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.”
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
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.”
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
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.
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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
Isaiah 54:10 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
10 For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 31:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Ephesians 2:4-5 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
4 But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love 5 that, even when we were dead because of our acts of disobedience, he brought us to life along with the Messiah — it is by grace that you have been delivered.
Isaiah 49:15-16 King James Version (KJV)
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Revelation 2:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
2 “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.
4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
John 6:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent
John 6:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28 Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered, “This is the work of God: that you believe [adhere to, trust in, rely on, and have faith] in the One whom He has sent.”
Revelation 2:1-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Message to Ephesus
2 “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Ephesus write: “These are the words of the One who holds [firmly] the seven stars [which are the angels or messengers of the seven churches] in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands (the seven churches): 2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;
3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary [of being faithful to the truth]. 4 But I have this [charge] against you,that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior— seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place —unless you repent.
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
Isaiah 54:10 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
10 For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 31:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Ephesians 2:4-5 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
4 But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love 5 that, even when we were dead because of our acts of disobedience, he brought us to life along with the Messiah — it is by grace that you have been delivered.
Isaiah 49:15-16 King James Version (KJV)
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Revelation 2:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
2 “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.
4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
John 6:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent
John 6:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28 Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered, “This is the work of God: that you believe [adhere to, trust in, rely on, and have faith] in the One whom He has sent.”
Revelation 2:1-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Message to Ephesus
2 “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Ephesus write: “These are the words of the One who holds [firmly] the seven stars [which are the angels or messengers of the seven churches] in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands (the seven churches): 2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;
3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary [of being faithful to the truth]. 4 But I have this [charge] against you,that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior— seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place —unless you repent.
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 30-11-2015 titled how does your first love love you? How does your first love love you? Of course, our first love. My first love. Your first love is God is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our first love.
00:25 It is, it has to be. And it’s only remember we are dealing with your first love or my first love a couple of days back. And the Bible says in Revelation, Jesus says, you have lost your first love.
00:40 You lost your first love and how far you have fallen from how high you have fallen. Present sisters, today, let’s quickly recap some of the issues because these are important issues. To get back to the first love, how we have left our first love.
00:57 To get back to our first love, we have to have first works. First works is the work of God. And what is the work of God? Believing in the One whom He sent.
01:11 Just believing in Jesus Christ of Nazareth in every occasion and every event is having our first love first. We have not lost our first love if we do the work of God. And the work of God is believing in Jesus Christ, believing in His Word, leaning on the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ.
01:33 Who is Jesus Christ? So what is believing? Believing is simply not simply say I believe. I believe. Believing includes a number of things.
01:42 Believing, adhere to, adhering to, completely relying on, trusting in. These are all part of believing. As I’ve told before, the problem with that word believe is the old English or the old Hebrews and the Asian texts have a deeper meaning.
02:01 Asian words have a deeper meaning than the English which just says believe, brothers and sisters. The other thing is there’s no problem if you have left your first love by identifying this issue. Repent.
02:13 Ask Jesus for forgiveness and repent. What is repent? Turning away from our old way of thinking first, turning away from our old way of thinking and our sinful behavior and changing from inner self. And changing actually happens by God changes us.
02:29 The Word of God changes us. How does the Word of God change us? By looking at the Word of God, by reading the Word of God, by meditating on the Word of God and especially before you fall asleep, you’re thinking of the issues that you have done which are not pleasing to Christ. Asking repentance.
02:45 You should have done it straight away. When you know the Holy Spirit convicts you that whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re about to do is not of Christ, it is not pleasing to God. It is actually going to harm ourselves.
02:56 When the conviction comes, we have to Stop and repent. Stop, Stop. No need to repent first because you have not done it.
03:04 And command the temptation to get out. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the spirit of Jesus Christ.
03:06 In the name of Jesus Christ. I command every wicked, unclean spirit get out of me. In the name of Jesus Christ.
03:06 In the name of Jesus Christ. I command my heart and mind to reject this temptation to think of holy things. And then we move on because it will leave.
03:06 In the name of Jesus Christ. If you do not even know that prayer. Blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus.
03:29 And you are thinking you want to do the right thing. Jesus empowers you. The spirit of God will empower you.
03:35 There’s no issue. That is why Jesus came to empower us so we can live life well and lead a holy life. Holy life is not exceptionally sitting in the mountaintop and away from people and all that.
03:49 No, we are supposed to be. We are not of this earth, but we are from this earth, from the world. We are not of this world, but we are in the world.
