0:00 Thank you. 0:30 Let's sing our first song. It is the church triumphant singing, worthy the lamb. 0:52 Heaven throughout with praises ringing, worthy the lamb. Swell the chorus never ending, worthy the lamb. Every kindred, tongue and nation. Brothers and sisters, we have to believe that heaven is joining in today as we sing. 1:10 There's a cloud of witnesses watching us. And they all have one cry, worthy is the lamb who was slain. It's our privilege to speak these words, to sing these words from our heart with thankfulness. Let's join in together. 1:22 It is the church triumphant singing, worthy the lamb. And throughout the praises ringing, worthy the lamb. 1:43 Throwns and bars before him bending. For the sweet with voice ascending. For the glorious, ever-ending, worthy the lamb. Okay, sister, sing worthy the lamb. 2:04 Brothers, sing along with me. Every kindred tongue and nation's glory, Lord, join to sing the great salvation, glory, Lord. Loud as mighty thunders roaring, floods of mighty waters pouring, cross it at His feet adoring. 2:36 Worthy the Lamb, hearts and songs forever sounding, Worthy the Lamb, mighty grace of sin around us, Worthy the Lamb, by His blood He killed upon us, 3:01 Wondering from the holy sorrow and the glory safely brought us, Worthy the Lamb, sing with blessed anticipation, Worthy the Lamb, 3:23 Through the veil of tribulation, Worthy the Lamb, sweet as Lord's Son, Lord's excelling, Haunted in Him forever dwelling, Still untold, no ever telling, Worthy the Lamb. 3:50 Please be seated, brothers and sisters. Sweetest notes, all notes excelling, On the theme forever dwelling, Still untold, no ever telling, Worthy the Lamb. 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from hell and then secondly we know him as the one who baptizes us immerses us in the holy spirit but then there's a third stage and that is the immediate presence of god where he is our forerunner 42:25 so i need to know jesus as savior baptizer forerunner these are three stages in our christian life initially you come to him and say lord save me from my from the judgment i deserve because of my sin and he cleanses me in his blood and i'm forgiven and cleansed i become a child of god 42:48 then i must not stop there some people stop there because their whole life is self-centered i want to escape hell now if your only aim in life is to escape hell you'll have a very dissatisfied christian life you'll never grow because you're only interested in escaping hell 43:09 and you think you've escaped hell because you've accepted thrice in your life but you know the thing is in any stage in our christian life we can backslide you can come to know his savior and then lose your salvation completely so the only way to prevent backsliding is by progressing so i know jesus is 43:28 savior and then as you progress in your christian life you discover that you're constantly defeated and you're confessing and repenting and confessing and repenting and you never seem to get out of that cycle of confessing sin and repenting and that's when some people say i want to know more 43:52 then you begin to see god and jesus fills you with the holy spirit that's a very real experience just like knowing jesus as savior you need to be filled with the holy spirit otherwise you will not be an overcomer no matter how many messages you hear or how many meetings 44:09 you come to and that's something personal just like you're receiving christ is personal i want to encourage you dear brothers seek and say lord i will not let you go until you fill me with the holy spirit jesus said if anyone is thirsty let him come to me and i will give him the holy spirit like rivers flowing 44:31 out from within him i know in my own case that's how it was i sought god and he filled me with the holy spirit and i seek to continually be filled with the holy spirit but then then he leads us as a forerunner and says there's a race in front of you that you must run where gradually we overcome all the 44:54 things that we have inherited from adam in our flesh every wretched ungodly attitude that we have god will give us more and more light this race is where we run behind christ and we are told that is why jesus came to earth as an example he not only came as a savior from our sin 45:21 but he said follow me not just believe in me if you read the gospels he maybe says once or twice believe in me but most of the time jesus said follow me today's christendom mostly teaches believe in christ and that's one difference between what we teach in cfc compared to the others 45:46 yes believe in christ but we say follow christ follow in his footsteps see how he lived on this earth in our relations with with other people i must always think how did jesus relate to people that's how i must be how did jesus react when people came for a fight with him 46:09 he wouldn't fight back is that your testimony i want to ask all of you all of your straight question is that your testimony that it is impossible for anybody to have a fight with you that your husband cannot fight with you no matter how hard he tries 46:30 that your wife cannot fight with you no however hard she tries your neighbor