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Scriptures Referenced
1 Corinthians 13:1-3King James Version (KJV) 13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Galatians 5:22-23New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
1 Corinthians 13:13New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:5-13New King James Version (NKJV) 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:31Amplified Bible (AMP)
31 But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift [if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
1 Corinthians 12:8-10Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 To one is given through the [Holy] Spirit [the power to speak] the message of wisdom, and to another [the power to express] the word of knowledge and understanding according to the same Spirit; 9 to another [wonder-working] faith [is given] by the same [Holy] Spirit, and to another the [extraordinary] gifts of healings by the one Spirit; 10 and to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy [foretelling the future, speaking a new message from God to the people], and to another discernment of spirits [the ability to distinguish sound, godly doctrine from the deceptive doctrine of man-made religions and cults], to another various kinds of [unknown] tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.
Galatians 5:22-23New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
The Fruit of the Spirit
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
2 Corinthians 11:2New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
2 I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Romans 12:1-2New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God— what is good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Corinthians 12:31Amplified Bible (AMP)
31 But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift [if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].xxx
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 3rd February 2016 Gifts of fruits of the Holy Spirit Gifts of fruits of the Holy Spirit which you desire? The question I’m asking is which you desire? Today we have to decide which you desire first. Now First Corinthians 12, 8, 10. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are there to one is given through the Holy Spirit the power to speak the message of wisdom.
00:30 I’m reading my amplified and to another the power to express the word of knowledge and understanding according to the same spirit. To another wonder working faith is given by the same Holy Spirit. Now remember, everybody has given a measure of faith.
00:45 But this particular gift is wonder working faith. More than a measure of faith to exercise to make the faith work in such extent that it be evident to another the extraordinary gifts of healing for the one spirit healing. Now cast our spirits and we heal in Jesus name that everybody can do.
01:05 These are extraordinary gifts of healing. And to another the working of miracles. And to another prophecy foretelling the future.
01:12 Speaking a new message from God to the people to another discerning of spirits that is the ability to distinguish sound godly doctrine and the deceptive doctrine of man made religions and cults to another various kinds of unknown tongues into another interpretation of tongues. These are nine gifts of the Holy Spirit. Now what has happened is when I first came to the Lord and God has arrested me and I’m trying to, you know, just very grateful to Jesus Christ.
01:44 Grateful, grateful for peace, joy. So I go. So there will be preachers coming from all over the world and then they will be preaching about designing the gifts of the Holy Spirit and they will be stirring up the gifts, which is all true.
01:59 True. Even Apostle Paul told them, stir up the gifts. That means nobody using the gifts stir up the gifts that you have.
02:06 Stir now. But of course what they fail is they begin to desire this. Now then people are going around there, what gift shall I have? What? What the gifts you have.
02:16 What gifts the other person has. This became a big issue, you know, so I’m wondering in the spirit, in my spirit, although I’m just a few weeks old in Christ, there’s a serious check in my spirit. Why are these people chasing these gifts? And then after that, then when I ask somebody, yes, you’re supposed to desire the gifts towards the gifts.
02:35 But why was my spirit distressed? Is I’m sure it was the spirit of God was distressing my spirit. Because there are other things which you have to do first we have to have the Gifts of the Holy Spirit we can desire, we must desire, we can cover. The only place to cover churches is this other worldly covetousness is terrible sin and will destroy us.
02:57 And God’s word says cover the gifts. You want the gifts. But what God’s word is not the whole counsel of God.
03:06 That’s why when people take counsel one scripture here and start chasing and then which goes to the flesh, why they are chasing here and there. It’s not spirit led. It was carnal led, it was worldly led.
03:18 I want a gift. I want a gift. I will do the gift.
03:21 I’ll do great exploits for God. I will work for God. Then they’ll say, your fire for God.
03:27 All this must put aside. First rule of life in Christ is humbleness. Humbleness.
03:33 But more importantly. Now let’s look at, you know, the other thing. There are fruits of the Spirit.
03:38 There are fruits of the Spirit. Now the fruits of the Spirit is love. It is in Galatians 5, 22, 23.
03:48 Love, joy, peace. It starts off like this. Now, by contrast, I am reading from the Catholic edition.
03:55 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit. That’s from the contrast from the world on all the sinful things. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
04:08 There’s no law against such. I mean, we have to practice this. Nobody is going to stop this now.
04:13 Brothers and sisters, what is happening here is we need to get the fruits of the Spirit first. Coveting the gifts of the Holy Spirit that goes around. It even goes around now.
04:26 They feed this so much into people. People want to do great things for God. I’ll do a great work for God.
04:32 When the fundamental is not done, first you have the fruit of the Spirit must bear in you. It must come out. People see that you have love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
04:48 That is why there will be people who are chasing of these gifts of the Holy Spirit and even trying to apply the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And then they will try. God gave me a word for you.
04:56 God gave me a word for you. And they go around, but they completely ignore the fundamental. The fundamental is first of all, when you are in Christ, the fruit of the Spirit must come out, must bear fruit.
05:11 You are bearing fruit by the fruit of the. When you say you bear much fruit, first of all is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. This gentleness is a new modern English.
05:25 Don’t mistake for this. It is humbleness to the word of God. Humbleness to God.
05:29 Now can you imagine? Jesus went and turned all the tables in the temple and started whipping all kinds of things made of whip and went around whipping and chasing everybody out obviously. So that cannot be gentleness, isn’t it? That gentleness that we understand is gentleness. We understand gentleness like a weak man, you know, hello brother, how are you? False humility and trying to pretend to be husband.
05:53 Hello brother, how are you? That’s not the general address nonsense. Jesus Christ was tough. Was a man.
06:01 Man, man, man. What? He was unheard as a man. He was tough what is right, what is wrong.
06:07 But when he sees somebody suffering, his heart will melt. When he sees somebody calling out for mercy, his heart will be compassionate. When he saw this Lazarus and around people, all around the grave are weeping, his heart broke.
06:22 And the word of God says in that two words, Jesus wept. In that phrase, there’s only two words, Jesus wept. Can you imagine a whole phrase in the Bible, just two words, Jesus wept.
06:35 Why compassionate? You’re talking about that you’re not talking about. Hello, how are you, brother? You know all this false humility and pretend to be. Now you know, with all these things happening in the world today, men are becoming like women.
06:48 Like. Isn’t it because of the petroleum fumes and all that are disturbing? That can’t help it. The things are going around so bad.
06:54 So depict them physically. The God of this world, Satan is releasing all these poisons through the petroleum and mimicking all the estrogen. And young girls way before 6, 7, all having puberty already.
07:08 Why? Because of fumes. So the whole world being destroyed by Satan now. So here, priority one first is seek the fruits of the Holy Spirit.
07:22 The fruit. You say fruit, not fruit, sorry, fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is all that love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
07:32 I’ve narrated a section before. Please search it in the Power of Christ daily from the from the site graceoflife.com and you’ll see you can find one. Ask the moderators explaining.
07:47 It’s a fruit. One fruit. Having all these things inside there now.
07:51 Brothers and sisters, 2nd Corinthians 11:2. I feel a divine jealousy for you. I’m reading the category here.
08:00 For I promised you in marriage to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Holy. Chaste virgin describes this holy without blemish, without spot.
08:10 These things come first before you start running to cover the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These things come first Bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit first and again to remember that our body is a temple of God. For instance, Romans 12:1 2.
08:25 I appeal to you, therefore. Catholic edition. I appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, by to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
08:38 Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable, perfect will of God for you. Now, brothers and sisters, we must understand the fundamentals. First.
08:53 When Jesus bought us with his own blood, bought me with his own blood, he expects me to present my body as a living sacrifice. How? As a chaste virgin unto Christ, without blemish, holy, spotless. He has put me in the presence.
09:10 Why? That’s why Apostle Paul is saying he wishes to present earth as a living sacrifice. He wants to present us by the mercies of God. Now he said, appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
09:27 We are supposed to present our bodies as living sacrifice. Now, can you imagine having all kinds of sins? We don’t overcome that. Because by the blood of Jesus Christ, by the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of Jesus Christ, we can overcome.
09:39 That’s why he bought and gave us the power. We don’t want to do any of that. I want the gifts of God.
09:42 I want the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I want the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I want a word of wisdom.
09:46 I want a working of miracles. I want a wonder, working faith. I want extraordinary gifts of healing.
09:52 Wrong. Absolutely wrong. Go and desire first to present your bodies as a chaste version to Christ, as living sacrifice, which is your spiritual worship.
10:03 That’s the first act of worship. Because God said, what? I am in spirit. I am a spirit.
10:08 I am spirit. Worship means spirit and in truth. So what we should do, we should have spiritual worship.
10:15 What is a spiritual worship? Clearly. Romans 12:1 2 is saying, present your bodies as a living sacrifice, which is holy and acceptable to God. Only.
10:24 Then. And he said, do not be conformed with this world. Do not be changed by the world.
10:29 Do not follow the world, do not be overtaken by the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may discern what is the will of God. You want to know the will of God? First you must be not conformed to this world. And then you must be transformed by the renewing of your minds and how do you transform? By the renewing of your minds, by meditating on the word of God.
10:51 For that particular issue, let us say it’s anger or whatever you are having. You have to take the scriptures against anger, the consequences of anger. Anger.
