Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Yeah, let's pray before we start. Father, we thank you for this word. We thank you that your word is living, it is active. Lord, we thank you Lord that it is more than just words on a page. It is truth and it is life for all who will believe. So Father, this morning as we open up your word, will you come Holy Spirit, and breathe fresh, fresh life on every person here. Lord, may our spiritual ears be open to hear what you would have to say to us today. And Father, Lord, we pray that your word would not just move today, but it would move in power this week in our lives, in our families. Lord, over each and every one of us, in Jesus name for your glory. Amen and Amen. Okay, we have so we have seen, we're doing this, the book of Luke this year and I am personally loving going through the book of Luke. How many of us know that the scriptures aren't there just so we get a load of head knowledge.
[00:01:04] You can quote scripture all you want to me, but if you are not living it every day, I'm not interested.
[00:01:13] You can be the wisest scholar here but not live a holy pure life honouring to the Lord and the book of Luke, going through the book of Luke, this isn't so we just get our heads full of knowledge and a bit of history content of what happened then.
[00:01:32] This is so that we would encounter Jesus afresh on our lives today. How many of us know that we can encounter Jesus today?
[00:01:42] He's the same yesterday, today, today and forever. We can encounter him afresh today. The trouble is, I believe our churches have so got used to a religious service and a religious Christianity and a religious Jesus that we've stopped encountering him, we've stopped loving him, we've stopped falling in love with Jesus. And my heart is that each and every one of us will fall in love with Jesus again this year because of who he is. Remember Jesus when he said to Peter, who do you say I am? I'm asking everybody here today, who do we say Jesus is? Who is he to you? And so this morning we're going to be in chapter four. If you want to get chapter four, I think it will come up as well.
[00:02:32] We've seen the birth of Jesus, this miraculous birth. We've seen Jesus in the wilderness. You know, before he starts his ministry. Jesus has a bit of a wrestle with Satan.
[00:02:47] I love it because this is God showing us a model of how to live our lives. You know, this isn't us just saying, well Jesus, he got power over the enemy and he used the word of God and he did this and he did that. This is a model for our lives to live by. Jesus is our model. And so we've seen Jesus. He was tested in the wilderness. He came through. And then we saw Tilly last week, spoke about Jesus in Nazareth. Now, Nazareth was a disaster, an absolute disaster for Jesus. Jesus was brought up in Nazareth. We saw when he was a young lad, he spent about 18 years developing his own life. Morally, spiritually, emotionally, physically. He was being developed in those years in Nazareth. And so when Jesus is in Nazareth, the people say, well, okay, you're teaching the Scriptures, but we're actually not sure who you are.
[00:03:47] Aren't you Joseph's son? They didn't know who Jesus was. And then as a result, they tried to kill Jesus.
[00:03:57] Where Tilly spoke last week, Jesus actually had about five attempts on his life through the book of Luke. Five attempts on his life. People tried to kill him five times before he went to the cross.
[00:04:11] But Jesus knew, you know what? Jesus knew he would die.
[00:04:16] But Nazareth wasn't going to be the place. And it certainly wasn't the time for Jesus to die then. It was going to be, we know, in Jerusalem some time later. So what we're going to do, I'm going to do things slightly different. I'm actually going to read not the whole block together, but we're actually going to read, stop, read, stop. Because this is such an exciting passage. This is where we really get to understand the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness when they collide and touch together. All right, so going to do a bit of reading together.
[00:04:50] So chapter four, we're going to go from verse 31.
[00:04:58] Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, or some people say Capernaum. Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And on the Sabbath, he taught the people. They were amazed at his teaching because his words had authority in the synagogue. There was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out of the top of his voice, go away. What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.
