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00:00:01 okay uh the sermons are up there next sermon next week we're getting into Christmas already a bit Yeah so uh John will take us through characters uh Zechariah William will take us to Mary uh Yan will take us to Simeon and after that I will take your through the wise men uh I was supposed to take the church through the book of Exodus but what happened was that at the church camp I spoke at Ephesians and Ephesians is a wonderful book and I'm still stuck here you know it really is very lifechanging so I'm going to tell
00:00:45 you what happened now I prepared a sermon sometime ago and then Peter spoke last week about this he spoke about the cross being the power and the wisdom of God quoting from 1 Corinthians 1:23 to 24 and he brought a quotation from Tim Keller which I thought was quite interesting he said the cross wisdom is inside out upside down and forward back so I felt that you know this could be expanded so what I did was I deleted my whole sermon really and from Peter's sermon I readed it and I and I think sometimes that's what you feel the
00:01:31 Lord has to speak to you you feel in your heart you know go Peter's on to something let's continue on that now we're talking about wisdom as the year comes to an end how many here think it's been a great year everybody would tell you it's been a hard year our ringard is at the lowest we have two Wars It's been a difficult year and I think more and more the church needs to talk about wisdom and you if you're honest a lot of us when you go to work uh you have issues at home I have people sending me Tik Tok messages they
00:02:14 tell me we listen to Jordan Peterson I listen to this I listen to that and I ask you where is this isn't the gospel supposed to teach us isn't a gospel supposed to be real when I have a family problem isn't the gospel supposed to be real at work that's why I really appreciate John's Lee sermon because it really takes it to the marketplace so today I I I I I thought about it I I I noway really I feel the spirit tell I deleted it and this is a whole new sermon I did from two weeks ago it's called The Inside Out upside down and
00:02:52 forward back wisdom of the gospel and I really pray we can take the cross and take it to your families to your work to how you feel as a person and maybe I want to stress the last one how you feel you are as a human being let's come before God In Prayer Lord we ask as you speak your word becomes alive to us and not me I say in humility and only your word comes out in Jesus name we say this amen now when we talk of gospel we're taking Ephesians one let me give you a bit of background Ephesians Ephesians
00:03:30 can be said to be divided into three parts the first part is what we call the Theology of it it ends with a very fantastic prayer it's considered the second most famous Prayer in the Bible after the Lord's Prayer that's somewhere in chapter chapter 2 at the end of chapter three he begins maintaining the unity the spirit make every effort and he talks about old self new self all the way up to chapter five and then he ends with the armor of God there's actually three sections now whenever you start a book
00:03:58 The Way Paul writes the opening lines of the book normally captures the spirit of the book and let me just read this okay we'll take this back he starts praise be to God of Father Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us Heavenly real with every spiritual blessing in Christ we'll go through the rest later but if you ask people what's the gospel if I if I catch you in a corner and say what is the gospel you would say this verse seven in him we have Redemption through his blood the Forgiveness of sins in accordance
00:04:27 with the riches of God's grace he levish on us in not so many words these words will come out God forgave me God's grace God Jesus is my Lord and Savior you ask anybody what's the gospel this is what they'll tell you and I'm not saying that's wrong but I suggest to you the gospel is more than that if you look at the text and you look at the Hebrew rendering the Hebrew is all one section the gospel is this you know it starts from four to 10 and there three parts here later on Paul will tell you about the
00:05:05 church being in chapter 3 expressing the manifold wisdom of God the Hebrew the Greek word for manifold is poos poos means like a diamond is actually taper stream meaning the many aspects of it and the church is manifesting the wisdom of the Cross there three things here and it's quite interesting H let me give you the first one in him we have Redemption through his blood forgiveness of sin mean you have to admit your wrong what is that inside out here's the next one I chose you before the creation world to be
00:05:49 adopted I chose you why because you're very smart because you're very very good at what you do I chose you freely through Christ this is upside down I didn't choose you because you were worthy that's the point that's upside down because the god the world chooses people who are good who are smart who are intelligent who you know and the third one he says he purpos in Christ what to bring Unity to all things on Heaven and Earth to bring Unity to all things on Heaven Earth what is that that's forward
