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Scriptures Referenced
1 Corinthians 13:1-3King James Version (KJV) 13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Galatians 5:22-23New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
1 Corinthians 13:13New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:5-13New King James Version (NKJV) 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:31Amplified Bible (AMP)
31 But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift [if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
1 Corinthians 12:8-10Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 To one is given through the [Holy] Spirit [the power to speak] the message of wisdom, and to another [the power to express] the word of knowledge and understanding according to the same Spirit; 9 to another [wonder-working] faith [is given] by the same [Holy] Spirit, and to another the [extraordinary] gifts of healings by the one Spirit; 10 and to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people], and to another discernment of spirits [the ability to distinguish sound, godly doctrine from the deceptive doctrine of man-made religions and cults], to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.
Galatians 5:22-23New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
The Fruit of the Spirit
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
2 Corinthians 11:2New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
2 I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Romans 12:1-2New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God— what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Corinthians 12:31Amplified Bible (AMP)
31 But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift [if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].xxx
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 3rd February 2016 Gifts of fruits of the Holy Spirit Gifts of fruits of the Holy Spirit which you desire? The question I’m asking is which you desire? Today we have to decide which you desire first. Now First Corinthians 12, 8, 10. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are there to one is given through the Holy Spirit the power to speak the message of wisdom.
00:30 I’m reading my amplified and to another the power to express the word of knowledge and understanding according to the same spirit. To another wonder working faith is given by the same Holy Spirit. Now remember, everybody has given a measure of faith.
00:45 But this particular gift is wonder working faith. More than a measure of faith to exercise to make the faith work in such extent that it be evident to another the extraordinary gifts of healing for the one spirit healing. Now cast our spirits and we heal in Jesus name that everybody can do.
01:05 These are extraordinary gifts of healing. And to another the working of miracles. And to another prophecy foretelling the future.
01:12 Speaking a new message from God to the people to another discerning of spirits that is the ability to distinguish sound godly doctrine and the deceptive doctrine of man made religions and cults to another various kinds of unknown tongues into another interpretation of tongues. These are nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now what has happened is when I first came to the Lord and God has arrested me and I’m trying to, you know, just very grateful to Jesus Christ.
01:44 Grateful, grateful for peace, joy. So I go. So there will be preachers coming from all over the world and then they will be preaching about designing the gifts of the Holy Spirit and they will be stirring up the gifts, which is all true.
01:59 True. Even Apostle Paul told them, stir up the gifts. That means nobody using the gifts stir up the gifts that you have.
02:06 Stir now. But of course what they fail is they begin to desire this. Now then people are going around there, what gift shall I have? What? What the gifts you have.
02:16 What gifts the other person has. This became a big issue, you know, so I’m wondering in the spirit, in my spirit, although I’m just a few weeks old in Christ, there’s a serious check in my spirit. Why are these people chasing these gifts? And then after that, then when I ask somebody, yes, you’re supposed to desire the gifts towards the gifts.
02:35 But why was my spirit distressed? Is I’m sure it was the spirit of God was distressing my spirit. Because there are other things which you have to do first we have to have the Gifts of the Holy Spirit we can desire, we must desire, we can cover. The only place to cover churches is this other worldly covetousness is terrible sin and will destroy us.
02:57 And God’s word says cover the gifts. You want the gifts. But what God’s word is not the whole counsel of God.
03:06 That’s why when people take counsel one scripture here and start chasing and then which goes to the flesh, why they are chasing here and there. It’s not spirit led. It was carnal led, it was worldly led.
03:18 I want a gift. I want a gift. I will do the gift.
03:21 I’ll do great exploits for God. I will work for God. Then they’ll say, your fire for God.
03:27 All this must put aside. First rule of life in Christ is humbleness. Humbleness.
03:33 But more importantly. Now let’s look at, you know, the other thing. There are fruits of the Spirit.
03:38 There are fruits of the Spirit. Now the fruits of the Spirit is love. It is in Galatians 5, 22, 23.
03:48 Love, joy, peace. It starts off like this. Now, by contrast, I am reading from the Catholic edition.
03:55 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit. That’s from the contrast from the world on all the sinful things. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
04:08 There’s no law against such. I mean, we have to practice this. Nobody is going to stop this now.
04:13 Brothers and sisters, what is happening here is we need to get the fruits of the Spirit first. Coveting the gifts of the Holy Spirit that goes around. It even goes around now.
04:26 They feed this so much into people. People want to do great things for God. I’ll do a great work for God.
04:32 When the fundamental is not done, first you have the fruit of the Spirit must bear in you. It must come out. People see that you have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
04:48 That is why there will be people who are chasing of these gifts of the Holy Spirit and even trying to apply the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And then they will try. God gave me a word for you.
04:56 God gave me a word for you. And they go around, but they completely ignore the fundamental. The fundamental is first of all, when you are in Christ, the fruit of the Spirit must come out, must bear fruit.
05:11 You are bearing fruit by the fruit of the. When you say you bear much fruit, first of all is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. This gentleness is a new modern English.
05:25 Don’t mistake for this. It is humbleness to the word of God. Humbleness to God.
05:29 Now can you imagine? Jesus went and turned all the tables in the temple and started whipping all kinds of things made of whip and went around whipping and chasing everybody out obviously. So that cannot be gentleness, isn’t it? That gentleness that we understand is gentleness. We understand gentleness like a weak man, you know, hello brother, how are you? False humility and trying to pretend to be husband.
05:53 Hello brother, how are you? That’s not the general address nonsense. Jesus Christ was tough. Was a man.
06:01 Man, man, man. What? He was unheard as a man. He was tough what is right, what is wrong.
06:07 But when he sees somebody suffering, his heart will melt. When he sees somebody calling out for mercy, his heart will be compassionate. When he saw this Lazarus and around people, all around the grave are weeping, his heart broke.
06:22 And the word of God says in that two words, Jesus wept. In that phrase, there’s only two words, Jesus wept. Can you imagine a whole phrase in the Bible, just two words, Jesus wept.
06:35 Why compassionate? You’re talking about that you’re not talking about. Hello, how are you, brother? You know all this false humility and pretend to be. Now you know, with all these things happening in the world today, men are becoming like women.
06:48 Like. Isn’t it because of the petroleum fumes and all that are disturbing? That can’t help it. The things are going around so bad.
06:54 So depict them physically. The God of this world, Satan is releasing all these poisons through the petroleum and mimicking all the estrogen. And young girls way before 6, 7, all having puberty already.
07:08 Why? Because of fumes. So the whole world being destroyed by Satan now. So here, priority one first is seek the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
07:22 The fruit. You say fruit, not fruit, sorry, fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is all that love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
07:32 I’ve narrated a section before. Please search it in the Power of Christ daily from the from the site graceoflife.com and you’ll see you can find one. Ask the moderators explaining.
07:47 It’s a fruit. One fruit. Having all these things inside there now.
07:51 Brothers and sisters, 2nd Corinthians 11:2. I feel a divine jealousy for you. I’m reading the category here.
08:00 For I promised you in marriage to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Holy. Chaste virgin describes this holy without blemish, without spot.
08:10 These things come first before you start running to cover the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These things come first Bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit first and again to remember that our body is a temple of God. For instance, Romans 12:1 2.
08:25 I appeal to you, therefore. Catholic edition. I appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, by to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
08:38 Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable, perfect will of God for you. Now, brothers and sisters, we must understand the fundamentals. First.
08:53 When Jesus bought us with his own blood, bought me with his own blood, he expects me to present my body as a living sacrifice. How? As a chaste virgin unto Christ, without blemish, holy, spotless. He has put me in the presence.
09:10 Why? That’s why Apostle Paul is saying he wishes to present earth as a living sacrifice. He wants to present us by the mercies of God. Now he said, appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
09:27 We are supposed to present our bodies as living sacrifice. Now, can you imagine having all kinds of sins? We don’t overcome that. Because by the blood of Jesus Christ, by the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of Jesus Christ, we can overcome.
09:39 That’s why he bought and gave us the power. We don’t want to do any of that. I want the gifts of God.
09:42 I want the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I want the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I want a word of wisdom.
09:46 I want a working of miracles. I want a wonder, working faith. I want extraordinary gifts of healing.
09:52 Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Go and desire first to present your bodies as a chaste version to Christ, as living sacrifice, which is your spiritual worship.
10:03 That’s the first act of worship. Because God said, what? I am in spirit. I am a spirit.
10:08 I am spirit. Worship means spirit and in truth. So what we should do, we should have spiritual worship.
10:15 What is a spiritual worship? Clearly. Romans 12:1 2 is saying, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, which is holy and acceptable to God. Only.
10:24 Then. And he said, do not be conformed with this world. Do not be changed by the world.
10:29 Do not follow the world, do not be overtaken by the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may discern what is the will of God. You want to know the will of God? First you must be not conformed to this world. And then you must be transformed by the renewing of your minds and how do you transform? By the renewing of your minds, by meditating on the word of God.
10:51 For that particular issue, let us say it’s anger or whatever you are having. You have to take the scriptures against anger, the consequences of anger. Anger.
11:00 If you’re angry at the brother without cause, you are a murderer. God said, now do not let the anger go. Don’t let the sun go down on anger.
11:08 Before you go to sleep, get rid of the anger. Why? Anger is the spirit. While your body is sleeping, the spirit of anger is whacking your spirit man.
11:15 Whole night long. Diseases will come, morning, you’re not rested. You’ve got all kinds of issues.
11:20 Now remember this. So therefore, first act is to present our bodies as a chaste virgin to Christ. In this case, as a living sacrifice.
11:31 Holy and acceptable living sacrifice. Spiritual worship. We have to do that first, focus on that, and then at the same time.
11:39 How do we get that? To get the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. All this is Galatians 5, 22, 23. Now we have to desire this verse, desire this verse.
11:55 And then we begin to present this. We want to make Jesus pleased. We want to bless the Lord Jesus.
11:57 We want to make him joyful because of the sacrifice. Such a terrible suffering he went through. Now we say, lord Jesus, I want to make you joyful.
12:12 My spiritual worship is this keeping my temple of God holy. Therefore another scripture will say, do you not know that you are the temple of God? And anyone defiling the temple of God will be destroyed. God says, the temple of God is our body.
12:28 He said, I will not live in a building made of hands, but I will live in the only. That means I live in the building not made of hands. The only thing not made of hands, as a building, as a home, is our bodies.
12:41 He wants to live in our bodies. He’s not going to live in a building. So sometimes they say, I’m building a big building for God to live in this building.
12:49 Not through. Not through. He will live only in our building.
12:53 That’s our body that he made. Now we can make a big building. He’s not going to be there, first of all, until your temple of God.
13:00 He’s going to live only in the temple of God. If everybody who is following Christ comes to the building, then of course he comes. Two or three are gathered in his name.
13:09 But the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, is in us, in our bodies. So we must present our bodies as a living sacrifice. Which is a spiritual worship.
13:20 But when you present our body as a living sacrifice, of course you must have the fruit of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. We have to desire this.
13:33 We begin to desire this. Therefore, always the problem is very easy for our flesh to get into the act when somebody comes and preaches. Desire covered the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
13:45 Everybody running around, but they completely forget they have seen. They will be arguing, there will be quarreling, unforgiveness will be there, there’ll be no peace really. But all this.
13:55 But they’re all chasing and all chasing every day. And everybody, oh, no peace, no oneness, no one accord. Quarreling in the church and then kama doing repeatedly sins.
14:10 Those who are practicing sin, Jesus Christ’s word is clear. You’re not born of God, you’re born of the devil. They’re practicing sin on and on.
14:17 And they’re desiring the gifts of the Holy Spirit instead of desiring the fruit of the spirit. Brothers and sisters, today let’s take this as a warning. We must desire the fruit of the spirit.
14:28 Now further, having said that and remember, our body is the temple of God and anyone defiling the temple will be destroyed. The word is clear now. When we come to the Lord Jesus Christ, we are required to present our bodies as a living sacrifice.
14:42 And that is a spiritual worship. And that is done by not being conformed to this world, but being transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the will of God. If you do not be renewed in the spirit of your mind, you will not know the will of God for you.
15:00 So therefore, brothers and sisters, today start seeking scriptures. In fact, I think there are almost 250. I think it’s 250.
15:08 I think 250 recordings of this daily morning recording so many. I’m actually shocked and amazed at the same time. And I’m so grateful to Jesus Christ to make me do this.
15:21 Because when I get up, I may not have a message. I don’t know what it is. But then it comes and I have to go and search for the scriptures and plug it sometimes, sometimes I get it in the night, the scriptures.
15:31 Then I can make the email first so it makes easier. But sometimes, like today, yesterday was a long day and difficult day. So we are tired.
15:42 So then I couldn’t do it in the night. So I came this morning asking Jesus what. So he told me this.
15:47 So I had to. So today I got to find something by mercy of Jesus Christ. Can still do this.
15:52 And then I got all this. Ready? Now I’m recording. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
15:57 Brothers and sisters, now there’s another thing that I need to conclude. As the Lord lives, but earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift, Acquiring them is going to be a goal. Okay? So he’s saying that desire for the greater gift, the gifts of the Spirit.
16:22 And yet he says, Apostle Paul says in Corinthians 1, 1231. And yet he said, literally, he covered the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And yet I will show you a still more excellent way.
16:36 This is very important, brothers and sisters. Remember the First Corinthians 12:31, Apostle Paul telling us, yes, after presenting ourselves as a chaste virgin to Christ in spiritual worship, in living sacrifice, and acquiring the fruit of the Spirit, of desiring the fruit of the Spirit, he’s now telling us, yes, now desire the gifts of the Spirit. But yet I’ll show you a more excellent way, which is love.
17:04 Without love, I am nothing. He said, in Jesus name I pray, amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Isaiah 11:2Amplified Bible (AMP) 2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him— The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and strength, The Spirit of knowledge and of the [reverential and obedient] fear of the Lord—
John 15:26Amplified Bible (AMP) 26 “But when the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor— Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, He will testify and bear witness about Me.
John 16:7-11Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the [a]Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor— Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you].8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world about [the guilt of] sin [and the need for a Savior], and about righteousness, and about judgment:9 about sin [and the true nature of it], because they do not believe in Me [and My message];
10 about righteousness [personal integrity and godly character], because I am going to My Father and you will no longer see Me;
11 about judgment [the certainty of it], because the ruler of this world (Satan) has been judged and condemned.
Ephesians 1:13-14Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 In Him, you also, when you heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, and [as a result] believed in Him, were stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit [the One promised by Christ] as owned and protected [by God].14 The Spirit is the [a]guarantee [the first installment, the pledge, a foretaste] of our inheritance until the redemption of God’s own [purchased] possession [His believers], to the praise of His glory.========================================== John 16:13Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth [full and complete truth]. For He will not speak on His own initiative, but He will speak whatever He hears [from the Father— the message regarding the Son], and He will disclose to you what is to come [in the future].
1 Corinthians 2:14Amplified Bible (AMP) 14 But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters].
Romans 8:9-11Amplified Bible (AMP) 9 However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God].10 If Christ lives in you, though your [natural] body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness [which He provides].11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 2 February 2016. The Holy Spirit, titled the Holy Spirit, brothers and sisters, especially for new Christians that we very much confused about the Holy Spirit because they do not understand, because they do not know yet. And my people perish for lack of wisdom, for lack of knowledge.
00:27 God’s word is clear. So we must gather as much knowledge and wisdom as one, but from the Scriptures, not what the world is teaching us. That knowledge, all of us gathered, whether willingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, without realizing the thing, has been bombarded on us through the television, through the advertisement, through the Hollywood, Bollywood, all the new cinemas and, and video games or what have you over the years of people talking, parents talking, teachers saying this and that.
00:58 All that has gone into us over the years, and many of it, most of it in fact, will be worldly because they themselves are lost. So now that you’ve come and Jesus Christ has opened your spiritual eyes of understanding and you know he is the King of kings and Lord of Lords. He is the one who went to suffer on the cross.
01:18 Before the cross, he suffered, he suffered on the cross, died and he went to hell. Then he went three days into Hades and then to rise again for you, for me. Then now you realize that the Spirit man will begin to understand the things of the Spirit.