11:00 If you’re angry at the brother without cause, you are a murderer. God said, now do not let the anger go. Don’t let the sun go down on anger.
11:08 Before you go to sleep, get rid of the anger. Why? Anger is the spirit. While your body is sleeping, the spirit of anger is whacking your spirit man.
11:15 Whole night long. Diseases will come, morning, you’re not rested. You’ve got all kinds of issues.
11:20 Now remember this. So therefore, first act is to present our bodies as a chaste virgin to Christ. In this case, as a living sacrifice.
11:31 Holy and acceptable living sacrifice. Spiritual worship. We have to do that first, focus on that, and then at the same time.
11:39 How do we get that? To get the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. All this is Galatians 5, 22, 23. Now we have to desire this verse, desire this verse.
11:55 And then we begin to present this. We want to make Jesus pleased. We want to bless the Lord Jesus.
11:57 We want to make him joyful because of the sacrifice. Such a terrible suffering he went through. Now we say, lord Jesus, I want to make you joyful.
12:12 My spiritual worship is this keeping my temple of God holy. Therefore another scripture will say, do you not know that you are the temple of God? And anyone defiling the temple of God will be destroyed. God says, the temple of God is our body.
12:28 He said, I will not live in a building made of hands, but I will live in the only. That means I live in the building not made of hands. The only thing not made of hands, as a building, as a home, is our bodies.
12:41 He wants to live in our bodies. He’s not going to live in a building. So sometimes they say, I’m building a big building for God to live in this building.
12:49 Not through. Not through. He will live only in our building.
12:53 That’s our body that he made. Now we can make a big building. He’s not going to be there, first of all, until your temple of God.
13:00 He’s going to live only in the temple of God. If everybody who is following Christ comes to the building, then of course he comes. Two or three are gathered in his name.
13:09 But the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, is in us, in our bodies. So we must present our bodies as a living sacrifice. Which is a spiritual worship.
13:20 But when you present our body as a living sacrifice, of course you must have the fruit of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. We have to desire this.
13:33 We begin to desire this. Therefore, always the problem is very easy for our flesh to get into the act when somebody comes and preaches. Desire covered the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
13:45 Everybody running around, but they completely forget they have seen. They will be arguing, there will be quarreling, unforgiveness will be there, there’ll be no peace really. But all this.
13:55 But they’re all chasing and all chasing every day. And everybody, oh, no peace, no oneness, no one accord. Quarreling in the church and then kama doing repeatedly sins.
14:10 Those who are practicing sin, Jesus Christ’s word is clear. You’re not born of God, you’re born of the devil. They’re practicing sin on and on.
14:17 And they’re desiring the gifts of the Holy Spirit instead of desiring the fruit of the spirit. Brothers and sisters, today let’s take this as a warning. We must desire the fruit of the spirit.
14:28 Now further, having said that and remember, our body is the temple of God and anyone defiling the temple will be destroyed. The word is clear now. When we come to the Lord Jesus Christ, we are required to present our bodies as a living sacrifice.
14:42 And that is a spiritual worship. And that is done by not being conformed to this world, but being transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may discern what is the will of God. If you do not be renewed in the spirit of your mind, you will not know the will of God for you.
15:00 So therefore, brothers and sisters, today start seeking scriptures. In fact, I think there are almost 250. I think it’s 250.
15:08 I think 250 recordings of this daily morning recording so many. I’m actually shocked and amazed at the same time. And I’m so grateful to Jesus Christ to make me do this.
15:21 Because when I get up, I may not have a message. I don’t know what it is. But then it comes and I have to go and search for the scriptures and plug it sometimes, sometimes I get it in the night, the scriptures.
15:31 Then I can make the email first so it makes easier. But sometimes, like today, yesterday was a long day and difficult day. So we are tired.
15:42 So then I couldn’t do it in the night. So I came this morning asking Jesus what. So he told me this.
15:47 So I had to. So today I got to find something by mercy of Jesus Christ. Can still do this.
15:52 And then I got all this. Ready? Now I’m recording. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
15:57 Brothers and sisters, now there’s another thing that I need to conclude. As the Lord lives, but earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift, Acquiring them is going to be a goal. Okay? So he’s saying that desire for the greater gift, the gifts of the Spirit.
16:22 And yet he says, Apostle Paul says in Corinthians 1, 1231. And yet he said, literally, he covered the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And yet I will show you a still more excellent way.
16:36 This is very important, brothers and sisters. Remember the First Corinthians 12:31, Apostle Paul telling us, yes, after presenting ourselves as a chaste virgin to Christ in spiritual worship, in living sacrifice, and acquiring the fruit of the Spirit, of desiring the fruit of the Spirit, he’s now telling us, yes, now desire the gifts of the Spirit. But yet I’ll show you a more excellent way, which is love.
17:04 Without love, I am nothing. He said, in Jesus name I pray, amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Isaiah 11:2Amplified Bible (AMP) 2 And the Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him— The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and strength, The Spirit of knowledge and of the [reverential and obedient] fear of the Lord—
John 15:26Amplified Bible (AMP) 26 “But when the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor— Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, He will testify and bear witness about Me.
John 16:7-11Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the [a]Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor— Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him (the Holy Spirit) to you [to be in close fellowship with you].8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world about [the guilt of] sin [and the need for a Savior], and about righteousness, and about judgment:9 about sin [and the true nature of it], because they do not believe in Me [and My message];
10 about righteousness [personal integrity and godly character], because I am going to My Father and you will no longer see Me;
11 about judgment [the certainty of it], because the ruler of this world (Satan) has been judged and condemned.
Ephesians 1:13-14Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 In Him, you also, when you heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation, and [as a result] believed in Him, were stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit [the One promised by Christ] as owned and protected [by God].14 The Spirit is the [a]guarantee [the first installment, the pledge, a foretaste] of our inheritance until the redemption of God’s own [purchased] possession [His believers], to the praise of His glory.========================================== John 16:13Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth [full and complete truth]. For He will not speak on His own initiative, but He will speak whatever He hears [from the Father— the message regarding the Son], and He will disclose to you what is to come [in the future].
1 Corinthians 2:14Amplified Bible (AMP) 14 But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters].
Romans 8:9-11Amplified Bible (AMP) 9 However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God].10 If Christ lives in you, though your [natural] body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness [which He provides].11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 2 February 2016. The Holy Spirit, titled the Holy Spirit, brothers and sisters, especially for new Christians that we very much confused about the Holy Spirit because they do not understand, because they do not know yet. And my people perish for lack of wisdom, for lack of knowledge.
00:27 God’s word is clear. So we must gather as much knowledge and wisdom as one, but from the Scriptures, not what the world is teaching us. That knowledge, all of us gathered, whether willingly, unwillingly, unwittingly, without realizing the thing, has been bombarded on us through the television, through the advertisement, through the Hollywood, Bollywood, all the new cinemas and, and video games or what have you over the years of people talking, parents talking, teachers saying this and that.
00:58 All that has gone into us over the years, and many of it, most of it in fact, will be worldly because they themselves are lost. So now that you’ve come and Jesus Christ has opened your spiritual eyes of understanding and you know he is the King of kings and Lord of Lords. He is the one who went to suffer on the cross.
01:18 Before the cross, he suffered, he suffered on the cross, died and he went to hell. Then he went three days into Hades and then to rise again for you, for me. Then now you realize that the Spirit man will begin to understand the things of the Spirit.
01:34 Because the Holy Spirit, born of the Spirit will understand the things of the Spirit. If you are still carnal, you are not born of the Spirit. Even what I am saying here, you may not understand.
01:43 So if you don’t understand, please start talking to Jesus Christ, asking for forgiveness, admitting that we are sinners. We all have sinned. Small sin, big sin, plenty of sin.
01:54 I had plenty of sin. Likewise, everyone sinned. Jesus word is clear.
01:59 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Ask for forgiveness, ask for mercy with a broken heart. That means you must want a broken heart to know that.
02:08 And contrite spirit, you are wrong. You have sinned against God, you have sinned against people, you have sinned against yourself. Now therefore, please ask for forgiveness and ask Jesus Christ to take control of your life and dedicate your life to Jesus Christ and say he will be the Lord and master and Savior for you from today.
02:26 And that you command your heart and mind in the name of Jesus Christ, to obey Jesus Christ in everything. And the word of God is Jesus, the word of God is Jesus Christ. So you obey the Word.
02:39 Willing to obey the Word. I’m not telling you to obey me. I’m not because I myself have a problem obeying.
02:46 Obeying even the Word of God. My heart may not want to obey. This is a normal thing.
02:51 Our hearts are like this. They are made of three parts, Spirit, soul and body. Our hearts are tragically wicked.
02:57 The Word of God says so. It’s been changed from glory to glory by Jesus Christ. How? First, we must be renewed in the Spirit of our mind.
03:06 By taking the Word of God and meditating on the Word of God. And the Spirit of God through the Word of God is saying us, saying to us, when we look at the Word of God and meditate as if in a mirror. So when we go away, also keep thinking of the Word of God.
03:21 If we go away and don’t remember the Word of God, it’s like a man who looks himself in the mirror. As soon as he turns away, he forgets what it looks like. Please keep meditating on the Word of God.
03:31 Take a few words of God and meditate on that daily. And another word of God later, when this is settled. And you will be changed from glory to glory.
