0:04 Okay. And then after that action 0:06 [Music] 0:34 Very good morning. Good morning. A warm welcome to you all for this wonderful Sunday morning. Shall we all stand and bow our heads and commit this time into our Lord's hand. Ask the Lord to speak to us today. Let's give him all that is due to 0:54 him. all honor, glory, praise unto him. Heavenly Father, we come before you Lord. Thank you for this new day, new morning, new mercy and grace. Lord, thank you for bringing us together. We really wanted to think of everything 1:09 that you have done for us. I want to be grateful and thankful Lord all our lives. Unite our hearts today Lord. We really wanted to lift you up. come in our midst Lord and take the pride place that is due to you in Jesus name we ask. 1:27 Amen. While we stand, check 456. While we stand, brothers and sisters, let's sing our first song. Sing the wondrous love of Jesus. Sing his mercy and his grace in the mansions bright and blessed. He'll prepare for us a [Music] 1:47 place when [Music] we when we [Music] all get to heaven. [Music] 2:04 What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the 2:27 victory. Sing the wondous love of Jesus. Sing his mercy and his praise in the mansions bright and blessed we'll prepare for us a 2:45 place when we all get to heaven. What a day of rejoicing that will be when we all see Jesus. We sing and shout the 3:03 victory. Brothers, while we walk the pilgrim, but with clouds will overspread the sky. But when traveling days are over, 3:18 not a shadow nor a sing. When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see 3:35 Jesus, we sing and shout the victory. Sisters, they be true and faithful, trusting, serving every day. First one 3:52 of heaven glory build the toss of heaven. Will we all get to heaven? What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see 4:12 Jesus will sing and shout the victory. Wiser sing onward to the price before us. Soon his beauty will behold. Soon the pearly gates will open. 4:31 We shall dre the streets of gold. When we all get to heaven. What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see 4:48 Jesus, we sing and shout the victory. Glory. When we all when we all get to heaven. What a day of rejoicing that will be. 5:08 When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout this victory. Please be seated. [Music] 5:33 Though some may sing to pass the weary night alone, though some may sing to entertain a worldly throne, I sing because I worship God in song. It's in my heart, deep in my heart. It's in my 5:51 heart. This melody of love divine is in my heart since I am is indeed mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart deep in my heart. You ask me how I know his blood 6:11 and cleans alone. You ask me how I know he sits upon the throne. And how I know he chose me for his own. It's in my heart. Deep in my heart. It's in my heart. This melody of 6:29 love divine. It's in my heart since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart deep in my heart. I may not know the skillful use of term or to 6:48 prove my Lord's return to unbelieving men, but this I know is coming back again. It's in my heart deep in my heart. Holy voices. It's in my heart. This melody of love divine. It's in my 7:06 heart since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart. Deep in my heart all together. It's in my heart. This melody of love divine. It's in my 7:24 heart. Since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart. In my heart. [Music] 7:43 Now in a song of grateful praise to thee, oh Lord. My voice I'll raise with all thy saints I'll join to 7:56 tell. My Jesus has done all things well. And above the rest this note shall swell. This note shall swell. This note shall swell. And above the rest this 8:15 note shall swell. My Jesus has done all. How sovereign wonderful and free has been thy love to 8:33 sing for me. Thous of my Jesus has done all these things. Verse three. Sincerely my soul has known his 8:53 love. Lord mercies he has made me prove. Mercies with all praise excel. My Jesus has done all things. [Music] 9:12 And when to that bright world I rise and join the lands of the sky above the rest. This Lord shall swell. My Jesus has done all things 9:31 well. And about the rest this shall this shall this shall swell. And about the rest is this north [Music] shall. My 9:48 Jesus has done all [Music] things. Celebrate Jesus. He is risen and he lives forever. [Music] 10:11 Celebrate Jesus. Celebrate. Celebrate Jesus. Celebrate. Celebrate Jesus. Celebrate. 10:29 Celebrate Jesus. Celebrate. He is ris and he lives forever [Music] more. He is ris celebrate resurrection of our 10:58 Lord. Celebrate Jesus. Celebrate. Celebrate Jesus. [Music] Celebrate. Celebrate Jesus. [Music] Celebrate. 11:17 Celebrate. Jesus. Celebrate. He's risen. He is ris. He lives forever [Music] more. He is 11:36 [Music] rising and celebrate. Come on and celebrate. Come on and celebrate. Come on and celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Shall we join with us and sing together 11:58 brothers and sisters? Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord most high. Blessed be the name of the 12:16 Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. [Applause] Oh, the name of the Lord is the strong tower. The righteous running 12:35 through and they are save. Name of the Lord is a strong tower. Righteous run into they are save. Glory to the name of the 12:53 Lord. Glory to the name of the Lord. Glory to the name of the Lord. Glory to the name of the Lord most high. Glory to the name of the 13:10 Lord. Glory to the name of the Lord. Glory to the name of the Lord most high. The name of the Lord is a strong 13:26 tower. Righteous running through it. They are save the name of the Lord. A strong tower righteous run into it. They are 13:45 sing only congregation sing holy is the name of the Lord. What is the name of God? [Music] 14:15 The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into me and they are sing. The name of the Lord is a strong 14:35 tower. Christ is running to him. They are sing. Jesus is the name of the Lord. Jesus is the name of the Lord. Jesus is the name of the Lord. Jesus is the name of the Lord most 14:54 high. Jesus is the name of the Lord. Jesus is the name of the Lord. Jesus is the name of the Lord most high. Name of the Lord 15:13 is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and they are safe. The name of the Lord is a strong 15:31 tower. The righteous run into it and they are saved. I'm free from the fear of tomorrow. I'm free from the guilts of the past. For I've traded my shackles for a glorious 15:50 song. I'm free. Praise the Lord. Free at last. [Music] So long I had searched for life. 16:06 Enslaved by the world and my [Music] grief. In the door of the prison was open by love. For the ransom was made. I was free. I'm free from the year of 16:32 tomorrow. I'm free from the guilt of the past. For I trade in my shadows for a glorious song. I'm free. Praise the 16:49 Lord. Free and love. I'm free from the guilt that I [Applause] carry. From the dark empty life I'm set free for when I met Jesus, he made me 17:13 complete. He forgot how foolish I used to be. I'm free from the fear of tomorrow. I'm free from the guilt of the 17:33 past. For I train in my shadows for a glorious song. I'm free. Praise the Lord. Free and love. [Music] I lift my 17:55 hands to the coming king. To the great I am. To you I sing. For you're the one who 18:14 reigns inside my heart. I [Music] deserve and I will serve no foreign earth nor any other 18:34 [Music] treure. For you are my heart desire. your spirit with our [Music] measure to your 18:56 name. I will bring a sacriice. Shall we all stand and sing? I lift my hands. We all stand to the coming 19:15 king. To the great I am. To you I see the world inside my heart. [Music] 19:49 You are my heart desires. Your spirit with our [Music] meure to your 20:06 name. I will bring my sacriice. [Music] You have been 20:24 given your name above all names and we worship you. Yes, we worship you. You have been 20:41 given the name above all names that we worship you. And we worship 20:59 you. We are your people. We are your people. paid for your glory and we worship you. Yes, we worship you. 21:19 We are your people made for your glory and we worship [Music] you. And we worship 21:40 you. You have redeemed us. You have redeemed us from every nation and we worship you. Yes, we worship 21:59 you. You have redeemed us from every nation and we worship you. [Music] Yes, we worship you. 23:01 As we remain standing, shall we bow our heads in prayer? You may have come with 23:19 burdens, cares and worries, fears, anxieties. You don't have to carry them. You don't have to be crushed under them. There is 23:42 hope. There is freedom. There is so Jesus is promised his peace. He said peace I leave with 24:01 you. Not as the world gives give I unto you. My peace I give unto you. And he said, I have spoken these words, these comforting words that your joy may be full. The joy 24:24 that this world cannot give and cannot take it away. The Lord has promised better things for us. This world is not our 24:40 home. We are just passing through. We are citizens of heaven from where we look forward to the coming of our Lord Jesus 24:57 Christ or meet him in the air. The Lord has done mighty things and we need our eyes to be 25:16 opened to see what God has done for us. He didn't leave us in our backsliden sinful condition. But he came with a solution to rescue 25:34 us, to save us. from sin and from Satan. He came to seek and to save that which was lost. The same Jesus is in our midst 25:53 today. The Bible says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every 26:12 spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless. less before 26:30 him in love. He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself according to the kind intention of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace which he freely bestowed on us in 26:50 the beloved in whom we have redemption through his blood. the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us in all 27:07 wisdom and insight. He made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his kind intention, which he purposed in him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times. That is the summing up of 27:26 all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth. In him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to his purpose, who works all 27:44 things after the counsel of his will to the end that we who were the first hope in Christ should be to the praise of his glory. in Christ also after listening to the message of 28:04 truths, the gospel of your salvation, having also beloved, you were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of promise. When 28:28 We listened to the message of the truth, the gospel of our salvation, and believed in him. We were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of 28:43 promise who is given us a pledge of our inheritance with a view to the redemption of God's own possession to the praise of his glory. Think about these verses, dear brothers 29:07 and sisters. He has not not just forgiven our sins and let us on the loose but he has given us his holy 29:21 spirit so that he may guide us in life's journey and lead us and teach us and sanctify us and make us be conformed formed to 29:39 the image of his son our lord Jesus Christ. This is the calling that God has given us. Not just the forgiveness of sins, but to take part of the divine nature and to be like 29:57 him who went ahead of us as a forerunner. Our father in heaven, [Music] we worship your majesty, bow down before your awesome 30:21 throne in the heavens, joining with all the hosts of heaven in our spirit. We bow down before your throne and worship you and call you holy, holy, 30:40 holy, Lord God Almighty. We bless you, heavenly father, that you have not dealt with us according to our iniquities, but while we were still sinners, you came after us. 30:59 You picked us up from the miry clay, set our feet on the rock to stay so that we can follow in your footsteps. Lord Jesus, turning our back 31:17 to the world, to sin and Satan. You made us new creation in Christ. Old things passed away and behold, all things have become new. to help us live like new creatures in newness of life. Thank you that you will do that by 31:36 your Holy Spirit. We bless you and praise you. Dear brothers and sisters, thank the Lord. Lift up your voice and praise him and give him all the glory that he deserves for all that he has done for 31:53 us. All that he's going to do for us. He is not a disappointment. What he has promised, he will do. He will complete the work he has begun in us. He who has called us is faithful. He will complete what he has 32:12 begun. We want to thank you, Father, that you're not a disappointment. We bless you. We worship you for the precious and magnificent promises that you have given us in your word. Help us, Lord Jesus. Take hold of your words and be strengthened in the 32:32 inner man that we may be a threat to the kingdom of darkness, a threat to the devil, that according to your words that says the God of peace will soon crush 32:49 Satan under our feet. Lord Jesus, we want that happen in our life here. Lord Jesus, we pray that every day since power will 33:03 lose and we will become more and more victorious by the indwelling Holy Spirit as we submit ourselves to him. Lord, even this morning we pray that you will speak to each one of us according 33:20 to our needs. Many have come with different needs. We pray that you will minister to each one of us. That we will go from here blessed and challenged, comforted and edified. Father be glorified, be 33:39 honored. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Please take your seats. We will look at our memory verse. Last week we had a command from Romans 33:57 12:9. Romans 12:9. Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhore what is evil. Cling to what is good. 34:15 That was a command last week. And this week we have a promise in Mark 9:23. Mark 9:23. All things are possible to him who 34:34 believes. It's a wonderful promise even to us who we think sometimes we cannot trust certain words. The Lord said all things are possible to him who believes. Let's say 34:53 that once more. All things are possible to him who believes. Mark 9:23. This morning we are going to listen to a message that 35:13 brother Zach spoke last Sunday in NCCF church on disciplehip. What it means to be a disciple. And we have heard about disciplehip in this church from the very beginning in the last 50 years. 35:32 And still some think that this is like any other church where I can just come for Sunday meeting, warm the chair, listen to a good message and go back. Brothers and sisters, unlike other churches, CFC is 35:51 not here to tickle your feelings and your emotions and give you a pep talk and send you back. CFC has 36:09 been established by the Holy Spirit by baptizing the elders here in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and 36:25 fire with a view to proclaim the new covenant as it should be proclaimed. And the new covenant that Jesus established is that he said, 36:41 "Go and preach the gospel to all the nations and make them my disciples and teach them to observe all that I have commanded you." This part of 36:59 the um great commission has been ignored by many churches. They only take one part of what is written in Mark 16. Go and preach the gospel and whoever believes shall be saved. That is just 37:17 half the truths. And whoever repents and believes and is being taught to obey all that Jesus has commanded is the one who will be the disciple of Jesus Christ who 37:37 will be what Jesus wants him to be. So it is not just that we come and listen to messages and go back and live as we like and come back again on next Sunday. That is not the way that God intended for us. He wanted to change us 37:56 from inside out on a daily basis between Sundays. This is our message here in this church. And to that end, the elders have striven in the last 50 years to 38:15 present everyone perfect in Christ. So that on the day of reckoning, on the day of judgment, the Lord will be happy with his people who have taken his word literally and have made progress 38:34 and seen change in them and seen the powers of darkness and the powers of sin lose their grip from their life. So today's message is titled what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. 