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Scriptures Referenced
Matthew 5:44-48Amplified Bible (AMP)
44 “But I say to you, love [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may [show yourselves to] be the children of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and makes the rain fall on the righteous [those who are morally upright] and the unrighteous [the unrepentant, those who oppose Him].
46 For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that?
47 And if you greet only your brothers [wishing them God’s blessing and peace], what more [than others] are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles [who do not know the Lord] do that?
48 You, therefore, will be perfect [growing into spiritual maturity both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life], as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”====================================================
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today, the Power of Christ Daily 24th February 2016 Love your enemies and be perfect. Love your enemies and be perfect. Brothers and sisters, I’m led to put the title of the commandment here because it’s easier to search.
00:20 Instead of saying part one, part two, 50 commandments of Christ, part one, part two, or whatever, it’s harder to search years later, months later, whatever. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today, love your enemies and be perfect.
00:32 This is a commandment of Christ and It is from Matthew 5, 44, 48. I’ll be reading now, brothers and sisters again. 44 But I say to you, this is who is saying this? Jesus Christ of Nazareth is saying this.
00:46 The husband of my soul is saying this. The one who loves him so much, the one who created me is saying this. The one who died and rose again for me is saying this.
00:57 The Alpha and Omega is saying this. The Ancient of Days is saying this. That I am.
01:03 That I am is saying this. The I am. That I am is saying this.
01:07 The I am, Brothers and sisters, you are talking about who is saying this? If you take a moment to reflect and see, it’s the Ancient of Delis, the lion of Judah, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the husband of my soul, the one who is coming back on a white horse to have vengeance against all evil. He is saying this, love your enemies and be perfect. But let’s see how he said it.
01:31 But you must take this attitude of reverence. Reverence, brothers and sisters. Therefore many people are not reverence because they’ve been taught like that Jesus is your friend.
01:39 Jesus is your friend. All that is not true when Jesus says he’s your friend. Yes, but if Jesus Christ has not said he’s your friend, better understand this.
01:47 I’m a servant. As far as I’m concerned, I’m still a servant. Yes.
01:51 I’ve not heard him say he’s my friend, so I cannot say that. If he says that, I will tell you. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters.
01:59 But I say to you, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is saying, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. 44 and love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. And love here is unselfishly seeking the best, a higher good for your enemies.
02:17 That’s how the amplified here is defining it. After taking the meaning from the Hebrew and the Greek, unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for your enemies. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of your Father.
02:35 Children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good and on. And makes the rain fall on the righteous, those who are morally upright and the unrighteous, the unrepentant, those who oppose him.
02:51 Now let’s just take a moment of that one. So that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. So love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.
03:07 This is an easy route to become children of the Father in heaven. How we love our enemies. That means unselfishly seeking the best and higher good for the enemies.
03:17 And pray for those who persecute you, people who win against you. Pray for them so that you may be. And you show yourself to be in bracket.
03:26 It says, show yourself to be children of your Father who is in heaven. That means you do this. Even the enemies will see.
03:33 They’ll be seeing you that, hey, they are different. They are not turning evil by evil. They’re not attacking me.
03:40 I did all kinds of things. These people are not. They’re actually doing what is good for me.
03:45 So that you may be children of your Father, sons of the Most High God. So that you will be the sons of the Most High God. And while your Father, he makes the sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and also makes the rain fall on the righteous, those who are morally upright, that is through Christ.
04:04 Our righteousness is from Christ. Our own righteousness is like filthy rags. And the unrighteous, that is unrepentant those who oppose God.
04:13 46. If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that. If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the word of God.
04:29 In fact, Jesus Christ himself is speaking this to the people and telling, if you only love those who love you, what reward do you have? That is why our reward comes by loving those who don’t love us. In fact, that may be persecuting us. In fact, they may be doing things to us, but we love them.
04:47 Then we have great reward in heaven and we be sons of the Most High God. And he’s asking, do not even the tax collectors do that? That means the fellows who collect taxes and all consider very bad their doors because they cheat them, they collect more taxes than necessary, they abuse them, they. They Collect bribes, they force them to pay a ransom.
05:05 And all this story, more if not I take action against you. And all that. It goes on even now, all over the world, in all kinds of forms.
05:14 And yet he’s commanding us. Look here, he says, if you love only those who love you, even those such collectors love only those who love them, so what good is this? What is the reward for you? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing? In bracket amplified says, wishing them God’s blessing and peace. What more than others are you doing? Jesus Christ is saying, if you greet only your brothers and sisters, wishing them God blessing and peace.
05:43 Greeting means they are wishing them God blessing and peace. What more than others are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles who do not know the Lord do that. Do not even the unbelievers do that.
05:54 You therefore will be perfect both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Most translations will say, therefore you will be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. So by loving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us, we will not only be children of the Most High God as sons of the Most High God, but we will also be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.
06:24 This is in 48, that is 5,48, but let me read the bracket there. The explanation from the Hebrew and the Greek text, how amplified is condensed. Perfect is growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character.
06:40 Both in mind and character. Actively integrating godly values into your daily life. That’s what the perfection is talking about.
06:40 Both in mind and character, actively spiritual maturity and growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life. Brothers and sisters, let’s condense this Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. You’ll be sons of the Most High God.
07:10 That is what is love. Unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for your enemy, not returning evil for evil. Now why your Father God also pours the rain on the unrighteous and also pours the rain on the righteous.
07:25 Your Father God, bless the sun rise for those who are evil. Also your Father God provides the basic love, provides for them. Now then, the question Jesus is asking even the tax collectors, they love only those who love them.
07:45 What’s the difference between you and me? He says, son Priscilla, what’s the difference between you? And then if you only love those who love you? And then he goes on to say, if you only bless those who are brethren, brothers and Sisters in Christ, what more than them are you doing? Even the unbeliever do that unbeliever over that. They bless their own people. They only bless those who love them, are those who are their own brothers and sisters.
08:13 What’s the difference? He says so we have to be different. If we do this, if we bless those who do not bless us, if we bless those who are outside the family of Christ and our own people. If you bless those and if you love those and our reward is in heaven, not only our reward is heaven, but will be perfect.
08:36 How perfect. How growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your whole daily life as your heavenly Father is perfect. Brothers and sisters, let me dwell on some examples what happened to me.
08:50 And I’m telling these examples make it clear. I couldn’t have done it. I didn’t do it.
08:58 So I’ll tell you how it was done. Because it was Jesus Christ who done it for me. Because there’s a scripture after.
09:05 Later only I came to know. It was in Galatians 2:20, I think it says that now that I’m crucified in Christ, I now live because Christ liveth in me. I now live as Christ liveth in me.
09:21 It’s Christ who does this. I cannot do this. It’s Christ who does this.
09:26 Brothers and sisters, you may understand the scripture that what clearly is actually Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ, but it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh.
09:43 I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. Brothers and sisters, remember this. I again telling you I’m going to give you some examples, remarkable examples, what happened to me.
09:59 But I could not have done it. It was not I who was doing it. It was Christ who lives in me was doing it.
10:05 But there’s only one thing I was doing. I was thinking about Christ. And that also it all the time in my spirit.
10:12 Because Jesus Christ keeps coming all the time in my spirit, after I’ve accepted Jesus Christ. And all the time I’m thinking of his suffering. He suffered on the cross like that for me.
10:20 He gave me peace. He gave me peace. And I did all kinds of things, four letter words against him.
