0:00 Thank you. 0:30 Thank you. 1:00 We are going to start the session very soon, so we would request you all to please take 1:20 your seats. Just a reminder on the feedback forms to please remember to write about if you need the messages or not with your contact details, your name and your contact details on the feedback form at the bottom. So request you all to please take your seats. 1:39 Thank you. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Some of those speakers right there. 2:17 Oh, I'm the master of the sea. I'm a despairing cry. From the wildest end of the sea, I'm mine. Love it to be. Love it to be. When nothing else could help, love it to be. 2:47 Love it to be. Love it to be. When nothing else could help, love it to be. Oh, my God, to Him I give. Ever to Him I pray. In His presence, in His presence, in heaven, His praise to sing. Love so mighty and so true, merits my soul as songs. 3:26 Faithful, loving service, in heaven, belongs. Love it to be. Love it to be. Love it to be. When nothing else could help, love it to be. Let's sing it out. 3:48 Love it to be. Love it to be. When nothing else could help, love it to be. Souls in danger, look about 4:09 Jesus completely saved He will lift you by His love Out of the angry ways He's the master of the sea When Moses will obey He, your Savior, wants to be, be saved today 4:34 Love lifted means Love lifted means When nothing else could help Love lifted means Love lifted means Love lifted means 4:56 When nothing else could help Love lifted means You're the Word of God the Father You're the Word of God the Father 5:25 From before the world began Every star and every planet Has been fashioned by your hand All creation's homes together By the power of your voice 5:46 Let the skies declare your glory Let the land and seas rejoice You're the Lord of all creation You're the Lord of every hand And you're high of love 6:07 Resiles across the land And you left the gates of angels Angels Angels seek and save the lost And exchange the joy of heaven For the anguish of the Christ 6:29 May the pain, men, they're hungry They will burn you still the sea May how silently you suffer That the guilty made for free You're the author of creation 6:50 You're the Lord of every man And your cry of love rings out Across the land Where the shouting rose victorious Rest in entry from the grave 7:11 And ascended into heaven Leading captains in your way Will you stand before the Father In receiving for your Lord From each tribe and tongue and nation 7:34 You are leading us all You're the author of creation You're the Lord of every man And your cry of love rings out Across the land 7:55 You're the author of creation You're the Lord of every man And your cry of love rings out Across the land Thank you. 8:42 Thank you. 9:12 Thank you. 9:42 Thank you. 10:12 Thank you. 10:42 Thank you. 11:12 Thank you. 11:42 Let's all stand up and worship the Lord. God has done only good things in our life. The greatest of all is that He should love us so much that He gave His only begotten Son to die on the cross for our sins. 12:11 All our life, the only thing that we can say, God, is thank you, Lord. We cannot do anything and try to make it as something that we have done out of our might. Will you thank the Lord? 12:33 Thank you for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross. For the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross. 12:50 Thank you for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross for the cross. And gave amazing grace. Thank you for this love of God. Thank you for this name, your sins. Wash me in your cleansing love. 13:21 Now all I know, over in the sand, can break what is the land? Well, he is the land. See it on the throne. 13:46 Round me out with many crowns. New rain may turn me out. High and lifted high. Jesus, Son of God. 14:12 They're dying of heaven. Crucified. Well, he is the land. Let's sing it on again. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross, Lord. 14:35 Thank you for the cross you gave me. Wearing all my sin and shame. In love you gave. And gave amazing grace. 14:57 Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the near-bearing stand. Wash me in your cleansing love. Now all I know. 15:18 Now all I know. Now all I know. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. 15:41 Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. 16:01 Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. 16:22 Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. 16:48 Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. 17:12 Thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. 17:36 Thank you for the cross. Thank you. 17:58 Thank you for the cross. 18:24 He's above the cross. He's above the greatest inventions that man has ever made. Sending a vehicle into Mars is nothing compared to what God can do. He's the one who created Mars. Praise the Lord. He's the one who is above everything and deserves all glory and all honor. 18:43 Let's sing it from the bottom of our hearts that he's above all powers. Whatever that we might have thought about God. Let's realize that he's above everything. Hallelujah. Let's sing it out, can you? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 18:56 Of all power. Let's sing it out, can you? From all the pain. From all nature and all the evil things. From all the western and all the ways of man. From all the western and all the ways of man. From all the western and all the ways of man. 19:06 From all the ways of man. From all the world began. From all the western and all the ways of man. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. 19:38 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. 20:08 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. You took me fall, and part of me, come on. You were crucified, laid behind a stone. You lived to die, rejected at all, like yours. 20:49 Trampled on the ground. You took me fall, and part of me, come on. You took me fall, and part of me, come on. 21:18 You took me fall, and part of me, come on. Heavenly Father, Lord, here above everything, Lord. Lord God, mighty Lord. Thank you, Lord, for the privilege that you have given us to know you as our Father. Thank you for all your goodness and your grace, Father. As we sit in your presence, Father God. 21:47 We want to know more of you, Lord, that we may grow closer to you, Father, and conform to the image of Christ, O Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you are changing us day by day from glory to glory, Lord. Lord, we give this session in your mighty hands, Father God. In Jesus Christ's name I pray. Amen. 22:07 Lord, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Lord, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Lord, thank you, Lord. Thank you. 22:45 So, since there are more than 80 questions, we have only 60 minutes, and all the questions except one were in English, so we won't have a Hindi translation. 23:07 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. 23:29 I am not able to find grace before I fall into sin. How can I find grace? God gives His grace to the humble. 23:54 And so, if we have not got grace in any situation, like I said in the meeting, it must mean that I, in some area, I was proud, and that's why God withdrew His grace or didn't give me grace at that time. 24:15 But I am absolutely convinced in my life, that if you, the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of grace, Hebrews 10:29. And if we get grace, it is impossible to fall into sin at that moment, because the Bible, either God's word is true or my opinion is true. 24:34 I believe God's word is true. I believe God's word is true. Sin shall not rule over you when you are under grace. And I want to say that, I have experienced that in my life. It also says in Hebrews 4:16, "Let us come to the throne of grace to receive grace to help in our time of need." 24:53 In other words, in our time of need, if we cry out saying, "Lord, help me," He will help. Now, people have asked more than one question. I'm not going to answer it because we don't have time for that. I'll try and answer all of these. Okay. Yesterday you spoke about the engine of the train and the rails. 