0:00 Девочка-пай 0:30 Девочка-пай 1:00 Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай 1:24 Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай 1:48 Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай 2:10 Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай 2:30 Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай Девочка-пай 2:56 Девочка-пай They were people who studied the scriptures. But they opposed Jesus all the time. And Jesus once said this in Matthew 13 and verse 52. 3:20 Matthew 13 verse 52. He said the scribes have to become disciples. Jesus is not happy with scribes. Sometimes we are happy that we study the Bible we know so much. 3:44 Matthew 13 verse 53. The more meetings and conferences that you attend the more you can become a scribe. Matthew 13 verse 53. Maybe you can explain the scriptures well. Matthew 13 verse 54. But it is a disciple who will finally build the church. 4:08 Matthew 13 verse 54. Jesus did not say go into all the world and make scribes. Matthew 13 verse 54. Make disciples. And a disciple sometimes may not be able to explain so many things in scripture. Matthew 13 verse 54. Don't be proud that you know the Bible and you can explain it. 4:32 Matthew 13 verse 54. See when we eat food there is a system in our stomach and all called the digestive system which digests that food. Matthew 13 verse 54. I think 99% of people sitting here we don't know how it works because we are not doctors. 4:54 Matthew 13 verse 54. I myself don't know much about how this works. Matthew 13 verse 54. But my system has worked perfectly for 71 years. 5:15 Matthew 13 verse 54. You don't need to be able to understand how it works for it to work. Matthew 13 verse 54. But here is another clever doctor maybe who understands all about how it works but his own system may not be working. 5:30 Matthew 13 verse 54. So which is better? Matthew 13 verse 54. To be able to explain all this or to have it working properly. Matthew 13 verse 54. There is a great danger among our elders and other brothers that we can explain all these things so wonderfully. 5:59 Matthew 13 verse 54. But if you cannot control your tongue when you speak to your wife, it is useless explaining scripture. Matthew 13 verse 54. If you get upset with younger brothers, what is use being able to explain scripture? 6:22 Matthew 13 verse 54. What is use coming to so many conferences if you cannot control your tongue? Matthew 13 verse 54. And you brothers, if you don't have more control of your eyes today than last year, what is use coming to another conference? 6:41 Matthew 13 verse 54. This is one of the great dangers we face of increasing in knowledge. Matthew 13 verse 54. And because we have so many opportunities to hear the word now. Matthew 13 verse 54. You know in the early days when we had meetings only the people sitting there could hear it. 7:04 Matthew 13 verse 54. Nobody else. Matthew 13 verse 54. Then it became a little better. We had tapes and CDs and more people could hear that from in other places. Matthew 13 verse 54. Then we have internet and live streaming and many more people can hear. 7:29 Matthew 13 verse 54. So in the olden days we could receive only a few messages in a year. Matthew 13 verse 54. Maybe 52 messages on Sundays. Matthew 13 verse 54. But now we have so many DVDs and live streaming. We can listen to hundreds of messages in a year. 7:54 Matthew 13 verse 54. But Europe that is good. Because there is tremendous power in the word of God. Matthew 13 verse 54. To give us faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ. 8:15 Matthew 13 verse 54. Faith will change our life. Matthew 13 verse 54. But the great danger is that instead of getting faith to further change life. Matthew 13 verse 54. We just increase in knowledge. Matthew 13 verse 54. We must always remember what we read in Genesis 2. 8:33 Matthew 13 verse 54. That there were two trees in the garden of Eden. Matthew 13 verse 54. One is a tree of knowledge of good and evil. Matthew 13 verse 54. The other is the tree of life. Matthew 13 verse 54. This Bible in the Vedam. 8:50 Matthew 13 verse 54. Can become the tree of knowledge of good and evil to you. Matthew 13 verse 54. Or the tree of life. Matthew 13 verse 54. The same book. Matthew 13 verse 54. One person reads it. Matthew 13 verse 54. He gets a clear understanding. 9:07 Matthew 13 verse 54. This is good. This is evil. Matthew 14 verse 54. And he can explain it to other people. This is good. This is evil. Matthew 14 verse 54. And all that knowledge of good and evil brings him spiritual death. 