cannot fight with you people in the office cannot fight with you nobody can fight with you because you don't don't fight back that's the testimony jesus had you could not fight with jesus he would not fight back 46:48 you could not even argue with him because he will not argue back so these are areas where if you find that we're not reacting in different situations like christ would then he's not our forerunner it says here he's a forerunner who entered inside 47:14 the veil into god's presence i want to live in god's presence every day even while we're singing this morning i was thinking lord i'm singing this to you you're here did you realize that did you did you just like the songs or did you 47:33 sing to jesus who is here to me the most wonderful thing is to live in the presence of god every day right from morning onwards to say lord i want to live in your presence i want to walk in your presence i urge you my brothers and sisters even if you don't know much of the bible and you 47:49 can't remember many promises and verses seek to live in the presence of god as i told you for the first 1400 years nobody could memorize verses memorizing verses is very good but if it's only a intellectual thing we don't become spiritual 48:10 seek to live in the presence of god every day and if you have a hunger for that lord i want to live in your presence from morning as i wake up in the morning i want to know your presence i want to hear you i want to i want to follow in your footsteps today imagine if all of you young people begin to 48:29 do that from this stage in your life can you imagine what you will be in four or five years from now you'll be a truly spiritual person and your life can influence many many other people that's the way god wants you to live so try to understand what it means to be a to follow jesus 48:49 as a forerunner ask the lord to explain to you what does it mean lord to be to run behind you hebrews is the one book that teaches us that he's our forerunner and there are many things it says about jesus in hebrews that are not said anywhere else let me show you some of them 49:08 one is what we have frequently emphasized in this church hebrews 4 15 that he was tempted in every single point as we are and i never get tired of saying that because it is not taught much in christendom the last part of verse 15 he was tempted 49:27 jesus christ was tempted in everything as we are can you think of some temptation you're facing jesus to face that temptation and he overcame and he did not sin once all his life right up to the end of his life he was tempted 49:46 why was he tempted to be an example for us that's all because we are tempted if he came to earth and he was not tempted at all that means if he did not feel the pull of temptation he could not be an example for us i often use the example you heard of an angel 50:10 coming to a swimming pool teaching you how to swim and he flies across the pool with his wings and he says follow me what do you say i can't follow you i don't have wings he'll tell the angel if you want to teach me how to swim get rid of your wings 50:29 and be subject to this pull of gravity that pulls me down when i get into the swimming pool then you can teach me to overcome gravity in the swimming pool and reach the other end so the think of the christian life like swimming in a swimming pool going across to the other end and 50:46 all the time gravity is pulling you down that's why if you don't know how to swim you drown because gravity pulls you down to the bottom of the tank there are many people who have drowned in a swimming pool who drowned in a river because you have to fight against gravity in order to stay afloat 51:07 and that's the picture of our christian life and you can't relax all the time you have to do something to overcome gravity otherwise you go down it's like that in the christian life but you know how people enjoy swimming there's so many 51:23 people who love to go and jump into the pool and swim and swim and swim for hours once you realize what it is it's a pleasure to swim to overcome gravity and swim it's the same thing in the christian life to overcome temptation and walk in triumph is exactly like swimming and when jesus came 51:45 if he had a power which we don't have he cannot say follow me if he came as god and used his power as god then the devil could not tempt him the bible says god cannot be tempted 52:06 james chapter one is very clear i want to explain this so simply because there are so many newcomers here who don't know what we teach in this church which is different from what is teaching other churches and one of the main things is this that jesus christ came to earth like us he was god 52:27 when he was on earth also he was god but he did not use his divine power to overcome sin he used the same power that he offers us he prayed you know jesus prayed more than any of us pray why did he pray does god have to pray 52:51 he was god but he lived as a man and he prayed because prayer is the expression of our helplessness lord i need help and jesus prayed father help me i don't want to sin even once that's why he prayed much and if you don't want