Tag: Godly

  • Because JESUS CHRIST is faithful and just

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    Scriptures Referenced

    Romans 3:22-25 New King James Version (NKJV)

    22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ,
    to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;

    23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

    24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption
    that is in Christ Jesus,

    25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith,
    to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God
    had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

    1 John 1:9New King James Version (NKJV)

    9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just
    to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    2 Corinthians 7:10Amplified Bible (AMP)

    10 For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces
    a repentance without regret, leading to salvation;
    but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe]
    produces death.

    2 Timothy 3:15-17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
    15 and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures)
    which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith
    which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and
    having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness].
    16 All Scripture is God-breathed [given by divine inspiration] and
    is profitable for instruction, for conviction [of sin], for correction
    [of error and restoration to obedience], for training in righteousness
    [learning to live in conformity to God’s will, both publicly and privately—
    behaving honorably with personal integrity and moral courage];
    17 so that the man of God may be complete and proficient,
    outfitted and thoroughly equipped for every good work.

    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.”
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    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

    00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 12 January 2016 Because Jesus Christ is faithful and just. Because Jesus Christ is faithful and just. Brothers and sisters, today it is a brand new day and
    mercies are new every morning.

    00:21 For those who love God. For those who love God did the the Bible is very clear. If you love me, keep my commandments.

    00:29 If commandments are authoritative prescription. And what is Jesus saying to us? He’s saying just willing the spirit of God saying if you’re willing, just willing even that you can command our hearts and mind to be willing in the name of Jesus
    Christ. I command my heart and mind to be willing to love Jesus Christ completely the way he wants me to love him.

    00:50 In the name of Jesus Christ. I command my heart and mind to love Jesus Christ by keeping his commandments which are authoritative prescription for me. It’s worthwhile for me, good for me.

    01:02 He’s put this and he put all these laws to keep me safe. Who is his son? I’m a child of God. He put me commandments.

    01:10 So he says I won’t harm myself and of course take out the weapons of spiritual warfare. We don’t fight physically, we don’t fight human beings because we love all human beings. We know the battle is spiritual battle against Satan and his forces.

    01:28 And he has given us power by suffering before going to the cross, suffering on the cross, dying on the cross, going into hell, even coming out and then made Satan and his army much as a fallen army and then gave us power to overcome Satan. Using the
    name of Jesus Christ, the blood of Jesus Christ, we can wash away our sins. But brothers and sisters, somehow rather as I said, there is a demonic doctrine, actually many demonic doctrines.

    02:00 The Bible is clear. The Bible calls it demonic doctrines. Demonic doctrines are they take and twist the word of God this way, that way to make people believe some other thing than what Jesus Christ has actually said.

    02:16 Now, yesterday, when we are concluding this yesterday’s segment, what came out suddenly the last bit, you know what came out. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I’m
    reading from the King James version because I want to have a shorter version, the amplified so much explanation there.

    02:35 I want to stick with these two or three key issues. If there’s a big if, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What then happened is as I was speaking The Spirit of God
    made me say like this.

    03:01 It came out like this. If we do not confess our sins, he is faithful and just not to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is the word of God.

    03:14 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now the question is, if we do not confess our sins, the word is sins and not one sins. He is faithful and just to if we do not confess
    our sins, he is faithful and just.

    03:32 He is still faithful and just because at his character, Jesus cannot change. He is ashamed yesterday, today and tomorrow. If we do not confess our sins, he is faithful and just not to forgive us our sins.

    03:46 There are things God cannot do. There are things God cannot do. For instance, God, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is faithful and just.

    03:56 He cannot change that. So if he is faithful and just, and if he tells us, when he tells us, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, then at the same time, there are people who do not want to confess their sins. They will
    hide their sins, including me, if that, as I’m doing that because he is faithful and just, he cannot forgive me my sins because he cannot go back on his own word.

    04:29 Jesus Christ, Father God cannot go back on their own word. Their word is holy and permanent. Heaven and earth will pass away, the Bible says, but his words will not pass away.

    04:45 Will not pass away. His words will not pass away. So it’s very clear.

    04:49 So therefore, brothers and sisters, now look at this. Romans 3, 22, 25. Even the righteousness of God.

    04:52 Romans 3, 22, 25 King James Version New King James Version Even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and all who believe. So the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, who believe, believe me, cling on to him.
    Love him.

    05:17 Those who love him, keep his commandments, cling on to him. How do we do that? By the mercy and blood of Jesus Christ. By the power of Jesus Christ.

    05:25 By the name of Jesus Christ, we can command our heart. We are made of three parts. Our hearts are treacherously wicked.

    05:32 This again. Many people do not know or do not want to accept it. Our hearts are treacherously wicked.

    05:38 Means it has to be changed from glory to glory in segments. And that happened by the renewing in the spirit of our mind. How do we do the renewing in the spirit of our mind? We look at the word of God as in a mirror.

    05:51 The Bible says we Keep looking at the Word of God, thinking of the Word of God, meditating on the Word of God, reflecting on the Word of God, against what I am doing against the Word of God and telling Jesus, right, I want to do the Word of God. I
    want to be as the Word of God, because the Word of God is Jesus Christ. And as we begin to meditate and think about the Word of God and against our character and all, and we are aspiring, wanting to be following the Word of God, something, somehow
    or other, miraculously, the Word of God that is Jesus Christ.

    06:23 The Word of God is the written word. In one rhema is the Spirit of the Word of God. Rhema is in the Spirit, it becomes alive in your spirit, it changes you from inside.

