Jesus Christ The Only Living God

18/11/2021

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1. My beloved people, I am the new wine, I am the new wine, I have given you the new wine, the new wine can be stored only in the new wine skin,

2. The new wine skin, I also give you the new wine skin, it is I Myself, My risen personality, My risen humanity,

3. My risen humanity is the new wine skin, I have given you My risen humanity, My risen glorious humanity,

4. My beloved people, believe that, through baptism, through eucharist, you are inhierited with a new body, new flesh, a flesh without flesh, a glorified flesh, a glorified body,

5. In this glorified body you share My resurrected life, in that resurrected body, I give you the new wine, then only the new wine has it's own vigour, it's own intoxicating power, ....!

6. My beloved people, grow into the understanding of the Mysterious life I have given you, I am not only the creator, I am your recreator, I have already recreated you,

7. It is important to understand, your recreated status, and then only your new wine you can experience,

8. Now I ask you, now I give you this anointing, to experience the new wine skin and new wine, and from that comes a new way of prayer,

9. A new prayer, your verbal prayer will be generated with a new life, new life, new wine, that is the true christian prayer,

10. A prayer from the new wine and new wine skin, I anoint you for that, I bless you, I bless you for this new wine skin and new wine, and new prayer.

TODAY'S QUOTE ​"You wished to introduce me into the inestimable intimacy of your friendship by opening to me...your sacred Heart. To this accumulation of benefits you added that of giving me as Advocate the Most Holy Virgin Mary, your Mother, and often recommended me to her affection, just as the most faithful of bridegrooms would recommend his beloved bride to his own mother" ----St. Gertrud the Great, The Revelations II, 23, p. 145, Pope Benedict XVI -GENERAL AUDIENCE 6 October 2010

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18/11/2021

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CATENA AUREA 422 ENGLISH 18TH NOV 2021

1. My beloved people, I am the light which illumines all people, I am the light which illumines all people, all enlightment, enlightens every one with the revelations,

2. I have given My revelation, I have given My teachings, I have given My Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, it is already revealed, it is already opened, from the time of My resurrection, ascension and the pentecost,

3. My beloved people, it is been more and more explained through the Fathers of the church, it is the great teaching,

4. I request all of you, to propagate this teaching, it is the true teaching, then the faith increases, we need a desire for teaching,

5. When everyone is rooted in the right teaching then only the faith increases, Oh My beloved people, I give you the gift of faith, a higher faith,

6. A higher faith is in believing the authentic teaching, the doctrine of the church, the doctrine of the majesterium,

7. That is My doctrine, That is My teaching, and all this teaching is from the Father who sent Me, My teaching is not Mine, but the one who sent Me,

8. And when you accept My teaching, your Father is so happy, your Father is so glorified, and it spreads, and it spreads automatically, to the whole world,

9. It will be acceptable, it will be adoptable, it will be synchronized, with the whole humanity, because that is what the heart of the Father is,

10. The heart of the Father desires, that the teaching which came out from the heart of the Father may reach to the heart of the people,

11. That is what we are doing now, I anoint and appreciate all of you, and I bless you, I bless you, I bless you,

12. Go forth, do not be afraid, I am with you, I am with you, teach what I commanded you, Go,Go, Go.

TODAY'S QUOTE "Holding a rightful place in the communion of the Church there are also particular Churches that retain their own traditions, ​without prejudice to the Chair of Peter which presides over the whole assembly of charity (cf. St Ignatius Martyr, Ad Rom., Preaf.: ed. Funk, 1, p. 252), and protects their legitimate variety while at the same time taking care that these differences do not hinder unity, but rather contribute to it" (Lumen Gentium 13)

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15/11/2021

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CCC 356 English 15th Nov 2021 1. My beloved people, I am the source of everything, I created the world with My wisdom, with My Word, the Word that I gave to you, so that you can pray with My own Word,

2. Prayer begins with My Word, My Word is I Myself, My Word brings into your heart the presence of God, My Word, and My Spirit, in My Word, and My Spirit, I bring to you My presence,

3. Through My presence you must pray, through My Word you must pray, through My Spirit you must pray, then prayer becomes a union, a fellowship with Me,

4. Prayer is a fellowship with Me, recognize, recognize the beauty of prayer, I am longing that you come to My presence, I am longing to listen to your voice,

5. Yes I get a goosebump when I listen to your voice, I love you, I embrace you through prayer, I embrace you through prayer,

6. Come to Me My beloved people, come pray with Me, pray with Me, you are not alone in prayer, you are praying with Me, I am the high priest, I am the eternal priest,

7. I pray with you, I taught you how to pray, I pray with you, we together are praying to the Father, come, let us pray, let us pray, it is Me who speaks, let us pray, come to Me.

