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Mark 16:17-18 Amplified Bible 17 These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”
John 10:10 Amplified Bible 10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].
Ephesians 4:27 Amplified Bible 27 And do not give the devil an opportunity [to lead you into sin by holding a grudge, or nurturing anger, or harboring resentment, or cultivating bitterness].
Ephesians 6:12 Amplified Bible 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.
James 4:4 Amplified Bible 4 You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 2:15 Amplified Bible 15 Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Jeremiah 10:3 Amplified Bible 3 For the customs and decrees of the peoples are [mere] delusion [exercises in futility]; It is only wood which one cuts from the forest [to make a god], The work of the hands of the craftsman with the axe or cutting tool.
Matthew 23:15 Amplified Bible 15 “Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte (convert to Judaism), and when he becomes a convert, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
1 John 3:8 Amplified Bible 8 The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
Revelation 20:3 Amplified Bible 3 and the angel hurled him into the abyss, and closed it and sealed it above him [preventing his escape or rescue], so that he would no longer deceive and seduce the nations, until the thousand years were at an end. After these things he must be liberated for a short time.
1 Peter 5:8 Amplified Bible 8 Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
John 4:24 Amplified Bible 24 God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Luke 4:18 Amplified Bible 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me (the Messiah), Because He has anointed Me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent Me to announce release (pardon, forgiveness) to the captives, And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed (downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy),
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.”
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Scriptures Referenced
1 John 3:7-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 Little children (believers, dear ones), do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness [the one who strives to live a consistently honorable life— in private as well as in public—and to conform to God’s precepts] is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
9 No one who is born of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, because God’s seed [His principle of life, the essence of His righteous character] remains [permanently] in him [who is born again—who is reborn from above— spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose]; and he [who is born again] cannot habitually [live a life characterized by] sin, because he is born of God and longs to please Him
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
13 For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP) 4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
1 Peter 5:8 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 8 Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.
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.”
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Scriptures Referenced
1 John 3:7-9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 Little children (believers, dear ones), do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness [the one who strives to live a consistently honorable life— in private as well as in public—and to conform to God’s precepts] is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 The one who practices sin [separating himself from God, and offending Him by acts of disobedience, indifference, or rebellion] is of the devil [and takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God]; for the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
9 No one who is born of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, because God’s seed [His principle of life, the essence of His righteous character] remains [permanently] in him [who is born again—who is reborn from above— spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose]; and he [who is born again] cannot habitually [live a life characterized by] sin, because he is born of God and longs to please Him
2 Corinthians 11:13-15 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
13 For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
1 Peter 5:8 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 8 Discipline yourselves, keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.
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.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 11 December titled Sun Tzu and Satan. Sun Tzu and Satan, brothers and sisters. Yesterday I was shocked.
00:14 After the recording, I started hearing myself. The last couple of minutes went like a bullet train in Japan, brothers and sisters. You know, it starts off slow in Japan as the train moves.
00:26 And the bullet train, the fast, really fast train. I have not been in the bullet train in China, but long ago I’ve been there. The apartment hall was quite close to the track.
00:38 Of course it looks very close. Actually it’s safe distance. Children will be playing the balcony and all.
00:44 When the train starts off, you can see one balcony, another balcony, children here, children there, clothes tagging, whatever people. Soon enough it’s just one blur, gray, whitish blur. Because it’s so fast.
00:58 I’m sorry, brothers and sisters, in the eagerness to finish off that thing in that time, because if not, it won’t load into the WhatsApp. WhatsApp only allows certain amount of bytes, that amount of content to go into any point in time in one lock, in one block, you know, Praise Jesus Christ. I pray you people are still listening to this and getting the message.
01:20 But basically what he’s saying there is. Jesus said, look, when you give a feast, give to people who cannot pay you back. And I also saw clearly that I am not fully settled in this, in this activity.
01:36 I have failed in many occasions in this particular scripture. I will try and make sure that I perform this more and more. And I also said, you cannot bring people out now for the.
01:46 When groups of people come large, crumble into your house because your children are there and all. And now it’s dangerous. There are crooks and rapists and what have you out there.
01:55 But we can still perform by taking the money we spent on unnecessary things, including the Christmas tree and all that and giving to these people who need it. Who need it. Yesterday I told you all billions of ringgit are spent every year on Christmas trees.
02:11 And you know how many Christmas trees? Then there are decorations on the Christmas trees. The decoration of Christmas trees will cost maybe two, three times more than the tree itself. So if I calculated yesterday, about 20 billion ringgit worth, both natural trees and false trees that are plastic trees.
02:28 You can talk about 60, 20, 40, 60 billion ringgit spent every year in this kind of activities. And people are still dying in the cold, the winter’s day, without even a proper jacket. There are people, homeless people.
02:42 There are also people in the poorer countries like in India, even in cold of Delhi, cold of the north, Kashmir and all that. And in Pakistan people are dying with cold. India, Pakistan in some, many even in China.
02:55 I believe there will be some places which I do not know. I just believing that the same thing will happen. People are suffering.
03:02 So we can take our monies and be wise, prudent because the money was given to us by Jesus Christ of Nazareth. For a believer, all things belong to Jesus Christ. If you ask him, you say give to the this and that, to the right people.
03:16 Give to people, he’s saying, who cannot repay us so that we are blessed. Now brothers and sisters, think about this thing, think about these things. Don’t get caught in the world now today the title Sun Tzu and Satan.
03:29 Sun Tzu was one of the greatest generals of China. Those of you who are not aware, Sun Tzu was one of the greatest generals of China. He was a strategist, a tactician.
03:39 He was also a philosopher and he had written a lot of saints. He lived for 500 years before Christ. And then according to Vicky, he lived for 48 years, I think.
03:50 So he must have what God Jesus Christ said is true. Those who live by the sword will die, but this sword must have been killed. I believe.
03:57 I do not know the full history, but I’ve read Sanzi a long, long, long, long, long time ago. And we applied also in business and all that. But I used to apply the Sanzi.
04:06 Can you imagine those days before born again. I applied Sanzi but never applied Jesus Christ. That’s what I was, never applied Jesus Christ words, Sanzu.
04:15 Yes, I’ll take and apply. Can you imagine? And twist it from my own hands. Wicked.
04:20 Now Sansa and Satan. You see Sansa, one of the sayings he will tell you is one of the greatest victories is victories. And void is victory that comes without a battle, without fighting.
04:34 And one of the basics of warfare is he says is is deception. Use deception. So Sansu, you can go and check on the Internet, you say words and all that.
04:46 But you must understand after a while that people are adding what Sansu said and will make Sansu more than what he said. That’s what happens nowadays. And so we may think some of the things that San Tzu has said and some of the things that Sansu is supposed to have said.
05:00 Maybe he just said by others. The one other thing suppose to have said is that the greatest victory is won where the vanquished, where the person, the people who are defeated, the vanquished actually think they are the victors actually think they got a victory. That means the defeated think they are the victors.
05:22 That one of in fact the greatest victory ever you can have because the defeated think they are the victors. Can you imagine what a great victory will that be? Because they’re going about their business thinking, I’m victory, I’m victor, I’m the. I win already.
05:36 I win already. I’m the greatest and all that. And then when I’m thinking of this, because I was talking to another pastor the other day discussing sons actually over lunch, and then struck me, I said, hey, sons and Satan.