    06:33 And you become to do the Word of God without even you making any effort. The only effort is looking at the Word of God, thinking of the Word of God, meditating on the Word of God. But if you’re not doing these things, the change cannot come.

    06:49 It’s the Word of God will change me. It’s the Word of God that changed me. And again, we have so many things.

    06:55 Our heart has got trained wrongly, believe wrongly. And all we come and to change that. As we begin to look at the Word of God and do that in the respective area of your life, let us say we are talking about issues of idolatry.

    07:09 Oh, I’m accustomed to idolatry because generations we were all idolated. We were all, all, all, all idolaters, generations. So because we were idolated, God said, look, do not change the image of God, which is God is spirit.

    07:28 Worship him in spirit. And in truth, do not change the image of God and make it in the form of a man, in the form of a bird, in the form of an animal or whatever. And making, in the, make an idol, make a carp or something there, or make a statue.

    07:44 And do not bow down to them. He’s saying that. But because generations we’ve been doing this, it had to break because our heart was drawn to things.

    07:53 Our heart cannot pray, our heart cannot, our mind cannot pray to an invisible God. So our heart and mind want something to look at. So we say we’re just looking at the icon.

    08:03 But the problem with that iconic thing is whenever you pray, that icon only will appear. You cannot actually connect in the spirit with Jesus Christ, to connect with spirit in Jesus Christ. Because Father God says, God is spirit.

    08:16 Worship him in spirit and in truth. And then that is why even if we say cross, cross, cross, even the cross, finally pray only looking at the cross, it is not Jesus Christ. So therefore, when God said, do not do this, and then you still say, some of
    them say, still, no, no, it’s okay.

    08:37 No. Then there are consequences to this. Because God’s word, because God is just and faithful.

    08:42 Faithful and just, he cannot change. Now here you see Romans 3, 22, 25. Even the righteousness of God through faith in Christ Jesus to all and all who believe, for there’s no difference.

    08:54 So gifts is offered to all. To every human being the offer is given. 23.

    09:00 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All. All have sinned.

    09:05 Yes. I had so many terrible sins. Some have lesser sin, some got very little.

    09:10 Sins or whatever follow all of sin. But I found in the ministry in the 20 years when people have lesser sin, harder for them to obey Jesus Christ, why, they think they’re okay. They think they’re okay.

    09:23 And then they think, oh, no, fast. He has sinned so much. And then I nothing.

    09:28 Now that is a big danger. Because sin cannot enter heaven. Sin has to be washed.

    09:34 And sin can only be washed if we confess our sins. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, brothers and sisters, I am coming here at a very important point.

    09:45 God is going to show us here. 24 Romans 3, 24. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

    09:55 Redemption is only in Christ Jesus. There’s no redemption through anybody else. Do not believe this.

    10:03 If you find something in the Bible that different from what I’m telling, please write to me and show me. And if it is true, I too want to change. I’ll tell you, sorry, I didn’t know this, and go.

    10:14 Because I must understand this. I must work out my own salvation with fear and trembling. I also keep telling you, if I think I know something, I do not know anything yet, as I ought to know the command of God.

    10:25 And that follows me, the word of God that follows me all the time. Because I do not want to make a mistake here now. But then if anybody is saying something, if not backed by Scripture, not backed by the word of God, I cannot listen, brothers and
    sisters, and I simply tell people, you won’t follow what you want to follow, but leave me alone, because I cannot do.

    10:43 I have to follow this by my own sake. 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by his blood. Propitiation means.

    10:55 Propitiation means as a penalty, as a sacrifice, as a payment by his blood through faith to demonstrate his righteousness. Because in his forbearer God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. Now he’s very critical.

    11:19 Very, very critical. Listen to this. Because his forbearance means because he’s willing to bear.

    11:26 Because he knows he has sent Jesus Christ. We couldn’t do it. We were all captives.

    11:31 We continue sinning. We couldn’t stop sin. We were doing all kind of rubbish.

    11:35 So what he said, he sent Jesus Christ as a sacrifice and also by blood, through faith. Through faith only to demonstrate his righteousness. Whose righteousness? God’s righteousness.

    11:47 And God by forbearance, long suffering, he said, never. They cannot overcome. I sent my own son to suffer and die on the cross and rise again.

    11:54 And God sent his forbearance and passed over them. Looked overlooked. He overlooked.

    12:00 He doesn’t look at it. The sins that were previously committed. The sins that were previously committed.

    12:02 The sins that were previously committed. You go and check any translation, it will be like this. That were previously committed.

    12:14 Only some very loose new translations will not use this verse. But please stick to the older versions of the Bible and see that he is overlooked, has paid for a price for the sins that were previously committed. Now what about the future sins? Yes,
    the blood is there, the suffering on Jesus Christ, the sacrifice is there for us to use if we practice sin, if we continue sin on and on and on, as I don’t care, I continue sinning, I continue lying.

    12:46 And he has written to the churches to say, even the Book of Revelation. Remember, the Book of Revelation was not given to the outsiders. The Book of Revelation was given to the churches.

    12:56 And he’s talking about the churches. He’s talking about what he’ll do to the church. Book of Revelation.

    13:01 Now he’s talking about what he’ll do to the church. He’s there. He says all liars will send to the lake of fire.

    13:07 Now, even in John, he says, if you keep on practicing sin, you’re not born of God, you’re born of the devil. That means what has happened. People must confess the word of God, confess Jesus Christ in their name.

