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[0:00] Hallelujah! Thank you for tuning in to this powerful message by David Entry at Karis Phase 2, our Christ-centered youth services. You can never find Christ outside of the open Word of God.
[0:14] May Jesus Christ reveal Himself to you as you listen. Amen! Praise God! Are you ready for God's Word? Are you sure you are really, really, really, really, really, really?
[0:26] Amen! How hungry are you for God's Word? Hallelujah! Amen! Please be seated. Thank you, Jesus.
[0:43] Ephesians chapter 3, verse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you, Gentiles, if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me towards you, or to you, what?
[1:00] How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote afore in few words. Well, last week was so good.
[1:13] Oh, yes! And this week is going to be better. Amen! Some of the things I am teaching you now, if I knew it when I was at your age and level, I believe I might be operating in deeper levels.
[1:34] Wow! Two things. The things I am teaching you, I did not know when I was in my early 20s and mid-20s.
[1:52] I didn't know. There are some things I will mention which I knew. I used to study the Scripture. I still do, but those days, nothing. I will bury my head in my... I can read the Bible for eight hours.
[2:05] Just study. And sometimes only one verse. For eight hours I am studying. Study one verse. I know you will be thinking, how do you? Why? Because every word is connected to other words, and you begin to, wow!
[2:19] I say, wow! So you go there and dig into it, and then come back. Oh, yeah! Then you go and understand better and come back. This morning I said something in my teaching, which I have never said, but it's very, it's a very good point.
[2:35] I said that good preaching is to reveal Christ. And the way, this is how good preaching works.
[2:47] Good Christian preaching is like a top good lawyer in court arguing a case and doing it so cogently, so perfectly that the jury won't have any choice but to come back, come to one conclusion.
[3:15] You come to a conclusion based on the facts that were submitted to you. No, it can, the conclusion is, it speaks for itself. Do you understand what I mean?
[3:25] Yeah. The conclusion will speak for itself. The conclusion will speak for itself.
[3:36] So, when, after hearing a good preaching, what a good preaching is supposed to do is to force you to come to a conclusion that will not be otherwise.
[3:53] What do I mean? Based on the presentation of the truths in God's word. So, for instance, if I tell you he owes me 350 pounds, it's unsubstantiated.
[4:13] But if I tell you that you were here when this guy gave me 1,000 pounds, and you remember two weeks ago when I was preaching, I gave him 500.
[4:29] They said, oh yeah, the 500. And then, you thought he had given it back to me, but he gave it to this one. And then this one gave it, gave 350 to her.
[4:42] Now, make sure he paid it back to pastor. But you didn't know all of those facts. And later on, I said, I asked, how much did I give you? This one said, we gave it, and everything shows that, actually, the evidence showed that he was giving 350 back to be given to me.
[4:58] Even though not all the 500, 350 back. And we asked him, he said, I've been meaning to give it to you since last three weeks. So that means he hasn't given it to me. And I, we asked him, so when will you give?
[5:10] He said, I'll give it to him next week. That means he actually owes the 350 So, you cannot have any option but to come to a conclusion, even based on his own witness, that he owes 350.
[5:23] A good preaching is supposed to open the text for you to see A plus B plus C plus D plus, you can tell. Ah, so really, that's what he means.
[5:34] Just like last week, I tried to show you, it's quite obvious that he says that if you are aware, or if you have, I, the prisoner, I spoke about prisoner, not for, of, and you look at all the texts and other references, it shows that he's actually a prisoner of, but when you look at English grammar, there's a difference between being a prisoner for and prisoner of, and it looks like he should have been a prisoner for, but when you look, he's intentional and says, I'm a prisoner of, you know, so it doesn't, it forces you to draw a conclusion that Paul saw himself as a slave of Christ, so whatever situation he was in, he wasn't complaining because he knows that this thing, it's, you can imprison me, but I see myself doing it for Christ, and I am, so I am a prisoner of Christ, and I also help you to understand that he says that if you are read of the dispensation of the grace of God, now when you read it as a lay person, for instance, in the King James, the authorized version is also the King James version, okay, so he says in the authorized version is the King James version, if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which is given to me, you would,
[6:55] I'm telling you, if they don't explain this to you, you'll be wondering, what's the meaning of that? What's the, like this morning I was teaching and I spoke about 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, I wanted to go to chapter 1, but we went to chapter 2 and read it anyway, and I told them I was telling it, verse 7, 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 7, for the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, only he who restrains will do so until he's taken out of the way, what is the meaning of this?
[7:30] The next verse, and when the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming, even if I'm not explaining everything, you know that it says destroy with the brightness of his coming, that tells you two things, he's definitely coming, and the other thing it tells you about his coming is what?
[7:53] He's coming with brightness, the coming will be very bright, so that's how you run into conclusion, and other texts saying the same thing, so a good preaching is supposed to point you from other texts and draw a conclusion that this is what the scripture actually says, and then when you come to that conclusion, or you don't have a choice, but actually you are forced to notice what he's saying and end up concluding that this is what he's actually saying, not because someone is forcing you to interpret it like that, but someone is helping you to see what he's saying, and once you see what he's saying, you have no choice but to conclude that actually this is the fact.
[8:36] Now, having said that, it says that if you have seen, if you are, verse 2 of chapter 3, if you have heard of the dispensation, let's go to the New King James, please, that if, if indeed you have heard of the dispensation, and I took my time to explain the dispensation, dispensation of what?
[8:56] Of grace, and it's like that grace, God wants to allocate grace to different people, and he gives that allocation of the grace, the dispensation, the allotment of the grace, he gives it to somebody to do that, carry out the distribution.
[9:15] So, every dealer, has a distributor. Yeah. Distributor. There are some things when you are going to buy it, you cannot buy from third parties.
[9:29] You have to buy it, in fact, if you buy it from a different and authorized dealer, your warranty is not valid.
[9:42] It's made void, or you don't actually have a warranty. depending on where you buy it. So, your second-hand car, if you buy it from, let's say it's BMW, if you buy it from an authorized BMW dealer, it comes with at least one-year warranty, or some will give six months, depending on what kind of.
[10:05] you buy it from eBay. So, if you buy it from eBay, you can go to BMW or Mercedes and they'll fix it for you at no cost. like, if you are rolling a glass and the glass gets stuck, I don't know if you have experienced that before, but sometimes the glasses can get stuck.
[10:25] You can go back to them and they'll fix it for you at no cost. But if you buy it from eBay, Gumtree, yes, we sell any car.
[10:45] You are not covered. In the same way, God is a manufacturer of what? Of what?
[10:56] Of what? Praise. You got it. You guys are so deep. God is a manufacturer of Praise. But he doesn't do the distribution himself. So, for him to pass grace to death.
