0:00 Praise the Lord. I'm so happy that you all could come to hear God's Word this morning. There's a verse I'd like to begin with in John's Gospel, chapter 1. 0:27 When we ask the question, why did Jesus come to this earth? You know, we can say that he came to die for the sins of the world, which is correct. But here is another reason which is very important, which I feel that many Christians don't understand. 0:46 The theme for this conference is a spirit-filled family life. A family life begins with each person in the family being controlled by the Holy Spirit. To be filled with the Holy Spirit means to be controlled by the Holy Spirit. 1:06 So, at least if the adults in the family, the father and mother, are filled with the Holy Spirit, that's what Jesus came to give us, then there can be a spirit-filled family life. And you know what will happen? The atmosphere of your home will be the atmosphere of heaven. 1:28 All of you, I want you to think of that. Can you imagine what your home will be like if it is the atmosphere of heaven there between the father and mother? That's enough. That will influence the children. That's been my passion for many years. 1:52 But when I got married, I did not know this spirit-filled life. I was born again. And I was sincere in wanting to be a good husband. But I did not know this spirit-filled life, the life filled with the Holy Spirit, which would bring heaven down. 2:11 You know, like we sing in one song, Heaven came down and glory filled my soul. We sing all those songs, but it's not true in many homes. But as I studied the Bible, I discovered that the Holy Spirit has come to bring the atmosphere of heaven down into my heart 2:28 and to bring the atmosphere of heaven into my home. It took a while for that to be fulfilled in our home, but it is true today. Where we never raise our voice at each other, never get angry and upset, never blame or criticize, 2:48 and always ready to humble ourselves and love one another and forgive one another. Because we make mistakes. As long as we are on this earth, we'll make mistakes. We will not cease making mistakes until we reach heaven. 3:03 I don't believe I'm going to be perfect until Christ comes again. But I'm not going to be in the kindergarten forever. If you, perfection is like getting a PhD. When we are born again, we are in the kindergarten. The great tragedy is, 3:20 many who enter the kindergarten remain in the kindergarten for 20, 30 years. And it doesn't disturb them. If your child is in the kindergarten, even for two years, you'd be disturbed. Why is it so many Christians are spiritually in a kindergarten 3:35 for 20, 30 years, and they're not disturbed? It teaches us one thing. Education on earth is more important to them than their spiritual life. If their spiritual life was as important as education, they'd be disturbed if they are in the same level spiritually, 3:58 year after year after year. Even if you have progressed, you come to say third grade, how long do you want your son or daughter to be in the third grade? Not more than one year. Every class that our child children go to, 4:12 we don't want them to stay in that class for more than one year. We are concerned if they have to stay even two years. Think of Christians who are in the same class for 10, 15 years. For example, the class of forgiving others, 4:27 which we spoke about yesterday. How long are we going to sit there to learn to forgive everyone? One year? Two years? Ten years? How long have you been a born-again believer? Twenty years? And you still haven't learned to forgive everybody? 4:46 My dear brothers and sisters, I'm not here to rebuke you. I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God. I'm not better than anybody here. God has been very good to me. And He's opened my eyes to see things which harm me and tells me to get rid of it. 5:06 An unforgiving attitude. God's shown me that it's hurting me. You know how you see children sometimes getting into alcohol and drugs and you know it's hurting them but parents sometimes are not able to convince their son 5:23 this is bad for you, my boy. And they go at it. And it grieves the heart of the parents. And you see them being ruined with their alcohol and drugs. It's exactly like that that God looks at a son of his or a daughter who won't forgive somebody. 5:41 It's better to be on alcohol than to be unforgiving. Do you believe that? Alcohol and drugs may ruin a person's life but he can repent finally at the end of his life and go into the kingdom of God. But if you live with an unforgiving attitude 5:58 and you die like that I can tell you without a doubt you will be in hell for eternity. I'll tell you why. Because Jesus said in Matthew 6.15 if you do not forgive others your heavenly father will not forgive you. That is talking 6:18 not about God it's talking about your heavenly father. It's a born again Christian he's talking to. Matthew 6.15 Never forget it. If you do not forgive others your heavenly father will not forgive you. Matthew 6.15 and if you die 6:35 in that state without being forgiven supposing you die without forgiving somebody what's going to happen after you die? Hebrews 9.27 says it is appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment. I'm not trying to scare you. 6:56 I'm trying to help you just like you want to help your drug addicted son not to ruin himself I'm trying to save you. There is no place there's no purgatory like some people teach or some place afterwards where after you die 7:13 somewhere God will forgive you. There is no forgiveness once you finish. It is appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment. That's why everywhere I go I tell people forgive people now. Is it such a difficult thing? 