38:54 Let's pay close attention. It's a very powerful message. Don't let the birds of the air take it away from you after you finished listening to it. Go back if you want to listen. Listen again and again until the message sinks in you 39:13 and brings a lasting change. May the Lord help us. In the Christian world, they preach about believe in the 39:33 Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved. But if you read the gospels, very rarely Jesus spoke about believe in me. The word he used most often was follow me. Follow me. Follow me. Follow 39:51 me. And if anyone will follow me, this is what he'll receive and the conditions for following. So why is it that through the centuries the Christian world has switched from follow me to believe in me? You never hear a gospel message 40:10 saying follow Jesus. The gospel message is always believe in Jesus. And that's one reason for the shallow third rate good for nothing Christianity that we see in more than 90% of churches. Even churches that preach the true 40:29 gospel. Now I'm not saying that lightly. I have lived 65 years as a Christian. I've traveled many countries, seen churches of all denominations from Roman Catholic to Salon Pentecostal and everything in between. And I've seen it. 40:46 I've seen the hollowess, the emptiness. It's all because it's believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And follow me, follow the Lord has not been emphasized because believe is just say what is it? I believe the Earth goes around the sun. How does it 41:05 affect me? Doesn't affect me at one bit. I believe in the stars and the planets. So what? I believe God created the heaven and the earth. But following is quite another thing. And I want to ask all of you sitting here, please 41:18 listen carefully. In your life, are you following Jesus every day? You don't have to answer that to me, but answer that to yourself. If I were to ask you, do you believe in Jesus every day? Every one of you will raise your hand. Was there a 41:35 day in your life in the last one year that you did not believe in Jesus Christ? No. You believe in Jesus Christ? Of course. But if I were to ask you just in the last 5 months of this year, was there a day when you did not follow 41:51 Jesus in the way you spoke and the way you behaved and the way you conducted yourself in your home, in your office? Then you'll begin to think So that's why it is very important for you to change this idea of believe. Believe as far as Christ is 42:07 concerned means follow. It means a commitment. Why is the church called the bride of Jesus Christ throughout the New Testament or especially in Revelation? It's exactly like those of you are married. You got a 42:25 wife. You expect your wife to be faithful to you. Not just every day but every second of every day. You don't want her to be interested in some other man even for one second. There are many other interests 42:45 other than Christ that are attracting us. And to follow Jesus means to be his bride means I'm not interested in any other thing even for one second. How would you feel if your wife said well once in a while one minute a day I 43:01 sometimes think of another man only one minute a day it wouldn't disturb you I suppose is it what type of a marriage do you have if you allow your wife to think one minute a day for about somebody else now I wonder I want to ask you do 43:18 you have this type of relationship with Christ I'm very thankful that very early in my Christian life I understood that I'm supposed to be the bride of Christ. That's not something I discovered after many many years. And I'm very thankful because 43:33 that taught me simple devotion to Christ is very very important. And I'm very thankful that that started with me almost from the beginning and that's established my life very strongly. So that's what I want to share with you. What does it mean to follow? 43:52 It means to be a disciple. There are two places where Jesus said about going and preaching the gospel and I want to show them to you. One is in Mark 16 where Jesus said Mark 16 and verse 15 and 16 go into all the world 44:11 and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and is baptized will be saved. He who does not believe will be condemned. There the emphasis is on believing. Now we must always compare scripture with 44:31 scripture to get the full truth. Never forget that. Remember when the devil tempted Jesus and Jesus quoted a scripture, man shall not live by bread alone. The devil quoted a scripture back to Jesus. jump off the roof because it is written 44:49 his angels will guard you. And you remember what Jesus said, Satan, it is also written, you shall not tempt the Lord your God. That is scripture. It is written and it is also written. If you take only one part of scripture, it's 45:06 like a bird with one wing. It'll go round and round and round and round. And that's what happened to a lot of Christians. So this one scripture, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Believe and be 45:17 baptized is one side. It is written. I want to show you the other side of scripture. If you want to get the full truth, it is also written. To me, it's like the two sides of a body. What would you think of a man cut into half with 45:31 just one half a body? That is one half of the body, but it's not complete. And so, scripture is not complete with one scripture. And Jesus made that very clear in the temptation in the wilderness. It is written. It is also 45:44 written. Please remember this all your life. There are many things it is written. It is scripture. But if you don't want to understand it fully, you must also see what is also written. So we read what is written in Mark 45:57 16. Believe and be baptized. It is also written in Matthew 28 verse 19. Go. Now he says not just make people to believe but make disciples of every 46:16 nation. There it was go into all the world and preach the gospel. It is written. It is also written go into all the world and make disciples. Is this a contradiction? No. There's no contradiction in the whole Bible. It is the other half of truth. 