    13:19 And they say I’m a sinner. Even though they would have told, but actually they didn’t believe in their heart. Because if you confess by your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the Savior for you, and you are a
    sinner and you don’t want to sin anymore and you want to go to Jesus Christ, then your sins are all washed away and you are saved.

    13:37 So many are saying this Prayer looks like without I will know, you won’t know. But by their conduct, you will know. Looks like they don’t believe in their heart because by their conduct, their conduct will change.

    13:49 As soon as you become born again or reborn or born of the Spirit, as the Bible says, your conduct will change. You’ll be sensitive not to sin anymore. You lied already.

    13:58 You say I lied. I don’t lie because I want to keep my faithfulness to Christ. So if we confess our sins, 1 John 1:9, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.

    14:10 If we do not confess our sins, he is faithful and just, still not to forgive us our sins. He cannot forgive those who come and confess. And then those who do not confess, also he forgives.

    14:22 Then he becomes unrighteous, then he becomes unfaithful. Then it becomes unjust, unfair. Jesus Christ cannot be unjust and cannot be unfaithful.

    14:33 Father of God cannot be unrighteous and unfaithful. Unjust because he is a character cannot change. He is faithful and just.

    14:40 That means if we do not confess our sins, now Remember in Romans 3:22, 25, verse 25, particularly he has overlooked sins that were previously committed. But the blood of Jesus Christ is still there. In case we fall into sin, in case we sin, then
    there will be a conviction of sin in our heart.

    14:59 Then we go running to Jesus and say, sorry, Jesus, sorry, Lord, sorry Lord, I’ve sinned. And then because we are confessing our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive. And you are cleaned once more.

    15:09 But we are practicing sin on and on and on. That scripture cannot apply because you are practicing sin. You are really not born of God now.

    15:20 So some are teaching us, you know, oh, you come to God and then you say, I am sinner. I want to follow you. You are my Saviour from today.

    15:28 And I believe my heart. I conform my mouth. I am saved and all my future sins also forgiven.

    15:36 Even if I do not confess now. Then the question arises, what happens since you do not know. Yes, when we do not know, he understands that he is just and faithful.

    15:48 So we do not know. But the Holy Spirit will bring the memory from time to time for you to confess. So if you remember the sin, you confess.

    15:56 Faithful and just to forgive. But if you don’t remember the sin, of course it’s a kind, loving Jesus Christ, the kind and loving God. He also covers the blood of Jesus by the blood of Jesus Christ.

    16:08 But when you remember, when you know, you must confess. So this demonic doctrine of saying, once you say, I’m a sinner and came to Jesus Christ. After that, throughout your life, you just do whatever you want.

    16:21 You will still go to heaven. No. You want to do willful sin, Then you cannot go to heaven.

    16:28 You cannot have the power of Jesus Christ. You have to confess your sins. Brothers and sisters, this is critical.

    16:34 Examine yourself. And then when you begin to confess your sin, that sin will stop. That sin will stop.

    16:40 You will be changing from glory to glory, but renewing the spirit of your mind. Your heart will change. And step by step, your life will be changed, better and better.

    16:48 And people see you. You are really a result of the product of Jesus Christ’s sacrifice. And they also want Jesus Christ thereafter.

    16:57 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen. Amen.

  • Conviction of sin, Contrite spirit, Godly Sorrow

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    Scriptures Referenced

    Psalm 34:18 New King James Version (NKJV)

    18 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit.

    International Bible Encyclopedia     , “A contrite heart is one
    in which the natural pride and self-sufficiency
    have been completely humbled by the consciousness of guilt

    2 Corinthians 7:10 Amplified Bible (AMP)
    10 For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces
    a repentance without regret, leading to salvation;
    but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe]
    produces death.

    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.”
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    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 11 January 2016 Conviction of sin Contrite Spirit Godly sorrow or Godly sorrow Contrite Spirit Conviction of sin Brothers and sisters, when Jesus told me to do
    this Power of Christ daily and then I started, I don’t know where to start. I was waiting on the Lord Jesus Christ for a week and then trying to ask him what I’m asking, what do I do? And Lord, he said, lead me. This has done for so many years now.

    00:35 When he leads every one of us who go to him, he’ll lead you through His Spirit and he arranges circumstances in such a manner you’ll end up doing because I need to Learn about the WhatsApp and Postings and emailing from the phone and all these other
    things. He has to do that. And I did that by Jesus mercy did that.

    00:56 Now we are doing this. But what is the purpose of the power of Christ daily is to remind ourselves what God has spoken, what Jesus Christ has spoken. And when we remind ourselves by discussing and meditating on the Word of God daily, what happens?
    Something changes inside us.

    01:12 For me too when I do this daily, it also changes inside me. Because the Word of God, we are reflecting on the Word of God, we are meditating on the Word of God. We are thinking how it will then relate to our lives, how our life may be affected by
    it.

    01:27 Are we following it and all that. This thing comes, examination comes and then pride leaves and all that. So it is a useful thing daily to listen, but just not listen.

    01:38 Be a doer. I mean you meditate on the Word of Jesus Christ. You go to the scriptures when you hear it in the power of Christ daily daily message you heard it.

    01:47 Take the note that which is the scripture I’m referring to or get the emails and begin to go to your Bible and read the words of God and meditate and keep hearing what we have been discussing today. And from inside. When you’re looking at the Word
    as in a mirror from inside, you will change your spirit, man will change.

    02:07 Your heart will be changed in line with God’s Word. That is why first when he gave me power and graduated title, I started doing. Then Friday came.

