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Join Reverend Ben Cooper on this podcast - Could the transformative power of faith be the key to unlocking eternal peace and strength? Join us as we promise to uncover the comforting assurance that we are all chosen by God for salvation, exploring scriptures like Matthew 11:27 and Ephesians 1:4. Our conversation delves into the deep relationship between the Father and the Son, revealing the profound love and mercy of Christ. We discuss the necessity of being "born again," as mentioned in John 3:3, and the transformative impact it has on believers, offering an uplifting message of hope and empowerment.
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Speaker 2:Here we go, we're in in.
Speaker 2:God bless you wherever you are this evening. May god uh carry you and lead you, because here we go. We just want to say thank you to everybody across the world, everybody that's um online with us through this broadcast at this moment in time. You know the lord is with each and every one of us and we pray that you will find healing and you will find peace in the arms of Christ. You know God is with you and we just want to let you know this evening that God has chosen you.
Speaker 2:I think it's really important, I really feel that the Lord is leading us to go back over a few things. You know, I think it's really important that we just go back over a few scriptures. We're going to go 11, verse 27. If you have a Bible, grab yourself a Bible. Turn to Matthew, chapter 11, verse 27. We're going to go to the book of Ephesians also, and we're going to pick up in Ephesians, chapter 1, and we'll pick up from verse 4, and we'll just see where we go. I just want to let you know tonight that you are chosen, that you are blessed, that God is with you in all things and all things are possible to those who believe you know God has chosen you, god is calling you, you know the hand of the Lord is over your life, within you and around you and there's nothing to be fearful of because you have been chosen for salvation. You have been chosen to walk eternally in the heavenly realms with God and he is with you and there's nothing to be fearful of regarding salvation. I know the Bible says work out your salvation with fear and trembling, and I really believe for everybody that's capturing our voice and seeing everything online and that's with us across the world. I really believe it's something really special for us to know that God has chosen and we thank God that he has chosen that it's not by our strength, but it's by the word, it's by his presence, by his love, and you have been called and I just want to just refresh our memories, if we can, this evening.
Speaker 2:You know verse 27 of Luke chapter, not Luke Matthew. What am I talking about? I'm ahead of myself. I'm about 10 minutes ahead of myself. So we're in Matthew, chapter 11, and we're in verse 27.
Speaker 2:Let's start it there. So, wherever you are, we thank God that you're following us, that you're with us, you're online, you're on Buzzsprout, you're on Spotify, you're on iHeartRadio if you're in America, and we thank God for your support and everything that's going on. And throughout the world and throughout the globe, it's really important that we share this stuff out and we push this out. But God is with each and every one of you and I want to let you know that you're not alone. You're not alone. God is with you and he chose you and you are saved.
Speaker 2:And let's get straight into the scripture, verse 27. And it says All things have been committed to me by the Father. No one knows the Son except the Father. No one knows the Father except the Son. And this is the last bit that I think is really important for me tonight I don't know where you are with your life. I don't know where you are with your walk with God. But you know, I just need to refresh myself with this.
Speaker 2:I think it's really important for each and every one of us to know what Christ is saying through the Father, what the Father is saying through the Son. And it simply says there the Father accepts the Son through each, and it says the Son has chosen to reveal. So let's just refresh ourselves in that, in verse 27. It says all things have been committed to me by my father. No one knows the son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the son has chosen to reveal himself.
Speaker 2:You know, christ is revealing himself to you tonight. Christ is revealing his love, his mercy, his sovereignty, his power, his word. Salvation has been revealed to you, salvation has been given. You know, if you have a bible, go to john 3 3. You must be born again. That beautiful text that we, that we spend so much time in lately. John 3, 3. You must be born again. Beautiful bit of text, really, really, really important. You know that we understand that salvation has come from God and God alone, from the triune, godhead that we serve, father, son, holy Spirit, that you are saved because of the power of the Word, because of the love of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and you are blessed and highly favored.