46:35 This is the other wing of the bird. If you want to get the full truth, take both of it and make disciples of all nations and baptize them. Baptism is there. Baptism is here also. But there it is believe and be baptized. Here it is make 46:50 disciples and be bapt. You know the difference between explanation and contradiction. Believe make disciples. It's not a contradiction. It's an explanation. If you believe, you'll 47:08 become a disciple. If you believe without becoming a disciple, it's only a head knowledge. The every truth in the Bible, the devil has got in his head. Is there a single verse in the Bible that the devil doesn't know, doesn't believe, he 47:22 knows everything. It still sends them to hell for eternity. And it can send a lot of other people to hell for eternity if they just believe what's written. So believe, make disciples, baptize them, and then listen to 47:37 this. Matthew 28:20, it is also written, "Teach them to do every single thing I commanded you." And then I will be with you always. I've seen that word in many 47:56 houses. Lo, I'm with you always, even unto the end of the world. And I say that's a half a verse. How can you believe that'll be true in your home or in your life if you don't fulfill the condition? There's a condition for I'll 48:12 be with you always till the end of the world. Make disciples and teach them to do every single thing I commanded you and then I will be with you. So that's the question you need to ask yourself. Don't just go and say, "Lord, you said you'll always be with 48:28 me." Hang on. Hang on. To whom did he say it? To those who become disciples and who are seeking to do every single thing. All you know the meaning of the word all. All Matthew 28:20. Obey everything I commanded you 48:48 and I promise you I'll be with you always till the end of the age. I'm very thankful that I tried to follow that. I mean, every scripture we can only say we tried to follow it. I mean, if you're trying your best to follow it, that's all that God 49:05 expects of you. I want to ask you, are you seeking to be a follower of Jesus Christ, a disciple, and to obey everything he commanded you? That's why we built CFC churches. I 49:25 found 50 years ago when I was 35 years old. I'd seen Christendom for about 16 years before that and I was pretty fed up, defeated in my own life. And I never saw a church that was preaching everything that I saw in 49:42 scripture. And finally, I was in one church that threw me out for preaching about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And so you know 50 years ago two of us families in Bangalore decided to meet in my house. He said at least two of us will 50:01 start trying to teach everything that Jesus did. First of all practice everything ourselves and teach it to others and see who all will come. And we had a big turnover. Some will come go come come and go and there so many people came and 50:17 go went and uh at the end of five six years there were about 60 people and out of those 60 people I think there were only seven or eight finally left today all fell away that happens when you teach everything that Jesus 50:32 commanded some along the way people will fall away and that can happen even in this church you preach everything that Jesus commanded some will fall away and it it never disturbed me 50 years ago when people started falling away and 50:44 throughout the years I've seen in all the many many churches in different countries that the Lord has raised up. I've seen people falling away. It doesn't disturb me. I see that in Jesus case also people fell away. Sometimes he 50:59 preached to a whole crowd and by the time the message is all over a lot of people have left. Very few people are left. That can happen if you preach follow me. One of the great examples is John chapter 51:16 6. In John chapter 6, we see the chapter begins with a miracle. Miracles are always exciting. He fed the 5,000. That's the first thing we see in John chapter 6. And in those first verses from verse 51:37 8 to 14, the 5,000, the multitude were fed with loaves and fishes. as we read in verse 11. And then Jesus began to preach to the people and he said some very strong things like you have to eat of 51:56 me. Verse 53, unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you don't have any eternal life. If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will have eternal life because my 52:12 flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Now, put yourself in that place and you're listening and you haven't heard the explanations that we have heard about that verse in these years that you've been in the church. You're listening it 52:25 for the first time to a man getting up saying, "You've got to eat my flesh and drink my blood if you want to have eternal life." And these are Jews who were taught in the Old Testament, never touch blood, blood of an animal or no 52:39 blood, but he must never drink blood. That's it's a crime. And here's this man telling us to eat his flesh and drink his blood. What will you call him? A heretic. And then it says here, many people when they heard this verse 60, he 52:56 said this is a in today's language, this is a crazy statement. Who can listen to all this? And then we read, "Many of them left." Verse 66. Many of his disciples, not visitors, many of his 53:16 disciples withdrew and they didn't want to walk with him anymore. Who's going to eat his flesh and drink his blood? This is crazy. I don't want to follow this man. This I told you this chapter started with 5,000 being fed plus women and 53:35 children probably 10,000. At the end of the chapter the 10,000 is whittleled down to 11. This is how Jesus preached. That's been my challenge. If I can take a crowd of 10,000 and whittle 53:53 them down to 11 disciples, I followed Jesus. That's what I decided when we started our church 50 years ago in Bangalore. These great multitude of people who come to listen because they like a good message. I'm going to whittle them down to a small number who 54:08 really want to follow you. Not just to want to listen to a good sermon. A lot of people would come to my church to listen to a good sermon. I think a lot of people may come here to listen to a good sermon. A lot of people go to 54:18 YouTube to listen to a good sermon. I'm not interested in such people. I want to know those who want to follow. 10,000 people may be interested in listening to a good sermon. 11 will follow. Those are the 11 I'm looking for 54:34 cuz those are the ones Jesus is looking for. And in every church in the last 50 years, I've seen we have planted a lot of churches in different different countries. Always it starts with a big number and it whittleles down to a small 54:48 thing. I say praise the Lord. Now we can make disciples. It never never disturbs me when 10,000 becomes 11. I say we're going in Jesus' footsteps. And that's happened in other churches. It's happened here. And may maybe there are still some more to 55:07 leave. Okay? We're not going to compromise the message. We're not here to gather. We're to have to whittle down till we are left with people who are serious about their Christian life, serious about the way they speak. That 55:23 they will never gossip. They'll never backbite. They'll take up the cross every day. They'll take their married life seriously. They'll seek to bring up their children properly in the fear of God. They'll stop backbiting and 55:35 speaking evil of others. And then the number will come down to 11 or a small number. And it says he had to we had to go into all the world and make disciples. So I remember in the early days we spent nearly a whole year in the first 55:53 year of our gathering together preaching two things. One is the conditions of disciplehip and the other is the sermon on the mount. We spent one year, we spent many, many, many weeks on what it means to be a 56:10 disciple and then many many months going through Matthew 5:6 and 7. That's how we started CFC Bangalore 50 years ago. And God has raised up godly elders throughout the years. And I I went back 56:28 there recently, a few months ago, and I see those four elders, just as good as the original elders, godly people who fellowship with one another, no strife or conflict, completely one with each other and leading the church forward. It started 56:44 with two families. We have 600 people there, but we don't rejoice in numbers. And there are many there who want to follow the Lord. The important thing is to make disciples. And that's what I preached everywhere. And that's what we preach in 56:57 this church too. So first of all, we preach the condition of disciplehip. And I want to point out that to you again in Luke 14. We must never get tired of this passage because it's because this passage is not 57:16 taught that Christianity is so shallow. People believe. Okay. Now I'll explain to you disciplehip. Luke chapter 14 and verse 25 to 57:30 33. Again it starts