0:00 One of the most important things in the Christian life is to know what God is really like. We have, from the beginning, heard that in the Christian life, salvation is to obtain eternal life. 0:27 The wages of sin is death, Romans 6.23, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We know it is a gift, so we come to the Lord and confess our sin, acknowledge that we are sinners, believe that Christ died for our sins on the cross and took the punishment for all our sin, past, present and future. 0:49 On the cross, it becomes ours when we repent and confess, not when we confess, when we repent and confess. Very important. I feel that many Christians have not understood the importance of repentance. I spoke a little bit about it yesterday. 1:05 Repentance is an about turn. Once I was facing the world, my self-life, making money, living for myself, and God was behind me. Repentance is turning right around. When I faced God, all those things I was living for have become behind me. 1:22 I want to ask you, was your repentance like that? The things you lived for, have they all come behind you now? Or are you turned only 90 degrees with one eye on what you are living for, another eye on God? This is how most Christians live. 1:43 And they keep walking and they don't make any progress towards God because they turned only 90 degrees. If you want to make progress towards God, picture this in your mind. I was spending living my life for myself and all the things that the world wanted. 1:58 And I repented. Instead of turning right around to face God and everything that He wants, I turned 90 degrees. And I go to church and I read the Bible and I pray and I do every single thing. And I wonder why I'm not making progress towards God. 2:15 Because you turned 90 degrees instead of 180 degrees. I want to encourage you during this conference to ask God to show you where you need to turn a little more towards the Lord. Where repentance is not just 50%, but 100%. 2:37 And the devil will always tell you, you'll miss out on so many things. You will not. You're already missing out on the best things in life by turning only 90 degrees. That's why your life is so frustrating. That's why you have so many complaints. 2:54 And that's why you still yell at your wife or yell at your husband. All that will disappear if you turn 180 degrees towards God. I'm telling you by my experience. It's a wonderful life. The devil always says, you won't be happy if you turn 180 degrees towards God. 3:12 You have to enjoy some things in this life. You have to watch some of those programs that are not so clean. On the internet. You have to spend a lot more time on the internet than reading the Bible. That's what the devil says. 3:30 You have to spend a lot more time on the internet than reading the Bible. And reading books about spiritual things. Books about spiritual things are boring. Look how interesting the internet is. Why is the internet so interesting? 3:49 Why are the things of God so boring? It's the work of the devil. He's changed the taste of things in our mouth and made us think that things which are harmful for us are interesting. You know, whenever somebody wants to poison someone, he will not put the poison in a bitter cup. 4:16 It will be the sweetest possible drink into which your enemy will put poison. So it is in the sweetest possible thing that the devil puts some poison in to destroy you. But the bitter cup which God gives, there's no poison in it. 4:36 That's the wonderful thing. God may sometimes take us through some difficult or bitter experiences, but there will be no poison in it. It will sanctify us and make us better. Jesus came to explain God, as I said in our last session. 4:53 To explain that the Father in heaven loves you more than anyone else. So when we speak about, I've got eternal life. What is eternal life? Turn with me to John chapter 17. Nobody explained this definition of eternal life when I got converted. 5:13 And I never heard it for all the years. I was in those different churches that I went to. I had to find it out for myself. If someone were to ask you, what is eternal life? My guess is that 90% of you will say it is to live forever. 5:32 That's not eternal life. People who go to hell live forever. Do they have eternal life? No. No. The demons live forever. Do they have eternal life? The definition of eternal, don't get it from the dictionary, get it from the Bible. 5:53 There are a lot of things which are defined in the dictionary, which are not the way we get it from the Bible. Many things. You can't learn humility from looking up to the definition of humility in the dictionary. Jesus said, learn from me, for I am humble in heart. 6:11 Matthew 11, 29. So, if you want to learn humility, you cannot get it from the dictionary. You get it by looking unto Jesus. So, eternal life. John 17, verse 3. Here is the Bible dictionary, which explains what eternal life is. 6:34 My dictionary is the Bible. I want to know what eternal life is, I turn to the Bible and look at a concordance and find out where is eternal life. Oh, John 17, 3. And Jesus defines it. This is eternal life. That they may know you, the only true God. 6:53 Know you means to know how holy you are, how good you are, how humble you are. And demonstrate it in the life of Jesus, whom you have sent. No one has seen God at any time. But now there is no excuse because Christ has come to earth and we have a Bible that has described the earthly life of Jesus. 7:20 And God wants to show that to us more and more and more. Eternal life is not living forever. Eternal life is knowing God more and more and more. So, I can possess more of eternal life every day. Some people think, I accepted Christ, I got eternal life. 7:43 Did you get any more after another year? No, I got it on the day I got converted. That's the wrong definition of eternal life. Knowing God is a progressive thing. And believe me, as I have come to know God more and more, it's changed my life. 8:00 It's knowing God that changes our life. It's knowing God that has changed my attitude to other people. It's knowing God that has made it very easy for me to forgive people. Do you find it difficult to forgive people? He spoke about forgiveness last night. 8:18 Do you find it difficult some particular person, how in the world can I forgive him? I'll tell you. If you know God through Jesus Christ, you'll find it's the easiest thing in the world to forgive the worst thing that anybody did to you. 8:32 It's because you don't know God. Make it the pursuit of your life to know God. Lord, I want to know you better. You know what Paul prayed? Lord, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection. And be conformed to his likeness. 8:53 That's what we should pray. Lord, I want to know you better. I want to know you better. In the Old Testament, husband and wife, relationships called knowing. The man knew his wife. But that is only a physical relationship. 