3:24 and sisters, let's join together and sing our first song. Come on and celebrate his gift of love. We will celebrate [Music] 3:41 and cate his gift of love. We will celebrate the son of God who loved us and gave us life. We'll shout your praise, oh king. You give us joy nothing else can bring. 4:00 We'll give to you our offering. Celebration pray. Come on and celebrate. Celebrate. Celebrate and sing. 4:15 Celebrate and sing to the king. Come on and celebrate. Celebrate. Celebrate and sing. Celebrate and sing to the king. Join with us. Sing from the top. Come on 4:34 and celebrate his gift of love. We will celebrate the son of God who loves us and give us life. We'll shout your praise. Oh king. You give us joy nothing else can bring. We 4:53 give to you our offering. Celebration. Praise. Come on and celebrate. Celebrate, celebrate and sing. Celebrate and sing to the king. 5:13 Come on and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate and sing. Celebrate and sing to the king. Please be seated. [Music] 5:37 Fellowship. Oh, how sweet. [Music] Fellowship in the light and in truth. Fellowship. 5:57 [Music] Oh, how sweet fellowship with the saints here on earth. Blessed home in the church I have found. 6:17 Blessed brotherhood holy and pure. Blessed for days of heaven on earth. Blessed fellowship here with the saint. Fellowship, 6:35 oh how sweet fellowship in the light and in truth. Fellowship, [Music] oh how sweet fellowship with the saints here on earth. 6:53 We thank you Lord for the body of Christ. Thank you Lord for the shepher so good. Thank you Lord for the prophetic word. Thank you Lord for the fellowship. 7:13 Sweet. Fellowship. Oh, how sweet. Fellowship in the light and in truth. Fellowship, oh how sweet. 7:31 Fellowship with the saints here on earth. Oh, how good and how pleasant it is for the brothers in unity to dwell. 7:47 It's like you so refreshing and good. God commands life and blessing or fellowship. Oh, how sweet. 8:03 Fellowship in the light and in truth. Fellowship, oh how sweet. Fellowship with the saint. Fellowship only voices sing. Fellowship, 8:22 oh how sweet. Fellowship in the light and in truth. Fellowship. Oh, how sweet. Fellowship with the saints here on earth. 8:41 [Music] Thanks and I give you thanks for all you have done. I am so blessed. My soul is at rest. Lord, I give you thanks. Sing, [Music] 9:05 thanks. I give you thanks for all you done. [Music] I am so blessed. My soul is at rest. Oh Lord, 9:24 I give you thanks for the trump again. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. I give you thanks for all you done. I am so blessed. 9:44 My soul is at rest. Oh Lord, I give you thanks. Thank you Lord for the strength you give to simply carry on through life's toys 10:01 and test worst and best. You never left me alone. You always right beside me and you hear me when I pray. Since I first began, you've been my dearest friend and give you all the praise. Please join with us. 10:20 Brothers and sisters, thanks. Thanks. I give you thanks for all you done. [Music] I am so blessed. 10:37 My soul is at rest. Oh Lord, I give you thanks. I give you thanks for this moment and I will continually for each day I live your presence to 10:56 give and blessed abundantly. I can't forget that moment when in my life you made such change since the spirit came. I've not been the same. We just want to give you thanks. 11:13 [Music] Thanks. I give you thanks for all you done. I am so blessed. 11:30 My soul is at rest. Oh Lord, I give you thanks. Oh Lord, I give you. Oh Lord, I give you thank them. We praise you for your faithfulness, 12:09 oh Lord, for your father's love that never fails. Who am I? The king above my shepher. 12:28 Who am I that you should call me friend? No wor than the angels for a time to suffer death. 12:45 For only you alone are my one high priest, my only sacriice and my head 13:01 before the throne. Do you know all my ways? Yes. Your love for me and yours 13:21 when I take all this. Oh, I love you more and more. I praise you for your faithfulness, 13:40 oh Lord. Oh Lord, help us to love you more and more. Amen. Shall we all stand? [Music] Heat. Heat. 14:21 Should [Music] we all sing together? We place you 14:43 on the highest place. For you are the great high priest. [Music] We praise you high above 15:03 all else. And we come to you and worship 15:19 at your feet. Sing one more time. We place you on the highest place. For you 15:40 are the great high priest. We place you high above all else. Earth and we come to you 16:05 and worship at your feet. [Music] And we come to you and worship 16:24 at your feet. [Music] Dear brothers and sisters, shall we bow 17:08 down to prayer? As we just sang, what a great privilege it is for us to worship at the feet of the creator of this universe. Though we are sinful creatures, the Lord called us, cleansed us, 17:27 and washed us with his blood and clothed us with his righteousness so that we can worship at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let's continue in the same spirit. I'd like to read a few verses from Psalm 107 verse 4 onwards. 17:44 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region. They did not find a way to an inhabited city. They were hungry and thirsty. Their soul fainted within them. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble. He delivered them out of their 18:02 distresses. He led them also by a straight way to go to an inhabited city. It says, "Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loving kindness." If this is your testimony, this is how the Lord led you, brothers and sisters. 18:20 Let's be thankful, not rec not not forgetting from where the Lord has picked us up. Let's come with a heart of uh gratitude and thanks. No matter what hinders us, what clouds before our eyes, let's uh have faith and look through and open our hearts and 18:39 open our tongues, open our mouth and thank give thanks and praise to the Lord. Our heavenly father, we want to thank you and praise you for loving us. You loved us with an everlasting love. Thank you, Father. Thank you for such a 18:52 great love. Thank you Lord Jesus for taking our place on the cross, taking our punishment upon you Lord Jesus setting us free from sin and hell and Lord setting us free Lord from so many things. Lord thank you for leading us. 19:05 Thank you Lord for guiding us to the church. It is you who led us Lord all these years. It is your spirit who built us together Lord Jesus. We thank you for your word. Thank you for the prophetic word in the church. Thank you for the 19:16 holy spirit Lord which you have given to us. Thank you for the fellowship of the saints. Thank you for brothers and sisters. many families you have added over the years and thank you Lord. Thank you Lord for all that you did for us 19:27 Lord. We want to thank you and praise you Lord. You alone are worthy to be praised and to be exalted. You are the King of Kings, Lord of Lord. We bless you with all our heart Lord. We praise you, bless you. Thank you Lord. Thank 19:38 you Lord. Thank you for this day and even this morning we ask you Lord for a word from heaven. Anoint your servant as he speaks your word. Thank you father. In Jesus precious and mighty name we pray. Amen. Please take your seat brothers and 19:53 sisters. Let us uh look at our memory verses. Uh we had a promise last week and let's repeat it please. Uh repeat after me. Romans chapter 16 verse 20. The God of peace will soon crush Satan 20:17 under your feet. Amen. And this week we have a command. It's a command with a promise. Galatians chapter 5 verse 16. Walk by the spirit. 