39.360 of Christ Moses knew God Moses knew the Lord 00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:45.139 he left the house of Pharaoh because of what 00:36:45.139 --> 00:36:59.699 he knew He really knew the ways of God. He knew 00:36:59.699 --> 00:37:13.519 he saw Jesus. So the question is that since Moses 00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:17.079 knew these things about God, he knew the ways 00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:21.550 of God. The question is that when he wrote and 00:37:21.550 --> 00:37:24.489 gave them the law. Who was dealing with these 00:37:24.489 --> 00:37:28.909 people? Who was killing the people? He knew the 00:37:28.909 --> 00:37:32.750 Lord is merciful. But in the law, there is no 00:37:32.750 --> 00:37:37.090 mercy. Who was killing the Israelites? Who disobeyed 00:37:37.090 --> 00:37:41.070 the law? We say they die with that mercy. Since 00:37:41.070 --> 00:37:44.929 Moses knew the law, that is merciful and gracious. 00:37:46.829 --> 00:37:50.440 Abandoning mercy. Who was getting angry? When 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:54.260 they say, and the Lord, and it kindled the anger 00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:57.980 of God. Did you understand what I'm saying? Eh? 00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:00.960 Oh, you have not been reading. And the anger 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:12.099 of the Lord had been kindled. Who was killing 00:38:12.099 --> 00:38:15.880 the people? Who was getting angry? But then, 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:23.530 they are called it that it is God. I don't want 00:38:23.530 --> 00:38:27.170 you to forget what we have already said. That 00:38:27.170 --> 00:38:31.130 it came, the law came through the instrumentality 00:38:31.130 --> 00:38:36.289 of what? Of angels. Are we together? Through 00:38:36.289 --> 00:38:39.269 the instrumentality of angels. Quickly, let's 00:38:39.269 --> 00:38:41.469 see something before we come. These are questions 00:38:41.469 --> 00:38:45.849 I'm answering as we go gradually in the sun. 00:38:46.650 --> 00:38:50.530 Who was killing? Who was getting angry? Why did 00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:53.750 they write it that way? That it was God that 00:38:53.750 --> 00:38:58.429 was angry While he was not the one angry the 00:38:58.429 --> 00:39:04.510 son He revealed himself To them you know his 00:39:04.510 --> 00:39:08.650 wish He knows that the Lord does not get angry 00:39:08.650 --> 00:39:17.409 that is slow in what in mercy he knows Genesis 00:39:17.409 --> 00:39:36.780 19 Genesis 19 verse 13. Look at 13. Are you 13? 00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:43.780 For we will destroy this place because the outcry 00:39:43.780 --> 00:39:50.300 against them has grown great. before the face 00:39:50.300 --> 00:39:53.980 of the Lord and the Lord has sent us to destroy 00:39:53.980 --> 00:40:02.460 it. This is the angels saying, so who destroys 00:40:02.460 --> 00:40:05.679 Sodom and Gomorrah? Oh, are you with me? Are 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.780 you with me? Who destroys Sodom and Gomorrah? 00:40:09.340 --> 00:40:12.400 Eh? The angels said they were saying to Lord, 00:40:12.639 --> 00:40:14.780 get out, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. We're 00:40:14.780 --> 00:40:18.079 going to destroy this place. We're going to destroy 00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:20.920 this place because there's an outcry that has 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:25.079 grown great before the face of the Lord. As if 00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.579 they have seen his face before. What do you say 00:40:27.579 --> 00:40:34.539 is his face? The face is a presence, the person 00:40:34.539 --> 00:40:39.659 of God. Are we together? No one has seen God 00:40:39.659 --> 00:40:45.739 at any time. We have done that and we are coming. 