03:59 God says we are not of this world, but we are in the world. Not going to hide. How to witness to people about the goodness of Jesus Christ and give them a chance to be saved.
04:09 If we are not going to be in the world, we have to be in the world. We have to mix with people, we have to go to functions, but we have to be led by the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit has to lead you.
04:20 Otherwise we can put ourselves in real trouble by going to every function without asking Jesus Christ and then messing ourselves there. Don’t want your. The first love must determine our action.
04:32 My first love, that is Jesus Christ, must determine what I do and not do. Brothers and sisters, this. This important.
04:41 Is important. That is we from time to time. I’ve told you all how I have left the first love and.
04:49 And what a ridiculous. What a terrible human being I was a number of occasions. Not only that, but God reminds us.
04:57 The Holy Spirit reminds me. Remember the other day I was talking about, I think it was yesterday whereby I said, whose shame are you? Whose shame are you talking about? He is. Then I broke.
05:08 Broke down because the reason is that what kind of human being I was, he did so much to get me out of mess. And my heart forgets all that, you know, forgets all that. And it happened to all of us.
05:22 But fear not or fear not because Jesus has set a way. And the Holy Spirit is the one who teaches us, who guides us from inside and changes from inside. When we begin to meditate on the Word.
05:35 As you keep looking at the Word and meditating, the word of God, who is Jesus Christ, will change you from inside today, brothers and sisters. How does your first love love you? How does my first love, that Jesus Christ love love me? How does he love me now? Then we will have a pattern and see how he loves me. And am I actually anywhere near that kind of love to give to Him? I want to love him with all my heart, mind, soul and strength.
06:03 We’ll take Isaiah 54:10. We are taking some Old Testament here also because that’s the character of God. The character of God has not changed.
06:13 What is the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament? Is the Old Testament Jesus Christ? The New Testament Word of God has called it the ministry of death. The Old Testament and the New Testament is called the ministry of life. Jesus himself said it.
06:27 There is a segment I have recorded by God’s mercy. Go and listen to that. The reason is the Old Testament has told you what to do and what not to do.
06:36 But we couldn’t do it. Human beings couldn’t do it. That is why people end up as a minister of death.
06:42 People couldn’t. They all getting messed up, you know. So Jesus came and gave us power.
06:48 Now whatever we have been told to do, we can do because we have power in the name of Jesus Christ, by the blood of Jesus Christ, we can do now. Isaiah 54:10. I’m reading from the Catholic version.
07:01 For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed. But my steadfast love shall not depart from you. And my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
07:18 Now just look at that. The mountains may be departed. Mountains may move and leave.
07:23 The hills may be removed. Earthquakes can take place. Anything can happen.
07:28 But my steadfast love shall not depart from you. This comes back in the New Testament. Nothing can separate us from the love of God now.
07:40 This is how he loves us. Can you imagine? He’s saying all that can move. The mountains can go, the hills can be removed.
07:46 My steadfast love shall not depart from you. If you just think of this and command our heart and mind to know. He loves me.
07:52 He loves me. And the proof is on the cross. He was on the cross.
07:58 Now thank Jesus Christ he rose again and he seated at the right hand side of Father God. And I’m inside him and he is in me. There’s enough scriptures for all that.
08:08 And he loves me. He loves me. So I can now love boldly.
08:15 I can love why? Because no matter what happens, his love is more than enough for each of us. Why? He is Almighty God. He can do anything and everything, but he will only do the right and just thing.
08:31 He will only do the right and just thing. Now, Jeremiah 31:3. The Lord has appeared of old unto me.
08:38 The ancient of days refers to God saying, yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Yes, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
08:46 Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you. Now this is reflected in the New Testament whereby it says, before the foundation of the world, I knew you because he created us before the foundation of the world.
09:14 And as a spirit being our spirit being the soul also. Now before the foundation of the world. Foundation of the world, I have loved you and I’ve drawn you with a loving kindness.
09:22 I’ve drawn you and that happened to me. I was a blasphemer using four letter words on God and can you imagine? Yet he has loved me with an everlasting love and drawn me with loving kindness. I have experienced this.
09:43 You have experienced this. Only thing you may not identify you better identify some issues of sin you’ve been committing. Anything you have done against Jesus Christ or God by doing so many things you have done.
09:56 We have done idolatry. I’ve done idolatry. We have gone.
10:00 I’ve gone to the Vomo shaman Shaman in the in the Malaysian context the shaman for fellows would give you some charm and all to help us. We have gone and I’ve gone and done things that didn’t is sin against God. And I’ve done things sin against my wife, breaking marriage covenant and that’s again sin against God.
