0:00 we are living in a day of what is known as mega churches and uh I don't think Protestant Christianity has seen the type of numbers that there are 0:22 in churches nowaday I mean there are huge Roman Catholic churches in in many places but in many many countries we have many thousands there are churches with 20 30,000 0:39 people and churches with even more than that some I think 100,000 and um of course everybody would be proud of the fact that they are part of Allah Church the question that comes to me in 0:58 all this is of course we rejoice God wants all men to be saved and if there are nearly 7,000 million people in the world God wants every one of them to be saved it says that in 1 Timothy 2 and it says in second Peter 3 that God 1:17 wants every one of them to repent also so there's not a single person whom God does not want to repent or to be saved the question 1:33 is in all these churches nowadays were all the people sitting there really saved or not and was it God's will that there should be these huge churches which just listen to One 1:52 Pastor and where people don't know one another don't build fellowship with one another in the local church I don't think so one of the goal of God was ultimately to build Fellowship between people to make two people into one to make 2:09 opposite people into one in Luke Chapter 13 someone asked Jesus this question Lord are there just a few who are being saved are there only a few will be 2:31 saved he said to them strive to enter through the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able he didn't answer that question 2:53 directly question is Lord are there only going few who are going to be saved what was his answer strive to enter don't worry whether other people are saved or not don't want don't worry about how many people are saved or not 3:12 you make sure that you have entered through the narrow door and is it something you can walk through no he said here you got to strive and in The Message Bible it says 3:31 requires your total attention it requires your total attention you got to put your mind to it set your mind to it strive and then that's one thing I don't think a lot of people are being told to strive have you ever heard an evangelist 3:47 preach a gospel saying strive to enter in through the narrow Gates so that you can be saved I've never heard one like that in my life and I've lived a long time listening to preacher I want to tell you something honestly 4:04 brothers and sisters we're living in a time when the words of Jesus are not preached and he said that heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away 4:21 and people have taken just some words of Jesus here and there and made that the gospel when we proclaim the whole Council of God the whole purpose of God if someone says to 4:40 me uh are there only few who are going to be saved I've got to give him the same answer that Jesus gave brother let me urge you strive to enter through the narrow door and the second thing I will tell 4:58 him is there are many who will seek to enter and will not be able how about that now we thought that anybody who wants to enter he can enter but he said there'll be many who will seek to enter and will not be able to 5:17 enter there could be various reasons for that you know the Rich Young Ruler he wanted to enter he wanted to enter through the narrow door but he couldn't enter because his money made him so 5:40 big now if he had got rid of his money he could have gone through quite easily now Jesus told him to get rid of it because he loved it so much he didn't tell everybody to get rid of all their money zakus gave up only half his money 5:53 to the poor and Mary and Martha as far as we know probably gave up nothing so the you know it's like cancer some some cases the doctor says yeah I can just go in and it's very early stage just take out a little bit and you'll be okay and some 6:10 other people the cancer is spread so much the the doctors say I got to take out the whole organ I've heard of people who's got cancer in the stomach and 80% of the stomach is cut out it's the only way they live sometimes a whole organ is taken 6:24 out because the whole thing is spread and some other people is just little bit and they're cured so in the Rich Young ruler's case the cancer or the Love of Money had spread so much that the whole thing had to be removed but he wasn't willing so what 6:39 happens when a person cancer has spread so much and the doctor says the whole thing has to be removed and he says no I don't want it well then keep it and you die that's what exactly what happened to the Rich Young Ruler because Jesus gave 6:52 him the same invitation that he gave to Peter come follow me he could have been an apostle but he had to go through the narrow door and just think if I don't know where he is today if he never repented then of course he's in hell but if he 7:11 repented towards the end of his life maybe he did get to heaven after living a wasted life on Earth but wherever he is go and ask him uh I mean if you were to make that choice again what would you do he'd say 7:28 oh now that I see from eternity standpoint I have no doubt as to what choice I would have made that day but it's too late now brothers and sisters we