05:51 Sons and Satan. What Satan has done to the church now, for instance, 2 Corinthians 4, 4amplified, 2nd Corinthians 4, 4amplified, says among them, the God of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, the God of the world is Satan and blinded the minds of the unbelieving. Unbelieving is not just unbelieving in Jesus Christ.
06:21 If you truly believe in Jesus Christ, you will change. There are people who just say, jesus Christ. Yeah, yeah.
06:26 He is son of God and all that. And unbelieving to the words of Christ, the illuminating light of the Gospel, unbelieving in the details of the gospel, unbelieving in what he has said. When he said, give what you have, when you give a feast, give to the people who cannot repay the blind, the poor, the needy, and all that the lame, the sick give them, you know, and we won’t do that, but we’ll go buy Christmas trees and we’ll Easter.
06:51 We’ll make some eggs and some cakes, Easter buns and Easter cake. We can do all kinds of things. I’ve done this before, so I am also telling you, look, look, look.
07:00 Let’s wise up. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now in 1st Peter 5, 8, earlier amplified.
07:07 Now reading from 1 Peter 5, 8 on Catholic edition. Discipline yourselves. Keep alert.
07:13 Like a roaring lion, your adversary, the devil, prowls around looking for someone to devour, to follow your adversary the devil prowse around, prowse walking steadily, stealthily. Stop. Stealthily, secretly, softly, looking for someone to swallow.
07:33 Now these Scriptures, 2nd Corinthians 11, 13, 15. For such boasters are false apostles. People say, I am apostle and this and that.
07:43 Deceitful workers disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So just because angels appear, don’t fall into this trap.
07:57 It could be Satan and these demons, even Satan Disguises as an angel of light so they can come and say, I am an apostle. This, do this, do that. Let’s follow something.
08:08 Check in the scriptures, check in the words of God what they are saying. So it is not strange. Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
08:12 So it is not strange. If his ministers also disguise themselves as as ministers of righteousness, it’s not strange. His ministers, Satan’s ministers, also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness.
08:31 The end will meet their deeds now. One Scripture because there are time limitations. First, there are many scriptures that show that how we have gone by.
08:42 People worship me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. There are so many scriptures that what God is saying of a group of people and can easily happen to one of us or all of us because we simply do things as our way. If we do not check scriptures, if we do not examine ourselves, examine ourselves against the word of God.
09:00 And if you’re not sure, let somebody else examine you. The Scripture says. The Bible says, let your neighbor examine you.
09:06 Because when we examine ourselves, we’ll only think good things. We will not think of the wrong things that we are doing because our mind is blocked or deceived by the devil already. Because our mind has been blinded from believing the illuminating light of the gospel.
09:19 That particular scripture is being blinded from us now. First John 3, 7:9. Little children, believers, dear one, do not let anyone lead you astray.
09:31 Do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness, that is, the one who strives to live a consistently honorable life in private as well as public, and to conform to God’s precepts, is righteous, just as he, Jesus Christ, is righteous. Now let me read that again.
09:50 Please amplify. Little children, believers, dear ones, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who practices righteousness.
09:59 If you are practicing righteousness, not just righteousness, once or twice practicing righteousness, who is practicing righteousness? In bracket it says, the one who strives to live a consistently honorable life in private as well as in public, and to conform to God’s precepts. God’s precepts is righteous just as Jesus Christ is righteous. 8.
10:24 The one who practices sin, doing sin all the time, on and on, is separating himself from God and offending him by acts of disobedience, in indifference to the word of God or rebellion, is of the devil and takes its inner character and moral values from him. Not God takes the inner character, moral values from Satan, who’s the ruler of the world. He’s the God of the world.
10:51 Now, if you’re following the world and one thinks of the world, then you’re following the God of this world. This scripture is right. But if you cannot accept your heart, can’t accept it right now.
11:00 You must understand the devil, the ruler of the world, the God of the world has blinded you from this scripture. You may believe Jesus Christ. There are certain areas in our heart, some of it want its own way.
11:11 Certain areas of our life, we want our own way. And that wanting so deeply in that area of our own way will blind you from reading the scripture truly. So that you can be set free.
11:25 To be set free. When you see the scripture. Compare and see whether I am doing this rubbish or am I living like the one that God is telling me to live.
11:34 Now here he is saying, if you are practicing sin again, again, angry, angry, cursing, people shouting bad words, bad words, bad words. Other areas you might have changed. But in this area you are offending God.
11:49 Separating yourself, acts of disobedience, indifference or rebellion. He says, this is, and this is of the devil. If a practicing sin.
11:58 He says, you are of the devil. This issue is from the devil. You are of the devil.
12:02 And takes his inner character and moral values from him, not God. He says, if we do this, if we do this, we are taking the inner character and moral values from the devil, not God. For the devil has sinned and violated God’s law from the beginning.
12:14 God’s law from the beginning, the Son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil. Now remember what God said. The Son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil.
12:29 He has not destroyed the devil yet. That will happen in the book of Revelation. When Jesus comes back, he will send one angel to catch Satan and throw him into the lake of fire.
12:31 That will happen in the future. But until now, the devil has not been destroyed. But Jesus as the Son of God has destroyed the works of the devil.
12:50 He has destroyed it. No one who is born of God deliberately, knowingly, habitually practices sin. That’s nine.
12:59 That is First John, First John three, nine. And God sin. Now.
13:03 These books are all written 30, 40 years. 20, 30 years or so after Christ. So near there.
13:10 And some of the other practices we are doing, they came into being three, 400 years after Christ. Some even thousand years after Christ. Some practices script inside here.
13:19 So praise Jesus Christ. Nazareth brothers and sisters, go back to the scriptures which are the ones God is talking about. 9.
13:27 No one who is born of God deliberately, knowingly, habitually practices Sin because God’s seed, his principles of life, the essence of his righteous character, remains permanently in him who is born again, who is reborn from the birth, spiritually transformed, renewed and set apart for his purpose. And he who is born again cannot habitually live a life characterized by sin because he is born of God and longs to please him. Brothers and sisters, we have to change.
13:55 Now let’s look at this how Sansa the Satan has done. Sans has taken some logic from Satan. I am here because you see deception.
14:03 He said so when God says do not cut a tree, I am talking to you. In Jeremiah he says, I am telling you, do not cut a tree and nail it and decorate the children. I will do right.
14:15 This is how I was taught. But this is how. Then you have got a problem because you cannot see the truth.
14:22 Now. When I came to become a believer of Jesus Christ completely, remember I said when God said this is black wall, I said black even though my eyes are being white now. Brothers and sisters, I see people in the church at the time.
14:37 So see, over the last 20 years there are people in the church who are worse than the people outside. Worse. And I used to wonder what’s going on.
14:46 Of course later in life I knew those who are practicing sin actually are not born of the Spirit. They’re not born again. They don’t believe in Christ and his precepts.
14:52 They don’t believe in Christ, they just say I believe in God. They came for some benefit because of suffering. Some money matters, some loan or some money suffering along.
15:03 What is it called debt collectors coming or whatever problem or sickness or illness, they come and they want that benefit. But they didn’t come for the blesser. They.
15:12 They came for the blessing and then they didn’t forgive. I was seeing that time and still seeing many in churches in so called born again churches are not even forgiving people. And the answer will be no.
15:26 This does this I cannot forgive. But you are not a Christian. That no, I am a Christian.
15:31 I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe in Jesus Christ. Why can I forgive this nonsense they are doing too.
15:36 They need to be. I cannot. People who come for prayers, arthritis and all that.
