 Okay, good morning everyone and good morning to our students online as well All right, so let's just pick up from where we stopped last week Somebody's Can you please mute whoever's logged in here? It's mute your Okay, okay. So before we go ahead Let's just look at a quick review of what we did in our first class. So we looked at the introduction to Who we are in Christ we remember we looked at that example where an orphan who Who comes a rich man comes takes him and now his identity is changed Right. He's no more an orphan. He's now a rich man's son so you and I as believers the Lord Jesus bought us with a price and We are God's children. So we must behave like God's children even Right, we must behave like that. Right. And then we looked at how as God's children, it'll change the way we relate to God You don't have to be scared. Oh, what a what if God punishes me? It changes the way we relate to God. It changes the way we look at difficulties and challenges All of us will face difficulties All of us will face challenges, but how do we look at it? What when we look at those challenges, what is our response, right? And it'll change our lifestyle. It'll change the way we Look at demonic work and how the devil is working It'll change the way we you know, we look at all of that and then it'll change the way we relate to people How how how do we relate to people? Not just believers, but to unbelievers also then we looked at Section one we looked at you in me and I in him. We looked at the book of John the wine and the branches We also saw some examples, right? Remember that. What did we do? We remember the example of the Seed put the seed you put an apple seed. What happens mango comes out Apple comes out, right? So this if we are connected to the wine We are the branches if we are connected to the wine we will their fruit It's automatic You don't have to do anything, right? Now we also looked at chapter 3 that the Lord Jesus he called us before the foundation of the world So we saw that you know Jesus didn't say God the Father didn't say oh Adam you ate the fruit now. What do I do? No before the foundation of the world He has called you and me. He has chosen us as his children and he's given a whole list of things that we are Can you give me some some of our what we can call ourselves? What are some of the names that we can call ourselves? They're chosen blessed covered, okay Seal to the Holy Spirit so many things are there no sanctified justified and set apart Sorry your gut root Holy sanctified and set apart. Yeah, holy sanctified set apart so the whole list We do the declaration in the morning Right. It is all of that Oh in us But the point is we should believe in it We can say a lot of things, but we must believe in it I can say the world is round, but the scientists can come and say it's flat What do you believe? When you believe in something when there's a conviction nothing can stop you Right nothing can stop you if you're convicted about something, right? So we are all of this Blameless we are adopted. We are his children. We are forgiven They are redeemed. We are blessed victorious prosperous We are ministers of God because children Okay, so now here's the thing When we know all of this How do we put it into practice? Right, it's not easy, right? It's not like everything is going to be smooth. No, the devil is going to come He's going to stop us. He's going to hinder us. He's going to bring challenges. That's where the fight is That's where God is. That's why you and I can say I'm gonna stand on God's word Even remember what happened when the Lord Jesus in the book of Matthew He goes he's fasting 40 days and 40 nights Right, the devil comes and tempts him Turn this stone into bread and you can eat What does Jesus say? Hey devil, you're coming to me You're coming to me. You're telling me about this. You know who I am. I Am even before you I was there at this world. I am the one who did he give an explanation What did he say? What did he say? What did Jesus respond to the first temptation all the three that was recorded He said man does not live by bread alone But by every word that comes from the mouth of God Yes, but before that he said it is written Right, so Jesus didn't stand on his own Strength or his own ability. He said hey devil, it's written And the devil came second time He said if you throw yourself the Bible your word only says he'll send his angel sounds 91 to protect you Right, but then again Jesus said but the Bible also says it is written do not test the Lord your God All three times Jesus said it is written So what is the best example that we have? When we are tempted When we are going through difficulties go back to this Maybe we have a sickness in our body. Maybe we are mentally disturbed. We are tired. We are weary go back to the word Yeah, it's true. I'm tired. It's true that I have a sickness, but it is written By the stripes of Jesus. I'm healing we stand on that and Believe that we will receive healing. Okay, so let's go to page 12 and We'll start with chapter 4 a finished work Right now the a finished work Even you look at a construction a house or any construction that you're doing When a work is begun, it does not look It doesn't it doesn't you see the architect will give you a rough sketch of what the house will look like Right or what the building will look like But when the work is finished is where there is satisfaction Yes, I know right now what God did was all through the Old Testament God is giving us a rough sketch a blueprint of what's going to happen Right How many prophecies hundreds of prophecies about Jesus? My seed will crush the serpent's head. He will come out from Israel. He will be beaten He will be a lamb taken to the slaughter. You'll be born in Bethlehem hundreds of scriptures It's all a blueprint of what is going to happen. I When Jesus came he died on the cross. What did he say? that blueprint is Finished