to sin even once in your life in your thoughts or words you'll you'll also pray much 53:17 not not on your knees but there'll always be a cry in your heart that's what prayer is lord i don't want to sin you face the temptation and you say lord there's a there's a danger here the way this person is speaking to me or the way this person is 53:32 troubling me there's a danger now i may sin i don't want to sin lord please help me i want to avoid sin completely i don't care if he wins the argument he can win the argument but i don't want to sin you take that attitude or do you feel i must win this argument i'll tell you 53:47 honestly i don't have any interest in winning any argument though i have an interest in staying away from sin winning an argument will not help me in any way staying away from sin will bless me immensely so i urge you follow jesus example here he was tempted in everything exactly as we are it's like 54:06 angel took off his wings and says now i'll teach you to swim that's one illustration another illustration that has helped me which i've often used is supposing some very wealthy billionaire from a foreign country came to teach people in the slums in 54:25 india how to live earning whatever little you earn every supposing a man in the slums earning a thousand rupees a month which is very little and he says i can't live with this and here's this billionaire who comes here and says i'll teach you how to live and i'll teach you how to live very simply and to keep 54:47 your little hut clean all the time and so he comes here and he says i will work like you and i will also earn thousand rupees a month and i live on one thousand rupees and i will keep my house clean and i'll never get into debt and i'll show you how to do it 55:12 but he has to promise that he will not use his american credit card and draw money every now and then secretly because this poor man doesn't have that he says no i'll never use it is he a billionaire yes did he use his credit card no that's how jesus came was he god on earth yes 55:36 did he use his power as god no because if he did use that even once he cannot be our example so we worship him as god but we recognize that he he in order to be our example he did not use any of that power that's what encourages me when i'm tempted because the devil will always tell 56:00 you ah jesus he was god that's why he lived so pure that's why he could forgive his enemies that's why he could do that that's why he could be holy you'll listen to that lie and i'll tell you you will be defeated by sin all of your life i know i was till one day god opened my eyes to see 56:21 jesus christ came to earth exactly like me and never once used his divine power as god to overcome sin and says follow me i cannot follow him if he used his divine power as god please i know this is something very elementary 56:41 but i'll tell you this if you're falling into sin it's because you don't believe that jesus came like you that's the only reason if jesus came like you and he did not sin why are you falling into sin you'll say oh but he was different all the time in the back of your mind the devil's saying he was different 57:02 i had that thought too but the holy spirit removed it from my mind he was not different he was exactly like me when the bible says exactly like me in every point i believe it and then it says in hebrews 4 16 therefore we can draw near to the throne of grace that we can 57:19 receive mercy and grace and to help in time of need and for those who are new here let me explain to you what it says in hebrews 4 16 what is the difference between mercy and grace i was a christian for about 20 years before i understood the meaning of that 57:35 or at least 15 years and i think many people sitting here do not know the difference between mercy and grace you never find the word grace in the old testament mercy is the great word in the old testament grace is a new testament word 57:55 and there's a tremendous difference mercy deals with the past grace deals with our future in a very simple way mercy deals with all the mistakes we have made in the past jesus never needed mercy no because he never made a mistake he never committed sin 58:17 mercy is required by those who fall into sin and you and i need mercy till the end of our lives we come to jesus and ask him to forgive us that's mercy and he gives it to us we are forgiven but then the new covenant leads us to experience grace 58:39 and do you know that jesus needed grace to live on this earth that's what many people you'll never hear that in any other church but i'll show you scripture luke's gospel chapter 2 59:00 luke's gospel chapter 2 it's talking about jesus in verse 40 as a little child he had been dedicated in the temple in the previous verses as a little baby and after that he came home with his mother 59:20 and as a little baby verse 40 he continued to grow luke 2 40 and become strong and he increased in wisdom and the grace of god was upon him not mercy he never needed mercy because he never committed sin 59:43 but he needed grace the average christian does not know that jesus needed grace they say yeah i need grace but that's because