0:17 Let us turn to Song of Solomon chapter 2. I mentioned that this book is unique among all the 39 books of the Old Testament. Because the other books are all, except 0:44 Genesis, about man under the law. Which has no reference to the law. It is about love. 1:04 We can serve God out of under law or out of love. And law is like a servant serving his master. And love is like a wife serving her 1:28 husband. And all of us are serving the Lord in one of these two ways. Like I said once before, a wife 1:48 and a servant woman may both be cooking rice in the kitchen. One One doing it for a salary, the other is doing it out of love. And you know what is your attitude in 2:11 serving the Lord. If you serve the Lord and then you expect something from him. Some blessing. 2:29 That is like a salary. Lord, I'm doing this for you. What are you going to do for me? That is the servant attitude. I'm working in the kitchen. What is my salary? But a loving wife will never do it like 2:51 that. She works morning till night and expects nothing. Even if the husband is sick and in bedridden and paralyzed and cannot go 3:09 to work. Then see what the wife does. She not only cooks the food. She goes to work and earns the money for 3:27 the house. Because the husband is paralyzed and cannot work. She does the work of father and mother and husband and wife all together in one person. Earns the money. 3:49 Comes back. Cooks the food. Takes care of the children. goes to the market, buys the clothes for the children, comes back, helps the children with their homework, and gets up early morning 4:00 to make 4:08 breakfast. At the end of the month, what is her salary from her husband? Zero. Next month, same thing. Next month, same thing. 4:27 Which servant will work like this? Only a loving wife. And that is how the true servants of the Lord have served God in all these 2,000 years. They don't work for salary. 4:52 There are pastors who work for salary. Then they will look if there is some other church where they can get a better salary. And then they go there. These are not servants of the Lord. 5:10 We can say they are servants of money. There are two gods. The real God, Jesus Christ, and the false god, which is money. And anyone who serves money cannot serve Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, 5:32 it was different. The Levites were the servants of God. And God told them, "I have given you the tithes, 10% of all the other 11 tribes in Israel. God made those 11 tribes into 12 tribes. 6:01 He divided Joseph into two tribes. So, those 12 tribes were told, "You must take 10% of everything you get in your field and give it to these Levites who are the servants of God." And if they the Levites did not get 6:23 that, but if the Levites didn't get that, then they will complain. "This fellow has not brought his tithe." And any pastor who talks like that, he should go back to the Old Testament. He's not a follower of Jesus Christ. 6:42 He's a follower of Moses. I'm sorry to say that 95% of Christians live under the law. A true loving wife will not work like that. 7:01 See, for example, when Jesus called his servants in the New Covenant, he never told them, "I will give you so much salary every month." Today, in every Christian organization, there is a salary list, how much you get 7:19 if you do this job. Any Christian organization, radio ministry, literature ministry, literature ministry, children children's mission ministry, missionary work, 7:38 always, just like in the worldly company's salary. Did Jesus do that? Dear brothers and sisters, if you want to have a wonderful relationship with Jesus as the bride, not only you don't look for salary, 8:05 you don't look for any reward. Are you serving God for some reward? What a useless wife that will be who says, "I work because I want to get a sari next month." No, I expect nothing. 8:27 I told the Lord that 50 years ago. I said, "Lord, you have already given enough for me by dying for me on the cross. Never in my life will I ask you for anything. Because you died for me on the cross, 8:52 I shall spend my life serving you. If I get money, I will serve you. If I don't get money, I will serve you. If I get food, I will serve you. If I don't get food, I'll still serve you. It has nothing to do with food or money 9:11 or anything. That's why my life has been very happy. I often think I am the happiest Christian in India. Because nobody can make me unhappy. And nothing in the world can make me 9:30 unhappy. I have found my happiness in Jesus. I am not his servant. I am his wife. I do not work for salary. I do not work for reward. 