[00:05:34] I'm just going to stop there and then we'll carry on in a moment. All right? This is impure spirit. This is the first time that Jesus kind of comes into contact, if you like, with one of the demons that belong to Satan, right? It is an impure spirit. Now, this impure spirit is in a man. First of all. This impure spirit spoke through a man. And this impure spirit Came out of the man. Thank goodness. I don't know if anybody's seen any deliverance happen where impure spirits have come out. I remember being in a meeting once and I was just about 12 at the time. My father was speaking in quite a large hall and he was. And my dad was talking about just the name of Jesus and the presence and the power and the authority of Jesus. And this guy at the back decides that he was going to shut dad down in the midst of about four or 500 people. And this guy just starts to shout and he says, you are a liar from the back. And my dad just went, no, you are the liar. Like this. And the guy just literally got his stuff and just walked out of the building like this. And as a 12 year old girl, you're kind of like, ah, that's quite funny. But the reality is that there are impure spirits around. And we find in this passage that Jesus had come into contact with an impure spirit. And where was this impure spirit?
[00:07:12] In the synagogue, in the church.
[00:07:21] We sometimes think that we're so holy that no impure spirit could dare come in our gatherings.
[00:07:32] But you know, these gatherings are for people who need deliverance from impure spirits.
[00:07:39] These are gatherings where we long to see God come and heal, set free, deliver people. And here's an interesting thing before we go on. These demons spoke to Jesus. These demons knew who Jesus was.
[00:07:57] I don't believe the people in Capernaum knew exactly who Jesus was at this point in time. Sure they loved his miracles. Sure they were, you know, enjoying what Jesus was doing in people's lives. But I don't believe each of them went, yeah, we know that he's the son of God. We know who Jesus is. But the demons know. Knew. The demons knew who Jesus was. Let me just say something quickly about demons. I don't spend too much time on them.
[00:08:24] Demons are fallen angels. All right? Demons, along with Satan in heaven, kind of did a rebellion against God's authority in heaven and as a result, God threw them out of heaven. And demons are led by Satan. I know, I appreciate some of you look at me like, hmm, it's an uncomfortable topic. But we have to be aware, all right, of the kingdom of darkness.
[00:08:50] We have to be aware because I think sometimes the church thinks that we are just plain sailing and things happen in life and oh dear, so be it. But a lot of chaos, a lot of destruction, and this is what we're going to get to this morning, is caused through Satan and the powers of darkness. All right? And these demons, what they do, they possess people's lives and they cause chaos across the nations.
[00:09:22] Where do wars come from?
[00:09:26] Fighting, quarrels?
[00:09:30] All of these things are demonic activity happening across the face of the earth. And what happens is demons possess people, they take over people's lives.
[00:09:45] And how does that happen? It happens when people expose themselves to all sorts of darkness. Things like the occult, things like palm reading, card reading. All of these things hold horoscopes, pornography, types of horror, violence, abuse. These are all ways that the enemy possesses people.
[00:10:11] We have to be careful what we dabble in because it's very dangerous territory. When we start getting close to the darkness, we have to be very, very careful. And so demons possess people today. And here is an example we have right before us where a man had come into the synagogue and he was possessed by an evil spirit. And this is how Jesus responds. Take note how Jesus responds. Okay, let's go down. He says, be quiet. Jesus said sternly, come out of him. Then the demon threw the man down before them all and. And came out without injuring him. All the people were amazed and said to each other, what words are these?
[00:11:01] With authority and power. Everyone say, authority and power. With authority and power. He gives orders to impure spirits and they come out. And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area. We sang this morning, Matt, about keys, right? Authority and power are keys to the kingdom. Authority and power. Remember that in a moment. And so Jesus rebukes this evil spirit and the spirit comes out.
[00:11:31] Jesus is exercising authority and power over the demonic world, over the demonic activity.
[00:11:42] 1 Corinthians 4 says this. He says, the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk, but of power.
[00:11:53] The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk, but of power.
[00:12:01] The church today needs to see the power of God evident amongst us.
[00:12:09] We need the supernatural presence power of God back into our gatherings, back into our meetings, back into our homes.
[00:12:19] I think the church is hidden away because we are not picking up what Jesus has given us. And it's the keys to the kingdom, his power, and his authority to stamp on the darkness.