10:25 And all that yet he has taken me. Come unto me and I shall give you rest. And I was having the peace.
10:30 I know peace for years, you know, for years. And then after that, peace, peace. And I also am thinking peace so whenever I do something automatically in my spirit, I don’t want to do anything against Christ.
10:44 I was not thinking anybody, I was not thinking of people I want to do to please Jesus Christ. And as I was thinking like this, it changed. For instance, one of the things that changed was I was a foul mouthful, remember I was foul mouthed.
10:58 Every few words would be folded words, very filthy words. They were worse than a sailor, they would say. And then there was drunkenness, there was violence, of course, there was adultery, sexual immorality and all that going on.
11:14 Yet the day, a couple of few days later a staff told me, boss, you’re not talking four letter words already. Then I quickly ran to him, look at the concordance and search. He went to the bookshop and started looking.
11:30 Then when I decided to buy the concordance, I realized I need this. Although it was costly even that time it was 100 over ringgit. I think now.
11:38 See, so now we can get you all the Internet free presence itself. Those days you got to buy the tick books now. The tick books are now not using because I’m using Internet searches now.
11:48 I put one tick concordance as a stand for some other item on it. Brothers and sisters now they said. So what happened? The Bible stopped, you know, Stopped.
12:01 Why? When Jesus. When I started reading the concordance, check. This is the way.
12:06 Finally I found that he takes control of my tongue for his will now. For Jesus will. So I’m not doing it right.
12:12 So that’s why I’m encouraging him now by telling my example. I’m telling you it is done by him. You only have to meditate on him.
12:19 You have to think of the suffering. You don’t want to grieve him anymore. You don’t want to grieve anymore.
12:25 You’re only thinking of him every day. Get up. Think of Jesus Christ.
12:28 Lord, you save me. Make me do your will. Make me be a blessing to others.
12:32 Make me not blaspheme your name. Let me not insult your name by my conduct. Make me do things so people know I’m a person, I’m a child, I’m a son of the Most High God.
12:44 I start thinking of this, I must be yours, Lord. I must be yours. I don’t want to do anything that people think, why I act like this now, then it changes, you know, before I can do something, the Holy Spirit.
12:55 I didn’t know it was the Holy Spirit. The Word would come into my heart and say, don’t do this, don’t do this. I just blood of that time.
13:01 I don’t know blood of Jesus. I say, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Lord, Lord, help me.
13:04 Help me. And walk away. Now, can you imagine that is how it will be changed? For instance, the people who have done things against me, just finally I stopped because I’m suing them for what damage I’ve done.
13:15 It was lots and lots of damage. So in court. And of course they know I was violent and all.
13:22 So this one particular man. So I was walking in the court, I was walking with him. I didn’t feel anger anymore.
13:26 I didn’t feel hatred. I didn’t feel bitterness. I only felt pity for him, that he doesn’t know Christ.
13:33 So I decided to walk towards him. And I, walking towards him, he took a couple of steps back because he knows maybe I’m coming there whacking maybe, you know, because I’m so violent. So then he realized, this man realized that, you know, I’ve changed so much.
13:48 So the same man telling others later, some months later, he become like, you know, he follows Christ. And you all go and see him if you got some issues. And I heard he can cast out evil spirit.
14:02 Can you imagine? Can you imagine? So brothers and sisters. And somebody came and told me that. I said, yeah, I thought everybody can cast out in Jesus Christ’s name only.
14:12 Isn’t it so, brothers and sisters? Now then, what’s happened? My enemy recognizes that I’m different. How this happens, how this happens is this from inside. The spirit of God will change you.
14:29 Because you’re thinking of Jesus Christ. You’re thinking how he suffered for you. You’re thinking how you messed up.
14:34 You’re thinking what wrong you have done. Now what has happened is you’ll be perfect, right? This perfect business has become some nonsense. Nowadays, for instance, there are communications.
14:44 There are churches that teach you. Come, your face will change. Your nose, your crooked nose.
14:48 You’re unhappy with your nose. God will give you a changed nose, a beautiful nose. The scripture is clear.
14:54 It’s not your inner beauty. It’s not your outer beauty. It’s not the adorning of.
15:02 It’s not adorning of yourself. Adorning a D O r N I n g adorning of yourself. It’s not a braided hair.
15:09 It’s not how you comb your hair. It’s not how you put on the clothes, what clothes you put on. It’s the inner beauty, the inner beauty that comes from the spirit of an incorruptible man.
15:21 It is inner beauty of an incorruptible man. What is inner beauty of incorruptible man. Because you are a spirit being that has become beautiful when that becomes beautiful inside.
15:31 Because the spirit of God has given you life. That is righteous spirit, because God’s spirit gave you life. Jesus Christ gave you life.
15:39 So you are a spirit being that becomes more and more beautiful because you are thinking of Christ. You are doing as Christ wants because. But that must now control our heart.
15:48 Our heart is treacherously decayed. Now, as we begin to do this, people are drawn to you because inside your chains you are. A light comes out of you.
15:57 People want to be near you. And this is one of the problems. I tell the girls in the church, young girls, I say, careful.
16:03 When people come near you, boys come near you, they’re drawn to you not because of your outer beauty. They’ll be drawn to you simply because the spirit of God inside there, they feel comfortable with you. But you must be careful.
16:15 You must now fall into being sorry for them, pity for them, and then finally you fall into a trap. Don’t do that. You better understand.
16:21 They’re drawn to you not because of your outer beauty, but because of the inner beauty of the incorruptible man that Jesus Christ has given you. You are perfect. You’re perfect.
16:31 First of all, your spirit man is perfect. And more and more you control your heart and mind by Jesus name because Jesus controls it for you. The Christ in you controls it for you.
16:39 You are changing. You are changing. He is changing you.
16:43 This encouragement, my brothers and sisters, Jesus will change you as you meditate and focus on his word. Brothers and sisters, today is a wonderful day to know this. And then you say, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to crave for Jesus Christ.
16:56 Want Jesus Christ and do his will. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
John 13:34-35Amplified Bible (AMP) 34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.”
Romans 12:10Amplified Bible (AMP)
10 Be devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor;
1 Corinthians 13:13New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:6,7,8,11,12New King James Version (NKJV) 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
adjective: devoted 1. very loving or loyal. “he was a devoted husband”
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 5 February 2016. Be devoted to one another. Be devoted to one another, brothers and sisters.
00:13 These are scriptures that many don’t understand or don’t even know. And this causes a lot of trouble for themselves because then the devil came to steal, kill and destroy. And he is also walking about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
00:30 Will then be given a foothold, a big foothold. And it begins to destroy lives, destroy careers, destroy the life wonders. No peace, no joy, no righteousness.
00:42 The quarrels in the churches, all this. So this has to be understood clearly. And this can only be done for those who want to obey Jesus Christ, those who don’t want to obey Jesus Christ, there’s nothing you can do then.
00:56 But they don’t obey Jesus Christ. They are not even disciples, they are not even Christians. They just want to do their own thing.
01:03 Then they should not be in that congregation. Because if they came wanting to follow Jesus Christ, yes, then they are struggling. Yes, we guide them, they help them and all.
01:13 But they clearly do not want to follow Jesus Christ means wrong place. That is why I used to have a statement from beginning after observing this one, two years after I came to the Lord. Then I realized this is the problem.
01:25 Everyone calls themselves Christian when actually the church is full of non Christians. Unbelievers were actually coming there because somebody told them that Jesus Christ will settle your money matters or whatever. They came for that purpose.
