You Shall Know The Truth

Pastor Isaac delivers a sermon centered on the transformative power of knowing and embracing Jesus Christ. He emphasizes that Jesus is not merely a historical figure but the living embodiment of truth, peace, joy, and strength who provides freedom from modern struggles like anxiety and financial hardship. By examining various scriptures, he explains that the Holy Spirit’s primary role is to magnify Christ and guide believers into a deeper understanding of his character. He encourages the congregation to see Jesus as their daily source of life and wisdom, noting that their personal identity and success are found through this spiritual connection. Ultimately,  Pastor Isaac  serves a passionate call to prioritize the study of Christ within the Bible to experience continuous personal transformation.

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Please welcome uh Pastor Isaac, Dr. Ramon.

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Well, I'm here with my family, my wife, my children, and my mother-in-law. So I'd like my wife to say something.

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Hello, good morning. It's good to be here. And this is my first time being on the pulpit. Yeah, and I'm happy to be here. So let's have a wonderful service. Thank you.

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Amen. Thank you. Hallelujah. Let us pray. Father, thank you for the blessing we have in you. Thank you for this gracious opportunity to receive your word. Lord, speak to us. We pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and knowledge of Jesus Christ. Let the eyes of our understanding be enlightened practically as we hear your word, even in Jesus' name. Amen. Pastor Stephen, thank you so much for this blessed opportunity. I think we have one of the best pastors in the whole world here with us. Can we celebrate our pastor? Thank you for loving us. Thank you for being a blessing to us. We're in his house and he keeps giving us so much. Yesterday he prepared something very special for us to eat in the evening, and he he took us all the way to New York. That was a long drive. And we we we walked around for about what five or six hours more. Yeah. So thank you. Thank you with your beautiful wife. Um Claudia, thank you so much. God bless you. I'd like to share with you from John chapter 8, verse 31. I've titled my message, You Shall Know the Truth. You shall know the truth. John chapter 8, verse 31. So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed in him, believed him, if you conjoin my word, then are you truly my disciples? And then he says, And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Hallelujah. Now you and I know that Jesus is the way, he is the truth and the life. So when Jesus says, You shall know the truth and it shall make you free, what he's saying is that you shall know more of me and I will make you free. So in verse 38 of the same book, same chapter, this is 36, sorry, John chapter 8, verse 36, Jesus says, So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. Hallelujah. Jesus Christ is the truth that sets us free. And the more we know him, the more he sets us free, the more we encounter freedom from fear, freedom from anxieties, freedom from depression, freedom from financial difficulties, freedom from sicknesses, diseases, freedom from all types of fear. Fear of height, fear of everything. Hallelujah. The more we embrace Jesus, the more freedom we enjoy. So this morning I just came to tell you to embrace Jesus some more. That's why I came to tell you to embrace Jesus some more. Hallelujah. Amen. And in John chapter 16, verse 13 to verse 14, we get to know how the Holy Spirit, one of the major ministries of the Holy Spirit, this one says, this is Jesus talking. It says, But when he, the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all truth, all the truth. Who is truth? Jesus Christ. So what Jesus is saying is that when the Holy Spirit of truth comes, he's called the Holy Spirit of truth because he is Jesus without borders. Jesus said, I'll I'll send you another comforter. And the word another there is one who looks just like me. The Greek is Alus, not heteros. One who looks just like me, does everything like me, thinks like me, acts like me, does everything like me. So the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Jesus and hence the spirit of truth. So he says, But when He, the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. Who is the truth? Jesus Christ. So the more you fellowship with the Spirit, and I'm glad we are we are we are learning about us being the temple of the Holy Spirit, meaning that the Holy Spirit dwells within us and hence carries this ministry in our lives. He says he will guide you, he will lead you into all the truth, all aspects of Jesus Christ. For he will not speak on his own, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify me. Jesus says the Holy Spirit will glorify me. So one of the major ministries of the Holy Spirit is to make Jesus very big in your eyes. You can be you can be a born-again child of God and not think much about Jesus Christ. I've seen people who you know ignore Christ, they they they don't they think it's only good for salvation, but they don't think it's good to help them carry their burdens in life, they don't think it's good to help them with their financial troubles, they don't think it's good enough to help them with their emotional issues. But I can tell you that Jesus is good for all things, he is the way, the