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Scriptures Referenced
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11).
“For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Acts 21:25 King James Version (KJV)
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save [except] only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Acts 21:25 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
25 But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST.” —Matthew 1:18-20
“NOW all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, God with us.” —Matthew 11:22-23
THE VIRGIN BIRTH
Passing strange, is it not, that with such a clear record anyone can deny that the BIBLE TEACHES THE VIRGIN BIRTH. We can understand how men can reject the Bible record, but how men can say that the Bible does not teach the VIRGIN BIRTH is beyond conception.
The Bible teaches plainly that Jesus was conceived in the womb of a virgin Jewish mother by a supernatural insemination of the Holy Ghost, wholly and apart from any generation by a human father. This the Bible teaches so plainly that to the believer there is no doubt. The record cannot be mistaken by the enlightened and honest student of the Word.
JESUS SINLESS
The Bible teaches in addition that Jesus was a SINLESS man. While all men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature, and, therefore, are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was without sin and, therefore, DEATHLESS until He took the sin of others upon Himself and died THEIR death. Now while Jesus was of Adam’s race according to the flesh yet He did not inherit Adam’s nature. This alone will prove that sin is not transmitted through the flesh. It is transmitted through the blood and not the flesh, and even though Jesus was of the “Seed of David according to the flesh” this could not make him a sinner.
God has made of ONE BLOOD ALL THE NATIONS of the earth. Sinful heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Even though Jesus, therefore, received His flesh, His body from a sinful race, He could still be sinless as long as not a drop blood of this sinful race entered His veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity. That was the problem solved by the virgin birth.
ORIGIN OF THE BLOOD
It is now definitely known that the blood which flows in an unborn babies arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the foetus itself only after the introduction of the male sperm. An unfertilized ovum can never develop blood since the female egg does not by itself contain the elements essential for the production of this blood. It is only after the male element has entered the ovum that blood can develop. As a very simple illustration of this, think of the egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg is just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized hens egg but it will never develop. It will decay and become rotten, but no chick will result. Let that egg be fertilized by the introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the presence of LIFE IN THAT EGG. After a few hours it visibly develops. In a little while red streaks occur in the egg denoting the presence of Blood. This can never occur and does never occur until THE MALE SPERM HAS BEEN UNITED WITH THE FEMALE OVUM. The male element has added life to the egg. Life is in the blood according to scripture, for Moses says:
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11). “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Since there is no life in the egg until the male sperm unites with it, and the life is in the blood, it follows that the male sperm is the source of the blood, the seed of life. Think it through.
NO MOTHERS BLOOD
For this very reason, it is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the developing embryo in the womb of the mother. Such is the case according to science. The mother provides the foetus (the unborn developing infant) with the nutritive elements for the building of that little body in the secret of her bosom, but all the blood which forms in that little body is formed in the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the male parent. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not ONE SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD ever passes from mother to child. The placenta that mass of temporary tissue known better as “afterbirth,” forming the union between mother and child is so constructed that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts, minerals and even antibodies pass freely from mother to child and the waste products of the child’s metabolism are passed back to the mothers circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in that child is produced within the child itself as a result of the introduction of the male sperm. The mother contributes no blood at all.
TESTIMONY OF SCIENCE
Now for the sake of some of the skeptics who may doubt these statements let me quote from a few reliable authorities. In Howell’s Textbook of Physiology, Second Edition, pages 885 and 886, I read:
“For the purpose of understanding its general functions it is sufficient to recall that the placenta consists essentially of vascular chorionic papillae from the foetus (the unborn child) bathed in the large blood spaces of the decidual membrane of the mother. The fetal and maternal blood DO NOT COME INTO ACTUAL CONTACT. THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER by the walls of the fetal blood vessels and the epithelial layers of the chorionic villae.”
Or let me quote from Williams’ Practice of Obstetrics, Third Edition, page 133. Here I quote,
“The fetal blood in the vessels of the chorionic villae AT NO TIME GAINS ACCESS TO THE MATERNAL BLOOD in the intervillous space,BEING SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER by the double layer of chorionic epithelium.”
And from page 136 of the same recognized textbook I quote,
“Normally there is no communication between the fetal blood and the maternal blood.”
Now for the benefit of those of you who may be nurses, let me quote from a textbook which is familiar to you. Quoting from “Nurse’s Handbook of Obstetrics” by Louise Zabriskie, R.N., Fifth Edition, page 75:
“When the circulation of the blood begins in the embryo, it remains separate and distinct from that of the mother. All food and waste material which are interchanged between the embryo and the mother must pass through the blood vessel walls from one circulation to the other.”
And from page 82 of the same book:
“The foetus receives its nourishment and oxygen from the mothers blood into its own through the medium of the placenta. The fetal heart pumps blood through the arteries of the umbilical cord into the placental vessels, which, looping in and out of the uterine tissue and lying in close contact with the uterine vessels, permit a diffusion, through their walls, of waste products from child to mother and of nourishment and oxygen from mother to child. As has been said, this interchange is effected by the process of osmosis, and there is no direct mingling of the two blood currents. In other words, no maternal blood actually flows to the foetus, nor is there any direct fetal blood flow to the mother.”
GOD’S WONDERFUL PROVISION
How wonderfully God prepared for the virgin birth of His Son. When He created woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. That blood is the result of the male. Since Adam was the federal head of the race, it is HIS BLOOD which transmits Adam’s Sin. In order to produce a sinless man and yet be the son of Adam, God must provide a way whereby that man would have a human body derived from Adam but have not a drop of Adam’s sinful blood. Right here is the scientific biological reason for the sinlessness of the Man Christ Jesus. Some have tried to answer the question, “How could He be sinless and yet born of a woman?” by making Mary the “Immaculate Virgin.” That, however, does not answer the question of how JESUS was sinless since it is through the male that the bloodline runs.
Not only is this a scientific fact, but it is plainly taught in Scripture that Jesus partook of human flesh without Adam’s blood. In Hebrews 2:14 we read,
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. He also himself likewise took part of the same…”
You will notice that the children, that is the human children, are said to be partakers of FLESH and BLOOD, and then speaking of Jesus it says that He “himself likewise took part of the same.” The Word “took part” as applying to Christ is an entirely different word then “partakers” as applied to the children. In the margin of my Bible, I read the word translated “took part” implies “taking part in something outside one’s self.” The Greek word for partakers is “KOYNONEHO” and means “to share fully,” so that all of Adam’s children share fully in Adam’s flesh and blood. When we read that Jesus “took part of the same” the word is “METECHO” which means to take “part” but not all. The Children take both flesh and blood of Adam but Christ took only part, that is the flesh part, while the blood was the result of supernatural conception.
Jesus was a perfect human being after the flesh. He was of the seed of David according to the flesh, but blood is that part of a man which is the divine addition. In the creation of man, Adam’s body was made from the dust of the earth, but God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Since life is in the blood, this act resulted in the formation of blood in Adam’s body, but the first Adam’s blood was corrupted and sin transmitted through it to all mankind. In the last Adam and the second man, new and divine and sinless blood was produced in a body that was the seed of Adam and by this resulted in the production of —
DIVINE BLOOD
Conception by the Holy Ghost then was the only way the Virgin Birth could be accomplished. Mary contributed the body of Jesus and He became the “seed of David according to the flesh.” The Holy Spirit contributed the Blood of Jesus. It was sinless blood. It was Divine blood. It is Precious Blood for there has never been any other like it. It is —
INNOCENT BLOOD
“I have betrayed the innocent blood” Judas confessed in Matthew 27:4. Our Lord was innocent. He became like unto us in all things — SIN only excepted. Like unto us with ONE EXCEPTION and that exception was that instead of a human father He was conceived by a DIVINE FATHER. As a result biologically, He had DIVINE BLOOD, SINLESS BLOOD. Because this blood is sinless it is —
INCORRUPTIBLE BLOOD
Sin made human blood corruptible. Soon after death, decay sets in, and it begins in the blood. That is why meat must be drained well of its blood. That is why embalmers place the embalming fluid in the blood. David said that Jesus’ body should “see no corruption.” Though He was dead three days and three nights, His body did not corrupt. Because He was sinless they could not put Him to death but instead He “laid down His life voluntarily that He might take it up again.” He arose by His own power because death had no claim in HIM except the claim of others’ sin, and when that was paid —
“Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus, my Saviour, He tore the bars away, Jesus, My Lord. Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes.”
Sinner, have you received this Saviour and have you been washed in His PRECIOUS BLOOD? If not, you are still under the curse and the awful sentence of death. Why not accept HIM today and hear Him as he says:
“God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” —Romans 5:8,9
“Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.” “We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.”
“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” “The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.” (THE TABERNACLE, Pg. 101)
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.”
Listen to this audio recording, based on the Word of GOD, now!
Scriptures Referenced
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11).
“For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Acts 21:25 King James Version (KJV)
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save [except] only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Acts 21:25 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
25 But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST.” —Matthew 1:18-20
“NOW all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, God with us.” —Matthew 11:22-23
THE VIRGIN BIRTH
Passing strange, is it not, that with such a clear record anyone can deny that the BIBLE TEACHES THE VIRGIN BIRTH. We can understand how men can reject the Bible record, but how men can say that the Bible does not teach the VIRGIN BIRTH is beyond conception.
The Bible teaches plainly that Jesus was conceived in the womb of a virgin Jewish mother by a supernatural insemination of the Holy Ghost, wholly and apart from any generation by a human father. This the Bible teaches so plainly that to the believer there is no doubt. The record cannot be mistaken by the enlightened and honest student of the Word.
JESUS SINLESS
The Bible teaches in addition that Jesus was a SINLESS man. While all men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature, and, therefore, are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was without sin and, therefore, DEATHLESS until He took the sin of others upon Himself and died THEIR death. Now while Jesus was of Adam’s race according to the flesh yet He did not inherit Adam’s nature. This alone will prove that sin is not transmitted through the flesh. It is transmitted through the blood and not the flesh, and even though Jesus was of the “Seed of David according to the flesh” this could not make him a sinner.
God has made of ONE BLOOD ALL THE NATIONS of the earth. Sinful heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Even though Jesus, therefore, received His flesh, His body from a sinful race, He could still be sinless as long as not a drop blood of this sinful race entered His veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity. That was the problem solved by the virgin birth.