9:22 Matthew 14 verse 54. Just like Adam. Matthew 14 verse 54. Now another brother reads the same Bible. Matthew 14 verse 54. And he doesn't have such a clever brain perhaps. Matthew 14 verse 54. But he's got a good heart. Matthew 14 verse 54. And he reads it to obey it. 9:44 Matthew 14 verse 54. And he reads it to claim God's promises for himself. Matthew 14 verse 54. The same book becomes a tree of life for him. Matthew 14 verse 54. Now many of you have got a very good habit of reading the Bible every day. 9:59 Matthew 14 verse 54. That is one of the best habits you can have particularly when you are young. Matthew 14 verse 54. Because what will happen over a period of time. Matthew 14 verse 54. That word will be not in a book but in your mind. 10:20 Matthew 14 verse 54. And then God will be able to speak to you all through the day and the middle of the night also. Matthew 14 verse 54. So because you've got the Bible inside your mind. Matthew 14 verse 54. I find that God is speaking to me all the time. 10:37 Matthew 14 verse 54. Even in the middle of the night when I wake up. Matthew 14 verse 54. But that is because in my younger days I spent hours and days studying this book. Matthew 14 verse 54. So I want to say to all of you. Please develop the habit of studying the Bible. 10:57 Matthew 14 verse 54. Don't study it for knowledge of good and evil. Matthew 14 verse 54. And don't study it to preach to other people. Matthew 14 verse 54. Study it to obey it. Matthew 14 verse 54. And to claim the promises in the Bible. 11:20 Matthew 14 verse 54. Then you will get life out of this book. Matthew 14 verse 54. Because if you only come to the book. You won't get life. Matthew 14 verse 54. You will only get knowledge. Matthew 14 verse 54. Jesus once told people. You don't come to me that you might have life. 11:44 Matthew 14 verse 54. You search the scriptures. John chapter 5 verse 39. See this verse. You search the scriptures. You search the scriptures because you think they will give you eternal life. Matthew 14 verse 54. But these verses in scripture point to me. 12:08 Matthew 14 verse 54. And instead of you don't come to me that you can get this eternal life. Matthew 14 verse 54. You stick to the book. Matthew 14 verse 54. You see many of you took a bus or came by road to Tutukurin. 12:31 Matthew 14 verse 54. And sometimes on the road there will be a sign pointing to Tutukurin. Matthew 14 verse 54. This way. Matthew 14 verse 54. See the Bible is like that. Matthew 14 verse 54. Jesus is here. Go this way. 12:52 Matthew 14 verse 54. The person who does not go to Jesus but just reads the Bible. Matthew 14 verse 54. He's like a person who's stuck at that board which says Tutukurin 30 kilometers. Matthew 14 verse 54. Suppose you get stuck there. 13:10 Matthew 14 verse 54. Oh. I see this board Tutukurin 30 kilometers. Matthew 14 verse 54. You would never have reached here. Matthew 14 verse 54. That was only pointing you to go to Tutukurin. Matthew 14 verse 54. And that's what Jesus is saying here. 13:30 Matthew 14 verse 54. The scriptures are not meant to be an end in themselves. Matthew 14 verse 54. They are pointing to me. Matthew 14 verse 54. I want to ask you when you read the scriptures. Matthew 14 verse 54. Do you allow it to lead you to Jesus or you just get stuck with the words? 13:48 Matthew 14 verse 54. This is the great danger many of us are facing. Matthew 14 verse 54. Many of us here sitting know the Bible better than Peter and Paul. 14:08 Matthew 14 verse 54. But we don't have a life like Peter and Paul. Matthew 14 verse 54. But we can explain so many things. Matthew 14 verse 54. I think many of us can preach sermons better than Peter and Paul. Matthew 14 verse 54. Better in terms of human cleverness. 14:30 Matthew 14 verse 54. But not better in terms of anointing and revelation from God. Matthew 14 verse 54. If you are not careful in this area. I want to tell you. Matthew 14 verse 54. Your knowledge of Bible will only bring you debt. 14:51 Matthew 14 verse 54. That's the great danger we are facing. Matthew 14 verse 54. Because now we have so many conferences. Matthew 14 verse 54. And we don't feel like cancelling a conference. Matthew 14 verse 54. You know like they have the Kumbu Mela in Allahabad. 15:11 Matthew 14 verse 54. And many places, temples and all they have some festivals. Matthew 14 verse 54. And in Sabri Malay also they have. Matthew 14 verse 54. There are many places where they're every year they'll have festival. 