0:02 Once I sought for healing now alone, all in all forever Jesus will I sing. Everything in 0:23 Jesus and Jesus everything [Music] brothers sing brothers only once was faithful trying now it is perfect. [Music] 0:41 Once a half salvation, now the other more. Once was seless holding, now he holds me fast. 0:59 Once was constant drifting, now my [Music] anor forever Jesus will I [Music] say 1:18 everything in Jesus. Sister now distrustful [Music] 1:42 pray now. [Music] Now what Jesus was constant 2:05 [Music] now on forever Jesus will Ius [Music] my 2:32 borrowed sorrow and Jesus I Jesus I [Music] come to thy freedomad 2:50 and Jesus Jesus, I come to [Music] thee. Out of my sess thy 3:04 help, out of my want and into thy will. Out of my s and into thyself. Jesus I come to thee out of my 3:28 shful failure and loss. Jesus I come. Jesus I come into the glorious day of thy cross. 3:46 Jesus I come to thee out of earth sorrows into thy b out of life songs and into thy 4:06 come out of distress to jubilent song. Jesus I come to thee. Raise your voices and sing. 4:21 All of our rest and arrogant pride. Jesus I come. Jesus I come into thy 4:37 blessed will to abide. Jesus, I come to thee. Out of myself to dwell in thy 4:54 love, out of despair into rapes above, upward forever on wings like a dove. Jesus, I come to thee. Sing that song that we sang once 5:20 before. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up. Come and quench this thirsting of my soul. Fill my cup, Lord. I lifted up, Lord. [Music] Come and 5:39 quench this thirsting of my [Music] soul. Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no 5:55 more. Fill my cup. Fill it up and make [Music] me like the woman at the well. I was seeking for things that could not satisfy. We can clap and sing, brothers 6:14 and sisters. And then I heard my Savior speaking, "Praw from my well that never shall run dry. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up, Lord. Come and bless this thirsting of 6:33 my soul. Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more. Will my cup fill it up and make me almost free. So my brother, the things this world gives 6:51 you. Leave hungers that won't pass away. My blessed Lord will come and save you if you kneel to him and humbly 7:06 pray. Fill my cup, Lord, I lift it up, Lord. Come and bless this thirsting of my soul. Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more. Fill my cup. Fill it up 7:25 and make me whole. This is the good news. What God can do. What he did for 7:43 Jesus, he'll do for you. With mighty power, he'll strengthen you. There is no end 7:59 to what God can do. Oh sin and evil fill this world. Oh sin and evil will fill this world and you are overcome. Yet God's word is true. 8:19 S God can't God pray for you. And when temptations pull strong, God's grace will be your stay. So you can walk like 8:34 Jesus in victory every day. This is the good news. What God can [Music] do, what he did for [Music] 8:51 Jesus, he'll do for you. With mighty power, he'll strengthen you. There is no end 9:08 to what God can do. Let all my heart cries out my God to thee. Great is thy 9:28 [Music] love. Great is thy love. Let all my heart cries out my God to thee. Great is thy 9:51 love. Great is thy love. And when I think And just the voices that God is not 10:10 sparing sent him to die, I scarce can take it in. that on the cross. My burden gladly 10:32 bearing, he bled to take away my sins. Then all my heart Then all my 10:47 heart cries out my God to thee. Great is thy love. Great is thy love. Let all my 11:08 heart cries out my God to thee. Great is thy love. Great is thy 11:24 [Music] love. Amen. Praise God. Brother Charles will come up and give us a start. Thank you brothers and sisters 11:58 for coming to this conference and uh as you know we used to have every year earlier we used to have twice in a year and now after covid we 12:14 uh didn't have on a regular basis But now that the Lord has taken away that plague or whatever, now we have been able to meet regularly and start the 12:33 conferences. And uh the thing is it's not just as a routine that we have conferences. We have conferences so that it can be better and better every 12:52 year and uh we don't want to make this as something like some people every year they go to some shrine uh some holy place to visit thinking that they will get some extra benefit extra blessings 13:11 that's not the reason why we have Conferences. Conferences we come together so that we meet with the Lord. We hear God's word and allow the word of God to work in our lives and also get to know other 13:30 brothers and sisters in a better way. And if my coming to the conferences is not helping me and is not making my spiritual life grow and my love for the Lord 13:49 increase year after year then it has become a ritual and we are against that. We don't want anything to become ritual. That's why sometimes we cancel a breaking of bread also. We 14:07 don't want anything to come to a level of you know a a ritual but we want to do everything that we do meaningfully so that we mean what we do 14:25 and that the word of God will have its effect on us. And every time that we hear God's word, we just don't get tickled and hear some pep talk and then go back home. That is not the intention of having conferences. 