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[0:00] Welcome. You're about to hear an inspirational message by David Entry. May your faith increase and your heart be stirred towards God as you listen to this life-transforming message.

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[0:30] One of the biggest things I would never give up on doing is helping people to open their Bibles. And if you are not interested in that, I'm also not interested in talking to you, teaching you.

[0:42] Because I don't have anything. I'm not that intelligent. I don't have anything to give you. What I have to give you that can change your life is the open book. But if you are not interested, just tell me some things I can love.

[0:55] I'm sorry, I'm not interested. Because I'm not a politician. I'm not looking for customers. I'm not looking for clients. I'm looking for brothers and sisters. We can all grow in our worship with God. Are you getting what I'm saying?

[1:09] Yeah. That's why we are here. We are not here to come and look for friends. We are here to come and look for God. But build relationships that way so we can all grow together. We won't leave anybody behind except those who are not interested.

[1:21] And if you are not interested, I don't really know why you come. Stop coming. Use your time for something else. Stop coming. But guess what? Satan will get you. Because when Satan tempted, even Jesus, God is God.

[1:35] God himself. He said, I'm going to become a human being. He came down to be a human being. Satan confronted him. The only way you can overcome the devil is by saying, it is written. It is written.

[1:46] It is written. Because the devil is a liar. The only thing you can't stand is the truth. So the truth must be loaded up in your heart. So when Satan shows up, it is the truth you have that sets you free.

[1:59] It is not the friends you know. It is not the ideas you have. A lot of people have so much ideas. Ideas. Ideas. Ideas. When you meet someone, the person tells you, I mean, I've studied wide.

[2:11] I know about Christianity. It is ideas they have. How can you know about Christianity and be telling me that? If you know about Christianity, you will know Christ. But you don't know Christ, but yet you think you know about Christianity.

[2:23] Which Christianity are you talking about? Which Christianity are you talking about? Because he said, God is a spirit. And those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. You have never approached God in the spirit because your spirit is comatose.

[2:36] It is dead. Until Christ is in you, your spirit is dead. So you with the dead spirits, how did you know God? God is a spirit. I can't be here and say, I know the message, the conversation going on your phone.

[2:51] Because my phone can pick up. With what device? Unless, or I can't be here and tell you what London radio, BBC radio, whatever is playing.

[3:06] Because I'm not tuning. For you to know you must tune in. Once you get into that frequency, you can see what they are saying is stupid. What they are saying is not. But you haven't tuned in. How can you know what they are saying? And so you hear, you see someone listening and the person is going like this.

[3:20] Then you make up your mind. All these things they are talking on radio is nonsense. Because the way this person, I don't respect the person. And the person is excited. So that means what they are talking about is nonsense. And a lot of people go around with assumptions about Christianity.

[3:33] It's ideas. Ideas. Some of you, since you started coming to church or you came to Christ, you can see your life is changing. And you are wondering why people think this thing is fake.

[3:46] Because you can't see it. Because you know it's real for you. It's real for you. Isaiah chapter. Read it again.

[3:56] It said, who shall I send and who will go for us? I just wanted you to know. Those who say that there is no trinity. This is one of the signs. God is talking. The Lord said, who shall I send and who will go for us?

[4:09] Is the Lord an ask? Yes. He's an ask. All right. Isaiah. Read it again. Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?

[4:21] Then I said, here am I. Send me. And he said, go and tell this people. What did he say? Here I am. Send me. Can everybody say that?

[4:31] Here I am. Send me. Oh, can you say that again? Here I am. Send me. Let's be real here. Can I ask you a question? Don't I look important standing in front of you? Yes. Yes. It's because I said, here I am.

[4:43] Send me. Wow. Because what value do I carry? Apart from God, what God is doing? You are here because of God. Is it not so? Yes. Yes.

[4:53] You are here because. That's what gives me my value in your life. If you don't like God, if you are not interested in God, I will lose value in your life. So, I look important because someone values God.

