Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
Reverend Ben Coopers podcast, offers an inviting space for listeners to explore Christianity and spiritual growth with wisdom, humor, and a deep commitment to biblical truth. Through Rev. Ben's engaging conversations with guests, the podcast not only explores the timeless wisdom of the Bible but also tackles the pressing issues of life, faith, and hope in a way that is accessible, thought-provoking, and enriching. Whether you’re seeking spiritual nourishment, answers to life’s big questions, or simply a place to reflect on your faith, the Rev Ben podcast is a valuable resource on your journey.
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Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
Sunday Sermon - "I Didnt know you was walking with me" (#696 - Elim)
What if the key to unlocking a profound spiritual awakening lies in recognizing the divine presence around us, even in the most unexpected places? Join us as we journey through the Gospel of John, focusing on chapter 14, and explore the transformative power of faith. This episode invites you to reflect on how the teachings of Jesus challenge the status quo, urging you to share the word of God by integrating Bibles into the fabric of everyday life.
Navigate the complexities of faith and trust in the face of life's adversities with us. We uncover the tension between the visible and invisible realms of belief, exploring the intricacies of surrendering to God's unseen promises. Through the lens of Thomas's doubt, the tearing of the temple curtain, and the omnipresence of God, we examine the role of the Holy Spirit in providing comfort and guidance, ensuring we are not left to navigate this world alone.
As we critique modern church practices, we emphasize the necessity of a genuine spiritual connection over numerical success and institutional failings. Recognize the bold statement of Jesus as the "I am," a truth that transcends religious boundaries and societal constructs. This episode challenges believers to return to the essence of faith, seeing Jesus as the savior whose teachings defy worldly recognition, yet remain a potent force in lives across the globe.
This podcast offers insight into faith, prayer, Bible teachings, courage, hope, gospel truths, salvation, grace, redemption, kingdom living, worship, discipleship, devotion, prophecy, community growth, and ministry impact, inspiring listeners with Christ-centered discussions and a commitment to kingdom culture.
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Speaker 2:Brothers and sisters, let's turn to that beautiful gospel, the gospel of John. The gospel of John, chapter 14. The gospel of John, chapter 14. I've got one of the church Bibles here and, for those that are in the church with me today, if anybody needs to take a church Bible, please take a church Bible. Take it off the chair, take it home with you, leave it on your commute into work, leave it in a shopping trolley, leave it wherever you're going to go, take it to school, take it to work, put it wherever you've got to put it. Take the Bible with you. You know the Lord is blessing us with Bibles. You know every chair has a Bible on it. The Lord is blessing this house with Bibles. Let's remind ourselves to be brothers and sisters that give the word out. The Gospel of John's we've got lots of Gospels of John's. Take them as well. Give them out on your commute, give them out to your life. If anybody's online, as we always say, please send a message in, we will get you a Bible. If anybody needs a Bible, we will get you a Bible as well. So we really believe God is pressing us to give Bibles out. Give the word out.
Speaker 2:So let's turn to the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 1. So we're in the Gospel of John, chapter 14, verse 1, as we just open up the word and God opens up the word to each and every one of us. As we just rest in this scripture, there is so much to get from this scripture. As we just rest in this scripture, there is so much to get from this scripture. It's very steeped in real deep theological stuff, if we can use that terminology. It's really prophetic, it's really powerful and we can skim, read and we can read and we can go in and out of the word of God. And sometimes we open it up and he I will say he say he because he is the living word he takes us deeper.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we can open up the word and be so busy with life and we can feel that we don't get anything from it. Not that Lord's word has no power, but God's word is always speaking to us, whether we get it, whether we don't get it, whether we read it, whether we don't get it. You know, whatever the situation is, god's word is always moving in our heart and our lives. Because the Bible is extremely clear and I pray that God will give us some revelation today in the Lord's house and online, that the word will just come alive like electricity. You will feel it like an electric pulse beating in your heart and it will make you hungry. You know, being hungry for Jesus is the greatest thing in the world and, as we remind ourselves in John 3, 3, you must be born again and the scriptures that we are linked in is clear to this. It's clear to see that through the thread of what Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again. It's everywhere, it's just like electricity. You know, wherever you are, wherever you are in life, god knows you. If you're seeking, if you're searching and we get lots of people just flicking through the socials and and all that if you're searching, god has already got you. It's just your autonomy, it's just your body just just catching up with what God is doing. You are already saved. I will put that out there. You are already saved because he knew you before the foundation of the world.
Speaker 2:And the title of this morning's sermon this morning is pretty straightforward I didn't know you was walking amongst me. I didn't know that you was walking amongst me. And that comes from the scripture and it's coming out from what Thomas said to him earlier on through the gospels, and also it's coming out of what Philip has said as well and what other disciples have said to Jesus. But the name that comes out today is it's about Philip, what Philip says to him. So I'm going to read from verse one. I wasn'm going to read from verse one. I wasn't going to read from verse one. I just felt the Lord speaking to me this morning very, very clearly, and I didn't have the office filled up with Father, son, the Holy Spirit in physical form. It's just God just drops a word in your spirit. And all I had this morning was I am the way, the truth and the life. That's all I had, it's all I get, and that's all I got this morning. So I just said Lord, show me where that is. And as I flipped open up the word of God, chapter 14 came alive, obviously where it sits. But I wasn't intending to read from verse one, but I felt prompted to read from that. So we're in verse one and we're going to go down to the roundabout verse 12. So let's just, let's just see with it, let's just read it, let's just take it in.
Speaker 2:Maybe you ain't got the energy and the strength to read today. Just close your eyes and just listen and be still. Maybe you feel really, really gritty, Maybe you feel just really unusual today. Whatever you feel, don't worry. And it says do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it was not so, I would have told you I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I did not go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and I will take you to be with me so that you also may be with me where I am. You know, you know the place to where I am going. Here we go.
Speaker 2:Thomas said to him Lord, lord, we do not know. We do not know where you are going. So how can we know the way? Jesus answered? I am the way, the truth and life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know that, my father as well. From now on, you do know him and you have seen him.
Speaker 2:Now we have Philip comes into the arena. Philip said Lord, show us the father and that will be enough for us. Jesus answered don't you know me, don't you know me, philip. Know me. Don't you know me, philip, even after I've been with you for such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say show us the Father? Don't you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father living in me who is doing his work. Believe me when I say I am. That's really important. I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
Speaker 2:This is a really deep text. This is a really deep text and I pray that the Lord will keep it light or keep it to the temperature, whatever we can cope with today, and wherever I don't get us to, I believe God will take you to, because God doesn't need me. God doesn't need me in any way, shape or form, but thanks be to God. I can just be his voice piece and just read these scriptures out just for a moment. But the word of God, it's the word of God. The word is alive and sharper than a double-edged sword.