are going to review the decisions we made in our life 7:46 one day all the little little decisions that we made you know we're making decisions decisions about money decisions about our attitude to 8:04 sin we decide what type of books to read we decide what type of programs to watch on TV we decide what type of sites to go to on the internet you know it's all decisions and we got to remember that decisions like sewing a 8:22 seed your mind and your heart is like a Vineyard and every day you're sewing some SE seeds and those seeds may be good or bad and you know how it is when you sew seeds some seeds you plant a mango tree 8:41 you won't get anything for a whole year coconuts some years you get nothing but then it starts keep keeps on producing so it doesn't I mean it's too late to change the type of tree after after it 8:59 started growing up it's just going to produce what you sold so years later you're going to be reaping exactly the result of all these little seeds that you've been sewing in your younger days you remember you know in 9:17 the Gos in Hebrews 12 is verse 15 it says take make heed take heed that there's no one among you like Esau Hebrews 12 let's turn to that verse for a moment Hebrews 9:38 12 now Hebrews is very obviously written to Believers can you believe it that I was in a a city in the Gulf where some brethren people Plymouth Brethren people 9:57 there were Disturbed that I was preaching that your name can be erased from The Book of Life I mean it's written in Revelation chapter 3 but I don't know why they don't believe it so they wanted to have a discussion with me 10:11 and I they invited me to their home and one of those Elders there were two or three of them sitting there asked me do you believe that you can be saved and then you can be lost so I said I'm not going to say those in my 10:30 words I will read you scripture that's all and I won't add anything to scripture I'll read the scripture and stop and you tell me what it means I mean that's the best way so it's your argument is not with me but with God's 10:43 word I want to give you that little bit of advice when you people question you about something just give them a scripture so that move out of the way and let them fight with God not with you so I said I want to show you from Hebrews some verses 10:59 and immediately he said this is a Brethren Elder he said Hebrews is not for us Christians boy I got a shock I had never heard such a thing in my life I mean if some 11:18 Godless unbeliever said it I can understand that's the first time in my life I said who is it for then Hebrews for the Hebrews oh I'm not a Hebrew well I suppose I'm not a colossian either I'm not a Philippian I'm not from 11:31 thessalonica I'm not a Roman that's hardly anything left in the Bible for me I was absolutely surprised I mean you you wouldn't believe it I mean if I had heard that story from somebody else uh I have thought yeah maybe he didn't hear 11:47 it right but I've got very sharp hearing and uh he was sitting right there and I said you don't I said why don't you cut it out of the New Testament why do you keep it he said it was the Jews anyway he but you know what the 12:02 Bible says in Hebrews 3:1 holy Brethren partakers of a Heavenly calling consider Jesus the Apostle and the high priest of our confession that's no Jew no Jew accepts Jesus as his high priest you know that Holy Brethren partakers of a Heavenly 12:20 calling who's that the Jews had an Earthly calling it's so clear but if you want to be blind to it you'll be blind now the reason why so many people can go around fooling many Believers today is because many many Believers today don't 12:36 know the Bible how many of you sitting here seriously go through the Bible I'll tell you honestly I think a lot of people in CFC do not seriously go through the Bible there's a CD of Mind calls through 12:54 the Bible in 70 hours which was produced 6 and A2 years ago and CFC people were the first people to know about it do you know that my guess is 90% of people here have never listened to it 13:14 I've heard in different countries people say brother Zach I've gone through it twice in many countries in the world they have valued God's word but we have got so much of 13:32 it we say we know we're Specialists you know that's why we find I'll tell you honestly we are now finding brothers and sisters from other churches who are much more spiritual than brothers and sisters in CFC how did 13:50 that happen how can you have such good Doctrine and not become more spiritual than some of these other people it's astounds me I I've actually seen such people and it really amazes me and I believe the reason 14:10 is there's a certain amount of hotess and pride that has come into people in CFC because we think we're better we think we know more there there are many ways in which we can be 14:29 proud it could be because we have Bible knowledge or we are associated with a church which has got a good name or something like that you know like the Jews said we've got Abraham for our Father John the Baptist said that 14:43 doesn't mean anything if Abraham is your father we can in the same way we belong to CFC we can say it's just like saying we got Abraham for our father so what doesn't mean