25:16 That is the diesel power and the rails. What are these in our life? I explained yesterday. The rails are the word of God. We must keep them parallel, keep strictly on the rails, otherwise we get derailed. The power, diesel power or steam power is the power of the Holy Spirit. 25:37 So we need the rails of God's word and the power of the Holy Spirit to take us from one place to another. Another question is, "Does Satan have a plan for man's life as God and what blinds us from knowing God?" I'm sure Satan wants to mess up God's plan for our life. 26:01 Satan had a plan for Adam to get him out of the Garden of Eden, out of fellowship with God. But that would not have succeeded if Adam had believed that God loves me and God's plan is the best for me. Satan succeeds in our life when he can convince us that God doesn't really love you. 26:22 You know, some prayer is not answered, or some sick person is not healed, or some child you prayed for died. Then Satan says, "See, that's the proof that God doesn't love you." But that's not true. You know, just because this beautiful tree of knowledge of good and evil, the beautiful fruit, God says, "No, don't take it." 26:46 It doesn't mean that God doesn't love you. And if Adam believed, he had told Satan, "Satan, I don't know why God has forbidden me from taking this, but I know God loves me." And there are many things I can't explain, but I know God loves me. 27:02 He would not have sinned. And I want to tell you this, in any situation, if you say, "I don't understand everything of God's ways, but I know one thing, I'm absolutely sure God loves me." He will not be able to make you fall. 27:15 The love of God is the foundation, like I said the other day, on which we can build a house. In the church meetings, I'm not able to concentrate on Jesus and God's word, because of some sisters who are not dressed modestly. 27:27 I'm distracted from the worship of God. No, this is a genuine temptation. And I think a lot of young sisters, I want to give them credit for their ignorance. Ignorance means, because they are not men, they don't realize how much a man is tempted by the way a woman dresses. 27:52 I mean, the women don't know it because they are not men. But I want to say to you, sisters, there are two things particularly in your dress that you have to be very careful about. One is tight-fitting clothes that reveal your figure. 28:10 And the other is clothes that reveal unnecessary parts of your flesh. You know, I've seen sometimes sisters coming with the blouse, the back is like this, completely so much open at the back. 28:31 And they say, "It's hot." But I say, "Brothers don't come with a venian like that to the west." They are also feeling hot. So, it's not hot. It's not hot. It's some other type of heat. It's style. So, I would say, suffer the heat for 2-3 hours on Sunday mornings so that you don't tempt other people. 28:57 Be a little more modestly dressed. Because I'll tell you one thing. If God punishes a woman for lusting after a woman, and if it was because that woman was immodestly dressed, a righteous God will have to punish that woman for making that man lust after him. 29:18 And especially in church, be very, very careful about this. I always, one sister asked me, "How shall I dress?" I said, "Supposing Jesus was living in the next street and asked you to come and go for a walk with him in the marketplace. 29:33 How will you dress to go to his house that Jesus can walk beside you and say, 'I'm proud of this, my sister?'" Always dress like that. Not only when you come to church, when you go to work. I've sometimes said to people in my church in Bangalore, 29:50 "I'm proud of you young girls, that you dress modestly when you go to college, different from the others, because you want to be different for the sake of Jesus Christ." So, if Jesus is proud of you, that's enough. Don't worry, if all your friends make fun of you, you will grow up to be a godly girl. 30:07 You'll have no regret when you see Jesus face to face in eternity. "Okay, in my foolishness I took dowry in the past, but now I am ashamed. What should I do? Should I pay it all back?" See, some of the things that we have done in the past, we cannot necessarily rectify and there are two things you have to consider. 30:25 "What will your in-laws think? He's returning the dowry. Is he going to divorce his wife now? What is the next thing?" Don't put wrong ideas into their head. If they gave it to you gladly, "Okay, you did something wrong." 30:38 Use it for your family needs because that is their daughter and they gave it for that. So, I wouldn't make a law on that. Some people make a law saying, "You must return it." I don't make laws saying, "Thou shalt, thou shalt not." 30:53 And therefore, one person may do one thing, one person may do another thing. Both are right. You go by what you feel free. In many of these things, the answer is, "Pray." And there is a beautiful verse in Romans 8:6 which says, "The mind of the spirit is life and peace." 31:15 Romans 8:6 So, the way to know God's mind is when you pray about something, "Lord, shall I keep this dowry or return it?" And you pray with your wife because it is her father who gave it. And if you feel, "Yeah, I feel disturbed about keeping it." 31:35 You pray with your wife and she says, "Yeah, we also feel disturbed because my parents are old. They don't have enough money and they have other needs. Return it." But if you pray with your wife and you say, "No, my parents are well off. They don't need this. 31:49 They don't have any other responsibilities." And we both husband and wife feel, "I think we can keep it. Use it for our children. Keep it." That's the answer. Peace in the heart is always the mark of God's will. Can I take a car loan or home loan? 32:05 Yes, because a home loan is not really a debt. If you take a weighing balance, one side is the money you took from the bank. The other side is the house. Equal. Or you take a car loan if it is insured. If the car is insured, if it crashes, you get money back, you've taken the loan, it's equal. 32:23 But if you take a loan to go on a vacation or to buy unnecessary things for your house, which have lost its value, then it's a debt. And you've got to make sure that you can pay it. Be very careful. How did you live without debt all your life? 32:38 I'll tell you. Because my wife and I, well, fortunately, I had a wife who was willing to live very simply. When I married her, I said, "I don't have any bank balance. I trust the Lord for my needs, and I've given up my job, and I don't have much." 32:54 So she's willing. It was difficult, but we were willing to live simply. We never bought any clothes for ourselves other than what we had. If the collars got torn, we'd just invert the collars and stitch it up and use it again. 33:09 And we would never buy anything for the house, which we didn't have money for. When a baby was born, we would stitch clothes for it instead of going to the shop and buying clothes because we didn't have the money. Now, today it's not like that. 33:24 God has provided us more. My sons are all doing well in their jobs. But in those days, the way to avoid debt is, there's a saying in English, "Cut your coat according to your cloth." See, God has done a boundary by our income and bank balance around us. 33:44 Don't go outside that boundary. Stay inside. Maybe yours is a very small boundary. Stay inside that. When my boundary was small, I stayed inside that. We didn't buy washing machines or any of those things. When we could afford it, we bought it. 33:59 But till then, we washed. You know how Jesus washed his clothes with his hands. So we washed like that. There's no problem in that. It says here, if you go outside the boundary, Ecclesiastes chapter 10, verse 8, the last part. 34:15 If you break through a wall, a serpent will bite you. And it's a very interesting thing that in the Hebrew language, the word for serpent bite is debt. Same word. So, if you break through that wall, which God has put around you, which is your financial income, the serpent will bite you. 34:38 Why should we cover our heads in the church? Because the Bible says so in 1 Corinthians 11. There are two parts to 1 Corinthians 11. That is talking about ladies only. 1 Corinthians 11, I've got two parts. First part is vailing of the head for women, symbolizing that I am submissive to male authority in the head, in the church. 