9:49 I work out of love. I can work 24 hours a day. Somebody asked me once, "Oh, Brother Zac, you're 71 years old. When are you going to retire?" I said, "Retire? I'm not a pastor. I'm going to retire when I go to 10:10 heaven." From earthly work. Then I will start another work over there. If you will have greatest joy, if you always say, "My relationship with Jesus 10:27 is like a wife." That is how he wants to be TO YOU, ALSO. SEE, WHICH MASTER will speak like this? 10:49 To his servant. Song of Solomon 2:13. The last part. "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one. Come with me." Is that some general manager speaking to a servant? No, no, no. 11:10 No, husband speaking to a wife. That is how Jesus is SPEAKING TO YOU. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HE LOVES YOU? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH HE rejoices over you? WHY DO YOU LET THE devil condemn you saying you're useless, you're good for 11:27 nothing? You You what this bride said in chapter 1 verse 5. I'm black, but I'm lovely. Yeah, I'm still not perfect. There is 11:45 some still sin in my life. But my my Lord Jesus still loves me. He loves me even though I'm imperfect. See this wonderful verse in Zephaniah chapter 3. Zephaniah 12:10 Do you know where Zephaniah is? Is it New Testament or Old Testament? Can you quickly get it? Have you read these books? When you meet Zephaniah in heaven 12:33 He will ask you. Did you read my book? You scratch your head, which book? He says I wrote only three pages, YOU DIDN'T READ IT. YOU BETTER READ ALL THESE books before 12:50 you meet these people in heaven. Zephaniah 3 verse 17 The Lord your God in your midst is a victorious warrior. He will exalt over you with joy. He will be quiet in his love. He will rejoice over you with 13:09 shouts of joy. What is this? This is the language of some general manager talking to his 13:28 servant. That he has great love for you. Which manager in a factory has got great love for all his servants? Don't have that relationship with God. He wants Jesus wants you to know that he 13:50 rejoices over you. He rejoices OVER YOU WITH SHOUTS OF JOY. I WANT TO ASK YOU, HONESTLY TELL ME. Do you believe that Jesus Christ is 14:12 excited to have you as his wife? I don't think you believe that. 14:28 You always say, "Oh, I'm such a sinner." I am black. But the Lord loves you. IT SAYS HE SHOUTS OF JOY. AND HE'S HAPPY. AND THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS SAYING, "NO, NO, NO, YOU are useless. You are useless." Okay, I'm useless, but Jesus loves me. 14:53 He doesn't love me because I'm a great saint. He loves me because he died for me. And that's why he loves me. See, anything that you buy, you value more if you have paid more for it. Supposing you buy a big 15:20 wooden packing box to pack all your things. Maybe the whole thing you get some in some rubbish shop for 20 rupees. Because it's some cheap. 15:42 But it's so big. And then you go to a shop and buy a small diamond. That cost about 50,000 rupees. Which are you going to keep more carefully? This 20 rupee big box or this 16:00 50,000 rupee diamond? Yeah, what Why? It doesn't depend on the size. It depends what you paid for it. When you go out of your house, 16:21 what do you lock inside the cupboard? Old newspapers or this diamond? You don't care if the thief comes and steals all your old newspaper. You have such a big pile of newspapers. 16:42 You say, "Let him take it all." Why? Because it is not worth much. Everything in your house you can look You say you value it depending on how much money you paid. Okay, now you compare yourself with this 17:07 universe. How big is this universe? And how big are you? We are the pebbles. You are like a grain of sand in this universe. God made this universe. 17:30 And God made you. Which is more precious to him? You or this universe? You are more precious. Why? Because for this universe he did not 17:49 even pay one paisa to make it. It's like old newspapers. One day the Bible says God will just fold up this universe. Throw it away. The old heaven and old earth he's going to make a new heaven 18:08 and earth. He paid nothing FOR IT. HOW MANY RUPEES DID HE PAY FOR YOU? 50,000? 1 lakh? How much? 18:28 1 crore? 