0:00 Praise the Lord. We thank God that he's on the throne, 0:21 and that's the message that we must always proclaim. A very common expression, which is the most common word that all Christians of all denominations use, 0:43 hallelujah. Do you know where the word hallelujah comes in the New Testament? It comes frequently in the Psalms, and most Christians that I know live under the Old Covenant. 1:03 I don't even have a clue what the New Covenant is all about. One proof is, as we have often said, they're defeated by sin. And the other is, they have more understanding of what the Book of Psalms says about hallelujah, 1:25 not the New Testament. Do you know where hallelujah comes in the New Testament? The Book of Revelation, chapter 19. It's almost at the end of the New Testament that it occurs for the very first time. And so, it's good for us to have a look 1:45 where it comes. Most Christians say hallelujah in a meaningless way. Most people that I've met, hallelujah, hallelujah, glory. They don't even know what glory means. Amen. It's another meaningless word. 2:07 Amen means it will be so. It's an expression of faith. It's an expression of faith. So, Jesus taught us to be careful not to say idle words. He told us, don't use meaningless repetition in prayer because that's the mark of heathen people. 2:29 So, I would say most believers are like the heathen when they meaninglessly say hallelujah or glory or amen. I think a lot of words we sing in our songs and hymns, if you don't mean them, I don't know whether you realize 2:45 you're saying meaningless words to God. I know in my younger days, I did that a lot because I did not have good teachers in the church to teach me to be careful about what I sang. And I had to discover those things myself 3:05 like many other things in the Christian life. But if you are serious about God and you really fear Him, He will reveal these amazing truths to you. And it's not really an amazing truth that we have to be careful about the words we say. 3:22 We have to be very careful about every word that we sing. That's why, personally, I never sing a song where I address God as Jehovah. I mean, when such songs, I know there are songs like that and when others sing it, I keep quiet 3:39 because I don't call God Jehovah. I call Him Dad or Father. Why do I do that? Because Jesus said, call God Father. I take Jesus' words seriously. Most Christians do not. I'm just giving you a simple example. When we talk about God, 3:58 we can talk about Him as Jehovah. But when you address Him, I don't address Him as Jehovah. But I find that most Christians, and I think a lot of people in CFC too, do not have sufficient reverence for God to be careful about the words they speak 4:18 in prayer or in song. And part of the reason could be that they're not really filled with the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit brings within us tremendous reverence for God. I never knew what reverence for God was till I was really filled with the Holy Spirit 4:39 because that's what He brings, a tremendous reverence for the Father. And if that has not come in your life, my dear brothers and sisters, you know what you should do? First of all, check whether you're born again. That also may not be true 4:57 that some of you are not born again. Is it possible for somebody to sit in CFC many years and not be born again? Absolutely. I see something. You know, for example, what's the difference between a plant and a rock? If you see a plant 5:13 and a rock here, you come ten years later, the rock will be the same size. The plant would have become a tree. And when I see believers sitting in CFC for 10, 20 years and not growing spiritually, I see they're dead. A rock is dead. 5:29 And if they're dead, they're not born again. Born again, people grow. All children grow. Anything that's got life grows. And that's why I say, my conviction is there are lots of people in CFC who are not born again. There's no life in them. 5:45 They're born again by the standards of the dead Babylonian Christendom. Not according to God's word. So that's the first thing. The second thing you need to check is whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit. Don't be satisfied 5:59 till God himself gives you an assurance that you're filled with the Holy Spirit. You're missing out on the most important thing on earth. If you're just satisfied that you've got acceptance with others in CFC and everybody respects you here. 6:15 That's garbage. It's garbage. Just that everybody thinks you're a good brother or sister. What's that worth? I mean, I don't care for that. I don't care that people respect me in CFC or in any other church. I want to live before God 6:31 and say, Lord, what am I going to stand before you and say in the final day that a lot of people respected me? Garbage. I want to know whether I fulfilled God's purpose on earth. And I tell you those are the only ones who are really going to 6:47 stand before the Lord with joy in the final day. And you may be old. It doesn't make a difference. You can be a young person and take your Christian life seriously. So, I was talking about this meaningless repetition that a lot of people use 7:03 when they say Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And particularly in Pentecostal charismatic circles it's very popular. I think they use more meaningless repetitions of Hallelujah than any person on earth. But Jesus told us very clearly 7:18 when you pray do not use meaningless repetition. For that, maybe I should look at that verse there before I go to Revelation 19 since some of you may not be familiar with it. it's in Matthew chapter 6 the command of Jesus 7:33 not a suggestion but a command. When you pray don't be as the hypocrites. Verse 5 Matthew 6, 5 that means don't pray in order to be seen by men. We have to be very careful when we pray in public that I'm really praying to God 7:54 and not praying to impress people. if you check your own prayer you know anytime