TODAY'S QUOTE St Albert the Great reminds us that there is friendship between science and faith and that through their vocation to the study of nature, ​scientists can take an authentic and fascinating path of holiness. ------Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience 24 March 2010

13/11/2021

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PSALMS (36) 12th November 2021

1. My beloved people, I am the King of all the Kings, I am the King of Kings, the Kingdom of God is the way of life, of My Kingdom which I Myself am leading,

2. I have given My Kingly anointing, to every one of you, it began, in the life of David and Solomon, and the same anointing, I give to you, I give to you, My beloved people,

3. I give you an unfathomable wisdom and understanding, that is how you will lead My Kingdom, you also will be a King, you will be a King, with My Kingly anointing,

4. I bless you, I want a new Kingdom to be build, not like a Kingdom built by Israel,a Kingdom built with the power of Holy Spirit,

5. The anointing of the Holy Spirit,.........! a Kingdom that will be led by the wisdom of God, and the knowledge of God, and the fear of the Lord, and the humility and humbleness of the Lord,

6. That is the Kingdom which you have to establish, you and Me, we are together in establishing this, and I will do it, trust in Me, I will do it, I will do it through you,

7. Come to Me My beloved people, My anointing will teach you everything, My anointing is in you, that will teach you everything, come to Me, I open the anointing today, yes today.

13/11/2021

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FOLLOW ME 48 ENGLISH 14TH NOV 2021 1. My beloved people, do not be afraid, I Myself am the victor, I am the victor,

2. I have conquered the world, I have conquered the darkness, I have conquered the sin, I have conquered the devil, I have conquered all atrocities,

3. I have conquered all the Kingdom, I am the Kingdom, I am the King of Kings, and that I am, and that I Myself live in you, live in you, can you believe this,

4. I will not send you alone, I am with you, I am with you, therefore do not be afraid, have courage, be bold, because of My power, the unfathomable power,

5. My unfathomable power is with you, My inexhaustable power is with you, oh you must spend some time, you must spend some time, to channelize My power,

6. To open that power, knock and it will be open to you, I am the power, which open the iron gates, the iron gates will open itself for you,

7. I will send My angels and saints to be with you, I Myself am with you and all angels and saints are with you, and I will do such great things through you,

8. Iron gates will be opened, nothing can stop you, nothing can prevent you, you will work over the darkness, you will work over the evil,

9. You will destroy the work of the darkness, I am the one, I am the anointed one anointing you, with all boldness, My anointing is with you, My anointing strenghthens you,

10. I have given you power to tread upon scorpions and serpents, and all the powers of darkness, I have given you ability, wisdom, and boldness, .....! you must listen to Me, you must listen to Me, I will show you the way, I will show you the trick,

11. I will show you the prudence how to handle each day, in each case, in each battle, you will win the battle with My power,

12. My beloved people, the world is in need of a greater ministry, a greater ministry, with a more powerful anointing, with more powerful boldness,

13. You should go into the iron walls, You should break the iron walls, You should climb over the fortressess, you should break the fortressess of this world, conquer them, Go, Go,

14. I say Go, Go, I send you, destroy the battle field, destroy and conquer everything, its yours, the world is yours, the Kingdom is yours,

15. You have an open field, My power is with you, ready Go, ready Go, I am with you, I am with you, do not be ashamed, do not be ashamed, of the gospel, I am the source of power, I am the source of boldness.

