0:00 Thank you. 0:30 Thank you. 1:00 Thank you. 1:30 Thank you. 2:00 Thank you. 2:30 A gladsome hymn of praise we sing and thankfully we gather to bless the love of God above, our everlasting Father. 2:55 In Him rejoice with heart and voice, whose glory fadeth never, whose providence is our defense, who lives and loves forever. From shades of light, and from the sword, and from the sword, the flower, from every cloud His blessings break, in sunshine or in shower. 3:31 In Him rejoice, whose glory fadeth never, whose providence is our defense, whose providence is our defense, who lives and loves forever. For Him, who will lay in His side, His children stand, by His strong arm defended, and He whose wisdom guides the world, our footsteps hath attended. 4:05 In Him rejoice with heart and voice, whose glory fadeth never, whose providence is our defense, whose providence is our defense, who lives and loves forever. For nothing falls to Him, or care, or joy, or joy, or joy, or sorrow. 4:29 For nothing falls to Him, or care, or sorrow, or sorrow, and He whose mercy ruled the past, will be our state tomorrow. In Him rejoice with heart and voice, whose glory fadeth never, whose providence is our defense, whose providence is our defense, who lives and loves forever. 4:57 Then praise the Lord with one accord, to His great name, to His great name, give glory. And of His never-changing love, repeat the wondrous story. In Him rejoice with heart and voice, whose glory fadeth never, whose providence is our defense, whose providence is our defense, who lives and loves forever. 5:33 You may be seated please. Unto Him be glory in the church, both now and evermore. Now and evermore. Unto Him be glory in the church, both now and evermore. 5:53 But now and evermore. But now and evermore. But now and evermore. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. 6:12 Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. Unto Him. 6:33 Unto Him be glory in the church. For now and evermore. Tis the church triumphant singing. Worthy the Lamb. 6:53 Hand throughout with praises ringing. Worthy the Lamb. Thrones and paths before Him bending. Orders sweet with voice ascending. Swell the chorus never ending. 7:14 Worthy the Lamb. Every kindred, tongue and nation. Worthy the Lamb. Brothers join to sing. Join to sing the great salvation. Worthy the Lamb. 7:36 Loud as mighty thunders roaring. Floods of mighty waters pouring. Crossed at His feet adoring. Worthy the Lamb. Oh, it's just time. 7:56 Oh, it's just time for us. Worthy the Lamb. By His grace, so said, I love Him. Worthy the Lamb. We're together. By His blood He dearly bought us, Wandering from the fold He sought us, 8:19 And to glory safely brought us. Worthy the Lamb. We're saying with blessed anticipation, Worthy the Lamb. Through the veil of tribulation, 8:42 Worthy the Lamb. Sweetest notes, all notes excelling, On the dream forever dwelling, Still untold the ever telling, Worthy the Lamb. 9:07 Amen. Blessed be your name. In every blessing you pour out, We turn back to praise. When the darkness closes in luna, With delight, say, Blessed be your name. Oh, blessed be your name. 9:28 In the land that is plentiful, Where streams of abundance flow, Blessed be your name. And blessed be your name. When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, 9:49 When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, 9:56 When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm found in the desert place, When I'm walked through the wilderness, Where the darkness closes in luna, Still I will sing. Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord, 10:16 Blessed be your name. Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be your glorious name. Blessed be your name, When the sun's shining down on me, 10:39 When the world's on as it should be, Blessed be your name. Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the road marked with suffering, Blessed be the name of the Lord, 11:00 Blessed be your name of the Lord, I'll turn back to praise. When the darkness closes in luna, Still I will sing. Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be your name. 11:23 Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be your glorious name. You give and take away, My heart will choose to say, 11:45 Oh, blessed be your name. You give and take away, You give and take away, My heart will choose to say, Oh, blessed be your name. 12:07 Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be your name. Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be your glorious name. Blessed be your name of the Lord, 12:28 Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, 12:34 Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, 12:39 Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, 12:47 Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of the Lord, Blessed be your name of 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In 1975, the Lord gathered together a small number of people 22:09 and since then the Lord has led us year after year and God brought many people from different parts of India India and the world and we want to praise the Lord for what God has done in the last more than 41 years. 22:29 And I'm sure all of us can this morning testify how we came here, heard the word of God and the word of God changed our lives. How God gave us shepherds of our own heart who fed us, watched over us, preserved us, preserved us from so many dangers and schemes of the devil 22:47 and because of that we have been blessed and our families have been preserved. And all of us can testify that we have tasted fellowship here. We have not only tasted God's word, we have also tasted fellowship. 23:11 And brothers and sisters this morning as we stand before the Lord, may the Lord smell a sweet fragrance from our lives that we will be deeply thankful to God for what He has done for so many years. Some of us know how we started, from where we came, how the Lord worked in us, 23:35 changed us, transformed us and we are today what we are by the tremendous grace of God and God's goodness. And it's only right this morning we celebrate His praise and say, Lord, thank you for having mercy on me. Thank you Lord for leading me to the church. 23:56 Thank you for helping me to hear some of the wonderful truths on earth. And Psalm 96 says, Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless His name. Proclaim good tidings of His salvation day to day. 24:11 Tell of His glory among the nations. His wonderful deeds among all the people. And Psalm 98, Sing to the Lord a new song for He has done wonderful things. His right hand and His holy arm gained the victory for Him. And Psalm 100, 24:30 Shout joyfully to the Lord all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Oh, may we come before the Lord this morning with tremendous thankfulness for all that you have received. And all that He has done for us. And how He has blessed us with all blessings in heavenly places. 