0:00 Девушки отдыхают 0:30 The reason we want to look at the messages that are missing in today's Christianity is because all of us are influenced by today's Christianity. Some years ago, I think we could say that many of us were influenced only by the messages we heard in the church. 0:55 It was easier. But now, a lot of us are influenced by what you watch on Christian television. A lot of those messages are coming into many of your homes. Some good, some bad, some compromising the truth. 1:19 And I have discovered that the vast majority of Christians don't have discernment to discern between what is good and which is not good. What is the reason for that? They don't know their Bibles. There are many Christians today who watch Christian television more than they read the Bible. 1:45 How do you think God should, what do you think God should do for them? I'll tell you what I think God should do for them. God should allow them to believe a lie. Because they value the words of men more than the words of God. 2:03 It would be perfectly righteous for God to allow such believers to go totally astray. Because they listen to Christian preachers more than they read the Bible. And I fear that a number of you are in that danger. 2:23 It's a special danger that has come up in the last few years. I believe it's a work of the devil. You see, there's good in it. And I think the good is that a number of people are being reached with some amount of truth. 2:37 But the sad thing is that a lot of Christians are being deceived. Because they are being bombarded with a number of messages. It's there now in books and CDs and all types of things. Which something that sounds nice and looks scriptural because a Bible is being caught. 3:01 It's not from the Bible. It's like that keyboard that you see. The notes are there. It's the missing notes that cause the problem. And when certain notes are missing, the tune that you're listening to is not the correct tune. 3:17 You just got to remove a few notes from a keyboard. And then the tune that you hear is not the correct tune. And then you sing to a wrong tune. And that is what is happening with a lot of Christians today. But because all the other keys are on the keyboard, they say it's from the Bible. 3:37 It's the passages that are missing that prevent you from understanding the balance of truth. Remember, the devil preached even to Jesus from Scripture. He told Jesus, do you think the devil won't preach to you from Scripture? 3:57 He preached to Jesus saying, it is written. Let me give you a promise, Jesus. Jump off the temple and here's the promise of God. He will give his angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways and keep you so that you don't dash your foot against a stone. 4:16 Now, if Jesus was ignorant of Scripture, like many of us are, he would have jumped off. I think many of you would have jumped off. Because you see, that's the promise of Scripture. I claim it. But Jesus knew the Scriptures and said, no, I'm not going to jump off because it's also written something else. 4:39 And it's the also written part which has been torn out of the Bible there. In our minds, we don't know what is also written. We know what's written, but we don't know what's also written. And then you can be led astray by Satan. 4:55 God's Word is a lamp to our feet, a light to our path. God has given us his Word in completion, in completeness. If we know it, we cannot go astray. And that is why I want to encourage all of you in these days, as we approach the end, 5:14 and Jesus said so clearly, the last days are going to be days of tremendous deception. The Holy Spirit says there are going to be deceiving spirits all over, false signs and wonders. And in the midst of it all, I'll tell you, your only protection, if you value it, 5:31 is the knowledge of the Scriptures. And I have seen in our CFC, you know, Wednesdays we have people sharing sometimes from the Scriptures, and there are some brothers who have been here for so many years, who have got nothing to say. 5:52 Their ignorance of Scripture is amazing. These are brothers who have been in the church for so many years, who should have been teachers of the Word by now. So I presume it is the same problem everywhere. That people are downright lazy to read the Scriptures and seriously study it. 6:11 Well, I would say they deserve to be deceived. So it's very important in the time in which we live to know the messages that are missing in Christendom. 6:37 What is also written? We hear of many things that are written, mostly in the Old Testament. What is also written? And as I said earlier in the morning, that one of the main messages that are missing today is the message of repentance. 6:56 And that is so fundamental because the apostles preached that. The very first gospel sermon, when the apostle Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, and it says a number of people were convicted and came to Peter and said, 7:14 what shall we do? The very first word that Peter said to them was, repent. Remember this, in the first gospel message ever preached, when people came to Peter and said, what shall we do? The first thing he said to them was, repent. 7:36 Turn from your sin. And the same thing, he does not believe. He said, repent. The same thing, you know, when we saw that earlier in the morning, when we were looking at Acts 20, Paul says, everywhere I've gone, I have preached repentance toward God 7:55 and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are like the two wires that, when they connect, you know, a light comes on. Any electrical gadget requires two wires that touch. When you put on a switch, the two wires touch. 