Thanking God For Who He Is

And counters in the quality of our lives and gounds going to revive us the utility of life without God. Now that we activate pop Moss and polygu in our life, I'm just going to restore intimacy and felishy. The land of Zebel, the land of Naftali, by the way of the sea beyond Jordan, Galley of the Gentiles. The people which start in darkness saw a great light. And to them which start in the region and the shadow of death, light is stronger. Encounters come to restore intimacy. Encounters come to reveal to us the futility of life. If you don't have a relationship with God, anything of value can become God to you. Welcome to encounter Jesus ministries, sustaining and experiential knowledge of God and walking in the fullness of our eternal or the now. Listen to God's servants, apostle or look for Michael as it takes us through an encounter with the world. I just want to say share some things very calmly with you. Tonight is the night of dancing, so the power of God is today will be engender through high praise and dance. But I just want to say a few things to help our understandings. I won't I won't as stand much, but that's a brain perspective. First, it's very easy to become a religious man when you are caught in the world of Christian activities without understanding and without conviction. This is one of the major reasons why we teach the world of God to help us become And one of the ways I actually see these things is when people testify, when most of the testimonies are not. Of course, who did this? Apostle did that? But I learned this, I engage this, and I got this with so then you know people are really growing because men must become what you see that does not just happen. There's the protocol, and there are four major protocols that makes for people to become. Everything we do must be rafted into these coourtings if we will become mighty in God. Number one is understanding. Whatever you do in this kingdom, make sure there's an acute understanding. Power in it. When things are done without understanding, we can't even tell if God is to take the credit. And in the pace of controversy and crisis, you will find us trying many things because there's no precision. We don't know the one that produced the results. And because we don't know the one that produced the result, even when we are thanking, God is a religious activity, and so one of the things that must be prime in your Christian work is an acute and accurate understanding of the ways of the spirit. That's why the Bible says to buy the truth and to sell it, not buy it whatever it will costs you to access truth. Scriptures reveal that we must lay hold on it. The first thing is understanding everything we do. Make sure you understand why and. How we do it. Number two is the right consciousness. Spiritual things must be done with a time of consciousness. That's where the power is released. Two people can dance, one can release function, another with sweat and go home. Two people can pray. One we receive instruction at send in the realm of God, make progress in life. Another were sweat and go home. The difference is the consciousness you're sustaining on account of the understanding. Your viet over time and so power was teaching you. Colosi as the three from us one to three, here's what for said, submitting to us the necessity of consciousness this is not my teaching, and just trying to establish a point before I enter my teaching tonight. He said it y then be reasoning with Christ's that seek those things which are at bold where Christ is sited at the right end of God. Your focus should be somewhere. It's not enough to know that you are reasoning with Christ. You can understand the whole doctrine of salvation, yet not prosper unless as you sha your focused on Christ. This is why many Christians they can explain to you, quote and recite new creation realities, the power of the resurrection, but their life or really because although they know their reason with Christ. But their attention is not on the things above. If you go. Forward invest two Paul, but trust it a bit further here what is said helping can well be first because of time. If they set your. Affection on the things above, not on the things on the earth. This is how you manifest the fullness of the resurrection. You can know it, you can have eternal life and not. Experience it except as you set your affection on the. Things about, not the things on the earth. You went further investory, therefore you are there. This is the mindset if you begin to set your affection on the things above. It to not be a recitation, it will be common awareness. You are dead with Christ and your life is hed with Christ. In gold. You are dead with Christ. So there is a consciousness you build through how you channel your attention. That's why you are teaching. In Romance at eight from vers five and six, is said to be canally minded is dead. He's not talking to one believers, He's talking to Christians born again Tom speaking. It's about to be cannily minded is dead. It's about to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Many Christians have their wrong consciousness. That is why Christianity to them is the religious activity. And then when you build the right consciousness, you must tap into actions actions. If you don't take action, you cannot have results. He said in Jans two, nineteen and twenty and twenty six. A man can have faith, but that faith can be dead. He said, Thou believe it if not agree with your fate, your faith is very correct. Thou believers that. There's only one God, he said, Thou do ast where God sad. The devil also believes. He even believes to the point of trembling. So it's not enough to have faith, it's not enough to believe. He went to verse twenty. He showed you what you must do if you without commanded result. Thou believers that there's only one God out doors where the devil to believe on trembles verse twenty It called you a vain man if you don't have actions. He said, but without know, oh, vain man, that faith without. Works is dead. So there are many people who have faith, but the faith is dead because there's no action. In verse twenty six, he said, as. The body without the spirit is dead, it says, so also faith without works is dead. In this same scripture, James reientilated James one verse twenty two. Say the way James put it, I'm showing you something. Listen, there's so much God wants to do with us this year, but it will come with a lot of understanding and a lot of actions. Except what period doers of the world are not here? As only deceiving your own selves? Are you saying that many Crystians are deceived. They understand the world, they're excited about this their job. They even build the consciousness, but there's no action because it's self deceit Pa do us of the world and not here as only. It doesn't matter how much i'msong, you feel, you can fall down, you can cry, you can jump up. Last on the displace was boiling with fire. But I will show you why many don't make progress. One of the things we emphasized last Sunday was to win souls, and we said everybody to at least win one soul. If you took a census, now, you'll be shocked that less than thirty percent one souls. Meanwhile, they were excited. The fire was burning, everybody was jumping everybody. People were rolling on the floor, people were shouting, but there was no action. So at the end of the day, it ends at the sum and they can continue that routine for ten years. They now come back and they're questioning God, why this is why faith without work? This dead investy three to the way he puts it, I'm reading to Vest twenty five. He said, For if any man be a hera of the world, I'm not a doer. He said, he is like onto a man beholding his natural face in a glass vertuary. Four. He said, for him beholdered himself and go at his way straight away. Forget what manner of man. He was. The moment he leaves the service, the excitement dies. Everything ends there he forgets everything invest twenty five. He said, for whoso look get into the perfect law of liberty and continue daring, he'll be not a forget who hearer they do it. He said that man shall be blessed. There is say how to do spirituar things? All the wise you will be a single religious man. What do you understand? What consciousness do you su stay? And how much action powers that consciousness? These are the three keys that nick men become in God. I didn't just come to you and tell you, let's winstoes, Let's winstow. After I preached all of us third the fire, I went and want those I learned that from the UK this morning yesterday I was in Wales by this time preaching. When I was. Done preaching, at least two hundred people made commitment to Jesus. Say, if you want to surrender. Your life completely to Jesus, for him to become the master of your life. More than two hundred people. Tomorrow I'll be preaching in a dose stage for the life of tru Say I'm too short. At least one thousand people will give your heart to Christ. Because I'm standing on the platform of a giant glory to God. You are not yet invited by personal idea debut. So go to your street. I'm invited, so I'll be there. I will return and in today's time I'll be in Unil pretain to students. At least four. Hundred to five hundred will be served, and I will live there to with Cadu to pread for Passalvesuma killd At least pristy people will be saved. So this week already have estimated more than one thousand those you think you become just by hearing and shouting. It doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that. You have to understand it. If you understand it, maintain it in your mind. It becomes your consciousness. When it becomes your consciousness, follow it with action. See we are hearing too much and we are applying so little. This is why it looks like what we are doing has been reduced to religion. Christianity is not a religion, is debility expressed through humanity. Christianity is God manifested through human form. This is what this whole movement is all about. That everyone of us will be able to host. God in an needy, suitable manner, so that we. Indeed become witnesses. Many never with thought and emphasize prayer. You're being shocked that throughout last week some people didn't pray for up to thirteen minutes. It's good that you came to church to be instructed, but coming to church to be a weight if you don't translate the instruction to watchu. We've thought about so willed. Many never win thules, We've thought about giving. Many never give, and then five years later they want to become giants. And when they don't become. They're either accusing God or they're accusing church. Give God a break. You are the reasoning for where you are. Every Body was wake up. If God how to bless you, then it's time for you to take action. If you don't, you will have yourself to play tonight this Thanksgiving some people get for Thanksgiving. What you will say? Say hallelujah? You say no? Say it? Where? Then will say? What is your problem? I thought, as the fly liver, really are trying to get people to self. Oh dear Lord, listen, please dear this. This is not a joke. Your life depends on these things you are learning. The outcome of your destiny depends on these things you are learning. So you must take it up aggressively. Aggressively