Reintroducing Jesus, Beyond Religion

Dr. Abel Damina: Father, we praise and bless the name of Jesus, the name that is above every name. We are called by that name, we are saved by that name, and we honor that name, the name that is above every name. We come humbly before Your word. We come respectfully before Your word. We come before Your word tonight without any bias and without any preconceived notion. We come with an open heart, ready to allow Your word to speak to us Your plan and Your purpose.

I pray for everybody connected to the service tonight that the eyes of your understanding be flooded with light. I decree that revelation knowledge grows big on your inside until nothing matters. Veils fall off, clarity comes. I take authority over everything that is contrary. We cast down imaginations, and we decree that Your people are built up, equipped, edified, and Jesus is glorified at the end of this service. In Jesus' precious name, and every believer says a powerful amen.

Lift your right hands to heaven. Let's release our faith together as we say these words: I am born of God. I am born of the Word. The Word of God is my nature. I do not struggle to do the Word. I do the Word naturally. Therefore today, I will understand the word of His grace. I will be built up. By the end of this service, I will never be the same. Never ever be the same again. In Jesus' name, and every believer says a powerful amen.

We want to welcome every one of you this evening to this wonderful 30 Days of Glory. Today is day three, and we are excited to have everybody connected by way of Kingdom Life Network, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and all of you that are connected through the radio station, Comfort FM, right here in the city of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. It's just a joy to have everybody tuning in. Get ready. Call a friend, call a loved one, tell somebody the broadcast is on. It's going to be a great time of Bible study as we look into the unsearchable riches of Christ tonight. Grab your notebook, your pen, and your Bible. Let's get into an exciting time of studying the word of His grace tonight. You can be seated.

In this particular edition of Soteria Season 7, we are examining the legal and the vital work of salvation. The fact that salvation is by believing the Gospel means that the Gospel must be understood. So, what is the Gospel? 1 Corinthians 15:1 says, "Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."

"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures." That is the Gospel that saves: that Christ died, that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. It is the hearing of that message that produces faith in a man to be saved. Faith in the faithfulness of God. A man is saved by grace through faith.

Ephesians 2:8 says, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." No human contribution required. Not of yourselves; it is the "dorea" of God. That is a gift given without condition. The Greek word for gift is "dorea." It is a gift given without condition. "Not of works, lest any man should boast." Salvation is from Jesus to Jesus 100%. Not of works, lest any man should boast. It is the gift of grace.

So therefore, this Gospel that saves has what we call the charter of the Gospel. The charter of the Gospel is the basis for the assurance and insurance of salvation. Any Gospel that denies you the assurance and insurance of salvation is a scam. What is a charter? The term "charter" refers to a binding word, a bond, an agreement, or a contract which specifies the privileges, rights, and basis of a relationship.

It makes the relationship, organization, or society not only definite but also reliable, dependable, and unique. The charter forms the basis for trust and comfort in a relationship. The charter of the Gospel, therefore, refers to God's unmovable, undeniable, and unchanging commitment. That basis of God's complete confidence and unchanging commitment is what gives the believer the assurance and the insurance of what he has received.

That is why once you say you are saved and you don't have the assurance of salvation, you are either scammed or somebody has deceived you. The Gospel comes with it an assurance, the charter, an assurance. God's unmovable, undeniable, and unchanging commitment that assures the believer of what he has received. So the question is, what happens when a man believes the Gospel? The preacher of the Gospel ought to present with convincing facts to his hearers what is received upon believing the Gospel.

That is why when a preacher says you can lose salvation, what is the attraction? Why do I want a salvation that is not guaranteed? And if I can lose salvation, then why do I want other people to get what can be lost? There is no attraction. The attraction in salvation is the fact that when you are saved, the Soter, the Greek word for Savior, who provided salvation is the keeper of salvation. That is the attraction.

And I say to preachers who always propagate that theory that a believer can lose salvation because if you're saved and you do bad things, you cannot remain saved. I say to those preachers, if it is true, why is it that when a man gets born again, the Bible tells us that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repents? Why should heaven rejoice over a sinner that repents since he can lose the salvation? Heaven should wait, since salvation can be lost, until we arrive before heaven rejoices. Because if it can be lost, why are we rejoicing? We should wait until arrival.

That is why that theory has a fundamental problem because the Bible tells us that the moment a sinner repents, there is joy in heaven, meaning it's been done. It's a settled matter. That is the assurance of salvation. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." He didn't say whosoever believeth and remains a good person. No. Whosoever believeth shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Look at the next verse: "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." He that believeth on Him is not condemned. But he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son. So why do people get condemned? Because they did not believe in Jesus. Why do people escape condemnation, which is judgment? Because they believe in Jesus.

