Encounter True Grace And Experience Success

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Listen carefully. The Bible teaches honour for people, like in the Book of Romans 13:1, the apostle Paul taught the believers

let every soul be subject to the higher powers.

Amen? The government at that time. At that time, the government was the Romans. Imagine the Roman rule is not exactly Godly; they subjugate the nation of israel. Nations are under them, and it's done illegally. They conquer nations, yet after they settle down Paul says submit to them. Mark12:17 Render to Caesar, Jesus said about taxation, taxation, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and give to God the things that are God's. Amen? Do you remember they tried to trap him by saying in Mark 12:13-17, "Shall we pay taxes to Caesar?". And he says, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's" Amen? So we live in a dual citizenship. We are citizens of our various countries on earthin the flesh. Right? But in the spirit we are citizens of heaven. The Bible tells us that, Amen? And some people say, you know, "You Christians are too heavenly-minded to be earthly good". Let me tell you this. We need more Christians who are heavenly-minded so that they can be of earthly good. You know, I'm telling you this. The land that you come from, the resources that you have is the means by which you can bless the country that you're in. If you are sent as an ambassador to a country, you don't live off the riches of that country, you don't live off the resources of that country. The country can be poor, but you can be well-supplied. Because you are not sponsored by that country, you are sponsored by the country that sends you. Amen? And you are there to do good. Amen? Supposed to do good. Amen? unlike some of the scandalous news we hear of some country ambassadors nowadays hahahaha. But the doing good is authorized not by the country that you're in but by the country that authorized you, that sent you. Can I have a good amen? Do you see where I am going with this? So knowing that we go into a world that is crying, sighing, dying, you know, sick, lonely and we bring the supply of heaven. Hallelujah! And that's why in places like Matthew 11:4-5

“Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.”

...Jesus says things like, when he appears on the scene he says the kingdom of God is here and the sick are healed, the blind see, the dumb speak, and those who are lame jump up for joy leaping and praising God. Amen? The kingdom of God is here. So Jesus, his feet was planted in Galilee or in Jerusalem at that time when he said that, but he's in heaven. Wherever he is, heaven is there. And if you have Christ, and you all have Christ, heaven is all around you. Amen? So let's bring this heaven and bless our nation, and it starts with our words. Amen? Let's not contribute to all the talk that is poisonous, bitter. At the end when you accept bitterness by drinking it, remember this: The poison is affecting you, not others. Always remember that. Always remember when you're bitter towards someone, you poison yourself. Right? The greatest revenge is forgive the person that you're bitter with and then live your life. Live the abundant life. Amen? In Matthew 18, Jesus shares a parable that has always sort of puzzled me. I'll tell you which part puzzles me, and it frightens me as well in a good sense and it's something that I live with. Jesus shared that there was a man that owed, the figure was a lot, like 10 million to a king. Right? So when reckoning day came, he had no money to pay. So the king saysin Matthew 18:25-26 “But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.”

, "Everything that you have will be sold. Your spouse, your children will all be sold as slaves to pay off the money". He says, "Please give me time. Have patience with me and I'll pay you all". Even though it's impossible. Even given time he will not be able to pay all. So what he did was that he pled with the king, and the Bible says the king was moved with compassion. Say, "Compassion". It wasn't because of anything in that servant, it was what was in in the King. Amen? The king said, "You know what? Forget it. I loose you from your debt. I forgive you". If you loose someone from their debt that they're supposed to pay you, that is forgiveness. If you make them pay, that's not forgiveness. Now, this guy's been forgiven what? like Ten million pounds debt. Again, this parable is a parable that Jesus himself shared, found in Matthew 18. Now, this guy goes out. You know what he does? Instead of celebrating with his friends or his family that he's been forgiven much, he went to find someone who owed him £1,000 and he grabbed the man in Matthew 18:28 and said, "Pay me what you owe". And the man said the very same thing that he said to the king earlier. "Have patience with me and I'll pay you all". And you know what? He says, "No way". He threw the guy into the dungeon. Now, when word of this came to the king... the king heard about it because there were men there. They were very sorry and they knew what happened to him. He's been forgiven much. They told the king about it and the king summoned him, and this is what the king said. "I forgave you all that debt because you asked me to. I had compassion on you," the king said. "Should you not have compassion on your fellow man and forgive him?". Now, this is the part that puzzles me even until today. I will tell you this. I believe God is a good God. I believe God does not send sickness, God does not send disease. Jesus looked at the people of his day and he says the king said to all his men, "Deliver this man to the tormentors" Matthew 18:34. You can read it at your own leisure. "Deliver him to the tormentors, tormentors". The king did not say, “I change my mind about my forgiveness”. The forgiveness still stands. Doesn’t that say something about God? Doesn’t that tell you something that this parable is talking about certain kinds of christians? Forgiven people are christians right? You know what the tormentors are? Today tormentors can be cancer, can be, you know, mental depression issues and things that torment, that torment. These are tormentors. It's not good to be delivered to the tormentors and to make matters worse, it is not good to be delivered to the tormentors as a forgiven christian. Am I right? Now, you can look at the king and say, "Oh, he's just an illustration and some parts of the king is like God, but some parts is not like God". But then Jesus turned to them. You know what he said in Matthew 18:35? "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do to you if you from your hearts do not forgive everyone, his brother their trespasses". Now, we know that God doesn't send tormentors. Okay? God doesn't send tormentors to his children, but God can just take away His hands And we end up in the hands of the tormentors. Are you listening? Now, I did not say every sickness, every mental issues is because of unforgiveness. But when I learned that unforgiveness is one of the things that brings in these tormentors, it frightened me. I always rely on the Holy Spirit to help me forgive because in an of myself, I can do nothing John 15:5. Anytime I get angry, I can be driving down the road, get angry just for a while with a bad driver on the road and I make sure that in Jesus's name, Father, I forgive that person. I don't want any trace of bitterness in my heart. Now, other people might be bitter towards me. Right? I may not know. But I cannot be bitter towards them. So every time I rest in Grace, right, to make sure that in my heart when I say something about someone I'm not bitter because this... when I see that parable and spoken by the lips of God's beloved, God's son, my spirit Husband who told us in John 13:34-35, "Love one another as I have loved you". You know, it's something about grace. You are forgiven much. How can you not forgive someone something so little? Amen? As logical as that ight sound, there is still your soul, your psyche, your psychology, you ego or super ego to contend with. Ask for the Grace of God to help you become sweet and not bitter. You know, we have this attitude. We judge others, but we don't judge ourselves for the same thing or even to the same fair degree. We make specail excuses, special pleadings, for ourselves. Sometimes I find myself when I talk, I criticize someone, you know, there's a little voice that says that, "You're no better," then I'm humbled straight away. So it's like, you know, and there's a principle in life, it's under the area, like I said before, God can allow things to happen. There's famine, famine, literal, even literal famine coming on the earth. You know, there are many places that, it's just dry throughout, beyond even to the extent that there can be a food shortage. I told you before that that which was from the time of Genesis, is that which will be. And then we need a Joseph and we have him, a heavenly Joseph, our Lord Jesus, and through his wisdom he will also bless Egypt, the world, and most of all bless his family. Amen? His brothers and his father Israel. I believe we are coming to that time. I believe God is raising the Benjamin generation, his youngest brother. Amen? Are you all with me so far? Praise the Lord. You see, the story of Joseph... once again I want to say that we are now seeing the story of Joseph taking place. The 7 years of plenty, everyone enjoyed it and thinking that it will never end. Right? It's almost like we are stepping into the 7 years of famine. And in these seasons of the cost of living crisis, and inflation, I feel like the Lord is bringing Genesis 41:53 to our attention: at the end of the years of plenty. I was reading this verse and this verse says and Pharaoh saidin Genesis 41:55-56 , "Open up the storehouse and whatever..." He told the Egyptians, "Whatever Joseph tells you, do it". We're in the place where whatever the Lord tells us, do it. Amen? Remember Mary, the earthly mother of Jesus, a symbol of the real mother of Jesus, The Holy Spirit, when there was no water and... no wine. Excuse me. No wine in the wedding. No more wine. They ran out of wine. It's embarrassing for the bride and groom, amen, for wine to run out. And she went to Jesus. Right? What did Jesus say in John 2:4? Now, of course he said his time has not yet come. Actually, that tells us it wasn't time to do his miracle. Right? But he did it for the couple. And the mother said this to the servants in John 2:5. "Whatever he says to you, do it. Do it". Isn’t this the very same statement that Pharoah told the eyptians when it was about Joseph? Some fishermen were by the Sea of Galilee, and they are experienced fishermen. Maybe perhaps right now you are facing a time where whatever you're doing is not working anymore in your work life, or in your profession or wherever you are, in your studies. it's like, not producing. It's always comes up empty. If you're in that place, you're like the disciples toiling all night catching nothing. Experienced. They know where to be at. They know the seasons of that year. All right? And they know where the best fish is. I mean, it's not a big lake actually, you think about it, compared to the Lake Geneva and all that and yet all night they caught nothing. And Jesus came on the scene. Jesus says in John 21:6, "Cast your net on the right side". Does it matter if all night they catch nothing you cast on the right side, left side? But because Jesus said it, they did it. Whatever he says to you, do it. In the wedding the water turned to wine, and over here they caught so much fish that John was the first one, the disciple whom Jesus loved. He practiced Jesus's love for him always, and he says, when you practice Jesus's love for you, you are the one with a quick discernment. And he says, if you are familiar with the context that I am talking about in John 21:7 , "It is the Lord". Then Peter jump into the water to go to Jesus. Amen?