14:44 The main reason for having conferences is that we are stirred up to go higher, become better and love the Lord better and love one another better and that sin will 15:04 be under our foot more and more. Not that I'm the same like I was last year. Like we sing in that song, I'm not the same like I was last year. If that 15:21 is true and that is happening, then brothers and sisters, we are on the right track. But if it is always a roller coaster ride and beginning of the year I find myself and end of the year I 15:36 find myself in the same place then I better check what's wrong with me and ask the Lord to help me. If I'm content with that I will remain content. I'll remain like that till the end of my life and 15:54 I'll be of all men most miserable. That should never happen to anybody sitting here. So please pray in your heart that the Lord will open your heart and your mind to the truth of 16:12 God's word that we allow the word of God to break us and melt us and mold us and fill us with the Holy Spirit so that we can become what he wants us to be be conformed to the image of Christ. That is the ultimate goal of all our teaching 16:31 as Paul says and that is the reason why we have conferences. So let's pay close attention to what is being shared in these two days meetings. I also pray that the Lord will anoint those who 16:49 minister God's word and also that he will open our hearts to God's word. You know there is a thing called insulin resistance in diabetics. So cells are resistant to insulin. 17:06 That's why they have so sometimes we can become gospel resistant. You know gospel may not penetrate through us. We are get so used to it. We are used to CFC doctrines and CFC messages. And then time will come 17:26 when we become gospel resistant. It'll have no effect on us. Let us fear that. Let us not be spiritually diabetic. So I call upon uh brother Victor and we have brother Victor and brother Vincent now ministering the word these 17:45 two days and we are happy to have them and welcome to you brothers. And uh now I hand it over to brother Victor and uh he will be speaking in Tamil and uh uh John Polo will translate it. Polo, where are 18:03 you? Yeah, please come. Please come. check. I thank God for these days 18:56 like brother pointed out we are blessed through conferences in many different [Music] areas I'm greatly thankful 19:13 Bangalur conferences through the Bangalore conferences over the years myself, my family and the churches been very much blessed. So I am grateful for 19:30 that even the Tamil Nad churches. So we are very grateful for that. um conference and the devotion of devotion to Christ. We are meditating about the 19:48 devotion to Christ in in this conference and the and the devotion like we heard this morning you 20:09 know about Job because of that devotion towards God he was able to endure the trials and tribulation that he had to is devotion. Because of that devotion towards Christ, we can overcome the 20:27 temptation to sin. Because of the devotion, we could sacrifice many things. We can do ministry to the Lord. In the first all of the things should originate 20:51 from the first love the love that God has shown to us knowing that how much we've been forgiven and the source all that we do the source for it 21:09 is that Christ has loved me First, this time I'd like to point to you about Jesus. Hebrews um chapter 21:28 12. We read in Hebrews chapter 12 verse um We read in verse one that we verse two in English fixing our eyes on Jesus. We 21:46 should look into Jesus. We read about what are all the things 22:08 that Jesus endured every encumbrance. Um verse two, verse two, he despised the shame. Verse two, the later part, despising the shame, he endured the cross. Verse three, hostility. Verse three, he endured such 22:26 hostility by sinners. so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Consider him verse four verse four when it comes 22:49 to resisting sin he resisted to the point of shedding blood. So Hebrew author the chapter 12 Jesus previous chapter Hebrews 11 before the writer of Hebrews point 23:11 points to ask about Jesus in chapter 11. He points about many godly heroes. Verse 39 verse 39. All of this having gr gained approval through their faith but did not receive what was 23:32 promised. Verse 40 in verse 40 they were not made perfect verse 40 because God has provided something better for us. Hebrews, heroes of 23:56 faith, perfect example. Though we see so many examples in Hebrews chapter 11 about the heroes of faith, they are not a perfect examples for us. Yes. Yes. Many of them had many good things about 24:16 them. perfect example but they were not perfect examples. That is why he says since you have so great of cloud of witness but look into Jesus fix our eyes on Jesus and look into him. For 24:32 example, Hebrews Hebrews 12 uh the writer writes about 24:54 despising shame, enduring shame and hostility and cross. When it comes to that all the old covenant heroes of faith, they were not good examples and often times they were discouraged, they grumbled, they murmured. Yes, they went through 25:14 that but they were murmuring um many times they were discouraged. Yes, they lived under the old covenant faith. They have not received the perfection that comes through 25:33 grace and that is why they were not able to live a life. Hebrews 12. I would like to point out a few examples and come back to Hebrews 12. Numbers chapter 11. Numbers 11. Moses leader Old Testament today leader. 