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Satan’s tactic – Destroy Marriages Through Self-Interest
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Scriptures Referenced
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.
Ephesians 5:29-33 Amplified Bible (AMP)
29 For no one ever hated his own body, but [instead]
he nourishes and protects and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,30 because we are members (parts) of His body.
31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined
[and be faithfully devoted] to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.32 This mystery [of two becoming one] is great;
but I am speaking with reference to [the relationship of] Christ and the church.33 However, each man among you [without exception]
is to love his wife as his very own self
[with behavior worthy of respect and esteem, always seeking the best for her
with an attitude of lovingkindness],
and the wife [must see to it] that she respects and delights in her husband
[that she notices him and prefers him and treats him with loving concern,
treasuring him, honoring him, and holding him dear].
Philippians 2:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
4 Do not merely look out for your own personal interests,
but also for the interests of others.
Philippians 2:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit [through factional motives,
or strife], but with [an attitude of] humility
[being neither arrogant nor self-righteous],
regard others as more important than yourselves.
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 6 January 2016 Satan’s tactic destroy marriages through self interest. Destroy marriages through self interest. Brothers and sisters, the last couple of days I’ve
been dealing with marriage issues of people and counseling.00:19 Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth. These are real issues. Marriage issues are real issues and they are important issues.
00:26 Because if Satan can destroy a marriage then the whole marriage unit is broken. There is no the people reject price and then what happens? The children are destroyed. The world becomes a worse place.
00:41 Worse place because the children suffer. Everybody suffers destruction and their own souls are destroyed. Therefore Satan ear massa or spearheads attacks on marriages.
00:57 But people think that Satan then comes after us. Let’s see that first. Peter 5, 8amplified Be sober, well balanced and self disciplined.
01:08 Self disciplined is key to overcoming this. Be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, Jesus Christ is saying the enemy is yours.
01:17 You know it’s not his. Yes, no, he is creator. Devil is not his enemy.
01:23 He created Lucifer and became Satan and he took away the power and gave to earth that enemy of yours, Jesus telling us the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, fiercely hungry like seeking whom he may devour. Seeking whom he may devour. Now
brothers and sisters, Satan, as many people think then comes to attack and attack the marriage and all.01:45 No, no. Satan’s tactic actually first is to enter the marriage before the marriage. To enter the marriage before the marriage.
01:56 This is important to understand. Sat enters the family. Spirits all deal with their marriage.
02:02 Even before the marriage they know you’re going to get married already. So they’re already planting their seeds. They’re planting their strategies how to destroy this.
02:11 So the issue to counsel marriages we have to look at what happens before the marriage. That is where the issue is the soul. When two people argue and quarreling or unaging or disagreeing or whatever they all love and then they married and then
finally this comes happening.02:31 Then you have to go before the marriage because Satan’s tactic is not suddenly get up, hey, they’re married. So now let us go and do something. No, no.
02:40 He’s already knowing all that. Family and spirits are with you. With me.
02:45 They’re following you through as you wanting to get married. They’re already planning their structure and they have done so many destruction to so many marriages even before you were born. Before I was born.
02:56 Because why they were cast out from heaven when thousands of years ago? And how many souls have been attacking since? So one familiar spirit is all the time a demon. Has been attacking marriages so many, countless times before your marriage came
into being. Brothers and sisters.03:15 Therefore you better take wisdom today in Christ. You first of all need self discipline. Brother and sister, both of you need self discipline.
03:26 That self discipline was in Christ. Alert and cautious, vigilant, sober. God says, act like a soldier, spiritual soldier.
03:35 We do not fight human beings, human beings. We love all human beings, but we fight the spiritual beings which are controlling human beings. If a person is angry, then you cast out the spirit of anger.
03:47 No getting angry with this other person. Silly of me. After knowing this, I became so miserable knowing that I used to be angry with people when actually there are spirit beings attacking me through these people.
04:01 And then I also was angry with others. And when I realized this, I said, it’s a fantastic, important key information why I don’t get angry with people anymore. I want to see the spirit which is moving them.
04:14 What is moving them. And I begin to bind. You are not unaware of the wiles of the enemy.
04:20 Not unaware of the wiles of Satan. You have power. So you begin to attack the spirits that are destroying these human beings.
04:27 Feel sorry for the human beings who are actually angry or whatever with you. But first examine yourself. Examining yourself is critical.
04:35 You don’t examine yourself. You’re not going to get out of any message and be humble. Now, for instance, Ephesians 5, 29, 33.
04:45 No one ever hated his own body. Instead, he nourishes and protects and cherishes it. Just as Christ does the church.
04:54 So Christ does what? He nourishes and protects and cherishes it. Are you member of the body of Christ? I am a member. You are a member because we accepted Jesus Christ to be our head.
05:05 If you do not accept Jesus Christ to be a head and the husband of your soul, you are not a member of the body of Christ. You are not a member of Church of Christ. You can be member of any denomination you want.
05:18 You can also be a member of the congregation that I minister to. But you are not a member of the body of Christ. You are not a member of the Church of Christ.
05:26 Why? Church of Christ is Christ builds his church. I don’t build his church. Any other pastor can’t build his church.
05:33 Any priest can’t build his church anymore. Any denomination can’t build their church. Only Christ builds his church.
05:38 And the gates of hell will not prevail. You can build any number of denominations. So what? You can be Protestant, protesting Catholics, Catholicism, universal religion or whatever they claim.
05:50 All kinds of things can be claimed. Anglican, fga, assembly of God. Oh, so many Methodists, you know, all unimportant.
06:03 Including the congregation that I call whatever not important. Are you a member of the body of Christ? To be a member of the body of Christ deep in your soul, is it settled? Jesus Christ is your head lord and master, and you are slave unto
righteousness. And you obey Jesus Christ.06:23 You have to obey Jesus Christ means obey his word. You don’t need to obey the pastors, including me. If I’m telling you something wrong, please don’t go and check the scriptures and understand for yourself and then obey the scriptures.
06:28 If I’m telling you the scriptures, you can’t understand this. Please fast and pray to get understanding. If I’m telling you the scriptures and you want to interpret any which way you want, you also can do, that’s your choice.
06:47 And then you will find out who is right, finally right. Whether the word of God is interpreted that way or you want to interpret. Many people interpret their own way because it suits them.
06:55 You know now church of the fact, when I’m teaching, when I’m even in the congregation, I’m ministering, everybody is given their own choice. You want to do what you want to do. But if you don’t want to follow the word of God, I don’t want to
ministering to you.07:08 I don’t want to minister to you. It cannot work. It won’t work.
07:12 So I’ll be actually running spinning wheels only. And you will be getting angry with me because I’ll be using the same words of Christ to you. And the word of God will be convicting you.
07:21 But you will think I am irritating you. Can you imagine the word of God will convict you. There will be your wicked heart don’t want to accept.
07:28 And then you think I’m the one poking you. I’m not poking anybody. Brothers and sisters, I want to love everybody.
07:34 That’s my desire. Because my husband and my soul told me love everyone, including your enemies. So I would love the enemy for my own sake.