because if you're tomorrow be what you have envisaged, it to be a function of the actions corresponding actions you are taking today. Praise God having said that, Let me go to my message that was a body? Or do we just start dancing? How many of you you already know what I'm giving the botto left? Do we just go into Thanksgiving? Let me hear for for fifteen minutes, No worry to be fifteen me. Okay, let's do twenty. Let's do twenty minutes. Hey, hannahsy Halley. Can you work on this town? It's straight demos bbni way Hannay Halley, Hello ya hanahty Holley, he yo ba very war oh very. Warmoiway parmaty halleh ya hanaty halle We hope verybo remost anacy hanay. We hove aw very well very. They are four major reasons why we thank God, and today I we talk two of them. Number one, the. Best reason with thank God is because of who he eats. If you know who God is, it's okay on worship, it's okay on gratitude, it's we. Occay on thanksgiving. The second reason we thank God is because of what he does. If you know and anot. Ledge what God does, you will have no choice for to thank him. In fact, you can outdo God because before you acknowledge and realize to. Thank him, he would have done much more. In fact, you can only thank Him for the ones you are aware of, and there are mainly God is doing that you are not aware of. The Bible said. He saves you from the arrows that fly by day, and the destructions that are waiting noonday, and then the petilens that deschoice at night. So there are tacts that God is shielding you from even while you are sleeping. There are many things God is doing for you that you will get to discover in heaven. So you can only thank Him for the one you know, and the ones you don't know is much more than the one you are aware of. So the second reason with thank God is because of what he does. The third reason with thank God is because of what it enables us to do for him and for others. Because if it were not for God, there is so much we cannot do. Man in himself is a being of evil because it's falling and corrupt. The reason we can do good and do good for God and others is because it is Him that work getting us but to will and to do of His good pleasure. So when you do good, don't God thinking you a one specter being who is different from others. Is because God helped you. So the reason we thank God is because of what He enables us to do. And then the first reason we thank God is because of what we see Him do in the lives of others. When you look around you and you find the favor of God in the lives of people, if your heart is filed, you're a thank God. But unfortunately there are many who become jealous when God does good for others. That's an evil heart. When you find God prospering people is an occasion to thank him. Tonight, I just want to share with us basically on the effect to aspect who God is and what God does. Maybe at another time I will talk about what He enables us to do and what he does for others, and why we thank him and what we gain when we thank Him for such things are we together? So who is God? I know you have got to trust for a long time. Who is God? This is a foundation of theology, is the thirty of God. It's inexhaustible for two reasons. Number one, even the one that can be cognitively articulated we take as to exhaust. And then there's so much of God that we cannot articulate cognitively because it's an attempt to study an infinite being with his finite mind, so to a very largest and the Bible said, his ways are packed finding out. But you see, we if we worship God correctly, there is a measure of him. We have to look. Jesus was speaking to this American woman and say, you worship what you know? Not? He said, what we worship who we know. So there is a nature of the knowledge of God we must apprehend if our worship must be accurate. And so we want to define the concept of the being called God, at least in a very skeletal way in this service to help justify they need to worship and thank Him even tonight. So who is God? Exodus three vers. Fourteen. That is one of the scriptures that give us a very holistic. Definition of the concept of God, God and three Moses. When he wanted to explain himself to Moses, and he said I am that I am, he said. Stay unto them, I am have sent you. This definition of God captured God in the context, and that context is a self existent. And eternal one. So God the inner, self existent one. That definition affects two major components. That only God can sustain a tanner in the sense that he's the only one who did not begin, and it's the only one who has no end. So even beginning is a reference in God. That's why you read your book, your Bible. Jesus chater one best one. He said in the beginning. God said. That means God pre exists the beginning, So he is a tanner in nature. Beginning began in him. And then his self existence. What that means is that every other beings existence is dependent on God. God is the only one whom the existence does not dependent depend on any other. It means that without you, there will be God. Without the act, there will be God. Without the universe, there will be God. But without God there will be not in So God is the etna self existent one, the one who was, who is and who is to come, the one without the beginning and without an end, and the one who whose existence were runs the existence of every other person. This is good. The Bible presents God to be now. In order to understand this in the more cognitive sense, God has to be defined as creator, because it is self existent. It means everything that pleas must have been created by him. You know, I began sharing with you some arguments about the existence of God last week, and I show you how that it is through creation that. His existence is substantiated in the first place. So God as self existence is defined as creator. So Jenesis just the one said in the Guineas that. One God created the head, wounds and the earth. And he went for that to say, and the earth was without form and void, and nobody could do anything about it, because there's only one creator. If you did created your guy, because you would know we are in the foundation of the earth, were at the killers of creation. Some twenty four said, oh God, see when you read some scriptures you you will come alive. Look at some twenty four. Best one. Let's let's let let me show you some majesty, some majesty, because some of you don't know why we want we're giving tanks is that the earth is the loss and the full net tear off the war and all that. Even they are actually spiders belong to God. Sapens belong to God. Every spirit belongs to God. The earth and the fullness and all that were thereing. He now went to bed to hear what he said. He therefore the found for he had founded it upon the sea and established it upon the flaws. He was the one who determined we're the s were right? My goodness, what authority? When Joe wanted to challenge him, If who is this that d is counsel by wars without knowledge? Is they declare? Now, if you have understanding, where were you when I established the foundations of the earth? We are at the bill as erected. You think things just happened. No, there's an invincible power that dostains all things. He is the creator of all things. So when you wash with God, you are not doing him a favoral you are actually validating your existence, because without him you are not. That's why the twenty and four elders well washing him, and they said all things were created for that pleasure. So a man who has intelligence and not to worship and be grateful to God on the terms that his existence is dependent upon God. Are you following this? You must understand this. He must define your conviction. Every time you come go a thank giving stuffies, you are making a statement that without you I am not I am because you are so. It's not even because of anything he has done. It is because you occasioned your existence. The reasoning you have consciousness in the first place is because he is. And so you are grateful because of the consciousness that He has given to you. You are grateful because of the understanding he. Has given to you. And you are grateful because He has given you a choice to know the difference and to acknowledge and respond accordingly. He is Creator, and that's not all. He is. Stopped here, it would have been enough, But this is not all. God is also the omni one, the omni. Because you know, it is difficult. One of the greater challenges of geologians is. To explain God to a world that is dark, a world that is blinded. And many theologians have done a great work from the foundation of time. That's why Christianity has consisted. The Actua is why we have Christianity, the move of power, and the intellectual debate that validates God because as man evolved in knowledge, he departs from God. That's why theologians there may not be. Captains of revival, but their existence cannot be denied because there are certain generations where there was no revivalist and there was no move of God, but they acted the essence of God in books collactic books. That the world cannot deny. They argue from all kinds of available evidences, including history, so that if you refuse God, it's not because there is no sufficient evidence, it's because you choose not to. Are you following? So God is the only one, and there are four dimensions of omnies that define God. There is omnipotence, there's omeny science, and there's omnipresent and there's only benevolent. You know, the emergence of Jesus and the physishers of Christ is not necessitated the only benevolent because it's. The one that is all kinds, all faithful, all loving, and all generos. Only God can look on conditionally and be faithful even to the unfaithful. It is in that context that is called the only benevolent. That means regardless of what you do. Or who you are, God can love you, love with standing, and he. Doesn't just love you theoretically, he loves you with a back a notable tangible response. John three sixteen, for God's soul loved the world? What is the world? The world is darkness, the world is ego, the world is wickedness. But he said God loved the world the people of the world. He's not talking about the street of the age. He's talking about the dark people men in the world. As epu and rebellious as they are, it's that God still love them, and he didn't just love them. Theoretically, he said that he gave it only they got insol that would, however, be de betting him, should not perish, but however last their life. That's only benevolence of God. But then why we were yet seeing us qualified for destruction Romance five, verse eight is the Christ died for us. So God didn't love us because we became reasonable. God did love us because we apologized. God didn't love us because we repented. God loved us in our rebellion, and he gave his best wife. We were yes rebellion, who being that will become reasonable to turn to him. And in case we don't turn to him, he still doesn't consider it a waste adventure. That means a million times he will still do it. He doesn't regret giving his best for you because it's loved nature would let him. Because of that, he sustains a benevolence that no being can compare to, even parents. The Bible said, can a mother forget her talkling child? He said, yes, there are situations where mothers can. And we