To live is Christ, to die is gain.

we thank you Lord for who you are we
thank you for defeating all your enemies
at all times may all distractions fade
away in your glory Lord in your glory
all distractions all distractions from
all those who seek to hinder hinder your
word Lord God give us your word Lord
Jesus speak with your voice holy spirit
speak into the hearts of all who are
under the power of the voice of our Lord
Jesus let the Holy Spirit increase
everywhere darkness has been cast down
in jesus name amen amen amen thank you
Lord Jesus and let the Holy Spirit
increase here thank you Lord Jesus and
let the Holy Spirit increase everywhere
the darkness has been cast out amen amen
amen today we’re gonna do a reading
we’re gonna start with where were we I
think we were at Philippians yes
Philippians we’re going to start with
Philippians father God give us your word
Lord Jesus speak with your voice holy
spirit speak into the hearts of all
those who are under the power of the
voice of our Lord Jesus for his sheep it
is written his sheep hear his voice and
follow him amen amen amen the Epistle of
the Philippians I want to say something
in starting that I think everyone should
have noticed already and that is that
Paul the Apostle Paul writes seven
epistles seven letters to the churches
seven in Revelations the Lord Jesus
Christ has seven things to say to the
angels of the churches
seven churches seven churches there is a
correlation with those one the number
seven is the number of completion the
number seven is the number of completion
right from the seventh day God to arrest
because yet he was done jesus said I am
done it is done Paul writes these seven
letters with instructions to the
churches which is very important for
churches to know and jesus also has
instructions and his word is always
repent well not to all of them some of
them are right as they are so there is a
correlation between the letters of Paul
and the church the messages from God in
Revelations to the churches and it is
not by location it is not by location
well Ephesians church at Ephesus yes ah
but it is not by location it is by
content it is by content it is by what
is the thought the main thought behind
the letter to the Philippians and what
is the main thought behind the
admonition of the Lord or what the Lord
is saying to the angel for example of
the church in Philadelphia that is
what’s about that relationship the unity
and thought because the spirit always
has a purpose and there is one spirit
one Jesus one gone there is one told
there is no changing of opinion there is
no different orders they do not exist we
have to do different things because we
have different positions in the body of
Christ but the orders
the main order is the same it’s the same
so the offense epistle to the
Philippians will go in deeper in that
maybe in another when we reach
revelations already suffered by the
Saudi as the spirit ins the epistle to
the Philippians is written by Paul the
key thought the key taught is what is
the game through Christ the game what do
you win through christ christ jesus is
seen as the Ascended Lord seated back in
high places with us in him seated on his
room the Ascended Lord Philippians 3
verse 7 says but those things which were
profit to me I gave up for grabs Paul is
saying that everything that was to
glorify him in the flesh he gave up so
that he could be a part of Christ
Philippians 3 verse 14 I go forward to
the mark even the reward of the high
purpose of God in Christ Jesus I run to
finish the race to the reward that he
has promised me the high purpose of God
in Christ Jesus eternal life in him
Philippians 4 verse 4 be glad in the
lord at all times again I say be glad in
the lord at all times the gain that is
to be had through Christ the game that
is to be had through crimes
revelations revelations 3 verse then
because you have kept my word in quiet
strength I will keep you from the hour
of testing which is coming on all the
world to put to the test those who are
on earth I have knowledge of your works
revelation 3 verse 8 see i have put
before you an open door which may be
shut by no one and that you have a
little strength and I’ve kept my word
and have been true to my name because
you have a little strength but you have
kept my word and I’ve been true to my
name I says the Lord have put before you
an open door which no one can shut for
you no one can shut the gain that is to
be had through Christ an open door which
no one tension the conclusion of
Philippians is that Christ is the
believers life the pattern that he
follows his objective and his strength
like Paul said to live is Christ to die
is gain that open door to the Ascended
Lord through the Senate Lord to him and
through him all things are to him and
true
to him who loves me and whom I love I
will show the father and if you have
seen me you have seen the father a mani
mani maan revelations 37 213 is written
to the church in Philadelphia whether it
is the same region as a shirt church in
Philippi I don’t think so but the
thought the key thought of it what is
the game that is true Christ that is the
