 Right good morning everyone good morning to our students online as well Let's begin this time with a word of prayer and we get into our session Father we thank you for this time We thank you Lord that even as we've been learning about our identity and what you have called us to be Lord We pray that we will truly just grow deeper and know our identity grow into the things of God and to into greater spiritual Spiritual realms of God I pray for your wisdom Lord even as we study may your grace be upon us Lord We thank you for this time in Jesus name. We pray a man a man. All right All right, so we're getting into the next section in our notes. I've used been tracking along with last class We finished on quite a few chapters. We did 18 19 Growing all things have passed away With a chapter 20 all things are new from God and then 21 was quite important because we talked about Growing into the measure of God, you know what we looked about the natural and the spiritual in the natural We know what a five-year-old can do and what a 25-year-old can do Right that's growing into what he has to do so in the spiritual also God wants us to grow into what he wants us to be that is what Christ likeness. So basically The full measure of our spiritual growth is when we are walking in the same Measure that Jesus walked while he was on earth. That's what we want to become like who is our role model Jesus right not a possible Peter and Paul. They're all wonderful, but our role model is Jesus The role model is not pastor in your church Apostle they are not your role models. You can look up to them You can get encouragement from them. They are there to support and strengthen and be there But our identity is hey, I want to be like Jesus Right and that's how we grows spiritually, right? Let's get into Justified that is made righteous in Christ now The word made righteous, you know, we've used this many times right justified is just as if We have not sinned which means without any blame Right How many of you know the blame game, you know, they say they say that blame game, right? We blame each other. No because of this I did this Or because of that person I did this who did the first blaming in the Bible? Adam Because the woman you gave me I don't ask for it. I Don't ask for a you gave me that woman Adam tried to blame God Right, so it was there that nature is there, right? Many believers Many of us we feel unworthy. We feel guilty. We feel shameful. We feel condemned We feel okay. This is how my life is going to be But the Bible teaches us that as believers, we are just as if we have not sinned We are without blame Now I want you to think about this not in the natural sense, right? Always remember the scriptures is both the natural and the spiritual If you read the book of Proverbs, there's a lot of things that talks about the natural things that we have to do wisdom and How to go after wisdom knowledge and all of it Here we must understand that God is talking about our identity Right, and he's saying this is what I see you. You may not see yourself as that Right You know you look at these professional athletes Right their coaches will say some some of them have some good coaches Some of them have coaches who can put their athletes down, right? So there was this There's this coach who can say, you know, hey, you cannot do anything No, we practice so much and now, you know, you've come we've not even come third place You've come fifth or sixth. What is this? We practice for so many hours That's one kind of a coach and then you have another kind of a coach who can say don't worry Two years down the line you can win You can at least come in the top three And then four years down the line you can be the best you can be a gold medalist and then Five years down the line you can break the world record Now what is the difference here? When a person says to an athlete see you're not able to do this what it discourages them there's guilt this condemnation Right and here you've got somebody who has failed but the coach is saying you can do it Don't look at now two years down the line. You'll be a champion Now when Jesus is looking at us He's not looking at us now how we are Right. He's looking at us as his children and how we can be Remember the example of Peter We talked about that. Yeah, Jesus say, hey, you're a fisherman The least you could do is just You know be there for me But you are not there Jesus didn't say that he said Peter Are you ready to take on the church? Are you ready to take on the ministry? So he sees us What we can be right God, however, he identifies us as new creation Where he himself has put his spirit into us and he has moved us from darkness to light And he has brought us near he has we talked about all of this right We were far away because of sin now. He has brought us near. He's calling us his children I'll give you this example. This is a story that I read but it's a very powerful story I read it in an article many years back. There was an eagle Right and this eagle mother eagle had a nest It was it had laid eggs and had a nest right everyone understand what a nest is right that laid the eggs And right down under there was a big chicken farm So one day there was a you know heavy breeze And one of those eggs