20:36 And you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. Let's repeat it once again. Galatians 5:1 16. Walk by the spirit and you will not carry out 20:54 the desire of the flesh. And we are again very happy this morning. We have brother Zach with us sharing God's word. Uh recently I was uh traveling back from my office in a train and um I met a 21:12 young brother in the train. uh he was attending some other church and uh he was reading a book. So I went near to him. He was reading uh the book written by brother Zach living as Jesus lived. So I had a good fellowship with him uh 21:29 10 15 minutes and and he asked because he used to listen to brother Zach and uh this is what I told uh brother uh I've listened to brother Zach messages and it influenced me but no more than messages it's the man I so observed him close 21:47 I've seen his life that's what challenged me that's what influenced me because we have seen how brother sack inter interact with us and I I'm really uh giving glory to God for his life and testimony. Thank you brother Zach. We 22:02 are all of us sitting here. We are grateful to you and your ministry. Over to you for your word. provided 22:58 I believe especially for these last days and we're very thankful. So about 20 years ago I shared a message which I think helped a lot of people 23:15 and I felt burdened to share it again. 20 years ago many of you were not here in the church and there are children who have been born in these 20 years and even if you were two three years old when you when I spoke at first now you can 23:32 understand it. There is a great need in the church to repeat messages that were preached even 101 15 years ago because a new generation is growing up. New people are coming. So we don't have to always preach something new. 23:52 So here is something that's been on my heart and I believe it'll be a help, a challenge and an encouragement. See, we need two things like our two arms or two legs. We need something that challenges us and we need something that encourages 24:09 us both. If we only get challenged, we'll get discouraged. If we only get encouragement all the time, we'll backslide. We need challenge plus encouragement. Please remember this when you read the Bible that from the scriptures, you must get a challenge to 24:25 live a godly life. And you must get encouragement so that you never get discouraged. So uh in Romans chapter 10, would you please turn with me to Romans chapter 10 it says here 24:51 in verse 9 and 10 Romans 10 verse 9 and If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart 25:10 God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. Because with a heart a person believes resulting in righteousness and with the mouth he confesses resulting in salvation. Now in the Christian world we all know that faith is emphasized. 25:29 But here it says there are two things we need. A faith that we have in our heart which we confess with our mouth. It's very important to speak out what we believe. That's why we emphasize that we must give testimony. 25:47 And that's why in our weekly Bible study groups, we encourage people to share even one minute, two minutes a testimony because what we believe in our heart, it says here we must confess with our mouth. So think of faith in the heart 26:03 and confessing with our mouth is two wires that touch and make the light burn. You know an electric switch. What is inside an electric switch is just two wires that are kept apart. And the moment you put on the switch, the two 26:19 wires touch and then the light burns. And if they don't touch, they don't burn. So faith and confession are like that. What I believe, I must confess. I believe in my heart and I confess with my mouth. And so this is uh what we must 26:36 do. Our faith is based on God's unconditional love. His love has not got any conditions. It's an unconditional love for all humanity. And secondly, faith is based on God's almighty power. There's absolutely nothing that he 26:54 cannot do. And the third is God's perfect wisdom. So we can say faith is based on first of all God's perfect love, unconditional love for us, his almighty power and his perfect wisdom. If you have a doubt of any of these 27:10 things, you can't have faith. God's love for you is perfect and his power is almighty and his wisdom is perfect. So if we believe it in our heart, we must confess with our mouth. So I want to say share with you today eight confessions 27:27 that we believe in our heart and that we must proclaim with our mouth. Okay. Number one, God the father loves me as he loved Jesus. So I will always rejoice. Did you get that? God the Father loves 27:50 me as he loved Jesus. So I will always rejoice because I believe it in my heart. I rejoice. And the verse I want to show you is what I call the favorite verse I have in the Bible. John 17 and verse 23. 28:09 I have proclaimed this verse for 50 years in CFC. It's a a verse that changed my life for many people. John 3:16 is the great favorite verse. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not 28:27 perish but have everlasting life. And that was the favorite verse for me for about 15 16 years of my Christian life. But when God baptized me in the Holy Spirit 50 years ago, I found another verse in the Bible which was more 28:41 precious to me than John 3:16. And that is John 17 verse 23. And I say to me, this is the central verse of the whole Bible. And what it says here, Jesus Jesus prayer, Jesus' last prayer. And one of the things he prays prayers in the last 28:59 part is in the last part of verse 23 John 17:23 that the world may know through us that the father sent Jesus and loved us just as he loved Jesus. This is Jesus prayer. Father that the world may know 29:16 that you sent me and loved them just as much as you loved me. Now can you believe that? Can you believe that God uh we all know how much God loved Jesus? He's his own son. But I want to ask all of you, do you believe that God loves 29:32 you as much as he loved Jesus? I mean to believe God loves you that I can understand. A lot of people believe that. But to believe that God loves you as much as he loved Jesus. Many don't believe that. They say that's not possible. Jesus was so perfect. How 29:52 can he love me as much as he loved Jesus? I couldn't believe it either unless this verse told me this. But it radically changed my life. And one of the songs we sing is based on this thing that changed my life that God loves us 30:06 as much as he loved Jesus. And so that is the first thing that we need to believe and confess in there's a verse in the Old Testament in Zephaniah chapter 3 which I want to point out to you. Zephaniah chapter 3 and verse 17. 30:31 It's an amazing statement. It says here in the last part of Zephaniah 3:17, God says he he will rejoice over you with shouts of joy. Now you know very often people have got the idea but God is a very strict person up there always 30:48 ready to point out some sin in you convict you of this and point out this is wrong that is wrong that is one side he just like a father will correct his children if they are going wrong but here is another thing which we don't 31:02 often think let me ask you how many of you when was the last time you thought of God rejoicing over you with shouts of joy you You know like a mother looks at his baby child say baby that's 2 three months old the first child the mother 31:18 has and the mother just rejoices over that baby. This is how God loves us. He says even a mother may forget their sucking child but I will not forget you. That's what he says in Isaiah 49. So God's love for us is immense. And so the first 31:37 confession we must make is God the father loves me as he loved Jesus and so I will always rejoice in that love. If you don't begin there my dear brothers and sisters you cannot make progress in the Christian life. See many 31:53 of us have heard many strong exhortations in CFC and we try to keep them but we so discouraged sometimes but we can't keep them. Begin with this before you get to commandments. Begin with this. Acknowledge God that God loves you as he 32:12 loved Jesus. It's an amazing truth. And I would not believe it if it were not written in the Bible. Believe what it says in John 17:23. And say, Lord, because of that, I'm going to rejoice not once in a time, once in a while, but 32:27 all the time. Okay. Now, we go to a second confession. God has forgiven me all my sins so I will never live with guilt anymore. 