24:53 And take some time to think how the Lord blessed you, brothers and sisters. I am sure there is not one person here who cannot say that you didn't get anything from the Lord or from the church. The Lord has been rich towards us. 25:15 And this morning, let's be like that leper who got healed and he shouted God's praise. He didn't whisper. He just didn't say thank you Lord. Oh, I often think about him, he fell down on his face. It says with a loud voice, he thanked God. 25:36 I know I would have definitely gone astray. If not for the Lord and for the church and for His grace. And I am deeply thankful to God for all that I have received for the last more than 40 years. And so, this morning, and before we go to pray, I want to show this verse, read this verse. 25:58 In 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, at the dedication of the temple, Solomon. Oh, they praised the Lord with all the instruments. In 2 Chronicles 5:30, it says, In unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and glorify the Lord. 26:18 And when they lifted up their voices accompanied in trumpets and cymbals and instruments, music. When they praised the Lord, saying, "Indeed it is good for His loving kindness everlasting." Then, it says, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud. 26:33 Oh, may we experience the presence of the Lord in a fresh way this morning. Oh, may there be an outpouring of His Spirit. And may there be a visitation of the Lord from heaven this morning. And maybe say, "Lord, what you did for Solomon at this time, do that for us this morning." 26:58 And so, let's all lift up our voices this morning and give the Lord praise, thanks, worship that is due to His name. Yeah, let's all lift up our voices this morning and praise Him. Yes, our Father, we want to praise You, Lord, this morning. 27:14 Oh, with all our hearts, we bow down and we worship You, Lord. of you Lord. 27:48 Lord, yes Lord, we bow before you this morning with deep gratitude Lord, oh we worship you this morning Lord, yes Lord, you led us to the church, you brought us Lord, together in your sovereign plan, you gave us shepherds after your own heart Lord, thank you Lord for 28:11 feeding us and nourishing us and cherishing us and blessing us so much Lord, thank you Lord, for your grace that leads us to victory Lord, thank you Lord, yes Lord, you have been exceptionally good to us Lord, truly you have blessed us with all spiritual blessings 28:30 in heavenly places Lord and truly we are very fortunate this morning and Lord we praise you Lord for bringing together God fearing, humble, faithful ones Lord, those who want to honor your name and thank you for the tremendous work you did in all this last 41 years Lord, 28:47 we bless you Lord this morning, thank you Lord Jesus that we are living in such wonderful times Lord, yes we are living in times of restoration, oh we praise you that you are building your church Lord, yes Lord with our own eyes we can see what you are doing Lord, not only in India 29:06 we are in different parts of the world, we praise you this morning Lord, we worship you Lord, thank you for making us members of the body of Christ Lord, oh we just worship you this morning, Lord we bless you this morning and 29:22 especially we want to thank you for brother Zach and Lord his family and brother Ian and family and all their sacrifice and labor Lord and their care and their love, yes Lord and their example, we want to be deeply thankful to them for all their work and care here in Bangalore Lord and many other places, we praise you in worship this morning and we pray this morning Lord that you will be present in our midst, we pray Lord your name will be honored and glorified and we pray that you will move mightily by your spirit this morning Lord, we pray you will give us a living, profiting, anointed world. 30:05 Lord, we pray that you will really open eyes Lord and ears this morning and we pray that your spirit will have full freedom in our midst Lord and anoint our brother Lord as he ministers your word and we pray that you will have your way with us this morning Lord, we want to hear what you are saying this morning, give us a ear to hear what you are saying and bless us all mightily this morning with your presence, with your word and the fellowship of the saints Lord. 30:32 Be glorified, be glorified, be exalted, we thank you and we worship you Lord, in Jesus name we pray, Amen. I mean please be seated, we want to look at last week's memory verse, that's 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 19, shall you all stand up and say this memory verse, 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 19 and we heard that how they all sang together in one voice. 31:09 Now let's all repeat the word of God with one voice. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. The firm foundation of God stands, having the seal, the Lord knows those who are us and everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness. 31:36 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 19, that's a good verse, that's a good verse to remember during this season. This season and the Lord knows those who are us and everyone who names the name of the Lord is to abstain from wickedness. 31:50 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 19 and all those who believe, can we say, Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. Okay. The memory verse for this week is Lamentations 3:22-23. The Lord's loving kindness indeed never cease for His compassions never fail. 32:11 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Once again, the Lord's loving kindness indeed never cease for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. 32:30 Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Please be seated, brothers and sisters. We are happy to have Brother Ian back with us after a short break. And so we want to request Brother Ian back with us after a short break. 32:49 Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. 32:59 Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. Lamentations 3:22-23. 33:09 Lamentations 3:22-23. 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Lamentations 10:47. 