9:16 But that is the type of, it's a picture. The physical relationship of man with a woman is a picture of the relationship God wants to have with us in our spirit. The closest physical relationship on earth is not father and son. 9:32 It's a husband and wife. You know that. But that physical relationship, which drives a man and woman to be together, to get married and to enjoy that relationship frequently, is a picture of the type of spiritual relationship God wants to have with me, not physically, but in my spirit. 9:54 And when I become a Christian, I'm married to Jesus Christ. He's my husband. And I'm his bride. And I can have as intimate a relationship with Christ in my spirit as any husband and wife can have in their body. 10:16 And as much as a husband and wife enjoy their time to get in the body, I enjoy my time union with Christ in the spirit. Do you have that type of enjoyment in your spirit relationship with Christ as a husband and wife have in their body? 10:30 If not, you're missing the most important thing in the Christian life. You sit back and say, I'm going to heaven. That's like a wife who says, I've got a big palace that my rich husband has provided for me as a home. That's not what I'm looking for. 10:45 I'll tell you honestly, I'm not looking forward to go to heaven. Does that surprise you? I'm looking forward to being with Jesus Christ, wherever he is. If he's going to live on earth for the next 10 million years, I say, I want to be there. 11:03 I don't want to be in heaven. I even told the Lord this. I said, Lord, I'd be happy to be with you in hell if you are there. Because hell will not be hell anymore for me. To me, heaven is the presence of Jesus Christ. And that is why I have begun to experience heaven even now. 11:24 It's a wonderful life, the Christian life. Imagine experiencing heaven on earth. It's not the golden streets and the mansions. I have zero, God is my witness, I say before him, I have zero interest in golden streets and palatial mansions. 11:41 What will I do with a 14-bedroom mansion in heaven? You can have it. I don't want it. I want to be with Jesus, wherever he is. I want to walk with him every single moment of all eternity. And I'll tell you something. Every moment of that eternity, I will learn something new about Christ because he's infinite. 12:03 And in the few years that I've known him on earth, it's been so exciting for me to know this wonderful Savior. To know him personally as an intimate friend to whom I can talk to him. First thing I do in the morning, every day, before I get out of bed, is talk to my beloved Savior and friend. 12:26 Do you do that? It will make a difference for your day. It will make a difference the way you treat your wife or your husband or your children or anyone, the way you treat difficult people in the office. If you begin your day, as soon as you wake up, say, Heavenly Father or Dad. 12:50 I call him Dad. Because there's a Hebrew word called Abba, which is translated into English as Dad. And it says in Romans 8, 16, the Spirit of God fills us and cries out, Abba. Calls out, Daddy. One mark of being filled with the Holy Spirit, one mark, is I look up to heaven and say, 13:17 Dad, no person in the Old Testament, even John the Baptist, could not call God, Dad. I can. You can. He's my father. Jesus said, when you pray, say, Our Father who art in heaven. Dad, our Father who loves me more than anyone loves in the world. 13:45 Who cares for me more than he cares for the birds. He provides food for every one of the millions of sparrows in the world. The only thing he'll provide for me, his child. I don't have any fear that he will take care of me till the end of my life. 14:06 And that's what we are called to prove on the earth. You may not be called to full-time Christian service like I was called 60 years ago. But I have proved in these 60 years that God takes care of me. Without my ever depending on any human being, without ever receiving a salary or anything. 14:27 It's unbelievable. That's how the apostles lived. That's how Jesus lived for the last three and a half years of his life. There are many things about the life of Jesus that he wants to show us because he wants to make that your life. 14:43 You know, when we receive Christ into our heart, he comes in the presence of the Holy Spirit. And the purpose is to communicate to us more and more of the life of Jesus as we walk with him. But to experience more and more of that, you must ask the Holy Spirit to show you how Jesus lived on earth. 15:07 And how Jesus reacted to the different circumstances. When he says, follow me, think of it like this. There is no situation in your life. It doesn't matter what your complicated situation is. No matter how difficult your family is, how difficult your boss is, whatever sickness you may have. 15:26 It makes absolutely zero difference. The Lord says, if you follow him, he who follows me will have the light of life. The Lord will give me light for every situation I face on earth. And I've already experienced that for 67 years. 15:46 And it's become brighter and brighter. Do you know that the light that God gives you is to become brighter and brighter and brighter? We are never supposed to backslide. The light you have today should become brighter by next year. 16:00 Just like your children grow taller every year, the light in your life must become brighter. Never become dim. That is the reason why God wants us to be filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has come to bring to us the life of Jesus. 16:17 So eternal life is not length of life. It is quality of life. It is the quality of life that God has. Not living for eternity, as I told you. The devil is living, has God living for eternity. Demons live for eternity. People who go to hell live for eternity. 16:36 That is not eternal life. It's not quantity. We measure everything on earth by quantity. With God, it is quality. Quality that matters more than quantity. Like in a church. Even in a church, many preachers assess a church by size. 16:52 How many people in your church? A hundred? Oh, has it become five hundred now? Oh, you're a blessed man. Not at all. If the other four hundred who added were all backslidden people, that's not a better church. It's a worse church. 17:05 Jesus had only twelve. You ask Jesus, how many people in your church? Twelve. And one is a crook. What sort of church is that? And that was the finest church that we had on earth, which turned the world upside down for two thousand years. 17:17 Eleven people Jesus had that turned the world upside down. And the effect has lasted two thousand years later. I'd rather have people like that than say, my church has got a hundred people or two hundred people or we've got so many hundred churches or two hundred churches. 