15:41 Now we know there are segments I have given you or there are signs. The Christian medical science people have drawn conclusions and statistics that 80 or 85% of all diseases come the spiritual root sickness, one of which God says, you know, bitterness will dry off your bones, arthritis, unforgiveness. So they keep on holding to theirselves the way they want it.
16:03 Love of the world. God says is enmity with God so do not love the world or the things in the world or things of the world the way the world operates now the churches there are some people say who got the greatest biggest Christmas tree that church has got a smaller one so what are the people doing in the churches they’re comparing these things because they do not know Christ and his precepts so therefore transient Satan says the greatest victory is when the defeated thinks is still his winner so when the Christian thinks he’s a Christian when he’s not a Christian that the greatest victory when a person thinks he’s a Christian and doing all kinds of worldly things and going not forgiving and not doing the work Jesus wants us to do holding on to the world system there are supermarkets will say who got the biggest present tree challenges and all that’s coming out of the churches so brothers and sisters today the greatest victory let us be actually through Christians fear God in Jesus Christ’s name I pray amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
2 Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
Jeremiah 10:1-4 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord:
Do not learn the way of the nations, or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan; 4 people deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move
Luke 14:13-14 New King James Version (NKJV) 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
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1 Corinthians 6:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything
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.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 10 December 2015 Fear false customs and self discipline. Fear false customs and self discipline. Yesterday, brothers and sisters, this word came out rebuke.
00:19 Actually there’s no such word I picked up because I’ve been ministering to all kinds of people and some abusing this and some are sitting in my spirit deep there and it came out in my mind and maybe between a rebuke and a correction becomes a rebuke and I think so I observed later and check and see what this. And there is a word rebuke and it doesn’t mean what we are trying to say. It’s some kind of prayer or something.
00:43 Praise Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters. Now that is why very simple, I remind myself, if I think I know something, I do not know anything as yet. I as I ought to know that’s God’s word.
00:56 And I have to follow this for myself. I’ve been doing this from the time I came to know this Word of God. I remind myself again and again if I think I’m something, when I’m nothing, I deceive myself.
01:07 So brothers and sisters do not follow man, including me, when I show scriptures and all that. You go to God, you go to Jesus Christ, you ask him, the Holy Spirit, teacher of all things, teach you. But sometimes you have to be careful also because your mind may be speaking to you, your heart may be speaking to you, your flesh desires may be speaking to you.
01:28 And the world would have put all this in you and you begin to believe God spoke to you. Don’t you have to. It must match with the Word of God.
01:35 If it doesn’t match with the Word of God, God is certainly not speaking to you on that one. According to what you are believing, you have to listen to the Word of God. Now if you cannot, if you are unable to follow the Word of God, return and you are trying to say, and somebody says they interpret it this way and that way they are interpreting the Word of God.
01:52 I have a rule for myself and I’ve taught this to others for more than decades now that take the harder route because the road is narrow. Jesus says the road is narrow. So therefore take the harder route.
02:10 Harder route means that harder to the flesh, whatever is harder to the flesh, that is the better route. That is a better safe way. Take the harder route.
02:18 Anything the flesh. And then people are telling you things, logic, you know, they’re using big swelling words. As I said, Bible says bombastic words.
02:26 They’ll Tell you this way, that way, and nothing but. You take the simplicity of the gospel, read it as it is. You settle in your spirit.
02:33 And then if you confuse, take the harder route to the flesh, harder thing that the flesh doesn’t want, take that route. God will bless you. Even when you are wrong, God will bless you.
02:43 Why? Your intention is to do the right thing, to pick up your cross, to pick up your cross and walk daily. He will bless you because he said, my child. Is my child believing that I said this to her or they said this to him.
02:57 I will settle because my child obeying me, thinking I have said this, and he will intervene and settle it for you. I have experienced this love and the goodness and the mercy of Jesus Christ. Whenever I am doing things, believing that what God told, and I begin to believe, truly believe, and I’m taking the harder route, I’m taking the difficult route in the interpretation.
03:20 I’ve been always blessed. It never let me down. And I’m sure there are many in the congregation who also enjoyed this privilege of taking the harder route.
03:31 And Jesus sees them through. Take the harder route, take the narrow road. Brothers and sisters, there are few scriptures that we have to concentrate on today.
03:39 Yesterday we talked about not everything is beneficial. Today we are talking, reminding ourselves on this thing on second Timothy 1:7. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear.
03:50 This is not amplified. He did not give us a spirit of fear. Spirit of fear.
03:54 Fear is from the devil. Spirit of fear is an evil spirit. He did not give us a spirit of fear, timidity or cowardice.
04:00 But he has given us a spirit of power. Spirit of power, of love. Spirit of love and spirit of sound mind.
04:08 Spirit of sound judgment. Oh, spirit of sound mind and personal discipline. Personal discipline.
04:16 Self control is given us a spirit of self control, Personal discipline or self discipline. Now, brothers and sisters, this is an important thing to follow. He’s given us this already.
04:26 Now, whether we apply or not, then it’s our choice whether we want to follow Jesus Christ this way or not. And always our heart wouldn’t want to do this. Now, many times, this false custom, somehow we follow because of fear.
04:37 What people will say, what my neighbor will say, what my brother will say, what my sister will say, what my mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, all kinds, my son, all kinds of things. Just fear, you know, Let me tell you. Oh no, I don’t fear pastor, actually.
04:54 But they will get upset. I don’t want to upset them. I want to love all just fear.
04:59 Brother and sister, you better first please Jesus Christ. What Jesus Christ will say what Jesus Christ has already said, what Jesus Christ has already written it down for you and me. You be willing to follow that first.
05:14 So don’t think of all the other people first. Think of the husband of your soul, the one who will finally judge you, the one who’s supposed to save you. Because in the one who suffered for you, to save you, the one you’re going to meet absent from the body, to be present with the Lord.
05:28 That one. The one that I am, that I am. That one.
05:32 The Alpha and the Omega, the ancient of days, that one. The name is Jesus Christ. You better think about what he will.
05:41 Are you pleasing him now? Then anything and others are saying, you’re considering that when it’s opposite to what he has said, then your fear of man, that’s called fear of man. You say no fear, but actually fear of man. You don’t have fear of God.
05:54 You do not love Jesus Christ. You are actually more concerned with what these people say. But they are human beings.
06:00 You love them, but they are confused. I was confused. Yeah.
06:05 I can love human beings in the way I write, but I must love human beings according to God’s command. Love your neighbor as yourself, willing to give your life for one another as disciples. As he has loved us, he gave his life for us.
06:17 Let’s love like that now, brothers and sisters. So do not get confused or do not. Jesus said, do not deceive yourself yesterday.
06:26 Scripture says, now, do not deceive yourself. Because he has washed us clean. He doesn’t want any blemish in us, doesn’t want a spot in us.
06:33 He has washed us clean with his own blood. And then if we go continue practicing those things, he says, you are born of the devil. You’re really not born of God.
06:40 Because you’re born of God, you stop practicing. You may fall into such sin because of sudden blow, sudden temptation, sudden weakness. But immediately there will be a conviction.
06:50 Immediately there’s a conviction. You’ll be shaken up by the Holy Spirit. You say, sorry Lord.
06:54 Sorry Lord. And then you begin to rectify, restitute, settle things. But if you are practicing like Tatida apa, that means no care in the world, no care in the world, don’t care.