with great crowds following and he turns and tells them listen to this today. If a preacher sees a great crowd what is the first thing he'll do? He'll get his followers say pass the offering background quickly 57:50 before they go away. Afterwards, we'll tell them the hard things. We did the We did it the other way. We said we never pass an offering background. Do you know my brothers and sisters that we have more than 100 churches today in 17 58:04 countries and in all those churches, not once in 50 years have we passed an offering background. Never. We have 300 elders. Not one of them receives a salary, including me. I've never 58:21 received a salary in 50 years. And we have 300 like that. Where do you where do you find God raised up people? Because we preach disciplehip. We're not boasting. We're talking about what Jesus did. I I don't 58:37 hesitate to tell people what Jesus did. Jesus said, "Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works, what God has done in us and glorify your father." Great crowds came and he told 58:56 them some of the hardest words that he ever said. Listen to this. Is this the way any preacher preaches when he sees a great crowd? If any of you come to me, Jesus says, and you don't hate your father, and go slowly, hate, I'm not misreading, read your 59:16 Bible, hate your father, hate your mother, hate your wife, hate your children, hate your brothers, hate your sisters, hate your own life. Then you can be my disciple. A lot of those people would have left immediately saying, "This 59:33 guy's crazy. Why didn't Jesus use simpler words? He knew that most of these people are not serious. Every church I've been to, even in our own churches when we start, I know that all these people come 59:51 to listen to a good sermon. They're not serious about disciplehip. So, you have to preach some strong words to drive them away. And those who are called by God will not be driven away. They'll never get offended with anything that a man of 1:00:06 God says. If they recognize that man is a a prophet of God whom God has called up, they will never get offended. Ones who get offended are those who are looking for an easy way of life. What does it mean to hate father, 1:00:23 mother, brother, sister, wife, children? I struggled with this for years myself to understand what does it mean Lord? I don't want to compromise it. I don't want to lower it. And yet I know there are you know I have to take scripture with scripture. 1:00:34 It is written. It is also written. Honor your father and mother. It's also written. Love your wife as Christ loved the church. And here I'm told to hate my wife. Scripture with scripture I will understand. It is written. It is also 1:00:47 written. So I took it to what is written and it is also written. And I this is how I understood it that my love for Christ must be like the light of the sun. The brightest thing that we can see on this earth is the light of the sun. An 1:01:04 example. Should there be any love for my wife and children and father and mother? Yes. That's also got to be a light. A very bright light. Like the light of the stars. You know the stars are so bright. Some of the stars are extremely bright. 1:01:23 But when we look at a star at night, there is a light there. Definitely some stars are very bright. But the moment the sun comes up, what happened to the It's not that the stars have disappeared. They're there, but you can't see 1:01:44 them. They're all there. And that's how I understood this verse. Yes. Love your father, love your wife, love your brother, love your sister. But when the light light of the love for Christ comes, it just sort of fades away. It's almost like nothing 1:02:02 because love for Jesus takes over. What did Jesus say? What is the first commandment? You shall love the Lord your God with 50% of your heart and leave the other 50% for your wife and your brother, family, children. Is that what 1:02:20 he said? No. Love the Lord your God with all your heart. Okay. All your heart. Then what place is there in your heart for other people? Take God's word seriously. Didn't Jesus did not make a mistake? Then how in the world am I 1:02:35 supposed to love my wife and my children and my honor my father and mother? It must be from a heart that is filled with love for Christ. filled with love for God. From that love, I love other 1:02:52 people. That is how scripture I don't know some of you Christians, you've heard all these things. I don't know whether you've taken it seriously. I took it seriously. That's why my Christian life changed radically from the beginning. I didn't just set it 1:03:04 aside and say, "Oh, what does it mean hate?" I wanted to understand what does it mean to hate. I compared it to the light of the stars and the sun. The light of the sun is like the love for Christ which makes the others almost 1:03:16 disappear. and love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind. So from that love, I must love Christ. That's why when I was considering marrying Annie and the proposal came, I told her right at the 1:03:30 beginning, you will always be number two in my life. You'll never be number one. And number one will never be another girl. No, it'll be Jesus. And I always want to be number two in my life. We are married 57 years now. And I say the same 1:03:44 thing. You will always be number two in my life. and I want to be number two in my life. That's the secret of a happy marriage. You determine that Christ is always first. And I say that to every brother in the church. You're not going 1:03:58 to be so close to me that I will please you and dishonor Christ. I say that to my children. If you dishonor the Lord, I will be against you. Christ will be between me and you. You will be second. You will never be first in my 1:04:14 life. No son of mine will ever be first in my life. Christ will be first. And if he dishonors Christ, I will tell him that. If he honors Christ, I'll appreciate that. Christ will be first. Father, mother, my dear brothers 1:04:31 and sisters, if you want to be a disciple, please listen to what I'm saying. I'll tell you honestly, you will never in your life be a disciple if you don't take this seriously. whoever it is. And I'll tell you this, you'll love 1:04:47 your wife much better if you love Jesus with all your heart. Much better. You'll never get offended with her. You'll never get angry with her. You'll never get upset with her. You know why you get upset with your wife and get angry? It's 1:05:00 because you don't love Jesus with all your heart. Put Christ first and you will never in your life get angry and shout at your wife. Not even once. It's the message of the gospel. Then you'll be able to love her as Christ 1:05:16 loved the church. That's the first condition. And even love for brothers. Why is it so many brothers sometimes have conflicts? I'll tell you why. Because they don't love Christ with all their heart. They love somebody because 1:05:32 oh that guy's like me. They be sort of similar in many ways and so become friendly. I'm not bothered by somebody similar. I want to be fellowship with people who are completely opposite of me, dissimilar to me. Most of our work in India is in the 1:05:48 poorest villages. Annie and I have gone to the poorest villages in India where people don't know one word of English. There there's no pharmacy, no doctor, nothing. And there we've seen people who can't even speak properly, not educated, 1:06:03 extremely poor, who live from hand-to-mouth. And I've had wonderful fellowship with them because Christ is between us. We never gave importance to education or intellect in our church. 