Romans: The Jews

I've been going through the book of Romans, and y'all have heard me say before, I don't, I can't stand when people say this. We have to make the Bible relevant.

We ain't got to make the Bible anything. It's relevant already. And I don't know of a more relevant subject than the thing I'm going to be talking about today, which is Israel and the Jews. That's so relevant to what's going on right now.

Seems like every time you turn around, you're hearing protests and chants of you know, from the river to the sea, the college campuses, the whole Harvard mess going on right now goes back to this issue. A couple weeks ago, a young couple from the Israeli embassy was gunned down in Washington DC simply because they were Jews. This whole Iran nuclear weapon stuff, it goes back to Israel. I'm hearing, every time I turn around, there's a new conspiracy theory about the Jews and the Zionists.

I was listening to Candace Owens yesterday, she says, well, the reason that evangelicals support Israel is Zionists funded the modern Bible. The Zionists are controlling our government. The Zionists are controlling the banks.

The Zionists are controlling Hollywood. The Jews control the weather. Every time you turn around, it's the Jews, the Jews, the Jews. Well Chad, you don't believe that there's a Jewish plot to take over the world?

Yes, I do. I believe one day a Jew is going to rule the entire world from Jerusalem for a thousand years with his 12 Jewish followers. I do believe one day the Jews are going to rule the world. His name is Jesus. This Thursday, we have one of the biggest leaders in Jewish Christianity coming. Dr. Kahn, I want you to be here.

Rabbi Kahn is incredible. I want you to get here early because the last time we ran out of seats. So be here early for this. We don't show up this Thursday because nobody will be here.

But if you're here, come this Thursday. I mean, this is an incredibly important issue. And if we go through Romans, we're now at Romans 9 through 11, and any expositor of the Word of God will tell you, this is the hardest passage to cover, Romans 9 through 11. And what happens is that the Calvinists and the Armenians, they relegate Romans 9 through 11 to a debate between Calvinism and Armenianism and predestination and free will.

That's secondary. That's not the primary subject Paul is dealing with here. The primary subject Paul is dealing with is Jews, the people of Israel.

In fact, let me help break this down for you. Chapter 9, Paul talks about God's past dealing with Israel. Chapter 10, Paul talks about God's present dealing with Israel, what he's dealing with Israel right now. Chapter 11 is God's future dealing with Israel.

Okay? And there's a lot of good resources. You can look at the best I've heard is a expositor named Gary Hamrick. He's done some great work on this. I am ripping him off and plagiarizing him. I want to give him credit this morning. But there's a lot of good stuff out there. But I'm going to try to make chapters 9 through 11 as simple as I possibly can.

And I think the best way to cover this is just basically asking four questions a lot of Christians, followers of Jesus, have about Israel. And forgive me, I sat on my microphone between services and now it's all bent up all over the place or whatever. I got to stop sitting on my microphone. These things are expensive.

You know, this thing right here costs like $800 just this microphone. So maybe I'll stop wasting your tithes and offerings and sitting on your microphones and destroying them. Anyway, so let me just share with you four questions Christians have about Jews and Israel.

And question number one is this. Are the Jews, now listen to this, are they still God's chosen people? Now, I'm talking collectively. Collectively, are they God's chosen people? Not individually. I'm not talking about George Soros here or whatever.

I'm talking about collectively. Are the Jews God's chosen people? See, there's a teaching that since the Jews crucified Jesus, the Jews said to Pilate, his blood be on our heads and our kids, that God has turned his back on the Jews and they are no longer God's chosen people. He's washed his hands of them and he's done with them. Has he rejected them? In verse one, Paul says this, I asked them, has God rejected his people?

By no means. By myself and an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin, God has not rejected his people who he foreknew as regards to the gospel. They are enemies for your sake, but as regards to election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers, for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Paul answers the question right there. Has God rejected the Jews? Verse one, God has not rejected Israel. Verse two, God has not rejected his people. Verse 29, you cannot revoke, you cannot undo God's calling on Israel. I'm going to bless your descendants, I'm going to bless the people that curse you and your people, I'm going to curse.