fell into the chicken farm So the mother didn't realize it. Okay Now the eggs hatched There were chickens And there was this eagle iglet So all the chickens used to keep saying Hey, you're very different Look at us. We are white with your brown color Right. Look at us how we are the way you sound is different. We sound different But the eagle it always said no, no, no, I'm I'm your brother. We're all the same Right. So the eagle believed it and was growing Growing in the same place where the chicks are The eagle Believe that is a chicken. What do chickens do? It eats from the ground Right chickens don't fly chickens have small wings But eagles are not meant for that If you look at you know, if you've seen Our national geography and all these no eagles have the capacity to kill whole deers with their horns deers Crocodiles, they're so strong. They're their paws are so strong Now this eagle is believing it's a chicken So what happens is now this is an illustration, okay, it's So I know one day one eagle was flying and it came and stopped on pre just to take some rest and sun and looked down And so there were a lot of chicks there and one of the eagles was there The eagle is growing. So this other eagle comes and says, hey, what are you doing with the chickens? Eagle says no, no, I'm a chicken No, you're not a chicken. You're an eagle. See, we both have the same kind of wings We both have the same kind of beak. We look the same only thing you're too small But when you grow you'll be big you'll have wings like me. Why don't you try to fly? But now this eagle the small baby eagle doesn't know that it can fly Eagles can fly above the clouds Yes or no They fly the highest But this doesn't know Yeah, I'm a chick. I'm a chick. I'm a chicken. I'll become a chicken So then this this eagle said you come with me. I'll show you I'm taught this eagle it how to fly and the eagle it realized. Hey I'm not I don't belong here. I don't belong with the chicks. I belong On top over the over the clouds I fly on top and the king of the bird family That's what I am but it was behaving like a chick Now what is so significant about the story? All right, now I'm not saying we are chickens and eagles Or what I'm trying to say is our identity People can tell us Hey, this is what you are. You're a chicken You deserve to you. You know, you only have to do these small things But god is saying hey, you're an eagle Now the choice is whether we want to be a chicken or an eagle All through the scriptures God talks about the power of the eagle Right the identity of who you are Right, so many times the devil can come and say hey, no you you are only a chicken It may be you're living with the chickens, but you're an eagle You change your identity change your thinking Right Does this story make sense right so one of the things I keep telling you know My little boy came and said, you know some boys teased me in school They were making fun of me in school. I said hey, I keep telling him every single day. You're an eagle. You're a lion That's what you are So then he went back and you know a couple of days back his friends teased him And he said hey, I'm an eagle I said eagles don't be with the crows Eagles fly on top flight. They're high above. That's what you are So he keeps telling himself I'm an eagle you tell yourself. Hey, I'm an eagle. I'm a lion. That's what my identity is That's what god sees me. I may see myself as somebody very small But god sees me as an eagle Right efficiency one four Just as he chose us in him Before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame Before him in love Look at this verse Just as he chose us in him Say he chose us But we accepted jesus But the moment he chose us Once we are in christ. What does he have that we should be holy and without blame with him in love Even before the foundations of the world god Determined to have a family of people god determined to have the church He determined everything before the foundation of the world Right, so it was not like God was worried after adam sinned no no Everything was done before the foundation of the world He had decided that there was a plan. It was already in uh, you know, it was already kept there Only thing he waited for many years to do the plan was already there The words without blame simply means faultless blameless unblameable Without any blemish or spot Now what is the word blemish? You have a white t-shirt who some of you are wearing white t-shirts Imagine you take a you know, uh, uh ink pen All right, a red or a blue ink pen and this and the mark comes there. Is it going to go? You can sit and scrub it the whole day by all kinds of things And don't try it You can buy all kinds of detergents and all those things it'll not go easily It's a blemish Which will be there Yes or no, right? So we have the gospel in in what jesus is saying is when I see you when you are in christ, there is no blemish Is there sin in is there some do we sin do we do things wrong? Yes But when jesus sees us there's no blemish There's no spot You know the scriptures say he has washed our sins away whiter than snow Right if you see in snow, it's so white whiter than snow Then he says I've I've forgotten about your sins You ask for forgiveness. It's done. It's