09/11/2021

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CATENA AUREA 415 ENGLISH 9TH NOV 2021

1. My beloved people, My beloved people, all the revelations are for you, revelations are for you, for My children, for My disciples,

2. For My branch of the true vine, all the revelations, and when it is revealed to you, it sparks, it makes a spark in your soul, and it will make a spur of enthusiasm,

3. A spur of enthusiasm, with which you will jump into, jump into action of the proclamation,

4. Proclamation as an excitement, when you have a revelation, you are so excited and call out listen everybody, ' I have a revelation'' I have a good news to tell you' that is proclamation...........!

5. If you don't have a revelation, you are cold, you have no warmth, you are not able to proclaim,

6. My beloved people, My beloved people, long for revelation, long for explanation, long for the wisdom of God, who will explain the mystery behind every word which I spoke,

7. The words that I spoke have so much content, so much unfathomable content, the revelation will teach you, the commentary and intrepretation of the Fathers, will teach you,

8. I honour you, I honour you, I appreciate you, that you took time to sit with Me, to learn these, I appreciate you, you will be blessed, you are a blessing,

9. Through you My wisdom and My revelation will flow to the whole world, to the whole world, don't count the numbers,

10. My word is spoken to the whole world, but you are the blessed one who are now listening, but it is not only for you, it is to the whole world, come to Me, come to Me, learn from Me, learn from Me.

06/11/2021

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FOLLOW ME 47 ENGLISH 7TH NOV 2021

1. My dear people, I am the source of all wisdom and knowledge, I anoint you, as My branch, you are My branch,

2. I am the vine, you are My branch, it's I who anointed you and appointed you to bear fruit, and I am more eager to give you what I have,

3. My wisdom, My understanding, My knowledge so that My whole plan that the whole world will be filled with the wisdom of God will be fulfilled,

4. Only when My branch, My disciple, all of you are filled with the wisdom of God, more and more,

5. The world is in need of an enlightenment, all the darknessess are because of the ignorance,

6. The ignorance about God, the ignorance about God's plan, the ignorance about the salvation, will be broken through My wisdom,

7. My wisdom and understanding is like a hammer to shatter the rock, yes My wisdom and understanding is needed for you,

8. I bless you today, I anoint you today, I grant you today, more wisdom knowledge and understanding,

9. So that you shall be children of wisdom, I say it to you, and I grant it to you, be filled, be filled, be anointed with more wisdom, knowledge and understanding.

06/11/2021

Excerpts from a talk by Rev Father Daniel Poovanathil-

The saints have said likewise, '"even if you come and capture our church, we won't say a thing. You can come up armed with deadly weapons, and take all the fortune stored and we will still not say a thing. But if you dismantle our faith, we will respond like fierce lions, because our children need to grow in the true faith, and we are very much vigilant about it. " Our children should not lose their way tomorrow, our children mustn't be in the wrong tomorrow. Our children must grow under the protection of the church, and faith is for this purpose. " Isn't this a land of migrants? Through all of cholera, malaria, and paths filled with deadly animals, living their lives as ransom, those ancestors of yours who found it terribly hard to make ends meet, who built the church before building their huts, those who thought about building a church before earning for their families, you are all their descendants, and that is why if you compromise on this faith of yours, time will not forgive you. They have given their whole lives for it. Isn't it? They had built this church with their lives on ransom. They lived in leaky homes, where one did not have a spare cloth to put on for the next day, a path filled with thorns and deadly creatures, with an increased chance of getting killed by wild boars, snakes, and elephants. At a time when the air was ridden with infectious diseases waiting to pluck lives out, they built the church before their homes. So dont go on your way without the church, don't stay away from it, don't compromise on your faith. You should know that our present fortune is the result of the many tears of a bygone generation. When I was conducting the Rajapuram convention in Kasaragod, the people there belong to the Knanaya community who migrated from Kottayam in the year 1930 before independence. When I was sitting inside the Rajapuram church and praying, the Holy Spirit told me to listen carefully, if you try to be attentive, you will be able to hear the sobs of many grandmothers, if you listen carefully you will be able to hear the cries of elderly men beating their chests. During the time of the 1930s when people with meagre means had to flee, with just one proper set of clothing to put on, when making ends meet was difficult, and at a time when one had to wrestle with poverty and sickness, they chose to build a church before attending to the leak up their roofs. The Holy Spirit told me to listen prudently to be able to hear the cries of old mothers and fathers still reverberating inside. You will be able to hear in Kattapana too if you are attentive. That is how the bygone generation lived with only a pair of decent clothing, which they used to save for the Sundays. They had nothing. They came to the church, the floor of the church was not of mosaic or marble at that time, but that which was broken and split up, on it they went on their knees and beat their chests while stretching their hands towards the altar, they had children tied to their cloths, whom they asked to cry out and plead to the Lord, saying to them that, there was nothing except the mighty hand of the Lord that could help them sustain against the elephant, the wild animals, disease, and poverty. That is how they were taught about the faith. Now don't let anyone rob that by something they say.