Christianity is not morality. Christianity is not character modification. Christianity is faith in Christ. That is not to say it is a bad thing to be moral. You need to be moral to have a good life on earth, but however, morality does not score points with God. The only thing that scores points with God is faith in what Christ has done. Please, that is very important.

So the Gospel must bring with it the assurance, the assurance of salvation and the insurance of salvation. The insurance and assurance is predicated on the immutability of God's counsel. Having seen that the Scriptures are profitable to convince a man, 2 Timothy 3:15-16 says, "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."

The word "reproof" there is the word conviction or persuasion. Scriptures are given to us to convince us or persuade us concerning the salvation that we have received in Christ Jesus. The Scriptures are filled with a plethora of evidence that are available to convince men as the Gospel is preached. It is called the word of faith which we preach. 1 Timothy 2:4 says, "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."

It is one thing to be saved; it's another thing to come to the knowledge of the truth. That is why we have Soteria Season 7: to bring men to the knowledge of the truth concerning their salvation in Christ Jesus. When a man grows in the knowledge of what Christ has done for him, he is established. As a result, he will not be tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine. There are terms in the Scripture that assure the believer of his salvation.

Remember we were looking at foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, and glorification yesterday. I told you we were going to continue today as we examine election. But first of all, remember that we established that the Scripture uses the word "foreknowledge" and "predestination" to show that redemption was not an afterthought. Redemption was not an emergency fix for the fallen man.

Redemption was not God running up to catch up with the fall of man. Rather, redemption was the plan. Redemption was God's plan for man. Christ was not an afterthought. Christ is a predetermined plan and purpose of God. Look at Romans 8:33, "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth." Take note of the word "elect." Elect means God's choice.

Now before I proceed, remember we said it is foreknowledge before predestination. It is not predestination that informed foreknowledge. That is, that the action of God was premised on foreknowledge. He saw ahead of time and based on what He saw where man is concerned, He went ahead and made a plan and a purpose to accommodate man and help man in man's inadequacies, in man's failures, and in man's struggle. God made a plan to accommodate all of that and in His mercy, provide man with a way out.

Look at the way Ephesians 2:4 will put it: "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us." So God in His mercy loved us and based on His love for us, ahead of time, when He saw the end from the beginning, He took action to demonstrate His love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Now, so what does it mean for God to choose? What is God's choice?

Go back again to Romans 8:29, "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." That is when He foreknew, He called. Those He called, He justified. Those He justified, He glorified. That is God's elect. God's elect is God's choice. Romans 9:10-13 says, "And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth."

"It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Remember, he is giving you an example in Scripture. Look at that verse 13 again: "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Now remember the pretext: these children have not been born. They have not done good or evil. So it's not about works. It's not about being a good person or a bad person. Morality does not stand a chance because these children are not yet born.

They've not done anything, but that the purpose of election might stand. Meaning that the election of God will not be based on works. Election is not based on performance. You are not elected because you're a good person. You're not elected because you're a moralist. Neither are you elected because you're a bad boy. These children have not been born, neither have they done good or bad. But that the purpose of election will stand, He said, "I love Jacob, I hate Esau."

Why Jacob? In the foreknowledge of God, He saw that Esau will be a good boy and Jacob will be a 419. So to show that it's not about morality, He chose Jacob in spite of Jacob and irrespective of Jacob's behavior because election is not predicated or premised on behavior or morality. So that verse 13 was referring to preference. Not being born, nobody has done anything, but according to choice, that the purpose of God according to election will stand. This has nothing to do with the one He called. This is God's choice.

Now don't let the word "elect" scare you. Let me take you through the Scriptures. Ephesians 1:1, "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus." So he is writing to Christians. "Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ."

So he is saying that He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Now look at the next verse: "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ. Adoption of children will be by Jesus Christ. So who is the chosen one? Jesus Christ.

The adoption of children will be by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. He chose us in Him before. That is predestination. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. Verse 6: "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." Who is the beloved? Jesus. Accepted us in the beloved, and the beloved is Jesus.

So that's what Romans 8:29 said. He predestined us to be children in Jesus. He chose us in Jesus. So predestination is His own choice. God did not predestine anyone to be saved and anyone not to be saved. Salvation is to all, however, through Christ. So the chosen one is in Christ. When you receive the Gospel of Christ, you believe the Gospel of Christ, you come into Christ. When you come into Christ, you are chosen.

