0:07 Heard so much of RLCF in the messages. The ministry there has blessed my heart many many many a time. I'm really really happy to connect with all of you. And uh Yeah, Santosh has been like another son 0:26 in our family. In fact, all all his brothers too. And we thank the Lord for uh the links between us, but more than that the bonds of Jesus that have united Brother Zach and me through the years. 0:46 45 years. And uh it's been so blessed. There's never been any smell of strife between us, no jealousy, no competition. And uh it's been very blessed. I'm I I count it a great privilege to 1:04 be one of his co-workers. And I count it a privilege to be part of what God is doing in these last days. So, thank you very much for having me. And without any more delay, 1:22 I just want to share with you what is on my heart. In fact, uh it's one of my favorite passages of the scripture. I wouldn't just say favorite, but it's a prophetic word that God has spoken to me towards the church 1:42 through the years, many many times. Many uh time, many political events, and uh many things that we have seen happen in the world around us and here in India. 2:00 And this word is very special to me. I am referred back to it many many times, numerous times. Particularly recently because I see a lot of things unfolding which uh 2:18 God speaks here. And we see these words I'm referring to Isaiah 8. Isaiah 8. And uh we see here, you know, these words God spoke to me. 2:37 God spoke to me, Isaiah said. And God does not just speak to us through the prophetic word in a message or from his word that we read every day or we are reminded of 2:56 different uh situations. But God speaks to us through every circumstance, through trials, through temptations, through sufferings. And uh 3:14 like we see here, even special incidents as the birth of a child. When a child is born, God gives us a whether a son or a daughter, God has something to say to us. And God has something to say to Isaiah 3:31 and say to the whole nation of Israel. And through political events which we see uh described here. And uh sometimes he asks us to write it down like he asked Isaiah to to do. 3:50 And Hebrews in chapter 1 verse 2 it says God in these last days as speaks to us in his son, not just through his son, but in his son that we identify with Jesus in the different situations that God allows 4:09 into our lives. Different circumstances, whatever it may be. May be some difficulties. And uh bring up our children, maybe through sufferings, through sickness, which uh we have had quite a big share of. 4:29 Through pain. And sometimes we wonder, you know, if you really think God, where are you? But he's right there. And though we may not feel him, he speaks to us. And it says in these 4:46 last days God speaks to us in his son. We identify with Jesus in every every situation. God speaks to us. And so God said to Isaiah in chapter 8 verse 16, "Write down all these things I'm going to do," says 5:03 the Lord. This living Bible. "And seal them up for the future. Entrust them to some godly men to pass on down to godly men of future generations." That's what God has always wanted. And so not only to Isaiah, to to all the 5:23 prophets, and then you know, we see that's the same thing that Paul writes to Timothy. You know, "The things that you heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also." 5:41 Not just faithful men to receive, but faithful men who will able to teach others by life and by example. And we thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. Particularly for brothers dying. Many, many brothers here whom God has joined me to 5:58 uh through the years. Faithful men. Faithful brothers. And that's our responsibility, brothers and sisters, all of us, even sisters, also. That we can entrust these truths to godly brothers and sisters, faithful brothers and sisters who will be able to 6:18 teach others, will be able to pass them on to others. And And the first thing that the Lord says to Isaiah here, to claim Isaiah 8, the Lord said to me, "Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it in ordinary letters, 6:38 Mahershalalhashbaz. And we see that's the name that God told Isaiah to give to his first child. And this child was born because God, like I said, God speaks to us when he gives us children. And our children, all of them are not 6:57 the same, they are different, but there's something that God speaks to us through them. God also wants to speak through them uh to the world around us. And And so, that actually means, you know, that big word there, "Your enemies will 7:15 soon be destroyed." Wonderful, isn't it? That encourages me. "Your enemies will soon be destroyed." And Isaiah's time, but we know that the our enemies have been dis- We're not talking about flesh and blood, but the enemies, 7:32 the flesh, and the world that Jesus has overcome, sin that Jesus dealt with a deathly blow on the cross of Calvary. And all through his life he never once committed sin and was able to offer himself for us on the cross of Calvary. Your enemies 7:51 will soon be destroyed. Whatever it is that we may face in life that we can always know that whatever it is, it will be destroyed. Sin will not have power over us. We will We will overcome whatever it is, no matter 8:11 uh how many struggles, no matter how defeated one may be. My enemies will be destroyed. I will overcome my flesh. I'll overcome the world. And every time the Lord, that is the message 8:28 that we can pass on to our children. That is the message that we can entrust to faithful men. And that's why the Lord says in verse 18 of chapter 8, you know, Isaiah says, "Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given 8:45 me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts who dwells in Zion." That's the word many, many years ago. I don't know for which one of my children twice actually when Brother Zeke dedicated to all my children. I can't 9:02 remember him. Many dedicated. I would say most of them, I think. And at least four of them. And twice that word came to me and it was a word that he uh shared when dedicating uh these two children. 