0:01 so the sum and substance of all that we've been saying in these days is that God is not looking for a large testimony on the Earth but a pure testimony not for a large city like Babylon but a pure City like 0:20 Jerusalem and if that grips us really grips us we will see how terribly disappointed God is with the condition of most groups that call themselves churches because they have not kept the standards of 0:39 Purity theyve not kept this and Purity means basically not our idea of Purity but God's idea of Purity and God has shown us his standard in his word the when it says that the church is built I ask people sometimes do you know 0:59 what is the foundation of the Christian Life That's Jesus Christ other Foundation can no man lay one Corinthians chapter 3 then what is already laid verse 10 Jesus Christ but what about the foundation of the church yeah in one sense Christ is the 1:22 foundation of the church but I want to show you a verse which sometimes many of you may not think of Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 19 onwards you are no longer 1:42 strangers foreigners but your fellow citizens with the Saints of God's family and you are built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets are you built on the foundation 2:01 of the Apostles and the prophets you say no I'm built on the foundation of Jesus Christ do you believe that is inspired by the holy spirit in your Bible or it's mistake if it is a mistake scratch it out I don't believe it's a 2:18 mistake this the Holy Spirit who said you're built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets and you say where does Christ come in then Christ Jesus being the Cornerstone you know what a Cornerstone is in the olden days when they 2:36 constructed buildings they didn't have all the fancy equipment that we have today they would first lay a Cornerstone and that Cornerstone had to be perfectly 90° in all three directions this way this way and this way this way this way 2:55 this way it had to be perfect it could not be 89° or 91° because everything was going to be aligned you know think of a building where one corner you put a big Cornerstone and then you align all the stones in that line there all the stones 3:14 in that line here and all the stones vertically over here and all the stones vertically there boy if there's a slight error in that Cornerstone the building will grow crooked only only one degree error in the corner Stone the whole building will 3:31 go crooked and the building will not be rectangular or Square it'll be the Cornerstone was the most important Jesus was perfect in all directions towards God towards men towards the devil his 3:48 attitude was absolutely perfect towards God towards human beings towards the devil we have three directions three dimensions towards W God towards human beings towards the devil jesus' attitude was perfect in all three areas he was a perfect 4:07 Cornerstone the apostles what they did they were next to that they were closest to the Cornerstone and they lined themselves to have the same attitude towards God towards human beings towards the devil and on the foundation of those 4:24 early Apostles and Prophets the church was built that is why the Epistles are as important as the words of Jesus in the gospels you know many people say I only care for the words of 4:44 Jesus but you know one of the last things that Jesus told his disciples before he uh went to the cross the last supper was I've got many more things to say to you have you read that verse in John's gospel I don't have time to show 4:59 you all those references but please look it up I have many more things to say to you but you cannot bear them now means you cannot understand them now but when the spirit of Truth is come he will lead you into all the truth and 5:16 he will glorify me because he will take from me and give to you it's all in John 14:1 15:16 read it and you can't bear them now means you can't understand them now it's like telling a k Garten student you know my little boy my little girl there are 5:34 things in mathematics called trigonometry geometry calculus a child is confused it's not just 2 + 2 is 4 and 3 + 3 is 6 that's okay in this class there are so many wonderful things in mathematics 5:51 which can help you in your life and a child will say that's great when can I learn all that you can't understand them now as you grow go you will understand it so Jesus was saying to them you can't understand that now when the spirit has 6:06 come he will gradually lead you into all the truth now the question is brothers and sisters are you going to build the church with kindergarten knowledge then you'll have a bunch of kindergarten babies in your church you have to go to see the further 6:24 Revelation that God gave through the Holy Spirit to the apostles and Prophets that you read in the New Testament Jesus spoke very little about the church but he said some important thing one of the first things he said about the church 6:39 was I will build my church The First Time The Word Church comes in the New Testament and the word is a called out people the church is a called out people we're not to make the Nations into disciples but we have to make 6:55 disciples in the Nations you cannot make any nation in a disciple no ined Nations you got to go and let the Lord lead you to people who want to become disciples so with those disciples you can build the church if you don't make 7:12 them disciples you'll never build the church so if we were to say you know we finally want to conclude with thinking about the church in this session we talked a lot about our personal life and that's very important the household of God is those 7:28 who judge themselves first 1 Peter 4:17 and they don't judge others and then he spoke about the home life Noah's home life Abraham's home life the home life of Elders there has to be a certain standard now this was not a law in the 7:42 Old Testament in the old Covenant home life was not important we read of a Moses fighting with his wife and his wife yelling at Moses and uh about the matter of circumcising their child and finally his wife yielded you know Moses 7:59 was a Israelite he should have circumcised his child and for the child grew up and he never circumcised because his father-in-law never believed in circumcision his wife never believed in circumcision because she was not a 8:11 daughter of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and um he like many husbands yielded to his wife in the matter of Home matters even if it meant Disobedience to God but now he was going as the leader of God's people and it