8:12 Repentance and faith are like that. If you have one of them alone, there's no light. Repentance alone is not enough. Faith alone is not enough. For example, we have a very well-known song, which says, to God be the glory, great things he had done. 8:33 And you know, some of these songs, if you are not careful, we can sing them and get a theology from those songs, which is not scriptural. I don't know how many of you have noticed there. That's a very popular song. In all the Billy Graham crusades, they would sing it. 8:53 And all over the world, it's been sung for many, many years. And what it says there is the vilest offender who truly believes. This is not the modern faith movement that is teaching it. This is the old-time people who did evangelism without this modern faith movement and miracles. 9:16 What is their message? The vilest offender who truly believes that moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Is there any apostle who preached that? No. The apostles preached who truly repents and then believes. It's a very small thing. 9:33 And that's how the devil is. Isn't it written that you must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved? It's also written that you must repent. So if you don't know what is also written and you just take one part of truth, 9:46 you can be preaching a wrong gospel. And the Bible says in the last days people will preach another gospel. It's not what is said that's wrong. It's what's missing that prevents the two wires from touching. And then there is darkness. 10:03 So that's the devil's aim, to keep believers in darkness. You keep on believing because something is in scripture. You take that, take that, take that, and don't realize there's something else there that's also needed to balance it out and to give you light. 10:17 And you don't have it and you wonder why darkness remains there. Why don't we get more light? See, repentance is very closely connected to getting light. And I want to show you this in a number of places. Let's turn first of all to Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 7. 10:40 Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 7. You know, this very well-known passage where it says, Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will also be judged. By your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 10:58 The people who judge others the most are the ones who repent the least. Those who repent the most, they hardly ever judge anybody else because they've got plenty to do repenting themselves about things in their own life. 11:21 So I want to say to all of you who are sitting here, it's very easy to find out whether you are the repenting type. And that is by asking yourself, How critical are you of others? Particularly about small things that you see in other people. 11:41 You know, what Jesus called a speck in the eye. A speck in an eye is almost the smallest little thing that can be wrong with somebody. You know, when a speck is like a speck of dust in the eye, it's so small. Jesus is speaking about people who see little things in other people 11:57 and criticize them and speak evil of them. You know what happens to such people? They keep on doing that. They find one speck in that person's eye and one speck in that person's eye and one speck in that person's eye. Ultimately, this attitude produces a log in their own eye. 12:24 How does the log come? God doesn't create us with logs in our own eye. But when you think you've got very sharp vision to see things that are wrong in other people and you criticize, criticize, criticize, criticize, ultimately you become so blind. 12:42 There's a log in your eye. And the Lord says, you've got to see the log in your own eye. And it comes pretty quickly. But he says, if you can get rid of this log from your eye, see what it says in verse 5. You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye. 13:01 Then what will happen? You will see clearly. You see how vision is dependent on not having a critical attitude towards others. In other words, judging yourself. That's what we have preached in the church for 31 years. See the log in your own eye. 13:24 And if you were to ask me, can you give me one reason why many in our churches who have heard so much of truth have not grown spiritually and overcome sin, I would say one, there may be many reasons, but number one reason is 13:38 they have a critical attitude towards others and they don't judge themselves. So there's a huge log in their eye and they don't see clearly. There's so many things which God wants us to see so clearly, but they're not able to see clearly 13:53 because there's a log in their eye. Why does the log come? Because they don't judge themselves. They spend all their time judging other people. You know, you can sit at home, husband and wife, and different members of your family 14:05 and sit and talk about this family and that family and the other family. I'll tell you something. You're just increasing the size of the log in all of your eyes and especially your children's eyes. Imagine what evil parents do to their children 14:19 by building logs in the eyes of those poor children who never had anything. Why do you want to destroy your children like that? Will you stop with it now? Will you stop pointing out specks in other people around your dining table? 14:39 Leave them alone. God can take care of them. You're not helping them in any way. You just sit and talk about it to your children and put logs in their eyes unless the children are wise enough to resist what you say inwardly. 