00:06:35 back because one day God will unite Heaven and Earth and this is the gospel this is what Peter spoke and it sort of click to me so when he preach it I said hey Ephesians one so deleted my entire PowerPoint now this takes us where we see it is all very theological I I got problems at home how how is it helping me I I can't stand my job I go every day I got a lot of pressure and you telling me upside down inside out forward back hello brother help me La be practical now I'm going to break this down and I'll take you through one thing
00:07:15 wisdom is about truth and I'll tell you what science tells you the way you think is truth is very shaped by your emotions in in in counseling we call it this cognitive behavior your actions are driven by your emotions Which shapes your thinking and I'm going to look today from the gospel from an emotional influence point of view I'm going to give you three emotions here and we expand it and the first two are a pair let me give you the first one the first one is guilt you cannot have guilt if you don't feel
00:08:00 you need forgiveness to say I need forgiveness you feel guilty so guilt is an emotion again in counseling we call this a moral emotion it's a conscience-based emotion the research does this the second one when I say I adopted you not because you were worthy what I'm not telling you I'm talking about honor and shame and in fact Ephesians after the the second prayer goes very heavily into old self new self be ashamed of your old self be proud of your new self and it's a major theme in the New Testament
00:08:46 Romans picks it up in Romans 10 adoption we're going to look at this two first because I think this is all very telling let's look at these two words and I'll suggest to you we tend to lump them together you do something wrong you say I feel guilty you can also say I feel very shameful of what I did so there's a confusion between these two words and in many ways the two words are very connected but I'll tell you what the research data shows you because we are translating from the Greek English is
00:09:25 semantics the two are very separate and you really have to go to science on this and research data shows you their very separate thing if you want a person called bran Brown very famous in counseling circus writes heavily on this but here's what I want all of us to look at this morning uh and here's the big picture on this first point guilt and shame are strong emotions that affect our understanding and willingness to repent of of sins they literally shape your thinking I'm going to go to guilt first what is
00:10:08 guil right first guilt and shame they tied by Grace because the verse is very similar in his Echo he gives a proposition and ends in this way with regards to honor and shame adoption accordance with pledge and will praise his glorious Grace freely given in Us in the one he loves and then with regards to guilt or forgiveness in accordance to The Riches of God's grace he lavish on us this is this is idea about you don't deserve it but God's give it to you I want you to pick this up but let me ask
00:10:43 you what is guilt all right guilt is an emotion that results from acknowledgement one has sin so let me take this down a bit H is this guilt are you sure discussion with somebody from a church called the worldwide Church of God and we were talking about the Sabbath and he he he wrote this back to me Arnold as recorded in the Bible Lord God commanded us to observe the holy Sabbath day and commanded it as a fourth Commandment among the 10 as recording the Bible it is command of God Jesus a savior set an example the disciples
00:11:25 follow Jesus example kept it even teaching us to celebrate it to the end of the age meaning after Heaven come so I don't find it hard and difficult to follow the teaching of Jesus and keep the seventh day as worship day to me it is clear as can be this is the truth the true teaching example of Christ the promise of blessings and Sabbath to him was sunrise to sundown and he ended this all right Anna I don't see the point of us continuing this conversation anymore you take care so I'm in this church today I will
00:11:59 tell you you better keep your Sabbath from sunrise to sundown from when the sun comes on Sund down and on Saturdays cannot do this canot do you do that you go to hell if it's another church we could say the same thing I could say in recorded the Bible you better be baptized scripture is very clear be make disciples only be baptized ask repent and be baptized you're not baptized you're going to hell I could say this hey Corinthians says women should cover their heads you know because it is an argument from
00:12:35 creation women you don't cover your head you go to hell what am I doing to you the word is I'm guilt tripping you you sit there goalat oh I better do this L is it your mind thinking you know you've been C now I give you a simpler example H how many of you in chat group where people say please pray for this person so you put the chat group please pray put afterwards please pray again put another so after while many please pray please pray a Elder I don't put moticon they say I don't care better puto do I really care for that