anything joh John the Baptist said the stones can be better 14:56 than you so we got to be very careful God gives his grace to the humble and I'll tell you um there are many marks of humility essentially humility is before 15:15 God but if you have low thoughts about yourself one mark of humility will be that you seek fellowship with lowly people CFC has got some Highly Educated people 15:34 and thankfully CFC has got some lowly people who are not so educated not so cultured and if you are a humble person you will seek fellowship with them I asked I found out rather from one of 15:53 the poor sisters in our church I said do some of the these educated sisters speak to you said no you haven't spoken to me for 2 years can you imagine now if that sister was a highly educated sister all of you would 16:10 have spoken to her you ask yourself whether you have spoken to some of these lowly brothers and sisters in this church when was the last time you just spoke to them even on a Sunday it could be years do you realize how hotty you are 16:30 you know you may think you have Grace you don't have it I'll tell you the truth some of you young Brothers you came from very poor families but you seek for Fellowship only with the rich and the educated you may be very zealous but I 16:48 can see there's not much grace upon your life you may be doing well in your profession get good jobs and all that it counts for garbage in God's eyes I would EX AR you be lowly minded I have been tremendously enriched in my 17:03 I'm as educated as most of you but I've been so tremendously enriched in my life by fellowship with very very lowly people who are not so educated we're not so cultured we're not so capable I'll tell you honestly my salvation is when I 17:20 go down to the Villages of tamilnad and escape the sophistication of Bangalore it brings me down to earth it helps me to fellowship with people who are not sophisticated and highly educated and talk at high levels and 17:39 talk about this thing and that thing the latest thing they don't know about all the things you can talk about and they talk about the Lord and it blesses my heart and that's preserved me through 32 years that I receiv received the grace 17:55 of God I'll tell you honestly ly I fear for a number of you because I don't feel you have that spirit so be careful that's all I can say I say to you as a 18:13 father it says in Hebrews CH 12 and verse uh 16 see that there be no immoral or Godless person like Esau who sold his Birthright for a single meal he made a decision in his 18:34 life as a young man I want this I don't care for the birthright that's in the future when is it going to come I don't know how many years and in any case the birthright is a sort of invisible thing this bowl of soup is what I need 18:53 right now satisfaction for my body that's what I need right now the birthright was something spiritual you know because God had said to Abraham that through your seed I will bless the whole world so in some way I don't know how 19:09 much Abraham knew but Jesus once said in John chapter 8 Abraham saw my day and was glad he said that in John 8 which means that Abraham had some understanding that Christ was going to come and he may have passed that on to 19:31 Isaac who must have told his two sons Esau and Jacob you know for this world of sin this Messiah going to come one day and Esau you're the lucky one cuz you got the birth right 19:53 and Isa said who cares for that something in the future I want to take care of my life and he sold his Birthright for a bowl of soup and it says afterwards when he realized what it was I mean he it was also an Earthly blessing he desired to inherit the 20:11 blessing he was rejected there was a time later on when he wanted that badly and he wept couldn't get it he found no place for repentance though he sought for it with tears 20:29 I want you to see that expression he found no place for repentance even though he sought for it with tears is I mean that's written as I said to Holy Brethren partakers of a Heavenly calling now I want to take that seriously is it 20:45 possible that if I don't repent today one day I may want to repent and I can't even though I weep many Christians feel well I can repent anytime I want well it's not true because this is a warning to Holy 21:03 Brethren that the time may come when you won't find a place for repentance if you take certain decisions today which where you despise what is spiritual why did I speak about educated people and not educated people when you 21:20 value an educated brother you're valuing something of the world more than spirituality and you're in a sense rejecting the birthright and choosing a bowl of soup bowl of soup I mean bowl of soup is good it's very valuable on the earth 21:40 education is very valuable on the earth it has no value in God's kingdom I found simple Brothers in Tamil NAD who speak anointed words I mean some of them who can't speak one word of English but boy when they get out to 21:57 speak I'm blessed how is it that they can speak such Words which Highly Educated people sitting here can't speak it's Grace it's not education it's Grace you got to be lowly 22:15 minded God doesn't care for education I mean he can use a educated person