01:34 Because the Holy Spirit, born of the Spirit will understand the things of the Spirit. If you are still carnal, you are not born of the Spirit. Even what I am saying here, you may not understand.
01:43 So if you don’t understand, please start talking to Jesus Christ, asking for forgiveness, admitting that we are sinners. We all have sinned. Small sin, big sin, plenty of sin.
01:54 I had plenty of sin. Likewise, everyone sinned. Jesus word is clear.
01:59 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Ask for forgiveness, ask for mercy with a broken heart. That means you must want a broken heart to know that.
02:08 And contrite spirit, you are wrong. You have sinned against God, you have sinned against people, you have sinned against yourself. Now therefore, please ask for forgiveness and ask Jesus Christ to take control of your life and dedicate your life to Jesus Christ and say he will be the Lord and master and Savior for you from today.
02:26 And that you command your heart and mind in the name of Jesus Christ, to obey Jesus Christ in everything. And the word of God is Jesus, the word of God is Jesus Christ. So you obey the Word.
02:39 Willing to obey the Word. I’m not telling you to obey me. I’m not because I myself have a problem obeying.
02:46 Obeying even the Word of God. My heart may not want to obey. This is a normal thing.
02:51 Our hearts are like this. They are made of three parts, Spirit, soul and body. Our hearts are tragically wicked.
02:57 The Word of God says so. It’s been changed from glory to glory by Jesus Christ. How? First, we must be renewed in the Spirit of our mind.
03:06 By taking the Word of God and meditating on the Word of God. And the Spirit of God through the Word of God is saying us, saying to us, when we look at the Word of God and meditate as if in a mirror. So when we go away, also keep thinking of the Word of God.
03:21 If we go away and don’t remember the Word of God, it’s like a man who looks himself in the mirror. As soon as he turns away, he forgets what it looks like. Please keep meditating on the Word of God.
03:31 Take a few words of God and meditate on that daily. And another word of God later, when this is settled. And you will be changed from glory to glory.
03:39 Because when the Spirit of our mind changes, the heart changes. Brothers and sisters, today let’s look at Isaiah 11:2 from Amplified. And the Spirit of Lord will rest on him.
03:49 This is Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God will rest on him. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and of fear of God.
03:59 Fear of God is reverential obedience. That is what the provider explained. Now remember, many times people will think the Holy Spirit, is it like a power? Is it some power? They start using the technical term dunamis.
04:13 You know, all this. No need. Take simple.
04:16 Try and understand simple words. Some people are so wanting to show that they know the technical terms, these Latin terms or the Greek terms, or these Hebrew terms or whatever. They’ll begin to use that, you know, dunamis and this and that.
04:31 Just. You see, a power is. Is the Spirit of God.
04:34 Is it a power? Is it current? You know, because the Spirit of God hovered around the earth. Father God says in the beginning, you know, in Genesis itself. So now we will come to read from Scripture to find out what is the Holy Spirit.
04:49 And we’ll get from there the Holy Spirit. John 15:26, amplified. But when the helper, comforter, advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener, stand by.
05:02 Who stands by to help you? When the helper in bracket, the amplified saying is comforter, is advocate, intercessor into the forest. Counselor, strength, comforter and counselor, advocate, intercessor, strengthener and standby comes when the helper comes. John 15:26 means Jesus is speaking, comes.
05:23 Whom I will send to you? Jesus is saying, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth. So the Holy Spirit. There are different names and giving you different characteristics.
05:37 Different characteristics of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father. He will testify and bear witness about me. The Holy Spirit will testify and bear witness about me.
05:49 Now the word used is he who. The Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit is a person.
05:57 It’s clear from scripture a number of places you will find he, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person. That is Father God, Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God.
06:09 The three are one. That’s why they decided to use the word Trinity. All these also we need not have used.
06:14 But anyway, people have introduced the word Trinity to say that there are three of them, but same time they are separate. So how is it these are three of them? Father God, Word of God, and that is Jesus Christ, who is Jesus Christ and the Spirit of God, who is the Holy Spirit. How can three be separate and one? So one example that was given is like water.
06:36 You take a cup of water and you divide that into three and then make one into steam. You heat it until it becomes steam. The other one you make into ice.
06:43 The other one is just plain water sitting there at room temperature. Now you can imagine from the same glass of water you divided that in three, you have different characteristics. One is steam, one is ice and one is water at room temperature.
07:01 This will clearly show you that it’s possible to have the same thing in three different ways at the same time. And that is a mystery. Because whatever our worldly mind, our carnal mind, our natural mind cannot understand is because the Spirit of God only can teach us.
07:20 Now therefore, please accept it when you don’t understand what Jesus says. When you do not understand, you do not understand because you do not accept what I am saying. So first of all, when the Word of God is spoken, accept it.
07:36 When your heart is confused, there mind is confused. This is a very important key. You command your heart and mind to accept the word of God in the name of Jesus Christ.
07:44 I command my heart and mind to to accept what the Word of God is saying. God is saying the Spirit of truth will come from Father God. The Spirit of truth is the Holy Spirit.
07:54 So the Holy Spirit is in me. He will speak the truth. He will convict me of the truth.
07:57 He will convict me when I am going to sin or Sin already. He will guide me. And then you get stressed.
08:05 He will testify and bear witness about me. Jesus said, he means he is a person. So we better reverence the Holy Spirit, because he is a person.
08:14 But three of them are one. Father, God, Jesus Christ, the Word and the Holy Spirit are one. So even when you speak to Jesus Christ, it will still be done.
08:23 Because the Holy Spirit will only do what Jesus Christ, our Father God has told us to do. He will not do more outside that parameter. For instance, when we look at John 16, 7, 11.
08:39 But I tell you the truth. Jesus is saying, it is to your advantage that I go away. Jesus Christ is saying I must go away.
08:46 For if I do not go away, the helper, comforter, advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener and stand by. This person who stands by to help you will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him.
09:02 Praise Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, the lingering fluid. I was send him the Holy Spirit to you to be in close fellowship with you.
09:11 And he to be in close fellowship with you. He will be in close fellowship with you. It’s really, you know, sometimes we struggle.
09:19 I want to speak to the Holy Spirit. I want to speak to. Relax, relax, Father.
09:24 God is in complete control. Jesus Christ is complete control. Everything has been put under the feet of Jesus Christ is in control.
09:30 He loves you. He will move the circumstances and he’ll get things done. In close fellowship with you.
09:36 Means whatever Jesus said will come to you. And he, when he comes, that is the Holy Spirit. He again when he comes, will convict the world about sin, the guilt of sin.
09:46 Sin is your guilt of sin means it’s condemning you. You’re dying of sin. I was dying in sin.
09:54 And the need for a savior about righteousness, about go about judgment. This the Holy Spirit is doing nothing for us to do. 9.
10:02 About sin and the true nature of it. Because they do not believe in me and my message. 10 about righteousness.
10:09 That’s personal integrity and godly character. Because I’m going to my Father and you will no longer see me. He’s telling his disciples, I’m going to my Father.
10:17 You’ll no longer see me, but I have to send the Holy Spirit. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit cannot come about judgment, the certainty of it. The Holy Spirit convicts the world because the ruler of this world is Satan has been judged and condemned.
10:30 He see he is in judgment, condemned. But he has not been executed yet. Power has been taken out of Satan, but Satan has not been executed.
10:38 He will finally be thrown into first into the bottomless pit and held there for thousand years. Then he’ll be thrown into the lake of fire. Now, until then, he’s the ruler of the world.
10:51 He’s still the ruler of the world. But Jesus will come take control of the world. Before Jesus left, he said, what? My kingdom is not of this world.
10:58 Because right now he’s not bothered about the world and the kingdom of the world. He’s bothered about getting his disciples, getting his followers. Therefore, each of us now must be disciples.
11:10 Remember yesterday or day previously, it is in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. So if you are a Christian, you have to be a disciple. We do not want to fool ourselves.
11:23 We want to live in the truth now. Ephesians 1, 13, 14. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth and the good news of salvation, you believed in him.
11:37 That is Jesus Christ was stamped. And the seal of promise. The Holy Spirit as owned and protected by God.
11:44 The promise of Christ. The seal of promise. What? The seal of the promised Holy Spirit.
11:50 The Holy Spirit comes as a seal over us. The Holy Spirit comes and puts a seal that we are being promised for salvation. We are the spirit is a guarantee.
12:00 14. The spirit is the guarantee. The first installment, a pledge.
12:04 The foretaste of our inheritance. Until the redemption of God’s own possession. To the praise of his glory.
12:11 This what simply says is that the Spirit of Holy Spirit when he comes, he puts a seal. He’s a seal for us. When he comes, he becomes a seal for us.
12:21 As a pledge, as a first installment of our inheritance. This for us to know. Jesus Christ, Father, God has given the Holy Spirit.
12:29 Jesus has gone and sent the Holy Spirit. And it’s a seal for us. It’s a promise.
12:33 It’s an installment. It’s a pledge of our inheritance. Until the full redemption of God’s own possession.
12:40 Until we completely redeemed. That happens when Jesus Christ comes and takes control of the earth. And we are with him now, brothers and sisters, so it’s important.
12:49 But Jesus. You speak to Jesus. You speak to Jesus.
12:54 Because the Holy spirit now John 16:13. A sorry, John 16:13. But when he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, full and complete truth.
13:07 For he will not speak on his own initiative, but he will speak whatever he hears from the Father. The message regarding the Son. And he will disclose to you what is to come in the future.
13:19 He will begin to lead you. He will begin to guide you. He will begin to comfort you.
13:23 He is a comforter. But he will do only what the Father has determined through the message of His Son. He will only do what the message of Jesus Christ is.
13:33 1 Corinthians 2:14. But the natural unbelieving man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. You see, if you’re not born of the Spirit, you will not accept what the Spirit of God is telling, for they are foolishness, absurd and illogical to him.
13:54 Amplified, the natural unbelieving man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness, absurd and illogical tweets, and is incapable of understanding them because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated. And he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters. That’s why when you are not born again, you cannot understand when people say, okay, don’t rush, brother, don’t rush, sister, don’t rush.
14:19 And do this, wait, Jesus will do something for you. If you rush, you’ll end up making mistakes. Because when you say, two jobs offered, and we know one job can maybe more money, but maybe more trouble, so we say, wait on the Lord, wait on the Lord Jesus, waiting for the Holy Spirit to guide us.
14:35 But sometimes they rise because if they’re not spiritually discerning in that area where their heart is caught in that, their heart wants that. So you cannot be spiritually discerning in an area. You can be born again in the Spirit, but in many areas, our hearts have not been converted and the heart has blocked us from knowing the spiritual discernment for that issue.
14:56 So they will end up getting in trouble. So therefore God says, if you are not, if you keep on believing the worldly way, you will not accept the things of the Spirit of God, because the things of the Spirit of God will be opposite to what the world says. So now, brothers and sisters, this is critical.
15:17 So let us now first of all begin to understand. We now want to wait on the Lord Jesus Christ, who through the Holy Spirit will guide us. The Holy Spirit intercedes for us.
15:28 Jesus Christ intercedes for us. He says all things work for the good of those who love God and are the called according to his purpose. So even when trouble comes, there’s segments, several, four or five segments about why Jesus allows trials, why Jesus allows trials for many reasons, for our good.
15:47 Finally, so that we will train in the Spirit. We will not just follow what we sow, we will reap. That also will happen.
15:54 And Jesus doesn’t cause trouble, doesn’t create trouble for us. It doesn’t tempt people. God cannot be tempted.
16:00 He will not tempt anyone. But he will not block some trouble for us. He will allow the trouble.
16:05 Because through the trouble we are trained. We are trained. Our spirit man is trained.
16:05 Because through the trouble we have to cry out to Jesus Christ because we will know we cannot do when the trouble comes, other things we can do. I can do this, I can do that. You cannot.
16:20 You can do nothing without me. Jesus Christ said, you can do nothing without me. Jesus Christ said, so what the untrained carnal mind will say, natural mind.
16:30 So I do nothing? I do nothing? People ask. No, you wait on the Lord. You start worshiping Jesus Christ.
16:36 You start examining yourself to see where you have given a foothold to the devil. You start casting out the evil spirits and all that. Casting out prayers and receiving prayers.
16:46 Receive the good spirit. You begin to do all that. You just don’t sit down there like a dodo, do nothing.
16:51 But you deal in the spirit. The battle is in the spiritual plane. In Jesus name I pray all understand today.
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Scriptures Referenced
Acts 11:26New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”
1 Peter 4:16New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)16 Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.
1 Peter 4:16Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)16 But if anyone suffers for being Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears this name. ”
John 1:12Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 12 But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God ,
John 8:31Amplified Bible (AMP) 31 So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples.
John 8:32New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
3 2 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters, today, the power of Christ Daily 1st February 2016 who is a Christian? Who is a Christian? The question can also be what is a Christian, brothers and sisters? This for instance, if you look at the Webster dictionary, they say a Christian is defined as someone who believes in the teachings of Christ, someone who believes in the teachings of Christ. And these kind of worldly definitions go. And this also of course crept in into the church. Now of course there are people going to church coming, including the ministry I minister in the church that God has given me to minister over his church Jesus Christ has given me to minister over.
00:32 Now of course they go and come and they listen, they may even listen to counsel. But only Jesus Christ can determine whether you are a Christian or not. And he has defined it.
00:59 He has defined it. So there’s no confusion really. Now the word Christian has become so loosely used that so long as anybody goes to church and come goes to church and come Sundays they say, oh, you’re a Christian.
01:12 Or somebody says praise the Lord, then they think it’s a Christian. It’s all that is form necessary. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
01:21 You will say better praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We don’t know which Lord we’re talking about.
01:25 And of course they do not know. Many do not know. The devil came to steal, kill and destroy.
01:30 And, and it’s still around. And the apostles spoke about it years onwards after that, after Jesus left for years they speak about it and said, do not give the devil a foothold, one foothold only, no need to give many footholds, one foothold. And devil will take full advantage and make our life a mess.
01:46 And his strategy to make us believe that God has done something to you. Never ever complain about God. Never ever complain about Jesus Christ.
01:50 Never ever complain about God Almighty. Never ever. That’s the beginning of a complete destruction.
02:00 Because the devil will take complete advantage of you. Jesus will still be merciful to you, but the devil will begin to hammer you. And there’s nothing Jesus can do because your will, he allows you your will and your will doesn’t want to submit to his will.
02:14 So when that goes on, how you tell me if you do not submit to the will of Jesus Christ, the power, the blessing, the promises that have already been completed on the cross are sitting down there. They cannot flow into you. They cannot flow into you.
02:28 Why? Your will is blocking his will from operating in your life. So this is one of the biggest problems we all face, including me. Now brothers and sisters, now let’s look at this.
02:40 In the book of Acts 11:26, book of Acts 11:26. I’m reading from the Catholic edition. And when he had found him, they brought him to Antioch.
02:51 So it was for an entire year they met with the Church and taught a great many people. This Apostle Paul taught a great many people. And what is Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians? I’m sorry, I’m not too sure whether it’s Apostle Paul here.
03:05 Now, the Church taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. Now, in the New Testament, of course, in the Christian, the word Christian is mentioned three times. Three times the word Christian.
03:20 Some new translation may even take that out. Now, it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. Who were called Christians? Disciples, not simply believers.
03:31 Now, this has again taken root in these churches where people begin to believe. You believe, and it’s one level of Christianity, and you are a Christian already. And then discipleship is a higher level of something.
03:44 And they’ll say, okay, you first believe and then slowly, slowly you become a disciple. No, that’s not true. Because if you’re going to be called a Christian, you have to be a disciple.
03:54 And only disciples were first called Christians. Disciples mean people not only just believe in the teaching, they do the teaching. They disciplined in obeying the word of God, obeying any disciple, any disciple, by any training.
04:08 They obey and do what has been told by the master of that discipline. In this case, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is our master, our Lord, our Savior. We do so only doer of the Word.
04:20 Finally, the doer of the word, that word of God is a disciple. Now, that is why in 1 Peter 4:16. Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian or a Christian, actually the right word is Christian.
04:37 Do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God. Because you bear this name. What name? The name of Christ.