    02:19 I told myself, okay, you know this so called thank God it’s Friday story. So I said okay, Saturday, Sunday, I’ll take a break. Then he reminded me the Spirit of God said the title.

    02:31 What is the title of the message of giving daily? I said power of Christ daily, Lord Jesus, it’s daily. So I have to do on Saturday, Sunday too. Now, brothers and sisters, daily we need this bread.

    02:46 Daily we need the word of Jesus Christ. Why? Not only will be strengthened and can live our life eternally, but we live our life well. Here we’ll be emboldened to stand strong, will not be shaken like this.

    02:58 Waves that were talked about in the sea, you know, talks about by the waves of double minded. And yet nothing. The word of God says if you’re double minded, you can live nothing.

    03:08 So the word of God will finally plant us or root us and then we become a blessing to others. Because now we become selfless and we become. You know, as a Bible encyclopedia, yesterday I read contrite heart is natural pride is over.

    03:24 Self sufficiency is over. Completely humbled by the consciousness of sin. That’s that.

    03:30 And Bible encyclopedia contrite heart is defined. Contrite heart is defined as this in which the natural pride and self sufficiency have been completely humbled by the consciousness of guilt. So the consciousness of sin or consciousness of guilt is
    a necessary thing in the word of God.

    03:49 But why is it that a false doctrine saying oh, don’t in churches are not incorrect? They say don’t judge others. Well, if you’re a pastor, you’re a servant, you’re an elder and you’re even a disciple. When you see sin, you have to tell people of
    their sin.

    04:07 But first you have to take out the log in your own eye, of course, and then go and see the speck in your brother’s eye or sister’s eye. But what they will teach you is no, no, no, look at the log in your own eye. And that’s where they stop.

    04:19 They do not want to deal with the speck in somebody else’s eye. They simply say, don’t judge, don’t judge. That’s the demonic doctrine.

    04:26 Wanting the person to be continuous in sin. That means you saw some growth. Oh, don’t tell, don’t tell.

    04:33 If you are a doctor, you felt some growth and diarrhea, I come to the doctor, don’t tell me all this, don’t tell. And let’s say the medical profession tells doctors when you send, when you see a growth or something in somebody, don’t tell, don’t
    tell. You will break their spirit, it will destroy.

    04:52 They will use your joy. They want a peace. This demonic doctrine, you know, Jesus corrected everyone by words and even those who are doing terrible things like the Pharisees legalism, He told them, you brood of snakes.

    05:06 He went to the Father’s temple, broke Everything there. Because you made my father’s home a den of thieves. He broke everything, chased everybody out.

    05:18 So now, so correction necessary for everyone, including me. And now when you see sin, if you feel uncomfortable or you don’t have authority or whatever, take it up to the pastors and the elders in the church and tell them this is going on. And if
    they don’t want to do anything, then the thing becomes they are called, they are guilty, they are blamed, God will deal with them.

    05:43 Now if you see in a church, sin is abounding here and there going on. And they’ll use a scripture where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. It’s actually false misinterpretation, false interpretation of the scriptures.

    05:56 When sin is floating in the church everywhere, isn’t that, you know, John. Apostle John said, we continue practicing sin, you’re born of the devil. Then he says in Revelation 2, the church is writing all lies burn in the lake of fire.

    06:09 Then he goes on. Then you have Apostle Paul all over the place. Even send people to Satan.

    06:16 I got segment on that. Then you have Apostle James. James is talking about, you know, he’s talking, talking about hellfire also hellfire.

    06:31 Peter talks about hell fire. Brothers and sisters, today James talks about you looking at the mirror and then turning away. Not a doer of the word.

    06:41 Faith without works is dead faith. You have faith first in Christ and then as Christ leads you, you do the good work. You don’t do good work and hope to get Jesus to bless you.

    06:50 No, you get to Jesus, he washes you clean, he changes you and you do the good work. Then that is where the argument between faith and works comes. I’ve got a segment on that also in Jesus Christ’s name, mercy.

    07:02 Now let’s look at this. Conviction of sin is a necessary thing for us to change the Lord. Psalm 34.

    07:09 Yesterday we talked about the Lord is near to those who are brokenhearted and saves those of a contrite spirit and contract. Spirit is our own natural pride and self action see is completely humbled by the consciousness of guilt. There are people,
    I’ve seen the one power of Christ.

    07:24 There is one Tamil section I said one person Telling I have 32 years. I’m 32 years. And like he knows what he’s talking about, but he’s not quoting any scripture to back up what he’s saying.

    07:36 That is natural pride, serious pride. If you think you know something, you do not know anything yet that you ought to know. He doesn’t seem to know that scripture and he’s blasting away that so brother and sister and he’s hurting himself.

    07:50 When such pride comes, you hurt yourself. Pride kills us all. I was full of pride and completely destroyed because of that.

    07:58 It starts there. Pride is the first sin. And look at yourself.

    08:02 Your conduct today is any of your conduct today is in pride. Pride against God’s word first. If you pride against God’s word, you are no different than your heart and mind.

    08:11 You are made of three parts. Your spirit man is born again. God is Jesus Christ is in you.

    08:17 You are Jesus Christ. But our heart. God says it’s treacherously wicked.

    08:20 Treacherously wicked means he wants to control you. He wants to control your spirit. Man, your heart is your heart, but you are spirit being.

    08:28 But your heart wants to control you. You are spirit being treacherously wicked man want to take over now. And he said so wicked.

    08:36 Who can know it? Jesus said the word of God said who can know it? That means you won’t know it. I won’t know it. God knows and the Satan also knows.