35:02 Whether my husband or my father or the elders in the church. And also symbolizing, you read 1 Corinthians 11, that man is the glory of God, which should not be covered, so his head is not covered. Woman is the glory of the man. 35:17 The glory of man must be covered in the church, so the woman veils her head. That's from 1 Corinthians chapter 11. If you go to our CFC India website, there's an article on it. You can read it. Should we tithe? Because not in the New Testament. 35:31 Or Old Testament it was a commandment. Not in the 10, but in other commandments. But in the New Testament, the principle is give cheerfully. 2 Corinthians 9, verse 7. God loves a cheerful giver. So, in the Old Testament it was how much you gave, 10%. 35:52 In the New Testament it was how you gave. That's important. Okay, I'm going to rush through these, otherwise we won't finish. Is the Christian rock country song in any way beneficial? No. I think rock music has come from the world. 36:07 There's a spirit in it which is not good. Particularly this heavy metal type of stuff. I don't think there's any such thing as Christian heavy metal. That is like Christian adultery or Christian murder or something like that. 36:22 It's a worldly spirit. Okay. That's two, three questions there. I have answered only one. In times of decision making I want God to lead me. How do I know what comes from God? What's from Him and not my imagination due to constant pondering about it? 36:43 It's very difficult to know, but by familiarity with God's voice you'll come to know. For example, if your mother is on the other side of that wall and there are 10 other women speaking. How do you recognize your mother's voice? 36:57 How is it I cannot recognize it? Because you have heard your mother's voice so often. Even in the midst of other voices you say, "Ah, that's my mom." So the same way many voices in our heart we can recognize God's voice if we get familiar with God's voice. 37:09 And the way to get familiar with God's voice is by reading the Bible. This is definitely God's voice. So read it, obey it and we become familiar with the Bible. And then when we are thinking of a particular situation and we pray about it, we'll have a peace in our heart like I showed you that verse. 37:25 And that indicates what is God's will. And in the early stages, you know, if you are trying to learn somebody's voice in the midst of 10 other voices, it will take some time. But over a period of time, God will guide you. 37:42 And until you are sure, seek the guidance of godly older people. Just like, you know, older, godly elder brothers are just like parents in a home. Why does God put children under parents? Because they don't know what to do in the beginning. 37:56 So parents guide them and lead them, and one day those children can take decisions on their own. So seek the advice of godly older people until you come to hear God's voice yourself. How to study the Bible effectively? I think you should read large sections of the Old Testament at a stretch. 38:17 I would recommend living Bible or something. It's very easy to read. New Testament, read small, small sections and meditate on it. And try to, over a period of maybe years, cover the whole Bible. And use a good, if you want help, get a good commentary. 38:33 Which on the internet, for example, you go to the CFC India website. We have a verse by verse commentary of the whole New Testament. What is the right way to give discipline to toddlers, small children? 38:56 I think we must, one of the things we must teach our children right from the very beginning is obedience. There are two things I was very strict, two, three things I was very strict on with my children. One is obey. When daddy or mommy tell you something, you have to obey. 39:11 Second, never tell me a lie. Even if you have done the greatest calamity, come and tell me, honestly. And I won't punish you if you are honest with me. And third, you must always respect. Speak with respect to older people, to father and mother, and to others. 39:30 Those are the things I would be strict on. I was not, I would never punish them if they broke something accidentally in the house. Or even if it was something expensive. That would only show that I love material things. 39:41 Or the marks were not good enough. Maybe they don't have intelligence enough. Why can you blame them? But if they didn't work hard, I would say you must work hard. But punishment and discipline is for disobedience, disrespect, or telling lies. 39:58 And how to do it? I mean, there are different methods of doing it. We can, physical punishment is the last resort. There are other ways of doing it, like go and lie down. I would tell my kids, go and lie down on my bed. 40:11 Go and have a time out. Go sit facing that wall for the next half an hour. You know, or withdraw some privileges. You can't play cricket with the other children today, sorry. Okay. The more I have tried to submit to my husband, according to God's word, the more he has taken advantage of me and my children. 40:32 And he rules like a boss. What should I do? Well, that's a difficult question because I don't know exactly how it is. And I would say that you should seek the counsel of some godly, older person who can advise you in this matter. 40:55 I don't want to say, I'll tell you why I don't want to give a clear answer because if I say something, you'll go and tell your husband, brother Zach said this. I've had that happen to me. So, sometimes, you know, I hear a wife is giving one side of the story. 41:12 Usually in all these husband-wife cases there are three sides. Husband's side, wife's side and the truth. Which is sometimes neither here nor there. And so we need to, that's why I say personal counselling is the way to do it. 41:24 And, of course, no husband should rule over his wife. And submission doesn't mean blind obedience like a slave. We must seek fellowship, you know. It's like the hand, for example, submits to my brain. But it's not in competition with my brain. 41:41 So, we should work towards that type of relationship. That's why I say, please seek for counsel from someone. If someone who has done 15 years of ministry and then falls into sin, can that man again do the ministry? In our church, if a man falls into sexual sin, I would never make him an elder again. 42:08 I say, you can repent and come back to the church and be in fellowship. But if you're already an elder and you fall into sin with some woman in the church, you can never be an elder again. But if you're not an elder and you're, even if you're a believer and you're in your foolish days, you committed sin, you can grow up to be an elder. 42:28 But once you come to an elder, the Bible says, to whom more is given, more is required. I'll give you one example. I don't have time to show you all those verses. You can look it up yourself. In the Old Testament, when Moses sinned once, he hit the rock instead of speaking to the rock. 42:43 In Numbers chapter 20, God said, you cannot enter the land of Canaan. But Numbers chapter 14, you read that the children of Israel were given nine chances to sin. The tenth time, God told the Israelites, you cannot enter Canaan. 42:58 Children of Israel were given nine chances, Numbers 14. Moses was not even given one chance. Punishment was the same. You can't enter Canaan because to whom more is given, more is required. What does the church teach about the saving grace of Christ to the thief who was crucified on the right? 43:14 But the Bible says only about one thief. Yeah, I think the story of the one thief is given to us so that to teach us that even at the last minute, you can be born again and go to paradise. If you repent, acknowledge your guilt and ask for forgiveness. 