00:40:46.219 --> 00:40:49.420 They said we are sent by the Lord. Listen, I 00:40:49.420 --> 00:40:52.679 want you to follow me closely That's why I said 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:54.659 you have to because this is trying to address 00:40:54.659 --> 00:40:58.239 a lot of things. So that means in the Bible There 00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.320 are many things prophets said There are many 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:04.440 things angels said There are many things even 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:07.019 angels of God I don't mean evil angels who like 00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:09.880 the devil who deliberately is the focus is to 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:12.039 twist the Bible That's not what I'm saying. I 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:15.619 mean the angels of God understand There are many 00:41:15.619 --> 00:41:17.760 things liars said. There are many things the 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:21.260 devil said. You understand? So there are a lot 00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:24.460 of things that have been said. The question is 00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:28.219 that how do you assess which one is true, which 00:41:28.219 --> 00:41:31.679 one is not true? If I come like a pastor today, 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:33.320 and that's why we're teaching you something. 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:35.719 If I come like a pastor today and I tell you 00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:38.340 something, how do you assess that what I'm saying 00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:43.159 is not true? Or is true? How? This is what we 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:46.880 are teaching you. That your faith we risked in 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:55.579 the power of God That is why Paul will see because 00:41:55.579 --> 00:41:59.420 he knew that the truth is independent of the 00:41:59.420 --> 00:42:03.099 one who speaks the truth That's why he said even 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:08.119 if we come and tell you another gospel He said 00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:11.559 consider was who a cost not even he said even 00:42:11.559 --> 00:42:14.909 the angels that means he's saying The angels 00:42:14.909 --> 00:42:18.690 are not the standard of truth. We ourselves that 00:42:18.690 --> 00:42:20.630 teach the truth are not the standard of truth. 00:42:21.469 --> 00:42:25.829 Truth is independent of who spoke it. If you 00:42:25.829 --> 00:42:27.630 don't understand this, you will get confused 00:42:27.630 --> 00:42:31.969 in reading Bible. And many of the mistakes, we 00:42:31.969 --> 00:42:34.530 are not saying they are deliberate. Are you together 00:42:34.530 --> 00:42:36.730 with me? Even in your life, even though you are 00:42:36.730 --> 00:42:39.190 born again, most of the truth you have learned 00:42:39.190 --> 00:42:41.929 in life, when you were growing up, the mistake 00:42:41.929 --> 00:42:44.179 you have done, It's not that some of the mistakes 00:42:44.179 --> 00:42:46.599 are not deliberate. You did it in ignorance. 00:42:47.539 --> 00:42:50.860 Now that you have grown you understand. But there 00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:53.199 are ones that you know the stubbornness was deliberate. 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:56.739 You knew it. So what we are saying is that there 00:42:56.739 --> 00:43:01.000 is a type of lack of understanding that even 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:04.900 the engine of God can say it. Are we together? 00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:08.639 Not because it's malicious, but because it's 00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.800 coming out of ignorance. Are we together? is 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:23.300 coming out of ignorance. So you must have a way 00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:27.320 of reading the Bible carefully and assessing 00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:36.820 the truth. Are we together? We must have a way 00:43:36.820 --> 00:43:40.179 of assessing the truth and thank God we have. 00:43:43.269 --> 00:43:47.909 and thank God we have. The days of confusion 00:43:47.909 --> 00:43:51.150 of who say what and what say what has passed. 