32:45 God has forgiven me all my sins and so I will never live with guilt anymore. See all of us, you and I in our unconverted days have committed so many sins. Definitely, we've all done wrong things, 33:04 you and I, in the days before Christ came into our heart. And the memory of that, the devil can keep on reminding you of you remember what you did there, and you remember what you did there, and it's what the devil says is all true, 33:19 but we've confessed it to the Lord. We've asked Jesus to come into our heart, and we've been forgiven. Then why do you allow the devil to make you feel guilty all the time of something that you have confessed, forsaken, and trusted that the blood of 33:36 Jesus has blotted it out? This is the work of the devil to make you feel miserable. It's not only that we are forgiven. The Bible says in Romans and chapter 5, this is a many people think of forgiveness, but they don't think much about 33:53 justification. Justification is a big word, but it's a very important word. Romans 5:1, we are justified by faith. Romans 5:9, we are justified by his blood. 34:12 So, what is the difference between forgiveness and being justified? Now, some of you may already know it. Well, praise the Lord, but it's good to hear it again. But there are many here who may not know it. And I want to make 34:26 it clear. I want even the little children to be able to understand. I want to make the message so simple today that even young children can understand the truth. Not just the great scholars. So forgiveness means my past or sins I 34:43 confess to the Lord by the blood of Jesus Christ. He has paid the price. You know, every sin requires a punishment because God is so holy. Every sin requires a punishment. But Jesus took that punishment on the cross and his 34:57 blood was shed. And it says because of that blood shed, all my sins can be forgiven which I confess to him. If I confess it, I'll be forgiven. But not just forgiven. Justified means two things. One, just as if I had never 35:16 committed a sin. Forgiveness means I commit a sin, but God's forgiven me. Justified means God looks at me as if I've never committed a sin in my life and as if I was totally righteous from the day I was born. 35:35 Now, it's not true. But the blood of Christ makes us like that. It says here Romans 5:9, we are justified by his blood. Now many of us know 1 John 1:9 that if we confess our sins he's faithful and righteous to forgive us our 35:51 sins and 1 John 1:7 if we walk in the light his blood cleanses us from sin. So the blood cleansing us from our past sins is one thing. But it says here in Romans 5:9, we are declared right. Justified means declared righteous by 36:06 his blood means that it looks as if that I mean God looks at me as if I have been righteous from the day I was born. Think of yourselves as you look back over your past life and you say, "Wow, 36:24 thank God I've been righteous from the day I was born." Well, you know it's not true because you committed so many sins. But it says when the blood of Christ cleanses you, that is how God looks at you. It's almost unbelievable. If it is not 36:40 written in the Bible, I wouldn't believe it. And I think many people are miserable because they don't know this truth. that God looks at them as if they were righteous from the day they were born. That's the meaning of justified. 36:55 Many, many Christians know the meaning of forgiveness, but they don't know the meaning of justified. It's in the same Bible. Forgiven by his blood, cleansed by his blood, justified by his blood. But very few messages are preached on 37:10 being justified by his blood. It's very important for us to know it. God has forgiven me all my sins so I will never live with guilt anymore. To use an illustration supposing you were just imagine you know sin is such a terrible thing before in 37:29 God's eyes that it is like having a big debt. I mean think of all your sins as a big debt that you owe to somebody. Let's say you owe somebody 100 million rupees. Think if you were in debt to 100 million rupees I mean if you even if you're in 37:47 debt for a,000 rupees it's a burden 10,000 rupees if you are in debt it's a burden but think if you were in debt to somebody for 100 million rupees what a terrible debt that is how you will live in constant burden how will I 38:04 clear my debt how will I clear my debt how will I clear my debt and one day that person comes to you because he's such a good He says, "I have forgiven you all your debt." Wonderful. Happy. That's forgiveness. And then he 38:21 says, "Not only that, I am putting another 100 million rupees into your bank account." Wow. You say you what a what a wonderful man this is. He first of all forgives me my 100 million rupees debt and then on top of that he puts a 100 million rupees 38:40 into my account. That is justification. If he clears the debt, that is the blood of Christ forgiving me. But when he adds another 100 million into my account, that is justification. I hope you understand this illustration. It'll 38:55 change your the joy in your Christian life will increase. It'll change your relationship with your heavenly father. If you understand these are truths that the devil has not allowed God's people to believe. And I want everybody in CFC 39:10 to believe this. I'm not telling stories. It's here in the in the in the word I showed you. Romans 5:9, justified by his blood. Let me show you Hebrews 8:12. Hebrews 8:12 says, "I will be merciful to their sins, 39:30 iniquities, and I will not remember their sins anymore." Sometimes you know somebody says I forgiven you but I can never forget what you did. Haven't you heard people tell you like that I forgiven you brother but I can't forget what you did to me. But 39:47 God is not like that. He says not only I've forgiven you but I will not remember what you did. What a comfort it is. I am so happy that God does not remember any of the sins I've committed in my life. What a joy it is. And that's for you 40:02 also. The blood of Jesus has cleansed me so thoroughly. I'm declared righteous in God's eyes, justified that God looks at me as if I was righteous from the day I was born. Not just that I did not sin. That is one thing, but that I was 40:16 righteous from the day I was born. Not only that, he forgives me my 100 million rupees, but he adds another 100 million rupees to my account. What a wonderful thing it is. This is what salvation is. It's far better than we have imagined. 40:32 Okay, I must rush. Number three, God will give me his Holy Spirit's power and so I will be strong enough for every task. That means everything God wants me to do, 40:51 I will be able to do it. But God will fill me with his Holy Spirit so I'll be strong enough for every task. Luke 11 verse 13. There's a great promise in Luke 11 and verse 13. It says there, 41:17 you know, when we pray for the Holy Spirit to fill us, we can have doubt in our mind. Will God fill me? I'm such a rotten sinner. I know I've been forgiven, but uh so many weaknesses in my life. Will God fill me with the Holy 41:29 Spirit? Yes, he'll fill those elder brothers and those who are very close to him. But what about a poor ordinary brother like me, sister like me? Will God fill me with the Holy Spirit? This vers is for you, brother, sister. 41:41 If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? Okay, take the example of a father or a 42:01 mother. The child wants something. The child says, "Can you give me a slice of bread? Can you give me a little rice? Can you give me an egg? Can you give me something to eat?" Which father and mother will refuse a hungry child. 