Why 1 Peter Says Silver Cannot Save

“He was chosen before the creation of the world.” That line from 1 Peter stops us in our tracks, because it says redemption was not God’s emergency response, it was always the plan. We read 1 Peter 1:18–23 and follow the thread where it actually leads: not to silver, not to influence, not to tradition, but to the precious blood of Jesus Christ and the living Word of God that stands forever.

We also speak plainly about religion and performance. Lent, labels, denominations, movements, money, and celebrity platforms cannot produce the new birth. Being born again does not come from a preacher’s personality or a church’s stagecraft; it comes from God through Jesus Christ. We connect the language of the “lamb without blemish” to the Passover story in Exodus, and we talk about faith versus sight, why we struggle to believe what we cannot measure, and why Scripture was written for our sake so we can truly see.

Then we come to the table, pray the Lord’s Prayer, and take communion with gratitude for Christ’s broken body and the cup of redemption. If you’re looking for a Bible-based Christian podcast that centres the gospel, calls for discernment, and strengthens your faith in uncertain times, press play and stay with us. Subscribe, share the podcast with a friend, and leave a review so more people can hear the Word, will you?

We open 1 Peter 1:18–23 and keep it simple: salvation is not bought with silver and gold, but given through the precious blood of Jesus Christ. We challenge religious performance and online church spectacle, then come to communion and prayer with a call to follow Jesus first.
• reading 1 Peter on redemption and the new birth
• Jesus chosen before creation and revealed for our sake
• why money, status and tradition cannot save
• Lent and religious systems compared with Scripture
• Passover roots and the lamb without blemish
• living by faith rather than sight and senses
• warnings about fake power and showmanship in modern church culture
• communion, the Lord’s Prayer, and closing prayer for listeners worldwide

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Reading 1 Peter On Redemption

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live stream, you know, we thank you for staying with us on the live stream services. But we're gonna drop straight in, we're gonna go to one Peter. So if you're with us tonight, grab yourself a Bible, let's just jump straight into one Peter as we get comfortable. Get yourself a cup of tea, grab yourself a cup of coffee, whatever it may be. Let's just get straight into the word of God and we thank God for your lives and wherever you are situated at this moment in time. Let's get ourselves comfortable. We're gonna dive straight into the word of God. One Peter, one Peter, chapter one, and as we have a quick look at these scriptures, one Peter chapter one, verse 18. You know, what a great book this is tonight. What a great, you know, word that we're gonna bring to each and every one of us. So wherever you are, I just pray that you will find the love of God and the power of the Holy Spirit and the the presence of Jesus Christ will carry you wherever you are, you know, and it starts in uh verse 18, and it says, uh, for you know that it was not with uh perishable things like silver and gold that you was uh redeemed from the empty way of uh life that you was handed down from your forefathers, but it was from the precious blood, the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. Through him, I love this, verse 21, through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, so that your faith and hope are in God. And it says there now that you have uh purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have sincere love for your brothers, uh love one another deeply from your heart. And then verse 23, read what it says in verse 23, for you have been born again. I love this. Come on, let's have a look at this. For you have been born again, you have been born again, that great word again. You have been born again, not of uh perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and the enduring word of God. For all men are like grass, for they are like their glory, like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord stands forever. You know, the word of God stands forever. There is power in the word of God, and wherever you are tonight, whatever and however you're capturing this broadcast, we just pray that the love of God will carry you and the Holy Spirit will just lift you up in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