9:22 Uh that I could that we could say and all of us, all of us who have children that you can say with boldness, "Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel in the church from the Lord of hosts who dwells on 9:42 Zion. So, as you look at your child, look into his face, look into her face, you can say, "This child is going to be a sign and a wonder no matter what what they're going through. They go through different stages and as they grow and even in their adult 9:58 years, and we can wonder, but I've always clung onto that my children will be signs and wonders in in their generation." And that is what That is what the Lord said to Isaiah 10:15 in the beginning. God spoke to me. Again, it says in verse five, we read these words I know again and again, God spoke to me. I hope that God speaks to us every day, not just through messages that we can hear, not just 10:34 through his word, and uh that's good, but through different situations that we we face in our home and our personal lives. And here the Lord says, you know, Isaiah says, "The Lord spoke to me further saying," 10:53 you know, verse five, uh of chapter eight. "Again, the Lord spoke to me further saying, 'In as much as these children and these people have rejected the gentle flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoice in Rezin and the son of 11:12 Remaliah.'" In the Message Bible, it says, "God spoke to me again saying, 'Because this people has turned its back on the gentle flowing stream of Shiloah and gotten all excited over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, and what should I am stepping in and 11:31 facing them. And we are living in days people get excited over a whole lot of things, you know, and they do not know they forsake the forsake the gentle flowing stream 11:49 that comes from from Jesus, the waters that come from Jesus. Shiloah means sent the sent one. And falsely we read further on, we don't have time there further on there, you know, falsely comforting themselves that you know, God is with us. We're in 12:09 Immanuel's land. And they're excited about so many other things, even the events that happen around. People get so excited. They forsake like Jeremiah said, they forsake the fountain of living waters. And that can happen. 12:29 And we get excited over many things, maybe a promotion you get or an increment in and many things that happen, good things that happen. And we get so taken up and it's very easy that we can forsake the fountain of living 12:46 waters. And that's what God said to Isaiah, that's what's happened and that's what we see today is happening. God God's people have forsaken the fountain of living waters. They're excited about so many other things. They're excited 13:00 about world and what's happening here and there. And in the church and this preacher and that preacher and you know, I'll listen to to him. He has a he has a good understanding of what the last days is and but all these things, people get so 13:16 excited about all these things and they forsake. They forsake the gentle flowing stream. You know, the like Jeremiah said, my people have committed two evils." Jeremiah 2. My For my people have committed two evils. They've abandoned me, the 13:34 fountain of living waters, to carve out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that do not hold water. And those broken cisterns can be cisterns can be different things where we we stop 13:53 drinking that living water that Jesus gives us. The only thing that can preserve us in our generation these last days. In Jeremiah 17 and verses 13 to 16, if you look at it, it says there, "All who abandon you will 14:11 be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down." And when St. Paul and and the Holy Spirit says in the last days many will fall away. Well, why do they fall away? They forsake They're not talking about people in the 14:29 world. They're talking about God's people. Talking about people in the church. They forsake the fountain of living water. They carved out for themselves broken cisterns that can hold no water. And whatever it may can be different 14:42 things for you know, for us. And uh it says, "Those who abandon you will be put to shame. Those who turn away on earth will be written down because they've forsaken the fountain of living water, that is the Lord." "Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed. 15:01 Save me, and I will be saved, for you are my Lord. You are my praise. Look, they keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now." And this is a word that God has impressed on my heart through the years. 