You see what happened here?

people who are conscious of Jesus’ love for them and not their love for Jesus have quick discernment

people who are conscious of Jesus’ mercy/ forgiveness for them have quick action for Jesus

which one do you want?

You see the priority of Peter in John 21:7? Jesus comes first as super-important, not the fishes, not the profitability in your company or business. Amen? But was there profitability in the catching of these fishes in John 21? Was there earthly success in that Bible passage? There was. Jesus didn't come by with blame game and the weightiness of law and say, "Guys, you all didn't catch anything?". "No". "Good. Now you all learned a lesson right. Sometimes, you know, you go through emptiness". No. They all knew. You know, the Jewish people back then, the Bible is very clear. They know what is blessing. They know what is not blessing. When God says, "I will bless your grain, wine, and oil," in Deuteronomy 7:13 they knew that was blessing. Today we preach that, they will say prosperity gospel when God blesses your grain, wine, and oil. Now, I'm against, like I said, materialism and loving money, but I think the truth is somewhere in between where people need to know that God wants to supply them. like in Philippians 4:19 Amen? And supply them with more than enough so that they can be a blessing. Amen. I don't believe in people that talk about giving to them and then... or, "Give to me and then God will multiply things to you". I mean, this is a bit, you know, these are things that turn people off. But don't throw away the baby with the dirty bath water. discern there's a truth. Amen? If you don't believe in prosperity, that God prospers his people, it's not a priority in either your eyes or God’s eyes. But even in blessing this, Jesus gave them a net in the spiritual dimension. It may look like their net but it had become a super-net. This time around, it didn't break. But a net full of fishes. The Bible says great fishes in John 21:11, and this time the net didn't break. The first instance Jesus introduced himself to the fishermen, the net broke because he says in Luke 5:4, "Drop down your nets". He wants them to believe big, expect more. Jesus said, "Let down your nets". Nets is plural. Peter says in Luke 5:5, "I'll let down the net". No wonder it broke. There's more supply than your need. There is more health and healing than there is sickness. There is more forgiveness of sins and grace than there is sin in your life. Now, preaching like that where you put your faith in God and you boast about God and who he is brings accusation nowadays . This is the gospel of grace where you have more faith in the grace of God than in sin. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm not saying “needs” don't exist. I'm not saying poverty don't exist. I'm saying we look at God and we look at his supply and his fullness. I would like to see our countries, and our people achieve happiness, prosperity, and progress. Yes. Yes. The Bible says Proverbs 14:34 righteousness exalts a nation. And why I would like people saved, why I would like people to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ; because there's the greatest success, there's the greatest prosperity in the Lutheran Doctrine of being set right with God. Hallelujah. And you know, it's time for us to challenge ourselves within the church and consider, critically, the sermons of other miinisters with a balance of love and truth. Exegise the bible and sermons of preachers even if the world is watching. Let them know that we challenge ourselves and are battle ready so that whatever the world brings ourway, it would not be able to take us down because we already think critically and take each other down, up, left, right in exegetical wrestle practice; in the safe confines of fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit. Encourage Spirit led critical thinking. Do it in the spirit of how Jesus said; Jesus says in John 13:34-35 this how... a new commandment. Not the Ten Commandments, a new commandment. "Because as I have loved you, a new commandment I give unto you. Love one another as I have loved you. By this shall all men know..." How shall all men know that you belong to Jesus, that you belong to the one, the altogether lovely one? How will they know? How will that help them to come to know Jesus? "By this, loving one another, all men shall know you are my disciples". Not by you quarreling with each other but by challenging each other in love; not by showing each other up but by covering a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8), bringing each other into social media platforms like Telegram, saying this Pastor is saying this but let me see if I can improve on it with the contributions of my fellow believers brothers and sisters in Christ. Don’t be jealous of other Christians who have a different school of thought or even a wrong school of though - but let us keep each other accountable in truth and in love.

The late Prebyterian Pastor Timothy Keller who died this year of 2023 said in one of his books titled, “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God” … you all know that I am preparing for marriage right? And I read books like these. If you want to borrown these books from me, just ask. This is what he said in the book, and I quote:

“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.”