truth, and the life. He will solve all your problems, he will help you in every aspect of your life. That's who he is. Hallelujah. And the Holy Spirit has a ministry of magnifying Jesus, of glorifying Jesus. The word glorified there is dogs, and it means to give a good opinion, a very great opinion of someone. So the Holy Spirit has a ministry of giving a good opinion concerning Jesus Christ, great opinion concerning Jesus Christ to you, testifying of Jesus, of how great he is. That will lead you into glorifying him, into magnifying him, into serving him more and more, into worshiping him more and more, into thanking him more and more, into thinking how thinking of how great he is and how close he is to you. Hallelujah. Now, the more we see Jesus, the more the more our lives are transformed. Our transformation, you know, the only constant thing in the new in the new testament is transformation. If you read in Romans chapter 12, he talks about and be not conformed to the law, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Now, our transformation is the only thing that stands every single day. Every single day, God expects us to be transformed, to have a renewal of our minds, to change our thinking, to suit what has happened to us. You can be born again and know that Christ is in you, but you don't know that Christ, you don't know what Christ in you means. Some of us even don't even know that Christ is in us, and that Christ is with us, and that Christ is there to help us. The more we know who he is, the more transformed we become. Now, this is 2 Corinthians, show us 2 Corinthians chapter chapter chapter 3, verse 18. He says, But we are with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror, are the glory of the Lord. The mirror is the word of God. If you read in James chapter 1, he talks about how that the word of God, he says, the word of God is the mirror of God. You see, so the more we look into the mirror of God, which is the word of God, the more we see the glory of the Lord. Who is he talking about? He's talking about Jesus. Jesus is the glory of the Lord. He's talking about the glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But we all with unveiled face looking us in the mirror at the glory of the Lord. So when we read the word, there's only one person we are looking for. Jesus said, Search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life. For they are they that testify of me or speak concerning me. So all the scriptures talk about one person. When Jesus rose from the dead in Luke chapter 24, verse 27, Jesus revealed himself to the two disciples, Cleopatra and his wife, who were on their way to Emmaus. And he preached, the Bible says that he preached Christ to them. He said, The Bible says he went through all the scriptures from Moses through all the prophets, preaching Christ unto them. Christ preached Christ on the resurrection morning, and that's exactly what we must do. Every Sunday we must preach about Jesus Christ. And thank God for a pastor who always preaches us, preaches to us concerning Jesus Christ and keeps pointing us to Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. The more we see him, the more we are transformed. So he says, but we are with unveiled faces, looking as in the mirror, the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. So all we need to do is to look at Jesus. The more we look at Jesus, the more the Holy Spirit gets the material that is required for the transformation of our lives. You see that as time goes on, as you read your Bible looking for Jesus, you notice that with time, what used to depress you doesn't depress you any longer. What used to worry you doesn't worry you any longer. What all the problems become very small as Jesus becomes very big in your eyes. If Jesus is in your boat, what can't happen for you? Hallelujah. I recommend knowing Jesus every day because that is the only thing to do in life. Hebrews chapter 13, verse 8. Hebrews 13, verse 8. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. What that means is that whatever you read concerning Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, or in any of the epistles, or in any part of the Bible, what you see Jesus do, or what you see Jesus as is what he is today. So if you see Jesus multiplying bread and multiplying fishes for 5,000 people to eat without paying for anything, then Jesus is still the same today. He can pay for every single thing that needs to be paid for in your life. Hallelujah. So the more you see who he is, the more you must know that he what he is is what he is today, or what he was is what he is today, and what he's going to be tomorrow. He's he doesn't change, he's the same. Peter gave him his boat and he spoke and fish, he gave him so much. History tells us, some people have calculated how much fish in in dollars that Peter got when Jesus spoke. And it was good for more than 35 years. Jesus retired Peter just like that. I believe Jesus can bring you to something that will so much money that will cause you to retire at once. He's still doing the same today. What he did yesterday, he's doing today, and he will do tomorrow. Hallelujah. I speak into your life that Jesus is going to help you overcome every single challenge of your life in the name of the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Now in Acts chapter 1, verse 1, the Bible shows us what exactly how to what to look for when we are looking for Jesus. Acts chapter 1, verse 1 talks about how Jesus, the things that Jesus began both to do and