15:27 Matthew 14 verse 54. No. It's very easy for our conference to be like that. Matthew 14 verse 54. It's a place where we come together like a festival and meet so many people and go away. Matthew 14 verse 54. Would you go to a doctor year after year if there is no improvement in your condition with this treatment? 15:48 Matthew 14 verse 54. No. I'd say something wrong with that doctor and his treatment. Matthew 14 verse 54. I want to check myself every year to see if the word of God has changed me, made me more Christ-like. Matthew 14 verse 54. And I still see so many areas in my life. The Lord has got to change me slowly. 16:15 Matthew 14 verse 54. I wish God would change me in one second, but he doesn't do it. Matthew 14 verse 54. In his great wisdom, he does it slowly. Matthew 14 verse 54. And I'm sure there's a very good purpose. Matthew 14 verse 54. And my own wish would be that he would change me in one moment and make me like Jesus. 16:37 Matthew 14 verse 54. But my thoughts are as much inferior to God's thoughts as earth is from heaven. Matthew 14 verse 54. So, I know God's thoughts are better. Matthew 14 verse 54. So, making me slowly like Jesus must be the best because that's the way he does it. 16:58 Matthew 14 verse 54. But we must be making progress. Matthew 14 verse 54. No, just like coming to Tutukurin, you don't just get stuck in one place. Matthew 14 verse 54. Every minute you're making progress on the road. Matthew 14 verse 54. I mean, if you're coming in a bus and the bus is broken down, will you keep sitting there? 17:22 Matthew 14 verse 54. I mean, in the front of the bus it may be saying to Tutukurin, but it's broken down. Matthew 14 verse 54. Then you get down and get into another bus. Matthew 14 verse 54. So, many of our churches are like those buses. 17:44 We had a board saying, we're going towards becoming like Jesus Christ. But some churches are broken down. Some elders are broken down. They themselves are not making progress towards becoming like Christ every year. 18:05 The Lord told the Pharisees, if you don't enter the kingdom yourself and those who want to enter also, you're stopping. Any elder brother who is not becoming more like Jesus every year has no right to lead God's people. 18:26 If you're not becoming more like Jesus Christ this year than last year, you should not be an elder in any church. Your bus is broken down. It is not moving. 18:50 Why are you keeping the passengers in that bus? Let them get out of the bus and go to some other bus. I would do that. I will not sit in a bus that is stuck and broken down. Even if it is a beautiful air conditioned bus, I will get out and get into a bus that's moving. 19:14 There is a direction that God wants us to go. That is to become like Jesus Christ. I've got a destination. I saw that destination many years ago in my life. 19:37 And I don't want to just know it in theory. I want to make sure that every year I'm getting closer and closer there. We use this common sense when we are traveling in a bus. I won't say, "Oh I traveled in this bus for 3-4 hours so I have to keep sitting here." 20:05 I've already paid for the ticket. You can say that about a church. "Oh I have sat in this church so many years." "I have paid money in the offering box so many years." Brother, if that church is like a broken down bus, get out of it. 20:28 Go and find some other bus that will make you close, bring you closer to your destination. You know the Pharisees who came to John the Baptist boasted, "Oh our father is Abraham so you can baptize us." 20:49 You know what John the Baptist told them in Matthew 3? He said, "Don't have this empty boast that Abraham is your father." God can raise children from Abraham from the stones in the ground here. 21:09 So we should not boast, "Oh our church is connected to CFC." What is the use of that? God can raise churches from the stones. Don't glory in these names and attachments and connections. 21:29 So when we have a pause like that, we must stop and think about what we heard. We have a great blessing in India which they don't have in Western countries. In the middle of the message, we have electricity breakdown. 21:49 So that is God saying, "Stop and listen to what you heard just now." I don't like some people say, "Oh the devil came and broke the electricity." 22:10 No. I believe God runs this universe. He's in control of everything. I don't give any credit to the devil for anything. So when the electricity breaks down for a few seconds or minutes, just stop and think about what you heard. 