42:17 You will deny your own food and give your child the food. And that's the example God uses. You think you're a good father and mother. It says here, you evil, you being evil. That mean God is saying, listen to this, the best father and mother in the world 42:35 is evil compared to how good God is. God is so good that the best and the the very best father on earth is evil compared to him. I don't know whether you can understand that. It's a wonderful truth. Have you had a good father and mother 42:55 look to look after you? I think almost all of you must have had good fathers and mothers to take care of you. But I want to tell you God is much better than that compared to God's goodness. Even your best father was actually evil. 43:08 So think how much better God is. And it says when you ask the father, when you ask your earthly father for food, would he say no? If you're hungry, he'll never say no. Now you go and ask God for the Holy Spirit and say, "Lord, I want to be 43:22 filled with the Holy Spirit." Is God going to say, "No, no, no. I won't give you." You're desperately hungry for the Holy Spirit and you pray. God is more eager to give you the Holy Spirit than your earthly father and mother gave 43:41 you food. If you believe that then you'll say God will give me his spirit's power so I will be strong enough for every task. That means there's nothing that God ask can ask me to do which I cannot do. It's difficult to love my enemies but God 43:58 will fill me with the Holy Spirit and I'll be able to love my enemies. Sure. God says don't lust with your eyes after women. That's difficult for men. But God says he'll give me the power of his Holy Spirit and I will be able to do it. 44:13 That's what all of you men must confess to forgive somebody who has done great harm to you. May be difficult. God says he'll give you the power of his holy spirit. You said with God's Holy Spirit, I will be strong enough for every task. 44:31 Some of you may have a problem with overcoming anger. Anger is one of the biggest sins. Even among God's people, you're honest. You'll admit there's anger that you've had in your life. Maybe some of you are still slaves to 44:45 anger. Probably many of you. Can you overcome it? Look at the problems created in your home by anger. Husband or wife, father, mother shouting, getting angry. Is it possible to overcome it? Think how peaceful your home will be if there is no anger there. 45:03 Is it possible to overcome it? Here is the promise. God will give me his Holy Spirit's power and so I will not live I'll be strong enough for every task. Whatever God has asked me to do to live a holy life, I will be able to live that 45:20 life because by his holy spirit nothing is impossible. Let me show you another verse in Acts chapter 10. Acts of the Apostles chapter 10 and verse 38. 45:44 What God did I remember what we that verse we read at the beginning. What God did for Jesus, he will do for me. Don't forget that. That's the foundation. Okay. What did God do for Jesus? Acts 10:38. 46:01 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power and he went about doing good and delivering people who were oppressed by the devil. Okay? What God did for Jesus, he will do for me. He will fill me with the Holy Spirit 46:20 that will enable me to go about doing good. Just think of that one phrase. God filled him with the Holy Spirit and power. And the power was an ability to do good to other people. The world is full of people who harm 46:37 others, who do evil to others. And here God has filled me with the Holy Spirit so that I can go around just like Jesus doing good to others. Dear brothers and sisters, I'm burdened that as we look into the future, we are beginning 46:53 another, we completed 50 years at CFC. Now we are beginning our 51 first year and we continue till Jesus comes. I don't know how many years that'll be but we are to look forward to the coming of Christ. And until that day we want to 47:08 keep these promises and we want CFC to be a burning shining light for the Lord not only in Bangalore but in India and from Bangalore to the rest of the world. God has already taken the light of from Bangalore to more than 180 countries in 47:24 the world by now. He's done that and he'll continue. But we must believe that God will fill us with the Holy Spirit. He'll do it. Okay, we go to confession number four. God has determined my boundaries 47:43 so I will always be content. Boundaries means God has drawn a circle around me and I must stay within that circle. All the unhappiness and discontent is because we try to go outside our boundary. We want something that God has not given us. Turn with me 48:03 to Acts of the Apostles chapter 17 and verse 26. Acts 17:26. We read, "God has made from one man every nation on the face of the earth. And he has determined their appointed time." That 48:22 means the time where the way should live. That means God decided when you should be born and when you should leave the earth, when you should die. And God has also determined where you should be born. The boundary of your habitation 48:36 whether you should be born in India or whether you should be born in Andra or in Tamil Nad or Kerala or Maharashtra. God has determined the boundary of your habitation means of your dwelling. God has decided where you are to live. maybe right now in 48:54 Bangalore and in within that boundary he wants you to seek after God verse 27 and to find him and he's not far from you within that boundary it says in verse 27 you can find God and so you must be content with the boundary God has drawn 49:13 around you wonderful verse God has determined the boundary of where you live spiritually in every other way. So supposing God has not given you a post-graduate degree, you were not clever enough to get a post-graduate degree. Okay, your 49:32 boundary is limited. Maybe some of you have not even given a God got an ordinary degree. You have just finished high school. Okay, God is that is the boundary God has drawn for you. Be thankful. And God has drawn a bigger boundary for 49:44 somebody else. Let him be thankful for that. I'm not in competition with anybody and I'm not to look down on somebody who's got a smaller circle than I have. No, it's God who has drawn the circle for you. What about your your 49:59 income? Maybe you get much less income than somebody else. But that is the boundary God has drawn around for you. So if God has determined that boundary, you must say I will always be content because it is not man or me who 50:15 determine my boundary. God determine the boundary of my life. It's a wonderful thing when you understand and believe these truths and when you believe it and you particularly when you think agree what scripture says. Let me show 50:29 you first of all Psalm 139. Psalm 139 is one of my very favorite psalms. And I hope it'll be your favorite psalm too. In Psalm 139, it says that I was formed by verse 13. You formed my 50:51 inward parts in my mother's womb. He's talking about what how God made you and me inside our mother's womb. We all came out of her mother who had us in her womb as a little baby. And while we were in our mother's womb, it says here verse 51:08 16, while our body was not fully formed. Psalm 139:16, God's eyes saw us. And in his book means in his mind, while I was in my mother's womb, God had determined how many days I must live on the earth before I had even been born 51:26 for one day. Not yet born. My first day has not started, but God has already decided how many days I must live on the earth. than what I must do. Isn't that a wonderful thing to know that that God has decided a boundary for me and if I 51:41 follow him, I will fulfill my days. I cannot die by accident or sickness or anything before God's time if I seek to follow him. If you disobey God and do so many other things, then you may die before your time. But if you're really 51:55 seeking to follow the Lord, he'll protect you from accidents and sickness. I know numerous times God has protected me from accidents on the roads in Bangalore and from sicknesses and he's kept me because I believe that before I 