So no preclusion and no inclusion. He destined salvation to be given in Jesus. It is how it is given through Jesus that we will know who can be saved. He is not looking at individuals. He predestined in Jesus. Don't let the word "elect" scare you. Just like He has chosen, He has elected us in Him before the foundation of the world. So in the foreknowledge of God, the pre-plan of God is that nobody will be saved outside Jesus.

Both the moralist and the criminal. If you're a moralist, it is good, but you're not saved. With all your morality, if you don't believe in Jesus and receive Jesus, you will not be saved. Both your morality put together is useless before God. So both the criminal and the moralist, all of them before God are equal if only they receive Christ. So again, it is not about morality; it's about faith in what Christ has done.

Look at verse 6 of Ephesians chapter 1: "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." Verse 7: "In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace." Not according to the confession of our sins. According to the riches of His grace. That is the basis for the forgiveness of sin through His blood.

So he says what He has provided in Jesus before the world began is redemption in His blood. Forgiveness of sins will be according to the riches of His grace. If you like, pray and confess your sin from morning till evening, it does not stand a chance at all. The basis for forgiveness is not confessing sins. The wages of sin is death. If you want to take care of your sin, then you have to die.

And if your death is useless, then you have to rely on what Jesus has done. Sin is only taken care of by the death of Jesus because only death takes care of sin. So when Jesus died, He took care of your sin—past, present, future—because it is one death for all time and eternity. That is why the confession of sin is not a New Testament teaching. The confession of sin is sin consciousness in display.

It does not score a point with God. The wages of sin is death. That is why Jesus died so that He can be the substitution for our sins. So he now says, "My little children," in 1 John chapter 2:1, "these things write I unto you, that ye sin not." Don't sin. "But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." He didn't say we have confession of sin. If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." So therefore, we are accepted in Christ, and our forgiveness is according to the riches of His grace. So it will be very narrow-minded for you to think He was talking about a selected group of people. The salvation plan of God does not preclude anybody or include anybody. The salvation plan of God is Jesus.

And Jesus is the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, not the church. Therefore, when the Gospel is preached to anybody and he believes in Jesus, by faith in Christ, he receives forgiveness. Then he becomes the chosen one, and at that point, he is justified and glorified with Christ. So it's not about individuals; it's about Christ. That word "us" refers to those that God predestined to save through Jesus.

Whom He foreknew, He now predestinated to be saved in Christ. The word "elect" therefore, let's see how it is used. The word "elect" refers to God's pattern of doing things beyond individuals. When it refers to individuals, it refers to individuals within the framework of that pattern. Look at 1 Peter 1:1, "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied."

Chosen how? Through sanctification. He chose in line with what He knew as God, foreknowledge. So what did He choose? He chose to save how? Through the blood of Jesus. That is why we are saved. That is His predetermined action. So to know the extent of the blood of Jesus, we will now ask a question of that choice. Why did He choose the blood? Why did God choose to save through the blood?

Because the blood will be acceptable for all men. The blood of Jesus will be acceptable for all men, meaning His sacrificial work. So how do you discover? He never mentioned predestination without the death and the blood of Jesus. That's the way to discover. Before there is predestination, there will be the death of Jesus. Why? Because in the foreknowledge of God, before man sinned, God took an action. What action?

The action of giving His Son to die. So the death of Christ was not a reaction to the fall of man. Rather, the death of Christ was a proaction to the fall of man because God saw ahead of time. So He planned and made provision ahead of time. That is why He is God. So the blood was shed for who then? The blood was shed for all men. So you discover He never mentions predestination without the death and the blood of Jesus.

Now, that is the substance of that predestination. Look at the way He now says it in verse 2 of 1 Peter 1: "Elect according to..." that is how you are elected. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. And what did that foreknowledge do? Through sanctification of the Spirit. How did we come by that sanctification? Unto obedience, through the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. The sacrificial work of redemption.

So if foreknowledge, predestination, and election will mean I choose this person and I don't want this person in spite of their works, that will be God saying I want these ones, I don't want these ones. But it is not individuals; it is Christ. Now, everybody will have to come in by believing in Christ. So no preclusion, no exclusion. It's given to all because of a third-party intervention: Jesus, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the earth.

So it refers to a pattern, not an individual. A pattern of how God functions. And you will see this a lot more as we go through this teaching. 1 Peter again, chapter 2:2, "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." Verse 4: "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious." Look at the way verse 4 puts that word. The word "chosen" is the word "elect" of God.