7:30 And if you find it it's a difficult thing meditate on the wretched sinner you were and how God forgave you. When I think of people who have hurt me and many people have hurt me particularly because I'm a servant of the Lord 7:44 for 60 years now I know I'm the target I've been the target of the devil for 60 years as a servant of God and particularly because I preach God's highest standard I'm a greater target of Satan and he Satan doesn't attack me 7:58 directly he attacks me through people there are many ways in which Satan has tried to attack me but God has always been my defense he's a wall of fire around about me and the glory in the midst and I want to say to you my dear brother 8:14 sister very lovingly these are serious things that we talk about in scripture God loves you and that is why he tells you some things are painful it's a doctor who loves you who uses a knife on you when he's operating you to remove a cancer 8:34 it's the same knife that a murderer uses to kill you but there's a difference when God uses something sharp it is to do an operation on you to deliver you from something that will destroy you how willingly we submit ourselves 8:52 to a doctor on the operating theater you see him with his knife you even pay for him to use the knife on you can you imagine paying a murderer to kill you you use you pay that doctor to use a knife on you because you trust him 9:09 that knife is going to deliver you from your cancer or from some other sickness in your body if you can trust a human being a faulty human being and even pay him money to use a knife on you isn't it a shame that we don't 9:25 trust God when he uses a discipline on you a discipline is his knife brings you into a trial because that's the only way he can deliver you from some bad habit some wrong attitude a trial is like a knife like a knife of a surgeon 9:45 some of you facing a trial today and you think that God doesn't love you an ignorant illiterate man looking inside an operating theater will wonder what is this man doing with his knife cutting open somebody's stomach and he'll say 10:05 he's a murderer because he's ignorant he's uneducated he doesn't know what an operation in a theater is like and that is how many believers are why does God allow this trial in my life he doesn't love me let me turn to John's gospel 10:24 chapter 1 please turn with me why did Jesus come to die for the sins of the world yes but here's another wonderful reason that has been a tremendous blessing to my own heart many years ago the Lord said to me listen to all 10:43 the sermons that whatever opportunity you get to hear what all the preachers in the world are preaching and I've done that I've listened to many many preachers and then the Lord said read the Bible and compare the two the Bible 11:01 teaches I must really know the Bible thoroughly and I've studied the Bible carefully for 67 years every day I've read it for 67 years I've studied it carefully and the Lord says now compare that with what you hear and see 11:19 all the things that are missing in what people preach number one and then see the things they preach which are not in the Bible it's to use an illustration if you give a coloring book to a child say a picture of a man in a 11:37 very colorful dress and you give the child the different colors there's a picture of how it should look like and the picture without the colors and you tell the child now you look at those colors and put it here this color 11:52 of the shirt and this color of the trousers and this color of the face and this color of the hair and you know how children are we always go outside the borders and don't put the proper color sometimes and it's completely different from what is the original painting 12:09 on the other side this is the portrait of God that is presented by many preachers completely different from the Bible and I discovered so many areas and as I have preached that and exposed corrupt false Christianity which is called Babylon in the Bible 12:29 many Christians have called me a false teacher I said fine I'm following in the footsteps of Jesus who was called not only a false teacher but the prince of devils so that never never disturbs me because I have a clear conscience before God 12:46 and I've never taken money for my services I've never received a salary in 60 years of Christian work I refuse to do it because Jesus never received a salary to serve God the apostle Paul never received a salary to serve God 13:02 and because God Jesus said there are only two masters in the world not God and the devil God and money so steer clear of that other master so I want to show you something which some of the things which I've discovered for example 13:17 here it is why did Jesus come to earth he came to die for the sins of the world John 1 18 he came to explain to us that God was a loving father no one has seen God at any time none of us has seen God and so we have all types of ideas about God 13:38 which are all completely wrong you know I've often used this example if you go to some country where there are no elephants where nobody's ever seen an elephant India where I come from is full of elephants even a child would have seen an elephant 13:55 in his young age but there are many countries where there are no elephants you have to go to a zoo to see it and there may be some zoos where there are no elephants there too now if you go to that country and they've seen 14:10 a person a child who's seen so many animals even a teenager who's seen so many animals say can you draw a picture of an elephant they'll never think of drawing a long nose which they call the trunk nobody because no animals like that 14:25 they'll never be able to draw a picture of an elephant if they haven't seen one and this is how it was when Jesus came to earth no one had seen God at any time it says here verse 18 no one has seen God at any time and yet 14:41 there were so many religions on earth people who had never seen God trying to explain God God is like people who have never seen an elephant trying to draw a picture of an elephant everyone is wrong this is the world into which Jesus came 14:58 and no one has and Jesus came and explained him what about today's world no one has seen God at any time the only person who walked on this earth in all the 6,000 years of