04:45 So if somebody condemns you for following Christ, oh, rejoice, rejoice. Somebody follows you, condemns you following Christ, they begin to poke you for following Christ, Rejoice. But if somebody condemns you because you’re doing wrong, you better be remorseful, better be sorry, better change.
05:09 You know, it’s very sad. What happens is there are people who do not change. And then there are people outside in the world will tell you, hey, you have not changed.
05:16 You say you are a Christian. In fact, once you say you are a Christian already, the people outside the world waiting to see whether you change or not. If you do not change, you are doing the Same old, same old sin, anger, frustration, pride, stubbornness, selfish, self seeking all that we are doing.
05:37 Then the person outside person, not non Christian will slowly say you are not changed. And in those who don’t tell also they know, they think these false are false liars only they say they’re Christians but actually don’t obey. Now belief, the word belief, belief has got to trust in, adhere to, cling to cling on.
05:58 You know the Hebrew word, the English word, suddenly replace it with belief because it’s the only word they can find. But actually it means a lot of things in the Hebrew text. In the Hebrew language it’s an Asian language, just like Chinese and Tamil, the Asian languages.
06:13 And so if they give one word in the Asian language, it will take many words in the English language to explain that particular word in that Asian language, it will take many English words to actually properly translate and reflect the actual meaning of that particular Asian word. That is a problem that the translation began like this. Just believe and everybody.
06:38 And over as the years go by break. Do you believe that so and so is the prime minister of your country? Yes, because it’s not news every day for couple of years already you heard maybe elected last election six months ago. Now you are listening, listening, listen.
06:51 Now of course you know the promise says that, but do you that’s not what the belief that the Hebrew text is talking about. Belief means whatever this person is telling you, believe and do be a doer of the word. So do you really believe Jesus Christ? There were the other things I’ll say is if anyone.
07:10 Now I’m going to refer the Jewish Bible 1st Peter 4:16, which I read just now. If any of you suffers from the Catholic edition I read if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bears his name. The name of Christ.
07:26 1st Peter 4:16. Again complete Jewish Bible. But if anyone suffers for being messianic, let him not be ashamed, but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears the name.
07:39 So when you’re suffering also by the way you bear the name. By the way you bear the suffering. Messianic means disciple in the Jewish Bible.
07:49 Disciple, Disciple. Messianic. Now Messiah.
07:53 Messiah is the Christ the Savior. Messianic means you follow you, you obey, you do everything he tells you, you submit. Now what then happens? John 1:12 but to as many as did receive him.
08:06 It’s a Jewish Bible I’m reading to those who put their trust in this person and power. They are not just believer. Those who put their trust in his person and power.
08:14 Those who put their trust, their trust. I must put my trust in Jesus person as a person of Jesus Christ and the power of Jesus Christ. He gave the right to become children of God.
08:29 He gave a right. Now we have to begin to exercise the right. We must become doers of the Word.
08:34 As we become doer of the Word, then we become disciplined in Jesus command. Then as we become disciplined in Jesus command, we are being disciples. But disciples we can start from the beginning and say, I want to be a disciple.
08:45 I declare, I proclaim, I command my heart and mind that from today I will be disciplined in Christ. And everything Christ tells me to do, I will do. I will reject the world and follow Christ.
08:57 Come, follow me, he said. Now, can you imagine that particular thing if you read the context? How Jesus told Peter, come, follow me. When Peter’s boat was full of fish, that’s when.
09:08 Because they were not bearing anything, any fish. And Jesus was there to preach. He wanted the boat.
09:14 He wanted to sit on the top of the boat and preach. So he did that. They asked Peter.
09:18 Peter said, yes, my Lord. So he preached after preaching. I think he went and said, have you caught anything? No.
09:25 Then he said, go ahead, do this. So when they went and did that, first of all, Peter was thinking, we tried the whole night long, no fish and all that. Then go and do this.
09:33 Went and did that. Full of fish. But you know, after catching the full of fish, when the boat is full of fish, in fact it is struggling to.
09:42 It is sinking a bit inside, you know, he’s not sinking. It is going down, weighted by the weight. It’s gone a bit down.
09:51 Then Jesus said, come, follow me. You know what Peter did? Just followed him. Just followed him.
09:57 Why? Peter didn’t say, what about the fish? Peter didn’t say, what about my boat? Boat is valuable. Big boats. These are not simple ones running a small trumpet, small dinghies, you know.
10:09 Then Matthew, you know what was Matthew. Matthew sitting down there. He’s the text collector.
10:14 He says his table is full of money under, inside the trousers and all that. And some will bring out some money, I suppose. I do not know.
10:20 Now, when Jesus passing by, he didn’t stop. As he passed by, he told Matthew, come, follow me. That’s all, Matthew, come, follow me.
10:31 So Matthew stopped, left the money and just followed. What about the problem? Because the problem is he’s collecting on behalf of the government. So what will happen to the government and the authorities? But he just followed.
10:44 Why he followed because he believed Jesus Christ. And you know what? Nothing happened in Matthew with the government and the authority. Because we follow Jesus Christ, he will do something.
10:53 The authority’s mind, the authority’s mind and heart are all settled. Jesus will settle them if you truly follow. But if you half heart follow and expect Jesus Christ to settle the minds of those who are angry with you or whatever, it’s not going to work.
11:07 Because people may be angry with you or me because of what we did, not because we did as a Christian. So if we are suffering as a Christian, we glorify his name and we bear his name and give glory. By the way we bear his name, we accept.
11:21 Suppose we say, I cannot do this. The boss tells you to fill the books so that you can get a better loan for the company. I cannot do this, boss.
11:29 I took a covenant. I took a covenant with Jesus Christ that anything I do, I will not do. I will do according to his word.
11:36 And his word says I cannot do this. I’m sorry. Now, of course if frightened double can attack you.
11:41 But this is the Christian who humbles himself and tells why he cannot. I got a vow. If I put that vow aside, I’ll be condemned.
11:49 I’ll have problems, I’ll be cursed. And anyone making me do that also will cover the curse. Because God doesn’t want anyone making me do wrong things that against him what I covenanted, what I vowed.
12:01 So, so sorry, boy. Then you see what happens. And even if they attack you, God will give you another job.
12:06 But there’s only one job in the entire world, in the entire town. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Today, brothers and sisters.
12:11 Now let’s look at this now. John. So when did they call them Christians, the disciples? They only called disciples first in Antioch they were called Christians.
12:22 When they were disciples disciplined in Christ, they determined to follow Christ. They determined, they decided. So as the day you decide, I will follow Jesus Christ.
12:32 Lord, make me follow you completely in every aspect of your word and everything you want me to do. That’s the day you become a disciple. Yes.
12:39 Then there’s a walk as a disciple. There will be challenges as a disciple. There will be issues as a disciple.
12:46 But you begin to do. You begin to do now. John 8:31.
12:51 So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed him, so people have believed him that he was only preaching to the Jews at that time. Now, if you abide in my word, abide in my word. It simply says, if you abide my word, you are truly my disciples.
13:07 This I am reading my amplified. So in bracket Amplified is explaining what his abide is. If you abide in my word, continually obeying my teachings and living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples.
13:21 So abide in my word means continually obeying my teachings, Jesus Christ teachings, and living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples. See, to be truly disciples, it’s not simply say I obey, I obey. No, continually obeying his teachings and living in accordance with that word, then you are truly my disciples.
13:43 These are words of Jesus Christ. Some will get angry with me for quoting this because they off and on they lapse, they go and do something, they get addicted to something or whatever. And then today for one, two days or one week, two weeks, they don’t smoke and then suddenly end up smoking again and all that.
13:58 And then they get angry with me when I quote this. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters, this is the good news. No need to get angry because Jesus says he gives you power.
14:07 You can by the blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. Run away from the shop where you’re buying the cigarette. Run away.
14:13 Don’t go to the friends who are supposed to be friends and they share the cigarette with you. There are certain steps, there are things how to overcome. There are many segments.
14:22 By God’s mercy, by Jesus Christ mercy have recorded, you must always overcome. Only overcome worlds will enter heaven. Now if you abide in my word, continually obeying my teachings, living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples.
14:35 And now that is John 8:31. Now I am reading John 8:32 by reading from Catholic edition. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
14:44 Only disciples will know the truth and the truth will set them free. Those who are just a believer level at it, just a believer level. And then the Bible classes teach them this.
14:57 You come to Bible class to become a disciple. So when you believe, you’re not going to be a disciple. When you believe, you’re just a believer.
15:06 But the Bible doesn’t, the Scriptures don’t differentiate this. They don’t differentiate between believer and disciple because they simply believe they’re really not a Christian. To be a Christian, you need to be a disciple.
15:18 You need to be disciplined. Now 8:32 again, I’m reading, repeat again. John 8:32.
15:25 You will know the truth and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free. If I read 831 and 32 together, it’ll be like this. If you abide in my word, continually obeying my teachings and living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples.
15:40 And you will know the truth. And the truth will make you free. Now what happens now? Everywhere, advertising and all the truth will make you free.
15:47 The truth will make you free. But you will not know the truth of Christ. You will not know the truth of the living God.
15:51 You will not know the truth of the spiritual world. You will not know the truth of how the devil comes and attacks people and keeps them captive and all that. You will not know all the truth until you are a disciple.
16:05 You swore yourself. You vow. You take a commitment.
16:07 I will be a disciple of Jesus Christ. So today, brothers and sisters, I plead with you. Those who are saying, I believe, I believe, I believe.
16:16 It’s not good enough. You’ll continue suffering because only the disciples will know the truth. And you cast out the demonic forces.
16:22 You have power. Jesus Christ give you power. He gave you power to be children of God.
16:26 And you use the power. The power, first of all is to cast out the evil in Jesus name. The power in the name of Jesus Christ.
16:32 Command your heart and mind to obey, continually obeying the teachings of Jesus Christ. Today, brothers and sisters, is a wonderful day. If you keep listening to this and you begin to apply.
16:41 You see your life change. You see a life change. There will be righteousness, peace and joy.
16:45 There will be hope. Peace, brothers and sisters, today do this, do this. Search the scriptures yourself.
16:53 Meditate on them yourself. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Mark 8:16-17Amplified Bible (AMP)16 They began discussing this with one another, saying, “It is because we have no bread [that He said this].” 17 Jesus, aware of this [discussion], said to them, “Why are you discussing [the fact] that you have no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
18 Though you have eyes, do you not see? And though you have ears, do you not hear and listen [to what I have said]? And do you not remember,
19 when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They answered, “Twelve.”
John 8:43-44Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
43 Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.
44 You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar — indeed, the inventor of the lie!
John 8:47Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
47 Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”
Luke 6:43-45New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
45 The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
Acts 7:51New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.
Proverbs 29:1Amplified Bible (AMP)
Warnings and Instructions
29 He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved (corrected, criticized), Will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 31st January 2016 A Sunday. Overcoming hardened heart. Overcoming hardened heart.
00:11 Now why must we overcome a hardened heart? What is a hardened heart and why must we overcome it? First of all, why must overcome it? We better settle it here now to overcome it. Why must overcome it? Because in Proverbs 29 and again it is also reflected in different ways in throughout the Bible. Proverbs 29:1.
00:31 I’m reading from the Amplified. He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved, corrected, criticized, will suddenly be broken beyond repair. Anyone who’s hardened his neck.
00:47 He says hardened neck. They’re referring to the hardened heart. Heart is hardened, stubborn, stubborn who are stubborn and refuses instruction after being often reproved.
00:56 Often reproved means corrected and criticized in bracket. It says preface. This reproof says corrected.
01:02 Then criticize people. Criticize you and say you’re wrong. Criticize is not wrong.
01:07 It’s not a bad word. Critical means you’re careful people. Critical levels, what is it? Careful levels.
01:14 So critical people. But there are also critical spirits. People just criticize, criticize, criticize.
01:20 Not even checking themselves, not taking the log out of the own eye. Of course there’s an another spirit. But here the Bible is talking about correctly critical, correctly criticizing, correctly correcting will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
01:32 So anyone who is stubborn and hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved, will suddenly be broken and beyond repair. That is why you must get rid of hardened neck. That is why you must get rid of stubbornness.
01:43 Stubbornness. They don’t get rid of it because of problem coming. Because there’s nothing.
01:48 The word of God will operate as it has said. And this is a warning. This is a good news to tell us.
01:54 Hey, look, children, don’t harden your necks or harden your heart and you suddenly be broken beyond repair. That’s a warning. Good warning.
02:04 A red light. It’s a good warning. Oh, the red light is a distraction to my driving.
02:09 It’s a hindrance to my driving. What nonsense is that? That’s why some people think the Bible is giving some hindrances and giving them trouble and giving them difficulties. No, I used to think something like that because I don’t know Christ.
02:22 I don’t follow Christ. So I’m doing my own thing. So I believe that Bible is a bit of a nuisance for me.
02:27 Oh, drunkards will enter not enter heaven. I fed up because I was a drunkard. But actually it’s a good warning.
02:35 To say, look here, drunkards will not enter heaven means you better wake up. But of course we didn’t know I was going. My own heart, my own heart desire.
02:45 That’s where the problem starts. Now, brothers and sisters, today let us look at this dishardened heart. You’ll be surprised.
02:51 You know the stiff necks, that’s how the Proverbs 29:1 says stiff necked hardened his neck. Some scriptures, some translations say stiff necked. I was surprised, you know, when years ago.
03:06 I’m talking about 15 years ago. I was studying another ministry whereby a healing ministry through the Net and through the videos I bought and all that, studying that. And they said, look, one of the problems of illness is the connection.
03:21 The connection between the messages from the brain don’t come to the heart. And all this is a connection problem. So we need to do the stiff neck people, especially neck problems.
03:31 One hand is shorter than the other because of muscle is tensioned up and all that. So they call it a neck thing. What will happen is one person will stand at the back of the saint that required to be prayed for and hold the shoulders, not the neck shoulders is a upper arm hold tightly with their two arms.
03:48 They’ll be holding the sides of this person tightly. And another servant will hold the head of the person and tilt it slowly backwards. And while in the backward position, tilt left and tilt right and then bring forward again.
04:02 And while forward, trying to touch the chin towards the neck and again left and right. You will find that all this neck, stiff neck sound will be released. I was surprised, the muscles all relaxed.
04:13 So in the name of Jesus Christ, I command every muscle, every tendon, every ligament to lengthen and settle down and to be positioned properly in Jesus Christ’s name. And then you find that the back pain all goes off, you know. So we were doing that.
04:27 But one day I was so shocked when I tried to move this head of this person. Suddenly it stiffened up so hard. And I said, relax brother, relax.
04:37 No, I’m relaxed, I’m relaxed. He’s saying. But his sudden stiffened up.
04:42 Then only I remember the scripture, God says stiff necked people. So I realized immediately, by God’s mercy, there was a spirit of stubbornness has caught this brother. And this had to go because the stubborn spirit will harm you.
04:54 So when you begin to do this thing suddenly now you find that science also comes along with it. And they have cranial manipulation and all this manipulation of the head and all to release the connectivity. Then you find others trying to connect the meridian from the neck onwards down Onwards, they do all that now.
05:16 But here we are talking about the spiritual anger. So stiff. Then after, when I taught this to others and those brothers and sisters were doing for others, they suddenly come across this.
05:25 Suddenly it will stiff up. The neck will become so tough and stiff, the head can’t move like a stone already. So then we’ll tell the person, brother or sister, now you please say you don’t want to have stubbornness anymore.
05:40 You want to have a humble heart. You want to have a fleshly heart. You want God to give you a fleshly heart.
05:46 You want a humble heart. You don’t have a stiff neck. You don’t have a stubbornness.
05:49 And then when they say the prayer, I don’t want all this in Jesus Christ’s name. Then we cast out spirit of stubbornness, get out in the name of Jesus Christ. And we repeat a couple of times and then we repeat it.
05:59 And then suddenly you find the neck gone, pliable, soft, flexible. And I used to be amazed at this. Now, brothers and sisters, so stiff neck, when God says a word like stiff neck, it actually happens in the physical those days.