Speaker 2:And just because we're in the silly season, we're in the crazy season, we're ramping up for tinsel, christianity, christmas and all that sort of stuff. You know, just remember who you are in Christ. Just remember who you are in Christ and this is the God that we serve, this is the son that we serve. The son has been given. We are at that time, you know, and the world is getting ready in certain areas. You know, know it's very interesting to see that, even through commercialization, christmas and the things that are going on around the world, you know, christmas is starting to be pushed on the back burner now. It's not lit up as much as it was. You are starting to see a different stretch now.
Speaker 2:But we got to remind ourselves that the living word is alive and the living word is living in your spirit, living in your heart. The living word is over you, the living word is around you. You are healed and I pray, by the power of god and and the love of christ, that you will feel that healing, that you will feel the love of god in your spirit and you won't never give up, that you will press in and you will hold on to the scripture because it has been revealed. The son is revealing who. He chooses to reveal what, what comes first? He reveals salvation. He reveals John 3.3. He reveals the love of God, he reveals the power of the Holy Spirit. He reveals and wherever you are at this hour, we pray that you will feel the love of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, that you will know that the living word of god is with you and you are blessed and highly favored, wonderfully and fearfully made.
Speaker 2:Let me read verse 27 of that gospel reading again and we're in the gospel of matthew, chapter 11, verse 27. And it says all things have been committed to me by my father. So everything has been given to christ the power, the authority, the beginning, father. So everything has been given to Christ the power, the authority, the beginning, from the end. Everything has been given to God, everything has been given to Christ, everything has been given. I said God and I mean God and I mean Jesus, because it goes round in its continuum. God gives himself everything. Jesus gives himself everything through him, through the living word. It can be a bit of a minefield when you start looking at all this sort of stuff, and I pray that you will just hold on to the living word of God tonight and realize that salvation has been given to you, power has been given to you. Hang on, what do you mean? Power? Does that make me a superhuman? No, what I mean by that? Power?
Speaker 2:To speak the gospel of Jesus Christ in your workspace, over your life, in every area of the circles of life that you walk, that there is power of the living God that is living within you. You know you are blessed and highly favored. You are saved. The glory of God is sitting over you and Jesus Christ loves you. And it has been given. Everything has been given. Salvation has been given. You know redemption has been given. Everything has been given. Salvation has been given. You know redemption has been given. Hope has been given. Favor has been given, love has been given the. The seed of faith, the size of a mustard seed, has been given to you. The glory of god has been revealed to you. The power has been given to you. Everything has been given to you the father, the son, the holy spirit. And when we say being given, it has been revealed. Everything has to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and when we say been given, it has been revealed. Everything has to be revealed, everything has to be given as a revealing moment.
Speaker 2:And as you look at these scriptures, verse 27,. All things have been committed to me by my Father. Everything, through authority, has been given to Christ, everything has been committed, everything has been handed over. So when you look at salvation and you look at the love of god and the power of the holy spirit. The sovereignty, justification, redemption and everything has been given to christ by the father, uh, in the heavenly realms. But also we understand that the father is omnipresent, omnipotent. He is in all, he's about all and he is in every area of our lives. God is with you and god has given his son, and he has given his son in many, many ways. He has given him his salvation, he has given us hope, he has given us the power, the holy spirit. So when you look at verse 27, it says all things have been committed to me by my father. No one knows the son. I find this so powerful. No one knows the son except the father and no one knows the father except the son and those to whom the son, we are the, to whom we are.
Speaker 2:That reference, that scripture reference. We are the whom you know you have been. You are the born again whom. You are, the one that scripture reference. We are the, the whom you know you have been. You are the born again whom. You are, the one that has been chosen. You are the one that god, through christ, has decided to give you salvation to be revealing his word to you. You didn't go into church and you didn't hear it preached across the pulpit. Then you decided to have that God revealed that through his son, because all power, all authority has been committed and given to Christ from God. And that includes salvation, that includes justification, that includes redemption and hope. Sovereignty and power has been given to Christ through God. Because it very clearly tells us that in the Word of God and when you look at that scripture, the son to whom he chooses.
