Following Jesus When The World Feels Unsteady

The centre of this message is simple: “Fix our eyes on Jesus” (Hebrews 12:2). The speaker argues that Christianity becomes tangled when it turns into systems, labels, and status, while the original invitation remains clear and personal: come and follow Christ. For anyone searching for Christian encouragement in anxious times, the practical takeaway is focus. Not denial of reality, but a deliberate choice to keep faith in Jesus at the front of the mind when politics, news cycles, and social pressure feel relentless. That focus, we are told, is not found through religious performance but through relationship, trust, and daily turning back to God.  

Deuteronomy 8 is used as a “book of instruction” for Christian living, especially when life feels unstable. The emphasis sits on remembering God, following his commands, and resisting the drift into self-reliance and forgetfulness. The speaker links obedience to a different inner climate: peace replacing worry, steadiness replacing panic, and wisdom replacing reaction. A key spiritual discipline is Bible reading, because the Word forms a clearer picture of who Jesus is across Genesis to Revelation. In modern UK culture, where attention spans are thin and distraction is constant, choosing time with Scripture becomes an act of resistance and a route to spiritual resilience.  

The talk also moves into discernment: watching what is happening around us while refusing to be ruled by it. Biblical stories such as Gideon are referenced to frame a warning about what can happen when a people abandon God’s ways and lose their anchors. Rather than encouraging fear, the practical aim is to push listeners back towards prayerful clarity: watch, think, test everything, and keep your eyes on Jesus. The speaker repeatedly contrasts the kingdom of God with institutional religion, challenging church leadership models that feel more like career, branding, or business than sacrificial discipleship. The argument is blunt: buildings and titles do not transform a nation, but returning to God does.  

A major pastoral thread is grace for imperfect people. The prodigal son becomes a mirror for both individuals and society: we wander, we end up empty, then we “come to our senses” and return to the Father. Salvation is described as being “born again” and “saved by grace”, not achieved by works, status, or approval. Communion is presented as a table anyone can come to, even at home with whatever bread is available, because the point is the heart turning back. Stories of Paul and Rahab underline hope: God calls the lowly and the unlikely, shapes the clay on the potter’s wheel, and keeps inviting us to get back up again, again and again, held by endless redemption in Jesus Christ.

Transcript

Follow Jesus With Clear Focus

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And then we will go to the book of Exodus. So we'll turn from Hebrews in just a few moments. And I'll just give you the reference. We're going to go to Deuteronomy. Yeah, actually, we're going to go to Deuteronomy. Let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 8, just the first part of that before we go any further. So we're in the book of Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 2, and this is what it says. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfecter of our faith. Very simple and very easy. Church and religion makes it complicated. The amount of denominations that we have across the nation, just in the UK alone, is probably almost uncountable to that certain degree. But Jesus is just saying, as he said to the two disciples on the shoreline of Jesus, on the shoreline of Galilee, he said, just come and follow me. Jesus said, just come and follow me. God is calling you. God is calling you. We can resist, we can fight, we can throw our toys out the pram. But right now we are living in a nation that's very fragile and very dangerous. As you live in the UK, it's a very dangerous place to live because we have no leadership. When you look across the platform, and we're not, you know, I don't I don't I don't talk about the political understanding as what I follow and what I believe. I don't follow that in any which way, shape, or form. I just observe from every area and what we see across every platform because it's biblical. And the Bible says keep an eye on the times and the signs that you are living in, and make sure that you look at the scripture and you are wise so you know how to make decisions, what to do. And we need to be wise right now. But when you look at the political temperature that we're in at this moment in time, and you look at what's happening around the world, you look at uh uh that gentleman from the other side of the pond that's got blonde hair, he's got a nice tan that's just come back from Tenerife with another one. I mean, the one that leads that certain area, he's now dabbling with China. So you you you watch, we are watching the book of Daniel unfold. We are watching Daniel, we're watching the nations, kingdom against kingdom, nation against nation. We're watching nations rise, and we are watching certain leaders playing a very tactical, dangerous game. They will start a fire over there, and they will walk away from it, and they'll go and start another one over there, and they'll they'll take you to certain fires, and they'll you'll you'll keep your eyes fixed on certain things that are happening around the world because there's undercurrents of other things going on. But the Bible is clear, God has always said through Christ Jesus, keep your eyes on me. When I take my eyes off of Jesus, what happens? Let's turn to the book of Deuteronomy. You know, following Jesus is the hardest thing that anyone will ever do in their life. Because when you follow Jesus, you're going against the fabric and the tide of the world. You're going against everything. You're going against the whole