says in Exodus 4 God tried to kill him 8:29 Imagine the One Man on Earth who was the only one who was ready to fulfill God's purpose God tries to kill him do you believe that God is so strict that he will even kill the only man on the earth who is going to fulfill his purposes yes 8:45 I don't know what you learn from that I learned from that that God will never compromise his principles even if he loses a good [Music] man for me the application is this here is a wonderful gifted Godly elder brother of a church extremely valuable 9:04 to me but he compromises I said brother step down don't ever speak in that church people may say brother Zach you're losing such a good brother we willing to lose him God was ready to kill Moses for a small matter like 9:23 circumcision yes you know what what Moses did he sent his wife home you'll be a pain in the neck to me if I go to Israel you are always fighting with me home life is not important in the Old Testament Moses could be the leader 9:42 irrespective of how his relationship with his wife was how his children grew up but when you come to the New Covenant it's different a man must build his home before he can build a church so the burning bushes first of all are personal 9:59 life and our walk with God secondly it's our home our home must be like a burning bush then the church and that's where we finally end because that's how the Book of Revelation ends I saw the church coming lying down from heaven like the Holy 10:18 City Jerusalem like a bride adorned for a husband that's how the Book of Revelation ends God's ultimate goal is not saving Souls this whole business business of Believers going around saving Souls I challenge anyone to find 10:33 out such a verse in the New Testament the apostles did not go around saving Souls they went around building churches just by the way for those who don't read their Bible carefully there is a verse in the Old Testament called he who wins Souls is 10:47 wise it has got nothing to do with bringing people to Salvation people quote that verse we've got the bad half many Christians of reading a verse completely out of context just because it suits some particular theology I've 10:59 already framed in my mind there is no such thing as saving souls in the New Testament it's building the church a lot about building the church Jesus said he didn't say I'm going to save souls he said I'll build my church but today evangelist goes and 11:17 saves Souls you ask this evangelist he's there for 3 days he stays in some five star hotel comes and save Souls gets everybody to sign a decision card and he disappears back to America or wherever he comes from and then you come back one 11:30 month later and say where are these Souls I don't know that's other people's job what type of mother are you what type of mother are you giving birth to babies and throwing them on the road and saying let somebody take care of them 11:41 even the dogs and the cats do better than that they take care of their children till they're able to feed themselves and U you don't find little kittens and dogs dead on the street because their mothers neglected them no but a lot of Christian evangelists do 11:58 never there's no evangelist like that in the New Testament Paul was the greatest evangelist of all when he brought people to Christ he built them into a local church God Christ it doesn't say Christ gave himself for individuals he gave 12:13 Christ loved the church and gave himself for it God so loved the world gave his son but Christ loved the church and gave himself for it his goal is to build a church and an evangelist has a very important part in it to bring people 12:30 into the church and make them part of the local church like the body I often think of the picture of the hand is like an evangelist what is evangelism in one sentence evangelism is to make someone who is not a member of the body a member of the body of 12:48 Christ simple definition of evangelism a man who's not a member of Christ's body make him a member of Christ body not get somebody to go to heaven those things are never found in the new Testament so much of phraseology that Christians use 13:03 I challenge them sure to me in the Bible uh no it's not there where did it come from it came from some wretched Bible School you went to get to the Bible brother there's no such thing as saving souls and getting people to Heaven 13:18 building the church that's what the Bible is full of Ephesians is full of it so what does the Evangelist do make that person no take the human body as an example here is a hand and evangelist going and taking that potato 13:33 which is an unbeliever not a member of my body I want to make that potato a member of my body so the hand goes out this is the Evangelist takes that unbeliever that potato puts it into the mouth that's evangelism does it become a member of my 13:53 body by getting into my mouth the Evangelist goes and bring one more potato puts in the mouth this is what's happening got 100 potatoes in my mouth and after some time the whole thing becomes rotten and I spit it out this is 14:10 exactly what's happening in prison you know what's going to happen once he gets into the mouth it's got to be chewed all its pride has to be broken down it's be made small it's got to be made like mashed potatoes and then it 14:23 comes into the stomach and the prophetic Ministry takes over pour acids on it acids on a new believer yeah that's right he's a proud person all that pride has to be broken down and if some potato says no I don't want to be mashed I want 14:38 to remain as a whole potato then you'll be eliminated God has put an elimination process also either one way or the other way you warit it out or the other way you eliminate it but you can't remain a special potato you got to be mashed and 14:52 once you become mashed you're just one with the others that's prophetic Ministry but if a potato submits to it accepts this grinding in the teeth and the mashing in the and the acids poured on it finally with all the impurities 15:10 eliminated lo and behold after a few weeks it's no longer a potato it has become flesh and blood in my body it has become a member of my 15:25 body this is the way God builds the chur if you keep on even stuffing the stomach with potatoes you'll vomit it out and you'll waret it 15:42 out yeah it has to be built into the body or to use an illustration the Bible use an illustration of the building in India we build with bricks and this building is built with say 10,000 Bricks now you know how the lores and 15:59 the trucks bring the bricks and dump it there one brick 100 bricks 10,000 bricks