man's history from the time of Adam was Jesus Christ 15:19 who came from heaven who could explain exactly what the Father is like and that is what we read in the Gospels and which is later explained by the apostles in the epistles but yet many Christians who read the Bible 15:39 many who say they are born again have not seen what God is really like many Christians have the idea of a God who is a very strict hard demanding God he asks me to give up many things I enjoy or many things I love a wrong picture 16:00 the aim of the devil is to portray God in a wrong way because then he can make you sin so remember this the way to avoid sin is first of all to see what God is like clearly turn with me for a moment in your Bible to Genesis 16:17 in chapter 3 Genesis chapter 3 this is the place where sin originated in the human race and 16:39 notice how the devil approaches Adam and Eve we can learn lessons from this chapter he begins by saying has God really said this those are the first words that he said to Eve has God 17:01 really said this there are many Christians who ask me that question is it really do we really have to do that does the Bible really say that and even after I show it to them in scripture they won't take it seriously I tell you 17:19 every one of you sitting here this is how the devil is going to approach you has God really said has God really said that you must be like this has God really said that if you don't forgive everybody and die you'll be lost 17:35 eternally really has God really said that it's there it's plain in your Bible and Matthew is the very first gospel it's there but they still have to ask has God really said please remember this all your life whenever you're tempted 17:51 to doubt the scriptures that's the very that's the way the devil began has God really said has God really said that you cannot love God and money at the same time a lot of Christians think you can but Jesus said 18:12 it so clearly if you love money you cannot love God people would ask me has God really said that and even if I show it to them in scripture they won't believe it it's tremendous the power the work the devil has done and a lot of Christians 18:26 who think we're wonderful Christians some people even call themselves spirit filled and the devil is able to deceive them outright so please remember this the very first word that the devil spoke to Eve is the origin of sin 18:42 to portray a wrong picture of God first of all to question his word has God really said that even though you read it now Eve didn't have a written statement from God saying don't eat from this tree of knowledge of good and evil 18:59 he had spoken to them Adam and Eve we've got it written and still the devil comes and says has God really said that has God really said if you don't forgive others God won't forgive you has God really said you can't love God 19:18 and money has God really said that there is only one way to the kingdom of God that is through Jesus Christ and his death on the cross did Jesus really say that if you don't take up the cross every day you cannot follow me 19:36 let me repeat that did Jesus really say in Luke 9 23 that you have to take up the cross and die to yourself every day to follow him it's there it's in your Bible if anyone wants to come after me 19:56 Luke 9 23 let him take up his cross daily you took it up yesterday good it's not good enough for today let him take up his cross daily and follow me what does take up the cross mean die to yourself die to your choice and choose what 20:12 God wants you and that's where the devil says no God doesn't want you to have the best for your life you choose what is good for you the great conflict in our mind is my will and God's will and we don't realize that God's will 20:27 is the best you can see that in your children when they are small you know something that's good for them and you tell them do it like this they won't they think it's you don't love them think especially of teenage children 20:41 if you have difficult teenage children and you know what is good for them and you know what is going to harm them and you tell them don't go that way and don't be with those friends and they think you hate them and you know 20:52 that they are destroying themselves if they go that way but they can't see it look at yourself that you're like a teenage child when it comes to God and his word so often we can see faults in others we don't see it in ourselves 21:09 exactly like your rebellious children are maybe you're like that towards God and maybe you're reaping in your children the way you've treated God is there a solution there is a solution for the worst 21:30 criminal on earth if he turns to Christ he can become the greatest saint that is my belief in the power of the gospel the worst sinner and criminal on earth cannot just get converted and go to heaven he can become the greatest saint 21:48 before he goes to heaven that is the power of the holy spirit from the deepest depths to the greatest heights he can lift a man this is the gospel we preach it doesn't matter how low you have fallen let me ask you a question 22:04 many of you have read the bible when jesus rose from the dead it was the beginning of a new creation jesus was the first man of this new creation which we call being born again we are born once that's the old creation as children 22:23 of adam and now we are to be born again as children of god and the first person who's demonstrated what the new man is going to be like you know what type of body we are going to have in eternity the type of body jesus had 22:37 when he rose from the dead today in our body we've got flesh and blood and bones in the new body there'll be no blood did you know that in heaven you'll have a body without a drop of blood in it because jesus when he rose up 22:57 from the dead there was no blood in his body all his blood was drained out on the cross and the soldier pierced him every drop of blood there was not a single drop of blood in jesus body when he rose up from