    08:42 Because all spirit is happening now. If we do not overcome this in the name of Jesus Christ. Power of Jesus Christ used to overcome casting out spirit of pride and all that.

    08:55 Then what we have is step by step. We will have a miserable life. Happened to me and pride is the first sin committed by Lucifer and became Satan.

    09:06 Now brothers and sisters, today let’s look at this contrite spirit. Conviction of sin is a necessary thing. If you have not been convicted of sin or the church doesn’t talk about hey, sin will kill us.

    09:18 And these are the kind of sin. You have been changed from glory to glory. Do not practice sin.

    09:22 Do not practice lying. Beautiful lying is born of the devil. God says oh, oh, you are making me scared.

    09:29 You are making me no peace. I cannot have future. But God’s word says what every scripture is God breathed or God inspired.

    09:40 Every scripture is God breathed or God inspired. Given by divine inspiration and profitable for instruction for conviction of sin. This is the word of God.

    09:51 Timothy 3, 15, 17. I’m reading in 16 now scripture God breathed. God’s word is God breathed the word of God is Jesus Christ breathed by God now profitable for instruction conviction of sin.

    10:05 Conviction of sin means rebuke and correction for correction for error and restoration to obedience, for training in righteousness, learning to live in conformity to God’s will. Both publicly, privately, behaving honorably and with personal
    integrity and moral courage. Can you imagine? God’s word says scripture is for conviction of sin.

    10:29 How to get conviction of sin? Scripture is not spoken there or released to your heart or when you don’t want to really read the Bible which says that don’t want to read the word of God that talks about sin, you don’t want to read, then what happens?
    The devil comes and continues making a goal, making a miserable life. So we accept. Accept, brothers and sisters, if you are born of God, you will accept the word of God with gladness.

    10:55 Oh, I want to get any sin out of me, Lord, I want to present, I want to be presented as a chaste virgin to you. My soul must be present as a chaste virgin to you. You are my husband or my soul.

    11:05 I don’t have any sin here because you suffered and died to get rid of sin. So I will not have sin in me because I don’t want to grieve you, Holy Spirit. I don’t grieve you, Jesus Christ.

    11:15 I want to be holy because you’re looking for a blameless holy bride and I want to be part of this bride of God, Jesus Christ, if you have that heart, command your heart and mind to want to look at the sin scriptures so we can get it away. Now he’s
    saying, what profitable instruction. So instruction and conviction of sin and rebuke, correction, rebuke, miscorrection.

    11:40 Oh, you rebuke me? Yeah. If a pastor, servant, elder, whoever is in charge of guiding you in the word of God has to tell when you are wrong. If you cannot accept when you are wrong means then you are back into this no conviction of sin and no what
    you call contrite heart.

    11:59 So you are full of pride and self sufficiency, not God’s substance. Then you will suffer. Why are we doing this? So that you don’t suffer.

    12:07 We already suffered. People like me suffered so much. Now sitting and doing this, I think for 20 years.

    12:13 Jesus is real, so Satan is real. But you can cast out. There is hope in Jesus Christ.

    12:18 Even when sin scriptures talk to you, remember there is hope. You can take up the weapons of warfare, you can cast it out. You can’t ask now what happens when you have sinned.

    12:27 Now here first John 19. If we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins. Now remember this word.

    12:36 If is an important word. Many times I hear preachings and teachings. They don’t.

    12:42 They will sort of gloss over or grace over or forget about the word. If. If many scriptures start with if.

    12:52 1 John 1:9. If we freely admit that we have sinned and confess our sins. He is faithful and just, true to his own nature and promises and will forgive our sins.

    13:05 Let me take away the understanding and just read the straightforward scripture. If we freely admit. If we admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins.

    13:19 Now when will he forgive our sins? If we admit and confess our sins. If, the big if, it’s a very important word. If there’s a condition.

    13:30 Condition. If we admit, if we confess, he was faithful and just to forgive our sins. If people are ministering to sometimes won’t confess, they will keep on saying, no, no, no, no, oh no, I don’t listen to this scripture here.

    13:44 It’s bothering me. I have no peace. I have no peace.

    13:46 And they run away. And then they agree with me. Answering brothers and sisters, use the scriptures correctly.

    13:53 Don’t adjust the word here and adjust the word there. If means if. If means there’s a condition.

    13:59 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins. Coming. If we do not confess our sins, he is faithful and just not to forgive our sins, he is still faithful and just.

    14:11 He is faithful and just to his commands, his order to his Father, who is holy. His Father’s duty that the Father has given him duty that Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is faithful and just not to forgive our sins.

    14:26 If we do not confess our sins. Now, this is actually the meaning. He is faithful and just to forgive our sins.

    14:34 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins. This if appears many times in this forgiving thing, forgiving issue. So do not just run away, glaze away, gloss away, get upset with me or whatever.

    14:49 Go and search the scriptures yourself. If you put in the Internet, if there’s a Bible gateway search engine, put the if or so and just put the only word, complete word or something that’s a restriction in the search. Then you will find the ifs all
    coming out.

    15:05 A lot of ifs now. First John 1:9 again. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins.

    15:14 If we do not confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will not forgive our sins. Sins not just once, come and forget about it and go. When you committed sin, go to him and then he says what? 1 John 2:1 My little children, believers, dear ones,
    I am writing you these things so that you will not sin and violate God’s laws.

    15:40 It’s a command. One John is one of the last books in the Bible that you will not sin and violate God’s laws. Apostle John, the one supposed to have leaned on Jesus Christ and got a frequency of the heartbeat of Christ.