Speaker 2:Now, if you're with me, turn to the book of Ephesians. If we go to Ephesians, it will just literally concrete and it will just cement everything in place that we've been reading. And if you have a Bible and you look in Ephesians, chapter one, verse four, it says for he chose us. So not only did he choose us, not only has it been given, not only has it been revealed, but he chose. There are many biblical references that we could keep turning over and over and over again.
Speaker 2:Because he chose. He chose you in sonship, he chose you in predestination, he chose you in redemption. He chose you in predestination, he chose you in redemption, he chose you before the foundation of the world. And when you look at these scriptures, this is so glorious, this is so powerful that salvation sits outside of the hands of the preacher, the evangelist, the church, the mega church, the small church, the religion. It sits outside of the framework of everything and it sits in the hands of God through Christ Jesus.
Speaker 2:Because, when you understand the Gospels, god is Christ, christ is God, the Spirit of God is with Jesus, the Spirit of God is Jesus, god is the Spirit. It is all interwoven and it just blends beautifully the rhythm of the holy God that we serve. Father, son, holy Spirit. They're interwoven, they move together. You cannot separate, nothing can separate Father, son, holy Spirit. Yes, we understand that.
Speaker 2:There is a clear scripture references where we see the individual divinity and the divine power of God moving through the Holy Spirit, moving through Christ and moving through the Father. We understand that because there are scriptural reference points that mark us and tell us that. But also we know that you cannot separate the Spirit of God, the Word of God, jesus Christ. You cannot separate the Father, even though that you might go to the New Testament and say, yeah, well, what happened when Christ died on the cross? And it says the Father, separated, turned his face. That is something that is completely different, but we don't have time to unpack that and bring that into the wording tonight. We're just looking, very simply, that you was chosen, I was chosen, every one of us was chosen around. Very simply, that you was chosen, I was chosen, every one of us was chosen. Around the table. You was chosen online.
Speaker 2:Wherever you are in your life, god is choosing you and god has chosen you for salvation. Because the bible tells us, for he chose us in him, in him, where, where. Who is this him? Who is this? This him that he's talking about? The hymn can't be anything else but Jesus, because when you use the word he or him, you are referring to the masculine line of a human being and you are referring to a male and you are referring to Jesus Christ as the living word. So that gives us.
Speaker 2:There is evidence very clearly just within a few lines, in within a few words in Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 4, for he, there we go, chose us in him so straight in the second word, and then, as you go on a little bit further for he chose us in him before the creation of the world, to be what, to be holy, blameless in his sight in love. So everything has been chosen. We have been chosen in love, we have been chosen in sovereignty and power and redemption. You know the love of God is so powerful. The love of God arches over everything. Perfect love drives out fear. The love of God drives out fear. You know, and I pray for you tonight.
Speaker 2:If you're living in fear, if you're living in worry, you're living in doubt, you're living in uncertainty, you will just feel the love of God, power of the holy spirit, this triune godhead, father, son and holy spirit. You know that are interwoven, that you cannot separate. But you find the father, you find the son and you find the holy ghost, walking and moving and and seamlessly together. You know, when you see that, you know jesus, I will not leave you as orphans, I will send the counselor, the Holy Spirit. Do we realize that we are full of the Holy Spirit, that we are full of word, that we are full of the Father? So if I'm full of the Holy Spirit and you're full of the Holy Spirit and you're full of Christ and we're full of God, we have this deity. We have the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit living in each and every one of us. But you have been chosen. You was chosen.
