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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. All right. Are you ready? Are you sure you are very, very, very ready?

[0:30] He said, I found your words and I did eat them. And your words became the joy and the rejoicing because I am called by your name.

[0:46] I found your word and I did eat them. The word of God, there's a difference between words of God and word of God.

[0:58] This is not words of God. So there are words inside that was spoken by Satan. So somebody asked him, so if you say the Bible is the word of God, are you trying to say everything inside was said by God?

[1:17] It is not everything inside. Judas spoke, isn't it? Prostitutes spoke. Thieves spoke. Evil people spoke. Jezebel spoke.

[1:28] She didn't even just speak. She taught. Jesus spoke. His disciples spoke. So it's not the words of God.

[1:42] We're boom. Not we're ba. We're boom de. That's the Latin. We're boom de. Word of God. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 says that.

[1:54] For the word of God. It says in Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12. It says for the word of God.

[2:05] We're talking about God's word. It's living and active. Somebody say active. Active. Jesus said in Matthew 4 verse 4.

[2:17] Man must not live by bread, but by every word. So when we talk about Hebrews 4 verse 12. Hebrews 4 verse 12.

[2:28] It says that it didn't say the words of God. It said the word of God. The word. This is the word of God.

[2:40] The word of God. His word. Is himself. The word of God is the expression of God.

[2:52] He said and the word was God. John chapter 1 verse 3. No sorry verse 1. The word was God.

[3:03] So God's word is God. And it says that. I did find thy word. Yes. And I ate it. Jeremiah chapter 15 verse 16.

[3:14] No. It says that. I did find thy words. Now here. This words. Is talking about. When I went into your word. The word you spoke to me. Were words that I found.

[3:26] I did find thy words. And I ate them. And thy word. Do you see that? Not thy words. Thy word. Thy word.

[3:37] Thy word was unto me. The joy. And the rejoicing. God shall die by earth. There's something about God's word. When it hits my system.

[3:49] I feel like exploding. I feel like rejoicing. I feel like screaming. Sorry. Yeah. What? You are dull.

[4:02] Towards God. Because his word has not found a place in you. If God's word finds a place in you. It keeps you hot. It keeps you set up on the inside.

[4:13] There's something on your inside. That is working on your outside. Some people can try and copy your behavior. But they can't copy your heart. I did find that word.

[4:27] So when we come to church. And it's time for God's word. It is the best time for many true seekers. True believers. That's the best time.

[4:39] Because there is a diverse. We're finding. It's the joy. And the rejoicing of my heart. Why? Because I am called by thy name.

[4:49] Oh Lord of. Oh Lord God of hosts. I am called by your name. So your words work on me. Work on me. Remember. Work on me. Work on me.

[5:03] The word works on me. When you come to church. And it's time for preaching. You have to say. Oh God. Work on me. Oh God. Oh come on. Is there someone here who was going to work on you?

[5:14] Put your hands together for Jesus. And take your seats. I can tell somebody is hungry for God's way.

[5:33] I can tell somebody is hungry for God's way. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ephesians chapter 3.

[5:46] Is that where we end it? Are you sure? Are you sure? Okay. Ephesians chapter 3.

[5:58] Verse 13. Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians chapter 13 says that. Wherefore. I desire that you faint not for my tribulations for you.

[6:15] Which is your glory. So I desire that you do not faint for my tribulations for you. Which. Which. Which.

[6:28] Is your glory. For this cause I bow my knees. Unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of whom the whole family in heaven and in earth.

[6:42] The whole family in heaven and earth is named. There's a few things to unpack here. Number one.

[6:55] The verse 13. I think I took a bit of time too. I went even off. Right? so primarily I spoke about my verse 13 again please he said if you faint not at my tribulations for you so I'm suffering for you and then I think that's what I focused more on that to work for God you must be willing and ready to suffer for people suffering for God is actually implied by what you are willing to suffer for people as long as they are getting God they are getting blessed so and I went on and spoke about all that but back to the text Ephesians chapter 3 verse 14 it says that let's go to 13 wherefore