39:41 he prays he says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him I pray that the eyes of your heart he says may be enlightened so that you know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory of 40:02 his inheritance in the saints what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe these are in accordance with the working of the strength of his might which he brought about in Christ and he goes on to say then that Jesus was raised from the dead and seated at the right hand 40:20 in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and all things have been put in subjection under his feet and he has been given as head of the church he has given him as head over all things to the church which is his body the fullness of him who fills all in all and it's an 40:40 unfortunate chapter division there and you were dead in your trespasses and sins he did all this and he says you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you formerly walked according the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air of the spirit that is now working in the sons 41:02 of disobedience among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind were by nature children abroad even as the rest but thank god for that but god being rich in mercy because of his great love which he loved us even when we were dead in our 41:24 transgression made us alive together with christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up with him seated us with him in the heavenly places in christ jesus so that in the ages to come he might show the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us in christ jesus for by grace you have 41:46 been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of god not as a result of works so that no one may boast what a height god has lifted us to when you see he didn't just lift jesus then seated him at the right hand but when you and i were dead and i think back not just 41 years i think back of 42:10 of nearly 46 years 48 years 1967 i came to know the lord i was dead in my trespasses and sins but god has made me alive god was rich in mercy to me and all of you you can think back to that day when you met with 42:30 god or god met with you and raised you he has raised us up seated us with jesus in the heavenly places by grace you have been saved how thankful we must be to god for such mercy my brothers and sisters and particularly as we celebrate 41 years as a church for all that god has been to us done for us we must really 42:55 be thankful and like i was saying remind ourselves apart from overcoming sin apart from seeking after victory apart from seeking to love one another as jesus loved us and all this let us never forget that god has been merciful he's been rich in mercy towards us not just merciful rich in mercy he's rich in 43:20 so many things rich in grace rich in goodness so many rich in kindness like we we read here just now but rich in mercy and you and i have received that mercy and it's interesting to see you know the first mention of mercy in the new testament and the last mention i want you to look at it exodus chapter 25 that's where we 43:49 come across the first mention of the word mercy exodus 25 and verse 17 you know we won't read all of it god told moses to make a mercy seat of pure gold and he gave him all the specifications and two cherubim of pure gold and he says the cherubim to be on either end of the mercy seat with their wings 44:17 pointing to heaven but their faces were to be towards the mercy seat you read that there and you should put the mercy seat verse 21 on top of the ark in the ark you shall put the testimony which i shall give to you the ark contained the law of commandments you know what the commandments that god 44:36 gave moses and that was kept in the ark but on top of the ark see the significance on top of top of the ark moses was to put the mercy seat and this is the word i want you to look at he says there verse 22 there i will meet with you not inside the ark but in the mercy seat on top of the ark and from above the 45:00 mercy seat from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony i will speak to you all that i will give you in commandment for the sons of israel and if you know if we can look at everything all the commandments god has given us and if we can really meet god here my brothers and 45:25 say this is the only place by the way that god says he'll meet with us and that mercy seat we heard long ago i remember brothers like sharing this word in one meeting should be in your heart in my heart there i will meet with you there i will speak to you if we don't have that mercy seat god will not meet 45:46 with us he cannot speak to us whatever we whatever we think that god is meeting with us because and that god is speaking to us must be some other voice but if you and i have that mercy seat in our hearts apart from all the commandments that we want to obey and keep that god will meet with us in the mercy seat 46:14 and he'll speak to us from there that's the first mention and if you turn back now turn to the last mention in jude three times when we read things like this admit something that holy spirit is wanting to impress something on our hearts in jude and verse 21 he says there you know before that 46:40 he talks about many things you know jude wrote he he wanted to he he says he wanted to write things to contend for the faith and and then he won't give certain warnings there and he reminds us for the last time there'll be mockers following after their own ungodly lust verse 18 the people who cause 47:03 divisions in the church in the homes worldly minded devoid of the spirit but you beloved building yourselves up on your most holy faith praying in the holy spirit keep yourselves in the love of god waiting anxiously for the mercy of our lord jesus christ to eternal life that we had to wait 47:25 anxiously you know i don't think yeah i'm going to make it the in a positive way i wait anxiously for the mercy of the lord jesus christ to attain to eternal life paul himself said i've not come there yet i have not attained to the resurrection of the dead but i look forward to it i press on and that's 47:46 what it means to be to look anxiously for the mercy of the lord jesus christ to eternal life and then it says not just for ourselves have mercy on some verse 20 22 who are doubting and save others snatching them out of the fire and on some have mercy with fear he hitting even the garment polluted by the flesh three 48:10 times the word mercy is mentioned there in relation to ourselves and relation to others and that we don't just think of mercy to us ourselves we have to save others we have to snatch them out of the fire it says some we are to have mercy with fear hating even the garment spotted by the flesh that we don't 48:30 get contaminated by their sin and if we do that verse 24 to him was able to keep you from stumbling and make you stand in the presence of his glory blameless with great joy you see the connection there god meets with us my brothers and sisters when we are merciful when we have a mercy seat in our hearts 49:00 and god speaks to us there and we are merciful like i said to those who live with us 24 by 7 we are becoming merciful i hope that's happening that's why i keep asking god when i see sometimes how unmerciful i can be how demanding i can be and i cry out to god and sometimes even weep i'm so hard so unmerciful 49:28 but i thank god that i could say and i think those who live with me could say and have said dad is not the same that's how it must be my brothers and sisters we don't look for testimony from the brothers and sisters doesn't mean a thing it's those who live with us who can say dad is not the same mom is not the same 49:52 we're becoming merciful that is the message that is what right in the very beginning we wanted to remind ourselves and i wish that we remind ourselves as we have already