52:07 was born God determined God determined my ministry while I was in my mother's womb. That's not something that happened after I was born. It's wonderful to know that. I want to say to all of you brothers and sisters that when you were 52:20 in your mother's womb, God planned a life for you and that's the perfect life for you. Don't ever compare yourself with other people. Don't say I wish I had that. I wish I had this. No, most of the time for example in Bangalore for 42 52:34 years I rode a scooter and I could sometimes borrow my mother's car but I couldn't afford the petrol. So 42 years I rode a scooter most of the time in Bangalore and those of you who have seen me there know that I was happy. I say 52:48 okay I can't afford to put petrol in a car and drive it. So a scooter is more than enough for me. It's perfectly okay. And here I am now in the US and I don't own a car. I I have to get somebody to give me a lift when I want to go 53:01 somewhere. I'm perfectly happy with what God has arranged for me. I do not wish anything more than what God has given. I'm perfectly happy. It's a boundary God has drawn around me. And so I'm perfectly content. Turn to Hebrews 53:15 chapter 13. Hebrews chapter 13. Please don't forget these verses. Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5. You know we always desire to have more and more money. Yeah. When the cost of 53:35 living goes up it's good if we can get more. But if God has given you only so much in the middle of verse 5 Hebrews 13:5 middle it says be content with what you have. What a wonderful verse. Be content with what you have. Because 53:54 why? Because he has said I will never leave you or forsake you. Not because you have got plenty of money in your bank. What? Why are you content? Will you be content if you have got 1 million rupees in your bank account? 54:12 No, that won't make you happy. You can be miserable. The person who's really happy is the one who knows that God has said to me, I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. Ah, that's more than 10 million rupees that God says to me, I 54:29 will never leave you. I will never forsake you. Have you read that in your Bible? Underline it and say, Lord, I believe it today. You have said you will never leave me. You will never forsake me. And today, I'm going to believe it. 54:45 And therefore I will have no jealousy of anybody else. I will have no competition with anybody else. Let me ask you straight. Can you honestly say that you're not jealous of anybody? I can say it. I'll tell you why. Because 55:01 I am perfectly I believe that God drew a boundary around me and I don't want to make it bigger. God has kept me there and I say I'm happy. Be content. I'm not. And you say, "Well, Brother Zach, you're so wellknown. You preached so much and you can be 55:16 content." No, I was content 60 years ago when I was just an ordinary young man and nobody knew who I who I was. I was content even then. So, I'm not telling you that I'm content now. Be content with what you are. Your life will be so 55:31 happy if you learn to be content with what you have because you say, "God drew my circle around me." And you'll never be jealous with against anybody. You will never compete with anybody. You know for think of spiritual gifts. 55:46 Do you wish that you could have a gift of preaching like someone? There are many people who say, "Oh, I wish I could preach like brother Zach." No, don't ever wish that. God has made you a particular part in the body and you he 55:58 you can fulfill your function only if you're happy with the gift God has given you. Don't ever try to be like anybody else. If you're seeking honor and fame in the world, then you always compare with somebody else. Oh, I wish I could 56:12 be like that. That is all seeking your own honor. And when you seek your own honor, you're not worshiping God. You're worshiping yourself. Very dangerous. Never never try to wish for the gift that somebody else God has given. Okay, 56:28 I got to rush. Let's go for number five. God's commands are all for my good and so I want to obey all of God's commands. You hear that? I believe God's commands are all for my good 56:47 and so I want to obey all of God's commands. Yep. 1 John chapter 5 and verse three. What do we read there? 1 John 5:3. This is the love of God that we keep his 57:06 commandments and his commandments are not a burden. Do you believe that no command of God is a burden? When God says you shouldn't get angry, that's not a burden. When God says don't lust with your eyes, it's not a burden. 57:24 Is health a burden? Sickness is a burden. Sin is a burden. But health is not a burden. And so just like holiness is like health. How many of you will say that health is a burden? Oh brother, I'm so healthy. Such a burden. No, sickness 57:40 is a burden. So equate sin with sickness. Sin is a burden. Health is like holiness. Holiness is not a burden. I'll tell you that my life has been supremely happy as I've tried to stay away from sin in my thoughts, in my words, in my actions, in 57:59 my attitudes to people and in my motives with which I do things. I say Lord, I want to be free from sin and I'm supremely happy as a result of that. So, for example, take a matter like forgiving others. Jesus told us to forgive everyone who 58:18 has harmed us. Is that a burden? I tell you, it's like throwing away the burden to hold somebody something again your heart against somebody. That is a burden. Do you ever toss around at night not getting sleep because you're thinking 58:35 what somebody did to you or said against you and you meditate on that and you lose your sleep? I never lose my sleep because I say I'm not I've not gotten any bitterness against anyone. I don't care what anybody does to me or says to 58:48 me. I am a child of God and I'm perfectly happy. Whatever God allows, I accept it. If he allows people to say something against me, I say, "Praise the Lord." If he allows people to praise me, I say, "Praise the Lord." If he allows 59:00 people to criticize me, I say, "Praise the Lord." It's all the same to me. Everything that God allows is for my good. I want to show you a verse in Deuteronomy chapter 10. Deuteronomy and chapter 10. and verse 13, 59:28 God's commandments that Moses said, which I'm commanding you today are all for your good. What a wonderful verse that is. God's commandments and his statutes, laws which I'm commanding you are for your 59:46 good. Do you believe that? Sometimes you know when little children are told to take some vegetables which they don't like and the mommy says this is good for you. They don't believe it because it doesn't taste so good. But we 1:00:01 all when we are grown up we know that some vegetables are very good for us. Chocolates are not the best thing for our health. So some things that don't taste so good are very good for our health. So we can believe that God's commands are it says 1:00:17 here clearly for your good. What a wonderful verse to believe that Lord I believe that all God's commands are for my good. For example, God asked me to forgive everybody. I tell you you'll sleep much better if you forgive everyone. You have no grudge 1:00:34 against anyone. It's for your good. Your health will be better when you're free from anxiety. I've tried to live like that. Forgiving everybody immediately, going to sleep at night with a clear conscience without any 1:00:52 anxiety, casting my burden on the Lord. For many years, it's been like that. And the result is I'm very healthy by God's grace. Even though I'm going to be 86 in a couple of months, God's preserved me. And one of the reasons is I forgiven 1:01:08 everybody in the world. So many people have tried to harm me. I forgiven them. And so many burdens can come. I say Lord, I cast them on you. I will not carry any burden. I cast it on my heavenly father who's going to take care 1:01:21 of me. And I want to encourage you. Be a living testimony as you grow older and