[7:56] I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you which is your glory because of all the things that I've told you from chapter 1 of verse 1 how God has called me I think verse 2 spoke about how by revelation he made known to me the mystery ah Paul said me I've encountered God in diverse ways and verse verse verse 7 and verse 8 chapter 3 verse 7 and verse 8 therefore I have made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which God given unto me by the effectual working of his power verse 9 and to make it says that I am called to make all men see this is a very serious thing my assignment is to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which has been which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God something has been hid in God my assignment is to make all men see it at this time so he was telling them about the kind of assignment he's been given the kind of ministry is being given and it says this mystery is all about the Gentiles being fellow heirs of the same promise to the intent that by the church the wisdom manifold remember the manifold wisdom might the manifold wisdom might be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places and so this is all he's talking about his assignment what he's being called then he goes on to verse 13 verse 13 therefore because of this therefore

[9:51] I desire that you don't don't give up don't be worried about don't faint don't give up don't be worried about the things I'm suffering for you because of the things what I carry I will go through some things trying to get it over across to you so don't don't be discouraged about my don't faint about my sufferings don't faint about my tribulations which is for which is your glory my tribulation is your glory then he moves on further and said wherefore verse 4 says that for this cause I bow my knee listen if if you don't pray tribulation tribulations will stop you or tribulation will block those you have been assigned to if you don't pray so first of all prayer he said I don't want you to give up or to faint because of my tribulations which is your glory for this cause

[10:54] I'm praying I bow my now bow my knees is a phrase to signify the fact of prayer so prayer that's I pray I bow my knees I pray you understand that does that mean that is the only accepted way posture of prayer not necessarily not necessarily there are different postures of prayer which are reflected in the Bible Bible said Jesus lifted up his eyes towards heaven and prayed sometimes he lifted up his hands Paul said I bow my knees bowing of knees is a sign of humbling yourself before God okay so bow my knees going on your knees to pray is a sign of humbling yourself before God but some people can bow their knees and yet the knees of their hearts are not bowed so really it's counterproductive what is more important is that your heart is bow you bow your knees in your heart and sometimes it can show physically so said wherefore

[12:01] I bow my knees that means wherefore I pray that's what it means wherefore I bow my knees not to anybody not to a government I'm not sending a petition to a government but I bow my knee to the father of our lord Jesus Christ to the father of our lord Jesus Christ Jesus has got a daddy and he's the one we pray to Jesus said to the Pharisees my father works hitherto I work John 5 17 my father works hitherto I work John chapter 10 verse 30 I and the father of my father are one and when he said my father works hitherto I work they now wanted to kill him because the Bible says that he's not only breaking the Sabbath by calling

[13:01] God his father making himself God yeah so Jesus clearly they understand John chapter 5 verse 17 Jesus clearly knew that they understood the people understood that when he said he's the son of God he was trying to imply I'm the God of man so when a Muslim chooses to tell you Jesus never said he was God showed me in the Bible in the first list why do I need to show you in the Bible why do I need to show you in the Bible will you believe the Bible okay before I show you in the Bible can we start from somewhere else can I start you with John 3 16 can I if you believe you don't believe!

[13:49] why should I show you! in Bible do you understand what I say why are you asking me to show you something in the Bible you want to believe in the Bible okay then let's not start from where you want let's start from where the Bible want you to start from you don't know what you are talking about John 5 17 says that Jesus but Jesus answered and said my father works New King James Jesus answered and said my father has been working until now and I have been working that is working that's why I'm working you know why they ask him why did you heal somebody on a Sabbath day and his answer is that is working so I'm working and they said for this reason the Jews persecuted

[14:49] Jesus therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him why because he he not only broke the Sabbath day but also said that God was his daddy what's the implication making himself equal with God they knew what he meant he knew what he meant so if anyone tells you Jesus never said he's God he said he said it there anytime he said I'll ask my father or my father he's trying to say I'm God but when you say my father you are when you say God is my father you don't mean you are God when Jesus said so okay Jesus' sonship is different from our sonship Jesus' sonship is an eternal sonship so the eternal son remember

[15:49] God the son became the son of God so I know you don't you don't understand it or you get it God the son we have God the father God the son God the Holy Spirit these three are one God the one God is us you as we God is a community he's not just an individual person he's three persons in one he's a community that's why God can be love you need love you need somebody else to share love right Valentine's Day is coming so God is self content community so God the father God the son God the spirit and when he says that for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son is not the same as we being the sons of