14:55 And I would say to all of you children, if your parents, even if they are supposed to be wonderful members of your church, sit around the table and speak evil inwardly, you say, Lord, I don't accept that. I'm a child here. 15:10 I've got to submit to my parents so I won't say anything. They'll get upset with me if I say anything because they think they are much more spiritual than me. But I resist it, Lord, inwardly. I resist it. I resist what mommy is saying. 15:23 I reject it. Say that quietly to God. I reject what daddy is saying. I reject what mommy is saying. Keep your eye clear. I'm really telling you that seriously. You will grow up to be a man or a woman of God even though your parents missed it. 15:41 Don't follow your parents when they are going astray. Don't follow elders who are going astray. Remove the log and you will see clearly. And you know what will happen when you see clearly? Your brother will come to you and say, 16:01 Brother, there's a speck in my eye. Can you just blow it out? What a ministry you can have. When they come to you, you don't have to even go to them even. People come to you for help. But you won't get that ministry if you go around with this log. 16:20 And the only way to get rid of this log is by a spirit of repentance. Do not judge others but judge yourselves. There's a close connection between judging yourself and this repentance spirit. Now keeping that in mind, let's turn to Luke chapter 11. 16:39 Now we understand this verse a little better. Luke chapter 11, verse 34, which is a very well-known verse. The eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is clear, that means you got rid of your log, your whole body is full of light. 17:02 But when it is bad, that means you got a log in your eye, your whole body is full of darkness. Now listen to this. Watch out that the light in you doesn't become darkness. How can the light in you become darkness? 17:23 I'll tell you how. Think of the first day you came to the church when you were a nobody. You were a sinner. You were defeated. You were frustrated. The first day you came to the church. Nobody bothered about you. You were just there. 17:43 You came and sat. You didn't even bother that somebody didn't greet you. You were happy to just come and sit there and go. In that day when you came the first day to the church you criticized nobody. You were so thankful 17:56 that you could come to a place where you could hear such a wonderful message. That day your eye was clear. You didn't have so much knowledge that day but your eye was clear. But you have sat in the church now 15-20 years 18:10 and your knowledge has increased like anything and so is the size of your log. The light has become darkness even though knowledge has increased. And that is the reason for spiritual blindness in a lot of people. The message of judge yourself 18:29 is missing today. Where do you hear a message which says judge yourself? And yet the Bible says before I go there verse 36 if your whole body is full of light with no dark part in it that means you're not here to judge a single person 18:49 in the world. You leave that judgment to God. If you're a father of course you've got to judge your children. If you're an elder you've got to judge the people in your congregation. But if you're not an elder and you're not a father 18:58 you've got nothing to do. Your life is so wonderful. You have to judge nobody. If you're a supervisor in an office you've got to judge the people who work under you. You know judgment is to be in the circle of your responsibility. 19:10 If you're a supervisor in the office you have to judge between if two of your employees have a conflict you have to sort it out as a judge. If you're a father and two of your sons or daughters have a conflict you have to be a judge there. 19:22 If you're an elder brother and there are people in your church who are under your care you have to be a judge for them. But if you're none of these you're a very happy person. Why do you waste your time? You're not an elder. 19:33 You're not a father. You're not a supervisor. These are the people who mostly judge. The people who are not elders are the ones who usually judge the most. And they remain in darkness. It's a tremendous tactic of the devil 19:44 to destroy a Christian when he sees that his eye is clear. He sees this this repentant sinner has come to this church with such a clear eye and he says I've got to destroy this fellow's vision. and he points out this and he points out that 20:03 and points out this and the other person and this person and the other person and you become a busy body in the affairs of so many people at the end of 20 years you've got such a lot of knowledge but no vision. it's a very sad state 20:16 of affairs. He who has ears to hear let him hear but it says here if you have no part doc your whole body can be so full of light that a lot of people can come to you for help and that light will get brighter and brighter 20:29 people from many places will come to you for help because they're help because what you say blesses them. I mean Jesus' eye was so clear he wouldn't even judge a woman caught in adultery. He wanted to forgive her. The Pharisees 20:45 their eyes had become so full of logs they would even judge a person for carrying his bed on the Sabbath day forgetting the fact that the fellow was healed and that didn't bother them. You know they were so nitpicking about little little things 20:58 we've had cases like that in our church where some new visitor comes some lady who's wearing ornaments one of the first things some foolish stupid sister will go to her and say why are you wearing ornaments? These are the people 21:14 who've got logs in their eyes all they can see is some little thing to find fault in others. Yeah