01:38 And then they’re not willing to follow the other concepts and precepts of Christ. That is why the disciples made it clear. Remember the scriptures, they said they do not listen because they’re not one of them.
01:53 They’re not one of them. So brothers and sisters, today the Scriptures are very clear. You have to understand this.
01:59 Yesterday we dealt with this. We dealt with this whereby the apostles are saying they will not listen to us. Apostles are saying they will not listen to us, that is not listen to the apostles.
02:11 Now in the apostles, of course, 2,000 years ago they have passed away. Now how are they now new persons, new so called Christians? If they’re not listening to the word of God written by the apostles, then they’re not one of the one of us. He’s not one of us.
02:30 Because they’re not wanting to listen to what the apostles have written in the scriptures, in the epistles, in the letters. And so they’re not one of us. So then you must understand if they’re not one of us, nothing you can do.
02:43 Then I used to say, you cannot play football in a golf club. You cannot play football golf club, the golf club won’t allow you because the golf club lawn is so expensive. Or even you cannot play football in a tennis lawn club.
02:59 The lawns are so expensive to maintain. The golf clubs are millions of dollars. And people come and kick the football and their football boots will tear off the skin of the grass there.
03:10 How to play golf after that, that is the same thing. When people come wanting to change, wanting to obey, wanting one thing, you know, they’re not changed yet. Yes, we accept them, we teach them, we guide them, we put people together, put counselors together, we watch one another, we care for them.
03:26 With enough money, we have to provide for them, we know food, we have to provide for them. All that. Yes, but if you see clearly they don’t want to even accept the written word of God, then over then you know they are not Christians.
03:38 Because only disciples were first called Christians in the city of Antioch. Brother sister, this looks very hard. No, this is what the word of God is.
03:48 So if we don’t want to listen to the word of God, if I don’t want to follow that word of God, then I myself in doubt question, isn’t it whether I am actually a disciple or not. When Jesus clearly said in 1 John 4, I am quoting 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 6, we are of God. He who knows God hears us.
04:06 He who is not of God does not hear us. This is John saying, he who is of God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us.
04:18 Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
04:26 Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God. For God is love.
04:28 He who does not love does not know God. For God is love. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
04:42 We also ought to love one another. We have to, we must. Ought means we must.
04:47 We have to. If God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. How? How we loved us.
04:54 We’ll come to the scripture. You know this new commandment I give you. Jesus said before he left, he told the disciples now, 121 John 12, 4, 12.
05:03 No one has seen God anytime. If we love one another, God abides in us. And his love has been perfected in us.
05:11 His love has been perfected in us. So how do you know his love? God’s love is perfected in me. Is when I love one another that the Disciples.
05:19 I’m going to love the disciples as he has loved me, so as he has loved me. Now, if the disciples under my care in the congregation, they do not love one or two don’t love each other as Jesus has loved them. They then I have to sit and deal with this.
05:35 You have to call them and then they may get upset with you. But that is the job of a pastor, of an elder, of a disciple who’s caring for others. That’s your job.
05:45 Watchmen. Old Testament, they had watchmen. These are disciples who watch each other.
05:50 The New Testament disciples watch each other. Now, when we go to the first John 13:34,35, John 13:34,35, Apostle John saying, written through Apostle John, I am giving you a new commandment. Jesus saying, you know and you love one another, that you love one another.
06:09 A new commandment I giving you. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. You two are to love one another.
06:18 I am reading from amplified. This is Jesus Christ himself said, telling me, telling you just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. 35 by this everyone will know that you are my disciples, that you are my disciples.
06:37 Now, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another, that is, everyone will know that you are my disciples if you have love and unselfish concern for one another. Now, this love, Jesus Christ telling is selfless love, completely love one another, selfless. And then Romans 12:10, Apostle Paul saying, be devoted to one another with authentic brotherly affection or sisterly affection in this case, if you are sister, as many as members of one family give preference to one another in honour.
07:12 In honour. Now be devoted to one another. This is a commander.
07:16 This is not a please. Maybe you can be devoted. No, no, devoted.
07:19 Now, what is devoted? Devoted in the dictionary will be like loyal, faithful, true, staunch, steadfast, constant. Steadfast, constant, committed, dedicated, dedicated, affectionate, caring, attentive. In fact, they also say admiring.
07:40 Oh, this is my sister. This is my brother. I thank Jesus.
07:43 They are following. They are following Jesus. I thank Jesus.
07:45 You are admiring them for the following of Jesus Christ. But you know what happens? In reality this happens because people don’t know the scriptures. In reality this happens.
07:53 Oh, why did they say that about me? Oh, what is the sister? Let’s say devil. Anywhere the devil can come bring along and our wicked heart. You are also wicked heart.
08:02 Our wicked heart. Not you. Your spirit man is you.
08:05 You are a spirit being. Your wicked heart. My wicked heart will come.
08:09 Oh, why did they say like that. And then supposing somebody is not serving properly, let’s say they are supposed to bring certain kind of food and didn’t bring enough. Because the fellowship enough people, each of them bring their home cooked food and we share.
08:22 So oh, they didn’t bring enough. Why these women don’t bring enough? Now then you got a problem with Jesus Christ himself. Why? Because you are not loving one another, you are not devoted to one another, you are not putting them above you.
08:40 Think more highly of them. Another scripture says, but pastor, what happens if it is true? If it is true, then you first of all have to think like this. First of all start thinking, maybe you don’t have money, maybe something went wrong today.
08:54 Maybe now the repeating itself means then you have to go by what Jesus says, what is God’s word When this kind of happens, you go and speak to them. And normally this kind of congregation, they’ll have a few people in charge of committee like thing to do the food, isn’t it? Who the cooks, what and all that group of people, two or three sisters must sit to this extent first not start by saying, hey, you didn’t bring any food, you know, you didn’t bring enough food, you know. Start by giving thinking more highly of her.
09:26 Start by thinking, sister, is something problem in the house or is there enough funds with you? Is there some problems, some difficulty? Start thinking whether they got some problems. Start asking whether they got an issue. Then if they don’t open up or they say no, no, no, then you have to tell them, sister, this is not enough, you have to bring more.
09:45 Are you able to bring more? If you’re not able to bring more, say so. Then we will adjust among ourselves. That is being devoted to one another.
09:53 Not straight away, why these women don’t bring enough? Why this? And then he sits with that, Sister, you’re not bringing enough food. That is a stupid disciple to say like this. First of all the command is if you do not love one another as I have loved you, then God is not in you.
10:10 Now you see the problem here. Can you imagine the problem? God is saying, how do you know God abides in you? God abides in you. If you love one another as he has loved us.
10:23 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us and love is perfected in us. If you do not love one another as Jesus Christ commanded the disciples, then Jesus is not inside us.
10:37 Now the devil now knows, hey, I take advantage of you. Now I take advantage of you. Now he’s going to whack you.
10:44 And then when he whacks you, you cannot. Your mind becomes so clouded, you cannot connect the problem. You cannot connect the dot.
10:50 You cannot connect and say, I think, why is it happening to me? Because you’re already not loving one another as he has loved us. You are looking at him. Why? Why? You won’t realize this is the cause.
11:04 This is the cause because you’re not devoted to one another. You’re not loving one another as Jesus Christ has commanded. Now the devil taking advantage and stealing something else.