to teach. The things that Jesus began both to do and to teach. Okay, this is um Acts 1.1. This is the first account I I compose still for us about all that Jesus began to do and to teach. So these are the two basic things that you should look for when you're reading your Bible. Look at what Jesus thought and look at what he did. There's so much to glean from what he thought, and so much to glean from what he did. You get to know a man by what he says, and you get to know a man by his actions. The more you read about what he said, his words, Jesus said, The one who loves me shall keep my words. The one who has my words and keeps them is the one who loves me. Then he said that because the one because my words are not my words, but my words are my father's words. The more you keep his words, he says, the more the father loves you, and the more the father manifests himself to you. So that if you want to know Jesus more and more, you need to learn to keep his words. Just learn to keep his statements. His statements, just his statements, the things he said. He that has to him shall be given. You know, simple, simple. I'm the way, the truth, and the life. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life. These are words Jesus spoke. He says, if you keep them, if you keep them in your heart, keep them in your mind, keep thinking about them, you're actually showing that you love me. Jesus showed us his love language. His love language is to just keep his words. And the more you keep his words, the more he shows himself to you, the greater he becomes in your sight. You know, one day Jesus went into um went to see Martha and Mary because Lazarus had died. You know, and they had sent to get him to come and heal him, but he didn't he didn't come. And we're not happy with him. They said, Martha, if you had been here earlier, our brother would not have died. In fact, Jesus told Martha, I am the resurrection and the life. In other words, I am I am the one. The resurrection is not just a day, the resurrection is a person, I'm the resurrection. And I'm right here. If I'm the resurrection, then what's your problem? Lazarus is going to come out. It's not it's not a problem at all. But Martha kept push pushing Jesus into the future. I know that my brother is going to live in the future, but not now. You see, they didn't have a good estimation of Jesus Christ. When Martha, when when Mary was talking to Jesus, Mary said that I know that even now, if you should ask God, he's gonna, if you ask if you should ask the father, he's gonna hear you. But the word asked that Martha, Mary used was was a word that you know reduces Jesus. He used she used a word that makes Jesus a servant, like someone who is lower than God. You know, like a servant would ask a master for something. But Jesus, whenever the Bible talks about Jesus asking a father something, he uses a uses a word that has to do with Jesus asking an equal, because Jesus is equal to the father. But Martha was Mary was bringing him low. Do you see? They couldn't have they didn't have a good estimation of who Jesus is. The more you read your Bible through the power of the Holy Spirit, the more the Holy Spirit gives gives you a good opinion of who Jesus is. Hallelujah. You you begin to have that confidence that Jesus will come to your aid, and Jesus is with you and in you, and he will help you. And that confidence is so important. You need that for your life as a child of God because of the problems that this word comes with. Hallelujah. Now let me show you some few things in the Bible that talks about you know what Jesus is to us. The first point I have here is that he's our peace, Jesus is our peace. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 4. Jesus is your peace. Tell your neighbor Jesus is your peace. But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love, wherewith he loved us. Um, not verse 4. Let me show it to you. I think I missed it. Go to verse 14, I believe. I hope you enjoy my message. I hope I'm doing a good job. Hallelujah. Ephesians chapter two. Yeah, verse 14. Look at this. For he himself is our peace. He's talking about Jesus. If you read the verse before this, can you go to the 13? If you can go to verse 13, we'll be very grateful. But now, in Christ Jesus, who but now in Christ Jesus, you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. So he's talking about Jesus. And then he says in the next verse that Jesus is our peace. Can you show it to us? Verse 14. He is our peace. Tell neighbor, he is our peace. For he himself is our peace. So our peace is not a state only. Our peace is first of all a person, and his name is Jesus Christ. The more we embrace him, the more peace we enjoy. The more we find about out about him, the more peace we enjoy. He is our peace. Hallelujah. John chapter 16, verse 33. Jesus is our peace. Jesus said, These things have I spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage. I have overcome the world. Our peace says he has overcome the world. What's your problem? There's no need to be in problem. He has overcome all things for us. Now, the more you accept what Jesus is saying, how do we know Jesus? By accepting what he's saying. He has really overcome the world, including all the problems you may be going through, all the challenges you may be going through, all the limitations you may be seeing. He says he has overcome them for us. He is our peace. Hallelujah. Jesus is called the Prince of Peace, if you remember. He's the one, he's the one who takes, he's the officiator of