25:52 Moses was a you know great leader under the old covenant point of time all of them at one point of time when there was trials and difficulties 26:10 they were discouraged. Numbers chapter 11. Numbers 11. Verse 11. We can read from verse [Music] 26:28 11. Verse 11. Why have you been so hard on your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight that you have laid the burden of all these people on me? point of [Music] time such a great leader at one point of 26:52 time he became very discouraged and this is what came out of him. Verse 12 we read in verse 12 as well was it I who conceived all the people. Yes. Verse 14 again verse 14 I alone I'm not able to carry all 27:12 these people because it's too burdensome for me verse 15 verse 15 if you're going to deal thus with me please kill me at once kill me at once that I will not be you know going through this trouble 27:32 Moses this was Moses Yes, beloved, we are sitting in a new covenant church. We are learning the spirit of the new covenant. But in our trials and 27:55 tribulation, are we still like Moses? new 28:13 covenant hearing such new covenant truths and still if somebody sitting in the hall say that this burden is too much for me instead of going through this problem I might die if you have that spirit they haven't come yet to the 28:27 new covenant And they still cry and weep about their problems. They grumble complain. They complain. They think that oh it's better to die. Yes. All such ones are disciples of Moses. 28:45 They have the spirit of the old covenant. When they go through trials and tribulations, they get discouraged. I'd like to show a verse. Proverbs 24:10. Proverbs 24:10. Let's keep this verse in our 29:08 heart always. Proverbs chapter 24. Proverbs 24 verse 10. Verse 10. If you are slack in the day of crisis or distress, your strength is 29:25 limited. Yes. We should not slack in the day of distress. Many who lived under the old covenant in their day of distress they they are discouraged. They were 29:43 discouraged. Yes. Even the life of Job. Up and down. Up and down. Up and down. There's always an up and down. All such ones lived under the old covenant. Okay. Hebrews uh Numbers 11. 30:01 Let's turn back to Numbers 11. Frustration. We should never do any work with frustration. Especially the work of the Lord with frustration. Doing something with 30:21 frustration. If that's the case, Lord will say you move aside. Don't do anything with the frustration. It's it's house of God is a big house of God. There are many things to do on this 30:39 on on this church and especially church like this where there are many practical things to be done to be done. God's work frustration. If you are doing something 30:56 for the Lord with frustration, the Lord will give a time to repent. Otherwise, if you don't repent, God will say, "Move aside." We read about Moses here. He said, "It's too too much for 31:15 me. Please kill me at once. Did I ask for such uh responsibility? Was it I who conceived? Please kill me. This burden is too much for me. I can't bear it. Okay. This is God's 31:39 [Music] principle. If you're frustrated about something, God says, "Okay, move aside." Okay. Verse 16. Verse 16. 16. The Lord therefore said to Moses, "Gather for me 70 men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders 31:57 of the people and their officers, and bring them to the tent of the meeting. Let them take their stand there with you." Verse 17. Verse 17. Then I will come down and speak with you there and I will take of the spirit who is upon you 32:12 and I will put him upon them. Moses Moses himself was not aware of that one Moses equal to one Moses equal to 70 elders. Moses did not know that one 32:28 Moses is equal to 70 elders. only Moses could do what 70 elders were doing but he was not aware of that he was grumbling he he was discouraged because of 32:48 that he got frustrated okay the Lord said don't do with frustration Okay, I will take the spirit who is upon 33:07 you or the power who is upon you and distribute it to 70 people now. Are you happy? Oh, I'm well satisfied. Who will say, "Oh, if that's the case, I'm 33:23 happy." Moses wasn't aware of that. Okay. Nobody will disturb you anymore. The 70 men will take care of things. Your sleep is getting disturbed. Your program is getting 33:42 disturbed. Many often call you and disturb you. Many because of that they grumblest when they do things for the church they do it with a spirit of frustration. All such things we should 34:05 do with the joy that comes from inside. This is what happened to Moses. He distributed to 70 elders. Proverbs 24:10. How can we remember Proverbs 24:10? If you are slack in the day of 34:27 distress, your strength is limited. Strength of 70 has become a strength of one man. Is it enough for you? Are you happy now? Okay. Now you do what you need to do. This is how God may have to take 34:47 this decision. You should never say this or have the spirit that I am alone doing 35:05 this. Nobody's helping me with in the kitchen. Nobody helping me in the PA system. Nobody helping me with the travel. Okay. Moses, not just for Moses. One more man. Another mania Elijah mighty prophet. First Kings 35:21 chapter 19. First Kings chapter 19. This man too was discouraged in the time of trouble. First Kings chapter 19. First Kings chapter 19 verse four. Verse four. It is enough now. Oh Lord. later 35:43 part take my life for I am not better than my father's previous chapter you know if you look at the previous chapter he was a mighty prophet he shut shut up the heavens so that it will not rain for 36:06 three years he brought down fire from the heaven. Again he prayed and he brought rain from the skies. Such