same tone that is the same time so many
will say well it’s about stages of the
development of the church throughout the
ages okay but it sounds very
intellectual to me it is about so some
will say now we are living in the age of
the churches of philadelphia forever for
it for example but i conclude that not
all churches operate on the same level
not all churches are the same so what i
see is that there are admonitions that
paul writes out clearly there are other
nations that the Lord gives in
Revelations right and all our men to
build up a church to correct and build
up churches as a whole as a whole
because you have different types of
churches and what is the church a church
is a denomination but a church is also
one building a church is also one flock
and realize that you yourselves are a
church that holds the Holy Spirit so all
these epistles these seven epistles and
these
messages to the seven churches and
revelations are applicable to people two
groups of people and individually and
individually so let every man examine
himself according to all that they’re
saying and realize where you are what
you can improve what you have that is
right hold on to what you have that is
right improve what you can improve
remember the Lord chastises who he loves
he only corrects those who he loves
those who are lost there is no
correction for them and I’m not talking
about lost sheep I’m talking about those
who are with Satan are in darkness are
offered hear the knocking of the Lord on
their door but choose willfully to stay
there they have a chance until they die
of course they have a chance until they
die to go to the Lord anyway even on to
that last second when we because who
knows when a man exactly dies until that
point when the Lord says that they are
dead they have a chance to repent so we
hope and pray that these epistles and
these messages through revelations may
serve to build them up and to remind
them at that last second to just say
Lord forgive me I was wrong that’s all
the office so we thank the Lord that’s
such a big part such a big part of the
New Testament is about well and you’ll
Testament the same is that such a big
part of all the testimonies of the Lord
are for or building up
and correction and that he does that
through the Holy Spirit not true works
of men for some want to bring you in
bondage thinking that that will help but
the Lord never did so realize he knew
what Judas was doing yet he let him he
chest ice Peter he just stole him hey
this is wrong he never laid a hand on
him never beat him never realize that
the Lord does not go around telling
people to do things against you to
discipline you only men do that if the
Lord wants to say something he will save
and that is there so we thank the Lord
for all this and we pray that everyone
examined themselves as needed and with
joy and gladness see to it that whatever
can be improved is improved amen amen
and amen i’m going to read that piece of
the admonition to the church in
philadelphia revelations 3 verse 7 to 13
and to the Angel of the church in
Philadelphia say these things says he
who is holy he who is true he who has
the key of David opening the door so
that it may be shut by no one and
shutting it so that it may be open to no
one I you know that Jesus has the keys
of life and death right I have knowledge
of your works see i have put before you
an open door which may be shut by no one
and that you have a little strength and
have kept my word and have been true to
my name because he has knowledge of your
words he has knowledge that you have
little strength he
knowledge that you have kept his word
and he has knowledge that you have been
true to his name see I will make those
of the synagogue of Satan who say they
are Jews who say they are believers in
God and are not but say what is false I
will make them come and give worship
before your feet and see my love for you
because you have kept my word and quiet
strength in quiet strength I will keep
you I will keep you from the hour of
testing which is coming on all the world
to put to the test those who are on
earth I come quickly keep that which you
have so that no one may take your crown
him who overcomes I will make a pillar
in the house of my god and he will go
out no more and i will put on him the
name of my god and the name of the town
of my god the new jerusalem which comes
down out of heaven from my god and my
new name the new jerusalem jerusalem
that city where there is no temple where
God and the lamb are the temple and God
lights it and the light of it is our
Lord Jesus is the Lamb amen amen
revelation 313 he who has ears let him
give ear to what the Spirit says to the
churches now Philippians now Philippians
it’s about the triumph of the believer
over suffering and persecution the tribe
the door that is open and no one can
show
you see those who desire that Christ may
be magnified in their bodies manifest in
their bodies in full glory havin
indifference whether it be in their life
by living and doing things for the Lord
or in death and we remember remember