[11:12] And, you know what? One day, you will get there. And I pray that one day I will also get there. But we all get there. Most of the time, when you are buying, when you are ordering a car, you know you can order a car?
[11:26] Yeah. You can order a car from, let's say, Nissan or Toyota or Lexus. you order a car. When you are ordering a car, you want blue seats.
[11:39] You want leather seats, but you don't want maybe normal fabric. You want a certain type of leather. And you want the engine to be turbo engine.
[11:51] At the same time, you want the ties to be alloy, but not 17 inch. you want 25 inch alloy. It's an inch.
[12:02] Some people don't understand. So, I don't know what he means. You want 25 inch alloy wheels. And you want the color of the car to be turquoise blue with a mixture of gold.
[12:17] blue. Blueish, turquoise with a mixture of gold. Yeah. Now, that's what you order. They can do that and they have that in their range.
[12:32] Sometimes, they will tell you six months time. So, they put your order through. Okay, I think even car is too far. This one will come close to Nando's.
[12:49] When you place an order, when you go to Nando's, when you say, I want well done whatever, corn on cob. Is it corn on cob or something?
[13:00] Yeah. corn on cob and extra spicy livers. Now, why don't they collect, that's all leaves, they will give you there.
[13:14] Because the drinks, they will give it to you. But the rest, you have to go and sit down and wait. Why? Because your order is being processed. What am I trying to say?
[13:24] Whilst they are processing their order, do you know who is on their mind? Huh? Who? Who is customer? Which customer? When we go and you order extra hot chicken, and I order chicken with peri-peri, is it peri-peri?
[13:42] Lemon gonna help or something? Okay, whatever. I order livers. And they start processing the livers. Who are they thinking about? You? But you know your customer.
[13:54] But are they thinking about you? No, who are they thinking about? Me. The one who ordered it. So, when you go to the kitchen, like Wagamama, they are busy cooking so many things.
[14:06] I'm mentioning too many leaves. Yeah, you're a bit hungry now. When you go to the kitchen, they are preparing different, different, especially when it's a very busy restaurant on Mother's Day, or Father's Day, or Valentine's Day, or some kind of funny day.
[14:24] The kitchen, sometimes they tell you it will delay a bit because the kitchen is very busy. but everything the chef is doing has somebody in mind. And then, when they finish, they ring the bell, they press the bell, and then the waitresses come and pick it, and they know exactly where the order is going.
[14:43] That's the job of a steward. So, the chef prepares their food, and the steward comes to pick their food, but when the steward is going, somebody is on the mind of the steward. Or a table number eight is on the mind of the steward.
[14:56] That's the same way it works when it comes to preaching. When I come and I'm preaching, the grace was packaged from above, but it is given to me for you.
[15:14] For table number eight, row number six. So, as I am delivering, God knows exactly who is meant, and you know what?
[15:27] I spoke about Nando's and the ordering of the car. We might all be customers, but not all of us get the same thing. We don't get the same thing. Everything, so, and so, at whatever level you are, there is a certain level, dimension of grace that must get to you.
[15:46] I will not even know, but the honor of the grace knows it, and the only way he can get it to you is through a dispenser. So, when a dispenser, like a teacher, that's what it means, a teacher of God's word, is a grace dispenser.
[16:01] As I stand here and minister, I am actually not preaching as it is preaching, but real thing behind the preaching is administering. I'm dispensing and not, I'm not speaking words, but I am dispensing grace.
[16:18] So, he puts it this way, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. Acts chapter 20, verse 35, verse 32, sorry, the word carries grace.
[16:32] The word is the container of grace. So, as I teach the word, I'm actually exposing you to grace. May you catch greater grace. Wow, what grounds are you saying this?
[16:47] That's what the text says. So, you see, a good teaching will let you understand what the text is saying, and you come to a conclusion in agreement with what the text is saying. Not this one.
[16:58] In Ephesians chapter 3, it says that, if indeed ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God. that many times I read that phrase, it really does something to my inner mind.
[17:12] The dispensation of the grace of God, the distribution of the grace of God, the administration of the grace of God, the allocation of the grace of God, it has been given to me for you.
[17:28] That's so beautiful. May you catch your patience. He said, verse 3, how that, this is how God made the dispensation of God chose me for the dispensation of God.
[17:47] How that, by revelation, he made known to me, not by academic exercise, not by an intellectual exercise, but it's by revelation.
[18:03] revelation. That's why I'm telling you, some of the things I teach, if I had known it years ago, how come I didn't know it? Because the revelation was not given to me.
[18:17] I didn't have the revelation. And as you grow, you begin to understand better and more gets revealed to you based on your previous revelation.
[18:27] revelation. God revealed something to you in the past and it bails on it the next time he's talking to you. The next time he shows you things. And I'm not talking about revelation of you saw angels flying.
[18:41] Please, I don't know what word to use. But you don't need it. What will he do for you? What will he do for you? Apart from potentially making you arrogant and proud.
[18:55] Paul said I was taken to heaven. 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1 and 2. I was taken to heaven and I saw things that I can't talk about.
[19:08] He said I saw things that I cannot utter. He says that he want me to boast. I'll boast about vision. Let's come to vision and revelation just so you know who I am.
[19:20] That's what Paul is saying. He says that I know a man. He said he didn't want to even say it's me. He said I know a man. Let's go to the next verse. I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago whether in the physical body I do not know or whether out of the body I do not know.
[19:40] God knows. Such a one was caught up to the third heavens. God God knows. God knows. God knows. God knows. He was caught up into the third heavens.
[19:52] Look at the next verse. And I know such a man. Who is this man, this guy you're trying to? Whether in the body or out of the body I do not know. God knows.
[20:03] Look at the next verse. How he was caught up into paradise and had inexpressible ways which is not lawful for a man to talk about.
[20:17] Now which other man is he talking about now? He said I know somebody. He said let me come to visions and revelations. He's talking about himself. But the depth of it he said okay let me talk as though it's somebody else.
[20:33] He said he was caught to the third heavens and saw things. He saw he was taken to paradise. And 14 years ago he saw things which are not lawful to be uttered by a man.
[20:48] Wow. This verse 4. How he was caught up into paradise and had. There are words that you can't express. Oh yeah. How can you talk about it?
[21:00] It's inexpressible. And it's not just inexpressible. It's not even lawful for a man to utter. He said I saw these things. Wow. There's so much we don't know.
[21:11] But don't ever develop an appetite for this kind of things. Satan will talk to you. Satan will try to groom you, to groom you, to groom you to the place where you begin to develop an appetite for things that no one can know.
[21:30] That's Satan's job. So look at verse 5. of such a one I will boast. Is he not talking about himself?