a mighty prophet. All of the sudden he went into 36:26 discouragement. Depression. He went into depression. Oh, I want to die. Depression. Depression. Depression. Why that depression came into him? Yes. Spiritual pride. Spiritual pride. spiritual 36:44 pride first kings 18 till one kings 18 things were fine what was the pride or spiritual pride that was in Elijah verse 10 we read that in verse 10 verse 10 please I have been very jealous for the lord the god of 37:04 hosts for the sons of Israel have forsaken your your covenant torn down your altars and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone I'm left now. I'm alone left. Still there are about 7,000 [Music] 37:25 people. He wasn't aware that there are about 7,000 people who are still faithful. But he's thinking I'm alone left. I'm alone left. Verse 14. We read in verse 14 as well. I've been I've been very jealous for the Lord 37:42 and I am alone left in the spirit depression. As long as there is this spirit they can go into depression. Everybody have despised their covenant. I am alone 38:01 jealous. I am alone zealous for the Lord in this house in this church. I'm alone the zealous personal in this team that I am part of I am zealous for I'm better than this person when we have that spirit there is 38:21 a danger okay see the depression that you went into in the spiritual pride the moment he saw this spiritual pride died in Elijah. Satan used 38:38 Jezebel, his servant, and sent an arrow against him. Depression. He went into depression. I want to die. It's better for me to die. Relieve me from this. Okay. God, this is the principle of God. If there is a 39:00 frustration, God will say step aside. This is what he told Elijah. Okay. Verse 16. Verse 16. I appoint Elis Ela in your place. Yes. 16. Verse 16. Elisa the son of 39:19 Salpath. You shall anoint as prophet in your place. Yes. You move aside. Don't do anything with frustration. Elijah even this man in his distress he 39:40 slacked or he was discouraged. Yes. We see like that so many prophets. We can see Jeremiah lost prophet John the Baptist. We can read about John the Baptist the lost prophet. Matthew chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11. 39:59 Heroes of faith. All situants were heroes of faith. All of them did ministry for the Lord in a wonderful way. Matthew chap Matthew 11. Matthew 11. Are you the one who is going to 40:16 come? He is the one who saw Jesus identified and said he's the one who is going to take the sins of the world and he gave baptism to Jesus and he ended up asking are you the 40:42 one because he was offended Jesus did not come to meet me and relieve me from my prison. Verse six. Verse six, John. And Jesus is saying, "Don't take offense at me. Don't think that I will release you 41:00 from prison. I won't come. You are appointed for death. I'm also appointed for death. Don't think I'll come. Don't take offense at me." Message. John the Baptist message. That is the message Jesus gave to John 41:18 the Baptist. Old testament men of God. The people who lived under the old covenant though they were mighty men of God or prophets at one point of time we 41:37 see that they are discouraged. They are frustrated depression. They get into depression. They grumble. Okay. Hebrews 11. Let's turn to Hebrews 11. All of them gained a good witness 41:55 through faith. Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews 11. Verse 40. Verse 40. Hebrews 11:40. Because God has provided something better for us so that apart from us they 42:14 would not be made perfect in Jesus. And the writer of Hebrews introduced Jesus saying he is the inaugurator of that faith. Verse 2, 3, 4. 42:46 Jesus examples of how they were discouraged or you know they went into depression in the time of trials. But Hebrews writer of Hebrews pointing out to Jesus saying look into Jesus how he endured the cross. He despised this 43:00 shame and he endured the hostility. I like to point out two things from that shame. We read about cross and shame. shame and cross was on his life 43:20 throughout hostility. Another thing, hostility. Yes, beloved, let Jesus be our meditation. What is the secret that he endured the 43:44 cross, he endured the shame, he endured hostility because he had kept the father before his eyes 2, three, four verses 2, three and four is the burden that is on my heart. Jesus, let Jesus be our 44:03 message. Psalm 69. Psalm 69 and turn to Psalm 69. This psalm is a prophecy about the 44:20 life of Jesus. family 69 in Psalm 69 we could read 44:39 about Jesus how he lived in Nazareth with his family members verse seven and 8 verse seven and 8 because for your sake I have borne reproach dishonor has covered my face. I become estranged for my brothers 45:01 and an alien to my mother's sons. And that is why Jesus said to a man, his household is his enemy. Verse four, we read in verse four 45:18 as well. people hated Jesus without a cause at Nazareth and they told him that he stole something. What I did not steal, I then 45:39 have to restore. We don't know how this happened at Nazareth. He was forced forced to restore. He was forced to restore what he did not 45:56 steal. They hated him without a cause. Reproach, shame was upon his face. His brothers did not believe in him. Definitely Mary would have told his 46:22 brothers how Jesus was born. But his brothers did not believe in Jesus till Jesus died and rose again from death. That was the 46:42 case. That is how father had kept it. mothers and through mothers