unfortunately there'll always be such stumbling blocks Jesus once said it is inevitable that there will be stumbling blocks 21:29 I read that in Matthew 18 so I realize that every church will have some people like this who are a nuisance God says well woe unto those stumbling blocks but I want to say to you brothers and sisters make sure you're not a stumbling block 21:47 and you'll never be one if you decide that from now on you're only going to judge yourself it's not your business God has not appointed you as an elder you don't have to steady the ark like Uzzah Uzzah tried to steady the ark 22:00 with a good attitude but he didn't realize his boundary and God killed him a lot of people get spiritually dead because they try to steady something God has not asked them to steady at all God says I can take care of it 22:13 I don't need your dirty hands to be put into my work and so it says in 1 Peter chapter 4 in 1 Peter chapter 4 we read that the mark of the house of God is in verse 17 it is a place where judgment of self comes first here it says 22:34 judgment must begin in the household of God and if it begins with us first so the church is the household of God and that is a place where judgment of self begins first and I want to say a word also to those who are elder brothers 22:55 it is very easy for you because you have responsibility for so many people to stop judging yourself and gradually you become blind also a lot of elders become blind because they don't judge themselves and logs come in their eye 23:11 they don't see clearly they don't see what other people can see very clearly and if people in your church don't have confidence in you don't get upset with them I want to I want to give a little bit of advice to all of you 23:29 who are elder brothers if people in your church don't have confidence in you don't get upset with them ask yourself why is it they don't have confidence in you the problem it could be with you you can look at a speck in their eye 23:47 saying they are not submissive like the Bible teaches Jesus never went around saying you got to submit to me you got to submit to me no people spontaneously had confidence in Jesus and that's how it must be with you if your children 24:06 don't have confidence in you as a father or mother the problem is probably not with your children the problem is with you I would say that to almost any father and mother don't assume that the problem is with your children 24:21 say oh brother Zach they don't have any respect for me why why don't they have any respect for you have you ever considered the possibility that the fault could be with you or do you automatically assume daddy's always right 24:38 children are always wrong not necessarily elders are always right the people are always wrong not necessarily no no no I know numerous instances where daddy and mommy are wrong I know instances where I've been wrong as a father 24:53 I've been wrong as an elder it's good for us to humble ourselves and say hey I'm not perfect the only one who's perfectly right always is God so I need to live in a judgment of myself all the time because I don't even want the 25:09 beginning of a log in my eye I don't even want a splinter in my eye even on a log I mean if you take what I say seriously I believe you'll find a difference in your life you'll begin to see clearly you'll begin to see things 25:23 when you read the Bible very clearly you'll begin to see spiritual truth more clearly you'll begin to see yourself more clearly it's all dependent on repentance judging yourself and it says here that when we judge ourselves first 25:38 that is the mark of the household of God so if you want to build a church which is the household of God beginning with the elder brother he must judge himself how often every day when should he stop judging himself when he has 25:55 become like Christ totally and that's a long way off for all of us it's certainly a long way off for me and God is my witness there's no day that doesn't go by in my life without my judging myself I don't need another person to 26:11 point out something to me because the Holy Spirit is pointing it out all the time many times a day your life must be a life of continuous repentance and the devil will say hey then your life will be very gloomy it's not 26:23 there's a close connection between a life of constant repentance and continuous joy let me ask yourself if you're very dirty and you go and have a shower a bath you feel gloomy after that or you feel fresh but supposing 26:43 you got dirty five times a day because you're working in some type of job where you perspire all the time and you take five showers do you get depressed because of that I've never heard anybody coming out of a shower depressed 26:57 they sing in the showers they're so happy becoming clean you see taking a bath or taking a shower is the exact equivalent of cleansing yourself and we feel so happy when all the perspiration and dirt has gone off from our 27:13 body and if it got back again because my word makes me perspire in a hot climate take another bath take another shower take it a third time take it a fourth time and each time we are fresh it's a secret of freshness cleanse 27:28 yourself repent repent see ask the spirit of truth to show you things in yourself you've seen enough things in other people show ask God to show you things in yourself dear brother sister this 27:48 is something I've spoken for so many years and God is my witness I've practiced it and I can tell you God has shown me amazing things from scripture when I have cleansed myself my eyes become clear I've seen amazing things 28:02 about myself inside areas little little areas which