forgotten. I'm not even thinking about it It's like, you know, when we pray we say jesus actually, you know what two weeks back I made I did a sin He went two weeks back No, actually in the morning, you know, I was getting angry and I did something. That's a big sin that I'd made These I don't remember. Okay, forget it Right, you understand what I'm saying he chooses not to remember it gets it Because he looks at us as Blameless now this does not give enough us an opportunity to keep sinning and saying god Anyway, you choose to forgive. No We looked at the words in in the book of Hebrews if we keep on sinning there's no more sacrifice That is needed because the cross has done everything. It's not it's not a It's not the identity of a believer to keep on sinning Right Colossians chapter one 20 and 22 2021 and 22 let's read that maybe one of us. Yes, please and by he Recounts all things to himself by him whatever things on earth or things in heaven having made peace through The blood of his cross and you who once were aligned and enemies in your mind by weekend works yet now He has reconciled In the body of his flesh throne death To present you holy and blameless and above Approach in his side. Yeah So we were once enemies with god now because of the cross we have friends with god Now look at that word reconciled, right? How many of you in school you had a best friend? Okay, all of us would have had some kind of a best friend, right? And you had an argument with your best friend Right. I'm not talking to you Your friends for many years, but we had an argument. I'm not talking to you It could be because of a pencil or rubber There's small kids Right You know, I'm not talking to you And so when you go home, how is your heart? I don't know if it's happened to you But you know, how did he do this one side you're feeling sad One side you're You know, I've lost my good friend. Simply we fought now now on the other side. We Want to patch things up, but he should say sorry first He did he did the mistake The next day we go to school. We see the fellow your best friend. He's you look away But your heart is Hey without him. It's boring. He's my best friend Yes or no And then suddenly one day Maybe the second day you say I can't manage this So you say, okay, and you give me one book That one sentence what's happened Become best friends right back to normal, right? And then what has happened? They have a reconciled Now their friendship has become even closer. Are they going to talk about why they fought very unlikely? They'll not talk about it Right So that's what jesus did Adam was a friend of god So picture this The bible says in genesis God was walking in the garden So two friends are walking god and abrah and adam. So maybe god is telling adam see This is what you call plants When you put the seed in this, this is what you call seed You put the seed inside the ground Then I will make it grow. But once it's growing, you have to put water. This is called water How how did adam know all of this? God taught him God walked with adam. They were like friends talking After sin what happened separation? But after the cross that friendship was After the cross it was reconciled and now he's brought us closer Than before who has a better relationship with god adam or you and me Who do you think? We yeah, why because the spirit of god who is god is inside us Any time we can go to god Anywhere any place we can go to god He has reconciled best friends Now will you go to your friends? Hey, hey, can I talk to you for one minute? Please Will you say that to your best friend? And we have languages that we can use right we have those friendly words that we say Hey come here man I want to tell you something that's very casual But we're not talking about being very casual with god, but the thing is our reconciliation has happened You're not fearful to go back to god Right the words here. You also see the word above reproach, which means Unaccused nobody can accuse. What is the meaning of satan? meaning of satan Satan means Thank you Satan means accuser of the brethren His job is to accuse That's what he is You did this you did this you did this Accuser of the brethren He comes to kill steal and destroy that's his work Right, but jesus is saying when when you are my child you are unaccused Without any reproach. I'm not going to accuse you of anything Are there sins that we need to ask forgiveness for yes, but I'm still not going to accuse you of it Once it's forgiven. It's forgiven. It's done. It's gone. It's not going to think of it again Right How does god view you? And what what do you think god thinks about you? This is something that you can write down Think about it. What do you think god thinks of me? God, I'm not able to pray one hour a day So you think god's love is reduced Is it do you think okay god? You know, I'm not in full-time ministry. Is god's love reduced. Oh, it's still the same It is the same. It will never change So when we understand that hey god loves me no matter what We will change things in our lives will change The way we look at situations the way we look at people the way we look at ourselves will change Everyone right, so we have to do it god has done it All we have to do is believe it Right, let's go to the