03:39 Because when the Spirit of our mind changes, the heart changes. Brothers and sisters, today let’s look at Isaiah 11:2 from Amplified. And the Spirit of Lord will rest on him.
03:49 This is Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God will rest on him. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and of fear of God.
03:59 Fear of God is reverential obedience. That is what the provider explained. Now remember, many times people will think the Holy Spirit, is it like a power? Is it some power? They start using the technical term dunamis.
04:13 You know, all this. No need. Take simple.
04:16 Try and understand simple words. Some people are so wanting to show that they know the technical terms, these Latin terms or the Greek terms, or these Hebrew terms or whatever. They’ll begin to use that, you know, dunamis and this and that.
04:31 Just. You see, a power is. Is the Spirit of God.
04:34 Is it a power? Is it current? You know, because the Spirit of God hovered around the earth. Father God says in the beginning, you know, in Genesis itself. So now we will come to read from Scripture to find out what is the Holy Spirit.
04:49 And we’ll get from there the Holy Spirit. John 15:26, amplified. But when the helper, comforter, advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener, stand by.
05:02 Who stands by to help you? When the helper in bracket, the amplified saying is comforter, is advocate, intercessor into the forest. Counselor, strength, comforter and counselor, advocate, intercessor, strengthener and standby comes when the helper comes. John 15:26 means Jesus is speaking, comes.
05:23 Whom I will send to you? Jesus is saying, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth. So the Holy Spirit. There are different names and giving you different characteristics.
05:37 Different characteristics of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father. He will testify and bear witness about me. The Holy Spirit will testify and bear witness about me.
05:49 Now the word used is he who. The Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit is a person.
05:57 It’s clear from scripture a number of places you will find he, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person. That is Father God, Jesus Christ, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God.
06:09 The three are one. That’s why they decided to use the word Trinity. All these also we need not have used.
06:14 But anyway, people have introduced the word Trinity to say that there are three of them, but same time they are separate. So how is it these are three of them? Father God, Word of God, and that is Jesus Christ, who is Jesus Christ and the Spirit of God, who is the Holy Spirit. How can three be separate and one? So one example that was given is like water.
06:36 You take a cup of water and you divide that into three and then make one into steam. You heat it until it becomes steam. The other one you make into ice.
06:43 The other one is just plain water sitting there at room temperature. Now you can imagine from the same glass of water you divided that in three, you have different characteristics. One is steam, one is ice and one is water at room temperature.
07:01 This will clearly show you that it’s possible to have the same thing in three different ways at the same time. And that is a mystery. Because whatever our worldly mind, our carnal mind, our natural mind cannot understand is because the Spirit of God only can teach us.
07:20 Now therefore, please accept it when you don’t understand what Jesus says. When you do not understand, you do not understand because you do not accept what I am saying. So first of all, when the Word of God is spoken, accept it.
07:36 When your heart is confused, there mind is confused. This is a very important key. You command your heart and mind to accept the word of God in the name of Jesus Christ.
07:44 I command my heart and mind to to accept what the Word of God is saying. God is saying the Spirit of truth will come from Father God. The Spirit of truth is the Holy Spirit.
07:54 So the Holy Spirit is in me. He will speak the truth. He will convict me of the truth.
07:57 He will convict me when I am going to sin or Sin already. He will guide me. And then you get stressed.
08:05 He will testify and bear witness about me. Jesus said, he means he is a person. So we better reverence the Holy Spirit, because he is a person.
08:14 But three of them are one. Father, God, Jesus Christ, the Word and the Holy Spirit are one. So even when you speak to Jesus Christ, it will still be done.
08:23 Because the Holy Spirit will only do what Jesus Christ, our Father God has told us to do. He will not do more outside that parameter. For instance, when we look at John 16, 7, 11.
08:39 But I tell you the truth. Jesus is saying, it is to your advantage that I go away. Jesus Christ is saying I must go away.
08:46 For if I do not go away, the helper, comforter, advocate, intercessor, counselor, strengthener and stand by. This person who stands by to help you will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him.
09:02 Praise Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, the lingering fluid. I was send him the Holy Spirit to you to be in close fellowship with you.
09:11 And he to be in close fellowship with you. He will be in close fellowship with you. It’s really, you know, sometimes we struggle.
09:19 I want to speak to the Holy Spirit. I want to speak to. Relax, relax, Father.
09:24 God is in complete control. Jesus Christ is complete control. Everything has been put under the feet of Jesus Christ is in control.
09:30 He loves you. He will move the circumstances and he’ll get things done. In close fellowship with you.
09:36 Means whatever Jesus said will come to you. And he, when he comes, that is the Holy Spirit. He again when he comes, will convict the world about sin, the guilt of sin.
09:46 Sin is your guilt of sin means it’s condemning you. You’re dying of sin. I was dying in sin.
09:54 And the need for a savior about righteousness, about go about judgment. This the Holy Spirit is doing nothing for us to do. 9.
10:02 About sin and the true nature of it. Because they do not believe in me and my message. 10 about righteousness.
10:09 That’s personal integrity and godly character. Because I’m going to my Father and you will no longer see me. He’s telling his disciples, I’m going to my Father.
10:17 You’ll no longer see me, but I have to send the Holy Spirit. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit cannot come about judgment, the certainty of it. The Holy Spirit convicts the world because the ruler of this world is Satan has been judged and condemned.
10:30 He see he is in judgment, condemned. But he has not been executed yet. Power has been taken out of Satan, but Satan has not been executed.
10:38 He will finally be thrown into first into the bottomless pit and held there for thousand years. Then he’ll be thrown into the lake of fire. Now, until then, he’s the ruler of the world.
10:51 He’s still the ruler of the world. But Jesus will come take control of the world. Before Jesus left, he said, what? My kingdom is not of this world.
10:58 Because right now he’s not bothered about the world and the kingdom of the world. He’s bothered about getting his disciples, getting his followers. Therefore, each of us now must be disciples.
11:10 Remember yesterday or day previously, it is in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. So if you are a Christian, you have to be a disciple. We do not want to fool ourselves.
11:23 We want to live in the truth now. Ephesians 1, 13, 14. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth and the good news of salvation, you believed in him.
11:37 That is Jesus Christ was stamped. And the seal of promise. The Holy Spirit as owned and protected by God.
11:44 The promise of Christ. The seal of promise. What? The seal of the promised Holy Spirit.
11:50 The Holy Spirit comes as a seal over us. The Holy Spirit comes and puts a seal that we are being promised for salvation. We are the spirit is a guarantee.
12:00 14. The spirit is the guarantee. The first installment, a pledge.
12:04 The foretaste of our inheritance. Until the redemption of God’s own possession. To the praise of his glory.
12:11 This what simply says is that the Spirit of Holy Spirit when he comes, he puts a seal. He’s a seal for us. When he comes, he becomes a seal for us.
12:21 As a pledge, as a first installment of our inheritance. This for us to know. Jesus Christ, Father, God has given the Holy Spirit.
12:29 Jesus has gone and sent the Holy Spirit. And it’s a seal for us. It’s a promise.
12:33 It’s an installment. It’s a pledge of our inheritance. Until the full redemption of God’s own possession.
12:40 Until we completely redeemed. That happens when Jesus Christ comes and takes control of the earth. And we are with him now, brothers and sisters, so it’s important.
12:49 But Jesus. You speak to Jesus. You speak to Jesus.
12:54 Because the Holy spirit now John 16:13. A sorry, John 16:13. But when he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, full and complete truth.
13:07 For he will not speak on his own initiative, but he will speak whatever he hears from the Father. The message regarding the Son. And he will disclose to you what is to come in the future.
13:19 He will begin to lead you. He will begin to guide you. He will begin to comfort you.
13:23 He is a comforter. But he will do only what the Father has determined through the message of His Son. He will only do what the message of Jesus Christ is.
13:33 1 Corinthians 2:14. But the natural unbelieving man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God. You see, if you’re not born of the Spirit, you will not accept what the Spirit of God is telling, for they are foolishness, absurd and illogical to him.
13:54 Amplified, the natural unbelieving man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness, absurd and illogical tweets, and is incapable of understanding them because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated. And he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters. That’s why when you are not born again, you cannot understand when people say, okay, don’t rush, brother, don’t rush, sister, don’t rush.
14:19 And do this, wait, Jesus will do something for you. If you rush, you’ll end up making mistakes. Because when you say, two jobs offered, and we know one job can maybe more money, but maybe more trouble, so we say, wait on the Lord, wait on the Lord Jesus, waiting for the Holy Spirit to guide us.
14:35 But sometimes they rise because if they’re not spiritually discerning in that area where their heart is caught in that, their heart wants that. So you cannot be spiritually discerning in an area. You can be born again in the Spirit, but in many areas, our hearts have not been converted and the heart has blocked us from knowing the spiritual discernment for that issue.
14:56 So they will end up getting in trouble. So therefore God says, if you are not, if you keep on believing the worldly way, you will not accept the things of the Spirit of God, because the things of the Spirit of God will be opposite to what the world says. So now, brothers and sisters, this is critical.
15:17 So let us now first of all begin to understand. We now want to wait on the Lord Jesus Christ, who through the Holy Spirit will guide us. The Holy Spirit intercedes for us.