crossed one generation we have entered into another as we enter the 42nd year and i want to say that we can never know true grace if we have not 50:16 known and showed mercy to others the mercy seat in the old covenant becomes a throne of grace in the new covenant hebrews chapter 4 the last verse let us come with boldness with confidence to the throne of grace that we can receive mercy we still need mercy but we can also find grace to help us in our time of need 50:40 that's the difference they didn't have it in the old covenant mercy they can get plenty they repented and confessed god was willing so many times you look at the decline many times right towards the end the book of malachi and god is trying to woo his people back to him but 51:00 they kept questioning him god is merciful but they prostituted god's mercy and in the new covenant it doesn't mean that now everything is you know everything is on my plate i receive mercy i still need to go to the throne of grace there god meets with me i can receive mercy and find grace to help in my time of 51:28 need i don't need to go on in this merry-go-round asking all the time mercy for the same sin maybe maybe a few times thousand times also but i can get grace to help in my time of need and that is why jesus had to tell the pharisees you know go and learn what this means matthew chapter 9 verse 11 to 13 go 51:54 and learn what this means you know when when he ate with tax collectors and sinners and they were criticizing him why is your teacher eating with tax collectors and sinners he says go and learn what this means i desire compassion and not a sacrifice and again in matthew chapter 12 you know when they again they were 52:18 they were picking at the disciples because they were plucking the grains of wheat because they were hungry and he had to rebuke them he said you don't remember what david did when he was hungry how the priest gave to him the bread which only the priests were supposed to eat and he says if you had known 52:38 what this means earlier he said go and learn what this means i desire compassion and not a sacrifice and now he says if you had known what this means i desire compassion and not a sacrifice you would not condemn the innocent 52:53 and that's something that we need to learn my brothers and sisters in our early in life when we come and and meet with god for the first time at the mercy seat and repent of our sins and by faith we believe that jesus took our place on the cross and his blood cleanses us from all sin that's the first encounter 53:10 we have of god we meet him there he meets us there and he speaks to us there it should never end there i should not look back 48 years i must always be going back that mercy seat is in my heart now i don't come on sunday the mercy seat is not here for under the old covenant it was in the temple and only the 53:34 priest could enter it but now you and i can enter in because jesus has rent the veil we can enter into the holy place so that holy place can be in my heart and god meets with me and speaks to me there i want to say to you my brothers and sisters is there a mercy seat in your heart since you've come to cfc 53:57 since you've come to know the truth oh you know everything you know the doctrine you can even teach it and preach it to others but how is it are we merciful to those who live with us this is the only place god says that he will meet with us through the blood of jesus he met with a 54:23 high priest who went in once a year with blood it was not without blood if he didn't go on with blood or something was wrong he would die there but jesus has rent the veil for us and we can you and i can go right into the holy place the most holy place and meet with god not once a year but 365 days 24 by 7 we 54:47 can meet with god and he will speak to us i thank god for that and we have confidence it says to to enter the holy place by the blood of jesus it's by the blood of jesus not by how many sins i have victory over how many meetings i attend how much my bible i know how much time i spend in prayer it's by the 55:10 blood of jesus i enter the holy place by a new and living way which he made for us the veil that is his flesh so i hope and pray that god will impress that on our hearts because this is where god meets with us this is where god speaks with us and the second thing i want you to see is that if we always live here 55:35 not just once a year or once a week or you know in the morning when i have my quiet time if you have a quiet time whatever you call it or at the night before you go to bed but 24 by 7 if i live here i will become like our father in heaven we i said this word means become merciful jesus said become merciful just 55:59 as your father is merciful how do we become merciful you don't have to look far if you look at luke chapter six luke chapter six and all the things mentioned there you don't have time to read them all but luke chapter six and verse 56:19 36 i want to i want to focus your attention before that treat others 31 sorry treat others the same way you want them to treat you i want to know how to 56:42 become merciful all that is written there before that you know jesus says many things love your enemies verse 27 do good to those who hate you bless those who cursed you curse you pray for those who mistreat you and so on give to everyone who asks of you 57:05 treat others the same way you want them to treat you if you love those who love you what credit is that to you for even sinners love those who love them and many things there he says the verse 35 love your enemies do good and lend expecting nothing in return 57:22 your reward will be great and you will be sons of the most high for he himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men and then he says become merciful just as your father is merciful so if we treat if i want others to be good to me 57:43 treat them jesus said treat them the same way you want them to treat you you want them to be good be good to them you don't want them to speak evil of you don't speak evil of them you want them to be kind you be kind you want them to love you people say you know nobody loves me i don't you know nobody knows what i'm 58:06 going through i should know what others are going through i should love others treat others the same way that you want them to treat you and then we will become merciful that is the golden rule my brothers and sisters treat others the same way you want them to treat you 58:30 bring it down like i said to the home i treat my wife the same way i want her to treat me treat your husband the same way you want your husband to treat you treat your children the same way you want them to treat you somebody was saying my wife doesn't submit to me she's a bad example and i had to write to this 58:56 person and say you love her you know we can say no she's not submitting to me but what about the rest of it what does peter say many things that he says to husbands live with your wives in in an understanding way and love your wife as