06:54 And then you go about your life without considering what he has written down. Then you have to ask yourself, are you a false, counterfeit Christian? Brothers and sisters, don’t. That’s why when we follow customs and we are unable to break free, you have to Use the power of Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus Christ.
07:23 You have to start using in the name of Jesus, commanding your heart and mind to break free from all this. Now brothers, this is. There’s another scripture that says, you know, a little leaven, a little yeast, a little yeast will leaven the whole dough.
07:36 That means little falsehood will finally make everything fall suitable. And you won’t know because in creep into us, the world will creep into it. That’s why.
07:45 Oh this Pastor Chrissy Lutz, he very fancy. He said this one, no blemish. Go for pure, holy.
07:52 That’s his word. That’s his word. And we don’t do it by our strength.
07:57 We do it by the power of Jesus Christ. I’m not telling, I want you to do now get everything right here. Brothers, I’m not forcing anyone here to do anything.
08:06 I’m not telling you you must do. I’m just reading the scriptures and showing you and reasoning with you from the scriptures. Now you have to decide in the spirit.
08:15 You have to decide because finally each of us have to answer directly to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now if I don’t teach you this, I will of course have to answer this to Jesus Christ of Nazareth saying, son, I showed you all this. To whom much is given, much more is expected.
08:31 He says so he expects a lot from me because much has been given to me. And to whom much is forgiven, he loves much. Meaning I’ve been forgiven much.
08:42 You all know all kinds of sinners. Go and read my story in graceoflife.com you know how much sinning I was doing. I was a great sinner and he has forgiven me all that.
08:50 Who he has forgiven much, loves much. He says that means I end up without me realizing, I end up loving more. It’s not by my will because I want to love, it just happens.
09:02 Because his law is coming to work, his word is coming to bear fruit. He has forgiven much and automatically he makes me love much. He has given me much, he expects me much more.
09:16 Whom he has given much, much more is expected out of him. So I have to do this. Now you please use yourself, use your God given sound mind, self discipline and go for sin.
09:28 For Jesus Christ. I sometimes use the example, take a long Olympic sized swimming pool. You take Olympic sized swimming pool and somebody takes a tablespoon or teaspoon of human waste, human waste, human dung, and throws it at one end of the pool, in the shallow end, you are at the deepest end.
09:44 There you will jump out. Once you knew that this rubbish has gone inside here. The waste has gone inside you.
09:49 You will jump out there. You won’t drink the water there. Although it’s a long sight, it takes a long while for it to diffuse and come there and now slowly, but you will not.
09:56 And for God, trying to imagine, we’re trying to imagine in my miniscule mind that sins like that, for God, it’s abomination. Why after he has given his son to die for us, we still do this? Cannot, brother. Cannot, cannot.
10:09 Now I’m going to read a scripture from Jeremiah 10:1 4. Before that, you see here, my father was in the. Was in World War II.
10:19 He was about 20 years old. He was working here and the Japanese came and all that. Now after he tells us the World War II story.
10:26 Yes, and I hear from other of his friends who are there also. Now, after a while, his generation passes away and I will take and tell the story to my children or whatever. And in fact I forget now.
10:36 There’s only. We are only something like 75 years or 70 years away from World War II. And we already got all kinds of mixture or rubbish coming in.
10:46 Knowledge is missing all that, unless they refer to some history books. But history books also has been polluted and changed according to the victor. The victor, the winners, they say, will write their own history books.
10:59 So we do not know whether this whole thing is true or not. But generally we know there was atrocities and all that going on and then how they suffered. War means suffering, suffering.
11:09 We don’t want any war. But war will come because Jesus said there will be war and rumors of wars and so. But he will see us through.
11:15 Okay, so let’s not get frightened with the wars. If it’s going to happen, you and I can’t stop it. We only go to Jesus Christ to see us through, brothers and sisters.
11:23 That is why when Jesus was walking on the earth, it’s only a few hundred years later when Constantine came into the picture. He started introducing so many other things after that and began a lot of worldly things entered there. But it’s 3, 400 years, 330 years or something.
11:41 Constantine came after Christ. You’re talking about 300 years, 70 years from the World War II. We can’t remember now.
11:48 300 odd years. You think people will remember? They will just continue doing what people are telling them. So the truth is where it was written earlier, nearest to the resurrection, nearest to when Jesus, that’s the apostles, the disciples are written there and then there are.
12:04 And some of the books occur thousand, two thousand three Thousand years before Christ was written. So we rather look at those books than human customs. Human customs are falsehood.
12:15 Now what he says in Jeremiah 10:1 4. Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you. I’m reading the Catholic version.
12:16 Jeremiah 10:1 4. Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you. That means to me.
12:26 Thus says the Lord, do not learn the way of the nations. That means, do not learn the way of the unbelievers. Or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens.
12:36 For the nations are dismayed at them. That is awe. Or be dismayed.
12:40 Today we’re not discussing the dismay in the sight of the heavens. I mean the blood moon, this and that. We are not talking about that.
12:47 Do not learn the way of the nation. Do not follow them. Do not learn them.
12:50 3. For the customs of the peoples are false, are false, are false. A little falsehood in us finally will change our whole life.
13:00 We’ll end up doing false things and other things and we don’t even realize. That’s why when I came to the Lord, I said, walls, black object, etc. For the castles of the peoples are false.
13:11 A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of an artisan. People deck it with silver and gold. They fasten it with hammer and nails and so that it cannot move.
13:22 He said, do not follow this. They are false. Now at the same time, another further scripture says, it’s like a scarecrow.
13:29 The tree is like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch. We cannot talk at this and that. Then when I read this, my son, that time was five years or six years old.
13:36 I went to him and other children, the elder children, the elder two girls. Very happy that I’ve changed, you know. That’s all.
13:42 They are so grateful. The third son and the fourth that a bit younger. This, this last fellow was six boy.
13:49 And I told him, son, Papa was doing all kinds wrong before. I don’t have any more faults in our lives anymore. Anything false, I don’t want to touch.
13:58 We just want to go to the truth. Are you willing to give up his peace and all that? He was willing to. So I went with Chak, huh, Chak now in Jesus Christ.
14:07 Thank Jesus, there was nothing I said. Everybody forgot about it. Now brother and sisters here, so you will say, oh, this fella now become religious.
14:13 He want me to use rich. Want me to cut the tree. No, no, no.
14:16 Now remember this. It’s a big, huh? Almost 1 billion US dollar worth. 4 billion ringgit worth of actual natural Trees are cut down in the US for this purpose about another 500 million.
14:30 That means US$2 billion worth in Europe and all. It’s all over. You’re talking about four and two, six, about seven, eight billion US dollars worth of trees.
14:40 Actual trees are cut down and used for this. They will again grow and use and grow and use over India, you know, big time business. Six billion.
14:48 And then they have ringgit. Ringgit. Six billion.
14:50 Seven billion. Ringgit. Six, seven.
14:53 Yeah, seven, eight billion, maybe even eight billion. Then false trees made of plastic made from the petroleum. You know, that’s another, I think two or three times more all over the world.
15:02 So you’re talking about another 2.5, 3.5 or 4? 4.
15:06 4 times 4, 16. You’re talking about 20 over billion. Ringgit of money is spent every year.
15:13 Now the green trees, green trees, fellas. No, save the trees, save the trees. They’ll come this side of Malaysia and say don’t cut the trees.