Then look at verse 6 of the same chapter: "Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded." Jesus is God's elect. He calls him "elect" twice. Jesus is God's purpose and plan. Jesus is God's pattern. Jesus is chosen. Why? Because we have said that the will of God is in a person. Jesus is the pleasure of God.

So God predetermined Jesus to be the Savior of mankind. A predetermined Jesus, to whom He did foreknow. The foreknowledge of God knows the limits of man. Man has limits. God knows what man cannot do beyond. So what God did was look at the eons of time, looked at all of mankind—from the beginning to the end of the universe. All the men that will be born, all, including those that will die in the womb.

Anything that is called man, God saw everything ahead of time. Looked at man's ability and the limit of man's ability and saw what man is capable of doing. All the sins that man can commit and everything. After He has calculated it, He took all and put on Jesus. That's why the death of Jesus, one death, paid for all of humanity's sin. So He paid for all of humanity's sin.

Now, so God predestined Jesus, having examined what man was capable of doing. Foreknowledge and predestination always is designed to favor man. God did it to favor mankind. It never precludes the will of man. Even though God in His foreknowledge saw and made provision, yet He does not manipulate the will of man. He allows man ultimately to make the choice. So it is that predestination of God in Christ that we call election.

That predestination of God in Christ, that is what God did ahead of time. It was not a reaction. That is why it is very easy to locate Christ throughout the Scriptures. Just look at the whole Bible; it's Christ everywhere because Christ is God's pattern, God's plan, God's thought, God's predestined person. Christ is God's elected person offered to man. Jesus is the grace of God dispensed.

Jesus is the love of God poured out to man. Jesus is the mercy of God demonstrated to man in His sacrificial work. It is not as if He tried the lamb, the lamb didn't work. Then He tried the goat, the goat didn't work. Then He tried the prophets, the prophets didn't work. Then He said let's try Christ. Ahead of time, He said, "All right, so this is what man is capable of doing. My cure is Myself."

Nothing can save man. No diamond, no gold, nothing. Man's works, nothing. So God said man is so loved, and the price is too high. Man doesn't have the wherewithal. Man doesn't have the resources. Man cannot help himself. God looked at the universe; there's nothing created on earth that is capable of saving man. Then God said, "The only thing that can save man is Myself."

So God walked out of God, and God entered the womb of a woman, and God walked the face of the earth in the incarnation, the Lamb of God that taketh the sins of the world. And man killed God. God died man's death. And God rose on the third day. And God said, "Man, if you come to Me, it doesn't matter what you have done. I have paid on your behalf."

It is called substitutionary sacrifice. He took my place in death; I take His place in life. He went to hell; I go to heaven. He was rejected; I am accepted. He was a man of sorrows; I have the joy of salvation. When Jesus died, I died. When He was buried, I was buried. When He rose, I rose. When He ascended, I ascended. Where He's glorified, I'm glorified. Why? It was for me He did it.

God didn't sin. God didn't need to die. Man sinned; man should die. But the death of a sinner is of zero value before global justice. So God the sinless—that's why Jesus was tempted in all things, yet without sin. He was sinless. He didn't commit sin. So what He did was He stepped into the shoes of the sinner, and He died the death of the sinner, and He rose on behalf of the sinner, and gave to the sinner the gift of acceptance on perfect legal grounds.

We will soon get into the legality of this salvation in a bit. I'm just still laying foundation. Now, follow me. So the work was predetermined. The choice was the Word. The Word is the Son. Look at Romans 8:29-30 again. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." Just as though sin and death came together, so let's watch Adam in the garden with Eve.

God, Adam, where art thou? That was Moses's way of explaining. So we have sinned. Adam, where art thou? It wasn't God communicating. It was Moses pointing that Adam and God were separated. It's not like God came out and said, "Adam, Adam." Moses's communication that a separation took place between Adam and God by the choice Adam made. Adam was already in a state, and in the book of Genesis, death is a state. Where are you? Death is a state, and it passed upon all men.

But remember, not all have sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression. So without action, all died. So was he referring to action? No, he was referring to a state. And that state can only be explained by death, and that death is separation from God. Now notice two scriptures that deal with these things. I have said, don't forget that that state of man is separation from God, and now that separation begins to produce actions.