Let us keep ourselves accountable in doctrine to God. Accountable to who? God. Maybe God revealed to one christian a specific revelation. You see, my friend, this accountability thing is good, even when we believe the basic and core doctrines that Jesus Christ is the son of God. It is by grace through faith that we are saved (Ephesians 2:8-9). Amen? Praise the Lord. Now, the peripherals, whether you believe when you're baptized in the Holy Spirit you speak in tongues like the pentecostals or you believe, "I don't believe in speaking in tongues," like the cessationist or you believe in the gift of the Holy Spirit like the charismatics and healing and all that, or, "I don't believe that," or you believe that God supplies like the prosperity doctrine, or the extreme teaching of prosperity popcultural movement. Okay? But God supplies and God provides with more than enough so that you can be a blessing. "But I don't believe that". Don't criticize it. Don't whack it. No. "You must submit your doctrine to me". Who submit to who then? If Martin Luther submitted the revelation that God gave him of grace during his time, you know what? The main church at that time, the Roman Catholic Church that believes in works as a means to go to heaven; they will not agree with it. There'll be no reformation. And even among ourselves, the world today, do the Baptists submit their doctrine to the Anglicans? Do the Anglicans submit their doctrine to the Presbyterian? Do the Presbyterians submit their doctrine to the Methodist? No. Everybody is happy to be in their denomination and christian school of thoughts as long as we all unite around Christ. And how do we unite around Christ? By fellowshipping together. And What happens during fellowship? We spar together, we debate together, we sharpen each other irons. We challenge each other and provoke each other unto love like the bible says in Hebrews 10:24. Jesus likes to test us. He says to us like in Mathew 16:13-15 - who do you say I am? What do people say that I am? Jesus knew that we will have different convictions. We all... it's who you say of Jesus that is important and we much debate among ourselves. The peripherals, some people don't believe that you speak in tongues today like the cessationists. Some extreme cessationists even believe that when you speak in tongues that is of the devil. Have you seen some of these christian debates online? This is serious stuff. I don't know what the devil is doing because every time I speak in tongues I love Jesus more. The devil gets more confused. Okay. If the Holy Spirit has not yet convicted your hearts to speak in tongues, don't. But I can still love you in radical truthfulness, right? We can still have coffee and tea and eba and suya, right? No. Because you don't agree with me, right, you are a heretic. Why is that so? There's no such thing in the Bible as unity of the doctrine.If you find “Unity in Docrine” come and show me and I will critically reconsider my stance. The Bible says in Ephesians 4:3 “endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit”. We unite around Jesus, not doctrine. All right? Now, I said we don't compromise on the core issues denominationally, but the peripherals, to me the peripherals are just as important - hence, why we need to continue debating and provoking ourselves to love. What I believe, I believe like in Mark 6:5-6 that unless people know that Jesus heals today they cannot receive the healing. Right? Isn't it interesting you look at churches that believe that Jesus saves people, these are the people who get saved by Jesus? Some churches believe Jesus saves and Jesus heals, people get saved and they get healed by Jesus - logic. Amen? Places that preaches Jesus saves, Jesus heals and he baptizes in the Holy Spirit with the gifts of the Holy Spirit flowing, you have that manifestation. Is it interesting? While those that believe that Jesus saves by works you see them doing the most works like the Catholic Church. It's only when you preach it people believe it. And when they believe it, they are able to have the capacity to receive it. Anyway, let us love one another and provoke one another into more of God’s love. And you know what? You know how they change a nation From inside out? Any nation of the world. Amen? You want to see excellence. Amen. You want to see the progress, then don't do the things that destroyed Rome, don't do the things that destroyed all the other cultures. Amen. Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation. But how do you get that? How do you get that? You preach the gospel. The gospel changes people from the inside out. Amen. Don't shout, you know, this law, that law, this legislation. Since when laws and legislation can change the heart? I'm talking about changing from the inside out. I'm talking about change of heart. You can change outside, but you don't change inside. You cannot help it because you are in a country where there's a certain kind of law. You have to obey it. Right? But are you changed inside? Do you believe the law of God or man can change you from the inside? No, only the gospel of Jesus Christ can transform a man inside out. So you know what? We are not preaching the gospel. It's our fault. We're not sharing the good news with people. We are the lepers in the Old Testament, the lepers of 2 Kings 7. There was a group of lepers outside, you know, in Samaria and they were sitting down there and already a miracle happened. A man of God, a prophet, already prophesied in 2 Kings 7:1, all right, the man of God prophesied it's going to happen. Elisha prophesied that there'll be supply the next day, but the king of Israel and all his men were like besieged by the enemies. You know what's a siege? They lay a siege for a long time until your food supply is cut off, everything cut off, your food is gone. People are... and the women are eating their own children. That is why one day, I pray the pastor will take you on a certain deliverance prayer warrior session to understand “demonic seige” and why some of us find ourselves in horrible states, situations and become victim of circumstances. It's horrible, but the prophet of God gave a word. And that happened because in 2 Kings 3:1-2, king Joram of Israel worshiped another God, instead of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who loved him, all right? Idolatry will always cause that kind of problem to happen. And then when he turned his heart, the prophet released the word. The supply will come tomorrow. Tomorrow. Remember, Annie, the song? "Tomorrow, tomorrow," supply will happen tomorrow. And you know what? There's one guy who was near the king in 2 Kings 7:2, said, "You know what? If God make windows of heaven, this one can never be". And Elijah says, "You will see it, but you won't eat it". So at the same time, outside the enemy's camp, there were some lepers not too far away. And the lepers were also starving. So the leper said, "Why don't we all get up? Why sit here til we die"? Good reasoning. "Why sit here til we die," right? They got up and they went to the enemy's camp, because they said that maybe they'll show us mercy, all right? Israel's camp, we cannot go in because we're lepers, but these people, all right, maybe they'll show us mercy. So as they walked to the camp, all the enemies fled in the presence of lepers. God was just waiting for one Israeli to step out. Israel is a symbol of a Child of God and lepers are a sybol of sinners. So it was sinful christians that walked in faith and God still moved. As you step out, the angels drive them away. God was waiting for someone to make a move. And the lepers actually made a move without knowing they made a move.

Remember this song: Move on, move on don’t be frightened. The saviour’s on your side, I know its well..”