older that God preserves you in health because you don't have any bitterness against anyone. You've forgiven everyone and you obey God's commandments and all 1:01:36 of them are good. God will never allow something to happen to his children which is bad for you. That is impossible. Even sicknesses and trials, why God, why does God permit them? I in my younger days also I've had some 1:01:53 sicknesses and trials. They help me to become stronger spiritually. So every trial and everything that God loves is to work as character in our life. Okay. Number six, 1:02:10 God controls all the people and events that affect me. So I will always give thanks. God is the one who controls all the people and events that affect me. So, I will always give thanks. I believe 1:02:29 this and so I confess that I'll always give thanks to God. Romans 8:28. You know, there's a well-known verse. It's one of the well-known verses to many Christians. And if you don't know it, you must know it. But when you know it, you must also 1:02:44 know the next verse. Romans 8:29, which many people don't know. Romans 8:28 says, it doesn't say all things work together for good. That's how some people read it. No, he doesn't say all things work together for good. Read carefully. God 1:03:02 makes all things to work together for good. That's different. Many people say Romans 8:28 says that all things work together for my good. No sir. Romans 8:28 says God makes all things work together for my good. When I look 1:03:18 at all those things, some of those don't look good for me. Some of the things that happened in my life didn't look good for me. But I believe Romans 8:28, God makes them work for my good. It looks like evil, but it worked for my 1:03:30 good. There are many people in my life who have tried to do harm to me, but they never succeeded. And more than you, the devil has tried to trouble me because I'm a servant of God trying to stand true to his word without compromising. And I can believe 1:03:48 the devil and his demons hate me like anything. And they've tried to do so much harm to me through other people. Many many things I can tell you. But I'll tell you this today. Everything in the last 66 years since I was born 1:04:02 again. Every single thing has worked for my good. Good means it has made me more like Jesus Christ. Not that it made me more famous or richer or any those things. Those are not things I look for. It the one thing I wanted in my life is 1:04:18 to become like Christ. And it has made me like Christ. It has worked for my good. And some people say, "How what if some big trial comes into my life which I won't be able to handle." Here's a promise for you. 1 Corinthians chapter 1:04:34 10 verse 13. God will never allow us to be tempted beyond our ability. He will not give me a test which is too much for me to handle. Tests are good for us. 1:04:53 Think of your children. Don't you prepare them for the school tests with what is the result of a test? They get a promotion. Test is the way by which student finds out whether he has understood what he was taught in that year. Now let me ask 1:05:11 you a question. If your child is in standard three and the final examination, will he get a standard six question paper? Yes or no? No. No teacher is so foolish as to give a standard six question paper to a 1:05:30 student who's in standard three. Not even a standard four question paper. If you're in standard three, you get a standard three question paper. when you go to standard 4, you'll get a standard four question paper in your final exam. 1:05:42 Now, if ordinary human teachers are got that much wisdom, he says God also will never give you a test which is more than your ability to handle and bear which he sees you cannot overcome. No. So, don't look at any trial that comes into you 1:06:00 your way and say, "Oh, that's too much for me." No. Whatever trial comes to your life, you say, "God thinks I can handle this, so I'm not going to give it up." You ask all the older brothers here, the elder brothers, they'll tell 1:06:15 you that they've been through many trials in their life, but every time God gave them some grace to overcome it. God never allowed them to face a situation where he didn't give grace. You know, I look at it like this. Trials are like 1:06:29 examination. Think of your trial that comes in your life like a examination in school. But the wonderful thing about this examination is if I were to use an example, the teacher is sitting with me and helping me to answer the paper. So 1:06:45 what a wonderful examination this is where the teacher comes and sits with me and says I'll help you. What is the difficulty you're finding? I'll help you with the answer. I'll never fail in any any subject because the teacher comes and sits with 1:06:58 me and helps me to answer the question. That is the meaning of God will give me grace in every trial. I hope you'll never forget it. That's why we have such a wonderful father. He comes and sits with us and says, "I'll help you through 1:07:11 this trial and I'll make you an overcomer." What a wonderful Christian life the Christian life is. And I want to give you a promise which has been a tremendous promise for me all my life. That's one of the most my favorite 1:07:25 promises in the Bible in 1 Samuel chapter 2:30. 1 Samuel, you've probably heard me quote this many, many, many times in different messages. 1 Samuel chapter 2:30. I say the way to remember it is, you remember what I taught you? 1 2 3 0 1:07:45 1 2 3 0 1 Samuel 2:30. In the middle of that verse, it says, "The Lord declares, "Those who honor me, I will honor." Just remember that simple sentence for the rest of your life. Those who honor me, God will honor. I 1:08:05 will honor. God says, "So this is the way I sometimes, you know, sometimes I'm in a difficult situation, a trial, a heavy trial, and I faced many of them. But what I say to the Lord in that difficult trial or when some heavy 1:08:19 burden is there, I say, Lord, I am going to honor you here to the best of my knowledge and ability. I'm going to honor you. And your word says, if I honor you, you will honor me 1:08:38 definitely. And if I honor you and you don't honor me, then that will be the first time in 6,000 years that you did not keep your promise. I tell God that. Why do I say that? Just to strengthen my own faith. So this is what I say to the Lord. Lord, your word 1:08:58 says that if I honor you, you'll honor me. Okay? To the best of my understanding in this situation, I'm going to honor you. And if you don't honor me, that will be the first time in 6,000 years that you did not honor somebody who honored you. I say that 1:09:14 just to strengthen my faith. I said, "That's impossible. How can God break his promise? He's never done it in 6,000 years and he's not going to do it for me." 6,000 years because Adam, Adam was created 6,000 years ago. So, we're 1:09:27 talking about the history of human the human race. There's never been a time when God did not honor those who honored him. So my dear brothers and sisters, if you find God is not honoring you, I'll tell you why. You are not honoring God. 1:09:42 That's the only reason. I've tried to the best of my knowledge to honor God in different situations. When I've been in tight situation, I say, "Lord, I will not cheat. I will not tell lies. I will honor you. I'll speak the truth." Whatever the situation. 