15:28 Jesus Christ intercedes for us. He says all things work for the good of those who love God and are the called according to his purpose. So even when trouble comes, there’s segments, several, four or five segments about why Jesus allows trials, why Jesus allows trials for many reasons, for our good.
15:47 Finally, so that we will train in the Spirit. We will not just follow what we sow, we will reap. That also will happen.
15:54 And Jesus doesn’t cause trouble, doesn’t create trouble for us. It doesn’t tempt people. God cannot be tempted.
16:00 He will not tempt anyone. But he will not block some trouble for us. He will allow the trouble.
16:05 Because through the trouble we are trained. We are trained. Our spirit man is trained.
16:05 Because through the trouble we have to cry out to Jesus Christ because we will know we cannot do when the trouble comes, other things we can do. I can do this, I can do that. You cannot.
16:20 You can do nothing without me. Jesus Christ said, you can do nothing without me. Jesus Christ said, so what the untrained carnal mind will say, natural mind.
16:30 So I do nothing? I do nothing? People ask. No, you wait on the Lord. You start worshiping Jesus Christ.
16:36 You start examining yourself to see where you have given a foothold to the devil. You start casting out the evil spirits and all that. Casting out prayers and receiving prayers.
16:46 Receive the good spirit. You begin to do all that. You just don’t sit down there like a dodo, do nothing.
16:51 But you deal in the spirit. The battle is in the spiritual plane. In Jesus name I pray all understand today.
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Scriptures Referenced
Acts 11:26New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)26 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”
1 Peter 4:16New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)16 Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.
1 Peter 4:16Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)16 But if anyone suffers for being Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears this name. ”
John 1:12Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 12 But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God ,
John 8:31Amplified Bible (AMP) 31 So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you abide in My word [continually obeying My teachings and living in accordance with them, then] you are truly My disciples.
John 8:32New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
3 2 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters, today, the power of Christ Daily 1st February 2016 who is a Christian? Who is a Christian? The question can also be what is a Christian, brothers and sisters? This for instance, if you look at the Webster dictionary, they say a Christian is defined as someone who believes in the teachings of Christ, someone who believes in the teachings of Christ. And these kind of worldly definitions go. And this also of course crept in into the church. Now of course there are people going to church coming, including the ministry I minister in the church that God has given me to minister over his church Jesus Christ has given me to minister over.
00:32 Now of course they go and come and they listen, they may even listen to counsel. But only Jesus Christ can determine whether you are a Christian or not. And he has defined it.
00:59 He has defined it. So there’s no confusion really. Now the word Christian has become so loosely used that so long as anybody goes to church and come goes to church and come Sundays they say, oh, you’re a Christian.
01:12 Or somebody says praise the Lord, then they think it’s a Christian. It’s all that is form necessary. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
01:21 You will say better praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We don’t know which Lord we’re talking about.
01:25 And of course they do not know. Many do not know. The devil came to steal, kill and destroy.
01:30 And, and it’s still around. And the apostles spoke about it years onwards after that, after Jesus left for years they speak about it and said, do not give the devil a foothold, one foothold only, no need to give many footholds, one foothold. And devil will take full advantage and make our life a mess.
01:46 And his strategy to make us believe that God has done something to you. Never ever complain about God. Never ever complain about Jesus Christ.
01:50 Never ever complain about God Almighty. Never ever. That’s the beginning of a complete destruction.
02:00 Because the devil will take complete advantage of you. Jesus will still be merciful to you, but the devil will begin to hammer you. And there’s nothing Jesus can do because your will, he allows you your will and your will doesn’t want to submit to his will.
02:14 So when that goes on, how you tell me if you do not submit to the will of Jesus Christ, the power, the blessing, the promises that have already been completed on the cross are sitting down there. They cannot flow into you. They cannot flow into you.
02:28 Why? Your will is blocking his will from operating in your life. So this is one of the biggest problems we all face, including me. Now brothers and sisters, now let’s look at this.
02:40 In the book of Acts 11:26, book of Acts 11:26. I’m reading from the Catholic edition. And when he had found him, they brought him to Antioch.
02:51 So it was for an entire year they met with the Church and taught a great many people. This Apostle Paul taught a great many people. And what is Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians? I’m sorry, I’m not too sure whether it’s Apostle Paul here.
03:05 Now, the Church taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. Now, in the New Testament, of course, in the Christian, the word Christian is mentioned three times. Three times the word Christian.
03:20 Some new translation may even take that out. Now, it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. Who were called Christians? Disciples, not simply believers.
03:31 Now, this has again taken root in these churches where people begin to believe. You believe, and it’s one level of Christianity, and you are a Christian already. And then discipleship is a higher level of something.
03:44 And they’ll say, okay, you first believe and then slowly, slowly you become a disciple. No, that’s not true. Because if you’re going to be called a Christian, you have to be a disciple.
03:54 And only disciples were first called Christians. Disciples mean people not only just believe in the teaching, they do the teaching. They disciplined in obeying the word of God, obeying any disciple, any disciple, by any training.
04:08 They obey and do what has been told by the master of that discipline. In this case, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is our master, our Lord, our Savior. We do so only doer of the Word.
04:20 Finally, the doer of the word, that word of God is a disciple. Now, that is why in 1 Peter 4:16. Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian or a Christian, actually the right word is Christian.
04:37 Do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God. Because you bear this name. What name? The name of Christ.
04:45 So if somebody condemns you for following Christ, oh, rejoice, rejoice. Somebody follows you, condemns you following Christ, they begin to poke you for following Christ, Rejoice. But if somebody condemns you because you’re doing wrong, you better be remorseful, better be sorry, better change.
05:09 You know, it’s very sad. What happens is there are people who do not change. And then there are people outside in the world will tell you, hey, you have not changed.
05:16 You say you are a Christian. In fact, once you say you are a Christian already, the people outside the world waiting to see whether you change or not. If you do not change, you are doing the Same old, same old sin, anger, frustration, pride, stubbornness, selfish, self seeking all that we are doing.
05:37 Then the person outside person, not non Christian will slowly say you are not changed. And in those who don’t tell also they know, they think these false are false liars only they say they’re Christians but actually don’t obey. Now belief, the word belief, belief has got to trust in, adhere to, cling to cling on.
05:58 You know the Hebrew word, the English word, suddenly replace it with belief because it’s the only word they can find. But actually it means a lot of things in the Hebrew text. In the Hebrew language it’s an Asian language, just like Chinese and Tamil, the Asian languages.
06:13 And so if they give one word in the Asian language, it will take many words in the English language to explain that particular word in that Asian language, it will take many English words to actually properly translate and reflect the actual meaning of that particular Asian word. That is a problem that the translation began like this. Just believe and everybody.
06:38 And over as the years go by break. Do you believe that so and so is the prime minister of your country? Yes, because it’s not news every day for couple of years already you heard maybe elected last election six months ago. Now you are listening, listening, listen.
06:51 Now of course you know the promise says that, but do you that’s not what the belief that the Hebrew text is talking about. Belief means whatever this person is telling you, believe and do be a doer of the word. So do you really believe Jesus Christ? There were the other things I’ll say is if anyone.
07:10 Now I’m going to refer the Jewish Bible 1st Peter 4:16, which I read just now. If any of you suffers from the Catholic edition I read if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bears his name. The name of Christ.
07:26 1st Peter 4:16. Again complete Jewish Bible. But if anyone suffers for being messianic, let him not be ashamed, but let him bring glory to God by the way he bears the name.
07:39 So when you’re suffering also by the way you bear the name. By the way you bear the suffering. Messianic means disciple in the Jewish Bible.
07:49 Disciple, Disciple. Messianic. Now Messiah.
07:53 Messiah is the Christ the Savior. Messianic means you follow you, you obey, you do everything he tells you, you submit. Now what then happens? John 1:12 but to as many as did receive him.
08:06 It’s a Jewish Bible I’m reading to those who put their trust in this person and power. They are not just believer. Those who put their trust in his person and power.
08:14 Those who put their trust, their trust. I must put my trust in Jesus person as a person of Jesus Christ and the power of Jesus Christ. He gave the right to become children of God.
08:29 He gave a right. Now we have to begin to exercise the right. We must become doers of the Word.
08:34 As we become doer of the Word, then we become disciplined in Jesus command. Then as we become disciplined in Jesus command, we are being disciples. But disciples we can start from the beginning and say, I want to be a disciple.
08:45 I declare, I proclaim, I command my heart and mind that from today I will be disciplined in Christ. And everything Christ tells me to do, I will do. I will reject the world and follow Christ.
08:57 Come, follow me, he said. Now, can you imagine that particular thing if you read the context? How Jesus told Peter, come, follow me. When Peter’s boat was full of fish, that’s when.
09:08 Because they were not bearing anything, any fish. And Jesus was there to preach. He wanted the boat.
09:14 He wanted to sit on the top of the boat and preach. So he did that. They asked Peter.
09:18 Peter said, yes, my Lord. So he preached after preaching. I think he went and said, have you caught anything? No.
09:25 Then he said, go ahead, do this. So when they went and did that, first of all, Peter was thinking, we tried the whole night long, no fish and all that. Then go and do this.
09:33 Went and did that. Full of fish. But you know, after catching the full of fish, when the boat is full of fish, in fact it is struggling to.
09:42 It is sinking a bit inside, you know, he’s not sinking. It is going down, weighted by the weight. It’s gone a bit down.