15:19 And all your stories. Here they allow themselves to cut 6, $7 billion worth of trees are grown and cut every year. If they didn’t cut it the last 10, 20 years, can you imagine how green the place will be? But no, nobody is stopping there.
15:33 Why the green fellows are not bothered about this? Because it’s from Satan, it’s from the world, it’s a way of the world. And God is saying don’t follow this now. And it’s foolish.
15:42 And why do we cut a tree and do this? And he said, silver and gold, that’s Christmas tree. But even that time people don’t listen. Now brothers and sisters.
15:50 And then maybe this one game for children. We put present under there. The children go and kneel down there to collect their presents, right? Maybe it’s a way for our children to be getting accustomed to kneeling in front of a tree.
16:02 I do not know brothers and sisters. That is why I don’t want any falsehood. Now you have to design for yourself.
16:07 Now brothers and sisters, there’s another scripture, because time running out. But he says, you know, one scripture says, Luke 14, 13, 14. I too have failed many times on this.
16:17 So I’m not putting myself in a pedestal. Luke 14, 13, 14. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you’ll be blessed because they cannot repay you.
16:28 And you shall be repaid as the resurrection of just. Brothers and sisters, if we take these monies that you are putting on this thing, if you take this money and just of course you can’t bring people to the house, to the feast nowadays. Because crooks will come along, thieves will come along.
16:44 Give it somewhere. Help the poor, help the blind. Help this.
16:47 Wouldn’t you think we’re more blessed? And your children grow in that kind of form? Give. Luke 14. Give.
16:54 But we do decrease. Brothers and sisters, you decide. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
2 Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
Jeremiah 10:1-4 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 Thus says the Lord:
Do not learn the way of the nations, or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are false:
a tree from the forest is cut down, and worked with an ax by the hands of an artisan; 4 people deck it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move
Luke 14:13-14 New King James Version (NKJV) 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind. 14 And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
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1 Corinthians 6:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything
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.”
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Scriptures Referenced
2 Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 And such were some of you [before you believed]. But you were washed [by the atoning sacrifice of Christ], you were sanctified [set apart for God, and made holy], you were justified [declared free of guilt] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God [the source of the believer’s new life and changed behavior].
1 Corinthians 6:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The Body Is the Lord’s
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me].
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.”
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Scriptures Referenced
2 Timothy 1:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 And such were some of you [before you believed]. But you were washed [by the atoning sacrifice of Christ], you were sanctified [set apart for God, and made holy], you were justified [declared free of guilt] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God [the source of the believer’s new life and changed behavior].
1 Corinthians 6:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The Body Is the Lord’s
12 Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything [and brought under its power, allowing it to control me].
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.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 9 December 2015 titled Not All Things are beneficial. Not all things are beneficial. Not all things will benefit Brothers and sisters today.
00:17 As I now from time to time remind ourselves, today started from last night, how we went to sleep. Did we talk to the Lord Jesus Christ? Did we examine ourselves, our conduct for the day, against the Word of God, that is, against Jesus Christ himself? Did we lean on the word of God that ends up in the Spirit, leaning on Jesus Christ himself because he is the Word of God? Did we do things right for people? Did we account for our time, account for our money? Or did we do anything rubbish and we just forgot about it? We were putting ourselves first. Did we take time to put others first? Did we take time to know love your neighbour as yourself? Did we take time to know that? Did we ever do anything that is grieving the Holy Spirit and displeasing Jesus Christ? Grieving Jesus Christ.
01:10 Brothers and sisters, this examination, examine yourself, is critical. Critical, brothers and sisters. Therefore, even a couple of days back, I had to in fact, rebuke a pastor.
01:22 Because rebuke is sometimes, oh, we are whacking them and this and that. No, it’s not that. The word of God, is it.
01:27 The word of God is for rebuke, for rebuking, for correction, for edification. Only when you correct. Some people say edification means that you feel good when the pastor talks to you, when the counselor talks to you, you must feel good.
01:45 No, brothers and sisters, when the word of God comes, it will convict you. It will say what wrongs you have done. Your flight won’t take it, your heart and mind won’t take it.
01:58 Because the Word of God corrects you and separates bone from marrow and rebukes you and all that. But when you let go of the sin, let go of the wrong, then what happens? Then the joy will come. But when the rebuke is coming, you know, some people, some people say, no, no, no, this is not of God.
02:16 I feel uneasy, I feel unhappy. Yeah, the word of God is convicting you. You better feel happy.
02:22 Because it’s like the medicine when you take, it’s a bitter pill of bitter powder you have to take, or bitter drink you have to take. Like bitter gourd. Drink is good for a lot of things, including sugar, balance and all that.
02:36 But it’s bitter gourd. People really don’t like to eat bitter gourd these days. And so people grow bitter gourds that are not so bitter.
02:43 Brothers and sisters, today, brothers and sisters, we must remember, examine ourselves critical. And if we don’t examine ourselves. So I ask the pastor, did you examine yourself, brother? Did you before getting up into these problems, did you examine yourself? He is not so how? Brothers and sisters, God’s command is what Examine.
03:04 Therefore I put a permanent scripture. Examine yourself. Permanent Scripture.
03:09 2nd Corinthians 13:5. I use it to amplify to see whether your counterfeit Christians. Examine yourself 13:5 in the email.
03:17 You have some permanent scriptures coming out there. 2nd Corinthians 13:5. In Amplified, examine and test and evaluate your own selves.
03:25 Then in later part of the verse it says, unless you are counterfeit, test yourself whether you are fake Christians. Brothers and sisters, if you don’t examine yourself step by step, everything will look good and peaky. But you’ll have to have peace.
03:39 You will not have peace. Peace comes when we surrender everything to God, including asking Jesus Christ for forgiveness and also asking the people we do wrong to forgiveness. Brothers and sisters, today we start by examining life.
03:54 Please start for your own sake. Thank Jesus Christ. Now this scripture here, this is like all things are not beneficial.
04:03 This is from First Corinthians 6:12. Everything I’m reading from the Amplified has Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be enslaved by anything.
04:25 Enslaved by anything. It goes on to explain, brought under its power, allowing it to control me. Everything is permissible.
04:33 Some other translations say everything is lawful for me, but not everything is beneficial or not all things are beneficial, or not all things are profitable. Sometimes they say profitable means of use of any gain for me. Everything is lawful for me, but I will not come under his power.
04:50 I will not be enslaved. Now when you read this scripture. That is why when reading scripture, it must be read in the totality.
05:00 The whole counsel of God, the whole council of God starts with God love for us. Jesus Christ loves us. So whatever command he’s putting for us, however ridiculous may sound to the unbelieving mind or unspiritual mind or soul, it’s actually for us.
05:19 That’s why God says it’s authoritative prescription. It is a prescription for us. So when we see a command like that and our heart doesn’t like it, first of all, the Father made that covenant for myself, commandeth my own heart and mind.
05:32 If Jesus says the world is black, it is black. It’s black, black, black. Not the purkovan eye is selling me and this and that.
05:39 Now let’s See this? But so if you take this, everything is lawful. Everything is lawful for me, everything is permissible. That is why I do this.
05:46 Now that makes the fallen nature, heart and mind and flesh, wants to do wrong things. Already looking for a scripture that can let you do whatever you want to do. Now if we do whatever we want to do, which I did whatever I wanted to do before I knew the Lord, it harmed me.
06:07 So yes, we can do whatever we want to do, nobody is going to stop us here. Even if the law of the land permits, doesn’t mean that you do that because it doesn’t mean it’s going to be beneficial for you or your family. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be profitable for you and your family.