15:20 And I hope that God will impress this on our hearts that whatever happens I'm not going to forsake the fountain of living waters. When the church began, those living waters flowed and continue to flow down through the 45 15:35 years, but it should never happen like in Ezekiel's day when it becomes a trickle. No, it should be a river. A river that we can swim in. A river that carries us along as a church. Not as not a trickle. In Ezekiel's day, it was an idol of 15:53 jealousy that that stopped the river and that way there it was a trickle that flowed from under the altar. But later we see you know water up to the ankles, water up to the knees as in that vision Ezekiel flowed in Isaiah in Ezekiel 47. 16:11 And then water up to the waist and and then we read further water enough to swim in. And where where there was freshness, there was life. That that is the church, my brothers and sisters. That is what you and I are called to preserve. And the only way is 16:29 to make sure that I do not face or forsake the fountain of living waters. No matter what happens, whatever difficulties and trials and suffering and uh like I was saying that we have been through as a family my wife and I and uh 16:49 so many things mm some things that uh surprised us we never went through before. But it should never cause me to turn away from the fountain of living waters. And this word that I was saying there just written it says uh verse 15 I think 17:08 it is. It says as for me in Jeremiah 17 and reading as for me I've not hurried away from being a shepherd Following after you, nor have I longed for the disastrous day. You yourself know that the utterance of my lips was in 17:25 your presence. What a word. That's the word that God impressed on my heart. Then whatever happens, I will not hurry away from being a shepherd. And uh um through the years, God is reminding me different different circumstances, 17:42 situations can come in our lives and our home, in the church. And uh you know, so easy you want to throw your hands up. And many times I'm reminded that's not a shepherd, that's a hireling. A hireling, when he sees a wolf coming, 17:59 will leave the sheep and run away. But the shepherd will will stick by, no matter what the danger. So, Jeremiah says, and I I wrote that in my Bible and my old Bible, which is open here before me. I said, "Lord, this is what I want. 18:15 I will not hurry away from being a shepherd, following after you. Nor do I long for the disastrous day. I don't want to see uh it go badly with others, even if they forsake the Lord and go away. You yourself know the utterance of my 18:30 lips was in your presence. What a word to ask God to to burn into our spirits in these last days, that we will be shepherds after his own heart. We will be there always, drinking from the river, from the fountain of living waters, so 18:50 that we can bring freshness into other people's lives, so that we can bring life. And uh God brings uh God teaches us is when we go through trials and suffering and difficulties, is the only way we can learn, and that's 19:07 the only way that God can deal with us and break us, and uh keep us faithful to him. And that is why I say, you know, Jesus stood up This is another word in in John 7: 27 that I have looked to many times. 19:26 Jesus standing up and crying out on the great on the last day, the great day of the feast in John chapter 7. And, even in the midst of all the religious fervor and excitement on the last day, the great day of the feast, like I was saying, people get 19:41 excited over so many things. They can get a find false comfort in saying God is with us and, uh but they're excited about all the other things and not excited about the Lord. They know They've forsaken the gentle flowing stream. They've 19:58 forsaken the fountain of living waters. And that's why Jesus cried out on that He stood and cried out on the last day, the great day of the feast, "If any man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture 20:14 said, from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." And this He spoke of the Spirit whom those who believed in Him were to receive, for the Spirit was not yet poured out because Jesus was not yet glorified. 20:30 So, that is what, you know, people can find satisfaction in so many other things and rather than in coming to Jesus and drinking from Him and continually drinking, not just a day to a day that we can look 20:48 back and remember when the Holy Spirit fell on me and I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, but continuously coming to Him and drinking from Him. And it says as as as God promised, as the scripture said, "From innermost being will flow rivers of living water." 21:06 And those river It should always be a river that flows from your innermost being in mind. And uh it says he spoke this of the spirit from those who believed in him would receive. And we go back to Isaiah 8. People, you know, found satisfaction and 21:26 they're excited about even in uh events that happened there. And excited about uh this raising the son of Remaliah and all the political events 21:43 that happened there and and God says says to them, "Be broken verse 9, oh peoples, and be shattered. And give your all, remote places of the earth. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered. Gird yourselves, yet be shattered. Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted. 22:02 State a proposal, but it will not stand, for God is with us." And uh that's what God spoke to Isaiah. And uh people, you know, we can find satisfaction in other things. We can, 22:21 you know, look to our own um reason instead of looking to the Lord in different situations. And uh then we wonder why and things can go wrong. Cuz then, you know, we give room, like it says there. 22:41 And God says there, uh there will be a flood that will come to these who have forsaken the gentle flowing waters of Shiloah. Now, I was thinking of that word, that that's what happens. And when I 22:58 stray away from the Lord, I give room to the enemy. And of a flood like it says in Isaiah 59 verses 19 to 21 in the King James. I I always like the rendering there and compared to what is there in our 23:17 versions. In Isaiah 59:19 to 21 it's another word that I have held on to um particularly recently. It says so it starts with so shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun. 23:36 And when the enemy, this is the word that when the enemy shall come in like a flood the spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against him. And the redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression 23:50 in Jacob, said the Lord. As for me this is my covenant with them, said the Lord. My spirit that is upon thee and my words which I put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy of thy seed 24:05 children nor out of the mouth of thy seed seed of grandchildren, said the Lord from henceforth and forever. That's how it is. That when I'm drinking from the fountain of living waters and like Jesus said come to me and drink. So 24:22 even if the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will raise up a standard against him. But if I have hewed out my own broken system and I find excitement and satisfaction in other things rather than in in in the Holy Spirit and drinking 24:39 from him then the enemy has room and he can uh he can really play cat and mouse with our lives. And so God brings us back again and again to realize that only the mighty power of the Holy Spirit can stand up for us 24:58 when the enemy comes in like a flood and do not have to fear whatever the devil may try to do to shake my faith that I can stand strong because I have the Holy Spirit. I'm drinking from the fountain of living waters. And God teaches us that and I know he's 25:16 taught me that particularly uh recently. You know, the words of that uh I thought him of uh Annie Johnson Flint as I guess often uh quoted when we come to the end of our hoarded resources. 25:36 All our hoarded resources will get exhausted. What are our hoarded resources? I was thinking of that particularly last Sunday's message, the two levels of faith that we can have. We can have a whole whole Our resources can be in messages that we have heard. 25:54 And that is where God puts us to test and we hear a message, we're moved and uh yeah, we think we've got it. But then when we go through the situation, when we go through the trial and our faith gets shaken and we wonder all those hoarded 26:11 resources have to get exhausted. I cannot find comfort and refuge or strength and power in mere messages and listening to them. Thank God for messages. Thank God for the prophetic word. I thank the Lord many, many times that God has spoken to 26:27 me. And thank the Lord for the promises that we can cling to. And or we can recall things we have shared with others. We can you know, our service, our sacrifice, these are all hoarded resources, our self-denial. 26:46 And the people we have blessed and uh we have uh uh We have uh what we have shared with others. But we have to come to the end of our hoarded ex- uh resources, whatever that may be. 27:06 And you and I can be different. We can have a huge collection of hoarded resources. And when we go through those trials, when we go through this uh to the situation and what we have heard, God wants to to make uh life in us, then it's a 27:22 different dis- story. And I've thought of these words of that hymn, "When we have exhausted our store of endurance, when our strength has failed and the day is half done, when we reach the end of our hoarded resources, 27:38 our Father's full giving is only begun." And I have tasted that a little in recent months, and particularly in the last year through many uh through trials that the Lord has taken us through with ill health and uh both for my wife and for myself. 27:57 And then and we wonder, we come to the end of our hoarded resources. But that's when it says our Father's full giving has only begun. His love has no limit. His grace has no measure. His power has no boundary known unto 28:17 men. For out of his infinite riches in Jesus, he giveth and giveth and giveth again. And what does he give us? What does he give us? Something better than what we ask him for, whether it's healing, 28:36 whether answers to prayer, or whether that we don't have to go through this suffering. He gives us something That's the word that brother Zach has shared and which is which is stuck in my heart and my mind. 28:56 That something better is grace. Grace. No matter what I ask for, if I see that grace better than healing. That's what Paul That's what Jesus told Paul, "I'll give you something better, Paul." 29:14 Then healing whatever affliction it was, whether it was eyes or whatever he was going through, "I'll give you grace. My grace is sufficient for you. My power shows up best in weak people." 