06:14 I came to realize this about 17 years ago. Suddenly, you know, with all this real experience, I realized when God says stiff neck, there is a purpose. That’s why he said, do not harden your neck.
06:24 Do not harden his neck. It says Proverbs 29:1. So now this hardening heart, hardened heart means hardened.
06:32 After neck will show up neck also hardened stubbornness. But remember this hardened heart, God is saying another scripture. You know that whoever belongs to God accepts what he says.
06:43 This is John 8:47. Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says because you don’t belong to God.
06:51 So whenever a scripture is given to somebody and they don’t accept it is because they don’t belong to God. Or at least not yet. Or at least not yet, I don’t know.
07:00 So we humble ourselves and move on. What to do? And we pray for them. We pray that their eyes of understanding will open and God will show them mercy.
07:07 That’s all. We could move on. Now there’s another scripture.
07:11 John 8. 43. Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.
07:19 Complete Jewish Bible why don’t you understand what I’m saying? This Jesus saying, why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message. Some will say, because you don’t want to accept my word. You don’t accept what I’m saying.
07:31 You don’t accept my teaching. So therefore when people don’t accept the scripture, when people are correcting them and tell them this is scripture, brother, this is future sister. They don’t accept the scripture.
07:44 Of course they won’t understand it. Then they don’t understand. Don’t understand.
07:48 I don’t understand. I don’t understand. You have a number of cases like this in Tamil.
07:48 I don’t understand. And all this goes on and then we find that it’s because they’re not accepting the word. So brothers and sisters, today, when you don’t understand this is a very important scripture for you.
08:03 It’s an escape. This is a fantastic revelation for you. If you don’t understand, you first accept the word of God.
08:09 Accept it as truth because Jesus is saying that and because it’s the word of God. And 44 John 8, 43 just I read, you don’t understand what I’m saying because you can’t bear to listen to my message or don’t accept what I’m saying. In 44 it says you belong to your father Satan.
08:25 Can you imagine if you don’t accept the word of God, Jesus Christ immediately says you belong to your father Satan because you don’t accept what he’s saying. Do we really want to be belonging to Satan? I think not for anybody. Obviously I do not want brothers and sisters because eternal killers will harm us and I will harm terribly.
08:43 So I do not want to get back there. So everybody better accept the word of God. The scriptures are given.
08:49 Accept it and then you will understand it and then you will follow and your life will get better. Now remarkably, even the disciples have got hardened heart. I’m talking about the apostles.
09:02 No, before they became apostles. Mark 8, 16, 17. They began discussing this with one another, saying it is because we have no bread that he said this.
09:13 Just before this, Jesus told them, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the eaves of the Pharisees.
09:23 And then the disciples couldn’t understand. And then they decided to discuss among themselves and they said, because we have no bread. I think that’s why he said this, because we know bread.
09:34 There is hardly any bread with them. It’s because we know bread. That’s what he said.
09:37 This then Jesus, aware of this discussion, said to them in 17 Mark 8:17, I’m reading for amplified. Jesus, aware of the discussion, said to them, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread. Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Are your hearts hardened? And why did he say this? Because in 18, next verse, though you have eyes, you do not see.
10:06 Though you have eyes, do you not see? Jesus asking, and though you have ears, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? Jesus saying, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? And do you not remember? And then in 19 he said, when I broke the five loaves for 5,000, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up? The answer, 12. He had fed thousands with just five loaves. And now when he said, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, the disciples fell into the trap to think about maybe because we have no bread of fire, he said this and then Jesus Christ immediately corrected them and said, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Now important factor.
10:51 He’s telling the disciples how your hearts hardened. Are your hearts hardened? He is telling the 12 are your hearts hardened? Though you have eyes, do you not see? Though you have ears, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? And do you not remember? So this is a fact. When we don’t remember what Jesus Christ had done for us, when we don’t care to remember, we don’t care to list up.
11:10 We don’t care to think about it, don’t care to meditate about how many good things you have done. Your heart will become hardened. Your heart will become hardened because you do not consider and think about what Jesus Christ has done for you, your family, your siblings or your people around.
11:27 In the congregation you see so many examples what Jesus has done. Prayers have been made in Jesus name and people have been healed. So you don’t think of all that and meditate and all that.
11:36 What will happen to your heart? Your heart will harden. And why? Your heart is hardened because you have eyes and you do not want to see. Because you have hears and you do not want to listen to what he has said.
11:47 So, brothers and sisters, it’s a very terrible thing. Heart should be hardened. When hearts are hardened means what will happen step by step.
11:55 Trouble. Trouble. Because hearts hardened.
11:57 Finally, stiff neck, stiff neck. Finally destruction beyond repair cannot be repaired. Can you imagine this? That is why one of the things we must do is keep remembering what Jesus Christ had done on the cross.
12:08 First to go to the cross. How he suffered for you. How he bought you with his own precious blood.
12:13 How. How he went to hell to Come. So that we don’t have to go.
12:17 How he was skin all like ribbons. Because he whipped him so much like ribbons. No form.
12:22 Already his face was torn. That’s what he had done for you and me. So you begin to look at that first.
12:28 And then you begin to look actually what he has done here. Because suddenly when you came to Jesus Christ, you got righteousness, peace and joy. Righteousness, peace and joy.
12:36 You got peace. All the troubles in the world were there. But you had peace because Jesus Christ gave you peace.
12:41 Now you keep on forgetting this. You keep on not going for this and keep not accepting. When words of God are shown to you, then sudden destruction without repair, suddenly destroyed without repair.
12:54 How can Rajitandan be broken without repair? We don’t want any of this to suffer to anybody. So please, please, please, I beg anyone with very easy one. So go humble yourself.
13:04 Go to a servant who can do the next thing for you. When you go to a servant, if you do not know this, call the grace of life or the power of Christ daily and ask the moderators and somebody will help you there. You can check your stiffness with somebody else.
13:18 Is stiff neck. And then it becomes pliable. Now hardened hearts might not have also translated into a stiff neck yet.
13:27 So there may be hardened heart inside, but the neck can still be pliable or flexible. But it will be happening later. Because it’s a physical manifestation of a hardened heart.
13:36 So hardened heart. Now everything comes from the heart. From the abundance of our heart, our mouth to speak, from the good treasure of the heart to produces good.
13:45 No good tree bears bad fruit. And no bad tree can bear good fruit. This is in Luke 6:43,45.
13:52 But from the good treasure of your heart, heart will produce good fruit. So therefore everything comes to the heart. Our hearts are treacherously wicked.
14:00 So that is why if you are and this, what was the hardened heart here? Unbelief. Unbelief. This is what happened to the disciples.
14:08 So it can happen to me. It can happen to you. So please watch out.
14:11 We have to be examining ourselves and be careful and checking any word of God. Do I not believe? When he says this word of God and you’re rejecting it, you’re rejecting it. And when three giving of counsel, two or three get together and counsel you and say, brother, sister, this is wrong what you’re doing.
14:27 This is how to do it. This is the word of God. No, I have my own understanding of Scripture.
14:32 Why you’re not understanding this, why you’re rejecting? To refuse to accept what Jesus Christ is saying through his word and through the servants who are telling you the scripture and telling you this and asking nothing from you. And if you keep on doing this, stiff neck will come. But before that hardened heart will come.
14:49 When hardened heart comes, finally destruction comes. So why unbelief? Unbelief. When God says okay, for instance this word says, you stiff neck people uncircumcised in your heart.
15:01 In your heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit. This is Acts 7:51. You stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears.
15:09 You are forever opposing the Holy Spirit just as your ancestors did. This is a case where Stephen was arrested and told to justify. So he started telling a long history of how the whole thing started from Moses days.
15:24 And finally he said, you stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears. You are forever opposing the Holy Spirit. Ritualistic Christianity is not going to solve you.
15:34 You have to have a fleshly heart, a humble heart, a heart to obey Christ. A heart that is pliable. Uncircumcised means a skin has been torn sensitive to sin.
15:46 So where does hardened heart come from? Sin. What is the first sin that will come caused it? Pride. Why pride? You want no one to accept.
15:54 Your heart doesn’t want to accept. Now you are made of three parts, spirit, soul and body. Now the soul got heart and the mind your heart doesn’t want.
16:02 So don’t get personal about this. When you’re telling somebody your heart, tell them your heart sister. Your heart brother doesn’t want to accept the word of God.
16:09 You please make it accept. How commanding that in the name of Jesus Christ to accept. Because you are a spirit being, you are a spirit being, you can take and command.
16:18 Command my heart and mind to accept every word of God that I read. Every word of God that’s shown to me. I command my heart and mind to accept.
16:26 If you don’t do that, you don’t want to do that, then it’s pride and finally your heart should be hardened stiff night will come and sudden destruction. We don’t want anything to happen like this. Brothers and sisters, command your heart and mind to accept every word of God.
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Scriptures Referenced
1 Samuel 31:12Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 all the brave men stood and walked all night, and they took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and cremated them there.
Galatians 3:28New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Acts 15:29New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
1 John 2:15-17New King James Version (NKJV)
Do Not Love the World
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life— is not of the Father but is of the world.
17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Galatians 6:5 5 For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].
Hebrews 9:27 27 And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,
Matthew 8:22 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me [believing in Me as Master and Teacher], and allow the [spiritually] dead to bury their own dead .”
Luke 18:27 27 But He said, “ The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 30 January 2016, a Saturday titled Worldly funeral Rituals. Worldly funeral rituals. Brothers and sisters.
00:14 Many times I have mentioned that today I started last night. We got rid of all the things before sleeping, the anger and all that. If not the spirit of anger will be waxing your spirit all night long.
00:27 Your body may be sleeping, but your spirit man is fighting the demonic forces. Spirit of anger. Spirit of anger will harm us.
00:35 Anything that’s left there. The spirit will be harming you. Health will go.
00:40 All this unnecessary. God has given us. Jesus Christ has given us the power to cast out these things.
00:45 Power to overcome our heart and mind and to be right with Christ, to be pleasing in his sight. Now what we have to do, we have to strive for another level of this. For instance, the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit is in you.
00:59 And he will convict you when you’re going wrong. When something happens, he’ll convict you. There will be a stress in your spirit.
01:04 There will be a disturbance in your spirit. There will be something that bothers you. Then you know you have to stop.
01:12 Stop. Stop doing whatever you are doing. Stop and examine yourself and clear it.
01:17 And clear it. Ask for forgiveness. He is a good God.
01:20 Jesus Christ is a holy God. God, good God. He loves you.
01:24 He loves you and he’s died on the cross for you. He’s not now going to just chuck you away. No.
01:30 He’ll never leave you or forsake you. But we should not continue doing something and running away from him. No, we stay with him.
01:36 And when you are disturbed, talk to him. Talk to him. Like talking to a person who you can see, but you’re talking to him.
01:43 Talk audibly, even quietly in your room. Talk to him. Lord Jesus.
01:48 I’m sorry, Lord. I feel distressed. I’m not sure what it is.
01:52 I’m sure must be something the Holy Spirit are convicting me. Holy Spirit, make me know what it is so I can confess. I want to confess.
01:59 I want to clear this. I want to settle with the people. So this is an ongoing thing throughout the day.
02:06 Because whenever. And suddenly, if you are following Christ, it will not be happening so many times. You will not be doing so many wrongs, going lesser and lesser and lesser.
02:15 Finally, in between, suddenly stress. Then you know you have to settle some things initially, of course, you may be actually doing so many times the Holy Spirit is convicting you or whatever. Because you just came into the Lord, into Jesus Christ, the Lord.
02:29 You have allowed the Holy Spirit to convict you. But after that it will go less and lesser and lesser because you immediately will say sorry brother, sorry sister, sorry sir, or whatever. And continue and don’t want to offend people.
02:40 You want to believe in Christ. One of the biggest thing is we keep on reading newspapers and news articles and all coming from TV and all, always withdrawing, crushing your faith, taking your faith out of Christ and putting it what the world is saying. In the economy this happened.
02:55 The politicians take this. These two political parties are arguing or whatever. And then you are forced to in your heart you begin to take some strikes.
03:03 Don’t take strikes, leave it be. Have your faith in Christ. Do not put your faith in man.
03:09 That’s commanded by Jesus Christ. But, but if you put your faith in man, oh, I support this political party. Yes, but finally the political parties are human beings.
03:18 They too make mistakes. Your faith has only been Christ. Now the two political parties may be arguing, quarreling and all.
03:26 They all want one person want to think they can rule the place better, that particular country better or whatever. But when the circumstances change, they have no control because Satan is the ruler of the world. Satan.
03:36 So leave all this behind. You want righteousness, peace and joy to keep your health, to keep your family properly. You live a humble life.
03:44 Jesus will see you through. Now, today, the worldly funeral rituals. Now brothers and sisters, yesterday because of time we couldn’t complete a few things.
03:52 One of which is remember there is no Jew or Gentile. God says there is now no Galatians 3:28 says Galatians 3:28. I am reading from the Catholic edition.
04:05 There is no longer Jew or Greek. Jew or Greek means Greek. Last time is a reference to unbeliever Jew or Greek.
04:05 There is no longer slave or free. There is no longer male and female. For all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
04:18 There is only one Christian. That is why the Bible the verse is saying to us, don’t follow any custom, follow what Jesus Christ has said. So therefore there’s whether to bury or cremate.
04:32 There is no instruction there. And I said everyone is destined to die once. And then I said judge.
04:39 But you’re not involved in the decision making process as to whether you’re not involved in what they’re going to do with your body. And you’re not bothered now you’re with Christ. Now, brothers and sisters, now also remember in the Jew custom, people generally buried.
04:55 But Also remember in 1 Samuel 31:12, the Bible is clear. Saul and his son, sons, King Saul, you know, and his sons, they were Killed by the Philistines. When they were killed by the Philistines.
05:08 The Philistines, the Israelites. I better read this. 1st Samuel 31:12.
05:17 All the brave men stood and walked all night and they took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Bashan and they came to Jabesh. Jabesh and cremated them there. Cremated, amplified cremated them there.
05:35 So there are cases in the Old Testament among the cremated because the theologians say they cremated them. That because they’re afraid the Philistines may take the body and desecrate the body more and more, you know, put it on poles and make an example of them or whatever. So they’re afraid of that.
05:51 So they cremated them. So that issue issue simple brothers and sisters, do not bother about. There’s no command for bearing or cremation this one.
06:03 Leave it to each one. Jesus, God is whatever impossible for man is possible for God. And a lot of apostles and disciples have also been burned to death and all that.
06:16 Okay, now that’s clearly yesterday. Now today, today the issue is worldly funeral rituals. This is even worse.
06:24 What has happened is Satan is the ruler of the world. So what he does, he must withdraw your faith out of Christ and put into something else. Take your faith out of Christ and put into something else.
06:35 So that’s what is out to. As long as they can do that, your faith will reduce and your faith will go into some of the activities and some of the customs. Now one of the things that people do, let’s take some Chinese funerals and even Christian Chinese funerals.
06:51 Some of them do not know what they’re doing. So what happens? They burn things in the Chinese funerals. Actually they believe if they burn paper made bicycles, paper made cars, sometimes they make the scape of Mercedes Benz and they burn all that.
07:04 And believing that this is all follow the soul to heaven and the soul can use it. Now that is a bondage. But we all came from bondages.
07:13 So I’m not condemning anyone here. I used to do all kinds of funny things. Now having said that, next thing is this.
07:20 So these worldly customs will catch you. And you may come from a tradition of set worldly customs and rituals, funeral rituals. And why is this devil allowing this or doing this? So that it can suck the money out.
07:33 Suck the money out of the next generation. The people who are alive now. So a father passes away.
07:39 People use whatever the money. First of all, the hospitals bills would have been tremendous. Already there are many hospitals, as I told you would have just gone and say give you Hope, false hope or whatever go on and on and on.
07:51 And then some chemotherapy. Thousands of dollars per vial of injection or whatever going on and all went into debts. And then they have to do this again.
08:00 Then when they do this, it can be thousands of dollars. Now one of the customs that I’m familiar with is the Nigerian situation, whereby I know several Nigerians, my son in law is a Nigerian. So thank Jesus he is aware of these things.