17:33 It means nothing. What is the quality of the people in it? Not the number of people. The quality. It's better to have one child who's wholehearted than ten backslidden children. It's better to have a church with eleven people who are wholehearted disciples like Jesus had than a whole lot of people sitting there who fight with each other at home and quarrel and love money and all that type of stuff. 17:58 What kind of church is that? And that's how most churches are. And that's why God wants to have a pure testimony in every place where people are willing to sacrifice. Sacrifice is one of the principles that Jesus demonstrated in his life. 18:15 His entire life was a life of sacrifice. I ask people this question. You know, Bible quiz. Here's a Bible quiz. Let me know how many of you, if you heard me ask you this before you know the answer, but all the others here. 18:33 There are four Gospels that you know. What is the last verse in the last Gospel? And what does it teach us? The last verse, the last Gospel, and what do you learn from that? I'll read it to you. John 21, verse 25. 18:54 After writing all that was written about Jesus' life in four wonderful Gospels, what is the last thing the Holy Spirit says? The last thing. You've read all the four Gospels, you think you know everything about the life of Jesus, you do not know. 19:10 The last verse says, there are many other things which Jesus did. Which, if those were written in detail, I suppose even the world will not contain, be able to contain the books that are written about all the other things that Jesus did. 19:32 And when I read that, a longing comes in my heart. I want to know those other things that Jesus did. When you read the four Gospels, aren't you excited at the things that you read that Jesus did? Can you imagine if you could know about all the other things that Jesus did, which are not written in the four Gospels? 19:52 I was excited when I read that verse. I said, Lord, I want to know those other things. I've read through the Gospels, four Gospels, so many times, perhaps a hundred times. And I know everything that Jesus did. I know how many people he raised from the dead. 20:06 And I know how he brought Lazarus out of the grave. And everything I know. But there's still so much more that he did. Is it possible for me to know? If there is so much information there that he says the world cannot contain the number of books. 20:24 It's an amazing verse. I want to ask you all. How many of you have meditated on this last verse of the last Gospel? Because when you meditate, not just read and forget. Many people read and forget. I don't know how many of you knew what that last verse, when I asked you that question today. 20:47 How many of you ever thought of it? That there are many, many millions of other things that Jesus did. Which are not written here. And when you read that, you have a longing to know. I have a tremendous longing to know because, I'll tell you why. 21:05 Because I want to pattern my life after that. I want to know how Jesus lived at home. I want to know. He was a carpenter. He was not employed by somebody else. He ran his own shop. I don't know what type of things he was making. 21:23 He was making stools and benches and tables. I want to know, how did he deal with customers? How did he deal with the customer who cheated him? How did he deal with the customer who didn't pay the bill? And supposing, once he was making a table and there was a slight crack in the table and he put some putty in it and polished it up so that you couldn't even make out there was a crack. 21:45 Would he tell the customer who came that there's a crack there and tell him, you can pay less for that table because there's a crack here which I've covered up. I learned something from that. That is how I must treat customers. 21:58 I must be absolutely honest. Well, sir, this table, there was a slight crack here. So, I put it up with putty. That's what Jesus would have said. And you can pay less for it. Are there Christians who do business like that? 22:16 Who are righteous down to the last dot? They are the most blessed people on earth. There are many things that Jesus did. How did Jesus respond when, as a young boy, he was playing whatever was the equivalent of baseball in those days. 22:34 All games are a bat and a ball, whether it's cricket or baseball or anything. And there must have been some type of game there that Jesus went to play with other boys. And when it came to his time to bat, the most important time, his mother calls him from home, Jesus, come here. 22:52 What do you do? What does a 12-year-old child do when it's his turn to bat? And his mother calls. You can teach your children what Jesus did. He dropped his bat and went to see his mother. Mommy, what do you want? And all the other boys would have teased him. 23:12 And he goes home and his mother says, Jesus, go and get some water from the well. They don't have taps those days. The water's run out. Can you go and take this bucket and go and get some water from the well? And Jesus goes and does that, brings the bucket. 23:24 12-year-old boy. And he comes back. By the time he comes back, his turn for batting is over. And all the other boys are mad at him. Because of you, we lost the match. You mama's boy running away when mama calls you. You should have been here. 23:39 Told mama to wait. Not Jesus. Jesus would not tell mama to wait. He'd drop his bat and go. Why do I say that? Because that's how I want to live. And that's how I want to teach my children to live, to obey their parents. 24:00 And that's why it went so well with Jesus' life. Because the little things, these are the little things. You say, Brother Zach, where did you read that? I read it in John 21, verse 25. I'll tell you many other things I learned in John 21, verse 25. 24:18 Lots of things that the Lord showed me. And you say, how did he show it to you? I'll tell you. There's no partiality. What he did for me, he'll do for you. The answer to John 21, verse 25, how to discover it, is revealed in John 16. 24:36 That's how I discovered it. And you can discover it too. It's in your Bible too. How to discover the things that Jesus did, which I want to know, because I want to live like that. John 16. Verse 12. 24:57 I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. Really, Lord? You mean there are things not written in the four Gospels which you want to tell me? And the Lord says, yes. I want to ask you. Have you heard anything from Jesus which is not written in the four Gospels? 25:19 Or is your knowledge of what Jesus is teaching limited to the four Gospels? Not mine. I went to John 16, verse 12. And he told his disciples, I cannot tell you certain things because you don't have the Holy Spirit. Next verse. 