world, the world agenda. What is the agenda of the world? The world is fighting one another at a moment. You just got to look at the streets of London. You just got to watch the amount of protests, everything that's going on, all the stuff that's happening around the world. Nation is rising against nation, kingdom is rising against kingdom, and we've got political parties fighting each other with this battle of words. So you've got it in many, many nations. But as you look in the book of Deuteronomy chapter eight, Deuteronomy chapter eight, we get clear instruction from Genesis to Revelation. God is clear in what he says. He doesn't mention about going to church and following Elium. He doesn't say follow Pastor Ben. He doesn't say follow the Methodist movement. He doesn't say be a be a Catholic or a church. Jesus just says, follow me. That's what we've got to get back to, the fundamental teaching of Christianity. You know, we have we are a sweet shop of religions and political parties, rising here, rising there. Everyone's got a great uh speech to tell. But when it actually comes to the rubber hitting the road, the only one that will deliver us is Jesus. It really doesn't matter who is going to get in the changing of the guard. If they change the guard at number 10 now, and by Monday morning, we've got a new face. Nothing's going to change for me or you. Nothing is going to change. All that's going to happen is that their profile is going to be raised, their CV is going to be raised, and their wages are going to be raised. It will not affect my way that I live my life and how you live your life. Because the only way that we will find our lives changing is by following Jesus Christ. But the Bible says, all have sinned and fallen short of thy glory. There is no one greater than anybody else. From pulpit to congregation, from congregation to hierarchy system, we are all equal in the eyes of God. But religion puts and church puts class layers out there. You've only got to look at churches, you've only got to look at the class layer that runs through the thread. It's everywhere. But this this is really important. I believe God is calling every one of us as individuals. God is calling us around the world. You know, God is with you. You are grafted into the vine. And it's not about getting to church, it's about keeping your eyes on Jesus. And then we have that difficult question. Well, how do I keep my eyes on this invisible king? I keep my eyes on this invisible king through the greatest book the world has ever seen, through the word. When I read the word of God, that's when that's when I find out who this Jesus is. When you study Jesus and you realize that Jesus is from Genesis to Revelation, suddenly you realize that all things are possible to those who believe. All things are possible to those who believe. But to believe in the nation in which we live will take every amount of energy and fiber because the whole nation, and I'm referring to the political drive, the monetary situation we're in, the everything that's going on, it is driving, it is driving the opposite way. It's going the opposite way, but this this is what happens when a nation takes their eyes off of Jesus. When the nation takes their eyes off of Jesus, you will find this in many places. Now let's read this. It says, Be careful. Uh, verse 1 of Deuteronomy chapter 8, be careful to follow every command I have given you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter into the promise, the promised land that the Lord thy God has promised to honor to the forefathers. Remember how the Lord, and as you read that all the way through, just read that through and I'll just breeze over that. It's really important for me to get that if I keep my eyes on Jesus, I will suddenly start to find that peace will start to be deposited. If I keep my eyes on Jesus, I start to take my eyes off the political agenda. I start to stop worrying as I used to. But I've got to I've got to read. I've got to read the word of God. But we are living in a society where our attention span isn't no longer than three to five minutes. The concentration of the human being is because we have got so many things, we've got so many plates spinning everywhere. We're look always looking to go to the next thing. We haven't got the attention span. That has nothing to do with education, that has nothing to do with our makeup, it's to do with the society and the culture and the way the rhythm of the world is. It is so fast. But Jesus is calling you, He's not calling you to church online. God is not asking you to go to church, God is not asking you to stay in this house. God is telling you to follow Him. And who is the Him? See, the church, and when I talk about the church, I'm talking about the leadership and that system. It has lost the fundamental points of what true Christianity is. When you look at what true Christianity is and you understand who Jesus is, suddenly you realize that I don't belong to the demographical understanding of what they say religion and church is. I belong to the kingdom, and the kingdom is outside of what we call religion. If you're looking for healing, let me tell you, the word will give you healing. If you're looking for peace in your life, the word will give you healing. If you're looking for help in any area, it is in the word of God. But when you look at the Israelites from all the way from the very beginning right up to where we are now, they've had to fight for every breath, every area of life. And God promised them great and amazing promises, but they had to go and live in front of an adversity. They had to live in the promised land where they had the Canaanites, the Jebusites, the Hivites. There was the enemy right in their territory. But they was okay when they kept their eyes on Jesus. See, whatever season you go through, four seasons, spiritual seasons, just like the four weather systems we have, you've got to keep