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[0:00] Hallelujah. We thank God you've tuned into this message by David Entry at Caris Church. No hand can help you with the fulfillment of your destiny, but the Word of God. May God's hand align you further into your destiny through this Word.

[0:17] Sound doctrine. I like this text. The people who have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine. And the verse 20 says that, go, stand.

[0:27] Acts 5 I'm talking about. Go, stand in the temple and go stand and speak in the temple to the people. And it told them exactly what you go and speak to them.

[0:40] The words. You have a certain life. There are words that undergird this life. It's called sound doctrine. So you see, if you downplay the words, you have downplayed the life it gives.

[0:57] Mm. So, recently we were reading Ephesians. Last Sunday, chapter 1. In 2 Peter chapter 1, verse 5. Giving all diligence. Besides this, giving all diligence.

[1:09] They add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge. You need to know something to last well. You need to know something to sustain a lasting testimony.

[1:20] When it comes to Christianity, what you know is more important than just what you feel. Yes. Yeah. Because if what you feel is not built on a certain type of knowledge, Satan can mislead you.

[1:37] But true knowledge of God always will produce a certain type of feeling. You cannot encounter God and discover him and still stay in darkness.

[1:51] Jesus. So Saul was killing the church until he met Jesus. He said, no. I will not be disobedient to the heavenly vision. He just couldn't go back to life as usual.

[2:06] Because he had an encounter. And that encounter gave him a certain knowledge upon which the rest of his life was built. What you know? So he said, to your faith, add virtue.

[2:18] To virtue, add knowledge. Ephesians 2, verse 6. To the praise. Okay, I think it's better we start from verse 5. This thing said, it doesn't bother me at all teaching the word of God.

[2:29] Whether people like it or not, I just don't. I know courage people will have it, but that's fine. Yeah. I want you to know that teaching, preaching in church is about explaining the verse.

[2:43] Not having some great idea, wonderful idea, and back it with scriptures. A lot of the modern day preachers preach powerfully based on opinions supported by texts.

[3:02] It's not bad in itself. It's not bad in itself. But that in itself does not build God into people. And most of the time doesn't have divine strength and enablement within it.

[3:18] What Bill said, the words of this life is different from sharing some things with you which are true. Yeah. Generally true. Wow. And that's what invaded the church with new age philosophy.

[3:30] Paul said, my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom. Wow. The lower you go, the more man's wisdom is appealing to you.

[3:43] The higher you go in God, the less man's wisdom is appealing. You hear it, you agree with it, but it doesn't do it for you. Just a basic text.

[3:55] Text. John 3, 16 alone on his own. Raw John 3, 16. Does something to you. Yeah. It does something to the believers inside. Hmm.

[4:05] So what builds God into people is what is called healthy words. Hmm. Words that are called with the words of Jesus Christ.

[4:19] Now, Ephesians chapter 1 verse 5 says that he has predestined. Oh. These are things that charisma, charisma, if you're going to see revival, you have to know these things.

[4:30] Hmm. It's not how, you know, I feel fire for Jesus. Oh, oh, oh. It won't last though. Hmm. What you know.

[4:41] Hmm. The time is coming when the true worship shall worship the Father in spirit and truth. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 5.

[4:52] Having predestinated us unto adoption of children by this, this is, Pastor, this is the scriptures that do it for me. This is so good.

[5:02] This can take us a whole month to unpack it. Have it predestinated us unto adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.

[5:19] God himself according to the good pleasure of his will said you, I'm choosing to adopt you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The verse 6 says that to the praise.

[5:36] This is what God matters. Why did he do that? Not because you are in need. Not because somebody is struggling. He did this to the praise of the glory of his grace.

[5:47] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So I realize that grace is a major factor here. So that people can see the glory. Let me show you this time. Let me give you a very nice definition of glory.

[5:58] Glory is God expressed. Okay. God is holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. The whole earth is filled with his glory. Glory.

[6:09] So who God is, he is holy. When he's expressed, we see it as glory. Do you understand? Like the rays of the sun is not the sun, but that's the rays.

[6:22] What comes, you cannot have the rays without the sun. But if you are going to see what the sun is about on our own, you don't have to go to the sun. You don't have to go to the sun.

[6:32] Just look at the rays. If you want to see the holiness of God, God is holy. But he's expressed on earth. It's called glory. Glory.

[6:43] That's why we sing glory. Glory. So in Isaiah, he says that he had the angels. He's thrilled. Isaiah chapter 6. He's thrilled through the temple. And he said, holy, holy, holy are you, Lord.