saw that the tuestions in the Book of Second Second Judges. Now I said, what's that scription now that women began to eat their children because of hunger? We a we eat my child today and wait your own tomorrow. So there is the context. That's the conkings now the conflo because there's the. Context with woven leave their children. It's about God will never let you go. And as after one bestet said, I have loved you with an everlasting love. So it's the love that God will not repent from. It is called the only benevolence of God. But that's not all there is about the onness. There is the only put ence of God, the only putent of God. In the case that God is all powerful, and it is by his power that all things are sustained. That means you won't go to your house and find it there because of gravity. The readay you will meet your house there is because it's sustained all things by His power. That is, you won't go out now and meet your car just because you've packed it well. The ready you will meet your car there is because it sustains this trend by the world of his power. The reason you will wake up tomorrow it's not because you are just nice today. You can't die in the gym. The reason you wake up tomorrow is because it's sustained odd things by its power. The power of God, regardless of the evil and head, is what keeps the head. Otherwise, they add with that crash, we have put too much evil on this planet for this planet to continue existing. The reason this planet tips of seat is because there's an invisible power sustaining it. It's called the omnipotence of God. I give you a few scriptures Tobothracti Mattheo nineteen Verst. Twenty six. Jesus looked at them and said, with man, it's impossible, except for with God all things, not some are possible. Jeremiah taty two Vestaval team, say the way the Bible puts it. Please write these scriptures down. Write the scripture down, and there we got. When somebody will. Argue with you and you will not know what to say about the God that you believe. Meanwhile, you would have been a trust member for that. It is interacting with energy, interacting with vibrations. But you don't have nothing you know about your God. Ah Lord God, behold, thou hast made. The heaven and the earth by thy great power. And stretch out arms. And there is nothing too hard for the He said, you did not just create the world. He said, there is nothing. That means there's nothing we can come up with. There's no challenge, there's no crisis that can emanate from human civilization that can outdo God's power. He is potent enough to keep everything according to the counter of his will. Then God, it is also a many science that means he knows all things at all times. He had perfect and he has perfect and infinite. Knowledge of all things. He knows about everything everywhere, at all times and in all times. Now at all times. It's different from in all times at all times means every time that has existed in all times means every time that has not just existed, but that will exist. What does that mean? Right now God is already tomorrow and right now God all is telling Yesterday. If God lives yesterday, yesterday with crumble. And if Yesterday crumble the chronicle of time we say, ah, we crumble. If God is nothing tomorrow already. The algorithm of the universe, we say the we colas is like a chain. You are the one who has yesterday, today and tomorrow. If God does not do it in it now everything we could last. You know, when you have the chain of your your machine, when the chain is turning, at some point the change will be making contact with the engine. But you see, if the change that are not making contact with the engine are removed, the whole machine we fail. So it's not just then now that matters. They yesterday steam matter, and then tomorrow sea matters. So God knows all things at all times and in all times. In order for the X to remain, I show you a few scriptures quickly from science. Isaiah for the six best ten. I'm trying to bring justifications to why you thank God because all of you reduced thanking God to I bought a car, I've got married. Thoses are good, but those are by products. These are the reasons why we thank God, because the reason you were, the reason the ex even remains for you to marry, is because God is. If God isn't that day you're married, if it's deleted from Creator, if there will be no marriage. So before you thank God for marriage, before you thank God for God, thank God for the one that keeps all things in place, before you can get married. Are you following? So we thank God and we watch you God because of who he is, fast before what it does, he said, declaring the end, from the beginning, and from ancient times, the things that are not yet told. Staying, my counsels stand, and now we do all things by my pleasure or at my pleasure. If you also go to from one forty seventh, verse forty five, the Standist work, contemplating hefther prays you the Lord no go to verse one five. He said, talking about God, he telled the numbers of the stars. He call let them all by their names. He's trying to let you go, or that even the nitty gritty of creation, the unreach everl part of creation. God knows them, and he knows them personally. He doesn't just number the start. He call each of them by name. The start that with all our equipments, we have not been able to approach. He said, God knows them by name. Number five. Verse five he said, great is our Lord, and of great power. He understands. His understanding is what is finite. So he knows everything to in finite level. That is why he is God. He is only spine, all knowing and infinitely knowing for that matter. And then finally, he is only present at seventeen. That's where he read. Quickly, write the scriptures down, meditate upon them. You will need them. Except for in Him we leave and move and have our being. In Him we live and move. And that means everyteen in existence, at all times exist because God is present. If God is not present, existence cannot be. Existence is the existence because God is present. So, whether you call it progress or failure, the reason we don't have the context to give definition to what you are doing in the first place is because it's present. If His present is withdrawn, there will be no activity you call failure or progress. So before you start analyzing what you called progress or what you call failure. He's the one who gives context to it in the first place, so his ow many presents becomes a superiorism. Why you should give times. Many Christians don't know this. I can tell you. Listen, we are highly unconsciously ungrateful, highly unconsciously ungrateful. Because many times the guys for the promotion in the office before they said, justify body's been to thank God. It is not because there's a contact for you to go to the office. If there's no context to go to the office, who talk promotion? Many times the guys waiting for the business he broke up to bring in a hundred for retort before he thanks God? It is they not because there is a context for you to do business in the first place. Today people sit down and they're arguing God is not in existence. If there was no context, where will you even see to argue in the first police? It is this benevolence. I will give you the platform to sit down and argue. And God is so big that he's don't move by the debate. You know what we ask for editing, They say we come with rebuta be good. We have integrity to protect, we have our he's too big. By the time you argue after's the seas you will go. Another generation will call and argue again when turn to twenty generation finish arguing that. He will send one profit and say, my name is ancient of this. I don't grow. Meanwhile, every argument ends in litality, because the moment you come out of your body, you will know as you are known. You will know as you know. So it turns a lot of message to know now. And because we know, that's why we're think him. That's why we honor him. That's why we give him praise. He is a many presents from one at the ninth or seven to ten. See what the Sammis was saying. You know, before now, I didn't pay attention to these things, but I've come to discover this is the reason why many people backslide. You know, I was teaching you last week five preasons white people backslide. In the love days, I told you in lipuity, said the love of many what goes because what iniquities are abounds. I told you the cares of this life, the discipliness of riches Mark for nineteen. He said, many will become week because of. Years of this life, the citfulness of riches and lost fourteens. I also told you particularly about. Love for the world. It's the love not the world first John two twelve to fourteen. Neither the things that are in the world. For their that love the world, the love of the Father is not in them. I think that first John two fifteen to seventeens. So love for the world. And then I told you warfare. This is one of the major warfarees, the warfare of the mind. Many people cannot justify why they should save God, especially when situations don't seem to be working. And in the Western world today, these are some of the major debates. Why do you think I should watch in God? Why do you think as you believe that God exists in the first place, And the world is becoming a village, a global village. Those days before in Africa you think you are far away. Now all the first a interpass on the same platform every day, and people are seen things that they cannot rat In my life, I will share with you speaks questions that if they add some of you here you doubt your faith. I will share with you as part of the justification for thanking God. Say what the Bible says is that with that's a lifeguard from thy spirit, or with us a life free from Thy present, flee from Thy presence. Ver it is that if I have. Turned up into heaven, thou art there. If I make my bed in head equally heavy, there's no way that God is not is there even in hair? Behold Thou art there? That means God message If in hair he saif I round there, I can't run from you. You know everything about that location. That may not be a location where you express your government and your love, but you know something about I can't escape to hell and run out of your presence. Next verse, if I set the wings of the morning and dwell in the automost part of. The sea, even if I go to the autumas part. Of the CEI next work, even there shad I hand lead me, and thy right hand shad hold me. There is no weird that God's influence in a measure does not exist. God is everywhere, at every time, in every time, He is only present. What does this go to tell you? Existence is the existence because God caused it. Existence because He is the one who substantiates existence outside of Him, is nothing. Without Him is nothing. All things are because it is God. And because everything delived their meaning from God, we have no choice but to praise, to worship and to thank Him. Do you know that even the. Oxygen we are breathing is in God. If there is no God, there can be no oxygen. The act you are working on is in God. That's why I say in Him, We move in him, we live in Him. We have our being. So for the purpose of existence, which is substantiated by God, we have no choice but to waship Him. So why do we waship God? Why? Why do we thank God? Why do we