your eyes on Jesus. And it was mentioned, it was quite earlier on mentioned about the prodigal son. Very interesting text that is. That speaks about every one of us, you know. Every one of us, every one of us has and may still be a prodigal. We will never be right with Jesus Christ. It is impossible to get our lives right with Jesus Christ. When you look at Paul, the great writer, he said, Oh, wretched man am I! Why do I do the things I shouldn't do? And I can't do the things that I know that I should be doing. Why is my life backwards, upside down? Why am I shipwrecked? Why am I beaten? Why am I why am I pushed out of cities? Why am I chased out of workplace? Why is my life upside down, inside out? Because God has called you. Following Jesus will be the hardest endurance race of your life. Go to church, and that can be easy. Because you going to church, and I'm talking about all of us from leadership through through every fabric of it, going to church is irrelevant. It's when you'd say to yourselves, I'm going to follow him. And that is not a decision to say, I'm saved. Because salvation is outside of the hands of the church, outside of humanity, and salvation sits in the hands of the God of Israel. So when you look at the God of Israel and you realize that God of Israel is all power, all good, or all power, and all encompassing, when you understand who God is, and we will never understand who he is, but when I get a little bit of an understanding, a little bit of a foothold on the understanding that the God of Israel is in full charge of all things. And then we look at the marches and we look at what's happening in society and culture and in schools. Who'd ever thought we have a free toilet system in schools? Where am I going today? What door am I going to go through? We have so much carnage across the nation. We are living in a skip. You know, the government is always, you got your new, you know, wherever you are, especially live in Kent, you got new bins, and it's great that we got new bins. You know, I think there's more rubbish in number 10 Downing Street than there is anywhere in they they need to sort their bins out. They need to sort, they need to recycle right the way through. You know, and we are living in a nation that is being led by schoolboys, schoolboys with education. We need to be led by warriors that are willing to stand up. To stand up, you know, we need to be led by real men. When you look at the men that we got being led in the are you can't call them men, they're weak and they have no power, they just have chat because what they change they have the chat, but nothing is delivered. That is the thing. Nothing is delivered. We're gonna stop this, we're gonna stop that, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that, but it's in reverse. So we have to look as Christians, we have to look at the political temperature, the financial markets, we have to look at the church, we have to look at every structure because that's what God says. Keep your eyes on what's going on, don't be fooled. So that's how we measure, and then we say, God, give me wisdom. What do I do about the political temperature? What do I do about the worry of the interest rate? What do I do about the education, the three toilet system? What do I do about the environment? What do I do, God? What do I do? And the simple answer is this keep your eyes on me. Watch what's happening to the left and to the right and around you, but keep your eyes on Jesus. If you want peace, you're not going to find it in what the world is offering you. The Bible says, Do not conform to the pattern of the world. And when you look in this book of Deuteronomy chapter 8, God says, Keep what I've told you to do. Keep the instruction that I've told you to do. If you were to go to IKEA and to buy a unit and you pull the instructions out, and then you go to B and Q and buy another unit that looks the sameish sort of thing, and you swap the instructions over, you're going to have carnage. The book is instruction. If we come out, and I'm not talking about everyone in the congregation, I'm talking about the leadership. If the leadership takes us out of instruction, what is going to happen? We're open to the Middle Knights, the Canaanites, the Hebusites, the Eastern people. When you look at what the Bible says in the book about the eastern people, what their makeup is, it's very interesting in Gideon. When you look at Gideon's story, Gideon's story is very clear. It talks about the bit uh the Midianites and it talks about those that come into the land. That they come in, the Bible says they come in like locusts, and the Bible calls them eastern people. I'll be careful how I say this. When you look at what the Bible refers to as Eastern people, what are they made up as? What is their makeup? Someone who lives in the east, certain turbans, certain clothes, certain tribal way that they live their lives. God says, watch out for them people. They will come in like locusts, they will come in and swarm your land and strip everything back. Now, in the book of Judges 5 and 6, it talks about Gideon and it talks about Gaza. So, what we got now, there is nothing new under the sun. The Bible has already been talking about it, and it says that the Israelites planted their crops right the way through, right the way down through Gaza. Judges 5 and 6, you will read it about yourself. But God says, Watch out, watch out for the eastern people, they will come in with their camels. You know what I'm talking about. Not me, it's what the Bible says. The Bible says that it says that they they will come in with their camels, and you won't be able to count the amount of men. You won't be able to account them. They are so many. They're coming across the channel on their camels, they're coming across. You know, we are watching across the world, we are watching the eastern people according to the word, come in to nations and flood them