The church which has given the faith has taught about everything. We had the brain to study Biology, chemistry, physics, and geometry. To say that you don't have the intellect to study only the Bible is kind of making an excuse. No one should agree on this. You should study and study it well. Sin was born out of a wrong information. Stay with the right information, and you will be saved. You should know well, and understand correctly.

A certain opinion which I have about the saints, which is certainly not an official teaching, ie the church will have to pass through a concluding state of testing. Before the Return of the Lord, the church will have to go through a state of test. These are not Father Daniel's words, but that which are told in the exact manner in this Catechism of the Catholic Church. The church will have to pass through a last test before the coming of it's Bridegroom. Pay attention now. Therefore every place that has a certain saint leading a group of believers. In Kattapana, it's St. George, if we move a little further, ...St. Paul, and many other churches which are named after the saints. Then there are churches of the cross. So in all these places, the saints are given charge to lead. They are the military commanding chiefs at different places. This is just my opinion, and see it only as that. The church will have to pass through a stage of final testing. When passing through such a stage, many big nations will create huge military bases. America has a military base, Qatar has one, many countries have it. As it takes time for the soldiers in America to reach the Gulf, every country has it's military base. In the same way as the American military has been stationed in some countries, similarly when the church will have to pass through a final state of testing, for the church to stay put, the Lord has positioned at different points certain commanders. St. George is stationed as the commander in Kattapana. Churches are military bases, even the convents, churches of the cross, monasteries, all are military bases. At the time when the church will have to go through this final piece of testing, the Lord in His wisdom has positioned several military commanders. You need not be afraid, as to lead the country, there are brave soldiers to lead this procession of faith marching ahead of you with the victory flag in hand at that time, and such a time will come. So don't leave the saints.

04/11/2021

One God and One Salvation for All the Nations

Resource by John Piper
Scripture: Romans 3:29–30 Topic: The Glory of God

Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. 28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. 29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one. 31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.
Biblical Foundations for a Public Proclamation of Christ
I am staying with Romans 3:27-31 one more Sunday because what we are about today in the outdoor service and the praise march is so powerfully addressed in this text, as you will see. Our aim today is to declare truth about God in a more public way than we usually do in the building on Sundays. Our aim is to exult in the value of Christ before the neighborhoods and nations around the church building.

Now, there are some tremendous foundations in Romans 3:29-30 for this public declaration. So what I want to do in these few minutes is put Biblical rock underneath your feet this morning so that you know why you are doing this and can enter in with a sense of clear, deep biblical purpose.

One God, One Way of Salvation for all Peoples
Let's look at verses 29-30. Paul has just said that we are justified by faith apart from works of the Law. Now he asks, "Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one."

There is an order of thought here, and I will state it for you in reverse order and then take these three steps one at a time and show you how they relate to what we are doing today. First, there is the great affirmation in verse 30 that "God is one." Second, there is the inference that since he is one, therefore he justifies Jews and Gentiles in the same way, not two different ways. He "will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith." Third, since he is one and justifies all peoples in the same way, not different ways, he is not the God of the Jews only, but the God of the nations as well.

That is the gist of the passage. And you can see immediately why it is so relevant to what we are doing today. But let's take it a step at a time.

God is One
First, from verse 30, let's focus on the oneness of God: ". .. since indeed God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith, is one." God is one. What does this mean?