worship God? Why do we honor God? Primarily because of who He is? Because who He is is why we are. If it is not, we are not. And unfortunately, even if we were. Not, he is hope. You know that if you didn't come into this world, maybe one or two things wouldn't have gone the way they went. Some of the problems because when you were two years foot start being so your mother would have to lack of live for eighty one for two years, so something would not have happened, but they head to have continued. That's why before you came there was head and where you are gone. They will cry for one week and they will continue. But if God is not everything, we crumble. This is why they just. And if you know this, even the value of your life will begin to increase, because if you know God knows all things, then you will never be stranded in your life anymore. Your relationship with God now. We have bearing. If there's anything that you don't understand, you now have. They want to consort. The reason you find many Cristians confused is because they are not aware consciously that God has answers to everything. So they are running to people, running to institutions to answer the questions of their life. If that's not downed on them by experience, that that God, they said the worship knows all things and he has answers to the unanswerable questions of their lives. The reason you find many people think they are hiding and committing sin is because it has not come to their consciousness that God is present everywhere. So they think because the light is off, God is nothing. He sees beyond the darkness. In current technology, now there are raised that. See you in the dark. They own the goddles, and they start feeling the dark. Is this God that his eyes are purchasing that will not be where you're off. Your life is thought, well, come on, and he's looking at you every detail and there is chronicled and on the last day, you and him we see the every day so that. There's no argument on the judgment. They nobody we argue. You will see the truth the way it is. Everybody we see it as it is. But you see, we are not conscious that God is present in put in our thoughts. That's why we think we can do certain things outside of God. And then we are not conscious that God is so powerful. That's why we super anxiety. Any little thing a Christian is full, not balance. He's already dying, it's already afraid. Are you aware that even this creation, he is the first behind it. And if it's the fast behind it, your crisis within creation cannot be too big for him to handle. And so our lack of understanding of who God is is the found the man fact problem that we have. Do you know that it's all benevolent? And because it's all benevolent, he is not just one powerful being in the cloud. He has a paternal relationship with you. Because it's not enough to know that it's so many potent. It's not enough to know that it's so many science. It's not enough to know that it is so many presents. He can be omnipotent or man science and omnipresent what is in heaven and has no business with you. But if you know that it's only benevolent, and he has demonstrated it by dying for you, there is nothing on earth that can make you be afraid, because you know, if God be for us, who can be against us? If the Lord is on our side, what is that controversy that can destroy us? But many Christians don't know who God is. This is the reason for their crisis. Listen any way, I am I have an assurer. See what the sammy said. He said, the Lord is my shepherd. I don not want that's the revelation of woman imputems. If God is in charge of my life, he has the power to meet all my names. He maketh me lie down in green pasture. He needed be beside the still water. He restored my soul. The guy talking from a revelation of God. So when you find a man who knows God thanking God, the death is different he said, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. God is there. My confidence is that now act with me even in the valley of the shadow. He knows God is on many presents. He knows God is omnipotent, and in know God is so many science. He knows when I am in trouble, and he said, don't demonstrate your power towards me. In particular, he said, you prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemist. In the presence of my enemist, he said, my. Cop run it over. And then he now went into the only benevolence of God. He says, Holy, this is not by chance. I'm not talking lork. I'm not talking today my good day, Holy Goodness, I'm messy. Follow me, oh the death. Not some days. You know, when things work for you, they say to death, you're lucky day when God is helping you. The day is your ceisy. There's no sting with the debt. Who knows the only benevolence of God. Every day is my day, every ceaziness, my cisy. He says, chorly goodness, I'm messy, shall follow me, not one week not one month, all the days of my life. That man knows something about God that the generation needs to be taught. All they this. Do you believe that you are blessed every day? So there's not something that my best day is. No. The part of the just man is as shiny light. He shines brighter and brighter on to the perfect day. You'll send me today. You think God have done something, wait until you see me tomorrow. You'll send me tomorrow. You think God has done something, wait until you see me next tomorrow. Every day is righter, every day is more merry. Every day it's more glorious because God cannot be exhausted. He is omnipotent, and God is particularly See you need to know that if you were the only person on it, God, we spend everything. He's sure this in Adam. He's not doing it because we are many. If we are one here will do it the same oxygen that over eight billion people are depending on what what only Adam? So God, it is not doing what he is doing because we have plenty. He's doing what he's doing because that's the least he can do do. Not from the horising others on to those standing the name your name. Your day need to be ah, not. From the rising, open to the same day, come the ride from the rising, that the steps. From the same your day. It's how do I. Stay down? Stay down? Let's give Let's give the temperature a loom. There has to be a conviction born from an understanding. That's what we power your actions, and that's what we also encourage your continuous action. They're not doing what we're doing just because we want to be religious. No, that's an understanding we have. That understanding is what gives us victory all the time, and then on the strength of that victory we come to give tanks. So we give thanks not just because of the victory, but because of who we discovered God to be. I know God is for power. I know God is ever present. I know God the all knowing, and I know God is been nebolently disposed towards me as the perfect, not as a pastor, not as a church member, not in the crowd, as a perfect If I'm alone in the winter earth, I can be born to call upon Him as if an army is calling him. I can be bored to call upon him as if the church is calling him. I can be bored to call upon him as if the whole generation is calling him. Because the certain thing he will do for a thousand, he will do for one. Jesus said, even the hair on your head is numbered. That's the press for corporate ranking. But the love of God is lets us individually, and he loves us with a never lasting love. That's my first was just step press us from the love of God. I have known something. Look, I have known something. And when you see the thing Paul went through, you will know he would not have survived and stept by what he knew. Paul suffer she preads three times. Five times they were betting with the nine trucks. Two times he was turned to death. One time he was forgotting in the ocean for one and a half day. The guy survived. You don't know what a lost one is. If you if climb the ferries, if you enter the midst of the ocean, your hat with you will find That's why the Bible said, then that journey to the deep, the ones that's seed, the one that's of God. See that is the part of the sea you sell to. Everywhere will be like night. That's why they use hallo gene lamps that can go mice away. Sometimes the freezing code. You can't even start outside. You will die. Not to talk about the shafts and other things, or the thirty lengths of the wind. You will find a thousand times before you come out. Paul was not just in the ship that was the battle cap tie. He was in the ocean. It's a day and a half. I was in the did how did you die? If God needs to make you aquatic to survive, we do it. But you have to know something here. This is the extent to which. You know God, that you're both in him. While you hear Man says, I shallnot die, but leave to procreare, take goodness. Of the Lord. He knows God has the power to keep him my life, and he knows God love him enough not to let him go. If you don't know God, these things will be a religion to you. But this is not religion. He said. We have not been calling the divided labels when we spoken to you about the coming king. He said, we were eye witnesses on the monk when he was transping God. And it's the knowing this press. No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. It's the holy men of God's take as they were moved by the spirit of God. That is, I'm talking to you here the itternal realities heaven an act we pack away, not one job. These are not worse of a philosopher. This are not called These are the breath of the Holy Ghost. Oh you know God, it's all powers. This is who God is. Not Let's go a bit. There's so much more, But what can you say in the one our thirty minutes service. The second reason we thank God is because of what he does, and I will show you five things God does. Number one, God loves us practically. I want to reintegate that love because there are many questions I would deal with their. Number two God blesses us. Number three, God protects us. Number four God allows us to practicipate with. Him in fulfilling his agenda. And number five God allows us to operate in his realm and in his past. Five things. Let's begin with the love of God. Jeremiah thirty one vers. Three. I've caught there for you already is that He has loved us with an everlasting love. How did you demonstrate this law in practical sense? Isaiah fifty three, verse six. Yeah, what the Bible says is that all we like sheep, have gone astray. We have torn everyone to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Now, if you don't understand kingdom there streates a woman. Much to you, all we have done as have gone as three is actually the word for the bellion, And in the kingdom there's one punishment for rebellion is death. When every one of us rebelled against God, they just seem for God to do was to destroy every one of us. But instead of destroying us, God decided to put the punishment of death that was supposed to be on us on himself. This is why the coming of Jesus Christ is one of the greatest demonstrations of the love of God. And so Johntris is still said. For God so loved the world that it gave it only begot in stone, that whosoever believed in it to not perish but have everlasting life. Now, when he said gave it's only begot. In stone, you may think it just said go there and save them. The way He's sent in to God save them is to go and substitute them, take