[5:07] And years ago, I said, God, here am I. Send me. And he said, okay, then let me send you. So, he sent me to people. And suddenly, the people, I look important to them. Because whoever God uses is important.

[5:22] So, you two, you are not far from becoming very important. But maybe God will send you to be maybe a minister of state. So that he can use you. So, you are there on God's behalf.

[5:33] And he puts importance on you. Can I tell you a story? You know, my stories are kind of interesting. Can I tell you? I am interested in my story. I am sure I should tell you the story.

[5:44] There was a time there was a sale somewhere. In one of these big shops. Chris, right now, the 26th December sale. Boxing day. Do people still do it? Some people queue from 5 a.m.

[5:57] So, people were queue from 5 a.m. And long queue. And then, a guy, he wasn't very tall. Around 9 or 8, just before 9.

[6:11] It's not Oxford, I don't know where it was. But a guy was coming. I think probably happened in America, Australia. A guy was coming from the rear of the queue. So, when somebody saw him passing, he went past the last person at the tail.

[6:26] And midway, somebody saw him coming. The person saw him coming from the back. So, he just put his leg there. And then tripped him. And then pushed the guy. And the guy fell. He said, oh, sorry.

[6:38] Sorry. You know, people do that intentionally. Shopping center. They will use their trolley to hit you. And then they say, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah.

[6:48] They do it on a train station. They pram. Push chair. They use it to hit you. Oh, sorry, sorry. Then they go. Anyway, so, someone pushed him.

[7:00] And so, sorry. And then he got up. He started making his way towards the door again. He was going to the head of the queue.

[7:14] So, people saw him. And now everybody got his attention. Everybody was looking at him. So, he was going. And then another person said, excuse me. Push him back. You can't go for it. We are all queue. You know, how do you come from the back of it?

[7:26] And then he got up again. He also told me. He's not tall. He's short. And he started going. And another guy said, no. No one will allow you to. Then he said, go back, go back. Everybody said, go back.

[7:38] They pushed him. He went back. He started going towards the front again. And then somebody said, this is your last chance.

[7:49] We will not. Go back. The queue is at the back there. So, he pushed him. And the guy fell. And he got up. He said, this is your last chance. If you push. Anyone pushes me again. I won't open the door. He was the one to open the door for them to go in.

[8:12] See, he was a very important person. But they didn't know. Some of you are pushing me in your heart. You keep pushing me. I won't open the door. I'm very important to help you.

[8:22] Sometimes, depending on the way you think, you will end up fighting your helpers. Because Satan will use you, will allow you and instigate you to hate the people God is sending you to.

[8:39] To understand that in Acts 26 verse 18. He said, I will deliver you from the people I am sending you to. Can you imagine? When God was calling him to send him. Are you there?

[8:50] Yeah. I will deliver you from the Jewish people. As well as from the Gentiles to whom I now send you. He said, I am sending you to the Gentiles. But I would have to deliver you from them.

[9:00] Because when God sends you to some places. People who God is sending you to deliver them. They can hate you. Because Satan makes them feel you are their enemy. Some of you here.

[9:12] I don't like the way this pastor speaks. But you don't know. God is going to use me to deliver you from that pornography. You are addicted.

[9:23] And you are not happy. The one God is going to use Satan will make you not like him. Why is he talking like this? Yeah, he's your deliverer. Because sometimes I go, he asks, oh God, use me.

[9:33] And God says, okay, there's this guy there. I'm going to bring him in the service. He's been struggling with pornography. He's been struggling with. She's been struggling with fornication.

[9:46] She's been struggling with bitterness. And she's not free. She's been struggling with self-harm. It is the power of the Holy Ghost to break her out of it. She's been struggling with depression.

[9:58] She's been struggling with sicknesses. And I want to help her. So I'm sending you. But as I'm sending you, I have to deliver you from her. Her face, she sees, she says, I don't like this man.