that 10,000 bricks is not a building that's like saving Souls we got all the bricks here needed we want those trucks to bring the bricks otherwise we 16:15 can't build a house but if you leave those bricks there I know I'll tell you what will happen in India in a week it'll become 99,900 another week it'll become 9,800 and then it'll become 9,700 after a few weeks there there's nothing left 16:29 there that's exactly what happens with a lot of evangelism they have to be built and there's labor there but people say no no no we got to get more bricks more bricks more bricks what's the use piling All These Bricks if you don't even build one 16:42 house how many of you will be happy with a contractor you give him a contract to build a house and he just piles up 100,000 bricks and says there's your house how can I live inside this 100,000 bricks piled up here we are so careful about Earthly 16:57 things but we don't care about God's house we need to have the spirit of David who said was it Psalm 132 or something I said I will not give sleep to my eyes till I find a place to build God's house I tell you we need a passion like 17:15 that brothers and sisters who say Lord I want your house to be built you know when the little church started in our home at 7 or eight people 35 years ago it was a burden that I had carried like a mother in my in it in a baby in the 17:29 womb for 10 years from 1965 to 1975 I carried a burden in My Heart Lord I want to see a local church built like a body I want to see a church built according to the way we' see it in the Acts of the Apostles not these pyramid structures with some CEO or Pope 17:47 on top or general superintendent elected by others no the way they did it in the Acts of the Apostles I want to see a evangelist in our church who bring people to Christ but build them up into the Body of Christ yeah people say 18:03 brother Zach is against evangelism no one of the finest personal evangelist I have met in this whole country and in the whole world is in one of our churches I challenge you to find a better man than him unfortunately he's 18:16 not here right now because he's being beaten up by non-christians somewhere because he's bringing people to Christ we're not against evangelism but we're against this collection of bricks which doesn't build a house that's that's it we believe 100% in 18:34 using the bricks I don't have the ability I don't have the trucks to go and build the bricks but I thank God for other brothers who go and build the bricks who bring the bricks and then we have to work together the Mason doesn't go and bring 18:46 the bricks he builds it there's no competition there the Mason is not against the truck driver who brings the bricks no they work together the Mason will have nothing to do if the truck driver doesn't bring the bricks and the 18:57 truck driver can't build the house and we have amazing examples that we've seen in the last 30 years particularly in Tamil NAD and all where one brother could bring the bricks in but he didn't know how to build the house and another 19:08 brother couldn't bring the bricks in but he knew how to build the house and we have some wonderful examples now so this is God's purpose local churches everywhere the ultimate burning bush that God wants is a body that functions 19:21 as a body we're working together a house you know many people say you're stealing our sheep she well you try and steal a brick from this building try it come sleeky at night and try and steal One of These Bricks you won't be able to do it but if 19:37 you have a pile of 10,000 bricks you can steal as many bricks as you want I have never in my life said that anybody has stolen one of my flock you can't steal them if they built into a house and when a man says somebody stole my sheep that 19:50 means you never built a house you had a pile of bricks then they deserve to be stolen and built somewhere I remember one place they asked me brother Zach have you come here to steal the Sheep No I said most of the ones we get are goats first of all in 20:06 any case they're not sheep at all we have to convert them to sheep after they come into our church cuz they never taught about repentance and sin and all that then then we make them part of a flock if you want to use that 20:18 illustration or if you want to use another illustration maybe they are born again but they are like children in kindergarten you go to a village where they have 100 kindergarten schools only kindergarten no other school no not even 20:33 primary no first standard second standard all there's a 3-year-old sitting in the kindergarten there's a 55y old man also sitting in the kindergarten still trying to learn ABC C8 cat B8 bat and so we go to that Village and say 20:48 listen we would like to start a school here for first standard and second standard and third standard people want to go a little higher than kindergarten no no no no no you're stealing our students this 55y old student has been 21:00 so happy to sit here in the kindergarten forever I know but that's because there was nothing better for him here he'd be very happy if he goes to First standard and studies some multiplication and division did he help him in his life are 21:12 we competing with somebody no we're just trying to lead people higher and we don't even charge any school fees for them isn't that the best part of it it's free all the teaching is free we even give them food free what more do you 21:29 want what are we trying to get for ourselves we only want them to be educated for the glory of God so whichever example you take building a house building a family we have children we don't throw them on the street do you 21:42 know how long all of you are many of you are fathers and mothers how long does it take to make a child stand on his own legs in India it's about 25 years maybe in Western countries 18 or 20 years but in India it's about 25 21:56 years before a child can stand on its own feet and go on on his own till then the father and mother have to take care of them in many ways and they little many ways less and less and then later educate them and spend money on them and 22:08 so many things finally it stands on his own feet what do you do you say no no no we want more children we just want to have children children and drop put them on the street then we are worse than the dogs and the cats and the pigs also take 22:19 care of their little ones I don't want to be worse than them this is the tragedy in Christendom today people are not being built into a family the house is not being built the flock is not being put together but people say oh Jesus 22:37 