06:14 Even if the law of the land permits, brothers and sisters, just because it is lawful, lawful, first of all, the human law is allowed means, doesn’t mean it’s going to be profitable for you. But let’s say the Bible law, the God law also permits you, doesn’t mean it’s going to be profitable for you. Because not everything is sin, but everything is not beneficial.
06:48 That’s another translation will say, not everything is sin, but not everything is beneficial. But if we keep on doing now, so where does this issue come? It comes 1st Corinthians 6:12. Let’s go and read what 1st Corinthians 6, 9, 10 says 1 Corinthians 6:9 and says, Therefore you must see the whole counsel of God always don’t read one, go and read before and after that particular scripture too and look at other translations.
07:13 Do you not know? First Corinthians 6, 9, 10 King James Version New King James Version do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? He’s talking to the Corinthian church. It’s a church of believers, you know. And all kind of funny things were going on in that church.
07:13 Do you not know? Not only just funny brothers, it was all kinds of sinful things also going on in the church. Although it’s a church of believers group. Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? It’s a question Paul is asking, do not be deceived.
07:49 This is a command saying, hey, look here, don’t be deceived. Don’t think for yourself by yourself, measure by yourself. There’s a scripture they examine themselves, measure themselves by themselves, for themselves and come to some conclusion which is only destruction.
08:02 Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor couches, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor no extortioner will inherit the kingdom of God. He has put a list there now.
08:23 1 Corinthians, 6, 9, 10. Now all this group will not inherit the kingdom of God, even though this group can call themselves Christians or Christians just because I keep telling people just I can call myself American people won’t know. I used to have a permanent, what you call 10 year multiple entry there.
08:43 Twice I renewed and I finally forgot about it. Thank Jesus Christ. Now, but that doesn’t mean that’s why they see me going in and out of America.
08:51 Some people here may think, hey, if I tell them, look, I’m a pr, American people may believe that, but that’s a lie. America knows you’re not a citizen. You may say you’re a Christian, but Jesus Christ knows you’re not.
09:05 Therefore, I say, examine yourself unless you to see whether you’re fake Christians. The counterfeits. Now, brothers and sisters, this group.
09:13 So people who are in this mess right now, don’t get upset, get angry with the devil. Get angry with your heart and mind for being unconverted and love Jesus Christ and say, lord, I want to please you and you can come out of this in the name of Jesus Christ. If you have some kind of addiction, then you need deliverance.
09:32 But deliverance can only work if you confess and want to turn. Your repent is what turns away of thinking. It starts in the head.
09:40 Repentance starts in the head. Rot also starts in the head. Fish rots in the head.
09:46 I have a segment before, just like fish rotting the head. I had rotted in my head before. Why I was using human and humanistic logic.
09:55 It starts in the head. So now repentance also will start in the head. You start thinking differently.
10:00 You start digging a line of in the line and the words of Jesus Christ, why? For our own sake. Nothing happens to Jesus Christ if we do not. Yeah, he’s grieved.
10:11 He may even weep. He wept. When people are in anguish and sorrow and all that, he wept.
10:17 The Bible says that outside Lazarus grave, the word just one phrase. No, two words. He wept because he was overtaken with compassion.
10:28 But nothing really happened to him other than that it happens to us. So, brothers and sisters, now he says in 1 Corinthians 6, 11, earlier, 9, 10, we read, and such were some of you before you believed. And such were some of you.
10:43 What all that the Bible is talking to me. The word of God talking to me. I was like that.
10:50 Such were some of you before you believed. But you were washed by the atoning sacrifice of Christ. You were sanctified.
10:57 What a sweet sounding word. Sanctified. You were separated.
11:03 I was separated. Oh, fantastic. Lord Jesus Christ.
11:07 Thank you, Lord. I was separated. I was sanctified.
11:10 And because I’m sanctified, I’m now called a saint. Sanctified, set apart for God and made holy. That’s the word.
11:17 Sanctified means I’ve been set apart for God and made holy. I was justified, declared free of guilt in the name of Lord Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit of our God, the source of the believer’s new life and changed behavior. I was sanctified.
11:34 But if I continue doing this, if I continue lying, I continue drunkard. I continue this without concerning myself with these issues, then I’m living a lie. God was clear.
11:47 If you continue committing sin, I continue committing adultery, I continue being drunkard, I continue to become violent. I continue to become all that, reviler and all that or whatever, then I’m born of the devil. There’s another scripture in John.
12:02 So instead of getting upset with God’s word, know that all this was damaging me. So when God’s word says as such were some of you, that’s me, Lord, I was like that. It’s only youy.
12:12 I thank youk for your sacrifice. You suffered like that to sanctify me, to separate me. Set apart for God and made holy.
12:20 Been set apart and you’re changing me from glory to glory. I thank you, Lord Jesus. Now let’s look at some of the things that are not beneficial.
12:29 For instance, those days, so many investments I’m involved with. So one investment I was thinking is okay if we can gather all the expensive liquor bottles, you know, brandies and whiskies and all. And over 10, 20, 30 years time, soda beans or Christies, they can auction there.
12:46 You know the foolishness, foolishness. So buy some of these expensive bottles of liquor. They didn’t last because I drank it.
12:56 I was a drunkard. So this so called oh, big plan, big time plant, it doesn’t last, not beneficial. So gathering liquor bottle and all that.
13:06 Of course for a Christian it’s a temptation. Don’t do that. Now for instance, whatever we do, it may not be beneficial, it may not be unlawful in the land and even God may allow it.
13:18 But it catching you. For instance, those days, many people I didn’t have that boys night out. So the husband wants to go to a boy’s night out.
13:28 So it’s a boy’s night out. They need an escapism. Boy’s night out, boys.
13:35 Your covenant, the second highest covenant after the covenant of blood covenant of salvation for you is the marriage covenant. God says second highest for a married man and a woman is the second highest covenant is the marriage covenant. The highest is the blood covenant of salvation by Christ.
13:53 What? Boys night out is a courthouse. That’s why he said I will not be enslaved by anything. Oh, I cannot.
14:00 Today is a boy’s night out. I must do this. No, no.
14:01 I must do this. You know, I must have my kitchen. Spit can span anybody come.
14:08 Don’t come inside. You come inside, you disturb. So they clean up the kitchen and nobody should go in.
14:15 I’ve seen women like this so much so when before I was born again, I would give them a mouthful. They crazy. What’s the kitchen for people to go and use it, isn’t it? No pick and span.
14:26 So something has enslaved them. Some kind of a belief, you know? Yeah. Keeping the kitchen spick and Spanish.
14:33 Of course not law unlawful. It’s not. Is not unlawful.
14:37 It’s even permissible. But if that enslaved you and that I’ll go to football game. Not me.
14:43 I wiped up even when I was not born again. People paint their face left and right. Hey, I say, what crazy nonsense.
14:50 Why are you painting your face? Oh, this is my group, the red devils. Hey, you are painting red devils on yourself. Crazy.
14:59 Now look here. But the law also may allow. Yeah, the law allows you to call this law.
15:04 Red local law, the human law. Red devil. You can put.
15:09 You can put devil Halloween. You go and check and see. Everybody will tell you that Halloween is an auspicious day of Satan.
15:17 Satan worship. But I will do Halloween today. I’ll knock on the door and then I’ll buy all kinds of uniforms and all that.
15:24 And costume. Costume party. Okay, take costume party.