christ loved the church and gave himself for it what about that 59:20 so if i do my part i will not have to force her impose submission on her automatically she'll respect me and submit it is so simple my brothers and sisters it's we who make things complicated so we can learn that i trust we've been learning it if you've been coming here to cfc even if it's 59:42 just for a couple of months that you learn to treat others the way you want them to treat you you want others to care for you you care for them that is how we build fellowship that is how we can contribute to the spirit in the church 1:00:04 and jesus has much to say in luke chapter 10 luke chapter 10 when that lawyer came to him and asked what what should i do to inherit eternal life jesus asked him in verse 21 verse 26 what is written in the in the law how does it read to you 1:00:28 good question isn't it he wants to know how to get eternal life jesus said what is written in your law in your bible how does it read to you good question to ask ourselves how does it read to me not how does it read for my wife or my children how does it read to you and he says love god with all 1:00:50 your heart with all your heart with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul with all your strength and love your neighbors yourself and jesus said to him you have answered correctly do this and you will live but it says there he wishing to justify himself asked and who is my neighbor 1:01:11 he had certain people in his mind who is my neighbor and jesus then told the story of the man who was mugged and robbed going down to jericho we don't have time to look at it the priest passed he had to go for a meeting he had his duties in the temple but a samaritan on a journey it says saw him 1:01:33 and had compassion on him that makes the difference the priest and the levi went by they had to go and fulfill their duties but the samaritan saw him and felt compassion for him and he did you know what he what he felt he should do for him and jesus asked this man which of the which of the three do you think 1:01:59 proved neighbor to him and this man said the one who showed mercy toward him and jesus said to him go and do the same go and do the same show mercy to others don't have your select few to whom you think you can show mercy to the ones that you who are despised the samaritans were despised they had 1:02:24 nothing to do with the samaritan the jews go and do the same show mercy you look at matthew chapter 18 you know the story we don't have time to look at it matthew 18 verse 29 the man who was forgiven a great debt and yet he was forgiven so much a huge debt but he a fellow slave 1:02:54 owed him a paltry amount and he went to him and caught him by the throat and said pay me what you what you owe me and this fellow slave christ said have patience with me and i will pay you everything but he refused to hear that the same word that he asked to be forgiven the great debt have patience 1:03:16 and his lord forgave him the great debt but he forgot the words that he said and caught him and wanted to kill him he caught him by the throat and that's how an unforgiving unmerciful attitude can be my brothers and sisters we can end up wanting to kill somebody not maybe literally but with words with an attitude 1:03:38 a lot of people you know with an unforgiving spirit with bitterness in their hearts and they think they can make it into heaven they are thoroughly deceived and they think that god is with them they go for the meetings and all but they cannot forgive somebody because of some some small little thing husbands and 1:03:59 wives sometimes in the home they will not talk to each other for days on end they have bitterness they have grudges they have resentment in their heart and it says here that this you know when when his master this lord heard about it said to him should you not also have had mercy on your fellow 1:04:22 slave in the same way that i had mercy on you shouldn't you have had mercy like i had mercy on you i forgive you such a great debt and the lord says to you and me i've forgiven you so much a lot of things in your life that even others don't know about and i've forgiven you and cleansed it in my blood and 1:04:42 nobody even knows about it but yet we can hold petty grudges and resentment in our hearts towards others and worse still if it's towards our own life partner or towards those who live with us a member of the family whoever it may be 1:05:01 mother-in-law father-in-law any in-law and we don't think anything about it i've always thought about it it says his lord moved with anger handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him 1:05:21 and jesus said this listen to this verse 35 my heavenly father will also do the same to you if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart forgive from the heart not just saying i don't have anything against you 1:05:39 no you've got to have something your heart must be filled with the love of god we've heard this through the years it's bad to say i don't have anything in my heart against this person or that person you must have something in your heart otherwise you become an empty house 1:05:57 like that man from whom you know seven demons were cast out of him and he just kept it all clean and furnished and he was worse more demons entered into him and his state was his last state was worse than the first this must not be empty my brothers and sisters our heart 1:06:19 there must be a mercy seat there god will meet with you and me god will speak to us and fill our hearts with mercy towards others otherwise we'll be handed over to the torturers not on that day but you know i i really got understanding on this word that it happens in this life i've seen it people are handed 1:06:41 over to the torturers what are the torturers they're mine they're constant and they lie on and on bed at night they can't sleep they're always thinking of that that person who was well you've spoken against me or spoken against my family said something about my children and and all these things then we lie 1:06:59 awake at night at the dining table we are thinking about it and we can't help but talk about it they are the torturers are you being tortured that way you can't get it out of your mind you're all the time thinking of some and some small petty thing 1:07:19 oh i never want i said lord i want my heart to be full of mercy i never want to be handed over to the torturers my dear brothers and sisters it is so important that we become merciful just as god has been merciful to us as we seek to become more like jesus as we seek to walk like he walked as we 1:07:40 seek to get victory over sin let us never forget this is the only place that god will meet with you and me the other thing i wanted to see that everything everything we receive and all that we become is only by the mercies of god 1 timothy in chapter 12 verse 16 paul's testimony we don't have time to 1:08:03 read it on but i would encourage you to read that this is paul's testimony oh it is