like Paul I think Paul was the type of fellow would come first in every class and top of his college and God used him and he used a chap like Peter who was always in 22:31 the lower 10% of the class always I think he didn't make a difference Paul and Peter equally anointed equally used by God because there were spiritual values 22:46 so when we de value something Earthly and seek fellowship with people who have something Earthly or we want to be known as people who are associated with high society I've noticed that in different places you know people who come from 23:06 lower levels of society they like to be associated with higher Society people because it's you know shows that we're sort of upper class because they feel very inferior in the back of their mind they say oh I come from a very lower level and I'm bit 23:22 inferior so I want to show that I'm higher level that shows that such people have don't know the the Lord don't really know the Lord I mean they've gone through some ritual but and there are people like that in our midst I see 23:40 that I like to go to the poorest brothers and sisters and ask them do people talk to you do people in this church talk to you some people have been here 20 30 years do you do they speak to you no 23:59 well gives me a gives me a pretty good understanding of the spirituality of all those people who appear so zealous you know we got to change our whole attitude of mind now you see next Sunday you can go and start talking to 24:14 them it doesn't change your attitude of mind you're just going through a ritual because you heard something today it doesn't mean a thing it's a whole attitude of mind that has to change and that won't change just by you're going 24:26 and speaking to somebody I'm telling you you're a loser you're losing a lot and you probably Discover it only in eternity I don't want to discover in eternity that I've lost anything that God wanted me to have on this Earth You know we're so careful with 24:46 money if we discover that we misplaced something or gave a 500 rupe note away thinking it was a 100 rupe note I think you think about that a long time you say boy this notes look so alike and I'm I made a mistake and I lost such a 25:04 lot of money that is nothing compared to the loss we have when we don't value what is spiritual above what is Earthly see we're making decisions and in those decisions we are 25:23 saying what I want Lord this is what I want Jesus said strive to enter in afterwards Esau said oh I want it just too late that's what Jesus said in Luke 13:2 if you turn back to what we read 25:41 earlier someone said to him in verse 23 Lord are there just a few who are going to be saved he said to them strive to enter through the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter 25:59 and will not be able once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying hey Lord open 26:17 up to us he'll answer I I don't know where you're from then you'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence Lord don't you remember we were there for every breaking of bread meeting we ate and drank with you we drank the cup 26:30 we ate the bread and we even stayed back for the lunch we used to have one once a month and you taught in our church oh we heard such anointed messages and he say yeah it's all true but I tell you I don't know where you're from depart from 26:47 me and in that place there'll be weeping and nashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves being thrown out see those people who heard it never thought that they were going to be 27:01 thrown out and some of you feel well I'll never get thrown out I hope so but don't be so sure if you're humble of mind I can guarantee you'll enter in it all depends on your thoughts about yourself what do you think about 27:18 yourself in relation to other people in this church and in other churches if you have low thoughts about yourself you go in if you have high thoughts about yourself you get stuck in the narrow gate so Jesus said you know they're 27:32 going to be people coming from the East and the west and north and south and sit at the table of the kingdom of God and some who are lost who you think are lost today you think of some names in the telephone list ah those are nobody cares 27:49 for them last you may get a surprise you may find them to be first and some who are first will be last not all doesn't say all who are last will be first and all who are first 28:07 will be last no but some who are last will be first some who are first will be lost some who were considered you know some of the senior brothers and some of the fine young brothers and sisters of CFC they may be not not may not even be 28:26 there what is the Great Gulf you know Abraham told the rich man in hell he didn't have a clue the biggest surprise of the life he got was as soon as he 28:43 died soon as he he say hey where am I who are these Fells around me why is it so hot he he got a surprise and Abraham said he he wanted to get out of there everybody who's in hell wants to get out and and if he 29:03 can't get out himself he says oh Abraham please at least go tell my brothers they also think they're going to going to heaven they don't have a clue please go and tell them to repent