25:37 When the Holy Spirit has come, he will tell you all those things which I cannot tell you now because you cannot understand them without the Holy Spirit. Do you know that when you get the Holy Spirit in you, he will give you revelation on the things which the average human being, any human being cannot understand with his natural ability. 25:58 If you try to understand the Bible and Jesus with your mind, you will get less than 1% of the knowledge of Jesus. 99% of the knowledge of Jesus comes through the Holy Spirit revealing to you things which are not written here. 26:15 The Spirit is here. And it's from the scripture he will show you things which you can't read with and understand with your mind. I'm not talking about things outside the Bible. I'm talking about things in the Bible but you can't see it. 26:30 Let me show you a passage here before I go further. 2 Corinthians 3. You probably hear things from me which you probably never hear in any other church. Because that's one of the things the Lord taught me when he called me to serve him. 26:51 He said, I want you to read the Bible. And I want you to hear what other Christians are preaching. Read their books. I read many Christian preachers. I've listened to many Christian preachers in my life. And the Lord said, 27:08 Now read the Bible carefully and find out the things that others are not preaching. And I want you to preach them. And I want you to preach them. That's my calling. My calling is to preach the things that other Christians are not preaching. 27:21 But which are in, which the Holy Spirit wants us to know. It's something like, you know, supposing there's a picture, a painting, a drawing, without, not without any color. And you tell your child, I want you to color this. 27:37 See, this is the picture of what it should look like. Maybe a painting of a scenery or some flower garden or something. And here's the outline of that. Now use these color pencils and put exactly the same color here on this side. 27:52 Make it look exactly like that picture. And you know how children are. They'll go outside the border and they'll forget to fill up some gaps. That's how a lot of Christian preaching is today. So many things which are not taught 28:05 by most preachers. That's what the Lord told me. Read the Bible and see the things which are there which you learn by revelation of the Holy Spirit. And then listen to what other people are preaching and teach what others are not teaching. 28:18 Why should I teach? I mean, if a child has already filled up one part of that painting, I don't have to go and color that again. I look at all the other parts which the child did not fill up. And I have to teach that. That's why a lot of things I teach 28:29 which are not taught by others. Those are the things which are in the Bible. But which are not obvious. Okay, here it is. 2 Corinthians 3. I need this handkerchief. Verse 15. To this day when they read Moses, there's a veil. 28:49 Here's a handkerchief. I put it over the Bible. And I try to read it. I get a few faint words here and there. This is how reading the Bible without the Holy Spirit's power. You get a few things here and there. Ah, my sins can be forgiven if I forgive. 29:09 Strain and I hardly get anything. Do you find it like that when you read the Bible that you hardly get anything out of it? There's a veil over it. But when the veil is taken away, when you turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 29:26 Which Lord? Verse 17. The Holy Spirit. This is the only place in the Bible, in the New Testament, where the Holy Spirit is called Lord. In every other place, Jesus Christ is Lord. But here the Holy Spirit is called Lord. 29:50 He is the Lord. And when a person turns to this Lord, this veil is taken away and wow, I see something there that I never saw till now. I'll tell you, it's amazing what the Lord began to open my eyes to when I was baptized in the Holy Spirit 30:09 51 years ago. I'd been seeking God many, many years because I was so defeated in my life, so discouraged and defeated. And I said, Lord, I know there's an answer to this in the Bible and the answer is to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 30:24 And I don't want a shallow experience. I grew up in a brethren assembly when I was first born again 67 years ago and I'm very thankful for them because they emphasize the study of the Bible and I was very thankful. I didn't know the Bible 30:40 and I began to study it. I was with them for eight years, studied the Bible, studied the Bible and but it was all academic knowledge, head knowledge. In the brethren assembly, there was zero emphasis on the Holy Spirit and power. 30:53 If anybody talk about the Holy Spirit, it was almost like he was considered a heretic, false teaching. So I didn't know what to do because I saw in the Bible that Jesus spoke about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and I said, 31:06 Lord, there's something I don't, I seem to have missing because the Bible seems so dry so often. Do you find the Bible dry? I don't find it but I did find it in the beginning, academic knowledge. It was like studying some complicated physics book 31:22 or something like it, heavy stuff and somebody told me, Brother Zach, you need to go to the Pentecostals, the other ones who talk about the Holy Spirit. I said, okay. I don't know who the Pentecostals are. He was a new believer 31:36 and I said, take me there. So one brother who happened to know somebody in the Pentecostal church took me there to a Pentecostal pastor. I'm giving you my testimony. I'm not criticizing anybody. I'm giving you my testimony. 31:50 The honest truth. I was about 23 years old. I was in the Navy. So I went along to this pastor's house. This man took me there and I said, I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. I want to be baptized in the Holy Spirit 32:06 and fire like John the Baptist said Jesus would do it. And he said, okay, kneel down here with me. I said, sure. And this is the honest truth what he told me. He said, keep saying hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, 32:21 keep on saying it and after some time, maybe an hour or so, your tongue will trip and suddenly you'll begin to utter some other syllables and that is speaking in tongues and you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. I said, 32:38 no, thank you, sir. That is not the way the apostles got the fullness of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost and that sounds to me counterfeit. I don't want it. I'm not looking for speaking in tongues. I'm looking to be filled 32:51 with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ that will make me more like Christ in my life. But the Pentecostal, that man anyway, was only interested and he thought speaking in tongues is fullness of the Holy Spirit. I said, no. 33:06 So I said, goodbye to the Pentecostals. I love them but I never went