Speaker 2:When we look at these scriptures, it is really clear to see that you can't separate Jesus and the Father. When you look at everything that's going on and that's why I've titled it and I feel God gave us these scriptures today I didn't know you was walking with me, philip and Thomas. It's like the church today. It's like religion. Jesus is an amongst religion, jesus is in every area of church. But it's the recognizing of him. It's recognizing him when you look at that, if you just put your eyes and you just read through that, if you just take that on.
Speaker 2:But verse 1 is a really beautiful text and we could spend forever on Adonai Do not let your hearts be troubled, trust in God. So when you look at verse 1, and verse 1 alone, it says do not let your hearts be troubled. But Jesus, come on, come on, god. That's easy for you to say because you are fully God, fully man, fully king, fully savior of the world. I'm just Ben, I'm just a human being just trying to float my way through life and get through. But God, help me and show me.
Speaker 2:We've had so many messages over the years of in church, out of church, online, out of line, telling us how to be. But, lord, it's easy giving it, but Lord, it's the practical stuff that I struggle with. How do I get, how do I give everything to you? How do I give my history, how do I give my present, how do I give myself? How do I do this? God? And this is what these characters are saying how do I do this? I am a human being. This earth suit is going to give up its last breath one day and then one day I will get in front of Christ, and then all that is said and done, all that goes along with that.
Speaker 2:But Jesus is telling us today do not let your heart but God, but God, but God. It's little old me again knocking on the door. Lord, I'm weary. Today, I've got trouble and the trouble is ruling me. The trouble is overtaking my mind, the trouble is hemming me into this little life that I've got going on and I need to break out.
Speaker 2:I want to break free, and I'm not talking about have Freddie Mercury, ben, be, be sensible today, come on, and I'm not talking about a Freddie Mercury song. I want to break free, but that's a good analogy when you think about it. I do do want to break out. I'm not in that sense that he's talking about. I want to break free from these chains of pain, these chains of aches, these chains. God, I want the shackles gone. Do you remember that great song? These shackles. I want the shackles gone. I want to be free. I want the shackles of history broke.
Speaker 2:God is the key to the padlock, because he is the key, he is the way, he is the life, he is everything. And all we have to do I really believe all we have to do is just to speak. But where do I speak to? Speak to the cross. Now, this is critical because I don't want anyone sending this stuff through. I don't lift up the cross, as in symbolism. It's a way that my eyes recognize what happened, because that's how I'm wired. I have to look, I have to see. Maybe my faith isn't strong enough, I don't know what it may be, but when I look at a cross, when I look at the cross, I start to move. Things start to move. It's important because the cross is there. There is power at the cross, and Jesus said I disarmed everything at the cross and we get so weighed down with the chains of adversity.
Speaker 2:God is saying this morning so much and time is never on our side. Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Okay, I trust in God, but you are an invisible God. The scripture tells me you are invisible. No one can see God and live. He sits in an unapproachable light. He sits outside of light, space, time and matter. He is the creator of the world. And little old me is trying to get this magnitude of this God. It is impossible. His ways are higher than our ways. His thoughts are beyond our thoughts. His reasoning is beyond the human mind, beyond concept, beyond life, beyond everything. So I have to buckle myself down and go. I'm just going to believe, because that's what it is, I just believe.
Speaker 2:So Jesus, through God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is saying to us this morning first and foremost, do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Then he says trust in me. Now, there is not a separation, but he's just telling us that there is a Godhead, there is a deity Father, son, holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:And if you move your eyes further down the text, from verse 15 and onwards, he talks I will not leave you as an orphan. You are not an orphan, but what is he talking about? This Jesus is a crackpot. He's amongst us Now he's talking about he's going to leave us. What is he going on about? He's also talking to Philip and Thomas too, two that, just where their eyes were spitting in their head, where's the father? What do you mean? Come on, show us, show us, show us. This is church today. This is real life church today.
Speaker 2:This is so critical, for where we sit, the world is just literally just in carnage. But God sees the carnage, god is above the carnage and he's saying trust me. But, lord, it's easy to say that Even the disciples were looking at God. When you really get and fathom, when you just try and put that into a bit of an understanding, that Philip and Thomas and the disciples were looking at God. God was in the arena of their life and the Holy Spirit is further down on the text and Jesus says I will not leave you. I am going to disappear. I'm going up to heaven's glory on Ascension Day. I will leave this earth, but when I leave, I'm going to send you the counsellor, I'm going to send you the third party the Holy Spirit. I'm going to send you the Holy Ghost. You will not be an orphan.
Speaker 2:And as you look at this text, it says Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it was not so, I would have told you I am going to there to prepare a place for you. He has prepared a place for you that is so beautiful, that is so powerful, that is beyond human understanding, beyond your mind, beyond your concept, beyond what we imagine or ask. He is prepared and is preparing a place for you when that day comes, and if I go to prepare a place, I will come back. He's coming back. He's the redeeming King. He's coming back, redeeming king. He's coming back. He's the great I am. Jesus is the I am. How can you say that? Did you see it hidden in the fabric of the text? Did you see what he said before? He mentioned so many other things. We will get there in just a few moments, and he's talking about the preparation time.
Speaker 2:He says in verse three and if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me. You are not going to be and you are not left alone. Don't let death worry you. Within a twinkling of an eye, life actually begins. Don't let age be the restrictor in your life. As time and as the clock starts to tick on age, say to yourself believe I'm doing greater things as I get older. I am not going to allow the clock of living to dictate to me, because that's what government does, that's what the world does. Don't let age hold you back. As we get older, as we get wiser, we will be able and we can do more. We can and we are more than conquerors through him. So there is no excuse for anything in life with Jesus and look what it says I will come and take you back and prepare a place for you that you may be with me where I am. And then he says you know the way. So here we go. He says you know the place and you know with me where I am. And then he says you know the way, so here we go. He says you know the place and you know the place where I am going.
Speaker 2:Then Thomas jumps up and starts barking in verse four. Then Thomas said to him Lord, we don't know, lord, we don't know where you are going. So what we are experiencing in the text. We are experiencing the build up to the cross. Experiencing in the text we are experiencing the build up to the cross. We are experiencing a build up to Jesus preparing the world through the disciples that can't even tell that, even though they got Christ and they couldn't really recognize even who Christ was.
