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Scriptures Referenced
13. Practice secret disciplines (giving, praying, fasting) —Matthew 6:1-18 Matthew 6:1-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Giving to the Poor and Prayer 1 “Be [very] careful not to do your [a]good deeds publicly, to be seen by men; otherwise you will have no reward [prepared and awaiting you] with your Father who is in heaven. 2 “So whenever you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet before you [to advertise it], as the hypocrites do [like actors acting out a role] in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored and recognized and praised by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
3 But when you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing [give in complete secrecy],
4 so that your charitable acts will be done in secret; and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. 5 “Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray [publicly] standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
6 But when you pray, go into your most private room, close the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
8 So do not be like them [praying as they do]; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9 “Pray, then, [b]in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, [c]Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘[d]Your kingdom come, Your [e]will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our [f]daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our [g]debts, as we have forgiven our debtors [letting go of both the wrong and the resentment]. 13 ‘And do not [h]lead us into temptation, but deliver us from [i]evil. [j][For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’ 14 For if you forgive [k]others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others [nurturing your hurt and anger with the result that it interferes with your relationship with God], then your Father will not forgive your trespasses. Fasting, The True Treasure, Wealth (Mammon) 16 “And whenever you are fasting, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on a sad and dismal face [like actors, discoloring their faces with ashes or dirt] so that their fasting may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
17 But when you fast, put oil on your head [as you normally would to groom your hair] and wash your face
18 so that your fasting will not be noticed by people, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily, 26 February 2016 Practice secret disciplines. Praying and fasting. Praying and fasting.
00:02 Brothers and sisters, yesterday we did giving to the poor and to give in secret, not like the Gentiles do, and not with selfish motives and all that. Brothers and sisters, today we are talking about praying and fasting in secret. Father, God wants us to do it secret.
00:31 Now let’s read that. That is from verse 5 Matthew 26, Matthew 6, Matthew 6, 5. Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites.
00:47 For they pray not just the Gentiles, not just unbelievers. Do not be like the hypocrites. So there are hypocrites within the church or within the children of God.
00:59 Do not also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray publicly standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they already have their reward in full. When you pray, go into your most private room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is in secret.
01:24 And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you, will reward you. And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be hurt because of their many words. So do not be like them, praying as they do.
01:42 For your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Brothers and sisters, this is a fantastic statement. It is a very important statement because many people don’t know, and they do this, and some people actually practice this hypocritical thing.
01:59 They begin to pray. I’ll pray for you, brother. I’ll pray for you.
02:01 I prayed for you, sister. I prayed for you. You lose your reward.
02:06 Don’t go around telling people that you prayed for somebody, because why are you telling people you prayed for somebody now? Why are you telling somebody? Our heart, our heart, our problem is our desperately wicked, righteously wicked heart. Our heart wants recognition. That’s why I prayed for you, brother.
02:27 Don’t worry, brother, you’ve done this. You’re going through this. I prayed for you.
02:31 We prayed for you. Is that necessary? Not necessary. If you pray, keep quiet now.
02:39 Unless in genuinity, in sincerity, you know, you need to encourage this person and say, then you see a group, don’t take yourself. I prayed for you. The church is praying for you, brother.
02:53 The church is praying for you, sister. That means you put a group so that you dilute your own importance. You dilute your own importance.
03:05 Why? We do not want you to lose your reward here. We don’t want you to lose your reward here. Because Jesus Christ says, then you pray like hypocrite.
03:13 You stand in the street corners and pray. And then you go and tell people you prayed and all that you already got your reward. Your reward is right.
03:21 Somebody says, thank you, isn’t it? Or somebody says, oh, they’re praying for me. Put a group, forget about yourself. Thereby the whole thing in Christ is denying ourselves and picking the cross, picking up our cross, denying ourselves.
03:35 Do not put our because our heart like this. It wants to be very important. And that is a demonic thing.
03:42 The devil is always talking to our heart. Our heart to become more and more and more important. We are more and more nothing.
03:51 The most lowest of us all here will be the highest in heaven. So look at this again. Look at this again.
03:59 So when you need to pray, somebody say, please pray for me. You see? Yes, thank Jesus Christ. But brother sister will teach you to pray even.
04:08 Why Jesus wants you to pray. He is your father. He wants you to pray.
04:11 He wants you to come to him. Don’t you think that is normal? As I repeatedly say that if a person has got few children, doesn’t he want you children to come talk to him? Not just one child, representing the whole lot. This is what parliament is.
04:29 One person is a congressman. And everybody all sit quiet. And the congressman comes reports or the parliamentarian comes a report.
04:37 Member of Parliament. No, he wants a relationship. If your father means he wants you to talk to him.
04:44 And now this question of secret room business. Now, most private room. Most private room.
04:49 Of course, it can be anywhere. Let us say you are among people. Most private room will be in your heart.
04:54 You can pray in your heart. Whatever you ask or think more than that will be done unto you. Which is according to his word.
04:56 Whatever you ask or think, think whatever you ask or think in line with his word. More than that he’ll blunt for you because he’s saying what? The Father knows what you need before you ask him. He knows.
05:14 Now your Father knows what you need before you ask him, but then he give it to you. Now that is why there’s another verse which says, if your earthly father, if your earthly fathers were wicked, he says, if their son asks for fish, will you give them a snake? If the earthly father gives you, if you ask the earthly Father and he says earthly fathers are wicked, if you ask the earthly father for bread, will he give a stone? No. Here.
05:44 How Much more. Your heavenly Father, who is holy, who is perfect, knows your need before you ask him, it will be done. This the faith we must come to, the faith we must come to is this.
05:54 Now the other thing is they call for corporate place. Now, this one is a meaningless repetition. Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat.
06:02 Every religion does this. They have beads. All religions have beads.
06:07 In Jesus Christ there are no beads. There are no beads. Otherwise they’ll keep on hanging on to the beads for strength, for faith.
06:15 Your faith. You will not know. Without you realizing, your heart and mind will be drawn into the beads.
06:22 Jesus Christ says, I am Spirit, God is spirit. Worship me in spirit and in truth. But what happens if you keep on doing the beast business? And beads after beads after beast, your heart and mind unwittingly, unknowingly, undiscerningly will begin to go.
06:38 Faith in beasts. So much so people hang these beasts in the cars. All religious, I’m talking about, they hang in the beast, in their cars.
06:44 And all because the things are beastful. Protect them. Pity.
06:48 But that is how they’ve been duped or they’ve been taught or misunderstood or whatever. Those of you listening today, worship me. Heaven, Spirit and end Truth.
06:59 When you command the demon to go in the name of Jesus Christ, he will go. Now. Spirit of accident, if you are concerned of accident, spirit of accident, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to get out in the name of Jesus Christ.
07:10 And not to return. But at the same time, do not give the devil a foothold. Do not give the devil a foothold.
07:16 How do we give the devil a foothold? By allowing to follow the temptation. How does temptation come when we are drawn by our own heart desire? Temptation comes. When temptation is full blown, sin comes.
07:29 When sin is full blown blown, death comes. This is very clear. It’s very clear in James.
07:34 So how does temptation come? Temptation comes like that. We know how temptation comes. The devil talks to your heart.
07:41 But then the devil can only talk to your heart. When your heart is drawn by your own heart desire. It’s not.
07:47 Some translation will say, by your own heart’s evil desire. It’s not true. By your own heart desire, the devil will come talk to you.
07:55 Therefore we want God’s desire in our hearts. How does your own heart desire can end up in this? Let us say you’re looking for I must do medicine. I must do medicine.
08:07 I don’t have money. I must do medicine, my son. Must do medicine, must do medicine, must do medicine, must do.
08:13 And you don’t even have $20,000. This whole thing costs a few hundred thousand dollars. And the child couldn’t get a scholarship because some points are missing or some conditions in the country or whatever the economy couldn’t get.
08:25 But I must do, I must do. And then before you know it, you end up going, borrowing, borrowing, boring. You end up being sometimes end up stealing, end up borrowing and not able to pay, don’t pay all these things together.
08:37 And the sun finally may or may not even complete. Actually, that is why you need God’s desire. Now I must have a house, I must have rent a car.
08:46 And then a bank clerk. Finally he may do something with a check. Or you are in a company working for.
08:52 And you may do something with a petty cash or something because drawn by your own desire. What is so evil about wanting to do a big degree or wanting to have a house. But you become an obsession, you know, you say, Lord, I’ll be content with food and clothing.
09:10 Jesus Christ commands us to be content with food and clothing. Like that, content. But he says contentment with godliness, great gain, step by step.
09:20 Can you imagine? Your health will be good, things will come to you. He will take care of you in contentment, you’ll grow. I’ve seen this for many, many, many people at the same time.
09:31 Many don’t follow. But the road is narrow. Road is narrow.
09:35 And difficult is the way brothers and sisters today remember this me in English. Repetition, repeat, repeat. Why he says that for the Gentiles, for the unbelievers think they will be hurt because of their many words, God.
09:48 You think God cannot hear. But if you’re not born of the Spirit, you cannot know in your spirit, you will not know in your spirit that father God actually hears your prayer. That Jesus Christ actually hears a prayer.