[21:42] When you read chapter 11 he was talking about you have forced me to boast. I didn't want to boast. You made me made a fool of myself by boasting. You have forced me to boast. So he's talking about him.
[21:53] He was the same person who was boasting. So in chapter 11 he spoke about how I didn't want to boast.
[22:03] but consider me a fool and accept my boasting. That's what he said. Yeah. I don't want to boast but again I say let no one think of me as a fool.
[22:15] If otherwise at least receive me as a fool that I also may boast a little. So if some people are boasting in some things, I have more to boast but I have been quiet and they are talking big online saying all kinds of things.
[22:30] So let me also start talking. Then he started talking about in the verse 20, somewhere in the verse 20, I keep going back and back but it's okay. He says that for you put up with it.
[22:43] If one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exhausts himself, if one strikes you on the face, you are able to accommodate all kinds of things.
[22:56] But we don't even do that to you. The next verse. to our shame, I said that we are too weak for that. We don't do that to you. People come and they treat you anyway and they make themselves so powerful and you like that.
[23:14] He said we don't do this, we don't do that. But if whatever anyone is bold, I speak here as a fool. I didn't want to say that.
[23:24] I, the real thing is I am bold also. Whatever they think gives them an upper hand, me, Paul, we are also bold in that.
[23:36] We are also bold in that. But we've never been talking about it. So it's like they are talking about, for example, they are talking about they have access to prime ministers and presidents.
[23:48] In fact, recently they had dinner with the Kenyan president. Paul said, listen, I've been meeting the American president. If I don't go, he comes to my house.
[23:59] So Paul is saying that the things they are boasting about, to make you think they are better than us, we can boast more. If they boast, that's why I say boasting is foolishness.
[24:12] But I say, let me speak like a fool. I can also boast. Now look at the next verse. It's even getting interesting. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I.
[24:23] Are they seed of Abraham? So am I. What is it that makes them better? Then he said, let's take it further. Are they ministers of Christ? They said, I speak, I said, I am more.
[24:36] I am more. Then he began mentioning the things that make him more a minister than them. You want to be a greater minister? It's not your suit. It's not your rhetoric.
[24:47] It's not your preaching that makes you a better minister. It's these things. I am more. In labor, more abundantly. In strife, above measure. In prisons, more frequently.
[24:57] In deaths, often. He said, in deaths. I die often. What does that mean? How many times can you die? Once. But he said, me, I die often. Before you come and boast, I'm a powerful preacher.
[25:12] Please, let me tell you what makes me better than you as a preacher. Look at the next verse. Oh, I'll move on to something else. From the Jews, five times I received 40 stripes minus one.
[25:24] What's that? I have 39 stripes. Yeah. Yes. 39 stripes. He said, I received because Jesus had 40.
[25:36] He said, I've received 39 stripes. Jesus received once. I've received it five times. And there's more to come. Go on. Go on. Three times I was beaten with rods.
[25:48] Once I was stoned. Three times I was sheep red. And night and a day I have been in deep. That means in the oceans. Let's go more.
[25:59] Let's go. In journey, in traveling, I travel in journeys oft. In perils of water. In perils of robbers. Perils means danger.
[26:11] I've been in danger of water. I could have drowned. Been in danger in places where there are robbers. In perils of my own countrymen. People who hated me. They hate me so much.
[26:22] My life is at stake. I'm in danger with them. In perils of my own countrymen. In perils of the Gentiles. Gentiles are looking for me, wanted to kill me.
[26:34] My countrymen, what? Listen. In perils of the, in perils in the city. In perils in the wilderness. In perils in the sea. In perils among false brethren.
[26:46] They behave like they are Christians, but they are lying. Yes. In perils. False brethren who sleep when you are preaching. That word is just a joke.
[26:59] It doesn't look false. Next verse. In weariness and toil. In sleeplessness, often. In hunger and thirst. In fastings, often.
[27:11] In cold and nakedness. Besides, besides the other things. What comes upon me daily? My deep concern for all the churches.
[27:21] That is even bigger problem. You want to be a great minister of God, but you don't care about the state of your department. You don't care. When you are absent, it's not a problem for you. You are wearing tie with typing, thinking that's what makes you.
[27:34] Please. That doesn't show how proper minister you are. Quarry Hezar, you be absent. And when you come, you have attitude. You are not serious.
[27:46] So what makes somebody a better minister, this, this, is not their suit. It's not their online following. People don't know that what you have been doing consistently tells a lot about your character.
[28:06] Consistency is a reflection of character. Inconsistency is one of the earliest, clearest, early signs of a major character flaw. inconsistency.
[28:22] Same thing. When you see someone doing the same thing for a long time, tell something about the person. Praise God. Praise God. Well, so Paul said, you want to know my credentials?
[28:36] And he says, when you come, above all these things I've been through. So what I've been through is so serious. But I said, what is even bigger than that to me is the concern for the churches daily.
[28:50] Deep concern for all the churches even comes upon me daily. I'm always thinking about what the state of the church, what I can do for the churches, how. It's the biggest concern.
[29:00] that's what shows who a pure grace career can be. You should be concerned if you are not concerned about the church.
[29:11] If you are not concerned about church, how you can be a blessing to church is concerning.
[29:26] Then he goes on. Look at verse 29. Who is weak? And I'm not weak. Who is made to stumble? And I do not burn with indignation. If I must boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
[29:45] In other words, my weaknesses. These things don't make me even look better than you, but these things I go to, what are weak in me and make me look weak. They are boasting about big things. I'm boasting about things that make me look weak.
[29:58] These are the things I'm boasting. So who is doing the boasting? Paul. Look at the next verse. It says that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
[30:10] Some of you when you do something, you know God knows you are lying. They said God knows I am not lying. Yeah. Then look at the next verse.
[30:20] Then we move into the next verse, verse 32. In Damascus, the governor, sorry, the governor under Aritas, the king, was guarding the city of the Damascus with a garrison, desiring to arrest me.
[30:36] They were guarding the city because of me. The next verse. But I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands.
[30:52] These are his credentials. Look at the next verse. Now he says, it is doubtless not profitable. It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to Vichy.
[31:04] Now he didn't stop. He said, I'm not coming to Vichy. These are the things that I'm now coming to visions and revelations. Then he says, I know a man. If I should boast, it's such a man I'll boast about.
[31:16] Look at verse 5. I'm just drawing the conclusion to see that he's talking about himself. That man who was caught into the dead heavens, that's what took me back to the previous text to read it down for you to realize that he was talking about himself.
[31:30] in the light of these others who are boasting and making him look small before the congregation to intimidate the congregation. He said, of such a one I will boast, yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities.
[31:45] So if I will boast, I'll boast about what makes me look weak, but not what makes me look better than others. But I said, I've made a fool of myself. You forced me to boast. Now look at it.
