Episode 01

[00:00:00] Good evening. We are at Community Media, South Central Pennsylvania. [00:00:05] My name is Peter Yanada and my wife's name is Sherry. [00:00:10] And we had the privilege to be interviewed several months ago by Ray Galker at an open house here. [00:00:18] And I was looking for. We were looking for some way to get messages out to the church and to the world. And everywhere that I went, we ran into a dead end. And all of a sudden, Ray Galker called me one morning and I realized he was the answer to a prayer. [00:00:39] So the ministry that we were inspired, if you can see the sign, it's called Eyes to See Ministries. [00:00:49] It's what we would call a para ministry. [00:00:53] And I'm going to talk a little bit about what we do today, and then we're going to look at some basic Bible scriptures that were the inspiration for the ministry, also defining what we do. And then if we have time this evening, we will get into some foundational scriptures that if you are a disciple of Jesus Christ, that you should know. [00:01:20] Now, some of this may seem basic to some people, but a month ago I started a teaching on the word repentance, which would have been five weeks long. [00:01:34] And the inspiration for that was that surveys given to the church, the Christian church, discovered that most people could not define what repentance is. [00:01:50] And that is a foundational term, a theological term that has to do with our salvation. So without a true understanding of what repentance is, one would have to ask the question, have I received God's gift of salvation or not? [00:02:12] So what we are going to do is we are going to meet every Wednesday at 4pm the show will be recorded, and we are going to talk about who is God, who is Jesus Christ. That actually was a commandment given to me in prayer one day when I was asking the Lord what was my next assignment? [00:02:38] And he said, you need to teach my church and the world who I am. [00:02:46] So that's what we're going to do. This is going to be done in a question and answer type format. [00:02:53] And some of the questions we will look at moving forward would be, who is God? [00:03:00] Who is the Word? [00:03:03] Who is Jesus Christ? [00:03:06] Who is the Holy Spirit? [00:03:08] What is the Gospel? [00:03:11] We'll take a look at in detail what repentance is. [00:03:16] And the purpose of all this is the big question, why is all this important? Why is this knowledge important? [00:03:27] And one scripture that I'll give you tonight is in the Gospel of John, chapter 17, verse 3. [00:03:36] It's not long before Jesus is going to go to his crucifixion and he's praying to his Father. [00:03:46] And he says, and this is eternal life, that they know you, Father, the one true God, and Jesus Christ, whom we sent. [00:03:58] Now, most people in the church, Christian church, would make a comment such as, this is not about religion, it's about relationship. And yet without an understanding of this one scripture, what does that really mean? [00:04:15] You truly need to know who Christ is. [00:04:20] And we're going to look at this in detail over this year, just basically for tonight. He is the express image of the invisible God his Father that he just prayed for. That scripture that we looked at. [00:04:36] And we also see that in the book of Hebrews 1:3, that Christ is the express image of the Father. And that word express image means if you took a coin and engraved an image on there and beat that into it like they did in the first century, you would have the exact image from what it was. You took that item to put in that coin. And that's what that means. Christ is. Jesus Christ is the express image of the Father. [00:05:14] And without him, without that knowledge, that you're not going to achieve salvation. So most religions in the world recognize that Christ was a prophet and he is in their book in one form or another. [00:05:32] But we need to know who he is. [00:05:37] When Apostle Peter was asked that question and he said, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God, that opened up a conversation where Jesus finishes the rest of that chapter and he says, blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood did not give you reveal that to you, but my Father in heaven. So we need divine revelation from God. These are all things we're going to talk about. [00:06:08] Some of the questions we're going to look at of what I just read a minute ago to you, but giving you some scriptures along those lines, some from the Old Testament and some from the New Testament. [00:06:25] In the Book of Hosea, chapter four, verse six, it is written, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. [00:06:34] Because you have rejected knowledge. [00:06:37] I also will reject you from being a priest to me because you have forgotten the law of your God. I also will forget your children. So knowledge of God is important in this context. That this was written, God's people forgot who he was. And we see this all throughout the Bible. [00:07:01] And we're going to talk about what is the Bible in a minute and what are scriptures. [00:07:06] We already