back to a Pentecostal church again. I went home. I was in the naval base. I had a room to myself. I said, Lord, why do I have to, I went here, I went there, 33:19 I don't get the real thing. Now you tell me how to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and power. And you know what the Lord told me? Look at how Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit. And I looked there and I read that Jesus went to 33:39 John the Baptist to be baptized. And you know that story? How most of you know it? If you don't know it, turn with me. Matthew chapter 3. Jesus went to be baptized. John, 33:59 Matthew chapter 3. And Jesus, you know baptism, by the word the baptism, that's another thing. Today they talk about child baptism. That's because we don't know the word baptism, what it means. First of all, the baptize 34:16 is not an English word. That's why we don't know the meaning. Baptize is a Greek word which is imported into the Indian language, into the English language and nobody knows what it meant. You know, in the year 1611, King James of England 34:34 authorized the Bible to be translated. That's what is known as the King James Version. The first, most well-known version of the Bible is the King James Version. It's called King James Version because in the year 1611, King James said, 34:48 okay, I authorize you to translate. Till then, the Bible could not be translated. A lot of people were killed for trying to translate the Bible. But then finally, the King authorized it in England and there came out the first authorized, 35:00 it's called the authorized version or the King James Version. But King James said to all the leaders of the church, when you translate the Bible, please don't translate something that will disturb church traditions because England 35:16 had just broken away from the Roman Catholic Church and become Protestant and he didn't want any complications. And he said, don't disturb church traditions when you translate the Bible, be careful. In other words, don't put something there 35:30 which will create some problem in the church. So, here were these honest, God-fearing translators. They came to this word, which is very early in the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew chapter 3, that John the Baptist baptized people. 35:47 The Greek word is baptizo, bapto, baptizo. And they knew Greek very well. Baptizo means immersed. They should have translated it. And John the Baptist immersed people in the water. And Jesus was immersed in the water. And Jesus will 36:07 immerse you in the Holy Spirit. But they said, we dare not translate it as immersed. Because in the Anglican churches there, children were sprinkled. there was no immersion there at all. And they were scared. King James had told them, 36:27 don't you dare shake church traditions. Don't talk about immersion or any such thing. So, what to do? They couldn't tell a lie. They couldn't translate it as Jesus will sprinkle you. How can they sprinkle you? That's not the right 36:40 translation. That would be dishonesty. They were God-fearing people, so they did a very clever thing. They invented they added on this word, the Greek word baptize, into the English language and called it baptize, which nobody knew 36:56 the meaning, what it meant, because it was a new word. And people got this King James Version and they read about they were baptized. Oh, what's that? Oh, I presume that's what they do to children in the church. That is how 37:13 they talk about child baptism. Baptism means immersion. that's the only thing. There is no such thing as a sprinkling baptism. That's garbage. They did it to save their necks so that King James doesn't hang them for translating it 37:29 as immersed. But now we know what it means. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit means he'll immerse you in the Holy Spirit. You'll be drenched with the Holy Spirit from top to bottom. The Holy Spirit will make you like Christ. 37:47 Matthew 3.11 So I said, Lord, I want this. And then I saw how Jesus was anointed. It says when Jesus was baptized or immersed Matthew 3.16 He was immersed in the water and as he came up from the water 38:07 John the Baptist didn't sprinkle water on Jesus' head. He immersed him. And then as he came up from the water the heavens were opened and the Spirit of God came upon him and anointed him. And the Lord showed me from Romans 6 38:24 you know what immersion means. Immersion means you're allowing your old self to be dead and buried and a new person rising from the dead. Immersion in water the real baptism in water is saying I want my old self to be dead 38:44 and buried and I want to come out as a new person in Christ. That is the meaning of baptism. And many of you who were baptized probably did not know that's your testimony. And then the Spirit of God came upon Jesus and the Lord 39:01 spoke to me you don't have to go in here and there to seek for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. If you allow me to lead you into situations where you have to die to yourself and allow people to put you down and you accept it 39:21 I will raise you up and I will anoint you. So I decided that's the way I want to go. I choose to die with Christ in every situation to my own choice to my own will to everything that I want. I die with Christ. The Lord 39:42 has promised to raise me up. I will not submit to that death if I think I'm going to be buried there. See every person who submits to water baptism believes that the guy will lift him up. I would not submit to an enemy baptizing me. 39:57 He'll put me down in the water and leave me there. And so I don't believe the Lord will leave me there if I die to myself. He will lift me up and anoint me and what the Lord said to me that day I remember it so clearly 1963 40:09 because I was fed up with seeking baptism and Holy Spirit in the Pentecostal church I came home and the Lord said this is how Jesus was anointed. Submit to other people putting you to death inwardly. Accept it. I will raise you up 40:25 and the power of the Spirit will come upon you. And the Lord said to me the day you decide not to walk this way my Spirit will depart from you. I was scared. Ah Lord I never want to go away. This is the way of the cross. 40:45 This is what Jesus meant when he said if you want to follow me Luke 9 23 take up your cross every day and follow me. I need to be filled with the Holy Spirit every day and this is the way every day go down say Lord I'm willing to 41:02 accept death to myself in every situation when I'm tempted to do something tempted to look at something which is sinful tempted to speak something that is sinful die. Do dead men look at anything? No. Do dead men say anything? 41:18 No. Die. I will raise you up and put my words into your mouth because you refuse to speak those angry words I'll put my words into your mouth. Because you refuse to gossip with your tongue I'll put my words on your tongue. 