07:43 For my own sake, I love them. And how do I do it? By calling on the blood of Jesus. By commanding the heart and mind in the name of Jesus Christ.
07:51 I do it so as I drawing here now. Ephesians 5, we are talking with 30. Because we are members and parts of his own body, he nourishes and cherishes it.
08:02 31. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined and be faithfully devoted to his wife. And the two shall become one flesh.
08:12 You become one flesh that oppress both the man and the woman. You become one flesh. This mystery of becoming one is great.
08:21 Becoming one, the mystery is very great. But I am speaking in reference to the relationship of Christ and the church. 33 however, each man among you, without exception, is to love his wife as his very own self, with behavior worthy of respect and
esteem, always seeking the best for her, and with an attitude of loving kindness.08:45 And the wife must see to it that she respects and delights in her husband, that she notices him, prefers him, treats him with loving concern, treasuring him, honoring him, and holding him dear. This the command so now Philippians 2:4 do not merely
look after your own personal interest, but also for the interest of others. Actually put interest of others first.09:09 Why? That is loving your neighbor as yourself. Philippians 2:3 do not do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, through factional motives of strife, but with an attitude of humility, being neither arrogant nor self righteous. Regard others as
more important than yourself.09:30 I fall into this trap a number of times and I repent. Repent. I repent in Jesus Christ’s name.
09:36 Suddenly I’m upset with somebody who doesn’t know scripture, and then they trying to tell me something and I get upset that he says righteousness, sorry, Lord, I do not want I saw immediately I repent and I cry out to Jesus Christ and say, lord,
change me, Lord, make me humble, humble, completely humble, and regard others more important than myself. Make me, in the name of Jesus Christ, ask the Holy Spirit to make me. In the name of Jesus Christ, ask the Holy Spirit to make all those who
are listening to this, to make them humble, to regard others more important than our own selves.10:10 Amen. Now that applies to the husband and wife. Now this is a mystery.
10:15 He said the mystery. The man and woman become one flesh become one, you know, one. So that’s it.
10:22 Now, if either you have become one or not one. Now as I was telling you just now, that Satan is not going to get up, demons are going to get up and say, now let’s attack this marriage. No, as you’re moving towards marriage, it’s already in the
marriage, before the marriage has been physically, legally concluded.10:43 Because in your mind, when you’re moving towards marriage, actually in your mind, the spirit of your mind, you’re being married already. It’s happening in the spirit. You’re being married in the spirit of your mind.
10:54 Only thing you’re trying to get approval from some department or getting some function or some actual religious custom or whatever you’re doing you’re waiting for that. But in the mind the marriage is forming in the mind, the marriage is forming in
the mind. This is where Satan enters first.11:14 He gets into the act before the marriage. So brothers and sisters, if you have a wife, if you have a husband, you please obey this. First you deny yourself and pick up the cross.
11:26 Anyone not willing to deny themselves pick up the cross is not worthy of Christ. So first you deny yourself. First don’t think about yourself.
11:34 My wife did this, my wife that. No, no. First think of the other person.
11:39 Consider after all you’re married believing that they are good to you, isn’t it? Otherwise you don’t have married. Of course there are people of forced marriages and arranged marriages and all that. There’s another section altogether.
11:51 Today we can’t discuss that. Today we are discussing people who are supposed to love each other and marry. Now if they love each other and marry, that means that Satan getting into the marriage, while the mind is in the spirit of marriage, already
Satan already getting there.12:06 Although there’s no real marriage conducted yet, it may be done three months, six months, eight months, one year later even. But Satan already got there. If at that time the familiar spirit will know if you’re self seeking, then you’ll build the
self seeking into you.12:22 There to make you believe what kind of husband your husband must be, what kind of wife your wife should be. And then you begin to believe, planting the seeds. Brother and sister better understand this.
12:34 I used to consider after Jesus Christ arrested me, I was wondering how did I fall into all this adultery and all this. I lost my wife very much. And after I tell myself all this happens and one pride comes when pride comes, the whole thing
destroyed.12:51 Some people have false humility. Hello brother. Hello sister.
12:55 Benjamin’s eyes. Deep rooted pride will be there. When pride is there.
12:58 The devil can easily mold you as a putty. He just molds you as a clay. Not this way.
13:02 They say he can mold you. Soft clay, he can mold you. Why pride makes you rubbish.
13:09 No strength to stand for righteousness. No strength to call on the blood of Jesus. You won’t call on the blood.
13:14 Pride won’t let you call on the blood of Jesus Christ. Pride won’t let you say in the name of Jesus Christ, command every wicked unclean spirit of pride to go out of me. Why your prideful? No one understands you’re prideful.
13:25 You don’t know you’re prideful. You don’t accept your prideful. So pride stops us from even calling Jesus Christ to cast out the spirit of Pride.
13:34 And that one if you don’t cast out, it will not go. That’s why Jesus gave the command before he left. Spread the gospel.
13:42 Those who believe, they will cast out evil spirits in my name. Pride is an evil spirit. And also pride, an element sits in our wicked heart.
13:52 So what the spirit of pride will do, what the demon will do, motivate our heart to become prideful. Activate the pride in our fallen nature heart. And then people fall for that.
14:02 So if you already have certain design, how your husband should be, how your wife should be, how they will act and this and that, and then the marriage begins to crack up. The very day it was formed, within a few weeks, you feel that the husband is
not doing what you’re doing he’s supposed to be doing for you. And you are feeling that you oh, this husband never care.14:19 He’s changed, he’s dead, he’s dead. And then the husband, oh, the wife said this and that. Now I’ll come back.
14:27 She doesn’t care. She only bickering at me. Why forgot the husband is the wife is sitting down there so many hours and k.
14:34 She also while sitting down there, not concentrating on Jesus Christ. Concentrating on when will my husband come back? When will my husband come back? Come back. Unload now what has happened? Both have left Christ.
14:46 Christ has not left them. He probably not leave a faucet, but they are leaving Christ. Why the demon already operating from them before the marriage.
14:55 He knew. The demon knew what your heart is, what your mind is. He begin to do this and you have not renewed in the spirit of your mind.
15:04 When you’re not renewed in the spirit of your mind. The pharaoh uses all the old attitude you have, all the self seeking you have when you are single, all the desires you had to run away maybe from your parents. You want to be married? You want to
run away? Not really married, no.15:18 So you may be doing that. So all that get in and hammering. Now in Jesus Christ’s name, you can cast it out.
15:25 You can cast it out by humbling yourself and begin to want to obey the word of God. You go to Christ, you fast and pray. You fast and pray.
15:33 You fast and pray. Oh, I’m a feed. I’m breastfeeding, mother, I can’t fast or pray.
15:40 Yeah, then you better deny yourself other areas. What food you want to eat. Don’t eat that food.
15:46 Eat the good food for the baby’s sake. Whatever you want to do. You want to watch tv? No watch TV today you’re fasting and other things you’re bringing your flesh under control now brothers and sisters.
15:56 The demon already started before. Now he’s moving, moving, trying to destroy marriages and then just watch out for other marriages. Because we have generational spirit.