09:59 So you pray blindly. You pray wanting something you want volition, really you want. But unless you’re born of the Spirit, you will not know inside you that your prayer actually connecting with God.
10:11 You will not know. Some hazy thing will happen and you will begin to go for it. Go for it, go for it.
10:18 Repeat and repeat and repeat. But if you know, even one single line of prayer would be enough, even what you think will be enough. Because you say, I accept all Jesus Christ because your will for me is the best.
10:30 The other thing, people can’t accept what Jesus Christ is saying. Why they do not know or do not believe in their heart that Jesus Christ will do the best for you. Best, best for you.
10:42 And then right now they have thought called corporate prayers. What happens now? This happened in America. But now they all want some people calling for corporate prayer and fasting so that they get the right politician as a president.
10:57 Brothers and sisters, Jesus Christ, I already dealt this before. Jesus Christ clearly said, my kingdom is not of this world. My kingdom is not of this world.
11:06 This corporate prayer and fasting is in the Old Testament whereby he says, if people will turn from the wicked ways by fasting, I will answer them and then heal their land. First of all, in Jesus Christ, we are a holy nation. We are not an earthly nation.
11:27 Our nation is not here. We are citizens of heaven. But what do they do, these people, unknowingly or for their own benefit? They begin to get a lot of people to pray for something.
11:38 And what they then don’t do is do not check year by year. When you got a whole lot of Christians to pray or fast, did it work? Did it work? They won’t check that. They won’t put the statistics for that.
11:52 You find that actually many countries, these Christians who are misled call people all their own agenda. You know, they want to look good. They want to look good to the, to the, to the government of the land or to other people.
12:07 We are praying for this country. We are praying. They want to look good.
12:10 So remember some of the leaders calling for corporate prayer also, they themselves may want to look good. We don’t know all this, of course, they may be sincere and actually sincerely wrong. There are people who are sincere but sincerely wrong.
12:23 So they begin to get people all together pray. But then they are not going to check every year. Now you as a believer of Christ, a disciple of Jesus Christ, you better ask yourself, don’t listen to me.
12:35 You ask yourself. Because God has given us a sound mind. Ask yourself and see whether this is true.
12:43 Now remember, our land is a holy nation. We are going to pray for people to be saved, to be got out of their blindness, get out of their misery, send the captives free. We are going to pray for casting out evil spirits, teaching people there are so many things to do.
13:01 It’s a very busy day actually for me. It’s busy day for disciples. It’s a very busy day daily.
13:07 So many things to do. Now, brothers and sisters, so don’t get caught in all this. The Father God will need what you need before you ask him.
13:15 He knows already in verse eight. So let us now do that. Now the same thing with the fasting.
13:23 Fasting through treasure and wealth. 16 it says, Whenever you’re fasting, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on A sad and dismal face. Like actors discolouring their faces with ashes or dirt so that their fasting may be seen by men.
13:39 I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they already have their reward in full. I am fasting today. I’m fasting today.
13:47 Your fasting keeps quiet. Keep quiet. Command your heart to shut up because you don’t want people to know why you want.
13:53 That’s your intention. But finally people know. Okay, that’s it.
13:57 It’s okay. But your intention should be clear. That’s what God goes by, intention.
14:02 Your intention is you want to fast in secret. If people know, people ask. Then suppose you’re sitting there for some meeting or some lunch.
14:09 Then they went for lunch, brought food. Then you can say, among Christians, today, I’m fasting. But your intention must be clear.
14:16 Your heart is not seeking, oh, I’m fasting. That is intentional. So you have to say you’re fasting because somebody offering you food so you don’t offend them.
14:25 That’s okay. That’s good. Tell them.
14:27 So therefore, everything God wants us to do in secret and we need to tell, we will tell. But that is told in the spirit of humility and not trying to get the reward for trying to get people to look at you and say you are fasting or whatever. Brothers and sisters, remember.
14:41 Then he said, put oil on your head as you normally would, to groom your hands, wash your face, so that your fasting will not be noticed by people. It doesn’t want us to be noticed. But by your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you.
14:55 Now this statement, your father who is in secret, your father who is in secret. Can you imagine? And your father who sees in secret will reward you. Who is in secret means he is in the most holy place.
15:08 He is in the fact. You have to see Kim diligently to find him. Because he is in secret.
15:08 He is in a secret place. He is not available to everyone. He is only available to those who want him.
15:22 That’s why the word is, your father who is in secret, and your father who sees in secret will reward you. Brothers and sisters, today, same thing. So why do we fast in the New Testament? It’s not the Old Testament.
15:36 People think you fast and God will do something. It is not like that anymore. We are children of God.
15:41 Jesus Christ is inside you. Jesus Christ inside you. So your father was in secret.
15:47 Now Jesus Christ, also your father, he’s inside us. So now, and we are in Jesus Christ. So we are already inside there.
15:56 So we are not going to look for him in a secret place. He is inside me. So, brothers and sisters, today you fast so that your character will change.
16:05 You will overcome sin, you will overcome temptations. Your heart will change. You’ll become more and more like Christ.
16:11 That’s why you fast to kill the flesh, to kill your body’s desire, to deny yourself, become the cross. That’s why you fast. You fast for that reason.
16:18 You don’t fast to get reward from God. He’s already promised that whatever your needs will be settled. And he sees us through.
16:26 His promises are yes and yes and amen. So do not fast to get something from Jesus Christ. Do you remember? Do you fast to go get something from your earthly father? No.
16:36 You ask him in faith. You ask Him. But what is not amiss? Ask him what is right.
16:42 He will give it to you. What is wrong for you, what can damage you. He won’t give it to you.
16:45 Brother and sisters, today remember, Jesus is in you. You are in Jesus Christ. You are a holy priest.
16:52 Let’s go and be a holy priest. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
13. Practice secret disciplines (giving, praying, fasting) —Matthew 6:1-18 Matthew 6:1-18 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Giving to the Poor and Prayer 1 “Be [very] careful not to do your [a]good deeds publicly, to be seen by men; otherwise you will have no reward [prepared and awaiting you] with your Father who is in heaven. 2 “So whenever you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet before you [to advertise it], as the hypocrites do [like actors acting out a role] in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored and recognized and praised by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
3 But when you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing [give in complete secrecy],
4 so that your charitable acts will be done in secret; and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. 5 “Also, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray [publicly] standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets so that they may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
6 But when you pray, go into your most private room, close the door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
8 So do not be like them [praying as they do]; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9 “Pray, then, [b]in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, [c]Hallowed be Your name. 10 ‘[d]Your kingdom come, Your [e]will be done On earth as it is in heaven. 11 ‘Give us this day our [f]daily bread. 12 ‘And forgive us our [g]debts, as we have forgiven our debtors [letting go of both the wrong and the resentment]. 13 ‘And do not [h]lead us into temptation, but deliver us from [i]evil. [j][For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]’ 14 For if you forgive [k]others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others [nurturing your hurt and anger with the result that it interferes with your relationship with God], then your Father will not forgive your trespasses. Fasting, The True Treasure, Wealth (Mammon) 16 “And whenever you are fasting, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they put on a sad and dismal face [like actors, discoloring their faces with ashes or dirt] so that their fasting may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they [already] have their reward in full.
17 But when you fast, put oil on your head [as you normally would to groom your hair] and wash your face
18 so that your fasting will not be noticed by people, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees [what is done] in secret will reward you.
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 25 February 2016 Practice secret disciplines Practice secret disciplines. This title was what was given on the website. Remember we are doing the 50 commands of Jesus Christ that they have collected.
00:17 It may not be perfect, it may be some 50 something or not, it doesn’t matter. We will use that because even we know some of these commandments and we obey. Brothers and sisters, the effect, the powerful benefit for each of us just have to obey the words of Jesus Christ, our Lord, our Master, husband of our soul, the one who suffered and died and rose again, even went to hell for me.
00:44 Oh I find this brothers and sisters, as I said in the graceoflife.com there is this download mp3 you can download whereby the words of Jesus have been put into a one hour cd. You just play it on and on, download it and play it on and on. In your room thinking and meditating on what Jesus words are, we find tremendous benefit.
01:10 And also play it for your children. You will find it tremendous benefit because it goes into the spirit. Even when you are not meditating on it, even when you are sleeping, your spirit man is still absorbing it.
01:21 Your spirit man is absorbing it. Your children’s spirit man is absorbing it. And it will happen.
01:26 The spirit of God will then use it to move us. Brothers and sisters, listening to the word of God is an important good thing for us. It’s a good thing.
01:38 It’s a useful thing. The Word of God will change us from inside us. Brothers and sisters, this title given by this website and then it’s a very long scripture.
01:48 Here it is. Matthew 6:1 18. We’ll do as much as we can today because we need to get to the understanding behind these things and behind what’s happening in the world.
01:58 Brothers, first of all is a subtitle to that is saying Giving to the poor and prayer. Giving to the poor and prayer. Be very careful.
02:07 Matthew 6:1 Be very careful not to do your good deeds publicly to be seen by men. And otherwise you will have no reward. No reward prepared and waiting for you.
02:18 In bracket it says this is the amplified version with your Father who is in heaven. Be very careful. He says amplified.