of all their pride and their arrogance so Abraham said 29:19 Son remember you had so many good things in your life and there's a great Gulf between you and me I can't cross it and come there and you can't cross it and come here you know what that great Gulf 29:42 is it's Pride that takes people to hell it's humility that takes people into God's kingdom there's a verse in Zephaniah chapter 2 I think it says pursue humility seek for more hum humility you have often heard me say the 30:01 three secrets of the Christian Life number one humility number two humility number three humility those are the three secrets of the Christian life and you can make out when you speak to people whether they got a humble 30:14 Spirit everybody can talk humble but a humble Spirit you cannot acquire unless you walk close to Jesus who is the humblest man that walked on the earth there's only one way to be really humble I'll tell you that it's not by 30:29 listening to messages on humility you can hear something right now you say oh yeah I want to be humble you won't be humble you got to walk with the humblest man that walked on this Earth and that's Jesus and that's the Great 30:45 Gulf it's a very big Gulf you can't cross it on once you're dead and gone it's over why want to make sure that I'm always on the right side of that Gulf and that the right side is a side 31:04 of humility and Brokenness and for myself I've discovered through many years there's only one way to be humble and that is to walk with the humblest man that walked on this Earth and isn't it a great privilege to be able to walk with him 31:19 every day I I fear that many of us are not walking with him because you cannot hide your spirit you can act humble but you can't hide your 31:36 spirit brother or sister and I believe there a lot of proud people in CFC a lot of them not one or two now I have to tell you I don't know which side of the gulf you'll be on the last day you can't say we have Abraham for 31:53 our father Lord we ate and drink drank in your presence and uh you taught in our church counts for nothing there is a great Gulf walk in humility walk in low thoughts about yourself consider others as more important than 32:13 yourself was is a command of the bible let this attitude be in you which was in Christ Jesus Philippians 2: 3:5 consider others as more important than yourself you live like that every day I guarantee you'll be on the right side of the gulf 32:32 in that day but you get taken up with what God has done for you and how he has blessed you and how he's blessed your family and all that there may have been a time when you were on the right side of the gulf but you're on the wrong side today and if 32:50 you're going in that direction I would say you're in great danger it's happened to other people people who were better than you who were here in CFC once they were humble Brothers it went to their heads when everything went 33:08 well in their home and theyve Fallen away so we we should take a warning from what's Happening like that around us I heard a preacher a preacher once 33:25 say that in job's time this the devil said to God while job follows you because you have blessed him so much you've given him 10 wonderful children and you've given him houses and lands and business and good health and everything and a lot of money 33:42 he's one of the richest people in the naturally he'll follow you take it all away and then let me see whether he'll follow you and the preacher said now it is different now the devil says to God these Fells are following you because 33:53 they're so poor and they're so helpless and they don't have much and they're struggling struggling struggling just give them money and make it go well with them financially when they're make it go well for their children financially then 34:03 let's see whether they are still spiritual or not think there's some truth in that that the devil has changed his tactics because he knows in each generation how to ruin people honor 34:20 God and he'll honor you in every little thing honor him honor him and he'll honor you walk in humility make take those right decisions in life yeah that's very 34:41 important and um he uh he was speaking mainly here to the Pharisees who thought that if anybody would get into God's kingdom I will I want you to turn to Revelation in 34:59 chapter 14 you know this is a passage which certain groups say we are these people the Jehovah's Witnesses say we 35:16 are the 144,000 and I think some other extreme Pentecostal groups also say we are the 144,000 The Book of Revelation is a book of symbols we must never forget that when we read the book when it says a sword 35:35 came out of the mouth of Jesus in Revelation chapter 1 it's not a literal sword I hope you know that it refers to the word of God when it says his legs were made of bronze you know that Jesus legs are made of Flesh not bronze it's a 35:53 picture and I mean that's right there in the uh um very beginning of scripture sorry in Revelation it says the things which must he sent and communicated by his Angel to and in one translation it says it was 36:12 signified that means with signs Revelation 1:1 it was signified it was with signs that God spoke to John okay now in Revelation 14 so when