[6:55] The whole earth is filled with your holiness. No, with your glory. Jesus Christ is the expression of God's glory. Glory is God expressed.

[7:06] Grace is God at work. These are definitions that are foreign to largely the charismatic church. We like a merited favor.

[7:16] It's coming, pointing back to ourselves. A merited favor is pointing. It's true. But it's lower. It's lower. Grace is Christ himself.

[7:29] And his grace is God at work. Now watch this. He says that he has done all these things to the praise of the glory of his grace. So when he, what he's doing behind the scenes, when you see the beauty of it, he's doing all this so you can see the beauty of his working behind the scenes.

[7:51] The grace at work, it's always to have manifestations. When grace is working, you will see it. You can see glory. Glory. Glory. That's why no one can say the grace of God is helping me and yet you are hurting.

[8:04] All right. Okay. When grace is working in your life, it is something that everybody desires. When they say somebody is graceful, it means it's easy to approach.

[8:15] You feel attracted to the person. You feel easy to get to the person. Grace attracts. So he says that if grace is at work, he's doing this thing by his grace.

[8:27] He's doing this thing to the praise of the glory of his grace. Grace. So everybody will see that this is, your salvation is not meant to just get you money. Please.

[8:38] So you can answer your prayer and all your enemies will fall and your family people who didn't believe in you, they will see. Please. That is not the call of Christianity. That's not the call of Christianity.

[8:50] That's disguised selfishness. It's been disguised like God at work. But it's all about you. Most testimonies are not about God, you know.

[9:05] To the praise of the glory of his grace. So watch this. Watch to the praise of the... He adopted us. He predestinated us unto adoption as children in Christ Jesus.

[9:20] Predestinated us unto adoption. Well, of children. By Christ Jesus. To himself. So he used Christ to bring us to himself.

[9:32] But it was his predestined. And why would you do this? Just to the praise of the glory of my grace. Why are you in church? To the praise of the glory of his grace.

[9:43] Why are you born again? To the praise of the glory of his grace. Why would he be answered your prayers? To the praise of the glory of his grace. So you can see the workings of grace. Watch this.

[9:53] Watch this. The next verse got my attention. The next verse says, In whom? Talking about Jesus. Okay. In whom we have redemption through Jesus' blood.

[10:05] We've been redeemed. You don't have to be redeemed to be redeemed. Once you are in Christ, you are redeemed. I'm redeemed. Somebody shout, I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. Shout, I'm redeemed.

[10:16] I'm redeemed. Listen to this, brothers and sisters. These are words and expressions of our reality, which is very foreign to unbelievers. When they come to church, we are talking about we are redeemed.

[10:29] They are wondering, what's the meaning of that? But when they come, we are talking about God has given you wisdom and power to make money. They get it. Yeah. They say, I like that one too.

[10:41] Yeah. But when we talk about I'm redeemed, it makes unbelievers know how lost they are. Yeah. Wow. The more we downplay these realities that are just exclusive to Christians, the more we downplay it, the more we open the door for all believers to think we are the same.

[11:02] So they will come and sing our songs. They will be playing our instruments. They will be helping us to do ashering. They will be helping us to do their sound.

[11:14] They don't realize that we are different. Wow. Wow. And when you are not aware of these things, you don't see a big deal marrying or wanting to go into covenant relationship with somebody who is not.

[11:28] Because it's not your problem. You don't even know. You don't know who you are. Wow. You don't know who you are. That's why. That's why. That's why. You don't know who you are. You have been in church for three years, four years, and yet you don't actually even know the weight of what it means to be a Christian.

[11:44] Wow. Wow. Because Christianity is a religion for you. You go to church, and you hear all these big, big things, event-based Christianity. Event-based Christianity.

[11:57] So today there's a program. We like attending programs. And most of our church services are program-oriented. If we talk about these things and we are deep into it, you won't be confused about, am I a man caught in the woman's body?

[12:11] That's all that kind of demonic harassment that is harassing. You are not. You don't say that, ah, but me too. I'm a Christian. If God loves me, I cannot. Listen, you realize you are not even part of us.

[12:24] Not by virtue of what we are telling you, but by virtue of the things we are dealing in. The things we are dealing in, you realize you are lost and you are on your way to the highway of hell. Hey. Strong. I'm also.

[12:34] You are going to hell. Hell. If you don't repent and be redeemed. Redeemed. When we lose our identity, we begin to think we are like, everybody is like us.