[31:56] I'm going somewhere. Look at the six. For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should, oh, this is why he didn't want to boast.
[32:10] He didn't boast about the things that make him better. So anyone would think of me above what he sees me to be, or hears from me. He didn't want to boast, but he was forced to boast.
[32:22] Now look at the next verse. That's scary. He says, lest I should be exalted above measure. He had encounters and revelations that made him so bigger than anybody.
[32:33] But he said, lest I should be exalted above measure. Why? By the abundance of revelations. You are looking for revelations. He got so many revelations that revelation has a way of making you puffed up.
[32:47] You know, when people think they know something nobody knows, it makes them, yeah. Did you see that? It's clear. I've got so much revelation. It has the propensity to make me so proud above measure.
[33:00] Because of that, a tongue was given to me in my flesh. To buffet me. He said, a messenger of Satan. To buffet me, lest I be exalted.
[33:10] Sometimes, some of us, our problems will just help you to humble yourself. Some of the problems God doesn't mind. Because to help you to humble yourself. Some of you, had it not been for some problems, you will never show up in church.
[33:25] Never pro. When the doctors told you, hey! This look like... The doctors scare you. You came to church. You see, you have not... You went back to join the choir.
[33:36] Went back to... Because the doctors are saying something that is very scary. So you need the help of God. So, if you are looking for revelations, get ready.
[33:47] Some revelations come with tone in your flesh. Wow. To buffet you, lest you be exalted above measure.
[33:58] Oh, yeah, above measure. And then when to God he prayed, I got... He prayed three times, God, remove this thing from me. God said, don't worry. I'll keep you there, but I'll give you grace. Oh, yes.
[34:11] I'll give you grace. He said, my grace is sufficient for you. I will give you grace to be able to handle this. My grace is sufficient for you, and my strength is made perfect. Yeah. He said, for this, I besought the Lord three times.
[34:25] I besought. That means I'm praying. God, please, please. It's not every prayer God will answer. It's not every prayer God will answer. Some of it is just to help you keep your head low.
[34:37] Some of the challenges is to help you to humble yourself. It will not destroy you because God will, once you walk with God, he will give you grace so much that that thing that destroys others, even though it's around you, it will not destroy you but it will keep you humble.
[34:52] Praise God. So, pure, true revelation, now coming back to revelation, he said, it was given to me by revelation. Now, not that kind of revelation.
[35:05] Things you have seen that are not here. It's not the revelation I'm talking about. Anything you see that is not here is very dangerous. It's like Satan is showing it to you.
[35:17] Because Paul had to see those things because of the assignment that God gave him to complete the word of God. But the word of God is completed. Why will he keep coming to you? It's like a woman, a young lady saying, I'm pregnant.
[35:30] But by the angel of God came to me. Because I'm going to give birth to the Messiah. Which other Messiah? We don't need any other Messiah.
[35:45] Unless you go to Amazon. We don't need any Messiah. So, you can't say, because Mary had a pregnancy without involvement of a natural human being.
[35:58] Me too, it has happened to me. Because it can happen. You never know with God all things are possible. What God cannot do does not exist. Who told you? Who told you? Who told you that what God cannot do does not exist?
[36:13] People say, God, who cannot lie? How can God lie? God cannot make you. God cannot command and turn you into a judge right now. Suddenly, you're going way white.
[36:25] You're a judge. You have not been screwed to trade. You've not been. No. Even if you finish law school, you have to go and go and do. That's not the end. Listen to them. How can you?
[36:39] You have not. Have you written your GCSE? Not yet. And then suddenly God has made you a medical consultant. Today.
[36:49] From today. After the service, pastor has anointed me. So, I've become a medical consultant. There are a lot of things God cannot do. And will not do.
[37:02] So, don't think God, because he's done, ever done it in the Bible, he's going to repeat it in your life. There are some things that are, like creation.
[37:13] It's not a repeatable event. Like the coming of Jesus, the first coming, being born as a man. He's not, repeat, why? He cannot be born again as a man.
[37:24] He's already been born as a man. And he's man. So, he cannot become and then be born again. Can you be born second time from your mother's womb? It's too late.
[37:36] Can you go back to your mother's womb? Mom, let's try it again. And then you come and tell him, you know, don't underestimate God.
[37:49] God, all things are possible. You cannot become a baby again. God cannot make your baby again, so it's not possible. He cannot do a lot of other things. There are so many things the Bible says clearly that God cannot do.
[38:02] It's impossible for God to do. In fact, one of them, he said, in which it's impossible for God to lie. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. So, from the text, Ephesians, that this was given to me by revelation.
[38:20] How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery. Say the mystery. The mystery. Ah. Ah. Say the mystery. Ah. Mystery. There are some things when I hear from Scripture, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's stairs.
[38:36] Oh, let me put it this way. The baby in my womb lives for joy. Oh. When I heard mystery, it's, oh, what's a mystery? The Greek word is mysterion.
[38:47] Hey. What's a mystery? What's a mystery? Let's see what Amplified will say. By divine revelation, the mystery, okay, so he doesn't give other options for mystery.
[39:06] What's made known to me? Mystery. Mystery. Somebody say mystery. Mystery. Say mystery. Mystery. In Ephesians chapter one, verse nine. Oh, no, no, go back.
[39:17] What did you put on the screen? And that, yeah, the mystery, the secret. That's Amplified, yeah. The secret was made known unto me. Mystery is something that people don't know about.
[39:29] It's not just a secret. Mystery in this sense is something that the human mind doesn't have a big idea about.
[39:40] For example, how far the skies end is a mystery. No science can tell you how far the sky, or the farthest star, the farthest star.
[39:53] No science can tell you. Because you can, even up to now, science has not finished discovering the number of creatures in the sea. There are a lot of other creatures here.
[40:05] I believe it's possible that there are more creatures that are not seen, are not known of, than what we know about. When the coronavirus hit, it was like a mystery. What is this?
[40:18] So a mystery is something that the natural mind has not comprehended yet, has not been able to come to terms with yet. It's a mystery. It's a mystery. It's a mystery.
[40:32] When you marry, you realize that a wife is a mystery. A husband is a mystery. Most wives don't understand their husbands.
[40:45] Like, they understand them to live with them and have peace. But really, even some of you, you don't understand yourself. Oh, yeah. You don't understand yourself.
[40:56] You don't know why you are so lazy. You just have to understand it. It's a mystery.
[41:07] It's a mystery. How many of you know one or two mysteries about your life? It's a mystery. It's a mystery. You've done everything possible, but you just don't understand mathematics.
[41:21] It's a mystery. It's a mystery. Life is, has pockets of mystery. You can't just get your hand around it and you cannot bring it to grips.