said if a man had 100 sheep and one sheep is lost he goes after that one sheep and brings him back and then I said hang on hang on read the Bible slowly let me read to you the rest of 22:55 that verse in L 15 so I say to you Luke 15:7 there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents not who signed a decision card 23:14 not who raised his hand in a meeting who repents which gospel meeting have you heard about repentance tell me I've been to a number of gospel meetings all I hear is God loves you brother come to Jesus some fellow emotionally sings a song Just As 23:32 I Am and without one ping the fellows all get moved they don't repent they don't know what repentance is they don't know what sin is they accept Christ do they become disciples one sinner there's no joy in heaven over a man who signs a decision 23:47 card there is no joy in heaven over a man who comes up to the front at an altar call no it's a deception to think that heaven rejoices over 10 people or 100 people coming forward in an alter call over one sinner who repents who 24:02 turns from sin he cannot turn from sin unless he's told what sin is and he's told to repent then over 99 righteous persons who need no repentance do you want Jesus 24:20 definition of a church listen to this Jesus definition of a church here it is 99 righteous persons who need no repentance get me 99 righteous persons who need no repentance that's the Church of Jesus 24:38 Christ that's in jesus' own words bring that lost fellow into such a group but if you got 99 people who are fighting and quarreling and backbiting and lusting after women and doing internet pornography I say brother please don't bring that lost sheep here 24:53 you'll pick up these bad habits he's safer out there in the wilderness for a little more while we'll wait wait till we get these 99 people okay then we will bring him into a safe flock I don't want to bring him into a diseased flock and gets all types of 25:07 diseases like some of these government hospitals you get admitted there you get diseases that you never had when you went in a lot of our churches are like that I don't want it not of our churches we have a pretty good standard but many 25:18 other churches it's very interesting that all these people who accuse us of false Doctrine can never accuse us of a bad life what what they say is these people that doctr is wrong with their life is good that's as crazy as saying to a 25:31 farmer you got a good crop but your seed was bad seed is like Doctrine when people analyze our Doctrine it's like putting a seed under a microscope I said don't put it in the microscope sew it and 10 years later you'll see whether it's good seed 25:48 or bad and all the people who have accused us for 35 years that every one of them has had to say every one of them these people their life is good but their Doctrine is bad the crop is good the Harvest is good but the seed is very bad 26:07 what about you our seed is perfect only the Harvest is bad that's all dear brothers do you see the deception going around in Christendom what is the proof of a good Doctrine a good lifee so 99 righteous persons who need 26:24 no repentance is my definition of a church in Jesus own words first of all they are righteous secondly they need no repentance you mean to say there are people who need no repentance I'll raise my hand I need no 26:43 repentance because I've already repented about something even today every day I'm repenting that's why I don't need repentance how can I tell say that a person is never hungry because he's eating every day he's not hungry every day he's not there he goes 27:03 by day after day without being hungry because he's eating every day that's the meaning of he doesn't need repentance because he's repenting every day he's the guy who does not repent who needs repentance such a fellow is not fit to 27:14 be in our church I want to say to all of you in Jesus name you have no business being in our church if you don't repent every day go and find some other dead Third Rate church and go and live there and dishonor God's name as much as you 27:26 like but don't come to a church seeking to glorify God and live here without repentance every day if you did something wrong that's okay you're forgiven but repent say Lord help me maybe you'll fall again but repent maybe 27:38 you'll fall a tenth time repent maybe you'll fall a 100 times in the same area but repent you can be with us forever and who needs to repent the most the elders because they are judged by higher standard I teach you I will be 27:54 judged by the highest standard of all I I realize that and I fear it I know that if there's one day that goes by in my life without my seeing something un Christlike in me it's like the day when you're stinking with perspiration and dirt and 28:14 you didn't take a shower that day you didn't take a bath oh we are so careful when we stink with sweat and perspiration I want to have a shower but there are many important things to do that can wait I've got to get my my bath 28:29 first you know I really believe after many years of observing Christians that the reason why there are not more wholehearted people listen to this is they love their body more than their soul I'm absolutely convinced about it 28:49 they love their body more than their soul they hate sickness more than sin they are more of afraid of sickness than of sin they take so much care of their body when they are sick so little care about 29:08 Sin no wonder we don't have so many wholehearted people and God is searching for those who will say how many of you will value your soul more than your body how many of you will hate sin more than you hate 29:25 sickness you want to build my house turn to Isaiah 66 I believe many of us want to build God's house and every one of you can build it even if you don't have the gift of preaching like me you can build God's house yesterday I was asking the Elder 29:48 Brothers when I was speaking to them uh can you tell me some of the important parts of the human body of course they said important parts heart liver kidney eyes ears and all I it's all right I say you know uh if I were to ask you to mention 30:07 the important parts of the body you'll say that also will any of you mention the little finger maybe about 100th down the list you'll come to a little finger but even then you may not mention the nails the nails are the most 30:21 insignificant part of our human body but when you feel scratchy somewhere your heart and liver and kidney and eyes and ears cannot help you even your little finger cannot help you it's these teeny weeny nails that really 