Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 211 - That We Will Be One
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- 0:13Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, Oh, my soul and all that is
- 0:16Speaker 1: within me, bless his holy name. I will bless the
- 0:20Speaker 1: Lord at all times, and may his praises continually be
- 0:24Speaker 1: in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in
- 0:27Speaker 1: the Lord. The humblest shall hear thereof and be glad, Oh, oh, oh,
- 0:32Speaker 1: as the summer says, Magnify the Lord with me, and
- 0:35Speaker 1: let us exalt his name forever. Amen and together Amen,
- 0:44Speaker 1: Thank God again for this glorious, beautiful day that he
- 0:48Speaker 1: has made and has permitted us as His people to Amen,
- 0:53Speaker 1: be partakers of this great hope and salvation that is
- 0:57Speaker 1: in Christ.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Jesus, our Lord.
- 0:58Speaker 1: We praise him for his goodness, mercy, loving kindness toward us.
- 1:02Speaker 1: God is great, He is good, He is worthy of
- 1:05Speaker 1: all praises. Everything that has breath ows God. Praise, Oh,
- 1:12Speaker 1: that man would praise the Lord for his goodness and
- 1:15Speaker 1: for his wonderful works, marvelous worked, marvelous kindness towards each
- 1:21Speaker 1: and every one of us. God is good to all
- 1:27Speaker 1: who call up on His name in sincerity and in truth.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Amen. All right, God, bless you again.
- 1:34Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
- 1:38Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host,
- 1:43Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary. And today we continue with the words
- 1:48Speaker 1: of Jesus in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John,
- 1:52Speaker 1: his high priestly prayer. Well, Jesus prayed for his apostles,
- 1:58Speaker 1: He prayed for his church, He prays for his sheep.
- 2:02Speaker 1: He prays and intercedes for you and I Church of
- 2:07Speaker 1: the Living God. And in his prayer he prayed that
- 2:10Speaker 1: we will be one. That we will be one, And
- 2:19Speaker 1: that is our focus. From these words of the Lord
- 2:22Speaker 1: Jesus one. Today again, thank God as always for each
- 2:28Speaker 1: and every one of you who pray for who support
- 2:32Speaker 1: the work of this ministry. We are here to as
- 2:35Speaker 1: I say all the time, every time, to proclaim the
- 2:40Speaker 1: name of Christ, to preach the Word, to be instant
- 2:43Speaker 1: in season out of season, a man, to faithfully, to
- 2:47Speaker 1: faithfully disseminate God's Word, God's truth, the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
- 2:51Speaker 1: which is the power of salvation, to all that believe,
- 2:56Speaker 1: to all who will receive it, to all who will
- 2:58Speaker 1: obey it, to all who will govern.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Their lives according to the Gospel.
- 3:03Speaker 1: You amen, have a great hope and a great future,
- 3:08Speaker 1: and eternity Amen, where there will be joy unspeakable and
- 3:13Speaker 1: full of glory. Jesus has gone, as he said, to
- 3:18Speaker 1: prepare a place for us, and we, while we are
- 3:21Speaker 1: here in this present world, need not let our hearts
- 3:24Speaker 1: be troubled. Jesus said, if you believe in God, believe
- 3:26Speaker 1: also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions.
- 3:30Speaker 1: I'm going and I'm returning. I'll be back, amen. And
- 3:35Speaker 1: I'm going to receive you into myself. And where I
- 3:38Speaker 1: am there you will be also. But while we are here, Amen,
- 3:43Speaker 1: He is here with us. He never leaves us, he
- 3:46Speaker 1: never forsakes us. And as he and his Father are one,
- 3:52Speaker 1: one in spirit, one in essence, one amen, one God,
- 3:56Speaker 1: one Lord, one faith, one baptism. He also Jesus prayed
- 4:02Speaker 1: that we will be one.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Amen.
- 4:06Speaker 1: All right, So if you have your Bibles, go with
- 4:07Speaker 1: us to the Gospel of John, chapter number seventeen. We're
- 4:09Speaker 1: going to comment to reading there, and just a moment,
- 4:13Speaker 1: but let us take just a quick moment, if you will,
- 4:16Speaker 1: to invoke the presence of the Lord Father again.