00:43:52.409 --> 00:43:58.289 Sometimes the lack, the inability to communicate 00:43:58.289 --> 00:44:03.250 or to say the truth. Listen, I've said this often 00:44:03.250 --> 00:44:09.489 that the fact that you are accurate does not 00:44:09.489 --> 00:44:13.420 mean that you are saying the truth. Did you understand 00:44:13.420 --> 00:44:17.059 what I'm saying? And I try always for you to 00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:20.320 understand that if you see something written 00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.519 by angels or by even the prophet, like when you 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:25.780 read the Psalms, we're coming to read the Psalms, 00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:27.500 you see all kinds of things and you're wondering, 00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:29.679 is it that same prophet that prophesied about 00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:31.860 Jesus? That said this, this, this, and this, 00:44:31.940 --> 00:44:35.320 and now he's saying this. Listen, David is the 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:38.019 one who seen who he has committed all kinds of 00:44:38.019 --> 00:44:40.239 atrocities. And when he's praying for himself, 00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:42.849 he said, Lord, you should have mercy on me. Lord, 00:44:42.849 --> 00:44:44.869 you should have mercy on me." But now when he's 00:44:44.869 --> 00:44:46.909 praying against his enemy, he said, Lord, don't 00:44:46.909 --> 00:44:50.389 allow them to die a natural death. Do you understand 00:44:50.389 --> 00:44:54.230 what I'm trying to say? The same person, that 00:44:54.230 --> 00:44:58.590 means his view of God is somehow, there is no 00:44:58.590 --> 00:45:02.969 perfection in his view of God. Understand? That's 00:45:02.969 --> 00:45:06.070 why, but if you have a perfection in the view 00:45:06.070 --> 00:45:09.769 of God, you know that, that he has no variation. 00:45:10.340 --> 00:45:13.119 He has no shadow of turning. You understand? 00:45:13.900 --> 00:45:16.820 When he say he love, he doesn't have great love, 00:45:17.139 --> 00:45:20.539 small love. Are we together? So if he says he 00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:23.260 love the world, his love for the believer is 00:45:23.260 --> 00:45:25.760 not different from a non -believer. Because he 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:28.320 does not love small and love great there. Do 00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.559 you understand what I'm saying? Amen. So that 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:33.500 you will know when you are praying, Lord, I am 00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:36.980 the apple of your eyes. You understand? And feel 00:45:36.980 --> 00:45:40.559 that the people that are not apple, Yeah, what? 00:45:40.780 --> 00:45:48.079 I don't know. And incidentally, because of this 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:51.159 kind of understanding, even us, even in the church, 00:45:51.260 --> 00:45:54.260 we have created classes. Do you understand what 00:45:54.260 --> 00:45:57.800 I'm saying? Because of this kind of imperfection 00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:01.019 of the knowledge we are carrying, we have created 00:46:01.019 --> 00:46:04.579 all kinds of cadre and classes in the sun. There 00:46:04.579 --> 00:46:06.940 are ones we call, even though we interpret the 00:46:06.940 --> 00:46:09.110 wrong way. there are ones we call the anointed 00:46:09.110 --> 00:46:12.090 of God there are ones that are not anointed in 00:46:12.090 --> 00:46:15.710 the same place oh so that if you are the pastor 00:46:15.710 --> 00:46:21.250 see you're joking with me ha ha ha thoughts not 00:46:21.250 --> 00:46:27.889 that anointed and do his prophet know how joke 00:46:27.889 --> 00:46:36.610 amen our God is a loving God Don't be angry with 00:46:36.610 --> 00:46:39.469 your father that he is loving. Are we together? 00:46:40.269 --> 00:46:41.789 Don't be angry with your father that is what? 00:46:42.469 --> 00:46:45.869 He is loving, he is kind, he is merciful. That 00:46:45.869 --> 00:46:50.190 is who he is. He is long -suffering. Are we together? 00:46:50.829 --> 00:46:54.730 He is always that. He is always that. Don't be 00:46:54.730 --> 00:46:58.969 angry in the son. Be happy because you have a 00:46:58.969 --> 00:47:01.849 father that is consistent. Are we together? You 00:47:01.849 --> 00:47:04.269 have a father that is consistent. Imagine you 00:47:04.269 --> 00:47:08.489 know your dad is unpredictable in your house. 00:47:09.050 --> 00:47:10.869 Sometimes when you arrive, you say daddy, he 00:47:10.869 --> 00:47:14.829 will give you blow. Or sometimes when you enter, 00:47:15.050 --> 00:47:18.050 say daddy, there my daughter, my daughter come. 00:47:19.349 --> 00:47:22.250 How do you think you approach your father? You 00:47:22.250 --> 00:47:25.469 don't know whether he's mood. That means once 00:47:25.469 --> 00:47:27.670 he wakes up from the bed, whatever mood he is, 00:47:27.690 --> 00:47:30.010 if you appear and you don't know when you have 00:47:30.010 --> 00:47:32.809 the other mood, there is a swinging pendulum. 