Chosen Before Creation Explained

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But let's dive straight into these scriptures. If you're with us, you're looking in one Peter chapter one, and I want to pick it up in verse 20. If we can just spend a moment, what it says, and it says there in verse 20 of 1 Peter chapter 1, he says, He was chosen. Who is this he? You know, when you look at Lent at this moment in time, when you see everything that's happening around the world and everything that's breaking out in certain areas of this world and this life and everything that is going on, I want to let you know, and I know that you know that that he, we know that it is Jesus Christ. It is Jesus Christ, the savior of the world, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. So when we look at these scriptures, we are looking at Christ, the Redeemer, the Redeeming King, the coming King, the great I am. He is worthy of all praise. So when you look at these scriptures right before our very eyes tonight, he was chosen before the creation of the world. He was. When you think about that, that is just a showstopping scripture. When you look at that at this moment in time, he was chosen before the creation of the world. That goes against science, that goes against religion, that goes against all the authoritarians, that goes against absolutely everything. When you look at that scripture there, that is so powerful, that is so rich, that is so glorious to think that Jesus Christ was chosen before the creation of the world, before God, before God actually said, Let there be light, you know, and there was, he was chosen. He was chosen for what? What was he chosen for? He was chosen for salvation. He was chosen that we would have life and have life in abundance. He was chosen so that we would see salvation. He was chosen to die on the cross of Calvary. He was chosen that we would have life and have life in full abundance. When you look at the scripture tonight at this moment in time, it is beyond my human reasoning, it is beyond what I can think, it is beyond what I can ask, it is beyond what I can grasp, it is beyond all that sort of stuff that he was chosen. He was chosen before creation. He was chosen before time. He was chosen before anything of this world. He was chosen for you. I've got to keep repeating myself because I find this absolutely fascinating to know that the king was chosen before time. The king was chosen before uh the creation of the world. The king was chosen before anything that came into existence. You know, he is the king of kings and the lord of lords. He is worthy of all praise. He was chosen for you. He was chosen for you so that you would have life. He was chosen so that you would be redeemed. He was chosen so that the glory of God would rest on you. He was chosen so that you would find freedom. He was chosen that the hand of God would be on you. He was chosen that his blood would be shed at the cross of Calvary. But let's

Not Religion Only Jesus Saves

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remind ourselves what's happening in the world of church. We got Lent happening at this moment in time, you know. And where does the Bible talk about Lent? Where does it give us that direct, that clear direction about Lent? You won't really find that. You won't find that. You'll find scriptures that you could just bend and weave in and out. You know, he was chosen to die. It's not about Mary. The scriptures are not about Mary, they're not about Joseph, they're not about the disciples. It is about Jesus Christ. When you look at the text, the severity of the text that we are in, when you read verse 18, it says, For you know that it was not of uh perishable things such as silver and gold. You were redeemed uh from the empty way of life, the handed down to you by your forefathers, but it was from the precious blood, the precious blood of who? Of Christ. It doesn't talk about the blood of another human being, it doesn't talk about the blood of a of another person, it doesn't talk about the blood of anything or anyone else, it mentions the lamb. The reason we know that it mentions the lamb is because Christ is the uh lamb without blemish, because the scripture actually tells us that and it meets that criteria through the word of God. So when you look at all these scriptures that we are in at this moment in time, I find this