[00:12:38] Too many of us are putting up with the darkness in our homes when we don't need to because we have been given authority and power over the enemy. And I'll go onto that in a moment. I long to see when the preaching of God's Word happens, that people are delivered in services like this.
[00:12:59] Please don't worry, church, that as we're going through this year and we're talking about the name of Jesus, and we're exalting the name of Jesus and we're pushing the centrality of who Jesus is to the forefront of Newton Abbot. Do not be surprised if there's some shrieking.
[00:13:18] There's some things that are happening that are a bit of out of our comfort zone. It means that the Holy Spirit is here doing his things, setting people free.
[00:13:29] Since being a young girl, and I've never really said this to anybody, and I'm not. I don't even think this morning is a brilliant platform for it, but I'm going to share just a little bit and maybe I'll expand on it at some point. Since I've been a little girl, I have been riddled with anxiety and fear. Riddled. I remember from the age of six, anxiety and fear coming over my life. And there have been times over the last 40 years of my life, every time. And I've known the Lord since I've been six. I've known his presence. I've known. I've known that I've had a heavenly Father since the age of six. Right. And I know in my own life, in my 20s and in my 30s and in my 40s, every time I have gone to step out to do anything for the Lord, guess what?
[00:14:14] Spirit of fear comes near, anxiety takes over me. Last year I battled the most horrendous anxiety you asked Phil that I have ever had. And it always happens when I want to step out for the Lord. And I believe in my own. This is my life now. This might not be you. This is my life. I believe that the enemy has sent a spirit of fear to follow me in my life.
[00:14:41] I do.
[00:14:43] And I have had to wrestle almost daily, weekly, every year. I am not going to bow to fear in my life.
[00:14:57] I'm not going to bow to it. Why? Because Jesus is worthy? Because we've got a mission here in Newton Abbott to see the lost, saved. I want to see people come out of the pit of hell and be rescued and delivered.
[00:15:13] Why? Because I'm living testimony that Jesus Christ delivers and he saves.
[00:15:19] And he wants to use us as a voice to shut down, down the darkness, to shut it down. It doesn't have any authority. The only authority Satan has is what we allow him to have.
[00:15:34] It is. It is. And I have failed, failed on many times, giving him too much of a say in my life at the cross. Satan was defeated, right? But he wasn't destroyed.
[00:15:53] He was defeated. Oh, yeah. And if you are in Christ, you can walk a victorious life.
[00:15:59] Yeah. But he wasn't he wasn't completely destroyed.
[00:16:08] We have to remember as Christians that this world belongs to Satan until the fullness of the kingdom comes and Jesus fully reigns. This is the enemy's territory.
[00:16:21] We might be in it, but we don't have to be of it because we are seated in heavenly places. We know that with Christ. And I want to remind us of that this morning because some of us are going to go into the workplace this morning. Sorry, tomorrow morning, and let me tell you, you need to start saying, I am not defeated. I've got this terrible boss, but I am not defeated.
[00:16:41] I am victorious because of Jesus.
[00:16:45] We can win every battle the enemy throws at us if we have Christ living on the inside of us. And so this is. The earth is Satan's playing field.
[00:16:59] And the church has to realize that.
[00:17:02] And Jesus came and he was. He was almost coming on the scene to say, hey, I am going to expose what darkness is.
[00:17:12] I'm coming to expose that demons, that sickness that we'll read in a moment is of the devil.
[00:17:21] It is not a work of the Lord, it is the work of Satan. That's why when we pray as Christians, we say, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
[00:17:35] As believers in Christ, we are to be carriers of this kingdom message. It's not just word, it is power, the power of God.
[00:17:49] James 4 says this, and it's so important that we get scriptures like this as believers. It says, submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil. Who's got to resist the devil?
[00:18:02] And what he will flee from you? Come near to God, and guess what? He will come near to you. Let me say that again. It's so amazing. Submit yourselves then to God. We submit ourselves to you, Lord. We're going to resist the devil and he's going to flee from us. We're going to come near to God and God, you're going to come near to us.