the dead he appeared 23:15 before his disciples you can read that when you get time in after his resurrection and jesus told his disciples look at me you think i'm a spirit a spirit does not have flesh and bones like i have he didn't mention blood 23:30 the spirit does not have flesh and bones like i have he had flesh and bones before he died he had flesh bones and blood and it says we're going to have a body like that and christ comes again so jesus resurrected from the dead was 23:46 the beginning of a new race this is what heaven is going to be populated with people whose body is like the body of jesus risen from the dead it is the beginning of a new creation the son of god was initiating it now wouldn't 24:03 you have i mean wouldn't you have liked to see a video of god creating at him i would have loved to see it a video of god taking up mud and shaping and breathing wow i know i couldn't be there myself but if i could see a 24:18 video of it i'd be excited what about wouldn't you have loved to be at the tomb to see jesus risen from the dead i've asked myself if god were to ask me who do 24:39 you think should be the first person to see this new creation the first person to see jesus risen from the dead i would say his mother mary she suffered so much being accused of being 24:59 having an illegitimate child because nobody would believe that she was a virgin and was pregnant by the holy spirit and she suffered that shame all her life for the sake of jesus surely lord she should be the one to see you 25:18 to have that honor or perhaps one of your great apostles is going to be the leader peter perhaps and who do you think god chooses not mary his mother not peter he looks for one of the worst sinners a prostitute 25:40 demon possessed person who was converted and says she's going to be not even a man men think they are more important than women but man was not the one who saw jesus first it was a woman who saw jesus sisters be encouraged 25:57 it was a woman who saw jesus first after his resurrection you sisters are important to god that's what he was teaching was in jewish history men despised women have you noticed in the genealogy of jesus in luke 26:18 chapter 3 mary's name is not even mentioned why is that he's called the wife of joseph that is how jewish people despised women and jesus came into such a society and 26:39 exalted women many of them went with his disciples as his followers and mary magdalene prostitute demon possessed was the first person who saw the risen christ what an honor that showed 27:01 me the heart of god for sinners for the worst of them that encourages me jesus didn't come for holy people he came for those who recognized that they were sinners he came to explain the father we read 27:21 that the son of god explained the father so in a simple act like the first person to see him as the resurrection he explained what god is like god does not despise women god does not despise sinners god does 27:42 not despise prostitutes god does not despise demon possessed people mary magdalene was all that she was a woman she was a prostitute she was demon possessed new name it she made money through sex god did not despise her 27:59 not only forgive her but gave her the honor to be the first person first human being to see the resurrected christ and there jesus explains what the father is like all the wrong pictures that people have about god get eliminated 28:17 in my mind when i see jesus and how he treated people how he cared let me give you another example turn with me to john's gospel chapter 5 when we talk about a spirit 28:37 filled life you know what the holy spirit will do he will make you like jesus you will never despise sinners again you will never look down on someone who has failed miserably in their life maybe prostitute demon possessed 28:55 you will never despise such a person you will never think women are inferior to men never again if you have seen jesus there are many churches where women are treated as inferior to men there are many churches where they 29:12 look down on terrible sinners i've heard in the you know john wesley was a man who preached holiness very godly man but every he started the methodist church but every church gets corrupt by the time it goes to the second 29:28 or third generation so after john wesley died after the second or third generation there was there was a methodist church in england and there was a man there called william booth who had a great burden for the prostitutes 29:43 and despised people in society and wanted to bring them to christ as a young man he had a burden and he would bring some of these sinners sinful women to the church to hear the gospel and all the other would move away from 30:00 the edge when that sinner came and sat there all the other so-called holy people and they told william don't bring such people here the church is for holy people really church is for holy people those are the greatest sinners 30:15 sitting there who despise other sinners so you know what william booth did the methodist church would not accept sinful people what are there as a church for it you don't allow sinners to come and listen to the gospel he 30:29 said okay then I'll start something else and that's how the salvation army started thank God for people like William Booth but every movement gets corrupted as time goes on what was started in great godliness whichever church 30:42 it is what starts with some godly man who's desiring to preserve a pure testimony for Christ by the time it comes to the second or third generation is corrupt and you see that even in the gospels turn to John chapter 5 we 31:04 read that Jesus went to Jerusalem verse 1 and it was the time of the feast but before he went to the feast he went to a pool called Bethesda Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit it's amazing how 31:24 many things in Jesus life it's a wonderful example to me how when he says follow me and I really take up the cross every day die to myself and follow him that's just the