Good morning everyone, from Hawaii, to the points of the world, we wish to welcome you. We are following the great commission. (Matt. 28:19-20) and the last words from Jesus as we should Go, in (Mark 16:15).It is an amazing concept about an internet church you can reach far more people, and so many different homes or apartments, and you can reach people in distant lands, there is even a ministry that is deep in the jungle that can here the message of the bread of life. There are many others through India which have a computer and print out the message and then take it to somewhere that is far and remote, to small villages, camps, and hidden dwellings where people want to here about Christ. We welcome you all, praise God, praise Jesus, and Praise the Holy Spirit.
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matt. 28:19-20 NASB
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Mark 16:15 NIV
Father in Heaven, Please be with us, please help me preach today Lord, I am very week and I am battleling for my health and my life. We know that you are in control. And we understand sometimes we have to go through mis-fortunes or trials and tests, but we know that all these things we go through is for a reason, a teaching, a purification process, to be more like Christ, to be set apart and sanctified. We love you; we are here to worship you in spirit and in truth, from the heart, from our deep inner souls. We know that we must remove the flesh of sin, we want to be close to you, closer than ever before, we are mere men and women, please hear us Father, we don’t want to be lukewarm we want to be on fire for you. Please forgive us of our sins and please help us get through all these storms, all in all, with our prayers, our hopes and dreams. Please bring us your joy O’Lord. Please send your Holy Spirit to anoint everyone of us who can hear or read this message. We love you Jesus, we can’t explain it, or put it into words, but you know each and everyone of us, deep within our hearts. This church, and all of us, prays in Jesus name, Amen
Please open your bibles to the book of Galatians Chapter 2, verse 20
"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal 2:20 NASB
There is nothing more important than Christ. God is now taking us to different levels, there are a certain group or let us say the elect, that are going through strange things, it is a major battle. Some of you know who you are, where everything seems to be going wrong, but then again things are working out for good. God is at work within us, tearing down every bit of self or pride, stripping us of everything that is of the flesh and it hurts.
To put it another way we are being uncovered of everything that relates to sin in this world. So that only God sees Christ in us. Let us put it another way if we are dead in Christ, Adams sin cannot be apart of us. In Gal. 2:20 Paul is saying he is dead, in Christ, we might be going through hardships and sufferings and all different strange things are happening to us. And we cannot find the reason for it. We find ourselves pleading to God to just have a piece of joy, but we are being thrown into the fire everyday, so in 1Cor. 15:31 we are dieing daily, but we are getting molded and painted and chipped away and God is doing a great work in us.
I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 1Cor. 15:31 NASB
When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. Yes, people sinned even before the law was given. And though there was no law to break, since it had not yet been given, they all died anyway--even though they did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did. What a contrast between Adam and Christ, who was yet to come! And what a difference between our sin and God's generous gift of forgiveness. For this one man, Adam, brought death to many through his sin. But this other man, Jesus Christ, brought forgiveness to many through God's bountiful gift. And the result of God's gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man's sin. For Adam's sin led to condemnation, but we have the free gift of being accepted by God, even though we are guilty of many sins. The sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over us, but all who receive God's wonderful, gracious gift of righteousness will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ. Yes, Adam's one sin brought condemnation upon everyone, but Christ's one act of righteousness makes all people right in God's sight and gives them life. Because one person disobeyed God, many people became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many people will be made right in God's sight.
God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful kindness became more abundant. So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God's wonderful kindness rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Rom. 5:12-21NLT
The thing is we are suffering and we are also learning the suffering of Christ, and each day it does hurt, each day we look to the Lord and pray, but we still must have the confidence in Him. Trust in Him; do not worry about the little things, or maybe some big things, God wants to make us pure. We have to look at the later time when the plans for each and everyone of us come to the truth. So don’t feel strange if this is happening to you. It is happening to a lot of Christians that truly love God and our Lord Jesus, and we are seeking to love others and help others which is our joy, and day after day we still are being thrown into the fire, being tinted and dyed and then we are getting thrown back into the fire again. It is all a cleansing process a sanctification to make us be far from the sins of the world.
Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, (6)"knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;"
for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Rom. 6:3-13 NASB
So here we are the old man that used to be in us in the flesh is crucified (Rom. 6:6) but we are still alive in Him. We are still pleading to God why must this happen, or why does this hurt, or why am I feeling like this? And we are pleading to God help us, talk to us, but deep down he is working on us, he is making a new person out of each and every one of us. Remember we are already dead in Christ, and we are shedding all sin away, and each day we see things in a different light. So each person is going through these strange events for a reason, so all our sins are washed away, and then we stand and God just sees Christ, the purity of the Spirit that is in us. Every person might be going through a different hardship in any different area, it could be a family member, it could be any kind of burden, or any type of particular troubles that are going on within your life, and then the evil one will attack that point that you are going through so you might be getting hit from both angles just like the book of Job.
For in Christ the fullness of God lives in a human body, and you are complete through your union with Christ. He is the Lord over every ruler and authority in the universe.