[16:53] God John chapter 1 verse 12 as many as believe in him he gave them the power to become the sons of God now we being the sons of God is not the same way how Jesus is the only begotten of the father and John chapter 1 verse 18 said no one has seen God at any time but the only begotten the one who is from the bosom of God we are he had the DNA of God so God took part of not part of himself God out of himself became man so God chose to become man and watch this when he became man so you see the man walking by his God wrapped in humanity that's what the son of man means or the son of God means that's why Jesus said I am my father around whilst he was on earth in himself he was still God and at the same time he was man so they were dealing with the man not knowing that he actually is

[17:58] God in man so when he became a human being God brought himself down into man and then I always teach this it's a basic teaching of Christianity and then they crucified this man who is God and on the third day he rose again and then he ascended into heaven but this time he didn't leave the body he went with the man body man body because the man body never existed it started to exist in Mary's womb so in Mary's womb for the first time this body was formed not with the semen of a man but with the word of God the word of God fertilized the womb of Mary that's why it has the DNA of God and it fertilized the womb of Mary sorry the eggs in Mary's womb and after nine months and he said that thing is

[18:58] God he's God but every human being comes as a baby so even though he was God in humanity he was a baby baby fully God and fully baby human baby so God in a tiny human baby and the human baby started growing at spaghetti at bread at fish he started growing and he grew out to be the full normal man and this man is who looks like us we can identify with this man but we don't know God so he said if you want to see God look at me this man I am God in the flesh and then this man died on the cross it's not God who died but this man man resurrected and took him into heaven and sat at the right hand of God so there is a man for the first time seated at the right hand of majesty this is the gospel so

[20:04] Jesus became a human being and then when he became a human being he didn't revert to unhuman himself he became a human being forever so that we can be married to God when we are in Christ we are humans in God does that make sense when anybody say I'm born again that means you are in God and watch this so anytime Jesus said when he was talking on earth said God was my father he's talking from the capacity of God in the flesh but when he resurrected he died and repaid for the sins of man and resurrected now for the first time the human nature has now taken on God the human nature watch this in Romans chapter 8 verse 29 it talks about how that he might be the first born among so he was first born first

[21:12] Colossians chapter 1 verse I think 17 18 talking about first born from the dead the image of the invisible God the first born of all things let's go to verse 17 let's move on I'll show you something from there you may have the prayer verse 18 verse 18 says that he's the head of the church who is the beginning the first born beginning of what beginning of the church life beginning of human beings in God so what I'm trying to say is the human nature which we are fully which he also partake of he partook in the human nature and the human nature that he had he took human nature into God so he became the first human nature that was introduced into God now he became the first born amongst many of us who are following so as we follow we all now are the sons of God but not like when he came on earth before the death he was the son of

[22:15] God in a different way than when he died talking about the humanity so the son of God in the flesh into God and that introduction of humanity into God is what we share in that's why we can now call him God our father do you understand what I'm saying the reason why we can call God our father is because Jesus came died and resurrected and when he resurrected for the first time first born from the dead human being has resurrected from the ashes of Adam from that Adamic nature something has emerged out of the Adamic nature to become the prototype for all of us to follow that's why he's the forerunner he's our forerunner he's the captain of our salvation he's the captain of our salvation he's the forerunner he's the pioneer he's our leader he's

[23:18] God our savior so then Jesus Christ is the son of God in fact in Romans chapter 1 verse 4 his bible talks about how he was declared to be the son of God that is what I'm talking about Romans chapter 1 shall we all read it together you might not make so much sense until we go let me start for you an apostle of God God to be apostle of God separated unto the gospel of God concerning which is promised before through the prophets of the holy scriptures concerning the gospel is concerning do you see that concerning who his son concerning who his son this is even interesting that I'm going off from Ephesians is that okay just a little!

[24:16] the gospel is concerning his son his son Jesus Christ our Lord who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh you know what we say he's the seed of David you know what that means he's the son of David he came from David's loyans but he said his son Jesus who son Jesus the top one concerning his son who son God son but he said the seed of David so is David son is God son in the humanity is David son in divinity is God son for God so that he gave it now what I'm trying to say is that!