Y'all going to think I'm crazy. Anytime I meet a Jew, either verbally, out loud or silently, I always bless them in the name of Jesus. Hey, you take the Bible literally?

I do. And if these are the descendants of Abraham, I bless him because I think there's a blessing on me. In fact, let me kind of give you just a paraphrase of Isaiah 66 eight. Isaiah 66 eight says this. Isaiah says, I know this sounds crazy because it's never happened before, but one day, Israel will become a nation in one day. Isaiah says, it doesn't happen that way. It takes centuries for a nation to become a nation, but Isaiah 68. One day, in one day, Israel will become a nation. Ezekiel 37 prophesied that as well.

You know that prophecy literally became true? On May 14th, 1948, the British Mandate ended and in one day, Israel became its own sovereign nation. Do you know who the first person was that called and congratulated Israel is Harry Truman. Eleven minutes after that happened, Harry Truman called and congratulated and recognized Israel. So I want you to listen to me.

I am convinced. People are always wondering, what is the secret to America's greatness? I think one of the biggest secrets is we have chosen to bless Israel throughout our history and as long as we keep blessing Israel, God's going to bless our nation, but we stop blessing them, God's going to take his blessing off of us. And so, has God rejected the Jews? Are they still his people?

God has not rejected them. They are still God's people. We honor Israel.

In fact, I want you to look at chapter 9. Chapter 9 verses 4 and 5. Why do we honor Israel? Well, they are Israelites and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, the promises. To them belong the patriarchs and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever.

Amen. Why do we bless them? Paul gives several reasons, but verse 5, he says this, you honor the Jewish people because it's through the Jewish people that God sent his son into the world. Hey, God could have sent Jesus through any people group. If God had said, I'm going to send my son through the Scandinavians, we would honor the Scandinavians. If he says, I'm going to send my son through the Puerto Ricans, we'd honor the Puerto Ricans. If he says, I'm going to send my son through, just fill in the blank, the Native Americans, we'd honor them. We honor the Jewish people because it's through the Jews that God sent his son. Okay?

Let me do a quick timeout. I've got to give you a reality check. Do not think that the modern state of Israel is perfect, everything they do is right, we're not to call them out when they make mistakes. You need to understand the modern state of Israel, there ain't a bunch of people standing around blowing shofars with yarmulkes on their heads, sacrificing lambs and praying, using Yahweh. That's not the modern state of Israel. We honor the Jews, we respect Israel, but you have to understand, they have walked away from God in a lot of ways. Did you know that the epicenter of pornography in the Middle East comes right out of Israel? A couple years ago, my wife and I took a group from our church to Israel. It took us about five hours to get back to our hotel in Jerusalem.

Do you know why? One of the world's largest gay pride parades takes place in Jerusalem. We couldn't get back to our hotel because of the gay pride parade. Ironically, with Sodom and Gomorrah about 40 miles down the road from there. People ask me, are you nervous about taking people to Israel? You know, there's Muslims there and them Muslims can be crazy. Not concerned about the Muslims.

Did you read this in the paper last year in the news? Do you know who was giving Christian pilgrims the hardest time in Israel last year? It was Orthodox Jews. They were picking fights and spitting on Christians.

I saw it happen a couple weeks ago. I was sitting right outside the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem and I saw these four big, tough, gruff, young Jewish guys coming in and a Christian priest was walking by them. And they spit on them just because he's Christian.

I want you to understand this. These are God's people. We honor them. We respect them.

We want to defend Israel. But I got to give you a reality check. They're not perfect, okay?

In fact, the best analogy I can give you is this. We honor Mary, but we don't worship Mary. Do you know there are Christians who worship Mary? Look, we honor her. We honor her because through her, Jesus was born. She was a great woman of God. We love her. We honor her. We respect her. But she's not a mediator between you and Jesus.