their iniquity and by application. Take their judgment. So the people who are guilty can walk out without any form of judgment, and they can work out without any form of condemnation. Because you didn't just take the judgment, you also took the iniquity upon you, making it look as if these people never did anything. On the strength of that, it will become illegal to condemn them or to have any dent upon them. Now, if you are a criminal and you are padled, you are stee a next convini, that dent will be on you. There are many things you can do because of a next convict. So what we are talking about here is not a padle. What we are talking about here is that they name the shame and the guilt of saying take it upon yourself as though you are the criminal, so that when you and I walk into the illegal to call us sinners, that's what God did, it will become illegal to call us sinners. That's why we were justified. Justification is one of the heaviest world in Kingdom. It means this person was not beauty, so we are equipping him for the first claim that was put upon. Him, as though when they said you were a sinner. They accused you firstly, not because we are accused firstly, but Jesus substituted you. So every guilt, every shame, every blame that should. Have gone to you went to him, and then he took the judgment that should have come upon you. So you came out clean as if you did not. That's the love of God. If Jesus was a man who did. That, Now that be the greatest love in the realm of men. Because Jesus speaking, he said, there's no love greater than this, that a man should die for his friends. The thing is that he was not a man. He was God made man. So before he even die for our things, he already on the earth and on the. God the greatest humiliation by shifting himself of divinity and becoming a man. So the major sacrifice is not able to cross. The major sacrifice is the denaturation of Jesus. Christ is God. They cannotice doctrine that God emptied. Himself of dibility and took upon himself the government of a man. It is not a reality that was possible. How can they almighty become a limited thing? How can they finite? They call a finite vain. How can the worship one become the worshiper? How can the strongest one become the weak looking for her? Jesus was so weak that when Herold wanted to kill him, Joseph had to intervene to save Jesus Christ and run with Jesus to Egypt. When did omnipotent become one that needed protection because he had always been omnipotent. When Jesus was working on the edge, he didn't know anything unless the Holy goes Re did it to him. When did the omni tien become dependent on information in order to know? Before Jesus came into the world, he was everywhere at every time, but certainly as a man, Jesus was limited to a location, so much so that they were arrestive. They came with both and arrows. You are arresting the Almighty, and Peter carried his knight to a fight? Is the putage aside? This scene is beyond battle. There is a history going on here. And the Almighty was arrested, flogged, beating, and hung on across and they all mighty, they only present. He would have not gone everywhere at that moment, but he allowed himself to be gathered into that pain and that shame of nakedness. On the cross, and he struggled until he died. One of the most graphic illustrations of this reality to me is Pilipians are too from best five to seven. Can you projectice? Let's just read it. I don't have time from the message version. Huh. You need to know what God has done. Know it for yourself. This is not charge. This is God's dealing with humanity. It is the basis for your actions. Is the think of yourself the way Jesus thought of himself. Six He said he had it was tattooed with God, but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of the tattoos. No matter word, go to the next verse. Not at all, he said. When the time came, he set aside the previleges of deity. My God, why did you set aside the privileges of deity? He didn't stop there. He took the tattoos of a slave and became human, even among men. He was not a special man. Why some of us are born in hospitals. He was born in a manger with donkeys, and it is stopped there verse eight, having become human. He said human. He said it was an incredibly homed blean process. And he said he didn't claim fact that privilege among men. That's why even among men he was in Herald. He was the son of a carpenter and a fisherman, living among peasants. Some of us today go on winstors. You come to a village, you carry three handkerchief, one clean, or shoe want clean your hand? Want this? Or they say let's cross. You are walking like this. You don't know why God we entent at descending to this ream, Oh Jesus, it's that he didn't claim any privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death. And he didn't just die and obedient death. It's the worst kind of death. That is crucifixion, the death of a criminal. That's the demonstration of God's love to show you that he loves you. So when he said for God so loved the world, it was not a poetic statement. This is what it means that God was willing to become man, to suffer as a man, and to die. Like a teath in order to save you and I. This is what God does. So when we are talking about Thanksgiving, we are not beginning with God. Let be with the campest. What is your tattoos in creation? You were worthy of death and condemnation, but God will not see you die and condemned. So God took your place, die for you so that you will have a healthy tattoos as a man, not just a man in the realm of men, but also a creation that has a place in the Kingdom of God. That's why is that you have come to Mount Zion, the city. Of the Living God. You cannot appear in the convergence of the immotas to an innumerable company of Angel, to the spirit of ju justment made perfect, to the void of Prinkly, that's bigger, better things than the work of Abel, to the charge of the past, bond to the void of the Mediator. So anywhere relevant is in the realm of God. You too have a stake there. What would that be the car if you didn't have a stake in the realm of God. Imagine a criminal that is condemned to death and they say, in one month time you will die and you'll give him a range rover what what this range rover that is hanging on his head? You know what the condemn in prisonly condemned. I mean this one has have no value and they have no right to exist. So the black lam we are talking about here does not beginve with the house. He does not beginve with the car. Is that judgment and condemnation has been taken from you on account of the demonstration of God's law And because of that ex donneration, you have been included in the family of God so much so that you have rights, not just privileges. That's why the Bible said we are joint heirs with Christ. That is everything God, but that is now we have his depth to it. Why do you think we cut out demons? Because now we have become authorities and excellencies in the rem of God. So when we show up, every spirit is aware. Why do you think we. Make demands of God? Because now we have the right to speak. It is not as many as believed him to them. He didn't that he gave the privilege. Is that he gave the right to become the sons of God. So you can petition something in prayer because you are now an heir, because you are now a throne. So God did not just remove cute and condemnation. He gives you his tattoos. He gave you a rank, He gave you a throne. He gave you a place in Zion. And the place he gave you was not a jails. The Bible said in officials two sticks. Is that He raised us up and made us to sit with Jesus in heavenly places, wire above principalities and power. So we are christis citter is where you and I are sitd It's called the love of God. But you know what this thing means nothing to some people. That's why the Bible said, to them that are perishing, the gospel is fulishness. I was I was listening to a debate and an a said something. It was like dagger in my heart. You know what the ether is? Then some of this is you guys would because if you need to. The guy said, if God are papable, h The preacher said, yeah, is God annoing? The preachers said he are. He said, God is all powerful and all knowing. Did he know that there's going to be evil on the earth? Why did he create it? He said, I can't understand why you know, all powerful God will create a world that's God feeling evil, and then he comes back later to die to say some I think his kind of love is a perverst kind of love. How do you say God is all powerful, God is all knowing, Yet God knows that there will be evil on it. God went ahead created the world so that there will be evil, and then God will come back later and claim it's a man and die to save some people. He said, that's the pervast definition of love. He said, it's all powerful. Why didn't he just create another word that has no evil. Why does he have to allow evil come into the world and come to that? If it's all knowing, why didn't he create the world where there's no evil. If you are the one, what will you say, you will see where your own Christianity ends. He will just pack your bible and say, I will come back, let's see it. Because now, how do you debate such a person Because you claim God knows the ends from the beginning, That means God knows that women will be ripped. That means God knows that children will be killed. That means God knows there will be warm thousands of people will die if God knows this, and God is so powerful, why did God go ahead to create it? And then Evil asked the question, he's that coould. God have created another kind of one? The guy said, yes, already? Is that? Then? Why didn't he clear that one? He said, why did he see that? The man where you don't need to charge, you need to You need to answer with the mind of the only the mind, the mind. And this is where your Christianity will end in Africa. Because them where if you are charging, they say, wait a minute, wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. This your God has so much power. Wait, there is but to now in Gaza, children are dying or hunger. What is your God doing about it? You will discover that has challenge. How can you explain the love of God? Images one minute for somebody who wants to say something you look, this is class. If you know God, if you know the love of God as you mam, the age is come and prove to me now instead that something's not about charging. Okay, that's the boat. Come, come, come, that's the boat. Give him a microphone, celebrate with come come up. Let's do your face. Brother. If you answer word so, all the men of fire. Here nobody raises an all this this tis with fire here none, I'm you're raid? Give him the microphone. So assuming a doom, God is all powerful, God is all knowing. That means God knew that this evil head will be here, and God is some power. But that means if if it wanted, you would have created another universe where there's no evil. Why did he create this eble one where shouldn't are dying women? Appeal? It's the tough one. You say that he has come down. Now this answer is not fire. Is it's not fire? This one is conviction and all that handing that produces this, say the problem. We have all our services have fire services. So I carry people who are mindless to contend with people that are