next one We are accepted in the beloved Ephesians chapter one and verse six. What is the meaning of accepted? Right the phrase he has let's read that Ephesians one six To the praise of the glory of his grace By which he made us Accepted in the beloved Everyone say accepted You all had applied for bible college. What happened you were I think you would have also got an acceptance letter Or an email Okay, you are accepted into the bible college All right, now jesus says Every time you pray the moment the day you pray and say lord jesus come into my heart make me a new person You've made the salvation prayer jesus gives you an acceptance certificate. Yeah You're accepted in the beloved now. You're not accepted into a bible college. You are accepted into heaven You're accepted into his presence Right, you see that accepted in the beloved literally means he He gives you great honor To be highly favored. He covers us with grace. Can you believe this? Jesus Is giving us honor We are supposed to give jesus honor, no Right, we sing glory and honor power belongs to you jesus, but jesus is saying I will honor you Jesus is honoring us. You may think god jesus. It's okay. You don't have to i mean i'm not doing much for you We feel that no at times I'm not able to do much for you not able to you know, I want to do so much I want to touch many lives start a church start a ministry I want to you know be impactful for the kingdom of god. I'm not able to do anything What is the honor in that? But jesus is saying The day you have accepted me. I've already favored you. You're highly favored I have already honored you and I will keep honoring you. I will not look at your works I will look at you as my child Right It's like this imagine a student a father and a son right or daughter anyone If the child writes his exams Right, he writes his final exam. He gets 60 percent right The parents are saying okay. Good. You got 60 percent Do well next time try to get better Now if the child doesn't do well the second unit test or the next test and he gets a lower percentage Will the parents say get out of the house? You got worse marks than last time last time. I kept quiet this time. You got lesser. Don't come back home Go till you get 90 percent. Don't will the parents say that Parents will correct and say hey You've been playing too much. You're giving your interests are on other things Study finish your exams do better in what you're doing Simple But but the parent will the parents say no food for the next two days No, they'll still make the food they'll still You know keep them at home and everything will be normal Why because he's already accepted He's already there. He's already part of the family and Whether he passes or he fails. He's accepted in the family Right and so jesus is saying You and I are accepted into the family Doesn't matter about our works Now there are there are rewards right now if a father Says to a son you get 80 percent. You know a final exam. I'll get you a cycle Now this boy works very hard Right sacrifices. He gets 80 percent the father buys him a cycle sort of what? Right now if he doesn't get 80 percent No cycle You'll get one chocolate either be happy The father's not going to say Go away from me No Right You understand the concept in the natural itself if parents are so loving Will not God the father be even more loving to us? He will right Here he says that he made us objects of his grace right, so You are not hated You are not accused. You are not shamed. You are not condemned condemned In Christ you are loved accepted. You are honored you are favored And so tell this to yourself All the people around you may hate you But God loves you All the people around you may say you cannot do anything in life But God says you're highly favored. I will make you a blessing Look at the people who God chose in the old testament Could we learn the new testament? Who are the people God chose? Were there some great people? Peter what was he doing catching fish? Matthew tax collector The old testament moses He says no, no, no, I can't I can't I can't talk You send somebody else Joseph David Simple people David he took a shepherd boy A shepherd to be the king of israel get Daniel right May Daniel be the governor of Babylon for three consecutive kings So many years He uses simple people And makes them great Yes So don't look at hey, I'm from a village. I don't know this. I don't know that no Say hey, this is what God is saying I'm not hated. I'm not condemned. I'm not accused God can do big things in my life. I just have to depend on God People will say You can't do you say I can do philippians 413 I can Do all things everyone say all things My little one says Oh dad of maths is very difficult What is this maths? I say what is philippians 413? Oh dad, I can do all things through christ who strengthens me He's these are words that we need to speak to ourselves right and This may be too good to be true, but when we Embrace when we receive it when we say this is who I am Our thinking and our lifestyle will change Right now there could be this religious stronghold causes us to You know causes us to enjoy emotional self Flagellation which means we we tell ourselves Right that we are not good. We keep telling ourselves. We