1:06:23 People have come to our church in Bangalore, wealthy people thinking that they would get a place of importance. Always I've told them to go and sit at the back. I remember one guy came from Dubai. You know that's a place where Christians 1:06:39 make a lot of Indians make a lot of money and he retired and came and came to our church. I made him sit in the back row. Every Sunday I said you sit there till he got offended and left the church. And I said praise the Lord. Such 1:06:54 people are not fit to be here who are want honor in the church. There's no place for honor here. Be a servant. You just came yesterday to the church and you you we you think we care for your money. I don't care two hoots for your 1:07:05 money. Go and throw your money somewhere else. Jesus said come to me without your money. That's what we have preached in our church. That's why we have preserved the standard through the years. And that's why so many churches don't preserve the 1:07:17 standard. They give honor to people. They don't love Jesus with all their heart. And in this church, we want to love Jesus with all our heart first. And I want to encourage every one of you. I'll tell you this. You'll enter into a 1:07:30 real Christian life when you love Jesus with all your heart. Every one of you young people everyone I say the same thing to you that's number one in don't let any human being take the place of Christ in your life every single 1:07:47 day wake up in the morning and the first person you talk to must not be your wife or your husband it must be Jesus Christ I'm not preaching what I've not practiced I wake up in the morning and the first thing I first person I speak 1:08:05 to is my savior who's more important to me than my wife. Then I talk to my wife and it'll be like that. It has been like that for years and it'll be like that till Jesus comes. And that is why I know I'm ready to meet him because I can say to him, Lord, to 1:08:24 the best of my ability, I try to love you with all my heart and I never allowed any person to come between me and you. The second condition of disciplehip. Verse 27. Take up your cross every day and follow me. That is a subject 1:08:43 which many Christians have not understood. You know what it means? It means to die. Take up the cross is to be crucified with him. Take up your cross and follow me is what Jesus said when he was on earth because he was not yet crucified. 1:09:02 So until he was crucified, he could only say, "Take up your cross and follow me." Today he would say, "Be crucified with me." Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ." Paul did not say, "I'm for taking up the cross and following 1:09:16 Christ." No. That's when Christ was on earth. Paul said, "I'm the it's that day path is over. I'm already crucified. Now I walk the crucified path every single day. Every day I live as one who is dead to 1:09:34 self and alive to Christ. That is the condition of disciplehip. In other words, not my interests, not what I think, not how I should respond. I've 1:09:53 often told people if there's a dead man here, how will he respond to criticism, abuse? You say you're a good for nothing fellow, useless fellow. What's his response? It doesn't make any difference 1:10:14 to him. On the other hand, you say, "Oh, you're a great guy. You're so smart. You're so clever." No response. When you can come to the place where somebody calls you an idiot or a good for-no person and your reaction to him is exactly the same as 1:10:31 somebody who comes and says to you, "Oh brother, you're a great man. You're such a wonderful man. You're such a kind man." And your reaction is exactly not the word exactly exactly the same as to the other fellow who called 1:10:45 you an idiot and a good for nothing fellow then you have been crucified with Christ. And until you come there, say to yourself, I have not been crucified with Christ yet. I'm not preaching what I've not practiced. I've heard numerous people 1:11:03 have called me the devil and numerous people have called me a great prophet. It is exactly the same to me because I've been crucified with Christ. I'm not joking. I can love the 1:11:20 person who calls me a devil. I've had numerous particularly in the days when I used to stand in the streets of in India and preach the gospel, people would call me the devil. And I say fine, I love you, brother. And after that when we preached 1:11:34 about Jesus was tempted like us and overcame sin, they called me the devil again. Christians began to call me the devil. I said, "God, I love you." And some of them got converted. So when you're really dead with Christ, your reaction to 1:11:53 criticism and praise is exactly the same. Like a dead man, you don't get hurt by what somebody said. Do you get hurt by what somebody said? I'll tell you, brother, sister, die. 1:12:11 Die. Fall into the ground and die. You know why there's so little fruit in the lives of many Christians? I remember when I was a young man and I was in Bangalore 35 years old when we started the church. The word that came to me 1:12:28 was fall into the ground and die and there'll be much fruit from your work. I raised my hand to the Lord and said Lord I'll do that. I give you my word to the best of my knowledge and best of my ability. I will fall into the 1:12:47 ground here in Bangalore and die. I will never ask for anything for myself. I'll never get offended with what you do or you don't do. Whether you I'll never have a complaint about how you treat me. Dead men don't complain. Do you have a complaint 1:13:02 against God? Brother, die. Do you have a complaint against God? Sister, die. Dead men don't have complaints. I meditate a lot on what it means to die, to be dead, and it's changed my life. It'll change yours also if you 1:13:18 take it seriously. Most Christians are just playing games in Christianity. They come to church to listen to a nice message, to get a little stirred up, to meet a few friends, and gossip a little and go home. I'm not interested in that 1:13:30 type of Christianity. That's good for nothing. Third rate useless Christianity. And I hope none of us will be like that. And I hope people who are like that, the sooner you leave this church, the better. Have you ever heard 1:13:41 a pastor saying, "Leave this church, please." Well, you hear it here. If you're not interested in being a disciple of Jesus, my brother, sister, don't confuse everybody else and don't spoil everybody else. Don't bring corruption into the system. You will not 1:13:58 corrupt the system. You'll only corrupt people who can be corrupted. Those who are serious here will not be corrupted. no matter how much you try to corrupt them. But it'll be easier for you to find a another church where you feel 1:14:12 comfortable and happy because this is not the place for those who don't want to be disciples. I'll tell you honestly from the beginning I said Lord I'm not interested in building a large church L a r interested in building a pure r e 1:14:30 church a pure church great multitude whittle down to 11 that's what I want great multitude come to hear the gospel tell them you got to hate father mother sister wife children that is what it means to follow Jesus take up your 1:14:47 cross every day and follow me. Die to yourself and follow Jesus. We are to be crucified with Christ. And then there is a third condition only three. One is your attitude to your relatives and loved ones. And the second is your attitude 1:15:07 yourself, your proud self-life which must be crucified. And the third is your attitude to money. John sorry Luke 14 and verse 33. No one can be my 1:15:24 disciple. No one can be my disciple if he does not give up all his own possessions. I cannot be his disciple if I don't give up all my own possessions. Read that 1:15:44 carefully. Poss possession is what I hold tight. This is mine. He didn't say you can't have anything. If he says I can't have anything then I can't even have a shirt or a pant or anything. He said you can have many things but don't 1:16:04 possess. In other words, all the things you're holding on tight. What are you holding on to tight? your job. You see that's very important for