[10:10] But that's where your deliverance is coming from. God said, read it again. I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you.

[10:22] To open their eyes. I'm sending you to do what? To open their eyes. In order to turn them from darkness to light. You are going to help them. You are not going to hurt them.

[10:32] But I have to deliver. Because some of them will fight you. Don't join people who fight preachers. Who will I send and who will go?

[10:46] God is always looking for somebody to say, here I am. Here am I. Send me. Here am I. Send me.

[10:57] Let's all say that. Here am I. Don't say it if you don't mean it. But if you want God to use you. Say, here am I. Send me.

[11:07] Here am I. Send me. One of the things that God never takes for granted or ignores. Is a heart which says that God, please send me.

[11:20] Acts chapter 22. He was going to kill believers. And Jesus appeared to him. And then he said, what do you want me to do? That's where his breakthrough came from.

[11:33] Verse 5. Verse 6. As also the high priest bears me witness and all the counsel of the elders from whom I also received letters to the brethren and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem.

[11:51] To bring in chains even those who were in Jerusalem. In Jerusalem. In Jerusalem. Now it happened. As I journeyed and came near Damascus at about noon, suddenly a great light from heaven shone around me.

[12:05] And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? So I answered, who are you, Lord? Who are you? And he said to me. Who are you?

[12:17] Such lights from heaven. He said, a bright light from heaven. Around noonday. And noonday is the time the sun is brightest. But there was a light brighter than the sun.

[12:28] Wow. Shining around him. And then he fell to the ground. And then he heard the voice saying, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

[12:44] Which light is this that tells me I'm persecuting him? You go, I'm just killing and persecuting Christians. It's not you. He said, you don't know. When you see a Christian, I'm behind him.

[12:58] I am behind every Christian. When you kill a Christian, when you gossip against a Christian, Christ takes his personal. When you fight against a church, Christ takes his personal.

[13:15] Hallelujah. Amen. So, don't fight. Listen. Unbelievers will say, oh, by what? I am supposed to speak that truth. And when we are doing something wrong, I am.

[13:27] See, for all you may know, you are wrong. That's one. And number two. Everybody has got skeletons. When you take it upon yourself that I'm going to expose her.

[13:42] I'm going to expose her. She calls herself a Christian and some of the things. And you know that she's trying. Some of the things she's doing. I'm going to expose her. I'm going to tell everybody. So, it's a dangerous person. And some of it, you even don't have all the facts.

[13:55] You don't have all the facts. And you're going to pull somebody down. Don't forget. That is you. There are things in your history. You never know what is also in your background.

[14:09] Does that mean we shouldn't deal with matters when they go wrong? That's not what I'm saying. I said, when you are attacking others because of what you think about them, be careful. Be careful.

[14:22] Especially somebody who is trying to do God's work. Unless somebody who is not a Christian is fake. He has also taken a Bible. He's behaving like a preacher. Can I go to a more scripture?

[14:33] Are you sure you are ready for this? Are you sure you are ready for this? Are you sure you are ready for this? It's going to be amazing text. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 5. This one, it feels like spaghetti.

[14:51] Amazing. Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire. I'm making a lot of noise.

[15:02] Hey, praising God. Praise is important. Outreach is important. Evangelism is important. Serving in church is important. But I said, it gets to a time I'm not interested in all this. I'm not interested in it because it is just, it is just, you are giving me something less than what I'm asking from you.

[15:21] Do you understand that? I'm not interested in it. I'm not interested in it. Read it. Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me.

[15:34] In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. What have you prepared for me? I can't hear you. Read it again for the last time. Louder. Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me.

[15:51] You have prepared a body for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifice. That's okay. That's where I'll end. God has prepared a body for you. I don't know if you have seen a man pregnant before.

[16:08] A man. Maybe where science is going, they'll try and get a man pregnant. But listen, if you make a man pregnant, he will never be the same again.