02:25 It’s not just be careful. Amplify saying be very careful. Because when they look at the Greek and the Hebrew translations, the impact on the word While the simple English word be careful, the actual meaning is be very, very careful.
02:41 Be extremely careful not to do your good deeds publicly to be seen by men. Otherwise you will have no reward prepared and awaiting you with your Father who is in heaven. 2 so whenever you give to the poor, do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet before you to advertise it as a hypocrite.
03:04 Do the hypocrites, they define this as like actors acting out a role in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may be honoured and recognized and praised by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you they already have their reward in full. So now 2 is saying, so whenever you give to the poor and do acts of kindness, do not blow a trumpet before you to advertise it as like hypocrites, do like actors acting out a role in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may be honored and recognized and praised by men.
03:14 I assure you and most honestly say to you they already have their reward in full. Where the reward, the people say, oh, this person is so kind, so good, he’s doing this for the poor, he’s doing this. So when you begin to do this with this intention and you blow trumpet like the hypocrites, do you already know reward.
03:56 So therefore, when we give to the poor and do acts of kindness, Jesus Christ is commanding us to be in secret, not blowing our trumpet and all. Of course, sometimes you will be giving people in the public you may be giving, let’s say a beggar is there and then you put money and others are seeing it. This doesn’t apply to that, because you are there, the beggar is there.
04:20 Whoever is begging or suffering or somebody has got some disability and they are there. And you are led in the spirit to put some money that also. Brothers and sisters, please ask Jesus Christ, ask the Spirit of God whether to give 1, 2, how much to give because the monies are not yours anymore.
04:38 It’s not mine anymore. When we come to Jesus Christ, we have surrendered all. We have surrendered all.
04:44 That means nothing belongs to us. Everything belongs to him. And that is a safe place to be.
04:49 Why, if it belongs to you, the devil will steal, kill and destroy. If it belongs to Christ, you cannot steal, kill and destroy. But it’s not important enough just to say by words, oh, it belongs to Christ, it belongs to Christ.
05:02 But actually you act as if it’s yours. Suppose I say belong to Christ, I surrender. Door.
05:07 And then whenever something I want to make decision, I make decision on my own. I take the money I have and decide to do what I want. Do not wait on the Lord Jesus Christ.
05:13 Do not wait on the spirit of God to give me an understanding. What do I do. Then what will happen is the money finally be stolen and you will still be suffering for no reason.
05:26 And again you won’t have reward because you did not give or do things according to what the Spirit of God is telling you. Very important brothers and sisters, before you give, before you do something with the money that God has given you, you consult him, you ask him, he’s the husband of your soul. He’s just like a husband and wife.
05:46 When the husband has given the wife some money to take out the house and this and that, and then buy the provisions or whatever. If she wants to buy something else other than that, doesn’t she have to ask her husband? I’m talking about a good God fearing wife. If you’re talking about a wife who doesn’t care about God.
06:03 And then it’s not a born again family, it’s not born again spirit. They’re not following Christ, this family is not following Christ. Don’t expect that because they don’t understand these things.
06:12 You think when we were not in Christ, you think we were all following the rules of Christ? No, we were just doing what we wanted. But we believe because we don’t have Christ, we don’t have consultation, we just have to go and do and have to fend for ourselves, fend for ourselves and master ourselves up again. Now before I come back to this, let me finish one more verse.
06:33 3. When you give to the poor, do acts of kindness. Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
06:41 Give in complete secrecy. Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Give incomplete secrecy so that when your charitable acts will be done in secret, and your Father who sees what you’ve done in secret, will reward you.
06:56 Remember, the reward only comes when you do in secrecy. If you are doing it for for the benefit of people, you’re blowing a trumpet. There’s no reward.
07:07 But more importantly, a disciple will consult, will ask Jesus Christ, what do I do with this money? And a disciple will also, if not sure, some extraordinary expenses out of the normal expenditure you’re doing out of the normal purchases, you will sit and take counsel among your brethren. Two or three godly counsel gives you safety. Do not operate on your own because you have a family in Christ.
07:36 That is, if you are in a congregation that really established in Christ, caring and loving for one another as Jesus Christ has loved us. That’s the second highest commandment. If you do not have that family in Christ, then obviously you have a situation.
07:48 Then you have to wait on the Lord Jesus Christ and do by yourself. But remember what you are spending. The money is not yours anymore.
07:57 It’s not mine anymore. It is his And I love that position. You know why? It’s safe when we listen to Jesus Christ, the spirit of God do this.
08:06 Spend here, don’t spend here, give here, don’t give there. Is it safe because the spirit of God is doing now let us say you heard wrongly. He says give somewhere and then you believe that you’re giving because Jesus has told you then you’re giving that you’ll still be protected if you are hearing in sincerity.
08:26 In sincerity. If your heart already wants something and then you want to buy that and then you are forcing yourself to look for signals and signs from Jesus Christ, spirit of God to buy that that is not sincere. If it’s not sincere insincere then you will not get the protection from Christ because it’s insincere.
08:46 You are moving your own way. Brother. Is giving business an important thing now? One of the earliest things what happened was it’s only a few weeks after I’ve come to the Lord.
08:57 I was going to church and they used to have healing and deliverance ministry. I think it’s Wednesday. I think they have it at 3 o’clock.
09:05 I think so. They used to have there at 2 o’clock or 2:30. I forgot then I used to rush there from some distance away because we were in Patanjaya and this in care.
09:18 So now so I will drive and I’m so working at the time. So time problem. So last day I was dash there.
09:28 So one day I was doing that and parked up there park it and his is going on in chow kit. So I parked there and there I saw one boy. I can see the brother asking money for when I parked the car.
09:41 He wants money because I parking the car there. And I know looking I being in spirit. This fella if I if I don’t give him he may scratch the car.
09:50 So I gave him 50 cents. I gave him 50 cents. Now as soon as I gave him 50 cents and I moving away because I don’t want the card to be scratched.
10:02 I know this cap is also a drug addict. So I start scratching it because I’m looking like it. Anyway thank Jesus Christ then conviction my spirit.
10:12 I walk in Jesus the spirit of God telling me impression in my heart. Why did you give the 50 cents? So I speaking to myself. So I told the Lord Jesus Christ because I believe this fellow will stretch the car if I don’t give 50 cents.
10:30 He said, did you ask me then when I realized, because I know about the surrender business, the surrender. Then when I realized that I didn’t ask him. And Jesus, the spirit of God is telling me ask everything.
10:41 Because he’s teaching me to learn to hear him in everything. Because I’ve just come to the Lord Jesus Christ. He wants me to listen to this small still voice for every small thing first.
10:53 Because when you start listening to small things, then only bigger things you can hear. But all that I’m not thinking of that I’m thinking of while in church, all this going on. But then is it.
11:04 It’s time. Ah, because it’s safety for you. It’s a good thing.
11:08 And your surrender doll, it belongs to. It does not belong to you. Sorry, Lord Jesus.
11:13 I went. But it’s playing in my mind the next few days. Why? How? How did.
11:17 So I realized that he wants me to hear his voice. He wants me to ask for every little thing so that it’s a practice in me to hear my father’s voice, to hear the husband or my soul’s voice. The time I didn’t even know he’s the husband or my soul, by the way.
11:31 But he says, I don’t know all this. So then I decided, yes, I will, you know. Yes, yes, yes.
11:37 Then of course after that, a couple of weeks later, same scenario, rushing there, parked the car and saw this chap, another chap with all this nasal mask all over. So it’s definitely addict. And then that time Jesus said, couldn’t he protect the car? Wouldn’t Jesus protect the car? The spirit of God wouldn’t protect the car.
12:05 Why are you believing? They must give money and give man money, otherwise a man will scratch a car. So I saw this chair. The second Tyson around, saw this chap, dolls and needle marks and all.
12:15 So I decided not to give Jesus, brought her the car and moved on. And I. Okay, immediately another impression. Why didn’t you ask me? So I didn’t.
12:26 There now only I’m beginning to realize I forgot all about the earlier discussion with the Lord. Then why? Why then? Sorry Lord. Sorry Lord.
12:36 He said, now go and give 2 ringgit. Because they did not give the fellow any money. Because I said, Jesus has brought the car and that’s it.
12:42 This is money. So that’s it, I’m moving. He said, why didn’t you give the question? He’s saying, why didn’t you ask me? Ask me.
12:51 So he said, now I fell in my spirit. Go and give 2 ringgit with this fellow. Full of little marks.
12:57 I’m believing he’ll use it for drugs. But again he gave the two ringgit because now I disturbed in my spirit already. When I get the two ringgit, then I’m moving off again and sitting in the congregation and thinking about what’s going on here.
13:13 Then the next that is teaching me, ask him, Ask Him. Only he will know. For instance, who knows this same colorful of pockmarks, needle marks, you see? And you concluded? I concluded he’s a drug addict.
13:25 He was going to use the money for drugs. And who knows, he might have just prayed and said, if you are God, where are you? I’m suffering. I need a sign, somebody to help me.
13:36 And then if you have God, give me two ringgit somewhere. And somebody give me two ringgit to show your God. Who knows what they have prayed? We won’t know.