it says 144,000 that's a just a a way of saying that 36:31 it's a very small number 144,000 is a very small number compared to an earlier passage in chapter 7 um where it says Revelation 7 we read 36:55 of verse 9 after these things I saw great multitude which no one could count see 144,000 can be counted but here is a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and tribe 37:13 and people and language standing Before the Throne and before the lamb and they cry out with a loud voice saying salvation to our god that means our Salvation is entirely due to our God God who sits on the throne and to the 37:32 lamb and they fell on their face before the throne and worshiped and uh the elders explained to John in verse 14 these are the ones who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb this reason they are 37:51 Before the Throne of God verse 15 so who are who are this great multitude from every tribe tongue and Nation I believe there'll be millions of Indians in that crowd millions of Africans you know why because there are 38:10 more babies that die in India and Africa than in almost any other country in the world and all those babies as soon as they die they go to heaven there are millions of abortions in these countries and all those aborted babies whoever they are Hindu Muslim 38:26 atheist Christian it's a baby how does it go to heaven because the righteousness of Christ is put to its account can you put a million rupees into the account of a one day old 38:44 baby yes or no okay you go to a bank and ask them they'll tell you yes you can you can open an account in the name of a baby and put a million rupes there it didn't earn one bit of it but it's in its name and it's like that the 39:04 righteousness of Christ is put to the account of these babies because they haven't consciously done any sin they have not had the opportunity to accept Christ and that itself will be a fantastic number that we cannot count 39:16 think of all the babies that have been aborted and killed and you know the devil Devils behind all abortions but God's going to turn it for good because all of them are going to go to populate heaven and um so many this infant mortality 39:33 rate is very high in poorer countries and that's why I believe they're going to be a lot more people from the poorer countries in heaven than from all the rich countries from every tribe and tongue and Nation there's not one tribe or 39:48 tongue or Nation on the face of the Earth even in the jungles there are babies that die in the jungles of those barbarians who going to God's kingdom just such a great multitude that you can't even count that number and they're all cleansed in the 40:03 blood of the lamb and they are clothed in white garments it's the righteousness of Christ and they stand before now that's a number which cannot be numbered then you come to chapter 14 compared to these billions and billions and billions and billions you 40:23 find 144,000 that's nothing I mean even even compared to the population of Bangalore which is about 85 million 144,000 is nothing it's nothing this is about 1 or 2% of the 40:41 population of Bangalore it's a very small number what is 1% it's even much smaller compared to the population of the world right now and compared to the population from the time of Adam all the people lived in the world 144,000 is a 40:55 tiny bit of sand it's a very very small number so that's what he's emphasizing here not a fixed number of 144,000 it's compared contrasted with chapter 7 and he says here these people are different from the people there in chapter 7 what 41:12 did the people chapter 7 say oh Lord our Salvation is due to you we did nothing um we're cleansed in the blood of the Lamb that's good we all need to start there but here about these people it doesn't say these 144,000 had their 41:30 sins cleansed in the blood of the Lamb it says a lot more just read they have the the Lord Jesus name and the father's name on their foreheads which teaches me one thing that they were not ashamed wherever they 41:49 are to be known as Disciples of Jesus have you seen you know some Hindus who got marks on their forehead uh they're not ashamed they they are boldly proclaiming 42:09 wherever they go they go to work like that they Hindu ladies whoever readed Mark they boldly say everywhere I am a Hindu I have worship my God today and here is his Ash I put on my forehead I've seen Muslims even in trains I was 42:31 traveling in the brindavan once and I saw a Muslim man asking his children to get up from the seat and I was wondering what he's going to do and he spread his little mat on that on those seats and bowed down towards Mecca and he was 42:46 praying I said boy it's Christians who are ashamed is the ones who believe who say they believe in the true God were ashamed to acknowledge I'm a disciple of Jesus I may not get my 43:11 promotion there are Christians who are happy that their names don't sound like Christian names oh thank God my boss doesn't know whether I'm a Christian or not so he won't stop my promotion do you like that are you bold wherever you are to be 43:29 known I'm not saying we go around advertising but are you ashamed of one who was not ashamed to Die For You on the cross they have this