00:13:28 person why why am I putting multicon because I feel pressured it's called guilt tripping now in this case what I'm trying to tell you is that you feel guilty like this guy actually you're not you know I give you a simpler example because this is really important what's the difference between an old folks home a nursing home in P Australia and in downtown Qatar UAE say you have a mother and your mother has dementia you are in per Australia you put the mother in h that's it you're in Qatar you tell your family members I'm
00:14:14 going to put the mother into the home what do you think a family members is going to do to you they will say it is shameful that's why better go to Mission conference because some cultures you an extension of Society because Western Society is a silo Society it's individualistic you got a mother good demena put into a home law nothing to think you're in Qatar you're in Pakistan you're in Iran you do that you are dishonoring your family now you think this very far Chinese have a culture called failure
00:14:51 py am I not right so if you're Chinese and your mother got dementia you put it on you will struggle now what I'm trying to tell tell you whether you're Chinese or you're Iraqi or whether you're Australian white your mother got de de hello are you telling me it's a sin if you're in Qatar it's not a sin when you're Australia come on it is externally enforced on you and the point I'm trying to tell you you feel guilty but you're not guilty that's one H let me give you the opposite how many of you here keep
00:15:31 cats oh no cat owners H okay let me explain now you see a cat you say hi Kitty how are you what does a cat do to you correct H Bad Kitty who has you to P that you're the bad bad bad kitty what does the kitty do to you correct so here's the opposite you are Rong you're guilty you don't feel it you follow me so there are two components here which the text is telling you one is a cognitive acknowledgement you're wrong and scripture is telling you you don't need the pastor to tell you whether you should get baptized or speak in tongues
00:16:35 or or or what you know what ex what's the similarity every example I gave you they are external there nothing to do with your heart you could be baptized and be a rotten person you could keep the Sabbath and cheat your taxt is about the heart so there two parts the first is you need to say hey I don't agree why must I keep Sabbath 6:30 to 6 know what is the Sabbath that's what God wants you to ask are you sure baptized are you sure speaking tongues you search scripture so the first is the cognitive
00:17:09 but the second one which we miss is the emotional part and the two are required and so Paul tells us in second Corinthians 7:10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to Salvation and leaves no regret but worldly sorrow brings death the first is you must feel guilty but look at verse 11 see what this Godly sorrow produc in you there's an action what earnestness what eagerness to clear yourself what indignation what alarm what longing what concern what Readiness what what what what because you are convicted you're
00:17:57 wrong and you emot tionally feel shameful you feel guilty you feel disgusted you will do something about it and if you don't you are not innocent now this is much more real than you imagine I'll give you one emotion or that I think everyone has it you almost I almost tell you it's a virus this is going to be quite in offensive but I'm going to say I'm also guilty of it you see in a church like ours what we call word based we are cognitively cognizant of it but we are rarely emotionally absorbed in it that's my proposition to
00:18:45 a conservative church and if you do not feel your guilty and recognize your cognitively your guilty here's the key word you never really repent now I'm going to give you a simple example and this one may be a bit sensitive uh if you're a leader especially you're Christian leader this one you you will really have this problem and I have it I give you simple example you come up to anim you say hey what you did is wrong I know my Bible Ma I become lawyer are like that like that like that you w you feel honor very like
00:19:27 that so you bring bring someone else and you T me again I also like that like that like that you you bring a third person you bring a fourth person W Corner really four people say I'm wrong but inside I think I'm right what do you think I do I'm smart Ma you know what I tell you okay I do what you want because I'm ConEd do you think I think I'm wrong I'm smart enough to back down because you just cored me there is a word for this is something a lot of Christian leaders have and if I offend you H you
00:20:13 say I'm not talking about me I talking about myself you know what this word called it's called being stubborn it's called being stubborn and sometime you have church discussion talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk you say I say you say you're very tired nobody back down because in the end I'm right ma you're wrong Ma and I think because in conservative Evangelical reformed churches we have the sin of Pride I tell you what I've been doing lately when I get cornered because I smart enough to back down just to you