We don't worship Mary, okay? Same thing with Israel. We honor Israel. Jesus came through Israel. That's God's chosen people, but we don't venerate Israel.

So I'll just make that really clear. But has God rejected Israel? Paul gives an unequivocal no. He's not rejected them.

All right, second question. Are Jews automatically saved? It's because they're Jews.

They're God's chosen people. There's something called the dual covenant theology. Have you heard of this?

There's a guy, okay, if I told you his name, 99% of you would know who I'm talking about. For years, he seemed to have taught the dual covenant theology. That Christians are saved through Jesus Christ, but Jews are automatically saved and right with God just because they're Jews. He came back out and said, no, no, I didn't ever really mean that or whatever.

You've got to be really careful. There's a lot of Christian messianic ministries out there that support Israel and all this kind of stuff. If you do some digging, they believe in the dual covenant. Jews are saved just because they're Jews. Are Jews saved just because they're Jews? Paul answers that question in chapter 10, verse 1. Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them, for the Jews, is that they may be saved.

Implication. They're not saved just because they're Jews. Look at verse 9 of chapter 10. Because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes and is justified.

And with the mouth, one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who do what?

Call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. He's saying, right there. There's no difference between Jews and Greeks, Jews and Gentiles. Y'all know what a Gentile is, right?

There's only two people in the world. They're Jews and they're Gentiles. So if you're not a Jew, you're a Gentile. And what Paul's saying is this. Jews don't have plan A for salvation and Gentiles have plan B. No, no. The plan is the same.

All who call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. I had a young lady. She wouldn't be...honestly, she wouldn't be mean. I'm not bashing her. I'm not bashing Meredith College or is it university, whatever it is now. But I had a young lady that had been visiting Cross Assembly. This is several years ago.

And she finally sent an email to me through my secretary. And she's like, Pastor Chad, I'm not trying to be mean. I'm not trying to criticize you. I know you don't mean to come across this way, but I visited your church several times. And you come across, it kind of gives the appearance that you think everybody should be a Christian.

Looky here. Everybody should be a Christian because there's only one way to salvation. There's no other name given under heaven by which men must be saved by the name of Jesus Christ.

He is the way, the truth, the life. Nobody comes to the Father except through him, okay? So we want Jews to get saved. We want Muslims to get saved. We want atheists to get saved.

We want everybody to get saved. I had a church-growth person say a while back, now look, if you want to grow your church, you got to have, you got to figure out who your target audience is. I know who your target audience is and reach them. Hey, do you know who God's target audience is? Anybody with breath and a pulse.

That's his target audience and that's our target audience as well. So, all right, question number one, has God rejected the Jews? No. Question number two, are Jews automatically saved? No, they got to get saved just the way you do through Jesus Christ. Question number three, you go, all right, has the church, us, okay, have we replaced the Jews? All right, you know, in the Old Testament, they were God's chosen people.

Now, we, the church, are God's chosen people. It's called replacement theology that the church has replaced Israel or supersessionism. All the blessings that belong to Israel now belongs to the church. There's several problems with that doctrine. Number one, I've told you this before, there are specific geopolitical promises God made to Israel in the Old Testament, this is going to be your borders, that never took place. So, either God is a liar, he promised them land that they would not have or God still plans on giving that to Israel in the future. But if you believe that God's done with Israel and we have replaced that, then God is a liar.

That's number one. Number two, that doctrine paves the way for a lot of anti-Semitism. The Catholic Church taught this in the 12th century. And as a result, on the way from Europe to the Middle East to fight the Crusades, they slaughtered thousands and thousands of Jews.