absolutely fascinating to come to this understanding in my mind and my heart that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer. Everything is about Jesus. Jesus has redeemed us, Jesus has given us a hope and a future, Jesus has set us free, he is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords, and He was set aside for you. Jesus Christ was set aside for me. He was set aside that we would have life and have life in full abundance. When you read these scriptures, it is by the blood of Jesus, it is not by the blood of anybody else, it is not by the blood of heifers or bulls, it is not by the blood of Mary or Joseph, it is not by the blood of any disciple, it is by the blood of Jesus. It says a lamb without blend it, blemish, or defect. Now you will find the reference to this, you will find a reference to this. You know what I'm gonna say. If you turn to the book of Exodus, chapter 12, and if you have a Bible, the greatest investment that you'll ever have in your life is a Bible. If you turn to the book of Exodus, chapter 12, and you read that all the way through, you will find that God is giving us clear instruction about the Passover. And we are at the Passover season, and uh when you look at the church and the church is ramping up for Lent, Palm Sunday, you know, Monday, Thursday, all that stuff that goes along with the wills of religion. And I want to tell you tonight that it was the blood of Jesus. It wasn't through religion, it wasn't through Mary, it wasn't through the Pope, it wasn't through the leaders of Elium, it wasn't through me, it wasn't through uh the AOG movement, it wasn't through the Methodist movement, it wasn't through the Church of England, it wasn't through Catholicism, it wasn't through any church movement that you got salvation. Salvation is on you and through you and around you. Salvation is over you because of Jesus Christ. So when we study these texts, you know, 1 Peter chapter 1 from verse 18 is steeped in such powerful scriptures, theological depths. Verse 18, it says, For you know that it was not with perishable things, such as silver and gold. It tells us that Christ is telling us that silver and gold and materialism cannot get you born again. It cannot get you born again, it doesn't matter what money you got, it doesn't matter how rich you are, it doesn't matter what notoriety you got, it doesn't matter how many followers you got on TikTok, it doesn't matter how many um uh times you've been in and out of church, there's only one way that you're gonna get born again, and that is from the creator of heaven and earth and the one that was before time itself. And it says there very clearly that you were redeemed, you were redeemed, you weren't redeemed by the empty way of life that was handed down to you by your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ. The Bible doesn't talk about the blood of anybody else, the Bible clearly gives us clear instruction about the blood of Jesus. It is the blood of Jesus that has given us hope, it is the blood of Jesus that has given us freedom, it is the blood of Jesus that has made us and brought us into one area and one area only, and that presents itself to us in verse 23. For you have been born again. You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and the enduring work of God. For all men are like grass, and their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord stands forever. You have been born again by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He was chosen, he was chosen unto salvation before time even came into existence. When you look at these scriptures, 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20. So it is not by silver and gold, it is not by man's way, it is not by religion, it is not by lent, it is not by the Pope, it is not by Elim, it is not by any denomination, it is by the blood of Jesus and through the enduring word of God that you are born again and you are saved. There is no power in any preacher or any religious authoritarian, there is no power in the megachurch, there is no power in any movement to get anybody saved. It might shout it, it might dance around it, it might sound like it at certain times, but you are only born again because of Jesus Christ went to the cross of Calvary. And when you look at verse 20, it says he was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. We find that