looked at John 17:3 and this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you sent in Romans 6:23 for the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life through In Jesus Christ our Lord. [00:07:33] There's a scripture that also speaks to why is this knowledge important? Why do we need this knowledge? [00:07:40] And in Ephesians 2:8:9 for by grace you have been saved through faith and not that of yourselves. It is a gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast. So moving forward, we'll talk about what actually is salvation and how is that achieved. It solely is in this scripture. [00:08:04] Now some of the other questions that we'll be looking at along in this forum are the Is the resurrection of Jesus Christ true? [00:08:17] Is Jesus God and why should I believe this? [00:08:22] These are all questions that if you're a Christian, you will have to answer at some point to people and we are going to find out shortly. An inspirational set of Scriptures to Eyes to See Ministries. [00:08:37] There's a commandment called the Great Commission. [00:08:40] So we need to speak. We need this knowledge to speak to people. [00:08:46] Why is Jesus often referred to as Jesus of Nazareth? [00:08:52] Did Jesus really exist? Is there any historical evidence of Jesus Christ? [00:08:58] What are the different names and titles of Jesus Christ? Remember, he's the express image of the invisible Father. [00:09:08] Is Jesus a myth? [00:09:10] Is Jesus just a copy of the pagan gods of other ancient religions? [00:09:17] Did Jesus really exist? Is there any historical evidence for him? [00:09:22] Is he real? [00:09:24] These are all important questions that we need to be able to answer as a Christian. [00:09:33] Another very important distinction that you're going to learn moving forward at some point in the near future is what is the difference between a Christian and a disciple in Jesus Christ? Because they are different. They can be different. [00:09:52] If you are a disciple of Christ, you are a Christian. But a professing Christian is not necessarily a disciple of Jesus Christ. [00:10:02] And if you are concerned about where the eternal destination of your soul is going to rest, you need to know this information and you need to be able to accurately convey it to the people that you come into contact with in your family, your friends, your acquaintances, other believers. Because we all came into the kingdom of God. If you're a true believer, if you're a true child of God at different times and we all have learned different information, so we all need to learn from one another. [00:10:39] That's what the purpose of Wednesday evening is going to be. [00:10:45] I'm going to talk about in a minute why God cannot lie and the importance and authority of Scriptures. [00:10:54] Because as part of what you're going to learn in a couple minutes is the five fold ministry of which Sherry and I are. [00:11:03] We have a specific job that's defined not by us Personally, but by the word of God, by Jesus Christ. And it's very explicit and detailed in the Holy Bible. So you need to understand where the Scriptures came from and the authority within them. [00:11:26] So Eyes to See Ministries, I like to call that. And somebody had given me a prophetic word last night and said, I want to think exactly what they said. [00:11:42] I was speaking about the ministry and some of the doors that had been, I'll say, doors closed to a ministry such as what we have been commissioned by God to do because of different traditions within different denominations and churches in general. [00:12:07] A lot of it is driven by fear. [00:12:12] And this person looked at me and said, I just heard God say not to refer to the ministry as a parachurch that causes fear in people. You really are a para ministry. [00:12:28] And that really is what the name says. [00:12:31] Eyes to See Ministries, I didn't even get a chance to talk to Sherry about that yet, but that's something we need to pray about. [00:12:41] But Eyes to See Ministries, there are several groups of scriptures that I'm going to give you this evening on why this came about, how it came about, the inspiration given to us, what it is that we do. And then I'm going to give you what I would call is the one scripture that sums up the purpose of the ministry based on that fivefold ministry that I spoke about earlier. [00:13:14] So in the Bible, Jesus Christ, the teacher, he's raising up disciples. [00:13:22] He's called people to follow them. [00:13:26] His ministry is between three and three and a half years. [00:13:30] And he has people that they're enamored by him. He's speaking with authority that they haven't heard before. [00:13:40] And at one point he tells them and commissions them, you need to now do what I do, what I've done to you. [00:13:50] And that's what we refer to as the Great Commission. [00:13:54] So there's four gospels in the Bible. The Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and this Great Commission. [00:14:06] It's recorded in all four of the Gospels. [00:14:11] It's in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 28, verses 18 to 20. [00:14:17] It's