13:45 Only Jesus will know. Because he’s complete control of the entire universe and some of what he wants us to do, he wants us to ask him. Ask him godly counsel if we cannot hear because you have surrendered and every cent belongs to Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
14:04 At the same time, do not. When he told you to give something, do not show off quietly give. Left hand shouldn’t know what the right hand is doing.
14:13 But if you cannot help it, when you’re giving somebody, you’re giving and people are saying that’s okay because you’re not blowing a trumpet. That’s how the situation has taken place. You’re not doing it to advertise.
14:22 You’re not doing it to get revenue from there. You’re not doing it to feel good or show people that intention must be clear. Our hearts are wicked, brothers and sisters.
14:32 Our heart will say, if I give this to this fellow, especially in the business world, he’ll say, okay, I better go give this to this chap. Give a gift so he will return the favor. You give a gift.
14:43 You give a gift full stop. Because your Lord Jesus Christ told you to give a gift. Do not give a gift expecting something in return.
14:51 Then you already have your reward here because you have a plan. Our hearts are like that. Our hearts are wicked.
14:58 So we have control our hearts, brothers and sisters, be very careful. Control our hearts. Because our hearts are like that, brothers and sisters, today, remember this.
15:09 Everything. What he wants us to do is when it comes to the Lord. And after that, forever, while we’re walking, to ask Him.
15:16 And after a while, it will be a sensing in your spirit. That means you will know he’s moving you. He will know it is Settled.
15:23 When you are settled in the spirit to give something, somebody you know, it’s your Lord Jesus Christ move moving you to give, then you are looking at other things. Because you’re moving, being moved from glory to glory. You’re not going to wait on when does give, but when you’re uncertain.
15:37 Stop, stop, stop, stop. When you’re uncertain, stop. Pray, worship, wait for a moment, ask until you are settled that this is what the Spirit of God is telling you to do.
15:48 Otherwise you’ll be giving away Jesus Christ money without asking him. And that is a big no no. Because the devil, seeing that knows that you are just doing.
15:58 And I’m just doing what I want with the money given by God to me. He has a right to come and steal. Because we say when we first came to the Lord, I surrender all.
16:09 In fact, initially when I went there the first Sunday they were singing the song. I surrendered all. I did not sing after I was saved.
16:16 I dare not sing. Why? I don’t know what I’m surrendering. I’m unable to.
16:20 My heart won’t let go, you know. Then the next week though the same thing, the thing answered. And all that time the spirit of God already convicted me in one week.
16:27 It’s better to surrender all. That’s the only way to live life. Because by keeping it, I messed up.
16:33 When I didn’t surrender for all these years, what happened? I messed up completely. The devil stole from me. So then I decided yes, I surrender all.
16:42 All from today, Lord Jesus Christ, you are my Lord and savior. Everything you decide for me. Lord, I surrendered my mind.
16:48 Even that day. I don’t even my mind because it has almost destroyed me. In Jesus name I pray Jesus will take care of you brothers and sisters.
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Scriptures Referenced
Matthew 5:44-48Amplified Bible (AMP)
44 “But I say to you, love [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may [show yourselves to] be the children of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and makes the rain fall on the righteous [those who are morally upright] and the unrighteous [the unrepentant, those who oppose Him].
46 For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?
47 And if you greet only your brothers [wishing them God’s blessing and peace], what more [than others] are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles [who do not know the Lord] do that?
48 You, therefore, will be perfect [growing into spiritual maturity both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life], as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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 24th February 2016 Love your enemies and be perfect. Love your enemies and be perfect. Brothers and sisters, I’m led to put the title of the commandment here because it’s easier to search.
00:20 Instead of saying part one, part two, 50 commandments of Christ, part one, part two, or whatever, it’s harder to search years later, months later, whatever. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today, love your enemies and be perfect.
00:32 This is a commandment of Christ and It is from Matthew 5, 44, 48. I’ll be reading now, brothers and sisters again. 44 But I say to you, this is who is saying this? Jesus Christ of Nazareth is saying this.
00:46 The husband of my soul is saying this. The one who loves him so much, the one who created me is saying this. The one who died and rose again for me is saying this.
00:57 The Alpha and Omega is saying this. The Ancient of Days is saying this. That I am.
01:03 That I am is saying this. The I am. That I am is saying this.
01:07 The I am, Brothers and sisters, you are talking about who is saying this? If you take a moment to reflect and see, it’s the Ancient of Delis, the lion of Judah, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the husband of my soul, the one who is coming back on a white horse to have vengeance against all evil. He is saying this, love your enemies and be perfect. But let’s see how he said it.
01:31 But you must take this attitude of reverence. Reverence, brothers and sisters. Therefore many people are not reverence because they’ve been taught like that Jesus is your friend.
01:39 Jesus is your friend. All that is not true when Jesus says he’s your friend. Yes, but if Jesus Christ has not said he’s your friend, better understand this.
01:47 I’m a servant. As far as I’m concerned, I’m still a servant. Yes.
01:51 I’ve not heard him say he’s my friend, so I cannot say that. If he says that, I will tell you. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters.
01:59 But I say to you, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is saying, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. 44 and love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. And love here is unselfishly seeking the best, a higher good for your enemies.
02:17 That’s how the amplified here is defining it. After taking the meaning from the Hebrew and the Greek, unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for your enemies. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of your Father.
02:35 Children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good and on. And makes the rain fall on the righteous, those who are morally upright and the unrighteous, the unrepentant, those who oppose him.
02:51 Now let’s just take a moment of that one. So that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. So love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.
03:07 This is an easy route to become children of the Father in heaven. How we love our enemies. That means unselfishly seeking the best and higher good for the enemies.
03:17 And pray for those who persecute you, people who win against you. Pray for them so that you may be. And you show yourself to be in bracket.
03:26 It says, show yourself to be children of your Father who is in heaven. That means you do this. Even the enemies will see.
03:33 They’ll be seeing you that, hey, they are different. They are not turning evil by evil. They’re not attacking me.
03:40 I did all kinds of things. These people are not. They’re actually doing what is good for me.
03:45 So that you may be children of your Father, sons of the Most High God. So that you will be the sons of the Most High God. And while your Father, he makes the sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and also makes the rain fall on the righteous, those who are morally upright, that is through Christ.
04:04 Our righteousness is from Christ. Our own righteousness is like filthy rags. And the unrighteous, that is unrepentant those who oppose God.
04:13 46. If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that. If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the word of God.
04:29 In fact, Jesus Christ himself is speaking this to the people and telling, if you only love those who love you, what reward do you have? That is why our reward comes by loving those who don’t love us. In fact, that may be persecuting us. In fact, they may be doing things to us, but we love them.
04:47 Then we have great reward in heaven and we be sons of the Most High God. And he’s asking, do not even the tax collectors do that? That means the fellows who collect taxes and all consider very bad their doors because they cheat them, they collect more taxes than necessary, they abuse them, they. They Collect bribes, they force them to pay a ransom.
05:05 And all this story, more if not I take action against you. And all that. It goes on even now, all over the world, in all kinds of forms.
05:14 And yet he’s commanding us. Look here, he says, if you love only those who love you, even those such collectors love only those who love them, so what good is this? What is the reward for you? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing? In bracket amplified says, wishing them God’s blessing and peace. What more than others are you doing? Jesus Christ is saying, if you greet only your brothers and sisters, wishing them God blessing and peace.
05:43 Greeting means they are wishing them God blessing and peace. What more than others are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles who do not know the Lord do that. Do not even the unbelievers do that.
05:54 You therefore will be perfect both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Most translations will say, therefore you will be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. So by loving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us, we will not only be children of the Most High God as sons of the Most High God, but we will also be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.
06:24 This is in 48, that is 5,48, but let me read the bracket there. The explanation from the Hebrew and the Greek text, how amplified is condensed. Perfect is growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character.
06:40 Both in mind and character. Actively integrating godly values into your daily life. That’s what the perfection is talking about.
06:40 Both in mind and character, actively spiritual maturity and growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life. Brothers and sisters, let’s condense this Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. You’ll be sons of the Most High God.
07:10 That is what is love. Unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for your enemy, not returning evil for evil. Now why your Father God also pours the rain on the unrighteous and also pours the rain on the righteous.
07:25 Your Father God, bless the sun rise for those who are evil. Also your Father God provides the basic love, provides for them. Now then, the question Jesus is asking even the tax collectors, they love only those who love them.
07:45 What’s the difference between you and me? He says, son Priscilla, what’s the difference between you? And then if you only love those who love you? And then he goes on to say, if you only bless those who are brethren, brothers and Sisters in Christ, what more than them are you doing? Even the unbeliever do that unbeliever over that. They bless their own people. They only bless those who love them, are those who are their own brothers and sisters.
08:13 What’s the difference? He says so we have to be different. If we do this, if we bless those who do not bless us, if we bless those who are outside the family of Christ and our own people. If you bless those and if you love those and our reward is in heaven, not only our reward is heaven, but will be perfect.
08:36 How perfect. How growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your whole daily life as your heavenly Father is perfect. Brothers and sisters, let me dwell on some examples what happened to me.
08:50 And I’m telling these examples make it clear. I couldn’t have done it. I didn’t do it.
08:58 So I’ll tell you how it was done. Because it was Jesus Christ who done it for me. Because there’s a scripture after.