They were just throwing them, "And why sit here til we die? We sit here, we sure die. We go down there, if they're going to kill us, we die also, what? But at least maybe they might show us mercy," and the moment they take one step, all the enemies were routed, amen? God sent his angel. They were routed. They fled, leaving all their provisions, all the supply, all the gold, all the silver, all the food, and the lepers ate and ate and ate and gorged themself full. Hallelujah! And as they were sitting down, talking to one another, they said in 2 Kings 7:9 that, "Maybe it's not a good thing we are doing". One leper said to another, "Because we are gorging ourself full, and Israel is suffering famine. I'm afraid, you know, that if we keep on doing this, and not share the good news," if we don't share the good news, if we don't share the good news, the gospel, right? "I fear that mischief will happen to us". Something bad will happen to us. So they went and told Israel, all right? Outside, they shouted in 2 Kings 7:10, "The enemies have gone". They thought it was a ruse of the enemy, but no, they sent a messenger, they found it's true. They all ran out to get a supply. The good news. We have to share the good news. There's much more. The world out there is starving, crying, sighing for Jesus and they don't even know it, amen. And whatever it is, the transformation happens in their lives, in their families. I don't care how bad you think your husband is, if he's not saved, he needs the gospel. And when love is shed abroad in his heart as in Romans 5:5, I'm telling you,there are stories where a child can tell you after the earthly father expreince the lovelof Jesus shed abroad in the father’s heart, "I have a new father. I have a new father". "I have a new father". And the father wasn't a believer, always raised his voice, he gets drunk, and all that. When you receive Jesus, the child, a little child, himself, can say, "I have a new father. A father that's not drunk anymore". But the transformation happened inside out. There are wives whose husbands received the good news gospel of Jesus Christ. God saved, the wife is saved, of course. And it was under Grace, right, that the husband received the gospel. You know what theses wives say? They say, "I have a new husband. I have a new husband," with almost tears of joy. "I have a new husband". The good news gospel changes people. If people are failing to changed, I doubt they are really hearing about the unfailing Grace of Jesus. They're probably trusting their own works. So which church you attend is important because you cannot rise above the preaching. If you go to a place where, you know, they say that there is no more healing like the cessationists, all right, God can still heal, I'm not saying God cannot heal. God can heal but God may not heal because of unbelief Matthew 13:58, okay? Some Christians will say, “Sometimes God give you sickness and all that.” If you really believe God give you sickness, you should not go to the doctor. You should not. Actually, doctors are on God's side, amen? It's part of the natural provisions. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above James 1:17 So, doctors are helping us fight the same problem, same enemy: disease, amen? Doesn't mean lack of faith when you go to the doctor. That's all fine. If someone is sick, let's... man, I'm telling you, let's believe God and seek medical help as well. Many a times the Lord will use a surgery to remove because we don't talk about faith or whatever, we're all at different levels of faith. We can also believe that God can use surgery, right? That God can give wisdom to the doctor. His hand can be directed by the Lord, amen? But it's vital you believe the right thing. If you just believe, "Oh, maybe God will heal. God doesn't heal now". Usually, God doesn't heal. Not that God doesn't heal, he has done everything he can about healing. 1 Peter 2:24 - by His stripes we “were” (past tense) healed in the past. And not in the future - it is a done deal with Jesus. "What do you mean, Brother Ernest"? He has done all he can. When he sent Jesus Christ, and he died on the cross, when Jesus took the scourge on his back, the Bible used the past tense, "With his stripes we are healed," is a method of you receiving it. Isaiah 53:5 … when you hear the hebrew word for we are healed in Isaiah 53:5, the word is rapha Strongs H7495 (go and look into it in your own time) Strongs H7495, You will see that in that grammatical tense, it is written in the Niphal which indicates passivity or uncontrollable reflexes. It is written in Perfect qatal which indicates a completed action or a situation that is views as a single event. There is a simple past tense when you say something like “He ran” and htere is a past perfect tense like “He has run”, or He has preached. Its talking about a done deal.

Don't wait on God. God is waiting on you. And unless we preach it, how can people have faith? "How shall they hear without a preacher? Romans 10:14 For faith comes by hearing," and hearing and hearing, "and hearing by the Word of Christ," Romans 10:17 amen? Today's, you know, I look at people today. They are hearing so much of the wrong things, a lot of nonsense on social media. It's the first thing they look at and you know, it's designed in such a way to capture your attention, short-term, short attention span, right? And people have become short, you know, they have become very short, you know, their memory, short-term memory. Become very, almost like ADD, though they didnt have that problem before, but they have that problem now. The Bible says in 2 Thessalonians 1:3 your faith grows exceedingly. Can I have a good amen? It's important, church, that you believe the right thing, and we debate and hash things our among ourselves everyday amen? Now, I said before, I'm not into the prosperity cultural movement where Every sermon is about money. Every sermon, and the prosperity is not about spirit, soul, and body, you know? All right, as well as finances, of course. But it's just about finances. That kind of thing, I run from. If it's always about money, I run from. That is what I'm not for. But that is giving a bad name to the truth. That would be throwing away the baby with the bath water. The truth is that God promises all throughout his Word, like in Psalm 23:1 the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not lack, or I shall lack? Ah, some of you not sure, see? C'mon, this is The Redeemed Christian Church of God Peace and Love Assembly. one more time. I'll give you one more chance, all right? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall always lack, huh? What does the Bible say? Oh, you prosperity people? But whenever there's judgment in Israel, God says, "I'll withhold the rain" Deuteronomy 11:17. God says in Judgement, "I'll withhold the rain," and this is judgment, and there'll be no produce that year. No grain, no wine, no oil, hmm? Some people rejoice, "Oh, yes, God is training us". No, it's a judgment. So, now I want to share something that God wants you all to learn and know. There's a phrase that the Jewish people, and it's very exclusive among them. They even use it in the Old Testament. Now say this after me: Hesed ve emet. Say, "Hesed ve emet". Anyone know what's hesed? Grace or Mercy or Compassion! One more time. What is hesed? Grace Okay, we spell it H-E-S-E-D, hesed. What is it? Grace. Very good. You know, in Israel today, Christian Jews use the New Testament... believers, Jewish believers, they use the New Testament by Dilich, a foremost Hebrew scholar who is a Jew himself, and they use it, but you know when we use our New Testament, it's from the Greek, right? So in the Greek, grace is charis. So if your name is Charis, it means grace, amen? The gifts of the Spirit is charismatas, right? Charismas, charismata. That's where the word "charisma" come from, a gift, a person who is gifted is a charistmatic and animated person. So the gifts are there. Everyone has a gift from the Lord, amen? But what grace does is that grace abounds on you 2 Corinthians 9:8, amen. Look at this, look at the fullness of this verse. "And God is able to make," actually it's not able to. Able to is future tense.

Actually, the word down there is Aorist (whihc disregards past, present or future) and active and infinitive tense, right now. God is... and the word dynamite is from the word dunamis, dynamite. You can see it there in the picture for “Able” dynatos. God is now powerfully enabling to you all grace. You know that verse in 2 Corinthians 9:8? "God is able to make all grace abound towards you that you always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work," all right? Now, break it down. He's telling you in regardless of past present or future. God is dynamiting, powering, what? How much? All. Stop there. How much? All grace right now. If I don't preach it, you don't see it, it'll come, poof! It pass by you. God is right now powering, dynamiting, all, how much? All grace. In the Amplified, even puts down there every earthly blessing. So God is right now, right now making all grace, powering, dynamete, able there, is dynamite. God is now powering, dynamiting, all grace. God is making, your King James says, all grace to what? To what? To abound towards you. Stop there. To abound towards you. Already all grace and then to abound. This was done purposely to look taller and higher than this, amen? Amen. Amen? Amen. right now is happening, all grace is being powered up to you and then in what way? It comes to you like, just like that? No, abounding. God is able to make all grace to abound towards you. The next line? "That you always..." stop. How often? Good times, bad times, regardless of what China does or doesn't do, the Ukraine situation, whatever it is, is going to affect the economy of the world. Is going to affect the supply of the world, amen? But there is a God.