29:31 And God has tried to show me that. To bring us all to a place of weakness, we come to the end of our hoarded resources and see that I cannot hold on to anything. I can understand all the truths and I've 29:50 been gripped with them. But then God has another way of making that life, the things that I thought I understood and I thought I was gripped with, but when we go through it, then we see it that I have to be willing to 30:09 exhaust those hoarded resources and just yield to him, yield to his Holy Spirit. God's power shows up best in weak people and there are many, many different ways that God seeks to bring us, whether it's some trial in your job, in your office, 30:29 whether it's a sickness or ill health, pain and suffering, so many things that God has to bring us to a place where we only cling to him. We only come to him. I don't I don't cure my own broken system. 30:48 Whatever it may be, you know, the number of years in the church and what I've done. But to come to a place where I can receive that something better, grace. God's power that shows up best in weak people. And that is what we see the second thing 31:07 that God spoke to Isaiah. And he showed them that these people have forsaken me. Just like in Jeremiah's day. The gentle flowing waters of Shiloah. And they excited over other things. And 31:26 lastly, the other the other thing that we see where Isaiah says the Lord spoke to me. Here he says in verse 11 now, Isaiah 8. He says uh verse 11. He says the Lord spoke to me with mighty power. 31:45 There he says God spoke to me. He spoke to him the children that he gave him. They were to be a sign and a wonder. God spoke to him that the condition of his people that they had forsaken the fountain of living waters. And uh 32:02 turned away and got excited about other things. You know, so many so many things that can happen around this this pandemic and you know, recent political events in your country. Things that happened in my country. And this is a word that through the 32:20 years, like I said earlier, and in many situations that we faced as a church, when God called us to pray the different things that happened within the country. You know, I've always thought of that that the church is is not better better for to the to the 32:40 world. The world is better for to the church. I hope you realize that everything that God does in the world is with the interest of his church or his people and view in building his church. You know, we don't rotate around the world. The 32:58 world must rotate around us. The world is better for to the church. That's what we read in Ephesians. And uh That is that is something I've seen. That's why everything is not just that when it comes down to me. Everything that 33:14 that God does all the things that seemingly may go wrong in my prayers prayers and don't get the the expected answers. God is working all things for my good. All the events that happen in our home, in our personal lives, in our jobs. 33:33 Yeah, it's not We're not tossed about. It's everything with what what what what God is planning for us. He says, you know, in Isaiah in Psalm 139, a lovely Psalm, it says that that when I am awake, you're still thinking of me. 33:53 I think of that in the some mornings. Whenever I say, "Lord, you I slept. You I slept. You gave me sleep. You gave me a beloved sleep. But when I You're thinking of me all through when you sleeping when I slept so soundly 34:08 or if I didn't sleep so soundly. And when I am awake, you're still thinking of me. What's he thinking of me? He's He's planning for me in love. He's planning for my life in love. And so, the things that I think are going 34:21 wrong and shouldn't be this way and why is God not answering my prayer? No, he's planning for me in love. And so, this word here which I said numerous times I've read. I believe so applicable for us in these last days. It says, "The Lord spoke to 34:40 me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people saying, What is that they're saying? You're not to regard You're not to say it is a conspiracy in regard to all that this people call a conspiracy. 34:59 And you're not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it." It says, Yeah, I wrote here in my margin. I remember this old Bible. You know, when I was in It's quite tattered and uh 35:18 and uh and so on in some places I patched up, but there are dates here. And I remember way back when I was in the study center in Jeffersonville. This is the Bible I used. And uh when the when the church was born, this was the Bible I had because I got 35:36 dates here. So, I am gone back here in readings and it's blessed my heart. It's encouraged me particularly during this last year where we've been in and out of hospitals and many things that happened, I've been tremendously 35:52 uh encouraged and blessed by dates I put here. So, this word here, like I said, I come to me numerous times. You're not to say it is a conspiracy in regard that all that this people call a conspiracy. You're not to fear what they fear or be 36:09 in dread of it nor make others afraid or be in dread. And that's what this is a times we're living in. Fear. I keep telling people I remind my own family we're not to pass around fear. Fear is from the pit of hell. No doubt about it. 36:27 And I'm not, no matter what I hear, no matter what uh you know, WhatsApp is really a messenger to carry fear. Many things, whether it's political events, all kinds of theories come up, conspiracy theories. We're living in a 36:42 day with these conspiracy theories. Whether it's a pandemic, where it started, who started it, and all kinds of things. And then the recent events that you are faced in your country, the political political events. That is a conspiracy, and so many 37:02 theories come up. And God says, you know, in the message Bible, it says he grabbed me by both shoulders. In the message Bible, God spoke strongly to me, "Grab me with both hands and warn me not to go along with these people." 