1 crore? How much did he pay for you? The blood of Jesus Christ. That is more than many hundreds of 18:45 crores of rupees. So, if you believe that you have to believe only one thing. Do you believe that the blood of Jesus Christ is more valuable than all the silver and gold in this world? It says that in 1 Peter chapter 1 19:14 You must believe this. 1 Peter chapter 1 It says here that we were bought with the blood of Christ in verse 19, with the precious blood of Christ. And there are many things that are more 19:39 precious than gold. in verse 7 Your faith is more precious than gold. And verse 18 You were not bought with silver and 19:59 gold. But with the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ is more valuable than gold. Your faith is more valuable than gold. So you were bought with something more 20:17 valuable than all the gold in the world. And that is the price the Father paid. And not ordinary blood, the blood of his own son. So whenever the devil tells you you are 20:39 useless You say but God sent paid the price of the blood of Jesus to buy me. Whatever other people may say, I'm very 20:56 valuable. Other people may say you are low cost, you are not educated. But God says you are precious to me. I purchased you with the blood of Jesus Christ. God says you are precious to me. I purchased you with the blood of Jesus 21:17 Let all the blind people say I'm uneducated or low caste or whatever bad name they call me. They are all agents of the devil who speak like that. I say I was purchased by the blood of 21:37 Jesus You must believe that. You must tell the devil. See it says in Revelation chapter 12 and verse 11. The devil is called in verse 10 the 21:54 accuser of all the brothers. He accuses us. You committed this sin 15 years ago. And you say but I confessed it. Yeah, yeah, you confessed it but you did 22:14 it. And then 10 years ago you did another one. He reminds us of all the sins we have confessed. God says he will not remember THOSE SINS. BUT THE DEVIL REMEMBERS all of them. 22:32 Accuses, accuses. He says you don't know the Bible. So what? I'm still purchased by the blood of Jesus Jesus did not purchase me after I studied the Bible. Even if a 22:53 very rich man has got a dumb child cannot speak or talk He's still So what if he's deaf and dumb? He's my child. So whatever your weakness may be 23:13 if you have given your life to Jesus Christ and ask him to come into your heart to forgive your sin I want to say to you you are very precious in God's eyes. Don't let the devil accuse you. 23:32 You have to overcome him. Verse 11. Overcome him by the blood of the lamb. Two things. First of all, the blood of Jesus has cleansed me from all my sins. So he says, "Satan, you cannot accuse me 23:51 of that." There was once a man of God. One day he was very discouraged. Because the devil was accusing him. All his past mistakes. This thing, that thing you did wrong, you did wrong 20 years ago, 25 years 24:09 ago. And he said to the devil, "That is not all. I have committed more sins than that. You only mentioned few of them. 24:29 Make the list complete. All the sins I committed from the day I was born till today. And make me when you have made the full list you can write on it, "The blood of Jesus has cleansed me from all sin." How did he overcome Satan? 24:53 He by the blood of the lamb. Secondly, you have to tell the devil, "The blood of Jesus is you have to tell the devil the blood of Jesus is what HAS PURCHASED ME. SO, I'M VERY PRECIOUS IN GOD'S EYES. I'M not purchased with crores of worth 25:14 of gold. But by the blood of Jesus Christ. It says here in the next sentence, you must give that as the word of your testimony, verse 11. HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD what word of testimony is? That is not getting up in the church and 25:36 giving testimony about your salvation. Or standing in the open air and giving your testimony. All that is good. But that is all testimony to men. Here, it is talking about testimony to 25:55 the devil. How many of you have spoken to the devil? We should speak to him. You must give your testimony to Satan. That's what it says here. Read it carefully. 26:12 They overcame Satan. Verse 11. By the blood of the lamb. And by the word of their testimony. That testimony about the blood of the lamb to Satan. THAT IS THE MEANING. 26:33 You must give your testimony to Satan. Not testimony like we give in the church. Making a big list of all your sins. You don't have to say all that. He already knows all the sins you committed. You this is what you got to give a 26:50 testimony about the blood of the lamb. You say Satan I don't belong to you. Once upon a time I belonged to you. I don't belong to you now. The blood of Jesus has cleansed me. The blood of Jesus has purchased me. And now I belong to Jesus Christ. 