09:51 Then Jesus said, come, follow me. You know what Peter did? Just followed him. Just followed him.
09:57 Why? Peter didn’t say, what about the fish? Peter didn’t say, what about my boat? Boat is valuable. Big boats. These are not simple ones running a small trumpet, small dinghies, you know.
10:09 Then Matthew, you know what was Matthew. Matthew sitting down there. He’s the text collector.
10:14 He says his table is full of money under, inside the trousers and all that. And some will bring out some money, I suppose. I do not know.
10:20 Now, when Jesus passing by, he didn’t stop. As he passed by, he told Matthew, come, follow me. That’s all, Matthew, come, follow me.
10:31 So Matthew stopped, left the money and just followed. What about the problem? Because the problem is he’s collecting on behalf of the government. So what will happen to the government and the authorities? But he just followed.
10:44 Why he followed because he believed Jesus Christ. And you know what? Nothing happened in Matthew with the government and the authority. Because we follow Jesus Christ, he will do something.
10:53 The authority’s mind, the authority’s mind and heart are all settled. Jesus will settle them if you truly follow. But if you half heart follow and expect Jesus Christ to settle the minds of those who are angry with you or whatever, it’s not going to work.
11:07 Because people may be angry with you or me because of what we did, not because we did as a Christian. So if we are suffering as a Christian, we glorify his name and we bear his name and give glory. By the way we bear his name, we accept.
11:21 Suppose we say, I cannot do this. The boss tells you to fill the books so that you can get a better loan for the company. I cannot do this, boss.
11:29 I took a covenant. I took a covenant with Jesus Christ that anything I do, I will not do. I will do according to his word.
11:36 And his word says I cannot do this. I’m sorry. Now, of course if frightened double can attack you.
11:41 But this is the Christian who humbles himself and tells why he cannot. I got a vow. If I put that vow aside, I’ll be condemned.
11:49 I’ll have problems, I’ll be cursed. And anyone making me do that also will cover the curse. Because God doesn’t want anyone making me do wrong things that against him what I covenanted, what I vowed.
12:01 So, so sorry, boy. Then you see what happens. And even if they attack you, God will give you another job.
12:06 But there’s only one job in the entire world, in the entire town. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Today, brothers and sisters.
12:11 Now let’s look at this now. John. So when did they call them Christians, the disciples? They only called disciples first in Antioch they were called Christians.
12:22 When they were disciples disciplined in Christ, they determined to follow Christ. They determined, they decided. So as the day you decide, I will follow Jesus Christ.
12:32 Lord, make me follow you completely in every aspect of your word and everything you want me to do. That’s the day you become a disciple. Yes.
12:39 Then there’s a walk as a disciple. There will be challenges as a disciple. There will be issues as a disciple.
12:46 But you begin to do. You begin to do now. John 8:31.
12:51 So Jesus was saying to the Jews who had believed him, so people have believed him that he was only preaching to the Jews at that time. Now, if you abide in my word, abide in my word. It simply says, if you abide my word, you are truly my disciples.
13:07 This I am reading my amplified. So in bracket Amplified is explaining what his abide is. If you abide in my word, continually obeying my teachings and living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples.
13:21 So abide in my word means continually obeying my teachings, Jesus Christ teachings, and living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples. See, to be truly disciples, it’s not simply say I obey, I obey. No, continually obeying his teachings and living in accordance with that word, then you are truly my disciples.
13:43 These are words of Jesus Christ. Some will get angry with me for quoting this because they off and on they lapse, they go and do something, they get addicted to something or whatever. And then today for one, two days or one week, two weeks, they don’t smoke and then suddenly end up smoking again and all that.
13:58 And then they get angry with me when I quote this. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters, this is the good news. No need to get angry because Jesus says he gives you power.
14:07 You can by the blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. Run away from the shop where you’re buying the cigarette. Run away.
14:13 Don’t go to the friends who are supposed to be friends and they share the cigarette with you. There are certain steps, there are things how to overcome. There are many segments.
14:22 By God’s mercy, by Jesus Christ mercy have recorded, you must always overcome. Only overcome worlds will enter heaven. Now if you abide in my word, continually obeying my teachings, living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples.
14:35 And now that is John 8:31. Now I am reading John 8:32 by reading from Catholic edition. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
14:44 Only disciples will know the truth and the truth will set them free. Those who are just a believer level at it, just a believer level. And then the Bible classes teach them this.
14:57 You come to Bible class to become a disciple. So when you believe, you’re not going to be a disciple. When you believe, you’re just a believer.
15:06 But the Bible doesn’t, the Scriptures don’t differentiate this. They don’t differentiate between believer and disciple because they simply believe they’re really not a Christian. To be a Christian, you need to be a disciple.
15:18 You need to be disciplined. Now 8:32 again, I’m reading, repeat again. John 8:32.
15:25 You will know the truth and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free. If I read 831 and 32 together, it’ll be like this. If you abide in my word, continually obeying my teachings and living in accordance with them, then you are truly my disciples.
15:40 And you will know the truth. And the truth will make you free. Now what happens now? Everywhere, advertising and all the truth will make you free.
15:47 The truth will make you free. But you will not know the truth of Christ. You will not know the truth of the living God.
15:51 You will not know the truth of the spiritual world. You will not know the truth of how the devil comes and attacks people and keeps them captive and all that. You will not know all the truth until you are a disciple.
16:05 You swore yourself. You vow. You take a commitment.
16:07 I will be a disciple of Jesus Christ. So today, brothers and sisters, I plead with you. Those who are saying, I believe, I believe, I believe.
16:16 It’s not good enough. You’ll continue suffering because only the disciples will know the truth. And you cast out the demonic forces.
16:22 You have power. Jesus Christ give you power. He gave you power to be children of God.
16:26 And you use the power. The power, first of all is to cast out the evil in Jesus name. The power in the name of Jesus Christ.
16:32 Command your heart and mind to obey, continually obeying the teachings of Jesus Christ. Today, brothers and sisters, is a wonderful day. If you keep listening to this and you begin to apply.
16:41 You see your life change. You see a life change. There will be righteousness, peace and joy.
16:45 There will be hope. Peace, brothers and sisters, today do this, do this. Search the scriptures yourself.
16:53 Meditate on them yourself. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Mark 8:16-17Amplified Bible (AMP)16 They began discussing this with one another, saying, “It is because we have no bread [that He said this].” 17 Jesus, aware of this [discussion], said to them, “Why are you discussing [the fact] that you have no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
18 Though you have eyes, do you not see? And though you have ears, do you not hear and listen [to what I have said]? And do you not remember,
19 when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They answered, “Twelve.”
John 8:43-44Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
43 Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.
44 You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar — indeed, the inventor of the lie!
John 8:47Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
47 Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says, because you don’t belong to God.”
Luke 6:43-45New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
43 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; 44 for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
45 The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
Acts 7:51New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.
Proverbs 29:1Amplified Bible (AMP)
Warnings and Instructions
29 He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved (corrected, criticized), Will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 31st January 2016 A Sunday. Overcoming hardened heart. Overcoming hardened heart.
00:11 Now why must we overcome a hardened heart? What is a hardened heart and why must we overcome it? First of all, why must overcome it? We better settle it here now to overcome it. Why must overcome it? Because in Proverbs 29 and again it is also reflected in different ways in throughout the Bible. Proverbs 29:1.
00:31 I’m reading from the Amplified. He who hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved, corrected, criticized, will suddenly be broken beyond repair. Anyone who’s hardened his neck.
00:47 He says hardened neck. They’re referring to the hardened heart. Heart is hardened, stubborn, stubborn who are stubborn and refuses instruction after being often reproved.
00:56 Often reproved means corrected and criticized in bracket. It says preface. This reproof says corrected.
01:02 Then criticize people. Criticize you and say you’re wrong. Criticize is not wrong.
01:07 It’s not a bad word. Critical means you’re careful people. Critical levels, what is it? Careful levels.
01:14 So critical people. But there are also critical spirits. People just criticize, criticize, criticize.
01:20 Not even checking themselves, not taking the log out of the own eye. Of course there’s an another spirit. But here the Bible is talking about correctly critical, correctly criticizing, correctly correcting will suddenly be broken beyond repair.
01:32 So anyone who is stubborn and hardens his neck and refuses instruction after being often reproved, will suddenly be broken and beyond repair. That is why you must get rid of hardened neck. That is why you must get rid of stubbornness.
01:43 Stubbornness. They don’t get rid of it because of problem coming. Because there’s nothing.
01:48 The word of God will operate as it has said. And this is a warning. This is a good news to tell us.
01:54 Hey, look, children, don’t harden your necks or harden your heart and you suddenly be broken beyond repair. That’s a warning. Good warning.
02:04 A red light. It’s a good warning. Oh, the red light is a distraction to my driving.
02:09 It’s a hindrance to my driving. What nonsense is that? That’s why some people think the Bible is giving some hindrances and giving them trouble and giving them difficulties. No, I used to think something like that because I don’t know Christ.
02:22 I don’t follow Christ. So I’m doing my own thing. So I believe that Bible is a bit of a nuisance for me.
02:27 Oh, drunkards will enter not enter heaven. I fed up because I was a drunkard. But actually it’s a good warning.
02:35 To say, look here, drunkards will not enter heaven means you better wake up. But of course we didn’t know I was going. My own heart, my own heart desire.