like locusts. The Bible says it, not me. I'm just reading what the text says. The Bible says, watch out for the Midnites and all those, but also be careful of the Eastern people. They will come in with their camels. The men you will not be able to count. It doesn't talk about women. And what have we got happening with the little rubber boats? You can't hardly count a woman, but the eastern people are coming in to what? Devour the crop and the land. The scripture says it. When you come away from God, the gates are open. Very, very interesting what's happening to this land at this moment in time. The eastern people, you cannot count them, and that is fact. That is fact. That is fact. So when you look at these scriptures, when a nation comes away from God and the nation takes their eyes off of God because of the political leaders. Now, when you look at the church, you look at the church, the church should be the direct area. But the church can't lead this nation because the church, the the church of England belongs to government. It belongs, it's wrapped up. It has to get so much stuff from parliament. It can't seem to make a decision without going through the satanic triangle, monarchy, religion, and back to the political drive. So, what do I do? What do you do? What do we do as individuals? We've got to keep our eyes on Jesus. Because we're living in a land that is swarmed with locers. The Bible says that. Watch out for the Eastern people, watch out for that certain tribal way. You won't be able to count them. They will come in, and the Bible says they came in right to Israel. They came into their land and they sweeped right the way through. They devoured the land. Does that sound pretty familiar to certain things of life? Bringing their own laws in, bringing their own courts in, trying to get this to happen, trying to get that, coming to infiltrate the structure, and that's what they tried to do in Israel. But when Israel suddenly went, hang on a minute, we got to get back to God. See, when you get back to God, God deals with the locust. When you get back to Scripture, God deals with the dogs and the mutilators of the flesh. When you get back to God, this is what we got to do. We don't need another political journalist speaking. We don't need an outside party coming in and telling us what their nation is doing. We don't need another flag to another lamppost. What we need is Bibles in schools. What we need are Bibles in schools and in education and in university. We need Bibles. We don't need another church. We don't need another church building being built because that's religion. What we need is for every one of us to realize that we're grafted into the olive, we're grafted into the vine, and nothing can separate you from the love of God. Again, we come back to the prodigal son situation. The nation is like the prodigal, it has gone far. We are living, if you look at that great story of the prodigal son, it says that he found himself living with pigs. I gotta tell you, there are a lot of pigs in this nation, and there is a lot of things going on. We are in a pig style the only way you'll get out of the pig style is to focus on Jesus Christ. And what is so powerful about that story? It says the sun came to his senses, so the sun was living with the pigs, he was eating out the troughs. He says, I found myself coming out of an environment and thinking the grass is greener on the other side, get myself into Europe. Oh, we didn't say that, and then suddenly starting to realize that I'm living with pigs, and I'm living in a trough. And because the government decided to take us to a trough, we are suddenly living in an environment that's not fit for humanity. We are living, we talk about human rights, we talk about all that stuff that goes on, that doesn't fit. That doesn't sit. We are living in a trough, we are living in a pig stye, and we are eating with pigs. Now, the prodigal son had to come to his own senses. This is what we need. God, bring me to my senses because Lord, I can't live like this anymore. See, when you come out of the father's house, and we're not talking about church, this is really important. It's not about the fabric, because Jesus has left many denominations a long time ago. When you come out of the Father's house, what was the what is the biblical understanding of that text? When you come away from the Father's covering, when you come outside of the come out, when you leave the Father's wings, Psalm 91, whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will find protection, will find rest, will find hope of you go through the valley of the shadow of death as you live your life. God will protect you right in the face of the locusts, the dogs that mutilated of the flesh, and when we live in such treacherous times. But what I gotta do is fix my eyes on Jesus. Gideon, when you look at that great biblical text of Gideon, and when you look at this text that we're in now, Deuteronomy says, be careful to follow every command I give you. If you come away from instruction, we know. If you follow cooking instructions and you follow it, all's well. If you look at the picture and you decide to do it your own way, it's gonna get burnt. We've got to follow instruction. The Bible is the book of instruction, the greatest instruction book of the world. When I follow it, now when I follow it, what does it mean? It means that I'm trusting God with my life. I'm trusting God. My God shall supply all my needs according to thy riches in glory. That great foundational text my God shall supply all my needs according to thy riches in glory. Doesn't matter what's going on in the nation that I live, if I keep my eyes on Jesus, God will put food on. The table supernaturally. God will help me pay the bills supernaturally. God will help me at work at home. God will help me when I'm pressurized at work. When I keep my eyes on Jesus. Jesus doesn't talk about the church. The only