    15:56 He is writing, my little children, I’m writing these things to you so that you will not sin and violate God’s laws. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate who will intercede for us. Okay, he will.

    16:10 But when? In First John 19, he says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins. Now and then some people attack this next word. Cleanse us continually and from all iron righteousness.

    16:25 Cleanse us continuously and from all unrighteousness. The interpretation means that don’t have to confess anymore. Confess once when you come to God, Jesus Christ and finish.

    16:34 No, he wants us to confess the new sins that you committed so that you know it’s bothering you inside for it to come out. There’s a conviction of sin inside. There is a conviction.

    16:40 There’s a conviction of guilt. There’s a contrite Spirit. Then you confess.

    16:47 And he will. The faithful and judge is a good God. There’s a hope.

    16:50 Confess, brothers and sisters, and get rid of the sin. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

    16:55 Examine yourself daily. Amen.

  • Broken Heart, Contrite spirit, Godly Sorrow, worldly sorrow

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    Scriptures Referenced
    Psalm 34:18New King James Version (NKJV)

    18 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, And saves such as have a contrite spirit.

    International Bible Encyclopedia     , “A contrite heart is one
    in which the natural pride and self-sufficiency
    have been completely humbled by the consciousness of guilt

    2 Corinthians 7:10Amplified Bible (AMP)10 For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces
    a repentance without regret, leading to salvation;
    but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe]
    produces death.

    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 10 January 2016 Broken heart, contrite spirit, Godly sorrow, Worldly sorrow. Again. Broken heart, contrite spirit, Godly sorrow, Worldly sorrow.

    00:02 Brothers and sisters, as I keep telling, the Spirit of God is reminding us. He guards our souls just jealously, yearning jealously for us to be saved and kept safe and sent home. And pointed to Christ.

    00:33 Everything the Spirit of God does is point to Christ. Because Jesus said before he left earth, I have to go. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit cannot be sent.

    00:47 And the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. The Spirit of truth will come and will bring to memory, teach you the truth and bring to memory all things that I have spoken unto you. It will always point to the word of God.

    00:57 It will always the Spirit of God. He will always point to the truth. And the truth is the word of God.

    01:05 And the truth is the word of God and Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, every day you may understand. The whole thing is dark world of darkness, Satan and the world of light under Christ.

    01:17 The battle is between Satan and all demonic forces and against us. We are battling these things. They are battling us.

    01:26 They are not battling Jesus Christ. They cannot win. They have never won.

    01:30 They are completely become a jelly. They will drop when they mention the name of Jesus Christ. No need Jesus to turn up also in the name of Jesus Christ.

    01:39 The Bible says the demon, the fallen angel become like a jelly and drop finish. No more backbone, no more power. Because Jesus has taken the power away.

    01:51 Remove the power from Satan and all the demonic forces on the day at the cross. 2 He gave us power. He didn’t give us the power from Satan to earth, but he gave us power to cast out evil spirits to stand against it.

    02:08 That is why Jesus says in one scripture, the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. But I have come to give you life and life more abundantly. And then he goes on to say, do not give the devil a foothold.

    02:19 And another scripture, he says, your enemy, your adversary, the devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour or swallow. Whose enemy? Jesus clearly saying it is our enemy. Because he told Satan, look, you are a created being, I am
    a creator.

    02:39 Jesus Christ is a creator. Satan was created as Lucifer, highest ranking angel. But then he fell because of pride.

    02:47 He wanted worship. And he was cast out of heaven with a lot of all his followers, billions of them. And now he said, my children can overtake you, can overcome you.

    03:00 Those my followers will overcome you. My followers have power over you. So there’s no battle.

    03:08 That’s why when Jesus, you know, crossed the lake and came to the Gandarenes and there, the legion, a man possessed by legion, legion of thousands of demons immediately bowed down and said, son of God. Call him Son of God. The demons are calling,
    son of God.

    03:29 There, Son of God. What have you got to do with Earth? It is not time yet. They also know it’s not time yet for them to be thrown into the lake of fire.

    03:40 So brothers and sisters today understand the battle. We must fight the battle because we have actually, using the power of Jesus Christ, we have all the weapons of warfare in the spiritual war. We do not fight human beings, never fight human beings,
    never get upset with them.

    03:59 Yeah, your heart and mind will get upset from time to time. Overcome that quickly because they are also captives. Pity them.

    04:06 They don’t have Jesus Christ. They don’t have the power of Jesus Christ to cast out the evil spirit. To cast out, command their heart and mind to obey.

    04:13 And then of course, they will do the wrong things. Were we not doing the wrong things before, brothers and sisters? I was doing so many wrong things. Therefore, now take pity on these people.

    04:23 When they’re angry with you, when they’re doing something to you, have compassion and mercy and pray for them. Pray for them. In fact, bind all the wicked, unclean spirit that they are that is using them to do wrong things.

    04:34 Bind those spirit behind it. That is why you have to look in the spirit. What is bothering this person? Even they are angry with you.

    04:41 What is actually bothering the person? It may be a problem in the house, you know, it may not be the problem that you and he are facing. It may be a problem in the house. The spirit is using that frustration and the despair and to jump at you.

    04:55 Then you humble yourself. Sorry, sorry, brother, Sorry, sister. You do something, say something that can pacify them because they are captives.

    05:04 You were captive, I was a captive. And then at the same time, quietly at the back of our bind, every wicked, unspeakable, green spirit that is attacking them, tell them, I bind you in Jesus Christ name. Now you can’t cast it out because they must
    want it out.