Right this what's interesting is the Greek word for Finished the Greek word is dead and less Thai It's not in your notes, but I love that word tetelestide the Greek word means Complete it's over It's it's used in war Right when when two nations are going against each other in war They say tetelestide the war is complete No more battle There's one victorious So let's read Ephesians chapter 1 Verse 3 to 14. Yes, one of us can please read that. It's a long passage, but it's important that we understand this Ephesians 1 3 to 14, it's on your notes. Go ahead This would be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all this freedom blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Just as he choose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and return him before him in love Having presented Pre-destined us to adoption as sons by this is close to himself according to the good pleasure of his being To the praise of the glory of his days by which he made us accept him in love In him we have redemption through this blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace Which he made to our bond towards us in all his remanded prudence Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself That in the Discernation of the fullness of the times, he knows that the together one all aims in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth in him In him also we have a friend and inheritance Pre-destined according to the purpose of whom he works all things according to the concept of his will That we who first trusted in Christ should be through the price of his glory In him you also trusted after we've heard the word of God, the gospel, the salvation in him whom we've known or showed Having believed new words filled with the Holy Spirit of promise Who is the guarantee of God's inheritance until the redemption of the purchase of possession through the price of his glory? Hey man, right. Thank you. Let me show. Right. So Efficient chapter one is a power pack chapter. It's filled with revelations But it's filled with the power of God just by declaring all of this, you know, we can have such a victorious walk Now, let's look at it. Let's break it down. What quick what can we get from the list worst three? Who has blessed us the father of our Lord Jesus who has blessed us with? Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ But who is blessed us God the father? Has blessed us with every spiritual blessing through Christ Jesus Right. So you and I are blessed with every spiritual blessing You may ask, where is the blessing? It's there in you All of it has saved healed delivered redeemed. All of that is in us. These are spiritual blessings Now in the natural we may not feel blessed When you say God nothing is working out right I try something. I'm failing if I do this I fail if I if I try to study something is wrong Everything is not going nothing is going my way And people may call you failure People may look at us as failures or say, you know, you cannot achieve anything. What does it say here? Jesus says I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing Now the point is as believers who you're going to listen to Are you gonna listen to people who accuse you say you can't do anything you can't be anything You have no gifts. You have no talents. You're not good in studies. You're not good in your business You're not good in your work. You can't do anything. You can't have a family Right. There will be many people now. Who are we listening to? Are we going to listen to that or you're gonna say? Hey, I reject that because the Bible says I am blessed with every spiritual blessing And it's there for us Now the choice is up to us. This is what God has It's like a you know a tank and And the tank is full of water You say, oh man, I'm thirsty. I want to drink some water, but you're seeing the tank there The tap also is there Man, I'm thirsty. I want to drink water. I said go drink water them It's there But we are not using it the resources there Right. So it is up to us to walk in this to verse 4 just as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world the father Chose you and me before the foundation of the world He chose us Right. He predestined us Before the foundation of the world So what does that mean? when we See all of us have a life before right before Jesus before becoming believers We may have lived a very worldly life Right living in sin and enjoying the things of the world living a carnal life Right, but what does it say here? Having predestined he chose us the moment you and I become believers All of this will flow into us Now it's like water or do you think about River how many of you have gone to the beach? You're going to the beach right now. Can you tell the water stop don't come here? I Am here don't come The water doesn't care who you are you can be the president of the nation also The water it's by nature is to flow That's the nature of water Now when you and I become believers the nature of the Holy Spirit is to flow He's like a river. Yes, right, so he will flow Now what happens when we don't keep flowing in that it becomes right? Right, he chose us before the foundation of the world three verse five He predestined us to be adopted What are wonderful words, right? Imagine you and I are adopted Being in a family right think about this if you know most of us may have parents, but some of us who don't have parents right Sometimes we feel Lonely we feel alone. We feel there's nobody to care for us. Right. I have a lot of Friends who have lost their parents at a very young age. It's not a nice feeling That's definitely not a nice feeling when they go home. There's probably some caretaker looking after them There's no love. There's no care. There's no affection. They want a family They want a father and mother. They want to go, you know, sometimes it's not By talking to people we understand that The smallest of things