they don't understand what grace is they say i'm a sinner saved by grace yes but saved from what not saved from hell 1:00:07 saved from sin most christians the only salvation they know is being saved from hell but grace has not come to save us from hell god's mercy saves us from hell god's grace is to save us from sin 1:00:28 and that's an everyday thing being saved from hell is finally saved from sin is now the grace of god the grace of god was upon him to use an illustration if i think of the grace of god like this roof over me 1:00:49 any amount of rain on the outside not one drop will fall on me because i'm under this roof if i go out out of this roof rain falls on me it's an illustration as long as i'm under grace 1:01:09 sin cannot make me fall temptation cannot make me fall it can there can be temptation all around me not one drop comes on me because i'm under the roof so when jesus was under grace he lived under grace all the time that was why not one drop of sin could fall on him not one drop every temptation was overcome 1:01:37 and he's a forerunner means he has shown us how to run this race stay under grace all the time and you will overcome sin all the time so you see saw that in luke 2 40 now turn with me to romans 6 1:01:59 and verse 14 the same thing is mentioned here which i just mentioned to you right now if i'm under this covering of grace like this roof here the rain of temptation cannot touch me not one drop i'll be completely protected this is not 1:02:18 theory it's actually real and i proved it in my life and romans 6 14 says the same thing sin cannot rule over you the problem with all of us is from childhood sin has ruled us all things that are sinful have ruled us from childhood we fight 1:02:40 tell lies quarrel do all types of things and as we grow up we don't change we still fight and quarrel even after we get married sin rules us but it says that you know you can come to a life where sin cannot be your master 1:02:57 what is a master a master is one who tells his servant do this and you do it don't do this you won't do it that's a master so when it says sin is a master sin tells you get angry with that person you get angry 1:03:17 don't forgive that person you don't forgive that person you're just obedient to sin you must be bitter against that person you obey him or your mother-in-law treated you very badly don't ever forgive her treat her badly when she comes to your home just 1:03:34 give her a piece of your mind and you obey sin we are obeying sin all the time we come and sit here in the church as holy people hypocrites 100% hypocrites because you're not under understood grace i'm not blaming you i say if all the children in the class fail in mathematics the problem is not with probably with the students probably with the teacher 1:04:00 so i've often said many of you have come from churches where your teachers were bad your pastors and preachers never told you the truth that sin need not rule over you all you were told was you'll be defeated by sin all your life 1:04:17 and finally you keep asking god to forgive you and the blood of christ will cleanse you and you go up you'll finally go to heaven but that's not the gospel the gospel is sin will not rule over you if there's a big if if you're under grace 1:04:35 that's what it says here sin will not be master over you because you're under grace i told you what grace is god's protection that's all the rain can't fall on me sin cannot overcome me have you experienced this life are you experiencing it every day 1:04:54 this is what i did not experience after i was born again for more than 16 years because i never heard it i had teachers who did not teach me this because they themselves did not know it how can a teacher teach you some subject in mathematics if he himself does not know it 1:05:12 and most preachers and pastors in the world are defeated by sin they do so many wrong things in their life number one they love money it's one of the biggest sins to love money as a servant of god now if you're not if you're trying to earn your living it's very 1:05:30 different i believe you must try and get the best job you can and earn the best maximum salary you can that's all very good but when you come to serve god and you're interested in making money and you want to go to a church that will give you a good salary as a pastor 1:05:47 you're an evil person you can't serve god and look for money you're out in the world you're doing a secular job earn as much as you can sure get the highest paying job by all means quit your low paying job and take a higher job perfectly all 1:06:04 right but not if you're serving god and i have hardly met a pastor or preacher in my life who doesn't love money i met a few very very few so here's a pastor and a preacher who took a job because he wants a salary 1:06:25 and just like anybody else looking for a job and he goes to the church that will give him a higher salary and give him a pay of the rent for his house and all that and is that the way to serve god is that how jesus did jesus 1:06:38 look for people to pay money or someone to pay the rent for his house no that's why i say today's christendom