negative part of it I have to die to myself the positive 31:43 part is I can experience the leading of the Holy Spirit just like Jesus was led and here is one example of that before I go into this I'll give you another example when when when Jesus came to Jericho you read that in Luke 32:00 18 the Holy Spirit as he came to a particular street the Holy Spirit says take the turning on the left see Jesus was so much in touch with the Holy Spirit why did the Holy Spirit tell him to take that turning on the left 32:18 to take that street because down that street there was a wretched sinful tax collector called Zacchaeus who had a heart to turn to the Lord who had climbed up the tree and if Jesus had gone another way he wouldn't have seen 32:35 him but the Holy Spirit saw that he saw a sinner a terrible sinner who was despised by everybody in the town as a rich tax collector who took bribes and all wants to turn from this bribe taking and money loving way and so 32:54 he wanted Jesus to go that way and when Jesus walked down at a certain point the Holy Spirit says stop look up in the tree there's a man sitting there and the Holy Spirit speaking to Jesus his name is Zacchaeus tell him 33:09 him to come down go and stay in his house today oh I want to listen to the Holy Spirit like that wonderful do you know that the Holy Spirit can lead you like that to people who are lost people who are despised by others 33:24 whom you can lead to Christ you can live a worthwhile life on earth if you have a spirit filled life I have longed for that when I saw this Jesus I said Lord lead me to different places like that and I can tell you how the 33:40 Lord has led me to different places in India different places in the world where we can start a church I did not know there were people there in that place who would start a church it's amazing how God has led the same Holy 33:56 Spirit who led Jesus Christ can lead you to a worthwhile life on earth I lived as a born again Christian for 16 years born again forgiven on my way to heaven but not knowing how to be led by the Holy Spirit till one day 34:15 God baptized me in the Holy Spirit immersed me in the Holy Spirit 51 years ago changed the direction of my life that's not the day I got my salvation 67 years ago I was born again I was on my way to heaven but I did not 34:29 know how to before you go there please do something for the Lord and you cannot do something effective for the Lord unless you are led by the Holy Spirit and the Lord says I will fill you with the Holy Spirit what is the 34:49 qualification you need you need to be filled you need to have a thirst okay Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit and this particular time he was led when there was least go to the pool of Bethesda and 35:10 he went to the pool of Bethesda verse 2 and there was a multitude of sick blind lame withered people waiting for the moving of the waters because it says in verse 4 an angel of the Lord this is a mercy of God for that particular 35:22 people that at certain seasons an angel would come down and stir up the water and whoever jumped into that water first would be healed only one person there's a multitude waiting there hoping that that would be their turn 35:35 to jump in and be healed and whenever the angel came which is only in rare occasions the first person who jumped in so they all wait for the angel to come and they knew it was always at a certain season and there be a big 35:48 rush there and Jesus goes there and he walks up he bypasses all the people lying there and he walks up to one 36:08 man lying all by himself on one corner who had been lying there for 38 years imagine waiting 38 years to try to be the first to jump into the pool lame forsaken by his parents most probably lame 36:28 begging for food hoping I hope next year at least I can jump in first can you imagine how frustrated you are when you're trying to get healed of some sickness for 38 years and not healed hoping some doctor will cure you 36:43 some surgery will cure you in 38 years people who suffer for one year begin to get worried imagine a man 38 the Holy Spirit said to say Lord I want to be like that I want to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit because there 37:03 are needy people I don't know where they are but I pray you will lead me to them and I have been so encouraged in the particularly in the last 50 years how the Lord has led me to individuals and to groups of people without 37:20 any ability on my part the Lord has raised up these churches new covenant churches around different parts of the world because God led and so when Jesus came there and saw this man lying down he asks him a question do 37:41 you really want to get well if you get well you can't just sit lying here and be begging you get up and get healthy you got to go around helping other people it's a question the Lord asks us also do you want to be freed 38:00 from sin in your life every one of us will say yes if you are freed from sin in your life you cannot live for yourself anymore you cannot live to make money I'll deliver you from sin's power in your life but then you got 38:17 to live for me you can't live to make money there you can't live for your honor or fame you have to serve others you have that you want to get well because if you get well you can't lie around here and be a beggar if you 38:36 are born again you can't sit around like other nominal Christians and the sick man says I don't have him always depending on some man can help me nobody is here to help me whenever I try to go somebody steps in before me 38:49 I always seem to miss out with them and God did this for them but you seem to be missing out you say Lord what's wrong with me I hear people testifying of amazing things they experience of the leading of God in their life 39:10 I seem to be missing out on that why am I not filled with the Holy Spirit today is your day brother sister God wants to meet with you in this conference don't say that somebody else steps in before you today