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Scriptures Referenced
Luke 10:18-20 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!”
18 He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. 19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Matthew 23:15 New King James Version (NKJV)
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Mark 12:38-40 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
38 As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 39 and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
Luke 10:18-20 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, in your name even the demons submit to us!”
18 He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. 19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Matthew 23:15 New King James Version (NKJV)
15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
Mark 12:38-40 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
38 As he taught, he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, 39 and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
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 8th December 2015 Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Brothers and sisters, this authority that Jesus has got for us has won for us at a tremendous price.
00:22 At a tremendous price. Personal price. Tremendous personal price.
00:26 Leaving the riches and the comfort and the joy and the glory of heaven and his own glory and come down to be as a man and suffer more than any man can. Take on all the sins of all mankind and to die for each one of us so that he can set us free from captivity. Captivity of Satan and other things.
00:48 Captivity of Satan and tradition and religion and fear and confusion and all that. So many things. Set free completely and then give us power to live life and do his will so that we prepare ourselves to co rule with him for eternity.
01:11 It’s a fantastic thing, it’s a powerful thing. But it’s a tremendous price he had to pay. He didn’t just get up one morning and just do this.
01:20 It was a tremendous sacrifice. And that is why we must think of the sacrifice. You know, sometimes we say, just look at the cross.
01:30 It’s just not a cross. It’s not in the cross anymore. He sits at the right hand side of Father God.
01:36 But he really had to suffer both emotionally, spiritually traumatic, physically crushing, soul crushing pain, soul crushing, all kinds of things we cannot imagine. We can only begin to have glimpses of imagination of what he, the Son of the living God, loves us so much that he decided to suffer like that. And yet because of that suffering, when we think of what he suffered, we don’t want to sin.
02:07 We don’t want to sin. We want to do what he to please him. We want to please him.
02:13 Brothers and sisters, in Luke 10, 18, 20, I’m reading from the Catholic version, the 70 returned with joy, saying, lord, in your name, even the demons submit to us. 18 he said to them, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning. Like a flash of lightning.
02:33 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing will hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this that the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Now, brothers and sisters, this scripture is parallel to the other scripture in Mark 16:17.
02:58 And these signs will accompany those who believe. By using My name they will cast out demons and they will speak in new tongues. We have done that scripture before many times.
03:08 So it’s Paralleled now He had sent 70 disciples out. And they came back rejoicing. Oh, fantastic.
03:18 Even the demons submit to us. Then he says, look, don’t be rejoiced. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this that the Spirit submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
03:30 There were 500 disciples that over the period of time they were following him of Jesus, not the twelve. Twelve who just finally remained. And one, of course, fell away in addition, who was son of perdition.
03:42 Now 500 of disciples left Jesus one evening because they were offended when he said, will you. You can only enter the kingdom of heaven by eating my blood and drinking my blood and eating my flesh now. And he asked Peter, after that, will you two leave me? Are you too offended? And Peter answered, or he told the disciples, there, will you two leave me? The remaining 12, are you too offended? And Peter answered, where can we go, Lord? There are only words of eternal life in you.
04:18 Now remember, these are very powerful statements coming from Peter. There is only eternal life in you. There is only eternal life in Jesus Christ, not in activities and all that thing.
04:29 We will come to that a little later. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters. That is why the power of Christ, the entire thing that God made me do or daily make me do is to turn you to Jesus Christ.
04:43 Be rooted in Jesus Christ, not rooted in anything else, not rooted in tradition, not rooted in whatever your heart and mind thinks. But what’s the written word of God? The written word of God, when in spirit becomes spirit, is actually Jesus Christ. The written word of God is Jesus Christ.
04:59 And once the written word of God becomes spirit, become rhema, they say, become spirit. You know, it will incite insight. You incite, incite.
05:08 It will move you. It will move you. It will stir you.
05:12 Because God is spirit. Jesus Christ’s words are spirit. It will separate from bone, from marrow.
05:20 Oh, it will give you power, brothers and sisters. It gives you life. Now let’s look at this thing, this, this scripture which says that authority to tread on snakes and scorpions.
05:35 Authority to tread on snakes and scorpions. Of course, we know they are also evil spirits. Evil spirits.
05:44 Just like we cast out evil spirits in Mark 16:17, they also trample of snakes and scorpions. And we know it’s a reflection of demons and demonic beings. We have authority now.
05:59 Authority means going to use it. It’s not automatically going to happen. It’s not that I believe in Jesus Christ.
06:05 And these evil spirits are just going to leave you and go away. Because Jesus Christ is going to send its army to fight for you right now against the evil spirits. No.
06:15 Now remember, our battle is not flesh and blood. These we have dealt before. It’s not flesh and blood.
06:21 Its principalities and powers of wickedness in high places is spiritual wickedness. Spiritual forces do not fight man. Because man we love all mankind because they are human beings.
06:35 They are also captives like us. So we must understand our battle is spiritual battle. Brothers, today, as you said, if you look at this next scorpion, it is spiritual battle.
06:45 So must you must pick up. When you say must pick up the cross and follow me. One is to cast out evil spirits.
06:54 Because the evil spirit of religion, religious spirits, religious spirits cannot get you to heaven. Only Jesus Christ can get you to heaven. Religious activities cannot get you to heaven.
07:04 In fact, religious activities will capture you. We will come a little later on. This will capture you and you will become the activity after activity after activity.
07:11 You will become far from Christ. Many times religious activities going on. You don’t think of Jesus Christ.
07:19 That’s what happened to all the religious activities in any festival or whatever. Now religious activities are actually. God hates religious activities.
07:28 And God hates the fellows who are hypocrites and make you do activities. Activities, activities. Not getting you into Christ.
07:34 Not reminding you of the power of Jesus Christ. Not reminding you of the need to be in Christ and turn to him. Brothers and sisters, today you must cast out evil spirits that from us first, Anger, hatred, unloving spirits, fear, confusion.
07:55 Because fear and confusion keep on coming. You don’t trust Jesus Christ to settle you. The heart, your heart.
08:00 You’re made of three parts. Your spirit mind is born again, born of the spirit. But your heart and mind will work in their own way.
08:06 We must go against the heart and mind until they are change. The repentance is a thinking change. Way of thinking must be changed to be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
08:17 The thoughts must be of Jesus Christ. Now what he said we lean on his word. Just like Apostle John was leaning on the chest of Jesus Christ and getting his heartbeat.
08:27 Everything from the heartbeat. That’s the one on the heartbeat of God. Please don’t listen to that, brothers and sisters.
08:32 We can get the heartbeat of God by leaning on the word of Jesus Christ. By trusting on Jesus Christ and his word. Amen.
08:39 Now there’s also another significant statement. For snakes and scorpions. He called the Pharisees, you brood of vipers.
08:48 You brood of vipers, you brood of snakes. The Pharisees. The Pharisees are religious leaders.
08:53 They are like priests. There are Also Sadducees. Sadducees are also religious leaders, but they come from a wealthy family group.
09:01 They’re all wealthy, wealthy people controlling the. Captivating the whole population captive. Therefore, there will always be argument between the Sadducees and the Pharisees.
09:11 The Pharisees are more like middle class, business people and also spiritual leaders, also keeping the people captive. And then there are scribes. Scribes are people who write down the law and keep the record of the laws.
09:25 This senator’s passing and all that, like a parliament, you know, the religious people have some kind of a council, this council passing laws of religious laws. And all these seducers are the ones who. The scribes are the ones who scribe it.
09:37 They transcribe the word, you know, from there. Now, brothers, it says in Matthew 23:15, I’m reading from the new King James Version. Woe to you.
09:49 Woe means destruction to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. He calls the whole group, you know, hypocrites, scribes and Pharisees.
09:59 For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte. And when he is one, you make him twice as much the son of hell as yourself. He’s already telling you fellows, you scribes and Pharisees are all sons of hell.
10:13 You’re not son of. You’re not the followers of Jesus Christ or followers of God. You’re sons of hell.
10:18 Now he’s telling, look here you crossed travel the land and the sea to win one convert. After winning one convert, you make him twice the son of hell as yourself. And Therefore, in Mark 12:38, 40, reading from the Catholic edition, he said, as he taught you.
10:37 38, as he taught. He said as Jesus taught. He said, beware of the scribes, the fellows who write there recording the laws.
10:44 And also they know the laws who like to walk around in long robes, long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor. At banquets, they devour widows houses because they tell you all kinds of this way, that way. And then sapu still take over.
11:06 They use the law to take over for themselves widows houses and all that people’s money, people, they suck up people’s money for the sake of appearance. They say long prayers, they will receive the greater condemnation. So we don’t have to bother about this, but we will stay away from this kind of people.
11:24 Stay away. Get to Jesus Christ. Don’t even get to me.
11:28 I can’t save you. My job is to tell you to get to Jesus Christ. And this way, that way, this scripture, that scripture likewise.
11:36 Don’t bother about the human beings. We respect them, we love them. Even the scribes of these days, there are Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes of these days, there are.