does not know the true gospel of grace of god because you're more interested in money and many of you have come out of those churches 1:06:55 being taught by these people who themselves had no victory over sin what can they teach you if the teacher himself does not know multiplication how will they teach you multiplication and so you sit there for years and years and years and years in a church you never learn 1:07:11 to overcome sin all you know is that the blood of jesus cleanses me blood of jesus cleanses me dear brothers when you come here you hear something more than that it's like when you leave the kindergarten and go to standard one and two you learn something more 1:07:29 most of the churches are like kindergarten not even kindergarten it's like pre-kg you learn nothing but here's what we need to learn we when we come under grace it's an absolute law sin cannot rule over us something lifts you up above sin you see a a bird flying in the air 1:07:57 you think gravity doesn't pull down that bird gravity pulls down every bird and when you see a dead bird on the ground you know that gravity pulled that bird down it stopped flying but yet you're always seeing birds conquering gravity 1:08:16 and i believe every bird that flies is a message from god to me you can overcome sin next time you see a bird flying hear god speaking to you through that like that bird overcomes gravity you can overcome sin i made that bird overcome 1:08:37 gravity i can make you overcome sin not just by putting your wings down and flapping down and saying god will do it all that bird doesn't say god will do it all and god will lift me up no it flaps its wings and it flies 1:08:54 and men have learned from that and men fly airplanes now to overcome gravity you see that huge metal airplane weighing so many tons overcoming gravity and going there's a message in all these things it follows a law that 1:09:12 some time ago about a hundred years ago people discovered a law by which you could make a metal object like a plane overcome gravity and go and when men discovered that what a difference it made and this is what we need to discover too that grace can lift you up 1:09:33 and it doesn't matter which country is making that plane the law applies all over the world small plane big plane if you follow the law it'll go up in the same way grace there is a law that's what i want to explain to you 1:09:48 it applies to everybody and let me read that to you in 1 peter 5 verse 5 the last part god gives grace to the humble 1:10:11 can you remember that one sentence a little sentence god gives grace to the humble and i would add one more word there god gives grace only to the humble he resists the proud he resists proud people means he's pulling people down 1:10:34 he gives grace to the humble means he's lifting them up think of grace as something that lifts you up against gravity the gravity of sin just like the plane is lifted up and pride is what pulls you right down 1:10:54 so the choice is up to you and what does it say if god gives grace to the humble what does it say in the next verse therefore since god gives grace to the humble therefore dear brother sister humble yourself under the mighty hand of god and he will lift you up 1:11:14 exalt you means what exalt your reward what do you want to be exalted over i'll tell you honestly my testimony i want to be exalted over only one thing sin i want to rule over sin where sin is under my foot i don't want to rule over people i don't want to be a master over any of you 1:11:35 there's only one thing i want god to exalt me over and that is sin because god gives his grace only to the humble and what i learned from that is i remember in my struggle against sin so many times i would fall 1:11:59 maybe in my thoughts or a word of an angry word would slip out of my mouth and i'd say lord why did that happen answer is you moved out of grace you went outside the building and so the rain fell on you you didn't stay under grace 1:12:18 lord why didn't i stay under grace you were proud somewhere in your life you were a little proud sometimes god disciplines us sometimes i've been in bed with a fever and i said lord why was that i mean if it's a regular 1:12:37 fever everybody's getting in there i also get infected we live in this world but if there's a this if it is a discipline sometimes god punishes us with a little discipline just like fathers will spank their children to teach them a lesson not because they hate them 1:12:52 but to teach their child a lesson you shouldn't do that a loving father will spank his child and sometimes a a little sickness can be like a little spanking that god gives you must ask god why did why did you do that lord 1:13:06 and i know the lord's told me somewhere in the previous week or somewhere i was a little puffed up and proud and grace departed thank you lord for showing me i want to humble myself and gradually that happens now and then now and then now and then 1:13:27 finally you learn to be very very careful against pride of any sort because i don't want to lose the grace of god dear brothers and sisters seek with all of your heart to avoid losing the grace of god