ORIGIN OF THE BLOOD
It is now definitely known that the blood which flows in an unborn babies arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the foetus itself only after the introduction of the male sperm. An unfertilized ovum can never develop blood since the female egg does not by itself contain the elements essential for the production of this blood. It is only after the male element has entered the ovum that blood can develop. As a very simple illustration of this, think of the egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg is just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized hens egg but it will never develop. It will decay and become rotten, but no chick will result. Let that egg be fertilized by the introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the presence of LIFE IN THAT EGG. After a few hours it visibly develops. In a little while red streaks occur in the egg denoting the presence of Blood. This can never occur and does never occur until THE MALE SPERM HAS BEEN UNITED WITH THE FEMALE OVUM. The male element has added life to the egg. Life is in the blood according to scripture, for Moses says:
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11). “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Since there is no life in the egg until the male sperm unites with it, and the life is in the blood, it follows that the male sperm is the source of the blood, the seed of life. Think it through.
NO MOTHERS BLOOD
For this very reason, it is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the developing embryo in the womb of the mother. Such is the case according to science. The mother provides the foetus (the unborn developing infant) with the nutritive elements for the building of that little body in the secret of her bosom, but all the blood which forms in that little body is formed in the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the male parent. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not ONE SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD ever passes from mother to child. The placenta that mass of temporary tissue known better as “afterbirth,” forming the union between mother and child is so constructed that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts, minerals and even antibodies pass freely from mother to child and the waste products of the child’s metabolism are passed back to the mothers circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in that child is produced within the child itself as a result of the introduction of the male sperm. The mother contributes no blood at all.
TESTIMONY OF SCIENCE
Now for the sake of some of the skeptics who may doubt these statements let me quote from a few reliable authorities. In Howell’s Textbook of Physiology, Second Edition, pages 885 and 886, I read:
“For the purpose of understanding its general functions it is sufficient to recall that the placenta consists essentially of vascular chorionic papillae from the foetus (the unborn child) bathed in the large blood spaces of the decidual membrane of the mother. The fetal and maternal blood DO NOT COME INTO ACTUAL CONTACT. THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER by the walls of the fetal blood vessels and the epithelial layers of the chorionic villae.”
Or let me quote from Williams’ Practice of Obstetrics, Third Edition, page 133. Here I quote,
“The fetal blood in the vessels of the chorionic villae AT NO TIME GAINS ACCESS TO THE MATERNAL BLOOD in the intervillous space,BEING SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER by the double layer of chorionic epithelium.”
And from page 136 of the same recognized textbook I quote,
“Normally there is no communication between the fetal blood and the maternal blood.”
Now for the benefit of those of you who may be nurses, let me quote from a textbook which is familiar to you. Quoting from “Nurse’s Handbook of Obstetrics” by Louise Zabriskie, R.N., Fifth Edition, page 75:
“When the circulation of the blood begins in the embryo, it remains separate and distinct from that of the mother. All food and waste material which are interchanged between the embryo and the mother must pass through the blood vessel walls from one circulation to the other.”
And from page 82 of the same book:
“The foetus receives its nourishment and oxygen from the mothers blood into its own through the medium of the placenta. The fetal heart pumps blood through the arteries of the umbilical cord into the placental vessels, which, looping in and out of the uterine tissue and lying in close contact with the uterine vessels, permit a diffusion, through their walls, of waste products from child to mother and of nourishment and oxygen from mother to child. As has been said, this interchange is effected by the process of osmosis, and there is no direct mingling of the two blood currents. In other words, no maternal blood actually flows to the foetus, nor is there any direct fetal blood flow to the mother.”
GOD’S WONDERFUL PROVISION
How wonderfully God prepared for the virgin birth of His Son. When He created woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. That blood is the result of the male. Since Adam was the federal head of the race, it is HIS BLOOD which transmits Adam’s Sin. In order to produce a sinless man and yet be the son of Adam, God must provide a way whereby that man would have a human body derived from Adam but have not a drop of Adam’s sinful blood. Right here is the scientific biological reason for the sinlessness of the Man Christ Jesus. Some have tried to answer the question, “How could He be sinless and yet born of a woman?” by making Mary the “Immaculate Virgin.” That, however, does not answer the question of how JESUS was sinless since it is through the male that the bloodline runs.
Not only is this a scientific fact, but it is plainly taught in Scripture that Jesus partook of human flesh without Adam’s blood. In Hebrews 2:14 we read,
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. He also himself likewise took part of the same…”
You will notice that the children, that is the human children, are said to be partakers of FLESH and BLOOD, and then speaking of Jesus it says that He “himself likewise took part of the same.” The Word “took part” as applying to Christ is an entirely different word then “partakers” as applied to the children. In the margin of my Bible, I read the word translated “took part” implies “taking part in something outside one’s self.” The Greek word for partakers is “KOYNONEHO” and means “to share fully,” so that all of Adam’s children share fully in Adam’s flesh and blood. When we read that Jesus “took part of the same” the word is “METECHO” which means to take “part” but not all. The Children take both flesh and blood of Adam but Christ took only part, that is the flesh part, while the blood was the result of supernatural conception.
Jesus was a perfect human being after the flesh. He was of the seed of David according to the flesh, but blood is that part of a man which is the divine addition. In the creation of man, Adam’s body was made from the dust of the earth, but God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Since life is in the blood, this act resulted in the formation of blood in Adam’s body, but the first Adam’s blood was corrupted and sin transmitted through it to all mankind. In the last Adam and the second man, new and divine and sinless blood was produced in a body that was the seed of Adam and by this resulted in the production of —
DIVINE BLOOD
Conception by the Holy Ghost then was the only way the Virgin Birth could be accomplished. Mary contributed the body of Jesus and He became the “seed of David according to the flesh.” The Holy Spirit contributed the Blood of Jesus. It was sinless blood. It was Divine blood. It is Precious Blood for there has never been any other like it. It is —
INNOCENT BLOOD
“I have betrayed the innocent blood” Judas confessed in Matthew 27:4. Our Lord was innocent. He became like unto us in all things — SIN only excepted. Like unto us with ONE EXCEPTION and that exception was that instead of a human father He was conceived by a DIVINE FATHER. As a result biologically, He had DIVINE BLOOD, SINLESS BLOOD. Because this blood is sinless it is —
INCORRUPTIBLE BLOOD
Sin made human blood corruptible. Soon after death, decay sets in, and it begins in the blood. That is why meat must be drained well of its blood. That is why embalmers place the embalming fluid in the blood. David said that Jesus’ body should “see no corruption.” Though He was dead three days and three nights, His body did not corrupt. Because He was sinless they could not put Him to death but instead He “laid down His life voluntarily that He might take it up again.” He arose by His own power because death had no claim in HIM except the claim of others’ sin, and when that was paid —
“Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus, my Saviour, He tore the bars away, Jesus, My Lord. Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes.”
Sinner, have you received this Saviour and have you been washed in His PRECIOUS BLOOD? If not, you are still under the curse and the awful sentence of death. Why not accept HIM today and hear Him as he says:
“God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” —Romans 5:8,9
“Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.” “We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.”
“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” “The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.” (THE TABERNACLE, Pg. 101)
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.”
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 6th December 2015. Life is in the blood. Life is in the blood.
00:02 Brothers and sisters, this title is extremely important. Life is in the blood. This is.
00:17 I’m quoting from Leviticus 17:11 and 17:14, 17:11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood.
00:29 Actually, life of all flesh is in the blood. Leviticus 17:11. Now Leviticus 17:14.
00:35 For it is the life of all flesh. The blood of it is for the life thereof. Without blood there is no life.
00:44 Brothers and sisters, yesterday we were dealing with the pure sinless blood of Jesus Christ because he had to shed blood, right? So there was. I also made some statements saying that his Father’s blood is not quite correct. That’s why I made an amendment yesterday.
01:00 I put a note after that. It is. You know, when you’re recording, you say things.
01:06 Thank Jesus. Sorry Lord. Sorry people.
01:10 Now, brothers and sisters, blood. There’s a report written by a scientist, by a medical scientist who passed away in 1965. So I enclosed the report in the email.
01:24 Please get that email from the graceoflife.com it says the chemistry of the blood, the life is in the blood. And of course, he’s a Christian. He was a Christian.
01:34 The brother was here on earth and he’s written report and quoting scientific papers now scientific events. Now you see, very important for us to remember this. God made all nations from one blood, from one blood.
01:54 God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth. So sinful heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Remember that it is important.
02:04 No sin is transmitted through the blood, not through the flesh. Even though Jesus therefore received his flesh, his body, from a sinful grace, he could still be sinless as long as not a drop of this sinful grace entered his veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity.
02:27 That is a problem solved by the. That was problem solved by the virgin birth. Virgin birth.
02:32 Now, at the same time, go and read the report. Please read it. It takes time maybe, but it’s important for us to know because when people ask about virgin birth, sinless blood of Jesus, you are able to answer, we are ambassadors of Christ.
02:46 We are. We need to know the information. But of course, if you are unable to understand and read, it’s okay.
02:52 Do not get distressed with it. Because finally, it’s the Holy Spirit who draws souls. Jesus Draws souls and settles.
03:00 I didn’t know all this sinless blood business. All isn’t it? And I was still drawn with all my sinful nature. I was a blasphemer.
03:07 And yet Jesus drove. So it’s not a doctrine or a must, but it is good now, if it’s good, if you can do it. Otherwise don’t make into oh, Pastor said, make this reading reading and suffer with this.
03:19 No, brothers, there is no captivity in Christ, there is peace in Christ there is great peace. So hold that peace. He sets us free.
03:28 Don’t get involved in all this unnecessary other rubbish. If you cannot, cannot. But you must always do the right thing.
03:34 That you must, if you love me, keep my commandments. Now one example given in the report is this. Because not a drop of mother’s blood enters the child and even the egg from the mother does not have ability to produce blood.
03:49 For instance, he gave an example as a chicken egg. A chicken egg is there without the cockerel allowing sperm to touch the egg. The egg will finally die off.
04:00 But once it is inseminated by the cochle sperm, then within a few hours, it seems you begin to see the egg begin to change. And there will be streaks, streaks of red bloodline forming, you know, streaks of red blood lines are forming. Can you imagine this streaks occur in the egg denoting presence of blood.
04:21 It happens when the male sperm touches it. But in Jesus case, it’s even now these two things. But doesn’t mean it’s the blood of the Father.
04:32 No, the blood is forming because the egg and the sperm got together. Yes, but in this case what will happen is the blood is completely formed for and by the fetus himself. So the baby has his own blood, own blood.