keep speaking words of you know condemnation upon ourselves Right, we whip ourselves emotionally telling ourselves how unfit. We are we are unworthy. We are not able to Right people will tell us and then we'll tell ourselves You know growing up. I remember Uh, I wanted to learn the guitar How to learn guitar I can't go for guitar classes during those days. There's no very few people to learn guitar And I didn't even have a guitar So what to do I should watch people I always think oh man, it's too much. I cannot do this What all it's too much of effort and we can't do it And I thought to myself if I say I can't do it, what will happen? If I say I can't do it, I can't do it So then I took step number one I had a ruler in my house Right, like not a ruler, but a wooden stick long one Which my mother used to whack me with So I used to take that stick and play guitar Front of the mirror Okay, long stick play the guitar Because no guitar at home No play all the songs whatever song you want to learn you learn under the mirror Right, and then my parents thought I was mad Because I was just doing that the whole day, but what happened practice Practice is happening Then suddenly my brother said I'll buy you a guitar. So he bought me a guitar under the mirror This became easy right hand movement because for more than one year I was playing with the stick So this was no problem only this was a problem now So start practicing I said look okay one day I will stand on the stage What am I playing here nothing only sound But over time kept telling myself we can do it There's no excuse we can't do it If God wants me to if he wants to use me if he wants to do Work through me and if he has a plan he's seeing me as somebody who can do it People will say no You say you can Over time now that involved a lot of now nobody came and said You know the Holy Spirit didn't say you play the G chord like this and then D chord like this. No Okay, we learned it ourselves Took the effort Right we took the pain we took the trouble You know of practicing and the fingers get cut and it pains you can't even touch something initially It pains all of that we have to go through Right, it's not like drinking your magic potion drink it. Oh now I'm a guitarist No is effort right, so when People and when we ourselves tell that we can't do that's what will happen But if we stay tell ourselves we can do we can do Even right we can do I remember going to Central apc central where you all go right now. So during those days used to meet in another place And I used to stand way back in the balcony and I used to watch the worship team Wow You know during those days there were no led screen. It was just A regular auditorium. So watch the worship team. What are they doing? How are they playing so well? How are they playing everything sounding so nice? How are they doing this? So every Sunday has to go and watch I say God one day One day Can I will I get a chance? Right. Will you give me a door open? Will you give me a chance to be here? Now just because I pray it doesn't mean that we go back home and relax I knew there's a lot of effort. I knew that I had to learn And about four or five years later I got the opportunity All right, and God just opened the door We were able to you know lead worship and there's so much that I learned right over those years so many years of leading worship Right and Initially, I thought to myself how will I do this? All these musicians are so good But if God wants If God desires and you have the right desire He can do it If you desire to see yourself standing in front of the stage with Thousands of people listening to you preach That's a good desire. But what must we do for that? Everyone say preparation time Again, preparation time Is never wasted So if you have to stand on the in front of the mirror and play with the stick Do it If you have to stand in front of the mirror and keep preaching the word for 20 minutes 30 minutes, do it It's never a wasted time The devil as you're preparing the devil will come and say Oh, what are you preparing for all this God? You can't do this. This is not what you God is calling you for. You tell the devil I know what I am. I know what God can do So I'm not going to listen to you right now. I'm in my room. But one day will come. I will stand in front of people And minister the gospel Right? We are created created to be loved. We are created to be purposeful to be hopeful And don't let the devil feel make us feel down a feeling of rejection will come a feeling of sadness Difficulties will come Not saying once we become believers life is very smooth. No There are many ups and downs, but through that all We continue to know our identity Look at David. What a wonderful example, no? When he was probably When he was probably 12 or 13 years old, he was anointed the king of israel After that what he had to do had to run away Everyone said oh david wonderful Saul killed thousands david killed 10 thousands They carried him on his shoulder David was enjoying the success Next chapter is running Why is solace behind him? Where he's running he has to go he's running in the caves. He's hiding himself And david said oh, I thought you're gonna make me king But i'm sure david would have looked at himself