27:14 And Satan, I resist you in Jesus name. You know what will happen? He will run away from you. Have you read that verse? James chapter 4 and verse 7 27:34 Submit to God and resist the devil and he will flee from you. Don't try resisting the devil before you submit to God. Then he will not run away from you. But if you first give yourself 27:51 completely to Jesus Christ Submit to God Then resist the devil. What will he do? What does it say in Telugu? Does it say he will walk away? No. 28:11 What does it say? In English it is more than run. He will flee. Supposing you go to the zoo and one lion's cage is broken and the 28:29 lion comes out. What will you do? Will you quietly walk away? You will run faster than you ran in your whole life. Do you believe the devil will run away 28:46 from you like that? In the name of Jesus. He will ALWAYS RUN AWAY. YOU MUST HAVE FAITH. HE WAS DEFEATED ON THE CROSS 2,000 years ago. Jesus is your bridegroom now. 29:12 Don't be afraid of Satan. Let me ask you sisters. Supposing you are walking with your loving husband on the road. And one man comes to fight with you. 29:34 What will your husband do? Will he just stand there and watch? He will FIGHT WITH HIM. THAT IS THE WAY when we are the bride of Jesus Christ. We use the name of Jesus. 29:56 That is like saying the bridegroom goes and fights with Satan. He is Jesus is called the lion of Judah. We don't have to be afraid of anything in the world. Supposing you're walking down the road 30:15 alone. AND ONE FIERCE ALSATIAN DOG COMES RUNNING AT ME. Will you be afraid? I'll be afraid. I don't like Alsatian dogs. If they attack me, I'll run. But 30:35 supposing I've got a big lion with me. And And walking down the road. This is my friend, this lion. And there are 10 Alsatian dogs coming at me. Not one, 10. 30:56 And they come to attack me. And I tell my friend, "Please, just roar at them." Have you heard the roar of a lion? Even when it's inside the cage, I get a fright. These Alsatian dogs will put their tail 31:18 behind their leg and run. That is the mighty power when we use the name of Jesus. In the last more than 30 years, 31:37 I've come across so many people possessed by demons. And I tell those demons, "In the name of Jesus Christ, get out of that person." Let me give you my testimony. 31:55 Every single time, they go. And I don't have to say it a second time. Once. And I don't have to shout. Quietly. In the name of Jesus, "Get out of that person." 32:15 They go. You can do it. Because the devil is not afraid of me, he's afraid of Jesus. The one living in me is greater than him. The one if you have asked Jesus to come 32:33 into you, he is greater than the devil. You must never be afraid of the devil. YOU MUST KNOW THAT HE WAS DEFEATED ON THE CROSS. THAT YOU ARE PURCHASED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. WHATEVER confusion the devil tries to 32:54 bring in your home. Or the devil is trying to ruin your children. Don't fight with your children. Fight with the devil. Resist him in Jesus' name. And he will flee. 33:13 Your home will be different. Because the enemy will run away. We must believe that. The devil will not walk, he will run. Because we use the name of Jesus. You must have that faith. 33:34 Return back to Song of Solomon. See what he says here. Chapter 2. Oh my dove, verse 13. The fig tree has 33:52 ripened its figs and the vine is in blossom. Arise my darling, my beautiful one, come along with me. Throughout the Song of Solomon, there 34:10 are many pictures of a garden. We don't read any pictures of huge skyscrapers and buildings here. Only garden, garden, garden. When God made Adam and Eve, he did not 34:32 build a city for him. He built a garden. Because God wanted man to live in a garden. A garden is more beautiful than a city to God. For one reason. 34:56 Buildings are built by man. A garden is planted by God. But because we are living in a sinful world, we need these houses and all that. But before sin came into the world, 35:17 there were no buildings. Only a garden. God sent Adam and Eve into a garden. And the garden is a beautiful picture of our relationship with Jesus Christ. You know, the relationship between a 35:39 husband and wife must be like a garden. You know, have you seen a beautiful garden? So many roses and flowers. All the grass cut nicely, very green. Beautiful trees with lot of fruit. 