name on their forehead you know in another place it says the Antichrist offers you the option that's 43:48 in Chapter 13 of having the name on your hand it's chapter 13:1 17 just a couple of verses earlier you can have his Mark either on your forehead or uh verse verse 16 you can have the mark either on your right hand or on your forehead 44:07 there's an option the devil says you can be a public disciple of mine or a secret disciple of mine you know you have it the mark in your hand and nobody can see it the point is the devil says you can be a secret disciple 44:24 of mine or a public disciple of mine that's up to you you know you can publicly be an atheist or publicly do a lot of wrong things and publicly worship the devil in various ways or you can be a secret disciple of Jesus that means of 44:43 of the devil that means you in your office or at home you do things which are ungodly but then you come to the church your hands are closed and nobody knows the wrong things you've done maybe you've done the wrong things with your 44:56 hand which pleases the devil and not God and then you come here and you sit here and sing the songs The Mark is on your hand nobody can see it the devil gives you that option you're not like those other people who have the mark of the 45:16 devil on the forehead you're not an open follower of the devil a secret one just use your hand to sign a false statement to make a lot of some money nobody know it the Mark is on the hand do something wrong so but when it comes three verses 45:38 down it says the followers of Jesus they don't have that option Jesus doesn't say you can have my hand you can be a secret disciple of mine no you got to have it only on the forehead that's it open so that this is different from 45:51 those other people and it also says about them that they sang a new song verse three which no one could learn except these people now is it why why was it such a difficult tune with these great 46:10 musicians that only they could learn this song I found some some wonderful children of God who can't sing one line of our songs straight not one line I mean you you asked them to lead us song any song in the world it'll be wrong in the first 46:29 line itself you mean there's no hope for such people in God's kingdom he's got nothing to do with musical ability is the song of the Lamb which they learned you know what the song of the Lamb is worthy art thou oh Lord I don't deserve anything I'm 46:48 nothing I'm nobody Lord It's a song It's a song that we sing without our lips and in our heart it's a heart attitude you know it says about singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord you read that verse in Ephesians 5 47:05 mean you don't even open your mouth and you're singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord It's that type of song where in your heart you're saying to God oh Lord thou alone not worthy I'm not worthy of anything I'm Just a Nobody I was a 47:22 nobody when I was first converted I know I've been in this church many years but I'm a nobody today they sing that song all the time they're singing it in secret to the Lord there are others who are not who who don't know that song they sang it 47:38 once when they first came to the church when nobody knew them they used to saying oh I'm nobody here I'm so thankful I'm here in CFC but after sometime uh they don't sing that anymore their song is well I thank you Lord that 47:51 I'm also somebody today it's another song they've forgotten the old song but these people learned this song and went through with that song right through their life you're a blessed person if you can sing that song till 48:10 the last day of your life on Earth Lord Thou Art Worthy thou alone Art Worthy I'm a nobody I was a nobody have a nobody I'll give you a little homework that you should do now and then I do it often 48:28 it really excites me when I do it I sometimes picture in my mind you know we as I've often said we have used our imagination for all types of filthy things in the past why not use our imagination now for some good things and 48:42 here's one of the good things you can use your imagination for just picture that the Lord has come and you are now standing in heaven and boy what a crow that is that's really a mega church millions and millions and millions of people and 49:02 you're s of nobody nobody knows you I mean here in this church at least somebody knows your name but boy can you imagine getting into that crowd nobody even knows who you are you're just standing there oh you don't know guy here don't know guy 49:16 there and you're standing here nobody and you're absolutely thrilled that nobody knows you you're really a nobody and you say Lord Jesus thou alone Art 49:34 Worthy I am excited when I use my imagination to think like that say Lord that's that's the thing I long for here a lot of people know my name but I'm looking forward to that day when I'll be lost in that crowd and even if you search me search 49:55 for me you may take many many hours or days to find me it be such a huge crowd oh just to be lost there and to be taken up with Jesus it's good exercise that's how they are they learned that song and these are the ones who've not been defiled with 50:15 women that