11:13 Maybe he gives you financial problem, maybe he gives you health problem. Maybe he gives you children problem. Maybe he give your neighbor’s problem a number of ways.
11:21 He can give the problem, maybe no peace. Maybe some rashes are coming, we don’t know. Because he got many ways to attack you and me.
11:29 That is why now you love one another as he has loved it. This is the second highest commandment. The, the third highest commandment is loving your neighbor as yourself.
11:38 And of course even the fourth one is love even your enemies if you want to be sons of the most High God. So when you’re on difficulties, when you examine yourself from difficulties, start checking step by step. First, did you love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength? They will always say yes, that is already you are not loving God.
11:56 Why? How do you know whether you are loving God with all your strength and all your heart, mind, soul and strength? You examining yourself. Get somebody else to examine. Is there anything I’m doing wrong? Two, love one another as I loved you.
12:12 Second examination, Third examination. Love your neighbor as yourself. Fourth examination.
12:16 Love your enemies. Now the second commandment, the I guess highest commandment is loving them as Jesus love you by willing to give. You know, give.
12:25 Think highly of them, think more highly of them. But the third commandment, loving your neighbor self means now don’t always care for them. But if the neighbor can be a nuisance also, then you start praying or whatever.
12:37 If you can’t move out of the place because you want to, don’t want to get in trouble, don’t trouble everybody. You want to move out, cannot move out, Then you start praying, commanding all the wicked unclean priests. Because the neighbor is not a problem.
12:49 The battle is not between human beings, not between flesh and blood. The battle is against the spiritual forces, host of wickedness in high places, in heavenly places. It’s a demonic thing.
13:01 So you start binding all the wicked unclean spirits in the neighborhood in your neighbor and then asking mercy for them, thinking loving Them then you pray. You start praying with anger. Then the prayer is not going to work.
13:13 It’s only a prayer with love, heartfelt love will go through. And then you begin to care for them. You understand? We were all also like that.
13:23 Just because you are changed now the other thing you know, when people come to new souls come, then somebody may say, sister, brother, you got to. You know, you can overcome this way, that way. Right now God already take each to his level of faith.
13:38 Now that faith, the new person has come. The faith is small. They’re not exercising yet.
13:42 They don’t even know many words of God. But then you would have taken some time to come there. But you still have overcome.
13:49 Now you overcome, sister. You all come, brother, not taking for a moment to think how long you took to overcome. You better when they came.
13:56 They want to be disciples. Stand up. Look, you want to be Christian.
13:59 Must be wanting to be a disciple, not just believer. This is another story I have addressed this other time. It’s not just I want to be a believer.
14:07 Only disciples were first called Christians. If you just want to be a believer, not a disciple, which is also a falsehood, then you’re not a Christian. According to Bible definition, in the city of Antioch, disciples were first called Christians.
14:23 Now you better understand. You better start by ministering, by saying, sister, I also suffered like this. I also struggled, you know.
14:29 But now you listen to my experience. Then how God settled me. So I did this.
14:35 When maybe we can try doing this, Start doing this now. That’s another matter. Because you already Saint Joseph struggled.
14:40 So they understand, they took a home. But you say, I’ve overcome already. Now this is.
14:44 You go and do what will happen to the other person, new soul. Oh, they all overcomery. They are special.
14:49 They are special people. And then you go out and then you finish. God will hold the soul on your hands and the blood of the soul on your hands.
14:57 Now this is a serious God. It’s a loving God, but it’s a just God. He’s a faithful God.
15:03 He’s just for everybody. He is also just to make sure that when you are wrong, you are dealt with. That’s what justice is.
15:10 Justice is not just. I overlook. They sin and sin and sin and sin and sin and sin.
15:16 The one God said, those who continue to sin, practicing sins, they are born of the devil. Why? Because they do not know Christ. If they know Christ from inside will be changing.
15:25 You want to please him. You want to please him. You want to be a chaste virgin unto Christ.
15:31 So even when you Are not thinking more highly, not devoted to one another. Your temple of God has already got a blemish. Your chaste virgin bride is now getting a blemish.
15:44 Spot is coming. Why you’re not thinking more highly of others? Think more highly. Humble ourselves and just teach them.
15:51 Practice. Help them. Now, if they do not want or they’re doing repeatedly something, then you after telling them also, then bring it up to the elders.
15:59 Bring up the elders and two or three will counsel. And after counseling two or three counseling them they don’t want to listen to. Then the council will decide what to do with that soul.
16:08 Whether to ask the soul to leave or soul to do something else. Go fast and pray or whatever. But there are steps Jesus Christ has put now.
16:17 So you think highly. You deal with it. You start off with a problem.
16:20 Any issue. Can we help? Can we settle this? What is the issue? They don’t open up. Then you have to tell them the problem.
16:26 Then after that they don’t. They have. Then you have to take it up to the counselor.
16:32 Why? That’s how Jesus Christ has put. If you are a disciple, you will follow this system. Follow this step.
16:37 At the same time you will be devout to be devoted to each other. Devoted to each other. Devoted to each other.
16:44 Because by this others will know that we are disciples of Jesus Christ. So love one another as he has loved us. Otherwise Jesus the God.
16:52 God is not abiding in us. There’s a clear scripture. In Jesus name I pray.
16:57 Change today, brothers and sisters. There is hope. We have power.
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Scriptures Referenced
1 Corinthians 13:1-3King James Version (KJV) 13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Galatians 5:22-23New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
22 By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
1 Corinthians 13:13New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
1 John 4:5-13New King James Version (NKJV) 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
Knowing God Through Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Seeing God Through Love
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:31Amplified Bible (AMP)
31 But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gift [if acquiring them is going to be your goal].
And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].
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
2 Corinthians 9:7 Amplified Bible (AMP) 7 Let each one give [thoughtfully and with purpose] just as he has decided in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver [and delights in the one whose heart is in his gift].
1 Peter 5:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
8 Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
Mark 9:42-50 Amplified Bible (AMP)
42 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe and trust in Me to stumble [that is, to sin or lose faith], it would be better for him if a heavy millstone [one requiring a donkey’s strength to turn it] were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It is better for you to enter life crippled, than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire, 44 [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.] 45 If your foot causes you to stumble and sin, cut it off [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It would be better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell, 46 [where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.] 47 If your eye causes you to stumble and sin, throw it out [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]! It would be better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where their worm [that feeds on the dead] does not die, and the fire is not put out. 49 “For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good and useful; but if salt has lost its saltiness (purpose), how will you make it salty? Have salt within yourselves continually, and be at peace with one another.”
John 14:15 Amplified Bible (AMP) 15 “If you [really] love Me, you will keep and obey My commandments.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 33 Don’t be fooled. “Bad company ruins good character.”
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Amplified Bible (AMP) 22 Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it].
Matthew 17:21 Amplified Bible (AMP) 21 [But this kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]”
Romans 8:34 Amplified Bible (AMP) 34 Who is the one who condemns us? Christ Jesus is the One who died [to pay our penalty], and more than that, who was raised [from the dead], and who is at the right hand of God interceding [with the Father] for us.
Hebrews 7:25 Amplified Bible (AMP) 25 Therefore He is able also to save forever (completely, perfectly, for eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede and intervene on their behalf [with God].
Romans 8:26-27 Amplified Bible (AMP) Our Victory in Christ 26 In the same way the Spirit [comes to us and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time] intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words. 27 And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes [before God] on behalf of God’s people in accordance with God’s will.