36:05 Beautiful thing it is to have a garden like that. Your marriage must be like that with your husband and wife. Like a garden. God told Adam, "I'm making you a gardener." You look after this Garden of Eden. 36:31 And there is one more Garden. And that is your relationship with your wife. That is also a Garden. You must take care of that Garden also. But Adam did not take care of that Garden. He allowed the devil to come. 36:52 And not only drove him out of the Garden of Eden. But also this Garden between his house him and his wife was spoiled. And that is what the devil is doing today also. When you got married. 37:11 We can say that God said to both of you husband and wife. Now take care of this Garden of your marriage. Now have you taken care of that marriage in the so many years since you were married? Supposing you are a gardener appointed 37:35 by some rich man. Say here is my Garden you are appointed as gardener and take And the weeds start coming up. You don't bother about it. 37:54 After few months. The grass is not cut. All the weeds have come up. And the whole Garden is a mess. Why? Because you were lazy. Next compound. 38:14 There is a good gardener. And that is such A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN. ALL NICE FLOWERS AND FRUIT TREES AND NO weeds at all. How is his garden like this and your garden is such full of wilderness? Did God send more rain on the other 38:36 compound than your compound? No. Exactly the same rain fell there and here also. But that gardener worked hard. He didn't go to sleep. You went to sleep. 38:54 See this verse. You are Proverbs 24 What happens when you go to sleep? When you get a garden and you go to sleep It is written in the Bible. And that it can be a picture of your marriage. 39:13 Your home And it can be a picture of your relationship with Jesus Christ. We are also to be like a garden. Just like your marriage to your husband. Jesus is your husband. That also must be a 39:30 a garden. If you If you're lazy It says in Proverbs 24:30. I walked by the field of the lazy man, the vineyard of the man who has no 39:50 sense. And what did I see? It was completely overgrown with thistles and the surface was covered with nettles and the stone wall was broken down. Most marriages are like this. 40:17 It's not a garden. It is covered with nettles and thistles and all types of things. And the wall is broken down. The world has come inside the house. And when I saw it, verse 32, 40:36 he said, "I thought about it." And I received some instruction. If I just sleep and fold my hands, I will become poor. And my garden will BECOME A MESS. 40:58 SO, IN YOUR marriage to your husband and in your marriage to Jesus Christ, you have to take care of the garden. As soon as a weed or a thistle comes, pull it out. What a beautiful garden God gave you 41:19 when you got married that day. What a beautiful garden God gave you on the day you were born again. Why has your Christian life become such a mess today? With so much of sin. 41:39 And your married life also, so much unhappiness. Because you were lazy. More interested in making money. No time to build fellowship with your wife. By fellowship, I don't mean we sit 41:59 together for 24 hours. Many husbands have to go to work sometimes 10, 12 hours a day they are away from the home. We live in a world like that. They have to go away from home for so long. What I'm saying is 42:23 as soon as a weed comes, pull it out. If you see some thorns, pull it out. And pour some water. Then the garden will grow. See Song of Solomon 42:40 Solomon doesn't have a problem chapter 2 verse 13 See, the Lord has given us a garden. And the fig tree is so ripe with its figs. And the vines are in blossom giving 42:57 forth such a beautiful smell. But how to keep this garden? Because there are all types of foxes coming in to eat all this. So, verse 15 43:15 CATCH THESE FOXES. ESPECIALLY THE small little foxes that are ruining our vineyard. While our vineyards are in blossom, it says these little foxes are coming in and spoiling the vineyard. What is that vineyard? It is your heart. 43:40 In your heart, your relationship with Jesus. What are the little foxes? Not the big sins. Big sins and all, we can easily drive out the big foxes. You don't commit murder and adultery and 44:00 things like that. Small small foxes. one rude word That is like a little fox. or some small lie or you say something to hurt your 44:20 husband or wife or in your relationship with Jesus, you do some small wrong thing. It's not a big thing. You never do any big things. It says, "Catch the little foxes." Those little foxes are ruining the 44:41 vineyard. So, we must always be on the alert for these little foxes. You don't have to be worried of some elephant coming inside because you can see it very easily. You will not commit. 