30:35 bless you and you feel so relieved some people feel so much they ask other people will you scratch my back and after they scratch shall I stop no no no scratch some more you know what that Ministry is it's called in the New Testament the ministry 30:53 of encouragement encouragement scratch my back you can't do it if somebody asks you to scratch his back can you do it oh brother I don't have a gift of scratching people's backs what do you mean you don't have a gift of scratching people's backs it's 31:09 the easiest thing in the world to do he's not even asking you to cook a meal or something just scratch my back and even if some number of your nails are missing you can still scratch with three Nails you know um the gift of encouraging others 31:25 one of the most important functions in the body of Christ and every one of us can have it in the past we have been experts at criticizing others right experts at finding fault experts as finding little specs we go around with our magnifying 31:43 glasses and say I saw a speck there I saw a speck there let's destroy those magnifying glasses now and say Lord I've spent a lifetime criticizing finding fault with people can I now spend the rest of my life just encourage him 31:59 encourage him I many times told my fellow Elders many of them I'm sorry to say don't listen to me but I've told them brothers I think you have spent enough years criticizing let's encourage them leave it to the prophets to do the rebuking and 32:18 correcting and there are very few prophets they will do that part but most of us are not prophets and your calling is not to rebuke correct one or two prophets will do that God gives them a calling and gives them the ability to do that with 32:34 Grace but if you try to imitate a prophet you'll be a false prophet I believe the great need is for many brothers to encourage encourage and challenge say you can do it the Lord rejoices over you with shouts of joy and singing did you fail for the thousandth 32:51 time never mind brother try again you will make it maybe after 10,000 tries you'll do it I love the story I heard about this great inventor who lived over 100 years ago called Thomas Edison he was an American inventor uh he was not a very bright boy 33:09 in school they checked him out of school because he wasn't very clever but he invented hundreds of inventions one of them is the light bulb and he experimented with various things to find what material will keep burning for hours and hours and hours 33:25 and hours he was trying different materials they all thought of dying out in a few minutes finally he found a thing called tungsten and he found it burns after about thousand experiments he got the right thing and somebody told him Hey 33:39 listen you found it after 1,000 experiments what if you had chosen tungsten the very first time then he said I would not have discovered truths about the other 999 wrong ways of doing it what a good way to do it 33:57 I tell you I spent 16 years wandering around in Babylon and I got a guided tour through the every nuk and cranny of Babylon I know it thoroughly was it a wasted time no I got a thorough education in Babylon and it has helped me to see that 34:15 there's nothing good there so today when somebody tells me ah brother there's something good there I'm not deceived other people can go and see I've seen it all I know that there's only one way to build a church listen to Isaiah 34:30 66 verse one this is the Lord's word to you Heaven is my Throne the whole earth is only a place where I put my feet where is the house the church that you're going to build for me where is this church that you think you're going 34:47 to build a place that I can rest you know what the church is to be a place where God can rest God can rest means he's very happy he feels at home there where can you build a church where 35:03 God Almighty can come and say I'm happy here my hand has made all these things but let me paraphrase I will use this type of person to build my 35:20 house first qualification humble and contrite of spirit not Bible school not Bible school not college educated humble and contrite of spirit anybody you want to build the church God 35:40 can use you number one qualification humble and contrite of spirit broken you know what contrite of spirit means I I think the best illustration is when we break bread you know many times I think of this when we break bread bread and I 35:59 take a piece of that bread and it's not like rock as soon as I touch it it comes off you know particularly the bread we like we buy we sometimes use a bun or bread just touch it and it comes off that little 36:17 bit and when I've done that I said Lord that's how I want to be that's how I want to be as soon as you touch me I'm broken are you like that but as soon as God touches you that's what Brokenness means broken 36:36 contract Spirit God doesn't have to struggle struggle like breaking some tough old piece of meat cut it cut it cut it with a knife it doesn't cut he doesn't want people like that broken humble number one qualification you want 36:54 to build God's house number two who trembles at my word who reads particularly something in the New Testament we want to build a New Covenant Church and they read in the Acts of the Apostles how they did it and he trembles at it oh God I better do it 37:12 that way not the way all these modern churches try to do it that's the reason why there's so much confusion let me tell you an Old Testament story I don't have time to go to all those passages there was a time in the history of 37:31 Israel you read in 1 Samuel 4 onwards when Israel was thoroughly defeated even though they praised god with such a loud voice that the Earth began to shake that's why I don't believe in a lot of loud praise if it doesn't come from a holy heart they 37:46 praised God so loudly when the earth began to shake and then they were more defeated after that and the isra Philistines took away the ark but when they took away the ark their Idols fell down before that Ark they get all types of sicknesses in 38:04 their body and they decided oh we better not keep the ark here we'll send it back how to send it back so one of their magicians said Put it on a cart and let some newly born cops take it now newly born cops will run to their mother if 38:22 they don't run to their mother but run towards Israel then you know this is really God so they got some newly born CS tied it to this Bullard and they didn't return to their mother they went that way they said this really God thank God this AR has gone 38:38 away the Israelites saw this David who came along many