[41:33] You can't bring it under control. You know that you have mastered this thing. It's a mystery. And Paul said, how by revelation he made known to me the mystery?
[41:46] He made it known. Others don't know it, but he got me to know it. And how did you, by revelation, because you can't just teach those things. Yeah. So what I'm teaching, now because it has been made known, I can teach it and that once it's taught, it's no more mystery to you too.
[42:06] But in other ages, it was completely sealed. Even the prophets didn't know about it. Ephesians 1.9. Having made known to us the mystery of his will.
[42:22] Is it the will of God? Is it the will of God? Bible says, he made known to us the mystery of his will. Wow. According to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself. He wanted to do it.
[42:33] He was happy to do it. He planned in himself that he wanted to make known to us the mystery of his will. Wow.
[42:46] Colossians 1.26. It's going to get hotter there. It's going to go ha. Oh yeah. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. I think it will be better we go back.
[43:00] Let's start from verse 24. Oh no. It's going to take too much of my time because sometimes when I read I just can't just go. But we've come here already so.
[43:11] Well. And now I rejoice in my sufferings for you. You see what makes me a better minister. You don't want to suffer for anybody and yet you want to have puppets big puppets.
[43:25] Big language big words and big manifest and please please. Is that you must have a heart to suffer for the church. Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Jesus.
[43:43] So my body there are things that are lacking in the affliction. It said I fill it up in my flesh. Hey. That's the worst one. And little stress you get in church you are throwing tantrums.
[43:56] I'm not going again. I don't like the way the ashes were talking to me. I don't like the seed they gave me. I don't like that seed. I don't like that. I don't like sitting on church like that because the church praise God.
[44:13] For the sake of the body which is his church what is the body of Christ? What is the body of Christ? The next verse is going to get interesting. The church of which I became you see I told you the quality of a minister because he was willing to suffer for the church.
[44:31] you want to become a pastor but you don't intend to you don't have plans you don't like suffering. Set up you won't go. You come and you want everybody to do everything for you to come and sit down and enjoy.
[44:44] You come to church like you have come to theater. You come to a theater to come and watch performance. You come to church like you're going to a cinema and you are even asking for popcorn.
[44:58] To have a wonderful experience. Ah, I'm enjoying it. It has a way of raising lazy Christians. This enjoyment is about me. I enjoyed the service.
[45:09] I enjoyed it. I'm not saying we shouldn't enjoy service but when we start enjoying service we have to think about what can I do for others to enjoy it. It says of which I became a minister according you see that word that's appeared here again.
[45:25] You see that stewardship according to the according to the dispensation of God. So to me it's stewardship to God it's his plan of dispensing himself.
[45:37] But when it comes to me I've been entrusted with something. Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me. You see that thing has appeared here again.
[45:48] It was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God. Now that to fulfill the original Greek it also translates to complete. So Paul's ministry he was given this assignment to be able to say and teach something.
[46:04] That's why he had all those wild revelation so that the word of God can be completed and closed. Sealed. No one can come and add anything. Me too God has shown me it's too late. It's closed.
[46:16] It's too late. It's his thing who showed you because God has stopped showing anybody some deep strange revelation that no one has seen yet. So now watch this.
[46:27] That's not my point. He said go back. Of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you to fulfill the word of God.
[46:38] Now let's move on. The word of God. The mystery which was this mystery we're talking about is brought mystery again. The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations but now revealed to his saints.
[46:54] So there was a mystery that has been hidden from ages. That explains why the Jews killed Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
[47:04] Christians John That explains why. Because they were reading about him every Saturday. Every Sabbath day they were reading about Jesus. Every Sabbath day they were reading about Jesus.
[47:16] Every Sabbath day they were reading Sabbath after Sabbath. Sabbath after Sabbath. Every Sabbath after Sabbath. Do you know what they've been reading about what the prophets have said? And what the prophets said last week?
[47:29] They were always talking about Jesus. Acts chapter 30 verse 26. They were reading Sabbath after Sabbath. He said the people of Jerusalem and their leaders. He says that Acts chapter 30 verse 27.
[47:42] For those who dwell in Jerusalem and their rulers. Because they did not know him nor the voice of the prophets. Which they read every Sabbath. They fulfilled it by condemning, by killing Jesus.
[47:53] They fulfilled what they think. The things they were reading and said who killed a Jesus? Who killed a Jesus? Who killed a Messiah? Ah these people who kill is very bad. They fulfilled it by doing it. Because...
[48:04] Right. Because watch this. They did not know him. At least if they had actually understood what the prophets were saying. They would have seen him when he showed up.
[48:15] But because they didn't understand what the prophets were saying. And they didn't actually even know him when he also came. They flouted everything. That's why Jesus said you search the scriptures. John chapter 5 verse 39.
[48:27] Thinking that in them you have eternal life. But all the scriptures are pointing to me. Yet you will not come to me to have eternal life. And you want to kill me. But you are willing...
[48:39] You are not willing to come to me for life. And in verse 46 it says that... If you are disciples of Moses. You will come to me. You will believe in me. For if you believed in Moses.
[48:49] You will believe in me. Why? Because you see. The God didn't know the voice of the prophets. That's why he came. They couldn't even identify him. But if you have known what... Moses was talking... Thank you Jesus.
[49:00] Moses was talking about something that you guys have been reading. But you never understood. Why? Because it was closed. It was a mystery. I... Wow. It was... Didn't you read in the Bible just now in Colossians chapter 1 verse 26.
[49:13] That it was hidden from in the ages. From the ages. It was hidden. It says that the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations. So they were writing things and...
[49:26] Let me take you a little bit further. In 1 Peter... Oh, I didn't... Okay, let me say it. 1 Peter... In 1 Peter chapter...
[49:42] Chapter... America is coming now. 1 Peter chapter 1 verse... Verse... 9... Verse...
[49:53] 10... Verse 11... Verse 9... Verse 10... Verse 11... Verse 9 says that receiving the end of your faith... The salvation of your souls...
[50:04] Ooh... That your soul will be saved. The way you feel... The way you have been having... Pornographic incidents... The way you have been... Sometimes feeling bitterness... Anger... Jealousy... It's all your soul...
[50:15] One day your soul will be saved... From all this mess... It says that... The end of your faith... The salvation of your souls... Your spirit is saved... But your soul is being saved...
[50:25] And your body will be saved... So... Three levels of salvation... But let's leave that... The salvation of your soul... Now look at the next verse... Very interesting... Of which salvation... The prophets inquired... And searched carefully...
[50:37] Who prophesied of the grace... That will come to you... Watch this... So... The... The prophets of grace... That is coming to you... But when they prophesied... They went back to do...
[50:49] Chat GPT... What am I talking about? The prophets... Listen to your people... The... The... This salvation... The prophets... Inquired and searched carefully...