you. Therefore, you're so insecure. Open your palm. Say, "Lord, you given me a 1:16:23 job. I have it, but I'm not going to hold on tight to it. I'll lose it any day. You hold it for me, and you'll always provide my need. I say this, you know, when the Lord 1:16:42 called me in May 1964, which is 62 years ago, to leave my job in the Navy and to come out and serve him. And the Navy let me go after two years. So, it's nearly 60 years now since I've been serving the Lord 1:17:01 full-time. And I took my entire I'd served in the Navy for eight years by then and you know as a naval officer you get a very high salary and I all that money which I saved when I the day I left I took it and gave it all away for God's work and 1:17:21 I left my job with zero in my bank account and I said Lord I'm going to trust you. I'll never join a society. I'll never join a church. I'll never get a salary. I'll never do anything. I want to live like Jesus and Paul live. Paul 1:17:35 said, "Follow me as I follow Christ." And that is a primarily a call for those who are on full-time Christian work. Now, I was called to full-time Christian work. And I don't say that to other people, but for myself, it would be like 1:17:50 that. You know, out of all the people Jesus met, only one person he said, "Sell all that you have." He never told Martha and Mary, "Sell all that you have." And uh he never told even Zakius he only gave half of what he had and 1:18:03 Jesus said that's fine but to one person Jesus said sell all that you have and I was one of those. Jesus said all that you have. The difference was that guy didn't agree. I said yes I'll give it all up. And the Lord said you got to trust me. 1:18:21 I remember a man of God said to me when I was a young Christian more than 60 years ago and I followed his advice all these years. He said one never in your life make your earthly financial needs known to anybody. Live with what little you have. 1:18:43 Never borrow. Never ask for anything from anyone because you got a father in heaven who cares for you. I said yes. Secondly, don't buy anything unnecessary and 1:19:01 expensive. Live with very simply with whatever is necessary for your life. Essentials. I've tried to follow that. throughout my life if I have some good clothes they were usually given to me by 1:19:21 somebody else. I would never waste my life even on good clothes. Ordinary clothes were enough for me. And thirdly, he said when people accuse you, keep your mouth shut. I'm very thankful those three bits of advice I got 60 years ago and I followed 1:19:40 it all these 60 years when I'm accused falsely I keep my mouth shut I never asked anybody for a single scent in my life and never try I tried my best to live extremely simply and God gave me a life a wife who wants to live 1:19:56 more simply than me so I'm very thankful for that don't say brother my wife is extravagant ant and wastes a lot of money. I'll tell you perhaps God saw that you were not wholehearted yourself and that's why he 1:20:14 gave your wife like that. So you better at least now you can change and say Lord change me and my wife and make us more simple in our habits so that we don't get into debt. 1:20:31 Death to me death is like committing murder. I've never been in debt for 60 years. Not even for one rupee, 1 cent to anybody in the world. When my wife and I had little, we lived with 1:20:51 little. I could not afford to ride a car. So I rode a scooter for 42 years in India. I don't regret it. But I decided I will not get into that. Romans 13 and verse 1:21:08 8. It's an absolute statement. It's not a suggestion. By the way, there are no suggestions in this book. I hope you know that. No, there are only commands. No suggestions. Oh nothing. O Romans 13:8. 1:21:27 Oh nothing. Do you know the meaning of nothing? Nothing is not $5 or $100 or $1,000. In case you did not know, nothing means zero cents. Owe nothing to 1:21:45 anyone in the world. I can stand before the Lord and raise my hand and say, "Lord, by your grace, I have followed that for 85 years of my life. I've never owed anything to anyone." When my wife and I had very little in the 1:22:03 house, we lived with little. We cut down. We told our children, "We can't buy you new clothes. Sorry, you use your older brother's clothes. Sorry, we can't get you that thing you want. You go to a store and they want to buy something and say, 1:22:19 "Sorry, we can't afford it." They'll cry a little, okay? They're little children. They'll cry, okay? They'll get over it. But I will not to please my children. I would not disobey God. Never. And all my four children know 1:22:37 that. Owe nothing to anyone. We lived simply because we could not afford anything more. Now I'm not saying you have to live at my standard. God has allowed you to earn much more. You can live at a higher standard. By all means use your money in 1:22:55 a good way. But all I say is don't owe anybody. I'm not saying that cut down your expenditure. No, no, no, no. I'm saying don't owe anybody anything. That's all. Please don't misunderstand me. I've never in my life asked even in 1:23:07 Bangalore, I never asked anybody to live at my level. I said if you're earning more you can live at a higher level. I don't earn that much. I can't live at that level. Just like among all of you, all of you don't earn the same 1:23:19 amount. So all of you cannot afford the things that somebody else in this church can afford. Somebody else can afford it. Somebody else can afford a better house, but you can't afford that type of house because you don't earn so much. So 1:23:31 there's no, this is not, we are not a communist society where we try to make equalize everybody. No. God's made these five fingers all different size. Communism says cut it all and make it all the same size. No, that's not what 1:23:43 we teach. They're all different sizes. And God has given us different levels of income, but we must not love money. We must not possess it. We must not owe anybody anything. Not even one cent for not even for one day. And I 1:24:01 would not be able to preach that if I hadn't practiced it for 85 years. If God has blessed me, it's because I tried to obey scripture. If God's given me a gift to speak God's word, it's because I've tried to obey scripture. And if God's planted 1:24:16 churches, he can do that through you. I wish God would use many of you to plant churches and make disciples. But you got to be a disciple first. How many of you will take it seriously? Some of you have become so old, it's probably too late. At least 1:24:31 the younger generation here, teach your children at least to be disciples. Dear brothers and sisters, if you failed as a father and mother, at least teach your children to be disciples so that you can produce somebody else who will follow in 1:24:43 Jesus' footsteps. Even if you failed miserably in your younger days, take this seriously. We want a church of disciples and then this church will be strong. Owe nothing to anyone. Don't take advantage of anybody financially. 