09:05 Later only I came to know. It was in Galatians 2:20, I think it says that now that I’m crucified in Christ, I now live because Christ liveth in me. I now live as Christ liveth in me.
09:21 It’s Christ who does this. I cannot do this. It’s Christ who does this.
09:26 Brothers and sisters, you may understand the scripture that what clearly is actually Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ, but it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh.
09:43 I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. Brothers and sisters, remember this. I again telling you I’m going to give you some examples, remarkable examples, what happened to me.
09:59 But I could not have done it. It was not I who was doing it. It was Christ who lives in me was doing it.
10:05 But there’s only one thing I was doing. I was thinking about Christ. And that also it all the time in my spirit.
10:12 Because Jesus Christ keeps coming all the time in my spirit, after I’ve accepted Jesus Christ. And all the time I’m thinking of his suffering. He suffered on the cross like that for me.
10:20 He gave me peace. He gave me peace. And I did all kinds of things, four letter words against him.
10:25 And all that yet he has taken me. Come unto me and I shall give you rest. And I was having the peace.
10:30 I know peace for years, you know, for years. And then after that, peace, peace. And I also am thinking peace so whenever I do something automatically in my spirit, I don’t want to do anything against Christ.
10:44 I was not thinking anybody, I was not thinking of people I want to do to please Jesus Christ. And as I was thinking like this, it changed. For instance, one of the things that changed was I was a foul mouthful, remember I was foul mouthed.
10:58 Every few words would be folded words, very filthy words. They were worse than a sailor, they would say. And then there was drunkenness, there was violence, of course, there was adultery, sexual immorality and all that going on.
11:14 Yet the day, a couple of few days later a staff told me, boss, you’re not talking four letter words already. Then I quickly ran to him, look at the concordance and search. He went to the bookshop and started looking.
11:30 Then when I decided to buy the concordance, I realized I need this. Although it was costly even that time it was 100 over ringgit. I think now.
11:38 See, so now we can get you all the Internet free presence itself. Those days you got to buy the tick books now. The tick books are now not using because I’m using Internet searches now.
11:48 I put one tick concordance as a stand for some other item on it. Brothers and sisters now they said. So what happened? The Bible stopped, you know, Stopped.
12:01 Why? When Jesus. When I started reading the concordance, check. This is the way.
12:06 Finally I found that he takes control of my tongue for his will now. For Jesus will. So I’m not doing it right.
12:12 So that’s why I’m encouraging him now by telling my example. I’m telling you it is done by him. You only have to meditate on him.
12:19 You have to think of the suffering. You don’t want to grieve him anymore. You don’t want to grieve anymore.
12:25 You’re only thinking of him every day. Get up. Think of Jesus Christ.
12:28 Lord, you save me. Make me do your will. Make me be a blessing to others.
12:32 Make me not blaspheme your name. Let me not insult your name by my conduct. Make me do things so people know I’m a person, I’m a child, I’m a son of the Most High God.
12:44 I start thinking of this, I must be yours, Lord. I must be yours. I don’t want to do anything that people think, why I act like this now, then it changes, you know, before I can do something, the Holy Spirit.
12:55 I didn’t know it was the Holy Spirit. The Word would come into my heart and say, don’t do this, don’t do this. I just blood of that time.
13:01 I don’t know blood of Jesus. I say, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Lord, Lord, help me.
13:04 Help me. And walk away. Now, can you imagine that is how it will be changed? For instance, the people who have done things against me, just finally I stopped because I’m suing them for what damage I’ve done.
13:15 It was lots and lots of damage. So in court. And of course they know I was violent and all.
13:22 So this one particular man. So I was walking in the court, I was walking with him. I didn’t feel anger anymore.
13:26 I didn’t feel hatred. I didn’t feel bitterness. I only felt pity for him, that he doesn’t know Christ.
13:33 So I decided to walk towards him. And I, walking towards him, he took a couple of steps back because he knows maybe I’m coming there whacking maybe, you know, because I’m so violent. So then he realized, this man realized that, you know, I’ve changed so much.
13:48 So the same man telling others later, some months later, he become like, you know, he follows Christ. And you all go and see him if you got some issues. And I heard he can cast out evil spirit.
14:02 Can you imagine? Can you imagine? So brothers and sisters. And somebody came and told me that. I said, yeah, I thought everybody can cast out in Jesus Christ’s name only.
14:12 Isn’t it so, brothers and sisters? Now then, what’s happened? My enemy recognizes that I’m different. How this happens, how this happens is this from inside. The spirit of God will change you.
14:29 Because you’re thinking of Jesus Christ. You’re thinking how he suffered for you. You’re thinking how you messed up.
14:34 You’re thinking what wrong you have done. Now what has happened is you’ll be perfect, right? This perfect business has become some nonsense. Nowadays, for instance, there are communications.
14:44 There are churches that teach you. Come, your face will change. Your nose, your crooked nose.
14:48 You’re unhappy with your nose. God will give you a changed nose, a beautiful nose. The scripture is clear.
14:54 It’s not your inner beauty. It’s not your outer beauty. It’s not the adorning of.
15:02 It’s not adorning of yourself. Adorning a D O r N I n g adorning of yourself. It’s not a braided hair.
15:09 It’s not how you comb your hair. It’s not how you put on the clothes, what clothes you put on. It’s the inner beauty, the inner beauty that comes from the spirit of an incorruptible man.
15:21 It is inner beauty of an incorruptible man. What is inner beauty of incorruptible man. Because you are a spirit being that has become beautiful when that becomes beautiful inside.
15:31 Because the spirit of God has given you life. That is righteous spirit, because God’s spirit gave you life. Jesus Christ gave you life.
15:39 So you are a spirit being that becomes more and more beautiful because you are thinking of Christ. You are doing as Christ wants because. But that must now control our heart.
15:48 Our heart is treacherously decayed. Now, as we begin to do this, people are drawn to you because inside your chains you are. A light comes out of you.
15:57 People want to be near you. And this is one of the problems. I tell the girls in the church, young girls, I say, careful.
16:03 When people come near you, boys come near you, they’re drawn to you not because of your outer beauty. They’ll be drawn to you simply because the spirit of God inside there, they feel comfortable with you. But you must be careful.
16:15 You must now fall into being sorry for them, pity for them, and then finally you fall into a trap. Don’t do that. You better understand.
16:21 They’re drawn to you not because of your outer beauty, but because of the inner beauty of the incorruptible man that Jesus Christ has given you. You are perfect. You’re perfect.
16:31 First of all, your spirit man is perfect. And more and more you control your heart and mind by Jesus name because Jesus controls it for you. The Christ in you controls it for you.
16:39 You are changing. You are changing. He is changing you.
16:43 This encouragement, my brothers and sisters, Jesus will change you as you meditate and focus on his word. Brothers and sisters, today is a wonderful day to know this. And then you say, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to crave for Jesus Christ.
16:56 Want Jesus Christ and do his will. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Be reconciled—Matthew 5:24-25
Matthew 5:23-25Amplified Bible (AMP)
23 So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something [such as a grievance or legitimate complaint] against you,
24 leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering.
25 Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison.
Do not commit adultery—Matthew 5:27-30
Matthew 5:27-30 Amplified Bible (AMP)
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’;
28 but I say to you that everyone who [so much as] looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
29 If your right eye makes you stumble and leads you to sin, tear it out and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
30 If your right hand makes you stumble and leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Keep your word—Matthew 5:33-37 Matthew 5:33-37 Amplified Bible (AMP)33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not make false vows, but you shall fulfill your vows to the Lord [as a religious duty].’34 But I say to you, do not make an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God;35 or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.36 Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you are not able to make a single hair white or black.37 But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’ [a firm yes or no]; anything more than that comes from the evil one.
Go the second mile—Matthew 5:38-42 Matthew 5:38-42 Amplified Bible (AMP)38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth [punishment that fits the offense].’39 But I say to you, do not resist an evil person [who insults you or violates your rights]; but whoever [a]slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other toward him also [simply ignore insignificant insults or trivial losses and do not bother to retaliate—maintain your dignity, your self-respect, your poise].40 If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, [b] let him have your coat also [for the Lord repays the offender].41 And whoever
[c]forces you to go one mile, go with him two.
42 Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.
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 23rd February 201650 Commands of Jesus Christ 7 to 10 Part 2 Brothers and Sisters, again let’s remind ourselves this examination of ourselves is a critical thing in growing in the Lord. It’s a critical thing to examine ourselves as commanded by Jesus Christ. That we have to examine ourselves and check ourselves in case are we false Christians, fake Christians? Is our conduct right in Christ? It’s a critical thing if we love Jesus Christ to keep his commandments.
00:35 So we have to check examine whether our conduct is pleasing the Lord Jesus Christ. Our conduct, is it breaking any of the commands that he has put for us? Because we want to be co rulers in heaven for eternity. This we are only passing through this earth.
00:52 This. Passing through this earth. Yes, there are a lot of chaos and and the toils of the world.
00:58 The cares will come. But first we stop and look at the commands of Jesus Christ. Because it is Jesus Christ who saves us, who gives us a good life.
01:07 He took all our illnesses and curses and generational curses and everything was taken on the cross that day 2,000 years ago and to give us power over Satan. But we must use the power. We must cast out the evil spirit.