often spoken to me 1 timothy chapter 1 a word we have heard often here he says in verse 12 i thank christ jesus our lord who has strengthened me because he considered me faithful putting me into service or putting me into the 1:08:28 ministry even though i was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and violent aggressor yet i was shown mercy because i acted ignorantly in unbelief the grace of our lord was more than abundant and then he says it's a trustworthy statement deserving full acceptance that christ jesus came into the world to 1:08:49 save sinners among whom i am the foremost i'm number one the foremost of all and he writes these words at at the end of his life by the way once he said he was the least of the apostles once he said he was the least of all the saints now he says i'm the worst sinner i'm number one make a list of all the sinners in 1:09:09 the world i am right on top and i like this in verse 16 yet for this reason i found mercy so that in me as a foremost jesus christ might demonstrate his perfect patience as an example for those who believe in him for eternal life for this reason i found mercy do we see ourselves there 1:09:33 my brothers and sisters oh i think no no you know i'm i'm a little better we'll never find mercy for this reason he says because i was number one i found mercy that's paul's testimony and many things there he found mercy to be put into the ministry he found mercy if you read there he considered me faithful 1:09:57 putting me into the ministry to even be faithful it has to be god's mercy i hope you realize all of us who do things for the church it's god's mercy not because i am intelligent and i have abilities maybe you do but it's the mercy of god that you can do something and serve the church i see that 1:10:18 not because of anything special the mercy of god that i can serve the church and i hope that all of us who do that will understand that and to be faithful we need to be you know 1 corinthians 7 25 you can see you know paul says there you can look at it if you like 1:10:38 there's something they want you to see he says concerning virgins i have no command of the lord but i give an opinion even in giving an opinion he says as one who by the mercy of the lord is trustworthy is faithful paul was such a humble man even in giving his opinion and he says i think i can give an opinion 1:10:57 and he said as one who by the mercy of the lord has been faithful and so let's really think of that my brothers and sisters as we enter our 42nd year as a church one more thing that he says in in second corinthians and four chapter one he says therefore since we have this ministry you know in the previous 1:11:20 chapter he speaks there about we all with unveiled face verse 18 chapter 3 2nd corinthians 3 verse 18 we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as from the lord the spirit therefore since we have this ministry 1:11:42 to be able to sit under this ministry to be able to sit under the ministry of the holy spirit in cfc for 41 years as we receive mercy i hope we recognize that to be here it's the mercy of god and i see that in the 41 years that i have been here it is the mercy of god i don't take any credit for it 1:12:06 and neither should you no matter how long and we do not lose heart finally what should i do when i think of all god's mercy to me like paul says romans chapter 12 verse 1 i beseech you brethren i urge you brethren present your bodies are living and a holy sacrifice acceptable to god which is your spiritual 1:12:29 service of worship worship worship god with your body you know i'm reading to you in the jb phillips it's it's it's it's so it's so very powerful it says that you know romans 12:1 this is with eyes wide open to the mercies of god i beg you my brothers as an act of intelligent worship to give him your bodies as a living sacrifice 1:12:53 consecrated to him and acceptable by him don't let the world around you squeeze you into its mold but let god remold your minds from within so that you may prove in practice that the plan of god for you is good meets all his demands and moves toward the goal of true maturity with eyes wide open 1:13:19 to the mercies of god i hope god opens our eyes this morning to all his mercies everything whatever we are whatever we have become whatever we receive it's only because of mercy therefore let us become merciful even as our father is merciful that's really make that our desire our longing and if that mercy seat 1:13:46 has disappeared from your life and encourage you this morning ask the lord to replace it replace it in your heart lord help me to be merciful to others just as you've been merciful to me shall you all stand up and sing this song we haven't sung for a long time from sinking sand he lifted me 1:14:30 with tender hand with tender hand he lifted me and i believe the reason why we find it difficult to be merciful because we forget how much merciful the lord has been to us think from where the lord lifted you brothers and sisters and then you will learn to appreciate god's mercy more and more 1:14:59 after that we'll listen to charles manna and suresh lovingkindness jesus came my soul in mercy to reclaim 1:15:25 and from the death of sin and shame and from the death of sin and shape through grace he lifted me and he lifted me from shades of night to flames of night oh praise his name 1:15:55 he lifted me he called me 1:16:15 oh he lifted me 1:16:42 he lifted me his brow was my his brow was filled with many a thorn his hands wide through the midst of the door his hands wide through the midst of the door and from my gift and praying for more in love he lifted me 1:17:06 he lifted me he lifted me 1:17:33 he lifted me he lifted me 1:17:56 he lifted me he lifted me he lifted me he lifted me 1:18:19 he lifted me he lifted me he lifted me yeah it is so very true that when we were all thinking he lifted me the lord came the lord came and lifted each one of us 1:18:43 but for his mercy i don't think we would be here this morning none of us would be here but for his mercy we were all lost and were deserving his righteous judgment but as we read 1:19:03 God who is rich in mercy he forgave us a multitude of sins cleansed us and washed us and not only just called us to himself he made us his children 1:19:24 he didn't just you know cleanse and then okay you're welcome to come not like that this verse spoke to me when brother Ian was reading from Ephesians 1:19:45 Ephesians 2 we read verse 4 God being rich in mercy you see the lord owns the whole universe he runs the whole universe but nowhere in the bible the bible says that he is rich because he has so much of gold or diamond or you know 1:20:06 rubies or other things like that but it says here God is rich in mercy it says he doesn't speak about his richness in material things but in his character he is rich in mercy because of that because of that what did he do 1:20:26 he didn't just forgive our sins and said okay come in no he says here he made us alive together with christ and