fortified with demonic intelligence. Purples starting the tough one. Go ahead. That's why you are here. You have the mind of Christ. The beauty about the all powerful God and the all knowing God is that it's all powerful God and all knowing. God created something else in man called the freeway, the ability to take the dicisions. Because if God has created us and made us like robots, there will be no essence in life. And so he gave us in his all knowingness and his all powerfulness, He created his need the ability for us to take decisions on our stuch that now where we come to worship, did with come as we have. We know he knows that we are doing it for our own relations, not because they have programmed us for us to love him up, because so we'll not become to do it. But now in the embedded in that ability or free will their rest actions and consequences. And so inside the ability to make three wheel decisions the actual sequences for every action. So when I watching God and exhausted his excellency, there is the reward is a consequence to that. And when I take satain decisions again, God's counsel and his plan is also a consequence. And so the because I see in the world is a friend, it's not, it's not. The lue of God is the pelue of man because of his. The consequence of his actions that has to resulted in details. God did not cause the war. Man caught the war because he had the opportunity to take three wheel decisions. And he consider that these actions and he knew very well that these things were going to have one and he went ahead into two sections. You can't blame God, you blame man. He heaves a lot of big mans words words word don't go yet, don't go. Yeah, the tail is more default than this. He has answered a part of it correctly. But if start something again that way looping is that God did they give us a free wee so it im forces us to worship him if we are not compared to worship Go? Why then his head? Why did he create her for those who are not following him? He has answered correctly. But I'm showing you what's going on where there's no fire, where there's understanding and conviction. Why is there hell? If you say you know, yes, because of free wee, you don't have to worship Go, that means God, it's not cohaering anybody here to worship him. You are worshiping because you chose to. Now, if that is the case, why is it that those who don't have a relationship with Him we go to her? Is that not invariably telling? Not that they're so called free we they sham Because if I have a free without worship him, there shouldn't be any hair at the end of the day. Why why am I going to help for not choosing him. So these are debates the a deep, deep, deep conversation. And I'm telling you this so you know why you thank God because somebody can come to you and say look at you. You say you're thanking God now because the evil that befell, the gear that was ready yesterday has not be following you. What if you were the one will you say thank God? What will you say? You will now answer, not intellectually, but your answer something that is reality to you. Celebrate the brother. What they have done. Where let's take it off from where is target from? Now? This is is that it works. There are two laws that government existence. The first law that government existence is a law of consciousness. If you are not conscious, you can't exist. But you see existence. It's not all about consciousness. Existence is also about free will, because why consciousness brings you the awareness of existence. Free will is what brings meaning to existence. So if God wanted to create a people who we find meaning to existence, he will not only give them consciousness. What you will give them free will. So on one side, God knows that because man has a free will, evil can come because his free will will authorize him to choose what he wants. What will God do? He went ahead to create the world, And I'll tell you why and why there is evil on the earth. Like he said, the if on the earth is not God's forth, it's man's sport. Because if God had only giving us consciousness, would have been robots we do have appreciated existed and existence would not have meant anything to us. But to bring eath sense to existence, God gave us free will. It was with our own free will that we admitted evil to the earth. We brought evil to the earth, and we are cooperating with the devil to proper get evil. When you say that somebody carricter gone and shoots people, he was in quality. How did he build that consciousness? He built that consciousness to the society that we have developed, a drown society, a law less society. So the society we created is what trained him to think in that order, and that's why he became a criminal rapist. So that society that emanated by the collective expression of our free will cannot be blamed on God. It can only be blamed on us. Are you following this? So in that light, the ebo on the earth, because of man. Man's free will, not because of God's creation. And then you now God for that to say, if God knew, why did this he create what he has created? It created what is created because there is a system he has in place, and there are two systems. The first system is the system of intervention and the second system is the system of reward. In the system of intervention, God does everything possible to reduce the evil that is on the earth through those who believe in Him and accept his principle. That's why you have blessedings. That's why you have intervention. Even the death of Jesus is the type of intervention that God dropped to the edg. So if you receive God's. Principle and work with God through disciminent, you will not find yourself in evil. Applying God's principle, you not find yourself overrun by evil. And just in case you are caught up in evil, that's the second system called reworld. This is why Jesus died, for Jesus didn't end in the great Jesus rose from the dead to let you know that death is not the end. That means even if you were maligned and you die justly or you were affected by evil, and there we come that. God will reward you, and reward you so much so. That everything that happened to you we passed away as if it didn't exist, because it has the capacity to do that. Imagine for a second that you are working in your office and you will rescuse your salary and for a city you suffered because of this, free of your book. And then at the end of the year, the owner of the. Company shows up and say, oh, they refuse to pay you your one month salary. We are sorry for everything you suffer. Now take ten years salary for that one month. That recompense has covered for everything you suffered for that one month, and it covered for it so much that you will not even remember that one. In fact, the next time you will say, is there another month that they can take? Another one month? If one mon can produce ten years. I'm not saying this that God will do it directly, but I'm saying there is a reward system that God has in eternity that for everybody who was justly treated in time, he. Knows what to do to balance off for. What they suffered because of the heart of man. And then you come to the second aspect, you say, okay, if you say we have free wee, why does God insist that you should worship him? And he answered it correctly. You don't have to waship God. It's your choice. If you choose not to washp God, nothing God will do about it. And then you go for that to say, okay, if worshiping God is the choice, and there's no big deal not worshiping God, why does God prepare the hell hell for those who don't work with him. It's because of his law, and it's because of. This respect for your free view. What is hell? Hell is actually the only place in eternity outside of God. Let me give you two illustrations. If you have a phone, maybe this phone a musing and they invented this phone, and they said, use this phone in a particular. Way, otherwise it will be destroyed and. It to become a crap. And if it becomes a crap, there's. A place with dispose of it. What does that mean? If you use the phone the way you have to use it, it won't become a crap. But if you don't use it the way you have to use it, it will become a crap. And it to be discarded, to wear crap and discarded. Hell is like a place we are. People who allow evil into them and refuse God have to stay outside of God now or don't. God taught man, if you sin, you will die. And if you die, there is a place for those who allow evil overtake them and who reject me. Ta's the place for them. So don't think now, man worst ahead to sing. Mimi is justified to stay outside God because God doesn't. Have the right to say I won't allow evil in my space. God doesn't have the right to say I will accept you if you choose me, but if you allow evil, I have the right not to allow you into my face. And there are two paces. Either you are me or you are away from me. Ebu is where Hell is designated for because it's a place that is inconsistent with Me. So every man who sings have already made a choice to go there. So God cannot over right his choice and say no, you are choosing a place that outside me, you must come to me. He can't do that. The best thing God can do in his love is that God gives you opportunity of repair. So this phone that is now worthy to be scrapped. God now sends an agent from the company and say, go and tell that man to bring that phone back. Who will repair it and make it new and give him back. The man now refuses to bring the phone back. God sends several messengers. Bring the phone. Let's repair it. All the worse to be scrapped. It's relast I won't bring it. I will keep it like this at the end of the day. We know now force God to receive the phone that is destined for scrappy. Even though God did everything possible to repair it, it will be unjust one man things. God didn't let man go. God sends prophets. God sends messengers. Even nature was talking to man about God that although you are moderate, or though you are rapist orthough you are a liar and this thing. Is a product of your will. But if you return to God, God, that's a technology through the world and the Holy Spirit to rebrand you to become a new creation so that you don't go to hell. Ah, the messages God thanks to you on heath. You refuse that you will not use God. Will God go and force himself on you in eternity. God can't do that. So if God does not allow you go to hell, that would be God violetting your free will. That would be God forcing himself on you in eternity. He's just like ripping a woman. You are calling a woman, I love you, I want to improve your life, I want to take care of you. She refuses you. Now wake up and say no, she has to love me, and you'll force yourself on her. That is God rip If God does not allow. Men who reject him on head go to hell in eternity, it means God that's ripped them in eternity. So when God allows men to go to Hell, he is respecting their free will because he sends prophets, he sends a postle. He used nature, they rejected him in time. God has no more justification in eternity. So first the man who, in the death of their will and call it justice, rejected him to be with him by face in eternity. That would not be justice. And so it is inconsistent with God's natural Are you following this? So God did not create a wicked world. But God gave man a will. It's a