00:20:57 win the battle I win the war after I maneuver again you see and that's why we have so many Church problems I tell myself you know what so and so Tom me I'm like that Anna you're very reactive no and Anna you're very reactive no Lord am I reactive or not hey you talk too much no I don't talk too much you talk too much no Lord do I talk too much yes you need to get on your knees if three or four people tell you you have this issue you need to get your on knees and say Lord search me and when you feel that you
00:21:33 need to feel Godly sorrow if you don't you will never repent and this can I humbly suggest to you is the disease in the church offensive H but I said I'm like that so all of us here's the second part we're just getting started by the way he chose us before creational World be holy blameless let's make it a bit more sour before we make it sweet people say your someone very depressing their mind like John Kelvin says drink wormwood first then would you drink honey the good part we do now all drink
00:22:05 wormwood wormwood is very bitter he predestin for the adoption to sunit to Jesus Christ in accordance with pleasure will then he double downs again to the praise of his glorious Grace which freely given us in the one he loves so what is the difference between guilt and shame shame as an emotion connect connected to our identity guilt is specific you did something wrong you better feel guilty about it shame in what we call psychological terms they call it if you read the L it's called a global attribution that
00:22:47 means I'm not so much feeling about what I did I'm feeling about who I am that is a huge difference between the two God does not love us because we are worthy that's what the text is saying he chose us before the creation of world before the creation world let's not get into the controversies about predestination we we get too much s track to that he chose us before you did anything that's the point before you did anything good or bad before you can become like the Pharisee of the temple hey look at me I
00:23:28 pray I di I'm an elder I do this I should get a Manion in heaven he chose you that means before you can show you are worthy he chose you so here's the text God does not love us because we are worthy this came from John Kelvin I tell you this is eye opening this is an Institute volume one why does God love us God loves us because we are in Christ who alone is worthy can you know the difference this is lifechanging and Kelvin adds on one more which to me is Ephesians 1 because Ephesians one starts off with the riches
00:24:16 of God see the riches of God everything that is Christ Is Ours when we are in him and you read this you say thank you God so let me ask you is God ashamed of me I'm asking you now I will say this if I sin and I did not repent I'd rather believe what I want to believe I had an argument with so many people but I still think I'm right God's ashamed of me because I'm not taking the extra M to search my heart whether I've done wrong I'm just stubborn is God ashamed of me I'm not very good now I got divorced I can't talk very
00:25:10 well my marriage isn't on the isn't doing well I'm suffering my work is God is God ashamed of you yes he's not but we miss this he chose you not because you're worthy by worldly standard this is the upside down of the Gospel he chose you because you are in Christ and Christ is worthy and all of Christ brothers and sisters all of Christ is in you but we miss this and we say this how come other people got better marriages and I don't how come other people got children and I don't how come other people can do
00:26:04 ABC I can't you you notice the disconnect I wish I was more beautiful I wish I was smarter I wish my children loved me more I wish my son wasn't gay I wish I wish I wish because we are disconnected from the fact that he chose us not because of who I am but because I came before God with guilt and sorrow and shame and I say Lord take me as I am a hopeless sinner I am much more sinful than I imagine and you know what God replied to that yes you are but hear this you are much more loved than you can
00:27:14 imagine if this was a charismatic church everybody would say hallelujah and let me ask this because this is what we do when I was going through a very insecure phase of my job covid changes many things you would say why am I not like other practices I think Lord has cleared me of that I thank the Lord man you know what people like me who are insecure at work now I don't have it we like to drop names yeah I met D so and so that day I know so and so I did this building at so and so because you're trying to
00:27:57 say look at me look at me I'm very good at all of this though look at me give me a job I tell you we all suffer from this you know and that's why image of God is such a big teaching in scripture let me tell you where this started and why this so powerful in the Garden of Eden and I'll tell you the underlining cause of Shame mankind sin what was the first emotion scripture recorded they felt they at and they felt they realized they were naked and they felt yes now is being naked a sin it's not the the the point of the