Speaker 2:And he said surely just from the evidence alone, the things that you have seen, the miraculous healings, just even believe on those, the miraculous healings, just even believe on those. But then he says, also in the scriptures blessed are those who have not seen but believe. Who is he speaking about? He's talking about everyone that is now from when he passed, and he did pass at the cross, but he came back to life on the third day. So after ascension day, after the, the 40th day when christ went back to life on the third day, so after Ascension Day, after the 40th day when Christ went back to glory, on Ascension Day, you know the world did not have the privilege of seeing the autonomy of Christ. That's when the Holy Spirit came. But we got the Holy Spirit, we got the power of God. We've got everything. We got greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world, god is in you, god is living within you the power of God.
Speaker 2:And as you look at this scripture, he said Thomas, in verse five, in chapter 14,. Thomas said to him Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how do we know the way? John 3, 3, you must be born again, nicodemus, but I can't go back. See, humanity always says I can't be birthed again. Thomas says what are you talking about? We don't know the way. See, this all comes from above. This is why it's taken out of the hands of religion and out of man and out of the hands of preachers and out of the hands of church, because it would just be carnage, it would be wrong and it would be picking the cream of the crop to what they would expect.
Speaker 2:But God says I take the lowly, I take the despised things of the world, I take the things that are not and make them as though they are. He says I take those, those that the world looks at and says you'll never make it. I take those that feel that their life is impossible. I take those that are looking in the mirror of their life and saying I don't like my life, I hate myself. I can't stand living anymore. I don't want to be around this world. He takes those that feel that there's no hope. And we have two men in Jesus's life.
Speaker 2:In John 14, verse 5, thomas said to him Lord, we do not know where you are going. Isn't that so typical of religion and the church? The title that we mentioned this morning to the sermon is I don't know you was walking with me. How often do we realize in our lives that we don't realize that Jesus is walking amongst us? He is in every church, he is in every denomination, he is in synagogues, he is in the atheist lives, he is in the witchcraft situation, he is amongst all the devil worshippers because he is God and he is king, and all that dark stuff doesn't faze him. He isn't worried. He knew it from the very beginning of time and Jesus Christ is saving witches right now.
Speaker 2:Jesus Christ is releasing those that are caught in the occult world. Jesus Christ is releasing people from abuse, from bad situations. God is moving and we don't know that he's walking amongst us. He's with you. I give you my life. I tell you that Jesus is with you. You might not feel like Jesus is with you. You might be staring at the cross and going what is all this about? This church stuff is boring. It's got, no, it's got nothing for me. Hallelujah, because church hasn't, but Jesus Christ has, because he says I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. No one gets where to the father except through me. This is why we have a great understanding of what happened when the bible says he gave up his spirit and he said it is finished. What happened? The earth shook, darkness come over the land.
Speaker 2:But great things happened in that temple. It says the curtain was torn in two. What did that mean? Was it just a lovely picture form going on? It was giving you access. Giving you access to the holy of holies. No one could get to the holy of holies. No one could get to the king of glory. No one could get to god. No one could get to the I am. No one could get behind that area except the levitical priesthood, except those that were called, and we understand what it means through the Old Testament. But even then they had to have a rope tied around their waist because many had heart attacks, many died when they went behind the curtain and the priest had to pull them out. They were dead on the end of the rope because the glory was so powerful and the glory was so strong.
Speaker 2:But when Jesus cried, died on the cross, and that, imagine the noise, imagine the eruptions and everything going on when the temple curtain was torn, it meant one thing and one thing only the sinner saved by grace had access to the holiest place the world has ever known, and his name is Yahweh. He is the God above all gods. He is your God and he is your savior, and access was created for you. But the access is only. There's only one way in. We can't jump over the fence of the sheep pen. Jesus said I am the door, I am the bread of life, I am that I am.
Speaker 2:When Moses sat in that great place and he listened to God and they had that conversation and God said and he spoke to Moses, and Moses went come on, when I go back down this mountain and I tell all this lot that we're moving out, who in the world am I going to say, is going? Who are we going with? Just tell him I am, I am. And then we see right up this text that we're in now. Jesus mentions it and it's hidden from human eyes and it takes revelational knowledge to open it up. In the scripture that we are in and it says there Thomas said to him Lord, we don't know where you are going. And that is the church.
Speaker 2:Now, when I'm talking about the church, I'm talking about the religious leaders. Look at what's happening in amongst the fabric of religion at this moment the church of england, catholicism. What's happening out in ireland, through through, uh, through um, all the catholic, everything that's breaking out across the world. The church around the world is being exposed because it doesn't realize that jesus is walking amongst them. Jesus is in number 10, downing Street and they can't remove him. The Holy Spirit, the glory of God, is in that place and they can't do nothing about it. The power of God is surrounding Sadiq Khan and he can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2:God is surrounding every human being because he says so clearly he's omnipresent, he's omnipotent. He can't be removed, he can't be taken off the earth because he is the great I am. He's with the darkest atheist. Now, at this moment, you can't get. Look at what the great writer writes If I was to die and go to the very depths of hell, you're with me. If I was to rise to the highest heavens, you're with me. If I was to go to the north, the east, the south, the west, I cannot escape your presence. And even if he says I'm about to drop to the center of the earth, you're with me.
Speaker 2:God is walking amongst the world religions. God is in every synagogue, every chapel, every church. God is walking in every temple. God is surrounding witches and wizards. God is amongst the atheists. God is everywhere because and wizards. God is amongst the atheists. God is everywhere because he is everywhere. No one can remove, no one can escape his presence. Muslims that are worshipping foreign gods, atheists lifting up whatever they're lifting up, humanists are doing whatever they're doing. You can't escape the presence of the great I am. Look at what the human beings say to Jesus we don't know where you are going. So how can we know the way Jesus answered? I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Now, that's through.
Speaker 2:Threw them because he was talking about the cross, but no one could get to God at that moment because Jesus was alive. So until he said it is finished, the temple curtain wasn't going to be torn in two, and imagine the thickness of that curtain. You couldn't cut it, you couldn't tear it and it was torn in into from top to bottom. It was torn from heaven down. Understand that. It was torn from heaven down. What did God do? God came from heaven down.
Speaker 2:God uses pictures. God uses agricultural. God uses fish. God uses agricultural. God uses fish. God uses the world. God uses all these different picture forms to describe and explain things to human beings.