thing that we see that he says, he says, I'm the head of the church. No Pope, no bishop, no Canterbury. Pentecostal movement. I am the cornerstone. I am that I am. I'm the King of the Jews. I am the great I am. I am the bread of life. I am the way, the truth. I am the door. When you look at Jesus Christ, if you are in trouble right now, whether online in the house, and your life looks just like carnage, like let's be honest, the majority of life at the moment, it is we are living in a very unusual way. Our lives, we are stretched beyond stretch. Financially, spiritually, emotionally, work-wise. We're living life at such a fast pace. But if you keep your eyes on Jesus, you keep your eyes on Jesus. As it says there, be careful to follow every command I've given you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter into the promised land that the Lord promised on oath. See, God has given us promises that I can easily forget. I can easily forget because I will say, when I say the New Testament church, what I mean by the New Testament church, not the New Testament church according to the word, but when you look at the church as it calls itself, it is not the New Testament church because pastor hasn't sold his house and he ain't sold his car to go and feed the poor. It's upside down, so it's not the New Testament church. If you've got a pastor on a skateboard, he's following Jesus. That's simple. If you've got leaders that are selling and moving and giving and feeding and looking after a community, they're getting something right in their life. When you look at what we see at church today, it's all about CV, it's all about building, it's all about career building, it's all about raising a profile, it's all about it, it's it's so it's business. You know, if you've got a good business acumen, you can build a church. Because it's it's taken the business model. But Jesus says, keep keep the instruction. I'm gonna put you in the promised land. Yes, there's Canaanites, Jebusites, there's all that stuff going on, but I've promised you and I will fulfill my promise. But if we come outside of the promise and come out of instruction, God's there. God's there, but He's saying, Come back to me. That's the power of the prodigal son. It's great to realize that I'm a prodigal. Because when you realize you're a prodigal, there's hope. If we think that we're not prodigals, we've got issues. That brings in arrogance, that I've got it right, that I've got all everything right. I'm a prodigal day in, day out, hour after hour. I make mistakes that you would never believe. I say things that I shouldn't say because I am a human being, and the Bible says all have sinned and fallen short of thy glory. There is only one righteous one, and his name is Jesus. He is the high priest, the creator of heaven and earth. We're coming to the table in the moment. We're gonna break bread together, and this is not about church. I invite you at home, I invite you at home to get yourself a bit of bread. Maybe you got a bit of burger bun from leftover last night or a pizza crust. It doesn't matter because it rep, it's just the representation of fruit shoot. It's irrelevant because it's about your heart. It's our heart, Father, in the name of Jesus. I'm a prodigal, but I'm coming back. You can call me yo-yo pastor, because that's how I feel. In and out, backwards and forwards, upside down, inside out, all over the place. Circles, in, out, up there, that way, this way. Yo-yo, Reverend Yo-Yo, that's my new title. In and out, backwards, forwards, upside down, one step forward, two miles backwards. Because that's humanity, that's the reality of life, that's the reality of everything. So I've been right over and just throwing a blanket out today. But the scripture is clear keep your eyes on Jesus. Now, when you look at Jesus, we understand that Jesus came into the world. When you look at the way Jesus came into the world, yes, we know what route he took, we know that biological route. But what's really interesting in that, when you look at all the other gods around the world, I love this. Every I'll I'll use this because this is how they use it, the terminologies. All the gods that they serve, we know because we covered this a couple of weeks ago, all those gods are dead, and there's a marker. There's a marker to every one of those. Somewhere, somewhere, somehow, there is a shrine, there is a place where you can go and visit their dead god. I'm not interested in following the dead, I'm following the living king, and his name is Jesus. So every other God, when they came into the world, it took two people to bring them in. It only took one person to deliver him. The man wasn't around, and we know what we're saying. There's kids in the house, I've got to be careful. We understand what we are saying. There wasn't a human being, there was one human being. Divine intervention. When you look at that, when you understand that and you work that out, but all the other gods you will trace, they're mom and dad. They're not gods, they're myths. There's no other god except the God of Israel, and the God that I serve, Yahweh, Jehovah Jirah, actually brought those gods in because those gods are actually human beings, they are men that have made up their own agenda. And if you look at what man has made up, you know it will only benefit the man because he's selfish and he's arrogant and he wants every itch itched, he wants every scratch scratched. So when you look at what the world religions have made up, it will only benefit the man. So when you look at that, but when you look at Christianity and you understand how that was formed, now in the Gospel of John, it tells us how Jesus arrived into the world in the beginning. You know, it says very clearly in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and then you go a bit further on, it tells us something really clear. It doesn't say it says, He became the word became flesh. When