00:28:52 biblical author they were naked and they felt no shame now they add they naked they felt ashamed and what did they do what did they do exactly and so scripture is so true when I take my camera and I take a short it I think I'm losing hair I better he very bad take shots this no look so I'm hiding no one ask you to take a shot that hey love Be Love be and post a coffee and bigel I'm not saying that no young people don't get me wrong but there some there's this part of us that trying to show off because we
00:29:41 hiding the first sin was shame the second was even better and this goes to the third emotion God say what do you do yeah my wife's problem go to W what do you do snakes problem I tell you the Bible is so true you know I want to ask you what's the difference between the two I feel guilty shameful sorrowful terrible whatever you want to say you just feel bad and the second one the first is an action-based reaction of emotion the second is an identity based emotion the first is biblical the second is from the
00:30:35 devil because I am worthy not because I'm baling or I can speak or I'm an elder because I am in Christ he is worthy and everything of Christ is mine I tell you John Kelvin was ahead of his time let me give you two definitions of it I think there a bit of break there but firstly from a secular and from a from a from a theological Point what is shame an intensely painful feeling experience of believing we have flawed and therefore Unworthy of acceptance and belonging and those in counseling will know BR Brown is mandatory
00:31:20 reading okay from another Theologian is simpler from a book called Shame and Grace we feel guilty for what we do we feel shame for what we are the former is biblical the latter is not so this is what the Lord is asking this morning and we will pray over this later let me give you a third emotion and it came from the Garden of Eden when the man who was supposed to love the wife care for the wife threw his wife under the bus and it's called empathy when you feel you're not worthy you develop a victim mindset the
00:32:10 whole world is your problem no one understands me everything is everybody's fault why did God create me like that you have no eyes to look at other people because you become self absor up that's one that's shame here is guilt because you are too proud to admit your guilty you never see it from the other person's point of view and you develop no empathy let me share you one very close to my heart Paul talks in Chapter 2 about bringing together Jews and Gentiles and Bringing Down the Walls of hostility let me talk to one very very
00:33:04 close to my heart now how many of you understand your children serious you you if I ask you do you answer your children you will say yes if you ask your kid privately does your mom and then understand you what you think they'll say exactly and I would suggest the starting point is because you don't realize I tell you what when your kid steps out of line you project your identity on the kid I am a failure as a mother as a father because my daughter turned out to be a lesbian wow Anna cannot say that and poop it why
00:33:55 not I'm a terrible dad because my kid doesn't need me he told me stay on my aair I'm ashamed of myself I'm not worthy of God's grace I'm a lousy dad do you see where we go with this and so the appropriation of guilt and shame under grace breaks this bondage now you will sit there and you say okay let let me give you another better way of what if you do not have this this is what will happen to you let me give you another incentive and because we are in family life again and again we have people
00:34:50 coming up telling us about problems family issues I've been doing this for years I say this in humility and people going into depression because they have not grasped these two emotions and I will plead with you this morning if you sit there and you're drinking wormwood as John Kelvin is say the Lord is working through you now let's drink some honey Kelvin said you drink too much wormwood you're going to despair we must mix wormwood with honey so the depressing part of the sermon over already now let's talk about nice things
00:35:32 I say know all your sermon very depressing let me give you one of emotion and it's very powerful it's called Wonder you just sang I stand amazed at what hey you just sang it you know H I want see how many of you remember what you said I stand in me say what no sorry amen I stand amazed in the presence of the Lord is the presence of the Lord here do you feel amazed you sure not I don't believe you fair let's take it down a bit two years ago nobody know what this sign is I talk about another thing which
00:36:38 you guys will be amazed at and I think you're more amazed than that song you sang if you're honest with yourself what is this W thank you two years ago nobody knew what it is I challenge you you're more amazed at chat gbt now they got 13 billion from Microsoft guess what they'll do to you they you see they call this the fourth Industrial Revolution I'm going to take you through bit of Science and all of you don't like science bear with me because some of us struggle to reconcile science with scripture so bear with me
00:37:15 H we are now taking Humanity to the next level Elon Musk years from now SpaceX will go to Mars and mine and come back we will take mankind to the next level in the 1970s there was a Soviet scientist called kadf scientist like to measure things he was the a of a time he developed what was called a kadf scale which is very famous in quantum physics he measures energy so sustainable people appreciate him meaning a civilization measured on the ability to H power and according to Carl Sean we are 73 on type one type two is when you can