Speaker 2:God did not choose any other way to do this. He didn't choose the church to reveal himself, he chose the fabric of the scriptures. So when you look at the scripture, this can be absolutely mind-blowing. It can it can literally flatten science. It can destroy the way the mind thinks, the body thinks, the way life thinks itself. You know just physics itself. When you look at all this stuff, this is just atheists would scream at this when they see this.
Speaker 2:For it says in verse 4 of ephesians, chapter 1 for he chose us in him before the creation of the world, to be holy, to be blameless in his sight, in no one else's sight, but in the sight of god, in the sight of the holy ghost and in the sight of jesus christ. You were chosen before the fabric of the world, before. God said let there be light. We are going back over stuff. We are just asking god that he will reveal this stuff to us and I believe that when we say we're going back over it, it is the Holy Spirit speaking very clear and the Holy Spirit is saying something. What is the Holy Spirit saying? He's saying what the gospel says to us that the Holy Spirit will reveal things that the Holy Spirit will lead us.
Speaker 2:And if you look in the Old Testament, in the book of Joshua, it says meditate on my word day and night. So often, and seasonal, we may visit certain scriptures, we may speak about the same scripture service after service. It's because we are meditating and we are grazing on that word. We are just grazing on the word. We are meditating on the word, we are looking at that word. We're staying in that scripture for a while. We're in John 3, 3. We're in Ephesians, chapter 1. We're in the Gospel of Matthew.
Speaker 2:You know, the word of God is so powerful that we need to meditate. The Bible says meditate on the word of God day and night. Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth. You know, we've got to keep this word. We've got to keep this word on our lips, the to keep this word on our lips. The Bible says your word is like honey to my lips. The word of God is precise, it is powerful, it is to the point.
Speaker 2:And you are a Bible-believing believer. You are that, john 3.3. You are born again and the power sits outside of the framework of your skill set, of your mind of the way that you live, the way that you plan, the way that you focus. It sits outside of your humanity and it sits in the realms of the spiritual realm that God has given you salvation. It wasn't the bishop, it wasn't the priest, it wasn't the pastor, it wasn't the leader, it wasn't the church. God chose you before the church even came into existence.
Speaker 2:When you look at the church, as we understand, the church has only been birthed since the book of Acts, chapter 2. We've had religion all the way through. We have the synagogues, we have all that stuff that goes on. But the birth of the church of Jesus Christ only happened after the cross of Calvary, with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts, chapter 2. The church was not before the cross of Calvary, with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts, chapter 2. The church was not before the cross of Calvary, because Jesus Christ is the church, he is the head of the church, he is the cornerstone. So when Jesus Christ gave up his life on the cross of Calvary, what happened? Yes, we understand that humanity had the gift of salvation and that gift had been given through Christ and he was given the authority from god. Because that's what we read in the the gospel of matthew, chapter 11. But when we look at what it says in verse 4, it says for he chose us in him.
Speaker 2:You was chosen not in religion. You was chosen in the king. You was chosen in the saviors and in the father's heart. You was chosen. In the god of israel. You was chosen in him. You was chosen in the savior of the world. You was chosen in the son. You was chosen in him, through him and by him and for him you was chosen.