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 31st December 2015 how to overcome Temptation how to overcome Temptation Brothers and sisters, this is an important topic because the fundamental. First of all, you have to go back to the fundamental. If someone is practicing sin, on and on and on, the same sin or any other sin, practicing sin, then the question arises whether they are actually born again.
00:31 Born of the Spirit. Born of the Spirit means you are trusting in Christ, you are believing in your heart, you are confessed with your mouth that you are a sinner, you have sinned and all that. And whenever it happens, whenever you fall in sin, it can happen because we are still in the world and we are being transformed from glory to glory.
00:53 But if you do sin immediately, there is a conviction. The Holy Spirit will be convicting you and you will feel terrible. Not because people have found out about you or there are consequences to the sin.
01:04 Because what you sow, you will reap that will take place. And not because of that. Because you sinned against Christ, you sinned against Christ, you sinned against somebody.
01:15 Suppose it is an adultery thing like what I was before I was born again, it sinned again. When I became born again, I knew I sinned against my wife. I caused a lot of harm to my family.
01:27 You are feeling remorse because of what you’re doing and causing trouble to other people. You have caused this kind of problem. That comes not because, oh, I’ve been found out, so I feel terrible.
01:38 So I want to get out of the sin. That’s not going to continue. It’s not going to work.
01:43 First you have to check whether you actually are born of the Spirit. Born of the Spirit means your heart believes that Jesus Christ is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And he died for you and rose again.
01:54 He suffered and took all your punishment, all your curses, all your sins, and was all that nailed on the cross and he went to Hell for you and rose again. You have to check that portion, the first portion first. Start the first step.
02:10 Do you really believe Jesus Christ is the King of Kings? Is it your Lord and Master? Is he really your Lord and Master? Because he may be a Lord and Master in some parts and may not Lord and Master in other parts. Then it’s not your Lord and Master. There is no, no half Lord and master, half, no Lord and Master.
02:28 He is your Lord and Master for all those born again. He is our Lord and Master, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. What he says is final.
02:38 So to lean on his words to look for his scriptures, to lean on it, to believe in him. Because the word of God is Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, brothers and sisters. So first you have to examine yourself in that and look at all the sins that we are committing so that we do not repeat these things.
02:59 Because temptation comes out first of all, remember, the familiar spirit will begin to talk to your heart. Our hearts are fallen nature. The familiar spirit will be assigned to you.
03:11 A demon will begin to talk to your heart, to tempt your heart to do something. But after a while it has become your second nature to sin, to sin and sin. Because you keep on forgetting about Jesus Christ, forgetting about sin, forgetting about harming people.
03:26 The three commandments. Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Love one another as I’ve loved you.
03:33 That is for the congregation, the followers of Christ among each other. Love your neighbor as yourself and you will live. So you have to check, are you loving your neighbor as yourself? If you are not loving your neighbor as yourself, then obviously you are not wanting to or you really do not know.
03:51 Maybe you are not born again. Now brothers and sisters, first you have to decide that are you really born again? You want to be born again or not? You want to turn to Christ and say, from today I dedicate my life completely to you. You are my king and master, Lord.
04:07 Whatever you say, Lord, I will obey. I want to obey. First there’s a purposing in your heart.
04:12 There’s a scripture of a giving that when you give what you purpose in your heart, same thing. The purpose in your heart is important. The purposing in your heart is important.
04:22 So you purpose in your heart to be a child of God. To love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. And love one another as he has loved us.
04:31 And love your neighbour as yourself. You purpose that first. That is the conduct that will show that whether your heart is actually believed and you are actually born again.
04:42 Now next thing is to remember scripture. First is to check your heart whether you are born again. Really.
04:49 If not, you have to go and do something. Go to Jesus. Go to Jesus.
04:53 There’s nobody can help you. Everybody can teach you, including me. That’s all you can do.
04:58 But finally the reason is yours. God does not override your will. Your will is with you.
05:04 You override your heart and mind. God wants you to override your heart and mind. And that we can do it by the blood of Jesus Christ, by the name of Jesus Christ, we can override.
05:13 Now first Peter 5:8. So there is hope. There Is hope.
05:17 Because he has died and given his blood to us. He has given us his name. He has given us his name.
05:23 And we go and do these things. Oh, cannot become all right. We can overcome.
05:29 Why? Because he has given, suffered like that to give us this. And he says we can. That means he can.
05:34 When Jesus says you can, you can. He says, if the truth first. Peter 5:8.
05:39 He says, that enemy of yours, the devil, the devil walks about like a roaring lion, fiercely hungry, seeking someone to swallow and just try to swallow earth. So, brothers and sisters, you have to remember some scriptures. There is a devil walking around to steal your soul.
05:57 So if you completely ignore this fella, this devil will find this all of you. So it cannot. You have to.
06:04 Now look at it. My heart is wicked. It’s always doing something.
06:08 My mind must be renewed. Renew the spirit of your mind. Now you have to go back to the Word to wash your mind.
06:13 Wash the water by the Word. Wash the water by the Word. So you begin to read the Word of God again and again.
06:21 So many people, I find that they fall into sin and not coming out or whatever is because they have been washing their water with the Word of God. They’ve not been seeking the Word of God. They’ve not been meditating on the Word of God.
06:33 If every day you meditate before going to sleep about how every small thing that you went against, you want to settle it. You want to be presented as a pure, chaste virgin to Christ. Because your soul, we are the bride of Christ as a church.
06:50 Now, if your hand causes you to stumble and sin, Mark 9:42. Cut it off. He says, if the food causes you stumble in sin, cut it off.
06:58 Remove yourself from the source of temptation. The Bible says remove yourself. That means you have to remove the source of temptation and sin.
07:07 Suppose the Internet is causing you this. You have cut off the Internet for you. Oh, but I am working without Internet.
07:14 I won’t survive without Internet I can’t do my work. Without Internet, I cannot earn a living. Yes, this is the problem right now.
07:21 Brother or sister is a deep thing. The pornography and all that coming through them, you cannot overcome. So first I’ll continue thinking the Word of God.
07:30 The first. You stop first. You stop first.
07:34 Why you stop first? Because it’s killing you. But then how do I do it? We’ll come to that. We’ll come to that.
07:40 I go on teaching here from the Word of God. It’ll come to that. And God says, bad company wins.
07:45 Good character, Rigza. Bad company so get rid of the company, first get rid of the company. If the TV is your bad company, get rid of the tv.
07:54 If the Internet is a bad company, get rid of the Internet. And for the Internet thing, then you make other first you stop, you begin to repent. Then you see Matthew 17:21.
08:07 This kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting. Fast and pray, fast and pray until this thing breaks. Because you want to be holy in Christ.
08:18 You want to please Jesus Christ. If you love me, keep my commandments and his commandments. All of you know the Hebrew.
08:26 One of the translations is interpretation is authoritative prescription. This prescription will save your soul, save our souls. Like when you go to doctor, it is a prescription.
08:38 You go to pharmacy, get the month, get the medicine and take. It’s a prescription for your physical body, but it’s a prescription for the soul. If you love me, keep my commandments.
08:48 Abstain. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 abstain from all kinds of evil. Some translation will say flee.
08:55 Some places will say flee from every form of evil, every semblance of evil, anything looking evil, you run away. You run away. How? Oh, your body want to love you.
09:06 Your heart and mind want to love you. Yes. Blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus.