11:48 They may be differently dressed in some congregations, some denominations, they may dress simply, but they will put some kind of badge among themselves to show that they are better, they are more qualified, they are double PhDs or something. They will put out all that to show. And they’ll say, this much of learning he has done.
12:05 And they use a PhD doctorates and all which is given by the world. The world gives such doctrines. Jesus was not carrying any Ph.
12:18 D. brothers and sisters. He was ticking, speaking the truth, and he walked with power.
12:36 That’s why Jesus says in another scripture, the people have some form of godliness, but without the power thereof. That’s why when you have godliness, some form, some religious activities, you may have church camps, you may have this. But the church camp is not taking people to Christ.
12:47 If at the church camp is not all about Christ, it sounds little bit about Christ. And the rest of it is dipti dadul, jolly. And all kinds of things go wrong in church camps.
13:14 Because there are not enough pastors or whoever to watch over these teenagers. Some of them become sexually immoral and some of them have become pregnant in church camps, brothers and sisters, this is a danger. So when we are organizing these things, organizing with the holiness of Christ, with the fear of the Lord, love of Jesus Christ, to make sure that each of these teenagers are rooted in Christ, each of these girls and boys are going towards Christ and not being drawn.
13:21 So many come to church camp for other purposes. And you can’t help them. Because this generation got a lot of temptation.
13:35 In the TVs, in the computers, in the video games, in the video games they’re playing also there’ll be sexual connotation, individual games on and on. And their mind became like straight. You can think like video games only Thomas.
13:43 So the American army, they made the rule some time ago. I don’t know whether the rule still exists. They were not experts in video games.
13:57 I mean, certain kind of experts, very big experts in video games. They may recruit the cap for their own hands. But many fellows who are addicted to video games, they will not take you in the army because they found it difficult to retrain them.
14:04 So video games are dictates. It catches your mind and fixes you. Now, here there are scribes and Pharisees and seducers.
14:15 Of these days they may not. Because there are also some people wearing long robes and walking around wanting all this respect in the marketplace and honor and all that. Jesus Christ hates all this.
14:23 He calls them hypocrites. And they like to say long prayers, but they actually stealing money. They will big swelling words.
14:31 You know, they’ll tell you. In fact, I saw one some translation saying big swelling words. They’ll con you, they’ll cheat you and all.
14:42 And then one I saw in the Catholic edition saying bombastic words. I was impressed with that. Bombastic words to con you to follow them, not Jesus Christ.
14:49 This is a problem, brothers and sisters. Now this next scorpion also can refer to that because. And you have authority.
14:55 He says, why even they’re trying to con you. You must see the truth. You have the power to see the truth.
14:59 The truth is Jesus Christ. I am the way. The truth and life don’t follow man.
15:07 Follow. Yeah, we respect them. Even good preachers and teachers and really caring, loving people.
15:13 Loving leaders. You care for them, you respect them. You do whatever you can for them.
15:19 But you follow Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. If anybody is not telling you to follow Jesus Christ.
15:29 Whenever the church matters are involved, it’s all little bit of Jesus and everything else. But is all about Jesus must be. Of course there will be a little bit of other things.
15:41 Now they will make you doubly the Son of hell. Why they make you so much activity for this boy or this man who knew proselyte knew convert make activity of the activity. Religious traditions.
15:45 Go for pilgrims here. Go for pilgrims. Jesus said, why you’re running all over the place.
15:49 That is why. The angel who was at the. At the grave.
15:57 When I think it was Mary Magdalene who who came to the grave first he said. Or even the disciples come. He said, why are you looking here? He’s risen.
16:02 He is risen. The grave is empty. So there are people going on and on and on.
16:07 More important, I must go to Israel. I must see the grave. Brothers and sisters, if God allows you to go, you got a funds.
16:13 Please go. But if you use the funds to help the poor and the needy and all, you’re better off. Because Jesus Christ is no more there.
16:16 He’s risen. He’s sitting on the right hand side of God. Father God.
16:17 And he’s in you. He is in you. Can you make us thinking of this? He is in you.
16:28 He is in me. We are in him. Brothers and sisters, do not follow tradition after tradition and lose Christ.
16:36 That’s the message today. Do not follow tradition after tradition and lose Christ. You have authority to tread snakes and scorpions, including false teachings.
16:41 And all these, including false teachers. You can tread them in the spirit. You can break away from them.
16:46 In the name of Jesus Christ. Step on them in the spirit. Step on the teachings.
16:50 False teachings. Only teaching of Jesus Christ is true. Go and lean on his word.
He is Jesus. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Acts 15:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any greater burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”
John 15:12-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 “This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
Acts 15:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any greater burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from [consuming] blood, and from [eating the meat of] things that have been strangled, and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell.”
John 15:12-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
12 “This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
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 7th of December 2015 blood transfusion. Blood transfusion. Yesterday, brothers and sisters, yesterday we talked about life in the blood.
00:16 Life in the blood. And God holds blood of very high order. In a very high order.
00:23 We must be careful what we do, because the life in the blood. Now, brothers and sisters, before we start today again, let me remind myself that if I think I know something, I do not know anything yet as I ought to know, meaning I do not know the whole story. This is the word of God that I must remind myself.
00:44 And you too must remind yourself. Because otherwise our hearts and minds become too big. They begin to think.
00:51 After a while we know something. Let’s say we know 10 points and there are hundred points to it which we do not even know. The remaining 90 points do not even know that it exists.
01:02 We don’t even know it exists. So we think we know it all. And we means what Our heart and mind.
01:08 Because I am a spirit being given life by the Spirit of God. I belong to God. But the heart and mind which I have, which belongs to me, I must take control.
01:19 And if I think I’m something, when I’m nothing, I deceive myself. My life on earth is like a vapor. God says, you know, it just vaporizes.
01:29 Finish. So therefore, brothers and sisters, let’s humble ourselves. Because it’s great benefit in humble, humble grace comes grace.
01:37 From who? Jesus Christ? I want all the grace from Jesus Christ. So the only way to receive all the grace from Jesus Christ is humble. So let us humble ourselves.
01:47 And there are other scriptures. Normally we always put it there. Always examine yourself.
01:52 Now, no point telling if I think I know something I do not know as I ought to know yet or anything. No point telling it. I might examine and say whether I followed this or have I bridged this rule somewhere.
02:04 So that’s important. Before you sleep, you begin to think and see whether we have breached this. Because the heart slowly, slowly will bridge this and then take control.
02:12 And then we make ourselves a big mess. Why, when we are not humble, God opposes. Now, he didn’t say he won’t oppose those who call themselves Christians.
02:20 If you are proud, the question then is whether you are actually a Christian. If once and every you are proud, you fall into the sin of pride. That can happen, then immediately you are convicted.
02:30 Sorry, Lord. Sorry Lord. That’s why one of the segments earlier.
02:35 Some weeks ago, I had to say I sinned, which is true. But Jesus forgives me. Why immediately and sometimes immediately it won’t take place because you struggle to say sorry, especially the people who are around you.
02:49 So you have to boldly, boldly, therefore boldly and uncompromisingly follow the truth. Sorry, sorry, brother, Sorry sister. I made an error here straight away.
03:02 If you cannot straight away you struggle, struggle, but in the blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. And do it because it is good for you, good for me. And do not let the devil and the world system, if you tell the truth, they won’t respect you.
03:15 If you tell the truth that you’re sorry you made a mistake, they won’t follow you. All that the devil will tell you. Don’t listen to the devil.
03:22 Don’t listen your fallen heart and mind. Follow the word of God because your husband of your soul is telling you. Humble yourself and say sorry.
03:31 Ask for forgiveness and also forgive all brothers and sisters, today we’re talking about yesterday we talked about blood and then blood transfusion again yesterday. Now you see blood transfusion is a big issue. There are two huge so called Christian groups.
03:50 One is the Jehovah’s Witness and one is Scientologist or Christian Scientists or whatever they call themselves. So again, I’m telling you, I’m telling you what I read in the Internet and all. I do not know whether it’s completely true or not.
04:04 But let us see why these groups ask you to stop even blood transfusion. They won’t take blood transfusion. They will tell their people, don’t take blood.
04:16 Transition. But brothers and sisters, I’m telling you, you must check the Scriptures and better check various translations because you may miss the kind of actual meaning coming out. The important thing is for us to know the precept of Christ.
04:31 What is Christ about? We should not become legalistic. Legalistic will kill us. Spirit led, give us life.
04:39 Legalism will kill us. Now legalism is taking the word of God and interpreting by itself on making a rule of it and making a doctrine of it, without considering the entire precept of Christ. What is Christ? Christ is love.
04:54 Christ is love. We better remember this. Christ is love.
04:59 Now let’s look at the Scripture again. That where it says Acts 15:28, 29. Yesterday I read from the Catholic version.
05:09 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourself from this, you will do well. Farewell.
05:27 Now this apostles writing now earlier than Another scripture also similar, but here it clearly says, the Holy Spirit thinks it’s good. Now, Holy Spirit is God. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
05:39 So it’s the Spirit of God. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the word of God who became the Son of God, the only begotten Son of God because it came out of him. We are children of God.