1:25:02 I've sometimes been invited to stay in rich people's homes when I've traveled to foreign countries and I have left a gift behind some of them surprised this poor 1:25:20 poor man from India leaving a gift for us here. Well, they were kind to us. He allowed us to stay two three days in their house and left a little gift for them. I wanted to be a testimony. I didn't want to be one who sponges of 1:25:33 other people. You know what a sponge is? You put it in and it absorbs everything, all that liquid. There are people like that who are sponges. Whenever they want to get something out of other people like a sponge, I said I never want Jesus 1:25:46 was not a sponge. He never took advantage of anybody. He always give rather than receive. It is more blessed to give than to receive. I really believed that and I've experienced it in my life. Dear 1:26:05 brothers, don't be in debt. I remember once in Bangalore when I felt that some people there sitting there, you know, then the church becomes bigger. Some people sort of take take it lightly and I found that some people were getting into debt. 1:26:22 So one day I got up on Sunday morning. I was a very strict father towards the church I meant and I said there were maybe what 500 people there. I said if anybody in this church has borrowed more than 1,000 rupees from 1:26:41 anyone and not made any effort to pay even a little bit of that after one month, please come and see me after this meeting. Some people cleared that debt that day itself. Some people they went out and used their phone and clicked and 1:27:00 transferred the money online to somebody. They could have done it earlier. Why didn't they do it? He said, "Oh, I can get a little more interest in the bank if I keep it in my name." Can you imagine that? Taking God's word lightly. Owe nothing to 1:27:19 anyone. I want to ask all of you straight. Can you honestly say that you owe nothing to anyone? If not, go home and lift up your hand to the Lord and say, "Lord, I am a disobedient child of yours. I have disobeyed Romans 13:8 for 1:27:36 years. Have mercy on me and please help me to start obeying you at least from today." It's serious, my brother. And I'll tell you another thing which I have proved in my life. Seek the kingdom of God first and his righteousness and everything that you 1:27:56 need on earth will be added to you. Are some of you finding difficult to get a job? I'll tell you why. You're not seeing God's kingdom first. I'll tell you that straight to your face. Don't get hurt with me. I'm telling you the 1:28:09 truth. How is it possible that a man can seek God's kingdom first and his righteousness to be absolutely righteous and Matthew 6:33 is not fulfilled in his life and God does not add everything else to him. That is impossible. You 1:28:23 have to call God a liar and God is not a liar. You go before God and say Lord all things are not being added to me because somewhere in my life I'm not seeking your kingdom first. Other things are more important to me. Well then God have 1:28:38 mercy on you. The promise is if you seek God's kingdom and his righteousness. Matthew 6:33. First, everything that you need on earth will be added to you. Even health. What is it that has preserved Annie and me for 57 years of marriage 1:28:55 that we have never once had to go to a hospital with sickness? I'm not boasting. I'm just saying God is so good. He gives us health. I'll tell you why. I'll say this in closing. I read in 1 Corinthians 6. This is for you also. It's in your 1:29:14 Bible. I'll never tell you anything which is not in your Bible. 1 Corinthians 6, the last part of verse 13. 1 Corinthians 6:13. The body is not for 1:29:31 immorality. That's the first thing. be perfectly pure sexually in your thoughts. You should go and hang your head in shame if you watch pornography. Even if you're a young man, destroying yourself, polluting your 1:29:50 mind, swallowing poison, poison, poison, watching this filth called pornography. The body is not for immorality. The body is not for watching pornography. It is for the Lord. Every part of my body, my eyes, my 1:30:09 tongue. And if my body is for the Lord, the Lord will be for my body. That's what it says here. That's the word I claimed many years ago. I said, Lord, I will not use this body for immorality. It is for you. And I you got 1:30:25 to do your you got to put fill your part of the promise that you you are for my body not just for my soul you're for my body. Now I'm not saying we can never get sick. Even Jesus was sick. We read in Isaiah 53 sometimes God allows us to 1:30:40 be sick to teach us to be compassionate towards others. I'm not saying we'll never go to hospital. There's no crime in being admitted in a hospital. All I'm saying is make sure your body is for the Lord. And then you can claim that promise. The 1:30:57 Lord is from my body. And further down it says there the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. You seen that? Further down in verse 19, the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. That means if you can take care of this building which we say is go 1:31:15 gathering for a church, you think God won't take care of his temple. He will. There are wonderful promises in scripture which we are missing by not fulfilling the conditions. Let's pray. Dear brothers and 1:31:32 sisters, you don't realize how much God loves you. I wish you'd know that. I wish you'd know that every command of God's is because he loves you so much that he wants you to have the very best in life. So yield your all to him and say, "Lord, 1:31:52 I'm sorry for the ways I've failed in the past. I'm sorry for the way I've gossiped and spoken evil and done all types of wrong things in my past life. Please forgive me. Let me take my Christian life seriously from today. I want to really be your 1:32:06 disciple. I want to follow you. I want to claim your promises that if I obey you and follow you, you will honor me. Help us, Lord, each one. Help us each one that we can be a living testimony for you in this godless world 1:32:23 even in a Christian so-called Christian world which does not honor Christ. Help us to honor you in this church. We pray in Jesus name. Amen. Thank God for the 1:33:17 word. Let's sing the song. Many crowd the Savior's kingdom, but few receive his cross. Many sit at Jesus [Music] table, few will fast with 1:33:35 him. Many will confess his wisdom, but only few embrace his shame. [Music] 1:34:17 Many crowd the Savior's king of pure receive his throne. Many seek his consolation. You will love you receive his 1:34:37 cross for the dear sake of the master counting all. to receive his cross for the sake of the master 1:34:54 counting all the cross. And he said Jesus table was filled with lost within. When the sorrow of 1:35:12 come trembles to the brim, you will fast within. You watch with him in the garden who has the 1:35:28 land. You will trust with him. You watch within the garden who [Music] have he will confess his wisdom. You 1:35:48 embrace his shame. And he should smile upon them will his praise. You embrace the shame. Let for a while he believed that 1:36:08 they deserved his name through embrace of shame. And if for a while he leave them, they deserve his name. But the souls of love and drooy 1:36:30 and war in sweetness will count their true hearts, but not their own. Pour in sweet bliss. Savior 1:36:48 though has loved me. Give me love like this. More in sweet bliss. Savior thou who just has loved me. Give me love like 1:37:05 this. Give me love like this. Savior, thou who does love me, give me love like this. Give me love like 1:37:22 this. Savior, thou who does love me, give me love like this. [Music] We'll hear the [Music] 1:37:51 [Music] announcement. Presenting the book of this month, A Girl's Viewpoint by Sister Ani Pune. [Music] 1:38:12 My name is Kupa. Kupa means grace. This is the story of my experiences as a young girl. From my teenage years to the early days of my marriage. I face the problems that many young girls face in Indian society 1:38:29 today. But by God's grace, I overcame them and came out triumphant. I met life's challenges head on, strengthened by God's grace, and proved 1:38:49 in my life that Christ could transform a weak, helpless girl into a jewel in his kingdom, enabling me to overcome every limitation and disappointment in life. Looking back over my past life, I find myself full of thankfulness to my 1:39:08 Lord and my redeemer for all that he has done for me. He has transformed me from an insecure girl into a daughter of God and a possessor of perfect earthly security as well as eternal security in 1:39:23 [Music] heaven. This book is a must readad for every growing girl. You can read this 1:39:40 book for free online at cfcindia.com/books/ agirl's viewpoint. [Music]