any day of your life 1:13:47 and it's very simple in every situation humble yourself supposing there's a argument going on between you and your marriage partner husband or wife at home it's very easy to humble yourself keep your mouth shut that's all there'll be no clash you need two hands to make a noise if one hand refuses to cooperate 1:14:13 there'll be no noise there'll be no fight if either a husband or wife refuse to cooperate there'll be no fight it's because both are eager to prove their point that there's a fight the same with you and another brother or you and a sister 1:14:27 refuse to fight humble yourself let the other person do or say what they want you be an overcomer say lord i humble myself let it look as if that person won the argument you kept quiet because you could not argue anymore 1:14:46 that's right let them think he won the argument i could say nothing but my aim was not to win the argument my aim was not to sin my aim was not to get angry that's why i kept quiet that person doesn't know that let him think i lost the argument i'm quite prepared for that i want to avoid sin 1:15:10 dear brothers and sisters i want to tell you if you are really serious i believe your life can change from today believe me even though i know some of you say i've heard all these things for many years why hasn't your life changed then like i often say 1:15:30 if a teacher has taught multiplication for many many weeks and if the students still have not learned it then he needs to teach it again and that's the only reason i'm doing it i believe there are many here who still have not learned to consistently humble themselves all the time 1:15:54 so that they get grace and as long as that is not true in your life you've got to keep hearing this anyways as long as i'm here i'll keep saying it god gives his grace only to the humble and if you come under grace the rain of sin will not fall on you not one drop 1:16:14 do you want that life jesus came to save his people from their sin the first promise in the new testament is he will save his people from their sin if you don't know where that is please turn to matthew chapter 1 it's all elementary stuff 1:16:36 sometimes we need to be reminded of the elementary stuff matthew 121 as soon as you turn to the pages of the new testament matthew chapter 1 verse 21 here's what it says sin will not rule over you very important verse mark it mark it i remember my first bible whenever i came across a verse that 1:17:05 gripped me i would underline it so that when i would go back to the bible again those verses would strike me oh if you if god sees that you're taking your study of the bible seriously he will really help you in amazing ways what does it say the first promise in the new testament 1:17:28 he jesus will save his people from their sins why is it written on the first page of the new testament because that's what he came for not from hell no saved from hell is another gospel i'll tell you honestly i don't want to be saved from hell 1:17:54 i want to be saved from sin now and if i'm saved from sin now i will be saved from hell i don't have to seek to be saved from hell but those who are seeking to be saved from hell and not to be saved from sin i have a strong feeling they will go to hell because they don't want to be saved from sin 1:18:15 hell is the end result of a sinful life and if i seek to be saved from sin i'll never get there but if you only want to be saved from hell and you keep on living in sin you will get there so if you want to be saved from hell i say seek to be saved from sin 1:18:32 because sin is the pathway that leads to hell you see i want to be saved from hell but you keep going that pathway that goes there that's dangerous if you want to be saved from hell seek to be saved from sin that's what we teach and you can be saved from sin by the grace of god if you humble yourself 1:18:52 acknowledge your fault one of the first things in humility is to acknowledge that i was wrong i did something wrong i said something wrong don't cover it up and give excuses for it it was wrong what i did was a hundred percent wrong 1:19:09 please forgive me lord and be quick to acknowledge that's that's the way it came with me as soon as a thought came into my mind which is dirty or filthy i say lord that's wrong i don't want it you keep doing that and i'll tell you the amazing truth you'll get victory over dirty thoughts 1:19:32 which 99 percent of men never get because they don't want to get they don't want to be free they enjoy those dirty thoughts if you enjoy a dirty thought god will say you enjoy it keep enjoying it that's the pathway to hell i'll tell you that 1:19:48 jesus said that so let jesus be your forerunner to lead you into god's presence that's the message we preach in this church it'll change your life and if you're married it'll gradually change your home life and over a period of time it'll save your children from going to hell 1:20:14 they will be saved and when they get saved and get married your grandchildren will be saved you see there's a progression here and you will be a channel of blessing to many many people this is what god wants every