43:28 Okay. Is it right to criticize the weaknesses or mistakes in public meetings? You spoke many things about other things. What you say is right. But is it right to criticize when newborn believers will be stumbled? 43:51 Yeah, you see, Jesus Christ had two ministries. One was to teach his disciples the right way. And then when the Pharisees were leading people astray. He, you read the, I say, I'm not as strict as Jesus. I never used the language Jesus used. 44:06 But those Pharisees were the leaders of using the Bible and leading people astray, giving a wrong picture of God. And Jesus called them names like you serpents, you generation of vipers. How will you escape the damnation of God, you hypocrites, you blind guides. 44:21 You read Matthew chapter 23. You'll be amazed at the words Jesus used. I use much milder words than that, but because I'm not at his level. But I believe it's part of my duty to warn and correct. I don't tell everybody to do it because that is only one aspect of Christ's ministry. 44:38 And not everybody's called to do it. I feel I'm called to do it because I feel a responsibility. It's like if I have my children and I find there are some deceivers going around, I'll warn them. Be careful. If there are kidnappers going around, I say, be careful. 44:52 There are people around here who are kidnapping children. Don't accept sweets from strangers because there may be drugs inside that they are trying to get you hooked on. Is it possible, can a wife, can you marry a person who is, can a wife be older than the husband? 45:08 There's nothing wrong in that if the husband is more mature. It's maturity that matters, not age. Because sometimes in some situations the girl is a little older than the boy. But if the boy is immature, then it's not wise. 45:24 Because the boy has to be the head of the home. So that's the important thing. What is it, can you explain what fellowship is? If we have fellowship with believers, we end up in eating and fun and outing, etc. See, fellowship is not only around the word of God. 45:45 I think it's getting more and more close to each other. And it's not always by quoting the Bible. I think humor is a very important part. I personally believe in humor as a very important test of fellowship. I'll give you a proof of it. 45:59 If you and your wife can pray together, you still may not have a good relationship. You may have a strain in your relationship and pray together, go to church together, read the Bible together, everything. But you will not be able to joke with one another. 46:12 You cannot joke with a person with whom you have a strained relationship. All of you will agree there. When you can freely have humor with one another, that's a test of a good relationship. So therefore I say I'm all for it. 46:27 Has tongues ceased today or is it in existence? Tongues will cease, it says in 1 Corinthians 13, when the perfect has come. That is when Christ comes. Till then it is there. But like all good things, there is a lot of counterfeit. 46:42 You have to be very careful. And it's not the main thing. The main thing, 1 Corinthians 14 says, is prophecy. Speaking God's word in a way that edifies others. Is there something wrong with our church that we are not growing in numbers? 46:57 I am a young person, sometimes confused. There could be many reasons. Sometimes the location where you are living. And what you need to ask yourself is, Lord, is there any reason why we are not growing as we should? If there is, please show it to us. 47:14 One of the prayers we used to pray when we started out as a small church was, Lord, if there is any, we are not trying to reach the whole country. We are not even trying to reach the whole of Bangalore. But this particular area around our house may be within 4 or 5 kilometers. 47:27 Is there anybody in this area who is really seeking a godly life and not finding it in their church? Please bring him to us. Or help us to meet him in some bank or store or post office or somewhere. And if you don't do both of these, here is a godly man who is seeking for fellowship. 47:47 And he doesn't come in touch with us and I don't come in touch with him. Lord, please show us what is wrong with us. Help us to set it right. And the Lord used to show us something. You are too pharisaical. You are too legalistic. 47:57 You are too cold. You are not warm. We set it all right. And then God began to gladly add to us one by one. Then we increased the circle. Lord, maybe in a little bigger area. Are there people there? And gradually like that we went to the country and then other places. 48:10 When I was seeking the Holy Spirit somebody said to me. You have already got the Holy Spirit. Because you are good and you are conscious and repenting of sin. And sometimes I prayed all night but I never received the Holy Spirit. 48:23 I heard and read that without the Holy Spirit you cannot live a good spiritual life. So I am discouraged. See, I want to tell you something about the gift of the Holy Spirit. So to be filled with the Spirit is open every area of your heart. 48:35 Lord, come into my TV room. Tell me what I should get rid of. Come into my reading room. Tell me what I should get rid of. Come into my finances room. Tell me how to handle money. Every area. Search your life. Take the doors one by one by one by one. 48:48 And say, Lord, everything. Fill me. And believe. God will fill you with the Holy Spirit. But don't be confused that you don't have the Spirit. If you don't have the Spirit, you are not even belonging to Him. So this is the confusion people have. 49:00 I want to be immersed or filled with the Holy Spirit. Jesus breathed on His disciples in John chapter 20. And said, "Receive the Spirit." John chapter 20. Just like He breathed on Adam. That was long before Pentecost. Then He said, "Now wait till you are filled with the Holy Spirit." 49:16 So I see a difference. And I think that is the difference between being born again. Can a Roman Catholic person be a Roman Catholic and believer? I think there are some Roman Catholics who are born again that their head is wrong. 49:28 Doctrine is wrong. But their heart can be right. But they will have a lot of regret when they get to Heaven. Because they missed out on God's will. They had a Bible and they didn't follow it. There are a lot of teachings in the Roman Catholic Church that are wrong. 49:43 So particularly in wanting to go through Mary to Christ. And going to the Mass and things like that. Many, many things which are wrong. But if a person's heart is right, God may have mercy on him. And I am not here to judge whether they go to Heaven or Hell. 49:57 But my conviction is that I have met some God-fearing Roman Catholics whose doctrine is wrong but who are a child of God. Who are children of God. Okay. If I have had sex before marriage and now I am a child of God, I don't want to continue in sin. 50:11 In the past you have repented of it. The blood of Christ has cleansed it. You have really turned for it. You have got nothing to do with it. Bury the past and move on. Don't go digging up the grave. Now, you know, I don't make this a law because I don't have a verse to teach me that. 50:26 So if in some peculiar situation the Holy Spirit prompts you saying no, say it. But very often, you know, sometimes you tell something to someone, you put a burden on their head which they have to carry all their life. Don't put that burden unnecessarily on someone. 50:38 So God is forgiven. There is a verse in Acts 10 which says, What God has cleansed, don't call unclean anymore. If I find unmarried boys and girls talking to each other in a friendly way, in a flirting way, what should I do as a pastor in my church? 50:53 I want to be strict and also gentle. I think you should speak to them privately. And then, if it's a big problem in the church, warn people publicly. There are dangers in too much of closeness, particularly going out together. 51:06 And I wouldn't say that talking to a girl or a boy is wrong. I don't believe that. Because they are doing it in any case in the school and in so many in college and other places. And so, we can be over strict on this. But we must warn them of the dangers of getting too close. 