22:35 Because it's very important what we have heard. That we must not get knowledge from the Bible. And we must not become proud of what God has already done. That is another way to go into spiritual depth. 22:57 That we become proud of what God has done for us. We keep looking back to see, "Oh what a wonderful word God in our church since we began." That is another way to die spiritually. 23:18 That is what punctures the tires of the bus and breaks down the engine. When we look back and say, "Oh what a wonderful word God has done." You need to ask yourself whether you're becoming proud of what God has done in past years in your church. 23:43 To thank God for what he's done is good. We must do it. We must do it. But to be proud of what God has done. And we get some pride over it. And compare ourselves with others. That's the way to death. 24:03 So we have to be very careful to thank God for what he's done. But not to become proud ourselves of what God has done. We read in the Acts of the Apostles. And chapter 5. Of a time in the early days when God was working with tremendous power. 24:33 Acts chapter 5. It was a time when even Ananias and Sapphira. Could not deceive people even for 5 seconds. Today we have so many deceivers who sit in our churches for years. 24:55 But in that early church Ananias and Sapphira could not sit there as deceivers even for 5 seconds. Because the light was so bright. The fire was so hot. 25:17 We read in Acts 5 how God punished them. And what was the result? We read here in Acts 5 verse 11. There was a holy fear in the whole church. 25:43 Everybody feared. It was a good type of fear. A fear that I can't come to the church and play the fool here. And we read here in verse 13. That among all the other people, the others would not dare to join them. 26:11 They would not dare to join them because they are afraid if we go here and we are hypocrites something serious will happen to us. Many people were afraid to join them. But they had a great respect for them. We read that in verse 13. 26:33 But in spite of that, verse 14, more believers were added to the Lord. It says here crowds of men and women began to join the church. Many men, many women. 26:56 And many sick people were being healed. Verse 15, 16. So, this wonderful pure church. Where a deceiver could not sit for 5 seconds. 27:16 Suddenly, more and more crowds of people came in. And a lot of people also got excited. So many people accepting Christ. But then what happened? When the numbers increased, something happened. 27:36 And that always happens. See Acts, chapter 6 and verse 1. As the number of believers began to multiply, there were all types of grumblings and discontentment that came in there. 28:01 And it was one community versus another community. You know, it says the Greeks were complaining that their widows were not being given as much food, verse 1, as the Jewish widows. 28:26 This is like upper caste versus lower caste in the church. One complaining against the other, they are caring for the rich people, not caring for the poor people. 28:47 Or Tamil versus Malayali. All types of things, it started there. When did it start? See the first verse? When the number of believers began to increase, they came in to be disciples. 29:17 But they were not disciples. Disciples don't grumble and complain about food. No, you can come here to be disciples. And there can be something in the arrangement here that you are not happy with. 29:38 It's very difficult to make arrangements for 2,000 people to stay and food and everything. Always there will be some problem. But a disciple will not complain. 30:01 He'll say, what is this? Just two, three days, I didn't come here to eat food. I don't care if I fast for two, three days. Jesus had a conference like that once. 30:21 Three day conference. But there was one difference. It was a fasting conference. No food. Jesus conducted that. You see, for example, there in Matthew's Gospel. Matthew 15. 30:46 We read in Matthew 15 that there was a great crowd of people in verse 30 who were following him, who were healed. And the last part of verse 31, there were great crowds praising the Lord. 31:15 They were with Jesus, great crowds of people. And then Jesus said to his disciples. Listen to this. Read it carefully. What is the number of people? We read in verse 37, 38. 4,000 men plus women and children. 