Speaker 2:Just the concept of that scripture literally can throw us off point for a while. Our minds and our process and our thinking and our understanding cannot get to grips when you really think about that scripture. It says for he chose us in him. You was chosen in him, not outside of him, but you was chosen in him. You was chosen in his plans. You was chosen in his thought. You was chosen in the word. You was chosen in him. He was chosen in his plans. He was chosen in his thought. He was chosen in the word. He was chosen in the dialogue. He was chosen before the stars were put. In the heavenly realms he was chosen before he put the sun in the sky and the moon that revolves. He chose you before anything else, over all things. That can be so difficult for humanity to grasp, that can be so difficult for the human being to work out, that can be so difficult that you was chosen before you was birthed into the world. You was chosen, your family was chosen, everything. Go all the way back through your chronology, chronology, chronology. Come on, get it out chronological, chronological timeline of your family. You was chosen before all that. You was chosen before the family tree put you into position. You was chosen before the fabric of time, when you look at that verse. For he chose us, for he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight and love. He predestined oh, here we go. Predestination again. Uh, pre, pre, planning, pre-focusing, pre-pushing, pre-hoping. He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through christ jesus. So everything is through, everything is in, everything is around, everything is is in, everything is around, everything is for. So everything was predestined, everything was forechosen. Predestination. We know what that means. It was beforehand. It was already signed off. He was already signed off, he was already signed in. So look at the power of these scriptures. He says he predestined verse 5 of Ephesians, chapter 1, he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Christ Jesus, in accordance with his pleasure and his will, to the praise of his glorious riches depending what you're reading from which he has freely given us in the one. He loves us and it says in him we have redemption. So verse 7 verse 7 he's talking about salvation. In him we have redemption. Through his blood you are redeemed. You have been bought, you have been brought in. And when you, when I say you have been bought, you have been bought with a price, and the price was the blood of Jesus. You were bought in before the creation of the world. God was thinking of you before. God said let there be light before the creation of the world. So when you put all this stuff together and you bring all this stuff to the forefront of your mind and you look at what's going on here, you know God created you before the foundation of the world. He was more interested in you than what he created. Through the power of his voice he brought you into existence. Here we go, let's pick it up in verse 7 of Ephesians, chapter 1. In him we have redemption through his blood, forgiveness of sin in accordance with the riches of his grace. That is just so powerful. That is just so powerful. Verse 7 of Ephesians, chapter 1. In him we have redemption through his blood. Everything has been done and will be done through the blood of Jesus. Nothing can be done without the blood of Jesus. No redemption can be done without the blood. Everything is done with the blood. The blood is critical. We are washed in the blood, the crimson tide. By the blood of Jesus, we have been redeemed, we have been set free. The riches of his grace, the riches of his mercy, the love and grace, you know grace abounds. You have so much grace over your life. You have so much love over your life. You have so much forgiveness over you, within you and around you, because christ has forgiven each and every one of us. He loves us unconditionally, unconditional love. Verse 7 in him we have redemption through his blood and forgiveness of sin in accordance with the riches of his grace that he lavished on us. Look what that says, for god lavished that on us with all wisdom and understanding, uh, and. And he making known to uh the mystery of his will in accordance with his good pleasure, uh, which he purposed in christ to be put into effect when the times will have reached each fulfillment, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. In him you are also chosen Again. In verse 11 it says In him you are also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him, who works out everything in conformity with his purpose, of his will, in order that we who were the first to hope in christ might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth the redemption of those who. God's possession and peace has come upon you, to the praise of his glory. The promise of the Holy Spirit you have been sealed with the Holy Spirit. You have been promised the Holy Ghost, and that promise has been been fulfilled. When does the promise of the Holy Spirit be fulfilled in any human being? Is it when God calls us unto salvation? Because God calls us to salvation. God calls us, god delivers us, god rescues us, god saves us. You have been sealed with the power of the word. You have been sealed with the Holy Spirit. You have been sealed with the blood of Jesus. God's hand is over you. The power of God is with you, wherever you are tonight. God loves you unconditionally. There is nothing too big, nothing too powerful. There is