51:24 It's like two magnets, you know. If you keep them too close, you begin to touch. All types of problems can come. This question is already answered. Some pastors focus on quantity in Bible reading. 40 chapters a day. What should we do? 51:44 So, as I told you, you can read large sections of the Old Testament and meditate on sections of the New. What happens if a believer sins after baptism or continues to live in sin? See, if you continue to live in a particular sin, you need to ask yourself. 52:02 Are you battling it? Do you hate it? Do you want to give it up? If you are not battling it and you are not hating it, then you need to ask your God whether you are really born again. Because if you are born again, I am not saying you will get victory over sin. 52:14 But you will get a hatred. It's a new nature that comes in which, I don't want to do that. And if you fall like a cat, I said falling in dirty water, you say I want to get out. So, check yourself whether you have a hatred for sin. 52:28 What is the clear mark that God is really building his body in my city? I don't think we can say one particular mark. But like I said earlier in the meeting, that if you go to a church and you feel, not just once in a blue moon, 52:41 But fairly regularly, you go to that church and say, hey, not just the preaching, but the fellowship. Here is Christ about this. And I hear God's word that convicts me of sin every time I come here. Not just fellowship. 52:56 Fellowship alone is not enough. Because fellowship you can have even in a good club. There are people who go to a club to play cards or golf or something. They have what they call good friendship. That's not it. You know, sometimes churches have that. 53:08 But it's more than that. That the presence of Jesus is there. We go to a church and we hear God's word and that speaks to us. There are many Pentecostal church leaders who are falling into sexual sins, scandalous money issues. 53:22 You know, I think I have already spoken on it. There is a lot of deception in this area. Because I think many of them are receiving another spirit. You read in 2 Corinthians 11:4. 2 Corinthians 11:4. You receive another spirit. 53:35 You believe in another Jesus. That's a very dangerous thing. And I think that is what is happening. And so we've got to be very careful. You see, if an unclean spirit makes you unclean, evil spirit makes you evil, the Holy Spirit should make you holy. 53:50 How to seek God the way the Lord? You sought the Lord. Can you give me some practical tips? What kind of disciplines? I think you should read God's word and have a cry in your heart for God himself. And examine yourself constantly whether you love Jesus more than your property, money, people, everything. 54:07 And be quick to confess sin. Like pulling out a thorn. If a thorn gets in your foot, pull it out. Those are the principles I have followed. How to find God's perfect will in our lives. There is a book out there called Finding God's Will. 54:20 Please get that and you can read it. It will show you. Basically through God's word and then through the advice of godly believers and circumstances. Finally the witness of the spirit within. We as young people are discouraged when we see older people not living in unity. 54:35 What should we do? We don't want to join another church. Well, I think you should pray. And sometimes don't worry about those older people. Just make sure you are one with the people whom you can. See many people are carnal. 54:52 And even if they are older they can be carnal. And I think if you concentrate too much on them, you can get discouraged yourself. So work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Does God curse anybody? No. I think in eternity those who reject him finally they will be accursed. 55:08 But right now God is disappointed with his children but he doesn't curse them. What would you do where a wife is facing domestic violence? Should the wife stay with her spouse for the sake of the children or move? I would say if there is a danger to your life, you should not divorce but move out and live separately if at all possible. 55:28 I don't believe in submitting to being beaten and beaten and beaten all the time. Is it right to take a loan from a bank five lakhs to establish my business? See business loan is a dangerous thing. I know a lot of people have become bankrupt because of taking business loans. 55:44 You have got to be very, very careful in this matter. I told you house loan and car loan is okay because there is something to cover it. But business loan you don't know. You know some people it's gone well, some people it's gone badly. 55:56 You only hear the stories of success but you don't hear the stories of failure. There are many cases of people who lost out so you be very, very careful and I can't tell you exactly what to do in that. You pray, seek the counsel of other people in that business. 56:11 See there is a scope for your, do some market survey. See the scope for success in your business. Then only you should proceed. Now that's already answered. We don't have a single church in our city that practices the truth you preached here. 56:31 So I know where I am is in the wrong place. I think the first thing you need to do is pray. Always, whenever you see you need pray. Lord, what shall I do in this situation? I don't find a church that I can go to. Okay, I am going to pray. 56:45 Pray for one more person to join you. If you are a family, pray one more family to join you and seek fellowship. I am not saying start another church. But you still go to wherever you are because the church is the best place to find if there is one more person seeking God like you. 56:59 Paul used to go to the synagogue because he felt there is more chance of my finding a godly person in the synagogue than in the temple of Diana. So there is more chance of finding a godly person in a church than some other place. 57:09 So seek to find that person and seek fellowship with them. Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people that happened only once? You understand me? Bad things happen to one good person. 57:30 That was Jesus Christ. The rest of us, we think we are good. It is not true. How to overcome dirty dreams and sexual sin. I think we are to be disciplined when we read and turn our mind away when we are tempted to read something good. 57:53 When we are tempted that way so that we keep our minds fixed on something that is good. And meditate much on the word of God. I have also been a young man like you. I will tell you I used to be active in doing something for the Lord during the day. 58:06 So I would come back to my room. I was tired. And I would read God's word and pray before going to bed. Read God's word first thing in the morning. When I got up and God protected me from a lot of these things. I lost my faith in God. 58:20 I came to this meeting so that I could revive my faith. And you did revive my faith in yesterday's meeting. Tell me how to keep that faith in God. How to keep that faith in God. I would say keep a good conscience. That is the most important thing. 58:32 Keep a good conscience and always pull out a thorn as soon as it gets in. A visiting preacher in my church says I should not have sex with my wife. That is crazy. I will tell you what. Don't listen. Sex is. Do you know when God created sexual desire? 58:53 Before sin came into the world. Genesis chapter 1. Do you know what God told Adam and Eve? First words. Not second words. First words. What is it? Be fruitful. How did you expect them to be fruitful? By shaking hands or something? 59:11 No. So if I were to paraphrase his words. He was saying both of you have sex with each other. Enjoy yourself and have children. First words of God in Genesis 1:26. You and Pastor Ian Robson in Bangalore have an amazing unity for 40 years. 59:27 Why is it some other elders have conflict? Well I think it's partly because both of us. Brother Ian who is my co-worker and I have had a great sense of our own need. We don't judge one another. And we agree that if we don't agree on something we won't move forward. 