the water 39:30 is being stirred not just for the first person who jumps in everybody can jump in and be healed everyone can be filled with the Holy Spirit everyone who came for this conference can be spirit filled if you are willing to 39:44 pay the price you know how you desperately want to get something for your home and you go to the store expensive you got the money but you don't want to spend it that's how many people turn away from the Holy Spirit you 40:04 desperately need that item for your home it'll make life much easier for you some gadget maybe a washing machine or something rare which would make life easy for you in the kitchen or somewhere but you say the price is too 40:16 much even though you have the money in these earthly things it doesn't matter but in spiritual things also there's a price to be paid if you want to be filled with the spirit and have a useful life like other people around 40:33 you God picks up you know when I my temperament is not something that's outgoing and reaching out to people even now I'm not really free from that inward looking type of life I have introverted that's my basic personality 40:52 I was born like that but yet the Lord has used me in spite of that to help people to come to the Lord and even to be filled with the Holy Spirit because he doesn't look for natural outgoing qualities there are some people 41:06 who are very outgoing easily make friends it's got nothing to do with human personality you may be the most reserved inward looking introverted person and God can fill you with the Holy Spirit and make your mighty witness 41:22 for Christ the answer is to be filled with the Holy Spirit it's got nothing to do with your personality even if you've been lame for 38 years like this man and Jesus went up you know and healed him he picked what 41:44 about all those other hundreds of people lying there do you think Jesus could have healed all of them sure there were hundreds of people lying around that pool and Jesus goes to one man and heals him and walks away I don't 42:02 know why but I know God never makes a mistake there could be some reason maybe I'll understand it only when I get to heaven but till then I believed what he did was right and so often I preach this wonderful gospel that 42:19 can lead everybody who's listening to me to forgiveness of sins and to a spiritual life and yet most of them go away without receiving it and I say I don't know why I wish everybody at the pool of Bethesda would get healed 42:38 but one person gets healed and the others don't get and I wish everybody in a conference would be filled with the Holy Spirit and their life would become flaming witnesses for Christ thereafter but it doesn't seem to happen 42:50 but it does happen for one here one here one there there must be a reason God with God there is no partiality there is no partiality with God the most impartial person in the universe is God Almighty our Heavenly Father 43:08 he doesn't prefer somebody because of their race or he does not look down on certain people as saying I don't like that race of people human beings are like that they look down on certain people because of the color of their 43:25 skin or because they are not so educated or intelligent or because they are very poor or because they are homeless people God doesn't look down on anyone but when he selects certain people and does things for them that he 43:43 doesn't do for others there's always a reason remember he's not partial if you can believe one thing God is not partial at all he doesn't pick somebody just because he likes something in him or arbitrarily there's there's 44:00 a reason he gives people plenty of chances to be free from the sins that burden them have you ever thought of this one thing when you read the Bible please meditate would you ever appoint a crook a 44:20 known crook to be the treasurer of your church you know who did that Jesus you see how dumb he is to make a crooked man no if you didn't know he was crooked it's another thing but Jesus who could see people through and through 44:37 there's a great verse in John chapter 2 which says in verse 24 wonderful verse Jesus did not entrust himself to certain people because he knew what was inside them he 44:58 did not entrust himself to certain people because he knew what was inside them he knew he did not need anybody testimony saying this man is good or this man is bad he knew what was inside man already and who does he select 45:13 to be his treasurer the biggest crook among the twelve Judas Iscariot would you do that God says in Isaiah 55 my ways are not your ways I have to always humble myself when I look at Jesus and say Lord 45:33 there are many things about you I don't know and that's what's helped me to understand God more I go to him almost every day and say Lord I don't know your ways even though I've been a Christian now for I was born again 45:46 67 years ago I still say Lord I don't know your ways teach me every day I go to God like a little child and say Lord teach me I don't understand I don't know I'm asked to speak and I say Lord I don't know what to speak will you 46:01 please tell me I'll speak whatever you want me to say I won't be afraid of any man that I promise I will not seek to please man but tell me I don't know what to say to these people I don't know what their need is and Jesus 46:17 will lead everyone who seeks him and I find throughout scriptures like that that he why did he give the money treasuring the treasury bag to Judas Iscariot you know people voluntarily gave money to Jesus and he 46:37 said give it to Judas Judas put it in his bag I'll tell you why he wanted to save Judas from that corruption in his heart of the love of money and from his crookedness let me give him plenty let him save him from this love 46:57 of money sometimes he does that today he gives people a lot of money to save them from the love of money but like Judas they accumulated and love money even more has has God given you money to save you from the love of it 47:15 