1:10:00 And I found every single time God has honored me. If you seek God's kingdom first, he says, "Seek the kingdom of God first and all that you need on earth will be added to you." Wonderful promise. Matthew 6:33. Seek the kingdom of God first and all 1:10:18 that you need on earth will be added to you. I can testify to that in the last 60 years that I've been in full-time Christian work without taking a salary from anybody without sending any prayer letter asking for money like all these 1:10:32 missionaries do trusting God maybe I lived simply but I had enough always because he honors those who honor him and if we seek his kingdom first I've tried my best to seek God's kingdom first in wherever I've gone without compromising, 1:10:51 spoken the truth without any compromise. And God has provided me with all that I need on earth. And if he didn't give me something I asked for, I say, "Okay, then that's not good for me. Then I don't want it." There are things I asked 1:11:05 for, God never gave me. Thank God he didn't give me. Some of you fathers, when your children ask you for something, sometimes you may say, "No, son, that's not good for you. God has said that to me also. No son, that's not 1:11:16 good for you. Thank God he didn't give it to me. If I got something which is not good for me, it would have ruined me. So I'm thankful not only for what God gave me. Listen, I'm thankful for the things God never gave me which I 1:11:29 foolishly asked for. That's why I say all my prayers have been answered in my life. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is wait. Sometimes the answer is no. To me it's like the 1:11:44 traffic lights. green, yellow, red. The green means God says yes, here's the answer to your prayer. Yellow means wait, I won't give it to you now. Wait, wait a few years and I'll answer your prayer. Red means no, I'm not going to 1:12:00 give it to you ever. So all the time God's traffic lights are working. Every prayer is answered with yes, wait, or no. So that's why I say every prayer of mine has been answered. Every prayer of mine has been answered doesn't mean it's always yes. Sometimes 1:12:16 it is wait, sometimes it is no. That is also an answer. No is also an answer. God's traffic lights are always working. Either red, yellow or green. Please remember that all your life. And uh the purpose of everything as it 1:12:34 says in Romans 8:28 29 says it is to make us more like Jesus. So the trials of life are not only to make me strong but to make me a little more like Jesus Christ which is my goal in life in any case. Okay. Number seven. 1:12:52 Jesus defeated Satan and freed me from his power so I will never be afraid. Number seven. Jesus defeated Satan and freed me from his power so I will never be afraid. 1:13:11 Many people know that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. But what they don't know is that Jesus died on the cross to defeat Satan also. So Hebrews chapter 2, this is not proclaimed so much by people who preach the gospel. 1:13:26 Many people preach the gospel that Christ died for our sins. Sure. But something else also happened on the cross. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 and 15. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 and 15. Since the children that is we have flesh 1:13:45 and blood. Jesus also took part of flesh and blood. So that through death he already forgave our sins. But something more through death he made the devil powerless. That means he took away the devil's 1:14:03 weapons from him. Like a terrorist comes to fight with you with his guns and somebody takes away those guns from him. He cannot shoot you. The devil's weapons have been taken away from us and verse 15 delivered us who through fear of death were subject 1:14:19 to slavery. Many people live in fear of the devil. I also lived in fear of the devil. When people didn't tell me the truth. Many people told me that Jesus died for my sins. But they never told me another thing that Jesus defeated Satan on the 1:14:34 cross. That the head of the serpent was crushed on the cross. Just like God told Adam, the seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent. And Jesus came and crushed the head of the serpent on the cross. Many people 1:14:50 don't preach that part of the gospel. I never heard it myself till I discovered it in the Bible that Satan was defeated on the cross. And I don't have to be just like I know my sins are forgiven because Jesus died for me. Satan has 1:15:02 defeated me. And there's no place for fear anymore in my heart. There's no place to be afraid of the devil. The devil cannot harm you. He's not dead, but he's like a paralyzed snake. A paralyzed snake may be alive, but it 1:15:19 can't harm you because its power has been taken away. The devil has been paralyzed as far as Christians are concerned. So therefore see Hebrews 13 and verse 6. Hebrews 13 and verse 6 1:15:36 we say the Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid what any man can do to me. I will not be afraid what Satan can do to me. I will not be afraid of anything. Isn't that a wonderful way to live? 1:15:53 As we begin our 51st year as CFC, rejoicing in all that God has done for us in the last 50 years, we say, "Lord, our coming years are going to be very much better than the past. We will not fear anything in the days to 1:16:10 come." Fear and faith are opposites. They can't live in the same mind or heart. When fear comes in, faith goes out. When faith comes in, fear goes out. If fear has not gone out of your heart, that means faith has not come. That 1:16:26 means you don't trust what Jesus said. I crushed Satan's head for you. I forgave your sins. Satan's being defeated. Don't be afraid. Trust in me. I will take you through. Whatever your situation, whatever your situation your children 1:16:41 are facing, anything the Lord says, I will take you through. Never, never be afraid. Okay, the last one, number eight. God wants to make me a blessing 1:16:56 and so I will be a blessing to others. That's wonderful to know that when God blessed Abraham, Abraham is called the father of faith. And one of the promises he gave Abraham 1:17:14 in Genesis 12 verse 2 is very simple promise Genesis 12:2 God told Abraham I will bless you and you will be a blessing and you say well that was what God said 1:17:31 to Abraham I'm not Abraham God said I'll make you a blessing to all the people all the families that of the earth in other words every family you meet Abraham you'll be a blessing to them. Okay, I'll tell you how this applies to 1:17:45 us. Turn with me to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3. It says in Galatians 3 and verse 14. Verse 14. In Christ Jesus, 1:18:12 the blessing of Abraham has come to us Gentiles. Gentiles means non-Jewish people. We are not Jews. It came for us so that we can receive the promise of the Holy Spirit through faith. So there are a number of things we learn 1:18:26 here that the way God makes us a blessing through others is through filling us with the Holy Spirit. That is the blessing of Abraham. The blessing of Abraham for us is called the filling of the Holy Spirit. When the Lord said, "I will bless you to 1:18:41 Abraham." To us, it is, "I will fill you with the Holy Spirit." And God told Abraham, "You will be a blessing to every family. The Holy Spirit's power will flow out from you like a river and bless other people." That's for us. But 1:18:55 how did it happen? Listen to this wonderful truth, which you probably don't never heard before. Galatians 3:13. In the middle of verse 13, Christ became a curse for us. How many of you knew knew that? You know that he died on the 1:19:14 cross. But when he died on the cross, he became a curse because it is written in God's word, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. That's why Jesus could not be killed by his head being chopped off or of sickness. He had to die hanging on a 1:19:29 cross because he had to become a curse for us because the Old Testament law said it's a person who hangs on a tree who is cursed. And so Jesus had to be hung on a cross because he had to take a curse so that we could get a blessing. 