and through the Mary's sons father had kept it that 46:59 way that they would crush Jesus not one day or two days years for years that was a struggle once Jesus came to Peter and asked If my brother sins against me, how many 47:21 times should I forgive him? Jesus. What was Jesus response? Peter. Jesus responded saying, "Peter, not seven times but seven 70 times." Where did he learn that from? We should never 47:40 forget. It came from his life. We read that he um practiced then began to teach. That was his life in Nazareth. In another place we read, if your brother comes to you in a 48:04 day for seven times and says he repents, forgive him. Where did he learn that from? Again, he learned it in the life of Nazareth. Forgiving 770 times or forgiving a person in a day 48:23 seven times. A man's enemy will be the members of his household. Where did he learn that life? That was his life. Nazareth for 30 years. Jesus spiritual Jesus was a spiritual 48:44 man throughout natural men all his households were natural men. Natural manirual for a natural man the things of the spiritual man will look like you know foolish things. Yes, 49:03 Jesus. Jesus looked like a fool to them. In all such situations when they called him a mad man, he had to endure through that. Every day he gave himself to the 49:26 cross. Lord, I should forgive them. He would have got up in the morning. Every day Jesus faced this. I don't know at which point who 49:45 will spat on me, who will despise me. Lord, give me grace. Lord, I should love them. I should forgive them. I should forgive them. I should forgive them. I should forgive them. I'd like to show this verse to 50:03 you. Paul, Paul mentions this beautiful phrase, presence of Christ. He shows about the presence of Christ. Second Corinthians chapter 2. 2 Corinthians chapter 2. May God give light to us in this 50:23 matter. 2 Corinthians chapter 2. 2 Corinthians 2:10 Paul says, "I have forgiven anything. I did it for your sakes in the presence of 50:40 Christ." The presence of Christ. Forgiving in the presence of Christ. Presence of Christ. What is that presence of Christ? According to what Paul writes here, what 50:59 is that presence of Christ? The presence of Christ is always forgiving. Always forgiving. That is the presence of Christ. 51:17 Paul learned that I forgive him in the presence of Christ. Who can stay in the presence of Christ? All those who continually 51:36 forgive are the ones who can be in the presence of Christ. Relatives, kinsmen, household, At Nazareth, Jesus continued to forgive his relatives, those who despised him, those 51:54 who hated him, those who treated him like an alien. At one day I know given day there was there there could have been situation where Jesus had to forgive for seven 52:12 times and another day 770 times and that is why Paul says in the presence of Christ that's what we read in Psalm 69. 52:32 That's how he endured the shame. How much Jesus would have cried unto the father, "Father, give me power. Give me strength that I'll be able to forgive my brothers today. Give me strength to love them." 53:02 Jesus continued to receive the strength and grace from the father. Yes. This was his life at Nazareth. Till he was dead and rose again. His brothers were like that. God had kept it that way that they 53:25 could crush Jesus. Okay. Cross. What was his cross? Even at Nazareth, there was cross. Even disciples even among his disciples. We like to point out both the 53:42 relationship between Jesus and Judas. When he selected, he was he was all right. We do not know when he became a thief. We don't know whether in the three and a 54:02 half years of time whether it was after a year or 6 months or two years that he became a thief. John chapter 6 John chapter 6 John chapter 6 John chapter 6 verse 70 verse 70. Did I myself not choose you the 12? 54:25 So there's nothing wrong about choosing them. Whole night. He prayed the whole night and chose them. He did not choose a thief or a man possessed with devil. Beginning in the beginning, at the start, he was all right. As the day days went by, because 54:49 he had the money at hand, he became a thief. Verse 17. Verse 17. And yet one of you is the devil. We don't know whether it was 55:05 after a year or after one and a half years. The Bible says he was a devil. John 12 John 12 John 12 verse 6 verse 6 verse six that because he was a 55:31 thief but because he was a thief he was a thief he was a devil what shall we do now indicate Even in today's situation, if the 55:55 treasurer in the church is not faithful even in one rupee, we will send him out. Yes, that's what we should do. Disciplinary action, we should take such a disciplinary action. Now, he was a devil. He was a thief. No, one more thing, another 56:13 thing. Jesus, Lord, Lord, Lord. All the other disciples would call Jesus as Lord. Teacher. At the beginning, he he started 56:33 calling him Lord. But over the years, he started calling him a teacher. See is a devil thief teacher not as lord but he saw Jesus as a teacher. One more thing another thing Jesus he has come to a point where he 56:54 passed comment about Jesus or commenting about Jesus. Oh is this expense needed? It's just a waste. Why is Jesus allowing this to happen? Yeah, she was only pouring it on 57:17 Jesus' feet, something that cost 300 silver coins. But why is Jesus allowing that to happen? They were grumbling about it. They were offended. They passed comment about it. Who is the head for that? 57:38 Judas. He has come to a