These Catholic Crusaders wiped out entire Jewish communities. Now, I don't know if this is Catholic teaching or this was a one-off, but between services, I had a great brother come and say to me, look, I got saved a few years ago, I was part of the Catholic Church and when I was raised, I was told, stay away from the Jews. You stay away from them, we're now God's chosen people. That paves the way for anti-Semitism. Martin Luther, toward the end of his life, Luther got into replacement theology and the Jews are not, God's done with them, we're now God's chosen people, we're now the Jews.

He really got into that and he was very anti-Semitic. Hitler comes along and he uses Martin Luther's very writings to justify the slaughter of Jews. And so Chapter 11 refutes replacement theology. Here's what Paul says. Paul pictures Abraham, the Jewish people, like a tree, okay, like this big old tree with roots and a trunk and branches and some Jews have rebelled against God and they've been broken off. And then you and I as Gentiles who trust in Jesus, we have now been grafted in. I want you to see what Paul says here. He says, verse 17 of Chapter 11, but if some of the branches were broken off and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. And if you are, remember it is not you who supports the root but the root that supports you. Then you will say, branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief but you stand fast through faith.

So do not become proud but fear. See, Paul is using a horticulture analogy here. And he says, you got this tree with limbs broken off and you Gentiles, you've been grafted in. But you have not replaced the tree. The tree is still there. The root of Abraham is still there. This tree known as the people of God, it is still in place.

You and I have just been grafted into that tree. You with me on that? Okay. One more question.

Question number four. Well, do the Jews even have a future? Paul answers that in Romans 11, 25.

In other words, what's the future then? If God's not done with the Jews, what kind of future does he have for Israel, for the Jewish people? Look at verse 25.

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers. A partial hardening has come upon Israel. Right now, Jews don't believe Jesus is the Messiah. Right now, Israel has rejected Jesus. A partial hardening has come upon Israel, although there are some exceptions because there are some Jews who were saved. Now, watch this. Until the fullness of Gentiles has come in and in this way, all Israel will be saved.

Now, what does it mean? This is interesting. 27% of this book right here, 27% deals with future Israel. This is not an ancillary topic here. 27% of this Bible deals with future Israel.

And think about this. Okay, Israel became a nation in 1948, okay? Do you know what the next thing on the prophetic calendar is? The rapture of the church. There's no prophecy that has to be fulfilled until Jesus comes back. The next thing on the prophetic calendar is when Jesus Christ comes back and removes his people from planet Earth before seven years of tribulation. Now, here's my question, okay?

Listen to me. If Israel became a nation in 1948 and then the rapture is the next thing on the prophetic calendar, why didn't Jesus just have the rapture occur in 1949? It'd save us a lot of trouble, wouldn't it? Okay, so Israel becomes a nation, that prophecy is fulfilled, now take everybody home. Why didn't Jesus just do that?

Why hasn't the rapture occurred yet? Well, Paul answers that in verse 25. It says God is waiting for the full number of Gentiles to come to faith.

What does that mean? God doesn't want anybody to go to hell. God says, I am waiting. I want as many Gentiles to get saved as possible. And in the mind of God, he knows how many people are going to get saved and he is waiting, waiting, waiting for that last person to get saved. And when that last Gentile finally gets saved, God's going to say, the full number has come in, let me go get my church. So some of y'all have been coming to cross assembly, you've been hearing me preach the gospel, proclaim the gospel, you've been wrestling should I give my life to the Lord Jesus Christ. What if you are that last person? Would you hurry up and get saved so we can all go home?

I'm just ready, aren't you? And what does verse 26 say? It says all Israel will be saved.

What does that mean? Well, Revelation talks about seven years of tribulation on planet earth and Satan is unleashed. And he comes against two groups of people. Number one, he hates Christians that get saved during the tribulation. He's going to try to slaughter them. You know the second group that Satan comes against during the seven years of tribulation?

He knows he can't get to God so he's going to try to get to the heart of God. He's going to attack the people of God. He's going to slaughter the Jews.