will, a power for free choice, and man used it in compreason with the devil to bring evil to the ead. In God's law, God leads out to man through nature, through propets, through preacher, through the gospelk through the Holy Good. Those who accepted him, He turned them to new creations. So there's no evil in them because they chose him, and because they removed evil from them. They cannot live with him in eternity. Don't do rejected him. He doesn't have the moral right to force himself on them in eternity. And even if he wants to do it, they already put that evil. They can't live in his realm. So this is not a thing of God, is a thing of man. If you are in hell, you are in hell because you rejected God. You are in hell because you did not choose God. So worship is not a mast, but it as you truse God, that you give God the opportunity to make you a new creation. And it's that God makes you a new creation, respecting your choice, that you can have a place with him mentality. If you don't allow him repair you, and if you don't choose him, he. Will not forst him step on you. Because God is not irrigisit? Are you following? So why does that create the realm, because existence is a most, the most of existence rather depends on consciousness and preview and with free will. Man opened the door for Eve, and God did not condemn man for allowing evil. God he brought a way of restoration. Man rejected it. And because Man rejected it, God can't first him step on man in eternity. He will allow man to stay apart from him, because that is what man trus. Are you following? So what does God do? God loves and God's love is not a joke. God's love is his desperate attempt to give you purpose and meaning as you joined the part of existence, exercising. Your will by the power of the Holy goods. There are many more questions, but the amount of time, so I will stop it here. The first thing God does that makes lost worship and appreciate him is that God demonstrates his love on conditional love to all of us. Number two, God blesses us. What is the blessing of God? Is an empowerment that God gives to us to cause us to prosper in the world that is negating and prosperity. Now listening to this, if you study the universe, you are going to discover. The system of the world is designed to self destruct. That is why you can come to your house. If you want to see a flower grow, you will plant it and not show it. But if the grass wants to grow, even if you read it, if we come back, because that's the way nature is. Nature is fraught. So nature negates progress and prosperity. But God wants you to prosper. Why you are yet. Waiting for the old teammate blessing That is an eternity. So what it does in time is that He gives you empowerment to prosper in a crooked world. So when we talk about blessing, it's not a religious thing, it's divine empowerment. The word blessing means to cost you to proper. This is why the Bible said in Proverbs ten twenty two is that. The blessings of the Lord make cat rich and add that no sorrow to it. So it is God that empower us to prosper without sorrows. That's why we give him times. Now, how does God cost you to prosper through the blessing? Sometimes it gives you wisdom what others call it challenge. You see and you see an opportunity and you create something that gives you value, that navigates resources in your directions. So the blessings of God is not riches. The blessings of God make cat rich. And the way the blessings of God make cat rich is by giving wisdom. It's by giving inspirations, by giving strategy. So you may not even have a Harvard degree, but God can give you a wisdom that'll make the world look for you. And sometimes the wisdom are in unconventionn taste. That's why somebody can sit in worry and be talking. People laugh. It becomes the bellonaire and you want. The He has the ability to talk and people laugh, and in addition to that ability, God gives him a strategy to build the system out of it. It is the blessing of the Lord. Why somebody can certainly receive table and what. Is doing begin to command the attention of people is the blessings of God. That's why God opposed the eyes. Of people to three opportunities where people are not seeing is the blessings of the Lord. So you may not see an angel appear to you, it doesn't. Mean you are not blessed. You are driving to the office and suddenly the only goes first thought in your heart start cooking food in front of the bank and you started cooking and before you know, and as simple as cooking. Is, if it comes from God, you'll be shocked. Lastly, one of the biggest investments in the United Kingdom is the Nigerian could compety. They made one billion pounds one billion pounds from cooking and three Nigerian in the UK wants to do it from there. The United Kingdom government gave them an award one billion. You know what that is multiplied that by one as a sist there now is that what's wanted? Now that's over one point seven trillion or seventeen. Trillion helped me from food. That's the blestness of the law. All that went to the UK. They're looking for a job, which is good. Somebody has went and opened the booker and is cooking there always there, Obano is there, e buddy is there, and the neistoop, you know it's there. People are sending from every path and the guy doing delivery one billion pounds. The blessings of the law. So God creates sys terms of blessing, so that although the world is wicked. You and I we proper because we are in people. This is why we thank him. And this is why somebody comes and say I bought a car, I got a job, because he recognizes that the opportunity that opened the door for that job came from God. He recognizes that the resources that brought the car came from something God puts in him. So the blessings of God is one of the major things God does for us. This is why we cannot go thanking. Some of you will never see angels until you go to heaven. But your life may be more meaningful than those who have encountered angels a thousand times if you know the blessings of God, when that wisdom comes, when that strategy comes, when that opportunity comes, you know how to handness it. And you see your life going off because it is God's intervention program giving that this war speak, Why do we thank God because of what it does? God bless this? Why do we thank God with thank God because he has given us an opportunity to advance His kingdom with him. Jesus said in John twenty twenty one, as the Father has sent me. He said so, saying I you. You need to see the joy with certain people. When the new government came into power and some of them were announced as they literally wanted to give themselves. They took pride in it. Why do you think they took pride in it, because they understand the privilegism involved in partnering with the president to advance as a gender for the country. You see, the reason we take for granted the opportunity we have to corporate and collaborate with God to advance. This kingdom is because we don't know the privileges. That come with serving God. If you know the privileges that country, serving God your way. Thank God for the opportunity to serving much more than the opportunity to serve the president. Because God is bigger than every president in every nation. So when God gave us the opportunity to partner with him to advance his kingdom, he brought us into an eternal excellency. For instance, Jesus was speaking to the twelve disciples, and he said, to half of you sit with me on twelfth throws to judge the twelfth tries of Israel. That means, for those twelfth apostles, forever and. Ever they are judges, although they are men, but they will George or the man. That's the privilege, and that privilege transcends time. Why they are yet in time they are study breath, heead. But this is not something that hap to s well. A president starts for four years over eight years, some of the ministers are started with worry and no bodies now because when he has to do with political stabbies, when the tenure is over, your status is over. But when it has to do with God, it's forever and ever. It's for eternity to eternity. You will enjoy glory on it, but after you leave it you enjoy great path glory. When Joe was carried to heaven, he saw a man that looked like an angel, John Lips turning nail down to waship him. And the guy said, no, worship me, not Revelators nineteen ten and eleven. He said, I am like onto die brethren. So when the man staves God, that man and tap a level of excellency that makes them become like God. Why do you think there are some men today that people almost. Want to wasship them. Because the more you save God, the more the glory manifest through you, the more you starve God. So these men have to create a system to kill human worship. Because if they don't create those systems, men we washed them. You can't save God and be the saved. Is they have not called the seed of Jacob to see me in there? The Bible said, they go from glory to glory, every one of them that appeared in Zion before the Lord. Now think of those who are working with God. The on is too more, he said, no man taking this upon himself, even as it. Was on error and his songs. That is why Paul has gone to be with the Lord died. Today we cannot talk without mentioning pot Bitter, who is a common fisherman today is one of the leader postles, nations and generations speak of with honor and trembling. You can't serve God and be small. You will be so mighty in your lifetime and even graper in the world that is to come. In Sam's the level is third. The Lord gave the world, it say, great was the company of them. See believe me, you may be serving God and I may not appear like anything. Give you time, just be since fear and give it time. It will shock you what God will make out of your life. Oh, my God, See, in my short period of serving God has seen some things that made me tremble. Tremble, tremble. They honor they give you in certain quarters. You are looking at yourself. You are trying to be sinful. But what God put on you is too heavy that your simplicity cannot negate it. If I see some festimonies with you, you won't believe in me. And I don't want to reduce the sacredness of what I'm talking into mundays. But some of those who work with us look today the cast from all around the world. If we want to attend to it. Ah, I now shake my head. I said, oh, see what men pursue. So these things are actually by products from different nations. People. We tell you, please, just give me the opportunity. I want to pay for your holiday with you are your family for two weeks any nation of the world. But there's no time for holiday anymore. Meanwhile, this is what people are killing themselves wrong. Sometimes you sit down, they bring cart. Oh Jesus, how time you are wandering? Mean? Why some people are killing for cars? They call you from different nations. I'm giving you a land here. A king called me from Ghana. He troubled me for two weeks. What is the issue? He are giving me ten acts of land in Ghana? Ten it, I said, But I'm not going to Ghana yet. I'm not planning to plant and eta the please? Is that the message you said? In case you want me to increase it, I'm open to tell me this side you want. I'm not called the seat of checkout to thick me in there. I cannot go to a country now and come back empty hundred. It is