[00:18:26] That's the first part. So Jesus, in front of everybody, he rebukes the demons. He rebukes them, you know, to rebuke something is to come down hard.
[00:18:38] Growing up, I could never understand why my mother was shouting around the house in the name of Jesus. No, not today. What's the matter with mother?
[00:18:49] Sorry, Mum. If you're going to listen to this, she was rebuking what the enemy was trying to do.
[00:18:56] Our worship. That's why some of us, you may look and think, why are they so passionate when they sing together? Because we're exalting the name of Jesus over every Single power and authority. The name of Jesus. The name of Jesus.
[00:19:12] Okay, verse 38. Let's go on. Because time is going. Are you still with me?
[00:19:17] Verse 38. Okay, so we've done the synagogue. So Jesus in the synagogue and he rebuked the demon. Now we're in a home. I love it. Great things happen on a Sunday in the synagogue. Well, not in a synagogue, we're in a church. But great things happen in the home as well. And here we go in the home and this is the first time we meet Simon Peter who we know Simon as the fisherman later on. And Phil's going to be preaching next week on that. So it says Jesus left the synagogue. A lot happens in Capernaum, doesn't it?
[00:19:51] Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon's mother in law was suffering from a high fever and they asked Jesus to help her. I love this because I imagine Simon would have been down at the synagogue seeing what Jesus is doing, seeing the authority and power of Jesus and he's like, come home. And Jesus has already clocked Simon Peter because this is the Simon Peter that Jesus is going to use to start the church. Remember the Acts on the day of Pentecost. Amazing.
[00:20:24] God's got a wonderful plan for our lives.
[00:20:27] Each of us, Each of us. And so Jesus goes to the house and he bends over, he said so he bent over her and rebuked. Here we go. Rebuke to be really strong about something.
[00:20:44] And he rebuked the fever and it left her. She got up and at once began to wait on them. I love this. Why did Jesus rebuke the fever?
[00:20:57] He rebuked the fever because sickness and sin are not part of the kingdom of light.
[00:21:05] That's why he rebuked the fever.
[00:21:09] I love this because it shows us that we are to rebuke demonic activity and holds and we are to rebuke sickness.
[00:21:18] I hate sickness.
[00:21:20] I hate disease. I hate cancer. We've got some doctors in here today. I imagine you see all sorts. And as you thank. Can we just applaud our doctors?
[00:21:31] We've got a couple of doctors and nurses and carers in this place, alright? And they see the most horrific sickness and illnesses. All right, let me tell you. This is of the pit.
[00:21:47] It's of the pit. And we thank doctors and we thank God for medicine we do to help us in defeating the darkness. But I hate sickness. And Jesus rebuked it because he was showing people that sickness and sin was not a part of the kingdom of God. It wasn't a part.
[00:22:09] And as a church, we've got to start rebuking sickness now. I've prayed over people and they haven't got well. I've prayed over people and they have got well.
[00:22:19] You know, we are to leave it with the Lord. Some things are mysteries. Some of you know, my father is terribly ill and it's sad to watch his frail body just fading away, all right? And Mum and Dad are up every day praying over him. They're praying together, they're worshipping together. They believe that Jesus is who he says he is, but equally we trust him in sickness and in health, and we can still live victoriously.
[00:22:53] But here, Jesus healed. And I love this. He bent over Peter's, Simon Peter's mother in law, the presence of Jesus.
[00:23:04] You hear us a lot in this church talking about the presence of Jesus.
[00:23:10] We need the presence of Jesus desperately need the presence of Jesus in our lives.
[00:23:17] And Jesus came, says in 1 John 3, the reason the Son of Man appeared was to destroy the devil's work. I love that it was to destroy the devil's work. You know, been a church leader for a few decades now.
[00:23:36] You get caught up with so much petty stuff, like really petty stuff.
[00:23:43] Wouldn't it be great that God so works in our lives that we're more concerned about rebuking the enemy?
[00:23:51] You know what the enemy tries to do, right? The breakdown in relationships in churches and church leaders is because the enemy is at work.