nothing outside of the framework of the Holy Spirit. There is nothing outside of God, there is nothing outside of Christ, there is nothing outside of the word that is too big for God to handle. When you think about creation, when you think about chosen, when you think about predestined, when you think about predestinational places that God will get us to, there are markers in your life that God will get you to, no matter what the world is saying about you. God has a plan for your life and we're going to come to the table in just a few moments. We're going to come to the table in a few moments and I pray that, wherever you are situated tonight, that you will feel the love of God and come to that realizing of that understanding that salvation is outside of the concept, outside of the handling, outside of the church. It's away from. It's away from the church, it's away from religion, it's outside of the parameters of preaching, it is outside of the preacher, it is outside of the evangelist. It can only be given to whom God decides to give through Christ Jesus, the Good Shepherd. So when you look at this, this is all woven together, that that is the greatest safeguard on the planet earth, that God gives it to Jesus. Jesus reveals it to the human being and salvation has been revealed to you. So, wherever you are at this hour, salvation and the word of God has been revealed through the redemption plan, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit has sealed you. You have been sealed. There are no demonic forces in your life. There are no demonic forces within you and in that skin that you walk in, because the power of God has sealed you, sealed you up tight. The love of God has sealed you. The spirit of God has sealed you. The blood of Jesus has washed you. The spirit of god has sealed you. The blood of jesus has washed you. You are in redemption. You are always being redeemed. We are always going for redemption. We are always going through the power of god. We are always going through the refiner's fire and as we come to the table in just a few moments, I pray that you will feel the fire of god and the power of the Holy Spirit. You'll know that his Redeemer lives and because he lives, we can face tomorrow, wherever you are across this earth. Tonight I pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal more of his word to you. I pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal more of his presence to you. I pray that the Holy Spirit will lead you in paths of righteousness. I pray that the Holy Spirit, he will and he has and he will continue to lead you through Psalm 23. I pray that, wherever you are, if you are in Psalm 23 and you're going for a valley, that you will feel the love of God and the power of the redemption word of Jesus Christ. And I just ask God tonight Lord, will you reveal yourself to each and every one of us? Will you reveal yourself through the sovereign plan that you have? Will you reveal yourself through the power of the grace that is over us? Will you reveal yourself because of the glory, through the power of the Holy Spirit? You know, holy, holy is the Lord most worthy of all praise. God loves you. God loves you and he chose you. I have just quickly rambled over this tonight through this podcast, through this sermon, through this reading. Whatever way we look at it, you know God has chosen you. We can't escape the fact, the biblical fact of the scriptures, that you have been chosen. You have been chosen not by your father, by your mother, not by your team leader, not by your pastor, not by your church. You have been chosen by the god that said let there be light. And he gave that authority to his son. When his son come to the earth and his son is himself. You know, we understand through the scripture in the Gospel of John. It is very, very clear, very, very clear. And you look at the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verse 1. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. You know, it's clear, it's fact, it's biblical, foundational understanding and teaching that God chose you and he has revealed all things to you. That's when we suddenly enter into that position and that posture of where that word comes in, of free will. I have the free will to follow him. I don't have the free will to reject him, because he chose. When he chose, he gave and you can't give back what the gift giver has given. He has given you salvation, whether we like it or whether we don't like it, whatever way you want to look at it. It has been given and the power of God has been given to you. The love of God has been given to you, the spirit of God has been given to you. Salvation has been given to you. Redemption has been given to you. Hope has been given to you. Redemption has been given to you. Hope has been given to you. Brother and sister, we're coming to the table right now in the name of jesus, right now in the name of jesus. So, father, we thank you that this bread symbolizes the body of christ. And as we break this bread together right now, in jesus name, father, let your glory come, let your power be revealed across the earth. Take us into a deeper walk with you, lord. We want to walk with Christ, we want to run with Christ, we want to be still with Christ. So, as we break bread together tonight, lord, we thank you for the love of Jesus, the love of Jesus that has come from the love of god. And as we break this bread, father, bless this bread as it symbolizes your body that was broken for us. Father, we thank you that