- 4:20Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Ten thousands of thousands of thousands of tongues could never
- 4:26Speaker 1: express adequately our thanksgiving, praise, glory and honor that is
- 4:35Speaker 1: due unto you, Ol Lord, So accept the fruit of
- 4:39Speaker 1: our lips this day, Old Lord, as we give honor
- 4:42Speaker 1: to you, praise to you, Glory to you that's due
- 4:46Speaker 1: to you. Help us, Lord, to walk worthy, to be
- 4:49Speaker 1: counted worthy, Amen, to even take up the words of
- 4:56Speaker 1: your truth, Old God, to proclaim them. Help us to
- 5:00Speaker 1: speak it and love, and Lord most of all, that
- 5:03Speaker 1: someone somewhere will hear, their hearts will be pricked, they
- 5:08Speaker 1: will come to know, come to believe, Come to walk
- 5:11Speaker 1: by the way and in the way that you have
- 5:15Speaker 1: ordained for all men to be. So we Lord, look
- 5:19Speaker 1: to you now as the author to finish for our faith.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Keep us in way shall be kept. Blessed now each
- 5:24Speaker 1: and every listening ear and every obedient heart, and the
- 5:27Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ, we praying, give thanks, Amen and
- 5:29Speaker 1: amen all right. The Gospel of John, chapter number seventeen,
- 5:32Speaker 1: beginning of verse number four. I have glorified THEE on
- 5:35Speaker 1: the earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest
- 5:40Speaker 1: me to do. And now, O, Father, glorify thou me
- 5:44Speaker 1: with thine own self, with the glory which I had
- 5:48Speaker 1: with THEE before the world was. I have manifested thy
- 5:54Speaker 1: name unto the men which thou gavest me out of
- 5:58Speaker 1: the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me,
- 6:02Speaker 1: and they have kept thy word. Now they have known
- 6:09Speaker 1: that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of THEE.
- 6:17Speaker 1: For I have given unto them the words which thou
- 6:21Speaker 1: gave it me, and they have received them, and have
- 6:26Speaker 1: known surely that I came out from THEE. And they
- 6:31Speaker 1: have believed that Thou didst send me.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I pray for them.
- 6:41Speaker 1: I pray not for the world, but for them which
- 6:46Speaker 1: thou hast given me, For they are thine, and all
- 6:52Speaker 1: mine are thine, and thine are mine. And I am
- 6:59Speaker 1: glorified in them. And now I am no more in
- 7:04Speaker 1: the world. But these are in the world, and I
- 7:11Speaker 1: come to THEE Holy Father. Keep through Thine own name
- 7:18Speaker 1: those whom thou hast given me, that they may be
- 7:25Speaker 1: one as we are.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Amen. Jesus prayed very specifically.
- 7:37Speaker 1: If you heard the words, read along with us as
- 7:41Speaker 1: we read from the words of John's Gospel, chapter seventeen,
- 7:44Speaker 1: again the High priestly Prayer of Jesus Christ. He prayed
- 7:48Speaker 1: very specifically for his apostles, who would be going into
- 7:53Speaker 1: a hostile world of hate to preach repentance and remission
- 7:59Speaker 1: of sins in his name. Jesus had already forewarned them.
- 8:05Speaker 1: They hated me, they're gonna hate you. If they received me,
- 8:09Speaker 1: they will receive you. If they rejected me, they're going
- 8:11Speaker 1: to reject you. Jesus would no longer be with them
- 8:15Speaker 1: physically in his humanity actor, of course, his crucifixion, his burial,
- 8:20Speaker 1: his resurrection, and ascension back up into heaven from which
- 8:25Speaker 1: he came.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Of course, so he.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Explicitly in his high priestly prayer interceded for them and
- 8:35Speaker 1: for us, the Church of Jesus Christ, of course, that
- 8:39Speaker 1: we will be one. And when you read, by the
- 8:44Speaker 1: way within the Gospel accounts of the interaction of the
- 8:48Speaker 1: apostles amongst themselves on several occasions, they had within them
- 8:54Speaker 1: the self serving human tendency of individualism that would year jealousy, division,
- 9:02Speaker 1: and strife. And the Lord knew, as well as he
- 9:07Speaker 1: knows all of us. He knew their human nature and weaknesses.
- 9:12Speaker 1: And this is exactly why he interceded, if you will,
- 9:16Speaker 1: for their near future leadership. These men, these men, these
- 9:21Speaker 1: apostles would be the leaders of his church. Amen, that
- 9:27Speaker 1: must remain as his church. They were going to be
- 9:32Speaker 1: leading the church that Christ is building as his church,
- 9:37Speaker 1: not their church, not their dreams and ambitions and all
- 9:43Speaker 1: of the you know again self serving self seeking that
- 9:46Speaker 1: automatically comes with carnality. The church that Jesus would build
- 9:51Speaker 1: up through their witnessing is to be one church built
- 9:57Speaker 1: upon one name, one lad, one faith, one baptism. So
- 10:03Speaker 1: Jesus is praying that we will be one, and it
- 10:08Speaker 1: is very important. It is of course indispensable, indispensable amen
- 10:14Speaker 1: to the building, up to the operation of and to
- 10:17Speaker 1: the continued sustainability of the Church of Jesus Christ. We
- 10:23Speaker 1: are to be one one.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Amen.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Jesus had already made the declaration upon this rock I
- 10:32Speaker 1: will build my church. The rock is not Peter or
- 10:36Speaker 1: any other frail human being that has an appointment with death. Amen, Jesus.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Of course you read in the Book of Hebrews. The
- 10:44Speaker 1: Bible speaks about and teaches of him being the high
- 10:47Speaker 1: priest who continues forever. Aaron is dead, Eliezer is dead.