00:38:07 tap the power of the sun type three is when listen to this words the sun and the moon and the stars are yours to command what is he talking about in type three he's talking about God without acknowledging God those of you who watch movies noway during my time my science fiction movies no logic when people rubber jumping around nowadays they tell you things like Tess wow Tess oh you know Tess right unless you didn't watch B end games right young people what is a Tess enery Cube y thank you very much
00:38:57 you be watching ly the Tess is the fourth dimension a dimension here this a Beyond time and space a dimension of reality where beings exist not controlled by time and space and Ephesians 3 Paul says this about the church the church will show the Manifest wisdom of God to We The Heavenly Realms in 1988 or so a man wrote a book called flat land this book is so famous Isaac Asimo Albert Einstein KL Sean anyone who believes in what we call The Theory of Everything Steven Hawkins quotes this book is the corner tone of quantum's physics
00:40:02 let me tell you the story and you see where I'm going with Wonder and awe in flat land everybody's either a line a triangle a square a hexagon or a circle two dimensional world you can see he did a drawing you can see here women are lines I don't know why then men are triangles the circle was the highest in hierarchy the circle was a Pharisee because he's perfect M so he wrote a book of flat land flat land was like as but it's a two dimensional world you went to eat you went to work you fought with your wife you went to see a movie
00:40:34 he was like world two dimensional world one day a sphere entered the world in the same way a Tess is a fourth dimension and Marvel is trying to show you what happens when a fourth dimension enters a threedimensional world and the rest of it really stupidity is really idiotic stupidity Edwin talk about what happens when a three-dimensional sphere enters into a two-dimensional World firstly the two-dimensional World cannot appreciate you because you are three-dimension so here it is the sphere has to what lower himself to be a
00:41:21 circle he has to come down to you and be a ccle do you see where he's getting it and so he says every seven years I come and show you what reality is and so this person who is actually I forgot a square tells the people open your eyes there is a world Beyond us and they reject him they spit on him and they murder his family what do you think Edwin Ebert is talking about Ed Ebert was a theologian he was trying to use the book to tell you why people want to be Gods but will not accept God because
00:42:13 they do not want God to be God of their lives so you can have the KF skill you can believe in the fourth fifth six seven Dimension you can believe in aliens but I will not let God run my my life that is the essence of sin as Christmas Comes we remember Infinity step down into a finite world and the scripture says he came to that which was his own he did not receive him what is wonder wonder isn't chat gbt wonder is God becoming man to show us a better way beyond your struggles of your identity and your petty
00:43:03 problems and God will reunite Heaven and Earth and here's the great news you and I are part of it and that is the church and Paul then says I kneel down before the father how many of you ever do this when you just think of what Jesus did let me give you the forth emotion and we'll close soon without guilt without banishing shame without empathy for people around you without Wonder for what God that's done I will throw to you you cannot understand the love of God because the flow of efficient takes
00:43:54 you to this great prayer and when you experience the love of God it takes you to your knees in Wonder and sometimes let me you know in front of here there steps what do you think the steps are for let me end very soon what do you think the steps are for sorry the St climb the stage I can climb them can also it's very long stage you know a lot of people climb up can I tell you what the stage is for maybe tell me later I you can't see it but I'll show it to you I'll tell you what the stage is for it's
00:44:42 for you to do this it's for you to kneel let me give you one last emotion and we'll close at the end of Ephesians Paul says this I Pray the eyes of your heart be open and give you the last part of the Gospel he's incomparable great power for us to believe that power the same as a mighty strength exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at the right hand of heavy Realms the church is the agent to bring Heaven and Earth together if you are new to the church you sit here how would you know God's
00:45:35 presence in us when they see how people behave when they see people admit their sin when people are not shameful just because they're divorced they're single they multiple miscarriages they're in a wheelchair they don't feel shameful they don't hide it like like Adam and Eve they come and tell you I have depression pray for me then they are wonderfully in awe they stand amazed at the cross they see love that's Heaven coming down to earth that's the power and let me leave you this last emotion and I will ask the