Speaker 2:Because it's not enough for a human being just to believe, because the disciples were going who are you? What? What are you talking about? And Jesus stood there and went I am the father, but you can't recognize me. Isn't that interesting that it is shielded. God shields himself until the appropriate time. And it says there.
Speaker 2:Jesus said I am the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, oh, here we go, john 3, 3. If you really knew me. See, religion can see a slight, a slight area. It might look at the cross. It makes its own Jesus up. It makes its own Father up. It makes its own Holy Spirit up. But when you up, it makes its own holy spirit up. But when you look at these scriptures. Nothing can be done, nothing can be revealed until he reveals. And you have lived your life. I have lived my life in faith, out of faith.
Speaker 2:However, we want to look at that unchurched, bobbing a long life not realizing that Jesus was walking amongst you when we were non-believers, not realizing that the king was sitting on your sofa, not realizing that the king was in the presence of God, was in your house, in your workspace, not recognizing that God was with you when you was driving your car, when you was listening to secular radio that we still do in the name of Jesus Watching sport on the TV, watching stuff, going out with family, going out with friends, living life, living as the world says. Live your best life now. Come on, live your best life when you was living life outside of let's call it outside of the parameters of recognizing Jesus. He was with you and you can't tell me anything different, because the Bible says I knew you before the fabric of the world. I knew you before the foundation, before I brought the oceans in, before I put the first star in the sky. Guess what Ben you were on my heart, guess what world I created. Every human being, every area of life, I spoke it into existence.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but, lord, my children are being taught evolution. Yeah, lord, my children are talking about the string theory and Lord and all this stuff and just believe. Let the world do what they're going to do. But it's theories. It's theories. Jesus gives us a clear you don't believe in the evidence. There is no evidence of evolution. There is. It's a theory. Everything is a theory in education. Science is trying to make life and it can't create life, because it's impossible. There is only one that can bring life, give life and take life. Because it says there in the beginning I'll take you, I'm coming to collect you, I'm preparing a place for you. So it doesn't matter where we think we are, what we are and who we are, god saved us before we even was birthed, before we was brought in.
Speaker 2:When you look at the depth of the text that we are in, it is so deep theologically. It is Old Testament, it is New Testament, it is life, it is hope, it is salvation. Jesus is telling two renegades god's with you, god is with you. He is making it clear that god came down the staircase of life and god went to the cross through jesus christ. How can you say that? The Bible says that he has been given the greatest name, emmanuel. What does that mean? When you break that down, we know what it means. God with us.
Speaker 2:If you have a Bible, turn to Colossians 1, verse 15. I believe Colossians 1, verse 15, through to 20 is so jam-packed it is impossible for us to even get through that. I speak about it so much because it is so powerful. Colossians, chapter 1, verse 15, through to 20. Christ is the image of the invisible God. It talks about everything. It talks about creation. It speaks about salvation. Hidden in the fabric of the text, it is woven. It is woven together in the tapestry of the Holy Spirit. It is so powerful, it is so beyond human reasoning. I didn't intend to turn there, but let's just quickly see if I can turn there. If the Bible opens there, I will read it. You know, come on, god. You know, the tapestry of the word of God is so powerful, it's just beyond human understanding. I've got it. I've got it. Let me read it.
Speaker 2:So we're in Colossians, chapter 1, verse 15, and I believe Stuart's online and he will put that up in time. It says he is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him, here you go. This is beyond the test tube, this is beyond reason and this is beyond mathematics. This is beyond quantum physics, this is beyond human knowledge, for by him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. My goodness, what's he talking about? When you get a microscope and you analyze and you look at our human eye, it's completely limited by what we can see distance, size and everything. But there is a world outside of the world, that is within this world, and I'm not talking about the spiritual world. There is a world down, the microscope of science that we don't even realize exists. He is talking about. He's using the terminology visible and invisible outside of the human eye, visible to the human eye, but also he's talking about the spiritual world that exists.
Speaker 2:Hebrews 11, verse 1,. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. He's not talking about the microscope. He's not talking about the things in science down there. He's talking about this. And then he's talking about the spiritual world that is out there. Wherever you are, brothers and sisters, all things are possible to those who believe. I'm staying in Colossians 1, verse 16.
Speaker 2:For by him all things were created Things in heaven and things on earth, visible, invisible, whether thrones or powers. Let me tell you that Jesus Christ brought you into the world, sadiq Khan, let me tell you that God loves you. Let me tell you the leader of Iran God brought you in and he knew that you was going to worship a God that he created. Hang on, he's a God above all gods. No other God is in existence outside of our God. What does the Bible say? All things, all things in heaven and outside of heaven. He created In heaven and outside of heaven. He created, so he brought everything in. So the one that wrote all these world religions, jesus Christ, brought him in. Jesus Christ knew that he was going to write against him. Jesus Christ knew that Muslims would write against him. Jesus Christ knew that the atheists would say you believe in that. Jesus Christ knew that the government in number 10 would be completely against him. Jesus Christ knew that the leader of Japan, china, south Korea, north Korea, afghanistan would be absolutely against him. But he brought them in Because this is what the Bible says, it's fact and it says, for by him all things were created things in heaven and on earth, visible, invisible, whether thrones or powers, rulers, authorities, authorities all things were created by him and for him.
Speaker 2:He's created everything. Witchcraft doesn't faze him. He brought it in, he knew it. It was happening right back in the old days. It's got nothing to do with the devil, because he created the angel that fell and from the angel that fell, everything came from that. So there is nothing outside of all creation, all science, all humanity, whether in the earth, out the earth, whatever we believe.
Speaker 2:God created everything. He knew it before the foundation of the world Number 10, downing Street. He knew it before the foundation of the world. He knew Keir Starmer before he was brought in. He knew Sadiq Khan. He knew Donald Trump. He knew everybody, the craziest leaders across the world, putin. God brought him in. He brought him in. He brought him in and he knew every area of every failing, every evil, deed, every good, every bad, every ugly, every bright. God knew everything and he still brought it in because the Bible tells me it says for by him, all things. All things means what? All things, everything. He created the currency that we use, known as money. He created the oxygen that we breathe. He created everything that you can't, I can't see, that is moving across this world because the eye doesn't have the power to see. He created the wind. He created the gravity that we take for granted.
Speaker 2:If you ever get an atheist in the arena of your conversation and they're trying to tell you that God doesn't exist, just say to them do you believe in gravity? Yeah, I believe in gravity. Why do you believe it? Because I'm evident. There is evidence through me that gravity exists. So you believe in an invisible force that you can't see, that is working for the good of you? Yeah, I believe it. What's your proof that gravity works? Well, through science and through reasoning, through space travel, I see that for a certain distance, gravity is no more. So I see when the astronauts are doing what they do. I see that gravity only has a certain height that it works at. So you understand through what you see, even though you cannot see gravity itself. You believe it. Yes, I believe. So why don't you believe in God?