02:45 That’s where the problem starts. Now, brothers and sisters, today let us look at this dishardened heart. You’ll be surprised.
02:51 You know the stiff necks, that’s how the Proverbs 29:1 says stiff necked hardened his neck. Some scriptures, some translations say stiff necked. I was surprised, you know, when years ago.
03:06 I’m talking about 15 years ago. I was studying another ministry whereby a healing ministry through the Net and through the videos I bought and all that, studying that. And they said, look, one of the problems of illness is the connection.
03:21 The connection between the messages from the brain don’t come to the heart. And all this is a connection problem. So we need to do the stiff neck people, especially neck problems.
03:31 One hand is shorter than the other because of muscle is tensioned up and all that. So they call it a neck thing. What will happen is one person will stand at the back of the saint that required to be prayed for and hold the shoulders, not the neck shoulders is a upper arm hold tightly with their two arms.
03:48 They’ll be holding the sides of this person tightly. And another servant will hold the head of the person and tilt it slowly backwards. And while in the backward position, tilt left and tilt right and then bring forward again.
04:02 And while forward, trying to touch the chin towards the neck and again left and right. You will find that all this neck, stiff neck sound will be released. I was surprised, the muscles all relaxed.
04:13 So in the name of Jesus Christ, I command every muscle, every tendon, every ligament to lengthen and settle down and to be positioned properly in Jesus Christ’s name. And then you find that the back pain all goes off, you know. So we were doing that.
04:27 But one day I was so shocked when I tried to move this head of this person. Suddenly it stiffened up so hard. And I said, relax brother, relax.
04:37 No, I’m relaxed, I’m relaxed. He’s saying. But his sudden stiffened up.
04:42 Then only I remember the scripture, God says stiff necked people. So I realized immediately, by God’s mercy, there was a spirit of stubbornness has caught this brother. And this had to go because the stubborn spirit will harm you.
04:54 So when you begin to do this thing suddenly now you find that science also comes along with it. And they have cranial manipulation and all this manipulation of the head and all to release the connectivity. Then you find others trying to connect the meridian from the neck onwards down Onwards, they do all that now.
05:16 But here we are talking about the spiritual anger. So stiff. Then after, when I taught this to others and those brothers and sisters were doing for others, they suddenly come across this.
05:25 Suddenly it will stiff up. The neck will become so tough and stiff, the head can’t move like a stone already. So then we’ll tell the person, brother or sister, now you please say you don’t want to have stubbornness anymore.
05:40 You want to have a humble heart. You want to have a fleshly heart. You want God to give you a fleshly heart.
05:46 You want a humble heart. You don’t have a stiff neck. You don’t have a stubbornness.
05:49 And then when they say the prayer, I don’t want all this in Jesus Christ’s name. Then we cast out spirit of stubbornness, get out in the name of Jesus Christ. And we repeat a couple of times and then we repeat it.
05:59 And then suddenly you find the neck gone, pliable, soft, flexible. And I used to be amazed at this. Now, brothers and sisters, so stiff neck, when God says a word like stiff neck, it actually happens in the physical those days.
06:14 I came to realize this about 17 years ago. Suddenly, you know, with all this real experience, I realized when God says stiff neck, there is a purpose. That’s why he said, do not harden your neck.
06:24 Do not harden his neck. It says Proverbs 29:1. So now this hardening heart, hardened heart means hardened.
06:32 After neck will show up neck also hardened stubbornness. But remember this hardened heart, God is saying another scripture. You know that whoever belongs to God accepts what he says.
06:43 This is John 8:47. Whoever belongs to God accepts what he says. But you don’t accept what God says because you don’t belong to God.
06:51 So whenever a scripture is given to somebody and they don’t accept it is because they don’t belong to God. Or at least not yet. Or at least not yet, I don’t know.
07:00 So we humble ourselves and move on. What to do? And we pray for them. We pray that their eyes of understanding will open and God will show them mercy.
07:07 That’s all. We could move on. Now there’s another scripture.
07:11 John 8. 43. Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.
07:19 Complete Jewish Bible why don’t you understand what I’m saying? This Jesus saying, why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message. Some will say, because you don’t want to accept my word. You don’t accept what I’m saying.
07:31 You don’t accept my teaching. So therefore when people don’t accept the scripture, when people are correcting them and tell them this is scripture, brother, this is future sister. They don’t accept the scripture.
07:44 Of course they won’t understand it. Then they don’t understand. Don’t understand.
07:48 I don’t understand. I don’t understand. You have a number of cases like this in Tamil.
07:48 I don’t understand. And all this goes on and then we find that it’s because they’re not accepting the word. So brothers and sisters, today, when you don’t understand this is a very important scripture for you.
08:03 It’s an escape. This is a fantastic revelation for you. If you don’t understand, you first accept the word of God.
08:09 Accept it as truth because Jesus is saying that and because it’s the word of God. And 44 John 8, 43 just I read, you don’t understand what I’m saying because you can’t bear to listen to my message or don’t accept what I’m saying. In 44 it says you belong to your father Satan.
08:25 Can you imagine if you don’t accept the word of God, Jesus Christ immediately says you belong to your father Satan because you don’t accept what he’s saying. Do we really want to be belonging to Satan? I think not for anybody. Obviously I do not want brothers and sisters because eternal killers will harm us and I will harm terribly.
08:43 So I do not want to get back there. So everybody better accept the word of God. The scriptures are given.
08:49 Accept it and then you will understand it and then you will follow and your life will get better. Now remarkably, even the disciples have got hardened heart. I’m talking about the apostles.
09:02 No, before they became apostles. Mark 8, 16, 17. They began discussing this with one another, saying it is because we have no bread that he said this.
09:13 Just before this, Jesus told them, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees. Beware of the eaves of the Pharisees.
09:23 And then the disciples couldn’t understand. And then they decided to discuss among themselves and they said, because we have no bread. I think that’s why he said this, because we know bread.
09:34 There is hardly any bread with them. It’s because we know bread. That’s what he said.
09:37 This then Jesus, aware of this discussion, said to them in 17 Mark 8:17, I’m reading for amplified. Jesus, aware of the discussion, said to them, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread. Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Are your hearts hardened? And why did he say this? Because in 18, next verse, though you have eyes, you do not see.
10:06 Though you have eyes, do you not see? Jesus asking, and though you have ears, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? Jesus saying, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? And do you not remember? And then in 19 he said, when I broke the five loaves for 5,000, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up? The answer, 12. He had fed thousands with just five loaves. And now when he said, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, the disciples fell into the trap to think about maybe because we have no bread of fire, he said this and then Jesus Christ immediately corrected them and said, why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Now important factor.
10:51 He’s telling the disciples how your hearts hardened. Are your hearts hardened? He is telling the 12 are your hearts hardened? Though you have eyes, do you not see? Though you have ears, do you not hear and listen to what I have said? And do you not remember? So this is a fact. When we don’t remember what Jesus Christ had done for us, when we don’t care to remember, we don’t care to list up.
11:10 We don’t care to think about it, don’t care to meditate about how many good things you have done. Your heart will become hardened. Your heart will become hardened because you do not consider and think about what Jesus Christ has done for you, your family, your siblings or your people around.
11:27 In the congregation you see so many examples what Jesus has done. Prayers have been made in Jesus name and people have been healed. So you don’t think of all that and meditate and all that.
11:36 What will happen to your heart? Your heart will harden. And why? Your heart is hardened because you have eyes and you do not want to see. Because you have hears and you do not want to listen to what he has said.
11:47 So, brothers and sisters, it’s a very terrible thing. Heart should be hardened. When hearts are hardened means what will happen step by step.
11:55 Trouble. Trouble. Because hearts hardened.
11:57 Finally, stiff neck, stiff neck. Finally destruction beyond repair cannot be repaired. Can you imagine this? That is why one of the things we must do is keep remembering what Jesus Christ had done on the cross.
12:08 First to go to the cross. How he suffered for you. How he bought you with his own precious blood.
12:13 How. How he went to hell to Come. So that we don’t have to go.
12:17 How he was skin all like ribbons. Because he whipped him so much like ribbons. No form.
12:22 Already his face was torn. That’s what he had done for you and me. So you begin to look at that first.
12:28 And then you begin to look actually what he has done here. Because suddenly when you came to Jesus Christ, you got righteousness, peace and joy. Righteousness, peace and joy.
12:36 You got peace. All the troubles in the world were there. But you had peace because Jesus Christ gave you peace.
12:41 Now you keep on forgetting this. You keep on not going for this and keep not accepting. When words of God are shown to you, then sudden destruction without repair, suddenly destroyed without repair.
12:54 How can Rajitandan be broken without repair? We don’t want any of this to suffer to anybody. So please, please, please, I beg anyone with very easy one. So go humble yourself.
13:04 Go to a servant who can do the next thing for you. When you go to a servant, if you do not know this, call the grace of life or the power of Christ daily and ask the moderators and somebody will help you there. You can check your stiffness with somebody else.
13:18 Is stiff neck. And then it becomes pliable. Now hardened hearts might not have also translated into a stiff neck yet.
13:27 So there may be hardened heart inside, but the neck can still be pliable or flexible. But it will be happening later. Because it’s a physical manifestation of a hardened heart.