1. There Is One True God

Paul's statement that "God is one" has several implications. It means, first of all, that there is only one true God, not many gods. That is the way the NIV translates it: "there is only one God." This is an absolutely necessary belief, in view of what it means to be God. Paul says in Romans 11:36, "All things are from Him and through Him and to Him. To Him be glory for ever." If that is what it means to be God, there cannot be two of them. If the very meaning of being God is that He is the ultimate source of all that is, there can be only one. Two beings cannot both be the ultimate source of all things. One would be the ultimate source of the other, and so only one would be God; or both would be equally ultimate and neither would be the source of all things, and so neither would be God, by Paul's definition. There is only one God, the Creator and Sustainer of all that is outside of God.

This is more relevant in our situation than it used to seem. On Monday, I had thirty minutes in a taxi with a Sikh from northern India. Sikhs are monotheists located mainly in the Punjab of northern India. As I tried to share my faith with this man, it became clear that he was happy for me to have my God and him to have his. It did not matter much whether they were drastically different. For him, what mattered was if I was a nice man and cared about people. God could be one or many.

In a little while we will march by Muslim people, Hindu people, Jewish people, atheist people, animistic people, Christian people. Some of these will believe, in a kind of hazy way, that there are several gods and you can choose which one you want, as long as you are sincere and good. Others will believe that the one God is so indefinite that he can be known through almost any ideas about him.

2. God's Unity and Coherence

Which leads us to a second implication of Paul's statement in Romans 3:30 that "God is one." For Paul, the oneness of God is not simply a statement that there is only one true God, but also a statement that this God has a unity and coherence to his identity. That is, he is what he is and not what we make of him. He is what he is and not something else. He has identity in himself. He has fixed attributes. He does not change. He is not inconsistent or schizophrenic. He does not have contradictory personalities. All his characteristics cohere in one unified Being. He makes himself known as who he is. He is one.

This has tremendous implications for religious pluralism in Minneapolis and Chicago and New York and London and Jerusalem and Sao Paulo and Delhi and Tokyo and Sydney and Jakarta and Cairo and Pretoria. It implies, for example, that not all religions are true and lead to heaven. It also implies that those who know the true God because of his gracious revelation should try to persuade others to know and trust the one true God. And it implies that, since the true God of the Bible is a God who is known only by faith and not external coercion, no violence or force will be used to demand or restrict religious belief.

Which means, interestingly, that the uniqueness and singleness of the one true God of the Bible is both a threat and protection for religious pluralism. We need to get this very clear, because we live in an increasingly pluralistic society. The absolute claim of the God of the Bible on all persons and all religions is a spiritual threat to religious pluralism in that it does call for repentance from all false religion and faith in the one true God through his one and only Son, Jesus Christ. But this single, true God of the Bible is a protection for religious pluralism because he forbids that his cause be advanced by the sword or by external coercion. Jesus said to Pilate, "My kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world." (John 18:36). Christians are called to love our enemies and to suffer injustice rather than return evil for evil.

Therefore, true Christianity is both a threat and a support for religious pluralism. It is a spiritual threat, and a political support. True Christianity will not endorse ethnic cleansing against Muslims or pogroms against Jews or legalized hostilities against Hindus. True Christianity does not advance by the sword or the gun. It advances by proclamation and persuasion and prayer and love and by being persecuted, not persecuting.

We must make both of these clear.

1. Our belief in one true God who has revealed himself in Jesus Christ in history means that we do not count all religions equally true or equally saving. Christianity is a missionary faith, or it is false to its own foundations. That is one thing we must make clear. And this will be very costly. People will call this arrogant and presumptuous and offensive.

2. So the other thing we must also make clear is that it is a loving thing to plead for people to know and trust the one and only living God through Jesus Christ. And the spread of our faith is not by violence or coercion. That would be self-defeating. No one is saved by a forced act. We spread our faith by proclamation, persuasion, prayer and love.

3. Not Three Gods, but One

There is a third implication of Paul's words, "God is one," but we will leave it for another time in our study of the book of Romans, namely, that the deity of Christ and of the Holy Spirit do not make Christians polytheists. We do not worship three Gods, but one God. The mystery of the Trinity is a stumbling block for Muslims and Hindus and Jews and secularists. It always has been and it always will be. But it is not surprising that the one true God would exist from all eternity in a way that pushes our little minds to the breaking point. More on that later. Suffice it to say now that the revelation of God through Jesus Christ is that Jesus is God, the Spirit is God, the Father is God and there is one God.