that's why he gave to Judas Iscariot but he didn't get saved from it Zacchaeus he got saved from it you know when he met Jesus he said he turned to that passage in Luke 17 whenever 47:36 you read the scripture you must meditate on it not just sorry not Luke 17 Luke 18 sorry I'm getting old Luke 19 my mind is not as sharp as it 47:56 was used to be Luke 19 he told Zacchaeus in verse 5 hurry up come down I want to stay in your house today and all the people grumbled in verse 7 saying he has gone to be the guest of a man who's a sinner because Zacchaeus 48:16 had cheated so many people in that town he had a reputation as a sinner and Jesus goes to the home of a sinner I love that I say Lord make me like you don't lead me to the holy people only yeah Jesus spent time with the 48:34 holy people also like Peter and James and John but he also went to the house of sinners Lord make me like that and I want to say to every believer here don't just mingle with the holy people help the sinners to come to Christ 48:48 as well don't just mingle only with oh I'm always with all godly people in town that's very important but care for the lost Jesus came to seek and save the lost and so he didn't 49:08 allow those sinners to corrupt him but he went there to help them and so even in the whole town called Zacchaeus a sinner Jesus said I'm going to not only visit him I'm going to stay in his house I say Lord Jesus make me 49:23 like you you pray that prayer Lord make me like you this is how he was and have you ever understood what is the meaning of this verse he's going walking with Jesus whenever you read the Bible use your imagination picture 49:37 picture it I like to think in pictures I see Jesus walking with Zacchaeus everybody making fun this guy is going to this sinner's house and then as they come to the when I read that I meditate I'm 49:58 teaching you how to study the scriptures Zacchaeus stopped and I said why did he stop then as I read the rest of it I understand he said to the Lord Lord half my goods I'm giving to the poor why does he have to say that 50:13 Jesus never said anything about money to him and if I cheated anybody I'll give back four times why did he say that I'll tell you let me expand on what is not written here Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord if I were 50:33 to expand his words Lord you want to stay in my house right this is my house you cannot stay here this house was built with corrupt money I cheated people and I got money and built this house how can a holy person like you 50:52 come and sleep here with me sleep in my house tonight I've got to set certain things right so that this house will be cleansed before you come and live here I'm expanding the words of Zacchaeus I didn't have much money but 51:07 I became a tax collector and I became a millionaire that's and not just return what I took from them I'll calculate at the highest rate of interest and pay them back four times what I stole from them and 51:28 by the time Zacchaeus had gone around paying everybody and the news got around a lot of people would say I wish Zacchaeus had cheated me too I had got back four times today he returned four times of what he took from people 51:44 who cheated when you cheat somebody how much do you return just the amount you cheated or do you calculate the interest for the two three years that passed Zacchaeus was wholehearted and just he was so lavish I paid them 52:03 at a very high interest rate and give them back four times what I cheated from them so that I can make up for my cheating them so badly what a large heart he had and he had just been converted and then he says there are 52:17 a whole lot of other people who I don't know their address I cheated them so many years ago they moved house and I don't know where they are what shall I do shall I conveniently forget about them and say Lord I don't know 52:30 their address so I can't return it no I cannot keep one cent in my bank account that does not belong to me that's what I decided when I got converted I will not have one cent in my bank away 52:51 with that just by saying I don't know where the address is but that cannot be in my bank account I will take all that money and give it away to the poor so that there's not one cent left in my bank account which is not righteously 53:04 earned and that's what I tell you what there's a huge amount of money some 53:24 hundred thousand dollars or something I said put it in the offering box we don't give to the poor today in the Jewish society they gave to the poor today we give it to the church if you have cheated anybody and you don't 53:40 know where they are today don't conveniently forget about it take that money it should not be in put it in the offering box preferably return it to the government if you stole it from the government 54:00 or to people you took it from otherwise put it in the offering box and he did that and the moment he did that clear he said now Lord you can come to my house it's clean and Jesus said some words to him which he never said 54:14 to anybody else that we read salvation has come to this house read through the gospels and see if Jesus said that to anybody else he didn't he said it to one man who was publicly known as a sinner but 54:34 who decided to set everything right particularly in the area of money I want to ask you is anybody here like Zacchaeus who cheated others even a one dollar borrowed money not returned it you want Jesus and your family see 54:53 when Zacchaeus took a stand even his family got blessed salvation has come not to Zacchaeus it has come to the whole family of Zacchaeus verse 9 when you take a stand for the Lord your whole family will be blessed I've seen 55:05 that in my home salvation has come do you want the Lord to say that about you salvation has come to you and your home set things right ask forgiveness from those whom you have hurt forgive 55:26 those who hurt you return money that you borrowed which you have not returned till now return money that you got wrong fully