59:41 And also we have had a deep respect for each other. Brother Ian Robson in Bangalore. Even though he respects me as sort of a senior in the Lord. But I respect him. And I say you're a man of God as much as me. I want to respect you. 59:54 And I appreciate him as a balance in my life. There is no brother who is so spiritual that he doesn't need a balance. I need a balance in my life. And God has given me this brother to balance. He corrects me sometimes. He says no brother Jack I don't agree with that. 1:00:10 He says ok fine. We'll do it your way. So I'm thankful for that balance. And it's not only here. Even in other places where I travel. I find a balance. And I respect the elders in Tamil Nadu, in Kerala. I respect elders very highly. 1:00:24 And where we respect others. And say I'm imbalanced. No matter how spiritual I am. I'm imbalanced. I need the balance that comes from another person. If you have that attitude there will be unity. Ok that's already answered. 1:00:41 This is also answered. How to deliver a person from drinking habits. I think you've got to pray for him. And warn him of the dangers that there are in getting drunk etc. And if he's an unbeliever. Well there's only one thing we can do for relatives who are unbelievers. 1:01:02 And that is pray for them. Is falling in love a sin? We shouldn't fall. Jesus can keep you from falling. But we must rise up in love. What about thinking of that? I mean I know what you mean. But there's a falling which is wrong. 1:01:21 There's a rising up in love. I loved my wife before I married her. I'll tell you that. But it wasn't a fall. I think it lifted me higher. I rose up in love. And that's a good way to marry. If the person is a godly person. 1:01:36 But if you marry a person just because you love her. Not good. Because she's spiritual first of all. And not just because you love her. Because if you're drawn by physical attraction or even mental equality. You know as general rule I say 50, 30, 20. 1:01:56 Give 50 marks out of 100 for spiritual values. 30 marks for social, intellectual, economic equality and etc. And 20 marks for physical attractiveness. Physical attractiveness is important. But only 20 out of 100. It's a general rule. 1:02:14 It's what I've given. It's my opinion. Like Paul said in 1 Corinthians 7. I have no command from the Lord. But I'm giving my opinion. I advise it to people. So that I say you put spiritual, mental and physical things in a certain place. 1:02:31 Recently in the Bangalore CFC conference you said something in disagreement with Watchman Nee. But earlier on you have said that you were blessed by him as a man of God. I personally believe to the best of my knowledge that Watchman Nee was a man of God. 1:02:45 But there are certain things in his writings published by certain people which I have a fear was not actually Watchman Nee. Because, I don't know whether you know, there's only one book of Watchman Nee's which he wrote in English. 1:03:02 Some of his most popular books were written by others who had notes. They got notes from somebody who attended a meeting. Now you know, I've had people sometimes compile an article from notes that they took when I was speaking. 1:03:17 And then I read through it. I say, "Hey, this is not exactly what I've said. You've misinterpreted me." That's happened so many times. That when I see a book is written of Watchman Nee's from notes that he, taken by somebody in a message that he spoke. 1:03:28 And you put Watchman Nee's name on the title because he's a popular author. I don't know whether that's exactly what he said. And almost all his books came out in print after he was imprisoned in 1972. So I respect him as a man of God because a number of things there I can get. 1:03:42 But I need to discern. That's one thing. And secondly, a number of Watchman Nee's books were written when he was 24, 25 years old. The other ones he wrote when he was 40 years old, they are better because 24, 25 years old he was a kid. 1:03:55 And he himself said later on when he was 40 that one of the big books he wrote called Spiritual Man must never be published again. He himself said that about his own book. So those things many people don't know. And the publishers keep that hidden from people. 1:04:09 If you read the book What Shall This Man Do, in the preface it says that how he didn't want people to publish that book The Spiritual Man. So there are cases like that where we are not very sure. That's why I say check everything with God's word. 1:04:23 So there are things I disagree with him. For example, he says that if you are once saved you can never be lost. I disagree with Watchman Nee. I respect him as a godly man but I don't agree with him. There is nothing wrong in disagreeing with someone and you still respect him. 1:04:37 Okay, generational curse that does not exist today by the way. Generational curse means that some of my ancestors did something wrong witchcraft or something so curse don't come to me. That's absolute rubbish. Because picture it like this. 1:04:52 I was once in a tree called Adam. And I had many many ancestors in that tree who did 101 wrong things. Maybe there was a curse there. One day I was born again. The Holy Spirit cut me off from there and grafted me into another tree called Christ. 1:05:07 There is no generational curse here. Zero. Okay, there are some government sectors where we have to pay bribe in order to get money. Without paying that we will not get the work done. What to do? I want to tell you something which don't misquote me. 1:05:22 Don't misunderstand me. There are many verses in the Bible. You take a concordance and see it. About bribes. But it's always about taking bribes. Never, never take a bribe. Never, never take a bribe. Never take a bribe. 1:05:39 The Bible is full of such verses. But there is no verse in the Bible which says don't give a bribe. And I'm not saying therefore you can give it. You see it's like areas of silence. There is, in the New Testament there is no verse about family planning. 1:05:54 Can you have permanent family planning, temporary family planning? So the principle is where the Bible is silent. I would like to be silent. I don't want to give a law where the Bible is silent. There are many areas like this. 1:06:08 Where the Bible speaks a lot, I speak a lot. Where the Bible speaks little, I speak little. Where the Bible is silent, I speak silent. Which means that you must feel free to do what you feel led in a particular situation to do. 1:06:25 You have to see whether it's a tip or a bribe. Like you go to a hotel and you eat food and you give something extra to the waiter. It's not a bribe. But in one sense you can say it is a bribe because next time you come to that hotel he'll make sure he serves you quickly or something like that. 1:06:43 But therefore I don't make a law on that. I myself avoid it. And also the second thing is some people may have faith to say hey I don't believe in that. I believe that God will help me to get that thing done without any money. 1:06:58 But if another person doesn't have that faith and he feels it's only by giving that money I can get this thing done. I would not judge him even if I don't do it myself. There's a faith level and there's a righteous level. 1:07:12 But if it is giving money in order to get something unrighteous done then it is wrong. Like to get a driving license when you don't know how to drive. Or to get a plan sanctioned when the plan is contrary to God's word. 1:07:26 Or to get somebody admission into a place when you don't deserve to be admitted. Or to get a job. A bribe as I understand it is where you want something wrong done. And there you give money. But if it is something which is absolutely right. 1:07:42 And I leave it to the individual. Even if I don't do that myself. I leave it to the person himself to decide whether he should give it or not. Something is like this you know. If you are walking down the road in the night and somebody puts a knife to your back and say give me your money. 1:07:56 Give me your cell phone. Give me your wallet. You don't argue righteousness with him at that point. Does he deserve that money? No. Does he deserve to get your watch and cell phone? No. But I would give it. It is totally unrighteous what he is asking. 