what we just saw and we overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb and the words of
our testimony and we love not our lives
unto death no we love the Lord beyond
them so there is a holy indifference
whether we serve the Lord in life or in
death and we rejoice in all our
tribulations in all our troubles all the
troubles that we have when witnessing
Jesus then when witnessing for Christ
look self-created troubles that come
from the lusts of the flesh the desires
of of our eyes and our pride of life I’m
not talking about those troubles those
are self-inflicted self-inflicted some
of them the evil one was not even
involved in it was just you doing stuff
us doing stuff I’m talking about
troubles troubles that we get problems
that we get when we witness about Jesus
knowing that the Word of God cannot be
bound cannot be imprisoned cannot be put
down under a rock and that even though
everything it’s not too or comfort
everything of this world doesn’t try to
comfort us
every creation doesn’t try to comfort us
by His grace by God’s grace by the grace
of our Lord Jesus every disc come /
comfort every trouble will be made to
turn to the salvation of others will be
to the benefit will be an example will
be an encouragement to others who are
going through troubles to accept the
salvation of our Lord no matter what
their circumstance on this world joyful
tribulation joyful be joyful in trouble
philippines 120 in the measure of my
strong hope and belief that in nothing
will I be put to shame but that without
fear is at all times so now we’ll Christ
have glory in my body by life or by
death how that sounded complicated but
Paul is talking about joyful tribulation
in the measure of his hope and his fate
in the Lord that none of the troubles
will put him to shame none of the
troubles of this world will make him
turn away from Christ and do what is
wrong but at without fear for the
righteous are bold like lions proverbs
the righteous are bold like lions and
how do you become righteous by works no
by fate by his strong hope and belief
and faith so without fear at all times
without fear at all times so now Christ
will work his glory will shine his light
will overflow his living waters in his
body in the body of form by life or by
death whether it is things that he is
doing while alive or whether he is
stoned to death or whatever way he comes
to them his body his name will be used
to the glory of Christ amen Philippians
16 says for I am certain of this very
thing that he by whom the good work was
started in you will make it complete
till the day of Jesus Christ he by whom
you were saved by Jesus for faith comes
by hearing the good news of Jesus Christ
he who started that good work in you
will complete it at the second coming of
Christ the day of Jesus Christ and in
Philippians 1 21 he says those famous
words a sentence to never forget
philippines 121 so for to me life is
Christ and death is profit to live his
Christ and to die is gain to die is gain
for then he will not be troubled anymore
he’s just waiting for the second coming
or he is taken up immediately by the
Lord as the Lord wills Philippines 123 I
am in a hard position between the two
between whether to want to stay alive or
whether to want to just die a hard
position having a desire to go away and
be where
cries which is very much better you see
to be with the lord is better than
anything so let’s remember it is Christ
who begins the good work in us it is
Christ it is by accepting Christ as your
Lord and Master that a good work begins
in us that we receive the Holy Spirit
which starts with exchanging our hearts
renewing our minds giving us new
perspectives it is Christ who carries
out that work in us Philippians 2 12 and
13 say so then my loved ones as you have
at all times done what I say not only
when I’m present but now much more when
I am not with you give yourselves to
working out your salvation with fear in
your heart for it is God who is the
cause of your desires and of your acts
for his good pleasure Paul is saying
that when I’m here or when I’m not here
when I’m with you or when I’m not with
you dedicate yourself to work out your
salvation with fear of losing diligently
diligently working out your salvation
whether ball be with you whether someone
who is teaching you who is preaching to
you who you think is more anointing who
you think has more overflowing of the
Holy Spirit and notice that I say who
you think for the Spirit is one and is
in everyone all you have to do is accept
him and let him rule over your lust
desires and pry rule over them not under
them those are different spirit for it
is God Himself who is the cause of your
desires and of your acts of your desire
to be saved and safe in Christ for his
pleasure for his pleasure now I hope
that everyone can tell me what
Philippines to 13 links to for it is God
who is the cause of your desires and of
your acts for his good pleasure for God
so loved the world that He sent His only
Son so that all who believe in him might
not perish but have eternal life this is
my son says the Lord in whom I am well
pleased listen to him well plea his only