in Mark 16, 15, 16. [00:14:23] It's in Luke 24, 46, 49. [00:14:28] Now, at some point, I'll explain what all this means, because there's a lot of people that have questions. [00:14:35] They've been seeking what they may refer to as spirituality in their life, and they don't know what that means. [00:14:45] So while this may seem elementary to the Church of Christ, bought by his blood for his purposes, there's a lot of people that are going to be watching this Wednesday show that find this on different social medias and they're going to be some of their questions are going to be answered and my heart says this will lead them to go seek somebody that may have the answers to these questions. [00:15:15] In the Gospel of Luke, when Jesus gives this commandment. There are some subtitles in the gospel and it's not referred to by man. Man made title as the Great Commission in the Bible that I use the study Bible that version chose to say evangelize with power on high. [00:15:40] And we will talk about that at some point in the future from the Gospel of Mark that we actually have been given by Christ the authority to go out and do what he does. [00:15:53] So when he told the disciples go preach the gospel, that's why we need to know what this is. [00:16:02] Cleanse the lepers, heal the sick, cast out devils. [00:16:08] And one of the versions says raise the dead if we're given that commandment by God. [00:16:16] So some of the things you'll learn in the future is the will of God. [00:16:23] We know that is in the Bible, it's recorded and we'll talk about that shortly. But there's also an experiential knowledge that you need of God that you're only going to obtain from revelation that you receive through the word of God and in prayer. This is where you begin to learn how to hear the voice of God. There's different ways he talks to you. [00:16:46] Because if he told you to do something this morning and you didn't hear his voice and you went through that day and you didn't feel convicted over that, you're outside of the will of God. [00:16:57] Even though you read your Bible today, you studied and you prayed, God might have given you something to do today that was his purpose for you in the group of people that you can talk to and you didn't do it. So you have an assignment out there that is unfulfilled. [00:17:18] Many times people wonder or they'll come to me and say God never answers my prayers. And my first question to them is when was the last time you heard his voice and what did he tell you to do? [00:17:31] Because if you have a plate, for example, that keeps being filled up from a buffet and you don't ever eat that, you're not going to get filled. And now you're outside of God's will for you. [00:17:50] So the Great Commission is an inspirational set of scriptures for eyes to See ministries. [00:17:57] We are all commissioned by God. Not just what I'm going to talk about in a few minutes called the Fivefold Ministry. But Every person, every one of us that said, I believe Jesus Christ is the Christ, the Son of the living God. [00:18:18] If you believe that he came through the virgin birth, that he was crucified, died and was buried and raised on the third day, and now sits at the Father in heaven. [00:18:33] If you believe that if you received the message of the Gospel in your heart and made confession out loud with your mouth, you're commissioned now to do this. So it's important that you know how to do this and what it is you need to do. [00:18:50] Another set of scriptures that we are given by inspiration of God is Apostle Paul's prayer for spiritual wisdom and Understanding. [00:19:03] And this prayer is in his letter to the Church in Ephesus, chapter one, verses 15 to 23. And I'm going to read these scriptures to you, and you'll see in one of these verses where, where the name Eyes to See Ministries came from. It came from inspiration of God. Sherry was given this when she was in Uganda. And then through prayer, I was shown the Scriptures. So if we're listening to God and we hear his voice, what we believe we hear should always line up with scriptures. We should always be able to confirm it through the written word of God. [00:19:43] So in Ephesians, chapter one, Paul is going to pray for the church. He's written a letter to them, and this is what he prays. Now, the important thing is, and we'll have a lesson on this in the future, Paul's four prayers. When we read through these prayers, if you understand that God cannot lie, you will see that within these four prayers is God's highest purpose for every one of his children. [00:20:15] So beginning with verse 15, therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. Remember, we need knowledge of God for our salvation. [00:20:48] This is Paul's prayer for the Church that we get that. And then verse 18. [00:20:54] The eyes of your understanding or of your hearts being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, God's calling. [00:21:05] What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints? And what is the exceeding greatness of his power? [00:21:13] God's power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, God's mighty