we are born again, that we are spirit filled, that the hand of god is over us. And as we come to the table. Lord, just reveal yourself, god. Reveal yourself, holy spirit, reveal yourself, father, reveal yourself, jesus. Bring your glory to our lives tonight, lord, just switch us, turn us. Reveal to us, lord, bring us to the table. Bless this bread that represents the body of Christ in Jesus name. Amen. The body of Christ In Jesus' name, amen. Hallelujah. Wonderful God, holy Spirit, come Jesus, reveal Yourself, pour out your Spirit. Come Jesus, reveal yourself, pour out your spirit, lord. Come on, jesus, pour out your glory across everyone, online, everyone across the world, tonight, in the world of podcasts. Reveal yourself, jesus, at home, driving home from work, sitting on the edge of bed, wherever we are. Reveal yourself, jesus, at home, driving home from work, sitting on the edge of bed, wherever we are. Reveal yourself, jesus. Wrap us up in that love. You chose us, god. We didn't choose you. We didn't write the book. You wrote the book. We didn't give salvation to you. You brought salvation to us. You brought yourself to us. You created us for your purpose, your will, your pleasure. So bless this cup. Cleanse us from the crown of our head to the soul of our feet. Thank you for the redemption, the redemption plan of salvation. Cleanse us, lord, in the mighty name of Jesus, amen, hallelujah. Cleansed by the blood Redeemed by the Crimson, tide Free because of the cross of Calvary. The scriptures have been fulfilled. The glory, the power, the anointing, the love, the living word was given to you. Salvation was given through Christ Jesus, because he decided, he decided to be revealed to you. He is the one that decided, not the pastors, not the bishops, not the church, but God, through his son, has been given to you. Wherever you are across the other side of the world, jesus has been revealed to you. There is no power in our skin that we walk in to understand this stuff. Every, every word is revealed. Everything is revealed, everything is given. It's like god opened up an envelope. He opens up the envelope and he gently pulls the stuff out and he reads this letter over your life. And God says I love you. I love you so much that I gave you my one and only son that whosoever shall believe in me. And then there is that complex part of that text that the human brain starts to grapple with, for God so loved the world that whosoever shall believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. But the belief can only be accelerated. The belief can only come when there has been a revealing of the word. Once the word has been revealed and it is so close, it is so thin it it runs so close together when god reveals himself through christ jesus to the human being, then suddenly belief comes in, faith drops in, everything drops into the human being and then we say, yes, there is a God. Yes, there is a living word. Yes, it is by grace that I've been saved. Yes, it is not by works that no one can boast. Yes, it is through the revealing word of the power of God, it is through the power of the Holy Spirit, it is through the love of Jesus, it is through his glory, his measure. You know God loves you and there is such an anointing on your life, there is such a presence of God in your life. We may try and knock it and reject it and just laugh and say what do you mean? You know God's power, that or that brought this world into existence, the power that opened up the heavens. The power that brought and took jesus to the cross of calvary. The power that let light be light. The power that put all the fish in the ocean. The power that makes every wave move, the power that makes the sun and the moon revolve and move around, the power of the universe accelerating the power of light, increasing moment by moment, millisecond after millisecond. You know, everything is through the power of God. It is the power of God. There is no other way. There is no other meaning. It is the love of God. It is the power of God. There is no other way, there is no other meaning. It is the love of God. It is the power of the Holy Spirit. There is no other way. It has been revealed and that power is in your life and that power is sitting over your life and that power is in your life. That power is all over you because you are redeemed. We're coming to a close right now. May God bless you and touch your lives in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and wherever you are situated across the world. We just want to say thank you for downloading these streams. We want to say thank you for watching this live stream. Yes, we get the buffeting here and there. You know we get things happen, but this is just raw. This is just straight out of the barrel of truth. It is not edited, it is not shaped, it is not changed in any way, shape or fashion, but god is with you wherever you are across the world. The power of the holy spirit is in your life and everything has been revealed. I pray that god will bless you, that the holy spirit will enrich your life, that you will see the hand of God like never before, that the glory of God will strengthen you, that the word will encourage you, that you will realize that you are redeemed and you are loved beyond human understanding. We're out of here. May God bless you and strengthen you. We'll see you Wednesday morning for coffee and prayer. May God touch your heart tonight. God bless, take care, we'll see you later.
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