1:08:11 Now in the government office he doesn't stick a knife at you. He sticks a pen. Okay. That is up to you. I wouldn't. Now I said don't misquote me. Some people have that habit. I have tried to commit suicide many times. For which I have repented. 1:08:27 But those attempts have left me very weak in my body. Unable to do my works. And it says you know I am told that my sickness will not go away because of this. I am really struggling. Sister or brother. I am very happy that you didn't commit suicide. 1:08:44 God saved you from that. And I don't believe that that sickness you have is an indication of sin. If you have confessed your sin remember God has forgiven you completely. And don't let superstition make you sin. Because I tried to commit suicide I have some sickness. 1:09:01 Of course if you took some drugs or something that harmed your body that may be. God can forgive you. You advise not to get into controversies from people. But how do I correct people when I am wrong. Advise me how to do that. 1:09:14 See when people come to argue with me. I say listen I want to argue with you. I will explain scripture to you. But I am not going to get into an argument. And if I see them getting angry. I say let's change the subject now. 1:09:25 I say let's talk about cricket. Where you and I are on the same side. I don't want to argue a doctrinal thing. Where you are on one side and I on the other side. If we can argue in peace. Without getting angry. I won't get angry. 1:09:40 I promise you. But if I find you getting angry. I change the subject. So we should not get into controversy. About these things. We explain our view. You tell them listen. Will you give me two minutes. To explain my view. 1:09:53 Sir please give me two minutes. And I explain my view. Okay. That's my view. And I am not going to change. What do you want? The justification. I will give it. But if you want to argue. To try and convince me. About something. 1:10:05 I don't want to get into discussion with you. This is not a very good question. What does it mean to. Take part in a better resurrection. In Philippians 3. And verse 11. He says. About. In order that I may attain. 1:10:25 To the resurrection from the dead. And some people think that. I just accepted Christ as my savior. So I am definitely going to be. In the resurrection from the dead. Just wait a minute. Acts 24. Verse 15. Acts 24. Verse 15. 1:10:39 I know there will definitely be. A resurrection from the dead. He says there. Of the righteous. And the wicked. I have that hope. Acts 24. 15. But. But. I want to be in the resurrection. Of the righteous. And not in the resurrection. 1:10:54 Of the wicked. So what do I do. Therefore. In view of this. Verse 16. Therefore. In view of this. What do I do. In order to be in the resurrection. Of the righteous. I do my best. To maintain. Always a blameless conscience. 1:11:10 Before God. And before men. He doesn't say. Oh well. I accept Christ. 20 years ago. So. I'm going to be in the resurrection. Of the righteous. This is the casual attitude. That a lot of believers have. I personally believe. 1:11:21 That you can lose your salvation. And. If you don't. Keep your conscience clear. Your. Teachings tend towards that fact. That you lose your salvation. Does God's word. Are not assures of our salvation. See. I never get into an argument. 1:11:35 With people on this. I'll just quote God's word to you. Hebrews chapter 3. Verse 12. Hebrews 3. Sorry. Sorry. Verse 14. Hebrews 3. Verse 14. We become partakers of Christ. If. Don't remove the if. I-F. Capital I-F. We become partakers of Christ. 1:11:56 If. We hold fast the beginning of our assurance. Firm. Until the end. But if there are people. Chapter 6. Hebrews 6. 4. Who were enlightened. Who tasted the heavenly gift. Made partakers of the Holy Spirit. Definitely born again. 1:12:14 And tasted the good word of God. Verse 5. Hebrews 6. 5. Powers of the age to come. And then they fall away. It is impossible to renew them again to repentance. As long as. That's not. Since means. As long as. They crucify the son of God afresh. 1:12:32 And put him to shame. That means. Crucifying the son of God means. I'm keeping on committing sins. Saying I don't care that you died for my sins. You have that attitude to sin. As long as you have that attitude. You can't come back to the Lord. 1:12:46 Or another verse. Revelation and chapter 3. Revelation chapter 3. Verse 5. He who overcomes. He who overcomes. Will be clothed in white garments. And I will not erase. His name. From the book of life. Revelation 3. 5. Now the question is. 1:13:04 This is Jesus speaking. Can Jesus threaten us. With something. Which can never happen. You know. Like old grandmothers would. Tell the little child. Eat your food. Otherwise I'll call the police. To come and take you to the police station. 1:13:17 You know that they won't do that. Is Jesus threatening like that? Like some grandmother trying to frighten a grandchild. I'll erase your name from the book of life. I don't believe Jesus is some old grandmother. He speaks the truth. 1:13:30 If there is a possibility of your name being erased from the book of life. If Jesus said it. There is the possibility. But I don't live in fear of that. One more verse. John chapter 10. And verse. You know. Many people start at verse 28. 1:13:48 But John chapter 10 and verse 27. I'm sorry. John 10 and verse 27. Yes. John 10, 27. My sheep hear my voice. And I know them. And they follow me. And. If they hear my voice and follow me. 1:14:09 I give them eternal life. They'll never perish. But what verse 27. If they don't hear me. And they don't follow me. Then that promise is not true. My sheep hear my voice. I know them. They follow me. And I give them eternal life. 1:14:21 They'll never perish. So I believe in eternal security for all who follow Jesus. If you want more on that. Read my article on eternal security on our website. Another question is about self-support. You know. In church ministry we support ourselves. 1:14:41 I believe that there are different ways in which we can support ourselves. You know. We can find a job. Or if you have some private source of income from your family. That takes care of your needs. There are different ways in which we can support ourselves. 1:14:57 The main principle is not how you do it. But that you don't become dependent on people. To take care of your needs. Because then you will be a slave to them. If someone wants to donate money to the ministry. And it comes from something illegal. 1:15:15 And the pastor does not know what he has to do. See. If you don't know where it comes from. We can't question it. But if you know it. Then. I remember there was one well-known. Years ago. This is many years ago. One well-known film actress who got converted. 1:15:32 And began to send some money to me for the church. And I wrote to her. And I said. Sister. If this money has come from. You know. All these dirty movies you make. Please don't send it. We don't want it. I probably was the only elder. 1:15:48 Who ever wrote to a converted film star. Not to send money. But I said. I don't want it. And she stopped it. I never had any contact with that person again. Brother. My husband says. Support me in my ministry. But he never tells me. 1:16:01 What's happening in his ministry. Well. Well. I think. I should share with you. And. But there are certain things in church matters. What. I suppose. The sister means is. Not financial support. But. Prayer support. You see. 1:16:18 You don't have to know. Every detail. Of what's happening in the church. In order to pray for your husband. Who's in the ministry. I don't share all church matters with my wife. I don't think it's right. I don't think it's fair. 1:16:27 For the other elders in the church. If they tell me something confidentially. For me. Them to share what I say with their wife. In Revelation chapter 2 above. You see about the elder of Pyatira. Whose wife was like a Jezebel. 