Speaker 2:There is evidence everywhere you look the flowers, the trees, the voice box, the human retina but you believe in gravity and you can't see it. The only time you actually see the true effect of it to the reverse, is when an astronaut is in space. So that gives you concrete evidence that gravity exists? Yes, okay, do you believe in the wind? Of course I do. How do you believe in the wind and in the jet stream that we can't see that is moving? How do you believe that? Because I see the evidence, because the clouds are being moved. What moves the clouds, atheists? The wind.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you believe in gravity and you get a little bit of evidence only when the news channels display that. But you know that you are. You are here because of gravity. If there was no gravitational pull, you, we, would be out. I believe it. Okay, and you see the evidence of gravity through space travel. So then, when it's really windy and the wind is moving so fast and you see tiles lifted off the roof and you see the evidence of the grass moving in the wind, you believe in the word wind, even though you do not have and you have never seen the invisible wind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course I believe, but you don't believe in God. Someone, please, god, open the eyes of the atheist. God does not exist. Prove to me that God exists. Well, I'll just give you two quick areas. So, when you look at this, when you see the scripture, he is the image of the invisible God. He is invisible but he's visible through the man, christ Jesus. Thomas and Philip said to the physical Christ show us the father. It's like talking about gravity again. It's like talking about wind again.
Speaker 2:I'm standing before you. God is walking amongst the church and the church has been blinded. You God is walking amongst the church and the church has been blinded. God is walking amongst every area of life, and life has been blinded. I'm standing in front of you right now. Do you believe in angels? Psalm 91.
Speaker 2:We've got a little bit of time on our side this morning. Turn to Psalm 91. Time on our side this morning. Turn to Psalm 91. Read Psalm 91 from the back end of it. I'll turn there in a moment. So we are believing by faith. We believe by faith that the chairs in this church are held down by gravity. We believe by faith in what we are told through science and through reasoning. We believe that everything on this earth is held in position by gravitational pull. Yes, we believe. Whether we're churched or unchurched, it is a scientific fact that it exists. But you cannot see it because it's invisible. But you see the effect of it. That's what's important when you look and you read Psalm 91 and you read that for yourself, and I'll catch you up in a moment.
Speaker 2:I'm just staying in Colossians at this moment in time. I'll read it in its entirety he is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created things in heaven, things on earth, visible, invisible, whether thrones or powers, rulers or authorities. All things were created for him and by him. He is before all things. Oh, come on Jesus. And it says in verse 17 of Colossians, chapter one he is before all things and in him all things hold together and he is the head of the body, the church.
Speaker 2:No Pope, no Ben, no leader, no Elim. No one is the head of the church. They're the head of religion, they're the head of a cult, they're a head of satanic worship. They're the head of everything, what they see and they create, but they are not in charge and they are not the head of. There's no way anyone will ever convince me that any pastor, anyone from Elim, anyone from any denomination, the Pope, whoever thinks they are the head of the church. You are a liar. You are an outright liar, because the Bible tells me he is the head of creation. He created visible, invisible. He created the angels. Think about this. We cannot count the angelic beings, but he created every one of them and he created one of the most beautiful angels heaven ever see.
Speaker 2:And the one thing that happens pride set in. The biggest sin across the world isn't and isn't foremost to the world. Pride was in heavenly realms. Because what happened? Satan became prideful. When you got pride, you got arrogance. When you got arrogance, you got self, self, self self. The Bible says be humble, deny yourself. Pride is in religion. Pride is across the plateau of life.
Speaker 2:It's very, very interesting, these scriptures that we're in today. He is before all things and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the firstborn among the dead, and so that in everything he might have supremacy. For God was pleased to have the fullness dwell in him. We haven't got to that scripture yet, but by God's grace we will. It says there in verse 20,. For God was pleased to have the fullness dwell in him and through him, to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth, things in heaven, by marking peace through his blood shed on the cross.
Speaker 2:Now you stay in Psalm 91. Let me quickly turn there. Psalm 91. Psalm 91. I'm almost there. I'm almost there when you read about it. It talks about salvation, and salvation sits in the hand of God, and God only.
Speaker 2:Psalm 91, verse. Where am I going to go? Verse 11, verse 11. For he will command his angels, concerning you, to guide you up in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against the stone you will tread upon. It's very important that we understand you will tread upon. It's very important that we understand you will tread upon the lion and the cobra. You will trample the great lion and the serpent.
Speaker 2:All demonic force is under your feet. You don't need another deliverance prayer. You don't need another prayer cloth. You don't need another holy bottle of oil, which really is just chip fat. You don't need to spend any more money pumping money across to any other ministries that you've never seen or heard of. You don't need to send money across the world. You give yourself to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:It says extremely clearly that, right there. It says there is power and authority amongst you and in you, because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world, and you have power and the devil is under your feet. Tell yourself the devil is under your feet. Yeah, we've got outside oppression, but he has no control over me. It's just my mind. Mind just plays wobbles on me. It's just my mind. It's just my mind and it's the outside environment that controls my mind. If I allow the outside environment to control my mind, it will wobble my faith, but it won't take my faith. It will wobble my faith because God is faith, because God is everything. If he says he created everything, he created everything good, bad, ugly, lovely, whatever it may be God created everything, everything that man says he created. God created before man thought he created it. Because God created everything. God created every heavenly host upstairs and around us.
Speaker 2:Do you realize that there are angels around you? Now? Don't believe in that. Yeah, but you're sitting in your chair and I'm not just pointing to, I'm just using us as a. You're in church and you're sitting in your chair. You're standing at the pulpit and you gravity, but you can't see it. You believe that, but you don't believe angels are put to flight over your life.
Speaker 2:Man, come on, get a grip of yourself, ben. Get a grip of yourself, ben. Angels are around you. Angels are assigned to you. Angels carry you. Angels put up the sword to protect you. Angels, put up the shield to stop the fiery darts of the fallen angelic beings. Nothing can come near you. It gets close, but it can't get close enough to penetrate the skin. It is the mind that penetrates the skin. It is not Lucifer, it is not the work of the devil. We don't need to keep going to deliverance ministries and crying out and rolling around on the floor. You are delivered, you are saved, and the Bible says the devil is under your feet. You are blessed and highly favored. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will protect him.