15:27 God doesn’t say sin. You put something in costume. But if the costume party will cost you so much of money, so much of money, it’s not beneficial.
15:37 In fact, you have been fooled into buying this, brothers and sisters. Why do this? So when you examine everything we do against this word, now remember, when everything is permissible for me, it’s not talking about all the sin business. The sin business is not permissible for us.
15:52 So don’t read that First Corinthians 6, 12 out of context. It is in context when you read from first Corinthians 6, 9, 11. And then you see 12, there are things that are permissible.
16:07 Now there’s another other commentaries who say the word should not be not all things are beneficial. The word should be not all things are expedient. Expedient means a lot of people take shortcuts, convenient things we do.
16:20 Although that actually eventually is damaged, it’ll damage. It may be beneficial to you in terms of short term money and all that by damaging others. That is sin against Christ and you still harm yourself because you’re not loving your neighbor as yourself.
16:34 Not all things are experienced. Don’t find shortcuts then it hurts others. It may be good for you.
16:39 Brothers and sisters, today we are Christians. Examine ourselves. We are not fake Christians.
16:44 We are true Christians submitting to the law of Jesus Christ. To the love of Jesus Christ. He put these rules because he loves us.
16:52 That is why he put he loves us. In Jesus name I pray. Remember that he loves you.
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Scriptures Referenced
Luke 10:18-20 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!”
18 He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. 19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Matthew 23:15 New King James Version (NKJV)
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Mark 12:38-40 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
38 As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 39 and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
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.”
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Scriptures Referenced
Luke 10:18-20 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!”
18 He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. 19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Matthew 23:15 New King James Version (NKJV)
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Mark 12:38-40 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
38 As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 39 and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
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.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 8th December 2015 Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Brothers and sisters, this authority that Jesus has got for us has won for us at a tremendous price.
00:22 At a tremendous price. Personal price. Tremendous personal price.
00:26 Leaving the riches and the comfort and the joy and the glory of heaven and his own glory and come down to be as a man and suffer more than any man can. Take on all the sins of all mankind and to die for each one of us so that he can set us free from captivity. Captivity of Satan and other things.
00:48 Captivity of Satan and tradition and religion and fear and confusion and all that. So many things. Set free completely and then give us power to live life and do his will so that we prepare ourselves to co rule with him for eternity.
01:11 It’s a fantastic thing, it’s a powerful thing. But it’s a tremendous price he had to pay. He didn’t just get up one morning and just do this.
01:20 It was a tremendous sacrifice. And that is why we must think of the sacrifice. You know, sometimes we say, just look at the cross.
01:30 It’s just not a cross. It’s not in the cross anymore. He sits at the right hand side of Father God.
01:36 But he really had to suffer both emotionally, spiritually traumatic, physically crushing, soul crushing pain, soul crushing, all kinds of things we cannot imagine. We can only begin to have glimpses of imagination of what he, the Son of the living God, loves us so much that he decided to suffer like that. And yet because of that suffering, when we think of what he suffered, we don’t want to sin.
02:07 We don’t want to sin. We want to do what he to please him. We want to please him.
02:13 Brothers and sisters, in Luke 10, 18, 20, I’m reading from the Catholic version, the 70 returned with joy, saying, lord, in your name, even the demons submit to us. 18 he said to them, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. Like a flash of lightning.
02:33 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing will hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this that the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Now, brothers and sisters, this scripture is parallel to the other scripture in Mark 16:17.
02:58 And these signs will accompany those who believe. By using My name they will cast out demons and they will speak in new tongues. We have done that scripture before many times.
03:08 So it’s Paralleled now He had sent 70 disciples out. And they came back rejoicing. Oh, fantastic.
03:18 Even the demons submit to us. Then he says, look, don’t be rejoiced. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this that the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
03:30 There were 500 disciples that over the period of time they were following him of Jesus, not the twelve. Twelve who just finally remained. And one, of course, fell away in addition, who was son of perdition.
03:42 Now 500 of disciples left Jesus one evening because they were offended when he said, will you. You can only enter the kingdom of heaven by eating my blood and drinking my blood and eating my flesh now. And he asked Peter, after that, will you two leave me? Are you too offended? And Peter answered, or he told the disciples, there, will you two leave me? The remaining 12, are you too offended? And Peter answered, where can we go, Lord? There are only words of eternal life in you.
04:18 Now remember, these are very powerful statements coming from Peter. There is only eternal life in you. There is only eternal life in Jesus Christ, not in activities and all that thing.
04:29 We will come to that a little later. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters. That is why the power of Christ, the entire thing that God made me do or daily make me do is to turn you to Jesus Christ.
04:43 Be rooted in Jesus Christ, not rooted in anything else, not rooted in tradition, not rooted in whatever your heart and mind thinks. But what’s the written word of God? The written word of God, when in spirit becomes spirit, is actually Jesus Christ. The written word of God is Jesus Christ.
04:59 And once the written word of God becomes spirit, become rhema, they say, become spirit. You know, it will incite insight. You incite, incite.
05:08 It will move you. It will move you. It will stir you.
05:12 Because God is spirit. Jesus Christ’s words are spirit. It will separate from bone, from marrow.
05:20 Oh, it will give you power, brothers and sisters. It gives you life. Now let’s look at this thing, this, this scripture which says that authority to tread on snakes and scorpions.
05:35 Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Of course, we know they are also evil spirits. Evil spirits.
05:44 Just like we cast out evil spirits in Mark 16:17, they also trample of snakes and scorpions. And we know it’s a reflection of demons and demonic beings. We have authority now.
05:59 Authority means going to use it. It’s not automatically going to happen. It’s not that I believe in Jesus Christ.
06:05 And these evil spirits are just going to leave you and go away. Because Jesus Christ is going to send its army to fight for you right now against the evil spirits. No.
06:15 Now remember, our battle is not flesh and blood. These we have dealt before. It’s not flesh and blood.
06:21 Its principalities and powers of wickedness in high places is spiritual wickedness. Spiritual forces do not fight man. Because man we love all mankind because they are human beings.
06:35 They are also captives like us. So we must understand our battle is spiritual battle. Brothers, today, as you said, if you look at this next scorpion, it is spiritual battle.
06:45 So must you must pick up. When you say must pick up the cross and follow me. One is to cast out evil spirits.
06:54 Because the evil spirit of religion, religious spirits, religious spirits cannot get you to heaven. Only Jesus Christ can get you to heaven. Religious activities cannot get you to heaven.
07:04 In fact, religious activities will capture you. We will come a little later on. This will capture you and you will become the activity after activity after activity.
07:11 You will become far from Christ. Many times religious activities going on. You don’t think of Jesus Christ.
07:19 That’s what happened to all the religious activities in any festival or whatever. Now religious activities are actually. God hates religious activities.
07:28 And God hates the fellows who are hypocrites and make you do activities. Activities, activities. Not getting you into Christ.
07:34 Not reminding you of the power of Jesus Christ. Not reminding you of the need to be in Christ and turn to him. Brothers and sisters, today you must cast out evil spirits that from us first, Anger, hatred, unloving spirits, fear, confusion.
07:55 Because fear and confusion keep on coming. You don’t trust Jesus Christ to settle you. The heart, your heart.
08:00 You’re made of three parts. Your spirit mind is born again, born of the spirit. But your heart and mind will work in their own way.