1:16:40 Controlling things from the back. So. The husband doesn't have to share everything with you. As a wife. Is it right to give money. From your own salary. Without your husband's consent. It depends whom you're giving it to. 1:16:55 If you're. Parents are in great need. And. Either way. Husband or wife. Parents are in great need. And your wife or husband does not agree. To giving money. And you know that you have an obligation. Because they took care of you. 1:17:10 Let not your left hand know what your right hand does. It's right to give without. Knowing there's no need to. But. The best thing would be. If you can come into a fellowship on that. But. I believe we should honor our parents. 1:17:27 You know. Jesus said that. In Mark chapter 7. He said. Your parents are in need. And you say. No. I can't support you. You see. You're all hypocrites. The Bible says. Honor your father and mother. Your financial need. Jesus spoke about that strongly. 1:17:41 And that's why I said it also. This question is answered. If I have a problem with my boss. Where he. To me. According to my knowledge. 1:18:02 What he asked me to do. Is completely wrong. And I feel agitated. And become rude. There's no need to become rude. I think you have to be careful. When you address your boss. That you're respectful. God. If you've got a. 1:18:14 Non-Christian father. You must. Speak respectfully to him. Even unconverted fathers. Must be honored. And respected. You say. Dad. I'm very. Or to a boss. Sir. I respect you very highly. My religion teaches me to respect you. 1:18:28 But I'm sorry sir. I can't agree with you. I've had many times. To disagree with my. Bosses in the navy. Respect. I'll stand at attention. Salute. And say. I'm sorry sir. I have to disagree with you. Is it necessary. To speak in tongues. 1:18:41 To be baptized in the Holy Spirit. No. How can I know. If I have the gift. Of sharing God's word. In a church. Which encourages. Can encourage them. I would say. Wait for God. To open a door. And don't think of sharing. 1:18:54 In the church. First of all. You know. Where I shared. Shared God's word. First. In the open air. In the streets. And preach the gospel. That's where I learned. To preach. Or. I used to go to a home. I used to go to a nominal. 1:19:08 Christian home. When I was in the naval base. And still. Say. Hey. Do you mind. If I have a bible study. In your home. Once a week. Just one family. I used to do that. Sometimes. Go to one family. And sit. And share the bible. 1:19:23 With them. And they came to Christ. So. Don't think always. Of preaching in the church. Start small. Start with a small. One person. With you. Sometime. Or with a. Nominal. Christian family. I have a small daughter. To make her eat. 1:19:38 I make up stories. Is that a sin? No. I think it's a good idea. You can tell stories. You can tell stories. And get the child to eat. Uh. How many people. Will go to heaven? Well. I don't know. I think. When it says. A great multitude. 1:19:55 From every tribe. Tongue. And people. And nation. My guess. Is that. Lot of those people. Are babies. That died. Because every tribe. Has not been reached. To the gospel. But from every tribe. There will be there. Because in every tribe. 1:20:09 Babies have died. And every baby. That dies. Whichever religion. Animist. Atheist. Muslim. Hindu. God of Christ. So there will be. Great crowd. But. If a man is not. Following the Lord. I don't know. Where he will be. Uh. 1:20:26 Yeah. This is. An irrelevant question. There are some people. Who say. To other elders. We don't want any fellowship. With you. But only friendship. Well. Forget about all these elders. You make sure. That you seek. For fellowship. 1:20:43 Please tell us. About fasting. How should we know. And when. And how much. See. Fasting is a thing. Which. Is good to. Jesus said. About prayer. And fasting. Start with maybe. Missing one meal. A day. And spend that time. 1:20:58 With God's word. And prayer. Move on to two meals. And. One whole day. I think that's a real blessing. It has many advantages. It will. Make you conquer. Your lust for food. It will. Make you understand. How hungry people. 1:21:13 On the roads feel. You miss meal. For one day. More compassion for them. And also. It helps you to concentrate. In prayer. To God. How does God. Want us to spread. Christianity. In a busy life. Where people want us. To convey the message. 1:21:29 I think primarily. In your place of work. By your life. The way you live. People must see a difference. And pray that Lord. There may be some needy person. In this office. Please bring him in touch. With me. And help me. 1:21:40 To lead him. To Christ. How do we. Fellowship. Remembering the body. And blood of Christ. Well. When we break bread together. We are remembering. Two things. One. I am sharing. In the death of Jesus Christ. To the world. 1:21:55 And to myself. And we are also. Breaking one bread. With all the others. And. This is some. Criticism. Of some book. I am. I am not here. To. Express my opinion. On different books. I am afraid. Of leaving. The orthodox church. 1:22:12 Where I grew up. I don't want to be. A secret disciple. You know. When the disciples. Had fear. They prayed. To God. For boldness. God filled them. With the Holy Spirit. And they spoke. The word of God. With boldness. I also grew up. 1:22:27 In the orthodox church. And people told me. Fine. I want to obey God. How to know. God's will. In marriage. There is a book. Of mine. There is a book. Called. Finding God's will. If you read. Both of them. And. You can find it. 1:22:43 Has God planned. Everything from. Birth to death. God has a plan. For our lives. But we may not. Fulfill it. I mean. Most people. Don't fulfill. God's plan. For their lives. But. The moment. You realize it. This. Question. 1:23:00 Is already answered. Uh. Yeah. This is also answered. This is also answered. I have frequent stomach pains. And it's not going away. Only with medicines. It's going away. You know. There is a specific answer. To that. 1:23:20 In the Bible. In 1 Timothy. Chapter 5. Verse 23. Where Paul tells Timothy. You have got frequent stomach problems. So. Please don't drink water. But take a little wine. As medicine. Cure it. Thank God. For the medicine. 1:23:35 Sometimes. You know. We get sicknesses. Not because we are sinning. But because we are in a world. Which is under the curse. That's why we perspire. Perspiration. Adam. God told Adam. You will sweat. Because you are under the curse. 1:23:48 That's why we die. We can't say. Lord. Don't let me perspire. Don't let me die. And you can't even say. Don't let me get sick. When I am sick. Sometimes in a bed. God has spoken to me. Sometimes God has disciplined me. And. 1:24:01 Also. He gives us greater compassion. For other people. Who are going through sickness. So. I have explained this question. About Revelation 7. Who all are there. My husband is in God bad habits. What shall I do? I say. 1:24:21 You need to pray for him. And pray that God will really do something. To bring him. To a place of need. Now. This question is. Why does God allow. People to suffer? How can I be sure of God's will? 1:24:41 What about if a person intention. 1 John 3:6. No one who abides in him sins. One who sins has not seen him or known him. In the Greek language. There is two words. For continually sinning. And one act of sin. And some of these verses. 1:24:54 The meaning is. One who. Is born again. Does not continually sin. That's. It's not that he never sins in his life. That's it. We managed it. Praise the Lord. Thank you all for listening. Let's pray. Heavenly Father. We just want to thank you for the opportunity to share the word. 1:25:08 And I thank you for all those who have asked. And I pray that all those who have got an answer. And I pray that those who have not got an answer will find a satisfying answer as they seek you in the coming days. In Jesus name. 1:25:16 Amen. So we will have a break of half an hour. Half an hour. Half an hour. who have got an answer and I pray that those who have not got an answer will find a satisfying answer as they seek you in the coming days. In Jesus name, Amen. So we'll have a break of half an hour. 1:25:50 Amen. 1:26:20 Amen. 1:26:50 Amen. 1:27:20 Amen. 1:27:50 Amen. 1:28:20 Amen. 1:28:50 Amen. 1:29:20 Amen. 1:29:50 Amen. 1:30:20 Amen.