[12:49] We are also like everybody. Redeemed. If you don't get it, it's not a mental thing. It's a spiritual reality. It's a spiritual reality. Pastor, we need to teach it and teach it for the thing to sink it with all and be arrested by the reality of the fact that we are redeemed.

[13:05] We are redeemed by the blood. And what happens is that when your life, the words of this life, when your life is built on these words, every now and then when you hear the word redeemed, it does something to you.

[13:23] When you hear the adoption, it does something to you. It gets your attention more than it is. I believe I don't see the point. But you get your attention. That's right. Because it's the foundation of all what we are doing in the church.

[13:35] Shout, I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I mean, shout it, I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. I'm redeemed. Verse 6 again. In whom, in whom we have redemption, we have it.

[13:51] Hallelujah. We have it. We have it. We have it. We have it.

[14:04] Muslims don't have redemption. Hindus don't have redemption. Politicians don't have redemption. Markets, men and women don't have redemption.

[14:18] People working in the office don't have redemption. People on our streets don't have redemption. It's only those in Christ. In whom we have redemption, how?

[14:33] Through his blood. Can I tell you something? Please sit down. I can understand why you can't sit down. There are some notes. When you hit, so long as teaching is concerned, certain people cannot sit down.

[14:45] Others are still comfortable. They don't know what's going on. Pastor, this is what is called church. When we are talking about what Christ has done for us, and our hearts are excited.

[14:57] Our hearts are excited. Our hearts are excited. Our hearts are excited. Shout hallelujah. The strength of our hallelujah is derived from the fact that Jesus died for us.

[15:10] Sit down. Let me tell you something. If you are tired of hearing about Jesus dying for us, I beg to differ. I beg to submit to you. You are either backslided or you are not born again.

[15:22] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because when your heart is on fire for Jesus, I like this. When your heart is on fire for Jesus, testimonies of breakthroughs and things move you.

[15:32] But there's something that propels you. These things propel you, hit you to your crescendo more than anything. When you are, if you have met Christ, then this, if you haven't met Christ, then other things might kind of excite you so quickly, and that's all.

[15:50] But if you have met Christ, the greatest excitement of your Christian work is hinged on some of these points. Yeah. That's right. And redeemed. And redeemed. And redeemed. We are redeemed by the blood.

[16:06] In whom we have redemption through his blood. His blood. His blood. His blood. Specific blood. I want to submit something to you that is supposed to be said at Easter.

[16:20] But I can't wait for Easter. Wow. I can't wait for Easter. Today is Easter. Today is Easter. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[16:40] God was looking, God was trying to extract blood for redemption.

[16:53] Oh, Jesus. The garden of Gethsemane, Gethsemane is called the press, olive press. Yes. Gethsemane, it means olive press.

[17:04] When you press the olive to get the oil or to get anointing oil, he just went to the garden and he prayed. He said, if it's possible, God, I know you want to kill me. God, you want to kill me.

[17:15] God, you want to kill me. God, you want to kill me. But if it's possible, let you not come back. Nevertheless, not as I will, let your will be done. Before the cross, in Matthew 26, verse 38, he said, my soul is sorrowful.

[17:33] Then he said, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful. Before he died, the sorrow that has come upon him. He lived in the shadow of the agony of the cross, the cross, not because of the death of the cross, but because of sin.

[17:49] He is sinless. Now they are going to put your fornication sin on him. So that when you repent and come to Christ, you come to church, your sin there. So he said, after the resurrection, after the resurrection, he told them in the book of Luke chapter 24, verse 46, 47, that repentance and remission of sins will be preached in his name to all nations.

[18:12] Yeah. Repentance and remission of sin. Removal of sins can be preached. After the resurrection, he went on the cross to redeem us by his blood.

[18:25] Please do me a favor. Sit down. Now, it says that, Ephesians 1, Ephesians 1, forgiveness of sins.

[18:38] The grounds of the forgiveness of sins. See that word has appeared again. In the verse 6, he spoke about to the praise of the glory of his grace.

[18:50] In the verse 7, he said we have redemption and forgiveness of sins. According to this, the riches of, have you seen grace? The road, grace is not an Old Testament word.

[19:04] No, no, no, no. You don't see it appear in the Old Testament. The New Testament is spread everywhere. Because everything that is happening is grace. We have forgiveness of sins.

[19:17] Not according to the good things we have done. But according to the grounds, on how rich, the grace is so rich, it can deal with anything complicated.