[24:57] his son is John 3! Sunday John 1 18 Sunday John 1 18 talks about how no one has seen God at any time but the only begotten of the father is the only one who came from the father so Romans 4 1 is talking about the only begotten 1 3 1 3 his son 1 3 concerning the only begotten of the father Jesus Christ is the only begotten of father who was born born here God cannot be born right but born here is the humanity when he became human being he was born according to the flesh is there according to the flesh the seed of David now look at what follows not that was not the end after he was born in the flesh according to according to in the flesh he was born he was born born of the seed of

[26:05] David according to the flesh after he was born of the seed of David according to the flesh that was not there something happened and he was declared but he was already son the second son is the human Jesus he was declared the son of God then because there are two sons we are talking about here two sons of God if he was already the son of God why would he be declared to be the son of God according to the spirit of holiness by day if he had not died he couldn't have been the son of God in that second one you understand that so that's what I've been trying to say that he took humanity and he dragged humanity to the cross went into the grave and on the third day humanity resurrected as the son of God as the son of God as the son of

[27:06] God shout hallelujah as the son of God now that son of God became the first born from the dead first born amongst many brethren so that declaration that was made on him is what applies to us is someone getting it wow you're preaching if I shout very loud hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah!

[27:46] hallelujah! declared to be the son of God according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead how could he die if he wasn't a human being so this declaration was after he had become a human being he was declared the son of God which one he was the son of God no that son of God is God in the flesh but the God in the flesh the flesh into sonship status so now after the resurrection it's not only his God side which was the son of God in a special way but now his humanity his humanity which we can now identify with because the brethren because the children Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 because the children verse 13 because the children were partakers of flesh and blood in as much as the children have partaken of flesh and blood he himself likewise shared in the same so he can identify with us

[29:02] Hebrews chapter 2 verse 17 talks about how he has to be made like us that therefore in all things he had to be made like us for so he can be a faithful and a merciful not only faithful but merciful merciful means you know if let's say you are working on a train station to catch people who steal and you saw a student who was he has lost his pass and he just had to be in lectures and it's like he stole and you caught him he said please please don't do anything to me I will lose my student status and then you remember you were a student and for one month you were jumping and so as soon as he speaks about today

[30:02] I'm going for it guess what immediately you know what that means you know that if you report him he'll be deported because you have a friend that was deported and you should have even been deported but for some reason you escaped so when you hear that person talking immediately you just you know you have done something wrong but you knew that you could have done worse in you don't struggle to have mercy on people you can identify with that's the point I'm trying to make you don't struggle to have mercy Bible says that he had to be made like us so that he might be a merciful and a faithful high priest so when he says that for which cause for this cause I bar my knees to the father of our

[31:05] Lord Jesus Christ now that's a strong statement he's talking about the father we can identify with we can identify this is not the father of Jesus of Nazareth the father of our Lord Jesus Christ the risen Lord anytime you talk about the risen!

[31:25] we can identify with the risen Lord or he can identify with us because when he rose from the resurrection he became the firstborn amongst many brethren he became the firstborn from the dead and we can identify with that so it's that therefore I bow for this cause I bow my knees to the father Paul used to like using this phrase the father of Jesus the father of our Lord Jesus the father of our Lord Jesus the father of he is trying to draw attention to something that we can identify with the father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of blessed be God Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 blessed be the God and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places through Christ Jesus the father of our so he said for this cause

[32:29] I don't want you to faint because of my tribulations so for this cause I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ that all let's see what he said again of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named that's a lot of heaven and earth the family is did he say the whole all the families he's not talking our different families there's a family in heaven there's a family on earth it's not families in heaven or families on earth cause there are no families in heaven but there is a family there's a community there's a community there's a community in heaven there are some of them their names is called Peter it's called John it's Abraham it's the saints of old they are all a family waiting for us the family is in two sides you know there's some family a big part of them is in

[33:35] UK another part of them is in Nigeria Japan!

[33:58] one God and Father of all.

[34:12] He's one God and Father of all. God our Father. Let's all say that together. Oh, come on, say it louder. If you are not born again, don't say it.

[34:25] If you are born again, say it louder. Say it the loudest. Jesus said, when you pray, our Father.

[34:36] Say our Father. That's the starting point of the connection between heaven and earth. The fatherhood of God.

[34:49] So then, you are not authorized to access God or go towards God if he is not your father. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 18.

[35:00] Through whom we both have access. Did you see that? Did you see what I'm seeing on the screen? For through him, through Jesus, we both have access by one spirit.