    05:18 So then you tell them later, when you’re led by the spirit of God here must be led by the spirit of God, because not led by the spirit of God. You’re throwing pearls to swine, pearls to pigs. Jesus says.

    05:30 And then he said, be careful not to throw pearls to pigs in case they trample on the pearls and turn around and tear you to Pieces so the same person under the control of demonic process can tear you to pieces so you do not throw pearls to shine
    everywhere. You must be led by the spirit of God, the Son of God, the husband of your soul will lead you. Well, this is today.

    05:52 The title is Broken Heart, Contrite Spirit, Godly Sorrow, Worldly Sorrow. Brothers and sisters, today, now the first section just I spoke a few minutes of this important. Keep remembering that this is a battle, the battle we must overcome.

    06:07 And God has already overcome this. He said, I have overcome it. Jesus Christ has overcome this and he has given us power.

    06:13 Now we must apply power. Therefore those who believe, they will cast out evil spirits in my name. And this somehow rather is hidden or not talked about.

    06:21 And all come to one man to pray. No, you pray, you are given power. Jesus loves you, he gives you power.

    06:28 Not just one person, not all come to me. Now some people wait. One person coming from India, one person coming from America.

    06:36 And they wait for this person to come and run by the thousands to get a prayer from them. Brothers and sisters, if the person doesn’t come, what are you going to do if somebody you love is dying? If somebody you love is. Oh, you send a letter to a
    prayer tower, is it? And send some 10 ringgit there or 20 ringgit or 50 ringgit or whatever you send, brothers and sisters, it’s not of Christ.

    06:56 He wants you, he loves you, he gives you power. You rise up and settle this thing in Jesus Christ’s name. You believe, he hears you, you pray.

    07:06 He is wanting you to connect with him. As I keep telling, I have four children, let us say now one is the eldest, one is married, so she comes under the authority of her husband. Now the remaining three, but even then the husband is also my son
    because his son in law is my son.

    07:22 And so day two, when they need anything, when they need some counsel or whatever, they will call me. Now supposing one child, let’s say four, not married at that time. One child keeps on coming for the rest and says, papa, can we do this? Papa can
    we do that? Papa, can we do that for my sister? Papa, can we do that for my brother? Then I will say, what is it they all know mouth to ask.

    07:47 They’re not my children. But they only send you because they think you’re my favorite, is it? I don’t have favorites. I treat everybody equal.

    07:54 Every child is equally treated according to the need of the child. But children being young and foolish, as God says, there’s foolishness in the heart of a child. They Will think when you do something special for one child because of particular
    need, they will think you are taking sides.

    08:10 No, you don’t take sides. You be fair to all. But each one has different needs.

    08:16 So you attend to the need differently. Brothers and sisters, today this title broken heart, contrite spirit, Godly sorrow, worldly sorrow. Herein you will see if you open your eyes of understanding.

    08:28 I pray that every eye of this person who are listening this, the eyes of understanding is open. The eyes of your heart are open to receive this teaching because it’s from the scripture. Remember yesterday we were dealing with the issue that people,
    the demonic doctrine going around that if you preach, you’re supposed to feel guilt and all that they feel condemned, then it is not from God.

    08:51 There’s no scripture of that nature to prove that when a person is feeling guilty, that the scripture, when you talk scripture, when you release scripture and somebody is feeling guilty of the sin, and then they say, this is not from God, it is from
    God. Brothers and sisters, I’ll prove to you in scripture today. If a person feeling condemned yet you must of course tell there is hope in Christ.

    09:14 You must get to Christ. But to get to Christ, you must be willing to love him. This is all you must tell.

    09:20 You must be willing to love him. You’re not willing to love Jesus Christ. There’s no way you’re going to get benefit out of Jesus Christ.

    09:20 You must be willing, only willing. Are you believing Jesus Christ? Are you willing to cleave to him, hang on to him? If you’re not willing to cleave and hang on to him, you can’t expect the kind of joy that’s supposed to come from Jesus Christ which
    others have experienced. You must be willing, willing to obey, willing to forgive.

    09:43 You don’t want to forgive, and then you want peace. There are people, oh, you talk about unforgiveness. And now I say you have unforgiveness against your mother.

    09:52 Please forgive and to forgive in the name of Jesus Christ. You command your heart and mind to forgive and you command your heart and mind to know in the name of Jesus Christ. Unforgiveness causes diseases, arthritis.

    10:03 Bitterness causes arthritis pain everywhere. So why you. You please forgive.

    10:08 Oh, you’re causing me. I feel condemned. I feel condemned.

    10:11 What nonsense is this? This. The teaching goes on, you know. You will talk about sin.

    10:16 That’s what Jesus wants. When a person is in sin, you must point out this is sin. But can come out.

    10:22 You give hope. Hope is in Jesus Christ, not in me or my teaching. Hope is in Jesus Christ and release the Word.

    10:29 But let’s see where Jesus talks about this where the Word of God talks about it. Psalm 34:18 Psalm 34:18 Reading from the new King James Version the Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and saves such as have a contrite spirit. Contrite
    spirit is C o n t r I T e Contrite spirit.

    10:54 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and saves as such have a contrite spirit. Now contrite spirit in the Bible Encyclopedia International Bible Encyclopedia I quoted that in the email. Get the email Brothers and sisters.

    11:09 A contrite heart is one in which the natural pride and self sufficiency have been completely humbled by the consciousness of guilt. A contrite heart is one in which the natural pride and self sufficiency have been completely humbled by the
    consciousness of guilt. Simply meaning a contrite heart is one.