Redemption Before Creation And End Times

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the end days, now it talks about the last times for your sake, the last days, but he was revealed in these last times. So as soon as Christ was birthed uh in the gospels, and we know through the timeline, and we know through history, as soon as Jesus Christ came into the world, what had actually started to happen? We started to watch the end times unfold because Jesus Christ was the trigger point of the end times start to move forward. Because when you look in verse 20, I would urge you and I would encourage you to grab a Bible and for yourself to read it to you for your eyes to look on lock onto it and see what the scripture says for itself. Verse 20 of 1 Peter chapter 1, it says that he was chosen before the creation of the world, before God said, Let there be light, there was a plan. When you think about that, there was a redemption plan before the creative God that we serve spoke this world into existence before creation, before the plan of human beings, before the fish, before the seas, before the moon, before the stars, before anything, in all creation, before anything was spoken into existence, God chose Himself through Christ Jesus to be revealed in the last days through the body of Christ Jesus. When you think about this line of itself, just sitting there nestling in the scripture in 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. He was revealed not because Christ had to be revealed for him to understand, Christ was revealed, Christ came into the world for what we call visualization, because we believe by what we see. That's why it can be so difficult to step into the area of faith. The Bible says that we do not live by sight, that we live by faith and faith alone. But we live our lives, our parochial life, we live this life by what we see, what we perceive, what we touch, what we smell, and what our senses pick up. So living by faith can be the most difficult thing that you can ever do in your life because we are programmed through this world by what I see in front of me is in existence. What I what I see with my eyes, what my my body can touch, what my my senses can absorb, everything through sensual perception. I believe that it's in front of me because I can see it, I can taste it, I can eat it, I can smell it. It's in front of me. So it is real. This is why Christ came to the earth. This is why we have the scripture, not because God needs to write it down, but it is written down for our sakes. It is written down for the human race to understand. So when you grasp verse 20 of 1 Peter chapter 1, he was chosen before the creation of the world. Now that line alone will absolutely throw every atheist upside down, inside out, to come to the understanding. So I can imagine the conversation. So, Pastor Ben, you are telling me as a Christian that you believe Jesus Christ was chosen before the foundation of the world, before the world was formed according to the world, before anything came into existence, before the first molecule, before the first ray of light, before sunlight, before the stars, before the universe, before any blade of grass, you, Pastor Ben, believe that Jesus Christ was chosen before the world was spoken. And the answer is yes. Before God said, Let there be light, Christ was in existence and Christ was chosen for redemption. So when you look at creation and you look at the fall of humanity, you know nothing has taken God by surprise. Adam and Eve, when they fell in the garden, when the serpent came along, when the serpent got extracted out of heaven, when Lucifer was kicked down to earth, when everything happened, there is nothing on this earth, under this earth, through this earth, there is nothing around this earth, there is nothing about this earth that has taken God by surprise in any way, shape, or form. Let me tell you, before the Creator created, the King was in existence. Before the Creator said, Let there be light, Jesus Christ was already known as the redeeming king because he was chosen, he was chosen to die upon the cross. Now try and work this out. Before light started to shine, before darkness hovered over the surface of the deep, before the fish started to swim in the seas and the rivers and the waters, before daylight came from the sun, before the sun was even in existence, before time itself was created, before the universes, before anything in all creation, before the the furthest star and the furthest moon, the solar systems, before anything that is in existence, before anything. Imagine there was just shut down. There was nothing, but there was three the deity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit. So there was a plan. There was a plan before God said, Let there be. There was a plan, a plan of what? Not a plan of creation, but a plan of redemption. Because redemption is always before creation. Redemption was before creation. Redemption was always. Salvation was always. So this is why we have to laugh to ourselves about the certain preaching, the certain areas of church. When you actually think about what is happening in the church in the UK, it does not represent Christ in many facets, in many shapes, in many formulas. It does not represent God. Because when you think about God before the world was spoken into existence, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit were preparing for redemption. But before they prepared for redemption, they always was. So redemption has always been. Redemption has been before creation. Creation is secondary to what we understand because the spiritual world has always been in existence. And what we gotta what I've got to try and understand, what I've got to try and grapple with, is that no preacher, no pastor, no leader, it doesn't matter how big the congregation is. It doesn't matter if the preacher has the greatest uh beautiful sounding voice in heaven and earth. Earth, it doesn't matter if they are a mega denomination, no one has the power to give anyone salvation. That is fact. No preacher, no teacher, no theologian, no school of ministry, no super school of ministry, super school of supernatural, nothing can give you salvation, only the God of Israel. And before he was, and he always was the God of Israel, before Israel came into existence. Redemption was before creation. How can you say that? He was chosen before. He was chosen before. What was he chosen for? What was this choice? What was what was happening in the heavens above before any molecules, before any light, before anything came into existence? What was happening in the heavenly realms? What was happening in the area of darkness? Because that's what the Bible says. If you read Genesis chapter 1, read Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, and it says something really profound that nothing was in existence. Nothing. We can't grasp the word nothing because we have never experienced nothing, because there is always something. But the God that we serve tells us through this book that we are reading tonight, through 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20, he was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. He was chosen before the world was created, and he was revealed at not at the cross, at the birth. When Christ was birthed, when Christ and when Mary, I should say, when Mary gave that last push, and when Jesus was presented as a child to the world, that's when the last days started to tick away. Because that's what the Bible says. Are we prepared for the second coming of Jesus? When you look at these scriptures, when you see everything that's happening here, so no preacher, no denomination, it doesn't matter how great