[35:13] Did you see the Trinity there? Yes. The Trinity is just shouting out loud there. Through Jesus, we, Jews and Gentiles, both have access through the spirit, by one spirit, unto the Father.

[35:31] Father. We have access to the Father. Not everybody have access, but we have got access. Why?

[35:42] Because the connection point between heaven and earth is identifying God as Father. If God is not your father, you are disconnected from heaven.

[35:59] Heaven can't do anything on earth until he finds people who are connected to heaven. Never forget this. Some of you, you face persecution within your family and within your friends, particularly your family.

[36:13] It's okay. It's okay. Why? Because you are the connecting point between that family and heaven. Connecting point between that family.

[36:26] So Satan will use your household people to persecute you, attack you, and then believe it. Oh, this church, church, this, all this, church, this, they don't know what. Jesus said, Luke chapter 24, verse 34, 23, verse 34, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

[36:48] They talk by heart. They don't know that you are heaven's statement, heaven's access into that family, into that family, into that family, into that community.

[37:03] Because of our presence, we are the little light. In fact, in Philippians chapter 2, verse 15 and 16, it said, we shine as luminous that ye may be blameless and harmless sons of God without rebuke in this, in the midst of a crooked and a perversion amongst whom you shine as light in this world.

[37:32] That word light is luminous. We are not light. We reflect the light of God. We shine as luminous. Luminous. It's not a light. But it reflects.

[37:43] It can retain light and reflect the light. And it said, we are like luminous in this crooked and perverse. When they say perverse, perverse means you see hair, you say, you say it is skin.

[37:54] you see a white man, you say it is a black man. That's perverse. You see a mother, you say it is a baby girl.

[38:07] That is what Jesus had when he resurrected from the dead. Declared to be the son of God so that we can also be the sons of God. Once we are in Christ, we become, the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation among whom you shine as lights in the world.

[38:32] Shout hallelujah. Hallelujah. That is what we are. So, we are the sons of God. We are the children of God shining in this world.

[38:44] God. And he says that we have a family here and we have a family in heaven. And both the family here and the family in heaven is named after the father.

[38:58] So, I bow my knees to this father who is responsible for our community. Someone get to see something. This father who is responsible for our community.

[39:11] Paul said, I bow my knees to him. The father who, who is the father who, who, who, the family on this, the father of our love, Jesus Christ, verse 15, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

[39:31] Shaka Tabana. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. Verse 17, my God, look at the prayer topic.

[39:42] That's Christ. That's my prayer topic. That Christ may dwell. Are you not born again? Christ already in our heart. He said, no, this one is another dimension. That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, in your heart by faith that ye be rooted and grounded in love.

[40:06] Nothing can shake you. You are rooted. botanical terminology. Grounded architectural terminology. Combined. So, it's trees that are rooted.

[40:18] Buildings are grounded. Buildings are inorganic. Trees are organic. So, on one hand, we are buildings of God.

[40:31] If you remember, you remember? Chapter 2. Chapter 2. Being built into a chapter 2 verse, verse, verse, verse, verse 2 and verse 20, 21, 22. We are being built.

[40:42] Who being, the whole build. No, let's go 22. 22 is the one I'm looking for. In whom also, we are being built together for a habitation of God. Being built together.

[40:53] So, we are a building actually, but we are not just a building. We are also like trees. We are organic entities. So, we are rooted.

[41:04] It says that my prayer is that Christ will dwell in your heart by faith. That word dwell, I've told you a few times, the Greek word is katoikyo. The katoikyo feels at home.

[41:17] Some of you, Christ is not at home in your life. Look at what you were watching last night. Look at where you were last week. Makadoosh! Makadoosh!

[41:31] What I do understand, people who are in church and are still in clubs. Night club. Night club. At a party, yeah. You are in church and still in night club.

[41:46] You love Christ and still you have a lover. Yeah. It seems like a tautology oxymoron. You cannot love two masters at a time.

[42:00] Some of you, you love your boyfriend more than Jesus. And yes, you say it's an ex. But really, it's not ex in your heart. He has not exited anywhere.

[42:12] He's still alive. He has access. He actually feels at home.

[42:28] He feels more at home in your heart than Jesus feels at home in your heart. Drugs still feel at home in your heart.

[42:41] Sex still feel at home in your heart. Greed still feels at home in your heart. Lying! Lying! Lying! Lying! Lying! So it says that that Christ will katoikyo in your heart by faith that ye being grounded and rooted and grounded in love.