During World War II, during the Holocaust, approximately, this still blows my mind, one third of the global Jewish population was killed during the Holocaust. Zechariah 13, eight through nine says another Holocaust is coming. During those seven years of tribulation, it won't be one third of the Jewish population in the world that will be killed. Two thirds of the world's Jewish population will be killed, which means one third will survive the seven years of tribulation. And Zechariah 12, 10 says that when this third of the Jews who are now alive, they look up and they see Jesus Christ coming back at the end of the seven years of tribulation.

It says they will look on the one that they pierced and they will mourn. How could we have ever killed him? He was our Messiah.

He was God's gift to us. They will look upon the one that they pierced and they will mourn. And that remaining one third of the Jews will get saved.

And they'll come into that millennial kingdom saved. And that's what Paul means in verse 26 when he says, and then all Israel will be saved. Now, look, maybe I'm the only one that gets into this stuff because a lot of people are like, okay, Jesus come back to Jews, I don't care.

Why don't you listen to me? This ought to make you really, really excited. Because I've said for years, Israel is the barometer of prophecy. If you want to know where we're at in the end times, all you have to do is look at Israel. And beloved, there's some incredible stuff happening in Israel. God is moving in a powerful way right now, even as we speak, in Israel in ways that it's blowing my mind, to be honest with you. Which tells me something's happening prophetically.

Something's about to happen prophetically. Let me give you just three examples of God moving among the Jewish people today. Number one, Darla and I, again, a couple weeks ago, we were there in Jerusalem. We went to the Jewish Quarter, the heart of Jerusalem.

And while we were there, we were just sipping some coffee outside. And a Jewish rabbi and his wife comes up and starts talking to us. And we also met a famous scribe. All he does is he's a famous scribe that does scrolls. So we're all there talking, and he gave us his card.

We looked him up later on. He is a prominent, prominent, prominent rabbi here in America. And he and his wife were just there visiting in Jerusalem. And we're talking about Hamas and the war and all this kind of stuff.

And his wife finally jumps in. And she says, I'm just telling you, God is doing something here in Israel. He's opening eyes. People who wanted nothing to do with God are turning to God left and right.

It's amazing what's happening in Israel. And then she said this, the Holy Spirit is moving in power. Now, there is a concept of the Holy Spirit in Judaism, but it's not a main concept. When that lady said that, I asked myself, is this a closet believer in Jesus Christ? Could it be that this prominent rabbi's wife is a follower of Jesus? She said, I'm just telling you, the Holy Spirit is moving in Israel, and people are turning to God. That's one example.

The second example is this. Many Jews in Israel are now rediscovering Isaiah 53. Y'all familiar with Isaiah 53?

The clearest teaching of the doctrine of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus, it is not found in the New Testament. It's actually found in the Old Testament, 700 years before Jesus comes on the scene. And Jews call this the forbidden chapter. They don't read Isaiah 53 in synagogues today. You go to a Jewish synagogue this week, they're going to be like, everybody stand and let's read Isaiah 52. Y'all read Isaiah 52. Everybody goes home next week, all right, let's stand and read Isaiah 54. They don't read Isaiah 53.

And it's obvious why they don't read that. Because 700 years before Jesus Christ, Isaiah says this, he was despised and rejected by men. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted, but he was pierced for our transgressions.

He was crushed for our iniquities. Upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned, every one of us, to his own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. And Jews in Israel are rediscovering this chapter that was hidden from them by their religious experts, and they're turning to Jesus. They're returning to Jesus. Let me give you a third example of how God is moving in Israel.

Some people call this the Keduri revival. Numerous Jews are still giving their lives to Jesus when they hear the story of Rabbi Yitzhak Keduri. Rabbi Keduri was the preeminent rabbi in Israel.

I know this is an overused analogy, but it fits right here. He was the Billy Graham of Judaism in Israel. He was the most respected rabbi. You understand, Jews don't believe Jesus is the Messiah.

They are very against the idea that Jesus, that we worship, was the Messiah. So he was a prominent Jewish rabbi. When he died at age 108, 200,000 Jews in Israel came to his funeral.