16:06 Generational spirit. All of us come from broken some kind of issue because we didn’t have Christ. So some of us may be coming from broken families, divorced families, separated families.
16:17 Or the families are supposed to be intact but husband and wife never really had love. Or we are coming from suffering families, poverty ridden. All kinds of things we have come from.
16:28 So those spirits must be cut off because your heart is sitting down there means finished. The family spirit will be working overtime on this. Oh divorce spirit, devil will work on you.
16:38 Oh poverty spirit, work on you. Brothers and sisters, today is the day to cut and turn new life in Christ. Have a great marriage in Christ.
16:46 By becoming obedient to Christ and remembering you’re one husband and wife, you’re one, Christ will hold you accountable. Think more highly of the others. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray Amen.
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Self-Seeking Causes Self Destruction – CHRIST Seeking Gives Great Life (Tamil)
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Scriptures Referenced
James 3:16 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
Philippians 2:8-10 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Matthew 10:32-33 New King James Version (NKJV)
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
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.”—
In CHRIST,
Power of Christ Daily
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Self-Seeking Causes Self Destruction – CHRIST Seeking Gives Great Life
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Scriptures Referenced
James 3:16 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
Philippians 2:8-10 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Matthew 10:32-33 New King James Version (NKJV)
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
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.”—
In CHRIST,
Power of Christ Daily
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, the power of Christ Daily Today 3rd September 2015 titled Self Seeking Causes self destruction. Self seeking causes self destruction. Christ seeking gives great life.
00:15 Christ seeking gives great life. Brothers and sisters, I too was self seeking before and it caused me a lot of distraction. Now first of all, remember this in James 3:16, James 3:16, I’m reading from the King James new King James Version.
00:35 For where envy and self seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. Where envy and self seeking exist, James 3:16, confusion and every evil thing are there. Now remember Jesus Christ was selfless in Philippians 2, 8, 10 we have seen he
humbled himself even to the dying time.00:59 Also he humbled himself to obey. Nothing about him. It’s about us because he loves us.
01:04 Now, brothers and sisters, I’ve seen this. Self destruction is a very big term I’ve used. Very dangerous, very alarming term.
01:12 I’m going to discuss some cases, some issues over the years I’ve seen. Now some Bibles will say selfish ambition. Selfish ambition, yeah, it means the same.
01:24 But many people don’t get it. Why I am not ambition. Take a house.
01:28 Homemaker, housewife they call it. Homemaker. I am not ambitious.
01:34 And so self selfish ambition, it doesn’t happen to me. But self seeking is actually self seeking is this. It’s about you and your child, your family may be and your husband, your child, not so these in various aspects.
01:49 For instance, a homemaker is. Whenever you’re doing something, it’s only about you. I need to do this, I need to do that.
01:57 Or you’ll tell your this is how it should be done. Because I like it this way. This is how.
02:01 This is how. You won’t say I like it that way, but actually that’s what it means. This is how.
02:06 This is how it’s done. And envy. Envy means they have that I must have this.
02:12 I don’t have this. They have a better kitchen. I don’t have the better kitchen.
02:16 I need a ghetto kitchen. And then I must have it this way. And then you manipulate your husband or talk to him in such a way you know that it’s really needed and all that whatever.
02:26 And all this is envy and self seeking. It’s about self, how you want it. Where there exists confusion and every evil thing are there.
02:35 Every evil thing means all the demons already there. All the demons are there and they finally destroy you. God seeking Christ seeking his great life.
02:45 So people say, what nonsense is this? For instance, in work. No, everything I must have, I must have. I must excel.
02:54 I forget about these people, forget about my friend or neighbor, whatever. I must excel. So I won’t tell them this, I will tell them this way.
03:01 And then you begin to manipulate because why you want that promotion and you want the promotion, why somebody else got a promotion? And what happens, you know, confusion comes confusion. When I talk to these people, you’ll find the answers don’t
make sense. When you ask, when I’m counseling, when I ask some question, the answers even for the normal, sound mind, normal person also it doesn’t make sense, unbeliever.03:23 Also it won’t make sense. It’ll be Confucian. No, they tell you one thing here and then tomorrow, later within the same council, they tell you something else.
03:30 They are in confusion because every evil thing already there. Why self seeking exists. So you take for instance a single, a single girl once married, oh, she will do selfie this way, self did that way.
03:44 Selfies, you know, selfies, they forget when they’re not taking the selfies. Because selfie you can put on the first front, fantastic picture, you can put for yourself within a great great green, painted your face properly or whatever nicely painted
up and oh, selfie this way, that way. But when you’re sitting quietly in the car and you’re not doing this, when people look into your car, then when they see you, you’re now in your own mind, you do some rubbish.04:07 People think they are in the car, people nobody can see inside, they will be digging their nose or something, you know. So now and then this same girl dress up this way, all self to the extent when supposing they are going to a party, oh, they want
to make sure that her friend, they may be good friends and the two girls, but she’s a boy, she wants a boy. They don’t care about the friend.04:30 No, I want, I want Destruction finally comes. Destruction. No, terrible destruction.
04:36 Confusion also will be there. And then they begin to tell something to lie and all that. Why confusion has come.
04:42 Every evil thing has come to have great life, you must be God seeking selfless. Selfish is different from self seeking. Selfish is you have something you don’t want to share, you don’t want to share, you want to keep yourself, you don’t want to tell
people you have it.04:56 And whatever you can do and do not do is sin, by the way. So as a pastor and a servant of God, if I have something, I can tell people, even outside people who are not Christians, if I can do something for them and I don’t do it is sin. So I must do
so.05:12 What you can do and do not do is sin. So praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth for that command. Now every command of God is for our sake, to improve us, to settle us.
05:21 God clearly said this is a fantastic command. Understanding self seeking and envy means confusion. Every evil thing is there and we can get out.
05:30 We can start commanding our heart and mind, examining ourselves in every circumstance. For instance, let’s say a widow or a single woman, that girl got a good husband, that girl got a husband, I want a husband, I want a husband. And then in the self
seeking mode, envy will come.05:48 Envira that one, that woman got a good husband, I don’t have, you know. And then same thing, widows, same thing. Self seeking, self seeking.
05:57 Confucian there all the time. Confucian. And every evil thing.
06:00 And whenever people are self seeking, I see they actually are ungrateful. Also very ungrateful. They don’t themselves know because they’re captive, they’re already captured by the devil.
06:12 Because every evil thing has come captured by the devil. So they’ll talk to you as they talk to you in guile and deception. They’ll put on a front and hello pastor, how are you? This and that not true.
06:22 And then they actually hello brother, how are you? Hello sister, how are you? You know, brother or sister, you didn’t do this for me. I was waiting, you know, I needed it and all. But you check the self seeking people, they’ll never do anything for
anybody else.06:35 And whenever they do something for somebody else, there will be some self seeking there. I have seen women, you know, who, when supposing somebody coming to the house and one particular boy, brother or sister coming into the house, they’ll do some
special dish, why they want to impress that particular sister. So they cook.06:56 That woman cooks, that girl cooks a better dish. Because impressed a girl or want to impress a boy or whatever. Self seeking in many ways it will come.