[19:28] Hallelujah. According to the riches. According to the riches of his grace. Where in? Oh, the next one, that's another point. In that grace, he made, he has abandoned towards us in all wisdom.

[19:44] In the grace. When you stay in the grace, everything you need in God begins to work. Hallelujah. To be honest, grace is all inclusive.

[19:57] It's an all inclusive package. Everything in Christianity is grace. It's grace. So Bible says that grace and truth came by him.

[20:08] John. John 1.16. 17. Grace and truth came by him. Grace. The law was given by Jesus. But grace and truth came by Jesus.

[20:20] That's why they brought a woman caught in adultery. And you know what they did? They said Moses in the, they quoted the law. They gave him the law.

[20:33] And he said, you are talking about law? I'm the law giver. But there's something you haven't seen. The law of Kabbalah. Shadabah Hayada. That's why it says that the law was given through Moses.

[20:47] Verse 17. The law was given by Moses. It was given. And that was the issue here. Through Moses. It came by Moses. But grace and truth.

[20:58] When Jesus came. He came with Kabbalah Shadabah Hayada. He came with grace. Hallelujah. When Jesus came, grace came.

[21:11] So when they brought somebody caught in adultery. That person is supposed to die. That's one of the highest levels of breaking the law. That one, capital punishment straight away.

[21:24] Because they said, Moses in the law. They quoted the law. Now Moses in the law commanded. The search. Commanded us that search should be stoned.

[21:36] Grace, what have you got to say? Grace, what have you got to say? Grace said, everybody is sinful. So which of you ever has not got anything?

[21:47] That's the thing he told them. That's what he told them. He didn't say anything. He just said, okay, check yourself if you can keep the law. And none of them was able to keep the law. So he told the woman, where are they?

[21:58] Are they all sinful? He said, yes, they are nobody. He said, okay, then me too, I can't condemn you. Go and sin no more. When you meet grace, when you enjoy true grace, sin doesn't become too much of a struggle for you.

[22:14] Yes. This is what you call the worst of this life. The life we have. The worst of church life. There are some worst that underget church life.

[22:26] And so he warned them strictly. Paul had to warn Timothy. In 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 3. He warned Timothy. That is it. For 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 3.

[22:38] If anyone teach otherwise. And consent not to wholesome words. These are the wholesome words. Consent not to wholesome words. Even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. And to the doctrine which accords to godliness.

[22:51] There are people who come into the church and teach everything. But this. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13. It says that. In whom? After you believed.

[23:02] You were. If. No. No. No. No. No. Sorry. The verse before. No. That's it. Verse 13 is the one. In whom? He also trusted.

[23:13] After that he were. After that he heard what? The word. And what did he call the word of truth? The gospel of your salvation. I never saw it. I've taught this on TV.

[23:23] I was reading and I saw. The gospel of your salvation. There is. There are ways that carry their salvation. The gospel of your salvation. The gospel of your salvation.

[23:36] That if you are saved. What is the gospel that brought you the salvation? That's why I said. You cannot be saved. By hearing the wrong gospel. There's only one way to be saved.

[23:47] The true gospel. And unfortunately. Because the church don't have appetite for it. The world doesn't have appetite for it. Church leaders are beginning to downplay the words of the church life.

[23:59] The words of the church life. We are living the sound doctrine. We are living wholesome words. And focusing. And Bible says. I think in 2 Timothy chapter 4.

[24:10] Verse 3. Or chapter 3 verse 4. It says. They will have itchy ears. This is chapter 4 verse 3. For a time who can win. They will not endure sound doctrine.

[24:22] First Timothy chapter 1 verse 3 verse 4 verse 10 verse 11. Sweet. It's easy. First Timothy chapter 2 verse 13. Sweet.

[24:33] Titus chapter 1 verse 9. Titus chapter 1. Okay. Let's look. Titus 2. 1. Speak that the things which becomes of sound doctrine. What should we speak? The things that become of sound doctrine.

[24:45] In other words. NIV. You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. English standard version. But as for you.

[24:57] Teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. As for you. As for you. That's why I said that some people might not. If you invite your friend to church. And he doesn't like this kind of things.

[25:09] Where is of eternal life? From Jesus. It says. Let the redeemed of the Lord. Say so. Say so. Say so. Say so. Say so. Say so. Say so.

[25:19] Say so. Why has he redeemed us? All this. To the praise. Of the glory. Of his grace. So let's praise the glory of his grace.

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