Speaker 2:Psalm 91, verse 14. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. Who wants? Do you realize you're rescued by God? Well, I don't feel like that. But you believe in gravity? Yeah, okay. Do you believe that God is protecting you? Know everything's cracking out I mean life but you believe in gravity? Yeah, I do. Okay, our minds are wayward. I've got to believe. I believe I'm standing in this pulpit today because gravity is holding me in position. So now I've got to believe. I've got to believe outside of the skin that I walk in, and I've got to believe that there are angels. Because the Bible tells me let's finish the text off. Because he loves me, says the Lord. Isn't that amazing that that he is not just on the, the masculine side, it is talking about humanity. Humanity because he loves me, because humanity loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. That's all you got to do. I acknowledge Jesus.
Speaker 2:What was the two renegades doing, thomas and Philip? The text they're in Ah, come on Jesus. What are you going on about, son? What are you talking about? Come on Jesus. What you going on about, son? What you're talking about? Come on, we don't. What you going on about? How can you? But you, come on Jesus. Look, think about.
Speaker 2:It's about believing, and it says that I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. What is that name? Yahweh? What is that name? Jesus? What is that name? I am. It's just recognizing the name, that's all it is. Recognizing the name, because when we recognize the name, we actually believe, even though the skin that we walk in is trying to tell us differently. He will call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him with long life. Will I satisfy him and show him my salvation Outside of the church, outside of preaching, outside of everything.
Speaker 2:It's outside of everything, but it's in the hands of the eternal God. And let's come back to the scriptures. You know we've got a bit of time on our side. We're okay in a minute, sorry if you're bored. And it says I'm going back to John, chapter 14, verse 5, and it says Thomas said to him Lord, we don't know where you are going. Come on, you're standing on the earth, thomas and Philip, because of gravity, and they didn't even understand what that meant at that particular point. When you look at all this stuff, lord, we don't know where you are going. So how can we know the way? What did Jesus say to Nicodemus? You must be born again. If you're born again, you'll know the way. If you're born again, you'll know the way. If you're born again, you'll see the way.
Speaker 2:So not only is he talking about the retina, the human side of understanding, a little bit about salvation, he's talking outside. And he's talking about walking outside of flesh, walking in spiritual, walking outside of this human body that we understand. And then he says there, jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. Now, that wasn't possible at that time because Jesus didn't say it is finished, the temple curtain hadn't been torn into, no one could get to the father until Jesus Christ said it is finished. And that great tear of that great symbolism of that curtain, that was the restrictor, it was holding everything. And then he says I am the way, the truth, the life. No one comes to the father except through me.
Speaker 2:And it says if you really knew me, you would know here we go, my father as well. From now on, you do know him and you have seen him. So Christ is telling him I'm about to reveal, because you can't do this yourself, thomas, you can't do it, philip. You can't do it yourself. It needs. What Revelational knowledge? That is the greatest safeguard in the word. Man cannot study his way to salvation and cannot preach his way into that. God reveals himself through the Holy Spirit, through the living word, through God himself to all human beings. And before we was churched, unchurched, when we might say we was an atheist, before we was a believer, when we was in other religions, god was with you. You can't escape it and it says if you really knew me, you would know my father and my father as well. From now on, you will know. Sorry, you do know him and you have seen him.
Speaker 2:Philip went come on, lord, show us the God. Holy Spirit is just speaking out loud to the human being. Isn't it typical of a human being? Now, come on, lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough. He has got standing in front of him the eternal God. He has got standing in front of him the God that went let there be light. He has got the God in front of him before the world came into existence, before anything. He has got before him space, time, matter. He has got science in front of him. He has got mathematics in front of him. He has got everything in him. At that point, he has got the creator of the world. How do you know that? Remember what I said?
Speaker 2:Colossians, chapter 1, verse 15 he is the image of the invisible god. What is it saying john, chapter 1, verse 14. Read it for yourself. The word became flesh. What are we seeing? We are seeing the scriptures making more evidence, bringing it together, stringing it together, drawing it together. We see in john, chapter 1, verse 14, we see the evidence of colossians, chapter 1, in visualization, and it says christ is the image of the invisible god. God is the word. Hang on, slow down, son, you're losing your lips here. And it it says Philip said Lord, show us the father and that will be enough for us. Philip, I can't wait to give you a hug. When I see you upstairs.
Speaker 2:I say, son, you really missed the. You lost the plot that day, didn't you? And it said, verse nine Jesus answered don't you know me? Don't you know me, philip? Jesus answered don't you know me? Don't you know me, philip? Even after I have been with you such a long time church, all day, every day, I am amongst you, always, even in the churches that are preaching the weak, the woke, everything. I am amongst those that are hungry. He's in every situation. For such a long time. Anyone who has seen me has seen the father. How can you say show us the father? Don't you believe that I am?
Speaker 2:Now, this is where we find something really, really prophetic. It says in verse 10, don't you believe that I am? I've heard that before. Where have I heard that? I've heard that in the Old Testament I am. Who's sending me God? When I go back down the staircase down to that crazy lot down the bottom that are melting gold doing all types of things, who am I going to say is sending me? I am.
Speaker 2:What does Jesus start to do in the New Testament? He starts to reference himself. When you look at that yes, you might look at that and go what he's just saying is that I am in the Father, but beyond the fabric of what we see, it is you, but beyond the fabric of what we see. He is referencing and giving documentation of Old Testament Scripture I am. I am in the Father and that Father and that that the Father is in me. Oh, the Pharisees and the Sadducees. They wanted to chase him down for this. How dare you. Who do you think you are Calling yourself God? Isn't it interesting that there is a few references where they come to him and go if God was not with you, you could not be doing these things. It sounds a little bit like Nicodemus to me.
Speaker 2:If God was not with you see, nicodemus recognized, beyond the tapestry of religion, that there has to be something in this man. If this I am, and Nicodemus knew the Torah, he knew, knew it inside out, upside down. How'd you know that? Because Jesus went Nick, come on, son, you are the greatest teacher Israel's ever seen. And you do not know. Why don't he know? Because the cross hadn't happened. Why didn't he know? Simply because nothing could happen until what?
Speaker 2:Revelational knowledge? What is revelational knowledge? The giving of what? The Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is the revelational knowledge giver. We have been given the Holy Spirit. It is revealed through the Holy Ghost. It is revealed through the power of the word, it is revealed through God. And even Nicodemus said come on, jesus, there's more to you. Nicodemus said come on, jesus, there's more to you. And God said through Jesus, with Nicodemus, you must be born again.