37:20 All the you know, with this day of Thank God for technology. But with that technology, lots of conspiracy theories uh go around and are circulated and and God's people, you and I can drink that in 37:37 and imbibe that in, pass that on to others. And I keep reminding even our brothers here, don't don't pass on things that are going to spread fear and panic. We have to We have to spread faith to our children. We have to give them faith. We are not 37:55 to put panic and fear, no matter what happens around us. Whether it's a pandemic or whether you know, things that happen and you know, say this is all part of this all this one world order and uh 38:11 and Illuminati and all these theories. You are not God spoke to me. He said with mighty power, in the living Bible in the message Bible, God strongly to me, grabbed me with both hands, warned me not to go along with these people. And that's what 38:28 God is doing to you and me. My dear brothers and sisters, he's grabbing us by our shoulders with both hands. Don't go along with these people. Following everything in conspiracy. In a message Bible it says Do not go along with these people. He 38:46 said, "Don't be like these people, always afraid someone is plotting against them." That's the message Bible. Always afraid. And the people's lives are run with fear and panic. The homes are filled with fear and panic. 39:03 We pass that on to our children. All kinds of messages. I I don't have time to tell you all the things that get circulated. I I don't even I and then ask you to pass it on. You just I defeated. So, don't fear what they fear. Don't 39:23 take on their worries. If you're going to worry, worry about the holy. Fear God of If you're going to worry, worry about the holy. Worry about God. Fear God of the angel armies. And you know, we have that the first one of the first words of 39:42 We we made a plaque of this if you fear God. You still have in CFC Bangalore. If you fear God, you need fear nothing else. If you fear God, you need fear nothing else. That's what God says. Isaiah 8. This is where that where that word comes from. 39:59 And it says going on to read in the message Bible, the holy can be either a hiding place or a boulder blocking your way. The holy can either be a hiding place. You know, many people quoted quote Psalm 91 in these days. 40:17 But they don't fulfill fulfill the condition of verse one where God is our shelter, where God is our hiding place, and then they can have false comfort, no plague will come near my my dwelling. When God is not their shelter, God is 40:32 not their hiding place. So, it says that God can either be a hiding place or a border blocking your way. The rock standing in the willful way of both houses of Israel. And then Israel speaks of the church, a barbed wire fence preventing trespass to 40:50 the citizens of Jerusalem. Many of them are going to run into that rock and get their bones broken, get tangled up in that barbed wire and not get free of it. And then the Holy Spirit says, now God says here, "Gather up the testimony, preserve the 41:09 teaching for my followers while I wait for God as long as he remains in hiding. While I wait and hope for him, I stand my ground and hope. Behold, I and the children whom God has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel. 41:27 I hope that we will really be gripped with that. I don't have to fear what's going to happen to my children or grandchildren. I know who who's their hands. They will be signs and wonders, warning signs, it says the Message 41:44 Bible, hope signs from God of the angel armies who makes his home in Mount Zion. When people tell you, "Try with the fortune tellers, consult the spirit spiritual spiritualists." You know, people say, "Listen to this preacher, he has an understanding of the 42:01 times in and he has got it all together." Or listen to that preacher. Why not tap into the spirit world? I'm reading the message. Get in Get in touch with the dead. Listen to this. Tell them this is a message Bible. Tell them 42:18 you know, in in the version we all have, to the law and to the testimony, tell them no, we are going to study and we I put that word in and obey the scriptures. When they tell you, you know, try all this, listen to this one, listen to that 42:34 one, read this read this and read that, tell them no, we are going to study and obey the scriptures. And that is what we that is what we must teach our children. I'm going to study study and obey God's word. I don't care 42:49 what all all these conspiracy theories and all that is going around. To the law, to the word of God and to the testimony. What is that testimony? The testimony that Jesus had before Pilate, my kingdom is not of this world. 