00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:36.300 How do you expect to trust you? There can't be 00:47:36.300 --> 00:47:40.099 trust without reliability. Why we say we trust 00:47:40.099 --> 00:47:43.619 God is because of his consistency, because his 00:47:43.619 --> 00:47:46.880 predictability. We know from start to finish 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:49.800 what we will obtain from him. That's what means 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.300 by trust. Even here, once you begin to see somebody 00:47:54.300 --> 00:47:56.860 has double tongue, what happened before you? 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:01.309 The trust about that person do or drop. But the 00:48:01.309 --> 00:48:03.650 more the person show consistency he become a 00:48:03.650 --> 00:48:07.190 friend that means you can trust it you can predict 00:48:07.190 --> 00:48:10.690 his actions You can say no, I know him. That's 00:48:10.690 --> 00:48:12.969 what means by trust and your relationship becomes 00:48:12.969 --> 00:48:16.110 stronger and better Because you know the person 00:48:16.110 --> 00:48:21.230 is consistent when we come on When is he we will 00:48:21.230 --> 00:48:26.610 continue to see some things that are very important 00:48:26.610 --> 00:48:32.059 Even the text we've over read We'll read it and 00:48:32.059 --> 00:48:37.440 then assess. What are we going to see? We're 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.800 going to see that the perfect standard of truth 00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:48.000 is God himself. And he has come in the flesh 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:52.139 that no longer anyone be confused about who he 00:48:52.139 --> 00:48:55.800 is. Are we together? I will end with this. Give 00:48:55.800 --> 00:49:05.079 me John 5 19. As you go, you know. He said, then 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:09.219 Jesus answered and said to them, most assuredly, 00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:17.059 assuredly I say to you, the what? The son can 00:49:17.059 --> 00:49:21.079 do nothing of himself. But what he sees the father 00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:27.139 do, for whatever he does, the son also, do what? 00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:34.559 Does in like manner. Jesus is a standard of truth. 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:41.420 Whatever Jesus did was what God did. Whatever 00:49:41.420 --> 00:49:46.019 you did not see Jesus, you understand, God never 00:49:46.019 --> 00:49:51.380 did it. Are you with me? Whoever said it, angels, 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:56.639 whoever, whatever Jesus did not do, God never 00:49:56.639 --> 00:50:02.340 did it. So I want you to hold this, that hold 00:50:02.340 --> 00:50:07.260 Jesus. Who is the light? Move to the territory 00:50:07.260 --> 00:50:10.219 of darkness. You are confused about texts of 00:50:10.219 --> 00:50:12.400 scripture. Who did it? Who did the Lord do it? 00:50:12.659 --> 00:50:16.940 Just hold Jesus. Already He's in you. Walk with 00:50:16.940 --> 00:50:21.219 Him through the texts. He is the control. You 00:50:21.219 --> 00:50:23.619 know, most of us in science, when you want to 00:50:23.619 --> 00:50:26.179 do some tests, we have what we call control. 00:50:26.380 --> 00:50:30.500 by which every parameter is tested and every 00:50:30.500 --> 00:50:33.659 parameter is interpreted by the control that's 00:50:33.659 --> 00:50:35.480 why if you don't have control they will reject 00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:39.679 it yes sir right because we have reviewers here 00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:42.179 you know sir immediately your walk doesn't have 00:50:42.179 --> 00:50:44.139 control once they see they say this is why they 00:50:44.139 --> 00:50:50.900 look at you Jesus is the control everything said 00:50:50.900 --> 00:50:57.030 about God everything told about God is actually 00:50:57.030 --> 00:51:23.320 assessed to him. Thank you Jesus. Share this 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:26.380 message with someone you care about. Until next 00:51:26.380 --> 00:51:27.739 time, stay blessed.