1:19:44 The curse which God had put upon the human race because of disobedience. Jesus took it upon himself. Not only our sin, it says he took a curse upon us so that we could get a blessing. Which blessing? this blessing of Abraham, this 1:19:58 blessing of the Holy Spirit, which is what? I will bless you number one. And I'll make you a blessing to every family you meet. I take that. I say, Lord, I want you to bless me. I want you to bless my family and I want you to make 1:20:17 me a blessing to everybody I meet. Maybe in some small way. And you sisters, you can be a blessing to everybody. For example, almost all of you have got a a phone. When you speak to somebody on a phone, why not try to be a blessing to that 1:20:35 person by before you finish all your conversation talking about so many things, give them a promise from God's word. Give them a word of encouragement before you put the phone down. Think of doing that. It takes only one minute to add 1:20:52 something to say if the if you have a problem brother, if you have a problem, sister, I'm just praying for you. I want to encourage you. I want to assure you that God cares for you. What a difference it'll make to the person at the other end of the phone 1:21:07 listening to you, encouraging. Maybe that person is going through some pressure. Just a word of encouragement. It does not cost us anything to give a word of encouragement to people. And we speak to so many people every day. Maybe 1:21:21 somebody you meet in the office or your neighbor or somebody you speak to on the phone or somebody you write a letter to. Just you can add one sentence, a word of encouragement that can change their life. It's a wonderful thing to live like 1:21:37 this. Take this as a promise for you. God says, "I will bless you and your family and you and your family will be a blessing to others. I have claimed it for myself." 1:21:53 I said, "Lord, I have got four children. I want you to bless me and us and make us all a blessing to others on this earth." And now I have 17 grandchildren and uh two or three of them are already 1:22:11 baptized. But all 17 have accepted Jesus as their savior. All of them. I'm so happy to hear that. And I want them also to be a blessing in their generation wherever they go. That's that's what I pray. I'm not asking God to make them 1:22:27 rich. I'm asking God to make them a blessing wherever they go. Because when we get into eternity, how much money you had in your bank account is not going to matter. But it will matter whether you were a blessing to other people on this earth. 1:22:40 Even if you had very little, you'll find in that day that people who lived in very small two room houses were a blessing to thousands of people. And people who lived in big mansions, they were not a blessing to anybody. And 1:22:52 you'll discover in heaven some very poor, unknown people, far more greater in heaven because they were a blessing to so many. They just simply trusted God. So I want to say to everybody sitting here, don't envy those who are richer than you or those who got 1:23:08 a bigger house than you or a better car than you or any of those things. The greatest thing is for God to say to you, I will bless you and I'll make you a blessing to every person you meet on the face of the earth. There's absolutely nothing greater than 1:23:24 that. Okay. Now, let's just go through all these eight one by one. Uh can you put that up on the screen so that we can see the number one? I believe this therefore I confess it. What is it? Number one, 1:23:43 this is what I believe and confess. God the father loves me as he loved Jesus. So, I will always rejoice. Number two, God has forgiven me all my sins, so I will never live with guilt. Number three, 1:24:03 God will fill me with his Holy Spirit so I will be strong enough for every task. Number four, God has determined all my boundaries so I will always be content. 1:24:22 Number five, God's commands are all for my good, so I want to obey all of God's commands. Number six, God controls all people and events that affect me, so I will 1:24:40 always give thanks. Number seven, Jesus defeated Satan and freed me from his power. So I will never be afraid. And number eight, God wants to make me a blessing. So I'll be a blessing to others. If you have a phone, you can 1:24:59 take a picture of this on the screen and keep it or later you can get it from CFC and um keep it before you or print it out and keep it in your purse or somewhere where you can look up every now and then and make sure that you 1:25:17 confess these promises and believe and experience the reality of it in your life. And I believe that the coming years of your life will be glorious, far better than all that has gone by. We rejoice that God has given us 50 1:25:36 wonderful years in CFC and like they say, we believe the best is yet to come. Thank you for your love and care for me and for praying for me. I am tremendously blessed and Annie and I keep good health and we are able to 1:25:55 speak to many many churches in many parts of the world and we are very very thankful for your prayers that preserve us. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Let's pray. Our heavenly father, 1:26:13 thank you for making us one family. We're so different, but we're one family. Purchased by the blood of Jesus, cleansed by the blood of Jesus, made one by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ. I pray for every single person whose head is bowed here today. 1:26:32 Everyone, let the blessing of the Lord be upon them and overflow through them to many people around them. Thank you, Lord. I thank you for making me a part of this body and for all that CFC has been to me and my wife and my family. So 1:26:51 bless everyone here we pray and that the truths that we heard today will bring forth fruit in everyone's life. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for listening patiently. God bless you all. Thank you. Thank you, brother Zach. 1:27:16 Thank you so much for reminding us of the precious promises that we have. Thank you for your life and example. Uh words are not enough, brother Zach. We're so happy. Let's let's give brother Zach one more. Thank you. Thank you very very much. God bless you 1:27:35 all. [Applause] A amen. Amen to all that you said and thank you for praying for us. Uh can we we'll have a song. [Music] 1:28:35 Let's sing the song. Standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises of Christ my king. Through eternal ages, let his 1:28:52 praises ring. Glory in the highest. I will shout and sing. Standing on the promises of God. Standing, standing, standing on the promises of God. My 1:29:10 savior standing standing. I'm standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises that cannot 1:29:28 fail. When the howling storms of down and furious sail and by the living word of God I shall prevail. Standing on the promises of God. Standing. Standing. 1:29:46 Standing on the promises of God. My savior. Standing. Standing. I'm standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises. I now can see 1:30:07 the perfect present cleansing in the blood for me. Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free. Standing on the promises of God. Standing standing 1:30:25 standing on the promises of God. My savior. Standing, standing. [Music] I'm standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises of Christ the 1:30:45 Lord. Bound to him eternally by love. Strong core. Overcoming daily with the spirit sword. Standing on the promises of God. Standing. Standing. 1:31:04 Standing on the promises of God. My savior. Standing. Standing. [Music] I'm standing on the promises of God. Standing on the promises. I cannot fail. 1:31:26 Listening every moment to the spirit's call. Resting in my savior as my all in all. Standing on the promises of God. Standing standing 1:31:43 standing on the promises of God. My savior. Standing standing [Applause] [Music] I'm standing on the promises of God. Verse five. 1:32:01 Standing on the promises I cannot fall. Listening every moment to the spirit's call. Resting in my savior as my all in all. Standing on the promises of God. Standing, 1:32:20 standing, standing on the promises of God, my Savior. Standing, standing. [Music] I'm standing on the promises of God. We'll have the announcement now.