01:20 Evil spirit of anger, evil spirit of fear. Fear will come. Evil spirit of fear.
01:26 Fear will always come. That is why even Angel Gabriel went out to inform to Mary to tell her that she will be carrying in her womb Jesus, who was, is and ever will be the Holy Spirit will put the human Jesus into her. And before she announced, Gabriel was saying, fear not Mary, fear not Mary.
01:50 Why? Our character, our situation on earth is we tend to fear. So we cast out the spirit of fear. And then when somebody is there something, and you’re fearing somebody, you cast out the spirit of fear and all that.
02:03 And the only way to overcome finally is to love them. To love them. Love is highest command.
02:08 To love the people you fear. You love them and love them to know that you know. And ask Jesus for mercy for them.
02:17 Ask Jesus Christ for mercy for them. That they will to also see what we see. And that they will know the power of Jesus Christ and the suffering he did for them.
02:28 And they can live a life well on earth in righteousness, peace and joy, brothers and sisters, and not well on earth, chasing everything, but not in righteousness, peace and joy. Because without righteousness, peace and joy, health will go, family will go, relationships will go, everything will go. That was seek ye the kingdom of God first, which is righteousness, peace and joy, righteousness Peace and joy.
02:51 We must thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth today, that brand new day. Now, brothers and sisters, yesterday we dealt with this lasting, you know, lusting after our hearts. Like for instance, Matthew 5:27, it said, you have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery.
03:12 28, verse 27:28. But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. And once we are committing adultery in our heart, we will not enter heaven.
03:30 We will not have the righteousness, peace and joy. And this gives the devil a big foothold. And the devil comes and starts stealing everything from us.
03:37 How do I know this? It happened to me. Now, that time I was actually physically in adultery. Now after that, when I came to the Lord, oh, the commandment is even higher.
03:46 But how can he put such a high command? Because he has given us his name. He’s given us his power. He’s given us his blood to overcome.
03:54 To overcome. Our heart, where he says, he said, lust for her has already committed adultery with her. Where? In our heart.
04:01 The heart. The heart which is desperately wicked, which. Which is treacherously wicked.
04:07 Jesus said we must guard our heart with the peace of God, with the righteousness, by the blood of Jesus Christ. We must guard our heart. Because that’s where all the problems come from.
04:17 Our heart, all adultery, anger, committing murder, all that God says comes from the heart of the person. So therefore, our heart, we must all the time watch our heart in the name of Jesus Christ. That is why we must examine our heart daily.
04:32 Now, at the same time, do not be trapped into guilt and condemnation. As I gave an example yesterday. Just because a woman naked went by and you looked at her in a shock and this and that.
04:44 But of course, you may be drawn. Even when a woman naked, passing, your heart may be drawn. Then you say, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, and turn away and go on.
04:54 Or if you are there, you may have to help the woman, take out your shirt and cover her or something. Brothers and sisters, we need to do the right thing. We are children of God.
05:03 We are disciples of Jesus Christ. But don’t let the devil also catch us and condemn us and just, oh, I’ve seen a woman. I looked at a woman.
05:11 Oh, I looked at a woman. And then you cannot. You’re petrified.
05:14 You’re frozen. Brothers and sisters, these issues. These issues are real.
05:20 Real because particularly our children, they are under big attack because they are using computers. They have to have computers. If they can’t use computers, they can’t do their work nowadays so all kinds of things will come in there.
05:34 So we have to teach them this to say blood of Jesus blood. Although their heart be tempted, in fact their temptations are far greater than our generation. Far far greater.
05:44 Our children temptation. That’s why we must now feel sorry for them. We must have compassion for them.
05:49 We must not embrace a because I made this mistake somebody said why is this boy doing this? Why girl doing this? Whatever even in ministry then God rebuked me, Jesus Christ rebuked me to let me know look, their temptations are higher so have mercy, compassion for them and guide them, teach them how to overcome and then after that still nothing you can do after teaching somebody only they can decide because each of them will but the Holy Spirit, you have been sealed for salvation by the Holy Spirit will follow. The soul will allow circumstances Jesus Christ will allow circumstances for the soul to then turn and know this is not good, this lusting after the things of the world. Lust after the things.
06:34 What your eyes are seeing will harm them. They will know God will allow some issues and then they’ll find out that following the system of the world actually harms us. Following the word of Jesus Christ actually gives us righteousness, peace and joy and contentment, Godly contentment which is great gain.
06:53 Jesus says all will come for us. We live a good peaceful life. Brothers and sisters, today let’s look at this.
07:02 Today we are looking at Matthew 5:33 onwards which talks about keep your word, keep your word, keep your word. Brothers and sisters, he says, keep your word. Now this keeping your word again.
07:16 I said it was said to the men of old, you shall not make false vows, but you shall fulfil your vows to the Lord as a religious duty. But I say to you, do not make an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you are not able to make a single hair, white or black.
07:47 37 but let your statement be yes, it’s a yes or no, it’s a no, a firm yes or no. Anything more than that comes from the evil one. Brothers and sisters, I’m going to read that again because this is a problem.
08:00 Keeping our word has become a problem in this current day and age. For instance, many don’t keep time, many don’t. Christians, you know I’m talking about calling themselves Christians, they don’t keep time.
08:14 Take a simple thing, keeping time. Make appointment to say so. And so I will see you and then you keep time.
08:20 Now, brothers and sisters, they don’t keep time. Yes. Then they give excuse if it’s a traffic.
08:25 And of course we would have known of the traffic, isn’t it because we are regularly going in the. In the same direction or whatever, you know, roughly the traffic. So it was not the intention to keep time.
08:35 They take this lightly. Keeping time people have taken lightly. I’m talking about, not other words.
08:41 Not that I will do this for you. I’m not doing. I’m not even going there.
08:44 I’m just sitting with, I’ll see you at this time. And then they take the time of the person. Rightly, that means they’re breaking the love your neighbour as yourself rule.
08:54 Love your neighbor as yourself. Would you like to be kept waiting? And waiting and waiting. Know that this comes under this Matthew 5:33, 37.
09:04 Again you have heard that it was said to the men of old, you shall not make false vows, but you shall fulfill your vows. There they are talking about false vows only. But you make the vows.
09:16 But I say to you, do not make an oath at all. Jesus saying, do not make an oath at all, either by heaven for the throne of God, or by the earth, for it’s a footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, by the city of the great king. And 36.
09:31 Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you are not able to make a single hair white or black. But let your statement be, yes, it’s a yes, or no, it’s a no. That’s important.
09:42 After a while, people know you’re truthful. Now there are people I’ve dealt with Christians who say, keep time. And they never say, sometimes, but after that I will rebuke them, I’ll caution them, I will encourage them.
09:56 I will tell them, you are breaking God’s laws. Then how do you expect to allow the devil to whack you? The devil, of course, will whack you because he got a foothold to come and deal with you. So therefore they say, people may think that I only live, you know, people understand and all, no, you’re breaking the second highest commandment for disciples of Jesus Christ, that is love your neighbor as yourself.
10:19 Now, after a while, people change because I keep telling them. And then the children of God changes in the congregation. But others who are listening to this now, please make sure that when you give a time and then you try your very Best you must make to try all you have to call and say, I’m going to be delayed.
10:37 But if all the time going to call and say you’re going to be delayed, then people know you’re not serious with them, wouldn’t they? See, people think that you’re not serious, which is true now. And then you have a different problem. The devil who’s watching this, he says, ha, I’ve given me a foothold, I’m now come inside there.
10:56 When he comes there, he can steal anything. Now remember, brothers and sisters, he can steal anything. That is a problem here.
11:03 Because once you allow one demon, that’s why you allow one snake into the house, the fellow can strike anybody. Just because you are the furthest others are nearer, that doesn’t mean you’re going to strike them. The fellow can steal anything.
11:15 When it comes you allow one demon to allow a foothold, the devil will come and start stealing anything and everything. And then finally you find that you’re in a mess and you can’t connect the dots. You can’t see why your life is becoming like this and you can’t understand why it is becoming like this.
11:28 And then you begin to think what’s happening here? And then you’re crying out to Christ, crying out to Christ, but you’re not examining yourself, you’re praying and crying out to Christ. Yes, but he’s unable to break his own command. What you sow, you will reap.
11:44 So you must break the command. Cast out the spirit, ask for forgiveness first. When these kind of things happening, you have to ask for repent.
11:52 Repent, ask for forgiveness. And Lord Jesus, I’m sorry, Lord, I’ve done so many things. I want to change, make me change in the name of Jesus Christ.
12:00 And then every time you’re lying in the bed, you’re looking at the issue, am I keeping time? Because you know, you take the biggest issue, the issue you fall into all the time, then you meditate on the issue before going to sleep and say, oh, today I didn’t keep time here and there. Sorry, Lord Jesus, I want to keep time tomorrow and also tomorrow, call the person and say, I’m sorry. You know, yesterday I made you wait.
12:21 Now when you begin to do this, the heart begins to change. The heart begins to change. That is where it has to go.
12:27 The heart has to change. And the God Jesus Christ will change your heart from glory to glory. Now this is important and the same thing applies anywhere.