09:11 In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every wicked thought to get out. In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every wicked thought and everything in my heart to be clean.
09:20 Lord, merciful Lord, mercy, show mercy for me to overcome this. Lord, overcome. Make me overcome.
09:27 In the name of Jesus Christ, I ask the Holy Spirit to make me overcome. I ask the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ to make me overcome. Overcome every sin.
09:37 So in the name of Jesus Christ, ask the Holy Spirit to shake me up before even I’m going near some place of evil, some things of evil, some connection, whether in the Internet or whatever, or links in the Internet or even going to see people or even the office to flee from all semblance. Evil make me flee. Anything looking evil, let me flee.
09:58 I want to be presented. Yes, Bhajan Lord, your Holy Spirit, your God, yourself. So you begin to pray and pray from your heart.
10:07 From your heart. You have to pray. And some things that clearly said here does not God accept by prayer and fasting.
10:15 Matthew 17:21 so there are demons who have caught you. So somewhere spirit talks to your heart and then another bigger demon comes and catches your heart and it enters you and you are in this mess. Now then Jesus Christ 8:34 is interceding for us.
10:33 He himself is interceding for us with Father God and the Holy Spirit also interceding for us. Now when Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ are interceding and intervening on our behalf all the time, we should be overcome. But we are not.
10:50 Overcoming means you are not turning to the Holy Spirit, you are not turning to Jesus Christ. First you have to turn to Jesus Christ. Because it is Jesus Christ who sent the helper.
11:00 Father God sent the helper. Jesus said, I have to go. So Father God can send a helper to you.
11:06 And he will bring to memory all that I have spoken unto you. Now remember, brothers and sisters, he can only bring to memory what you have gone and leaned on the word of God. The word of God will come and convict you at that time and you run away.
11:22 But if you have been practicing sin, you have to think you have step by step gone that way. And what you sow, you will reap. You cannot get out of those things and you have to pray.
11:33 Supposing you keep on smoking, smoking, smoking something. Finally the lung got some disease. What to do? That’s why God said, those who do not defile the temple of God do not defile the temple of God.
11:49 Of course, some people learn to excuse themselves. It’s not what goes in that is sin. What comes out isn’t true.
11:56 Because what comes out, God said it from the depth of your heart. When abundance of your heart, the mouth will speak. Your heart is filled with such rubbish, your mouth will speak that rubbish Jesus has said.
12:07 So what goes in it doesn’t defile the man through the food. He’s talking about the food. But remember this, keep the temple of God holy means first of all, you do not want to damage this temple.
12:21 Why? Jesus Christ died on the cross. So you have power to keep health. If the health goes without you doing anything, let us say there is a virus running around, a SARS or something.
12:33 Then we ask for mercy. Because the world has become so wicked, so difficult. The world system is the devil system.
12:41 Then we can’t do anything. We ask for mercy and Jesus still shows mercy. And when it’s time to go home, we leave our casing here, the tent, as apostle Peter said, and we go home.
12:52 But if you listening things in the Internet and your heart is meditating on worldly things, then you will fall into sin. You will never come out. You need to go and fast and pray.
13:06 Because your heart has to be controlled, overcome. To do that, your mind has to be renewed. Without the mind renewing, your heart cannot change.
13:16 The mind must be renewed in Christ. So there are people so many years practicing sin, practicing. And then of course you can practice in hidden way.
13:26 Nobody knows. But the devil will know. The Holy Spirit knows and God knows.
13:31 So even if the Holy Spirit is not in you, because you are not born again, God knows. But of course God loves you. There is hope in Christ.
13:40 But you have to turn. He will not take your will away. Father.
13:44 God will not take your will away. The will is with you. You have to be willingly going to Christ.
13:49 You must be willingly wanting to lean on the word of God. You must willingly want to obey. Willing.
13:56 Willing. That also you can make a prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. I command my heart and mind to be willing to obey the word of God.
14:04 This is all prayer talking, you know, because you see the word of God that gives us a signal, isn’t it? It’s the word of God. So how do we change is by the word of God. How do we change? By giving commands.
14:17 Matthew 16:17, Mark 16:17. He says, what in the name of Jesus Christ you cast out evil spirits. And he told the sea to be calm.
14:27 Jesus told the sea to be calm. The sea became like glass. So you can command your heart to be calm and reject all sin.
14:33 You can command your mind to crave for the word of God. You can do so many things. This is not.
14:40 You’re left alone as an orphan here. And you continue sinning. No, no.
14:44 And suffering the consequences. No need. I was a terrible sinner.
14:49 But once I came to Christ. Finally God only arranges circumstances and pulls you. Finally, if you are sinning and sinning, that also I believe, by God’s mercy will happen.
14:58 Things will go wrong, because by default we are sinning. So things will go so wrong here and there. Because a soul that sinneth will surely die.
15:06 That is the word of God. So your body begins to get trouble. Relationship will be breaking, everything will be sinking.
15:12 Then finally, when the pain is so much in your heart and soul, you can become a brokenhearted and brokenhearted. God says he is near to save. The word of God says when a person is brokenhearted, he is near to save.
15:25 And then a contrite spirit he saves. He doesn’t. This is a condition he has put.
15:32 Brokenhearted is near to save. A contrite spirit he saves. So you don’t have a contrite spirit.
15:38 He cannot save because that’s his command. God is true. He cannot change his own command.
15:44 Contrite spirit is. I am wrong. I don’t want to sin anymore.
15:48 I need Jesus Christ the Savior, the only one who went on the cross for me. In the name of Jesus Christ. I sinned against man, I sinned against Jesus Christ.
15:57 And if you are a Christian, if you are lying and lying and lying, you are sinning against the Holy Spirit also. Why you are grieving the Holy Spirit? Why are you grieving the Holy Spirit? Because you know that is what suddenly happened in Ngannyas. And they sold a piece of land and then they came and told the church, this is the value of the land.
16:17 We got money and give to the church. They giving some to the church. And then Peter said, why are you sinning? Why you’re telling lies about the lie that’s yours.
16:26 The prophecy is yours. He’s going to tell the truth. Lying is a big issue, brothers and sisters.
16:30 All lies burn a lake of fire. Or God already said, but there is hope for you. But by quoting the scripture, oh, you are condemning me.
16:38 No, the word of God is coming into you. Anybody quoting the word of God to you, you have to decide whether the word of God applies to you at that time. It applies.
16:47 Repent, brother. Repent and change. I’ve told so many scriptures are there for us.
16:52 In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray for mercy for all those who are suffering in sin. Amen.
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Scriptures Referenced
Genesis 3:21-24 Amplified Bible (AMP)
21 The Lord God made tunics of [animal] skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), knowing [how to distinguish between] good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life as well, and eat [its fruit], and live [in this fallen, sinful condition] forever”—
23 therefore the Lord God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
24 So God drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He [permanently] stationed the cherubim and the sword with the flashing blade which turned round and round [in every direction] to protect and guard the way (entrance, access) to the tree of life.
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 28th December 2015 Father God loved Adam and Eve. Father God loved Adam and Eve. Praise Jesus Christ.
00:02 Brothers and sisters, now let’s take a moment. As I said, we always today start from yesterday night when we started examining ourselves for the day. Then only we can change from glory to glory.
00:26 If we do not examine ourselves, what we did, how we did, did we hurt people? Did we offend people? There’s such a thing, as I’ve told you all before, it is such a thing. It’s called emotional blindness. It has become so prevalent now that people can hurt people and not even realize that somebody is offended by the countenance of the person, by the facial outlook.