Calling Out Fake Church Spectacle

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the preacher thinks he is, it doesn't matter how many Rolls Royces he goes to church in on Sunday, it doesn't matter how many horses are protecting him on a Sunday, it doesn't matter how long the red carpet is, it doesn't matter. There are some crazy things happening on the social networks at this moment in time, what pastors are doing. They are breathing over people, they are almost kicking people, they are pushing people. Do you know what? If I've had a bad air day and I need to have a laugh, what do I do? I go onto the social platforms and I watch these charlatans, you know, I watch these Luciferians, I watch these satanic preachers. Absolutely, they're not even, you know, they're not even talking about Jesus. They're they're waving their coat at the crowds and people are falling around. They're shouting these crazy things and they're falling around. That isn't of God, that is of the occult world. You know, when you look at what's happening in certain areas of church and certain areas of the occult world, it is dressed up and it looks like and it labels itself on the social networks as church, the mega church. It is the mega occult. Let me tell you this. If a pastor is waving his jacket at you and you are falling over, there's no way in God's earth that you're born again. If the pastor is shouting out all this crazy stuff, send me this, send me that, there's no way he is born again. Let me tell you, no pastor can heal you. No one can set you free other than Jesus Christ. And Christ is not gonna work in a circus called as the megachurch. Christ is not working in a circus called tradition. Jesus Christ works outside of all that razzamataz. God doesn't need Hollywood to get his work done. God doesn't need pastors that are waving their jackets. God doesn't need a pastor that is kicking people and pushing people and doing silly dances on the social networks. God is a jealous God and he will not be mocked. Redemption comes and it comes from above. No pastor can give you redemption. No preacher can give you redemption. No human being can give you redemption because redemption comes through Jesus Christ, comes from God through the power of the Holy Spirit. So there is only one savior, there is only one King. The greatest preacher that ever walked this earth. He didn't have a congregation, he owned the world. He was the greatest preacher the world has ever seen. He didn't have a TikTok account, he didn't have an Instagram account, he didn't have a Facebook account, but the world knows Jesus Christ. Let me tell you, there is only one King and his name is Jesus. There is only one savior and his name is Jesus. We're coming to the table in just a few moments, but I've got to read this out again. I want to let us know. I need we need to tell the world about 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. And it says in verse 23, I've got to make this loud and clear. All the days I'm on the earth, no pastor can get you saved. When you look on Instagram, you look on TikTok, you look on all the social platforms. If you are following churches where the pastors are blowing over the congregations and they are falling down, look at it. If you want some entertainment, you'll find the greatest entertainment, not in the world, but in these in these um wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. If you want some entertainment, go on to Instagram, go on to the mega churches across the world. They're waving the pastors, you know, the pastors' jackets are so powerful, uh apparently, that as pastor waves his jacket, the whole congregation falls over. Come on, come on. This is like Billy Smart Circus. I'm watching. This is a load of clowns dancing around. Let me tell you, when you look at social media now, it is and it cannot be the voice of God. Brothers and sisters, I want to tell you, you're born again because God loves you. It has nothing to do with the church you go to, it has nothing to do with the pastors that you're listening to. It's got nothing to do with me. You are born again because God loves you. You are born again because of the power of the blood of Jesus. You are born again because of the spirit of the living God. You are born again, not because of the pastors you are listening to, because of the preachers you are watching. You are born again because of the blood of Jesus. You are born again because Jesus Christ chose you before the foundation of the world. And the Bible says in 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20, He was chosen before the creation of the world. No pastor will ever get you saved. It doesn't matter what and how big their ministry is, it has got nothing to do with the power of salvation because salvation sits in the hands of God. It sits and it was given into the hands of Jesus Christ. You can watch Instagram, you can, I'm even laughing because of what I've seen. It makes me absolutely roll on the floor, laughing, kicking me feet in the air to think that pastors in certain areas of the world can wave their jackets from Primary, and as they wave their jacket, the congregation is falling over. Is that the Spirit of God? What have we come to to watch and believe trash like that? I want to tell you tonight. Stop watching the trash and start following the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Stop looking at the mega rubbish. Stop looking at Lucifer waving his jacket and the fake healings and follow Jesus Christ. Do you know what? Jesus was chosen before the creation of the world. And we are watching these idiots across the world doing these ridiculous things. If I can give you any advice wherever you are across the world, stop going to church. Stop going to church. Whatever church you're in, stop going to church and follow Jesus Christ. Make that the first thing that you do in your life is follow Jesus, then find a church. Don't go to church to find Jesus because there are many churches around the world that Jesus isn't even in. There are many ministries where Jesus isn't even involved in. There is many literature out there that Jesus Christ isn't even in. We're going to come to the table in just a few moments. You are born again for this simple reason and this reason only. Verse 23 of 1 Peter chapter 1. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable seed, through the living and the enduring word of God. If, if, if the church isn't preaching the word of God, it isn't the church. If the church is engaging in waving jackets across social media and you've got pastors doing all these silly dances and all that old trash going on, if you are engaging in that stuff, you need to check out where you sit in salvation. If you are in a mega church, I would be extremely careful. If you are in a church that is pushing you for money, the tribal churches, the cultural churches, this church, that church, every church, why are you going to church? What are you doing in church? Are you growing in Jesus or are you growing in the occult? Are you growing in Christ? Are you washed in the blood, or are they doing crazy ridiculous things? Are the pastors blowing over the congregation and they're falling out? Come on, world. We have got we have got the end time preachers that the Bible tells us about. They are not preachers of Jesus Christ, they work for Lucifer, they are Lucifer's agents, they are angels of light, and it is so rough. The preaching is so bad, it's ridiculous. How can any pastor wave his jacket at the congregation and the congregation falls over? Come on, let's get to

Communion And The Lord’s Prayer

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the table. We're going to go straight into the table now. We're going to go straight into the table, and we are going to start this time with the Lord, and we are going to have the Lord's Prayer. Let's listen to the Lord's Prayer in Jesus' name. Amen.

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I invite you to say the Lord's Prayer with me. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory. For ever and ever. Amen.