05:50 We are sons of God. We even love our enemies. We are sons of God, but we are not begotten out of God.
05:56 We are born of the Spirit. Finally. Yes, but Jesus Christ, the word of God came out of God because he was the Word of God.
06:05 When God spoke, the Word came out from him. When Father God spoke. So now they use this and say, abstain from blood and immediately, no transgression.
06:17 But many of these groups, you must be careful because you have to check the scripture. How did they come to the conclusion when they come and tell you? Now, those people who are Jehovah’s Witnesses, we are hearing this or even you are ministering to Jehovah’s Witness, Feel sorry for them. You love all, love all.
06:36 But they may run away. You try to talk scripture, they may run away. They only will try to impose what they know onto you.
06:42 They will take the scripture and say, this is what the scripture says. They’ll come with scripture. And then when they come with scripture, they’ll take some angle that you do not know and begin to confuse you and begin to make you believe, to do something.
06:55 Now remember any. Even Jesus when he was here, remember he said what? When King David, at the time he was running from Saul, Saul was attacking him and his people. His soldiers didn’t have food, couldn’t find any food.
07:11 His leaders, he and his generals, you know, so they went to the temple and ate the. Ate a show bread from the temple, which is of course a big no, no, is an abomination. But Jesus allowed, Father God allowed.
07:26 Because. And then what Jesus says in certain areas, Sabbath is not made. Man is not made for the Sabbath.
07:34 Sabbath is made for the man. That means the rules are put for man, but man is not put for the rules. So now let’s read clearly.
07:43 What, what you must read. Now. Read.
07:46 Now, what happens to people who can’t read? Of course they have to listen to some preacher, teacher, pastor, priest, some church, whatever. They have to listen. But they have to be wise.
07:58 Because just because you can’t read doesn’t make you stupid. Because one day my mother was illiterate. So when I came to the Lord, I was reading this and that and taking Strong concordance.
08:11 Strong concordance is actually literally, you can say 6 inches thick. Like, you know, so young’s concordance. All that concordance, taking Hebrew words, how the interpretation, all that going on for a while.
08:21 Then finally when I began to understand something, I said, lord Jesus Christ. Jesus, how is it my mother was illiterate? How could she have followed you? He said, the illiterate are better than you. He’s telling me, Jesus Christ telling me the illiterate come.
08:36 When the illiterate come to me, they’re better than you. You come with your mind, son. Jesus is telling me, I come with my mind to Jesus.
08:45 But the illiterate come with your heart. They come with your heart, brothers and sisters. Therefore, when a person illiterate, don’t look down on him or her because that person will go to Jesus Christ finally go with their heart.
08:58 Better than us going with our minds and our minds already clogged with all kinds of rubbish. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Thanks Jesus Christ for his mercy.
09:06 Now here it says, Acts 15:28, 29. I’m reading from amplified for it seemed good to the Holy Spirit. Fantastic, powerful.
09:15 Thank you, Lord Jesus. And we know it has to be done that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from consuming blood and from eating the meat of things that have been strangled. And from sexual impurity or immorality.
09:29 Because he said Gentiles were coming that time. Gentiles had a lot of sexual impurity, fornication, sexual lust and all that. All kinds of things were going.
09:38 Bestiality. Bestiality is people having sex with animals. All was going on in the Gentiles at that time.
09:45 You know, Gentiles had a lot of religious customs and they had all these unbelievers, not the Jews, not the people called by God. Now remember, not all Jews are of God. You know, some Jews are of the devil.
09:58 Remember, just because they are Jew, they claim to be a Jew, doesn’t mean they are of God. Their conduct will show whether they are of God or not of God. Every human being is like that.
10:08 They can name and label themselves anything. I can label myself as Christian. I can act like a demon.
10:15 So, brothers and sisters, so what they labeled ourselves is not important. Our conduct, the fruits will show. Now, these unbelievers at the time had a lot of sins.
10:26 So when they came, the apostles were saying, let’s not burden them with anything because it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and also to us to impose on you no further burden but to abstain from what has been sacrificed to Idols and from blood and from strangle and from fornication. Now here, let’s look at it. The whole scripture here, the whole part of this issue dealing with the first, except for the sexual impurity that also remember, can involve bestiality, can involve sex with animals or dead carcasses or whatever.
10:59 So sexual impurity, not just adultery or fornication or sex outside marriage, it involves so many other things. It becomes very lustful, very repulsive, very bad things are happening. So now.
11:14 But here is referring to food. Why food? Abstain from things. Sacrifice to idols means food.
11:22 Don’t eat and sacrifice idols. And you know, sacrifice to idols, don’t eat these things. Consuming blood from blood means don’t eat the blood, don’t drink the blood.
11:34 Okay. And from eating meat of things that have been strangled, let me keep from strangled means don’t eat strangled animals. It’s all about eating, you know, now and fornication, sexual immorality.
11:47 Of course, a big no no for God. Because sexual immorality includes sexual, spiritual, sexual immorality. Having Jesus Christ here as our Savior and then going to all kinds of gods, our idols and all that doing that is also called sexual immorality or sexual whoredom.
12:05 You know, sexual prostitution. God says in spiritual, sexual hoarder, spiritual sexual immorality. Now, brothers and sisters, or sexual or spiritual idolatry.
12:18 Now, but leaving the spiritual fornication, sexual immorality aside, all the issues, they are talking about food, eating, it’s not talking about anything else. But if they extend the meaning and say, okay, this is not just eating, I should not take blood transfusion. Now let’s go and see the precept of Christ.
12:41 Life is precious to Christ. Every soul is precious to Christ. Very simple.
12:48 That’s the precept of Christ. He loves the souls he created. And until the souls do not want to listen to him and this and that, finally a judgment will come.
12:58 But he loves the souls that he created and he desires that none should perish. That’s his desire. His will is not for anyone to perish, but come to knowledge of the truth, turn to Jesus Christ and be forgiven, be washed by the blood and follow Him.
13:15 So now let’s look at a scripture. John 15, 12, 13. This is my commandment that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.
13:26 Just as I have loved you in others, amplified normal scriptures in normal, straightforward scriptures will say, love one another as I have loved you. This is My new commandment. This is my commandment to you.
13:26 Just as I have loved you 13. This is John 15:13. No one has greater love bracket, no stronger commitment here amplified than to lay down his own life for his friends.
13:41 No one has greater love than to lay down his own life for his friends. This is Jesus Christ telling, look, love one another as I have loved you. This is my commandment to you.
13:41 No one has greater love than to lay down his own life for his friends. Now let’s look at this. Life is precious.
14:05 God loves every soul creator and he says, look here, love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than to lay down his own life for his friend. What is Jesus Christ and Father, God’s desire that every soul turns to him and is saved.
14:20 Those who are unbelieving. Unbelieving right now. I was unbelieving right up to 43 years old.
14:26 So what happens the time before I die? The time means I am finished. So thank Jesus Christ. He drew me and he allowed circumstances.
14:36 He didn’t cause the circumstances. What I sow, I was reaping. And he allowed the circumstances for me to turn to him.
14:41 Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth and then I’m saved. Now for the believer, what is God’s will for him? To do the will of God completely on earth as pilgrims, as ambassadors of Christ. To complete our journey here in the will of Christ, bringing glory to him, bringing all to him in Jesus Christ of Nazareth name.
15:03 Now that’s his will. How will it happen if somebody dies prematurely? How will it die? Suppose I’ve died at 44, 42. I can’t be even doing this.
15:14 But that’s his will for me. And this is. I’m serving for 20 years now.
15:19 So therefore life and death are two different. Life and death are issues not regarding consuming, not eating or drinking blood. So transmission to keep life is allowed.
15:31 He didn’t stop it. He didn’t say that. But people are misleading this purposely and putting in some kind of controlling people.
15:39 So when you see Jehovah Witness people, tell them, show them this, tell them if you love your neighbor as yourself one, what would you like? You have to leave. Suppose that’s why these people, I don’t know this the Jaw Witness or any other group, the Christian Scientologist or any group for the matter. We don’t know their leadership quietly.
15:57 They may be taking transition for themselves and their families, but they may be stopping others. I do not know. I’m just saying let’s think about it.
16:04 Because it’s a possibility, isn’t it? Because fallen nature, human being will tell one rule for people and do something else for themselves. So please bring them to the right one. If they don’t listen, nothing can do.
16:15 You have to tell in truth but with love. Love them all. Love them all including the leadership of these groups that are controlling people.
16:23 Only Jesus can settle them. So we have to and somehow we want that life is precious. God wants the life to live a life fulfilling the will of God for the life so of course he live of course transfusion takes place and then you have those who are able all followers of Christ donate blood.
16:42 Donate blood and be willing to even donate your organs if you are able to. If they are willing to accept your organs. Because brothers and sisters, life is precious.