41:34 You know why many people don't have the anointing of the Holy Spirit when they speak? They are using their tongue for gossip backbiting rebuking telling lies and getting angry with people why in the world should God put his word 41:47 on your tongue? Never! You'll have a counterfeit message die to choosing your own words and God will put his words on your tongue. There's a price to be paid you can't corrupt the word of God by mixing it with your gossip 42:05 and your backbiting and your anger and your bitterness and say Lord now put your word on my tongue. He will not do it. It'll be a corrupt word that comes out of your mouth. It'll be a corrupt message that you preach to other 42:18 people. Die! This is why from that day onwards I have preached death to self. And my favorite verse has been 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 it's not a favorite verse for many Christians it is for 42:39 me. 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 10 Always always means 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks of the year always carrying about in my body the dying 43:00 of Jesus. What is this dying of Jesus? It's not the physical crucifixion of Christ. I've never been crucified physically. I don't think I'll ever be crucified because they've got rid of those type of punishments nowadays. 43:13 But it's that inward dying of Jesus. What did Jesus die to inwardly? If I understand that and I accept it the life of Jesus will be manifested in my body. Wow! Just think of that little expression at the end of verse 10. 43:31 the life of Jesus being manifested through my eyes, through my tongue, through my hands, the life of Jesus coming forth. Wow! Lord, there's nothing else I want. 24 hours a day I want the life of Jesus to come forth from me, 43:51 especially from my tongue. not just when I'm in the pulpit, when I'm at home, when I speak to my wife, when I speak to people who are angry with me and who yell at me. I want the life of Jesus to come forth from my tongue. 44:09 What is the secret, Lord? The Lord says, you've got to die. What is this dying of Jesus? And then I began to try to understand, what is this? And the Lord said, allow the others to push you down. This is baptism. Allow others 44:27 to put you to death. Don't resist it. Don't resist the person who is putting you to death. Accept it quietly. I will raise you up and my spirit will come upon you. And I tell you, I've experienced it. It's easy for me to 44:45 preach. Now, many people find it a big struggle to preach. I was never a public speaker. In my younger days, I was the most shy, the most reserved, the quietest boy in my class. People laughed at me when they heard that I was 45:06 joining the military. They said, Zach, you're going to defend our nation, you timid old young fellow. That's what I was. But when God fills you with the spirit, you become another person. You're changed into another man. 45:23 But you have to accept the dying of Jesus 24 hours a day. Lord, I die to myself. In other words, you know, the dying of Jesus, let me read this in Luke 9, 23, if you're not familiar. This is one of my favorite verses. 45:44 2 Corinthians 4, 10, I read it to you. Luke 9, 23. If anyone, that's important, anyone, is your name there? Yes, anyone means you. Anyone wishes to come after me. Don't you want to come after Jesus? Is anybody 46:05 here who doesn't want to follow Jesus? If you don't want to follow Jesus, I have no message for you. But if any, anyone, maybe you're the worst prostitute, demon-possessed like Mary Magdalene, you can be the first in the 46:21 kingdom of God. Anyone wants to come after me, my brothers and sisters, I believe all of you have taken the trouble, spent the money to travel here and come here and taken the trouble to come because you want to go after Jesus. 46:39 I believe that. Everyone sitting here, even the younger ones, even those who are made a miserable failure of their life, you've come here because you want to become a better person, you want to follow Jesus, I really believe that. 46:51 Even if other people around you don't believe it, I believe it, otherwise you wouldn't be here listening to me. So you qualify, you wish to come after him, okay, then here's the answer for you. You must deny yourself, number one. 47:08 Deny yourself means you must say no to the voice of self that speaks up from you. And the voice of self is always clamoring inside you to do this, do that, say this, say that. When he speaks to you like this, say this back to him. 47:25 When your husband speaks like this, you tell him like this. When your wife speaks like this, you speak to her like this. Say no to that voice. Put it to death. Immerse it. Think of baptism. This voice is coming up within 47:41 me to speak to your wife like that, speak to your husband like that, speak to that person like that. Bury it. Take a baptism there. Immerse that voice. Immerse that person. And take up the cross. That is death. That is the dying 47:57 of Jesus. And follow me. What will be the result? 2nd Corinthians 4. 10. Always 24-7 carrying about in this body this attitude of the dying of Jesus. Because Jesus died to himself all the time. He denied 48:17 himself all the time. And I'll prove that to you from how Jesus lived in John chapter 6. I won't teach you anything which is not in the scripture. John chapter 6 and verse 38. 38. I call this the autobiography of Jesus. 48:37 We have four biographies of Jesus. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. You know what a biography is? The story of man written by somebody else. Autobiography is the story of man written by himself. Is there an autobiography of Jesus 48:50 somewhere? A description of his life written by himself? people say no. I say there is. It's in John chapter 6 and verse 38. What did Jesus do in his entire 33 and a half years? Here it is in one verse. A one 49:10 sentence autobiography of Jesus Christ. I came from heaven and Lord what did you do for 33 and a half years on earth? Give me an autobiography. In one sentence he describes his entire life on earth. I never did my own will but 49:27 I always did the will of my father. In one sentence he described what he did for 33 and a half years. That is the life of Jesus. He never did his own will but always the will of his father. Did he have a will of his own? 49:43 Yes. Otherwise there is no virtue in saying I never did my own will. A beggar saying I gave up all my wealth. There is nothing great about that. If a millionaire says it it is something. If Jesus did not have a will of his 49:58 own to say I gave up my own will means nothing. He had a very strong will of his own. He never did it. He always said not my will. Even on the last day of his life on earth in Gethsemane. What was the great struggle going 50:12 on? Not my will but thine to the most painful decision that he ever had to take in his whole life. Till then for 33 and a half years whenever he said no to his own will it was easy. When the high priest and the others questioned 50:32 him there was a desire to answer back and the father said keep quiet. He kept quiet. He didn't reply. And they pestered him. Why don't you say? No. He kept quiet. He died to himself the desire to defend 50:52 oneself. He died. He never did his own will and in Gethsemane when he was facing the greatest struggle of his life. The greatest struggle of Jesus' life was when he came near to the cross. Not the physical pain of the cross. 