When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. It was a spiritual procedure--the cutting away of your sinful nature. For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to a new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead.
You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins. He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross. In this way, God disarmed the evil rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross of Christ. Col 2:9-15 NLT
What do we say, we trust in You God, we believe in You, we have the faith in You, and we thank-You and praise You, soon there will be nothing left of this world in us, we are dead, only our spirit lives, these fleshly bodies of sin are gone. Then the ultimate grace upon grace of God will come upon us. This way there would not be any fleshly sin to hinder us from true worship to our God. We will soon have a direct and perfect connection to God and Christ, remember we are nothing, we can’t do anything, all our strength, thoughts, and power comes from Him. Spirit to spirit.
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." John 4:24 NASB
For we who worship God in the Spirit are the only ones who are truly circumcised. We put no confidence in human effort. Instead, we boast about what Christ Jesus has done for us. Phil. 3:3 NLT
"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
"He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me. Matt. 10:37-40 NIV
So we have this fleshly body, but we are not living upon it. We walk, see, and hear, through it, but slowly we will become more spirit then flesh. So our fleshly body is wasting away, and then through the spirit and our connection with our Lord we will become a purity of faith. So we rest on Christ’s faith, He will guide us and lead us through whatever obstacles or trials, or anything within our daily lives, are in control of Him and come from Him, and through Him.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matt. 11:28-30 NIV
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. John 7:37 NASB
Sometimes we feel like running away from it all, or the evil one puts visions of sin for us to escape the plan of God. And you sit and wonder why all this is happening. If we live by faith, we should stick to it, and draw on Christ’s’ faith. Everything we do should be guided by Him, and through Him, we just can’t go out to the local bar and drink our lives away, we have to remain strong in Christ, and we should never listen to those demonic voices that are being pounded into our minds, to destroy our eternal life, and our relationship, and the plan of our lives already mapped out by God. Remember we were bought with a price, the blood of Jesus Christ!
For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. 1Cor. 6:20
Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits at God's right hand in the place of honor and power. Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth. For you died when Christ died, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your real life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory. Col 3:1-4 NLT
It is a trustworthy statement:
For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him;
If we endure, we will also reign with Him;
If we deny Him, He also will deny us;
If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. 2Tim 2:11-13 NASB
I guess some of us think we are Christians but we go about our everyday concerns, our work the extra job, taking care of the family, and some get caught up in the world with possessions and accomplishments but we are here to glorify God not ourselves, yes we have to bring up our children in the proper way and we have to put food on the table, but some of us just forget, that God and Christ are even there, watching and waiting for us to thank them, or pray to them, or even speak to them. I know they are hurt and they wonder about the whole world not even thanking them for creating them, and their home, and what they eat and drink, and everything they have and do. Some, no matter what they do, they say they don’t have the time, or they are too much in a hurry, or too busy with the world, maybe some never talk to our most loving God. It is a shame to hurt a God who became a man, and grew up with us, to know and understand us, and went through so much torment and pain himself, to take upon the sins of the world, and some do not even believe in Him! I know, I got caught up in the world myself a time ago, and I am a sinner, but I love God and how can I ever be able to repay what Jesus Christ has done for me. How can I show my love, I try to do it by loving others, praying for others, forgiving others, and in this way as Jesus said you will be doing it for Me.
"The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' Matt. 25:40 NASB
One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD,
And He will repay him for his good deed. Prov. 19:17 NASB
"And whoever in the name of a disciple gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water to drink, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his reward." Matt. 10:42 NASB
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. Heb. 6:10 NASB
Basically not to get off the subject we have to die with Him, in order to reign and live with Him. We have to go through some longsuffering to be crucified with Christ to even begin to understand what Paul is trying to explain. Then again we might think we are, and in the faith, but we could be deceived. Once we experience the pain, the continuous pain, of the stripping of our sin of the flesh, this way when it happens to others down the road, we have already been through it, and lived it. So as we suffer we are getting trained for what lies ahead, we may have to minister to them, to explain it all to them, what we may be going through now, people will be going through this same process later in this age, and it could be right around the corner.
What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Phil 3:8-11 NIV
Dear Heavenly Father, thank-you for another day of life, in which we can see the water and the stars, and the beauty around us, I know that complete trust in You is the main piece of writing, to have that purity of faith in You no matter what we go through, to have that bond of righteousness, of togetherness, love, peace, and that connection of communication. We all thank-you and we all Praise your name for your glory, and dominion. We Praise the name of Jesus Christ, who is all, and in all. We praise the Holy Spirit for just helping and guiding us with these words. Father I pray for all the people who are suffering right now, I pray that some light will shine upon them in true peace harmony and tranquility. I pray that we all continue to grow more like Jesus, and to loose the elements of sin. I pray for purity, safety and joy for us all. In Jesus Name, Amen and Amen.
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. Rom.11:36 NASB
Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Eph. 4:21-24 NIV
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.”Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them." John 17:20-26 NIV