00:46:13 worship team to take us through a small Act of Courage I want you to do today and they and and and Michelle will challenge you on this and I pray this is something you do it's called courage now to him who is able to do imagin more than we also Imagine according to his power that is work within us to him be glory in the church and he Christ Jesus throughout all generations do you want God today to do something imager more than you ask or imagine yes or no don't believe you I think you need to convince
00:47:20 yourself if it's yes and you mean it I want to encourage all of you corporately to read out this final prayer and we will close and Michelle will take over let me ask you again and I'm not here to play on emotions you are seated there and you are feeling lousy or yourself or you have a marriage issue or you have concerns or you have struggles do you not want God to do imag more than you as to imagine yes or no that's very very weak but fair enough let us not take you on a guilt trip I will ask you to pray this fallowing prayer and
00:48:05 claim it as the promise from God and the worship team will take over can you do that from the heart right we will do this at a count of three and then they will take over shall we do this 1 2 three why don't we say that again and really mean it imagine you're declaring it to the Lord the holy spirit is in our midst and he wants you to drink honey not wormwood and the Holy Spirit is here to convict not to condemn and you and I will not do it on our own we can do it only with one another and so the charismatics are
00:49:06 right when they say you have to prophesy it you know so if you feel L I'm going to ask you to even raise your hand and speak it from your heart because posture shows the heart I'm not going to take you through and force you if you feel it I will ask you put your hands up don't be ashamed what people say shame is a bad emotion but if you want the Lord to break bondages in your families with your issues with all of that you declare this to the Lord and I will pray the Lord will listen to you shall we do that
00:49:40 again at the count of tree from the heart with the right posture one 2 three God bless all of you Church um you can remain seated for now um we're going to sing uh the song that we sang just now again but I would like us to do this a bit differently we don't do this very often in FBC um it may be even uncomfortable to some of us but I just want to encourage you um as Elder annel U mentioned earlier that our posture of worship matters and it it's important how we express uh physically and outwardly uh in our
00:50:38 worship we're going to sing here I bow and uh what better opportunity for us to express outwardly um As we sing the song through our posture by kneeling and bowing down in the presence of God we all acknowledge that God's presence is here right amen and we wonder and we are in awe at his great love towards us at what Jesus has done for us and we are here we are called Sons and Daughters of God because of what Jesus did Psalm 95 says oh come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our
00:51:31 maker so I just want to invite you as we sing the [Music] song You may choose to sit you may choose to stand you can raise your hand or if you choose the posture of kneeling and bowing down before the Lord feel free to do so if um you don't have enough space at where your are seated there's a lot of space in front here um at the site at the aisle please feel free um we just want you to spend this moment to reflect on the song that we're going to sing to to to reflect on God's love towards us and whatever posture you
00:52:17 choose to worship I pray that you will respond together as a church [Music] where would I run to the throne of Mercy where would I me at this Cross of Grace how great the love strong the hand that hold us beautiful so [Music] beautiful oh yes you are so beautiful Lord we bow down before your presence Lord where would I run to the throne of Mercy would I KN at this Cross of Grace how great the love strong the hand that holds us beautiful so beautiful so here I bow to lift you high Jesus be gloried in
00:54:05 all things for all my life I am yours [Music] forever sing here I bow so here I bow to lift you high Jesus be glorified in all things for all my life I am yours forever [Music] yours why here and now be lifted high right here and now be glor glorified God Of Heaven and Earth God who brought me back to life I am yours forever yours Lord ministers in the space we want again to encourage you the space here to kneel but but we will not judge you if you don't come up here we not here to guilt trip you we are seeing the
00:55:33 posture follows the heart some are standing at the back some are seated here some are kneeling the Lord knows your heart don't do this because you feel pressured but let your posture be one from the heart and be not ashamed of it do not worry what people say the the Lord is here the spirit is here to convict the holy spirit is not here to condemn let us drink honey for our life is like wormwood and we want to taste that the Lord is good in this time of healing right now I want to give you a word from the