power, which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him, seated Christ at his right hand, in the heavenly places, far above all principality or rule and power, or authority and might or power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. [00:21:47] So that power within us, the same power that raised up Christ from the dead, is the power that we walk with. We have to believe that. [00:21:59] Eyes to See Ministries is a missionary ministry. We have a call to go into the nations. [00:22:07] So our part of the Great Commission is not just locally here. It's in Africa, 10 countries, 32 churches. It's in India, it's in Pakistan, and other places that are coming into. [00:22:25] Into our enlightenment as the months go by. [00:22:29] So we go. [00:22:31] We're sent by God to fulfill his purpose, the Great Commission. [00:22:37] We believe what the word of God says, that we're sent to preach the gospel, which the Bible says is the power to salvation. [00:22:47] And when we do that, when we speak the gospel to people, when they receive this, God confirms the preaching, following with signs, wonders, and miracles. [00:23:01] So all of the miracles that Sherry and I see every single time we go into a church is not us. We're just a vessel because we know. We said yes to the Great Commission, and we said yes, God, I believe your word that you cannot lie. And you told us to go cleanse the lepers, heal the sick, cast out devils. You told us to go do that. [00:23:29] So when I go to a church service, for example, I will always quote a scripture. [00:23:35] And I was told in prayer one day. This scripture applies to you, Peter. [00:23:41] It's what Jesus says when he first starts the ministry, goes into a synagogue. In the Gospel of Luke, chapter four, verse 18, he says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has sent me to preach the gospel to the poor. [00:24:00] He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Now, in that scripture, Jesus says, now that your ears have heard that this scripture, this prophecy, is fulfilled. [00:24:27] So when I get ready to preach at a church service and I get alone with God, I will remind him and quote this scripture and. And say, you told me that when I spoke this, this was the acceptable time. [00:24:44] It's this service. So when I speak the words you gave me, I thank you now that you will confirm afterwards with signs, wonders and miracles. All I'm doing is speaking back in agreement what God told me to do. And I believe it. [00:25:00] So that's the Importance of the scriptures that the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened or your heart. There's a song that says open the eyes of my heart, Lord. [00:25:14] So depending upon what version, it'll say understanding or hearts. But this is what we are commissioned by God to do. [00:25:22] All of us are. [00:25:25] Now if we go to chapter four in the same letter to the church, remember these letters are to the church. [00:25:35] Paul is going to talk about the ministry leadership gifts by Christ, of Christ for the church. [00:25:45] And some were given apostles and some were given prophets and some were given evangelists and some were given pastors and teachers. These are Christ's gifts. If you were really called to do one of these five, I'll say offices, you are actually and you better look at this out of humbleness but you are actually a gift from Christ himself to the church, his body and you have a specific role. [00:26:20] It's an obligation. Yes. [00:26:24] So if I'm not doing this, I'm out of the will of God. [00:26:28] The Bible says let there not be many masters above you. So even today to be here at Community Media, I'm going to speak testimonies of God and it's going to be scriptures because God cannot lie. And, and I don't want to make things up. I'm not going to add to the scriptures, I'm not going to take away. [00:26:51] If any man gives you, any person gives you another gospel, the Bible says let that person be accursed. So this is serious things. [00:27:01] Takes a lot of prayer and a lot of humbleness and taking this seriously to be able to sit here, be recorded and have your words go out to the public because lives depend on it. The eternal destination of people's souls is important. And one of the things we're going to talk about in the future is Bible prophecy. [00:27:26] Where are we today with Bible prophecy? [00:27:30] And we will dissect for you a term that people argue doesn't exist because it's not in the Bible something called the Rapture. [00:27:40] But the words being taken away and caught up in the clouds is will explain what that means. [00:27:49] Where that falls on a Bible timeline in relation to what's called the seven year Tribulation where God himself is going to pour his wrath out upon the earth. [00:28:03] The Bible says we weren't called to God's wrath. [00:28:06] And there's many other scriptures we'll look at that shows that this taking away of the church is going to happen at a certain time. Now we don't know when that is. It's going to be the imminent return of Christ, we're going to talk about that in detail. There is a second coming of