51:10 He was not afraid of that. Not even physical death. He was not afraid of shame, ridicule, mocking. All that was okay. But one thing, when you hang on that cross, first three hours will be okay. It will be just pain, the 51:26 pain of hanging on the cross. But the last three hours, your father will cut off his connection with you, the connection that you had for all eternity. Now that doesn't sound terrible to us. I'll tell you why. Because even 51:45 Christians many times in their life, their connection with God is broken because of some sin, and they are quite happy. For example, let me give you an example. You haven't forgiven somebody. Your connection with God is 51:57 broken, but you don't know it. But you are quite happy. Haven't some of you lived with knowledge remained the same. You went to church and everything. You didn't commit some gross sin, you didn't commit adultery, but your 52:16 connection with God was not what it could have been if you had forgiven that person. A little bit of that connection is like the 110 volts in your electricity came down to 10 volts. It didn't disturb you. It didn't disturb 52:32 you that the lights were not they don't realize what they lose for the time which they have not forgiven somebody or because they answer back to their wife in the same angry tone that the wife spoke to 52:52 them or reply to somebody else or to a slight little unrighteousness in money matters. They don't realize they've lost something in the life of God. They paid a price for that lie they have told. And the voltage has come 53:12 down and they seem to live comfortably with it. Jesus could not. He did not want the fellowship of the father to be broken even slightly. That which he enjoyed for all eternity. To be cut off from his father was the most 53:28 terrible punishment you could give to Jesus. And he came near it. It pained him, pained him. Oh father, what you and I have enjoyed together for eternity. It's so great there's no way to express it in human terms. A billionaire 53:47 losing his billions, a trillionaire losing his trillions is nothing. There's no way to explain this. A man with perfect health becoming a sick person cannot explain it. Even that is not a good explanation. There is no human 54:00 explanation that can explain what it means to the fellowship that Jesus had and he struggled there and I can imagine I used to I pictured this in my mind many years ago when I saw it you know when I read the scriptures I say 54:20 Lord make this real to me that the Holy Spirit make it real to me the things which are not written in the scripture which you said the world will not contain the books show me something about it what went through Jesus mind 54:32 in Gethsemane it's not written in the scripture and I pictured it something like this that the father telling Jesus you have lived for 33 and a half years on earth never committed a single perfect 54:52 life you have pleased me perfectly you can come straight up to heaven from Gethsemane you qualify but if you do that I was praying and this is what the Lord showed me the father telling Jesus if you do that Zach 55:12 will go to hell Zach is going to be born another 2000 years later but he will go to hell and Jesus knows the future Zach will go to hell okay father I'll go to the cross I 55:40 cannot tell you what it did to me the day I saw it I said Lord I will never never live 56:02 for myself again for the rest of my life on earth I'm not interested in money honor comfort anything as you gave yourself for me I give myself to you in a more meaningful way than I've ever done in the past it changed the 56:21 direction of my life I was always a Christian from the time I was born again but I understood that day what it meant to take up the cross so many people talk so glibly about taking up the cross dying to sell that day I understood 56:39 what it cost Jesus to save my soul I could I could no longer sing about the cross lightly where the whole realm of nature mine that were 57:00 an offering far too small love so amazing so divine demands my soul my life my all or many people think of the physical suffering on the cross I used to see those movies when I was a little child you know movies made of Jesus 57:19 and whenever I saw Jesus being crucified I would weep every single time but it was the physical suffering but the day the Lord showed me how Jesus said if Zach has to go to hell then I'll go to the cross it changed my life 57:36 completely you've heard me say that you can put your name there but it won't mean the same it won't mean the same until you seek God desperately and say Lord reveal it in my heart what it meant for you and where would I 57:55 be if you had not gone that way it will change your attitude to sin completely you will never raise your voice in anger against anybody after that you'll be finished with that because that's what took Jesus to the cross 58:13 you'll never love money after that you'll never be unrighteous in any area after that you will never fight with another believer for anything after that you will stand for righteousness you will never lust after a woman 58:27 after that you'll be loyal and true to your wife even in your thoughts from that day onwards your entire life will change if you can see Jesus the things that are not written in the gospels the dying of Jesus if you 58:48 bear it the life of Jesus will come forth from you you cannot produce the life of Jesus you accept the dying of Jesus he will produce the life of Jesus in you this is called the exchanged life where I exchange my rotten 59:04 corrupt Adamic life for the Christ life I can only testify to it I cannot give it to you I can tell you how I found it and I can tell you that God will do the same for you if you seek him diligently Hebrews 59:24 chapter 11 and verse 6 when you come to God this is faith what is faith Hebrews 11 6 without 59:45 faith it is impossible to please God Hebrews 11 6 we all talk about faith but we don't know what faith really is without faith it is impossible to please God but when you come to God this is what faith is you must believe 1:00:00 that he is that God exists there is a God up there he's not non-existent