by cheating cheating the government or cheating people humble yourself and ask forgiveness I 55:46 did that before I was converted I cheated the government of India of money I was a naval officer and used to go and get a whole lot of things without paying duty on it and I calculated all that in this four month salary 56:01 that I had to return and I didn't have bank account and gave it back to the government my heart was full my bank account was empty my heart was full of the joy of the Lord many years later the Lord told me if you had not 56:20 done that at that time you would have had a chain on your leg that you would have been dragging around and you could not have run the Christian race I thank God I got rid of that chain so that I could run the race and it's 56:37 been a wonderful race I've run the last 67 years it's been such a blessing in my life you know you think that I'm naturally gifted to speak and all it's not true I was the most introverted reserved silent person in my class 56:56 when I was in school they all mocked me when they say hey Zach you're going to go to the military and defend our country I can't believe that that's how they mocked me and it is such a person God picked up to preach his 57:14 word because it's nothing to do with my human personality or temperament when God fills you with the Holy Spirit you're turned into another man you're turned into another woman and that's what God did to me when he filled 57:30 me with the Holy Spirit and I want to remain like that even today empty of myself when Jesus said take up the cross you know what the cross does it kills everything of Adam that's what taking up the cross does everything 57:49 I got from Adam put it in death I want every part of me all of that replaced with Christ that's what Paul said I am crucified with Christ Adam has been killed in me everything I inherited from Adam is gone now it 58:10 is no longer I but Christ that lives in me if Paul can say that you can say that I can say that but it is only possible if you open every part of your being to the Holy Spirit Spirit filled life that's why he says you got 58:25 to take up the cross because the cross puts everything else to death God wants you to have everything in you which is part of the resurrected life of Christ and there is no resurrection without death you what is the 58:45 resurrected life it is the resurrected life of Jesus Christ but you have to share in his death to get that resurrection there is no way to get to resurrection without death you bypass death there will be no resurrection 59:00 it's the resurrected life of Christ that he wants to impart to us through the Holy Spirit and that's what God wants to give you and everything I read in the gospel is like that when you read the scriptures dear brothers 59:18 and sitters meditate on it and you read just now for example I explained to you how Zacchaeus paid back everything if you had meditated on it anything I told you today would not have surprised you why did he give four times 59:33 to people interest and to make them happy that they got much more interest than they got from the bank why did he give half his money to the poor did you ever think I thought about it and that's how I got the answer because 59:48 there and many people who didn't have they changed their addresses and location and he didn't know how to return it and he did not conveniently forget about it he said no I can't forget about it I got money in my bank account 1:00:00 which is not mine if I can't give it to them I'll give it to the poor I'll put it in the offering box that's how we learn something when we meditate on scripture but if you don't meditate on scripture you don't hear what 1:00:13 it is saying to you so a little thing I want to teach you about how to study the scriptures I believe that God wants every single person here to be filled with the Holy Spirit need we don't want a theme for the conference 1:00:29 saying the spirit filled family life and you not experience that when you go away I really pray you will open your being to have not only be filled with the spirit yourself but that it will lead to spiritual family life 1:00:43 you know I've taught in our church that the church is a three story building the foundation is a loving father who we know as our heavenly father you got to start there on top of that we have the story the first floor is 1:01:02 our personal life with a good conscience you heard about the idea yesterday a life with a perfectly clean conscience as soon as my conscience convinced me I said it right cleansed in the blood of Christ on top of that is 1:01:14 the second floor which is our family life how we lift our wife how we bring up our children on top of that is the church doing God's about keeping good conscience I'm trying to help you build a three story building where 1:01:35 you can be a servant of God in the church start with a good conscience and then your relationship with your wife and children then we build the church and our service for God and every person sitting here even you young 1:01:49 people you can be a servant of God to do some work in part of his sessions let's pray please bow your head before the Lord and just for a brief moment think 1:02:10 about something you heard today maybe just one thing or more which the Lord spoke to you some area where you've got to change and God will help you to change that's the good news whatever area it is the Lord will help you 1:02:28 my brother sister believe it it doesn't matter even if you're like Mary Magdalene sinful prostitute demon possessed doesn't matter he can change you into a spirit filled servant of his just believe him 1:02:48 heavenly father I pray that you will encourage everyone whose head is bowed here that not one will think that their case is impossible nothing is impossible with God thank you father encourage 1:03:08 everyone here let this be a life transforming weekend for every person who's come a weekend they'll never forget we pray in Jesus name Amen God God God