The whole nation was just shut down for his funeral. Before he died in 2006, he told his disciples. He said, I had an encounter with the coming Messiah, and he told me his name, and I've written it down in this envelope, and I've sealed this envelope. Do not open this envelope when I die. You wait one year after my death to open this envelope. He dies.

Wait a year. When the year's over, his disciples, to the day, they're so excited. We want to know, who's this coming Messiah? They opened the envelope, and in acrostic form, he put, the name of the coming Messiah is Yeshua, or Jesus. They put that on his website. There was so much blowback that they almost immediately just took it down off the website.

You can't find it now, but people got screenshots. And now Jews are hearing this, and they're saying, maybe Jesus is the coming Messiah. And so, why are you telling us that? I'm just telling you this, church, because I want you to understand, God, you hear a lot of negative stuff going on in Israel, in Hamas, in Iran, in Houthis, in bombs, and all that kind of stuff.

I'm just telling you, God is moving in a mighty way. All right, so how do we apply this? Everybody wants to know, how do we apply this thing?

Let me give you just three quick ways to apply this. Number one is continue to bless the Jews. Continue to support Israel. Now, again, that doesn't mean they have carte blanche. When they step over the line, our government needs to call them out.

I'm just telling you, it's not anti-Semitic to say, not everything the nation of Israel does is right. We're all messed up people. Our government's a messed up government.

Their government's a messed up government. But they're still God's chosen people. We still honor them. We still bless them.

We still support them. That's number one. Number two, second application is this. Man, just stay watchful and alert. Just keep your eyes open as we get closer and closer to the end of time. You know, it's interesting.

I'm going to take a quick sidetrack here. I told my secretary a while back, I said, man, Elaine. I tell people, I work for a very nice secretary.

She's a great boss to work for. I said, Elaine, you know, I used to get all kinds of negative stuff. I said, I don't get any negative feedback anymore. She says, you get lots of negative feedback. You just don't know it.

We keep it from you. Between preaching here on Sunday morning, being online, radio, TV, I get a lot of criticism. And, Chad, does that bother you? Can I tell you something?

This is very recently God spoke to me, okay, on criticism. Today when we get through, go to a cemetery, find just a random gravestone, stare down at the person who's buried there and just start chewing them out and tell them what a horrible person he was. Make sure his family's not watching, okay? But just talk to this random person about how horrible he was. What's that dead person going to do? Nothing, because he's dead, all right? Then tell that person, no, no, no, you are great. You are wonderful.

Oh, you are the best human being who ever lived. What's that dead person going to do? Nothing. Why?

Because he's dead. The Spirit of God spoke to me and said, Chad, I want you to be dead to criticism and I want you to be dead to flattery. Don't listen to your naysayers and don't get elated when people tell you how great you are.

Don't do either one of that. You're a crucified servant of Jesus Christ. That's all you are, okay?

But it's interesting. One of the biggest pieces of criticism I get is that man talks of negatives. And what's his obsession with end times every time he comes to cross assembly?

He's talking about end times, end times, second coming. I had a psychopath. I never met a lady before. I don't know who she was.

She recognized me. She followed me across a parking lot time screaming and yelling at me because you talk about prophecy way too much. Have you read the end of Matthew and Luke?

I did it this week. When Jesus is talking about his second coming, he says to his followers, you better keep your eyes open. When I come back, I better find you waiting for me. I better find you with your eyes toward the sky waiting for me to come back. Don't be like these people who fall asleep.

I want you to be waiting for me when I come back. Stay awake. Church, stay awake if you really believe these are the end times, okay? And then third, and this is so important. So application number one, let's keep supporting the Jews. Number two, stay watchful and alert.

Number three, are you listening to me? This is all week, the Spirit of God has been putting somebody, plural, on my heart with this. Rest in the faithfulness of God. Because God's dealing with Israel, it is a powerful picture of the Christian life. You read the Old Testament, some of the things the Jews did, it was bad.