Christ. Who does that pertain to? When on a timeline that's going to happen? Because we are very close. [00:28:33] The early church believed this was going to happen in their lifetime. And that's why they had a sense of urgency to go do the Great Commission. [00:28:42] Why the Holy Spirit was allowed to minister to people in the church. [00:28:50] If I'm called to preach, which I am, and to teach, and I stand before a group of people that God said, Jesus said Peter the. That's where I want you to go. And here's my message for them. If I don't open up the altars right then when I get done for him, to confirm the Word following with signs, wonders and miracles. If I don't have the boldness to proclaim that in front of those people and say, if you come up here and you believe you will be experiencing the manifested glory of God, you have to believe that and make sure that that message was from God. But if I don't do that, whose fault is it that there's people sick in the church or people that need to be delivered from torments or anxiety? That would be my fault. [00:29:43] And I'm not going to get up and do that. [00:29:46] I am not going to let God, I'm not going to let him have the opportunity to say, son, you didn't give my people the opportunity for me to work in their lives in my heart. If I do that, Jesus is standing outside the door of that church knocking, and I'm the one not letting him in. [00:30:08] That's why Sherry and I get asked to do healing services, participate in those. Because those churches that have them, those under shepherds, those pastors believe in healing, in divine healing. And that's why they preach on it and that's why they teach it. [00:30:29] Now, in the Book of Acts, Paul again is going to write that no man's blood, no person's blood is on his head because he did not hesitate to give them the whole counsel of God. [00:30:43] So I can't just preach on healing. I need to give them the gospel. They have to understand what that is, and they have to hear the whole counsel of God, not just a part of it. [00:30:56] So our ministry isn't specific to one thing. [00:31:03] It is specific to the Great Commission, to open the eyes of the understanding, to teach the church what the scriptures mean in the context. [00:31:15] The word of God rightly divided. [00:31:19] I hear a lot of times on Tuesday night when I listen to people, I hear them more Frequently, as time goes by, use scriptures out of context to promote what idea or concept they're putting out there. [00:31:36] And we're not supposed to do that. [00:31:40] So there are ministry, leadership, gifts to the church. [00:31:45] Those three sets of scriptures are what inspired my role here in Eyes to Sea Ministries as an ordained minister called of God to give the gospel, to set the captives free, to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers. [00:32:04] And if you're walking where you should be with God and you walk into a church and you start preaching by inspiration of God and the glory of God starts to come, the enemy is going to manifest itself. It has to. [00:32:24] When the light comes, when the light of God shows up, the enemy's going to be exposed. And you'll have to deal with that. You have to understand these things. [00:32:37] So looking at business models, I came to the realization a week ago that even though these sets of scriptures were inspirations for what we need to do, I thought there needs to be a purpose statement. You know, we're going to have a. [00:33:02] A constitution, so to speak, in writing for the ministry bylaws. [00:33:09] And what would that purpose statement be? [00:33:12] And as I was praying and I opened my Bible up, actually it was a devotional that I looked at, I saw this scripture. [00:33:22] It's Colossians, chapter one, verse 28. [00:33:27] And I'll give you three different versions of the Bible whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. That's one sentence that sums up these sets of scriptures here. Now, when the Bible uses the term man, it means mankind. [00:33:56] God's not being chauvinistic, whom we preach. [00:34:03] I need to give people the whole counsel of God. That means I can't get up in front of you and become a motivational speaker to make you feel good. [00:34:13] You should be convicted. We all should be, by the word of God. And if we believe that God is the father of lights and he's going to convict us, to do what? [00:34:24] To do what he created us to do, and that's to conform us into the image of Christ, that may be painful on some days, but it's for our own good. And if we have even the slightest revelation that we are just passing through this earth and this earthly body, and afterwards we are going to spend eternity never ending. And the definition of eternity was there's no beginning and no end. [00:34:53] God's existed in eternity and so has the word of God. We'll see scriptures like that in the future on that as we learn more and More who is Christ? [00:35:04] I would go so far tonight to say you cannot convince me that you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ if you can't tell me who he is. And I don't mean everything about