08:06 We must go against the heart and mind until they are change. The repentance is a thinking change. Way of thinking must be changed to be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
08:17 The thoughts must be of Jesus Christ. Now what he said we lean on his word. Just like Apostle John was leaning on the chest of Jesus Christ and getting his heartbeat.
08:27 Everything from the heartbeat. That’s the one on the heartbeat of God. Please don’t listen to that, brothers and sisters.
08:32 We can get the heartbeat of God by leaning on the word of Jesus Christ. By trusting on Jesus Christ and his word. Amen.
08:39 Now there’s also another significant statement. For snakes and scorpions. He called the Pharisees, you brood of vipers.
08:48 You brood of vipers, you brood of snakes. The Pharisees. The Pharisees are religious leaders.
08:53 They are like priests. There are Also Sadducees. Sadducees are also religious leaders, but they come from a wealthy family group.
09:01 They’re all wealthy, wealthy people controlling the. Captivating the whole population captive. Therefore, there will always be argument between the Sadducees and the Pharisees.
09:11 The Pharisees are more like middle class, business people and also spiritual leaders, also keeping the people captive. And then there are scribes. Scribes are people who write down the law and keep the record of the laws.
09:25 This senator’s passing and all that, like a parliament, you know, the religious people have some kind of a council, this council passing laws of religious laws. And all these seducers are the ones who. The scribes are the ones who scribe it.
09:37 They transcribe the word, you know, from there. Now, brothers, it says in Matthew 23:15, I’m reading from the new King James Version. Woe to you.
09:49 Woe means destruction to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. He calls the whole group, you know, hypocrites, scribes and Pharisees.
09:59 For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte. And when he is one, you make him twice as much the son of hell as yourself. He’s already telling you fellows, you scribes and Pharisees are all sons of hell.
10:13 You’re not son of. You’re not the followers of Jesus Christ or followers of God. You’re sons of hell.
10:18 Now he’s telling, look here you crossed travel the land and the sea to win one convert. After winning one convert, you make him twice the son of hell as yourself. And Therefore, in Mark 12:38, 40, reading from the Catholic edition, he said, as he taught you.
10:37 38, as he taught. He said as Jesus taught. He said, beware of the scribes, the fellows who write there recording the laws.
10:44 And also they know the laws who like to walk around in long robes, long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor. At banquets, they devour widows houses because they tell you all kinds of this way, that way. And then sapu still take over.
11:06 They use the law to take over for themselves widows houses and all that people’s money, people, they suck up people’s money for the sake of appearance. They say long prayers, they will receive the greater condemnation. So we don’t have to bother about this, but we will stay away from this kind of people.
11:24 Stay away. Get to Jesus Christ. Don’t even get to me.
11:28 I can’t save you. My job is to tell you to get to Jesus Christ. And this way, that way, this scripture, that scripture likewise.
11:36 Don’t bother about the human beings. We respect them, we love them. Even the scribes of these days, there are Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes of these days, there are.
11:48 They may be differently dressed in some congregations, some denominations, they may dress simply, but they will put some kind of badge among themselves to show that they are better, they are more qualified, they are double PhDs or something. They will put out all that to show. And they’ll say, this much of learning he has done.
12:05 And they use a PhD doctorates and all which is given by the world. The world gives such doctrines. Jesus was not carrying any Ph.
12:18 D. brothers and sisters. He was ticking, speaking the truth, and he walked with power.
12:36 That’s why Jesus says in another scripture, the people have some form of godliness, but without the power thereof. That’s why when you have godliness, some form, some religious activities, you may have church camps, you may have this. But the church camp is not taking people to Christ.
12:47 If at the church camp is not all about Christ, it sounds little bit about Christ. And the rest of it is dipti dadul, jolly. And all kinds of things go wrong in church camps.
13:14 Because there are not enough pastors or whoever to watch over these teenagers. Some of them become sexually immoral and some of them have become pregnant in church camps, brothers and sisters, this is a danger. So when we are organizing these things, organizing with the holiness of Christ, with the fear of the Lord, love of Jesus Christ, to make sure that each of these teenagers are rooted in Christ, each of these girls and boys are going towards Christ and not being drawn.
13:21 So many come to church camp for other purposes. And you can’t help them. Because this generation got a lot of temptation.
13:35 In the TVs, in the computers, in the video games, in the video games they’re playing also there’ll be sexual connotation, individual games on and on. And their mind became like straight. You can think like video games only Thomas.
13:43 So the American army, they made the rule some time ago. I don’t know whether the rule still exists. They were not experts in video games.
13:57 I mean, certain kind of experts, very big experts in video games. They may recruit the cap for their own hands. But many fellows who are addicted to video games, they will not take you in the army because they found it difficult to retrain them.
14:04 So video games are dictates. It catches your mind and fixes you. Now, here there are scribes and Pharisees and seducers.
14:15 Of these days they may not. Because there are also some people wearing long robes and walking around wanting all this respect in the marketplace and honor and all that. Jesus Christ hates all this.
14:23 He calls them hypocrites. And they like to say long prayers, but they actually stealing money. They will big swelling words.
14:31 You know, they’ll tell you. In fact, I saw one some translation saying big swelling words. They’ll con you, they’ll cheat you and all.
14:42 And then one I saw in the Catholic edition saying bombastic words. I was impressed with that. Bombastic words to con you to follow them, not Jesus Christ.
14:49 This is a problem, brothers and sisters. Now this next scorpion also can refer to that because. And you have authority.
14:55 He says, why even they’re trying to con you. You must see the truth. You have the power to see the truth.
14:59 The truth is Jesus Christ. I am the way. The truth and life don’t follow man.
15:07 Follow. Yeah, we respect them. Even good preachers and teachers and really caring, loving people.
15:13 Loving leaders. You care for them, you respect them. You do whatever you can for them.
15:19 But you follow Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. If anybody is not telling you to follow Jesus Christ.
15:29 Whenever the church matters are involved, it’s all little bit of Jesus and everything else. But is all about Jesus must be. Of course there will be a little bit of other things.
15:41 Now they will make you doubly the Son of hell. Why they make you so much activity for this boy or this man who knew proselyte knew convert make activity of the activity. Religious traditions.
15:45 Go for pilgrims here. Go for pilgrims. Jesus said, why you’re running all over the place.
15:49 That is why. The angel who was at the. At the grave.
15:57 When I think it was Mary Magdalene who who came to the grave first he said. Or even the disciples come. He said, why are you looking here? He’s risen.
16:02 He is risen. The grave is empty. So there are people going on and on and on.
16:07 More important, I must go to Israel. I must see the grave. Brothers and sisters, if God allows you to go, you got a funds.
16:13 Please go. But if you use the funds to help the poor and the needy and all, you’re better off. Because Jesus Christ is no more there.
16:16 He’s risen. He’s sitting on the right hand side of God. Father God.
16:17 And he’s in you. He is in you. Can you make us thinking of this? He is in you.
16:28 He is in me. We are in him. Brothers and sisters, do not follow tradition after tradition and lose Christ.
16:36 That’s the message today. Do not follow tradition after tradition and lose Christ. You have authority to tread snakes and scorpions, including false teachings.
16:41 And all these, including false teachers. You can tread them in the spirit. You can break away from them.
16:46 In the name of Jesus Christ. Step on them in the spirit. Step on the teachings.
16:50 False teachings. Only teaching of Jesus Christ is true. Go and lean on his word.
He is Jesus. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Acts 15:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any greater burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”
John 15:12-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 “This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 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.”
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.”