not as a shepherd boy That david and sol Samuel would have anointed him his mindset would have changed His mind would have been i'm not a shepherd now I am a king of israel Now Well, what is the king of his future king of israel doing looking at after the sheep come this side Don't go the same. That's what he's doing But he's looking at himself as he one day i'll be on the throne And did it happen it happened after how many years more than 17 years But there was seasons and challenges that he took david through The same thing with moses same thing with You know apostle paul joseph same thing All right, now joseph what's the story there joseph? God you said my brothers will bow down to me here. I'm sitting in the prison Right. They're all persecuting me Paul's accusations against me But i'm sure joseph would have thought no one day that dream will come through Right now i'm in the prison one day that dream will come true. Did it come true? Did the brothers bow down for before him? How many years 17 years Many ups and downs Right, but when god says something He will accomplish it, but we need to be faithful to Every season in every season. We need to be faithful Let's go to the next chapter washed Sanctified and justified. Let's read that portion first Corinthians chapter 6 was 9 through 11 First Corinthians 6 9 through 11 Do you not know that the unrighteousness will Not inherit the kingdom of god to not be Deceived Deceived neither fornicators nor idol Idolaters Nor adult us nor homosexuals nor Sodom here Sodom it's Sodom it's north North thieves north thieves north North Norcovac is Not drunkers nor drunkers nor travelers Rebels extortioners Will inherit the kingdom of god and such where some if you but you were washed but you Were sanctified but you Were justified in the name of the lord jesus and by the spirit of Paracord Now this is uh first Corinthians Your paul is being little stern Yes or no, it's okay. Don't feel bad. It's all right. These are difficult words, right? It's all right, right? So these paul is writing and he's saying What's he saying? He's being little stern now. He's saying see Do you not know that those who are living unrighteous life will not inherit the kingdom of god? What does that unrighteousness Do not be deceived neither fornicators I doll it. You know what is fornication fornication means involving in sex Before marriage as for fornicators, right? I doll it as idle worship adulterers homosexuals, sodomites, thieves Covetches drunkards, revilers as a whole list these people will not inherit the kingdom of god and some of you were like that I'm paul is saying when I came and met you In Corinth you all were all of this You all were idolaters. You were worshiping idols. You were living in sexual immorality. You were living as sinners. You were thieves You were doing all these things Some of you were like that, but now You are everyone say washed sanctified Justified three things washed sanctified. You were all of that But now you are washed sanctified justified in the name of the lord jesus through the spirit of god So paul is reminding them. That's your identity Your previous identity was that whole list idolatry Morality all of those things Now you're washed sanctified justified right the Corinthian believers were had a very uh notorious background Right, so let me give you a background. There was a temple called aphrodite There were thousand male prostitutes thousand female prostitutes right, this was a goddess of infertility goddess of fertility, right, so prostitution was a good thing because the god was a god goddess of fertility and there was idle worship Sex outside of marriage sex Before marriage sexual immorality all of this was common in that place Now these people are coming to the church. They've become believers Paul is saying Don't think of your past Once you become believers your identity has changed. This is behind us It is not there now. It's not in the present. This is not who you are today That's what Paul is telling the believers Now if we translated to us Were we sinners? Did we live in sin? Did we sin in our life? Yes But now when Jesus looks at us, he says That is your past Don't go back to your past Right go back go look at the future. Look at what you can be, right? The apostle Paul calls out who they are today that is washed Sanctified justified We are washed. We are made clean all our dirt. All our filth is removed Right now it is our choice God has removed the filth. God has removed dirt if I say no, I like filth I like to go and sit in the dirt What is it that means It means it's our choice God will say so for example, there is a clean swimming pool and there is a dirty swimming pool And you're getting ready to swim where which one you'll go to Why? Because it's clean But what if one person says no, I'll go to the dirty swimming pool What will you tell him go? You will tell him see this is clean He can swim here. Your body also will be clean screen Why you want to go to the dirty swimming pool and no, I want to go to the dirty swimming Okay, go That's a that's what god will say. I have an option for you Option a I made you clean, but you're saying no, I want option b I want to go and sit in the dirty swimming pool In the slush in the dirt in