you look at the word became and you take it back to the root, it's just referring to it's coming in what was already in existence. So the word and the word became flesh, he was already in, but he chose the transit route, not the van route, he chose that canal to come into the world. So when you look at the birth of Jesus, there was no man, there was just a God, and a young woman that was scared, witless. The angel dropped into her front room while she was watching Netflix, probably scrolling scrolling through, getting another Amazon order ready. And the angel dropped in and he went, God likes you. You found favor. Oh, hang on a minute. That's thrown me off my shopping list. What do you mean I found favor? You're gonna bring someone into the what? Me? Me? See, when favor drops onto your life, God has a plan for your life. Don't worry, you're not gonna have children. We're not talking about having children, we're talking about having favor. When you realize that favor sits on you, God will deliver everything that's got to be delivered. You ain't gotta go and buy no more file it's rusks. We're not talking about that. We're talking about when favor descends on you. See, favor drops. Favor is such a powerful word. When you look at it and what it means, so the word became, it was already. Where was it already? He tells us in the beginning of John. See, we serve a God that has always been in existence, we serve a God that created Joseph Mormon, we serve a God that created the prophets. You know what I'm talking about. We serve a God that created the men that created the satanic religions that they follow. Our God, you could say, you could argue the fact, yes, he came down the canal, so he was birthed. But our God was already in existence. The word became, he was already in existence, he chose that route to present himself, to un so I can understand that he brings it to a human level. But I still don't understand it because Joseph was down weatherspoons having a pint, and suddenly he finds out, hang on, what's going on, Mary? Easy, girl. What are you talking about? I was down watching football and now you're carrying child. Oh, we know a few of them stories, don't we, in the name of Jesus? Always springs out of weatherspoons. There's always trouble in weatherspoons. So when you look at this story, man was not involved in Mary's area of that life. But when you look at world religions and how they come around, you will find their God is dead, their God is being what the dead are being worshipped. I serve a God that's not dead. I serve a king that is the greatest king the world has ever seen. I serve the Savior of the world, and he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and someone said it earlier on through the prayers that Jesus is praying for us. When you take that text and you realize what it means, Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for all the saints. Oh, it's those Catholic blokes. No, it's got nothing to do with that. Jesus is interceding for you and for me. When we pray, and you're in that van and you're in that car and you're on the commute run and you're sitting on the edge of the bread and you're crying and you're scared and there's no one around you and you feel lonely. God has got your tears in a bottle, according to the word. Every tear that has been cried, every scar that you carry, he knows, every fear that you've gone through. See, the other gods are dead. They're bones, nothing. The gods that they serve are nothing. They're dead, they're gone. There's no other God like the God of Israel. There's no other king like the king of the Jews, not the king of the Palestinians, the king of the Jews. There's no other king like Jesus Christ. They crowned him the king of the Jews, the great I am. Isaiah spoke 700 years before he came down that canal, and he said, A son will be given, a king will rise seven hundred years before the event took place. See, I don't know who you serve, but his name is Jesus. Following Jesus will be the hardest journey you've ever done in your life. The majority of people will shun you. You go to school and they'll laugh at you. You talk about it in the playground and they'll put you down, they'll bully you. You put it on social media and they'll try and crush you. But when you tell the world I'm a born-again Christian, oh you've added a bit of flavor to the conversation. I'm born again. Pastor Ben, he's a fruit loop from down the corner. He's a born-again. You don't understand what being born again means. I ain't done nothing. He's just given me low hope and he's given me salvation. I ain't done nothing. I don't deserve it. Because that's what it means to be born again, to be saved, to enter into his kingdom. You can't work it, you can't earn it, you can't pay for it because you've been bought with a price. I we've been bought with a price online. You've been bought with a price. You may never enter into a church, but God loves you. You may never ever want a desire to go to church, and I don't blame you in the name of Jesus. Why do I want to go to church? What is church doing for me? The Bible talks about the kingdom of God, and we come to the table. To be born again means to be born from above. Salvation and redemption comes from above, and we basically have the understanding that God has decided to choose you. God has decided to choose you online. You're not watching by chance, God loves you. God loves you, you're not here by chance, God loves you, and that is the fundamental fact of Christianity. God loves you. Isn't it absolutely mind-blowing to know that God doesn't require anything from us? Because we can't do anything, because we're fallen, we're fallen, and when I realize I'm fallen, oh wretched man am I, the writer writes, the greatest writer the world has ever seen, the apostle Paul. When you look at what that man has written, when you look at what he went through, he clearly said, Oh wretched man