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Santosh Poonen - 99% Is Disqualification

Santosh Poonen · Jul 6

4m 37s

Paul (Bala) Joel - Guarding Our Eyes, Walking in the Light

Paul (Bala) Joel · Jun 30

Zac Poonen - The Balance of Strictness and Compassion in God’s Prophets

Zac Poonen · Jun 15

Jeremy Utley - Compromise Kills Christian Progress

Jeremy Utley · Jun 15

18m

NCCF Conference 2026 - Beware of Hypocrisy - Wenhai Pan

Wenhai Pan · Jun 10

12m

Zac Poonen - Why God Forgave David

Zac Poonen · May 7

Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 17

Zac Poonen · Mar 9

30m

Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 16

Zac Poonen · Mar 2

Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 12

Zac Poonen · Feb 2

Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 11

Zac Poonen · Jan 26

Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 10

Zac Poonen · Jan 19

Zac Poonen - The Goodness of God Is His Holiness

Zac Poonen · Jan 18

Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 5

Zac Poonen · Dec 1

23m

Zac Poonen - Submission to Authorities

Zac Poonen · Oct 7

Jeremy Utley - Struggling With Anxiety? There’s Hope.

Jeremy Utley · Aug 11

Zac Poonen - The Meaning of the Breaking of Bread

Zac Poonen · Apr 7

1h 27m

Brother Zac Poonen's 80th Birthday Celebration at NCCF

Zac Poonen · Mar 24

50m

Zac Poonen - Jesus Overcoming Sin - and Building the Church

Zac Poonen · Feb 24

16m

Zac Poonen - Characteristics of a Man Who Fears God

Zac Poonen · Feb 17

Wenhai Pan - Having a Reverence for God

Wenhai Pan · Feb 3

4m 19s

Andrei Pavlov - The Power Belongs to God

Andrei Pavlov · Oct 14

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Sunil Poonen - The Violent Gospel

Sunil Poonen · Sep 30

53m

Zac Poonen - Set The Lord Always Before You

Zac Poonen · Aug 12

33m

Bobby McDonald - 9 Schemes of Satan

Bobby McDonald · Jun 3

August 4 | Daily Devotion | The Mark Of New Covenant Blessing Is Not Wealth And Health | Zac Poonen

Zac Poonen · 11m · CFC Daily Devotions

True blessing under the New Covenant is not measured by material wealth and health, but by spiritual transformation and union with Christ. The mark of God's blessing is internal holiness and a clear vision of Christ, not external prosperity.

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Santosh Poonen - 99% Is Disqualification

Santosh Poonen · Jul 6, 2026 · 34m

The speaker urges listeners to adopt a radical spiritual self-assessment, comparing it to how we treat physical health—where one small issue dominates our focus. Drawing from James 2:10, he emphasizes that failing in even one area of law makes one guilty of all, meaning the standard for Christian living is absolute perfection (100%). True assurance comes not from self-assessment but from recognizing and relying entirely on God's mercy.

4m 37s

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Paul (Bala) Joel - Guarding Our Eyes, Walking in the Light

Paul (Bala) Joel · Jun 30, 2026 · 4m 37s

The central message is that Christians must strive to be reflections of Jesus by maintaining purity in their personal lives and functioning within the local church. The speaker emphasizes guarding one's eyes, noting that sins often begin through what we see; therefore, believers should consciously confess sin and walk as children of light. This requires making a covenant with our eyes to keep them undefiled.

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Zac Poonen - The Balance of Strictness and Compassion in God’s Prophets

Zac Poonen · Jun 15, 2026 · 8m

God's method of dealing with sin requires a balance between stern rebuke and compassionate encouragement, mirroring the combination of grace and truth seen in Jesus Christ. The speaker illustrates this using Old Testament pairs like Ezra (weeping over sin) and Nehemiah (publicly confronting sin), as well as Paul and Barnabas. For the church to function correctly, it must embody both ministries—the gentle encouragement and the necessary confrontation against compromise.

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Jeremy Utley - Compromise Kills Christian Progress

Jeremy Utley · Jun 15, 2026 · 29m

The central message warns that compromise actively hinders spiritual progress, growth, and God's work in both the church and personal life. Drawing from Ezra, the speaker argues that when people mix with the world or fail to uphold pure standards, all momentum stops, illustrating that moral authority is lost through compromise. To maintain a righteous standard, one must remain uncompromised.