04:56 Father God of course is a spirit. He doesn’t have human flesh, so he doesn’t have blood running and all that. So, so.
05:04 But then Jesus had to have blood, pure sinless blood. But of course he was, is and never will be. Now this is a mystery.
05:13 Also God has taken the Holy Spirit, took Jesus, who’s alive, who was his sinner, will be into the womb of Mary and formed flesh. Why he has a bone of flesh to sacrifice for us so we can be set free. Brothers and sisters, if you don’t get too complicated with this.
05:34 But the fact is this. The mother’s blood doesn’t touch the fetus, so the sin didn’t transmit. Mother’s blood is.
05:41 Mary’s blood didn’t move over to baby Jesus because of the placenta. All the report you’ll be reading there. Read for yourself.
05:48 Remember, we are people of the truth. I’m the way, the truth and life. If I’m the way, truth and life.
05:54 We must be able to look at ourselves truthfully, not get upset, not get angry and all that. If you get anger. Anger is spirit evil.
06:03 Fear is spirit evil. Upsetting is spirit evil. And now if you’re angry in your heart, you harm yourself.
06:10 Don’t need all that. Look at it in peace of God. We are not going to go and fight.
06:17 Jesus didn’t tell us to fight for him. By the way, Jesus, he will fight for us. That’s a fantastic thing about Jesus Christ.
06:25 He defends us. He, we are in the palm of his hand. I’m the apple of his eye.
06:29 He defends me. I don’t have to go and defend Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ doesn’t need any defending.
06:35 When he finally comes there to put order in this world, there are people, wicked people will be destroyed. For me, I have to love the enemy even. And anybody who is enemy of God, God will deal with it.
06:46 We don’t go and fight. Our battle is not flesh and blood. Our battle is not flesh and blood, is spiritual force, power, words from Christ in the name of Jesus Christ.
06:57 That is why this must be understood. So anybody who talks of the crusade and all is wrong. What the crusader did was wrong.
07:04 They actually crusaders were manipulated, manipulated by the so called religious governments to go and take wealth from the Middle east. That’s what. And of course they got angry because the Middle Eastern was coming into the European place and they got angry.
07:19 They’re capturing their land. So. So that fight is a human fight.
07:22 So crusaders going and then defending Christ, all lies. They have been deceived, the crusaders. So we do not fight.
07:30 We love all, even the enemy. That’s the command of Jesus Christ. The Crusaders, the top fellows.
07:35 Every time it’s the top fellows, the politician, whoever gather and create haywalk for human beings. So the top fellows got people to go and fight and then promised them gold and silver. And then the Crusaders became a big issue.
07:49 They’re fighting for Christ and they wear the cross and all, all lies, all diseases from Satan. For us, very simple. Jesus said, love all, even love your enemies.
07:58 That’s a command, that one. They don’t talk about it. About the command that if you want to be sons of the most high God, you even love your enemy.
08:00 They don’t talk about that. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, we hold our peace, we live life.
08:11 But what is here today Is life is in the blood. Some of us, many of us going to get shocked today because I was shocked many years ago. I’m talking about maybe about 15, 16, 17 years.
08:23 17 years maybe ago when I first read the scriptures. And it shocked me because one of the things I used to do is I used to eat fried blood. Because teow chew porridge.
08:36 We in Malaysia, we have Chinese porridge. One kind of group of Chinese porridge. I used to learn that from when I was very small.
08:43 Tel chew porridge. And this what they do, they use the blood and cook it and then they fry it with onions and garlic and whatnot and tasty. And you can eat it with, I don’t know, onions or not, I think garlic and ginger maybe even and put some herbs and taste it.
08:59 And while eating porridge we can use that. I used to like that now until I read this scripture that shocked me out of my wits. And remember, my covenant is very simple with Christ.
09:10 If Christ says his wall is black, it is black. And then if people say, but Pastor, the wall actually looks white, I said, my eyes also see white, but it is actually black. My eyes are playing tricks.
09:22 Jesus Christ cannot lie. His words are true. So I want to follow and that’s why I will follow.
09:28 Now I’m not asking you to follow like that. Each of you have to decide how you want to follow. But I pray that you follow.
09:34 Keep the commandments of Christ. It’s safety for us. Now where I’m reading, I’m reading from first of all, I’m going to read both the Catholic version and the Protestant version.
09:44 Because the people, brothers and sisters, all relax, relax, relax. Let’s love God, but love God. This is unnecessary division.
09:53 Relax. I tell people any some people come and say, me new children of God will come. First of all, I’ve got this problem.
10:00 I say first, relax, relax. Jesus is on the throne. Just relax.
10:05 Not get so by you getting agitated and excited. Are we going to solve this problem? No. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
10:12 Now here I’m reading from Acts 21:25, Acts 21:25 from King James version, as touching the Gentiles which believe. Now this is the apostles talking among themselves as touching the Gentiles which believe. That means we, not the Jews who believe, but the Gentiles who believe.
10:32 Gentiles are we. We have written and concluded. The apostles have written and concluded and written down and concluded that they observed no such thing.
10:42 Because they got a lot of Jew customs there. Some of the Jew Christians were following out of tradition or Whatever. So the apostles decided, look here, we shall not trouble this.
10:53 Gentiles were coming because they come into Christ. Let them be with Christ. Let’s not put all the other works and all the other things they got to do from the Jew custom into these people.
11:05 We have written and concluded that they observe no such thing. All the things don’t observe for the Gentiles, save means, accept only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood and from strangled and from fornication. Keep themselves, Keep ourselves away from idols, offer things offered titles.
11:29 But we are not dealing with this idol thing today. We are dealing with the blood issues. Keep ourselves from blood.
11:36 Now, in the Catholic version, it says Acts 21:25. But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment. They have considered a judgment because they concluded that they should abstain from blood.
11:51 Abstain from blood. Now, when I first read this, and then there are other scriptures now, for instance, Acts 15:28, I’m reading my Curly version. But it’s the same as in the King James Version.
12:07 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials. Listen very carefully, brothers and sisters. Apostles are saying acts of Apostles.
12:25 It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials. That means we are imposing this burden on you. What one that you obtain from blood.
12:40 If you keep yourself from this, you do well, you obtain from blood. That’s an imposition. And it seemed good to the Holy Spirit also and to us.
12:49 And we impose it on you. The same thing you will find in the other versions, especially the older versions. You check now.
12:56 Now let’s look at this. I got a shock. Now.
13:00 One of the things churches do. I have seen some churches all the time. Money, money, money.
13:04 This is actually shocker. I used to be shocked out of my wits when I came to the Lord and went to the churches. I’m shocked.
13:11 Why? Every Sunday there’s an issue, serious amount of money issue. But I’m not talking that today. I have to deal with that another day on giving.
13:18 But the issue is because what has happened, some of these pastors say, okay, God wants us to put a big building for God. You can’t do anything for God. In fact, I dealt with it.
13:28 What house will you make for me? Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool. God is telling you, what house will you make for me? I will not live in a house that’s made of hands. But there are pastors who are telling us, God told me to put up this big building for him.
13:42 He said he won’t live in a house that’s made of hands. Father, God is telling me I will only live in a house that is not made of hands. That’s the temple of God.
13:50 It is you, your body. He is living inside me through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. So I must keep this temple holy.
13:58 But they would rather do these buildings and put burden on people. Because why? They are not hearing God. They are hearing their own mind or their own self, or their own selfish desires or own jealousy of other buildings, other churches or big buildings.
14:13 So you begin to put money and burden everybody every day. Money, money, money. Why they cannot pay the bills.
14:20 I understand the problem, but who has put yourself in the problem? If we put ourselves in the problem, we must get ourselves out of the problem. Not keep on burdening people. Brothers and sisters is giving us deal another day.
14:31 But today we deal with blood. Now what happened here? Life is in the blood. So as soon as I read this, of course my covenant is dead.
14:38 If God says it’s black, it’s black. Immediately I stopped, I stopped. I stopped eating any kind of blood.
14:44 Even Indians, what we do is we will cook the lamb’s blood in some kind of spices and all that. We used to eat that. But generally most Indians don’t do that these days.
14:53 But abstain from blood. Now remember blood. Can you imagine if you take a transplant, you take an organ transplant, the body will reject and reject and reject.
15:05 And you have to put suppressants, medical suppressant, all kinds of drugs to suppress the rejection. But blood transfusion, if you get the right, of course you get. There are only certain groups.
15:17 You must make sure the right group. Otherwise the person will die. Because they will poison the person.
15:22 You get right? Let’s say group O. Group O and then transfer, transfused. You need the blood because life is given to this person.
15:32 You know, and my son, in accident, so much of blood had to be given, so much of pint after pint because he’s dying. That time God gave him life. Brothers and sisters, another day I’m led to talk about your talk.
15:48 It was a tragedy in my home. And we face the consequences. And God has seen us through.
15:53 Now remember this. I’m not telling you now go. I’m not ordering you all.
15:59 I’m only telling you. Please read the Scripture. Acts 15:28.
16:04 It seem good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you. No other further burden on these essentials but these essentials that means we impose on you this burden that you abstain from blood brothers and sisters. This is where they say as the English says rubber meets the road.
16:24 When you are rubber meets the road means when the plane landing or so rubber meets the tarmac screeching and fire and all that because the decisions to be made by you because this is burning decision because when rubber meets the road then there’s a burning incident and the plane lands on the tarmac. Sometimes fire also sparks may come out. This is what sparks will come out.
16:45 You have to read this and make a decision for yourself. Life is in the blood and God has put in book of Acts the apostles says seem good to them not impose anything else but impose this abstain from blood brothers and sisters in the name of Jesus Christ I pray amen But I’m not telling you this you decide in Jesus name amen.
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
[ Loving God Under Trials ] Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
Indeed we count them blessedwho endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessedare you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessedare those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Blessedare those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 5th December 2015, titled God calls you blessed. God calls you blessed. You and I are blessed.
00:13 We are blessed, brothers and sisters. Yesterday we saw that Mary said generations will call her blessed. Thank Jesus through she is blessed.
00:25 And so some people say, what do I think of Mary? I love Mary. People will be surprised, especially these people who left the Catholic Church or whatever they’ll be. They say, how, how? Yeah, love Mary.
00:42 I love Apostle Paul, John, Matthew, Mark, Abraham, Isaac, Moses. These are great people. God has blessed them.