doesn't mean they were unmarried remember it's all sign language and who are the women in Revelation Babylon the great Harlot and her daughters that means those who have the spirit of a harlot not the spirit of the 50:33 Bride of Jesus Christ the Harlot is the one who claims to be engaged to Christ but is fooling around with the world now these people didn't defile themselves with Babylon the mother or with the daughters they have kept themselves 50:52 pure and here's the wonderful thing these are the ones who follow Jesus Jesus wherever he goes you say Lord I don't want to go to a single place without you I don't want to sit and watch a 51:12 single television program without you sitting there and saying you also enjoy it I don't want to do anything in my life without you I don't want to uh you know go anywhere or if I speak to my wife I want I want you to know 51:27 that you're there I want you to listen to every word I'm saying to my wife I want you to hear it I want you to be happy with the way I'm speaking to my wife I want you to be happy with the way I'm speaking to my husband I want you to 51:38 be happy with my attitude towards the poor people in your church Lord Jesus I want you to be with me all the time they follow the lamb wherever he goes and the Bible says here describes 51:56 these people as people who've been purchased from among men as first fruits to God into the land and here's another characteristic about these people they did not tell lies 52:15 boy that's really a miracle I wonder if there's even 144,000 some people say 144,000 small number are there 144,000 people who never told lies I mean not never who don't tell lies you know there's a verse which says um Isaiah Psalm 58:3 I don't know 52:34 whether you read this verse the wicked are estranged from the womb they speak lies and go astray from birth in the living Bible says the first words out of the womb are lies what does that mean it tell Li as 52:57 soon as they're born you know what it is I have a few grandchildren now and I'm rediscovering the old days when I had children how they tell lies they cry and scream and you think they are some in some terrible pain 53:15 they're not in any pain they just want you to pick them up and Pat them that's all it's a lie it's to scare you and fathers usually get scared boy what's wrong with the child mothers know by now they just just want to be picked 53:30 up that's all they tell lies from the time they are born You Can Tell a Lie by crying you can tell a lie without opening your mouth Anan I and Safara told a lie just by joining a queue how can you join a line of people and tell a 53:45 lie without opening your mouth they this is the line of the wholehearted people who are giving all their money to God they just keep quiet and stand in that line they told a lie just by standing in the line You Can Tell a Lie by claiming to be a 54:00 part of a church because you want a a name because maybe that church has got a name we got Abraham for our father it's wonderful I want to be you know these are the Overcomers that Rebel Book of Revelation speaks about people 54:13 who really overcome they these 144,000 also told lies just like all other babies from birth how did they come to the place where it says finally there was no lie found in their mouth they cleansed themselves they cleansed they were not 54:31 different they were not born different we all born telling lies but they cleansed themselves they cleansed themselves and they came to the place where no lie was found in their mouth you know when I read that I say Lord 54:44 Jesus make me like that my heart longs I say Lord I want to I don't want to go to a single place on Earth where you're not there I want to be where you are I'm willing to go to jail for Christ's sake or be crucified or killed 55:00 for Christ's sake if Lord Jesus if you're there I'm happy to go anywhere I'm happy to do anything dear brothers and sisters you know what the Lord's been saying to you today he's not condemning you he's not criticizing you he's saying my son my 55:18 daughter come up higher don't live in that low place you've been living all these years come up higher and walk with me in humility that's real greatness in God's kingdom let's pray while our heads are bowed in 55:43 prayer I want to urge you to respond to the Lord Jesus who is right here in our midst thank you Lord Jesus you're right here right here how wonderful that you can be here right next to us as we talk to 56:02 you just tell him exactly what you want to tell him be serious take those right decisions today and keep taking them every 56:20 day walk the path of loneliness associate with the lowly and not with a high-m minded and you'll have Grace upon Grace upon Grace till your last day of life on Earth thank you Father for your word 56:42 that preserves Us in the pathway of life we praise you with all of our hearts you love us and that's why you give us your word we're surrounded by your love you rejoice over us with shouts of singing but you are grieved 56:57 when we live at such low levels Lift us up my heart has no desire to stay where doubts arise and fears dismay I've heard the song of Saints on higher 57:16 ground and I want to get there thank you father in Jesus name amen