18m

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NCCF Conference 2026 - Beware of Hypocrisy - Wenhai Pan

Wenhai Pan · Jun 10, 2026 · 18m

The central message is a warning against hypocrisy within the church, comparing it to the modern obsession with image seen in media and social life. The speaker uses the story of Ananias and Sapphira from Acts 5 to illustrate that pretending to be more spiritual or giving more than one truly is a sin against God's holiness. Ultimately, the message encourages believers to live naturally and authentically in their faith walk, rather than putting on a pretense.

12m

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Zac Poonen - Why God Forgave David

Zac Poonen · May 7, 2026 · 12m

Zac Poonen examines how God forgave David despite his grievous sins of adultery, murder, and conspiracy, showing through Scripture that David's broken and contrite heart—demonstrated in Psalm 51—made him acceptable to God. The message emphasizes that genuine repentance and remorse matter far more than outward penance, and calls believers to extend the same mercy to others that God extended to David.

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Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 17

Zac Poonen · Mar 9, 2026 · 27m

Zac Poonen teaches on the ninth wrong attitude in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: the sin of judging others. He emphasizes that while Christians may hold opinions about people within their sphere of responsibility, condemning others invites God's judgment upon ourselves. The antidote is rigorous self-judgment: by examining ourselves according to God's standards, we escape condemnation on the final day.

30m

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Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 16

Zac Poonen · Mar 2, 2026 · 30m

Zac Poonen teaches on the Sermon on the Mount, focusing on wrong attitudes Jesus condemns: anger, sexual sin, lying, revenge, hatred, seeking honor, and the love of money. He emphasizes that Christians must choose God alone as their master, not wealth, and must cultivate faith to overcome anxiety about provision, trusting that God cares for believers more than He cares for the birds of the air.

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Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 12

Zac Poonen · Feb 2, 2026 · 24m

In this sermon on Matthew 5, Zac Poonen emphasizes that Christians must pursue continuous spiritual growth and progress toward Christlikeness, not remain defeated by the same sins year after year. He outlines nine right attitudes from the Beatitudes—including poverty of spirit, mourning for sin, meekness, hungering for righteousness, mercy, purity of heart, peacemaking, standing for righteousness, and boldly confessing Christ—and contrasts Jesus's internal, root-level standard with the Old Testament's external commandments, using anger and lust as examples of attitudes that must be dealt with at their source rather than merely their outward manifestations.

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Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 11

Zac Poonen · Jan 26, 2026 · 27m

Zac Poonen teaches on the Sermon on the Mount, emphasizing that Jesus's teachings demand radical obedience in attitudes and actions—anger equals murder, lust equals adultery, and divorce is prohibited except for infidelity. He challenges churches to actually teach and live out these standards rather than diluting the message, warns that such sins can lead to hell, and calls believers to extend Christ-like mercy to those repenting from past sins, understanding that God's justification completely cleanses and restores the forgiven.

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Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 10

Zac Poonen · Jan 19, 2026 · 29m

In this sermon on Matthew 5, Zac Poonen teaches that the foundation of the new covenant is internal transformation rather than external observance, using Jesus's hidden 30-year private life as the model. He emphasizes that true Christian living involves secret sacrifices and inward attitudes, contrasting this with Old Testament externalism, and applies this principle to anger as the root sin beneath murder.

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Zac Poonen - The Goodness of God Is His Holiness

Zac Poonen · Jan 18, 2026 · 8m

Zac Poonen teaches that God's true goodness is revealed through His holiness, not merely His blessing or provision. Using Isaiah 6 and Revelation 4 as examples, he emphasizes that Christians must pursue complete purity and freedom from sin in thoughts, words, motives, and attitudes—both individually and corporately in the local church—reflecting Jesus' perfect character.

