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The transcription is a sermon based on Isaiah chapter 43 verse 1. The speaker emphasizes that God has created, formed, redeemed, and called us by name. They emphasize that God sees and hears us and proclaim that we are His. The speaker encourages listeners to trust in God's love and not fear. They mention the importance of walking in God's will and embracing the new things God has for us. The speaker also emphasizes the personal and transformational nature of our relationship with God. They conclude by urging listeners to love one another and reminding them that they are chosen by God. If you will, please go with me to Isaiah chapter 43, verse 1, Isaiah chapter 43, verse 1, and may the Lord bless our hearing that we can hear His Word and what He's speaking to us in a still voice. And it says this, But now, thus says Yahweh, He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you. I've called you by name. You are mine. You are mine. You are mine. Today on this first Sunday, June 4th, 2023, we bless our God and our Father for the precious and loving sacrifice of Christ Jesus as our brother Redeemer. And this morning we are grateful to El Roy, the eternal God who sees us. We are grateful to our Abba Father, our dear Papa, who hears us. We are thankful to El Shaddai because he is more than enough who have given unto us a word of confidence and a healing balm of comfort that was written unto us through the prophet Isaiah. And this morning we proclaim in the atmosphere the gospel of Christ Jesus and proclaim the good news of life and a life more abundantly from the thought, You are mine. You are mine. You are mine. You are mine. You are mine. Everybody on this call, hopefully that will penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, the strength, the four cardinal points of who we are made up to be, that the Lord is saying unto us, You are mine. Isaiah wrote this so profoundly in verse 1. He wrote it about our Father and our God. And so when you see the word Lord, he's referring to him by his appropriate personal name, Yahweh. And in that just one verse, what the prophet reminds us is that, look, I have created you. I have formed you. I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, and you are mine. Regardless of who our daddy is and our mama is and who our people is, let it be proclaimed in this hour that Yahweh has spoken. And he's saying to us even now in 2023, I have created you. I have formed you. I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, and you are mine. Know you not that your bodies, our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost. You are mine. Know you not that we are the sheep of his pasture. You are mine. Know you not that we are the children of God by faith. You are mine. And just in case we're feeling out of sorts, perhaps we're feeling a bit down, maybe we're feeling somewhat disconnected, the word of the Father comes this morning again in that still voice to proclaim unto us, you are mine. As we lay our eyesight on the verse and prayerfully as well our insight on the chapter 43 written by Prophet Isaiah, we dare not ignore. We got verse 1, but we dare not ignore the prophet's prior verses. And so if you just let me read from chapter 42, just verses 18 through 25, so we can put the text into context without there being proof texts and pretexts. When we go to chapter 42 verses 18 through 25, the prophet also wrote, hear you deaf and look you blind that you may see. Who is blind but my servant or deaf as my messenger that I sent? Who is blind as he that is perfect and blind as the Lord's servant, seeing many things but thou observes not, opening the ears but he hears not. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake, he will magnify the law and make it honorable. But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they're all of them shared in holes and they are hid in prison houses. They are for a prey and none delivers, for a spoil and none says restore. Who among you will go ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers? Did not the Lord? He against whom we have sinned. For they will not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger and the strength of battle and it has set him on fire round about. Yet he knew not and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. So that's what Isaiah writes in the prior chapter and in these verses the prophet Isaiah writes of Yahweh's open rebuke. The open rebuke of his people, his covenant people and as they have openly rejected him. Yes, God will openly rebuke us when we openly reject him and defiantly refuse to govern ourselves accordingly. If you're weak, come correct with this perfect way. Yes, it's very good to know that his mercy endures forever. But I'm also glad this morning that his loving ways of correction and chastening, they don't last always. There have been times in my life that I can recall. Better days are coming by and by. Better days have come by and by. But back in the day, if you did something that got Mama Deah upset, one of the worst things that you could hear is, now go get me a switch. I don't know if y'all been there in the house where Mama or Daddy said, now go get me a switch. And at the time that I have to endure the chastening of Mama Deah, there is no disconnect about, yeah, I'm a child. When Daddy Matt pulled out the belt, there's no disconnect with the fact that I am his child. Yes, and also with Yahweh, his chastening comes to an end in due season. You shall reap if you don't faint in due season. And in due season, when his chastening has been accomplished, it's being done so to bring us into full alignment, right alignment, and in accordance with his perfect will. We can't be satisfied with operating in God's permissive will. We need to take it up another level and move into the season of his perfect will. We're in his great revival. Let's go to his perfect will. Thank God that Isaiah didn't end his verses, his written text in verse 25, hallelujah, of chapter 42. Thank God there comes another verse, hallelujah. And in that verse there comes another reminder. And thank God there comes another word of transparency and transition and transformation and transfer that begins with but now. God gives us a word of but now, a word of but now that I chasten those whom I love. Sometimes we were taken to switch, not because God is mad with us, but because he loves us. As a good mom and a good daddy, they love us. They bring about this correction, this spirit of loving chastening. And the chastening seems so heavy in the moment, and it brings tears to our eyes. But after a while, hallelujah, after a while, after a while, the tears subside. And the joy of the relationship is restored because of but now. But now, but now, but now, but now thus says Yahweh that created you, he that formed you. And he's saying fear not, fear not, fear not, for I have redeemed you regardless of what they say is. Mmm, I'm trying to put in your mind, fear not. Don't get caught up with the false evidence appearing real. Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name and yes, hallelujah, thank you Jesus. You're mine. Somebody ought to have a praise. Thank God for Jehovah and the but now. Thank God for a word that declares when you go on and read it, even for, remember not the former things, neither consider the things of the Lord. Behold, I will do a new thing. Hallelujah, I will do a new thing. I wonder if we are ready, hallelujah, for the new thing. Hallelujah, can we give God some praise right now for the new thing? Can we open up our minds and our hands to receive the new thing? But now, but now, but now. Hebrews would tell us that now faith is, hallelujah, now faith is the substance of things hoped for as the evidence of things not seen. So, I just want to get into your spirit as I did into myself. But now, hallelujah, I love it when Paul writes this. He says, brothers, hallelujah, brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind me and reaching forth unto those things which are before me. I press toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Family, in spite of our past, we have a word from Jehovah that calls us out to, but now. But now, forget those things which are behind. But now, reach forth unto those things which are before. But now, press. But now, push forward. But now, fight forward. But now, faith forward. But now, diet forward. But now, finance forward. But now, pray forward. But now, press toward the mark, hallelujah, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Don't press for the job. Don't press for the money. Don't press for the title. Don't press for the likes and the endorsement. But press, hallelujah, for the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Because you're mine. You're mine. Whatever we are feeling right now, whatever we are thinking right now, whatever we are struggling with and fighting against right now, the word is speaking to each of us, to each heart, soul, mind, and strength to declare anew that in this era of God's great revival, you are no longer your own, but you've been bought with a price. You have been redeemed, hallelujah, with a price. The precious blood of the matchless Lamb of God, you have been set free, hallelujah, and whom, hallelujah, has been set free by the truth is free indeed. You've been set free as the children of God by faith. And what have you been set free to do? Well, you've been set free to walk upright, to think upright, to live upright. And God speaks to us in this hour that I have not given you the spirit of sin. I have not given you the spirit of back down, hallelujah. Tom Paine wrote that song, I Won't Back Down. I don't know when he wrote the song, what he was talking about or who he was talking about, but right now, I like the title of the song, I Won't Back Down. And why? Because he's not given us the spirit of fear. He has not given us the spirit of intimidation and timidity, but he has given us the spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind. As our God and our Father, he reminds us that you're mine. And he's also reminding us to walk in the spirit of his power, his love, and to have a sound mind. Ah, thank God for Jesus that triune God works in power, love, and a sound mind, God. Thank God for Jesus that the Trinity gives us another Trinity that we can materialize in this life to have a more abundant life, the Trinity of power, love, and a sound mind. And I believe that it's ours for the grasping and for taking and to actualize in our own lives. So, will you embrace the new thing? Will you receive the new thing? Will you walk in the newness of life? To my dear family, to the ecclesia, I'm encouraged to reaffirm it, especially to the children of God by faith, that we indeed are in a spiritual but personal relationship with our Abba Father, with our dear Papa, through the Lord Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. Yes, we are in a spiritual relationship, but it's personal. In the new thing, in the new thing, it's not business. It's personal. It's very personal, family. It's not about money. The relationship that we have with God, it's not transactional. The relationship that we have with the Father through the Son Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Ghost is transformational. It's not about membership. No, it's about family. And family, we all, we got. And so, we can get to this, but now. But now, I have created you. I have formed you. I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name, and you are mine. And today, to the extent that some may have yet come to full acknowledgment that you are his very own. You are his very own daughter. You are his very own son. Not in a religious way, but in a personal, transformational way, you are his very own. And we are his own, because I am a father. Our dear Papa. I love it. I love it. Our dear Papa. He loves us. He loves us. In John chapter 15, verse 7 through 17, and just please bear with me just a little while longer, just so the word can be proclaimed as I close. Jesus said, if you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit. So shall you be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Continue in my love. If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friend. If you do whatsoever I command you, henceforth I call you not servants. I call you not slaves. I call you not employees. For the servant knows not what his Lord does, but I have called you friends. For all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. That whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that you love one another. I know we've said it so many times before, but again, if it ain't love, it ain't God, because God is love. So family, this morning, for the days to come in this era of God's great revival, as we look up to the Word and look into ourselves by grace through faith, I just want to tell you once again, hang on in there, hang on in there, and proclaim that the Father speaks in this hour, through the blood of Christ Jesus, to declare you are mine. Yes, we are his. The world may look upon us as being powerless, but now, hallelujah, but now, but now, but now the Father has redeemed us through the Lord Jesus, because we are priceless. Yes, we are. We are priceless. You are mine. Let the redeemer of the Lord say so, do so, run so, and live so, in his blessed name. Amen.