00:52 And, and some of these New Testament apostles, they are great examples for us to follow. The Old Testament, they are great examples too. Like Moses, you know, fantastic character, you know, fantastic, you know, of course he ran away frightened.
01:11 He was brought up in the. In the Egyptian courtroom and all that. And from the king, the Pharaoh Pharaoh’s court is brought up.
01:22 Finally he ran away because he tried to save a Jew Israelite. And then he got fed up with him because they called him murderer and all that. He ran off and then finally he lost the way he could speak and all.
01:34 He doesn’t know how to speak. Also. 40 years in the wilderness, taking down sheep or whatever.
01:39 Then God calls him. Of course he says, I can’t speak. Then God says, take Aaron, show the staff.
01:47 Now, can you imagine? God has blessed all these people. Imagine that Mary is blessed. I love Mary, but I adore, worship and love Jesus Christ with all my heart, my mind, my strength, my soul, my very being.
02:05 I love Jesus Christ. Why? He is the only one who suffered for me. He gave up everything.
02:11 He gave up his entire riches of heaven. He was. He was with God.
02:18 He is God. He was with God. He was in God.
02:21 He was the word of God. He left that and came to come to be part of mankind. So that by his sacrifice to go on the cross and suffer, and first suffer, arrested, tortured, nailed, crucified, died, rise again.
02:41 All faith, you know, faith. Because Father God turned away. I’ve got one other segment I’ve recorded before.
02:48 Father God had to turn away because sin and Father God cannot mix. And that time Jesus said, eli, Eli sabachthani, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why all the sin that. Come on Jesus Christ, My sins, all kinds of sins.
03:09 I did all my curses. Jesus Christ came on him. All my condemnation, my shame, my boils, my sicknesses, my eczemas, whatever I had, all had come upon him.
03:27 And all what could have happened on me also went on him. And he took all of the world’s troubles, O brothers and sisters, all the illnesses, the diseases, all it took, the curses, the condemnation, the shame, the rebuke, the punishment, everything went on. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, on the day of the cross, he came to do this.
03:57 And he went and did this. That is why we worship, adore all our heart, mind, soul and strength. Because he loves us to that point.
04:09 And he was not a created being. He was, is and ever will be. He is God.
04:14 He is God. The fine Mary, as I said, her heart rejoices, rejoices. Her spirit rejoices.
04:26 Because God is a Saviour. God is a savior. Jesus Christ is a savior.
04:33 She needs saving. She knew that now we need saving. We now must know that.
04:40 And the saving can only come from Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And we want to obey how to love God. God said, jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments.
04:51 And our commandments are what he said, the prescriptions, they are just authoritative prescriptions. Prescriptions are good for us. And then he not only does say that, he gives us power by his name.
05:06 Use my name. He says, you are called by my name, Christian. Use My name and cast out all the evil spirits.
05:14 We can command anything and everything will obey in my name. Even the waters, the storm. That time when he was on the sea, he told the storm to be calm, the sea to be calm.
05:25 And the sea became like glass. He’s coming into Jerusalem and the people are. We call it Palm Sunday these days.
05:32 We call it Palm Sunday, but I don’t know whether it was Sunday or not. I must check that he was coming to Jerusalem and people are carrying the palms and rejoicing. And the soldiers told, make your people be quiet.
05:48 He said, if I tell them be quiet, even the stones will rise up and call my name. Even the stones will rise up and call my name. Why? Every molecule of sand knew that it was created by Jesus Christ when he cursed the fig tree because it was not producing fruit and deceiving people, pretending because he didn’t curse the fig tree, not because he didn’t produce at all.
06:18 It was sort of flowering like it was in a mould that from a distance it looked like it is as fruits. Because that particular tree is deceiving. So he doesn’t want people to be deceived.
06:28 So he cursed a fig tree. He didn’t curse all the fig trees because it was not a season for fruiting, but this one was looking like it’s fruiting. And from a distance they walk off the path of the road and Go deeper inside because he was hungry, starving and he went to have some figs and he found that this tree has ried is deceiving Jesus and God Almighty.
06:53 Cannot take deception of any kind. Cannot take deception. Every deception, we better get rid of it from our lives.
07:01 Any kind of falsehood must go from our lives. Only the truth remains. Because he is truth and has given us power by his blood and name to follow the truth, be in the truth and no need to do any lies.
07:15 No need to follow the world’s customs. What are people telling us to do? Check the scriptures ourselves and those who cannot read, hear the scriptures. You can record those of us who can record and all that help those others.
07:32 Download the scriptures in voice form, audio form and let it play for your mother, for your brother, for your sister, for your uncle, for your grandfather, grandmother, grand aunties, your neighbors. Download so they can hear it. Hear.
07:48 Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God. God says so by hearing they’ll get the faith. They’ll know the truth.
07:55 Now we ourselves the words of Jesus. Those who got English can download that and listen in English. We have now got in Tamil the whole prayers, one whole prayer, very detailed prayers which has help so many.
08:11 Download the prayers. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every spirit of greed and selfishness to get out of me. Things like that.
08:19 It will be there. Your life will change as you begin to keep on telling the prayers. Brothers and sisters, this is the truth.
08:26 This is the truth. We shouldn’t do anything anywhere else. Anything away from the Bible is not the truth.
08:32 Now you have to watch out because there are people who have bought over these Bible printing publishers and changing the Bible. Go and used older Bibles because the newer Bibles, Satan is the ruler of the world and is taking control of the printing companies and changing things. And so later, the next generation, third generation, they’ll forget the old Bibles and listen to new ones.
08:56 And there they would have changed it. If people are changing it, they have a. They have a.
09:01 They have an agenda. Many times the agenda is to control you. To control Jesus wants you to come to him.
09:08 No one goes to my Father except through me. Come unto me and I shall give you rest. Not come unto Paul, Peter and everybody else and then come to me.
09:18 No, there’s no mediator except one Jesus Christ with God. Just as God is one. The Bible said yesterday we read that just as God is one, there is only one mediator between you and God.
09:32 Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Not the priests, not the pastors, not Priesthood, not the people who are speaking the Bible words or whatever, or people announcing this way, teaching this way, that way. In fact, the Bible says they’ll come with great swelling words to take one scripture and tell it this way and that way and every which way.
09:50 Finally, you will be deceived because the words and the meanings will change. Because they keep on writing and talking and writing anything. They take one and begin to write so much.
10:00 You better become suspicious, brothers and sisters become suspicious. If they take one scripture and begin to write and say, you know those days in Israel, it was like this and like that. And then they begin to write this way and that way and this way, and they preachers and teachers this way and that way.
10:16 God said the simplicity of the gospel, simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s why you will notice that I’ll try to keep English simple English here. Because why the simplicity of the gospel, the big words, swelling words of God said they’ll come and try to deceive you.
10:32 Forget about that simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is simple gospel. Come unto me and I shall give you rest.
10:40 The Son of God was the word of God who came and took flesh and died for us so that he can give us rest. Blood, pure holy blood, sinless blood. Because in the womb of Mary, the placenta would have blocked the blood of Mary to touch Jesus.
10:56 Because Jesus godfather got blood. Check us, the medical people, they’ll tell you the baby has got the father’s blood. And Bible says the life of the baby comes from the father, through the father, in this case through the father.
11:10 So all my children, the life was given through me because God had arranged that way. But my wife carried the child for nine months in a womb. And in the womb the mother’s blood, my wife’s blood didn’t go and touch my children’s blood.
11:24 There’s a placenta and where the blood is stopped. And the child grew, saying, yes, Mary nurtured the human form of Jesus Christ. But Jesus was, is and never will be.
11:38 So he was not born. He doesn’t have a date. And the fact now December, they’re having this born date if Jesus wants us.
11:45 And now a lot of historians are checked and seeing it cannot be December that Jesus Christ was born. He was supposed to be either born in September or something. Some people say April or May, because the shepherds were in the fields.
12:01 It seems December in Israel is so cold. The shepherds were in the field and they couldn’t have been in the field. The sheep and all would have been in the barn because so called they flourished to death.
12:11 So it must have been different season and all that. So every day we rejoice Jesus Christ. Every day, every day we don’t wait for December.
12:19 One day. Just a few hundred years ago they decided to put that Jesus Christ was born on 25th. A few hundred years ago they decided to put the Christmas thing.
12:29 For hundreds of years after Jesus left, there was no such thing as this. Celebrating the 25th of December and all that. Praise Jesus Christ.
12:38 Brother, go and check for yourself. Go to the Internet and check and see is Christmas real and all that. And you’ll come to the knowledge of the truth.
12:44 Now today God calls you blessed. Now let’s read in Matthew 5:3. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
12:53 Next one. Blessed are those who mourn for their they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
12:53 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are pure in heart, for they shall see God.
12:57 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. These peacemakers is not making worldly peace, one nation to another. Because the world is controlled by ruler of the Satan, ruler of the world of Satan.
13:23 This is peace between man and God. When we go and tell people of Jesus Christ and then they repent of their sins and come to Jesus Christ and decide to follow Jesus Christ and they have peace with God, making peace with God. So blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
13:39 So anyone who is going and making people to have peace with God, we shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who have persecuted and reviled you and and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely for my sake.
14:00 You are blessed. Blessed is he who is not offended because of me. When somebody is upset about Jesus Christ and all and then we are telling, we want to tell about Jesus Christ.
14:11 But now people are condemning us and we become offended. Don’t, don’t we accept the thing now, this blessed thing, the biggest blessing, this blessing is blessed is blessing. Blessing is what Prosper, happy, be happy.
14:26 Prosper and welfare all provided. So that’s what the blessed is. Be blessed.
14:31 You will be prosperous, you’ll be well, you’ll be happy, you’ll be joyful. Actually, joyful is a better word. Happiness comes and goes, happens in the instant you’re happy next instant.
14:41 You’re not happy. Now, brothers and sisters, the biggest blessing is salvation. Salvation.
14:48 That’s why he says one in Matthew 13:16, Blessed are your eyes for the sea and your ears for the hear. In fact, do you remember what Thomas said? You are blessed because you see. Blessed are those who believe when they don’t even see.
15:05 Can you imagine? He told blessed are those who do not see and still believe. He told Thomas, praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it in Luke 11:28.
15:19 So when you’re keeping the word of God, you are blessed. You are blessed, brothers and sisters, you are blessed. So let’s not make that one blessed and become an issue and make a doctrine.
15:29 There are people making doctrine writing this way, that way. Mary we love Jesus Christ. We adore worship and love with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.