you pray in public I would advise you go home and ask yourself or immediately after the prayer he finishes ask yourself how much of that prayer 8:16 did I pray directly to God and how much of that prayer was prayed to impress all the people here you may get a surprise to be seen by men and secondly he said when you pray you know lock yourself 8:38 up in secret and we can do that right in a public gathering like this where I shut the door of my mind to all the people around me that's one reason we close our eyes you don't have to close your eyes when you pray there's no 8:53 law like that but the only reason I shut my eyes is to shut off other distractions that's the only reason like shutting the door and I must shut the door of my mind and then pray to God and the other thing he said in verse 9:12 7 was don't use meaningless repetitions hallelujah glory amen those are wonderful words but what Jesus said is mean it every time you say it you can say hallelujah 20 times a day provided you mean 9:33 it otherwise it's a meaningless repetition because he says that's the mark of the heathen the heathen use meaningless repetitions and they think they'll be heard because they say it so often you know hallelujah hallelujah 9:49 hallelujah it's a mark of a heathen who thinks he's a Christian now when you come to revelation 19 and see how they say hallelujah in heaven it's very interesting revelation 19 it says not hallelujah full stop that's the 10:09 point hallelujah means praise the lord hallel it's a hebrew word it's not english ya at the end of hallel who ya hallel is praise the lord ya is short for yehovah it's hallelu yehovah hallelujah 10:29 praise the lord in hebrew so praise the lord is good what are you praising the lord for salvation revelation 19 2 halleluja because salvation and glory and power belong 10:50 to our god and because his judgments are true and righteous and he has judged babylon the great harlot now it's very interesting very very interesting and the first time the word halleluja comes in 11:10 the new testament is thanking god for destroying harlot christianity corrupt babylonian christianity which was interested in honor and money and worldly values heaven 11:31 rejoices and says halleluja that's destroyed i don't know whether we understand how seriously god takes corrupt babylonian christianity i also feel there are a lot of people in cfc who think well we're all christians you 11:50 know we're all believers well you got to see heaven's perspective and see how they rejoice when they see this adulterous christianity and like you heard me say babylon is not any particular denomination 12:10 so many people for many years would say babylon was the roman catholic church and it's easy to put the blame on them but revelation 18 17 says babylon the mother has got many daughters many daughters that's exactly what 12:28 it says babylon the great mother of harlots mother of harlots and abominations of the earth so there are many daughters are harlots too and hallelujah 12:49 comes the first time in the new testament in relation to the destruction of harlot christianity in james in chapter four it tells us what harlot christianity is so many people have their definitions but it's good to get 13:09 it from scripture james four verse four you adulteresses don't you know now who are these adulteresses if you read the earlier chapters of james he's talking to believers you beloved brethren that's how he addresses them in 13:29 chapter two verse one my brethren in some other places beloved brethren my brethren you adulteresses boy james was these first century apostolic preachers they were fiery they couldn't care less for what people thought about 13:50 them because they were not paid pastors they were not there to impress people or get a salary or get any approval or get invited to some conference to be a speaker they were speaking as God's mouthpiece says my brethren 14:08 you harlots you adulteresses james 4 verse 4 he doesn't say well some people are adulteresses you adulteresses don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity towards God and don't you know that anyone 14:28 who wants to be a friend of this world makes himself an enemy of God so this is harlotry harlotry is pretending to be the bride of Jesus Christ but really being interested in this other man called the world this is 14:48 a picture in the bible of the church is the bride of Jesus Christ waiting for her heavenly bridegroom to come but while she is waiting for the heavenly bridegroom to come if she fools around with the world system she's a 15:07 harlot that is Babylonian Christianity and I want to tell you that's not found in any one denomination it's individual you can be a harlot Christian sitting in the most spiritual church in the world because it's an individual thing 15:26 we can't become spiritual by sitting in a spiritual church because it's the personal choices you make seven days a week that determine whether you're a spiritual harlot a prostitute or virgin bride for Jesus Christ 15:47 so it's very interesting that hallelujah comes the first time and I wish everybody who said hallelujah on earth today would remember that hallelujah that corrupt adulterous harlot Christianity is going to be destroyed think of that 16:06 if every time I say hallelujah I'm going to remember well the first time they say hallelujah in heaven in the new testament is when harlot Christianity is destroyed is that why I'm saying hallelujah right now very often 16:21 it's the opposite man can say hallelujah I got more money there's a danger I have seen even in a lot of folks in our own church I remember the early 16:41 days when many of us were very poor we had more time for God we had no money to spend in restaurants and television and so many other things like that but things have changed you have 17:04 a lot more money now a lot more time to waste going here and there traveling here and there and less time for God less time for scripture and