31:36 Maybe 8,000 people. Much bigger than us. 8,000 people conference. Verse 32, Jesus said, "I feel sorry for these people because they've been here with me three days and they have had nothing to eat for three days. 31:57 Would you have attended a conference like that? Supposing we announce next year to you to current conference there will be no food. 32:25 Not only no food, there was no mandapam here for these people to stay for three days. But just out on the hillside, they slept. They got up at 7, 8 o'clock in the morning and finished all their morning washing the face and all of them. 32:50 And Jesus said, "Time for the meeting." I don't know, maybe 10 sessions every day. And people are wondering when is the break for lunch. No lunch. Continuous session till 4 o'clock, no tea, nothing. 33:15 Night they think at least there will be dinner at 8 o'clock at night. No dinner. So the Lord says, "Good night, we'll see you in the morning, 8 o'clock." And these 8,000 people don't go away, they come. 33:38 Second day like that, third day like that. I once went for a conference in one place for leaders. Not our church, another group. It was about two or three days. 33:59 No food. Fasting and conference. I was so excited. They said, "Brother Zach, you're the speaker so you can eat." I said, "No, I'm a brother, I also will not eat." 34:20 It was a wonderful time. That's how Jesus had it. We praise the Lord when God gives us food and accommodation. But at some time we don't get it. Praise the Lord again. How does it say here they were disciples in Acts 6, 34:42 but they were complaining about the food? If you look at the complaints you have in your life, you'll find most of them are about earthly things. Think about all the quarrels and fights you had with your husband and wife at home. 35:07 It's all about earthly things. And that also happens in a church when it grows in size. That is the proof that such people are children. They are spiritual children. They are not grown up. 35:27 A grown up disciple of Jesus does not complain about anything. Our subject for this conference is, "You shall be an overcomer." You can be an overcomer. Let me show you Philippians chapter 2. 35:50 An overcomer is one described here in verse 14. Филиппия 14. 36:11 He does, puts away all grumbling and all complaining from his life. Everything in his life. He does without complaining. Whether the food is good or bad. 36:32 I mean, you can tell somebody there was something wrong. That's okay, but that's different from complaining about it. Say, to tell your wife that there's not enough salt in the food is not a complaint. But the same thing you can say in a spirit of complaint. 36:56 It's a question of how you say it. Say what type of cook you are. See how you're cooked. There you see a spirit of a complaint. But to say, can you give me a little salt? Because I'd like to add some salt to my food. There, there's no complaint there. 37:15 The way you speak. The way you speak to your husband and wife. That shows whether you've got a spirit of complaint. Maybe there's something wrong in the church. The way you go and tell your elder brother about it. It shows whether you've got a spirit of complaint in your heart. 37:38 You know, if there's something wrong, we want to set it right. Just like if your scooter is not working, we go and set it right in a repair shop. But there must be no murmuring and complaining in our life. 38:00 So, this wonderful church that we read in Acts chapter 5. Suddenly, the devil came in. First, he came in through Ananias and Sapphira. By hypocrisy. God judged that immediately. 38:21 For a small little thing like that. But Acts chapter 6, we read something more serious. What do you think is more serious? So many disciples grumbling and complaining about food. 38:43 Or Ananias and Sapphira just giving part of their money to God. We would think grumbling and complaining is more serious. Then, why didn't God judge all those complainers in Acts 6 like he did in Acts 5? 39:08 There would have been hundreds of deaths in the church. Supposedly, God judged all the hypocrites and all the complainers in our church. How many of us will be sitting here left in the conference? 39:29 Dear brothers and sisters, as we approach the coming of the Lord, we have to be more serious about our Christian life. Don't rejoice that more people are coming to your church. I think some of you elders, if you look at your heart, 39:50 you may find a secret joy that your church is becoming so big. And you don't check up whether all these people are disciples. You're just excited so many people are coming. 