him. I just mean you should be able to open your mouth and start speaking about who he is. [00:35:25] Another version reads it this him, we preach Christ. [00:35:32] We should be preaching Christ and Christ crucified, warning every man and teaching everyone in all wisdom. The Bible says all wisdom, all godliness and all wisdom is written in the Bible that we may present every person perfect in Christ. That means mature in your understanding of the word of God as a mature Christian. What does that look like? [00:35:59] Well, I can say this, and I'll say it in love. If you cannot give the true definition or meaning of what repentance is, you can't be a mature Christian in Christ. You can't be Jesus said, john the Baptist came before Christ and he said, repent. [00:36:21] The kingdom of heaven is at hand. And Jesus followed that up. One chapter later, Jesus said, follow me 21 times in the Gospels in 12 different conversations. And this very apostle that we're spending a lot of time with this evening, he said, imitate me as I only imitate Christ. Only as I imitate Christ. So we have examples of what we should be. [00:36:51] I should be able to say to a church group or my family, imitate me only as I imitate Jesus. If I say something or my behavior doesn't line up with the person, the person of Christ, then you shouldn't be following me. [00:37:12] The last one, Colossians 1:28, him we preach and proclaim like a town crier, warning and admonishing everyone and instructing everyone in all wisdom. [00:37:33] Comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God that we may present every person mature, full grown, fully initiated, complete and perfect in Christ. The anointed one. That's from the Amplified Bible. [00:37:53] That's what we're called to do. [00:37:56] However, even though as part of the fivefold ministry, that's what we're called to do, so is every believer in Christ. [00:38:08] We are all called to do that. [00:38:12] Sherry and I's job as Eyes to See Ministries. The majority of the people that we're called to teach is the leadership in the church. [00:38:25] Some people are called to teach the leaders so they can disciple the flock. [00:38:33] And that needs to be done in humility. [00:38:39] So we are very thankful that Community Media of South Central Pennsylvania had answered a prayer of mine and they allow us to speak because this message will go out on local television. But it will also go out internationally. [00:39:02] There's 32 churches in Africa waiting for this message. [00:39:06] There's three churches in India waiting for it. [00:39:10] There's five in Pakistan. [00:39:12] Some of these are women Bible teachers that have children. And every Sunday they gather the children together and they ask for prayer for them. [00:39:25] If we've heard a word of God, if we have a message out of the Bible that they can give these children. [00:39:31] And there's probably 150 children in Pakistan between these three women that pray for us in this ministry daily. That's what they do every day when they gather with this woman or these three people and the churches. So we always, we need your, your prayer support. [00:39:55] We can't do what we do without being sent either. [00:40:02] So if you want to look at Eyes To See Ministries, you can look us up on the Internet. Our website is eyestocministries.org and you'll see different things that we do. You'll see pictures and videos from Africa. [00:40:21] We'll have some up from India shortly. [00:40:24] And we'll let you know on the website where it is we're going to be and how you can pray. [00:40:31] One of the important things on and in my heart that I pray every day over the church are these four prayers that Paul does. [00:40:45] Those prayers were given by inspiration of God. And if he, as the apostle to the Gentiles, which I am a Gentile, if he prayed those. And God said, here's what you pray over my church. [00:41:01] That's my example. So I pray those every day. If somebody says to me, pastor Peter, how can I pray for you? I give them those four prayers and I say pray that over Sherry and myself and this ministry every day because God cannot lie and he will answer those prayers. [00:41:23] Now, I'm running out of time here this evening, so I just want to read quickly to you some scriptures and we'll talk about this in the future. But God cannot lie. [00:41:37] Numbers, chapter 23, verse 19. [00:41:41] God is not a man that he should lie, nor the Son of man that he should repent. [00:41:47] Has he said it and shall he not do it? [00:41:51] Or has he spoken and shall he not make it good? [00:41:56] God's words are reliable and his promises will always be fulfilled. This is why when we are sent and we go where God tells us to go and deliver the message that he gives us. This is why, because people ask me this all the time, how come when you go to Africa, the entire church runs up to the altar and falls on their knees crying out to God and then God heals them all it's because I asked, where is it that you want me to go? And what is it that you want me to say? He knows those hearts. [00:42:39] The ways of man are right in his own mind. [00:42:44] But