if you and one way to do that is check yourself compare yourself with you know 17:21 the olden days when you had less maybe your salary was less did you read the Bible more those days did you have more time for prayer perhaps so you see what I'm saying money has a tremendous it's not an evil thing money is a 17:42 very useful thing but we got to put it where Jesus put it under his feet if we don't make money our servant we'll become harlots there's no doubt about it it's not the amount you earn it's a question of where it is does it 18:00 sit on your head or is it under your feet like they say fire is a good servant but a very bad master you know fire we use it every day in our stoves to cook food every day we're using fire you can't cook food without fire 18:20 either an electric fire or a gas fire but if you leave it uncontrolled it'll burn up your house that's why you've got to control it and it's exactly like that if you don't control money and make it your servant 18:40 say I'm going to turn you off when I want to turn you off don't you do that with fire you keep it burning whole day in your gas stove no the times when you turn it off and say I'm not going to be interested in fire now I've 18:54 got other things to do if you can control money like that it's a wonderful servant but if you cannot control it I tell you I can tell you in Jesus name it'll destroy you it's probably already started destroying you and you 19:09 don't realize it it's time to wake up because if you have the time you'd read about Babylon in chapter 18 it's all about money the whole of chapter 18 and at the end of it it comes chapter 19 hallelujah this has been destroyed 19:29 this corrupt system that corrupted God's people you say why does God allow it because we have to be tested you know even Jesus had to be tested with money money is part of 19:49 the glory of this world honor is part of the glory of this world to have power over people I've seen elders who want to have power over people pastors who want to rule others who want others to keep consulting them about 20:10 every little thing to find God's will and all these television preachers who get money out of people it's part of this world system I don't know whether you see that I know some people in CFC who admire some of these television 20:25 preachers men and women they say boy what wonderful things he teaches what wonderful things she teaches but they have sat in CFC so long and they are not able to gauge the spirit of these people who are preaching imagine 20:41 spending hours listening to someone and you are not able to gauge his spirit what is his spirit do you know that that spirit can get into you if you listen to the person long enough we say well the teaching is so good well that's 20:58 exactly how the devil comes the Bible says do you know that the Bible says that Satan's agents are ministers of righteousness have you read that in 2nd Corinthians 11 that Satan's preachers preach righteousness so how in the 21:17 world will you distinguish between a servant of God and a servant of Satan I'll tell you for me it's very easy I say what is that person's attitude to money that's all I need to find out that's all I need to ask but I'm amazed 21:39 that some of you sitting here after so many years still don't have that basic discernment and that's why your life is so shallow that's why you've not become a mighty man of God or mighty woman of God after having listened to 21:54 God's word for 25 years here you could have been if you had concentrated on the things that were eternal instead of being fooled by all these television preachers whom you listen to because they teach something good they're preaching 22:13 righteousness read 2nd Corinthians 11 where Paul says I fear for you because you will not remain a virgin for Christ you'll be a harlot he says because like the devil deceived Eve he will deceive you by his preachers of righteousness 22:33 I would encourage all of you to study 2nd Corinthians 11 and see how he says there I Paul he says I want to show that I'm different from all these people by the fact that I'm not interested in money like that it's a wonderful 22:50 chapter I mean if you're serious about being free from the Babylonian spirit and getting some discernment on all these preachers who preach righteousness but who don't have the right spirit 2nd Corinthians 11 is the chapter 23:02 for you and Revelation chapter 18 see the thing is there are hardly anybody speaking against all these things in our world today there are hardly anybody saying hallelujah this thing's got to be destroyed because everybody 23:20 loves money everybody loves honor and power when it says whoever is the friend of the world he's not talking about worldly people that's impossible God God so loved the world that he gave his son do you know that God loved the 23:37 people in the world much more than you and I do do you know that Jesus was a friend of sinners much more than any of us is a friend of sinners it's not wrong to be a friend of sinners it's not wrong to be a friend of worldly 23:51 relatives worldly people in our office and worldly neighbors and worldly Jesus would be friends with all of them but not one of them would be able to influence him in their direction he would influence them towards God I mean 24:08 if you find that your worldly friends are influencing you towards the world then you better drop them immediately that's not the type of friend of sinners that we are to be but if you are influencing them towards God like 24:21 Jesus that's the right way to be friend of sinners that's the right way to love the people in the world but when the New Testament uses the word world it uses it in two different ways one is the people of the world and the 24:33 other is the world system there's a whole system in this world which is controlled by the devil from his headquarters in the second heavens and he controls it speaks about these evil forces in the heavenlies who are controlling 