45:06 How many of you are in danger of committing murder? I think nobody. Nobody. How many of you are in danger of going and robbing a bank? No. Those are all big big elephants. They will not come into your vineyard. They will not come. 45:29 Because you can easily detect it. These small foxes Some little gap in the wall, they come inside. What do they come for? And then what's the night? To ruin your relationship with Jesus? To ruin your relationship with your 45:49 wife? To ruin your relationship with your husband? If you go to sleep the whole garden will be full of these foxes after a few days. So, we must be alert. You know, even if we are physically 46:10 asleep, we can be spiritually alert. How often should we be alert? What did Jesus say? Matthew uh Luke 21 verse 34 46:33 He's talking about the coming of the Lord. Be on guard that your hearts are not weighed down with drunkenness and worries of life. Now, physical drunkenness we can all 46:56 understand. You go and get some alcohol and get drunk. But, this is not talking about that. This is your heart getting drunk. How does the heart get drunk? 47:17 With all the things of the world. All the worries of the world. All the things of the world you want. You Oh, you watch too much television. cinemas 47:35 You say, "I'm not getting drunk." BUT, YOUR HEART IS DRUNK WITH ALL THAT. BE ON GUARD. And how often should we keep on the alert? verse 36 47:56 Keep on the alert at all times. at all times always on the alert Keep your conscience very sensitive. Never to do anything wrong. 48:22 And if your conscience pricks you about one small Even if other Christians are doing it. Say, I don't judge them. But I don't do it. I'm sorry, I don't do it. 48:40 My conscience troubles me. That is like a thistle and a weed in my garden. It says here, I must be alert all the time. Even when I'm physically asleep, spiritually alert. That's how we must be. 49:02 If you are the bride of Christ You know, like the bride said here in Song of Solomon He says like this in chapter five. It's a beautiful phrase. verse two 49:19 I was asleep, but my HEART WAS AWAKE. THAT'S WONDERFUL. PHYSICALLY asleep But my heart is awake. Because my heart is awake 49:37 I can hear the voice of my beloved even though I'm physically asleep. That's a wonderful experience. When I'm fast asleep number. And I cannot hear all the sounds in the room. Who is coming, who is going in the room, 49:56 I don't know. fast asleep. But my heart is awake. And I'm dreaming. And I'm dreaming of the kingdom of God. And about the things of God. 50:15 And about Jesus. What a wonderful experience. Most people they dream about some filthy things. Or some fearful things. SOME DOG CHASING THEM. 50:34 OR some snake coming to bite them. That is because during the daytime you listen to the devil. Now, finish with that. Finish with listening to the devil. Read God's word. 50:53 If you want to have fearful dreams, I'll tell you. You must watch plenty of television. And you get plenty of fearful dreams and dogs and snakes and all types of things. But if you want dreams about the kingdom 51:13 of God, read the Bible. Think about God's word. Then even when you are asleep, your heart will be awake. You will hear like it says here, the voice of your beloved. I want that experience all the times. 51:37 I say, "Lord, that's the only type of dream I want." That even when I'm asleep, I can hear your voice. I remember once I had a dream. I had a dream. And in the dream 51:56 I saw myself walking back after speaking in a meeting in some conference somewhere. And I thought I had done my best to preach the word. So in my dream I was walking back to my 52:17 room. And I heard in my dream a voice behind And the voice said You did not do a good job in your preaching. You could have done better 52:32 than that. That was not good enough. And still in my dream 52:49 In my dream I felt discouraged. And in my dream I was talking to the Lord. And I said Lord Whenever you come in front of me You always encourage me. But when you speak from behind my back 53:07 you're always discouraging me. Whatever I do you say it's not good enough. I try my best you say not good enough. And the Lord spoke to me in my dream. Look back and see who is speaking to you. So in my dream 53:29 I turned around. It was the devil. As soon as he saw ME HE RAN. THAT DAY I learned one lesson. day I learned one lesson. When you hear a voice saying, "That was 53:49 not good enough what you did." That's not the Holy Spirit. That's always the devil. I never knew that. I thought it's always the Holy Spirit saying, "Not good enough. Do better. Not good enough. Do better." I discovered that Jesus never speaks 54:13 like that. He always says, "That was good." But we can do it better next time. Isn't that how we should speak to our children? You know, even when my children were 3 years old, they would write one birthday 54:31 card for me. Not these expensive 25 rupee birthday cards. They didn't have that money. Just some old paper torn and they will draw some flower. 