are unlike Christ that I could cleanse myself I mean isn't it like discovering hey there's a dark patch on my hand let me get some soap and wipe it off it's great to discover 28:19 it it's exactly like that you feel fresh so don't let the devil tell you that this life of always judging yourself and repentance is and discouragement comes to people who don't cleanse themselves it comes to people who 28:35 judge others and criticize them that's why you're gloomy I don't believe I'm going to be gloomy a single day of my life because I've decided long long ago that I will judge myself when I see things wrong in other people 28:47 of course we will see things wrong in other people we can't go around with our eyes and ears shut in the world don't you think Jesus saw things wrong in other people where he encountered them he said something if it was 29:01 none of his business he left them alone there was a man ruling in Rome called Caesar in Jesus time there were probably a thousand things wrong with Caesar but Jesus never said a word about him it none of his business do 29:20 you ever saying something about Caesar he only once said give Caesar what belongs to him he never criticized Caesar was it because nothing was wrong with Caesar no that was none of his business how Caesar was behaving and 29:35 how he was ruling all the countries including Palestine that was none of his business whom did he rebuke Peter get behind me Satan you are interested in the things of man not the things of God that was one of his closest 29:48 co-workers did he see things wrong in Peter he certainly did what are we to do we are not to go around the world imagining that we see nothing wrong did Paul see things wrong in the Corinthian Christians sure he saw so many 30:03 things wrong and he corrected it because they were part of his responsibility do you ever find him correcting the Roman Christians read the book of Romans and see how much correction Paul gives them zero why is it because 30:17 the church in Rome was a perfect church no because the church in Rome was not part of his responsibility them but you don't correct them because they are somebody else's children Paul knew his boundaries very clearly you 30:35 read his letter to the Colossians does he write anything to correct them zero because he didn't plant the church in Colossae they weren't children but look how he writes to the Corinthians and the Galatians oh he speaks 30:48 very hard so I'm not saying that we go around this world with things wrong in your children I'm not saying you shouldn't correct them but recognize the fear of your responsibility ask yourself are you the father of this 31:03 group or not if they are your children of course you have a responsibility to correct them whether physical children or spiritual children but if they are not your children leave them to their father if they are under the 31:19 eldership of some other person in some other church leave them alone don't go studying that ark like Uzzah this is the principle we judge within the sphere of our responsibility and the rest of the time we only got to judge 31:36 ourselves this is being realistic you have an opinion about a person but you say well it's my opinion but it doesn't matter to me I don't have to tell him anything because it's outside my sphere you may have an opinion about 31:50 various people various things in the world but we don't have to go around concentrating on that and speaking about that because it's none of our business we have to judge ourselves so this is being realistic we'll have opinions 32:06 but we don't judge people we don't have to go around passing judgment on them but we do judge ourselves repent continuously so I want to go I want to show you another passage of scripture in Mark's gospel chapter eight in 32:28 Mark's gospel chapter eight we see a very interesting case you know Jesus didn't always have a standard method for healing people in Mark chapter eight it says here and they came to Bethsaida 32:49 now you have to read something about Bethsaida before we proceed let's turn now I'm going to come back to Mark but I want you to turn to Matthew chapter 11 and 33:09 verse 20 in Matthew chapter 11 and verse 20 to 22 Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles were done because 33:30 they did not what repent it's not because they didn't believe it's because they did not repent so what is the purpose of the miracles to lead them to today people say the purpose of miracles is to lead people to faith but 33:47 Jesus did miracles to lead people to repentance and I'll tell you this there are very few miracles done today to lead people to repentance I'm sure a lot of people there believe but they didn't repent and Jesus denounced 34:00 them for not repenting now which were some of the cities where he did most of the miracles he said woe unto you Chorazin woe unto Bethsaida so Bethsaida is one of the places where a lot of miracles were done and they did 34:18 not repent and he said if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Tyre and Sidon 500 years ago they would have repented but you guys haven't repented now turn back to Mark 8 they came 34:38 to Bethsaida this is the village where people didn't repent and they brought a blind man to Jesus and pleaded with him to touch him now listen to what he does he took the blind man and brought him outside the village and 35:00 he healed him and after healing him he said to him in verse 26 don't enter that village again imagine if the Lord took you somewhere and took you out of the place where you always lived and said don't ever go back to that 35:16 village again but Lord should I pick up my things from there