00:48 You can see whether what you said has offended them or hurt them. Now if you are ministering and teaching people the word of God and they are offended, they’re not offended with you if you have released the word of God correctly, fully the full counsel of God. And if they are offended, they are offended with God, nothing to do with you.
01:08 So don’t take it personally. You still release the word of God and you go about and pray for them that they will see the eyes of understanding will open and that they will change. Because without changing and without obeying the word of God, there is no eternal life.
01:24 And while there’s no eternal life, even in this life, the Satan will still kill and destroy. First start stealing of peace relationship. Everything will be going, yeah, there will be some money here and there, but that also will go finally and all will crash.
01:39 Because he came to steal, kill, land, destroy. And only leaning on the word of God, leaning on Jesus Christ will settle us. So starting there today, let’s look at this.
01:49 Father God loved Adam and Eve. Brothers and sisters, can you imagine what you have heard all this while? Is Father, God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. Yes, he did.
02:01 But then oh Father got so angry and so fed up and just got rid of Adam and Eve. It’s not true. God is love.
02:10 God is love. That’s why Jesus is a very encouraging news today when I’m talking about Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. What Father God did what they did? Of course, Genesis 3, 21, 24.
02:26 And we will look, some of us look at Adam and Eve like what kind of nonsense is this? You know, There is a garden, fantastic. They see God. God comes in the cool of the evening, walks with Adam and talks to Adam.
02:39 The glory of God falls on the evening of each Evening and God loves and cares for Adam and Eve and then suddenly these people go and do this and believe Satan and then they all messed up and our lives are all messed up. So Adam and Eve is a useless bunch of people who caused all the problems right up to us. No, we also got choices to make.
03:04 We are worse than Adam and Eve because Adam and Eve didn’t have he knew God and all. Now God will teach Adam, Adam, God will teach Eve. And Adam might have failed in that.
03:17 But having said in that Satan is cunning. Cunning. But now we are worse because we have Jesus Christ and the power to cast out evil spirit in the name of Jesus Christ and the power to bind Satan in the name of Jesus Christ from our lives and command our heart and mind to do the right thing.
03:37 And yet we do not want to do means who is worse? Is it Adam and Eve or we? Now let’s look at the Scripture. Genesis 3. 21, 24 Genesis 3:21 24 says 21 the Lord God made tunics, that means clothes of animal skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
03:57 22 and the Lord God said, behold the the man has become like one of us. One of us is us. Father, Son and the Holy Spirit knowing how to distinguish between good and evil.
04:11 And now he might stretch out his hand and take from the Tree of life as well and eat its fruit and live in this fallen sinful condition forever. Many Bible translations say and live forever. Now you might reach out his hand and take from the Tree of Life and eat his fruit and live forever.
04:34 But actual meaning is that live in this fallen sinful condition forever. Therefore the Lord God sent Adam away and Garden of Eden to till and cultivate the ground which he has taken from which he was taken. So God drove the man out and at the east of the Garden of Eden he permanently stationed the cherubim in a high ranking angel and the sword with the flashing blade which turned round and round in every direction to protect and guard the way entrance access to the Tree of Life.
05:13 Now the Tree of Life Adam neve could eat all the time. Even in the Book of Revelation we’ll talk about the Tree of Life. Those who are saved will get access to the Tree of Life.
05:25 Brothers and sisters, this Tree of Life gives life. If you keep eating from there, then you live forever. What God doesn’t want is now Adam and Eve in this sinful nature.
05:36 When you are separated from God, you will be in a sinful nature. There won’t be peace. You will begin to decay anything away from life, away from the giver of life will begin to decay.
05:48 That’s what happened to me. I was away from Jesus Christ, the giver of life, and I began to decay. If I had washed with Jesus Christ, all the mess wouldn’t happen.
05:57 Jesus Christ would have protected me. But I was not. I was doing all kind of rubbish.
06:02 And then being my own God, doing what I wanted to do. Now, brothers and sisters, so when we do this, now let’s look at the love of God now. Love of God for Adam and Eve is there means.
06:12 Can you imagine we with Jesus Christ? Do you not think how much Father God loves you? Even when you fall into sin? Even when you fall into sin. Of course, we are practicing sin on and on. Means you are born of the devil.
06:29 God says that means you don’t even care what God is telling us. What Father? God is telling us what the word of God is telling us what Jesus Christ is telling us what? What the Holy Spirit is telling us. You don’t even care because actually you are really not born of the Spirit, not born again because why to confess with your mouth that you want Jesus Christ to be your savior, you accept him as a savior, Lord and master, and that you will submit to him and submit to his God, you will submit to God, Father Almighty, and then you submit to all Jesus Christ in his word.
07:07 That’s what you say when you’re confessing that you are a sinner. You want, you need Jesus Christ, you need the Savior and you become his servant for rest of the days of your life and he becomes your master, Lord. And until one fine day when you have proven yourself, he may then call you brother.
07:25 We have to prove ourselves. It’s not automatically I become, I just say the sinner’s prayer and I’m a brother of Jesus Christ. This is a misunderstanding that’s causing so much of trouble when you simply accept it by confessing your mouth.
07:39 Many don’t believe in their heart because confess by your mouth and believe in your heart and then you are saved. So because therefore I used to wonder, I kept telling this, I used to wonder when I was saved, my heart became very sensitive not to sin anymore. Fear.
07:55 Dwellers in, dwellers in. But it’s not happening to people while they confess by their mouth a sinner’s prayer and they do not believe in their heart until that happens, you are not born again. When you believe in their heart that Jesus Christ is the King of Kings, Son of God, died on the cross, rose again, and he washes you with his own blood.
08:15 And that he is your master and servant. You are the servant and he is a master and God for you. Lord of Lords, King of kings.
08:23 And he will take you to heaven. It is he who will guide your steps. It is he who will be your provider.
08:26 It is he is everything, all in all. And until you come to that point, to understand in your heart, believe in your heart, is that you cannot break free from your sins. You continue sinning because you don’t have the faith in the faith of Jesus Christ to set you free.
08:46 So, brothers and sisters, today, those who are practicing sin and being a devil, nothing I can comment on that. But those who actually believe Jesus Christ, son of God, he has saved us. And you want to follow him.
08:58 And off and on you fall into sin because some fear or something. Come. Because you’re still not grown, you’re growing, you’re not grown to the point to cast out everything in the name of Jesus Christ.
09:08 But if you believe in Jesus Christ, you will cast out the evil spirit. Because that’s a commandment we gave before he left. Preach the gospel.
09:15 And those who believe these times will follow. They will cast out evil spirits in my name. You better do that.
09:22 Anger, confusion, mind conjuring demons, whatever. You better start casting out now, brothers and sisters. Now this will prove how much Father God actually loves Adam and Eve and also loves us.
09:35 He loves us. God is love. Now what he did, he made clothes.
09:40 Because Adam and Eve, when they sinned, they knew they were already in sin. Their eyes were open. And what they did, they used leaves to cover themselves.
09:48 To cover their nakedness. They used leaves. How long can leaves last? Is Zion fall? It may last 12 days on cracker up.
09:56 And how tough and strong and the leaves be. He sits on the ground also. He’ll all be crushed and gone.
10:02 Father God didn’t want that. He took pity. He left.
10:06 Adam kneed. He took pity. And he took pity and said, no, I would.