10:22 Because marriage covenant God holds in one of the highest regards. So yet he has drawn me, he knows because he loved me with an everlasting love. He loves you with an everlasting love.
10:38 Now, Ephesians 2, 4, 5 I’m reading from the Jewish Bible just Now the Jeremiah 31 I read from King James Version Ephesians 2, 4, 5 complete Jewish Bible But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love. I’ll read that again Ephesians 2, 4. But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love.
11:10 This is a direct translation from the Jewish Bible means the translating from Hebrew now that even when we were dead even when we were dead in fact could be Hebrew or Aramaic brothers and sisters. So remember that the Jews used of those days were using both. Jesus used Aramaic most of the time anyway.
11:32 But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such an intense love that even when we were dead because of our acts of disobedience, I was dead in the spirit. My spirit was dead because of sin. It’s clear in the New Testament we were all dead.
11:49 Our spirit man was all. When they say you were dead, your spirit man was dead because the spirit man was dead. Because we have committed sin.
11:56 All of us, all have fallen short of the glory of God because they have sinned. All have sinned. I mean all human beings.
12:03 Everyone who was given birth and the genealogy from Adam and Eve coming down. Genealogy is coming down. The line is coming down.
12:12 All of us were given birth from human contact. A man or woman gets union and then they form a child born of the flesh. The woman’s egg and the husband, the wife’s egg and the husband’s sperm get together, join together by God’s mercy and a child is formed, a fetus is formed and this is a human birth born flesh.
12:40 Everyone was born out of flesh like that. Has already sinned somewhere on the line. Even we didn’t have.
12:47 We have the genetic of sin. That means the lineage of sin. That means we have a nature of sin.
12:53 A baby baby is holy. Every child is holy. Therefore a child dies, goes straight back to God.
13:01 Now every child is holy, but the child has a nature of sin. Why the nature of sin? The nature started when Adam and Eve sinned. The nature comes down, the nature of sin comes down.
13:14 And because of the nature of sin, every one of us, from a very young age, we begin to sin. So Jesus says, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Therefore he has come to save us now.
13:27 But here, look. He loved us. Such an intense love when we were dead in sin.
13:33 Now he says when we are dead in sin, he brought us to life along with the Messiah. Along the Messiah. They will say he brought us to life along with the Messiah.
13:43 He brought us to life through Jesus Christ. What a wonderful God it is by grace that you have been delivered. Isaiah 49, 15:16.
13:55 King James can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of a womb? God is asking this question. Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of a womb? Yea, they may forget. Yet I will not forget thee.
14:18 Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. Now let’s Listen to this again, brothers and sisters, let’s see how he loves us.
14:30 God is asking, will a woman, that means a mother, forget a suckling child? A child who is sucking milk out of her, will she forget the child? God says yes, he may forget, they may forget, but I will not forget you. So this fantastic for those who have lost their mothers, who are young age, babies or children, they lost their mothers, they lost their fathers. Whoever God, the father remembers you, thinks of you, he loves you and what he has done with that.
15:02 In Isaiah 49:16, he says the next verse. I have graven thee upon the palms of my hand. He said, I have drawn.
15:11 I’ve cut your face, your image. I’ve cut it on the palm of my hand. That means he’s graven it.
15:17 You know, he has engraved it. Graven means engraved. He’s engraved my image in the palm of his hand.
15:25 Can you imagine? He engraved your image in the palm of his hand. Brothers and sisters, just take a moment and think. He loves you so much.
15:36 He said, a suckling, breastfeeding mother can forget the son of her womb. But I will not forget you. I have graven you upon the palms of my hand.
15:50 Can you take a moment, close your eyes and think about this. Brothers and sisters, he has taken your face. Look at yourself mirror.
15:56 When you look at the mirror in future now tell you he’s not talking about the physical condition of our face and all that. He’s talking about our spirit. Our spirit.
16:06 Our spirit. Because he gave us life. Our spirit is our spirit from God.
16:10 Therefore, he says, you are made in the image of God. Each of us were made in the image of God. God.
16:14 Each of us are made in the image of God. So the Spirit. Now of course we have some form.
16:25 I believe there’s scriptures to back this up. But there’s always any Scripture can have arguments, brothers and sisters, but we have some form that each of us can recognize each other because of the character and other things. So although our bodies may weaken and gone and all that, but remember this, he has taken some.
16:46 I cannot fully understand this also what is graving there. But he has graven you and me into his palm of his hand. That’s how much he loves us.