07:04 So it is for you as a child of God to know God, your father God, son of the living God, the husband of your soul already said envy and self seeking is going to destroy you. Confusion will be there. And confusion no.
07:17 Oh, when they’re coming, they keep quiet. They won’t say, but they’ll be acting uncertain, confusionly, saying things wrongly. And then anybody say no, no, no, we’ll be rushing to do something.
07:27 Why confusion has taken place. Every evil thing, they can’t even see. Everybody can see already everybody can see this.
07:35 Every evil thing has come. Self seeking is there. Very ugly spirit is there.
07:40 They themselves cannot see. And what we do, we must pity them. But at the same time we cannot encourage self seeking envy.
07:46 I’ll have to put a stop and say look here, I cannot do this for you. And when self seeking, you know, my child, oh yo, you all didn’t do anything. Nobody did anything for me, no.
07:56 And then you check a list would have been done for them. They never, they are ungrateful, they wouldn’t check that. But they’ll say no, I waited, no.
08:04 And then they didn’t do for me. They won’t think so much this person has done for me. So much they’ve done for me.
08:11 They didn’t do this for me. Maybe they are struggling, maybe they’re not well. Maybe they got so many things to do.
08:17 No, they don’t come to them because evil things have captured them. They only think they didn’t do for me. They didn’t do for me.
08:23 They didn’t do for me. My doctor. Wow.
08:27 Maybe that person, the pastor, the brother, the sister maybe couldn’t do today. Let me call and find out. Are they all right? Are they all right? Can I do something to settle you? No, it will never come because self seeking is so rooted inside that
you’ll never think of that other person suffering, you know? And many times the godly person will be suffering and you won’t know.08:47 They’ll just do for you. They’ll be suffering but they’ll do for you. Why? They are disciples of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
08:54 They love Jesus Christ and their heart is surrendered to Jesus Christ and they want to please Jesus Christ. So they’re suffering, they will get up and do. But you self seeking soul, oh, they never do for me.
09:07 And they do something, they must be doing something for somebody else. They are doing somebody else, but not for me. Ungratefulness come.
09:15 Unthankfulness will come and destroy them. Now in places they sell mlm. I’ve sold the MLM before now what to do, how to sell this thing, how to sell this thing, how to get this thing.
09:27 I must get this money to buy. Not besides thinking I must sell this, I must finish my quota not thinking whether this person buys and then will they have enough money, will they suffer after that? Maybe you have convinced them so well because your
logic is so good or whatever and they put in money and that send out the money for the month for them to. They’re sacrificing for something else.09:47 Sacrificing from some other budget. Don’t want to think, you know, just want to push the product. Self seeking and envy why? Oh, other fellow did better already.
09:57 I must do better. I must do better. Envy, confusion, every evil thing is there.
10:02 Self destruction is round the corner. Round the corner. I have seen this repeatedly.
10:06 Self destruction coming. Sure. Come, there’s no escape because it is God’s word.
10:12 Every evil thing out there means it’s destroying you already. Destroying you already. It’s finished now.
10:21 Self seeking ministry. Oh, I want more people in this church. I want more people in this church.
10:27 You see, the other church, plenty of people, more church. So I will do this, I will do that. Not one stopping to think.
10:34 What does the husband of your soul, your lord and master, to whom you have declared to be a servant unto? What does he want? Does he want you to compete with the other church? Or does he want you to do the right thing? For one soul, just one soul
for God is worth more than the whole world. He told us. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Lose his own soul.10:55 What does it profit a man? So why wouldn’t you? For God, he said, look here, son, one soul. Dharma is early days, you know. I already know.
11:09 God said, look, yes, I am one soul. I’m telling you, not even worth the whole world. It’s more than that, it’s worth.
11:17 So what would you do as a servant? Seek the soul, settle the soul. But no comparing. Comparing.
11:24 Envy, self seeking, self seeking, destruction. And these people with self seeking, they never improve. Why? Something will grow.
11:33 They’ll keep on taking from people. I call them those days before born again. There are two kinds of people.
11:38 I will say, I say there are two before born again. Two kinds of people. One the takers and the other one the givers.
11:44 The people who give. And there are people who just take and take and take and take. Never give.
11:51 Never even think of giving. Can you imagine why self seeking, envy, the confusion, every evil thing, it’s all about them. That is why forever their life is not changing forever their life is mess.
12:03 And for their life forever they’ll be complaining. I have nothing, I’m suffering. The more they come, I’m suffering, I have nothing.
12:10 Then nobody helps me, you know, nobody helps me. You know, the more destruction and more destruction. And this goes on in a cycle, goes on one cycle all the time.
12:19 Brothers and sisters, self seeking and envy is a terrible thing you have to examine because it’s destruction, self destruction. You don’t want to be destroyed. I’m sure you’re listening to this now.
12:31 The problem is I’ve not all the idiots I was in churches. I never learned this from them, you know, I never learned people, they might have read this scripture in passing, but not drilled into us. Hey, self seeking will kill you.
12:45 Envy and self seeking confusion. Every evil thing is there. Whenever people are confused, immediately servants, pastors, check.
12:51 Whenever people making sentences, statements to you that are not logical, not reasonable, not reasonable, immediately seeing where is the self seeking? Where is the envy? You check, you will find it, because God will show you. And then you tell the
brother or sister, brother, sister, your problem is self seeking and envy. That’s why you are suffering.13:11 Nothing to do with people helping you or not helping you. Nothing to do with your examination or not examination. Nothing to do with your children suffering.
13:11 Nothing to do with you being a single woman or a widow or a married woman or whatever. It’s because of self seeking and envy. So, brothers and sisters, check this among ourselves first.
13:27 And then of course, take a log out of our own eye. Take a log. I must take the log out of my own eye before I look at the speck in my brother or sister side to see how to settle them.
13:38 Self seeking, whenever you see, self seeking will never understand. They would have. People would have done so much for them.
13:45 And yet it was in the heart that I would do. They forgot all the rest earlier. Now they’re only looking at the next issue.
13:52 Next issue. Nobody helping me. Nobody helping me.
13:55 And self seeking. Envier, when you can get others to do something they won’t do, they’ll get others and they’ll put on this ugly spirit of pity. Self pity, ugly spirit.
14:05 Oh, nobody help me. You know, victimized spirit. No, very ugly spirit.
14:11 When I see it. I see the spirit before the brother said to open the mouth Today I know this is a terrible spirit. After a while God will tell.
14:20 God will show if you don’t examine yourself. After being corrected by two or three brothers and sisters. Sudden destruction.
14:27 That’s the scripture you know. After being repeatedly corrected on and on. So brothers and sisters, I’m telling you, anyone with this self seeking business, after being told people, hey, care for others, why you always complain other people don’t do
for you all that they’re telling? And repeatedly you continue doing.14:45 Sudden destruction. God says self destruction is explosion. Self implosion, explosion.