[00:23:59] It is when somebody offends us or somebody harms us.
[00:24:06] Our battle is not against flesh and blood, it's against the enemy. He is causing so much havoc because he wants to break up church.
[00:24:16] He wants to break it up. If he could confuse the church, if he can make the church fight against each other, let me tell you, the enemy will. It's exactly what he'll do.
[00:24:27] And in some places he's done a very good job of it, unfortunately.
[00:24:34] But Jesus came to destroy the devil's work. I love in Acts 3, we've mentioned before Simon Peter, just maybe four years after this occurrence in the home, Simon Peter is there in Acts 3, and he's there passing a beggar man, all right? A lame beggar man who cannot walk. And Peter goes along and he says, silver and gold I don't have, but what I have, I give you in the name of Jesus. Get up and walk. And I love this because you go from a home four years ago to Simon, just a fisherman, you know, and he's been at the synagogue and heard about Jesus and say, hey, would you want to come to Tim? And oh, by the way, will you just kind of like look at my mother in law? She needs a bit of healing. And then four years later, Peter is doing the exact same thing that he saw Jesus. Do you see? Jesus is our model. There is nothing special about Peter.
[00:25:33] He was ordinary. It tells us in scripture he was an ordinary unschooled fisherman.
[00:25:42] What did he have? This is what he had. He had authority and power.
[00:25:52] He had authority and power. He had the keys to the kingdom. And as he passed, the sick person says, I am not going to leave that sick person sick. I am going to come and bring the kingdom of God. I am going to bring the kingdom of heaven down. We have a mandate church.
[00:26:11] I believe we are in an exciting opportunity for the church in Newton Abbot. I believe it's our time. I do. I believe in the years to come there is going to be a phenomenal Christ centered church in Newton Abbot. Okay, Bashing down, bashing down the gates of hell in streets, in homes, bashing it down.
[00:26:36] And I believe we're going to see the kingdom of heaven come in places people set free. Anybody want to see people set free, People saved? I want, I want to be baptized. We said as a team, we want to be baptizing people regularly.
[00:26:53] Have we as a church stopped believing in a supernatural God? It's a good question, isn't it?
[00:27:03] Sickness? I want to remind us today. And Jesus wanted to remind the people he was starting out on his ministry. He was saying, I've not just come to preach. I've come to demonstrate what the kingdom of God is all about. I've got to move on really quickly because of time. Verse 42, it says @ daybreak.
[00:27:24] So it says at sunset the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness and laying in his hands on each one of them. He healed them. Moreover, demons came out of many people shouting, you are the Son of God. But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak because they knew he was the Messiah. Just really quickly on that. That's really interesting. The reason why Jesus shut down the demons is because he had a mission to accomplish. It wasn't his time yet. He was just starting out. He needed people to find out who he was, not just the demons. He needed people to know. Okay, carry on quickly to verse 42. At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place.
[00:28:07] Can I just say something about that solitary place?
[00:28:11] This is a key aspect for us as Christians that we mustn't Just glance over. I want you to leave this place today, having going, wow. Would have just glanced over that whole passage of scripture and gone, oh, wonderful. He went to Capernaum. Oh, wow. Peter's mother in law got healed. Oh, wow. I want us to get hold of something today. I really want us to get hold of it today at daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place.
[00:28:38] As Christians, we need to find space with God regularly.
[00:28:45] Okay? We need to be alone with God.
[00:28:51] You're going to laugh now, but I have to schedule in my diary intentionally moments to be alone with God.
[00:29:01] If I don't, things grab me and boy do they grab me.
[00:29:09] It's part of the enemy's schemes. It's part of what he wants to do. He wants a world that's constantly on, on, on, on, on, on. And not listening to the message and the voice of the Shepherd.
[00:29:25] Let's stay on, let's have the TV on, let's have our gadgets on, let's have conversation on. Let's have emails open constantly. Let's have our laptop open constantly. Let's have it on, on, on.
[00:29:39] Part of the enemy's tactics.
[00:29:42] We must spend time alone with God.