08:17 Now these Nigerian customs, they keep the body for so long, people are poor, you know, they’re not all well to do. But they want to make sure that and they keep for months. They want to make things ready.
08:29 Some of them keep for several months. And it’s a costly thing in Nigeria. Why? Because they have to have the morgue, they have to have these private places where they can keep the body frozen.
08:39 They need double generators and all that people can’t afford. They have to pay monthly thousand dollar bills or whatever. They have to keep pouring that.
08:46 And then they want the custom or everybody to bear the same dress. They’ll be making, sewing dresses, they’ll be making suits. All this sucks the money out of the living.
08:56 That is the game plan of this Satan. Satan’s game plan is okay. He has already destroyed this soul.
09:03 Now to destroy others they were living make them poor. As long as the Satan can keep people poor, then the poor also will commit sin. It’s not only hard for the rich man to get to heaven, it’s also hard for the poor man to get to heaven.
09:17 Because every day he’s seeking out a living and he’s tempted so many ways to get money. So because of this, the game plan of this satanic Satan, the world ruler of the world, is to make people, keep people bondaged and captive by. And he said many Christians do this.
09:37 Now first of all, let’s look at the word of God first. John 2, 15, 17. Do not love the world or the things in the world.
09:47 If anyone loves the world, the love of Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but of but is of the world. And the world is passing away and the last of it.
10:03 But he who does the will of God abides forever. Now you know from this scripture alone that it’s not good following worldly customs. But they are so stuck.
10:13 They are afraid the people will condemn them if they don’t do this. Or people condemn what these children didn’t care about their father. The Father has done so much for them.
10:13 They are afraid of this condemnation from this world. And then so they afraid and they end up falling. This custom is still going on among Christians.
10:31 And then impoverishing them, keeping them captive. And it’s a tiring thing to do this, you know, this kind of. It’s a very tiring thing.
10:39 Can you imagine, brothers and sisters? So this goes on. So now I’m begging any Nigerian brother or sister listening to this, take a stand. You have to take a stand for what is right.
10:51 That is not right. It’s actually if you want to follow your disciple of Christ. Christ says what? That bury the dead.
11:01 Of course he said that. He’s trying to say what? He’s letting us know that the burial thing is not a big issue. Leave it be.
11:09 Because everybody is destined to die once and thereafter judgment. Now I beg you, brothers and sisters, use the money, the wage. If you.
11:18 If they meditate and ask Jesus Christ, Lord, do I spend this money on this kind of things in this funeral? Do you really think the spirit of God will say yes? Put on the same uniform, make all dresses for everybody, 20 people, all same wearing same. Let’s do all the songs and dance and going on and on. Keep the body for months at an end in the funeral parlor or in the morgue or whatever.
11:23 Do you really think that Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ will say this? The Spirit of God will say this to you? No. So you. But why you do it? Because sometimes our hearts want it.
11:54 Sometimes our hearts are afraid. People condemn us. That’s why we end up following some of the worldly things.
11:59 Because why we are afraid? Do not be afraid. Fear not. Jesus Christ says fear not.
12:06 Now remember, everyone is responsible for your own. Now that person thank Jesus Christ, prayerfully, hopefully, mercifully, must be with Jesus Christ. Now the living are committing sin.
12:20 The living are committing sin by having these kind of things. Now remember, everyone is responsible for, accountable for their own thing. Galatians 6:5.
12:30 Solely accountable. So now what do we do? That is why, brothers and sisters, today Satan has many, many plans. He has moved into every area.
12:42 He is the God of this world. Actually small God, God of this world. Our Father calls him God of this world.
12:50 The Bible says he is a God of this world. If he is a God of this world, can you imagine how many tricks he will have? But he has no power over a Christian, but a Christian to have power over Satan. But to do that, the Christian must be abiding in Christ.
13:04 If you abide in me and My words abide in you. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, then you are my disciples. And then you are my disciples.
13:19 Then you obey what my commandments Are you my disciples? Then you know the truth. And truth will set you free. So you can only know the truth.
13:27 You begin to abide in the Word. Keep on knowing the Word and following the word. Oh yes, we can do powerful worship songs.
13:36 And now this drum business again. Drum. There’s a focusing day, a lot of music focus coming on.
13:43 Now remember, as I said, you can do very good to your flesh. But let’s ask this question again for ourselves. To be sincere, if a truthful Christian, let’s ask this question to ourselves.
13:54 Do you really imagine the apostles in the first hundred years or so, Apostles Peter, Paul, James, Jude, John, were going around and having these music sessions everywhere. Ask yourself this. Or were they going around and convicting people of sin and saying, God is good, Jesus Christ is holy.
14:17 Turn to him. He washed away your sins and you become the child of God. The power to become child of God.
14:23 You have been given the power to be the sons of God. Those who believe now with the power, what you do, you use the power and act as children of God. Use the power and act as children of God.
14:34 Brothers and sisters, today these things you must be watchful. Do not love the world or things in the world. If you love the world, the love of Father is not in him.
14:44 So if the world now who is going to condemn you? Even in the funeral rituals and all this, the world. The world will condemn you. The world condemns you.
14:50 The world will surely condemn you. Then you are doing something right. That is a sign.
14:57 If the world condemns you, then something right. But two or three followers of Christ tell you, don’t do this, don’t do that. But it’s difficult because you are in a.
15:08 The whole church world in a certain area may be doing this. And then how so, brother, you have to stand out as light, salt and light. You be the salt and light.
15:19 Take a stand for Christ and saying that I have to care for the living the devil. I will not let the devil suck. Make the people who I care for fastest, you take a stand.
15:24 I will not allow the devil to impoverish my people whom I care for. I’m entrusted. The souls of me entrusted to me.
15:39 I’m not. I’m going to care for. Yes, many will leave.
15:41 Maybe even some may leave the church. Many may even leave the church. But that’s not your call.
15:46 It’s not your church. The souls are not yours. You are a caretaker, you are under shepherd.
15:52 So now you have to make the stand. If the pastors don’t make the stand and say, this is not on, this is actually a way of the devil sucking away, making people more impoverished. And then for years, then another funeral will come.
16:07 Oh, I’ve seen this disaster, you know, sad, you know, because one funeral comes soon after another. Something happens in the family, somebody else passes away and this same thing goes on. They suck up, they sell land.
16:21 They have to sell land to support these funerals. So finally, what is the devil doing? Sucking up the assets that the parents have built up over through blood and sweat and toil. So this the way of the devil.
16:33 So, pastors, you have to take a stand. Yes, people will condemn you, but that is the calling. The world will condemn you.
16:40 If the world doesn’t condemn you. I think you are part of the world. Brothers and sisters, today let us start and stand for Christ.
16:46 Let us examine ourselves. Pastors in Nigeria, I’m begging you, those who are hearing, I’m begging you, I’m begging you, make a stand. Make a stand for Christ.
16:55 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I pray amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Philippians 2:12
12 So then, my dear ones, just as you have always obeyed [my instructions with enthusiasm], not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation [that is, cultivate it, bring it to full effect, actively pursue spiritual maturity] with awe-inspired fear and trembling [using serious caution and critical self-evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ].
Galatians 6:5
5 For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].
Hebrews 9:27
27 And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,
Matthew 8:22
22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me [believing in Me as Master and Teacher], and allow the [spiritually] dead to bury their own dead .”
Luke 18:27
27 But He said, “ The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”
Romans 14:23
23 But he who is uncertain [about eating a particular thing] is condemned if he eats, because he is not acting from faith. Whatever is not from faith is sin [whatever is done with doubt is sinful].
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 29 January 2016 to bury or cremate brothers and sisters, let’s remind ourselves as we examined ourselves last night as to what we did, what didn’t do. Ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness and ask Jesus Christ for mercy and that will change everything. Today mercies are new every morning and therefore this is a very important exercise.
00:29 I find that those who do not examine themselves and then they get into a lot of trouble After a while, step by step, Satan begins to tempt their hearts. And step by step they fall into sin. Step by step become a captive again and they lose a lot.
00:45 Now, first of all, the devil comes many many ways. Become a. Uses fear of people, uses pride.
00:52 He uses pride, he uses shame to stop confessing. He’ll use all kinds of things to tempt our heart. Temptation.
01:01 How does temptation come when we are drawn by our own heart? Our heart wants to be proud. Then we are drawn there. And then the thing damage.
01:08 And I’ve seen this damage again and again, not good. It damages both on earth and finally our position in heaven is questioned because we may reject Christ finally. Don’t do this.
01:21 Examine ourselves and get our things right with Christ. Brothers and sisters, today the question is marry or cremate. This is a very critical issue because over the years this became concreted in people’s hearts, concreted in the mind, concrete in the hearts of people.
01:38 So much so they panic as to, you know, years ago, I’m talking about say 15 years ago and I’m listening to people, they wouldn’t want to come to the congregation I’m ministering. Why? They say you don’t have land to bury the dead. I don’t have land.
01:54 He said, yes. So I don’t have land to bury the dead now. So they rather be the huge congregations or huge churches because they believe that if they are not buried in a plot of land, in a Christian plot of land, they won’t go to heaven.
02:12 Can you imagine the bondage? Can you imagine the bondage? So it’s a pity. That is why before there are a number of things like this the devil uses to capture people, keep them as captives. So they are under the belief they are doing sin.
02:29 You know, they have unforgiveness their heart against their parents or sons or daughters or somebody other son in law, whatever. They can’t forgiveness, all that they will have. But the only question is, can I be buried when I’m dead in a Christian plot of land? And if you cannot provide me the burial plot of land.
02:47 I cannot come to your church. They’ll say not my church is Jesus congregation. But they’ll say that.
02:53 And I know one particular instance. Everything that the woman wants to follow. Finally, because of this I don’t want to come.
03:00 Don’t want to come. I felt sorry for the person. But horses and that.
03:05 Imagine this, the Bible. First of all we must know the precept of Christ. Remember there are two things there.
03:14 One is the Old Testament and the other one is the New Testament. The New Testament is a better covenant in Christ. Christ God has the covenant by suffering, shedding blood, dying on the cross, going into hell and being raised up by the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit.
03:29 Because Jesus Christ believed his Father that his Father will not let him be in Let your soul be in soul. Let your soul be in grave let your soul be in hell. Believe that and that belief that faith.
03:41 Of course Father God could then send the Holy Spirit to bring Jesus up. So our faith is only dependent on his faith, on Jesus Christ’s faith. All we need to do is believe on the faith of Jesus Christ what he has done.
03:54 And we believe on what he has done for us. Everything will settle. We are not even required to generate a lot of faith within us to settle things.
04:03 Settle, healing settle. No your those of you following the pocd those in the in the POCD non posting will not be seeing all this. But those on the posting side.
04:16 We’re not talking about free posting. Free posting people post all kind of things. We are not there, we’re talking about posting but posting only this thing calling for prayers.
04:27 Somebody is not well and and issues regarding the testimonies with respect to the POCD message itself. That kind of POC1 POCD2 that are posting that you see that when somebody becomes so seriously ill, you find that when people get to pray, the people have been healed by Jesus mercy of mercy of Christ. That’s so sorry this flu is lingering than Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
04:58 Now the issue is now we must know the precept of Christ. The nature of Christ. Not just know some scripture or what somebody has told over the years and it become concreted in us.
05:11 If that’s the case, you do not know Christ. You know of Christ. You only know what people have told you means you know of Christ.
05:18 You do not know Christ. To know Christ, you must know the nature of Christ. You must have relationship with Christ.
05:23 You are talking to Jesus Christ and he is talking to you. He is guiding you through the spirit of God. And you know, miracles are happening in your life.
05:30 Maybe they’re simple, simple miracles, but these are just miracles. Because a simple car park, you can’t get a car park. And you talk of Jesus and say, lord, your word says whatever you ask us.
05:40 Think, Lord, I need this car park. In Jesus Christ’s name, I command the car park to come or whatever. And then it happens.
05:47 So when you begin to do things like that, and then you begin to walk in the Spirit, only then you can get out of this kind of problem. That’s why Jesus Christ says, my people perish for lack of knowledge. Without knowledge, they perish.
05:58 People abuse them. Now, so what are the precepts that we need to know? First of all, we need to know that we need to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. Fear, awe, divine.
06:11 This is in Philippians 2:12. Work up your own salvation, I.e. cultivate, bring it to full effect.
06:17 Actively pursue spiritual maturity. Working out the salvation is actively pursuing spiritual maturity with awe, inspired fear and trembling, using serious caution and self critical self evaluation to avoid anything that might offend God or discredit the name of Christ. Now of course, self evaluation examination.
06:38 That is what working out our salvation means. Work critical is self evaluation. Actively pursuing spiritual maturity.
06:46 Now. Galatians 6:5. I’m reading my amplified.
06:50 I am alone responsible for what I do, what my faults are, what my shortcomings. For every person will have to bear with patience his own burden. The burden of sin, burden of faults, burden of shortcomings.
06:50 I am alone responsible. Hebrews 9:27 that means you must take accountability. You can’t depend on the Az I said or Chrissy Lut said.
07:10 What’s the use? You have to take accountability. Jesus wants you. You are his child.
07:15 He wants you to take accountability. I’ve mentioned this before. I have four children.
07:19 Four children. If one keep on asking favors for the remaining three I say, why the other three no mouth to speak? They don’t speak to me. They hate me.
07:26 Is it they don’t come talk to me or each one must come and talk their own things. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray that we will understand this.
07:36 I pray the eyes of understanding opens to everybody today on this the princeps of Christ. Hebrews 9:27 it is appointed and destined for all men to die once. And after this comes certainly judgment.
07:51 Hebrews 9:27 and just as it is appointed, it is appointed. It is already written down and destined for all men to die once. And after this comes certain judgment.
08:03 So Died, finished. Judgment. Matthew 8:22.
08:08 But Jesus said to him, follow me. Let the dead bury the dead. Let the dead bury the dead.
08:16 Now, sometimes they will say, yeah, of course, the dead buried the dead. He’s trying to impress upon people following him is more important than the burial part. Let the dead bury the dead.
08:26 Because one man here would have told that, you know, I’ll follow you. But you know, I wait for my father, who’s old, to bury my father and then follow you. Why, the customer will be the eldest son, or somebody must do something, isn’t it? When the father in the family dies.
08:41 So he will say, give me time. There’s no time. When Jesus said, follow me, you follow now.
08:47 Now follow me as a master and teacher and Lord and master and Savior. Allow the spiritually dead to. Now, here, of course, they put a bracket.
08:56 Spiritually dead to bury the dead. Now, Romans 14:23, whatever is not buried, done from faith is sin. That means whatever we do must be done in faith.
09:07 Faith of Jesus Christ. Faith in Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters. Now let’s look at these few things.
09:12 There are few precepts. There are many more precepts of Christ. First, he’ll only make you accountable for what you are responsible for.
09:18 Whatever you have done, whatever you have, your fault, your shortcoming, all that I am responsible right now. Appointed, destined for all men to die once after my death. That’s it.
09:29 Immediately judgment. My actions do not continue because my body has died. And now judgment.
09:36 Now, listening to this, listening to these few scriptures, let’s look at what has happened. Jesus Christ clearly will not hold you accountable for what you don’t do, Whatever you do, only you’ll be accountable. Whatever I do, only I’ll be accountable.
09:55 Now, after when I died, my body has died. Am I accountable for whatever people do with my body? Yeah, I can write that. Bury my body, or even cremate my body.
10:06 I don’t know. I’m not going to bother. You know why? In my case, I said, I am not responsible.
10:13 Accountable. After my body dies, full stop. So whatever people do after that, Jesus Christ, the perfect judge, the perfect justice, perfect love, will not hold that against me.
10:31 Will not hold that against me. So whatever I do is done in the world. While I’m alive, I’m dead.
10:41 No more. No more counting. I’m not responsible for those actions.
10:45 I can give instructions. So what, you think people will follow? They may follow, they may not follow, depending on their circumstances. Now you see the situation.
10:54 So people say, if you bury, then the dust to dust now cremate means ash. Go become ash. Jesus Christ can’t get a body for you in the second coming.
11:05 Hey, what is impossible for man is possible for God. Don’t worry about that. First of all, you just go there.