Speaker 2:Let's just read this through Verse 9 of John, chapter 14,. Jesus answered Don't you know me, philip, even though I've been with you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say show us the Father? Don't you believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is within me? These words that I say to you are not of my own, isn't that interesting? Rather, it is the Father living in me who is doing his work. Hang on a minute. I recognize that little bit of line there.
Speaker 2:Jesus from the garden of Gethsemane, if it's possible, take this from me. So, hidden in the tapestry of scripture, you will find Jesus in his human skin saying these words are not of my own, they are the father working within me. They're not my words, but hang on, I'm scratching my head. You are the living word. But what he is saying very clearly I am doing the work of the father, even though I am the father and the father is living within me. I am Christ, my name is Jesus. I'm a carpenter's son. I was birthed through Mary. I am a man, but outside of that, as he said to the two renegades, I am.
Speaker 2:Then he goes on and he referenced a little bit further. What he is telling us is that I come under the submission of the word of God because in the garden he went if it's possible, take this cup from me, but if it's your will, not mine, let's get on with it. So it's very interesting that we see glimmers of the man, christ, saying I don't want to go through this. And then we have have evidence in the scriptures here, through what we are reading, and he's telling us it is not I that is speaking. It is the Father, rather in me. I'm not speaking my words, but the words that have been given me.
Speaker 2:It's really, really interesting, don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is with me? The words that I say to you are not just of my own, rather, it is the father living in me who is doing his work. Wow, lord, hallelujah, believe me when I say that I, here we go. Jesus, you know how to drop it in, don't you lord? And it says there, believe me when I say I am. Now we take this first thing, I, the Father. Okay, we get that you are, but also, lord, as he lifts the envelope spiritually, I am again, I am again. I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.
Speaker 2:I tell you the truth Anyone who has faith in me or this is a dangerous scripture that many take out of context and they manipulate and shape through preaching and every. We won't open that up at all, but I will read it. I tell you the truth. Anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these. Be careful, because I am going to the father.
Speaker 2:So he's talking about cross, he's talking about salvation, he's talking about so much in that scripture that we're in. We're coming to the table. We're coming to the table. We're gonna. We're not coming to I'll use the word holy communion we're coming to the Passover, the passing over of Exodus, chapter 12, the passing of the angel of death that was God. Now that let's not, let's not Mickey Mouse around that you read Exodus, chapter 12 and he will tell you I will destroy anything in my sight that hasn't got blood over it. Can you see salvation from Genesis to Revelation? Can you see the redemption plan that god tells us about when, when the fall of humanity in the garden, god went? I'm going to execute this plan now. I'm going to start the plan. But the plan was in full swing before the garden even came in, before the fall of humanity. Salvation, salvation and redemption was moving. It's beyond human understanding, isn't it? I pray that as we roll off this message this morning and as we come to the table, that we realize that we are not at the table of religion. We are at the table, the Passover table, the sacrificial lamb, the lamb of God, the lamb that was slain, the blood of Jesus, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. See how weak religion is.
Speaker 2:We've got a woke church in many areas across the UK. Large denominations, big celebrity organizations known as church are taking the woke way and they are getting people in their buildings because they are using secular ways. Secular ways you can do anything with money. They're building businesses, businesses are being built. They are using the terminology that is used so much In business KPIs.
Speaker 2:It's a way that they measure. They measure everything. And what did God say to that great king David? I told you not to do a census. Don't measure what I'm doing, don't measure it. God say to that great king David I told you not to do a census, don't measure what I'm doing, don't measure it. And the business church, the organization is their. God is KPIs Key performance indicators.
Speaker 2:We've done 15 baptisms this month. We've done this. We've done that. We've got this happening. We see 1. This, we've done that, we've got this happening. We see a thousand people in a service KPIs, all registered. We don't register anything because it's not our responsibility. How many people in, how many people out? How many people we baptize this year? How many people got saved? How many this, how many that you know? We just deliver the word and we give out Gospels of John. It's really really important to understand that. The church is measuring everything. It is using business terminologies. It is weak, it is woke. And be careful.
Speaker 2:What KPI organization you go to on a Sunday? Because you are registered A commodity. Many people are sitting in churches this morning, gone to great big churches, packed out, and you're just a number. Can we have your email, sir? Can we have your email please? Madam, oh, god loves you. They'll meet you in the car park when it's raining, with an umbrella and a T-shirt that says we're so glad you are here. Yes, because on the back of the T-shirt says we're going to get your money and they welcome you in and they're shouting and they're dancing and secular Christianity is going on and you are being measured. Yes, we had 100 in today. Yes, we need more people in. We got higher wages to fill. We got bigger things to do. We got this to that.
Speaker 2:What KPI do you go to on a Sunday? Do you go to church or do you go to an organization? Are you really loved in the church that you are in or are you just a KPI, a registered like when you go to work. Isn't it interesting? You work with your colleagues for X amount of years. All this goes on the day you leave. Yeah, catch you later, see you later A year's time. Who's been what? Who was that what? Who are they what? But you sold your soul, sold your soul to the organization. But your soul just sold, sold your soul to the organization as soon as your P45's in your pocket and you walked out the door arms around someone else. Church is business. Religion is business. K-p-i so simple Key performance indicators. It's in church more than it's in business.
Speaker 2:Ai, artificial intelligence is used by the world, but it's used by church. How many messages this morning have come across pulpits that someone has spoken into AI and pulled out a really intelligent message? Thank God, you know my name Artificial Intelligence, because I can't even read. I wouldn't be able to read it. How many messages that are coming out that are artificial? How many churches are using business models, kpis, artificial intelligence?
Speaker 2:We've got to get more people in the building. We've got to get people in. We've got this to fund. We've got that. I understand, please. I understand. I know. I know our stress. I get it. I understand that We've got to get a new department.
Speaker 2:So what we've got to do is we've got to pull the youth in. What we'll use? We'll use the world system and we'll get loud music in. We get smoke machines, we'll create an atmosphere and we'll measure everything. Everything is measured.
Speaker 2:But Jesus, through God, told David do not do a census. And he got in trouble because he was trying to measure God. Don't measure God, church leaders. Let God do what he's going to do. It doesn't matter if we got one in the house or a thousand. Don't measure.