54:52 Dear Daddy, I love you very much. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. And all the spelling is wrong. They don't know They don't know English properly. They're only 3 years old. The E is written the wrong way and the A is written the wrong way. 55:13 So, when I get it in the morning, what do I tell them? Hey, come here. This is not good enough. Is that what I say? I hug him. I say, "I love YOU SO MUCH THAT YOU GOT UP and wrote this CARD FOR ME." AFTER 30 YEARS, I still keep that scrap 55:37 of paper with me. I don't care if THE SPELLING IS WRONG. AND I AM NOT such a good father. God is a wonderful father. Jesus is A WONDERFUL BRIDEGROOM. I DON'T SAY TO MY CHILD NOT good enough. 56:00 How will Jesus say that to me? Now, listen to this. Jesus never says not good enough. He encourages us. Because he is our bridegroom. 56:19 What should we do? These little little foxes, as soon as you're aware of a sin, confess it immediately. Lord, I'm sorry. Cleanse me. That's like killing the fox. It's a Throw it out. 56:41 And then another fox comes from another hole. Oh Lord, I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Maybe you spoke a little rudely to your husband or wife. That That can happen sometimes in the pressure of work. Accidentally we say something. 57:03 Don't get all discouraged and say, "Oh, I'm useless." Supposing you're walking outside here, and you trip on a stone and fall down. What do you do? Do you say, "Oh, I'm useless. I don't know how to walk." Do you lie down there for 5 minutes? 57:25 What do you do if you trip on a stone and fall down? YOU GET UP IMMEDIATELY. When you accidentally say something wrong to somebody. That can happen. It can happen to the 57:44 best of Christians. Towards the end of his life we read the Apostle Paul shouted at one high priest. Acts 23. But he immediately set it right. I'M SORRY. 58:03 HE GOT UP. WE MUST ALSO GET UP. KILL THAT FOX. SAY, "I'M SORRY, LORD." And tell the person whom you hurt, "I'm sorry for saying that." Ask God forgiveness. 58:22 And ask forgiveness from that person. And you're up on your feet. There was one godly brother who used to say, "When you fall down, you should not just get up. Like a ball bounces up, you must bounce 58:41 up like that." If you throw a rubber ball to the ground, how long does it take to come up? Immediately. So, IF I FALL, 59:00 IMMEDIATELY I get up. Lord, I'm sorry. Please cleanse me. I don't want one fox in this garden. I want to always have a beautiful garden in my relationship with Jesus Christ. One last verse. 59:25 Then we can tell the Lord this finally. Probably you will not get what you said. Song of Solomon chapter 4 verse 16 Awake, O north wind, and come into the south. Make my garden breathe out fragrance. Let his spices be wafted abroad. Let my 59:45 beloved come into his garden and eat his choice fruits. Let my beloved come and eat all this 1:00:03 beautiful fruit in my garden. Because I got rid of the little foxes. Now it doesn't matter which wind blows. North wind 1:00:20 North wind is the cold wind of suffering and persecution. South wind South wind is the warm, pleasant wind of prosperity and joy. It doesn't matter which wind 1:00:45 persecution suffering difficulty poverty pedal car out to the other wind of prosperity promotion many pleasant things 1:01:02 It is the same for my garden. This wind or this wind, the beautiful fragrance will come out for my beloved Lord Jesus. What a wonderful way to live. And I 1:01:21 would like to give you always of Christ. How to do it? What I have been saying all these days. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. Cry out to God. Say, "Lord, fill me with the Holy 1:01:41 Spirit." So, Jacob once said, "I will not let you go, God, until you bless me." You read that in Genesis 32. Say that to God. "I will not let you go unless you fill me with the Holy Spirit." Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in my 1:02:03 life. Amen. Amen.