[00:29:47] He wants to refresh us. He wants to pour into us.
[00:29:51] He wants us to last the journey. He wants us to find joy in all that we do. He has got things he wants to say to us. But we have to be alone.
[00:30:04] We have to close that door.
[00:30:07] We have to listen to him in a world that is constantly full of noise, opinions and voices. And some of it may be good stuff. I'm not saying that. But nothing is greater than hearing the voice of Jesus. Nothing. And Jesus says, my sheep know my voice.
[00:30:25] If we do not spend time listening to the voice of the shepherd, what will happen is the enemy will come and he will deceive. And we'll be listening to a voice that we think sounds similar to the shepherd, but we're not because that's how he works.
[00:30:41] And that's why time alone with God. Jesus did it. There's about six times Jesus went and he left the crowd. I love that because actually Jesus, you think of how many evangelists and kind of healing people are around today, they would give anything for a massive crowd.
[00:31:00] Oh, let's just carry on healing. This is great. I hope the press come and they get all this on camera and we're all, yeah, look at this great, look at this great show of us healing ever. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Jesus could have carried on doing that. He could have carried on healing people but he knew there was nothing greater than him spending time with the Father.
[00:31:23] We've got it the other way around, sometimes the wrong way round.
[00:31:27] That's why I think there's so much in ministry that goes wrong sometimes because people are so doing this with the crowds that they're not withdrawing away, spending time on their face with the Lord in order then to do what he's called them to do.
[00:31:43] Verse 42 People, I'm wrapping up now. People wanted Jesus to stay. They were amazed by his miracles. They were amazed by him. I mean, who wouldn't? But I don't believe, like I said at the start, they fully knew him as Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus, the living God.
[00:32:04] What can we take away from this today?
[00:32:09] First thing, let me go through a few of these. Sin and sickness which leads to death is not a part of the kingdom of heaven. It's a work of Satan. We have to recognize that. The second thing is that we are carriers of the kingdom of light. If you are in Christ this morning, you have authority and you have power wherever you go across the world, we carry his authority and his power.
[00:32:40] Are you seeing that in your life? Are you gaining victory?
[00:32:47] Third thing, learn from the best. We're to follow in Jesus footsteps. Why? I love Peter.
[00:32:54] There's another. There's another scene I can't quite remember in Scripture, but it is there where Jesus is asleep on the boat. We all know that scene, all right. And then years later, Peter is in prison. And guess what? Peter's asleep.
[00:33:12] Peter has decided that in his life, Jesus is going to be his model. He's going to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
[00:33:21] Like father, like son.
[00:33:26] Like father, like son. Jesus rebukes sickness. We can rebuke sickness. Sickness.
[00:33:33] We're not to stand for it.
[00:33:36] And we know not all healing happens because we are in a partial kingdom. The fullness of the kingdom hasn't yet come. When that comes, there will be no pain, no sickness, no death.
[00:33:51] The final thing to be completely destroyed is death.
[00:33:56] Naturally speaking, we've all got to go through the way of death because we're in a fallen world.
[00:34:02] But for the Christian, there is hope beyond the grave.
[00:34:08] There is hope beyond the grave.
[00:34:12] Fourth thing, so model Jesus. Authority and power in the presence comes with spending time with Jesus. We will not walk in authority and power if we don't walk with Jesus every day.
[00:34:28] Final thing, my desperate prayer is that the kingdom of God will come and invade. Newton Abbot this is our vineyard. This is our vineyard. This is our watch. And I want to See the kingdom of God invade this space. I want to see school kids. I want to see school kids completely changed.
[00:34:54] I look at the, I come out of the offices sometimes and at 3:30 or whatever I see high schools of kids, hundreds of them coming down the road.
[00:35:04] I'm like, what would it take, Lord, for these young children, these young people to have a radical revelation of who you are, that they are loved, that they have a plan, that God, you have a plan and a purpose for their lives, that if they just accept you, you. They can walk in authority and power over mental illnesses. They can walk in authority and power over the lies of the enemy.