15:40 Today, my dear brothers and sisters, God is a jealous God. He will not share his glory. He will not share all his creation otherwise.
15:49 The Holy Spirit yearns jealously for your soul, the Bible says, and he will not share his glory. He will not. So he wants our heart and mind and soul and everything to love Jesus Christ first.
16:03 And then there are different kinds of love. Love our neighbor, and he defined it as we love ourselves. To love one another as I have loved you by willing to give our life.
16:14 That is for disciples, brothers and sisters. You are blessed. You are blessed.
16:20 Let’s be blessed. And you are a saint, sanctified and separated for salvation. You are saints.
16:26 Those who want to follow Jesus Christ, God calls them saints. Saints is not some organization appointing you saints this and saints that. You are a saint because you have decided to follow Jesus Christ.
16:38 And you are born of the Spirit of God. And you want to obey God in the spirit and truth. Friends, it says today, let’s move in that let’s love all and let’s love Jesus Christ with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
[ Loving God Under Trials ] Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Indeed we count them blessedwho endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you areblessed. “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessedare you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessedare those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Blessedare those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
Hebrews 9:27 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment,
Philippians 2:12 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
1 Timothy 2:5 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,
Luke 1:26-30 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
The Birth of Jesus Foretold
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” 29 But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. 30 The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Luke 1:38 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
38 Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:46-49 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Mary’s Song of Praise
46 And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; 49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
Luke 8:19-20 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
19 Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd . 20 And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”
Matthew 13:55-56 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
John 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
John 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 3rd December 2015 Positive thinking or Christ thinking? Positive thinking or Christ thinking? Brothers and sisters, again today let’s remind ourselves that I’m humble. We get grace from God. God opposes the proud.
00:23 We can call ourselves Christian if we are proud. God opposes us. Why? He knows we’re going to put ourselves in trouble.
00:30 He cannot allow proud. Proud was the first Pride is the first sin ever in the universe. Not the Adam and Eve sin.
00:39 Pride. Pride is the first sin. And it came from Lucifer who became Satan finally because of his own pride.
00:46 Brothers and sisters, humble grace, Proud, opposed. So what is proud again as reminder? Ourselves and anything that we do not want to use the Word of God. We do not want to submit to the Word of God that is Jesus Christ.
00:56 We do not want to lean on the Word of God, that is leaning on Jesus Christ who is the word of God, who is depending on him, trusting him, adhering to his prescriptions, authoritative prescriptions as the Bible says. Hebrew interpretation says one is keep my commandments, if you love me, keep my commandments. And the commandments are interpreted as one aspect is authoritative prescription.
01:24 It’s prescription for us. So those of us who our heart will want to be proud, get it straight. Our heart will want to be proud.
01:32 But we know Jesus already told us our hearts are treacherously wicked. Who can know it now? Our spirit man must control our heart. These are fundamentals that we need to go through from time to time.
01:46 Because this thing slowly creeps up our heart and mind slowly creeps up at and takes over. For instance, if anyone thinks himself be something when he’s nothing, he deceives himself. These scriptures are all repeatedly put in the emails that come to you.
02:03 Brothers and sisters, collect the emails. Those of you who are having their own groups and sending your own groups, please also can go to the graceoflife.com graceoflife.com and collect the emails. They’ll send you emails regularly.
02:05 Those of you who are joining new, please go to the graceoflife.com and go to the page the section of power of Christ and begin to choose the things that are important to you because some of it may not make sense because this is 180something segment. So we are going ahead and talking and teaching believing that the fundamentals have been settled in your souls. Now the other one is if you think you know something, you do not know anything yet as you ought to know.
02:50 So therefore don’t deceive ourselves. Brothers and sisters, these are Many fundamental scriptures examine ourselves. God tells us to examine ourselves.
02:59 And I tell ourselves to examine ourselves in the bed before going to sleep. Brothers and sisters, today, the power of Christ daily. Positive thinking or Christ thinking.
03:08 Obviously, when a question is posed like that, Positive thinking or Christ thinking, everybody will answer. Christ thinking. But let’s look in detail.
03:18 True is Christ thinking, but what is wrong with positive thinking? What is wrong with positive thinking? Now, brothers and sisters, positive thinking has its own set of problems. Simply because it doesn’t consider one, it doesn’t consider other factors. You can take something and begin to think positively.
03:40 And then to a point it will work. To a point it will work. But it doesn’t consider other factors.
03:45 That’s why it will finally fail. Therefore, if all positive thinkers finally failed in other areas of their life, maybe in that particular area something good is happening, but that’s not going to solve. We need a wholesome life, a holistic life.
03:58 God put us here as ambassadors for Christ so that we are looking at eternity. Positive thinking doesn’t definitely look at eternity. Now, positive thinking, the issue is, for instance, it doesn’t consider factors like our hearts are treacherously wicked.
04:15 It doesn’t. And finally, it doesn’t consider that major big, as they say in English, the elephant in the room. Satan came to steal, kill and destroy.
04:24 The ruler of the world is Satan. It doesn’t consider that at all. It has no knowledge of that.
04:30 Because of that, the devil allows all your positive thinking. Carry on, carry on. And when the time comes, the devil comes and steals, kill and destroy.
04:38 It’s out to destroy souls. It starts stealing from us. So you can be positive thinking.
04:43 Positive thinking. Positive thinking to pass an exam, let’s say a positive thinking. And then before you reach the exam, there’s an accident and you can’t even reach the exam.
04:52 How’s that for positive thinking? Only Jesus Christ can keep you safe right to the examination. Because He’s a creator, all things under his feet. He has all things under his control.
05:02 He has power to deal with all things. So therefore, positive thinking cannot solve the problem. Christ thinking.
05:10 Now. Christ thinking. Now let’s look at this.
05:13 First of all, let’s look at some scriptures and let’s see some examples of how positive thinking can go wrong. For instance, take positive thinking example. Let us say, and I’ve done this, me and my wife before marriage, of course, we had this heart because we were not following Christ, we are following a religion.
05:32 And when we are becoming more and more demonized, she was becoming more and more religious. Religion cannot Solve our problem. Only Jesus Christ can because he is the only one who died and rose again and gave us power.
05:44 But to solve our problem, we must get to Jesus the Christ, the son of the living God. Now so in marriage, let’s say somebody thinking for marriage and positive thinking, I want a girl like this, like this, like this will take care of me who take care of this and that. And then forgetting what not Christ thinking, positive thinking.
06:05 I want the girls. I want a beautiful girl. I want a girl who take care of me.
06:09 And some people, you know, some people think they want a girl like their mother. Don’t do this, brothers and sisters. God has a plan for you to have a perfect wife for your match.
06:16 Now then, having said that, that applies to even girls. They want their future husband like the Father. Don’t do that, don’t do that.
06:28 The Father loves you. Yes, but you want a husband who God gives. A God fearing man who’s a Christian through and through.
06:38 Not selectively, not just choosing to follow Christ here and there, but fully in Christ, knowing Christ is the only way. You want a husband who will submit to the word of God, who leans on the word of God, who leans on Jesus Christ. Now let’s say this future, this man looking for a wife like that, you know, take care of me, this and that.
06:59 Now positively thinking, the positive thinking the secret will tell you. Think of the kind of woman you want. Lies.
07:07 It’s not true, brothers and sisters. Then what happens? But actually Christ’s thinking will be what Christ’s thinking will be that you the marriage is what you will love your wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for it. That’s a command to future husbands and husbands.
07:27 Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for it. Now instead of this man, including me, never thought about giving myself up for of course I thought of protecting her and all that. Because I loved her very much.
07:41 So I thought of protecting her. Having children of my marriage, my wife, I’ll take care of her. All that we had, but actually finally can’t do.
07:49 Isn’t it why the devil came to steal, kill and destroy? And our treacherous heart pulled me by my own self and committed adultery and all these other rubbish that came along with it. Now more importantly, Christ thinking will be thinking of how you will be a good husband as according to Christ’s word. Now girl, a girl.
08:08 I want a handsome boy who takes care of me, who loves me, who provides for me and all that. Maybe you know, if you’re in the World, you are looking at all the worldly things. But what is Christ thinking is? Christ’s thinking is that you submit to your husband as you submit unto Christ.
08:26 That one many girls are not thinking about before getting married. Now, when they are positively thinking the other way around, what happens? Finally, the marriages break. They may stay married because of culture and pressure from the peers and all that.
08:40 They may together as married, but the marriage already broken. The many, many marriages are like that. They’re actually broken.
08:48 They don’t have the relationship that Jesus Christ ordained, but they are together. And so people think they’re married for so many years. Fantastic.
08:57 You know, they take care of each other. That’s a fallacy because you’re looking not in the spirit, you’re looking in the kernel, in the Spirit. What could have happened is they could have actually no more, no more relationship.
09:09 They just playing out their marriage, living out their marriage to the end of their days. That is not the thing what Jesus Christ done for me and my wife. This marriage, our marriage, my marriage has been transformed into something that I cannot believe, I couldn’t imagine because I had my own facet of how marriage should be.
09:31 Now in Christ, Christ makes it happen. But that can only happen because I decided that Jesus says, this wall is black. When it is looking white to my eyes, I will say it’s black.
09:44 I want to obey. I’m willing to obey. That’s how your marriages can become perfect.
09:50 When you don’t expect your wife to change or your husband to change, you change. You change, sister. You change, brother, according to Christ’s precepts.
09:59 So when you obey Christ Lord, this world, I know you said it’s black, but I can see why my eyes are playing tricks on me. I command my eyes to now look at the spiritual, look at the things above and know it is black. Because Jesus Christ cannot tell lies.
10:17 He is the truth. It is impossible for him to lie. In Jesus name I pray.
10:22 This is the way you pray and follow Christ. Now, there is a scripture in Ephesians 3, 1921, which says something like, the love of God surpasses all understanding. And then at the same time, what he does is he will do for us more than we can ask or think.
10:41 And some translation will say, imagine more than he ask or think or imagine. Now, positive thinking will only do what you think or imagine. But Christ thinking, now let’s read the scripture is going to do much, much more than we can ever imagine Christ thinking in Ephesians 3, 1921amplified.
11:01 I am reading and that you may come to know practically through personal experience the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience. In Ephesians 3:19 says you come to know the love of God which surpasses all understanding of knowledge. But that is without experience, not just knowledge which you must pass that we must know the love of Christ through experience.