14:51 Brothers and sisters, no need. Christ seeking gives great life. Christ seeking great life.
14:57 So everything you cry out to Christ and you say what you must do. Today I get up. What I must do.
15:05 Not what I can get from people. What I can get people. This fellow must help me.
15:09 That fellow must help me. No. What I must do as I begin to do Great life comes because selfless.
15:16 I must command my heart and mind in the name of Jesus Christ to be selfless today. Why? Because our hearts are like that command. And Jesus has given his name, his blood to wash us clean and to command our heart and mind to be selfless.
15:31 Selfless. No more self seeking to be God seeking. God seeking in the name of Jesus Christ.
15:37 God seeking get great life through. I’ve seen these cases who’ve changed from self seeking to God seeking finally have great life. There’ll be many testimonies even in this own congregation.
15:49 But there are still some in this congregation that I minister have this envy and self seeking going on and I pity them because self destruction coming and keep on telling them, not listening what to do. We can only tell. We are not dictators, we are
not the police, we are not soldiers, we are not human soldiers.16:02 We are not prison wardens. We can only tell. And after the cry for mercy from God, brothers and sisters, everything we do check for self seeking and then turn it into Christ seeking.
16:19 What does Jesus Christ, the husband of my soul wants me to do in this instance? And I will endure. I will pick up my cross and walk, walk. I turn the other cheek, I give away the next shirt or whatever I go in Jesus name I get up and walk.
16:36 He suffered for me. I take up my cross and walk. I will not be depending just people must help me, help me, help me.
16:43 And then I will say I want to help people. I want to help people as you begin to say I want to help people. Oh things life begin to change.
16:50 Jesus Christ will move for you. In Jesus name I pray Amen.
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Work of GOD – Examine Yourself 8 – SELF-CONTROL – Part 2 (Tamil)
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Scriptures Referenced
Galatians 5:22-23 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
22 But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these kinds of things.
Titus 2:11-13 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,
12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,
13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.Titus 2:11-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 For the [remarkable, undeserved] grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
12 It teaches us to reject ungodliness and worldly (immoral) desires, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives
[lives with a purpose that reflect spiritual maturity] in this present age,
13 awaiting and confidently expecting the [fulfillment of our] blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,====================================================
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 yourselvesDo 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?
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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Work of GOD – Examine Yourself 8 – SELF-CONTROL
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Scriptures Referenced
Galatians 5:22-23 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
22 But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these kinds of things.
Titus 2:11-13 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,
12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,
13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.Titus 2:11-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 For the [remarkable, undeserved] grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
12 It teaches us to reject ungodliness and worldly (immoral) desires, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives
[lives with a purpose that reflect spiritual maturity] in this present age,
13 awaiting and confidently expecting the [fulfillment of our] blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,====================================================
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 yourselvesDo 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?
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, the power of Christ daily 18th of September. We are still in the work of God. Work of God is work of God.
00:10 Examine yourself. Chapter nine Self control. Chapter two Self control Part two.
00:20 The work of God, let’s remind ourselves, is believing in Jesus Christ. That’s it. Believing in Jesus Christ.
00:27 More we believe in the spiritual world. God considers it work. We better go by God’s definition because it is finally he created us, created the heavens and the earth.
00:37 Almighty God. 2. Examining Ourselves we have to examine ourselves to make sure that we are not counterfeit Christians.
00:44 We are not fake Christians and we don’t want to be fake Christians. We don’t want to be counterfeit Christians. We examine ourselves, test ourselves, prove ourselves and then we can be true Christians and pleasing to Christ and having a good life.
00:58 Having a good life. Now today we talk about self control, one of the flavours of Galatians 5, 22, 23 which is the fruit of the Spirit. Now in Titus 2:11, 13, I’m reading from the New Revised Standard Catholic edition.
01:21 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self controlled, upright and godly. 13 While we wait for the blessed hope and
manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. So what has appeared? Grace has appeared, bringing what? Salvation to all and training us to renounce worldly passions and impiety.02:00 Now in Titus 2:11, 13 I’m now reading from the Amplified. For the remarkable and undeserved grace of God that brings salvation as appeared to all men. It teaches us to reject ungodliness, worldly, immoral desires.
02:20 Worldly desires are actually immoral desires. The earth belongs to Jesus Christ. He created it.
02:27 But the world, the system of governing the earth, the system of governing the earth, controlling the earth, things happening in the earth and all this is still worldly. And that ruler of the world right now is still Satan. Rule of the world is now
still Satan.02:43 That is why eventually you’ll bring the Antichrist and all that. But we are not going to get petrified and panicked about this. Our God says, just with his breath, Antichrist is destroyed.
02:56 Just with the breath finished. No, no issue here. Our Father God protects us, takes care of us, loves us.
03:04 Jesus Christ, the King of kings has overcome all and taken out the power of Satan and given his children power. So don’t concern yourself the devil in terms of oh, he will do something to Us. No, no, he cannot do anything.
03:18 If you stand in the name of Jesus Christ and you want to do the right thing, one, two, only willing. Willing to do the right thing. Willing to do what Jesus tells you.
03:28 You command any demonic force to go in the name of Jesus Christ and it will go. But if we do not want to follow Jesus Christ the way Jesus Christ has written down, if we want to follow Jesus Christ the way our mind tells us, our hearts tell us, our
neighbors tell us, our another Christian brother or sister telling us without any proof in Scripture, without any proof from the Bible, then we won’t have power. The devil will overtake us now.03:57 So here reject ungodliness, worldly, immoral desires and to live sensible, upright and godly lives. This is a purpose. Sensible, upright and godly life lies.
04:09 The purpose that reflects spiritual maturity is your life is my life is living as a purpose for Christ. Purpose that eternity will come. Purpose that our body one day will die and we still have to face the living God.
04:25 Purpose that what we do, what God has told us to do. Believe in the one whom he sent. Believing more in Jesus Christ.
04:31 Believing more in Jesus Christ. The purpose to believe more and more in Jesus Christ means the purpose is to obey him. Because he says, if you love me, keep my commandments, walk in my commandments.
04:46 That’s the purpose to love Jesus Christ. And the purpose to love Jesus Christ how? The purpose to keep his commandments. How? Because the commandments are a prescription.
04:56 The old Hebrew description says it’s a kind of prescription, authoritative prescription so that we can prescribe that our diseases will go. Our other diseases, our bad things in our life are considered diseases. And with the authoritative
prescription, the diseases live a good life.05:17 We’ll be healed. Healed in the spirit in this present age with a purpose 13 waiting and confidently expecting the fulfillment of our blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. As we get up this morning, or any
morning, first take a moment and think of Jesus Christ.05:42 He is love. God is love. So we think about love.
05:45 We think about others. We first of all, we begin to meditate on the scriptures God will bring. He will bring scriptures.
05:52 The Spirit of God will bring scriptures not related to just in the power of Christ. Daily that I am speaking, it will be from the past, once, maybe, maybe even from the future ones which have not spoken. He will bring the words of God to you.
06:03 He will bring things. Because you are meditating on the husband of your soul. You are waking up today.