11:10 You think Jesus Christ, the perfect judge, the perfect love, will hold you accountable for something you didn’t do? No way. No way. He loves you, he loves you, he loves you, he loves you.
11:24 He’s not going to hold you accountable for something you didn’t do. Now even there, let the dead bury the dead. It’s because of course, spiritually they say, don’t bother about that.
11:34 Don’t borrow dead business and burying business. You follow me? That’s all? No. So we follow him.
11:40 We follow him. So whatever happened to my body after that? Not constant. Now you know how many disciples were burned when they were persecution? They were burned to death.
11:54 Burned. They were put in an iron bull with a side door. They throw all the disciples inside there.
12:01 If they do not want to recant Christ, do not want to reject Christ, they put them there and light the fire under and they all be screaming and they burn to death inside the iron bull. Now what about war zone? People are burned to death. What about fire? People are burned to death.
12:18 So what happened to them? So therefore it is not a question of burying a cremate. You know, in Hong Kong, I understand that the land becomes so expensive burial flood so much, so many people are burying their dead standing. That means the body is standing.
12:32 Because they can use as little space as possible, not lying down because the land is not there. Now what happens in the bad places in the slums of the world, when tortured or even in large disasters, people may just cremate entire bodies to avoid the sickness, the plague or whatever. But that is not you who’s doing this.
12:58 People are doing this after your death. You are not accountable for this. Jesus Christ is not going to have you accountable for this.
13:07 And so there are people in bondage. I must have a plot of land to be buried, then only I can go to heaven. All these are lies.
13:14 Not true. And there are people using plenty of scriptures. They’ll put you know and complete out of context.
13:20 So they won’t quote the scriptures. They quote the numbers only. Plenty of numbers of scriptures and tell you.
13:26 Look here, Jesus Christ, Father God always talked about burying. So you must bury, otherwise you have offended Christ. In fact, the apostles say, Dan, there are only four things.
13:38 The Gentiles that mean those non Jews coming to the Lord, make sure they only do four things. Let’s not burden them. One, keep them away from sexual immorality.
13:46 Two, keep them away from idolatry. Keep them away from strangled animals. Don’t eat.
13:51 And then keep them away from blood. Do not consume blood. That’s what apostles got.
13:56 The apostles, they made a decree and they wrote it down in the book of Acts. You see, twice they were mentioning this brothers and sisters, therefore you must know the precept of Christ. Precept of Christ.
14:08 You know how many disciples were all tortured and burned to death. You know how many Christians would have been burned in war zones and all that. So brothers and sisters, this is all the work of government to bondage you, to keep you under captivity.
14:25 Again, I repeat, once you are dead, God doesn’t hold you. Jesus Christ doesn’t hold you accountable for what you do. Because you’re not doing anything.
14:31 It’s judgment time. Judgment time. So please.
14:34 And secondly, if you believe these kind of things, then you are not having faith in Christ. You’re not having faith in Christ. You’re being a bondage.
14:42 You’re being captive. And the number of large organizational churches will hold this captive. They’ll use this maybe to keep you there.
14:50 Hey. Some. Some in the congregation high minister may not reach heaven.
14:56 I won’t know. Only Jesus can decide this. Some in the large organization also some won’t reach or many may not reach because they do not have.
15:06 They do not know Christ. They know of Christ. They have.
15:08 Religious activity may be going on. So only Jesus Christ will know this. Our desire.
15:13 Each of you, including my desire, what God given me. The work is to make you have a relationship with Christ. To know Christ more and more become so close with Christ.
15:22 It’s Jesus. Jesus. Jesus Christ.
15:25 Christ idolize him like that. The way you know football fan, like a fan. The fan comes from word fanatic.
15:32 Why let’s be fanatic for Jesus Christ. Why be fanatic for the world? Let’s be a Jesus fan means Jesus fanatic. But these fancy terms we don’t need.
15:40 We need to be awe and reverence to love Jesus Christ with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. But before we go into any of these things, make sure you understand the precept of Christ. The precept of Christ.
15:53 He wants you to keep the temple of God holy. He wants to give the temple of God holy. And that one nobody cares.
15:59 They care about the plot of land because how bondage only pity. Really sorry. Pity.
16:05 Pity because they keep people in bondage and they don’t let people. And some of them do not check the scriptures, they my people perish for lack of knowledge. Today, brothers and sisters, always look for the preserve of Christ.
16:22 The nature of Christ. The love of Jesus Christ. The love of Jesus Christ.
16:28 So as I said this. Bury or cremate? There’s no scripture saying to bury or to cremate. People are taking a lot of history put together.
16:36 This is your choice, but even that’s really not your choice. Let it be. Let people decide at a certain date.
16:43 Why are you concerned? Your judgment has come. Your body has died. You’re going home to Jesus.
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Scriptures Referenced
2. The BLOOD gives life to those who consume it (John 6:53).
John 6:52-54Amplified Bible (AMP)
52 Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” 53 And Jesus said to them, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood [unless you believe in Me as Savior and believe in the saving power of My blood which will be shed for you], you do not have life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it], and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.
3. The BLOOD causes us to dwell in Christ and He in us (John 6:56).
John 6:55-57Amplified Bible (AMP)
55 For My flesh is true [spiritual] food, and My blood is true [spiritual] drink.
56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] remains in Me, and I [in the same way remain] in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, even so the one who feeds on Me [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] will also live because of Me.
4. The BLOOD is the means by which Jesus purchased the church (Acts 20:28).
Acts 20:27-29Amplified Bible (AMP)
27 For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of God.
28 Take care and be on guard for yourselves and for the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd (tend, feed, guide) the church of God which He bought with His own blood. 29 I know that after I am gone, [false teachers like] ferocious wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
The BLOOD cleanses our conscience from dead works to serve the living God
Hebrews 9:14New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit[a] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[b] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
Hebrews 13:20-21New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
21 make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us[a] that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
The BLOOD is the means by which we overcome the accuser of the brethren
Revelation 12:11Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 And they overcame and conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, for they did not love their life and renounce their faith even when faced with death.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 28 January 2016 what the Blood of Christ Does Part 2 what the Blood of Christ Does Part Two Yesterday, Brothers and sisters, we saw what the blood of Jesus from Scripture. What the blood of Jesus does. The blood of Jesus is so powerful.
00:21 Now, first of all, he says, only those who eat my flesh and drink my blood will have eternal life. And that is interpreter. You believing in him? Believing in the body of Christ.
00:33 Believing in what? His body. Jesus took all the sins his body, all the sins and all the curses went on his body. All the sickness went on his body.
00:41 You believing that and that he has done that for you. It’s the actual consuming of his body, the actual eating of his body. It’s a belief.
00:49 What is the work of God does another segment we have dictated before or what is the work of God? The work of God is believing in the one whom he sent. Now, the work of God is not doing this and doing that. Doing this.
01:01 Everybody says do that, do this. No, first, the work of God is what? Believing in the one whom Father God sent. And who did Father God sent? Jesus Christ.
01:10 When we believe in Jesus Christ and then what happens? You are doing work in the spiritual world, in the spiritual plane, in the spiritual understanding, you are doing work. The work of God is believing in the one whom he sent. Similarly, the consuming of the body of Christ is one believing that his body took all our sins, all our sufferings, all our curses, all our diseases went from his body and nailed to the cross.
01:36 And that is the belief. The belief is actually the eating of the body. The rest of it is symbolic.
01:43 The bread and the fruit of the wine, they take it symbolic. Now, believing in the blood, what is the consuming of the blood? Is believing that the blood was shed for us and washes away our sins. Believing, believing.
01:57 When you believe in your spirit, man is accepting the blood of Jesus Christ. Your blood of Jesus Christ. You’re being a spirit man.
02:05 Your spirit man is accepting your heart, is accepting your mind is accepting your heart. Mind and your spirit being are in the spirit plane. They are not in the physical.
02:15 The body is in the physical, but the heart and the mind and the spirit is in the spirit plane. Spirit plane. So when you believe this blood goes there.
02:28 You are drinking the blood, believing the blood of Jesus and the blood of Jesus. Yesterday we also said how powerful it is when you begin to sing the blood of Jesus Christ songs. Now the other thing that we saw is this.
02:39 Let’s in John 6:57. Just as the living Father sent me, I live because of the Father. Jesus Christ says, I live because of the Father.
02:50 Even so, the one who feeds on me and bracket the amplified says, believes in me, accepts me as Savior, will also live because of me. So believing is a big, big, big fundamental issue in Christ. First, we believe in him.
03:10 When we believe in him, we are doing the work of God. When we believe in the body of Christ and what happened to his body. He took all the curses, the sins and the diseases.
03:20 We believe that our sins, my sin, my curses, everything went on the cross on his body. And that is why the body became of no form. Finally, it was torn and tattered and all the diseases, all the boils, all whatever, even whatever job was suffering and all that kind of stuff has gone on the body.
03:39 When we believe that, and he did that for me, that is when I’m actually eating his body, consuming his body. How? In the Spirit. It’s in the Spirit who is consuming.
03:50 My heart is consuming. My mind is consuming. My spirit.
03:55 Man is consuming. Likewise, when I believe the blood of Jesus, the pure, precious, sinless blood of Jesus was poured out for me and I receive it in the Spirit. I believe it.
04:08 I believe it will wash my sins. It washes away my sins. I believe this pure, holy, spotless, sinless blood of Jesus Christ was spilled by Jesus Christ for me.
04:18 I believe it. That’s what I’m drinking. I’m drinking.
04:21 Who is drinking? The heart is drinking. The mind is drinking. The spirit man is drinking.
04:25 Brothers and sisters, today the. And we feed on him. How to feed on him? Feed on the Word of God.
04:31 What is the Word of God? The Scriptures. The scriptures is the Word of God and the word of God is Jesus. Now we are going further today.
04:40 And we also remember yesterday Jesus reminded us that the church, he purchased the church. He bought the church with his own blood. With his own blood.
04:50 He bought it. So therefore, yesterday I was cautioning all pastors, including me. Of course we are cautioning that how we deal with each soul, each soul has to be dealt with truth.
05:03 Telling the truth to the soul is the truth. Just adjusting the truth for each soul. Because the soul is stubborn or rebellious or angry or fed up or doesn’t want to hear the Word of God.
05:17 No, that is not the truth. You tell the truth. How much the soul.
05:22 Does somebody hear the truth in front of you? The soul is waiting for counsel. You tell the truth. This is the truth.
05:27 Boldly. Otherwise we ourselves become liars when we don’t tell the truth. Of word of God to the soul which needs to hear this, which has come for counsel or asking you or whatever.
05:38 We don’t tell you. Yes, because you are afraid of the soul. That’s what the soul will do.
05:42 The soul will be angry, the soul will curse you. The soul will complain about you. The soul can even lie about you elsewhere.
05:48 But you still tell the truth. You tell the truth. Why? We are messengers.
05:53 We are not the Savior. The word of God, Jesus Christ is the Savior. So we release the truth.
05:59 And then if they get upset, we still love them. Why love God? They’re not even our enemies. They’re captives.
06:06 They don’t listen to the word of God. They’re captives. I didn’t listen to the word of God for a long time, didn’t I? And then only when Jesus arrested me, as I said, we arrested from our own destruction.
06:18 Destroying myself. So destroying myself. So he stopped it.
06:22 So therefore I understand that they are captives. So we keep on telling. I was a captive.
06:26 All of us were captives. That is why Jesus came to set the captive free. Now the captive cannot be set free until the word of God is spoken to the captives.
06:37 The captive is sitting in front of you. If you are trying to adjust the captive with giving worldly psychology, the captive won’t be set free. The captive as we told.
06:46 If the captive is lying, they say, brother, sister, this is a lie. You cannot live like this. This is against the word of God.
06:53 Brother and sister, this is a spirit of rebellion. Brother and sister, this is a spirit of stubbornness. Stubbornness.
06:59 Jesus word says it is idolatry. Why so stubborn means I was stubborn before. So stubborn means I am idolizing myself.
07:09 What I think, what I believe, what I want. This is all about me. So I’m idolater.
07:15 Who’s idle. I am myself idol. So if you are stubborn, you yourself are idol.
07:20 God says God Word says you are an idolater. You are idolizing yourself. You don’t want to care what the word of God says.
07:27 And why is it rebellion is witchcraft? Because manipulating rebellion. God considers rebellion as witchcraft. As you know, doing witches and wizards like.
07:39 Like Bomos and all the witchcraft, we’re doing things that are not of Christ. So rebellion, rebelling against the word of God. Against who? Against the word of God.
07:47 So when you pastor, when I counsel somebody with the word of God and they don’t want to listen, it is because they are rebelling against the word of God. They’re not rebelling against me. And even if they’re rebelling against me, why I want What? I want to tell them the truth.
08:01 I have to tell them the truth for my own sake. So when you tell the truth and they don’t want to listen, you pray for them and move on. What else to do? Until the Holy Spirit only can change them.
08:13 Brothers and sisters, today we are looking at Hebrews 9:14. The blood of Jesus cleanses our conscience from dead works. Dead works serving the living God.
08:26 What are dead works? Dead works. Now let’s read this. Hebrews 9:14.
08:30 I’m reading from the Catholic edition. How much more will the blood of Christ earlier verse says about sprinkling of blood of lamb and all that. How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience? Purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God, purify our conscience from dead works.
08:58 The blood of Jesus purifies our conscience from dead works. What is dead work then? Verses. When we begin to do things and thinking we are doing for Christ or doing for God so that we can be saved, without believing that Father God sent the only son to die on the cross.
09:16 And the body of Jesus took all the curses, took all the sins, took all the diseases and took all the condemnation, the shame and all that. Plus we do not believe that the blood of Jesus, the pure, sinless, holy blood of Jesus spilled 2000 years ago, was spilled for me, for us. And that blood of Jesus washes away our sins like rust, you know? And the blood, when you spray some WD, what you call 20 or whatever they call it, they spray the thing, the rust will go like that.
09:49 The blood of Jesus comes, the sin begins to melt away. Go, go out. Now.
09:54 When we don’t believe that and we begin to do things, thinking we are doing for God, he calls us dead works. Because that works is not going to save you. Dead works are not going to save you.
10:07 So it only works that are done in Christ through Christ will be considered live works. So dead works are something that you’re doing without believing that the blood of Jesus Christ washes your sin. The body of Jesus Christ had taken all our diseases, curses and condemnation and all the shame and diseases and the boils or whatever, all taken on the body of Christ.
10:36 Jesus took it without believing that. That means you’re not eating the body of Christ and you’re not drinking the blood of Christ. Whatever works you’re doing so that you can be saved is dead works.
10:49 That is why the people who do not know this sacrifice that came from the Almighty God by giving his own Son. That is why they find that they will be doing a lot of things. They may even be whacking themselves, whipping themselves again and again.
11:05 They will be bleeding, they will be putting arrows into their bodies and all that. And they will be fasting for many days. They will be, you know, torturing themselves, believing that this will strengthen sin.
11:20 But Jesus Christ, the word of God, says, the work that work doesn’t work. The work that work they’re doing doesn’t work. For salvation.
11:28 For salvation. What only works is pure, holy, sinless blood. You receive it, you drink it in faith.
11:34 I mean, you believe in it. Your heart and mind drinks it. Your spirit man drinks it and it comes into you and washes away the sin.
11:42 Because the sin is spiritual sin. You cannot touch sin, you cannot smell. Sin enters us because we commit sin.
11:50 How? When we are drawn by our own heart desire, then temptation comes. And when temptation comes, it is full blown. He says sin comes when sin is full blown.
12:00 Death comes now. So therefore, if we do not believe the blood of Jesus, name of Jesus coming into us and clearing deeds, then whatever work we do cannot. There are physical works we are doing cannot wash away the sin, because physical work cannot take away sin which is in a spirit content.
12:20 Its content is in the spirit plane. Therefore, what do we do? In Hebrews 13:20, he says, now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you complete in everything good, so that you may do his will. That is Hebrews 13:20, 21.
12:44 The blood of Jesus will make us complete in every good thing, so that we may do his will when we do his will. That means each of us must now seek his will to do his will. First of all, build one, keep the temple of God holy.