40:12 It may be a church full of grumblers and complainers. It may be a church full of husbands and wives who fight with each other. It may be full of people who are doing unrighteous things with money. It may be a church full of brothers 40:32 who are lusting after women every day. What is the use making the church so big, full of men who lust after women and women who keep on complaining at home? Do you think heaven is happy 40:53 that your church is increasing in size? You are happy. But heaven is sad. Because ten years ago, you had some standards in your church. 41:16 Now the standard has come down. You are not preaching those fiery sermons against sin like you did before. The devil has silenced that message. 41:37 We need to humble ourselves. We need to repent. Say, Lord, we want a church where we are making overcomers. Not a church of people who want to go to heaven. India is full of people who want to go to heaven. 42:01 We have 1,200 million people in our country today. All 1,200 million people want to go to heaven. Do you think there is anybody in our country who wants to go to hell? 42:24 You look at all the obituary columns in the newspapers. People of any religion with their photograph so and so died. What does he write underneath? He has gone to the feet of the Lord. Have you read anywhere where he has gone to hell? 42:49 I have not seen it until today. We are all going to the feet of the Lord. What a deception everybody is living in. Everybody wants to go to heaven. But how many of them want to give up sin? 43:10 How many of them want to give up all grumbling and complaining? How many of them want to stop lusting after women? How many of them want to stop seeing those dirty pictures on television? How many want to stop listening to all 43:29 that cinema music and rock music? Then the number becomes very small. We need to ask ourselves what type of church are we building? Are you gathering overcomers? 43:51 Are we telling people in our church you can be an overcomer? Jesus came to deliver us from all that. From all grumbling and complaining. and in order to come there the first step 44:11 is this. You must make sure that everybody in your church is really born again. Born again. And you cannot be born again as a child of God 44:31 if you have not repented first. it's no use just asking a person to say Lord Jesus come into my heart. First of all he has to say I want to give up all the sin that I know in my life. 44:53 There may be hundreds of thousands of sins in his life which he doesn't know. he doesn't know how can he turn from it. He knows only a few sins. I know these are sins. From those sins 45:13 he must be willing to turn. So repentance means this listen carefully it doesn't mean turning from all the sins in your life because we don't know all the sins in our life. 45:33 I know certain things God showed me in the last one year which he did not show me 50 years ago when I was converted. I did not know them in 50 years ago. So what 45:53 could I turn from 50 years ago when I first got converted. Only those things I know. So what we tell people is there may be so many sins in your life. What are the sins your conscience tells you about? 46:17 Make a list of them. Are you willing to turn from those? Then you have repented. Turning around from the sins that I know. I may know many other sins and things which are sins which you don't know 46:37 because maybe you are not so mature as me. That's like saying a 10th standard student knows more about mathematics than a first standard student. The first standard student does not 46:57 have to get 100% in the 10th standard subjects but in the first standard subjects. We tell a person when you come to kindergarten you need to know very little. And 47:20 whatever you know turn from those sins. And if you are faithful every year God will show you more and more things in your life to cleanse himself. So this is a narrow way where we cleanse ourselves till we meet Jesus face 47:38 to face. it's like climbing a mountain. You cannot reach the top of the mountain in one moment. Little by little by little by little we become like Jesus. Or it's like the way you came from your village to 47:59 Tutukurin. You didn't come to Tutukurin in one second. No little by little you got into a bus or something train and slowly slowly slowly you came to Tutukurin. Finally you reached here. The same way we got a destination 48:18 to become like Jesus Christ. And just like one day yesterday or something you got into the bus to come here. Same way there must be a time in your life waiting to decide I am giving up my sinful ways. 48:38 I am giving up my worship of idols and worship of money and lusting after women and seeing all these dirty cinemas I am going to turn that is like getting into the bus to come to Tutukurin. 