06:11 The husband of your soul is with you you are complete, you are whole. You had a whole set of difficulties, challenges yesterday, but today you have mercies anew every morning. And then this starts with what? First Corinthians 8, 2.
06:27 If I think I know something I do not know as I ought to know as yet. This is crit, single brothers. Because our heart and mind is very wicked.
06:36 It begins to think after a while. It knows. It knows.
06:39 What does it know? Because whatever the world has taught us is only taught us a hidden thing. There was a movie called the Matrix. And then you go into the Matrix, you find there’s actually a different world and we’re actually believing one thing
when actually there’s another thing.06:56 Now this is similarly here. That is what the concept would have got from this actual world whereby there’s a spirit world that controls the actual world or the physical world. There’s a spirit world.
07:09 And we must focus on the spirit world. Because we have power in the name of Jesus Christ. Because we have power in the name of Jesus Christ, we must focus on the spirit world and God has given us and say, look at the things above, look at the things
unseen.07:26 What is it telling us? Look at the things unseen, look at the things unseen. That means why look at the spirit world? Now, of course, to look at the spirit world. We are looking at things like our character first, our conduct, our speech, our
thoughts.07:46 Now, because the heart will not change until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind, the spirit of our mind, our understanding. False belief has caused a lot of problems. Now back to this relative to self control.
08:05 Now self control means there’s a spirit that’s not a spirit of lack of self control or zero self control. There’s a spirit. This spirit is a wicked spirit.
08:17 It wants you to believe you can do whatever you want and get away. It wants you to believe and make you believe. Because it convinced our heart and mind that we must stand there and do this.
08:28 I can do it this way, I can do it that way. They do this, I will do that. I was like that.
08:34 If they do something that, okay, okay, they’re doing that there. I can do this way. Completely ignoring.
08:40 There is a spirit world and Satan came to steal, kill and destroy, as Jesus Christ has told us. And he said he came to give us more life and life more, more abundantly. And then he said before he left, can you imagine the last words, one of the last
words he spoke before he left in Mark 16.08:59 Those who believe, teach the good News. Talk about good news. The good news.
09:05 Salvation has come Jesus died on the cross and gave us power. And those who believe these signs will follow. They will cast out evil spirit in my name.
09:14 Now the connection is this. Those who believe in Jesus Christ will cast out evil spirit in his name. Now if we are not casting out evil spirit in his name, that means truly we are not believing enough to cast out.
09:31 And what evil spirit? As I told I’ve had segments earlier there, go and ask the moderators or go to the graceoflife.com There is a page called Power of Christ Daily and all the past recordings are there. Choose that brothers, because you can. And
their topics are there.09:47 They choose by topics now. So believe what? Believe that Jesus has overcome the world. And we will overcome the world.
09:59 And Jesus is a home for us. He is making. Jesus is coming back.
10:04 Jesus died on the cross and took my sins. And Jesus in his faith, he went down even to hell. He died, he suffered, you know, the heart broke physically.
10:15 The scientists now say that they studied how he was whipped and how he was hung on the cross in such a manner. Finally, this broke off the blood contained in the abdomen. Why physically his heart broke and all the blood collected in his abdomen.
10:34 And that is why when the soldier went and pierced him, blood and water flowed out. He died of a broken heart. Jesus Christ died of a broken heart for me and for you.
10:46 And he rose again. And he says, now come unto me and I shall give you rest. And he said, call on my name and I will answer thee.
10:55 But in my name you will cast out evil spirits from ourselves first. So examining ourselves all the time is a necessary thing so that we prove ourselves and be a part of Christ. Now, lack of self control has caused a lot of problems.
11:09 As I said, marriages are broken, relationships are broken, jobs are lost, money is lost. Without self control, you go buy things, buy things because your neighbor God or your friend God or whatever, you don’t afford it. You cannot afford it.
11:24 You can’t maxing up your credit cards. And finally people are being bankrupted. All that is going on because lack of self control.
11:33 Now self control on the other hand is a wonderful thing. It’s a wonderful thing that God is saying you have self control and you live reject. You can reject ungodliness and worldly immoral passions and desires, you can reject because in the name now
this I think a lot of religions will tell you, like including Christian religion tell you, you know, be godly, don’t have worldly desires and all that, but our heart won’t do.12:05 So in the name of Jesus, Christ, I command my heart and mind to reject worldly desires, to reject lack of self control in the name of Jesus Christ and to have godliness and to love Jesus Christ and to fulfill the commandments and to take his
prescription in the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to believe more and more in Jesus Christ, to love more and more. And I will love all. Because if I love all, I am a son of the most High God.12:35 It’s so easy. God has given us a prescription to be son of the most High God. You just love your enemy.
12:43 So if you have any enemies, you must purpose in your heart in the name of Jesus Christ. And the mind must be renewed and say, they are captives, Lord, they are captives. The ruler of the world, Satan is confused all of us.
12:56 But thank you Lord for giving me grace and mercy and that I am in you. It is only by your mercy that you have brought me in. Now you try this brothers and sisters.
13:09 You meditate on this self control everything. Before you do something, before you speak, there must be moments of silence. Your thinking.
13:18 You’re thinking before you speak. Thinking what? Thinking what Jesus wants you to say. Now Jesus Christ himself, he says, father, do not let this cup pass through my lips.
13:35 Then he then quickly said again, but let your will be done, not mine. That means he knows he’s going to suffer so much. He’s asking father, can this cup, can this sacrifice not be done this way? Can I be spared of this? All this weeping and tearing
of flesh and tearing of our beard and hanging there and nailed to the cross and ridiculed and put to shame and carry all the sins of mankind.14:03 And all the demonic forces would come and carry all their curses, all their boils, all their diseases, all their leprosy, all the tuberculosis, all cancer. I carry all that into my body. Can this be done another way? Can I escape from this? Then he
said, but let your will be done, not mine.14:25 That is self control. That is self control. Self control is wanting God’s way when your flesh, your mind, your heart, your friend, your brother, your neighbor, whoever is telling all that do, do something.
14:40 The boss, the company, your job, all the dictating that you must do something. And then you know that is not what Jesus Christ wants you to do. Because you must be searching scriptures or get godly counsel.
14:54 Somebody will counsel you. Get to the grace of life. Somebody will counsel you.
14:58 It may be even me. But everybody knows that the people who are there in the grace of life, they all have suffered, they’ve come out of it. They are serving the Lord.
15:06 There are pastors, there are servants. They will, oh, they will stop what they’re doing. They will begin.
15:11 They begin to deal with this. They will contact among each other. They’ll talk, they’ll contact me and then say how to help this person, how to help this brother, how to help this sister.
15:20 Because love one another as I have loved you. That’s the second highest commandment. First highest commandment is love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, and love one another as I have loved you.
15:23 That’s the second highest commandment for believers. Third highest commandment is love your neighbor as yourself. And then we will have great life.
15:42 And why they will stop and do this? Because they have self control. Self control to obey what God has said. Love one another as I have loved you.