13:36 So hardened heart. Now everything comes from the heart. From the abundance of our heart, our mouth to speak, from the good treasure of the heart to produces good.
13:45 No good tree bears bad fruit. And no bad tree can bear good fruit. This is in Luke 6:43,45.
13:52 But from the good treasure of your heart, heart will produce good fruit. So therefore everything comes to the heart. Our hearts are treacherously wicked.
14:00 So that is why if you are and this, what was the hardened heart here? Unbelief. Unbelief. This is what happened to the disciples.
14:08 So it can happen to me. It can happen to you. So please watch out.
14:11 We have to be examining ourselves and be careful and checking any word of God. Do I not believe? When he says this word of God and you’re rejecting it, you’re rejecting it. And when three giving of counsel, two or three get together and counsel you and say, brother, sister, this is wrong what you’re doing.
14:27 This is how to do it. This is the word of God. No, I have my own understanding of Scripture.
14:32 Why you’re not understanding this, why you’re rejecting? To refuse to accept what Jesus Christ is saying through his word and through the servants who are telling you the scripture and telling you this and asking nothing from you. And if you keep on doing this, stiff neck will come. But before that hardened heart will come.
14:49 When hardened heart comes, finally destruction comes. So why unbelief? Unbelief. When God says okay, for instance this word says, you stiff neck people uncircumcised in your heart.
15:01 In your heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit. This is Acts 7:51. You stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears.
15:09 You are forever opposing the Holy Spirit just as your ancestors did. This is a case where Stephen was arrested and told to justify. So he started telling a long history of how the whole thing started from Moses days.
15:24 And finally he said, you stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears. You are forever opposing the Holy Spirit. Ritualistic Christianity is not going to solve you.
15:34 You have to have a fleshly heart, a humble heart, a heart to obey Christ. A heart that is pliable. Uncircumcised means a skin has been torn sensitive to sin.
15:46 So where does hardened heart come from? Sin. What is the first sin that will come caused it? Pride. Why pride? You want no one to accept.
15:54 Your heart doesn’t want to accept. Now you are made of three parts, spirit, soul and body. Now the soul got heart and the mind your heart doesn’t want.
16:02 So don’t get personal about this. When you’re telling somebody your heart, tell them your heart sister. Your heart brother doesn’t want to accept the word of God.
16:09 You please make it accept. How commanding that in the name of Jesus Christ to accept. Because you are a spirit being, you are a spirit being, you can take and command.
16:18 Command my heart and mind to accept every word of God that I read. Every word of God that’s shown to me. I command my heart and mind to accept.
16:26 If you don’t do that, you don’t want to do that, then it’s pride and finally your heart should be hardened stiff night will come and sudden destruction. We don’t want anything to happen like this. Brothers and sisters, command your heart and mind to accept every word of God.
យ៉ូហានទី1 2: 15-17 បកប្រែតាម New King James Version (NKJV) 1 John 2:15-17 New King James Version (NKJV) កុំអោយស្រឡាញ់លោកីយ៍(ពិភពលោក)នេះ 15 កុំស្រឡាញ់លោកីយ៍នេះឬរបស់អ្វីដែលនៅក្នុងលោកីយ៍នេះឡើយ។ អ្នកណាស្រឡាញ់លោកីយ៍ សេចក្ដីស្រឡាញ់របស់ព្រះបិតាមិនស្ថិតនៅក្នុងអ្នកនោះទេ។ 16 អ្វីៗទាំងអស់ដែលមាននៅក្នុងលោកីយ៍(ពិភពលោក)នេះ ពោលគឺចិត្ដលោភលន់របស់និស្ស័យលោកីយ៍ ចិត្ដលោភលន់របស់ភ្នែកមើលឃើញ និងអំនួតរបស់ជីវិតនោះ គឺមិនមែនមកពីព្រះបិតាទេ គឺមកពីគំនិតលោកីយ៍វិញ។ 17 ហើយពិភពលោកកំពុងរសាត់បាត់ទៅ ហើយចិត្ដលោភលន់របស់វាកំពុងកន្លងបាត់ទៅដែរ ប៉ុន្តែអ្នកដែលធ្វើតាមព្រះហឫទ័យរបស់ព្រះជាម្ចាស់នឹងនៅស្ថិតស្ថេរគង់វង្សជារៀងរហូត។
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Scriptures Referenced
1 Samuel 31:12Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 all the brave men stood and walked all night, and they took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and cremated them there.
Galatians 3:28New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Acts 15:29New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
1 John 2:15-17New King James Version (NKJV)
Do Not Love the World
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life— is not of the Father but is of the world.
17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Galatians 6:5 5 For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].
Hebrews 9:27 27 And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,
Matthew 8:22 22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me [believing in Me as Master and Teacher], and allow the [spiritually] dead to bury their own dead .”
Luke 18:27 27 But He said, “ The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV) 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 30 January 2016, a Saturday titled Worldly funeral Rituals. Worldly funeral rituals. Brothers and sisters.
00:14 Many times I have mentioned that today I started last night. We got rid of all the things before sleeping, the anger and all that. If not the spirit of anger will be waxing your spirit all night long.
00:27 Your body may be sleeping, but your spirit man is fighting the demonic forces. Spirit of anger. Spirit of anger will harm us.
00:35 Anything that’s left there. The spirit will be harming you. Health will go.
00:40 All this unnecessary. God has given us. Jesus Christ has given us the power to cast out these things.
00:45 Power to overcome our heart and mind and to be right with Christ, to be pleasing in his sight. Now what we have to do, we have to strive for another level of this. For instance, the Spirit of God, Holy Spirit is in you.
00:59 And he will convict you when you’re going wrong. When something happens, he’ll convict you. There will be a stress in your spirit.
01:04 There will be a disturbance in your spirit. There will be something that bothers you. Then you know you have to stop.
01:12 Stop. Stop doing whatever you are doing. Stop and examine yourself and clear it.
01:17 And clear it. Ask for forgiveness. He is a good God.
01:20 Jesus Christ is a holy God. God, good God. He loves you.
01:24 He loves you and he’s died on the cross for you. He’s not now going to just chuck you away. No.
01:30 He’ll never leave you or forsake you. But we should not continue doing something and running away from him. No, we stay with him.
01:36 And when you are disturbed, talk to him. Talk to him. Like talking to a person who you can see, but you’re talking to him.
01:43 Talk audibly, even quietly in your room. Talk to him. Lord Jesus.
01:48 I’m sorry, Lord. I feel distressed. I’m not sure what it is.
01:52 I’m sure must be something the Holy Spirit are convicting me. Holy Spirit, make me know what it is so I can confess. I want to confess.
01:59 I want to clear this. I want to settle with the people. So this is an ongoing thing throughout the day.
02:06 Because whenever. And suddenly, if you are following Christ, it will not be happening so many times. You will not be doing so many wrongs, going lesser and lesser and lesser.
02:15 Finally, in between, suddenly stress. Then you know you have to settle some things initially, of course, you may be actually doing so many times the Holy Spirit is convicting you or whatever. Because you just came into the Lord, into Jesus Christ, the Lord.
02:29 You have allowed the Holy Spirit to convict you. But after that it will go less and lesser and lesser because you immediately will say sorry brother, sorry sister, sorry sir, or whatever. And continue and don’t want to offend people.
02:40 You want to believe in Christ. One of the biggest thing is we keep on reading newspapers and news articles and all coming from TV and all, always withdrawing, crushing your faith, taking your faith out of Christ and putting it what the world is saying. In the economy this happened.
02:55 The politicians take this. These two political parties are arguing or whatever. And then you are forced to in your heart you begin to take some strikes.
03:03 Don’t take strikes, leave it be. Have your faith in Christ. Do not put your faith in man.
03:09 That’s commanded by Jesus Christ. But, but if you put your faith in man, oh, I support this political party. Yes, but finally the political parties are human beings.
03:18 They too make mistakes. Your faith has only been Christ. Now the two political parties may be arguing, quarreling and all.
03:26 They all want one person want to think they can rule the place better, that particular country better or whatever. But when the circumstances change, they have no control because Satan is the ruler of the world. Satan.
03:36 So leave all this behind. You want righteousness, peace and joy to keep your health, to keep your family properly. You live a humble life.
03:44 Jesus will see you through. Now, today, the worldly funeral rituals. Now brothers and sisters, yesterday because of time we couldn’t complete a few things.
03:52 One of which is remember there is no Jew or Gentile. God says there is now no Galatians 3:28 says Galatians 3:28. I am reading from the Catholic edition.
04:05 There is no longer Jew or Greek. Jew or Greek means Greek. Last time is a reference to unbeliever Jew or Greek.
04:05 There is no longer slave or free. There is no longer male and female. For all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
04:18 There is only one Christian. That is why the Bible the verse is saying to us, don’t follow any custom, follow what Jesus Christ has said. So therefore there’s whether to bury or cremate.
04:32 There is no instruction there. And I said everyone is destined to die once. And then I said judge.
04:39 But you’re not involved in the decision making process as to whether you’re not involved in what they’re going to do with your body. And you’re not bothered now you’re with Christ. Now, brothers and sisters, now also remember in the Jew custom, people generally buried.
04:55 But Also remember in 1 Samuel 31:12, the Bible is clear. Saul and his son, sons, King Saul, you know, and his sons, they were Killed by the Philistines. When they were killed by the Philistines.