Speaker 2:Let's pray, father, in the name of Jesus. I'm sorry, lord, that we measure you. I'm sorry, lord, that we calculate and we try to KPI. Church of performance. I'm sorry, lord, that there's many, many theatrical performances happening across pulpits today. But, lord, I thank you. I thank you for little old us, just us, lord, wherever we are across the world, we thank you that there is power in the name, the most beautiful name, the name of Jesus. So, lord, I ask you right now that we will understand that the father has walked amongst us before we even recognized who the father was, that Jesus was living in our lives, before we even realized who Jesus was, that Jesus was in our kitchen. Jesus was with us while we was driving. Jesus was with us while we was sitting on the beach. Jesus was with us while we were doing. Whatever we were doing and whatever we were doing, jesus was with us.
Speaker 2:That we will never escape the fact that Jesus was with us in everything Brings us up with a sharp bolt, doesn't it? He's with us in all things. He's walking amongst you right now. He's walking amongst you right now. He's walking with you, he's ahead of you, he's in your life, he's in your heart, he's in your home. He's in your car. He's in the clothing that you wear. What do you mean? He's in the clothing that I wear Because he created all things.
Speaker 2:He created the cotton, he created the synthetic material, because everything that has been created has to come from something. They don't create something out of nothing. There is always a foundation to where it comes from. So the coat that you're wearing, that you are wrapped up, the hat that you are wearing, the scarf that you are wearing, those expensive, crazy trainers that we got on our feet, the hoover that we hold in our hand, the steering wheel that we hold, the way that we walk, the chair that we sit on the sofa that we spread out on that. We sit on the sofa that we spread out on stuff in our faces with chocolate.
Speaker 2:Everywhere we go, we cannot escape the God of gods, and I love that we can't escape him. Let's just surrender to him today, lord, I surrender to you because you're in the skin that I walk in, because you create my skin. You're in the blood that you put in my veins. You're in every organ of my being, because you created all things. Lord, these shoes that I got on. You're in every area, lord, you are gravity, because gravity only exists because of you.
Speaker 2:There is evidence that God is in everything. All things exist because of him. He is the creator of heaven and earth. He is the king of kings and he is the Lord of lords. Everything that has been created, everything man thinks he is creating, god already created Everything comes from something. It's not from evolution, because we can't prove evolution. It can't come from a string theory, because it's a theory. It can't come from a theoretical area of study, because it is a theory of man. Area of study, because it is a theory of man.
Speaker 2:If you have a Bible, you've got evidence of the existence of the universe. If you've got a Bible, you've got evidence of the greatest man that ever walked the earth and his name is Jesus. If you've got a Bible, you've got the evidence of the greatest king that ever walked. He's the greatest king and the world fears him. He's the only king that didn't have an earthly palace but has got a heavenly throne. They called him teacher, but he didn't have a degree. They called him master, but he had no one feeding him. They called him Lord, but he didn't have an earthly title.
Speaker 2:The world is talking about him and as we come to the table and as you take from the table, remember the greatest sermon that was ever given John 3.3. Sermon that was ever given, john 3.3, in a little room in a back street between the teacher of Israel and the king. The greatest sermon is running around the world and it didn't need social media account, it didn't need the internet, it didn't need any transatlantic ministry, it didn't need me, it didn't need anybody. The greatest message that was ever given out and the shortest message was John 3.3, you must be born again. The whole world is trying to swerve it, the whole world is looking for it, the whole world.
Speaker 2:Greatest sermon, the greatest preacher the world has ever seen and his name was Jesus. The world is trying to destroy him. He conquered the world and he didn't have an army, he didn't have a gun or a bullet, but the world is trying to destroy him. He went to the cross and no one could understand him. He's the saviour of the world and his name is Jesus.
Speaker 2:Father, we thank you for the bread that symbolises the body of Christ. We thank you for the cup that symbolizes the body of Christ. We thank you for the cup that symbolizes the blood of Jesus. Remember, jesus is with you. You might be the greatest atheist in the world, but let me tell you, jesus is with you. You might be serving God through other means, but Jesus is with you. Be serving God's through other means, but Jesus is with you. You can't escape him and I'll tell you that, and I will give my life to tell you that Jesus Christ is with you. Bless this bread in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen. He's the King of Kings and he is the lord of lords. He is the great I am. He's the savior of the world. He's the greatest preacher the world has ever seen or heard.
Speaker 2:Governments hate jesus christ. World religions want to try and destroy him. This this UK government, is scared of Christianity. This UK government is frightened of the living word of God. He's your saviour. Father, we thank you for this cup that symbolises the blood of Jesus, and as we take this cup this morning across the world, and as so many people join us online and in the Lord's house, we thank you for the power of the blood of Jesus. It is the blood that has cleansed us. It is the blood that has set us free. It is the blood that is over you right now, the blood of the Savior of the world. Thank you, lord, that I am forgiven In Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 2:Jesus Christ loves you.
Speaker 2:God is with you. The Holy Spirit is living within you. You are not an orphan. You are redeemed. You are not who you think you are, because there is someone living inside of you that is greater.
Speaker 2:If you've lost your identity in the world, find Jesus Christ, and what I mean by that is go to the cross, because he's already found you. And when you really understand who he says you are not as the motivational preachers, not as love yourself and all that sort of stuff that comes out of pulpits, because the Bible says humble yourself. Humble yourself, not love yourself, because when you humble yourself and you deny yourself, suddenly you find out who you are. There is something extremely powerful in surrendering to Jesus and remind yourself, as we walk away this morning, that he's already found you. So what you're looking for this morning is just I love you, jesus. Speak the word over your life, don't be hemmed in by the world and humanity. Live for Jesus Christ. There is a vision and a dream dropped in every person a God vision and humanity. Live for Jesus Christ. There is a vision and a dream dropped in every person, a God vision and dream, and some are many. Ask God to reveal. Ask God to reveal what he's got for you, because we'd be quite surprised. What God has got for us is not in the postcode that we're in. He's not in the position that we're in. Ask God, say God, reveal the true identity of who I am.
Speaker 2:Father, we thank you for this morning, lord. As we sign out, we thank you for the power in the name of Jesus. God bless everyone in the Lord's house, everybody online today, across the world, wherever you are on the camera today. God bless every one of you, wherever you are. In the name of Jesus. Remember God is with you. And the title of this morning's sermon. You can find it back later on on the social networks. You'll find it on Spotify and all them places. I didn't know you was walking amongst me. God bless everyone. Thank you, lord, for today. Bless us as we leave the Lord's house, as we click offline. Lord, we thank you that you carry us, that you lead us and you lead us and you guide us and you continue to lead us. But bless us. I pray in Jesus' name no-transcript.
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