16:51 Let’s give life to others. Because no one, no love is greater than one that lay down his own life for his own friends. What more just giving some organs when you have passed away body has died.
17:02 What more when giving blood to brother and sister in Christ or anyone else in Jesus name I pray Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11).
“For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Acts 21:25 King James Version (KJV)
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save [except] only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Acts 21:25 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
25 But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST.” —Matthew 1:18-20
“NOW all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, God with us.” —Matthew 11:22-23
THE VIRGIN BIRTH
Passing strange, is it not, that with such a clear record anyone can deny that the BIBLE TEACHES THE VIRGIN BIRTH. We can understand how men can reject the Bible record, but how men can say that the Bible does not teach the VIRGIN BIRTH is beyond conception.
The Bible teaches plainly that Jesus was conceived in the womb of a virgin Jewish mother by a supernatural insemination of the Holy Ghost, wholly and apart from any generation by a human father. This the Bible teaches so plainly that to the believer there is no doubt. The record cannot be mistaken by the enlightened and honest student of the Word.
JESUS SINLESS
The Bible teaches in addition that Jesus was a SINLESS man. While all men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature, and, therefore, are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was without sin and, therefore, DEATHLESS until He took the sin of others upon Himself and died THEIR death. Now while Jesus was of Adam’s race according to the flesh yet He did not inherit Adam’s nature. This alone will prove that sin is not transmitted through the flesh. It is transmitted through the blood and not the flesh, and even though Jesus was of the “Seed of David according to the flesh” this could not make him a sinner.
God has made of ONE BLOOD ALL THE NATIONS of the earth. Sinful heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Even though Jesus, therefore, received His flesh, His body from a sinful race, He could still be sinless as long as not a drop blood of this sinful race entered His veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity. That was the problem solved by the virgin birth.
ORIGIN OF THE BLOOD
It is now definitely known that the blood which flows in an unborn babies arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the foetus itself only after the introduction of the male sperm. An unfertilized ovum can never develop blood since the female egg does not by itself contain the elements essential for the production of this blood. It is only after the male element has entered the ovum that blood can develop. As a very simple illustration of this, think of the egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg is just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized hens egg but it will never develop. It will decay and become rotten, but no chick will result. Let that egg be fertilized by the introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the presence of LIFE IN THAT EGG. After a few hours it visibly develops. In a little while red streaks occur in the egg denoting the presence of Blood. This can never occur and does never occur until THE MALE SPERM HAS BEEN UNITED WITH THE FEMALE OVUM. The male element has added life to the egg. Life is in the blood according to scripture, for Moses says:
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11). “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Since there is no life in the egg until the male sperm unites with it, and the life is in the blood, it follows that the male sperm is the source of the blood, the seed of life. Think it through.
NO MOTHERS BLOOD
For this very reason, it is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the developing embryo in the womb of the mother. Such is the case according to science. The mother provides the foetus (the unborn developing infant) with the nutritive elements for the building of that little body in the secret of her bosom, but all the blood which forms in that little body is formed in the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the male parent. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not ONE SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD ever passes from mother to child. The placenta that mass of temporary tissue known better as “afterbirth,” forming the union between mother and child is so constructed that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts, minerals and even antibodies pass freely from mother to child and the waste products of the child’s metabolism are passed back to the mothers circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in that child is produced within the child itself as a result of the introduction of the male sperm. The mother contributes no blood at all.
TESTIMONY OF SCIENCE
Now for the sake of some of the skeptics who may doubt these statements let me quote from a few reliable authorities. In Howell’s Textbook of Physiology, Second Edition, pages 885 and 886, I read:
“For the purpose of understanding its general functions it is sufficient to recall that the placenta consists essentially of vascular chorionic papillae from the foetus (the unborn child) bathed in the large blood spaces of the decidual membrane of the mother. The fetal and maternal blood DO NOT COME INTO ACTUAL CONTACT. THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER by the walls of the fetal blood vessels and the epithelial layers of the chorionic villae.”
Or let me quote from Williams’ Practice of Obstetrics, Third Edition, page 133. Here I quote,
“The fetal blood in the vessels of the chorionic villae AT NO TIME GAINS ACCESS TO THE MATERNAL BLOOD in the intervillous space,BEING SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER by the double layer of chorionic epithelium.”
And from page 136 of the same recognized textbook I quote,
“Normally there is no communication between the fetal blood and the maternal blood.”
Now for the benefit of those of you who may be nurses, let me quote from a textbook which is familiar to you. Quoting from “Nurse’s Handbook of Obstetrics” by Louise Zabriskie, R.N., Fifth Edition, page 75:
“When the circulation of the blood begins in the embryo, it remains separate and distinct from that of the mother. All food and waste material which are interchanged between the embryo and the mother must pass through the blood vessel walls from one circulation to the other.”
And from page 82 of the same book:
“The foetus receives its nourishment and oxygen from the mothers blood into its own through the medium of the placenta. The fetal heart pumps blood through the arteries of the umbilical cord into the placental vessels, which, looping in and out of the uterine tissue and lying in close contact with the uterine vessels, permit a diffusion, through their walls, of waste products from child to mother and of nourishment and oxygen from mother to child. As has been said, this interchange is effected by the process of osmosis, and there is no direct mingling of the two blood currents. In other words, no maternal blood actually flows to the foetus, nor is there any direct fetal blood flow to the mother.”
GOD’S WONDERFUL PROVISION
How wonderfully God prepared for the virgin birth of His Son. When He created woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. That blood is the result of the male. Since Adam was the federal head of the race, it is HIS BLOOD which transmits Adam’s Sin. In order to produce a sinless man and yet be the son of Adam, God must provide a way whereby that man would have a human body derived from Adam but have not a drop of Adam’s sinful blood. Right here is the scientific biological reason for the sinlessness of the Man Christ Jesus. Some have tried to answer the question, “How could He be sinless and yet born of a woman?” by making Mary the “Immaculate Virgin.” That, however, does not answer the question of how JESUS was sinless since it is through the male that the bloodline runs.
Not only is this a scientific fact, but it is plainly taught in Scripture that Jesus partook of human flesh without Adam’s blood. In Hebrews 2:14 we read,
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. He also himself likewise took part of the same…”
You will notice that the children, that is the human children, are said to be partakers of FLESH and BLOOD, and then speaking of Jesus it says that He “himself likewise took part of the same.” The Word “took part” as applying to Christ is an entirely different word then “partakers” as applied to the children. In the margin of my Bible, I read the word translated “took part” implies “taking part in something outside one’s self.” The Greek word for partakers is “KOYNONEHO” and means “to share fully,” so that all of Adam’s children share fully in Adam’s flesh and blood. When we read that Jesus “took part of the same” the word is “METECHO” which means to take “part” but not all. The Children take both flesh and blood of Adam but Christ took only part, that is the flesh part, while the blood was the result of supernatural conception.
Jesus was a perfect human being after the flesh. He was of the seed of David according to the flesh, but blood is that part of a man which is the divine addition. In the creation of man, Adam’s body was made from the dust of the earth, but God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Since life is in the blood, this act resulted in the formation of blood in Adam’s body, but the first Adam’s blood was corrupted and sin transmitted through it to all mankind. In the last Adam and the second man, new and divine and sinless blood was produced in a body that was the seed of Adam and by this resulted in the production of —
DIVINE BLOOD
Conception by the Holy Ghost then was the only way the Virgin Birth could be accomplished. Mary contributed the body of Jesus and He became the “seed of David according to the flesh.” The Holy Spirit contributed the Blood of Jesus. It was sinless blood. It was Divine blood. It is Precious Blood for there has never been any other like it. It is —
INNOCENT BLOOD
“I have betrayed the innocent blood” Judas confessed in Matthew 27:4. Our Lord was innocent. He became like unto us in all things — SIN only excepted. Like unto us with ONE EXCEPTION and that exception was that instead of a human father He was conceived by a DIVINE FATHER. As a result biologically, He had DIVINE BLOOD, SINLESS BLOOD. Because this blood is sinless it is —
INCORRUPTIBLE BLOOD
Sin made human blood corruptible. Soon after death, decay sets in, and it begins in the blood. That is why meat must be drained well of its blood. That is why embalmers place the embalming fluid in the blood. David said that Jesus’ body should “see no corruption.” Though He was dead three days and three nights, His body did not corrupt. Because He was sinless they could not put Him to death but instead He “laid down His life voluntarily that He might take it up again.” He arose by His own power because death had no claim in HIM except the claim of others’ sin, and when that was paid —
“Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus, my Saviour, He tore the bars away, Jesus, My Lord. Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes.”
Sinner, have you received this Saviour and have you been washed in His PRECIOUS BLOOD? If not, you are still under the curse and the awful sentence of death. Why not accept HIM today and hear Him as he says:
“God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” —Romans 5:8,9
“Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.” “We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.”
“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” “The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.” (THE TABERNACLE, Pg. 101)
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11).
“For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Acts 21:25 King James Version (KJV)
25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save [except] only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.