[51:00] KJM said... Search deliberately... They did a thorough research... They... Did a thorough research... They... Careful research...
[51:11] Thorough research... Diligently... The ones who are prophesying... Will prophesy... God is going to do this... With your life... God is going to... He's finished preaching... Then he goes...
[51:22] Hey... What are the things I'm talking about? The spirit of Christ in me... Is saying things that I don't have... So they go and start doing research... And they can spend all their days... Researching to this thing...
[51:32] And still come to a dead end... They still come to a dead end... Research upon research... So it says that... Who prophesied of the grace... That were to come to you... Look at the next verse...
[51:43] Searching... Searching what... Or... What manner of time... The spirit of Christ... The prophet... The spirit of Christ...
[51:54] Was in the prophets... The spirit of Christ... Who was in them... Was indicating... When it testified beforehand... The sufferings of Christ... And the glory... Because...
[52:04] The sufferings of Christ... The spirit was talking about... Sufferings of Christ... And glory... And what it... He said... That we prophesied... Of the grace that was to come to you... Talking about the church... There was grace coming to the church...
[52:15] But that grace was supposed to come... After the sufferings of Christ... And glory... That should follow... This grace we are enjoying... Is glory that follows... The suffering of Christ... And... But they used to prophesy it...
[52:26] Elijah would prophesy it... Elijah would prophesy... Nahum would prophesy... Habakkuk would prophesy... And go back and do... They all searching... Because it confuses them... Why was it confusing them?
[52:36] Because God... In eternity past... He was speaking to them... But the thing they are speaking about... God has hidden it in himself... But because they were prophets... They were talking about it...
[52:47] And yet... Intellectually... Realistically... It couldn't make sense... They couldn't get it... Why? It's a mystery! It's been hidden... It's been hidden in God...
[52:58] Are you getting what I'm saying? So they prophesy... Now look at the next verse... That's getting even interesting... To them... To the prophets... It was revealed... Not to themselves... But to us... They were ministry...
[53:08] So Elijah was talking about things... That had not got anything to do with him... But the things he's prophesying... Had to do with the church... And yet... What is church? What is church?
[53:19] He has never known... Church! Both... In one body... You remember the both? No, no... In their times... Both can never be one... But they were prophesying things... That strange things...
[53:30] That you were talking about... It was revealed to them... Stop worrying yourself... And researching... It's not got anything to do with you... You are not talking about yourself... You are talking about the church... The people ahead... The things which they are now reported to you...
[53:41] Which are now reported to you... Through those... Who have preached the gospel... So the things we are preaching... Isaiah never knew about it... He just prophesied about it... But when he prophesied... He didn't understand...
[53:51] How can this be? It's called... Mysterion... Wow... Wow... Now Paul shows up on the scene... And he says that... If you have... If you...
[54:01] He said... By... If you have... If you have read about... The dispensation of the grace of God... Which was given to me... For you... How by revelation... He made known unto me...
[54:12] The mystery... Wow... That he made known unto me... The mystery... Which I have briefly written about... Look at the next verse... I don't want to go too far back... By which...
[54:23] When you read... Ye may understand my knowledge... Of the mystery of Christ... Romans chapter 16... Let me throw that in... Verse 25... Romans chapter 16...
[54:33] Verse 25... Now... Unto him who is able to establish you... According to the gospel... The gospel... According to my gospel... And the preaching of Jesus Christ... According to the revelation... Of the mystery...
[54:43] Which has been kept secret... Since when? The world began... Since the world began... Something was kept... Secret... It was kept secret...
[54:55] In God... That's why people talk rubbish... Ah... All this church thing... I don't understand... How would you understand? It's like ants... Trying to understand... Why human beings talk... Verse 26...
[55:09] But now made manifested... By the prophetic scriptures... And by the prophetic scriptures... Made known to all nations... According to command... Revelation... So... Something was hidden...
[55:19] It's called a mystery... Now let's go back... To Ephesians chapter 3... Is someone learning something? Ephesians chapter 3... Said... By which... In you read... You understand... My... Understand my knowledge...
[55:30] Of the mystery of Christ... I'm going to... Come back and mention... Something less about... The mystery of Christ... The mystery of God... There are two mysteries... There's one... Which is mystery of Christ... There's another one... Which is mystery of God...
[55:41] I probably will see... If I can attach on that... But look at the next verse... Look at it... It gets interesting... Which in other ages... Was not made known... Unto the sons of men... As it is now being revealed...
[55:52] By the spirit... To his holy apostles... And prophets... Now those of us... Who are holy apostles... And prophets... It's revealed to us... So we can talk about it... We can teach you about it...
[56:02] But in the times past... Before Jesus came and died... It was all in codes... It was a coded message... It was coded language... Um... Was... Was... I forgot...
[56:12] How do you call that... Moscode... I don't know about that one... It's this... It's... It's... Not algorithms... It's... It's... You see only one... Two... Three... One... One and two... One and two...
[56:23] Binary... Yes... It's a... Oh in codes... You can't understand... They have to... But I prefer... It's... It's... Encrypted... Encrypted...
[56:34] So... They are talking about things... That were encrypted... But when you understand... What he's saying... But you never want... You get the meaning of what he's saying... It's only given by revelation... That's why when Jesus came...
[56:45] They killed him... Because they were reading... They were reading what has been written... And they didn't... They couldn't read through the lines... And understand what he really meant... Hallelujah...
[56:55] Now... Verse... Yeah... It says that... Refill to... Look at... I want to read further... Then I mention Jesus... Go to then... Verse 6... Verse 6... That...
[57:05] The mystery... That the Gentiles... Will be fellow heirs... Of the same body... You remember this... That's why I said... If you have read... What I've written already... You will understand... My understanding...
[57:16] You get... Verse 3... Verse 3... Quickly... Verse 3... As I have briefly written already... I've written about... That verse 2... He read chapter 2... Chapter 2...
[57:26] Spent a lot of time... Talking about how the 2... Became... It's a mystery... So it says that... How by revelation... This mystery... That's why Peter... Didn't know about that... Peter said... How can I fellowship with... It took Paul...
[57:37] To explain to the body of Christ... That the Gentiles... Are at par... With the Jews... When it comes to God... Now... After Jesus died... So it was... Normally...
[57:47] Theological circles... It's called... The Pauline... Message... So it's a Paul... Pauline... Or Pauline... Not Pauline... But Pauline... We have the...
[57:58] Peter... Peter... Peter... Peter... Peter... Theology... Pauline... Theology... And Pauline... Theology... Was to reveal... What the church is... So you read...
[58:09] Much of the epistles... Are explaining to you... What the church is about... Which ignorant people... Just talk by... Oh... There's a church... Church... You think you know... What church is about...