years later as the king about 40 years later heard that the Philistines it was a story carried on through the years the Philistines sent the AR Ark back in a 38:58 Bulet card so when God want when David wanted to transport the ark to Jerusalem which he had captured he said Hey to make these poor Levites carry it on their shoulder like God said in Leviticus oh such a long journey of so 39:17 many miles they'll get exhausted the Philistine way is better put it on a bullet card so he imitated the Philistines you read in 2 Samuel in chapter 6 7 or 8 somewhere there and they went along in the Bulet card but the problem with 39:33 bullet carts is sometimes The Oxen stumble and the arc began to shake and there was a man called usza who was not a levite he had no business to be around there and he not he did not tremble at the word which said nobody but the 39:50 Levites the sons of Kath or something must touch this AR ah he says my intention is good I know I'm not levite but my intention is good I'll study the ark God doesn't care about your intentions you don't tremble at your 40:07 word bu died on the spot David stopped so please put the Ark in somebody's house here God is a holy God these worldly methods of transporting the ark won't work even if they to walk 100 miles they walked hundreds of miles in the wilderness we 40:26 carrying it on the shoulders the next time when he moved it he said call the Levites the proper tribe and say you carry the ark he learned it the hard way but today's church has not learned it the hard way they still follow the methods of the 40:42 world like Coca-Cola wants to get every person on the face of the Earth to get at least one sip of Coca-Cola we said we will adopt the same methods as the Coca-Cola Company to spread the gospel everywhere do you know [Music] 40:55 this that if Jesus wanted to feed the 5,000 men plus women and children probably 10,000 people in the quickest way he should not have given the job just to 12 disciples supposing there were 12,000 people there say 5,000 men 41:13 5,000 women and 2,000 children 12 people feeding 12,000 people do you know one person has to distribute to thousand people how long will that take you try one person going and giving food to 1,000 people see how many hours 41:29 it will take a much more efficient way that clever people will just suggested to Jesus is Lord let's get some volunteers get 1,000 volunteers each person has to give only to 12 people it'll be finished in no 41:46 time and Jesus says no I don't want any volunteers doing my work I want disciples it'll take longer let it take longer I want wholehearted people time is not the important thing have has today's Chris learned 42:05 that lesson no there are American organizations that have come to India who want to reach every home with the gospel how to reach every home in India with the gospel they're not India population has only got about 2% Christian never mind let's hire people 42:23 of all religions and pay them money they'll do anything for money give them the tracks and tell them make sure you cover every home in the region and all types of Hindus and Muslims and atheists are going around giving the gospel what 42:35 for for money and then they can report to their headquarters back there because those headquarters staffers also got to be paid and show results we covered every home in India was that Jesus method or finally when before he went up 42:51 to heaven and he's got these 12 disciples he is going to all the world and preach the gospel to every and somebody clever fellow could have said Lord let's hire an advertising agency they'll do it much better than these 43:04 guys why does this fisherman know how to reach the whole world J I don't want all your clever methods I will fill them with the Holy Spirit you see we've got all these what does Coca-Cola do use an advertising agency spread the gospel with this that 43:19 and the other what type of church is being built ultimately through that with these clever CEOs who get their fat s salaries the top pastors and apostles who collect all their money is that the way to do God's work show it to me in 43:33 the Bible now we have followed in India the oldfashioned methods built on the foundation of the Apostles and the prophets because we have trembled at God's word we don't just say this is the 43:50 Bible and then do what we like we say this is the Bible and we tremble at God's word and we don't say this is only for the first century or this is for the this no no no we believe that the Bible the New Testament is given for all 44:05 time and we didn't know 35 years ago whether it would work today we can say it has worked many of our village churches no Hindu school will allow us to use their school building to have a 44:25 meeting the government school will not allow us to use their Auditorium the brothers are so poor their houses are small so small you cannot have a house church if it becomes more than five or six people I go to the house of an elder 44:39 brother his whole house is one room and he stays there with four children how in the world can he have a house Church there he doesn't have a telephone how can you what do you do you need to build a meeting Hall all these guys in many countries 44:58 who say ah the thing is house churches brother you guys have never lived in The Villages of India you spin your theories in some rich country where people have got big houses and drive around in cars and have got telephones come to one of 45:08 my Villages and show me how to do it you guys who preach the Prosperity Gospel you go to all these rich churches where they can give you $10,000 for one meeting come to one of my Village churches and show me how to make them 45:19 Rich they need it more than those people is a sick who need a physician no it's all deception but the oldfashioned methods still work I wanted to prove in my life in a poor country like India underdeveloped poor where the lights go off when we 45:37 don't expect it to go off etc etc that we shall seek the kingdom of God first and his righteousness and all our Earthly needs will be added without our ever sending a report or photograph of our work or asking anybody for money or 45:51 even giving a hint numerous countries I go to people ask me brother Zach do you have any needs in India I said no we have no needs I say God has met all our needs oh that's okay then we'll support somebody else yes please go and support 46:05 somebody else we okay I've always said that consistently I have gone as a representative of this church and I want to say to you I've honored God's name wherever I've gone I've been