Remember that song by Forever Jones

There's a voice that cries out in the silence Searching for a heart that will love Him Longing for a child that will give Him their all Give it all, He wants it all And there's a God that walks over the earth He's searching for a heart that is desperate And longing for a child That will give Him their all Give it all, He wants it all And He says love me, love me with your whole heart He wants it all today Serve me, serve me with your life now He wants it all today Bow down, let go of your idols He wants it all today [x3] He wants it all

All of you, more of you He wants it all today, oh oh oh oh

He wants it all today [x2] So give it all

Towards you he's making all grace. God is able to make all grace and "is able to" is future tense, is not correct. That's why you look in your King James, it is in italics. It's not there in the original. In the original, right now is happening, even right now as I'm preaching, God is powering up all grace towards you, you, you,you. Towards you. Name yourself under your breath. Name yourself. Towards you, name yourself. God is now powering up all grace, all unmerited favor, towards you, that you always, good times, bad times, rainy season, non-rainy season, whatever the world economy is, you always having what? Actually, it's not enough, all sufficiency. Oh-ho-ho-ho! I preach myself happy. Having all sufficiency. We stop here, we go home, we're happy. But, no, the verse is not finished yet. Is the verse up there? All right, you see the "able to"? In fact, if you look at your King James Bible, it's in italics. Right? You can show them the verse in italics in 2 Corinthians 9:8. It doesn't matter. All right, so it's not "able to" in the future. It is regardless of time, Aorist, Active, Infinitive. It's powering up all grace to abound towards you, that you always, having what? How much, how much, how much, how much? Having what, how much? All sufficiency, having all sufficiency, having all sufficiency. You got a problem with prosperity, you've got a problem believing this or not? And it's not... listen. Can it result in even money supply? Yes. But money is a very small thing. Money is usually the result. Amen. On the other hand, to say that money is not important, it's wrong. "The Bible says money is the root of all evil". Read your Bible. It says in 1 Timothy 6:10 the love of money, not money. And there are people with no money who love money and thinking of money, money, money. All right? Amen. Of course, there are people with money who think of money, but also people without money thinking of money. It's the love of money that is the root of all evil. It's horrible. Don't go after money. Go after the Lord Matthew 6:33. But it's another extreme to say it doesn't involve money, but money is just right below the scale. Prosperity is you prosper in your soul (3 John 1:2). Amen, once you know your sins are forgiven, you are right with God. That's the greatest prosperity. Then in your mind there's peace. What a prosperity. Amen? And it's 3 John 2, "Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper," that's outwardly, because later it talks about soul prosperity. You prosper and be in health, that's your body, even as your souls prosper. Amen .I'm glad you are in this church. At least I am glad... So, don't let people shake you off. Amen? Some brothers have fallen, all right, openly, some famous brothers or pastors, even, and all that, but it's not for Christians to be provoking other christian in a ministry of condemnation or shame. We have to learn to provoke each other into love in our ministry of loving reconciliation to Jesus 2 Corinthians 5:18. When Noah became drunk in the new world, maybe he didn't know about fermentation and all that. The world pre-flood wasn't the same, but post-flood, you know, the world is no more in the same state anymore. The canopy that covers the earth was broken through the flood. Amen. The earth was tilted to congeal the flood waters, became North Pole and South Pole. Instead of 360 days, became 365, slightly more. All right? According to contemprary Science, the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees. The earth is tilted. And then the four seasons began. Who knows if this climate change stuff is becasue the earth is tilting again and Jesus says that it’s going to be an atmospher of fire in a similie to the days of Noah 2 Peter 3:3-7 The Bible tells us that. There were not four seasons when we were once upon a time covered, and the oxygen level was so strong that people lived for hundreds of years. People were so healthy. But now it's a new world post-flood. He probably didn't know the grapes would ferment fast like that. He became drunk, but his son... he has three sons. One of them saw his nakedness and laughed about it and gossiped to his brother. His father was drunk, and he was naked. So, he gossipped about it to his brother in Genesis 9:18-29 and probably scandalised his father. His other brother, Shem, he took a cloth with the other brother, Japheth, and they backed away like this... and covered the father. They refused to look at his nakedness. This is what we should do with every person of honor, in a position of honor especially when we believe they are in the wrong. If they fall, it's not for us to condemn and shame it. Sometimes it feels backwards to cover other people’s shame and remind them of their glory in Jesus, and let the Lord handle it. But when Noah woke up, and Noah realized what the other son did, Noah cursed the son and says, "Cursed be Canaan". And Canaan was cursed. Canaan became the father of all slaves. You know? I wont be surprised if Canaan was the father of many africans and slavs who ended up in slavery. Now, today, we are all in Christ. No one is cursed. Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law. .. and this was before the law, even before the Ten Commandments, because the story of Noah happened before Moses. So, you can see that even before that, an earthly father's curse is powerful. How then how much more and much more Greater will your Heavenly Father’s blessing be? Can you see that? You always having all sufficiency. If I don't preach this... all right, sometimes God gives, sometimes he give you a bit. Be grateful, leh, you know. Sometimes you have, sometimes you don't have. All right? Is that God's will? Yes, yes, from my own experience it is true. You can not preach from experience. You've got to preach from God's Word. What if I don't experience it? It's still God's Word. What if people don't get saved? people get healed, wah, in your healing meeting, not everyone got healed, it's true, but I rejoice with those who are healed. I don't have all the answers for those who don't. You know what I'm saying? But I still believe if they want to be healed, and I'll keep on preaching healing and healing and healing more healing you all shall be healed for faith cometh by Romans 10:17. Amen. Just like in a Holy Ghost Congress with Daddy G.O.... If you go to his meeting, not everyone is saved. There are those who are not saved. It doesn't mean it's not God's will, because there are people who were not saved and walked out. No, doesn't change anything. It's their free choice. God gave man free choice. Amen. You always having all sufficiency, that's what I will preach to you, because that's the truth of God's Word. All right? In how many things? Having all sufficiency in what, in how many things? In all things. What is all things? Aiyoh! What is all things? Everything, ah. Amen? Everything. In all things, nothing excluded, nothing excepted. All is all...things. Spirit, spiritual, earthly, temporal, eternal, all things. And look at the result, look at the result, sufficiency in all things, all sufficiency in all things. We can stop in this, and we celebrate. This is enough to last you the whole week. You know, Monday is God is powering up. Just meditate on that. Tuesday, all grace, grace. Amen? Look at the last part". This verse wasn't in the original. We had to wait for it to come out, because some of you don't bring a Bible. You bring yur phones, but you don't bring a Bible because we spoil you in this church by projecting and writing everythhing. But I encourage you to take notes. And look at the result, the purpose that God has to supply you, full. Only when the cup is full it can overflow. Meditate on that. It cannot overflow if it's not full.