The way they rebelled against God, it was bad. And if I were God, I'd be like, I don't need this. I called you out, I loved you, I was good to you, all this, and you've done all this, forget you.

I'm going to find somebody else. I'm going to go back to that verse. God's calling is without repentance, which means you may mess up, you may fumble the ball. As a born again follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, you may mess up every day. You may have messed up in a way where Satan's now whispering in your brain, God could never forgive you, you crossed a line, you're blasting the Spirit, God is done with you, he's washed his hands of you. And I want to say to you, God's calling is without repentance. You're going to go to heaven, listen to me, going to heaven is not your responsibility. It's your response to his ability. You're going to go to heaven not because you're clinging to the hand of God, but because God's hand is clinging to you.

He did not turn his back on the Jews. God turned his back on you, ma'am. Sir, you messed up.

You messed up big time. But God says to you, I have loved you with an everlasting love. I ain't given up on you, you're my child. I don't give up on my children, come back to me. Some of y'all have been listening to the lies of Satan and you think God has turned his back on you. God sent me today to tell you I didn't turn my back on the Jews, and I've not turned my back on you. So I want three groups of people to come forward today. Are you with me? Three groups.

I was going to say four, but I'm going to give you three, just three. Number one, just people who want to worship Jesus. I know you can worship Jesus up there. There's something about just coming down and lifting your hands and so.

Some of y'all in just a second, just you have no agenda. You just love Jesus, you want to love on him and lift hands and worship him in a second, you'll come forward. Second, remember I just told you that when the word of God is preached, it creates an atmosphere for healing to take place. Look at some of the teachings of Jesus in the gospels. His teaching sometimes had nothing to do with healing, and yet when he got through teaching, there was power and he healed.

I know some of the Jews in Israel has nothing to do with healing, but here's what you understand. An atmosphere has been created in this room, and I believe the spirit of God wants to heal some cancers, some depression, some anxiety, some issues. God wants to do something.

Y'all believe that? So if you need the touch of God, in just a second, I want to call you forward. Finally, for those of you that I've been praying about all week this week, Satan has been playing some head games with you. I'm talking about true born again believers. You're not born again believers, that doesn't apply to you, but I'm talking about true born again believers.

He keeps pointing to the same things and says, see that? Your God won't forgive you of that. Your God has turned his back on you because of that. And when you start thinking that way, it messes with you. But when you start understanding that the Father loves you, and again, he did not turn his back on the Jews, and he ain't turned his back on you, it brings you to repentance.

You start living differently. I'm telling you something, it's easy to sin against the law. It is easy for me to sin against two stone tablets. It's hard for me to sin against the Father who loves me so much.

Stand with me. If you just want to praise Jesus, come right now. If you need to be touched and healed in your mind or in your body or in your spirit, come right now. If you're the one that I've been praying about this week that's been lied to by Satan, and he says God has turned his back on you, he's done with you, come right now. And I'm telling you, he ain't done with you.

In fact, can I give you a little secret? He's hardly begun to do his work in you. You haven't seen what God has planned for you. And I'm going to ask elders and deacons and a prayer team and all those folks, would you just come and just start praying with people? Hey, before we enter this big time of prayer, can you lift up your hands? And I specifically asked Ron, I said Ron, start with this verse because somebody needs to be reminded of their forgiveness in Jesus Christ. Satan's gotten in their heads this week and God has not forgiven you, you're wicked.

A good God ever loved somebody like you. Listen to me, if you're a born-again believer, his anger was poured out on his son in your place 2,000 years ago. He poured out all of his anger on Jesus. There ain't no anger left to pour out on you because it was all poured out on Jesus. So praise the Lord and just bless him right now. Gang, lead us in this and then I'm going to direct them on how to pray.