am I, my life is a mess, it's upside down. But through that fabric of his life, God shaped him and chiseled him and used him and put it in his heart to write the greatest scriptures, the greatest pieces of literature. You want however you want to look at it, God used a man that wasn't fit for purpose. That makes me want to cry. God used a human being that wasn't fit for purpose, and when you study where Paul came from, he wasn't fit for purpose. He wanted to see Christianity wiped out. So there's hope for you, Kia. He wanted to wipe out Christianity, he wasn't fit for purpose. When you look at the story of the spies that went out, that went into that great fortified city, they was hidden within a prostitute's house on the top. They was hidden in a den of iniquity. And she said, I'll get you out of this, fellas. If we can do a deal. The two spies that were sent out to go and see what was happening, and the the soldiers and everyone were looking for them, and she stood up and went, They're not here. I think they've gone that way. Go that way. If you catch them, you'll be quick enough. She jumps back up on the rooftop where she hid them under the flax of the roof, and she said, Look, fellas, I'm gonna do a deal with you. So the lady of the night, because I'll put it gently because we have little ears in the house. The lady of the night struck a deal with two godly men, someone that wasn't fit for purpose. But you will find her again in the scripture in Matthew, she was used in the genealogy of who Jesus. When you follow where Jesus came from, from David, when you follow that back, you will find it mentions her name through the family tree. Oh, we got a lady of the night in the tree, in the genealogy of Jesus. What is going on? Because you know what? God calls people that are not fit for purpose. Let me put that in scripture as we come to the table. God calls the lowly, thank you that you called me. God calls the despised, he called me. He calls the things that are not and called them into be. See, when you look, see, we'll never have our lives right. But God is calling those that are not fit for purpose. And when he calls us not fit for purpose, he puts us on the potter's wheel, and he shapes us and he molds us and he deals with the clay. Only the master can deal with that clay, and he shapes that vessel, and he works with that vessel, and he takes that clay off and he hits that clay and he punches that clay and he works that clay and he gets all the imperfections out. There's a great place to be, is in the master's hands, the potter's hands, because when you're in the potter's hands, he's working on our lives. All the imperfections that no one else can get out except the master. I thank God, I thank God that I'm not perfect, I thank God that my life isn't right. I thank God that I'm a prodigal. Reverend Yo-Yo. I thank God that God loves me, and we cannot escape from the fact that God loves doing an unbelievable thing with imperfect people in unusual times. Thank God that I'm not perfect, thank God that I'm scarred and fragile and scared and worried. But through the journey, the journey of following Jesus over the hours, over the days, he keeps watering the clay, he shapes it, he deals with it. The prodigal that disappears and then comes back to the father's arms. Now, what's really interesting, the product I know we're running out of time, your chicken's burning, your taters are all gone up the wall, but never mind, your grains have all bubbled out. Just get yourself a takeaway, just go to McDonald's, it's just as quick and probably healthier, wouldn't you say kids? Probably more healthier, innit? I think it's more healthier, innit? Especially the nuggets. Pigeon, I'd reckon. Anyway, I can't talk about food. I've got to finish this. So, right, when you when you look at the prodigal, it says that he wanted to get back to the father. He wanted to get back to the father, our father in heaven, Matthew chapter six. Isn't it amazing that the Lord's Prayer doesn't mention church? Our Father. If you feel online in the house or wherever you are, whenever you capture this service, now years down the line, or whenever that may be, if you feel that you can't get into church because something has gone on, thank God. Go to the Father. Open up the word of God, turn to Matthew chapter 6, our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. See, when you realize about the power of the Lord's Prayer, there are uncountable prodigals right now coming back to the Father. But what we tend to do is we flock to church and we think that if I get back to church, it's all gonna be alright. I guarantee you we're gonna walk out the door in the same way. Because I've got to get back to the father. But if you're in the house and you've got back to the father, you'll walk out different because I ain't gonna change your life, that's for sure. It's Jesus, it's the father, the father. So the prodigal, where did he go? He said, I've got to get back to me, Dad. Makes me want to cry. You get back to your father, you get back to the king. See, you can be an orphan because. You don't need earthly parents because there is a father in heaven that loves you, there is a father that sent his son, and his son is the father because the Bible says his name. They gave him the name Emmanuel, God with us, and in Colossians chapter 1, verse 15 through to 20, it tells us Jesus is the image of the invisible God. So when you look at it and you look at Jesus at the cross, you're not just looking at Jesus, you're looking at the Trinity. Because Jesus is the image of God to go to the cross for you. Gotta go to hell for you. Got to turn the world upside down for you. Just come back to Jesus. If this nation, the Bible says, if my people will humble themselves and come back to me, I will heal their land. That is what we need. Just get back to Jesus. Forget church, don't come to church ever again. Just get to Jesus. But when