- 10:54Speaker 1: All of the priests who followed in this lineage dead.
- 11:00Speaker 1: There's one who did not descend by the way from
- 11:02Speaker 1: the levitical priesthood.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Amen.
- 11:06Speaker 1: He is the high priest, and he prays for his church.
- 11:09Speaker 1: He is the rock Amen, not Peter.
- 11:13Speaker 2: Amen.
- 11:13Speaker 1: He is the Rock Jesus, upon which the Church is built.
- 11:18Speaker 2: His word Amen.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Also that is eternal, Amen, his Spirit, which is life.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Amen.
- 11:28Speaker 1: And upon the purpose and the predestined plan of God,
- 11:32Speaker 1: the Church is built to save a people for His namesake,
- 11:39Speaker 1: to His glory, his honor, and majesty. That church, the
- 11:46Speaker 1: Church of Jesus Christ, the True Church, the Remnant, will
- 11:51Speaker 1: always be, and right now as we speak, is existing
- 11:58Speaker 1: here in this present world, in these latter days of
- 12:02Speaker 1: biblical prophecy, that is being fulfilled right before our very eyes,
- 12:07Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Jesus told us explicitly by the way
- 12:13Speaker 1: that these things would come to pass. All of the
- 12:15Speaker 1: things that we see that are happening now, wars, rumens
- 12:18Speaker 1: of wars, nation against nation, a man famines pestilenses of
- 12:23Speaker 1: men's hearts, felling them for fear, the love of many
- 12:26Speaker 1: waxing cold. Jesus said, But he that endures to the end,
- 12:32Speaker 1: the same shall be saved. This Gospel of the Kingdom
- 12:35Speaker 1: is going to be preached in all the nations to
- 12:38Speaker 1: all the world. That's what he commissioned us to do.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Go into all the world, preach the gospel, make disciples
- 12:43Speaker 1: of all nations.
- 12:45Speaker 2: It's happening. It's happening.
- 12:47Speaker 1: The Bible speaks prophetically of these latter times, when a
- 12:50Speaker 1: man people would turn from the faith given heed to
- 12:54Speaker 1: seducing spirits and doctrines of devils a man, many would
- 12:58Speaker 1: depart from the faith. They were not of us, the
- 13:03Speaker 1: Bible tells us, because had they been of.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Us, they would no doubt have continued with us.
- 13:08Speaker 1: But they went out from us that they might be
- 13:11Speaker 1: made manifest that they were not of us a man.
- 13:18Speaker 1: And so again the rock upon which the church is built,
- 13:25Speaker 1: the true Church of the Living God, a man will
- 13:30Speaker 1: and is here now, and it shall be a man
- 13:35Speaker 1: until Jesus returns for.
- 13:38Speaker 2: His church a man.
- 13:41Speaker 1: By the way, you remember also that Jesus said his sheep,
- 13:44Speaker 1: who belonged to him would not hear the voice of strangers.
- 13:48Speaker 1: They will not listen to Charlatan's who would be dressed
- 13:52Speaker 1: up in sheep's clothing, as it were, who are predatory
- 13:56Speaker 1: wolves seeking to the vow the sheep. He said, they
- 13:59Speaker 1: are in my Father's hand, and no man, no one, nothing.
- 14:05Speaker 1: As Paul wrote in Romans chapter eight, I'm persuaded. See,
- 14:09Speaker 1: we can't be if you are true, if you are
- 14:12Speaker 1: the elect, you cannot be. You will not be lost,
- 14:16Speaker 1: you cannot be unsaved. You cannot be taken away from God.
- 14:23Speaker 1: He saves to the utmost. And Paul said, I am
- 14:27Speaker 1: persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
- 14:30Speaker 1: nothing present, nothing that is to come, nothing can separate
- 14:34Speaker 1: us from the love of God. He loves us with
- 14:37Speaker 1: an ever lasting love, not a temporary love, Amen, not
- 14:43Speaker 1: a conditional love.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Amen.