Acts 21:25 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
25 But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”
Acts 15:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, BEFORE THEY CAME TOGETHER, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that WHICH IS CONCEIVED IN HER IS OF THE HOLY GHOST.” —Matthew 1:18-20
“NOW all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name EMMANUEL, which being interpreted is, God with us.” —Matthew 11:22-23
THE VIRGIN BIRTH
Passing strange, is it not, that with such a clear record anyone can deny that the BIBLE TEACHES THE VIRGIN BIRTH. We can understand how men can reject the Bible record, but how men can say that the Bible does not teach the VIRGIN BIRTH is beyond conception.
The Bible teaches plainly that Jesus was conceived in the womb of a virgin Jewish mother by a supernatural insemination of the Holy Ghost, wholly and apart from any generation by a human father. This the Bible teaches so plainly that to the believer there is no doubt. The record cannot be mistaken by the enlightened and honest student of the Word.
JESUS SINLESS
The Bible teaches in addition that Jesus was a SINLESS man. While all men from Adam to this day are born with Adam’s sinful nature, and, therefore, are subject to the curse and eternal death, the Man Jesus was without sin and, therefore, DEATHLESS until He took the sin of others upon Himself and died THEIR death. Now while Jesus was of Adam’s race according to the flesh yet He did not inherit Adam’s nature. This alone will prove that sin is not transmitted through the flesh. It is transmitted through the blood and not the flesh, and even though Jesus was of the “Seed of David according to the flesh” this could not make him a sinner.
God has made of ONE BLOOD ALL THE NATIONS of the earth. Sinful heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Even though Jesus, therefore, received His flesh, His body from a sinful race, He could still be sinless as long as not a drop blood of this sinful race entered His veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity. That was the problem solved by the virgin birth.
ORIGIN OF THE BLOOD
It is now definitely known that the blood which flows in an unborn babies arteries and veins is not derived from the mother but is produced within the body of the foetus itself only after the introduction of the male sperm. An unfertilized ovum can never develop blood since the female egg does not by itself contain the elements essential for the production of this blood. It is only after the male element has entered the ovum that blood can develop. As a very simple illustration of this, think of the egg of a hen. An unfertilized egg is just an ovum on a much larger scale than the human ovum. You may incubate this unfertilized hens egg but it will never develop. It will decay and become rotten, but no chick will result. Let that egg be fertilized by the introduction of the male sperm and incubation will bring to light the presence of LIFE IN THAT EGG. After a few hours it visibly develops. In a little while red streaks occur in the egg denoting the presence of Blood. This can never occur and does never occur until THE MALE SPERM HAS BEEN UNITED WITH THE FEMALE OVUM. The male element has added life to the egg. Life is in the blood according to scripture, for Moses says:
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11). “For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof.” —Leviticus 17:14
Since there is no life in the egg until the male sperm unites with it, and the life is in the blood, it follows that the male sperm is the source of the blood, the seed of life. Think it through.
NO MOTHERS BLOOD
For this very reason, it is unnecessary that a single drop of blood be given to the developing embryo in the womb of the mother. Such is the case according to science. The mother provides the foetus (the unborn developing infant) with the nutritive elements for the building of that little body in the secret of her bosom, but all the blood which forms in that little body is formed in the embryo itself and only as a result of the contribution of the male parent. From the time of conception to the time of birth of the infant not ONE SINGLE DROP OF BLOOD ever passes from mother to child. The placenta that mass of temporary tissue known better as “afterbirth,” forming the union between mother and child is so constructed that although all the soluble nutritive elements such as proteins, fats, carbohydrates, salts, minerals and even antibodies pass freely from mother to child and the waste products of the child’s metabolism are passed back to the mothers circulation, no actual interchange of a single drop of blood ever occurs normally. All the blood which is in that child is produced within the child itself as a result of the introduction of the male sperm. The mother contributes no blood at all.
TESTIMONY OF SCIENCE
Now for the sake of some of the skeptics who may doubt these statements let me quote from a few reliable authorities. In Howell’s Textbook of Physiology, Second Edition, pages 885 and 886, I read:
“For the purpose of understanding its general functions it is sufficient to recall that the placenta consists essentially of vascular chorionic papillae from the foetus (the unborn child) bathed in the large blood spaces of the decidual membrane of the mother. The fetal and maternal blood DO NOT COME INTO ACTUAL CONTACT. THEY ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER by the walls of the fetal blood vessels and the epithelial layers of the chorionic villae.”
Or let me quote from Williams’ Practice of Obstetrics, Third Edition, page 133. Here I quote,
“The fetal blood in the vessels of the chorionic villae AT NO TIME GAINS ACCESS TO THE MATERNAL BLOOD in the intervillous space,BEING SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER by the double layer of chorionic epithelium.”
And from page 136 of the same recognized textbook I quote,
“Normally there is no communication between the fetal blood and the maternal blood.”
Now for the benefit of those of you who may be nurses, let me quote from a textbook which is familiar to you. Quoting from “Nurse’s Handbook of Obstetrics” by Louise Zabriskie, R.N., Fifth Edition, page 75:
“When the circulation of the blood begins in the embryo, it remains separate and distinct from that of the mother. All food and waste material which are interchanged between the embryo and the mother must pass through the blood vessel walls from one circulation to the other.”
And from page 82 of the same book:
“The foetus receives its nourishment and oxygen from the mothers blood into its own through the medium of the placenta. The fetal heart pumps blood through the arteries of the umbilical cord into the placental vessels, which, looping in and out of the uterine tissue and lying in close contact with the uterine vessels, permit a diffusion, through their walls, of waste products from child to mother and of nourishment and oxygen from mother to child. As has been said, this interchange is effected by the process of osmosis, and there is no direct mingling of the two blood currents. In other words, no maternal blood actually flows to the foetus, nor is there any direct fetal blood flow to the mother.”
GOD’S WONDERFUL PROVISION
How wonderfully God prepared for the virgin birth of His Son. When He created woman He made her so that no blood would be able to pass from her to her offspring. That blood is the result of the male. Since Adam was the federal head of the race, it is HIS BLOOD which transmits Adam’s Sin. In order to produce a sinless man and yet be the son of Adam, God must provide a way whereby that man would have a human body derived from Adam but have not a drop of Adam’s sinful blood. Right here is the scientific biological reason for the sinlessness of the Man Christ Jesus. Some have tried to answer the question, “How could He be sinless and yet born of a woman?” by making Mary the “Immaculate Virgin.” That, however, does not answer the question of how JESUS was sinless since it is through the male that the bloodline runs.
Not only is this a scientific fact, but it is plainly taught in Scripture that Jesus partook of human flesh without Adam’s blood. In Hebrews 2:14 we read,
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood. He also himself likewise took part of the same…”
You will notice that the children, that is the human children, are said to be partakers of FLESH and BLOOD, and then speaking of Jesus it says that He “himself likewise took part of the same.” The Word “took part” as applying to Christ is an entirely different word then “partakers” as applied to the children. In the margin of my Bible, I read the word translated “took part” implies “taking part in something outside one’s self.” The Greek word for partakers is “KOYNONEHO” and means “to share fully,” so that all of Adam’s children share fully in Adam’s flesh and blood. When we read that Jesus “took part of the same” the word is “METECHO” which means to take “part” but not all. The Children take both flesh and blood of Adam but Christ took only part, that is the flesh part, while the blood was the result of supernatural conception.
Jesus was a perfect human being after the flesh. He was of the seed of David according to the flesh, but blood is that part of a man which is the divine addition. In the creation of man, Adam’s body was made from the dust of the earth, but God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Since life is in the blood, this act resulted in the formation of blood in Adam’s body, but the first Adam’s blood was corrupted and sin transmitted through it to all mankind. In the last Adam and the second man, new and divine and sinless blood was produced in a body that was the seed of Adam and by this resulted in the production of —
DIVINE BLOOD
Conception by the Holy Ghost then was the only way the Virgin Birth could be accomplished. Mary contributed the body of Jesus and He became the “seed of David according to the flesh.” The Holy Spirit contributed the Blood of Jesus. It was sinless blood. It was Divine blood. It is Precious Blood for there has never been any other like it. It is —
INNOCENT BLOOD
“I have betrayed the innocent blood” Judas confessed in Matthew 27:4. Our Lord was innocent. He became like unto us in all things — SIN only excepted. Like unto us with ONE EXCEPTION and that exception was that instead of a human father He was conceived by a DIVINE FATHER. As a result biologically, He had DIVINE BLOOD, SINLESS BLOOD. Because this blood is sinless it is —
INCORRUPTIBLE BLOOD
Sin made human blood corruptible. Soon after death, decay sets in, and it begins in the blood. That is why meat must be drained well of its blood. That is why embalmers place the embalming fluid in the blood. David said that Jesus’ body should “see no corruption.” Though He was dead three days and three nights, His body did not corrupt. Because He was sinless they could not put Him to death but instead He “laid down His life voluntarily that He might take it up again.” He arose by His own power because death had no claim in HIM except the claim of others’ sin, and when that was paid —
“Death cannot keep his prey, Jesus, my Saviour, He tore the bars away, Jesus, My Lord. Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes.”