can bring happiness to people I've spoken to some of them. They say I wish I had parents that we can go and sit in the park That's their wish Being an orphan is not something that is exciting But being adopted having parents Having a family to care for you. That is so it's a wonderful feeling Jesus says When the devil was there and the devil when he is you know when you were not in me and you were living in Sin you were as if you were there the world But now as believers you are my son. You are my daughter. I adopted you You're in my Family, you're in my kingdom Right, so if you read on you know in the book of Paul writes in his epistles He says that we are no longer slaves. We are no longer in bondage We are set free by the blood of Jesus So powerful, right? Then we have redemption verse 7 in in him we have redemption how through his blood What is the meaning of redemption anyone want to share what is redemption now? We hear about these words redemption justification sanctification glorification What is redemption? Anyone like to share anyone online your understanding of redemption is Purchasing pastor Purchasing a Ransom Charles says a ransom. Okay, good. What else? Daniel says separated, okay, anything else, okay All of it is right, but let me give you a right understanding of redemption, right? Now, this is just an example, but we'll have to translate it to understand it, right? Now imagine you go to a supermarket You buy groceries and all of it and since you bought groceries for a certain amount, they'll give you one coupon That coupon says the next time you come and shop in this place You can use this coupon you'll get 500 rupees off of 500 Whatever your currencies are 500 Dollars of 500 rupees off So you say, okay, now you go that coupon. What is that coupon worth? 500 rupees, it's just a piece of paper. It's not a real note But it's not real money, but it's worth that much So after two months again, you go you go to the supermarket. You say you buy everything and then you say hey I'm gonna coupon My bill is 600 rupees. I'm gonna use the coupon I take out the coupon. I give it. They say that then the counter person says, okay You have redeemed your coupon That means you have used this coupon now you will get the discount So pay the remaining balance and go So that's called redeeming right Through a price that was paid now when Jesus redeemed us we were living in sin He redeemed us how by his own blood So I'm gonna paint a picture for you now Imagine this the father's on the throne Okay, Jesus is standing next to you next to the father and then Paul goes and stands there Okay Paul you did this wrong. You did this wrong. You did this wrong. There are many things they've done wrong The father by nature is holy. He needs to punish sin Yes, but he can't say okay sin. It's okay Paul. You have a nice name come. No Sin after deal with this moment Jesus is standing there with his own blood And he's saying father Look at his blood This is my blood that I shed on the cross My blood I shed this on the cross So you look at this blood So the father is saying because of this blood of my son You can come into heaven. So what's happened now? Jesus has paid the price for sin. Am I a sinner? Yes But when Jesus when the father looks at us, what does he look at us as holy? Are we holy? We're becoming holy not yet That's where he's redeemed us through the price of the blood in the Old Testament. They'll cut the goat They'll cut the living sacrifice. They'll take the blood. They'll go to the high priest take You'll learn that in the Old Testament. So the high priest will take it. He'll sprinkle the blood on the altar Okay, your sins are covered not forgiven. Your sins are covered. I'm not looking at your sins So what the father says but now? Through Jesus our sins are forgiven That's called redemption From a place of darkness to a place of light to a place of hell to a place Eternal joy with the Lord Jesus Next everyone understood that example, but always remember that picture these things, right? I always say tell students, you know the greatest nation is our imagination We need to when you're reading the scriptures, you got to imagine you gotta think about it Don't be reading the scripture and think about what is you know, what is there for lunch and was there for dinner? It's not gonna help you. I think you got to imagine. God has given you imagination That's a think and as you read all right next one We have obtained an inheritance in verse 11 now Not only did Jesus pay the price bring us into his kingdom, but he's saying I'm giving you an inheritance What is inheritance, you know when you look at inheritance it goes on from generation to generation to generation to generation Right, let me give you an example Abraham after Abraham Isaac after Isaac Abraham Isaac Yaqub then Joseph Is that inheritance was just going on and on and on God told Abraham I will bless you Isaac was doubly blessed more than Abraham Jacob was even more Right Jacob and he saw both were blessed because of the cover and because there is an inheritance Now what is the inheritance that you and I have in Christ Jesus? It's not just material blessings What is it you and I have a Eternal inheritance When when you and I die as believers We will be with the Lord Jesus in heaven What greater inheritance is there than that? We will be with Jesus No more sin no more death no more sickness no more headache back pain like pain nothing You will be with the Lord Jesus as a greatest inheritance The scriptures say Jesus said right to his disciples. I'm going to create mansions for you in heaven He's giving us an inheritance We are with the saints with all of the You know the saints of the Old Testament the Saints of the New Testament. We all have the same inheritance to be in heaven and with the with the presence of the Lord Jesus and Finally verse 13 says in him you also trusted After