God weighs the spirit and God weighs the heart. That's from Proverbs, chapter 16:2 and 21:2. So I don't want to go out and do this on my own. [00:42:57] We need prayer, support, and I want Jesus to be the one that says, peter, I'm sending you. And here's the message for those people. That's why someone can look at that and say, what is the success that you have that I don't see here? [00:43:17] Well, that's why he told me to go where I went, give the message. That's all I had to do was hear his voice, give the message and have the boldness to tell those people, if you come here forward, that's a profession of faith. And God will meet you. [00:43:36] So whatever your need is will be satisfied by an almighty God who cannot lie in Titus, chapter one, verse two, in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, promised before the world began salvation. [00:43:57] Eternal life is a promise by God, but there's conditions. [00:44:03] Hebrews, chapter 6, verse 18. These are new Testament scriptures now. So God didn't change his mind from the Old Testament to the New Testament that by too immutable. And that word means unchangeable or unchangeability. [00:44:21] By two unchangeable things in which it is impossible or unable for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. [00:44:38] If we're Christians, true Christians, we should have joy. [00:44:44] We should be looking up. [00:44:46] We should be eagerly awaiting the return of Christ. [00:44:50] And we need to be taught, where are we prophetically along this timeline. [00:44:59] The Bible speaks of signs that will come so that the people during the tribulation will know when the second coming of Christ is. Because you do not want to be alive here on earth during that period. [00:45:14] God is pouring his wrath out. [00:45:17] Jesus died on the cross so that we could have eternal life. [00:45:23] And his sacrifice as the perfect lamb has satisfied God's wrath. But at some time the door is going to be closed. And we are at a point right now where I was told for 2026, you need to teach the church who I am. You need to teach the world who I am. And you need to warn them that that door that's open right now is not going to be open forever. And my people need to be doing what they need to be doing right now. There's a sense of urgency burning in me right now. [00:45:59] Wow. [00:46:07] To do what I'm called to do. [00:46:10] We all are. And unfortunately, many are doing business as normal. [00:46:16] And the Bible says it's like the days of Noah. They're marrying, they're giving and marrying, giving in marriage. They're buying, selling. [00:46:27] Are we truly believing that Christ is going to come back? And what does that mean? [00:46:33] So I can tell you right now, when we gather next Wednesday, I'm going to talk to you and tell you what a Galilean wedding looks like and why the disciples in the Bible knew what Jesus was talking about when he gave some of those parables. [00:46:52] But in the meantime, all scripture was given by inspiration of God. God breathed. [00:46:59] So when we speak each Wednesday, you're going to be given the scriptures, the Holy Scriptures, because God cannot lie and his words will not return empty. [00:47:15] This message that goes out today, the end of this week, because it was given to me by inspiration of God, it will not return empty to me. [00:47:27] I may not see who gets this, but I know in my heart that this message is accomplishing what God sent it forward to accomplish for his purposes. [00:47:43] That's a biblical truth. [00:47:47] So I'll close in prayer now. Father, I just thank you that you cannot lie, That all you want from your children is for us to humble ourselves before you and ask you what your purpose is for us, that you want us to. Lord, I pray for a divine hunger and thirst for righteousness to come over your children, that we want to seek you as never before to seek your face. [00:48:27] For the word of God says, if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, turn from our sin, then you will hear in heaven and forgive our sins. [00:48:52] And heal our land. [00:48:55] And if we look at that word land, it means us too, people. [00:49:00] But we have conditions, God. [00:49:03] So I thank you for this message. I thank you that it will not return void. Lord, we bless you today. [00:49:09] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. And I bless Community Media of South Central Pennsylvania. Lord, I ask that you open doors for them, that you send people that you've already purposed on your heart to seek them out as a platform to speak the truth and the whole truth, the whole counsel of God in these last days of perilous times. Because it doesn't take long to watch the news and see the world is becoming unraveled Humanity is losing its mind. [00:49:56] But as a true believer in Christ, with the word of God hidden in our hearts, we can rejoice in the blessed hope that we are just passing through this world, that our country is in heaven and that we have work to do to spread that good news as town criers. [00:50:22] So we bless you today we pray in Jesus name. Amen. [00:50:48] Sa.