[43:03] Permit me to comment on this because a lot of people are, they make a lot of noise about Christians and love, love. what's love got to do got to do with it?

[43:17] Love! Love! You say you're Christian but you don't have love! You don't have love! Even when they have misbehavior messing up, most people are using that phrase or that word love to control others.

[43:31] That Jesus will feel at home. Let's go back to the text. That Jesus will dwell in your heart by faith being rooted and grounded in love.

[43:43] When they talk about love, this love we are talking about love for God which affects the way you treat people. When you love God, no one has to tell you you have to be loving, you have to be kind, you have to be merciful.

[43:57] Your love for God translates in the way you treat people. It's always to show in the way you treat people. some of us, we are born again but we are still so mean.

[44:11] Mean. You can't forgive. Mean. You can't forgive. Mean. When we are saying you are mean, we have to squeeze our seeds. Mean.

[44:25] That Christ will dwell in your heart by faith that you be rooted and grounded in love. Ah, that's where we are going. like that. May be able to comprehend not by yourself.

[44:39] Comprehension means understanding. True understanding. You can grasp something properly intellectually. And it says that you may be able it starts it's a journey.

[44:55] Christ will dwell in your heart by faith first. Then you will be rooted and grounded in love. You may be able to comprehend and even that not just with yourself. Because with that love you cannot do church together.

[45:08] Your love for God is what makes you accommodate other brethren. Because you know some people can be very annoying. How many of you know? Some people can be very annoying, very nosy, and they will be concentrated on their life.

[45:21] They always want to know what you are doing. Nosy. And some people are gossips. They don't have any life to live. People's problem is their life. People's issues is their life.

[45:34] And sometimes when you are not that way inclined, they really put you off. But if they are in church, you must be rooted in love, in the love for God, such that you become a little bit blinded towards all the nonsense that you can accommodate about that.

[45:51] That others can accommodate them, but you can handle it. Because you don't focus on that, you focus on Christ. Then you can be able to comprehend with all the saints, not just by yourself, able to comprehend with all the saints what is the depth.

[46:07] You want to go deep, you can't go by yourself. What's the depth? What's the length? How far? What's the breadth? How wide? And what's the height? How high?

[46:18] These things you are talking about is deep. It's wide. It's far. It's high. You can't get close to it by yourself. Christ first of all must dwell in your heart so that when you are rooted and grounded in love with others, you'll be on a journey of comprehension.

[46:36] How wide, how, how, the width, the length, the height, the depth, and not just that, and to know the love of God and that you will know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.

[46:53] See, so you can't be taught that one. It's not intellectual. It's God. You will know what goes beyond knowledge. Sounds like a tautology. That you will know the love of Christ that passes knowledge.

[47:09] Give us New King James, please. Thank you, Jesus. Somebody say thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that ye may, ah, ah, this is the biggest one.

[47:24] Years ago when I saw it, I said, ow, ow, ow. I have to hold my back before I can see that one. Ayay, ayay, ayay. And you'll be filled with the fullness of God.

[47:35] That you'll be filled with the fullness of God. You are a simple man walking but you are filled with the fullness.

[47:46] it's a journey. You can't get there without Christ dwelling in your heart by faith. You can't get there without being rooted and grounded in love.

[47:59] You can't get there without being rooted and grounded in love with the same to be able to comprehend the depths, the width, the length, the heights and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.

[48:14] So when people are talking, you are listening to them but you are in a different realm. You are in a different realm. You are not an honorary man. You are a man full of God.

[48:25] I tell you. You are a woman filled with God. You don't have to throw tantrums but sometimes your quietness and your gentleness begins to convict people.

[48:40] It's not your words but there's something in you. Sometimes you don't have to talk. Just your presence is causing a wave. Why? Because you are filled with the fullness of God.

[48:52] He said that is my agenda. I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. That's my prayer agenda that ultimately you will be filled with the fullness.

[49:08] That is deep. That is too much. That's a big match. That's a big match. That's a big match. How can a new man be filled with God's fullness? Even an ounce of God is too much.

[49:21] An ounce of God. The Bible says the whole earth is full of his glory. It's like we want to pump all the water, even not in the sea, into your house.