Sinner, have you received this Saviour and have you been washed in His PRECIOUS BLOOD? If not, you are still under the curse and the awful sentence of death. Why not accept HIM today and hear Him as he says:
“God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then being now JUSTIFIED BY HIS BLOOD, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” —Romans 5:8,9
“Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.” “We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.”
“Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently hidden meanings; and beware of the confusion created by the senseless rash of new versions, translations, editions, and improvements upon the tried and tested Bible of our fathers and grandfathers.” “The true Church preaches REGENERATION; not reformation, not education, not legislation, but regeneration.” (THE TABERNACLE, Pg. 101)
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 6th December 2015. Life is in the blood. Life is in the blood.
00:02 Brothers and sisters, this title is extremely important. Life is in the blood. This is.
00:17 I’m quoting from Leviticus 17:11 and 17:14, 17:11. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood.
00:29 Actually, life of all flesh is in the blood. Leviticus 17:11. Now Leviticus 17:14.
00:35 For it is the life of all flesh. The blood of it is for the life thereof. Without blood there is no life.
00:44 Brothers and sisters, yesterday we were dealing with the pure sinless blood of Jesus Christ because he had to shed blood, right? So there was. I also made some statements saying that his Father’s blood is not quite correct. That’s why I made an amendment yesterday.
01:00 I put a note after that. It is. You know, when you’re recording, you say things.
01:06 Thank Jesus. Sorry Lord. Sorry people.
01:10 Now, brothers and sisters, blood. There’s a report written by a scientist, by a medical scientist who passed away in 1965. So I enclosed the report in the email.
01:24 Please get that email from the graceoflife.com it says the chemistry of the blood, the life is in the blood. And of course, he’s a Christian. He was a Christian.
01:34 The brother was here on earth and he’s written report and quoting scientific papers now scientific events. Now you see, very important for us to remember this. God made all nations from one blood, from one blood.
01:54 God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth. So sinful heredity is transmitted through the blood and not through the flesh. Remember that it is important.
02:04 No sin is transmitted through the blood, not through the flesh. Even though Jesus therefore received his flesh, his body, from a sinful grace, he could still be sinless as long as not a drop of this sinful grace entered his veins. God must find a way whereby Jesus could be perfectly human according to the flesh and yet not have the blood of sinful humanity.
02:27 That is a problem solved by the. That was problem solved by the virgin birth. Virgin birth.
02:32 Now, at the same time, go and read the report. Please read it. It takes time maybe, but it’s important for us to know because when people ask about virgin birth, sinless blood of Jesus, you are able to answer, we are ambassadors of Christ.
02:46 We are. We need to know the information. But of course, if you are unable to understand and read, it’s okay.
02:52 Do not get distressed with it. Because finally, it’s the Holy Spirit who draws souls. Jesus Draws souls and settles.
03:00 I didn’t know all this sinless blood business. All isn’t it? And I was still drawn with all my sinful nature. I was a blasphemer.
03:07 And yet Jesus drove. So it’s not a doctrine or a must, but it is good now, if it’s good, if you can do it. Otherwise don’t make into oh, Pastor said, make this reading reading and suffer with this.
03:19 No, brothers, there is no captivity in Christ, there is peace in Christ there is great peace. So hold that peace. He sets us free.
03:28 Don’t get involved in all this unnecessary other rubbish. If you cannot, cannot. But you must always do the right thing.
03:34 That you must, if you love me, keep my commandments. Now one example given in the report is this. Because not a drop of mother’s blood enters the child and even the egg from the mother does not have ability to produce blood.
03:49 For instance, he gave an example as a chicken egg. A chicken egg is there without the cockerel allowing sperm to touch the egg. The egg will finally die off.
04:00 But once it is inseminated by the cochle sperm, then within a few hours, it seems you begin to see the egg begin to change. And there will be streaks, streaks of red bloodline forming, you know, streaks of red blood lines are forming. Can you imagine this streaks occur in the egg denoting presence of blood.
04:21 It happens when the male sperm touches it. But in Jesus case, it’s even now these two things. But doesn’t mean it’s the blood of the Father.
04:32 No, the blood is forming because the egg and the sperm got together. Yes, but in this case what will happen is the blood is completely formed for and by the fetus himself. So the baby has his own blood, own blood.
04:56 Father God of course is a spirit. He doesn’t have human flesh, so he doesn’t have blood running and all that. So, so.
05:04 But then Jesus had to have blood, pure sinless blood. But of course he was, is and never will be. Now this is a mystery.
05:13 Also God has taken the Holy Spirit, took Jesus, who’s alive, who was his sinner, will be into the womb of Mary and formed flesh. Why he has a bone of flesh to sacrifice for us so we can be set free. Brothers and sisters, if you don’t get too complicated with this.
05:34 But the fact is this. The mother’s blood doesn’t touch the fetus, so the sin didn’t transmit. Mother’s blood is.
05:41 Mary’s blood didn’t move over to baby Jesus because of the placenta. All the report you’ll be reading there. Read for yourself.
05:48 Remember, we are people of the truth. I’m the way, the truth and life. If I’m the way, truth and life.
05:54 We must be able to look at ourselves truthfully, not get upset, not get angry and all that. If you get anger. Anger is spirit evil.
06:03 Fear is spirit evil. Upsetting is spirit evil. And now if you’re angry in your heart, you harm yourself.
06:10 Don’t need all that. Look at it in peace of God. We are not going to go and fight.
06:17 Jesus didn’t tell us to fight for him. By the way, Jesus, he will fight for us. That’s a fantastic thing about Jesus Christ.
06:25 He defends us. He, we are in the palm of his hand. I’m the apple of his eye.
06:29 He defends me. I don’t have to go and defend Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ doesn’t need any defending.
06:35 When he finally comes there to put order in this world, there are people, wicked people will be destroyed. For me, I have to love the enemy even. And anybody who is enemy of God, God will deal with it.
06:46 We don’t go and fight. Our battle is not flesh and blood. Our battle is not flesh and blood, is spiritual force, power, words from Christ in the name of Jesus Christ.
06:57 That is why this must be understood. So anybody who talks of the crusade and all is wrong. What the crusader did was wrong.
07:04 They actually crusaders were manipulated, manipulated by the so called religious governments to go and take wealth from the Middle east. That’s what. And of course they got angry because the Middle Eastern was coming into the European place and they got angry.
07:19 They’re capturing their land. So. So that fight is a human fight.
07:22 So crusaders going and then defending Christ, all lies. They have been deceived, the crusaders. So we do not fight.
07:30 We love all, even the enemy. That’s the command of Jesus Christ. The Crusaders, the top fellows.
07:35 Every time it’s the top fellows, the politician, whoever gather and create haywalk for human beings. So the top fellows got people to go and fight and then promised them gold and silver. And then the Crusaders became a big issue.
07:49 They’re fighting for Christ and they wear the cross and all, all lies, all diseases from Satan. For us, very simple. Jesus said, love all, even love your enemies.
07:58 That’s a command, that one. They don’t talk about it. About the command that if you want to be sons of the most high God, you even love your enemy.
08:00 They don’t talk about that. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, we hold our peace, we live life.
08:11 But what is here today Is life is in the blood. Some of us, many of us going to get shocked today because I was shocked many years ago. I’m talking about maybe about 15, 16, 17 years.
08:23 17 years maybe ago when I first read the scriptures. And it shocked me because one of the things I used to do is I used to eat fried blood. Because teow chew porridge.
08:36 We in Malaysia, we have Chinese porridge. One kind of group of Chinese porridge. I used to learn that from when I was very small.
08:43 Tel chew porridge. And this what they do, they use the blood and cook it and then they fry it with onions and garlic and whatnot and tasty. And you can eat it with, I don’t know, onions or not, I think garlic and ginger maybe even and put some herbs and taste it.
08:59 And while eating porridge we can use that. I used to like that now until I read this scripture that shocked me out of my wits. And remember, my covenant is very simple with Christ.
09:10 If Christ says his wall is black, it is black. And then if people say, but Pastor, the wall actually looks white, I said, my eyes also see white, but it is actually black. My eyes are playing tricks.
09:22 Jesus Christ cannot lie. His words are true. So I want to follow and that’s why I will follow.
09:28 Now I’m not asking you to follow like that. Each of you have to decide how you want to follow. But I pray that you follow.
09:34 Keep the commandments of Christ. It’s safety for us. Now where I’m reading, I’m reading from first of all, I’m going to read both the Catholic version and the Protestant version.
09:44 Because the people, brothers and sisters, all relax, relax, relax. Let’s love God, but love God. This is unnecessary division.
09:53 Relax. I tell people any some people come and say, me new children of God will come. First of all, I’ve got this problem.
10:00 I say first, relax, relax. Jesus is on the throne. Just relax.