- 14:47Speaker 1: It is an everlasting It is an eternal love. God
- 14:52Speaker 1: has always had a remnant who will obey. And Jesus
- 14:57Speaker 1: is interceding for the apostle specific because these men, again
- 15:02Speaker 1: along with the prophets, would be integral to the very
- 15:05Speaker 1: foundation of his church. Go to Ephesians chapter number two.
- 15:10Speaker 1: I want to read a few verses from that text. Amen,
- 15:14Speaker 1: the apostles and the prophets. Jesus interceded and prayed for
- 15:19Speaker 1: these men that they would be one. No more infighting,
- 15:25Speaker 1: no more selfish ambitions, no more about them, no more
- 15:29Speaker 1: they man and when they preached the Gospel. After the
- 15:32Speaker 1: they saw the risen Savior. It was all about Jesus.
- 15:36Speaker 1: They were ready for and they did. Almost all of
- 15:39Speaker 1: them died as martyrs for the cause of Christ.
- 15:45Speaker 2: As the apostle Paul one case, said, I'm ready to die.
- 15:49Speaker 2: Why weep? Why are you weeping for me? I'm ready
- 15:53Speaker 2: to die.
- 15:54Speaker 1: I'm ready to go to Jerusalem and die for the
- 15:56Speaker 1: name of Jesus.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Amen.
- 15:58Speaker 1: So the church is built upon the foundation is we're
- 16:01Speaker 1: going to see here in the region chapter two of
- 16:03Speaker 1: the Apostles and Prophets. But Jesus Christ is the stone,
- 16:07Speaker 1: the rock upon which this church is built.
- 16:10Speaker 2: This one, the Bible tells us.
- 16:11Speaker 1: I want to read back beginning verse number fourteen for
- 16:13Speaker 1: contextual purposes.
- 16:15Speaker 2: For he speaking of Jesus.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Is our Peace, who has made both one that's jew
- 16:23Speaker 1: and gentile.
- 16:25Speaker 2: One. He has made us one. See the is all.
- 16:28Speaker 1: About one one Lord, one faith, one Baptist, one church,
- 16:32Speaker 1: one body.
- 16:33Speaker 2: There is one God.
- 16:35Speaker 1: One spirit, one way, one salvation, one one one.
- 16:42Speaker 2: For he himself is.
- 16:43Speaker 1: Our Peace, who has made both one and has broken
- 16:48Speaker 1: down the middle wall of separation, having abolished in his
- 16:54Speaker 1: flesh the enmity.
- 16:56Speaker 2: Amen.
- 16:57Speaker 1: That is the law of comme man miants, containing ordinances, so.
- 17:03Speaker 2: As to create in himself one.
- 17:08Speaker 1: New man from the two, thus making peace, and that
- 17:14Speaker 1: he might reconcile them both to God.
- 17:18Speaker 2: In Oh, watch it.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Here it is again one body through the cross, thereby
- 17:25Speaker 1: putting to death the enmity. And he came and preached
- 17:29Speaker 1: peace to you who were afar off and to those
- 17:33Speaker 1: who were near, For through him we both have accessed
- 17:40Speaker 1: by one spirit to the Father. Now, therefore you are
- 17:47Speaker 1: no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints.
- 17:54Speaker 1: He's speaking of the gentiles, those of us who again
- 17:56Speaker 1: were shut off, cut off, exchanged a man, aliens from
- 18:03Speaker 1: the Covenant, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, a man
- 18:08Speaker 1: from the a man the oracles of God, as it were,
- 18:11Speaker 1: a man. Now he says, you are no longer strangers
- 18:16Speaker 1: and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the Saints, and members
- 18:23Speaker 1: of the household of God. Having been built on the
- 18:31Speaker 1: foundation here it is of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
- 18:39Speaker 1: Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom, in who Jesus,
- 18:49Speaker 1: in whom the whole.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Building, that's the Church, the body of Christ.
- 18:56Speaker 1: Being fitted together grows in to a holy temple in
- 19:05Speaker 1: the Lord in whom you also are being built together
- 19:10Speaker 1: for a dwelling place of God in the spirit. Ladies
- 19:17Speaker 1: and gentlemen, one one, one, one, all through the text,
- 19:23Speaker 1: all through the one.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Here, right from the very beginning, when the Lord called
- 19:29Speaker 2: the nation of Israel. Here, o Israel.
- 19:32Speaker 1: The Lord, our God is one, one Lord, one God.
- 19:39Speaker 2: No other gods.