That's why the Bible says Adam was not deceived; Adam was in disobedience because God communicated clearly with Adam. Now remember, man is man. God gave him the choice, and he could exercise that choice. He was not in a state of sin but in a state of spiritual death. Man died spiritually. So you cannot say it's his nature of sin that made him choose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. No. It is his choice as a man that made him choose, and it is God that gave him that freedom to make the choice.

Because man is a free moral agent. Man's will—God respects man's will, and Satan respects man's will. Man had desire; that's the way James says it. Every man is tempted when he's drawn away of his own lust, man's desire. And God said to man, "You may freely eat," which is desire. You can choose. See life, see death. Don't eat that one; there's punishment. You can eat this one, but the choice ultimately is yours.

God gave man the freedom to choose. That's why there's no preclusion and no inclusion in the salvation plan of God. It's made available to everybody. But God's choice is Christ. So God made man to choose. Then God made Jesus His choice. So God did not predestine man to be chosen. God predestined man through Jesus. So Jesus is God's plan and purpose for humanity.

And God gave man a will to choose. Now, stay with me. 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." He didn't know sin. He committed no sin, but God put on Him our sins. Peter says He bore our sins in His own body. Isaiah says it pleased God to put on Him the iniquity of us all.

Now as I round up, remember in the Old Testament, every year you were to bring two goats: one goat, sacrificial lamb; another goat, the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat was brought, symbolic and figurative. The priest would lay hands on the scapegoat and confess the sin of Israel, and the goat would be released. Then the sacrificial lamb brought by the people. The priest does not examine the people. He examines the lamb.

If the lamb is okay, the sinner is asked to go. The lamb takes the place of the sinner and dies the death of the sinner. That's what used to happen in Israel. In application, no matter what you have done, God doesn't look at you. He looks at the lamb, Jesus the Lamb of God. And when He sees that the lamb is okay, it's not about you. It's about what your lamb has done. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.

So take note of this as I close. Jesus, therefore, is God's choice. Foreknowledge came before predestination. Predestination is God's plan and purpose. Foreknowledge is what He knew, not what He did. Foreknowledge is what God knew, not what He did. Predestination is what He did because of what He knew. Election is His pattern in predestination. He chose to save, He chose to call, He chose to justify, He chose to glorify through and in one person: the person of Jesus.

So in the course of this teaching, we will see that Jesus totally identified with humanity in so great salvation. The truth of the matter is that a man's mind sometimes can struggle to comprehend the depth of this, but we have the mind of Christ. We have the ability to understand the deep things of God by the Holy Ghost. Somebody shout hallelujah. So God in His plan, in His foreknowledge, in His predestination has chosen us in Christ.

Today we are the chosen ones. I thought somebody would shout hallelujah. Stand on your feet. I want us to celebrate God. Tomorrow I'm going to move into some other things in the course of this teaching. There's a lot more we're going to unpack, a whole great deal of study as we continue to examine the subject of salvation.

Father, we thank you for the privilege of bringing your word. I pray that everyone listening to me and watching, revelation knowledge grows big on your inside until nothing else matters. Barriers are terminated, holds of darkness broken, in the name of Jesus. And I decree that the Word of God grows mightily and prevails. The eyes of your understanding flooded with light. Great grace is upon you. We rebuke sickness, we rebuke disease. Satan, get your hands off of God's property. Body, be healed in the name of Jesus. Thank You, Father, for answered prayer. In Jesus' precious name, and every believer says that amen on a note of finality. Amen. Hallelujah.

Now listen to me quickly. We're going to go to the next segment where we're going to sit down and answer your questions together with Mr. Michael Bush. But just before we sign onto the other platform, I want to quickly ask you to give an offering. Every day we hear the word, we honor the Word of God with our offerings. We give in faith, we give with joy, we give responsibly because the mandate of global evangelism is in our hands as believers.

So our giving is a reflection of our joy in embarking on our collective assignment. And we give to honor Christ. And I want to thank all the partners and friends of this ministry who has always given tirelessly to see to it that our collective responsibility is fulfilled all over the world. I'd like you to lift up your offerings. Banking details are scrolling on the screen. And in the house centers, grab yours and in campuses.

Father, we thank you for the privilege of giving tonight. Our offerings are a sweet smell before you. And we thank you for the privilege of honoring you and the privilege of bringing before you our offerings tonight. Thank you for the opportunity to do this to the glory of your name. Now we rebuke every hold of the enemy. And I pray for every giver tonight, my God supplies all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Thank You, Father, for the blessing. In Jesus' precious name, and every believer says that amen like thunder. Amen. Hallelujah.