begotten Son eternal life
it is Christ who will ultimately
complete that work by transforming us
into his own likeness place in his body
with him in you philippines 321 says by
whom this poor body body of ours will be
changed into the image of the body of
glory of his glory the body of his glory
the vessel that holds the full glory of
the Lord in the measure of the working
by which he is able to put all things
under himself in the measure of the
working by which he is able to put all
things under himself personally on a
personal level because we can make all
sorts of doctrines and workflows and
organizational charts on how to do that
in an organization but personal look the
relationship with God is a personal one
it’s a personal personally what this
means is that God wants you to become a
vessel of his spirit that’s how we
created the first Adam let us make man
in the image in our own image and God is
a spirit so he wants us to be a vessel
that holds that spirit but it will only
work according to how much we accept
Christ as our head over or lust desires
and try to make it concrete in the
measure of the working by which he is
able to put all things all your thoughts
all your feelings all your wishes all
your wants under himself under himself
amen amen blessed be our Lord and let
the Holy Spirit increase everywhere
hearts are open and under the power of
his phones let us do the reading let us
do the reading Philippians 1 1 Paul and
Timothy sir other with one soul one
purpose for the fate of the good news
through the Holy Spirit having no fear
no fear of those who are against you
this is a message to all of us right
Philippians 128 having no fear of those
who are against you which is a clear
sign of their disruption that he wasn’t
here to hear let him hear which is a
clear sign of their destruction but of
your salvation and that from God because
to you it has been given in the cause of
Christ not only to have faith in him but
to undergo pain on his account fighting
the same fight which you saw in me and
now have word of in me the same fight
which Christ came and fall over us and
for us amen amen so we thank you lord
and I pray that at all times we may be
able to give a testimony to testify to
bring the good news the gospel of Jesus
Christ the good news of Jesus Christ for
God so loved the world that He sent His
only begotten Son so that all who
believe in him might not perish but
of eternal life now if you want to
receive that eternal life that comes
with tribulation and if you are already
in tribulations what else could you want
but to come to that eternal life that
rest that peace that is in Christ that
isn’t gone let us pray Lord Jesus
forgive or unbelief forgive me from
doing all these things in which there is
no peace forgive me come into my heart
change my heart if needed increase my
faith teach me speak them let me hear
from you Lord in Jesus mighty name amen
amen and amen we thank you Lord we thank
you Jesus amen and I pray I pray that
all may be aware all were in the body of
Christ all who testify about Jesus all
who who are under the power of his voice
for it is written my sheep hear my voice
and follow me all who are in that
position help support by any means by
any means sometimes your help is just
saying oh that one that one said
something that lifted me up sometimes
your help is ok I support that I will
help I will help you carry some tables
sometimes your help is more sometimes
you will give out a Trak sometimes you
will bring the word sometimes you will
lift up someone yours
sometimes we do deliverance we do
warfare sometimes we just punch a hole
so that no message nothing of those who
are not strong enough yet to be aware at
all times of Christ so that their
requests may not be held up hallelujah
whatever your task is whatever the task
is that our Lord has given you for he is
the head and we are the body we pray
Lord that you put a strong encouragement
in us that you increase our faith that
you show yourself to us that you fail us
with your glory that we may know who you
are Lord and that we may be able to do
your will under any circumstance in
Jesus name I pray amen amen and England
so be happy enjoy under tribulation
enjoy under tribulation so let’s sing it
out let’s see and our song is about
Jesus in the beginning was the word and
the Word was with God and the Word was
God that word is in the beginning was
the word and the Word was a spirit of
god in the beginning was the word and
that word is his name is Jesus Christ
Jesus Lord of lords his name is Jesus
anointed Christ Jesus
King above kings in the beginning was
the word and the Word was the power of
God in the beginning was that word and
that word was in the beginning was the
word and a word the light of Life in the
beginning was the word and that word is
his name is Jesus Lord of lords Jesus
bread of life his name is Jesus Prince
of Peace Jesus Lord above loves and the
beginning was the word and that word was
the power of God in the beginning was
the word and that word in his his name
is Jesus
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