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Zac Poonen - Sermon on the Mount - 5

Zac Poonen · Dec 1, 2025 · 29m

In this sermon on Matthew 5, Zac Poonen explains the nine blessed attitudes Jesus taught, focusing on developing humility (being poor in spirit), genuine grief over sin, gentleness in refusing to fight for earthly possessions, desperate hunger for righteousness in controlling eyes and tongue, and mercy through forgiveness. He emphasizes that righteousness comes only through genuine, desperate longing rather than casual religious practice, and that mercy means forgiving those who hurt us while still protecting and disciplining when necessary.

23m

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Zac Poonen - Submission to Authorities

Zac Poonen · Oct 7, 2025 · 23m

Zac Poonen teaches that Christians must decrease so Christ can increase, particularly through submission to all authorities—at work, home, and in government. He argues that rebellion against authority is the root sin, illustrated through Genesis 3 where Eve's first sin was failing to consult Adam's authority rather than eating the fruit, and Adam's first sin was failing to assert his God-given headship. Submission to authority, whether to employers, spouses, parents, or government, is God's command and the means by which the life of Jesus is manifested in us.

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Jeremy Utley - Struggling With Anxiety? There’s Hope.

Jeremy Utley · Aug 11, 2025 · 34m

Jeremy Utley teaches that anxiety and worry are sins—not mental health conditions—based on Jesus's repeated commands in Matthew 6 and Paul's instruction in Philippians 4 to not worry or be anxious. He challenges the church to reject the world's normalization of anxiety as a condition, adopt a zero-compromise stance toward worry, and recognize that spiritual victory over anxiety comes only when we treat it as disobedience to God's clear commands rather than an excusable mental health issue.

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Zac Poonen - The Meaning of the Breaking of Bread

Zac Poonen · Apr 7, 2025 · 8m

Zac Poonen teaches that breaking bread is a proclamation of the Lord's death through how we live—dying to worldly attractions and sin, and rising with Christ to seek heavenly things. He emphasizes that true communion involves self-examination to assess whether we are actually living as those who have died and been resurrected with Christ, which is the deeper, transformative meaning of this practice that most believers fail to grasp.

1h 27m

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Brother Zac Poonen's 80th Birthday Celebration at NCCF

Zac Poonen · Mar 24, 2025 · 1h 27m

This video captures a church celebration honoring brother Zac Poonen on his 80th birthday at NCCF. Church members share testimonies of how his faithful teaching ministry has transformed their spiritual lives, emphasizing his dedication to helping believers grow in Christ-likeness and his role in establishing genuine Christian community. The celebration reflects gratitude for decades of ministry devoted to teaching the new covenant, victory over sin, and the central ambition of pleasing God alone.

50m

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Zac Poonen - Jesus Overcoming Sin - and Building the Church

Zac Poonen · Feb 24, 2025 · 50m

Jesus builds His church on the revelation that He came in the flesh like us, enabling believers to overcome sin. This revelation, not mere intellectual knowledge, is the foundation for the church functioning as a unified body where members work together without competition or strife, reflecting Christ's image.

16m

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Zac Poonen - Characteristics of a Man Who Fears God

Zac Poonen · Feb 17, 2025 · 16m

Zac Poonen teaches that the fear of God coupled with humility produces lasting riches, honor, and life—demonstrated through the example of Job, who maintained reverence for God in his private life, exercised strict discipline over his eyes and thoughts, and treated those beneath him with respect. True fear of God means being acutely aware of God's presence in every moment and action, leading to victory over sin and a character so transformed that Jesus would boast about that person to Satan.

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Wenhai Pan - Having a Reverence for God

Wenhai Pan · Feb 3, 2025 · 24m

Having a reverence for God means respecting Him above all earthly authorities and showing that respect through our actions and choices. Wenhai Pan teaches that fearing God practically means hating sin (like Joseph resisting temptation even in private) and rejecting pride and arrogance, recognizing that God judges impartially and that His glory belongs to Him alone.

4m 19s

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Andrei Pavlov - The Power Belongs to God

Andrei Pavlov · Oct 14, 2024 · 4m 19s

God's power belongs to Him alone, and Christians must remain continuously connected to Jesus through the Holy Spirit, not just on Sundays. Like a refrigerator that must stay plugged in to function, we are valuable vessels containing God's treasure who must resist sin, follow His commandments, and quickly repent when we fail, trusting that God provides the power to live according to His design.