Let's pray. If you've been forgiven, if you've been redeemed, sing the song forever to the Lamb. If you walk in freedom, if you bear His name, sing the song forever to the Lamb. We'll sing the song forever and Amen. And the angels cry, holy, all creation cry, holy, you are lifted high, holy, holy forever.

Hear your people sing, holy, to the King of Kings, holy, you will always be, holy, holy forever. Hey, beloved, Paul says something very interesting in the book of Galatians. He asked the church of Galatians this question.

I'm going to ask you right now. He says, are you experiencing healings, miracles, signs and wonders because you kept the rules and you kept the law? Or are you experiencing the miraculous by faith, just believing in God? Tell you something, this idea that you do this checklist, you do these five things and God will heal you, that's from the pit of hell. This idea that if you live good and live right, He is obligated to heal you, that's from the pit of hell.

That's the law, that's not grace. Here's what the Spirit of God wants you to know right now. Y'all believe that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever? That the Jesus who healed then can heal right now? You believe that?

Then that's all you need. That's all you need right now to experience the healing touch of Jesus. So I'm going to ask right now, is somebody in this place, I believe with all my heart, I don't know why, that stomach is being healed right now.

I don't know if it's colon cancer, I don't know what it is. It's being healed right now. Cancer is being bound and rebuked and cast out right now.

Yeah, but Chad, I didn't get anointed and I didn't, I don't care. You believe Jesus can heal, that's all you need right now. Pause right now, Spirit of God is moving right now.

He's moving right now. The demonic, hey this is demonic, the demonic stronghold of anxiety in somebody's brain is being broken right now. It's being replaced with power and love and a sound mind right now.

Right now. This depression that has caused you to drop to your knees and think about killing yourself, it is being broken right now by the Holy Spirit. Right now in the name of Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Can we right now lift, y'all start singing to Jesus again right now, kind of in a low way, in a calm way, but let's start, Jesus is moving right now. Holy Ghost is moving right now, sing this again. Jesus, sing this, holy, holy, holy.

Jesus. Holy, you will always be holy, holy forever. And the angels cry, holy, all creation cries, holy, you are lifted high, holy, holy forever. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Knees being healed, legs being healed, Spirit of God's doing some right now.

Now I want you to listen to me. When we get through praying, you don't have to take off. You can stick around.

Somebody pray with our sister over here and help her out a little bit. When y'all leave, when we're done, you can stick around here. Spirit of God don't want you to rush in and out of His presence. It's like, how dare you do that?

I want to do a miracle monkey. You want to rush out of here so you can stick around. Now I got to say something to those of you who've been lied to by Satan, that God has turned His back on you and He's done with you. I want to speak this over you right now. Lift your hands. If that's you, lift your hands.

This is for you. I want this to go from your brain and your ears into your heart right now. God's calling and His gifts are without repentance, which means He's not changed His mind about how He feels about you because of something you did. He still loves you with an everlasting love. He has not changed His mind.

He ain't changed His mind. And God says to you right now, I cancel the assignment of Satan and I say to you, Yavarekkah Adonai vishmerekah. Ye'er Adonai elekavikuneka.

Esau Adonai panavalecha. Vayasim lecha shalom, which means this. The Lord now blesses you. He now keeps you. You're in His hand. He makes His face to shine upon you. He doesn't care what you've done in the past. He looks at you right now.

He smiles at you. The Lord bless you. The Lord keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you. And the Lord is gracious to you. You deserve hell, but He's given you heaven.

You deserve a spanking. He's giving you a hug right now. He is gracious to you. And the Lord turn His countenance to you and give you shalom.

Peace, wholeness, mind, body, soul, spirit. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit we pray. Amen. Hey, stay right here. When the Spirit of God says go, you go. If y'all need to go, you go. I'm just telling you, Holy Ghost is doing something right now. He's healing mind, body, soul, and spirit. Don't rush out right now. You just let the Spirit of God do whatever He needs to do. When God tells you to go, you go. God bless you.