[00:35:29] Honestly, the southwest won for Jesus, especially Newton Abbot, our vineyard.
[00:35:37] So Jesus in this tiny little passage this morning, he rebuked demonic activity, he healed the sick.
[00:35:50] Jesus came to reveal the kingdom of light over darkness.
[00:35:57] Sometimes I think the church, we need to get a bit angry, like a righteous anger about what we see Satan doing.
[00:36:05] I believe God wants to turn up in power but we've got to be willing to see things happen, deliverance take place.
[00:36:22] Are we going to break bread this morning? Yeah, we're going to. Yeah, thanks Matt. Yeah, we're going to break bread this morning.
[00:36:30] I want to do things a bit different. We're going to break bread. If you grab your cup.
[00:36:43] So at the cross, this is wonderful, really. At the cross, Jesus body was broken, his blood was shed for us and he took back what the enemy had stood stolen.
[00:37:07] The enemy was defeated, completely defeated.
[00:37:13] And if you are in Christ this morning, I want to encourage you to take this.
[00:37:17] If you don't know Jesus as your Lord and saviour, please just leave it to one side.
[00:37:24] This is for those who believe that Jesus Christ died, who rose again.
[00:37:31] You believe your sins are forgiven? Do you believe your sins are forgiven this morning?
[00:37:37] So we're going to take this and then what I'd like to do, I want to pray for people this morning. We're going to. Matt, you can carry on like doing a song, whatever, that's fine. Let that go on. People this morning, whether you're sick.
[00:37:50] Are we going to have faith this morning to believe that God can heal sick people here?
[00:37:56] I'm living proof. I haven't had an anxiety attack like since 2018. I remember the last one in 2018. Horrific.
[00:38:07] Does the enemy still try and get to me? Yeah, he does, but I'm taking the authority and power that God has given me at the cross.
[00:38:22] Do you just want to pour it sometimes over your head? Maybe not if you're wearing White.
[00:38:28] I want to drench myself in his blood this morning because he's my healer. He's the one who sustains me.
[00:38:38] When we take his, we take the bread. We're taking his body that was broken.
[00:38:46] But not only was it broken, but when it was laid in the ground three days later, he rose again with all power, all authority, forever. Forever. King of kings. And so will you just take the bread with me? The wafer.
[00:39:07] And this represents his body.
[00:39:11] And yes, it was broken, but I want to thank Jesus this morning for his resurrected body.
[00:39:18] I thank you, Lord, for resurrection power. I thank you that, yes, your body was broken for us, but you came back from the grave in all authority and power. And it means that authority and power. Power can raise the dead, can heal the sick, can change people's lives, can deliver people from fear, from a spirit of fear or whatever it is we may suffer with. Lord, you're here amongst us to heal us. So let's take the. The body, the bread this morning. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
[00:40:09] Let's take the wine this morning.
[00:40:13] The precious blood of Jesus cleanses us, sustains us, transforms us.
[00:40:21] We sing. There is power, wonder working power.
[00:40:28] Yeah. In the blood. I'm not going to sing it.
[00:40:33] But we say that, don't we? There's wonder, working power in the blood. Let's believe it this morning, Church.
[00:40:41] Let's drink it this morning and say, Jesus, thank you that you shed your blood.
[00:40:50] Help us to. Yeah, give us that revelation, Lord, of all that you've done for us.
[00:40:59] I'm going to hand over to Matt in a minute, but what I want to do, if you would like just some prayer this morning, I just want you to come out. I know we have the prayer ministry at the back and you can do that as well.
[00:41:09] But what I want to do, if you need some prayer this morning as we carry on singing, we're going to come and pray and we're going to anoint you with oil. Just start coming out. And I have faith this morning that God wants to deliver people as well. Deliver people from. Do you know, maybe you've had some torment, Maybe you've had dreams and, you know, they're not. They're not godly dreams. They're like just dreams that have tormented you and they keep coming back and. Or you've had thoughts that are not godly.
[00:41:39] Believe God wants to deliver people this morning and set people free.