- 19:40Speaker 1: You haves to have no other gods before me. And
- 19:42Speaker 1: then of course in the Book of Corinthians, Paul's letter
- 19:46Speaker 1: to the Corinthian Church, who had division amongst them, the
- 19:50Speaker 1: people the saints of God. There they had, you know,
- 19:54Speaker 1: one sect you know after Paul, another sect after Apollos,
- 19:59Speaker 1: another sec after this one, and that one.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Paul said no, no, no, no, no, no no.
- 20:04Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons why he wrote to
- 20:06Speaker 1: the church about this division that was in the church,
- 20:09Speaker 1: so that they could understand that they are to be
- 20:13Speaker 1: one one, because we are one body, one church.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Amen.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Look what he says in First Corinthians. We're going to
- 20:21Speaker 1: just read a couple of verses and chapter number twelve
- 20:24Speaker 1: concerning the Body of Christ. He says, for as the
- 20:26Speaker 1: body is one and has many members. Yes, we all
- 20:32Speaker 1: have a man, differences, a man, uniqueness, a man different
- 20:38Speaker 1: gifts that are given. He speaks about all of this
- 20:40Speaker 1: in this chapter by the way a man.
- 20:42Speaker 2: But it is one body. Listen what he says.
- 20:46Speaker 1: For as the body is one and has many members,
- 20:50Speaker 1: but all the members of that one body, being many,
- 20:56Speaker 1: are one body, he says, so also is Christ. Because
- 21:01Speaker 1: Christ is not divided.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Amen.
- 21:04Speaker 1: He addressed that early on in the letter. Christ is
- 21:07Speaker 1: not divided, as all of us are members of that
- 21:11Speaker 1: one body. Although we are many in number, we are
- 21:16Speaker 1: still one body soul.
- 21:18Speaker 2: Also is Christ.
- 21:21Speaker 1: For by one spirit Verse thirteen, we were all baptized
- 21:28Speaker 1: into one body, whether Jews or Greeks or Gentiles, whether
- 21:37Speaker 1: slaves are free, and have all been made to drink
- 21:42Speaker 1: into one spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God.
- 21:53Speaker 1: The Church has one Lord. The Church has one Savior.
- 22:01Speaker 1: The Church has one Gospel. The Church has one mission.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Now there may be submissions, but all of our submissions,
- 22:16Speaker 1: if you will, must be rooted and grounded in the
- 22:20Speaker 1: one mission that God has given to that Christ has
- 22:24Speaker 1: given to the Church. Go ye therefore, and make disciples
- 22:28Speaker 1: of all nations.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Any mission, any other.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Mission that the church undertakes must be subservient to the mission.
- 22:41Speaker 1: In other words, it must be in submission to the mission,
- 22:47Speaker 1: because there's only one mission.
- 22:50Speaker 2: Discipleship, the gospel service.
- 22:55Speaker 1: To Christ's submission to Christ, who is the head of
- 23:00Speaker 1: the body, Amen, the Savior. That we will be one
- 23:07Speaker 1: is the prayer intercession of Jesus Christ for his Church.
- 23:12Speaker 1: And we can rest assured, ladies and gentlemen, Church of
- 23:15Speaker 1: the Living God, people of God, that what Jesus prayed for.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Will come to.
- 23:23Speaker 1: Be as he has petitioned of God for it to
- 23:30Speaker 1: be one Lord, one faith, one baptism into one body,
- 23:41Speaker 1: into the one Bride of Christ. And it is by
- 23:46Speaker 1: the one Holy Spirit, sent by the one God of Creation, who,
- 23:55Speaker 1: by the way, is soon to return, for one church
- 24:02Speaker 1: that is eagerly anticipating his return, praying even so, Come
- 24:10Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, that we will be one is because I
- 24:20Speaker 1: hope you see it. I hope you get it. You
- 24:22Speaker 1: know it is because we are already one in Him
- 24:28Speaker 1: who is one. So Father, will you help us today?
- 24:37Speaker 1: May we come to see cease and desist all strife,
- 24:42Speaker 1: all selfish ambitions, Come to acknowledge, come to the truth,
- 24:49Speaker 1: Come to worship, come to bowing before your presence, casting
- 24:54Speaker 1: our crowns at your feet. Even now, the One, the
- 24:58Speaker 1: True and the Living God, art the one Savior and Redeemer,
- 25:03Speaker 1: the one mediator between God and man, the one who
- 25:07Speaker 1: is soon to return for a people, one church, one body,
- 25:10Speaker 1: one bride, without spot and wrinkle. But we pray that
- 25:16Speaker 1: our hearts will be ready, that we will be looking
- 25:19Speaker 1: for you in anticipation of your return. Even so we pray, Come,
- 25:26Speaker 1: Lord Jesus, Amen and amen,