10:10 He made the clothes, you know, he, Father God, the Lord God made tunics of animal skin. So he took the animal skin and sold clothes for Adam and Eve, Adam and his wife and clothe them. What love.
10:25 Can you just take a moment and see? Father God, the creator of heaven and earth takes skins of animals to give permanent growth. At least last for a while. 1, 2 years.
10:38 Can last leather 2, 3 years, 4 years. Permanent growth will last for a while to give Adam leave. And they can kept warm.
10:46 Leaves can’t keep you warm because they had to get out of the Garden of Eden. Outside can be cold Hot, all kinds of weather. And Jesus Christ, the son of the living God, he was there.
10:58 The Lord God. He is one. Father God, Jesus Christ, Son of God, and the Holy Spirit, all one.
11:04 They were there, he said. They became like us. They made the clothes out of animal skins.
11:11 Adam and Eve, he didn’t just chuck him out. He loved them. He loved them.
11:17 And two, why did he stop them from eating the Tree of Life? Because that is also love. Because in a fallen state, you cannot be redeemed. So if we keep on allowing Adam and Eve to eat the Tree of Life, what will happen? On and on? They will live in that wretched condition, in that fallen nature, with no peace, no nothing.
11:39 Decaying. Decaying, but cannot die. Everything decays without God, but cannot die.
11:46 And he also was loved for Earth. Because can you imagine Adam and Eve? Then Eve gives birth. Adam and Eve produce children.
11:54 There will be Earth finally, isn’t it? In that fallen state, in that no solution, but keep on eating the Tree of Life. Fruit from the Tree of Life, all of us will be in wretched condition. And none of us, because we can live forever eating the fruit from the Tree of Life, none of us will turn to Jesus Christ to be redeemed.
12:15 This is love. This is true love. Love to even send his Son who was with him, Father God, Son of God, Holy Spirit was with him, to tell his Son to go and take the form of a man, to go and suffer and take all the sin, all the curses, all the condemnation, all the curse, all the shame, all the boils, the eczema, the psoriasis, the cancers, every sickness, every illness, every condition, take it.
12:43 Because of fallen nature, all this has come. Take it and die. Nail it to the cross, nailed with him to the cross and then goes into hell for us, then comes up again.
12:54 Now none of us, including Adam and Eve, will seek for this salvation. If they were allowed to eat from the fruit of the Tree of Life, they will continue doing. I would have continued doing.
13:07 Because let us say, when I was all these things, adulterer, violent, fornicator, angry, whatever you want to call all that was going on, lying, all kinds of things going on right now. Stealing because you mislead, you adjust your books. Stealing, God possess, stealing, all that going on.
13:32 Would I be, if I can get the fruit from the Tree of Life and keep eating, would I turn to God the Father through Jesus Christ? I won’t turn to Jesus. I’m living. I’m not dying.
13:45 I will have eternal life. There’s nothing to look forward to in Eternal life. Because I’m in eternal life.
13:50 Anyway, I won’t know any better. There’s no end of life coming, so why would I turn? Brothers and sisters, this is love. Father.
14:00 God loved Adam and Eve. Do not think even after Adam and Eve committed sin, he loved them. Can you imagine for a sinner like Adam and Eve? He made clothes made of skins of animals.
14:13 He made clothes to protect them. He was sad. He was.
14:22 He took pity. He took pity on me, brothers and sisters. Jesus Christ took sadness for me.
14:29 Pity for me. He takes pity on you. Do not run away even when you are still sinning.
14:36 Get together. Start believing. Command your heart and mind in the name of Jesus Christ.
14:39 Now, when you command your heart and mind in the name of Jesus Christ, believe is not necessary. Because why in the name of Jesus Christ? Everything will happen in the name of Jesus Christ. You only believe that Jesus Christ, the son of God, can save you.
14:57 In that condition you begin to command the name of Jesus Christ heart and mind to stop sinning, to stop craving for sin. And so you must examine yourself and you begin to command areas of your life. If you are angry, do not be angry and sin, he says.
15:16 And do not let your anger. Do not let the sun go down on your anger, because the spirit of anger will keep on whacking you while you are sleeping. All these segments are before.
15:25 God loves you. God loves you. Jesus Christ loves you.
15:27 Jesus Christ loves me. Even in that nature I was so. Even stopping Adam and Eve from taking from the Tree of Life and eating love is love.
15:42 Book of Revelation also talks of the fruit from the Tree of Life. You can study that, brothers and sisters, today. Remember, even in that condition, Jesus Christ, Father God and the Holy Spirit, so disappointed or whatever they feel it, because Adam and Eve decided to eat the fruit that God said don’t eat.
16:06 And they listened to Satan who tricked them. Who tricked them. Don’t let Satan trick you.
16:13 Now you and I. Don’t let Satan trick you. Now. Don’t let Satan trick you and say good things of the world.
16:19 Good things of the world. You see, if you are love of the world and things of the world, you do not have love of Father God in you. Don’t let Satan trick you.
16:27 Don’t let your wicked heart trick you. All our hearts are wicked. God sake.
16:30 Because you’ve been polluted by the things of the world and by the teachings of Satan through the world. Don’t let your heart stick you. Command your heart in the name of Jesus Christ, to obey Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus Christ.
16:42 I command my heart and mind to love Jesus Christ and crave for Jesus Christ. Crave for him and obey his word and lean on his word. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray this for all of us.
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Scriptures Referenced
Genesis 3:21-24 Amplified Bible (AMP)
21 The Lord God made tunics of [animal] skins for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
22 And the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), knowing [how to distinguish between] good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life as well, and eat [its fruit], and live [in this fallen, sinful condition] forever”—
23 therefore the Lord God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
24 So God drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He [permanently] stationed the cherubim and the sword with the flashing blade which turned round and round [in every direction] to protect and guard the way (entrance, access) to the tree of life.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) 6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”====================================================
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
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Scriptures Referenced
Isaiah 54:10 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
10 For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 31:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Ephesians 2:4-5 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
4 But God is so rich in mercy and loves us with such intense love 5 that, even when we were dead because of our acts of disobedience, he brought us to life along with the Messiah — it is by grace that you have been delivered.
Isaiah 49:15-16 King James Version (KJV)
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Revelation 2:1-5 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
2 “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.
4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
John 6:28-29 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
28 Then they said to him, “What must we do to perform the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent
John 6:28-29 Amplified Bible (AMP)
28 Then they asked Him, “What are we to do, so that we may habitually be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered, “This is the work of God: that you believe [adhere to, trust in, rely on, and have faith] in the One whom He has sent.”
Revelation 2:1-5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Message to Ephesus
2 “To the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Ephesus write: “These are the words of the One who holds [firmly] the seven stars [which are the angels or messengers of the seven churches] in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands (the seven churches): 2 ‘I know your deeds and your toil, and your patient endurance, and that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and have tested and critically appraised those who call themselves apostles (special messengers, personally chosen representatives, of Christ), and [in fact] are not, and have found them to be liars and impostors;
3 and [I know that] you [who believe] are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name’s sake, and that you have not grown weary [of being faithful to the truth]. 4 But I have this [charge] against you,that you have left your first love [you have lost the depth of love that you first had for Me]. 5 So remember the heights from which you have fallen, and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior— seek God’s will] and do the works you did at first [when you first knew Me]; otherwise, I will visit you and remove your lampstand (the church, its impact) from its place —unless you repent.
Mark 16:17 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