peace. He's the distributor of peace because our peace. Peace is not sold in any supermarket. I'm not sure you've seen. Have you ever been to Target and asked for peace? Target doesn't sell peace. Which other shop do you know? Walmart, Trader Joe doesn't sell peace. Jesus is a Prince of Peace. He's the one who gives peace because he's our peace. Hallelujah. And the more you embrace him, the more peace you enjoy. John chapter 14, verse 27. I want to give you as many verses as possible. Oh, it's a good day. It's raining. Jesus said, Peace I live with you. My peace I give you. Not as the world gives, do I give to you. You know, the world gives peace, it's in short supply. When there's money, then you enjoy some peace. When there's health, then you enjoy some peace. When there's uh when things are going well, you are you are happy. But Jesus gives peace that the world does not give. The peace he gives is forever. It's a constant state of tranquility, a constant state of joy, of stability that the world can never understand. You may be going through a very difficult time, but then you are okay, you're just cool. And people wonder how come you are you are you are okay? How come you are not losing your mind over these things? It's because your peace is a person, his name is Jesus. The more you embrace him, the more peace you enjoy. I see you walking in peace more and more as you embrace our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ every single day through the scriptures. Hallelujah. Then the next point I have is that Jesus is our joy. Can you imagine our joy is also a person? These are things that are not sold. You can't buy them. No matter how much money you have, you can't buy joy. No matter how much money you have, you can't buy peace. No matter how poor you are you are, you can't buy joy or peace. Jesus is our peace, and Jesus is our joy. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 9. Hebrews 1 9. The Bible says that you have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. This is a testimony, a prophecy concerning Jesus. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. Therefore, God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy above your companions. Jesus was the happiest, most excited person in the whole universe because of his consciousness of who his father was. He didn't allow anything in life to be a problem. You know, sometimes when you when we watch some of these movies, Jesus movies, you see a very quiet, very composed Christ. You know, my peace I live with you. Peace be upon you. That's that's that's the picture we get. But Jesus was a very excited guy, he was a very bubbly guy. He was all over the place, he was full of joy. Jesus kept eating and drinking everywhere, to the point that they said, How come you are not fasting? Jesus was a very excited guy. No matter what happened, he was excited. He was so excited and so much in peace to the point that even at the cross, you know, there's there's this movie um of a Chinese movie of a of a guy who was crucified. Okay, this guy was crucified. And when they crucified him, the people around started mocking him, just like Jesus. So I call him the Chinese Jesus. They were mocking him, you know, saying all kinds of things to him. Then he got angry on the cross and came down the cross and beat everyone. He beat every single one of them, killed every one of them, and then went back to the cross and died. That is certainly not the Jesus we know. Our Lord and Savior Jesus was in so much peace and so much joy that at the cross he was able to forgive. Yeah, he was able to forgive. He said, Father, forgive them. It takes being in a certain state of tranquility and joy for you to forgive. The more you embrace Jesus, the more you enjoy that particular state of joy and peace. You can forgive easily. You don't hold on to things for 70 years or 25 years or 50 years. Years or five years or five days and keep reminding people. Do you remember what you did five years ago? You did the same thing five years ago. That is why I stopped talking to you. Now you're doing it again. That's the end. This is your this was your last, this was the last straw. This is what was going to break the candles back. You are done. The more you know Jesus, the more forgiving you become. Hallelujah. Amen. He's our peace and he's our joy. Look at John chapter 15, verse 11. So our joy is a person. John 15, 11 says, These things have I spoken to you so that my joy, remember, Jesus was the most joyful. He says, He's giving, he's anointed him with the oil of joy above all his fellows. And Jesus says, The joy I have, I'm also giving to you. These things have I spoken to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be made full. Jesus is conscious of the fact that your joy can be low. So he says, The more, the more you receive from me, the more you get, the more of my joy you receive, and the more your joy is made full. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Jesus is everything. Jesus is our life. That's the next thing. Jesus is our life. Colossians chapter 3, verse 3. Jesus is our life. The Bible says that for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with glory, with him in glory. When Christ, when Christ, who is our life, so your life, Jesus is your life. Can you imagine? Your every day. Jesus is your your day, he's your month, he's your week, he's your year, he's everything. When you read in Colossians chapter 1, verse 15, the Bible talks about how that Jesus Christ was before is before all things, and by him all things were created. And in him all things were created, and through him all things were created, and to him all things were created. And all that was done so that he might have the preeminence over all things. He might have the first place. Jesus has a first place. Do you see? And Jesus is everything. When you read in Ephesians, he talks about how that Jesus uh he says we should live, we should stop celebrating new moons and uh Sabbath days and all of those things. It's for all those things are a shadow, but the reality is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. That means that our Lord, the the the milk, he talks about milk and bread, which is our daily meal. That's what we we use every day. Then he talks about Sabbaths, that's what we do every week. Then he talks about the new moon, which is monthly. Then he talks about what we do once every year, which is every things that we do every year. And he says that all those things are a shadow, but the reality is Jesus Christ. So it means that Jesus Christ is your everyday, Jesus Christ is your every week, Jesus Christ is your every month, Jesus Christ is your every year, he is your life, he is your life. The more you know him, the more you know about who you are, the more you know yourself. Hallelujah. 1 John chapter 4, verse 17 says that as he is, but by this love is perfection with us, so that we may have be we may have confidence in the day of judgment. Because as he is, as Jesus is, so are we, we also are in this world. The more you know him, the more you know yourself. It's been said that man know thyself, but in Christianity, is man know Jesus Christ, because the more you know Jesus Christ, the more you know yourself, the more you know who you are, the more you know what you can do, the more you know what is possible, the more you get to know how how how how much you can do in life. It's all in him because he's your life. When Christ, who is our life, shall be revealed, then shall we also be revealed with him. Hallelujah. The more you embrace him, the more you find your identity. Sometimes some people are struggling with the identity. Don't know, can I do this? I don't know. I I don't know if I can get to this point in life. Jesus is your life. If Jesus is able to get there, you can also get there. Hallelujah. Amen. Jesus is our strength. Michael was talking about how that the Lord is the strength of our lives. Jesus is the is our is our strength. Our strength is not us, our strength is a person. His name is Jesus Christ. Psalm. Psalm 68, verse 19. Psalm 68, verse 19. Blessed be the Lord who bears our burdens and carries us day by day. Even the God who is our salvation. The God who is our salvation is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Sella. Pause and calmly think of that. He says that Blessed be the Lord who bears our burdens and carries us day by day. The Lord bears your burdens every single day. He bears your burdens of sickness, he bears your burdens of poverty, he bears your burdens of lack of anxiety. That's what that's what he is. He's your burden bearer. That's why the Bible says that we should cast all our curse upon him because he cares for us. So every day when you wake up, remember that Jesus is your strength. He's a strength. The Lord is the strength of my life. The Lord is the strength of my life. The Lord is the strength of my life. The Lord is my strength and my salvation. Hallelujah. He is your strength and your salvation. So when the burden comes, all you need to do is just roll it over to the Lord. Can you do that? Ask your neighbor. Can you just roll it over to the Lord? Just roll it over to the Lord. Every single time there's a problem, just roll. I I by the grace of God that pastor a very large church and it comes with a lot of financial issues, a lot of things to do, a lot of human problems, a lot of emotional challenges, a lot of, I mean, one moment you have good news, another moment you have bad news. One moment you have good news, another moment you have bad news. Someone was asking me, How do you do how do you do it? I said, Well, my strength is a person, and that person is Jesus Christ. When the problem comes, I just I'm just uh an intermediary. I just take it, I don't keep it, I put it on him. I put it on God, and he solves my problems for me. Can you do that? Just roll it over to the Lord. Sometimes some of us are too matured and too, we know too much. So we we we we decide to solve the problems ourselves. I'm not too matured. I feel I'm I'm a very young person. I can't cut, I can't be carrying burdens around. So I've learned to give it over to the Lord who is my burden bearer, who is my ox? He's my ox, he's the one who carries all my burdens and labors much for me. Hallelujah. Can we celebrate Jesus for who he is? Then Jesus is your shepherd. Psalm 23, verse 1. The Lord is my shepherd. What's the next verse? I shall not want, meaning that he will supply all your needs according to his riches by glory in Christ Jesus. He will supply all your needs. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. I shall not want. He will prosper you, he will help you, he will take care of you. Hallelujah. He will take you through the mist of darkness. The Bible says that he leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Why? For thou art with me. The greatest revelation of the old covenant or the old testament was that God is with us. And he is indeed with us. When we go through the fire, he says that you shall not be bent. When you go through the water, it shall not drown you. A thousand shall fall at your right, ten thousand at your at your at your other side. But it shall not come near you. No matter what's going on in the world, the Lord is my shepherd. There's no sheep who can take care of itself. A sheep is too dumb to take care of itself. I am the Lord's sheep. I'm too dumb to take care of myself. The Lord will take care of me. Yeah, so I have no worry in life. I have no care in life. Hallelujah. The more you embrace Jesus, the more you see him as your shepherd. Hallelujah. Jesus is our light and wisdom. John chapter 8, verse 12. Jesus said, I'm the light of the world. John chapter 9, verse 5. He said the same thing on the light of the world. The Bible says that they looked unto him and they were enlightened. They were enlightened and their faces were not ashamed. The more you look at him, the more you embrace him, the more you read concerning him, the more light you enjoy in life. You see, what we need is wisdom. What we need is revelation. The speed of our lives is dependent on the speed of revelation we receive or have. When we went to Rockefeller Square, I saw a verse, Isaiah 23, verse 6, that says that wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of our time. Your stability is dependent on the wisdom and the knowledge that you have. And guess what? Jesus Christ is your wisdom. Second 1 Corinthians 1 30 says that Christ has become our wisdom. The more we embrace Him, the more He opens pages of wisdom for us. And the more light we receive, what we need is light. If there was no light here, we'll be in trouble. We're able to exist and survive and do what we need to do because of the light we have. The more we embrace him, the more light we receive. And the more wisdom we receive, the more enlightened we become, the smarter we become, the more intelligent we become, the more advantage we have in life. If we knew that Apple was going to be a big thing some 25 years ago, I'm sure you'd have bought shares in it. Isn't it? That's what Jesus does. Jesus will show you what is going to be great in the next few years and give you the strength and the wisdom to be a part of it or do something great. That's what Jesus is. Hallelujah. So with Jesus, you cannot walk in darkness. Jesus said, The one who asked me shall not shall have the light of life and shall not walk in darkness. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Jesus is our righteousness. Because of Jesus, we are accepted. His acceptance is our acceptance. Now we can talk to God. God is now our Father. That's in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 31 again. The Bible says that He for of Him are ye in Christ. Okay, this is another version. It says, But it is due to Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Jesus is all these things for us. He is our righteousness. By him we are accepted. Now we can we are in the sun place. Now we can talk to the Father anywhere in the world. And we are accepted favored of God. We can now enjoy the favor of God, the blessings of God, the mercy of God, the goodness of God every single day. Why? Because of Jesus. Jesus is now our acceptance. And that's who he is to us. The more you know him, the more you enjoy the favor of God. Hallelujah. The blessings of the Lord are upon the righteous, upon the head of the righteous. With favor shall he surround him as a shield. The Lord surrounds you with favor as a shield and blesses you because of Jesus. Not because of you, not because you've been good, because you are never good. Even your goodness is not a good good. We accepted because of Jesus. Hallelujah. Knowing Jesus is the greatest thing to do in your life. Philippians chapter 3, verse 7 to verse 10 talks about it. Paul spoke about the blessing. But whatever formal things I have that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as one combined loss for Christ's sake. Yes, furthermore, I count everything as a loss compared to the possession, the priceless privilege, the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth and supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, and of becoming of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with him, of perceiving and recognizing and understanding him more fully and clearly. For his sake, I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish, refuse, dregs, in order that I may win, gain Christ, the anointed one. Paul considered the knowledge of Jesus Christ the most important thing in the world. And I pray that today you recognize that knowing Jesus is more important than anything. And the more you know, because your peace is in there, your joy is in there, your your your increase is in there, your light is in there, your righteousness is in there, your your your self, everything, your health, your life is in him. Ladies and gentlemen, I pray that we keep looking at Jesus. I came to recommend Jesus to you once again to keep reading about him and getting to know him and see your life go up and higher and higher, even in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Can we celebrate Jesus for what he has shared with us? And let's invite Pastor Stephen as I pray for you. Father, thank you for the blessing of this word of getting to know your son Jesus. We pray that you help us to read our Bibles, to have Jesus in view and have Jesus in focus. We pray that you cause us to see him more and more, even as we we get to know our lives through him. Thank you, Father, for what you have done for us, even in Jesus' name. Amen and amen.