you go, leave all your money in the bin. Thank you in the name of Jesus. Sounded like an American, then I right. So now is a time just to get back to Jesus. Let's do it privately online. Maybe you don't know how. We don't know how to how do we get back to Jesus? That is the awkward. How do we get back to the king? I believe it's something like this. Jesus, forgive me. I'm a sinner. Saved by grace. Job done. You can say it quietly. You can shout it out. You can be flying around the M25 in your transit van, customer hope in the name of Jesus. Undo the windows shout it out. Going through the Dartford tunnel. Shout it out through blue water. I'm saved by grace. I'm saved by grace. Undeserved favor. And there is no one on planet Earth that deserves it. And I love the scripture that says it's not by works so that no one can boast. So I'm really sorry, Pope. I'm really sorry, Canterbury. I'm really sorry, the majority of leaders, it's not by works and ministry so that no one can boast. Because God decides. God decides. Let's come to the table. We're out of time. We're borrowing electric from next door now. So we've got the extension lead out. We're nicking their electric because we're going to run out any minute in the name of Jesus. Father, we come to the table. And Lord, we love you. It's that simple, Jesus. I can't work this stuff out, Lord, but all I know is I'm learning to love you each day. I'm learning to walk in this scripture. I'm learning, Lord. And Father, I thank you that the Gospel of John says this. I believe it's in the Gospel of John. It says, you don't need man to teach you, it's the Holy Spirit. See, it's the Holy Spirit that will teach you. All we need is a Bible. Take a Bible from the church. If you need a Bible online, hit us up in the email account. And we will get you a Bible wherever you are across the other side of the world as we do. Because it is the Bible, it is the Word of God. Father, as we come to the table, we break bread. And Lord, we thank you that this bread just symbolizes the body of Jesus. And Lord, I'm not worthy of this. I'm not worthy of this. And I'll never be worthy of this. No matter if I sit in my loft, shut the door, and never come out of the house ever again. I will never be perfect. I will never get my life right. But the Lord that I serve says, just come to me, Ben. Just come to the table. There is something powerful about the Passover table. And he just says, Come to the table. Just come and sit and commune with me. Ben, your life's a mess, but I love you, son. The nation in which you live in, it's a mess. But I love the nation. I love the people. He says, I love you. And everyone online, God loves you. And he's calling you right now. He's calling you. And he's saying, just trust me. I know it's the toughest thing you'll ever do in your life. Just trust me. So, Father, I'm going to learn to trust you more and more. I'm going to learn, dear God, to live in the instruction. And Lord, I've already lied because I won't be able to do it. But Lord, will you help me to live in the book? Will you help me to live in this book? Because it's it's an impossible book to live in. Because it's so holy and so powerful. But Lord, you created it for us. That you've given us a hope and a future. So, Father, I recognize that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. And I'm not worthy of taking this. So Lord, I thank you. Just as Judas took the bread. I'm doing it. Father, please bless this bread that symbolizes your body. In Jesus' name. Amen. The cup of redemption. The cup of redemption. When you think about that, that cup representing the blood of Jesus. Not representing religion or church. Just the blood of Jesus. The blood that hadn't been shed yet. The blood that he was speaking about. He said, as often as you gather together, fellas, ladies and gents, boys and girls, wherever you are, just do this in remembrance of me. And scripturally it says he took the bread, dipped it in there, took the, and it became one. So as we take of this cup now, Lord, I thank you I'm not right. But I'm alright. It's not okay, but it is okay. So Lord, I thank you. For the journey of being a human being, I can relax now, Lord, and realize, I'm never gonna get it right, but I'm gonna keep trying. And I'll try and I'll keep trying. And when I get kicked down, I'll rise back up. And when I fall again, I'll get back up. And when I trip over and hit my head on the wall, knock myself out for a while, I'll get back up. And I'll get back up again. Because how many times does the Bible say you're gonna get back up? Seven, seventy-seven, over and over and over. Jesus says there's no limit, son. If there was a limit, it would limit the cross. But the cross and redemption is endless. So cover me in the blood. In Jesus' name. Amen. We're way over time. We are way over time. I'm so sorry. Get yourself a McDonald's on me. Put it on the slate. I owe you. Go on, kids. Oh, I'm so sorry, parents. Don't eat McDonald's. If your mum's not watching, you'll be alright. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus. We come before you. I come before you, Lord, and I want to tell the world that I stand with the biblical Israel. And I want to tell the world right now that I love Jesus. I love Jesus. And I stand with Israel biblically. And Lord, I want to tell the world that I don't partner with the British government or any government. I walk with Jesus. I'm a Jesus follower. And I love him. And he set me free. And he's given me a hope in a skip. I thank you, Jesus. And I pray, Lord, for this nation, Lord, that you will breathe over this nation and you will revive us again. So, Lord, bless everyone online. God, I just pray, Lord, for everyone online right now that they receive a healing. They'll be blessed. Lord, and just let your love over everybody in the house and online. And Lord, I just thank you. I just thank you, Lord. There's always hope in Jesus' name. Amen.