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Hallelujah. Father, we come to the table. We break bread because Jesus' body was broken for each and every one of us. We break bread because of the power of the word. We break bread because our Redeemer lives. And because Jesus was chosen before the creation of the world. This is not what I'm saying, this is what the Bible says. The Bible says in 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20, He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake. For the sake of humanity, Jesus Christ came into the world. But redemption, let me tell you this before we break this bread. Redemption was before creation. Father, we thank you. And as we break bread, we thank you for the power of the word of God. I thank you, Lord, that I don't belong to Lent, I don't belong to religion, I don't belong to this mega rubbish that's out there. I belong to the kingdom. And my God, my God that I belong to, the king that I am with, the king that I serve, the king that I walk with is the king above all kings, the king that I stand with, the king that spoke this world into existence because he was God and God was him according to the word. The Jesus that I serve was chosen before church, before the sun, before the moon, before the stars. The God that I serve was before all things. Sisters and brothers, let's break bread. Right now, Lord, we break bread. And this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. And right now, in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, bless this bread as it's similar, it's symbolic, I should say, to the body of Christ. And Jesus at the the Passover table took the bread, he dipped it in the cup, it became soap, and he passed it straight over. He passed it straight over. So powerful. He pasted, he passed, he he passed it straight over to that that that one that sold him for 30 pieces of silver. He passed it straight over to Judas Iscaria. Thank you, Jesus. Even Judas took it a bread. So Lord, I thank you for this bread in Jesus' name. Amen. Father, we come before you and we thank you for the for everything that you've done for us. But right now, Lord, I take this cup, and this cup is the cup of redemption. And when I think about redemption, redemption goes right back to the past. It goes right back to the past creation. Because redemption has always been. Creation hasn't. But redemption has. Because Jesus is the redeeming king. So dear God and Heavenly Father. Cleanse me from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet. In Jesus' name. Amen. It's really important that I understand that this is for me tonight. That I understand the Jesus that I serve, the Jesus that I follow, the Jesus that I walk with, the Jesus that saved me. If that Jesus can save me and set me free, how much more can he do for Alex and everybody on radio and online? If he can save me, a fruitcake like me, how much more can he do for you? You know, Jesus was at creation. Jesus is about creation. But Jesus is the redeeming king. So, Father, as we come to the close of

Closing Prayer And How To Connect

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this service, we want to thank you for everybody on radio across the world. We want to thank you to my brothers and sisters that are on visual tonight that have been with us steadfast every service. Lord, we thank you, Lord, for the warriors online tonight. We thank you, Father, for those that are listening to the podcast in the name of Jesus. We thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit. It is 54, it is 8.54 here in the UK. The camera will go off in a few moments, in just a few moments. You know, we've got about four minutes or so, and we are going to go out with a prayer tonight, and then the cameras will go off exactly at nine o'clock, and it will it will uh switch straight over to uh country music tonight. You know, is it a powerful night tonight? So we want you to stay locked into radio, we want you to stay locked in tonight. So crisscross over from the social networks. But brothers and sisters, I just gotta encourage you tonight. I've got to encourage myself again. I just want to read this scripture because we've got time on our side, and this scripture says in verse 20 of 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 20, he was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in the last days for your sake. He was revealed now, he was revealed back. You know, the last days started when Jesus gave his first breath as a child, when Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes, that was the start of the coming king. It wasn't the start of the the birth of Jesus because that had happened. We was we were in the days, the second coming, because the first cut he was there, he was here. His mum just pushed him out. He was there. Sisters and brothers, I want to tell you tonight the Jesus that you serve spoke this world into being. Yes, Jesus, God. Yes, God, Jesus. When you look at that one John chapter one, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. He was with God in the beginning, and the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The word became flesh. What is the word? The word is the living word of God. God is with you wherever you are across the world. It is 8 56. We have less than two minutes. We pray tonight. Thank you so much for listening in the world of podcasts. Thank you to everybody in the world of radio, wherever you are across the world. For those that are watching on visualization at this moment in time, let's pray. Let's just pray, and there will be a prayer that will take us out in just a few minutes. Father, we thank you for the power of the blood of Jesus. And tonight, Lord, we thank you that the love of God is over each and every one of us. And Lord, in the close of this service, we pray that the hand of God will carry us. We pray that the living word of God will strengthen us. We pray that your love, your mercy, your favor, Lord, will be over us forevermore in Jesus' name. But Lord, we thank you that the power of God came down from heaven above, that Jesus Christ was before the creation of the world, that redemption was before creation. I thank you, Lord, that you've revealed yourself. I thank you, Lord, that you've given yourself. I thank you that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. And I am redeemed, not because of pastors and ministries. I am not redeemed because I've paid good money into the church bag. I am redeemed because Jesus Christ decided to save you. He decided to save me. We're out of here in any moment. May God bless you and strengthen you. May the love of Jesus be over you tonight. We will see you soon. You know, coffee and prayer, live streaming again in tomorrow. No, not tomorrow. That's Tuesday tomorrow. We are live streaming on Wednesday morning. You know, this is live, this is not edited in any way. We are about to cross over to the other side. That sounds a little bit hairy fairy. We're going to cross over in any minute, but God is with you in the name of Jesus. God bless. We're out of the way.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

I invite you to say the Lord's Prayer with me. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and everyone.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

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