the filth God will say see I have a better option. You're not taking it. It's up to you But whenever you want you can come to this pool It's open. It's ready You understand what I'm saying, right? So he gives us the choice Justified is acquitted declared not guilty. No more charges. So if you look at a court setting If a if somebody is a murderer and you know The murderers brother comes and says I'll take up the the penalty of life sentence Then this fellow the real murderer is just as if he has not some He can go out. He can walk out of that court Go back to his home and live a normal life People say hey, you're the murderer So yeah, I'm the murderer, but my brother's taking taken up my space. So now I'm free The cops do not come and say you are the murder you should be in prison Even if the cops come and say yeah, but my brother's taken up my place Just an example, right free the there are Two new testament words We need to be familiar with justified And righteousness. I'm sure all of us have heard of this word. No, what is justified? Is to be declared not guilty, right? What is righteous? When we are standing with God, yeah, right standing before God Righteous right standing before God Justified and right justification and righteousness go hand in hand. There are two sides of a coin Right, they go hand in hand Just because you're justified You have a right standing before God And you have a right standing before God because you are justified If we have sin Right, if we have not accepted the Lord Jesus Then we won't have a right standing before God because we are not yet justified Right, you see on both sides. It is the same to be justified is to make Righteous so both words are synonymous Right, so we'll we'll stop here Because we have only a few minutes, but don't want to get into the next chapter. We will pick up from next week Right, so everyone are understanding this, right? It's very important for us as believers, right to tell ourselves Speak to ourselves no matter what it is, right? You may see in the natural Happening remember Abraham and Sarah Right in the natural. What is it? The her womb was barren. It was too. She was too old But Abraham believed in God Right remember God told him Abraham I'm going to make you the father of many nations Abraham would have said give me one. I don't want nations. Give me one son enough I don't want to have my own son But he believed that when God told him I believed it then 15 years later He's worried Oh Where is the son? Where is the promised God? So God told Abraham Abraham you come out from your tent Come out You look up at the stars So he looks up. You see the stars in the sky You can't count them That many will be your descendants Again faith And I said oh God has still remembered his promise. He has not forgotten me I sometimes we may feel God has forgotten us A simple person in a simple place Nobody knows me even if some if I'm admitted in the hospital nobody will know Even if I'm not in this world nobody will know. No, don't think that way Every person here is valuable before God People may not know but God knows Right, so all all that you have to do is speak Speak what God wants you to be Keep speaking it keep telling yourself. God. This is what I want to do. This is what I want to see myself This is where I want to be if you if you're you know, probably learning some instruments Right, you're learning you want to learn an instrument and you feel how will I learn? I'm not good enough. You tell yourself What I want to do this Help me Help me to understand help me to learn Give me get people into my life who can help me and teach me This you know I'm close with this as a young boy Uh who had attended our bible college and he would always come up to this many years back. I think 20 2015 or 2014 I think 14 of 2015 batch young boy, right and You're coming to me and you say Passer I want to Be a good translator. I want translate from English to His native language It's a very good he knew he wanted to be preacher in his language and he wanted to be like a main translator So what he would do he would practice and practice and practice I remember him so clearly because he had this table. He had four bibles with him He would leave them all open on the table And he would he would sit alone on the table. So he had a English to Hindi English Easy to read version English hard the nkjv is the the difficult version and he's got a full hindi bible books everywhere After the class he'll come up to me. What is this meaning? Every time what is this meaning? What is it? One dictionary next to him big ones And he graduated and he went A couple of years later he sends me these videos clips and in those clips He's translating front of thousands of people Right and great men and women of God. He's translating. He's standing and he's translating from English to another language to His native language They say God did it faster God has opened so many those people are willing to Be him to come and translate because he's doing so well Right so never look at what it is now Look at what it is Years down the line. Look at what God calls you. All right. All right. Thank you so much Have a great weekend also and I'll see you on Monday. God bless your bless Thank you very much