12:58 That’s the first will, the first act of worship. It’s not all the drums and the music and all that that goes on there. That’s not the first act of worship.
13:07 First act of worship that Jesus demands is this. That we keep our temple of God, which is our body, holy. So holy that means we want to be holy.
13:16 We are determined to be holy. We ask God so whenever we are wrong, we ask, forgive me, Lord, forgive me. He will forgive you.
13:22 We confess our sins. So this is the first act of the will of God, that we keep our temple of God holy. But sadly, what has happened the last 50 years or so, lot of drums and music and everybody going for good feelings.
13:36 Can you Imagine the first many years, the disciples all carrying a drum and playing drum, drum, drum. And that became the saving grace. It’s not true.
13:46 So do not. When you feed the flesh, when you feel good in the music, you can feel good in worldly music too. That is not going to save us.
13:54 First, go in the spirit, deal in the spirit. Brothers and sisters, it is absolutely important. Now the blood of Jesus again gives us power to overcome and conquer Satan because of the blood of the Lamb.
14:09 So, for instance, Revelation 12:11 says, Amplified, they overcame and conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb. The blood of the Lamb. We can overcome sin, overcome temptation, overcome demonic forces.
14:25 The demonic forces. We have seen this. Many of us have seen this.
14:29 When somebody has got problems, let’s say somebody has got a captive of any kind of sin, any kind of addiction or whatever, including anger, then we begin to minister deliverance. In the name of Jesus Christ. We call on the blood of Jesus Christ and.
14:44 And call on the blood of Jesus. Burn every wicked, unclean spirit in this person. Burn it and get out.
14:50 In the name of Jesus Christ. We begin to minister the person. You see the devil, what the demon will be doing, making the person rolling, rolling.
14:58 I see burning, burning, burning. Because he said, take the blood of Jesus. This is the first time, you know, I’m talking about 20 years ago, I’m doing this.
15:07 First one girl was demonized. So he said, take the blood of Jesus. I just sprinkled like that.
15:13 The girl went on the floor and said, burning, burning, burning and rolling over. So then I realized, this is so good and so powerful. The blood of Jesus Christ.
15:20 Take the blood of Jesus. Take the blood of Jesus. I began to act as if I’m using my fingers to sprinkle on her.
15:26 Went round and round and round, and then she was delivered. I didn’t deliver her. I’m a human being.
15:33 The blood of Jesus delivered her and then she went. The demons left her. The spirit, all kinds of things left her, and she became normal again.
15:41 Now, brothers and sisters, this is how powerful the blood of Jesus Christ is. Anything you cannot remember scripture. Blood of Jesus blood called on the blood of Jesus.
15:50 You cannot remember anything, any prayer at that time. Because things are happening. Some problems are taking place.
15:56 Sometimes people tell me, because they are in sin, they don’t realize sometimes you will be choking them. They feel choked. In the middle of the night, the demons will come and begin to choke people.
16:04 That’s why when sin, you are in trouble. Confess your sin. Confession.
16:08 Confess. Humble yourself and confess. Only then the thing can live.
16:11 Otherwise the devil will take control. From time to time they will come. Nighttime, start pressing.
16:16 You can’t breathe. And all, at least all on the blood of Jesus. Blood of Jesus.
16:19 Blood of Jesus. Blood of Jesus. And the thing will run.
16:23 Brother and sister. Today the blood of Jesus is so important. Consume it.
16:27 Believe him. Believe. Believe the blood of Jesus.
16:31 Believe the body of Christ that suffered for you, took all the curses and sins and what not. And believe the blood of Jesus is healing you, washing away your sin. Believe that is the consuming.
16:42 That is the consuming. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
1. The BLOOD remits sins (Matt. 26:28).
Matthew 26:27-29Amplified Bible (AMP)
27 And when He had taken a cup and [a] given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you;
28 for this is My blood of the [new and better] covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many [as a [b] substitutionary atonement] for the forgiveness of sins.
29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
2. The BLOOD gives life to those who consume it (John 6:53).
John 6:52-54Amplified Bible (AMP)
52 Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” 53 And Jesus said to them, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood [unless you believe in Me as Savior and believe in the saving power of My blood which will be shed for you], you do not have life in yourselves. 54 The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it], and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.
3. The BLOOD causes us to dwell in Christ and He in us (John 6:56).
John 6:55-57Amplified Bible (AMP)
55 For My flesh is true [spiritual] food, and My blood is true [spiritual] drink.
56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] remains in Me, and I [in the same way remain] in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, even so the one who feeds on Me [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] will also live because of Me.
4. The BLOOD is the means by which Jesus purchased the church (Acts 20:28).
Acts 20:27-29Amplified Bible (AMP)
27 For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of God.
28 Take care and be on guard for yourselves and for the whole flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd (tend, feed, guide) the church of God which He bought with His own blood. 29 I know that after I am gone, [false teachers like] ferocious wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
5. The BLOOD is the means by which Jesus becomes our atonement through faith (Rom. 3:25).
Romans 3:24-26Amplified Bible (AMP)
24 and are being justified [declared free of the guilt of sin, made acceptable to God, and granted eternal life] as a gift by His [precious, undeserved] [a]grace, through the redemption [the payment for our sin] which is [provided] in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God displayed publicly [before the eyes of the world] as a [life-giving] [b]sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation (propitiation) by His blood [to be received] through faith.This was to demonstrate His righteousness [which demands punishment for sin], because in His forbearance [His deliberate restraint] He passed over the sins previously committed [before Jesus’ crucifixion].
26 It was to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the One who justifies those who have faith in Jesus [and rely confidently on Him as Savior].
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, the power of Christ Daily. 27 January 2016. What the blood of Jesus Christ does.
00:07 What the blood of Jesus Christ does. Brothers and sisters, again, let’s remind ourselves today, started yesterday. Let’s examine ourselves.
00:17 Let’s ask forgiveness from people. Ask or even forgive people. More importantly, forgive people and those issues.
00:24 Because he’ll sit down there and harm us. And also when we have done something, we should straightaway settle people and wherever we can, because these are all unnecessarily allowing the devil a foothold to rob us, steal, kill and destroy. Now, today we are talking about what does the blood of Jesus do? What the blood of Jesus Christ.
00:44 What the blood of Jesus Christ does. Now, many times we simply think it is just washing our sins. Yes, that primary, that’s important, extremely important.
00:56 Without the blood of Jesus Christ washing us our sins, we are not reconciled with God Almighty, God the Father. However, it does many things, many more things. We’ll try and cover a few here today.
01:08 It does so many things. For instance, of course, number one is it remits sins. Remit sins.
01:15 Now that is in Matthew 26:20. For this is my blood of the new and better covenant. I’m reading from Amplified.
01:20 For this is my blood. This is Jesus Christ saying, for this is my blood of the new and better covenant which ratifies the agreement. And it poured out for many as a substitutionary atonement for the forgiveness of sins.
01:42 So you see here. You see, this is my blood of the covenant. But why all this new emphatic covenant? Because it’s the old covenant.
01:49 This is the Amplified Bible makes an explanation in brackets. New emphatic covenant which is being poured out for many. Poured out money for what? To ratify the agreement.
02:00 And this poured out of money as a substitutionary atonement. Substitutionary atonement for the forgiveness of sins. These are powerful, powerful, powerful, Necessary, necessary thing that is set us free.
02:14 Can you imagine? One go, we receive it. And the blood of Jesus washes us of all that. Now, of course, there are Confucians now people say the future sins will be washed out.
02:25 Yes, when you confess, it is there. The blood of Jesus is there for us to wash. If you confess our sins, it is not there for those who do not confess, those who do not believe in their heart, it is not there for them, it is there.
02:39 You can only tap it. You can only receive it. Only the tap will turn for the blood to flow.
02:44 When you accept it, accept you are wrong, you have committed sin. And you want this forgiveness from this Almighty Father, God the Creator and Jesus Christ blood to wash us. But if we just take it lightly and just do what we want, it is not good.
02:59 It is not going to work. Now in Matthew 26:29, Jesus also says this. But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of this wine from now on until the day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s kingdom.
03:14 In my Father’s kingdom. Father’s kingdom. So that is why one of the covenants that I made was that I will not drink.
03:24 Of course I will not drink any liquor anymore because I tried sometimes joke and they are trying for liquidity or three lifetimes. Even some will say dranket or drunkard. So because drank two or three lifetimes when I came, Jesus gives a power.
03:39 So no more drinks, not a drop. But I’m not going to become religious about it. For instance, let us say they’re giving me herbal medicine for some illness that is extracted with alcohol.
03:53 They use alcohol to extract some herbs, you know. And then if I settle my spirit, I will take that medicine. No issue.
04:03 Why? We are not legalistic. We are not legalistic and Jesus. But you must settle in the spirit.
04:09 You must settle. Anything not done in faith is sin. So whatever we do, must do in faith.
04:14 But of course, until now I have not taken even that. I have not taken because not settled my spirit. There was no necessity for this.
04:20 So than Jesus Christ. But he is saying what? I will not drink from this fruit of the wine again until I drink anew with you in my Father’s kingdom. So I made an agreement that I will not drink from this.
04:23 I will not drink even wine. Although churches serve wine. I will not drink wine until I meet my Father.
04:44 I meet Jesus Christ and drink with him. He lays the table and drink with him. He lays a table for us.
04:52 Thank Jesus. And of course, there are a whole lot of interpretations this way and that way about this. In my Father’s kingdom, I leave all that alone.
04:59 I’ll go into the settlement by faith and I want to drink. But remember this, Even Apostle Paul told Timothy for your stomach. Timothy was having a stomach problem for many times.
05:14 Off and on, off and on. And can you imagine why was not that healed easily by just praying that way? Jesus allows and does that we have to settle. So there aphasia.
05:26 Paul wrote a letter to Timothy and said, take a little wine, not just water, but take a little wine for your stomach. Stomach ailment. Take a little wine.
05:35 Now clearly showing that Timothy also was not drinking even wine, clearly showing that aphas of Paul was not even drinking wine. So this practice of having wine and all that is actually not from the apostles. It came elsewhere much later, 100, 200, 300 years later.
05:55 I don’t know when now, but to find again what they drink is some kind of extract from the grapefruit now here. So otherwise why would Paul tell Timothy, take a little wine, not just plain water, take a little wine for your ailment of the stomach. My brothers and sisters, we move on.
06:16 Of course, the blood of Jesus Christ gives life to those who consume it, to those who consume it. John 6:52 onwards. Then the Jews began to argue there John 52, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus told they spent 500 disciples left.
06:33 Remember, unless you eat my body and drink my flesh, you will not have eternal life in you. Then 500 disciples who had cast out demons and healed the sick, the power of Jesus Christ left at evening. Now, having said that, 6:52:53 is Jesus said, I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, Amplified explains I’d like to believe in me as Savior and believe in the saving power of my blood, which will be shed for you.
07:04 You do not have life in yourself. So what is the meaning here? The Amplified is telling us. The Amplified is telling us unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood, which means unless you believe in me and also believe in the saving power of my blood, somebody drinking the blood Amplified to explain it.
07:22 Unless you believe in the saving power of my blood and you will need to believe, believe is consuming. Now in the spiritual plane, when you believe, it enters you. Unless you eat my body, you believe that the body of Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross and took all the sins.
07:39 So you believe. So the body of Christ enters you. Believe that means eating.
07:43 That what they are reflecting as eating. When you believe that the blood will wash your sins, will blood give you power? You believe in the blood. When you believe the belief in the spiritual plane, the belief the blood enters you, the body of Christ enters you.
07:59 So because of this belief, the entering, the entering means considered, of course, the pleasure body of Christ is eating and the blood of Jesus Christ is drinking. This is how the Amplified is explaining. So when you believe in the blood of Jesus Christ, that shed that will wash away your sins will give you power.
08:15 And all that the blood of Jesus Christ enters you in the spirit and that is reflected as in the amplified as drinking his blood. Now move on. The blood cleanses us, causes us to dwell in Christ.
08:29 The blood of Jesus Christ causes us to dwell in Christ and heal in us. Can you imagine John 6, 55, 57. For my flesh is through food, my blood is through drink.
08:43 How is that possible? It’s belief. It’s not. Taking many churches, I used to do that.
08:52 You give some bread or unleavened bread to symbolize things. And then of course some will say that even the host is the host. Remember the host? I used to buy hosts, you know, for the congregation, many, many years ago, until God convicted me.
09:07 He said the host was coming from overseas and he said even if there’s trouble in the country that they are ministering and no host can come. How are you going to minister this? God will not put, make our flesh go into a thing made of hands. God will not do that.
09:23 Anything made of hands is not going to depend on it to become a, a system of saving. He will only make you depend on faith, what he does. I will not reside in a temple made of hands.
09:37 He said, I will not reside in a house made of hands. That means anything we build is not going to reside there. He said I will reside in the temple made of by him.
09:44 That is the temple. Our body he made our hands cannot make this body. So he will not reside in a temple made of hands.
09:51 He will not depend on things made of human hands. So therefore, if a host cannot come, what happens to you cannot be posted. What happened those days? Missionaries are going into deep places and then they’re doing worshiping service and then they’re doing communion.
10:09 And you think the host can reach them? No. This all is man made tradition. If it’s missing your faith, that means if it’s missing, you have a lot of trouble because you begin to panic.
10:20 You begin to think you’re not going to be safe. You begin to think you cannot reach home. And if somebody is dying and you don’t have a host nearby to give you finish, you panic and crush.
10:30 Don’t do all this. Put the faith in Christ, eating the body and drinking the flesh. The amplified version explaining the words, how the Hebrew text and the Greek text were used is your belief.
10:42 When you believe in the body of God, body of Jesus Christ having suffered for you, it enters you. It enters you and the word is used as eating. When the blood of Jesus Christ you believe in the blood of Jesus Christ spilled for you, it enters you in the spirit.
10:56 And that belief when it’s entering in you is considered as drinking, brothers and sisters. That is why here in some of. What is this? He says, he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood.
11:11 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, believes in me and accepts me as a Savior. So when you believe in him and accept him as his Saviour, only then you are actually in the spiritual world. In the spiritual plane.
11:25 P L A N E the spiritual plane, you are eating his flesh and drinking his blood. And he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, that is, believes in me, accepts me as Saviour, remains in me, and I in the same way, remain in him. Can you imagine that? Now that means when we believe in Jesus Christ, accept him as a Savior, our Lord and Saviour.
11:47 What happens? He comes in and remains inside me. When? That’s 20 years ago. And I continue believing.
11:54 Because when you reject, you can reject him. Some people think you cannot reject him. You still have a will.
12:00 You can reject him and he will leave. That’s it. Because you don’t want him.
12:04 But if you doing wrong things and this and that, because beyond your control, you don’t know how to do it and you make mistakes and you fall into sin asking for forgiveness and you are trying and all he won’t give you. He’ll never leave you or forsake you. He’ll only leave.
12:16 When you say get lost, people say get lost. You know, by the way people do. How? By their conduct.
12:23 They say, I don’t care, I’ll do what I want. Then he says, in actual terms, they’re saying, get lost to Jesus Christ. Then he will leave.
12:31 He’s not a beggar. He won’t. All consequences, no matter what.
12:35 You trample on his blood and don’t care. You do what you want and you think he will continue saving you. No, he is not a beggar.
12:42 He will not go against your will. So when you tell him to get lost, he will get lost. So please don’t by your conduct, exercise blasphemy.
12:50 Blasphemy is the blasphem. My name. He says, by their conduct they blaspheme my name, but their lips, they praise me.
12:57 So, brothers and sisters, let’s become careful here. Cautious here. Now in Acts 20:27 to 29, I’ll read Amplify.
13:08 For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of God. The plan of God, you know, this is Apostle Paul. He said, I did not shrink from returning to the whole purpose and plan of God.
13:23 I don’t know which apostle. Maybe it’s Also, Peter, I do not know. I’m not sure.
13:27 20 Acts 28. Take care and be on guard for yourself, for the whole flock. Over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd, tend, feed, guide the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
13:41 Now remember, when I’m ministering to the congregation, they are the church of God. The church of Christ. Jesus Christ bought them with his own blood.
13:52 With his own blood. I have to tend, feed and guide. I have to.