15:51 Jesus said, how did he deliver us? He gave up everything for us. So we must be willing to give up our time, our energy and all that, not go and whip ourselves and nailed us back on the cross. No, we are already being when we accepted Christ.
16:05 We have already been crucified in Christ. We already been when we are in Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, wonderful day.
16:12 Amen.
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Work of GOD – Examine Yourself 8 – SELF-CONTROL (Tamil)
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Scriptures Referenced
Galatians 5:22-23 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
22 But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these kinds of things.
Proverbs 29:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
20 Do you see a man hasty in his words? [someone who speaks without thinking. ]
There is more hope for a fool than for himProverbs 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 A quick-tempered man acts foolishly and without self-control, And a man of wicked schemes is hated.
Proverbs 29:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.[uses self-control and] holds it back.
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Hebrews 12:8 Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.
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2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselvesDo 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?
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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Work of GOD – Examine Yourself 8 – SELF-CONTROL
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Scriptures Referenced
Galatians 5:22-23 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
22 But the fruit that the Spirit produces in a person’s life is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these kinds of things.
Proverbs 29:20 New King James Version (NKJV)
20 Do you see a man hasty in his words? [someone who speaks without thinking. ]
There is more hope for a fool than for himProverbs 14:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
17 A quick-tempered man acts foolishly and without self-control, And a man of wicked schemes is hated.
Proverbs 29:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back.[uses self-control and] holds it back.
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Hebrews 12:8 Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
Hebrews 12:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.
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2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselvesDo 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?
1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
00:01 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters. Power of Christ Daily 17th of September 2015 still work of God. What is work of God? Believing the one whom he sent.
00:13 Examine yourself. Recording eight Self control. This is the final part of the Fruit of the Spirit Self control.
00:24 This is absolutely critical, brothers and sisters. Self control. A lot of lives have been wasted.
00:32 Lives have been wasted, lives stolen. Lives are lost because of no self control. The self control has not been taught, not been reminded, not been meditated upon regularly by even Christians.
00:51 Lack of self control is really the main cause of serious destruction. Of course we know the spirit world as a Satan. He wants you to have no self control.
01:07 The demonic world does not want you to have no self control. You must understand this. There are demons who are watching us and trying to tempt us to fall into sin.
01:21 Now yesterday we were dealing with chastisement from God. And what a wonderful thing. Know that our God doesn’t put illness on us and we shouldn’t be flogging ourselves and hurting ourselves and all thinking we are
doing anything good for God.01:37 He doesn’t want us to hurt ourselves. He wants us to do the right thing. He wants us to be salt and light.
01:38 He wants us to show his glory to the world by being humble, by helping others, loving all. That’s the way. And this chastisement, of course you must understand God will use people also to rebuke you and correct you.
02:01 Because there are pastors, there are servants, there are disciples like you. There are saints. All of us are saints because we believe in Jesus Christ to save us.
02:13 We believe Jesus Christ saved us. He is the Son of God. He is.
02:16 He is not just any ordinary person. Son of God and died and rose again, took our sins and all that. And therefore we are saints.
02:24 Now we are supposed to correct each other. When you see another saint doing something or going towards some problem, you have to counsel and say, brother sister, this is going to harm us. Don’t do this now.
02:37 Rebuke and correction are necessary. When somebody is doing something wrong and going to destroy himself, it is necessary to rebuke. So God uses others.
02:47 It could be your neighbor, who’s not even a believer, who’s getting angry with you. Then you better start thinking. For instance, he may be thinking that you have been parking the car in a manner that he doesn’t
like.03:03 Or the woman, the neighbor who’s not a believer is unhappy the way you’re cooking at the back and some smell of your cooking going into her house. So the person gets upset. Now you better immediately Examine and
say, am I causing this? Can I then if I do not change, do not settle this.03:27 Do not humble myself. Will they listen about Jesus Christ another day? You have lost your right to speak. There’s a right to speak.
03:37 When you speak, people must listen. They must be wanting to hear you. But you’re not going to do this if you do not reach out, reach out loving even when they do not understand.
03:52 Do you think of Jesus on the cross? They forgive them, Father. They know not what they do. Whenever people doing things to you, sorry brothers about this.
04:01 Whenever princes are doing to you, accusing unfairly even maybe that’s not the issue. You must not use your right to speak. Humble yourself.
04:12 And you know that Jesus Christ, the husband of your soul will do something. But we do not lose our right to speak because we will then bring Jesus to this person. This person is a captive suffering, completely gone,
angry now for something else maybe now showing on you.04:32 So you instead of responding. That’s self control. We’ll come to that.
04:36 You instead of saying, forgive them, Father. They don’t know what they do. They do not know what they do.
04:41 They know not what they do. I was like that, Lord. Now make me reach out, make me love this person.
04:47 Because I will love even my enemies so that I am the son of the Most High God. You know why you will love your enemy? Why? I have loved my enemies for now 20 years now. I don’t have enemies now that time when I
first came to the Lord full of enemies because I have not done them things to them.05:03 But there are others who are doing things without me having done anything. Without me having done anything. They are doing things.
05:09 I was a real angry. But when I knew this to be son of the Most High God, I must love them. So how do we do that? It’s impossible to do by yourself in your natural self.
05:21 I did that in the name of Jesus Christ commanding my heart and mind to love this one by one. I think of this person. I think of what they are doing.
05:30 I’ll be thinking. I’ll be looking at what they’re doing in the mind of my. In the eyes of my mind and in the eyes of my heart.
05:36 I’ll be thinking and feeling this, what they are doing. And then I purpose it in my heart. I will still love this person, Lord.
05:44 Because you, my king and Lord and king, my master, my Savior, the lover of my soul wants me to love him so that I can be your son of the Most High God. So I will love. So I love these enemies even that time for my
own sake, for my own sake, so that I am a son of the most high God.06:08 So remember this your neighbor do some rubbish. You will love them for your own sake that you become the son of the most high God. Don’t you want to be the son of the most high God? The Bible is clear.
06:23 Love your enemies to be the Son and you’ll be sons of the most high God. That’s it. And how can we love our enemies? Because we have a protector and immensely powerful unlimited power.
06:38 He is the one who protect us. So we don’t have to bother about this surrender to Christ, but love them and tomorrow they’ll come to you. One day when they’re in trouble or you will reach out and begin to bring Jesus
to them.06:52 One soul is worth more than the whole world for Christ. That’s why Christ had man said, what does it profit a man to get the whole world and lose his own soul? What does it profit me or you to get the whole world
and lose our own soul? So what? God is equating our value, each soul value against the whole world. So the soul is worth more than the whole world.07:17 So we reach out. Is it worth it? Because they are unhappy with your chilli smell or whatever blachan smell or whatever you are doing that going across there. Don’t you want to adjust your cookery in such a manner
cooking in such a manner that you don’t offend them? Because that soul you brought to Christ later you have a gift.07:41 You have a reward for eternity counted and can never take from you. You better start thinking like this now. Today we are dealing with self control.
07:50 Now self control of course is the last part of the spirit. Flavor of the spirit, fruit of the Spirit. First part is love.