12:35 When you say yes, it must be a yes and we are unable to fulfill you. Got to call them. This is one of the biggest, biggest footholds the devil is given by Christians.
12:45 Because loose words simply say yes and all that and not really serious and then forget about it. What they’ve told, even not just keeping time in anything else. In anything else.
12:56 If you say you’ll do something for somebody, you have to take action. You have to make sure that you purpose your heart is to do it right because you’re doing it unto the Lord Jesus Christ. So make sure when you say yes is yes and no, it’s no.
13:13 Become serious with this command, brothers and sisters, because this is one of the areas the devil takes the greatest attack. Because he knows people have taken this lightly. He uses this to start stealing from all of us.
13:26 So praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Today you know and you know this stuff opening. Block it, block it.
13:33 Command your heart and mind. Dedicate yourself to make sure that this is a commandment you follow. Keeping your word.
13:38 Keeping your word. Brother and sisters, we go to the next one. Go the second mile.
13:43 He said go the second mile now. Matthew 5:38. You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
13:52 Punishment that fits the offense. But I say to you, Jesus saying, do not resist an evil person who insults you or violates you your rights. But whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other toward him.
14:07 Also simply ignore insignificant insults or trivial losses and do not bother to retaliate. Maintain your dignity, your self respect, your poise. 40.
14:19 If anyone wants to sue you to take your shirt and take your shirt, let him have your coat also for the Lord. Replace the offender. The Lord Jesus Christ will deal with it.
14:29 He loves his child. You are the apple of his eye. You are the palm of his hand.
14:33 He loves you. He wants to settle you. He will deal with it.
14:36 41. And whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him too. Give to him who asks you and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.
14:45 Now these things you can only do when you invoke the name of Jesus Christ and command your heart to obey this command. Because our heart would not want to do our. Our mind will think it’s crazy to do.
14:53 Our mind will think it is crazy to do. That is why we must be renewed in the spirit of our mind. Renewed the spirit of mind to go the second mile.
15:04 Why, brothers and sisters, today you see this? Go the second mile right now. Go the second mile. Put that if you hurt I for an eye.
15:15 That’s why some statement will make an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind. An eye for eye make the whole world blind. Do not resist an evil person.
15:25 Surrender to Jesus Christ. These evil persons, Lead them to Christ. Leave the difficult person to cry, you hold your dignity.
15:34 God is saying, hold your dignity. Maintain dignity and self respect with poise. Do not quarrel, do not run, do not go this one and you can say what is right.
15:43 Humbly. Humbly. Humbly is the greatest weapon in the spiritual plain.
15:46 So one of the great weapons, because pride will harm us. So humbly we say, but we just do not go and resist these people because let Lord Jesus Christ take care of it. In fact, you think if I don’t do, the mind will kick in.
16:04 No, our mind will kick in. If I don’t say this, if I don’t do this, then how will they know? They will do some more wrong on me. They will do worse things to me.
16:12 Now all that we tried, isn’t it? It didn’t work. We tried to settle all this evil person by ourselves. It didn’t work.
16:18 It got worse. Let it go. Let it go.
16:22 Your Father in heaven can provide for you in many other different ways. Because he said he will provide for you. He didn’t say through which way.
16:30 He will provide for you in many different ways. You will see miracles. You will see how he moves for you.
16:33 You will see his love for you. You will experience his love for you. When you begin to obey his commandments.
16:42 By the mercy and by the power of Jesus Christ, by the blood of Jesus Christ, you begin to obey this commandment. You’ll see things happening in your life. You’ll have so much of peace.
16:50 Peace, brothers and sisters. Look for the peace in your souls today. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray.
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Scriptures Referenced
1. Repent—Matthew 4:17, Luke 13:3 Matthew 4:17Amplified Bible (AMP)17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, “ Repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins, live your life in a way that proves repentance; seek God’s purpose for your life], for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
2. Let not your heart be troubled—John 14:27, John 16:33, Matthew 6:25-26, Philippians 4:6-7
John 14:27Amplified Bible (AMP)27 Peace I leave with you; My [perfect] peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. [Let My perfect peace calm you in every circumstance and give you courage and strength for every challenge.]
3. Follow me—Matthew 4:19
Matthew 4:19Amplified Bible (AMP)19 And He said to them, “Follow Me [as My disciples, accepting Me as your Master and Teacher and walking the same path of life that I walk], and I will make you fishers of men.”
4. Rejoice—Matthew 5:12, (Also 2 Corinthians 6:10, 12:10, James 1:2-4)
Matthew 5:12Amplified Bible (AMP)12 Be glad and exceedingly joyful, for your reward in heaven is great [absolutely inexhaustible]; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
5. Let your light shine—Matthew 5:16 6. Matthew 5:16Amplified Bible (AMP) 16 Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good deeds and moral excellence, and [recognize and honor and] glorify your Father who is in heaven
6. Honor God’s law—Matthew 5:17-19 Matthew 5:17-19Amplified Bible (AMP)17 “Do not think that I came to do away with or undo the Law [of Moses] or the [writings of the] Prophets; I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For I assure you and most solemnly say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke [of the pen] will pass from the Law until all things [which it foreshadows] are accomplished. 19 So whoever breaks one of the least [important] of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least [important] in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
7. Be reconciled—Matthew 5:24-25
Matthew 5:23-25Amplified Bible (AMP)23 So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something [such as a grievance or legitimate complaint] against you, 24 leave your offering there at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come and present your offering. 25 Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison.
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 22nd of February 2016 Monday 50 Commands of Jesus Christ 7 to 10 Part 1 Brothers and Sisters, today it’s the power of Christ. It’s not our prayers, our whatever it is. Jesus Christ, the love of Jesus Christ has made him go on the cross.
00:22 Before that suffered, shed blood, took all our curses, our generational curses and what have you, our pains, our sufferings, our shame, everything it took. And those who come to him, all that is transferred to him and it’s all destroyed on the cross. And he died and rose again.
00:41 He went to hell even for us and came up. And so we don’t have to go to hell. Those who come to him and those who love him.
00:48 Those who love him means keeping his commandments. Now this is a wonderful thing to know the commands of Jesus Christ. As I said yesterday, even there is a recording, a one hour recording download.
00:59 You can do MP3 download, go to the graceoflife.com and download this recording. And you keep hearing, let your children hear while you are sleeping. Let it play on and on.
01:11 It’s all the words of Jesus Christ. As much as can go into one hour recording has been put inside there. Brothers and sirs, that’s a very, very powerful, helpful, edifying, uplifting, very uplifting.
01:26 So please go and get it and do that. And today, as we go on day by day, looking at the commands of Jesus Christ, it will only make your spirit man stronger and stronger. So today, brothers and sisters, the item seven or command seven that we recorded here is Be Reconciled.
01:45 The title is Be Reconciled. As I said, these have been taken from my website and and the email carried her link to the website. Praise Lord Jesus Christ for giving us this and for this person who was collecting.
01:58 Of course it may not be 15, maybe more, maybe less. But the point is, when we go through the commands of Jesus Christ, it can only help us. Definitely even myself, after all these years, when I’m going through the commands of Jesus Christ again, after so many times I’ve gone through, now I’m going through again, it’s helping me.
02:20 So brothers and sisters, today be reconciled. In Matthew 5:23 he says this. So if you are presenting your offering at the altar and while there you remember that your brother has something against you bracket, such as a grievance or legitimate complaint.
02:40 Leave your alternative offering there at the altar and go first, make peace with your brother and then come and present your offering. Come to terms quickly at the earliest opportunity which your opponent at law While you are with him on the way to court, so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge and adjust to the guard and you are thrown into prison. This is verse 25, brothers and sisters, today, May I remember this again? I’ll read verse 23 Matthew 5.
03:11 So if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and while there you remember that your brother has something against you, then in bracket amplified says such as grievance or legitimate complaint. Now remember, you and I cannot decide what is legitimate complaint because our hearts are wicked. We’ll always decide in our favor.
03:30 We are not going to be unbiased and clinical and righteous and to decide who is right, who is wrong. Always our heart will say the other person is wrong. So when something somebody has got against us, we go and talk to them.
03:45 That’s the command of Jesus Christ, Go and talk to them. And then we say, don’t listen to us. Bring another brother or sister along to go talk to that person again.
03:54 If they still don’t listen, then take the issue to the elders and they in council will sit together and make a decision. And then we accept the decision because it was made in godly counsel. And we do not the time question the counsel because so obviously the counselors will all be godly men.
04:12 I hope and pray because they’re not having agenda. You didn’t put one councilman person there to take your side or something. Now if it’s godly counsel, even if it is against you and you are not happy and all, you do it willingly.
04:28 Jesus Christ, the power of Jesus Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will intervene and do something for you because that is his command. Jesus, command is accept the decision of the council. When you accept it willingly, joyfully, and say, and tell your heart to say, no, you are still wrong.
04:46 The council is not right. The council, you know these people, you know, they do not know the whole story. They have made a decision against me, blah, blah, blah, hey, it’s going to harm you.
04:55 Why the devil who’s seeing this knows that you do not want to accept the counsel. Although Jesus Christ, your lord and master, the husband of your soul, already said that when he gave a counsel like that, accept it and do it and he will still bless you. He will bless you more even.