[49:35] Even if your house is as big as here, or your living room is as big as here, it can't contain the water in the thames. How can you be filled? It's in your Bible.

[49:47] You shall be filled that you will be filled with all. The fullness again? What's the meaning of that? Is that a possibility?

[50:00] Listen, in your spirit, your spirit is very supernaturally elastic. Wow. elastic. It's like the birth canal.

[50:16] A whole human being can come through the birth canal, but it's just a normal person walking. Sometimes I wonder, how can this baby come out? It's too big. And sometimes twins can't even come.

[50:29] Triplets can come. Quadruplets can come. your spirit is expandable. It has no limits because your spirit is a regenerated spirit.

[50:42] It has no limits. That's one. Somebody learn this. Your spirit is a regenerated spirit. So, it's only your spirit is the only aspect of your humanity that can accommodate God.

[50:59] Why? Because God is a spirit. John chapter 4 verse 24. God is a spirit. He cannot stay in your mind.

[51:11] His word can be on your mind, but God himself cannot stay in your mind. There is only one place. Even the word is not stored in your mind. That word have I hid in my heart.

[51:23] Psalm 119 verse 11. That word have I hid in my heart. Keep your heart with all diligence. for out of it are the issues of life. It takes your spirit man.

[51:35] There's something. Hallelujah. For some reason, I just remembered, I missed something in the verse 6. I don't know how I missed this. Ah, that he will grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might through his spirit in your inner man.

[51:54] in your inner man. The word translated in is also rendered into. The right rendering is into your inner man.

[52:10] Strengthen with might by his spirit to your inner man. So, ah, inner man, what's the meaning of that?

[52:22] Ah, where's your inner man? You have an inner man. Yes! If you're not born, you have to spend your time as a believer building your inner man.

[52:33] Some of you, all there is to is your outer man. That's a practical unbeliever. That's a practical unbeliever. God, unbeliever's inner man is dead. But you, when you are alive, it's quickened you.

[52:48] It's brought you alive from the dead in your inner man. 2 Corinthians 4, verse 16, 2 Corinthians 4, verse 16, it says, even though our outward man perishes, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, yet, our inward man is renewed day by day.

[53:12] So, when somebody sees you, they are making a big mistake to only handle you from your outer man. Because you have an inner man and it's better, choose a wife by focusing on her inner man.

[53:26] Choose a husband by, how do I know the inner man? You yourself focus on developing your inner man. Because the Bible says, deep collect onto deep. Iron sharpens iron. So, if your inner man is alive, the Bible says that 1 Corinthians chapter 2, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

[53:44] comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Many believers, they are not, it doesn't matter what I say about outer man, they forget it so quickly because they are so poised and focused on the inner man.

[54:03] As I'm receiving, I'm speaking, they are receiving with their inner man. They are receiving with their inner man. Those are the ones who when they hear God's word, and later on they talk to a friend, but why did the pastor say that?

[54:14] They are wondering, what did he say? Because you were hearing some wrong things, because you are listening with your outer man. Inner man, the work of the spirit is your inner man.

[54:28] So he said, I'm praying that God will strengthen you. You are too weak. You're too weak to be able to accomplish God's assignment agenda, because without your strengthening of your inner man, you will end up behaving like any other person.

[54:45] Samson, Samson, Samson, Samson, if you cut my hair, I'll be like any other man. In another way of putting it in the modern day Christian language, if you refuse to feed my spirit, I'll be like any, have you ever seen a Christian fornicating?

[55:05] How many of you have heard about a Christian fornicating before? When you see a Christian who has fallen into fornication, doing pornography, and doing something, it doesn't mean they are not a Christian, they are not Christian, sorry, that person is not a Christian, it's just that person didn't build their inner man, so they have become like any other person.

[55:23] Some of you, sometimes you know you will pray like any other man, it's not even in sin, but you just know that you are not praying, you are not reading your Bible. Sometimes you feel like I don't want to go to church, and you stay at home, you say I watch online, you say outer man, outer man, outer man, you are living from the outer court.

[55:45] Man is a spirit, he has a soul, and lives in a body. You have to, every believer's job is to keep feeding yourself, so when you read the word of God, and when you hear the word of God, what is happening to you is you are feeding your inner man, we don't go to the Bible for information.

[56:12] No! We don't go to the Bible for information. It's not a textbook. It's one, a hymn book.