you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation having believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit Right you and I are sealed with the Holy Spirit and Now for example The devil will come The devil will come and say We as believers. What is the Satan's job? Satan means what? Satan means accuser You're like this you did this wrong you did that wrong you will never do this you will never do that You will never be successful. I will I will do this to your family are accusing that's his job, right? but Here it says that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit the moment we are sealed When the devil comes and tells you you belong to me. I will take care of you What can we say hey? I'm sealed with the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is there inside me. So that means I belong to Jesus. I Cannot belong to you. I May do certain things wrong When I go ask God for forgiveness. He forgives me But I don't belong to the devil The choice is ours Everything that we are learning in this our identity the choice is ours Either we can apply it in our life or we can apply it in the answer paper one of those two Answer paper will you there's no use? But when we apply it in our life The devil is he knows So what happens, you know God is not planning to do all this after you know 10 years from now He's not doing he's saying the moment the moment you and I become as believers It doesn't matter The last 10 years how many sins we did what we have done doesn't matter Jesus is not looking at that Moment we become a believer the finished work of the cross flows into our life Then we learn we grow we walk in this That's where the anointing comes Amen, right? So he has already completed the work. The work is finished All we have to do is believe Right, so let me give you this another example You know India one that kick it to World Cup thing No, I don't know which year it is but think of a winning team Now when India won the World Cup Those who are online. This is I'm talking about cricket. I think some of you in your nations May not have cricket, but it's okay. So just giving this example, right? India won the World Cup Now, what did we say after that we won? How you won? You were sitting in your house You didn't go for training. You didn't go on the field. You didn't win gold. You don't know the 11 players names But you say we won Why? How can you say we won? You didn't do anything. You were eating popcorn and watching But they are struggling on the field. Why? Because your part you're in you're an Indian you're in that nation You're already part of the victory And we lose what do we say we lose we lost Even even so now you and I as believers The Lord Jesus says it is finished. I've won the I've defeated the enemy. So who's on the winning side some believers We are on the winning side very simple Now will the winning side be you know, I remember what they did they hired a bus They went all around the city to show off right, oh we won the Winning side say, oh, okay. We're tired. Let's go home and sleep. No all the tiredness has gone because a victory On the cross when Jesus said it is finished He has defeated the devil. He's defeated right now the devil is defeated Whatever he's doing is just God loving But God is saying I've given you all the authority You and I we have it. We have to use it Okay God's word has already accomplished it and in all this we speak our identity Speak your faith Declare what you want to see in your life declare it Right, if you want to see yourself preaching the word if you want to see yourself You know ministering starting your own ministry Think about it dream about it have that vision and declare it Every day you'll make the declaration no yes 15 years ago I was a little boy maybe early 20s Said one day I'm going to preach Right, so I will stand in front of the mirror. Okay, I will act like there's thousand people sitting I was okay. Everyone rise up hold your bibles Let's declare this is God's word. This is the whole thing Then I'll say, okay. Everyone please be seated and I will preach for 45 minutes front of the mirror One sermon every day One sermon in the morning one sermon in the evening before going to office one sermon Coming back from office. I'll prepare one more sermon preach that Who's the audience me? I'm looking in the mirror and preaching The why one day One day I will preach Then one day is a you know, I would I had a ruler I'll take that ruler and keep playing the guitar on the ruler One day I will lead the worship Think about it in the future one day it'll happen So I have to start practicing now I should keep declaring. Okay, don't one day I will So what did I do? I didn't sit back and do nothing. I had to learn the instrument There was effort had to learn the instrument learn how to sing learn how to lead worship and over time God gave the opportunity What you speak is what you get Oh, I don't think I can do this That's what you will get Oh, I don't think I can study so much You know Too many subjects. I'm getting confused. That's what you will get What do you speak is what you get You speak what God wants you to be you speak what you want to be you will receive it That's what words are meant for words are powerful right Even at times, you know, I feel very tired and very very tired My schedule keeps Every day I sleep about four hours maximum four hours not more than that So even now if I just close my eyes I'll sleep. I tell myself no No sleepy. I'm strong I have the strength of God. I have the wisdom of God God will strengthen me Whatever I keep saying. Oh, I'm sleepy. I'm sleepy What'll happen While talking only you'll sleep Call what we speak right right, so there are times that even in this journey of Walking this finished work double times. We will fail. We will fall down The best part is we can stand up again We can stand up again Right, so let's go to the next portion in heavenly places in christ jesus Okay, let me read that efficiency chapter one was three blessed be the god and father Of our lord jesus christ who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing In the heavenly places in christ our identity right now is in the spiritual realm Right, what does paul say? We are not fighting against flesh and blood But we are fighting against principalities against powers of darkness Now picture this jesus is dying on the cross. They're all laughing at him. They are mocking him You're really the messiah. No you come down from the cross They're poking fun at him And they tore off his clothes. They're you know, they are Oh, they are dividing his clothes among each other. They're mocking him Now in the natural it is an utter failure Think about it Is it a failure in the natural jesus dying on the cross who wins? High priest the Pharisees they said we went We finished this the law But on the cross jesus is saying it is finished. I finished you Even though physically When people were looking they saw Imagine in in jesus's earthly ministry thousands of people were following him At one point there was five thousand another point there was eight thousand Now in acts chapter one, how many people are there? 120 Where are all the thousands gone? Oh That means this person is not the messiah. He died on the cross the worst death so in that physical In a natural eye it looked like a failure But what happened in the spiritual? Is that it was like jesus holding satan by the throat Putting him to the ground and crushing his head right Jesus even the devil knows the power of the cross the devil knows Because he knows he's defeated So people may look at us and say oh your christian. You don't know anything You're you're believing of false god. Where is jesus? Where is he now? All those questions may come up People may ridicule and mock at us, but where are you and I sitting? Right now we are in banglore, but what is the in our spiritual life? Where are we sitting? With jesus in heavenly places So we can talk to him We can speak to him Right see persecutions challenges are all part of it even the lord jesus went through it So we must also go through it right It's it's nothing new The book of revelation says there'll be persecution so So much so big This is nothing But through it all we are seated with him in heavenly places right the spiritual realm Dominates the natural realm Yes or no What is the word dominate the spiritual realm is in control of the natural realm What's the best example? Jesus in his earthly ministry. What did he do? He prayed. He told his disciples. Okay, you go They took the boat and went what did jesus do? He walked on water Is it natural? Is there anyone in this world who has walked on water? apart from camera tricks anyone in this world Naturally, is it possible to walk on water? the spiritual was dominated the natural There was a big storm Jesus is sleeping in the boat. He's tired And jesus says gets up and we're gonna die Jesus says be still Peace be still The storm comes down. Now does the storm has years to listen? The storm doesn't care But when jesus spoke it happened The spiritual dominates the natural Jesus took five loaves of bread and two fish Right in the natural I can eat you and I can eat that alone in five minutes Or 10 minutes I have loaves of two fish. There's nothing Jesus said go give everyone Imagine the disciples what to do with this What ideas he's getting? Naturally not possible But did it happen? It's always remember the spiritual dominates the natural in the natural you may be going through You know sickness or challenges or some mountains that are impossible to even climb The spiritual when you pray to god God is not a god of the natural. He's a he's a goddess the spiritual He can open doors. He can close doors. He can do anything Yes or no Learn to live out of the spiritual into the natural. Let me give you this example, right? It's happened many years ago I went to I used to go to a lot of cities and different states and and you know reach out Preach and teach and all of that. So we went to one place and I went there I was just a believer right I only knew about Daniel in the lines then And Jesus walked on water and these stories Jonah was in the belly of the fish So we had gone to this it's a small town in in a city in India And after it was a three-day meeting. So on the first day after I preached my heart out This is what Jesus can do this word God is calling us for after the meeting one blind man came to me Now this blind man he didn't even have the white color in his eyes No white it's nothing. Just one line. Nothing is there. He came to me and he said pastor you pray God will give me eyesight now. He had more faith than me So God will give me eyes. I prayed Nothing happened. I went back home. I was very sad. I said God. He has more faith than me I prayed I said God Tomorrow if he comes what to do? He came the next day front row. He's sitting After the whole day conference. I wanted to escape But he came I say you pray for me. God will give me eyesight. I prayed in faith Do this for him And I when I saw his eyes nothing is there. It's just a line. There's no eyeball also. There's nothing Nothing happened That night I said God This you know, I just prayed and I said God You do the supernatural In the natural there's no eyeball. There's no nothing Right, but you are able to create things Right, it's not about the person praying. It's not about you know, uh, whether the person is anointed not anointed All of that is not doesn't matter. But God you can do this Right, and if you've called me for ministry, I want to see the supernatural working It shouldn't just be knowledge See your work So the next day we went we finished praying he came He said You pray for me. God will bring Now by the time I was very tired right I was very weak also I said okay in Jesus name I said come back eyeballs come back and you will