48:59 If you had not done that you would not be here today. There must be a time in your life when you turn from whatever you know to be sinned. And look at that Lord Jesus I give my life to you. Then you got into the bus. 49:22 You join a church and the hope is that that church will help you to become more and more like Jesus every year. You know the 49:46 message of the Lord to the seven churches in Revelation and you know what he told them in Revelation chapter 2 and chapter 3. You already know it but I'll remind you to the church number one that is the church in Ephesus 50:05 it says in verse 7 to the one who is overcomer I will give this reward and to the second church which is Smyrna that's a good church to the bad church and the good church same message verse 50:27 11 if you overcome I'll give you this reward then the next church is Pergamos chapter 2 verse 12 and that church also it says in verse 17 that's a bad church you 50:47 must do one who overcomes I'll give a reward and then another bad church verse 28 26 one who overcomes I'll give this reward another 51:08 bad elder in church chapter 3 verse Sardis verse 5 you conquer I'll give you a reward now it's a very good church chapter 3 verse 7 Philadelphia is that 51:28 also same message verse 12 if you overcome I'll give you a reward and now the worst church of all Leodicea chapter 3 verse 14 verse 21 overcome you'll sit with me on the throne did 51:50 you see something there worst church best church you must be an overcomer now some of you are sitting in good churches some of you may think your church is the best church like Philadelphia another 52:11 church is really bad like Leodicea the point is are you an overcomer you can go to another CFC church and say look at those people how they 52:31 dress how those young girls are dressing maybe you're right that's a bad church there are churches like Philadelphia there are like Laodicea question is not what they are like are 52:52 you an overcomer are you overcoming in your personal life I tell young girls sometimes I say see you may see some girls in your church dressed in a very fashionable way but 53:14 then you'll see some other girls dressed in a very modest way that is your choice whom you want to follow to follow you can follow this one or that one don't 53:34 waste your time criticizing them when you will destroy yourself you decide I am going to follow the good examples sometimes parents of young girls come and tell me brother Zach 53:55 my little girl tells me why can't I be like that fashionable young girl who is also in the same church what shall I tell them I say this is what you should tell them but look 54:15 at this other girl who is dressed very modestly why can't you follow them why should you follow this other one don't follow that person and don't judge that person you are not the judge God will judge them all in the final 54:33 day we cannot keep a church so pure that there is not even one hypocrite in it even if it's a very small church I'll tell you about somebody who had a really small church in 54:54 that church there were only 12 people but one of them was so bad but the 55:26 church was not bad the other 11 people turned the whole world upside down so don't worry if there are few people in your church who are not overcomers even if they are so bad like Judas Iscariot you 55:47 cannot build a 100% pure church on this earth but we can make sure that the message from the pulpit is pure what is that message you can be an overcomer good 56:07 church or bad church you can be an overcomer that is the message we preach and we must never change that message that Jesus came to save us from all sin he came to save us from living for this world he 56:28 came to save us from running after money he came to save us from dirty thoughts from angry words he came to save us from telling lies he came to save us from hating people he came to teach us how to forgive people who 56:48 hurt us so that's the message we preach whichever church you belong to as good as Philadelphia or as bad as Laodicea he who overcomes can sit 57:09 with Jesus on the throne let's pray bow our heads heavenly father we thank you for your holy spirit that's still working on the earth today we thank you for the holy spirits that's been working here in our midst during 57:29 this time help us to respond to the holy spirit we pray in Jesus name amen amen amen amen amen amen amen 57:49 amen amen amen amen 58:15 amen