[56:22] Two, it's a seed bag. It's a bag full of seeds. And three, it's a feeding throw. The sheep grow and eat from it.

[56:36] Man must not. But by every word, you go to God's word to feed. That is why I taught you that a genuine teacher sent from God doesn't yet teach, but feeds through teaching.

[56:49] Feed the flock of God. I'll give you shepherds after my heart. Who will feed you? Feed! Feed! So this is not for information.

[57:01] this is not for intellectual exercise primarily. This is for nourishment. Jezebel can teach, but cannot feed.

[57:12] You remember? The Nicolaitans can teach, but cannot feed. Balaam can teach, but cannot feed. Satan's deep things can teach, but cannot feed.

[57:25] it takes the one indwelt by the spirit, speaking through the inspiration of the spirit to be able to feed another believer.

[57:36] Where? Not in the mind, but on the inner mind. And it begins to affect your thinking. Affects not just your thinking, your behavior. It affects everything you are comfortable about.

[57:48] Because you have been fed. We come to church not to dance, even though we can dance in churches. It's nice. In the same way, some people preach, but don't feed.

[58:02] There are preachers who don't feed. There are preachers who don't feed. There are preachers who don't feed. How? One, their inner man is not engaged. What they are teaching is not in their inner man.

[58:15] It's on their mind. The Bible says that out of the treasures of a man's heart is speaking.

[58:29] When you start speaking, what is loaded in your heart is what is beginning to pump. You are pumping out. It's like when it's flooding somewhere and they take the pumping machine.

[58:40] Whatever water is there, if the water is colored, if it has frogs, if it has whatever, that's what is being pumped out. So when you are speaking, you are speaking from your mind.

[58:51] But what is in your heart, your mouth is just like the tube that pumps your tongue, is the generator, the machine that pumps through your mouth.

[59:03] But it's not pumping out. Where is just the container? What is your spirit is what is being pumped out into those who are listening? God, he said that he will strengthen you by his spirit into your inner man, that you being grounded, that's where I jumped into.

[59:21] Inner man, say inner man. When your inner man is built up, unbelievers sometimes don't understand, but you feel so good. You feel so, oh, we lift the Christian life from the inner man.

[59:36] We lift the Christian life, you are struggling in your Christian life, come on, beef up your inner man. Build up your inner man. In Jude, verse 20, it says, build up, building up yourself in the most holy faith.

[59:51] Build up yourself. Build up yourself. Build up yourself. He who prophesies, builds up the church. Build up yourself.

[60:03] Anytime you are struggling with temptation, it's an indicative that your inner man is weak. It's not because you're a bad person. How many of you have struggled with temptation before?

[60:15] Yeah. It's Christian. It's Christian. Those who have never struggled with temptation, you are not Christian because nothing tempts you. You're actually living in it. Do you understand that? Have you seen a fish drowning before?

[60:30] Even Jesus was tempted. Two points. What kind of hypocrisy is this? People who say, I never get tempted, have not actually started living their spiritual life.

[60:43] a fish can never be drowned because it's already in water. It's when you start living on earth, that's where you can be drowned in water.

[60:56] Someone catching something? Is this why I like church and I like the word of God? I just like that. What about the word of God?

[61:07] It's too nice. It's too sweet, too nice. It's true, it's true. When you are genuine Christian, some of these things get you so much, it's like, oh my goodness. You don't even know whether to shout, okay.

[61:19] You don't know whether to shout, you don't know whether to die. That Christ will dwell in your heart by faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints, the depth, the breadth, the length with, and to be able to know the love of Christ that passes knowledge and be filled, that you be filled with the fullness of God.

[61:51] Let me just touch a bit on the fullness of God. At every juncture in your life, there is a package of God for that season in your life.

[62:06] And many people run their lives without having the fullness of it. But when Christ dwells in your heart and you are grounded and rooted in love, you comprehend the love of Christ which is beyond knowledge.

[62:24] You'll be filled with the fullness of God, not the entirety of God, but the totality of whatever God plans for you in a season. You'll not run short of it. You'll be filled with the fullness of God for your life.

[62:37] alleluia. Then he says that and now unto him who is able to All right, let's all read here loud.

[63:03] We are reading both 20 and 21. Let's go. That is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

[63:18] Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, well without end. Come on, give Jesus praise.

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