see in the name of Jesus Two minutes prayer and I wanted to anyway last day. No, I won't see him again. So I'll escape But I prayed and then he said After the prayer he said, yeah, I can see little so what are you saying? Yeah, then I saw that white colors come for him Pray again prayed again And he he opened his eyes like this and after the prayer he's looking at me straight into my eyes Seeing praise the Lord brother. Thank you so much and he went and sat and I thought to myself God is a God who can Create what is not there. He can make it there Sometimes we limit God to you know only blessings Or God can only do this. No, he can do anything It's about how we look at God Right Let's go to chapter six everyone understanding Right, okay. Let's do chapter six The mystery revealed Now Paul refers to this The mystery of his will, you know, what's the word mystery means the word mystery means something that is hidden Is revealed Right mystery is something that's hidden Nobody knows about it No person it's all hidden But Jesus is saying here Paul is writing in Ephesians the mystery of his will has been revealed to us What's his will? Let's read verse nine and ten anyone can read Go ahead having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good laser with he were proposed in himself that in the Dispension of the fullness of the time he might greater together in One all things in Christ Both which are in heaven and which are on earth in him. Yeah, thank you So the mystery of his will is what? If you go down it says that he was ten that in the dispensation Of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ Both which are on heaven and on earth. So he's saying My will is that when you when we become believers, he will gather us together as his Not only these blessings that we studied about Anointing blessings Redeemed sanctification He will gather us together. You know, you get a picture of a shepherd and a sheep Right? He's gathering us together, right? Efficiency one two seven Sorry in Efficiency in verse six Paul declares that this mystery includes the Gentiles for the promise of the gospel Now, why is this important? Why is this mystery Important and Why is this this worse important that you know, it's even for the Gentiles now? Let me give you a picture the Jews believe that the Messiah comes only for them Right Now Jesus is saying when Jesus Spoke in many places in his ministry. He says he goes and heals talks to a Samaritan woman Right He heals people who are Gentiles the Roman centurion servant. He heals Right now Jesus did not draw a distinction saying only Jews only Gentiles Gentiles didn't believe in the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob got the father That is why when the Apostle Paul When he started his ministry, he says, God has called me to the Gentiles But they opposed him. No, no, no Don't go to the Gentiles. The Jesus has come for the Messiah. He's the Messiah. He's come for the Jews Why are you going and sharing this to the Gentiles? They are not part of this kingdom You see the thinking was gone wrong But Jesus spoke to the Apostle Peter and he says How can what you know to the dream if you remember that right? How can what I have called clean? How can you call it unclean? The mystery of God's will today is that every person in this world Can accept Jesus and be part of his kingdom He can be the biggest criminal in this world The moment he accepts Jesus He's in God's kingdom Can you believe that Paul himself the Apostle says I've killed many people Was Paul a murderer? Apostle Paul was he a murderer? Yes or no? He asked for letters. Let me go wipe out this religion of Christianity It was a murderer It was a murderer But when he became a believer Everything changed It's the same grace It is the same gospel. It is the same mystery for all of us that has been revealed Ephesians 3 1 to 7 says for this reason I Paul the prisoner of Christ Jesus For you Gentiles if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God Which is given to you how then how that by revelation? He made known to me the mystery By which when you read you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of christ Which in other ages was made known to the sons of man And it has now been revealed by the holy spirit to his apostles and prophets The mystery of god has been revealed to us by the holy spirit He brings revelation into our hearts Right Verse 6 that the Gentiles should follow be fellow heirs of the same body and partakers of christ through the gospel Of which I became a minister According to the gift of grace of god given to me by the effecting working of his power What a privilege you and I have Imagine when we share the gospel with somebody when we are ministering to somebody Right and they become a believer you are taking them and making them come into a kingdom of god Which is an eternal everlasting kingdom That says here the mystery they become heirs of the same body They can be rich poor Good-looking bad-looking Jews Gentile doesn't matter He can be a criminal for 20 years Doesn't matter Through the blood we all receive the same forgiveness Amen All of us through the blood. So when we look at people Never condemn them never bring judgment upon them Jesus didn't do it for us. He can always minister to them. No matter how far away they are from christ God can bring them back His blood is willing to do it amen Amen, amen. Let's just close in prayer Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for what we have learned today god I pray god that you will enable each one of us to walk in these promises To know our identity to know who we are in you god We pray lord that you will empower us by your holy spirit and god. We thank you We bless your name. Oh god. Jesus name. We pray amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you all God bless you students online Thank you pastor. God bless. Thank you very very much, sir Yes