[58:19] You haven't missed God... Big time... Because church is a mystery... It's a mystery... So look at the text... Verse 6... I need to finish... That the Gentiles...
[58:30] Should be fellow heirs... Of the same body... And partakers... Of the promise of Christ... Through the gospel... It's going somewhere... Verse 7... Of which I became... A minister... According to the gift... Of the grace of God...
[58:40] Given to me... By the effectual... Working of his power... Ah... I'm going to verse 9... Look at verse 8... To me... Who am less than... The least of all the saints... This grace was given to me... To preach amongst the Gentiles...
[58:51] The unsearchable... Unsearchable riches... Of Christ... Not the unreachable searches... But the unsearchable... Those prophets... In the Old Testament... It was... They were embarking...
[59:02] On unreachable searches... Ah... They were searching... But they can't reach... Because it's coded... But now... What was unreachable searches... Paul is giving it to us...
[59:13] As unsearchable riches... In other words... You can't finish exhausting... This is how deep this thing is... It's unsearchable... In other words...
[59:23] You can't exhaust the comprehensibility... Of course... The comprehensiveness... The intensity... Of this mystery that is being revealed... You can't exhaust it... That's why you can never get to a place...
[59:35] Where you say... I've had enough of the word of God... I know everything... You're joking... You know everything... How can you know everything about God? How can you know everything about God?
[59:46] I had a certain man... He was talking to some university students... And one guy said... I have a question... Somebody asked him...
[59:56] How can God be... How can you tell me... I can't know everything about God? You don't know everything about God... How can I worship... If I don't know everything about God? It cannot be true... He said...
[60:07] What do you specialize in? He said... Physics... I'm studying... Do you know everything about physics? No... Can you claim that... One day you know... All there is to know about physics... He said... No...
[60:17] Even physics... You can't know everything... Let alone God... They are... Unsearchable riches... The Bible says... Oh... The...
[60:28] The depths... It's deeper... Romans chapter 11... Verse 33... Oh... The depths... Oh... The depths... Of the riches... Both of God's wisdom...
[60:38] And his knowledge... How unsearchable... Are his judgments... And his ways are past finding... It's beyond where you can find... It's gone past where you can find...
[60:49] The unsearchable riches... Unsearchable... Somebody say... Unsearchable riches... Unsearchable riches... The riches of Christ... How he died for us on the cross... How his blood covers us...
[60:59] How we have forgiveness in him... How he makes us part of the church... How he's flowing grace through us... How he's moving on from grace... There are so many dimensions... You can never finish there... There's always a lot to know about...
[61:11] What Christ has attained for us... It's called... The unsearchable riches... Watch this... I was going to verse 9... Then I'll finish it... On the verse 4... By verse 9...
[61:22] Look at verse 9... And to make all men see... The fellowship of the ministry... You see that word fellowship... Change the translation... You'll use a different word... Change the translation to...
[61:33] New living trans... No... Sorry... New American Standard Version... That everybody will know... The administration... All... Administration... Change it again...
[61:43] To new American... Okay... Administration... Change it to English Standard Version... Everybody will know... Everyone will know... The plan... It sounds like a plan...
[61:54] Administration... The mystery... The fellowship of the mystery... The administration... The administration fellowship... The someplace...
[62:05] Miami dispensation... Let's... Okay... Let's go to... Amplified... Let's go to... Amplified... Let's see how the... Amplified... The mystery... Regarding the... United of the... Jesus...
[62:15] Until... They... Okay... The plan... To make plain to everyone... The plan... It's a plan... So... I'm sure... New living translation...
[62:26] We use plan... It's likely to... And... To... Explain to everyone... The mysterious plan... Plan... I knew it...
[62:36] And the message Bible... Will use something... It might be... Not use anything at all... To bring out... Into the open... And make plain...
[62:46] What God... What God... Who created all things... The first day... Has been doing... In secret... And behind the scenes... All along...
[62:57] But that's a good one... So... God has been doing something... Behind the scenes... In secret... All along... Which was hidden to man... Now Paul said... I've been called... To make that plain...
[63:08] So... Behind the scenes... You see something in front... But behind the scenes... From Genesis... From the beginning of creation... God has been working... Behind the scenes... That's the mystery...
[63:20] Suddenly... When Jesus Christ... Came and died... You know... So... So... Let's say... This is Genesis... We are here in Genesis... And then... God has been working...
[63:30] Behind the scenes... But this... We see a wall... But behind... There's something going on... So as we go... Across the generations... God is still working... Across the generations... God is still working... Across the generations...
[63:41] Christ shows up... So this is Christ... When it shows up... Now the prophets... This thing that has been... Hit in the past... No more is hidden... But now it can be explained...
[63:52] To the people... The church... So... To those of the Old Testament... It remains hidden... But to us in the Old Testament... It's still hidden... But it can be discovered... It can be taught...
[64:02] It can be explained... Wow... Thank you... Sit down... Does that make sense? Now... Have you understood that? Look at the verse 3... And the verse 4... Then... It says...
[64:12] How by revelation... God made known to me... The mystery... The next verse... The mystery... By which... If you read... You understand... My knowledge...
[64:23] If you read... You understand... You understand... My knowledge... Of the mystery of Christ... Let's all say... The mystery of Christ... The mystery of Christ... Quickly... Colossians 2.2... Look at Colossians 2.2...
[64:33] Colossians 2.2... That their hearts... Their hearts... Might be encouraged... Being knit together in love... And attaining to all... The riches of the full assurance...
[64:44] Of understanding... To the knowledge... Of the mystery... The mystery... Of God... The mystery... Of God... So here...
[64:54] It says... Mystery of God... There... It says... Mystery of Christ... So it looks like... There are two mysteries... The mystery of God... And the mystery of Christ...
[65:04] Is there any difference? No... And yes... Ephesians chapter 5... Verse 31... And 32... It says that... Husbands... You love...
[65:15] For this reason... A man shall leave... His father and mother... Please remember... It's always father first... Don't put mother ahead... It's always father first... Read the Bible... You notice... So...
[65:25] It says that... For this reason... A man shall leave... His father and mother... And be clave to his wife... And the two shall become... One flesh... One flesh... Then it says that... This is a great... Oh...
[65:36] What is a great... Meaning... What I just said... How... A man will leave... His father... And be joined to... A man will leave... His what... Father... And mother... Father...
[65:47] And mother... To be joined to... His wife... And the two... Have become one flesh... Instead... This... Union... This companionship...
[65:57] This companionship... This... Oneness... Is a body... Is a... It's a mystery... But I said...
[66:07] Just so you don't... Get yourself... Confused... I'm not talking about... Just normal husband and wife... I'm talking about... Christ... And the church... There are two mysteries...