10:05 Not get so by you getting agitated and excited. Are we going to solve this problem? No. Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
10:12 Now here I’m reading from Acts 21:25, Acts 21:25 from King James version, as touching the Gentiles which believe. Now this is the apostles talking among themselves as touching the Gentiles which believe. That means we, not the Jews who believe, but the Gentiles who believe.
10:32 Gentiles are we. We have written and concluded. The apostles have written and concluded and written down and concluded that they observed no such thing.
10:42 Because they got a lot of Jew customs there. Some of the Jew Christians were following out of tradition or Whatever. So the apostles decided, look here, we shall not trouble this.
10:53 Gentiles were coming because they come into Christ. Let them be with Christ. Let’s not put all the other works and all the other things they got to do from the Jew custom into these people.
11:05 We have written and concluded that they observe no such thing. All the things don’t observe for the Gentiles, save means, accept only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood and from strangled and from fornication. Keep themselves, Keep ourselves away from idols, offer things offered titles.
11:29 But we are not dealing with this idol thing today. We are dealing with the blood issues. Keep ourselves from blood.
11:36 Now, in the Catholic version, it says Acts 21:25. But as for the Gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our judgment. They have considered a judgment because they concluded that they should abstain from blood.
11:51 Abstain from blood. Now, when I first read this, and then there are other scriptures now, for instance, Acts 15:28, I’m reading my Curly version. But it’s the same as in the King James Version.
12:07 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials. Listen very carefully, brothers and sisters. Apostles are saying acts of Apostles.
12:25 It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials. That means we are imposing this burden on you. What one that you obtain from blood.
12:40 If you keep yourself from this, you do well, you obtain from blood. That’s an imposition. And it seemed good to the Holy Spirit also and to us.
12:49 And we impose it on you. The same thing you will find in the other versions, especially the older versions. You check now.
12:56 Now let’s look at this. I got a shock. Now.
13:00 One of the things churches do. I have seen some churches all the time. Money, money, money.
13:04 This is actually shocker. I used to be shocked out of my wits when I came to the Lord and went to the churches. I’m shocked.
13:11 Why? Every Sunday there’s an issue, serious amount of money issue. But I’m not talking that today. I have to deal with that another day on giving.
13:18 But the issue is because what has happened, some of these pastors say, okay, God wants us to put a big building for God. You can’t do anything for God. In fact, I dealt with it.
13:28 What house will you make for me? Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool. God is telling you, what house will you make for me? I will not live in a house that’s made of hands. But there are pastors who are telling us, God told me to put up this big building for him.
13:42 He said he won’t live in a house that’s made of hands. Father, God is telling me I will only live in a house that is not made of hands. That’s the temple of God.
13:50 It is you, your body. He is living inside me through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. So I must keep this temple holy.
13:58 But they would rather do these buildings and put burden on people. Because why? They are not hearing God. They are hearing their own mind or their own self, or their own selfish desires or own jealousy of other buildings, other churches or big buildings.
14:13 So you begin to put money and burden everybody every day. Money, money, money. Why they cannot pay the bills.
14:20 I understand the problem, but who has put yourself in the problem? If we put ourselves in the problem, we must get ourselves out of the problem. Not keep on burdening people. Brothers and sisters is giving us deal another day.
14:31 But today we deal with blood. Now what happened here? Life is in the blood. So as soon as I read this, of course my covenant is dead.
14:38 If God says it’s black, it’s black. Immediately I stopped, I stopped. I stopped eating any kind of blood.
14:44 Even Indians, what we do is we will cook the lamb’s blood in some kind of spices and all that. We used to eat that. But generally most Indians don’t do that these days.
14:53 But abstain from blood. Now remember blood. Can you imagine if you take a transplant, you take an organ transplant, the body will reject and reject and reject.
15:05 And you have to put suppressants, medical suppressant, all kinds of drugs to suppress the rejection. But blood transfusion, if you get the right, of course you get. There are only certain groups.
15:17 You must make sure the right group. Otherwise the person will die. Because they will poison the person.
15:22 You get right? Let’s say group O. Group O and then transfer, transfused. You need the blood because life is given to this person.
15:32 You know, and my son, in accident, so much of blood had to be given, so much of pint after pint because he’s dying. That time God gave him life. Brothers and sisters, another day I’m led to talk about your talk.
15:48 It was a tragedy in my home. And we face the consequences. And God has seen us through.
15:53 Now remember this. I’m not telling you now go. I’m not ordering you all.
15:59 I’m only telling you. Please read the Scripture. Acts 15:28.
16:04 It seem good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you. No other further burden on these essentials but these essentials that means we impose on you this burden that you abstain from blood brothers and sisters. This is where they say as the English says rubber meets the road.
16:24 When you are rubber meets the road means when the plane landing or so rubber meets the tarmac screeching and fire and all that because the decisions to be made by you because this is burning decision because when rubber meets the road then there’s a burning incident and the plane lands on the tarmac. Sometimes fire also sparks may come out. This is what sparks will come out.
16:45 You have to read this and make a decision for yourself. Life is in the blood and God has put in book of Acts the apostles says seem good to them not impose anything else but impose this abstain from blood brothers and sisters in the name of Jesus Christ I pray amen But I’m not telling you this you decide in Jesus name amen.
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
[ Loving God Under Trials ] Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
Indeed we count them blessedwho endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessedare you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessedare those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Blessedare those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 5th December 2015, titled God calls you blessed. God calls you blessed. You and I are blessed.
00:13 We are blessed, brothers and sisters. Yesterday we saw that Mary said generations will call her blessed. Thank Jesus through she is blessed.
00:25 And so some people say, what do I think of Mary? I love Mary. People will be surprised, especially these people who left the Catholic Church or whatever they’ll be. They say, how, how? Yeah, love Mary.
00:42 I love Apostle Paul, John, Matthew, Mark, Abraham, Isaac, Moses. These are great people. God has blessed them.
00:52 And, and some of these New Testament apostles, they are great examples for us to follow. The Old Testament, they are great examples too. Like Moses, you know, fantastic character, you know, fantastic, you know, of course he ran away frightened.
01:11 He was brought up in the. In the Egyptian courtroom and all that. And from the king, the Pharaoh Pharaoh’s court is brought up.
01:22 Finally he ran away because he tried to save a Jew Israelite. And then he got fed up with him because they called him murderer and all that. He ran off and then finally he lost the way he could speak and all.
01:34 He doesn’t know how to speak. Also. 40 years in the wilderness, taking down sheep or whatever.
01:39 Then God calls him. Of course he says, I can’t speak. Then God says, take Aaron, show the staff.
01:47 Now, can you imagine? God has blessed all these people. Imagine that Mary is blessed. I love Mary, but I adore, worship and love Jesus Christ with all my heart, my mind, my strength, my soul, my very being.
02:05 I love Jesus Christ. Why? He is the only one who suffered for me. He gave up everything.
02:11 He gave up his entire riches of heaven. He was. He was with God.
02:18 He is God. He was with God. He was in God.
02:21 He was the word of God. He left that and came to come to be part of mankind. So that by his sacrifice to go on the cross and suffer, and first suffer, arrested, tortured, nailed, crucified, died, rise again.
02:41 All faith, you know, faith. Because Father God turned away. I’ve got one other segment I’ve recorded before.
02:48 Father God had to turn away because sin and Father God cannot mix. And that time Jesus said, eli, Eli sabachthani, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why all the sin that. Come on Jesus Christ, My sins, all kinds of sins.
03:09 I did all my curses. Jesus Christ came on him. All my condemnation, my shame, my boils, my sicknesses, my eczemas, whatever I had, all had come upon him.
03:27 And all what could have happened on me also went on him. And he took all of the world’s troubles, O brothers and sisters, all the illnesses, the diseases, all it took, the curses, the condemnation, the shame, the rebuke, the punishment, everything went on. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, on the day of the cross, he came to do this.
03:57 And he went and did this. That is why we worship, adore all our heart, mind, soul and strength. Because he loves us to that point.
04:09 And he was not a created being. He was, is and ever will be. He is God.
04:14 He is God. The fine Mary, as I said, her heart rejoices, rejoices. Her spirit rejoices.
04:26 Because God is a Saviour. God is a savior. Jesus Christ is a savior.
04:33 She needs saving. She knew that now we need saving. We now must know that.
04:40 And the saving can only come from Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And we want to obey how to love God. God said, jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments.
04:51 And our commandments are what he said, the prescriptions, they are just authoritative prescriptions. Prescriptions are good for us. And then he not only does say that, he gives us power by his name.
05:06 Use my name. He says, you are called by my name, Christian. Use My name and cast out all the evil spirits.
05:14 We can command anything and everything will obey in my name. Even the waters, the storm. That time when he was on the sea, he told the storm to be calm, the sea to be calm.
05:25 And the sea became like glass. He’s coming into Jerusalem and the people are. We call it Palm Sunday these days.
05:32 We call it Palm Sunday, but I don’t know whether it was Sunday or not. I must check that he was coming to Jerusalem and people are carrying the palms and rejoicing. And the soldiers told, make your people be quiet.