05:13 Why? Because although you believe that the counsel is wrong against you and all that, you still do it because in obedience to the command of Jesus Christ, who is the husband of your soul. Now when you do that, then there are people who go to council and they won’t take counsel even when the council have nothing, no agenda, no nothing. They just make the decision based on what the spirit of God is telling them.
05:39 Brothers and sisters, and not one or two. There may be three or four people in the council elders sitting years they’ve been serving. So brothers and sisters.
05:47 Now, first of all, this is one of the biggest issues Christians face. And calling themselves Christians, they are offer their offerings never accepted by Christ. Why they break this Matthew 5:23 command? Because when they come to offer, now the offer, when it comes to offer at the altar, it says, what are we offering at the altar? It can be singing.
06:07 You may be worshipping songs. You can worship songs. That is why many times before we worship, I’ll tell the congregation, examine yourselves.
06:17 Is there anything against anybody you have or something somebody has against you? You see here he says where you remember that your brother has something against you, not you having something against somebody. Now you having something against somebody. You must forgive, forgive, forgive, because Father God has forgiven you.
06:38 And Father God Jesus words clearly say, if you do not forgive those who have done something against you, Father God cannot forgive you. And now a lot of diseases. I’m telling you there’s researchers done all over the world.
06:54 There are huge ministries who are doing these researchers. And they’ll tell you unforgiveness causes serious damage to the body of the person who’s having the unforgiveness serious damage. But now Jesus Christ here is dealing with the issue whereby somebody has got something against us.
07:11 I’m talking about the congregation. A brother means a follower. He or she has something against us.
07:19 Then if you knew that you stopped your offering, that applies to me. There have been cases over the years when suddenly when I’m going to minister Jesus Christ, remind me or tell me, look, so and so I’ve got something against you. It happened once or twice, but I think more than that.
07:37 I will not minister anymore. I will stop and go and deal. Why? The administration is useless.
07:43 My administration will be useless because Jesus Christ already commanded us, commanded me through his word that somebody has got something against me means my ministering is useless. I must go and settle that first go and find out what exactly is this problem now when they don’t tell a problem or they say nothing, nothing, nothing. After you begin to please, please, please tell.
08:04 Let’s settle this. They don’t know nothing. There are people know there are something against you and they will not tell about it.
08:09 And you also wondering why. And then you may suspect. Only now after that they say no, no, nothing, nothing.
08:15 Then nothing you can do. Then you go and say, lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus knows, the Holy Spirit knows, and the devil also knows. And the people who have something against you and say nothing, nothing, nothing.
08:25 When you’re asking them, then they will find the loophole given the foothold is given to the devil. Now once there’s nothing they can do, you ask for forgiveness from Jesus Christ and then say, lord, they don’t return, although he knows all that. Although we say lord Jesus Christ, they don’t understand, oh, my Father doesn’t know, is he.
08:43 He is an almighty God. So, but then we say that and then we go minister. But let’s say they say something.
08:52 Then you have to settle them and then they do not want to agree in the settlement. Then I have to bring up the council. I may be the pastor.
08:56 I have to bring other elders, and I’ve done that before. I will bring other elders, other pastors and sit down there and say, look, remember that the congregation here was started by Jesus Christ through me. And then Jesus started appointing other pastors as we went along.
09:15 So these pastors also the souls, they were ministered to when they first came to the Lord by me. But then, so I don’t call myself senior pastor and all, because there’s no such term in the Bible, the senior pastor. So I don’t call myself senior pastor, I call myself pastor.
09:32 And I told him on the day I have not heard Jesus Christ say, you are my friend. So I just called myself servant. Now there are other servants, there are other pastors.
09:41 So when something I said, I had to call a few pastors and sit down there and say, brothers, this person got this, this again, can we settle it? And we start asking them. And then they say this and that. And then when finally settled, then I go by minister.
09:56 Otherwise I’ll just let the other pastor’s minister. I’ll keep quiet. Why? Because of Matthew 5 command in Matthew 5:23.
10:03 Now he says, leave your offering there at the altar. Although the bracket says such as a grievance or legitimate complaint, I cannot decide what is legitimate complaint against me means that somebody else decide now at the same time the next one. 25 he says, come to terms quickly at the earliest opportunity at law while you are with him on the way to court, so that your opponent does not hand you over to judge and the judge to the guard and you are thrown into prison.
10:30 Settle quickly anything and everything. Don’t go on and on and on and on. Now it’s not just a law.
10:38 Course, supposing you have something going on and on and on, and the gift counselors still don’t agree, going on and on and on, you’re only damaging yourself. And there are lots and lots of Christians going to service on Sundays or Saturdays or Wednesdays or Fridays or whatever day they’re going worshipping and praying and asking this and asking that. And all the drama is going on while they not settled Matthew 5:23.
11:08 Can you imagine? Because they don’t examine themselves. You need to examine yourself, brothers and sisters, before making any offering, before worshipping, before talking to Jesus, the Bible. I said examine daily.
11:19 If you examine daily, they sure, that’s all right. And finally, after what happens when you examine daily in the name of Jesus Christ, in the still of the night in your bed, you are talking to Jesus Christ. After a while, it becomes a practice.
11:31 And after a while, the Holy Spirit reminds you, during the day itself, the Holy Spirit reminds you that this is this and you’ll do it. So that doesn’t have to wait until even the night that you go into sleep. So therefore, it has to become like that.
11:45 When something is gone or something against people or some people against you, immediately you will know there will be a tension, a spirit in you. The spirit in you will begin to disturb you. And you begin to settle this.
11:55 Brothers and sisters, now we go to the next one. He says, eight, do not commit adultery. Yesterday, adultery did.
12:03 Adulterers will become the value of the crust, of piece of crust, of bread. Now this happens. This happens to everybody.
12:11 Now, this is the word of God, this law of God. It even happens whether people know the law. People don’t know the law.
12:18 It will happen because why? This is a command by Jesus Christ. There is a spiritual implication here. Why is Jesus very serious about fornication, sexual immorality and all that? It’s because.
12:36 Because when a man and woman sleep together, there is spirit transference. The spirit transference and the spirit of the person. The spirit of the person.
12:46 First of all, join together the spirit. The man and woman cleave one another and they become one. Now, can you imagine I was an adulterer, go and cleave against somebody else, some other woman other than my wife become one again.
12:59 So you are 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,. Can you imagine this problem? There’s so much. And then there are spirits in the woman.
13:05 The spirits in me will exchange, will move. Demonic forces will begin to take control. Because I was demonized, so the thing was moving.
13:14 So this thing goes on and on. And the demons will only destroy our lives. So therefore, let’s read this.
13:20 5, 27, 30. You have heard that it was said you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
13:36 Now further, if you are right, I makes you stumble and lead you to sin, tear it out, throw it away, that it removes yourself from the source of temptation. For it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand makes you tumble, leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.
13:57 That is, remove yourself from the source of temptation for it better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. Brothers and sisters, this one he’s telling us a seriousness now. Therefore let us say television is the cause of my problem.
14:11 I better cut off the television. Let’s say that what you call iPad or whatever, the cost of some patience for somebody who is going to pornography or whatever. Cut the thing.
14:27 Cut something that is draining your resources, your spirit, man and damaging it. Cut it. Touch that source.
14:35 That’s the signal here. Because he’s actually a parable writing, you know, it’s a mystery. He’s telling us, look here how serious it is.
14:45 How serious it is. He’s not expecting to cut your head. Then tomorrow the other hand is stealing.
14:50 You cut the other hand, finally go handless. No, he’s talking about. Cut the issue.
14:55 Cut the source of the temptation. Suppose you go into a place, shop too, with someone passing by a shop and always buying cigarettes. Don’t go that route anymore.
15:04 Cut the route now. Here he says anyone so much as looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So let us say a naked woman walking by.
15:17 You got a shock in looking at the naked woman. Because this is happening, you know, even here. The other day somebody was sending YouTube.
15:23 One naked woman from China was naked. Something gone wrong with the spirit of man mind or whatever. She’s walking around in Subang Jaya and people are taking these videos and standing around.
15:36 Poor woman, no, she’s lost. She’s just walking around. Then the security guard is trying to move her to one place to cover her, to go back to her shop or whatever.
15:44 So let’s say the woman walking around and you’re seeing this. The question is, are you looking at the woman with lust in your heart? That’s issue. So don’t get so after that, if not the devil will catch you and become stumbling.
15:57 Oh, I looked at a naked woman already. I looked as a naked woman already. Now I’m now adulterer.
16:02 And now adulterer. No, you have to look at. If you look at a woman with lust for her, that means you want her, you want to have sex with her.
16:09 You are thinking of her, you’re thinking of her body part or whatever. And then you are committing adultery. Otherwise, if not adultery, it is happening.
16:17 You just after that make a prayer for this woman, pity her or whatever. So even in the iPad or PC, suddenly a picture comes the pop up. Boy, suddenly you think that agitation will pop up.
16:30 These kind of things going on, some sexual immorality pictures come, you just flick it. Suddenly you are stunned. Remember, Jesus knows all that what is in your heart.
16:42 So you do not want. You command your heart and mind not to get involved in this. You want to have holy things in your heart, pleasing to the Lord, your husband of your soul.