13:53 I have to overseer 10ft and guide. I have to be a shepherd over them. If I don’t do with the reverence that God, Jesus Christ appointed me, I will be condemned.
14:05 I will be condemned. Then if I take this job of pastoring very seriously. Pastors take it seriously.
14:13 It’s a high calling. There was a time, you know, one boy was doing all kinds of things. So I’m not pastoring that congregation.
14:22 Not a pastor. I’m pastoring then that pastor’s son. So one day, finally I sat with him and talked to him.
14:28 Why are you doing all this? Your father is a pastor. Oh, I don’t want to be a pastor. Why? Why you don’t? A pastor is all like, you know, he has no respect for pastors.
14:37 That’s also. Sadly, that pastor was doing also wrong things. He was doing wrong things.
14:42 So the. The boy also has no respect for the Father and he doesn’t want to be a pastoring. So if any pastor doing the wrong thing, God Jesus Christ will deal with the pastor.
14:52 At what point in time, I wouldn’t know, but he will be dealt with. Why through a double condemnation. As fast as we have our own sin for not doing the right thing, and people are committing sin because we have allowed it or we encourage them or whatever, then their sin also comes on us.
15:06 There’s one interpretation. So both the sin put together with a double condemnation. So, brothers and sisters, today the congregation you are pastoring over or your elders over has been bought by his own blood, own precious blood.
15:22 And he is not going to take it lightly. When we do what we want to do, we better understand this. He is not going to take it lightly.
15:30 So, brothers and sisters, today remember the blood does. The blood of Jesus does so many things. It is not just this particular thing.
15:38 So now, brothers and sisters, you must remember this. So having said this, let us look at this in the spirit, whenever we are worshipping, you can use the blood of Jesus on yourself. You can use the blood of Jesus on yourself.
15:53 Can you imagine? So the other day we had an issue we had an issue so I came to know that home has got an issue I called them and said three of you sat together Elders in the house in the house Praise and worship Sing the blood songs it’s the blood that cleanses me it’s your blood that give me life they started singing the song they sang the blood song again and again different songs, different blood songs they were singing in Tamil and everything was released the thing settled down Peace came back to the home Righteousness came back to the home because the blood washes us clean. The blood bought. Bought the church the blood is the one that bought the church.
16:39 Oh brothers and sisters today use the blood. Always use the blood. The blood of Jesus Christ eats his body and drinking his blood is in faith Believing in it, believing the power Use it in the name of Jesus Christ Be quick to call on the blood of Jesus Christ to overcome sin In Jesus name I pray Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
John 17:3Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.
1 Peter 2:24Amplified Bible (AMP)
24 He personally carried our sins in His body on the cross [willingly offering Himself on it, as on an altar of sacrifice], so that we might die to sin [becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin] and live for righteousness; for by His wounds you [who believe] have been healed.
John 1:12New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God
John 1:12Amplified Bible (AMP)12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right [the authority, the privilege] to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—
Ephesians 2:8-9New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— 9 not the result of works, so that no one may boast.
Romans 5:8New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
8 But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 26 January 2016 do you know of Jesus or do you know Jesus? Do you know of Jesus or do you know Jesus? Brothers and sisters, today the title do you know of Jesus or do you know Jesus? So knowing of Jesus and knowing Jesus are two different things. Two different, very, very different things. It’s very critical that we actually know Jesus.
00:33 But many times, most times actually people know of Jesus. So what is this knowing of Jesus? Knowing of Jesus will be knowing of him. Now, before I was, as I said, arrested by Jesus Christ.
00:49 I know of Jesus, I know of this Jesus. There’s a story or there is a statement or history that this son of God came. They call him son of God.
01:02 Jesus Christ died on the cross, rose again, and all that. He walked around the earth. He made the sea to be calm, the sea became calm.
01:12 He said a lot of important words or good words. And they even Christians, they called as a Christian, but they actually do not know Jesus. They know of Jesus.
01:23 They know of Jesus. They’ll tell him, okay? Because in desperation, whenever they got trouble, they will begin to go and read the scriptures or the Gospels and see what Jesus said or Jesus didn’t say or Jesus did or whatever. And they know of him.
01:40 Knowing Jesus, a different thing. Knowing of. Okay, let’s give another example.
01:45 Let us say we know the prime minister of the country, any country, the prime minister of the country. Do you know him or do you know of him? Because you will read the prime minister said this, the prime minister was elected. His history was this.
01:58 He was born on this date. He was of this family. And then how his political career took place, how there were the issues, then there were arguments or quarrels or fights he went through, he overcame and all that, and then became prime minister.
02:13 And what he did or didn’t do, this all knowing of that prime minister. Same thing with, let’s say, sports personalities, you know, sport personality, a great footballer, you know, okay, you know of him, how many goals he scored, he played for this team. And you know, he did this way, that way.
02:31 He. He created new ways of scoring or whatever. You know of Jesus and you know he’s from which country and all that.
02:40 To know, to know the prime minister, to know the sports personality is a different thing. Knowing somebody is. That means you actually know him.
02:48 That means you have been, say you have to actually live with people, you have to be associating with them. You have to be having food, you have to have lunch or dinner. Or something.
03:01 And regularly you’re meeting them regularly, having meals with them. Regular, regularly going out and doing things with them with that person. There are people who know the Prime Minister.
03:11 Now, many, many, many people only know of the prime stuff. Many, many, many people will know of the particular footballer. But there are people who know the footballer.
03:22 They are living with the footballer. Whenever the footballer is emotionally upset or what they know the footballers upset. They know when a Prime Minister is upset, they know prime Minister is joyful.
03:35 They know prime Minister is sad. They know the footballer is sad. You know what makes them sad, what makes them upset, what makes this person angry, what makes this person really grieved.
03:48 What does this footballer or the prime minister, as I was talking about, the person who knows the Prime Minister living with the likes and dislikes of this person, what does this person like, what this person doesn’t like, what kind of food he likes. And when you give something, you know you give something to that particular person that you know will give right things. You know offi means you may not know, you only read, you may write someday.
04:14 This particular Prime Minister went to a particular stall and ate some particular food. And then you think the particular prime minister loves that food because you read a report. But it may not be the case.
04:24 It may be a political thing that he has to go his duty. It’s a political duty. The footballer you may read and say, okay, he does, he, he does very well.
04:34 He says right things. But you do not know whether he’s behaving properly behind, whether he’s having some drinking too much, drinking booze too much or acting miserably outside. Only those people know.
04:50 The footballer will know. Those people will know of. The footballer won’t know unless the reports are written.
04:56 So this is where we come today. Do you know of Jesus or do you know Jesus? Most people, they know only of Jesus. First of all, there are people who are not followers of Jesus, not Christians who have not accepted Christ as their Lord and mastered it by saying the words they know of Jesus.
05:16 Of course many people know of Jesus. They know this Jesus. Oh, Jesus is supposed to be a Christian God or Christian prophet or whatever they think.
05:26 But Christians on the other hand also on the other hand, if they know of Jesus, only then they will be trying to get some scripture here head knowledge. They don’t really know Jesus. So today the purpose we must have is we must know Jesus.
05:43 Knowing of Jesus is where the problem starts. Not enough useless, actually knowing of. It’s the beginning.
05:49 You know of Jesus. So when you come and Spread the gospel. We tell people of Jesus.
05:54 They all know of Jesus. Finally, they must know Jesus. They must experience Jesus.
05:59 They must begin to go and search what he likes, dislikes, what he wants you to do, what he doesn’t want you to do. You begin to search all this now. John 17:3.
06:11 John 17:3. I’m reading from amplified now. This is eternal life that they may know you.
06:18 That they may know you, the only true, supreme and sovereign God. This is Jesus speaking, still speaking and praying to his Father. Now this is eternal life.
06:18 That they may know you, the only true, supreme and sovereign God. And in the same manner know Jesus as the Christ whom you have sent the word of God to know you, the only true God to know God, not know of God. And also in the same manner, to know Jesus Christ, whom Father God has sent.
06:49 We have to know him, not know of him. Now first Peter 2:24 he personally carried our sins in his body. Now if you know Jesus, you will know this.
07:02 He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross, willingly offering himself on it as an altar of sacrifice so that we might die to sin, becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin and live for righteousness. For by his wounds you who believe have been healed. Now do you know Jesus to know this? He personally carried my sin in his body on the cross.
07:32 So if he personally carried my sin in his body, Jesus carried my sin in his body on the cross, then my attitude will change. How it will change? He has willingly offered himself on the cross as a sacrifice so that why that I might die to sin. That means I am no more going to sin.
07:48 I am no more affected by the nature of sin. I’m becoming immune from the penalty and power of sin. The power of sin cannot catch me.
07:58 So if you know of Jesus, you still be under the power of sin. If you know Jesus, you will be out of the power of sin cannot affect you. Sin has no power over you.
08:08 You have power over sin. You will stop. You will have a conviction.
08:12 Hey, this is sin. I cannot do this. Now there are people you will be counseling and counseling.
08:17 But they will continue doing the same thing. You, they’re not hearing you. Why? They may know of Jesus.
08:25 They do not know Jesus. Do you know Jesus? If you know Jesus, you will act according to his word. If you know of Jesus one day you will act according to what you’ve read.
08:37 Another day. You don’t like. Your heart doesn’t like what somebody is counselling you.
08:41 You don’t like, you won’t do. You Won’t follow. There are many like that.
08:45 So you better understand this. That is why I myself tell about my sins on the recordings. Why to tell you we have to be open about sin.
08:54 Anybody who wants to be hiding sin is a big problem. The sin won’t go because sin is alive. Sin is alive.
09:02 That’s why Jesus, Father God says to Cain, sin is at your door, desiring you. He told Cain, sin is at your door, desiring you. Sin in the spiritual world is alive.
09:17 And as a movement, as a life is life. Life. It’s got a life and is alive to do things.
09:24 Sin is at the door, desiring you. Came, Father, God said, if you do well, wouldn’t you be accepted? Same thing. Anybody want to continue sinning? Don’t listen to the counsel of sin will harm you.
09:36 Finally, the sin will harm the person. The power of sin can only go if you know Jesus Christ. Not know of Jesus Christ.
09:45 So now John 1:12. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God. This Catholic edition.
09:48 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God. Remember this. You first have to receive Jesus Christ.
10:05 And you must believe in his name. You believe in name above all names. Why are you saying not believe him here? Believe in his name.
10:14 Of course you have to believe Jesus Christ. And you must believe in his name because it is his name that he going to give you power to become children of God. Why in his name you will cast out evil spirit.
10:25 In his name. You will command your heart and mind to be doing the right thing in his name. You command your heart not to have any more desires that you want.
10:35 God’s desires there in the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart to have desires of what Jesus wants to give me. Not your own desire. Because our own hearts are treacherously wicked.
10:46 And they are wicked in so many compartments. The compartments will be clear and clear. So from glory to glory, we begin to move.
10:55 John 1:12. Again, as I said, I’m reading from the Amplified Discharge. Earlier I read from the Catholic edition to give you the bigger meaning.
11:03 But to as many as did receive and welcome him, he gave the right, the authority, the privilege to become children of God. It’s the right, the authority, the privilege to become children of God. In the Catholic version it says he gave power to become children of God.
11:16 Many versions say power to become children of God. Here he gave the right, the power is the right. Now, what you do with the right, what you do with the power is left to me.
11:27 What I do with the power or right of what’s given to me is up to me. I can use it to actually be a child of God. I can use it and keep it aside, locked away, don’t bother.
11:36 As I said, if they, if they badge the authority, let’s say the king of the country has given the, the royal police person, the inspector, a badge. Hey, are you an inspector? You’re of the Royal Police now? When you use a badge, you use it rightly or wrongly. You use your position, rightly or wrongly.
11:57 So if we use wrongly the authority, the power given by Jesus Christ to us, then we are still not children of God. Children of God means we use the power, we have the power to become children of God. Not that we, those who believe in name have not become children of God, yet they have become given the power, power to be children of God.
12:17 So what the Holy Spirit will do, he allows circumstances until you begin to exercise the right thing. So those who are doing wrongly, although they have been given the power, the Holy Spirit will allow circumstances. God will allow circumstances.
12:30 He does not create trouble. That’s why there are various segments, you know, why Jesus allows trials. Why Jesus allows trials? I think up to four segments or five segments were there.
12:40 Why? So that we will be forced to use he will allow the trouble. So we are forced to use the power, use the authority, use the privilege to actually be children of God. To be children of God.
12:54 So that’s why trials will come. So any trial means don’t shirk it and say no, no, no. And then get fed up with God and all this.
13:01 No, never going to get fed up with people. If people are telling you you’re wrong. People are telling me I’m wrong.
13:07 Two or three, I better stop and see if I’m going to be truthful. We are people of the truth. Jesus is the truth.
13:13 If I’m going to be truthful, I better stop and see what are they saying, right or wrong. And then if they are saying wrong, I have to go and tell them or take them to an elder and deal with it. Not just run away and do as I wish or just go back, complain, complain, complain.
13:26 There are many like this. No, not one or two. Many simply go at the back and complain, complain, complain.
13:32 But they do not want to look at the word of God to see what Jesus is saying. That means what they know of Jesus. They don’t know Jesus.
13:40 They only know of Jesus. They don’t know Jesus. Because you know Jesus Christ, you will Begin to use his name to command your heart and mind.
13:48 Because we know Jesus Christ, we’ll use the scriptures, circus scriptures. If you know Jesus Christ, you’ll cry out to him and say, lord, they’re saying Jesus Christ. They’re saying these things about me.
13:57 Is it through Jesus convict me, Lord. Then the conviction will come. Situation will come.
14:03 But if you do not do that, you are not going to Jesus Christ. You do not know Jesus Christ. You do not know what is grieving him.
14:06 You do not know what actions he will take. Remember yesterday we were talking about sudden destruction for people who saw discord, Discord. Discontent into the soul of people, discontent into the heart of children of God.
14:23 You begin to do this sudden destruction. God says, and that’s his word. The word of God is Jesus.
14:28 Jesus Christ. So if you know Jesus Christ, you’ll know that word. You will begin to obey the Word.
14:33 If you know of Jesus Christ, of course you will just forget about it and go and keep on complaining that you are right, they are all wrong. So many people telling you are wrong. No, they are wrong.
14:42 I am right. Then sudden destruction will take place whether you like it or not. The word of God is a gravity.
14:48 If I drop a glass, it will drop. If I just hold a glass and drop it, it will just go down and fall on the ground and break. And I used to tell that the word of God is like gravity.
15:00 The spirit world is like that. It will operate whether you like it or not, it will operate like that. The devil operates like that.
15:06 He’s got authority, means he’ll come and use you. Already you’ve given him a foothold, means he’ll come and use it. Now, Ephesians 2, 8, 9.
15:13 I’m reading from Celtic edition. For by grace you have been saved through faith. Now remember this, everybody.
15:19 We have been saved by grace, through faith. How? By believing in his name. He gave us power to Jesus Christ.
15:26 He gave power to become children of Jesus Christ. And we begin to use the power now. What the Holy Spirit will do, he will allow the circumcision and he will begin to use it.
15:35 But of course, if you confess by your mouth and didn’t believe in your heart, that has not happened yet. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And that is not your own doing.
15:44 It is a gift of God. It’s not that I can work and work and work. I do a lot of charity and I be saved.
15:50 No, I have to be saved first of all by believing in Jesus Christ in my heart and confessing. And after that because of that because I know Jesus Christ I begin to search his word precepts and begin to do what he will and then I’ve been being saved. The word of God will say somewhere is being saved and being saved at all.
16:11 Operate this Romans 5, 8 and God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. Now if you know Jesus Christ, you know Jesus Christ died for you While you are a sinner I was a terrible sinner he’s already died for me earlier for me so I know Jesus Christ he died for me. He loves you, he loves you but now it’s for you to love him.
16:35 Now for you to love him how you love him keeping his commandments desiring only using the power he gave using his name if you begin to use the name of Jesus Christ casting out evil spirit, casting out commanding heart and mind and begin to do to please Jesus Christ because you know Jesus Christ In Jesus Christ’s name I pray Amen.