11:29 Not just without experience, but just head knowledge that you may come to know this Apostle Paul praying We come to know practically through personal experience. So we have to go personal experience to know this love of God. That means you must not make a stand.
11:43 When Jesus says do something, you make a stand and do that. Although your heart and mind something else and people around you are telling something else, you made a stand. And when you make a stand in Christ and you see the miracle happen, then you’re experiencing the love of Christ for you.
11:59 That is far beyond knowledge that you may be filled. Why that you may be filled throughout your being to all the fullness of God. Now when you begin to know the love of Christ not just merely by knowledge, but by experience, you will be filled throughout your being to all the fullness of God so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself.
12:29 20 now to Him who is able to carry out his purpose, whose purpose? Jesus Christ. To him who is able to carry out his purpose and do super abundantly more than all that we dare ask, ask or think infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, greatest hopes or greatest dreams, according to his power that is at work within us now. Very critical.
12:56 It says to him who Jesus Christ, who carry out purpose, is able to carry out purpose and to do super abundantly more than all that we dare ask or think or imagine, infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, infinitely beyond our greatest hopes, infinitely beyond our greatest dreams according to his power that is Jesus power that is at work within us. Can you imagine, brothers and sisters? So this is a powerful thing. So in Jesus Christ thinking will bring us to much, much more than your positive thinking and be protected from the devil even because you cast out Christ thinking will cast out the devil in Jesus name.
13:27 Christ thinking will make you humble. You won’t have opposition. Christ thinking will use the word of God and the name of Jesus Christ.
13:43 Your heart and mind will change and will be flooded with God. You’ll be flooded. Every cell will be flooded with God himself.
13:49 Now this is Christ thinking. Now. 2nd Corinthians 10:3 5.
13:54 I’m reading from Catholic version. Indeed we live as human beings, but we do not wage War according to human standards. For the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds.
14:09 We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle raised up against the knowledge of God. And we take every thought captive to obey Christ. This is a very important scripture.
14:20 Why positive thinking will not consider 2nd Corinthians 10:3 5 because 3 to 5 dealing with the supernatural. The spiritual element of our warfare. The warfare is not flesh and blood.
14:33 We are not fighting human beings. We are fighting spiritual forces. I’ll read that now in Amplified to get a greater explanation.
14:41 For though we walk in the flesh as mortal men, we are not carrying on our spiritual warfare according to the flesh and using the weapons of men. Do not fight with men. Love them.
14:55 Love every human being. It’s not a human being thing. The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy.
15:00 They are captives themselves. We supposed to love all, including our enemies. If you want to be sons of the Most High God.
15:06 So we do not get into this. We get into the spiritual warfare. The weapons of our warfare four are not physical weapons of flesh and blood.
15:15 For our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. Strongholds. What are the strongholds in the mind? Our way of thinking has to change.
15:23 Our thinking is carnal, worldly. We are destroying sophisticated arguments. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God.
15:36 And we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ. We have to crush every thought, positive thought even, which is not positive. Every thought has been crushed that is not of God.
15:49 Every stronghold, every mind, stronghold, beliefs, false beliefs, all have to be crushed and brought to obedience, subject to the word of God. Only then we can have a good life. Positive thinking by itself is not going to cut it.
16:02 It’s not going to solve it. For instance, positive thinking can easily tell you. Wicked heart will say, I’ll be Robin Hood.
16:09 I’ll steal from the rich and give the poor. But you know that is wrong. But your positive thinking can change.
16:15 Can go and do that because your heart says this is the right thing. The world is terrible. My boss is cheating people.
16:22 So I will steal and help the poor for sisthinking. But it will kill you. Brothers and sisters.
16:29 Bring every thought subjection to the word of God. Get to Christ thinking and you will end up getting more than you can ever imagine. More than your prayers, more than all that.
16:39 Because he loves you. He loves you so. More than what you can ask, more than you can dare to think.
16:46 Will all provide for you. If you get to Christ thinking, brothers, in Jesus name I pray, get to Christ thinking, use these two scriptures again and again. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
John 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
John 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily. 2 December 2015. Titled Optimist, pessimist or Christian Christian is Christian optimist, pessimist or Christian.
00:17 It might have very well been optimist, pessimist or Christimist. Christimist. Now present this as.
00:26 Let’s start today again. As I said, today starts from last night. Before going to sleep in the bed, you have examined things.
00:33 You have talked to your heart. You have talked to Jesus Christ. You have cast all your cares upon him.
00:38 You have commanded every wicked unclean spirit to get out in the name of Jesus Christ. Sweet sleep of the righteous thinking of whether you did anything wrong, asking Jesus Christ of forgiveness and your sins being washed away. You know how powerful is that? You know how loving God is.
00:56 Can you imagine we do wrong? And then Lord Jesus, I’m sorry, Lord Jesus, I don’t want to do this again. And you change your mind of your thinking. The way you’re thinking is changed in the bed because you say talk to your heart.
01:08 And of course talk to your heart means you’re thinking things. Repentance is what changing the way we think first. First start of repentance is changing the way we think from worldly thinking to or personal thinking to the way Jesus thinks that Jesus wants us to think, brothers and sisters, that is necessary.
01:27 And then today you plant yourself to settle with people whatever you had to settle yesterday. You didn’t ask forgiveness, say sorry, say I am by meaning. Because God hates hypocrites, by the way.
01:37 God hates hypocrites, but we better understand this. So he doesn’t want guile and deception. He doesn’t want us to say something and have something else in our heart.
01:50 He hates this. He is the truth. Jesus Christ is the truth.
01:53 I am the way, the truth and life. So if we are in the truth, we will speak the truth. And we think even the truth.
02:02 When we think of the world, we are not thinking in the truth. We are thinking as in the world. We think in the truth.
02:07 We speak the truth. And then now with love. Truth with love.
02:15 Sincere love from a pure heart. Brothers and sisters, today we’ll start again. Yesterday we dealt with the optimist, pessimist.
02:22 Can a Christian be an optimist or a pessimist? Yesterday it was determined by God’s mercy that a Christian cannot be an optimist or pessimist. But a Christian is a Christian. So for want of a better word, I simply use the word Christimist.
02:38 Brothers and sisters, there are two scriptures that Today we look at, we looked at several scriptures yesterday. We look at the two scriptures today, two of them from yesterday, 2nd Corinthians 4, 4. Among them, the God of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
02:59 Satan has blinded the eyes. The God of this world is Satan. This factor is critical.
03:05 This information is absolutely pivotal to us being able to live, to live well in Christ. Now then, Proverbs 3, 5, 6 says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight or on your own understanding. Now let’s take some examples.
03:25 Now, we must remember, all of us who are listening to this, there are people here who are listening from various backgrounds, various walks of life, various cultures. So the cultural English in different cultures will mean different things. So, brothers and sisters, if you are in some culture that is different from where I am coming from and the English doesn’t make quite some sense to you, Please contact the graceoflife.com and somebody will assist you.
03:53 It may even be me, depending, who’s been taking turns to man the site. Brothers and sisters, all of us understand that. So English is itself a language that can be misunderstood because of the various cultures and our own backgrounds.
04:13 Now, the most important thing is this. Of course, a Christian cannot be a pessimist. Cannot, cannot be a pessimist.
04:20 Because actually Christian has hope. Because we have not even just hope. We have eternal hope.
04:25 We have eternal life. And to do that, our Lord and Master, who is not ashamed to call us brother, went to the cross to suffer and die and rise again. He had to do that.
04:37 He had to come here, left the riches of heaven, gave everything up, walked here as a man, suffered as a man, worse than all men, suffered for everybody else’s sin, took everybody’s sin on the cross when he was on the cross, took everybody’s curses who came and landed on him on the cross, on all the curses, all the anguish, the sorrow, the shame, everything he collected and then he died on the cross, rose again, buried and rose again. And he says now he give us power. That is why any of us who have gone through serious damage in life or shame or whatever, there’s no more shame.
05:12 That is why I have no more shame on the sins that I did. Either be shameful or now no more. Therefore I’m able to.
05:28 Jesus told me to put it in the website. I put my sins there. Reason is, the shame has been given to Christ I don’t feel shame now because I’ve been forgiven by Jesus Christ and in addition my wife has forgiven me, others have forgiven me.
05:45 I’ve asked forgiveness from the people, whoever I could contact and ask forgiveness from them. Same time brothers and sisters, we live a different life. We live an open life.
06:00 The truth is I did all that but I’m not telling all that because I have not been forgiven. I feel shame. I just talk about it to impress people.
06:11 No, I do that as God, as Jesus Christ has led me to do that, to tell everybody with those people who are suffering like that have an opening, have an escape route in Christ. They have a serious escape route because it’s the only escape route actually through Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now when we begin to tell the sins not to form and also to Jesus has forgiven me and God says he doesn’t remember our sins anymore, like east to the west, he doesn’t remember it anymore.
06:42 He just pushes aside because he washed us and covered us with his own blood. He covered me with his own precious blood. So he doesn’t remember sins.
06:49 But when he told me to put it there, it’s not that because he wants to remember. He’s telling me to remember so that I don’t go and do this rubbish. I don’t go back.
06:57 So when I’m going there, near there, I run away. 2 I know already, trouble is coming. 2 Next thing is for people to know there is a forgiving God and they see my life now, they know I’m free, I’m free.
07:14 That means they know I’m truly forgiven. I’m not carrying baggages from before. The baggage was there when I came to the Lord but step by step all leave, leave, leave, leave, get out in Jesus name and no more, no more looking back.
07:28 And therefore when they put their hand to the plough, Jesus says anyone who looks back is not worthy of him. Thank Jesus Christ. There were times when my soul was drawn, my heart and mind were drawn, but my spirit stood still by the mercy of Jesus Christ and followed Jesus Christ.
07:45 So the heart and mind were brought to subjection and therefore I didn’t turn back. But thank Jesus now it’s only his mercy. Now this optimist and Christian or Christimists, we have to give some examples so that people understand because people sometimes have difficulty thinking of it.
08:02 Now look, there’s another segment I’ve recorded. By God’s mercy to say Jesus mercy to say self confidence or God confident. Self confident or God confident, please look for this and listen to that because he is critical.
08:17 The world will tell us we are optimist. Now let’s take some example. Let us say something serious has happened and a person whose heart is broken.
08:28 Broken, let us say the person has suffered a death in the family, a loved one, and is crushed and broken and is going towards anguish and sorrow. Anguish and sorrow is happening now. When this anguish and sorrow is happening, can you imagine what the world will tell you? It’s okay.