introduced in some Churches here at last is a preacher from 46:22 India who never asked for money now we ask for prayer if we ask for prayer it's not a hint for money it's not like saying dear brother will you please pray that one Church in a village will be able to put up a roof over their church building 46:41 what a sneaky way of asking for money no we built many many meeting halls and we none of our churches have been in debt ever we don't owe one cent to any Bank in India I'm not here to judge other people 47:03 who do that brother you do it the way you like we tremble at God's word which says oh no man anything Romans 138 if if we borrow and borrow and borrow and build a huge Church which will take 25 years to 47:22 repay and people say what are you going to preach in this church where you got such a big mortgage we are going to preach oh no man anything you're going to preach that not not having practiced it we tremble at God's word you say but it's tough then you can 47:42 build only small it's small I remember when we were building CFC building there those days cement was not available in the market you had to go to the government to get permission for 50 bags of cement and I go to the government office 47:56 and the guy was waiting for a bribe I'd ask him he'd say come next week I didn't know what he wanted I thought he really wanted me to come next week I came next week he said come next week after some time somebody who is 48:09 wiser to the ways of government offices told me brother Zach what he says is give me some money I said well I'm not going to give him any money if we never complete the building we just have three pillars sticking up there and we 48:27 Road let's have three pillars as a monument to righteousness on that street forever but we're not going to build a church with unrighteousness and preach righteousness inside that church no I tell you these are small things you say 48:42 people don't you don't tremble at God's word we say the end is the important thing does it mean that the end justifies the means that whatever way we get there it's okay if we cheat tell lies so long as we get there it's okay 48:55 brother then stop building the Church go and do some business the church every step every brick must be planted in righteousness but it's because we have a lust to build a grand building that everybody can admire that you get into debt we are not 49:14 interested in that the people inside the building is only a convenience for us to meet together that's all the early church didn't have it unfortunately in the circumstance in which we live we need it many of those villages we don't 49:32 have a hall like this nobody has a hall nobody they won't give it to us even for a conference what shall we do if 1500 people come together we have to build a hall there and we don't take a collection we keep a box of the bag in 49:49 35 years in all our 50 churches never once never one Sunday have we taken an offering never keep a box those who want to give can give because Jesus said you must give secretly how can you give secretly when you stick a bag under a fellow's face 50:06 fellow feels uncomfortable and he can't give secretly and he's certainly not giving cheerfully the Bible says God loves a cheerful Giver you made a bunch of people disobey God by giving un cheerfully and not secretly and say we 50:19 are serving God we stopped it right from day one we will not take an offering let people give secretly and cheerfully when they want it if they don't want to give it don't give let the rich give more and the poor can give 50:32 nothing it's fine God and I'll tell you something in 35 years in a poor country with no social security nothing we have never been in debt one single day we're a living demonstration to this country that God is the same in the 21st century 50:49 as in the first century and the same thing we have found in our homes honor God and he'll honor you you we decided we will not honor our children we'll honor God and if we have to live with less we live with less I practiced it first my 51:06 wife and I in our own life we proved it in our own life because we tried it out on others and we found it works we found it works in the poorest Villages those who have really honored God you go and ask some of the brothers sitting in 51:21 Bangalore church today who were so steeped in debt that they were going on the verge of suicide 30 years ago see what's happened to them today we have never preached the Prosperity Gospel we have preached Holiness we preached 51:34 freedom from sin and we have experienced in many many many lives that God takes care of our Earthly needs he doesn't give us all that we want but he gives us all that we need dear brothers and sisters build a church as a testimony you know I think 51:54 our churches should be testimonies to the different verses of scripture that's to me like a like Jesus was a testimony it says the word what was the burning bush in Jesus case the word was made flesh and dwelt among us to me this is 52:11 the church I want to be like that that every word in scripture must be made flesh in me love your enemies I want that word to become flesh in me so that people see me as a man who loves all my enemies forgive everyone I want that word to 52:27 become flesh in me be anxious for nothing I want that word to become flesh in me in everything give thanks I want that word to become flesh in me do all things without murmuring and grumbling I want that word to become flesh in me it takes time but little by 52:46 little by little the bush begins to burn as the word of God which is like a fire becomes flesh and people begin to see and at the end of our life they should be able to say there is no explanation for this 53:01 man's life except that God was with him Emmanuel dear brothers and sisters the whole purpose of that birthday celebration was not to glorify me if you thought it was that you were wrong it was to challenge you to believe 53:18 that what God did for anyone he can do for you that you can live like me without ever being in debt all your life I've never been in debt for 70 years when I didn't have anything I didn't I didn't buy you asked my wife how we lived in 53:31 the early days she would turn the collars of my shirt when they got Fray in inverted and those the type shirts we wear I couldn't afford to buy a shirt I said I'll never get into death no we will never buy anything by borrowing because we trembled at the 53:47 word Do you want to build God's house tremble at his word every word love your brothers forgive them God is without partiality that is a verse I've really said