00:56:18 Lord and I pray you will sit on this and hear the word of the Lord you and I are much more sinful than we imagine I want you to sit on that I want you to think of things you should be guilty of but because of your stubbornness you refuse to acknowledge and you bring disunity to your family to your church to work and here's a time to confess our sins but be not ashamed for you are worthy because Christ is worthy and he is in you and all that is his is yours and so right now I want to give you a time to say Lord I am a sinner I
00:57:00 come broken I confess my sins let's take a time where you are whether you're seated whether you're standing whether you're in a corner and hear the prayer Lord break us we come no other way break us oh Lord we ask for Redemption the Forgiveness of sins Ephesians 1 by the grace you so richly give us let's take a moment right now to just think of specific sins we need to take before the [Music] Lord and here is a second part of God's word to you you and I are much more sinful than we know or imagine and
00:58:07 here's the second part you and I are much more loved then you know or imagine you and I are much more love and so right now I want to give a prayer prayer for those here who feel ashamed of themselves who feel insecure who feel they do not measure up and here the prayer for you you are worthy because Christ is worthy and you now will claim the promise and say to the evil one who Whispering I will not be judged by this world the world will say I'm not worthy I'm not goodlook enough my marriage is
00:58:52 not right I'm not healthy enough my kids don't love me why why why and I would say and I will claim Christ is worthy I am not ashamed of who I am I am in you oh Lord I'm complete I'm guilty of my sin but I'm not ashamed of who I am let's take a moment to really pause on that [Music] I'm going to ask sister Michelle to just continue to minister the Lord leads us [Music] so here I bow to lift you high Jesus be glorified in all things for all my life I am yours forever your [Music] God here and now be
01:00:33 lifted high right here and now be glorified God Of Heaven and Earth God who brought me back to life I am yours forever sing God Here and Now God here and now be lifted high right here and now be glorified God Of Heaven and Earth God who brought me back to life I am yours forever we bow so de we bow to lift you to high Jesus be glorify in all things for all my life I am yours forever yours I am yours forever yours I am yours forever can we sing how marvelous singing how marvelous how [Music] wonderful my song shall
01:02:21 ever be how marvelous marvelous how wonderful is my love for [Music] me shall we be seated it is my prayer with the end you do not listen to the words of anol liim but scripture comes alive to you and we will end by going to the word of of God and we will pray this and keep the word of the Lord close to our hearts as we end with this benediction and I pray you will go back and read it again and again and again to yourself and say these words oh Lord I prophesy to my life open your scriptures to Ephesians
01:03:15 3 and verse 20 we read it before and speak it to your heart and ask people in the church to come alongside you to speak the truth to you shall we speak Ephesians 20 to 21 and prophesy that to your life and may we as a church come alongside you as we do this together at a count of three we will say this the 3 vers 20 to 21 on the count of three may we say this as our benediction to the Lord 1 2 3 nobody saying anything let me repeat it again Ephesians 3: 20- 21 I do not want you to go back and listen to Anor liim I'm not I really
01:04:06 don't care about that I want the word of the Lord to be alive in you and so speak these words to your heart open your Bibles I think we we we really need to make a habit I brought the Bible for the first time for years you know because we are too used to listening up there and let letting the word speak to you open your apps and open to Ephesians 3: 20 to 21 and speak that to your life and go back and read it again and again and again one more time at the count of three this is a benediction put it off
01:04:46 put it off because we don't read the Bible enough with two used reading up there I want you to read it and let's scripture if you cannot take the hard word of opening your app this is a t talk you know you listening to honor you're not listening to scripture Ephesians 3:20-21 at a count of three and you're not saying this to please me you are saying this to the Lord and I pray you say this and you mean it at a count of three let's say this and is over 1 2 3 amen now to him who is able to do heag
01:05:51 more than all we ask or imagine according to this power that has worked within us Lord we claim every illness every family breakdown every identity issue every insecurity every feeling of unworthiness and we claim that you are able to do in measur more than we ask or imagine why because that power is at work within us to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever and God's people say amen God bless you all the service is over please stay back we want to have prayer let us share
01:06:37 with you let us walk life together thank you