43:06 If my kingdom were of this world, my my servants would fight. But my kingdom is not of this world. And that's the testimony. You know, the way we conduct our affairs in our home, in our work spot, in our relationship with each other, 43:25 that we testify to this world, we belong we don't belong here. I don't belong. This is not my kingdom. My kingdom is not of this world. I belong to another kingdom, a kingdom that is unshakable. It cannot be shaken when everything 43:39 around us. And we're going to see that in the coming days. More things, more shaking. But if we belong to that kingdom that cannot be shaken, I don't have to fear. I don't have to panic. And it goes on to say, you know, when it says to to the law, 43:58 that's to the word of God and to the testimony, it says people who try the other ways get nowhere, dead end. This is the message. Frustrated and famished, they try one thing after another. When nothing works out, they get angry, 44:12 cursing first this god and then that one, looking this way and that and that, up, down, and sideways, and see nothing. A blind wall an empty hole. They end up in the dark with nothing. But for us, for the church, through the 44:30 law, through the word of God, and through the testimony, the confession that Jesus made before Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world." That's how I'm to live, and that is how it must be with our church. And that's why it says in Isaiah 8:16, 44:47 "Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples." And that is what you and I are called to do, bind up the testimony, seal the law. The word of God, put them put a seed in our children's hearts. Don't just preach out clever ideas and 45:06 thoughts, but what God works in us through trial and suffering, not messages that I just got excited about in Grip, but when I come into different situations, God wants to make that life. God wants me to wants to get my feet off the ground, 45:25 whatever that like in that in Ezekiel's vision, where my feet are off the ground, not just water up to the ankles, the knees, and the wrists, but water enough to swim in. And then I'm carried by that river, and wherever I go, 45:42 I will bring freshness. Wherever there's staleness, I can bring freshness. That's how it must be even one another. When I visit somebody's home, I can leave freshness there. I can leave life there. That's our calling, my brothers and 45:59 sisters, and I have shared to you what something that God is what is uh spoken to me powerfully in these days. And I believe that's what he wants he wants to get our attention. When so many things are happening and even 46:17 God's people are swayed and taken up and get excited over a whole lot of other things. God grabs us by the shoulders. Don't go along with this, people. Don't say it's a conspiracy. Let whatever theories they may be I'm going to study and obey God's word. 46:34 I'm going to hold to that testimony that my kingdom is not of this world. I belong to another kingdom. That soon one day will be set up on this earth. And we will reign with him. I thank God for 46:51 this word I'd encourage you to read. Isaiah 8. I go back to these scriptures and go back to things in this old Bible of mine. Way back to '71, '72. Even before CFC started. 47:10 And then I've got notes there. '75. I thank God I can go back and get encouraged and get my vision cleared. You know, sometimes it can get a little hazy because of different things that happen. You know, we got to 47:28 you know sometimes take our uh specs and wipe the lens and put them on again so that we can see clearly. So may God help us. And bless his word to our hearts that we can be a blessing to our generation. 47:47 And our children and grandchildren will be signs and wonders in this way. Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly we We thank you for the hold of us. Thank you for becoming our Father. 48:11 It is awesome. We can't even imagine that the almighty God the creator of heaven and earth has become our Father through Jesus. And that you love us as much as you love 48:29 Jesus. We thank you. For this awesome awesome reality. You love us as much as you love Jesus. And what you did for Jesus, you will do 48:47 for us. You will preserve us that we can flow with the river that is flowing in these last days, bringing freshness and life into many people's lives. 49:04 The world that is so is heading more and more into decay and decline. We thank you that the spirit of God is working within us to reveal the sons of God. All create all creation longs for this moment. 49:22 The revealing of the sons of God. And we pray dear Lord Jesus that our children, our grandchildren would be signs and wonders as you promised. In their days, in this crooked and perverse generation that they live in, you will 49:39 hold their hand. And that they shall be signs and wonders. And that you continue to build your church. Lord Jesus, that when the enemy comes in like a flood, you praise the Lord, you praise God with the Spirit of God. 49:57 Mighty, powerful Spirit of God will raise up a standard against him when he comes against us in our homes or in our family life. The work spot, the Spirit of God will raise up a standard against him. And thank you, Lord Jesus. 50:12 Thank you, Lord, for these dear brothers and sisters. Bless the church there in Colorado. Bless the brothers and AJ, you know. And all the brothers there, brothers and sisters, make them continue to make them a blessing 50:29 in Jesus' name we ask. Amen.