[66:18] Christ... And the church... That Christ is a mystery... The church is a mystery... So in Colossians... When he says that... The mystery of God... The mystery of God... Is Christ...
[66:29] Christ is... The one who revealed... The hidden God... You can never see... When he was... They didn't realize God... But God... Is... Was manifested... So Christ is the mystery of God...
[66:40] But... He's talking about... So... Christ is the mystery of God... And the church... Is the mystery of Christ... When you... The church... Is the embodiment of Christ...
[66:51] Christ... Watch this... Is the embodiment of God... Dispensed... Into the believers... For us to become... His body...
[67:02] God was embodied in Christ... When he died... Now when he comes into you... God wanted to dispense himself... But you can't take him role... How can you carry God?
[67:12] So he had to go through the process... Of becoming a man... And die on the cross... Christ... So that he can be in you... Now when Christ is in you... It's God who has been dispensed into you... So Christ in you... Christ in him...
[67:23] Christ in me... Christ in them... That... It becomes the corporate body of Christ... That is the mystery... So you can see... Jews are part of it... Ex-thieves are part of it... Ex-anrombers...
[67:33] Ex-anrombers... Ex-anrombers... Saints... Good people... Everybody... Once Christ is in you... You are part of this... Glorious body... It's called... The mystery of Christ... So Paul...
[67:44] Said... How he made... Known to me... By revelation... The mystery... Then he says that... You will understand... My understanding... In the... You will know my understanding... In the...
[67:54] My knowledge... In the mystery of Christ... What's the mystery of Christ? The church... It's a mystery... The reason why... There are so many brands of Christianity...
[68:05] And so many different... Different denominations... Because the whole thing is a big mystery... Somebody catches one... And doesn't realize... They hasn't caught everything... That's why... That's why...
[68:15] Even Jehovah's Witnesses... Claim to be part of a church... Because... That's why we have the Catholic Church... Have a certain... We have the Presbyterian Church... Have a certain emphasis... We have the Pentecostals...
[68:26] They say... Some people say... There's no need to speak in tongues... Others say... We speak in tongues... Others say... There's no miracle... Others say... Because the whole thing is a huge mystery... But you are not part of the church...
[68:38] Unless... Christ is in you... That's why... Unless... And how can Christ be in you... When you say... He's the Son of God... And he's the Christ... And he died on the cross for our sins...
[68:49] That's the only way he can come... But Jehovah's Witnesses... Don't believe Christ is the Son of God... So they are not part of the church... They just cannot be... So... Christ...
[69:00] Is the mystery of God... But... The church... Is the mystery of Christ... Are you getting on this? And...
[69:11] And... It must... That's why you cannot just get up... And know God by your own self... Okay... I'm doing research... You can't... The prophets even couldn't research... They couldn't research...
[69:25] So... The only way... You can genuinely know... About Christ... Is when it's... It's revealed to you... Through the teachings... Of those...
[69:35] Who it's been revealed to... Because it's a mystery... It's a secret... That has been kept... Hidden in God... God has hid it in himself...
[69:47] In fact... He said that... God... Yeah... In the verse... Okay... I didn't even finish the verse 9... He said... That... Make all men see the... Fellowship of the mystery... Which... From the beginning of the ages...
[69:59] Has been hidden in God... Who created all things... Through Christ... So when God created everything... He hid something inside himself... That I wouldn't let anyone... Know about this... So Moses came and was prophesied...
[70:09] But he didn't know what he was prophesied... Elijah came and was talking... Habakkuk came... Malachi came and was preaching... And prophesied... Zechariah came and was prophesied... Jonah...
[70:20] Jonah came and was prophesied... Not knowing what he was talking about... Isaiah was prophesied... He didn't know what... Someone was prophesied... He didn't want to know... Even Enoch was prophesied... All these people were prophesied...
[70:31] But they didn't... They had a fair idea... About what they were talking about... From their level... But the real meaning... They used to... What's this? What's that? What's that? And they were carrying out...
[70:43] Unreachable searches... They couldn't exhaust it... They couldn't get the meaning... Why? Because God himself has... When God hides something in himself...
[70:54] How can you go and pull it out? How can you go and pull out... From God... What he has chosen to hide in himself? Did somebody get something? Oh yes!
[71:07] Today there's not too much... Shouting and screaming... But it's very comprehensive... We love it... Very comprehensive... That's what Paul was talking about... The mystery...
[71:18] What I'm writing... I'm revealing the mysteries... The mystery of God... Which has been hidden... So no wonder... Someone can come out... From outside and say... Oh this is rubbish...
[71:28] Yeah it's rubbish... Because it's been hidden from you... Many people will never understand... What the church life is about... That's why they complain about... The way you are serving... The thing is so sweet for you... When you find Jesus...
[71:39] The thing is so real... It's so sweet... You can't have enough... And people who... Don't understand the mystery... They are complaining about... Come on... You have to guide your life... I'm going life... I'm going life...
[71:50] That's it... I'm actually living a better life now... I've been there... Done it... And I know that... No... There's nothing inside for me... What I've found... Nothing compares to it...
[72:01] When you find Christ... You realize that... That's where true life is... Yes... That's right... But usually... Those outside... They will envy you... And... Mmm... They see you are very genuinely... Excited... They know you are...
[72:11] They can tell you are not depressed... No... They can tell you are not stressed... No... They can tell you are fresh... Yes... But they just don't like... You have gone too deep into this thing...
[72:22] Because they don't get it... They think... A lot of people think churches... Just come and gather and sing some... Some night... I don't do religion... I don't... Who does religion? But when you...
[72:32] When you... When you discover the mystery of Christ... When you discover the truth about Christ... You realize you'll give anything for it... The kingdom of heaven... Is like a man...
[72:44] Who finds a treasure... Buries it... Goes to sell everything... And comes and gets it... The kingdom of God... The kingdom of heaven... When you find that treasure...
[72:56] You don't mind what you lose... The kingdom of heaven... Is like a treasure... Hidden in a field... Which a man finds... And hide... And hide... And for joy over it... Goes and sell...
[73:07] All that he has... And comes to buy that field... Buy that field... People who don't know... What is hidden in the field... They say... Why are you wasting your money on this field? But you know what is there...
[73:17] You know what you find there... I found... There's milk... There's gold... There's diamond... There's everything there... This is a good land... Being in Christ... Being in Christ is the best thing...
[73:28] That can happen to you... Being in Christ... Is the best thing... If you are not in Christ... You will know... But those of us in Christ... We know... Those of us in Christ...
[73:39] We know... Those of us in Christ... We know... Being in Christ... is a blessing in the name of Jesus. So shall it be. Amen. Thank you for choosing to listen to this message by David Entry.
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