    11:31 Your natural pride is over. I don’t want to be prideful anymore. I can do self suction seed I can do by myself.

    11:38 You say God’s sufficiency I need Jesus Christ. Jesus sufficiency. I need God.

    11:43 I need the Son of God. I need the Son of God to suffer for me. I need him.

    11:48 I need Jesus Christ. I cannot settle this by myself. I myself is useless because God says without me.

    11:54 Jesus said without me you can do nothing. Without me you can do nothing. Not just something you can do.

    12:01 Oh yes, yes, I will run to Jesus and I cannot do. But the rest of it I will try myself. There’s no such thing in the scriptures.

    12:08 Some people are teaching this you do and Jesus will come along and help you do it. Lord, help me do it. But Jesus word is without me you can do nothing.

    12:19 So get to him and he will direct your steps. So natural pride and self sufficiency is over because natural pride is sitting in the heart. I have been completely humbled by the consciousness of guilt.

    12:32 I am wrong. I messed up. I sinned against God.

    12:34 I sinned against man. I need Jesus Christ to wash me of my sin, to wash me, take away my sin and take my guilt and condemnation and all that. I need Jesus Christ.

    12:46 I am humble Lord, I cannot do this. I need you. I need you.

    12:48 I need you. Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Just like blind batimas are shouting Jesus of Nazareth, have mercy on me.

    12:55 Jesus of Nazareth, you must come to this point. These people must come to this point. I had to come to this point.

    13:04 Only then I saw the glory of God working in my life. Only Then I saw the peace come immediately. Brothers and sisters, this teaching about feeling self contemporary nonsense.

    13:14 Now you see, the word of God, the Lord is near to those who have a broken heart. When you’re broken hearted is near to you but cannot save you. Yet he can only save you when you have a contrite spirit.

    13:26 And contrite spirit or contrite heart. Sometimes the Bible will say is no more pride. No more.

    13:32 No more pride. I can. Oh, I cannot agree with the scripture.

    13:34 Oh, I cannot agree with what the pastor told me about what I sinned. I cannot agree what he pointed. Sinned.

    13:41 Oh, I can do it. Then another one is, I can do it by myself. No, you cannot.

    13:46 Completely humble by consciousness of guilt. Now how is it humbled by the consciousness of guilt? As the Psalm 34:18 saying, how can you feel? I feel condemned. I want to feel good.

    13:59 Well, when you have sinned, you cannot feel good. The sin is eating inside you. So, brothers and sisters, the next scripture is 2nd Corinthians 7:10.

    14:08 For godly sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces repentance without regret, leading to salvation. But worldly sorrow, the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe, produces death. So there are two kinds of sorrows.

    14:24 When you’re broken hearted, there are two kinds of sorrows. One sorrow is, I lost this. I lost it.

    14:29 Let’s say you lost your house, you lost everything. Like me. I lost everything.

    14:32 Lost already. Health, now dying. I went to Jesus.

    14:36 But when I finally turned to Jesus, I know I cannot do it. I need you, Lord Jesus, only you can do for me. And then I’m not saying, you know, I want my house back.

    14:44 I want my peace back. I just want peace from God. I want to be clean again.

    14:50 I messed up. I need Jesus Christ. So that is godly sorrow.

    14:54 Worldly sorrow is, oh, I go to Jesus, he’ll give me back my house. I go to Jesus, he’ll put back my relationship, my husband or wife or whatever. No worldly sorrow produces death because some serious thing happened.

    15:06 Let’s say an accident happened and you are now down or anything. Economic crash or whatever. Despair.

    15:11 House is being dark, car is pulled back, but accompanied. House is going. And you feel sorrow for that.

    15:19 And you’re going running to Jesus Christ to help you with all that. That’s worldly sorrow. Godly sorrow is, I sinned against God and sinned against man.

    15:27 I need him to wash me clean and start life again in him. Sorry, Lord, for blaspheming your name, for doing things against you. Now worldly sorrow produce death.

    15:40 Worldly sorrow, on and on and on will produce suicide. Even so by the spirit of suicide and people are suffering and all that. So brothers and sisters, God is sorrow.

    15:48 Worldly sorrow. You can have brokenhearted, but you may have worldly. The person may have a worldly sorrow.

    15:53 Then you must tell no, you must go to Christ and repent about these things that you have done. You have caused some of your caused deeds. You did not cry, you didn’t cast out evil spirits.

    16:02 They are now doing this to you. You must take up the weapons of warfare in the spirit and deal spiritual weapons, not physical weapons. We don’t fight against human beings, fight against wicked evil spirits.

    16:14 So from here you will know the teaching that they must feel good is wrong. They will have to come to a contrite spirit. And you must distinguish between worldly sorrow and godly sorrow.

    16:28 Meditate on this brothers and sisters, and you’ll get a better understanding. That is why when you’re ministering to people, when you’re talking to Jesus, people are bringing people to church to say okay, okay, God will settle your house matter.
    That is world is sorrow.

    16:41 I’ve lost things. God is sorrow. I’ve sinned against God.

    16:43 I’ve sinned against man. That is the sorrow. God can save you.

    16:47 That’s the contrite spirit. I am wrong. So in Jesus name I pray that you understand this deep.

    16:53 Think about it. Even search in the intellect, other teachings and spiritual teachings. Think about this and get the right understanding.

    17:00 Brothers and sisters, in Jesus name I pray Amen.