08:48 Tomorrow will be all right. You will. Soon you’ll be passing this, you’ll go through this.
08:54 You live through this and eventually the pain will go away over time. Time heals. They’ll tell you time heals.
09:02 This is. Time doesn’t heal. Time doesn’t do anything.
09:07 Time just moves. Tide and time based on no man, as you say, wait for no man. So this is what the world can tell you.
09:15 That way. Even a Christian who do not know Mark 16, where the power is given to you to cast out evil spirits, and you do not know how to pray for these people or teach them. You are actually doing a serious error here.
09:31 Your counsel is no different from the world who will tell you, don’t worry, brother, or don’t you know? I know you’re sad. You’re brokenhearted. Today only time will heal.
09:42 Hang in there, brother. You know it will be all right tomorrow. Tomorrow will be better.
09:48 Day by day will be better. Because they discount the player. The third player is Satan.
09:56 That Satan came to steal, kill and destroy. And they discount the other factor. Our heart and mind is a fallen nature.
10:03 Our hearts are so wicked, treacherously wicked. Our Father God says, who can know it? The question is, who can know it? Even I won’t know it. But God knows, of course.
10:13 But he said you won’t know it. So what do you do? You cast out the spirit of anguish and sorrow. Cast out the spirit of anguish and sorrow.
10:21 Get out in the name of Jesus Christ and make them do the breath of God if they want. By the way, don’t force these things. They won’t work if they want, then they do the breath of God and they will be released.
10:33 That doesn’t mean that Satan will try to attack again. The spirit of anguish and sorrow will try and attack again. Now he has to.
10:40 Now he or she has to. Now pray and do the breath of God again. And maybe a brother or sister has to be with him.
10:45 Two by two. Keep company. Now can you imagine? An optimist can’t solve this.
10:50 Only a Christian is a Christian with the power of Jesus Christ. Not just any Christian who says he’s a Christian? A Christian is. If you believe this sign will follow you cast out evil spirits in my name.
11:02 How simpler than that can it get? Those who believe, spread the gospel, teach the gospel, teach the good news, and then those who believe this sign will follow. They will cast out evil spirits in my name. How much simpler can it be said? But people don’t know or does Cheshire don’t teach.
11:22 The Cheshire don’t teach. Or they will say only come to the pastor or a group of elders to do. Run from them.
11:29 Run from them, teacher, because they’re keeping the elders and only a group of people can do it. They say if you cast out, you know the devil can attack you and all that. The devil runs in the name of Jesus Christ.
11:39 But they will put frightened. They tried to do that to me, by the way. They tried to say, no, no, I was already casting out evil spirit because that was how I released.
11:47 And that’s the only thing I know from the start. Cast out and go in Jesus name. And I was putting small advertisements in that.
11:53 A paper called Millennial here demonic attacks. Jesus healed me. Jesus will heal you or something.
11:59 And then I was going and praying paper under the tree and all very quickly, within a few weeks after I was born again. Then they tried to send a signal. The pastor said his name, Elder coming and telling me that, you know, he shouldn’t do all this.
12:12 He’s concerned about you. He’s concerned for you and all lies. If you believe these signs will follow later.
12:18 Only I knew these are lies. They are trying to control you. They are trying to keep a small group of you.
12:24 Come to the small group so they control you. Jesus wants. You are his child.
12:27 You are his child. You are a servant of the Most High God. Immediately you are a disciple.
12:32 You want to be disciplined by Christ, you start doing this. If you don’t do this, please understand the devil will take advantage and dupe you, con you, delude you, deceive you. Spirit of deception can come.
12:46 Spirit of delusion can come. Now let’s take another thing. Let’s say somebody has gone through a divorce.
12:52 Terrible divorce, brokenhearted. And then they came to Christ. The only thing you can do first is give them peace.
12:58 How to give them peace? Through the breath of God. Cast out the spirit of fear and confusion and longing for the past. Brokenhearted.
13:07 Spirit of brokenheartedness, get out in Jesus name, Spirit of love from Jesus to be whole again in the name of Jesus Christ. You can do all that. Not just optimistic nonsense, this optimistic nonsense.
13:19 Coming from the world is actually taking us away from Christ. Do not want to let you see the truth and the power of Jesus Christ for your life. Doesn’t want you to see that.
13:29 The fact it’s all right, it’s all right. So there are people who spend thousands. I know a brother who is a pastor now.
13:36 When it happened to him years ago, he told me later he went and bought books so costly hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars or number of books and started reading this going counseling, this and their own work. Christian counseling does not work if you do not cast out the evil spirit. So even a Christian psychologist says he is a psychologist and does not use the power of Jesus Christ from Mark 16.
13:57 It is not going to work and is actually doing damage. Brothers and sisters, if you are a Christian psychologist here, please be warned. You are not understanding the full picture.
14:06 You are not taking into consideration that Satan is. Has blinded the minds of the unbelieving and is the ruler of the world. And he is the one sending all his demonic beings and fallen angels to do all this to destroy souls.
14:22 So if you are a Christian psychologist or you went to a Christian psychologist and they are just saying to you similarly from the world way without using the power of Jesus Christ to overcome and you are just trying to be an optimist and tomorrow you will be fine. Well, it will not be fine now. Number of young people are committing suicide after failing exams in places like China and Hong Kong and all that and even in all nations because they were hoping for a place in the university.
14:51 And it doesn’t happen because they missed out one or two points and they felt they’re useless. And then they don’t know what to do because their heart set on this. And then the communists reside.
15:01 Spirit of suicide may cast out and spirit of despair they cast out in the name of Jesus Christ. All these are cast out. And I release in the name of Jesus Christ.
15:09 Love and hope in Christ. And there’s a great life in Christ. I release it in the name of Jesus Christ.
15:15 And therefore then they change. You have to use this just by playing optimist Christian psychology. Playing psychology is not going to cut it.
15:24 Because there are spiritual forces that are killing and destroying souls. Brothers and sisters, that is why the world way of teaching. There’s one called secret.
15:32 You know the secret secret, you just think ting ting and it happen for you lie of the devil because they trying to take you away from Christ. Christ’s confidence, your optimism, your hope is in Christ. The power of Christ.
15:49 That’s Why you want to go on power. Think, think, think and it’ll be all right. You’re going to do business.
15:54 Put yourself and think about it. Think about it in hope and oh, you believe in the good thing, believing your optimism. Everything is fine.
16:02 It’s a lie of the devil taking you away from Christ. Who is the source of power? Who’s the actual solution? Whose actual solution is Christ. But the so called optimistic nonsense teaching in the world is actually worldly.
16:17 Guess who started it if it’s worldly? Satan. Who is the ruler of the world? Satan. Who? The God of this world? Satan.
16:25 And that’s why sometimes I think of Santa Claus coming as Santa Claus. S a n T a actually take S a T a n and put the word Take the n out from the last and put it on the third sector. Sa nta Satan becomes Santa.
16:39 Now brothers and sisters, the world will tell you cut a tree and put it into your house. I used to do all this, so that’s why I used to laugh after that. Brother and sister, today Christ confident, not optimist.
16:53 Your hope is in Christ. In Jesus name I pray. Drill it deep into you, brothers and sisters.
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Scriptures Referenced
John 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 1st December 2015 titled is a Christian an optimist or a pessimist? Is a Christian optimist or a pessimist? Brothers and sisters, today the 1st of December. Now we get up every day with hope. Why do we have hope? Because our hope in Christ will never fail.
00:25 That is the word of God. The word of God is hope in Christ will never fail. There is no other scripture anywhere else in the Bible telling that the hope can be in somebody else, the hope can be in something else and it will never fail.
00:39 No, there is only the scriptures, all of the precept of Christ is this. The hope in Christ will never fail. Our hope and faith in Christ, Our faith in Christ will let us live righteousness, peace and joy, joyful life.
00:55 Even things are going wrong. Even when things are going wrong, you will still have righteousness, peace and joy. When things are extremely wrong at a certain point of time and you are pressed all around, you will not be crushed.
01:07 You are struck down, but not destroyed. These are words of God. The words of God are alive and the word of God is Jesus Christ.
01:16 You are perplexed, but never in despair. All kinds of attacks. What amazing what’s going on, what’s going on.
01:24 But never in despair. You won’t get desperate because the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit will hold you. We have experienced this.
01:31 My family has met tragedy and yet we are holding. Our heart was so tremendous tragedy, but yet our hearts were still. And that can only be the spirit of God.
01:45 Jesus Christ, using a spirit, held us perplexed, but not in despair. We were not desperate. Pressed all around, but not crushed.
01:58 We knew we were holding on to that word. You know the words of God. Struck down but not destroyed.
02:05 Brothers and sisters, these words. Whenever things are happening, you have to remember these words. These are the promises and the promises of Christ never fail.
02:13 Hope in Christ never fails. Therefore, when fear comes, cast out fear in the name of Jesus Christ. Fear is the spirit.
02:19 But at the same time you have to examine yourself where any foothold has been given. If you’re given a foothold, the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. And of course he is doing that.
02:30 But if you acknowledge your sin, it’s faithful to forgive. Confess your sin and faithful forgive and repent. Repent means turn your mind thinking.
02:40 Thinking the way you’re thinking has to be turned into the right way of thinking. There is only one right way of thinking. The truth is Jesus Christ.
02:48 Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ, 1st of December 2015. Is. Is a Christian an optimist or pessimist? Now, of course, the world will say, and you will also realize being optimist is better than pessimist.
03:04 Now, pessimist, for those who have, who English is not your first language. Pessimist is always looking at gloom and doom, always looking at things go wrong, always thinking things will go wrong. Something will go wrong.
03:16 Something will go wrong. Yeah. This world is terrible.
03:20 This world is terrible. This world is terrible. That you know, nothing will happen, right? Nothing will happen, right? All things going wrong.
03:20 This world is like this, you know, and cynical because older people generally become cynical because they’ve been hammered so long, so long in the world. And then finally when they get older, they already don’t listen to anything new, don’t listen to anything new, don’t study anything new because they become pessimistic. They became cynical.
03:47 Even they Allah, you can talk like young fellows, but you know, you have not seen life. Life doesn’t work that way. It all go wrong.
03:57 That specific mixed person. Optimism, on the other hand, will say especially good day, Good day, good day. The Australia is good day.
04:07 Tomorrow will be fine, fantastic. It will change. Things will get better.