there is a real God more real than any human being I know more real than my brothers and sisters and my wife and your husband or parents or anybody more 1:00:16 real than that there is a God the reality of that God many even believers don't have there is a God who's more real than any person you know on the earth and you must believe that he's a rewarder of those who seek him diligently 1:00:31 that's what the King James version says and that's what I love the King James version translation he's a rewarder of those who seek him diligently he is a rewarder this is faith faith is to believe that if I seek God diligently 1:00:46 he will reward me and I seek God to be filled with the Holy Spirit he will fill me with the Holy Spirit if I seek him diligently if I seek him half-heartedly I'll get nothing and if you got nothing you did not seek him diligently 1:01:02 this word cannot fail you cannot say God did not reward you even though you sought him diligently you did not seek him diligently if you did he would have rewarded you with the fullness of his Holy Spirit so that rivers of 1:01:16 living water would have been flowing through you without any effort you know the difference between a hand pump and a river we have hand pumps in the villages in India because there are no there's no water supply in the 1:01:29 houses so in some places the government puts up pumps connected to some underwater pool or something and you have to pump and pump and pump and water comes out that was my Christian life for many years even preaching the word 1:01:45 boy it was a struggle pump and pump and pump and pump and pump and I could say something many of you preach the word be honest there are many preachers sitting here how do you preach you pump and pump and pump and pump and pump 1:02:02 and something comes out it's not supposed to be like that you think Jesus did like that you think Jesus pumped and pumped and pumped and finally got some words out of his mouth it was the river that came out of Jesus life 1:02:16 if you seek him diligently he will do the same for you these are the things not written in the four gospels which Jesus can do how to 1:02:46 how to find out the things which are not written in the four gospels which the world cannot contain what all Jesus did what a statement that is the world cannot contain if it is written down all the things that Jesus did and I 1:03:03 say I want to know it lord I'm passionate to know that I'm not so passionate to read the news or to go to the internet and find out how the war is going on and what the price of oil is and what the economy is like yeah I read 1:03:20 it one sentence finished but I'm not passionate to know that I'm passionate to know the things that were not revealed in the four gospels the things that Jesus did and said and thought is it possible for me to know and the lord says 1:03:34 yes he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him John 16 verse 12 is a similar word I have many more things to say to you but you cannot understand them now because you don't have the holy spirit but when the spirit 1:03:53 of truth is come he will guide you into all the truth this here's something the holy spirit will do that last verse of John's gospel you read things which are not written in the gospels here it is the holy spirit last part of 1:04:08 verse 14 the holy spirit will take of those things of mine which are not written in the gospels and he will show them to you wow that's where I got the answer to the last verse of John's gospel the things which are not written 1:04:24 in the gospels when the holy spirit is coming take of the things of mine things of mine what I don't need the holy spirit to read what's written in the gospels that Jesus raised the dead even a heathen can read it and say that Jesus 1:04:37 raised up Lazarus from the dead after three days you don't need the holy spirit for that that Jesus healed the sick Jesus cleansed the lepers you don't need the holy spirit to know all that any unconverted non-christian 1:04:51 can know that but the things which are not written john 21 25 those things only the holy spirit will show you which are not written here he will take of mine take of mine means the things in my life which I lived for 33 and a 1:05:04 half years on earth he will take those things the holy spirit and disclose disclose is not tell you there's a difference between telling you something and disclosing something disclosing is hey this is a secret don't tell 1:05:19 anybody else this is just between me and you that's called disclosing something that is hidden like the confidential secrets of a nation are disclosed by some top officials to somebody the holy spirit will disclose them 1:05:36 to you I read that and say lord I want it even if other Christians don't want it I want it and I don't want it because I want to preach about it that is seeking honor I want it for my life I want to say that to you dear 1:05:51 brothers and sisters don't seek it because you want to go and preach that to somebody else that is seeking honor you will not get it you say oh I would like to say some of those things which does disclose certain things 1:06:04 I'd like to talk about that you'll ruin yourself seeking your honor don't seek honor for yourself you'll get nothing from God you'll get a lot from the devil if you seek your own honor when you come to the Lord death to 1:06:22 self a man who's buried under water what is he seeking dead I've understood the way of the cross like this what does it mean Jesus take up the cross and follow me I picture a dead man here tell me what is he seeking how much 1:06:38 honor is he seeking for himself completely dead not like children playing dead and pretending to be dead no no no really dead what is he seeking any honor zero the Lord says be like that seek zero honor for yourself how will he 1:07:02 react to somebody who says you're an idiot you're a good for nothing person no change of expression fantastic isn't it that is taking up the cross somebody else comes along saying oh you're a great prophet you're the greatest 1:07:18 man of God I've ever met no change of expression that is dying to self have you got there you can get there if you want to if you seek for it seek and you will find he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him you've 1:07:38 been seeking for money you've been seeking for power you've been seeking to become a great preacher forget all that seek to die from today onwards and you'll get far more than you seek you'll get the resurrection life of 1:07:52 Jesus Christ Amen let's pray Heavenly Father help us we pray to seek for the things that are eternal of eternal value everyone here change our lives Lord change the direction of our lives help us to live for you 100% and 1:08:11 not just play the fool Christian words help us we pray in Jesus name Amen