my suitcase is lying there things are lying there tell somebody to send it don't ever enter that village again do you know that Jesus told somebody never to go 35:30 back to a village you know why because there were a bunch of people who did not repent and and and and and I would say to you don't ever go to a church where they don't preach repentance on the basis of this passage I would 35:44 pull a person out of that church where they don't repent and say don't ever go to that church again I have no hesitation to say that because Jesus did it you know there are people even in our churches who say oh we're all 36:02 one everybody's preaching the same thing you really think everybody's preaching the same thing you're going to get a big surprise when Christ comes I want to have nothing to do with preaching that does not include repentance 36:14 I don't care how impressive a man is on the or what wonderful things he says I want to listen is he preaching repentance if he's not preaching repentance I'll pull people away from that at least I'll tell them don't waste 36:31 your time listening to that man oh brother but he's reaching hundreds of thousands with what with a message without repentance that is another gospel are you excited that hundreds of that millions of people go to the Kumbh 36:51 and get their sins washed in the river Ganga are you excited because you see such crowds what gospel is that and what gospel is this without repentance it is another gospel even if you take the name of Jesus it is more deceptive 37:06 because Christians will not be deceived by the Kumbh Mela but they will be deceived by preaching in the name of Jesus but they don't know there certain portion he pulled such a person away from Bethsaida and told him I don't 37:24 care what belongings you have there ask somebody to send it somewhere else but shift your residence immediately don't go back to the village again go and find some other place now we want to look at this spiritually he took 37:44 the blind man verse 23 brought him outside the village why couldn't he heal him there is it because Jesus had no power he could have healed people anywhere that's a principle here he took him outside the village because 37:57 these are the places where he did his maximum miracles they believe but they didn't repent they didn't repent today a lot of people are seeing miracles and they are believing in Jesus what is missing repentance it's exactly 38:12 the same as Bethsaida today and Chorazin they wonderful things he heals our sicknesses yes but have you repented the purpose of the miracles was to lead you to repentance and he denounced those places those churches which 38:30 saw miracles but didn't repent where are the preachers today who will denounce believers who have seen miracles and have believed but don't repent it's not popular it's never been popular to follow Jesus the missing message 38:48 in Christendom without repentance it's a great deception to think that you have understood anything of the gospel and so we see here he spat on his eyes and said do you see anything say 39:08 I don't see it's the only case the only case in the entire gospels where Jesus prayed and the fellow could not see isn't that amazing is there any other case in scripture like that in the gospels where Jesus prayed 39:28 and the fellow couldn't see still the case was so bad his condition was so bad because he lived in the midst of people who didn't repent like I said in the beginning there's a very close connection between repentance and 39:46 vision we saw that in Matthew 7 we saw that in Luke 11 and we see it here clear vision depends on continuous repentance and if you see a miracle have you experienced a miracle in your life I hope it led you to repentance 40:06 then it accomplished something if it didn't the Lord will denounce you you saw a miracle and you didn't repent oh but Lord I believed this is the deception going on in Christendom today and the Lord would like to pull people 40:25 out of there he didn't pull the whole village out why didn't he preach there in the village all of you fellas get out of this village no it's only the one who wants to see whom he pulls out we don't go around telling people 40:40 to leave churches no it's not our business but one individual may say I want to see more clearly and I say you better leave that church where they don't preach repentance otherwise you'll die there spiritually you come here 40:54 for an occasional conference to hear something because you say oh it's a good message brother Zach preaches I want to hear that you can be blind as a bat all your life because the rest of the time you're listening to things 41:11 which are not leading you to repentance and once in a while you come and hear something just stirs your mind and you intellectually you're stimulated but you won't become spiritual you got to live in a place where they're 41:26 always preaching repentance I want to live in a church where they're always pointing out sin because I'll tell you this there are multitudes of areas in my life where I'm not Christ like and I want brothers and sisters to 41:38 get up in the anointing of the Holy Spirit and show Jesus to me I want to see Jesus in the church so that I can see myself more clearly and repent I want to be in such a church I long to see brothers and sisters who will 41:54 get up in the pulpit and show me Jesus so that I can repent in my life and become a little more like him I don't have to be great preachers no they just got to lift up Jesus in two minutes and I can get light on myself that's 42:10 the place I want to be always I don't want to be in any bedside up no and it says here Jesus asked