raised us up with him with christ verse 6 and seated us with christ 1:20:49 in the heavenly places in the heavenly places in the heavenly places in christ in the heavenly places in christ jesus 1:21:09 along with him jesus christ we know now today sits at the right hand of the father and he has made us sit along with him what a what a god we have does that move your heart when you 1:21:30 think about it about god's mercy and kindness we read about paul in 1 timothy 1 16 he said i was a violent aggressor and a persecutor of the church he was a murderer breathing threats to decimate completely the you know 1:21:51 this new so-called sect which was christianity that time against judaism i wanted to finish them off but for god he says in verse 16 i mean yeah chapter 1 verse 16 in 1 timothy he says because of god's great mercy 1:22:12 it was rich towards me and he found me who was the worst of sinners i was the foremost of sinners he says such a one received mercy we read of a king called ahab in the old testament in 1 kings we read about him when among 1:22:33 all the kings he was one of the most wicked kings that ever lived in the old covenant in israel and when god pronounced judgment on him and his wife zezebel by the mouth of the prophet elijah 1:22:54 you know he humbled himself maybe we can read that in 1 kings 21 we think god's mercy is only for those who deserve it 1:23:15 and those who you know behave themselves but here is a king who is he says that he was sold out completely to the devil to do wicked to do wickedly 1:23:38 you go home and read about that in verse 29 it says when elijah pronounced judgment over him it says about the word of the lord came to elijah the tishbite saying do you see how ahab has humbled himself before me 1:23:59 it is god saying you know what did ahab do he heard these words in verse 27 he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about despondently when this external act was done god accepted 1:24:17 that if it were to be you and me we would have said no this is just acting or something like that this is not genuine from the heart but god just saw the outward action and then he said do you see how ahab humbled himself 1:24:33 before me because he has humbled himself before me i will not bring this evil upon i mean in his days but i'll bring this later on see how merciful the lord has been this is how god wants us to be merciful to others we read about 1:24:50 that in matthew 18 about that king who forgave his servants so much money that he owed him he could not have repaid in his entire lifetime such a great debt he forgave and then this man went out and caught somebody by the throat 1:25:11 who just owed him some paltry amount and told him to pay up and then he put him in prison and there the king says you should have had mercy upon him just like i had mercy upon you this is very relevant in that 1:25:31 context be merciful to others just as you have god has been merciful to you yeah i hear a commandment like this and then you know i still have a few people here and there i think about this fellow that fellow who has harmed 1:25:49 me and you know i always want to be little cold towards them but you know what the bible says in maybe we can read that verse in romans 12 romans 12 1:26:12 verse 8 it says about different graces and gifts that god gives and how to serve in the church it says in verse 8 last part he who shows mercy 1:26:32 let him show mercy with cheerfulness not grudgingly not with little reservation in my heart towards that particular fellow who did me the most harm no it says here do it cheerfully gladly 1:26:53 do we do that this way or we just say okay i've forgiven you like i read a story of a man who was terminally ill and the doctors had given up hope and said you have just a few days to live and that 1:27:14 man called his friends whom he had to forgive and he asked their forgiveness and when when they were going away he called them back and said just in case i get well i withdraw my forgiveness do we have that 1:27:34 kind of attitude you forgive it's forgiven forever god forgives god doesn't forget god says i will not remember your iniquities anymore it's an act of the will on god's part he says i 1:27:55 will not remember i will not bring it to my mind again let us follow in his footsteps and be like him to others just as he has been merciful to us amen 1:28:16 praise god for what we heard i was thinking of how we can clearly see you know two aspects of god's wonderful mercy in what 1:28:36 brother ian was sharing and one is that he is slow to anger that he forgives us and you know even though we make the same mistake again and again or we have done some terrible things that god is willing to forgive us in 1:28:51 his mercy but also that god's mercy is full of compassion it's not just about forgiving us but it's really about seeing our need and our wretched condition and embracing us and making us his family and saying yes you are 1:29:05 mine and come up and we see that so clearly in the picture of the good I was just thinking both of these aspects how I think in terms of our personality we may be stronger on one side on the other side 1:29:25 right and the real need for mercy starts at home I I was just thinking you know think about ready to forgive one thing I noticed you know when all of these all of these passages when they talk about mercy okay so there are 1:29:39 three of them and I'll leave it to you to look at it for yourself but Jude 24 one of them which we saw where he's talking about mercy and then 1 Timothy 1 17 where Paul is talking about himself as God showed him mercy as 1:29:57 being the foremost example of how wonderful he is and lastly Romans chapter 11 verse 36 in all of these we find like a glorious passage where the person you know Paul in two cases Jude in another case just cannot help but 1:30:14 give glory to God and praise him and says wisdom and power and glory and thanksgiving belongs to his mercy I had no choice but to give myself you know I could do nothing else but respond to his mercy how great it 1:30:34 was how wonderful I must be good to others brothers and sisters by the mercy of God offer yourselves as a sacrifice be willing to give yourself for others thank God for what we've heard and I believe that God we will as 1:30:50 we meditate on God's mercy God will help us to become merciful as he is in here we want to praise the Lord for news 1:31:12 for us Selvam yeah Selvam a rabbi yeah rabbi rabbi sister can we have that presentation up here is it 1:31:36 up on there's a small presentation we want to run you through so yeah it's up okay so on behalf of the web team we want to stand before you and there's one thing that we wanted to share with you with the church on 1:31:56 yeah go ahead as anniversary gift this anniversary month from web team there's a gift for you the whole church and it is an app an app which allows you to access the bible studies that brother Zach has you know given to us 1:32:13 over these years it's over 50 years of his study