05:48 He said, if I tell them be quiet, even the stones will rise up and call my name. Even the stones will rise up and call my name. Why? Every molecule of sand knew that it was created by Jesus Christ when he cursed the fig tree because it was not producing fruit and deceiving people, pretending because he didn’t curse the fig tree, not because he didn’t produce at all.
06:18 It was sort of flowering like it was in a mould that from a distance it looked like it is as fruits. Because that particular tree is deceiving. So he doesn’t want people to be deceived.
06:28 So he cursed a fig tree. He didn’t curse all the fig trees because it was not a season for fruiting, but this one was looking like it’s fruiting. And from a distance they walk off the path of the road and Go deeper inside because he was hungry, starving and he went to have some figs and he found that this tree has ried is deceiving Jesus and God Almighty.
06:53 Cannot take deception of any kind. Cannot take deception. Every deception, we better get rid of it from our lives.
07:01 Any kind of falsehood must go from our lives. Only the truth remains. Because he is truth and has given us power by his blood and name to follow the truth, be in the truth and no need to do any lies.
07:15 No need to follow the world’s customs. What are people telling us to do? Check the scriptures ourselves and those who cannot read, hear the scriptures. You can record those of us who can record and all that help those others.
07:32 Download the scriptures in voice form, audio form and let it play for your mother, for your brother, for your sister, for your uncle, for your grandfather, grandmother, grand aunties, your neighbors. Download so they can hear it. Hear.
07:48 Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God. God says so by hearing they’ll get the faith. They’ll know the truth.
07:55 Now we ourselves the words of Jesus. Those who got English can download that and listen in English. We have now got in Tamil the whole prayers, one whole prayer, very detailed prayers which has help so many.
08:11 Download the prayers. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every spirit of greed and selfishness to get out of me. Things like that.
08:19 It will be there. Your life will change as you begin to keep on telling the prayers. Brothers and sisters, this is the truth.
08:26 This is the truth. We shouldn’t do anything anywhere else. Anything away from the Bible is not the truth.
08:32 Now you have to watch out because there are people who have bought over these Bible printing publishers and changing the Bible. Go and used older Bibles because the newer Bibles, Satan is the ruler of the world and is taking control of the printing companies and changing things. And so later, the next generation, third generation, they’ll forget the old Bibles and listen to new ones.
08:56 And there they would have changed it. If people are changing it, they have a. They have a.
09:01 They have an agenda. Many times the agenda is to control you. To control Jesus wants you to come to him.
09:08 No one goes to my Father except through me. Come unto me and I shall give you rest. Not come unto Paul, Peter and everybody else and then come to me.
09:18 No, there’s no mediator except one Jesus Christ with God. Just as God is one. The Bible said yesterday we read that just as God is one, there is only one mediator between you and God.
09:32 Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Not the priests, not the pastors, not Priesthood, not the people who are speaking the Bible words or whatever, or people announcing this way, teaching this way, that way. In fact, the Bible says they’ll come with great swelling words to take one scripture and tell it this way and that way and every which way.
09:50 Finally, you will be deceived because the words and the meanings will change. Because they keep on writing and talking and writing anything. They take one and begin to write so much.
10:00 You better become suspicious, brothers and sisters become suspicious. If they take one scripture and begin to write and say, you know those days in Israel, it was like this and like that. And then they begin to write this way and that way and this way, and they preachers and teachers this way and that way.
10:16 God said the simplicity of the gospel, simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s why you will notice that I’ll try to keep English simple English here. Because why the simplicity of the gospel, the big words, swelling words of God said they’ll come and try to deceive you.
10:32 Forget about that simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is simple gospel. Come unto me and I shall give you rest.
10:40 The Son of God was the word of God who came and took flesh and died for us so that he can give us rest. Blood, pure holy blood, sinless blood. Because in the womb of Mary, the placenta would have blocked the blood of Mary to touch Jesus.
10:56 Because Jesus godfather got blood. Check us, the medical people, they’ll tell you the baby has got the father’s blood. And Bible says the life of the baby comes from the father, through the father, in this case through the father.
11:10 So all my children, the life was given through me because God had arranged that way. But my wife carried the child for nine months in a womb. And in the womb the mother’s blood, my wife’s blood didn’t go and touch my children’s blood.
11:24 There’s a placenta and where the blood is stopped. And the child grew, saying, yes, Mary nurtured the human form of Jesus Christ. But Jesus was, is and never will be.
11:38 So he was not born. He doesn’t have a date. And the fact now December, they’re having this born date if Jesus wants us.
11:45 And now a lot of historians are checked and seeing it cannot be December that Jesus Christ was born. He was supposed to be either born in September or something. Some people say April or May, because the shepherds were in the fields.
12:01 It seems December in Israel is so cold. The shepherds were in the field and they couldn’t have been in the field. The sheep and all would have been in the barn because so called they flourished to death.
12:11 So it must have been different season and all that. So every day we rejoice Jesus Christ. Every day, every day we don’t wait for December.
12:19 One day. Just a few hundred years ago they decided to put that Jesus Christ was born on 25th. A few hundred years ago they decided to put the Christmas thing.
12:29 For hundreds of years after Jesus left, there was no such thing as this. Celebrating the 25th of December and all that. Praise Jesus Christ.
12:38 Brother, go and check for yourself. Go to the Internet and check and see is Christmas real and all that. And you’ll come to the knowledge of the truth.
12:44 Now today God calls you blessed. Now let’s read in Matthew 5:3. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
12:53 Next one. Blessed are those who mourn for their they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
12:53 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are pure in heart, for they shall see God.
12:57 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. These peacemakers is not making worldly peace, one nation to another. Because the world is controlled by ruler of the Satan, ruler of the world of Satan.
13:23 This is peace between man and God. When we go and tell people of Jesus Christ and then they repent of their sins and come to Jesus Christ and decide to follow Jesus Christ and they have peace with God, making peace with God. So blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
13:39 So anyone who is going and making people to have peace with God, we shall be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who have persecuted and reviled you and and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely for my sake.
14:00 You are blessed. Blessed is he who is not offended because of me. When somebody is upset about Jesus Christ and all and then we are telling, we want to tell about Jesus Christ.
14:11 But now people are condemning us and we become offended. Don’t, don’t we accept the thing now, this blessed thing, the biggest blessing, this blessing is blessed is blessing. Blessing is what Prosper, happy, be happy.
14:26 Prosper and welfare all provided. So that’s what the blessed is. Be blessed.
14:31 You will be prosperous, you’ll be well, you’ll be happy, you’ll be joyful. Actually, joyful is a better word. Happiness comes and goes, happens in the instant you’re happy next instant.
14:41 You’re not happy. Now, brothers and sisters, the biggest blessing is salvation. Salvation.
14:48 That’s why he says one in Matthew 13:16, Blessed are your eyes for the sea and your ears for the hear. In fact, do you remember what Thomas said? You are blessed because you see. Blessed are those who believe when they don’t even see.
15:05 Can you imagine? He told blessed are those who do not see and still believe. He told Thomas, praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it in Luke 11:28.
15:19 So when you’re keeping the word of God, you are blessed. You are blessed, brothers and sisters, you are blessed. So let’s not make that one blessed and become an issue and make a doctrine.
15:29 There are people making doctrine writing this way, that way. Mary we love Jesus Christ. We adore worship and love with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.
15:40 Today, my dear brothers and sisters, God is a jealous God. He will not share his glory. He will not share all his creation otherwise.
15:49 The Holy Spirit yearns jealously for your soul, the Bible says, and he will not share his glory. He will not. So he wants our heart and mind and soul and everything to love Jesus Christ first.
16:03 And then there are different kinds of love. Love our neighbor, and he defined it as we love ourselves. To love one another as I have loved you by willing to give our life.
16:14 That is for disciples, brothers and sisters. You are blessed. You are blessed.
16:20 Let’s be blessed. And you are a saint, sanctified and separated for salvation. You are saints.
16:26 Those who want to follow Jesus Christ, God calls them saints. Saints is not some organization appointing you saints this and saints that. You are a saint because you have decided to follow Jesus Christ.
16:38 And you are born of the Spirit of God. And you want to obey God in the spirit and truth. Friends, it says today, let’s move in that let’s love all and let’s love Jesus Christ with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
[ Loving God Under Trials ] Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Indeed we count them blessedwho endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you areblessed. “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.” In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessedare you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessedare those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Blessedare those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translations
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
Hebrews 9:27 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment,
Philippians 2:12 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;
1 Timothy 2:5 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,
Luke 1:26-30 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
The Birth of Jesus Foretold
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27 to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.” 29 But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. 30 The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
Luke 1:38 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
38 Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:46-49 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Mary’s Song of Praise
46 And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord, 47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, 48 for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; 49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name.
Luke 8:19-20 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
19 Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd . 20 And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”
Matthew 13:55-56 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
John 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.
2 Corinthians 4:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. 6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
James 4:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP)
13 Come now [and pay attention to this], you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and carry on our business and make a profit.” 14 Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air]. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and we will do this or that.”
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