That is the first step in verse 30: God is one.

God has One Way of Saving People
Now the second step is that this one God has one way of saving people; namely, justification by faith in Jesus Christ. Verse 30: " . . .since indeed God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith, is one." The oneness of God is connected to the oneness of the way he makes people right with himself.

One way to say this would be that God threatens religious pluralism with the glorious freeness of grace. He comes to every world religion and every personal religiousness or irreligiousness and says, I offer you the good news that you may have forgiveness of your sins and be reconciled to your Creator and have everlasting life by grace alone through faith alone in my Son Jesus Christ. I have already acted in history to remove my wrath and to take away human guilt. If you will have it as your loved and trusted treasure, it is yours.

Now you can call that arrogance and presumption if you will. But a better name for it is love. Yes, it undermines religious pluralism - the way antibiotics undermine the pluralism of bacterial diseases. The way vitamin C undermined the pluralistic symptoms of scurvy.

Christianity does not come to other religious systems and try to replace one way to work for God with another way to work for God. It comes with a declaration of amnesty. The one true God has made a truce at the cost of his Son's life. He offers pardon to every person freely and everlasting joy to those who will trust his Son.

The oneness of God means that there is one way to salvation, not the way of works, but the way of faith. And because it is a way of faith it cuts across all ethnic and political and language and cultural barriers. Verse 30: "God will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith." "Circumcision" stands for any religious or ethnic trait that you might think would commend you to God. And "uncircumcision" stands for any trait, or missing trait, that you think might keep you from God.

The gospel of Jesus Christ comes and says, "Justification (getting right with God) is by faith, not works. Therefore, having certain ethnic or religious advantages prove to be of no advantage. And not having certain ethnic or religious advantages proves to be of no disadvantage. The reason is that faith in Christ, by its very nature, looks away from distinctives (positive or negative) that you have in yourself, and looks to God's free grace in order to be justified and have eternal life.

God's oneness means that there is one way of salvation for all. And, because this one God is the great sovereign, self-sufficient God who can't be worked for, but overflows in grace, the one way of salvation is by grace through faith, and that is not of ourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone - any culture or race or ethnic group - should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).

That's the second step: since God is one, he justifies Jews and Gentiles in the same way, not two different ways. He justifies the circumcised (Jews) by faith and the uncircumcised by faith (Gentiles).

He Is the God of the Nations
Finally, the third step: since God is one, and justifies all peoples in the same way - by faith alone in Christ alone - not different ways, therefore, He is not the God of the Jews only, but the God of the nations as well. Verse 29: "Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also." And "Gentiles" refers to all kinds of ethnic groups.

So what does it mean for us today to say, God is the God of the nations, the God of every ethnic group that you will ever see in Elliot Park and Phillips neighborhoods? It means four things, at least.

1. That God is the God of the nations means that God created all the nations. Acts 17:26: "He made from one every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth." Ethnic differences are God's doing. Beware of your prejudices. Go to God for the love that he has for the nations.

2. That God is the God of the nations means that he will redeem a people for himself out of every nation. Revelation 5:9: "They sang a new song, saying, 'Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.'" God means to have a redeemed people from every ethnic group. Therefore, none is to be despised, but loved and pursued with grace.

3. That God is the God of the nations means he is ready to justify anyone, anywhere, from any nation through faith alone in Jesus Christ. There is one way of salvation for all the nations. God is God of the nations because he has made a way for them all - the same way and it is a way of grace.

4. That God is the God of the nations means that God aims to be known by all the nations. Psalm 96:1-4: "O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples! For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods."

This is where the text is leading us for this afternoon. "Declare his glory among the nations" - and the neighborhoods. That is what the banners are for and the leaflets and the songs and the prayers and your presence. Stay with us and let your march be part of the fulfillment of this text today.

John Piper () is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years, he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of more than 50 books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist and most recently Providence.

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