Lord I wanted to be flesh in my life I will never be partial to brother 54:01 Ian I will never be partial to my children or my wife or to anybody God is a totally impartial God and even if my closest coworker brother Yan gets offended with me it hasn't happen but my attitude what is if he gets offended 54:14 with me so be it I would rather displease him than displease God I will not displease God I'm afraid I'm happy to displease everybody else because of one reason the word which says God is Not partial Elders 1 Timothy 54:32 5 Elders do and everything without partiality do nothing with partiality Paul told Timothy I say Lord I tremble at that word how many of you tremble at that word how many of you can say I have never shown partiality to my children or 54:50 to anybody in my church nobody is my special friend do you tremble at that word which says do nothing with partiality I believe any of us can be used to build God's house God says just tremble at my word be broken be humble 55:06 dear brothers and sisters as we look into the Future Let's be like that burning bush where the words these words of scripture I take it seriously and I say Lord It's not yet become flesh in me but I want it to become flesh and little by little God 55:21 sees you serious about it and by one by one by one the words of scripture become flesh do you you think I got victory over anger overnight no I used to lose my temper at my wife are you surprised you think I was not born in 55:37 the same pit that every child of Adam was born in but I determined to get out of that pit by the grace of God I believe that Jesus could give me Grace that sin will not have dominion over me today it has gone 100% I believe that I can rejoice in the 55:52 lord always I wasn't like that I was one of the most discouraged depressed people even after I got married go and ask my wife I used to sit like this most of the time but it's gone it'll never come back I'll never have a bad mood no matter who 56:07 says what or who does what not because of me I said Jesus can keep me from falling Jude verse 24 it's one of the last promises in the New Testament before the Book of Revelation Jesus can keep you from falling I said Lord let 56:25 that word be flesh in me let people see not what I am but let them see that my savior is so mighty he can keep me from falling let them not have a poor impression of Jesus what type of Jesus do you have he cannot even keep you from falling in Anger that 56:41 Hindu fellow who does yoga he can control his anger but you Christians talk about oh Jesus and all that that fellow controls his anger with yoga and your Jesus cannot control your anger what type of Jesus is this I don't want 56:53 it I say Lord that type of Shame has been found in this country for many years but it won't be like that in my life no that Buddha was free from the Love of Money look at the way you Christian pastors and preachers love 57:09 money I'd rather follow Buddha than your Christian Pastor I say I agree don't follow that Christian pastor but Jesus but he said I can't see Jesus right who is to suppose who's to represent Jesus today is it just preaching great truths 57:25 getting advertising agents J to spread the gospel no the word must become flesh you must be like a burning bush you must build a church like a burning bush of people who will volunteer and sacrifice and serve you should see the way some of 57:39 these brothers have served to make this conference and all the arrangements for everything that went on in the last one month they're not paid for it even the brothers who work in our office we we are obligated to give them 57:51 a salary but they don't work hours they work day and night belong beyond what they're supposed to do because they love Jesus I say Lord you know when I saw these things happening around me in Bangalore and the different 58:09 churches I felt like Simeon Lord now I can depart in peace for mine eyes have seen your salvation mine eyes have seen your church I don't mean I'm departing tomorrow any such thing what I mean is that I've seen 58:28 something God has given me the desire of my heart delight yourself in the Lord you give you the desires of your heart I wanted to see a church in my lifetime which is like a body I wanted to see Elders who were shepherds after God's 58:45 Own Heart and I've seen them I've seen them I've seen a number of them number of them are sitting here they don't look any different but you should see the way they serve I thank God for you my dear brothers my co-workers I thank God for precious 59:01 brothers and sisters here who are not Elders who do so many things in secret you'll get your reward when Christ comes I thank God for brothers and sisters who pray for me Faithfully if the devil has not been able to knock 59:15 me down part of the reason is many people pray for me I thank God for all of them let's go forth into this land and be like a burning bush and many places let's bow before God so while our heads are bowed in 59:39 prayer there are many many things God has spoken to us in these days and you can be overwhelmed you don't have to remember everything that you heard the holy spirit will bring the appropriate thing to your mind at the right time if you 59:56 have a longing to honor God and glorify him that is enough say to him Lord I'm willing to pay any [Music] price send me the bill send me the bill I will pay the price I want to see a New Testament 1:00:12 Church like a burning bush in the town in which I'm living even if I've never seen it till today I'm nobody Lord but I want to tremble at your word and I want to be humble and contrite and you said you will build your house through such 1:00:28 people I'm not saying it has to be done through me do it through anybody in my locality but I'm willing to make my small contribution physical contribution spiritual contribution to that work of building local churches in India and 1:00:42 other countries say Lord I will honor you please honor me teach me to tremble at your word and let every word in the New Testament become flesh in me before I leave this earth and let me tremble whenever some word has not yet become flesh until it 1:01:01 becomes flesh heavenly father I pray you will help us thank you for all that you have spoken to us we want to glorify you we want to thank you it's your goodness you've given us your word from 1:01:20 Heaven you have opened prison doors we believe you have opened blind eyes thank you help us to keep those eyes open help us never to go back into those prisons we came out of but to glorify you till the end of our Lives we pray in 1:01:37 Jesus name