may have an abundance for every good work. The purpose is that you may have an abundance. A lack? An impoverished state? What? Abundance. Amen? Abundance for what? For every good work. Unless you are full, you cannot overflow. I said unless you are full, you cannot overflow. You owe it to be full. You owe it to the world to be full yourself of rivers of living water, so you can overflow. Those who are poor cannot help, grace shines the best in power and not powerlessness. A king that can stoop low and wash the feet of his followers is more admirable than the servant that washes another servants feet. Only in power can Grace shine the best. and now I'm coming to the poor part, okay? Yes, this part is the poor part. Okay? This part is not just about money, but this part is illustrations of the poor part. The poor, cannot help the poor. Amen? The poor cannot show grace-supply to the poor. Now, am I telling you that God'll make all of us multimillionaires and all that? No, I'm not saying that. I'm telling you what God is really doing. He's powering up all grace towards you, that you always, having all sufficiency. In how many things? In all things you may abound to every good work. Oh, hallelujah. No wonder he has put an anointing on this verse. He wants me to preach on it. I'm telling you, is that real in your consciousness right now? If you walk out of here and say, "Grace is abounding towards me, grace abounding towards me..." I'm telling you, ever since Jesus was manifested, amen, grace, the true grace, the reality of grace came forth. Let me show you this verse. It says in John 1:16, "And of his fullness we have all received and grace for grace". Just let you know that this here is our Lord Jesus, of his fullness, of his fullness, out of his fullness, amen. His fullness we have received, and grace for grace. And the word "for" is anti or anti. Right? Grace for grace, grace upon grace, upon grace, upon grace. Because anti can also be in place of. In place of grace that has been used, another grace comes. So Grace is like engine oil. Once one grace comes and passes over you in your situation where you are, then God brings in aother whole new fresh grace to bless you in that situation Amen!? When grace has been used, another grace comes. I was meditating on this nd I saw this illustration of waves on the beach. Amen? Grace. Once that grace is used, another grace comes. Grace upon grace upon grace. And you know where you are? You know where you are? God doesn't run short. Amen? He's not impoverished. Another grace comes. That's why he means, of his fullness have we all received and grace for grace. There's a grace for everything. You don't feel it now. You say, "You know, I don't think I want to have kids and all that. I see some of my friends and all that. They cannot go to holidays as freely as they want to. I don't want to have kids". Listen. God will give you the grace. What you don't have right now, God will give you the grace. Amen. "I don't feel like getting married". God will give you the grace in every stage of your life, grace will come. Then all of a sudden, after you enjoy that grace, "I wish I had kids earlier. I wish I had married". Amen. "I wish I had learned about grace earlier". You'll look back. There'll be grace for every level of your life, every stage of your life. Are you with me so far? Now watch this. The next verse says, in John 1:17 "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ". Now, I always say this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. The law was given and then give from a... you all know me. You all must preach after me already. The law was given and given can be what? I give you a message. I can give. You receive it. I give you, but it can be from a distance. But grace and truth came. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Grace and truth came. Came is what? Personal. Amen? What is interesting is that ever since I started preaching this, there are people who think I ma preacin a dangerous doctrine of hyper-grace. And instead of one side, the law, and given by Moses. The other side is grace and truth by Jesus Christ. They say that, "Oh, you see grace and truth". It's not just grace. It's truth. They divide grace and truth. My friend, what God has joined together, let no man put asunder. Amen. Grace and truth is on one side. It came through Jesus Christ. All right? Law was given by Moses. The division is not between grace and truth. It is between the law on one side and grace and truth on the other side. The law says do, do, do. Grace says done, accomplished. Find out about it. Walk in it. Flow in it. Even salvation is done. Amen? Learn about it. Receive it. Amen, amen. And that goes for many other blessings. In fact, people who receive and receive are the ones who do so much, like in Acts 3:6, such as I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk. Unless you have received, you have nothing to give. That's what abiding means. Except you are abiding in the vine, all right, you can do nothing John 15:5. The branch cannot produce. Worse, if the branch struggle, and struggle, and struggle... a little grape comes out. I don't even think so. The more you struggle, the sap is squeezed. You relax. You are not the supplier. You are not the source. Jesus is. The more you rest, the more he flows, the supply flows. Am I right? So, the division is that the law says in Deuteronmy 5:9, "I'll remember your sins through the third and fourth generation". It means God will visit your sins upon your children's children. That was the law. But down here, grace says, the new covenant of grace, amen in Jeremiah 31:34, Hebrews 8:12, 10:17, "I will not remember your sins anymore. I will no longer remember your sins, and they're no longer there". All right, it's a very strong word, double negative in the Greek. "I will not ever remember your sins anymore". Amen. Are you listening to God? Your sins are remembered no more. Which means what? I'll not remember to visit it, to punish you for it. Wow, there's a change. Am I right? I said there's a change. Under the law, the prodigal son (and that's the illustration there) the prodigal son, when he comes home, all right, if he's really prodigal, in his lifestyle and all that, by the time he comes home, he'll be stoned. Under grace, same Jewish people, same laws they were under, Jesus himself shared that the father saw him, and the father ran. Maybe one of the reasons the father ran is so that other people who are law enforcers ike the elder brother of the prodigal, will not find his son. And he kissed him. Under the law, God told Moses in Exodus 3:5, who is the giver of the law, right, take off your shoes. The place you are standing is holy. In the prodigal son's story, Jesus in Luke 15:22 said the father says, "Put shoes on his feet as a symbol of “He has right standing in my presence”. He has a right to possess me, my love and my joy as his inheritance because he has lost everything else but his father". I think there's a change. Are you under law, or are you under grace? There's the dichotomy. That is the difference, not grace and truth. There are those who think grace and truth, I'm telling you this, because it's getting, again, very, I mean, like, people are sharing grace and truth, must learn grace. Yes, grace is good, but you must have truth; and truth is always hard, you know? This is one of the major reasons we do the Theological Digging Deeper classes. Grace is like the tender side of God. It's like they are saying God is love, that is grace, yes, yes. God is kind, that is grace, yes, yes. But truth, God judges, God punishes. Now, it is true. It's true. There'll come a time those who refuse his love, he cannot let them enter heaven, because heaven is a place, I'm telling you, you've got to be born of the spirit to be there. And for us to slap God's hand and say, "I don't need your Son, I don't need, you know, I'm okay," is to believe a lie. How sad it will be to work so extr-ordinarily hard and make it to heaven only for Jesus to kick you out because yo nevr allowed his mother to dress you up in righteousness? Look at Matthew 22:11 So, what is grace and truth? It is true grace. The word truth there is not, listen, it is not grace on one side, truth on one side. Don't divide them; they are one. How do I know they are one? Even scholarly you look at the portion here, the law was given. Given here is singular verb. Correct. One Moses, one man, all right? Moses kick the ball, right? Use that verb, right? Now, Moses kicks the ball. Which one? Moses, not past tense, kick, he's kicking now. Moses kick the ball or Moses kicks the ball? One person? Kicks, singular verb. But here the other side, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. In the Greek, in the original, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ is, again, singular verb. Now, that means what? It's one. Are you with me so far? If one person kicks, two person kick. Come on. But you find both are singular verbs. How come? Because grace and truth, instead of saying like our English grace and truth come, it says grace and truth comes by Jesus Christ. That's how the Greek says. It doesn't make sense unless grace and truth are one. And then they always say, "Yes, there's grace the sweet side, but you must balance with truth. That means the severe side. Amen? Just like your son. You love your son, you'll be nice to him and then you'll discipline him, right"? Yeah, we all know that. That's the truth, but you cannot apply that there in John 1:17 … please, do not proect on God. Let God speak for Himself.. Grace and truth means is all supply, all goodness of God release true, unmerited favor. Means you don't deserve it, but you receive the supply. I'm going to demonstrate to you and then we're going to close. Are you ready? Are you ready? Watch this. Watch this. Now, say, "Hesed ve emet". Okay. You see grace and truth? Grace is hesed. Truth is emet. Ve means and, conjunction. Hesed ve emet, grace and truth, okay? Now, this is used a lot in the Old Testament, and every time it's used is always good. There's no balancing tenderness with toughness. So what is grace and truth? It's like bread and Garlic. Or you can say that, you can say like one piece, Garlic bread. You like Garlic bread? Yeah? Or you can say bread and garlic, but it's Garlic bread - one thing. It's one. The word truth there is actually aletheia. Aletheia is actually reality. Grace was there in the Old Testament, but it's like hidden. It's like in a shadow. Hebrews 10:1 says that The laws are all but shadows in the Old Testament, but grace, the reality came when the person came. If you encounter the person, you know what's going to happen to you? You experience grace, reality in reality, no more in shadows. Now, watch David in this story. I'm going to show you this. Say, "Hesed ve emet". Now, you can impress your Jewish friends. Hesed ve emet. Amen? So when he says hesed ve emet, grace and truth, in the English Bible unfortunately sometime they say kindness and truth, sometime they say loving kindness and truth, sometime they say mercy and truth, but in the original, hesed ve emet. You check it out in the back, you know, if you use the Interlinear Bible, you look at the Hebrew, it's always hesed ve emet. And every time it's used. Watch this. David at this time just became king, and he heard about King Saul; he was killed on Mount Gilboa and then his body was hung unceremoniously by the enemies, the Philistines, on the walls of Beth Shean. He hung there along together with Jonathan and all that. And David, of course, heard about this and David wanted to do something about it. Someone came and said, "David, the people of Jabesh-gilead have gone up very bravely and they brought down the bodies and they buried the bodies, gave King Saul a decent burial".1 Samuel 31:12-13 David was very touched. And this is what David said. "So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, 'May you be blessed of the Lord because you have shown this kindness,'" hesed, "'to Saul your lord and have buried him.'" All right? "You have shown this hesed". Notice, "You have shown this grace". Right? Then he says this: "And now may the Lord show kindness and truth to you". Hesed ve emet. Now, is it something for them to be afraid? Look at the context. When David used this, "May God show you hesed ve emet," say, "Oh, or just hesed. I don't want emet". No, that means our understanding must be scriptural, people. Hesed ve emet is not, "Grace is good. Yeah, grace. But you got to have truth. Always that mean hard". But here is something that is blessing them. "May the Lord show you hesed ve emet, and I". He said, "I also, I will show you this goodness because you have done this thing". Something good. Something good. Are you listening to the Holy Spirit? Are you listening the Holy Spirit? Jacob the grandson of Abraham, he had nothing when he left the house. He was afraid that his brother would kill him because in a way he robbed him of the birthright. So he left with nothing. The clothes on his back and a staff, that's all he did, but, you know, many years passed. Now, he has his 12 sons, all right, two wives, a few concubines, and he's coming back. God has blessed him; a lot of flock, a lot of cattle. And this is what he said to the Lord. Watch what he said. "Jacob said in Genesis 32:9-10, 'O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your family and I'll deal well with you,' I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and all the truth", in the original, hesed ve emet. Is this together? Is this something to worry about, to be concerned about, the truth part? Say, "No, I'm not worthy of your hesed ve emet". And what is the result of the hesed ve emet demonstrated to him, grace and truth demonstrated to him? It resulted in prosperity because he goes on to say, "I'm not worthy because which you have shown your servant, for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff. I remember years ago I only had my staff. Now, I have become two companies," amen, "now prosperity in terms of family blessings". So when grace and truth manifest, something good happens to you. When Jesus stepped into Jericho, Bartimaeus was healed; wherever grace and truth goes. And when they hear... don't forget originally all these expressions and all that. Even John is a Jew. When they write they used phrases not according to the Western mind and the Gentile mind, but according to the Hebrew mind. He was grace and truth, of course, charis and aletheia in the Greek … ginger bread … hesed ve emet. People, hesed ve emet has come. And those who know the Bible say, "Wow, there'll be supply. There'll be healing. There'll be grace. There'll be favor. There'll be a long life". Amen? Look at this: Proverbs 3:3. Proverbs 3, "Let not mercy and true forsake you" What is that? mercy and truth. Very good. You look in the original, in the Hebrew, it says hesed ve emet. Hesed ve emet. "Let not hesed ve emet forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart..." And now is the reality, by the way. In the new covenant God writes mercy and truth on our hearts. Amen? And what's going to happen? Again, something good always happens when mercy and truth comes your way. "Brother Ernest, how do I receive hesed ve emet"? Expose yourself to Jesus. Grace-truth like Ginger bread. We can say “Honey-Bread” for those of you that dont like ginger hahahaha … Honey Bread came with Jesus Christ. Every time you come to the Lord in prayer, whatever you're praying for, you don't realize there's a impartation of grace and truth and when grace and truth is imparted to you. My friend, when you come to church, that happens also in a corporate level. You're coming to Jesus, amen? You're not coming to a man or to the worship leader or what... you're coming to Jesus. Amen. You're hearing his Word. And you know what? You leave here different, always different. There's been impartation of grace-truth or gracing-truth or truthing-grace … delicious honey-bread and something will manifest in the area of supply, something will manifest in the area of healing, supplies, and well-being for your family or a harmonious relationship where once there was strife. Things happen. Good things happen. And here what's the good thing? You will find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. Amen. You see, why are we running, you know, trying to find our identity, trying to find people's approval, people's lights? Hey, the Bible says in Hebrews 3:1 focus on the Lord. Expose yourself to mercy and truth, hesed ve emet. Learn as much as you can about learning true grace, grace in reality. I'm preaching to you true grace. And in order for you to disrupt people's faith and all that, what must you do? You have to attack the teaching of true grace. Grace and truth is true grace. Like honey- bread, they are one. True grace came by Jesus Christ. No more hidden. Can you see that? Now, one more story and we close. Okay, you ready? Okay, this is Genesis. The servant of Abraham, he's looking for... now, all of you who are looking for a life partner, listen carefully, all right? This is what to pray. By the way, it's not just for finding a life partner. Before you go to work, these are things that you need to pray, okay? He was praying. He came to the well where the ladies would come to draw water. The ladies are coming. And he doesn't know which one is the one that God has for his master's son Isaac. So he prayed in Genesis 24:12, "O Lord God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day..." It's okay to pray for success. It's okay to pray for success. The Hebrew word here is qarah. It's okay to pray, which is chance happening, a fortune happening, a good happening. I'm praying for a good happening. Pray this every day. Pray this before you leave the house, amen. As you embark on your career, amen, after school praise the Lord you're entering a new world. Pray to the Father and say, "Give me success". Don't let the voices tell you, "Ah-ah, this is all prosperity and all that". Abraham's servant and we are the seeds of Abraham, hallelujah, in Christ. The blessing of Abraham is ours. Abraham’s servant; He prayed, "Give me success," in his area to find the right girl for Isaac. And not only success, "Show kindness, hesed," grace, "to my master Abraham. And behold I stand here, and that's where the daughters would come". So finally he gave God a sign. He said thatin Genesis 24:13-14, "God, the one..." He walks an extra mile, you know. "The one that comes and say, 'I'll feed you and I'll give drink to you and your camels.'" You know how many camels he had and you know how much one camel can drinks? And they are there because they are highly thirsty, right? And she would run back and forth, run back and forth. The Bible literally says she ran back and forth, giving drink to the camels. He gave a sign, and she fulfilled the sign compared to all the other girls, but he's still not sure, "Is this from the right family, all right? This symbolises him saying that I cannot get one who is an unbeliever". So he asked God, and he asked the lady in Genesis 24:23, "Where are you from"? She says, "I'm the daughter of Bethuel". That's it. Abraham give him instruction: "Don't get anyone outside our relative, our family circle". Back then they would marry within the believers' tribe, all right? Today also for us, amen. We marry within the believers' tribe. Praise the Lord. That's where the blessing is for us. Now, watch this. When the servant heard that God has guided his step, this is what he said. This is the VERY first occurrence of hesed ve emet, just to let you know, and I'll close. "He said in Genesis 24:27, 'Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who has not forsaken His'", come on, church, come on, church, "'His mercy and His truth towards my master.'" Hesed ve emet. "'As for me, being on the way, I do not know who, but I was just walking my way. The Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren just like that”. Some of you are looking for house, emplyment. Do you know that God can let it JUST HAPPEN. You will be on that success path and not even know? Now, here he knew that his path was prospering. There was success. There was grace. About to step down again. There was grace, amen. So we know that every time hesed ve emet appears it prospers your way. Hesed ve emet appears, you are successful. Hesed ve emet appears, you receive healing just like the blind man of Jericho. Jesus went into Jericho, the city of the cursed. And his name was Bartimaeus son of the unclean, literally son of the unclean. Amen. And Jericho was destroyed by Joshua, and Joshua pronounced a curse on anyone who builds Jericho again and his son will be killed in 1 Kings 16:34. The curse says his son will be killed. He'll burry, when he build the foundation, his firstborn will die. When he build the gate, his second born will die. And the fact that this Bartimaeus was at the door, and his name was son of Timaeus, he has no name, he's a blind beggar, that means something happened. His father most likely rebuilt Jericho. He's a man under the curse, but when grace and truth came and the cry, only one cry… Jesus’ thou son of David, Have Mercy on me. Hanan means what? Grace. "Show me grace, hanan". It's like grace, hesed, and favor, hanan. "Your hanan, Yohanan, have mercy on me". It's not mercy. It's show grace to me. Once upon a time in the Old Testament Jericho, there was a shout where all the mighty men shouted. Joshua said, "Shout". He wanted the mighty men to shout, but Jesus stopped still not at mighty men shout, but a blind beggar with no name. They call him Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus means son of Timaeus, son of Timaeus. Timaeus means unclean. Jesus stopped. Once upon a time Joshua spoke to the sun in Joshua 10:12, "Sun, stand still". And the sun stood still. Here a blind beggar shouted, and the son of God, who stopped the sun, stood still. He said, "Command him to come". And he came. He came to who? Grace and truth. What happened to him? His eyes was opened. He threw away his garment. That means no more a beggar. They have their beggar clothes so that it's official beggary, official work that the government recognized. He threw it away. "I'm no more a beggar. Grace and truth have come into my life". Are you listening, people? You cannot be the same. When you expose yourself to Jesus, every curse in your life is destroyed. Every strange light goes. Every blindness goes. Amen. You are healed. Then Jesus said something very poetically beautiful in Mark 10:52: "Go your way. Your faith has healed you". You know what he did? He followed Jesus in the way. "You tell me to go my way? My way from now on, is your way". I pray that it's true for all of you in Jesus's name. Amen? Give praise to the hesed ve emet our Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Amen, amen, amen. I'm going to release you right now. Are y'all blessed? We speak hesed ve emet over you. Amen. If you are here and you have never received grace and truth, grace means unearned, undeserved favor. If it comes into your life, doesn't really matter you are a blind, beggar, undeserving. In fact, the more undeserving you are... listen. Listen carefully. The true ark that was surrounding Jericho years ago under Joshua, now the true... that no. The ark, the shadow ark, I should say, around Jericho under Joshua, it came to Jericho, but it came to destroy, amen, if the people will not surrender, but now the true ark has come to Jericho and the true ark brought healing and supply to the least inhabitant, least deserving, a blind beggar with no name, no identity. So here, listen. If grace is unearned, undeserved favor, the more you are trying to qualify our self, the more we try to make ourselves something that we are not before God, we fall from grace. Come as you are. Grace will change you, but you got to come as you are. You got to know that you don't deserve it. You got to be like Jacob and say, "I am not worthy of the least of the hesed ve emet". And, again, hesed ve emet will explode in your life. Amen? So if that's you, you have never received Jesus as your personal Savior and Lord, friend, Christ died for your sins and he rose from the dead for your justification. You know by chance you, I mean, you think by chance that you are here or listening to this message, but, my friend, I know he caused you to hear this gospel. Pray this prayer right now. Pray this prayer with me and grace and truth will come to your life. True grace will come into your life. Praise. Say:

Proverbs 14:34 KJV 1900

Righteousness exalteth a nation: But sin is a reproach to any people.

Matthew 18:25–26 (KJV 1900)

But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

Matthew 11:4–5 KJV 1900

Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Heavenly Father, I confess Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and I thank you Christ died for my sins and rose from the dead when I was justified. Thank you, Father. You are now my Father; I am your son forevermore in Jesus's name.

Stand to your feet, church. Can you leave this place with the consciousness, "Grace is abounding towards me"? Amen? Listen, God doesn't say is only spiritual. It will manifest physical, okay? Amen. When grace abounds in Jericho, it manifested in the physical healing, okay? Lift your hands all across this place.

This coming week in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ may each and every one of you, your loved ones, your family members experience his hesed ve emet, the reality of grace in your life in every area, and when it happens, give thanks, glorify him, take note of it. Something good, many good things is going to happen, I'm saying this by the Spirit right now, especially this week. Amen?

When it happens, take note of it and give thanks. Give thanks. I'm speaking prophetically for every service. Amen. Give thanks to the Lord. I'm speaking prophetically as well for Grace Revolution Church. Listen. It is going to happen this week, many good things, and when it happens tell yourself, "This is hesed ve emet. This is grace and truth manifesting". Hallelujah. And give Jesus the praise and the glory. Amen? I release it upon you in Jesus's name. And all the people said, "Amen". God bless you. I'll see you again.

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