04:11 Things will get better. And the actual optimist will be planning, planning for the hope and belief that everything will be fine in whatever way it does. That’s optimism.
04:24 Always thinking ahead and planning and thinking whatever. Fine. So there’s some kind of a joy in him or her now.
04:33 So the world will say, be an optimist, don’t be a pessimist. And that’s what all of us have been trained and we will, we believe that. I used to believe that.
04:42 Be optimist, you know, let’s go. There’s a possibility that can be done. This can be done now.
04:47 So which is the conscience supposed to be? Is a Christian supposed to go around and things are going wrong? The world is terrible. Jesus Christ said, there’s trouble in the world. Remember this.
04:57 Our Lord and master, the husband of your soul has already told us clearly there is trouble in the world. There is trouble. Don’t ever think there’s no trouble.
05:06 When trouble comes, Christians get shocked. Shocked, you know, they’re shocked, they get shocked and they’re shocked. And I used to be shocked at just being shocked.
05:12 I used to get shocked and say, why are they shocked when Jesus already said there will be trouble in this world if they do not know the word of God, they do not know the husband of your soul. They do not know what the husband of your soul has said. He said that there is trouble in the world.
05:37 There will be trouble in the world. He has told that you know there will be trouble in the world. And therefore when people get shocked, I get shocked.
05:47 That means they do not know this word. They are Christians, but they do not know what Jesus has said. They are being told or falsely believed or falsely mistakenly believed.
05:57 Or the congregation or the pastor, whoever teaching them has never told them the scripture. That Jesus Christ, the husband of your soul, our Lord and master, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Son of the living God, has said there will be trouble in this world. But of course, the next verse we must also remember.
06:18 But be of good cheer. I have overcome this world command, you know, be of good cheer. I’ve overcome this world.
06:27 So sadly, many Christians do not know there’ll be trouble in the world. So when they’re walking life because they believe this, be optimist, be optimist. Sudden trouble comes, they don’t know how to handle it.
06:36 They shock their crushed in their faith and many backslide the time. Oh, Jesus never do for me. God never takes care of me.
06:45 I followed Jesus so long already. Nothing happened. No, look at this problem I’m facing now.
06:49 I served Jesus so long. There are servants who are backslided. Can you imagine? They say I’ve served Jesus so long and so much.
06:57 I gave my life to him. You see what has happened now, why he didn’t take care? A tragedy in my family. My son, my daughter, this has happened.
07:06 My husband, my wife, this has happened. I serve Jesus Christ faithfully. Brothers and sisters, do not ever talk like this.
07:13 Please, I beg you. I beg you. That’s the word.
07:15 I beg you, please do not talk like this. You’re talking against the living God. You’re talking against the living God.
07:18 You’re talking against one who actually suffered and died for you and sacrificed everything for you. And you are talking against that God, the Almighty God, the Son of the living God. Do not talk like this.
07:39 Humble yourself to know when trouble comes. Remember this. Jesus already told us there will be trouble in the world.
07:47 But be of good cheer. How to be of good cheer? Start worshipping. But first examine yourself.
07:52 Did we sow? And we are reaping this? Many times Christians sow into something and they reap that. When they are reaping that, they are still thinking what happened? Why Jesus Christ didn’t save me. Now settle me.
08:06 No. When you sow, you will reap. Jesus has put the law.
08:09 What you sow, you will Reap. But don’t talk against Jesus Christ. Always talk about your heart and mind which has gone wrong.
08:17 It is us, brother. I am the problem, not Jesus Christ, not God. I am the problem.
08:24 Now, brothers and sisters, today the question is, are we going to be optimists or pessimists? Now remember, of course, pessimists, gloom and doom. Cannot you only invite more problems? Because when you begin to think gloom and doom, gloom and doom, gloom and doom. Everything bad will be attracted to you.
08:41 Of course. But so being an optimist is it. Christians should be optimist.
08:48 The world will say, everything will be fine tomorrow. Everything there the thing will change and all that. Now, brothers and sisters, let’s look at some scriptures.
08:59 John 14:17. The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot see and take to its heart because it does not see him or know him. But you know him.
09:11 Because the Holy Spirit remains with you continually and will be in you. Can you imagine? The world cannot see the spirit of truth. So we need to get the spirit of truth.
09:23 That’s the Holy Spirit. First we have to live in truth. Jesus is the truth, I am the way, the truth and life.
09:29 You come to the way that is Jesus Christ. You begin to must follow the truth, accept the truth, and then only examine yourself brutally, truthfully, truthfully. Brutal.
09:41 You think exactly how wrong you are. What are wrong? What is your heart doing? What you are. Like a clinically true.
09:48 Look at yourself clinically, truthful. Like a clinician, like a doctor. Yes, this is wrong.
09:53 This is wrong. This is wrong. This is okay.
09:54 This is okay. This organ is fine. That organ is fine.
09:55 This organ is in trouble. We have to deal with it clinically, truthful, look at yourself in the spirit. You look at yourself, examine yourself clinically, truthfully, and then you will know what is wrong with you.
10:10 But to examine that, ask Jesus in the name of Jesus Christ, Lord Jesus. I ask the Holy Spirit to show me all the areas which is wrong in my heart and I want to change. Am I impatient? Am I getting angry? Is it a spirit of anger that’s coming on me? Or there is inherent anger in me? Is there unforgiveness in me? Is there a spirit of unforgiveness that has caught me and I am unable to forgive? Then we can use the name of Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus Christ.
10:38 Wash the heart, command the heart and mind to forgive and love for our own sake. Because when we have unforgiveness in us, the water also will change. The water structure will change and will go into Illness, all kind of problems.
10:52 So now those are other segments. So many segments there, brothers and sisters. Go to the grace of life.
10:57 There is a website, web page, a page called Power of Christ. Go there and look at the details. Call people, talk to them or email them.
11:06 They’ll send you the list. So many. 180 over recordings.
11:11 I think so, brothers and sisters, and you know each one, something will happen because of words of God, but you know him because the Holy Spirit remains with you continually and be in you. Now remember, we have the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth inside us continually. Now we must walk in the truth now.
11:32 2nd Corinthians 4, 4. Up among them the God of this world, that Satan God is calling, Almighty God is calling this Satan God of this world. Remember that has blinded not the God of the earth, Earth belongs to our Lord Jesus Christ, but the world.
11:49 The world system, the way the world thinks has blinded the minds of the unbelieving who has it blinded the minds of the unbelieving, unbelieving world in Jesus Christ, in the truth of Jesus Christ to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. So God of this world, Satan has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving. If they don’t want to believe in Jesus Christ, the scales cannot fall down.
12:20 The scales must fall down by them turning to Jesus Christ. And that can only happen when you’re brokenhearted and contrite spirit. God says, if you’re brokenhearted, he is near to save.
12:31 If you have contrite spirit, he saves. Proverbs 3, 5, 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight in all this.
12:42 The Catholic version I’m reading earlier I read amplified, amplified, both amplified. Now the Catholic version. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight in all your ways.
12:53 Acknowledge him, and he will make your path straight or straight your paths. So our path will only become straight when we trust in the Lord. Trust in the precepts of God, Trust in the precepts of Jesus Christ.
13:08 What he told us in the words of Jesus Christ, with all our heart and not to rely on our own mind, our own thinking. Don’t rely on own thinking, because and then when we do that and acknowledge him in all your ways, then our path becomes straight. Now then there is time for optimism.
13:29 Therefore there’s in James 4, 13, 15, there are a couple of fellows going, say today or tomorrow we’ll go to that town, make big profit make big business and all that. And what will? And then we can keep it. And then nothing we need for rest of our life.
13:44 But God said, look here, you’re merely a vapor, like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot that is visible for a little while, this is amplified, that is visible for a little while and then vanishes into thin air. Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills. If the Lord wills, by the mercy of Christ, by Jesus, by grace of God, we will live and we will do this or that.
14:08 But if you say, I’ll go and do this and that and all. But of course, you have optimists. You have been trained to be optimistic.
14:14 Optimism, the way the world tells, does not work. Why? So you should not. A Christian should not be an optimist or a pessimist, for want of a better word.
14:25 I think a good word would be if we can create a new word. Christimist. Christimist.
14:33 Looks odd, sounds odd. Christimist instead of optimist. Pessimist.
14:40 Christy missed. I think that’s a better word. We must be Christy missed.
14:44 Why? Because Satan came to steal, kill and destroy. The ruler of the world is still there. He is now damaging people, damaging the world.
14:53 And friendship with the world is enmity with God. Why? Friendship with the world means you are submitting to Satan, the God of this world. Therefore, don’t follow the way the world says.
15:02 The world will say things about education, the world will say things about medicine, the state will. World will say about things of everything. Take a pill.
15:07 Take a pill. Take a pill. Pharmacological giants are holding the world at the medical world ransom.
15:14 Now the world system, if you follow the world system and not go to Christ first. Did I say not to take a pill? No, go to Christ first. Ask him.
15:24 And when you begin to hear Christ, then you know you have to take it in faith in Christ. God say, God allows this to take. This is good for you.
15:31 Then take the pill, then go to the hospital. But if you go on yourself, I’m optimist, I will go. You know what happened to Angelina Jolie? Oh, first pessimist, you know, there’s a 70% chance of breast cancer.
15:45 Breast cancer. And then after that, he said, okay, I’m an optimist, I’ll remove my breast mastectomy. And she also removed the ovaries.
15:54 And then she thinks he’s optimist, everything is fine. But now, poor woman, I think she’s suffering some cancer or something, you know, and she look at the countenance and the physical and all pitiful. She’s a captive.
16:06 Well, if you think of her. In the name of Jesus Christ, I bind the spirit of death over Angelina Jolie and ask for mercy for her, Lord. Lord Jesus Christ, I ask for mercy for her.
16:16 I plead the blood of Jesus on Angelina from head to toe and surround her with fire of the Holy Ghost. Fire of the Holy Ghost. Lord, Let her spiritual eyes be opened and she turned to you.
16:26 No matter what captivity or whatever she’s doing. Lord. Lord.
16:30 Mercy, Lord. Likewise all of us. Go to the Lord.
16:34 Trust not in your own understanding, but in Jesus Christ. And let’s be a Christ optimist. The devil still steal from the fellows.
16:43 You can be optimist. Ha ha. No, no, it’s not going to work.
16:46 Because the devil can steal, kill and destroy. And he is not. So the optimist fellows have forgotten the third party player.
16:52 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray all of us become Christ. Amen. Amen.