05:08 The Philistines, the Israelites. I better read this. 1st Samuel 31:12.
05:17 All the brave men stood and walked all night and they took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Bashan and they came to Jabesh. Jabesh and cremated them there. Cremated, amplified cremated them there.
05:35 So there are cases in the Old Testament among the cremated because the theologians say they cremated them. That because they’re afraid the Philistines may take the body and desecrate the body more and more, you know, put it on poles and make an example of them or whatever. So they’re afraid of that.
05:51 So they cremated them. So that issue issue simple brothers and sisters, do not bother about. There’s no command for bearing or cremation this one.
06:03 Leave it to each one. Jesus, God is whatever impossible for man is possible for God. And a lot of apostles and disciples have also been burned to death and all that.
06:16 Okay, now that’s clearly yesterday. Now today, today the issue is worldly funeral rituals. This is even worse.
06:24 What has happened is Satan is the ruler of the world. So what he does, he must withdraw your faith out of Christ and put into something else. Take your faith out of Christ and put into something else.
06:35 So that’s what is out to. As long as they can do that, your faith will reduce and your faith will go into some of the activities and some of the customs. Now one of the things that people do, let’s take some Chinese funerals and even Christian Chinese funerals.
06:51 Some of them do not know what they’re doing. So what happens? They burn things in the Chinese funerals. Actually they believe if they burn paper made bicycles, paper made cars, sometimes they make the scape of Mercedes Benz and they burn all that.
07:04 And believing that this is all follow the soul to heaven and the soul can use it. Now that is a bondage. But we all came from bondages.
07:13 So I’m not condemning anyone here. I used to do all kinds of funny things. Now having said that, next thing is this.
07:20 So these worldly customs will catch you. And you may come from a tradition of set worldly customs and rituals, funeral rituals. And why is this devil allowing this or doing this? So that it can suck the money out.
07:33 Suck the money out of the next generation. The people who are alive now. So a father passes away.
07:39 People use whatever the money. First of all, the hospitals bills would have been tremendous. Already there are many hospitals, as I told you would have just gone and say give you Hope, false hope or whatever go on and on and on.
07:51 And then some chemotherapy. Thousands of dollars per vial of injection or whatever going on and all went into debts. And then they have to do this again.
08:00 Then when they do this, it can be thousands of dollars. Now one of the customs that I’m familiar with is the Nigerian situation, whereby I know several Nigerians, my son in law is a Nigerian. So thank Jesus he is aware of these things.
08:17 Now these Nigerian customs, they keep the body for so long, people are poor, you know, they’re not all well to do. But they want to make sure that and they keep for months. They want to make things ready.
08:29 Some of them keep for several months. And it’s a costly thing in Nigeria. Why? Because they have to have the morgue, they have to have these private places where they can keep the body frozen.
08:39 They need double generators and all that people can’t afford. They have to pay monthly thousand dollar bills or whatever. They have to keep pouring that.
08:46 And then they want the custom or everybody to bear the same dress. They’ll be making, sewing dresses, they’ll be making suits. All this sucks the money out of the living.
08:56 That is the game plan of this Satan. Satan’s game plan is okay. He has already destroyed this soul.
09:03 Now to destroy others they were living make them poor. As long as the Satan can keep people poor, then the poor also will commit sin. It’s not only hard for the rich man to get to heaven, it’s also hard for the poor man to get to heaven.
09:17 Because every day he’s seeking out a living and he’s tempted so many ways to get money. So because of this, the game plan of this satanic Satan, the world ruler of the world, is to make people, keep people bondaged and captive by. And he said many Christians do this.
09:37 Now first of all, let’s look at the word of God first. John 2, 15, 17. Do not love the world or the things in the world.
09:47 If anyone loves the world, the love of Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but of but is of the world. And the world is passing away and the last of it.
10:03 But he who does the will of God abides forever. Now you know from this scripture alone that it’s not good following worldly customs. But they are so stuck.
10:13 They are afraid the people will condemn them if they don’t do this. Or people condemn what these children didn’t care about their father. The Father has done so much for them.
10:13 They are afraid of this condemnation from this world. And then so they afraid and they end up falling. This custom is still going on among Christians.
10:31 And then impoverishing them, keeping them captive. And it’s a tiring thing to do this, you know, this kind of. It’s a very tiring thing.
10:39 Can you imagine, brothers and sisters? So this goes on. So now I’m begging any Nigerian brother or sister listening to this, take a stand. You have to take a stand for what is right.
10:51 That is not right. It’s actually if you want to follow your disciple of Christ. Christ says what? That bury the dead.
11:01 Of course he said that. He’s trying to say what? He’s letting us know that the burial thing is not a big issue. Leave it be.
11:09 Because everybody is destined to die once and thereafter judgment. Now I beg you, brothers and sisters, use the money, the wage. If you.
11:18 If they meditate and ask Jesus Christ, Lord, do I spend this money on this kind of things in this funeral? Do you really think the spirit of God will say yes? Put on the same uniform, make all dresses for everybody, 20 people, all same wearing same. Let’s do all the songs and dance and going on and on. Keep the body for months at an end in the funeral parlor or in the morgue or whatever.
11:23 Do you really think that Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ will say this? The Spirit of God will say this to you? No. So you. But why you do it? Because sometimes our hearts want it.
11:54 Sometimes our hearts are afraid. People condemn us. That’s why we end up following some of the worldly things.
11:59 Because why we are afraid? Do not be afraid. Fear not. Jesus Christ says fear not.
12:06 Now remember, everyone is responsible for your own. Now that person thank Jesus Christ, prayerfully, hopefully, mercifully, must be with Jesus Christ. Now the living are committing sin.
12:20 The living are committing sin by having these kind of things. Now remember, everyone is responsible for, accountable for their own thing. Galatians 6:5.
12:30 Solely accountable. So now what do we do? That is why, brothers and sisters, today Satan has many, many plans. He has moved into every area.
12:42 He is the God of this world. Actually small God, God of this world. Our Father calls him God of this world.
12:50 The Bible says he is a God of this world. If he is a God of this world, can you imagine how many tricks he will have? But he has no power over a Christian, but a Christian to have power over Satan. But to do that, the Christian must be abiding in Christ.
13:04 If you abide in me and My words abide in you. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, then you are my disciples. And then you are my disciples.
13:19 Then you obey what my commandments Are you my disciples? Then you know the truth. And truth will set you free. So you can only know the truth.
13:27 You begin to abide in the Word. Keep on knowing the Word and following the word. Oh yes, we can do powerful worship songs.
13:36 And now this drum business again. Drum. There’s a focusing day, a lot of music focus coming on.
13:43 Now remember, as I said, you can do very good to your flesh. But let’s ask this question again for ourselves. To be sincere, if a truthful Christian, let’s ask this question to ourselves.
13:54 Do you really imagine the apostles in the first hundred years or so, Apostles Peter, Paul, James, Jude, John, were going around and having these music sessions everywhere. Ask yourself this. Or were they going around and convicting people of sin and saying, God is good, Jesus Christ is holy.
14:17 Turn to him. He washed away your sins and you become the child of God. The power to become child of God.
14:23 You have been given the power to be the sons of God. Those who believe now with the power, what you do, you use the power and act as children of God. Use the power and act as children of God.
14:34 Brothers and sisters, today these things you must be watchful. Do not love the world or things in the world. If you love the world, the love of Father is not in him.
14:44 So if the world now who is going to condemn you? Even in the funeral rituals and all this, the world. The world will condemn you. The world condemns you.
14:50 The world will surely condemn you. Then you are doing something right. That is a sign.
14:57 If the world condemns you, then something right. But two or three followers of Christ tell you, don’t do this, don’t do that. But it’s difficult because you are in a.
15:08 The whole church world in a certain area may be doing this. And then how so, brother, you have to stand out as light, salt and light. You be the salt and light.
15:19 Take a stand for Christ and saying that I have to care for the living the devil. I will not let the devil suck. Make the people who I care for fastest, you take a stand.
15:24 I will not allow the devil to impoverish my people whom I care for. I’m entrusted. The souls of me entrusted to me.
15:39 I’m not. I’m going to care for. Yes, many will leave.
15:41 Maybe even some may leave the church. Many may even leave the church. But that’s not your call.
15:46 It’s not your church. The souls are not yours. You are a caretaker, you are under shepherd.
15:52 So now you have to make the stand. If the pastors don’t make the stand and say, this is not on, this is actually a way of the devil sucking away, making people more impoverished. And then for years, then another funeral will come.
16:07 Oh, I’ve seen this disaster, you know, sad, you know, because one funeral comes soon after another. Something happens in the family, somebody else passes away and this same thing goes on. They suck up, they sell land.
16:21 They have to sell land to support these funerals. So finally, what is the devil doing? Sucking up the assets that the parents have built up over through blood and sweat and toil. So this the way of the devil.
16:33 So, pastors, you have to take a stand. Yes, people will condemn you, but that is the calling. The world will condemn you.
16:40 If the world doesn’t condemn you. I think you are part of the world. Brothers and sisters, today let us start and stand for Christ.
16:46 Let us examine ourselves. Pastors in Nigeria, I’m begging you, those who are hearing, I’m begging you, I’m begging you, make a stand. Make a stand for Christ.
16:55 In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I pray amen.