[16:18] Do you know why? Because man can't take pregnancy. What it takes, when a woman is pregnant, her muscles are all solid to carry that weight.

[16:29] Women are strong. Women. Well, sometimes they walk like this. Pregnant woman. And the emotional drain is strain. Most men can't take that.

[16:41] They can't take half of it. Why? Because his body has not been prepared for that kind of thing. It's what they are not prepared for that kind of thing.

[16:51] When you are in the army, they prepare you for harsh situations. So that in the time of war, have you noticed that when there's a national emergency, it's the army that come in? But why can't police do it?

[17:02] No, they are not prepared for that kind of job. When there's flooding and people are dying, or fire is burning, army coming. But army, are they also human beings here, but they are trained for some things. So, the training you go through will determine what you can handle.

[17:19] And it says that your body, your body, God prepared your body for you. How some of you have not thought about it? How is it that pastor preaches almost every day?

[17:30] Not every Sunday, every day. Yesterday I preached. Yesterday, two messages. One at the wedding, and one in the main service. I preached almost every day in the week. From January 5th, I've been preaching almost every day.

[17:42] How can he do that? And you come and see, I'm in the debate. For the past time, you came to church. Have you ever heard there was a service pastor couldn't be, because he wasn't well.

[17:54] But have you missed church because you were not well before? Yeah. How come I don't miss church? A body has been prepared for me to do this job. A body, my body has been prepared for the job.

[18:08] A woman can be pregnant because her body has been prepared for pregnancy. Women lose blood every month. Every month, they lose blood. You let a man do it for two months, you'll be down. Because his body is not prepared for that.

[18:23] A body that has prepared for me. Now, where am I going with this? God has prepared your body for his work and for your assignment. But if you don't use it for that, like somebody who I spoke about, and he came and saw, he had never seen clean water.

[18:37] So when he came to the city and went to somebody's house and saw the clean water in the toilet bowl, he thought it's for drinking, washing, water. He was, he was sick because he's using, that water there is not for that purpose.

[18:55] Some sicknesses in certain people's bodies is because they are not using their body the way God wants them to use their body for. Your body is not meant for, can you imagine, I'm, I'm cooking stew, soup, big bowl, and then it's burning.

[19:11] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, there's too much fire. I need, I need, where's, where's the spoon? The big spoon, I can't, oh, the microphone. I'm spoiling the microphone. The microphone was not built for that.

[19:24] There are things, are there things you're doing and your body was not built for? Wow. Your body, everybody's body has been prepared for God's assignment in your life. Amen. Okay.

[19:37] Everybody's body has been prepared for God's assignment. Are you getting what I'm saying? And until you begin to do what God has called you to do, you are not using your body for its rightful purpose.

[19:49] That means there's a problem. There's going to be a problem. You have, how do you say, God, here am I, send me. Then God begins to guide you.

[20:02] The secret to my health is my body is being used for what is being used for. So that's why people, even some footballers cannot run my shadow. They'll break down. And my body is built for it.

[20:14] And God keeps me going. Sometimes, 100 days of fasting and preaching every day and God keeps me going. Most times, I eat once a day if I'm not fasting.

[20:25] Most times, for the past over 20 years. If I eat twice a day, I begin to feel uncomfortable. My body has not been built for that. My body has been built for God's work. Your body has been built.

[20:37] Everybody's body has been prepared for you. That's why your mother gave birth to you. That's why your father is your father because God has an agenda. He needs, your constituent components were intentioned, planned by God.

[20:51] Girls, be careful how you use your body. Your body has not been built to be just catching attention and getting polarized. Your body has been built for something better. Look, you have to learn how to say, here I am.

[21:03] Send me, Lord. Did you receive something? God bless you. God bless you for listening to this message. To hear more from David Entry, follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

[21:15] and visit www.karis.org for videos and upcoming events. Remember, be a doer of the word and not just a hearer. Thank you for listening.

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