impossible. I just came back from England. I refuse to take on a radio. Yes, I couldn't come back empty hundred. Anybody who is you want to bless you because he said, I have made you an e turner, excellency, the joy of many generations. I was discussing with my wife this morning. I said, seven years ago I considered what I was eelling in a year, when I checked my first route to Dba, I almost started reaping what I want to give as first rook. This is job January. How did this thing happen? How is this first route? What I'm giving for first fruit is more than all my savings in two decades in just January, just January. I'm not talking money that you can spend in ten years. Bro, in just one moment. You know what he means to starve God, not because you are sealing from people. I don't pray for people and take money. If I pray for you and God, here's you I want to give. I said, no, I don't take. I don't go ask anybody. But see there are many open doors. It's just blowing like a river. Your tomb left. That's blessing your tone. Right, that's blessing your tomb power. They's blessing your tomb back. You know what is going on? Because I have not called the seed of Jacob. Hello him, I don't know hand. Hello, let's stop here. Can we turn the Lord? Can we turn the Lord? Do you know how to thank God? If you told me what I have in January twenty twenty four, giving who I was five years ago, that I will have it in twenty years, I won't believe you. With all the fat scriptures I know. And if you ask me how I have it, I don't know. But I just know that God, that's the best God, that's best me, just because I chose to save him, and every one of us is got to serve him at different capacity. This is a higher resinus. Why we thank God. If I have time, I would have shown you that we also thank God because of the opportunities it gives us to do things for Him in his kindle, like winning thrules, because it opens doors too many things. If I have time, I would I also show you that we thank God because he has brought us to his class. He said, according us with divine power, he has given us all things that. Pertends to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him that has called us to glory. So he has called us to glory. Every one of us is a being of glory. We have been we have become preictures of glory. He called us to glory and virtue. That's why he said. He said him that he predestinated, he called, He said him that he called, he justified, him that he justified. He glorified. We have been made things. Of glory, and he said that we might escape the corruption that is in the world through laws. Having made us Patacus of the godkind, so he has made us the god kind. He has brought us to the god class. Joe speaking, he said, as he is not in heaven, it says, so are we in this world? Why do you think you lay hands on their sick, they recover what is on your hand? Why do you think you declare things and they heckle? What is in your spirit? That faith? There? There's eternal life there, there's the Holy goes there. So when you talk, you are not informing people. You are releasing energy and that you that is life, and that you that is power and legy that is glory. You cannot not but thanking. If you know what you see. The reason why we don't thank God most times is because of our ignorance. We don't know who he is, and we don't know what he does. What it does include, what he has done, what is doing, and what it will yet do. But most of us don't know it. There you know it, your life will start moving at the rate and the speed that even you can't stop it, because that's the calling that He has brought us into. You want to tank God? Now, how many of you know how to tank it? I thought you already? Number one, I said, with what a hat post show of gratitude? Number two, I start with what wares of praise? Number three, I said with what with dancing and singing. Number four I start with what with your resources? And number five I said, with yourself in Stavi. These are five major ways to tango. Your heart most sure gratitude. Your mouth must picking, you must dance and c ceadibrate it. You must give your resources to that effect, and you must save it. One of the ways we verify the efficacy of what we do is in the power that you produce. On one side, you can check the efficacy of a truth through the core, both logically, rationally, and especially exogetically. But another way to verify the efficacy of a truth is the power that it commands. And I've thought you here before, and I Jeremiah tatives thine is the out of them shall proceed the voice of ton, giving the voice of melody. And it said, I we multiply them. This an not be small. I will glorify them. They an not be pure. Now list your hands to whatever except this truth is a lie. He thought. This week is over in the name of Jesus. Tapp into a ram of multiplication, as surely as the Lord live it. He part this week is over step into a ram of letters in the night of Jason. We don't do what we do out of religion. Is the heaven and act we passed away, not one jot or tito of this war. We pay and we saw from the world Acts twenty five. That's thirteen. The Bible said, access see twenty pie. He said, when it was midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, kept thanks the prisoners had them, and instantly the Angel of the Lord came down. She shook the foundation of the prison and engender deliberance. So is the thanksgiving provokes angelic intervention and thanksgiving engender deliverance. Hear me. Any crisis you are going through, be the health crisis, be the relation of crisis, be the job relative crisis, Beat the territorial crisis. Because you have lift turned your voice to tango before this week is over, received to bind interventional most of you. Even from tonight, you're a status the pine because your captivity is torn. Your mouths have been full of laughter. If they went the Lord turned the captivity of dial is said, we were like them that dwn tree that was our mouth. Pupil laughter in the name of trees of the Lord. I degree and declaire tap into your deliberance. Now tap into your deliverance. Now in the name of Jesus. Even the matter engaged thanksgiving as they upon the Bible said, he needed to feed five thousand men, not counting women and children. What did he do? He took bread, took the peace, lifted it up, and kept tanks. Nothing was miraculous. Is they take? Give them because the gift tanks. The miracles began in their own hands. Not in the hands of Jesus. He came to the tomb of Lazaros, the Bible said, he lifted his eyes and said, I thank you, Father, because you always hear me the momentic gift tanks. If the Lasaros comfort thanksgiving clears at what pair but the miraculous now hear me Ask your step out of this davish carry and often Heaven with you. Carry and often Heaven with you, Carry and avers pair of the miraculous. In the name of Jesus. Every impossibility your life is conceled, every natural phenomenon translating to your weakness, the breas and backwardness. By the power of the miracle working door, I decreated the turn around for you in the name of Jesus, and Christian me. Don't give it makes you ho The lepers were huge. One came back and turned the matter. It's the way of the nine. Only you came back. Is the beat down made whole. Look seventeen seventeen to nineteen. Here this If there be any part of your life that requires. Honest, from your business, to your health, to. Your family, anything pertending you that the tectimony is not yet complete in the name of Jesus, carry that threat. Now, carry that horness. Now carry that possibility. Now I degree from the of your head to the source of your feet. So everything that patents for you be mad her in the nighte of Jesus. As you walk out of this stavish, it will be dead to come back to life. Crisis and contradictions of your life will be turned around. You are not just blessed, you are a blessing. Before this week is over, at least ten pasis with celebrate because of your. Encounter with you. Because as you encounter people you're a blessing. They're blessing will show in your own life. I need to go through your life in the name of Jesus. I don't know why the Lord is putting it in my heart. Somebody is going through a very deep because financial hardship. But hear me as so as the Lord leave it. By whom oracle I stand. Before this week is over, you were not just mind. But there will be a turn around. You will not just laugh. They will be lifted in the name of Jasons. Come out that quagmire. The Lord is telling me that somebody badly with the terminal disease. It has lasted for more than a decade. It looks like all hope is lost here the wonder of the Lord. By this time next year, By this time next week, you will be laughing and dancing with your testimony. By this time next week, you will be laughing and dancing with your testimony. I command that a polation to break up your life now in the night of Jesus. So let it be written, So let it be established in Jesus' Presure's name. Now here this sold. The things we do in services like this are not meant to be for services. They are supposed to become your lifestyle. So beyond the service, make sure your condition your heart to stay grateful. Make sure you have waws of trade and transgiving on your lives. Perpetually. Make sure again and again you dance and celebrate God's faithfulness and God's goodness. And make sure again and again you commit yourself to bring in talcoons of appreciation before the presence of the Lord. And don't just do it. Teach your children. Teach them. Teach them to say thank you, Lord, and teach them why they need to thank God. As they are young. When you are coming to God's presence, give them presents and talk. Tell them put it on the order. That's how you honor the Lord. Teach them the ways of God when they're in churche. Don't allow them to be distructed with their phones. When they are present God, tell them to dance and to celebrate God's The train of a child in the way that he should go when he is grown up, he will not be part of it. Let this become your way of life. It will make you. In principle, see, too many Christians are not manifesting the faithfulness of God. Jesus sends us out to be witnesses. We are supposed to be the proof of everything God claims, because if we don't prove it, it will end up as a divine claim, not reality. Somebody said the Bible is not God's testimony to the world. Is that the Bible is God's testimony to the church. Is that our life is God's testimony to the world. Your will prove God to your generation. Your life w mo tell his faithfulness. And because of you many we believe God. So let it be written, so let it be established. Hey, Jesus pressures nave. Give the Lord a big hand of praise. If you are blessed by this message you just listen to and you wish to make Jesus your Lord and personal savior, kindly repeat the prayer after me. Dear heavenly Father, I believe in your son Jesus Christ, and that he died for my sins was raised from the dead for my justification. I therefore confess with my mouth that Jesus is the Lord of my life. I receive eternal life into my spirits. I am born again. Thank you, Father and Jesus' name. Amen. If you just said this prayerse congratulations, you are now a member of the Family of God. 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