place where he's commenting about Jesus. Breadbaking time, Passover time. He has come to a place where during the Passover time, he lifted his heel reverence or 57:59 fear. There's no reverence, reverence. There is no love. There is no fear. All of that has gone long back. Just like how we would be tempted in a such a situation, Jesus would have been tempted in the same 58:16 way. Father, shall I send him out? He's a devil. He's a thief. He doesn't believe in me. He's passing comments. He's not faithful. He's not faithful. Shall I send him out? Father, what did the father say? No. Father 58:36 said, "No, keep him." John 6, we read that in John 6. Don't send him out verse 39. This is the will of him who sent me that 59:02 all that of all that he has given me I lose nothing but raise it up on the last day. Last encounter till you face him the last day and you encounter him till the last 59:22 moment you endure in love. You love him. You wash his feet on his head. Heap the love, the fire of love. Yes. 59:44 Painful. What? How painful would it have been for Jesus to go through that dying? He endured. He endured in love. He washed his feet. The last encounter at 1:00:06 Gethsemane, Jesus was aware that he's going to betray him shortly. Jesus knew that Judas is going to come. Father, Father, this is my last encounter with him. I'm going to face him. I should not call him an ungrateful 1:00:29 person. You were with me for three and a half years. Now he betrayed me. I should not call him an ungrateful. I should not I He is not my Judas is not my enemy. Satan is my enemy. Satan is my enemy. 1:00:48 Judas is not my enemy. my friend. I should call him my friend and end it. Lord, help me. He prayed and cried unto the Lord to the point that you know he started shedding 1:01:06 blood. I should not sin. And resisting against sin, I will shed blood. Yes. Yes. It's true that he shed blood on the cross. Before that he shed blood on Gethsemane. The enemy that is coming. I 1:01:26 should not call him as enemy. I should call him as a friend. Lord give me grace. Praise the Lord. That is how he cried unto the father. That is how he resisted against sin. What is that sin? There are many 1:01:46 things there. this enemy I should love him till the end. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Jesus shame. This is how whether it is shame or cross our forer. He's our forerunner 1:02:06 today. Hebrews. Now let's come back to Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12. Hebrews 12. learned in the lesson this lesson Moses couldn't 1:02:24 do Moses could not go through Elijah Jeremiah John the Baptist and John the Baptist is not aware of only Jesus knew how to do he was the inaagor of this Hebrews chapter 12 now let's turn to Hebrews We read about three three words there. 1:02:51 Cross, shame, hostility. Secret. What is the secret for that? We read that in verse two. Who for the joy set before him. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. 1:03:10 secret. We should learn the secret because of that he could endure all that we read. Joy set before him. The joy is not the cross or shame 1:03:31 or hostility. That is not the joy. Can someone say shame is joy to me? Joy. No, it's not joyful. Joy, what is the joy? He had kept a joy before him. Where is the 1:03:47 joy? Psalm 16 verse 11. Psalm 16:1. We can read the joy here. This is the burden. And I want to 1:04:07 uh convey something for my spirit not for the brain. If we learn this properly, we can follow the footsteps of Jesus and go after him. Um Psalm 16 Psalm 16 Jesus 1:04:26 devotion to his father. This is the devotion that Jesus had towards his father. Psalm 16 11 Psalm 16:11 David though David wrote it was not true in his life verse 11 1:04:46 verse 11 you will make known to me the path of life but he couldn't walk through the path of life covenant man the old covenant He had some glimpse about the path of 1:05:07 life. He came to know about the path of life but he could not go through it. When we go through the path of life in your presence is full of fullness of joys joy and pleasures forever. 1:05:27 Yes, some joy and the abundant joy and the fullness of joy and the pleasure presence. Where is this fullness of joy and pleasures forever? In his presence now I need to go into this presence into his 1:05:46 presence. Let us understand this. It's enough. If you understand this fullness of joy and pleasures forever is at his presence, his presence let us imagine like 1:06:12 this. Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10 livingath of life and living. Here we read about path of life. In Hebrews 10 we read about new and living way. Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 19. Verse 19. By a new and living way which he had 1:06:41 inaugurated us through the veil that is his flesh. I request you to imagine with me. See this curtain here, veil 1:07:06 here, outer court. What we see outside is the outer court. This is inner court. holy place. That's the most holy place. And there is a veil to go into 1:07:24 the most holy place. If we need to go into the most holy place, the veil will have to be torn. Verse 20, by a new and living way which 1:07:48 he has inaugurated for us through the veil which is his flesh. Father pres father's presence is there abundant joy pleasure at his presence there's abundance of joy and pleasures forever. For if for me to go there what is 1:08:09 blocking me? This veil. Now this veil have to be torn. What is that veil? Is flesh. How is it