him do you see anything he says no I see men and trees similar now 42:31 you know that a man is really blind if he thinks a tree is a man or a man is a tree see this is a picture of believers who cannot distinguish between an eternal soul and material things a tree is a material thing 42:52 a human being is an eternal soul and there are lots of believers today who cannot distinguish between an eternal soul and material things and that's why they love material things so much and don't value eternal souls they 43:09 are in exactly the same condition as this half healed blind man yeah they hear so many things in the in the meetings but they still love material things because men and trees are the same eternal souls and material things 43:26 are just the same to them they've got a lot of knowledge it's pathetic you know what they need a second touch but they need to be honest supposing this man had pretended oh yeah yeah I can see Lord I can see everything my 43:46 preacher said that I must confess that I can see even when I can't see the preacher told me to confess that I'm healed when I'm not healed Jesus said okay you're healed okay go thank God he was honest I'll tell you something 44:01 whatever any preacher may tell you when you can't see just say you can't see Jesus will love you for that when you're sick just say you're sick you prayed for me but I'm still sick okay fine we'll pray for you again pray 44:14 for you ten times when Paul prayed for a thorn in the flesh he didn't claim oh I'm healed no he prayed nothing happened Lord nothing happened the Lord didn't say come on believe that it's taken place no he prayed a second 44:29 time he still nothing happened he prayed a third time still nothing happened he was down to earth honest and he said I never got rid of it then the Lord told me you need to keep that because that's good for you it'll humble 44:40 you there great dangers in testifying to a lie misquoting scripture a lot of preachers will tell you say you're healed when you're not healed here is the clearest evidence that we don't have to do that and you got to come 44:57 to Jesus and say Lord I have to admit that material things are more precious to me than eternal souls Lord will you touch me again a second time so that I can clearly see the difference between things that are eternal and 45:15 things that are temporal tree is a temporal thing a human being is an eternal thing how many of you can say that you see clearly between things that are eternal and things that are only temporal if you did see the difference 45:31 you would live for the things that are eternal what you need is a second touch and that second touch will come when you repent when you honestly acknowledge Lord I have to admit material things mean so much to me they are 45:49 not as precious as the eternal things and if you are honest the Lord will touch you again and you will see clearly and you will say oh that's a man and that's a tree this is eternal this is only temporal it will be as black 46:07 and white isn't that wonderful when that day comes in your life but you got to be honest that's all you got to be you just got to admit don't pretend that you are living for the things of eternity when you are living for 46:23 the things of time we have to repent of it then again the Lord touched him and he was restored and he began to see everything verse 25 everything clearly I say Lord touch me a hundred times if necessary but I want 46:44 to see everything clearly and if I am not healed by a second touch I want a third one and I want a fourth one maybe I need a little more than this blind man maybe I need a hundredth touch till I see everything clearly that 47:00 is material temporal this is eternal and this is what I'm going to live for that is earthly this is heavenly this is what I'm going to live for that will be true in your life if you stop fellowshipping with people who don't 47:19 repent and the Lord said you want to be blind again go back there don't ever go back there otherwise you what light you lose it by the time you go and spend another six months there in Bethsaida and you lose whatever light 47:32 you got here I'm sure this blind man listened and it changed his life there are many others who don't listen and they don't get healed I want to show you the word that Job 47:52 said in the book of Job you know Job was arguing back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and I've seen believers like that who will argue back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and after some time 48:09 I give up I say it's no use telling them anything because they just don't get light on themselves Job just did not get light on himself Elihu finally said okay I give up I'll tell you honestly I've given up with some people 48:26 because they don't get light on themselves then God was merciful to Job and God revealed himself to Job and you know what happened Job says in chapter 42 Lord verse 5 till now I only heard about you from other people from 48:47 other preachers but now my eye sees you I see you Lord and what happens when I see the Lord I repent that's what Job said oh Lord all these sins this fellow was trying to convict 49:07 me convict me about convict me about oh I couldn't see it now I see you Lord and I take back everything I said I know I'm such a terrible sinner I'm such a self righteous I repent I put my hand on my mouth he says in chapter 49:21 40 verse 4 I put my hand on my mouth and I'll never say anything again chapter 40 verse 5 4 and 5 I've spoken I will not answer anything I've got nothing more to say Lord I am a sinner I repent I repent no preacher could 49:38 make Job see that he was a sinner