single person here to be 1:20:33 you may be a new believer a very ordinary person god wants you to be saved from all sin in your life and jesus is your example in that that's all i'll say now let's bow our heads in prayer 1:21:03 i want you all to know that god loves you personally he's interested in you and everything that you heard today is for you personally and god is interested in helping you in this area he doesn't just give you a message and say go do the 1:21:20 best no his holy spirit will help you from this moment if you pray to him lord please help me i want to overcome sin in my life i want to changed life and i want to change family situation i want peace in my home i want victory in my life i want to bring up my children in godly ways 1:21:46 please help me lord do you think he'll say no no he will run to help you just come to him with a cry of need in your heart and let that cry always be there every day and don't condemn other people leave their judgment to god 1:22:05 the tremendous temptation to condemn others and pass judgment on others forget it god can do his business of judgment without your help did you hear that god can judge people without your help so don't try to help god in judging other people he can do it without your help 1:22:25 maybe you've been trying to help god judging others you're not a judge you're a witness and a witness doesn't pass judgment in the court say lord forgive me for judging people around me that's not my business it's your business 1:22:41 and i've messed up so much of my life by judging others i don't want to judge my wife i don't want to judge my husband i don't want to judge my neighbors or anybody else i want to judge myself i want to live under the grace of god and live a transformed life from today 1:22:58 heavenly father i believe there are some at least here who are sincerely praying that prayer right now and lord even if they've been defeated right until today i pray you'll do a miracle and help them to come into this life of victory that you want every one of us to have 1:23:20 the life of peace in our home and in our lives hear us lord and do for us more than we can ask or think thank you you'll do it for everyone here in jesus name we pray amen 1:23:50 Thank you. 1:24:20 Thank you. 1:24:50 Hello, Chex. Let's sing, speak, O Lord. As we come to you, take your truth, plant it deep in us, shape and fashion us in your likeness. 1:25:17 Teach us full obedience, holy reverence, true humility. And by grace, we'll stand on your promises. By faith, we'll walk as you walk with us. Speak, O Lord, as we come to you. 1:25:46 To receive the fruit of your holy word. Take your truth, plant it deep in us, shape and fashion us in your likeness. 1:26:08 That the light of Christ might be seen today. Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us all your purposes for your glory. 1:26:38 Teach us full obedience, holy reverence, true humility. Test our hearts and our attitudes in the radiance of your glory. 1:27:09 God's our faith to rise, God's our right to see. Your majestic love and your glory. God's our right to see. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:27:32 Let their fruit prevail over unbelief. Seek, O Lord, and renew our minds. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:27:52 Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:27:59 Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:28:06 Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:28:24 Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:28:31 Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. Let us a power that can never fail. 1:28:48 Let us a power that can never fail. God himself is the essence of true love. 1:29:10 And he is the one who created sex and ordained marriage. He alone can therefore tell us what love really means. And how sex and marriage can be used for our greatest good. The teaching of God's word is like a rock. He who builds his life on it can never fall. 1:29:33 No storm or earthquake will ever shake him. Ignorance about scriptural teaching on these subjects has left most young people defenseless against Satan's subtle attacks in these realms. This book is an attempt to cater to this need. 1:29:54 It presents sex, love and marriage from God's viewpoint. Many questions that young people have are addressed in this book. Many questions such as: Is it all right to date someone? What is the difference between love and infatuation? 1:30:18 Can a believer fall in love? Is being single more spiritual than being married? Can I consider someone from another denomination? Is it right for a believer to marry a person of another race? 1:30:38 We urge young people to read through this book seriously. Taking heed to what is said in this book may save them from many a heartache and many a shipwreck in the future. We pray that this book will be a blessing to many in helping them to find God's perfect will in sex, love and marriage. 1:31:06 You can read this book free online at cfcindia.com/books/sexlovemarriage And we pray that this book will be a blessing. And we pray that this book will be a blessing. 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