happening? the shame, 1:08:35 the cross and hostility that is helping us you know so that the flesh father's presence we can see father there we can have fellowship with the father there we can be at rest we don't need to be worried about 1:08:54 anything father will take care of everything at father's presence there is fullness of joy and pleasures forever The only access into father's presence is that the veil have to be 1:09:13 torn and that is what Jesus had kept before him. The joy that was set before him. Okay. All of this together is helping me 1:09:30 go into the father's presence. and he entered father's presence. Then what happened to the trials and situations? Now he could love others because he has gone into the presence of the 1:09:49 father because he's in fellowship with the father. He could love the brothers at Nazareth. That he could forgive his brothers for seven times in a day. That he could call Judas a friend 1:10:10 and not treat him as an enemy. He could wash the feet of Judas. He could love Judas. He could give his life for Judas. Why? Because he was in the presence of the father, fellowshipping with the father. Because we are with the 1:10:29 father. The father gives us strength. With him I can do all that. I can forgive like him. Even to an ungrateful traitor. I can do good. I can continue to forgive in his 1:10:49 presence. Jesus and Jesus has learned this secret. Father, without you, I cannot do anything. So I want to come into your presence through the veil or through the flesh. I want to come into your presence. 1:11:08 who helps us to for the flesh to be taught whether it's hostility or shame or cross all of them together helps the flesh to be torn that's not the end we just go through that to the 1:11:27 presence of the fatherus the presence of father was primary thing in the life of Jesus But in the old covenant, nobody could do that. Moses, Moses could set apart the Red Sea, but he was not able to tear apart 1:11:51 his flesh or anger. It was not possible for him. David, David, he could tear up the lion's mouth, but the lust on his flesh, he was not able to tear it up. Old covenantal 1:12:06 people. All such ones are under the old covenant. They could tear apart the Red Sea or the mouth mouth of the lion. But in the new covenant, God has 1:12:26 inaugurated a way for us that we could also go through the same way. He has inaagrated away by tearing apart his flesh. Why do we need the anointing of the Holy Spirit? 1:12:44 Yes. For me to go into the presence of the father. Nobody in the old covenant could tear up the flesh. But in the new covenant, it is possible for us. It is possible for those who have 1:13:01 received the Holy Spirit inside. Father Jesus could be in father's presence there. He worshiped the father there. He had fellowship with the father. He was enduring in the things after 1:13:19 father. So he has ordained a way for us as well. Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews 12 we read there. Now he's concluding it like this. Verse three. Consider 1:13:41 him. then we don't need to be discouraged or lose heart or grow weary. So yes, beloved, let us fix our eyes to Jesus and endure or run the race with the endurance that is set before us. Father was his 1:14:07 joy. Father was his devotion. Father was his love. because he was with the father he could do everything. So yes beloved God has kept this way for 1:14:24 us way of path of life. The new and living way the new and living way. The life where we go through the veil of flesh. May God help each one of us. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother 1:15:07 Victor, for sharing what was on your heart and blessing us. It's a challenge that we saw how it was in the old covenant and how it is in the new covenant. We saw all the old covenant 1:15:26 saints in chapter 11 of Hebrews. Starting with Abel, his blood cried out for vengeance and ending with John the Baptist. Even though he's mentioned in the New Testament, he comes under the old covenant because the new covenant 1:15:45 was not inaugurated because he died before Jesus died. So you read after that some saints for instance the apostle Paul he was so 1:16:03 wroth against Christians he went about capturing them and putting them in jail persecuting them. But the Lord met with him. And when the Lord met with him, he broke 1:16:22 him. And when he broke him, he filled him. And when he was filled with the Holy Spirit, he was a new covenant saint unlike the old covenant 1:16:40 saints. And uh he did things for God which perhaps many of the old covenant heroes that we read about may not have been able to 1:16:58 do because the things that he went through he went through them even though he says sometimes we despaed of our life we thought we are finished, but he didn't murmur. He didn't 1:17:16 complain. And you read that about, you read about it in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 onwards. 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 onwards. I'll read it to you. 1:17:47 Sorry to second Corinthians. Here he is, you know, proving his apostilhip. Some especially these carnal carninal Corinthians, they despised the apostle 1:18:07 Paul because his bodily presence was not so impressive and his speech also was not so impressive but his writings were very weighty as they said. But to prove his apostilhip 1:18:25 he he says I am speaking like an insane man like a foolish man. I am telling you that he's just proving his apostilhip. He's telling are they Hebrews? So I am. So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Verse 1:18:43 22. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I speak as if insane. I more so in far more labors, far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger. Apart from being 1:19:03 beaten without number, he says five times I received from the Jews 39 lashes. That is about 195 lashes. Not just uh you know caning or spanking lashes or scourges something like what Jesus 1:19:22 received 195 times. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned and probably that is the time when he they considered him dead and 1:19:39 left him for dead and went away and the Lord raised him up and three times I was shipwrecked. A night and a day I have spent in the deep. I have been on frequent journeys in dangers from rivers, dangers from 1:19:59 robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers from in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren, been in labor and hardship through many sleepless nights, in hunger 1:20:18 and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And apart from such external things there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches 1:20:37 etc. He says and in all of these we don't hear a word of complaint from this man. I don't think any of old covenant saints went 1:20:55 through all that Paul went through. You know why? Because in the old covenant there was there was no grace upon people, no anointing. The Holy Spirit was not 1:21:15 dwelling in them. The Lord said, "The spirit that is upon you, I will take out and put upon the 70 elders," he said, "upon them, not inside of them." So the Holy Spirit came upon them like 1:21:33 Samson and other saints and even on Moses. The Holy Spirit was there on Moses. The spirit that is upon you, I will take him and put him on 70 other elders, he said. So one Moses is is equal 1:21:52 to 70 elders. He didn't know that. Probably if he knew that probably Moses wouldn't have said, Lord, please leave me. Give me more grace. He would have said, but he didn't know that. And the Lord probably that was too late. The 1:22:09 Lord gave the same spirit distributed to 70 elders. And this man, the Apostle Paul, was indwelled by the Holy Spirit, baptized in the Holy Spirit, anointed by the Holy Spirit, filled with the Holy 1:22:29 Spirit continually in every circumstance. And because of that he says in 1 Corinthians 15:10 he says so many things there. Then he admits but I am what I am 1:22:48 today or what I accomplished is because of the grace of God. I am what I am. And his grace toward me did not prove in vain. But I labored even more than all of them. At 1:23:04 not I see there is the humility of the man. At not I I didn't do that but the grace of God within me that means the Lord enabled me to do that but for the grace of God I wouldn't have done any of these 1:23:23 things. And you know in Romans 8:37 and 38 and 39, neither death nor life, nor principalities, powers, nor height, nor depth, nor angels, nor 1:23:41 demons, nothing of these sorts will ever be able to separate me or us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. And he says in verse 37, in all these things whatever he's mentioned 1:23:59 in Corinthians and in Rome in the book of Romans in all these things he says we overwhelmingly conquer means we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us. It's not just being a being one of the 1:24:18 conquerors but more than all conquerors. More than conquerors all put together more than that. Why? Not because somebody great or I'm heman or a macho. No, it's because the one who 1:24:37 lives in me is greater than the one who lives in this world. That he knew. And he said because of that by the grace of God I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And we have no excuse brothers and sisters. We 1:24:56 acknowledge before God that we are made out of dust. We are clay pots. We realize how weak we are. But we don't give up and we don't say, "Lord, I've had enough." like Elijah and 1:25:15 Moses, we we plead for greater grace, plead for mercy, plead for strength when you are weak. The Lord said, "My grace for my strength is sufficient for 1:25:33 you." So shall we ask the Lord? We may be going through so many things but it's natural because we live in the flesh. As long as we live in the flesh, we are tempted but we don't have to 1:25:51 despair and give up and throw in the towel. We can come to the Lord and ask him. And Jesus said, "Everyone who asks shall receive. So shall we be one among them who ask? Shall 1:26:09 [Music] we? Our father we thank you and praise you that you are on the throne and you're absolute and you are 1:26:27 supreme. There's none like you. Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. And we thank you that even the Holy Spirit intercedes for us, knowing our 1:26:46 weakness, Lord Jesus. We come to you in helplessness. We cast ourselves upon you, Lord. We pray that you will fill us with your Holy Spirit. Wash us with your precious blood. Cleanse us. Fill us with your Holy Spirit every day. Give us grace 1:27:06 like you give grace to the Apostle Paul that each day it may become better and better with us by your grace. that at the end we can say with the Apostle 1:27:24 Paul it's not I but it's the grace of God that did all these things. Lord we thank you that you're able to do that beyond our asking or thinking. We bless you and we worship you in Jesus name. 1:27:42 Amen. Amen. We'll have the announcements.