08:00 Now Proverbs 29:20 says, do you see a man hasty in his words? That is someone who speaks without thinking, you know, straight away anything straight away. Straight away there is more hope for a fool than for him.
There is more hope for a fool than for him.08:23 This particularly people may think it is people outside. No, no, it’s just many times I find sisters who are wives who have not trained their tongue and trained their heart or whatever they end up doing the and
getting themselves such a terrible mess. Some of them have been bitten because of this, you know, and outside world.08:46 Also people should look around. Somebody slaps you suddenly in the car, somebody just talks away or points something. Talking hasty in words is not just speaking hand gestures and body language.
09:00 All that. Oh, you are angry with one Fellow who just overtook you, you are showing some hand sign. Oh, some sign like what are you doing? Or whatever that’s hasty in action.
09:11 Now suppose the brothers block the car and come down and take a crowbar and wag you. Therefore he said, there’s more for a fool than for him who is saying this. No, God is saying this.
09:20 Our Father, our Father who loves us is telling you son, don’t do this because there’s more hope for a fool than for this person. So our Father is telling, don’t be hasty in your words. Don’t be quick to so simply
blah blah, blah.09:34 Now Proverbs 14:17 says, A quick tempered man acts foolishly. That means a man quick to anger acts foolish, foolishly. Now he didn’t say sometimes, all the time.
09:47 I am talking to brothers and sisters here who’s quick tempered. That means God says you act foolishly all the time. A quick tempered man acts foolishly.
09:56 A quick tempered man means the temper didn’t blow up. You’re a quick tempered man. You’re a quick tempered man, but didn’t blow up just now.
10:06 But you’re a quick tempered man again. Suddenly come you act foolishly all the time. You act foolish.
10:13 Therefore if you have some foolish things you are doing and somebody is correcting you, you better understand it’s now based on the thing. Because you have allowed the spirit of quick temperedness to sit in you when
you’re given all power of heaven and earth, and which was bought by a tremendously terrible, painful price of the Son of the living God who gave you blood of Jesus Christ, who gave you his name, who gave you power
to trample on snakes and scorpions. And by no means anything can help, can hurt you.10:42 By any means nothing can hurt you. That’s in Luke 10:19, Luke 10:1 019. And yet you are quick tempered.
10:51 You are blaspheming the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. You’re saying his blood is nothing. That’s what you’re saying without you saying it.
10:59 You actually your conduct says this. I cannot become. I am always quick tempered but I cannot get rid of it.
11:05 Then you are saying the blood of Jesus Christ is nothing. You are blaspheming the name. You are stepping on the blood of Jesus Christ.
11:12 You are trampling on the blood of Jesus Christ. This is not on brother and sister. So I am talking to every quick tempered person here.
11:19 Stop it for your own sake. Because what the Bible says, a quick tempered man acts foolishly and a man of wicked schemes is hated. A Fellow is always scheming.
11:33 But is either a woman or man always scheming? Scheming is always hated finally. Always scheming to do rubbish is hated finally. So leave them alone.
11:42 But now I am talking to a quick tempered man and acts foolishly and without self control. Proverbs 14:17 says in Amplified. A quick tempered man acts foolishly and without self control.
11:55 Without self control you’ll destroy your own life. You’ll destroy things around you. Lack of self control will begin to the spirit of lack of self control.
12:06 Oh, it’s a very destructive thing. So brother sister, get rid of your quick temper. No such thing.
12:12 A child of God has no quick temper. A child of God is having quick temper. Means is actually not using the power of Jesus Christ to overcome this.
12:23 Now another one. 29:11, Proverbs 29:11. Now remember, the Old Testament tells us what to do, what not to do and all that.
12:31 The New Testament empowers us to do it. That’s a big difference. The Old Testament tells you what to do and all.
12:37 Yes, but cannot do. That’s why Jesus came. The Old Testament doesn’t give you power to do.
12:43 That’s why God calls it the ministry of death. The New Testament comes and gives a ministry of life whereby you can use the name of Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ.
12:54 You keep looking at the word of God. Now, the quick tempered man, whoever has quick temper, you look at the word of God, Proverbs 14:17. All the time in the eyes of your mind.
13:04 In the eye of your mind, you’re looking at it. In the eyes of your heart, you’re thinking about it. You’re acting on it.
13:09 You’re thinking I’m quick tempered. No, I’ll be slow to speak, quick to hear. I am full of self control.
13:16 I am full of self control. And then you begin to meditate. This is destroying me.
13:23 It has destroyed a lot of me. No more. I am a child of God.
13:26 I am a saint. I am a disciple of Christ. I have power to trample on snakes and scorpions, which means evil things.
13:35 I trample on every spirit of quick temperedness. Wicked spirit of quick temperedness. Get out of me.
13:40 In the name of Jesus Christ, you begin to meditate on this. Do on and on it will go. Now here Proverbs 29:11 says, A fool vents all his feelings.
13:49 Vents means all his feelings. All coming out, all angry, all upset. But a wise man holds them back.
13:57 Uses self control and holds it back. A wise man holds back his feelings because they are not going to act by feelings. A wise man holds back the feelings using the power of Jesus Christ, the name of Jesus Christ,
the blood of Jesus Christ.14:12 And holds back the feeling using the word of God to keep on meditating on it as if in a mirror. As in a mirror you keep looking at the word all the time. In your eye, in the mind of your mind, meditating.
14:23 Renewing your mind, Renewing your mind. The heart will change once the heart changes the words. The mouth of the world speaks so quickly.
14:30 Because renewing the spirit of your mind will change your heart. And what is abundant in their heart will be love. Now you replace love.
14:36 I will love them. I will love them. Anyone will say anything.
14:39 Give me. Because remember you love the enemy, your son of the most high God. So why quick temper? You don’t love them.
14:48 Why are you quick tempered? You don’t love them, that’s all. And a child of God is love. Your whole body, every cell is infused with love.
14:57 Because God is love. If you have God inside which you have but examine yourself and not be a fake Christian. God says you are a fake Christian.
15:06 Anybody who wants to follow Jesus Christ cannot do fake things. So if you’re actually following Jesus Christ, you want Jesus Christ. Every cell in your body is infused with the love of God which is not coming out.
15:18 So every cell has love frequency. So why a quick tempered. Remember you don’t love them.
15:24 Why a fool went to all his feelings. Oh, you don’t love yourself. Even because you went to all your feelings, you harm yourself.
15:32 So brothers and sisters today, total self control. Total self control. This is what you should aim for in every aspect.
15:40 Now put a list of all the things where you have lost your self control. List all the things. Now it’s not just, you know, oh I did not, I just.
15:48 No self control. I ate additional chocolate today. That is rubbish.
15:53 That is on your own matter. This is self control. When you’re dealing with people, when you’re dealing the outside, that one you can see, you put on.
16:00 Eat chocolate, you become fat. Too much chocolate, too fat. But that one you cannot see.
16:04 That one you are harming yourself, harming others. That one you cannot see. That is where you are going to focus today.
16:11 Self control when dealing with everybody outside in your environment. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray Amen.