when he saw the Lord it happened in a moment what hours and hours and hours of preaching could not do and that is why I believe the great need in our life is to see Jesus more clearly that's 49:56 why it says let us run the race looking unto Jesus I'll tell you honestly in my life through many many years now it is the vision of Jesus that has made me repent more than anything else a sermon yeah you get a little light 50:14 on it it's like somebody pointing out something you know there are some people who are specialists in this they think about some clever thing to say very subtle and hope to expose sin in people by you know there are people 50:34 with very clever brains like Eliphaz and Zophar and Bildad all these clever preachers you read of in the book of Job they bring out some very subtle thing very often what they don't practice themselves and bring out some 50:48 sin preachers elders to expose in the congregation and they feel oh people feel they got convicted by this thing I gave light temporary it will disappear in a few days but if you lift up Jesus which is much more 51:08 difficult and you don't have to be clever you have to see Jesus in your heart and lift up the way he lived his pure unselfish humble way he lived that when people see Jesus the change in them will be permanent that's what we 51:26 see in the book of Job true repentance comes not through a lot of preaching but through seeing Jesus more clearly oh Lord I see clearly I see and I repent I repent in dust and ashes 51:47 dust and ashes that's what Job said and when he did that it says here in verse 10 the Lord restored the fortunes of Job and increased all that he had twofold I want 52:07 the Lord to increase what I have spiritually twofold I'll tell you what I want more than anything twofold a double portion of his spirit like Elisha asked for twofold double of what I have the anointing and the power where does 52:24 it come from repentance repentance I want to show you another passage in Revelation and chapter two and three five times 52:49 five of the churches were not in a good condition and the elders were not in a good condition and the Lord says to those churches repent repent repent to the elders he says repent and these letters were read out publicly 53:07 in the church can you imagine if you're an elder brother sitting in a church and some messenger comes from John the apostle and he reads out to the elder of the church in Ephesus the Lord says repent and the guy says hey listen 53:23 why can't you sell me that privately I don't know the Lord told me to read it out in the church it's an arrogant attitude that makes us feel oh I must be given a little respect that's what Saul said to Samuel hey don't say 53:36 anything publicly privately tell me I've got to repent I'll do it privately Samuel said nothing doing when David was not like that when Nathan told him to repent he said I don't care if everybody knows about it I have to 53:48 repent if you have a sense of hey hey why are they exposing me publicly you need to repent more than anybody else the Lord said read it out in the churches and not only in this church go and read out in that church in that 54:03 this fellow in Ephesus needs to repent that's amazing when you read those it was repent repent repent repent repent and if you read through the whole book of Revelation you read seven times it says repent and five times 54:20 it says they did not repent they did not repent they did not repent that's how the message of the Bible ends with a call to repentance and many did not repent that means they did not turn from what they knew to be wrong 54:37 repentance is gradual and progressive because at each stage for example 20 years ago I did not know that certain things were wrong which I know today one year ago I'm honest now one year ago I did not know certain things 54:56 were wrong which I now discover was wrong so my life is progressing because I see certain things which I'm getting rid of mostly in secret mostly things which nobody else knows about we are not talking about public sins 55:09 those we see right at the beginning of our Christian life but little little areas which are not what exactly the way Jesus would do it I hope you are discovering such things in your life our life is to be a continuous cleansing 55:23 till the day Jesus comes again you hardly hear this message anywhere today and that's why so many Christians are defeated by sin they don't have clear vision they're backslidden so many elders backslide do so many wrong 55:42 things because they're not living in continuous repentance and I want to say to all of you walk on this path of continuous repentance from today let's bow our heads before God you only receive the message 56:02 in your mind whether it sinks to your heart whether you've seen Jesus speaking to the church saying repent or not I don't know but if you've seen it it will change your life humble yourself don't worry if somebody corrected 56:20 you publicly is your humiliation more serious than sin what humiliation is worse than sin absolutely nothing you're worried about being humiliated not worried about sin no wonder you never get free from your sin say Lord 56:37 humiliate me anywhere I'm not bothered I want to be free from sin in my life I want to turn I want to see you more clearly Lord Jesus help me I believe the Lord will help us because he hates sin and he'll certainly help 56:53 you if he sees that you want to hate it too heavenly father help us to walk in the light and to get light on ourselves we know that you will cleanse us in the blood of Jesus and make us a little more like Jesus every day 57:08 thank you father in Jesus name amen