that we can have the fruit of in our lives and it's an app which is available for your phones either or your tablets whether it's an android phone or whether it's an iphone 1:32:29 the details of the app we are going to go a little bit into can we have the next slide so essentially on your phone if you can go to the app store and type these words Zach Poonan you will come to an app 1:32:49 called the Bible Study with Zach Poonan it's a simple one button one click installation it's a simple one click installation the wonderful thing about it is after you click it you will be able to access all these Bible studies 1:33:08 I'm going to run through them a little bit and not just access them you can access them offline online too someone told me you know a busy mother in a kitchen you may have a little time while you're cooking you wish you could 1:33:22 access the computer it's so difficult in one sense to access the content that is freely available but we believe that this app has made it so much easier to get to the Bible study that you want online or offline in the time 1:33:38 that you need it next slide we'll just run you through what kind of studies there are one is a foundational study basic Christian teachings this is for seekers this is for if you want to explain the faith that you have clearly 1:33:55 to someone else this is each study is just 15 minutes and it goes through foundational Christian topics and it's able to make your foundation strong and make you to come to that point where you go beyond being a seeker to 1:34:12 putting your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ foundational studies from there it also shows you know if you can just focus on the slide you will see some of the features you know there are 70 parts in the basic Christian 1:34:26 teachings this allows you to tick off the topics that you have listened to already so as you are scrolling through the basic Christian teachings you can keep track of your progress and grow in the Lord now additional studies 1:34:41 that are there you go on from the foundation then you come to an overview study and that's through the Bible brother Zach in his glorious wisdom as you know he's taken us through the Bible a one hour study on every book 1:34:58 of the Bible it's a wonderful way to plumb the depths and get an overview of the Bible another thing that you can do and you know a feature of the app is like I said you can download content but you can also keep notes as 1:35:12 the Lord has revealed something to you you can note that down so that you can come to it later other than the overview study is in-depth studies and those are the worst by worst studies we have worst by worst studies of 1:35:27 every book of the New Testament several books of the Old Testament and you know another feature of the app that we would like to point out here is by one click you can download say the whole verse by verse study of Romans 1:35:42 and then you can listen to it say when you are traveling when you have a little time to yourself you can systematically go through the Bible and finally we want to also show another reason study it's called all that Jesus 1:35:56 thought and this is a study which but also going sorry not just going to the ends of the earth and giving the gospel to others but also making disciples the Lord wants to lead us to a balance 1:36:17 in our life and this is one thing that we hear consistently in this church these four studies if you can go to the next slide you know brother Zach earlier this year had given us a Bible study challenge and we want to highlight 1:36:32 that here he said that if you take 30 minutes every day just 30 minutes every day you can utilize one of these four studies which you feel is appropriate to you you will see that as you go through the study systematically 1:36:46 and every day you will grow in the knowledge of the word it is a challenge that he gave to us and we like to place that challenge to you brothers and sisters this anniversary month will you take that we believe that this 1:37:00 Bible study app has made that you know access to these studies so much easier and we want to put that challenge that brother Zach has challenged us with take it up 30 minutes a day and in a few years you will find that your 1:37:16 life is being transformed as you being filled with the word the Lord is able to make not just you a blessing but make you but give bless you but also make you a blessing to others you know as you know the God's word says 1:37:33 there's going to be a famine for God's word and we have a lot of resources and this app will help us to meditate on God's word to become strong when the it will help us to become so that's one of the purpose of this app 1:37:52 to get intimate with God's word yeah so that's the one thing that we want to leave back with you there's also a bonus on this app the bonus is that you know we have question and answer sessions which brother Zach has taken 1:38:10 over these years and we have made it easier to search and find those question answer sessions we want to for example what you see on the slide if you say if you're looking for something to do with youth or with the baptism 1:38:28 of the Holy Spirit or if you're depressed and you don't know how to handle it you put in a word and you'll find a quick and easy response from brother Zach where how to handle that situation the Q&A session has more than 1:38:48 practically covering most of the areas we face make use of that also brothers and sisters we want to just finally will be amiss if we don't give thanks to the person who has helped us put this together this is the person 1:39:05 his name is Chetan Chetan and Jarusha are a wonderful couple he had taken it upon himself to put the mobile apps both on the iPhones and on the Android phones we are so grateful for Chetan he was racing against time because 1:39:23 his second child you see his first child was about to be born and he was born last week that's Asaph so Chetan and Jarusha if you're watching we're so grateful for how you've contributed to the web team thank you let's give them 1:39:40 a big hand so we want to just end with this challenge again the app that we have now available the Bible study app with Zach Poonan you can access it you know those it's very easy to access you can look in 1:40:00 the notice board after behind on how to specifically access it we ask you brothers and sisters to take up this challenge and your life will be different most of the young people who are sitting here they already had the 1:40:12 preview of this app they know how to use any older generation if you have a problem to download or use it you can check with any younger sister who already downloaded and tested it and thank you for giving us this time yeah 1:40:35 we want to praise the lord for the web team for the tremendous job they are doing and maybe after the meeting we can convey our appreciation to them this morning we want to welcome all those who are visiting us for the first 1:40:46 time to the next