24:48 like you know like satellites from the heavenlies controlling things on earth influencing all the media determining how movies are produced and determining how to capture people's minds with 25:08 continuous meaningless TV serials in different languages and look so innocent or if people avoid that to see if we can control them through television preachers just make sure that they just get a lot of information in their 25:25 head but never overcome sin you see if you don't believe me I don't have cable television but I did take it for at least a year to listen to all these TV preachers every single one of them because 25:45 I wanted to know what Christians in our country are listening to and I listen to every one of them and I tell you I never heard from any one of them a single time how I could overcome the lust of my eyes and stop lusting 26:02 after women none of them told me none of them ever told me how to stop raising my voice and overcoming anger against my wife or husband or anybody else nobody told me that which proves to me that they themselves don't have 26:19 victory over these things none of them ever told me how I could be free from the love of money none of them ever told me how the apostle Paul never took money from people but preached freely how is it all these important 26:34 things in scripture are left out with Jesus and the apostle speak about that's amazing and I'm surprised how is it that people in CFC who have heard all these things for ages still admire these preachers and travel here and 26:47 there to listen to them imagine that dear brothers and sisters have you got any discernment or are you like these little babies who put mud and rocks and all bananas and sweets they'll also put mud and screws and nuts and 27:06 all in their mouth I find a lot of CFC people are like that oh that's a good message that's a nice tasting screw let me put it into my mouth oh that mud it's pretty good taste I'm amazed at it I mean I'm I mean you're not 27:22 surprised when a child does it but imagine if you find a 20 year old chap doing that he says something is wrong that's what surprises me new people who come to CFC I'm not surprised if they're taken up by these things because 27:37 they don't know the difference between mud and good food but people have been here so long how's that that's why it's important to see this her smoke a second time verse 2 verse 3 revelation 19 3 a second 27:57 time they said hallelujah again the same subject babylon smoke rises up forever and ever and they all bowed down the 24 elders and said amen let it be so it will be so hallelujah the three 28:17 hallelujahs the first three hallelujahs in scripture and the 24 elders said amen hallelujah are all related to the destruction of adulterous christianity and if you wonder why you've heard me all these 28:38 years speak against it it's because I want to be in tune with the elders in heaven and not the elders on earth that's why I want my spirit to be in tune with the elders in heaven you know have you 28:59 seen people sometimes tightening a guitar when they are playing together just to make sure it's the right in tune with the other instruments otherwise it'll all sound jarring one chap is on one key another chap is on another 29:13 and I don't want to be jarring when I speak or when I live I want to be in tune with heaven all the time and the only way I can be in tune with heaven is if I read the scriptures let me exhort you my brothers and sisters 29:33 what you heard from your early Christian life read the Bible more than you watch television read the Bible and study it that'll teach you a lot more the Holy Spirit can teach you a lot more than all these television preachers 29:49 and you won't go astray so then he goes on to say another hallelujah revelation 19 and I verse 6 I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as a sound of mighty 30:09 waters many waters sound of mighty peals of thunder saying hallelujah again because the Lord our God the almighty reigns and the bride of the lamb has made herself ready that's 30:31 the next hallelujah so you have three hallelujahs for the destruction of Babylon and then a hallelujah that the bride there's a little group of people on earth who have kept themselves for years from being polluted by this 30:52 adulterous spirit in Christianity they were small in number they were despised they did not have the money to spend on getting time on television it costs millions of rupees 31:12 the bride of Christ doesn't have that much money the apostle Paul wouldn't have had that much money today to get time on television and that itself shows me something about the spirit of all these people 31:32 many people think oh we're reaching so many people reaching millions reaching millions with what message that's the important thing is it curing people what's 31:53 use having a medical camp to reach millions of people to cure some disease but the medicine doesn't cure the disease you can have statistics we distributed this medicine to 100 million people wonderful did it cure anybody 32:09 did it cure these 100 million people of lusting after women did it cure these 100 million people of anger did it cure these 100 million people of the love of money it didn't then what are you saying 100 million people got 32:22 the medicine we reached 100 million people with this message through television I'd rather have good medicine and give it to 10 people and cure them I'll tell you honestly and these are things which we have spoken about so 32:41 often but I find that well I suppose it's like Jesus said he who has ears to hear let him hear some still don't have ears to hear because you're still taken up by the worldly 33:01 attractions that come with many preachers so I just want to warn you about that dear brothers and sisters don't get a surprise when Christ comes back that's all I say I seek God myself for that 33:21 I say Lord I don't want any surprise when I stand before you I don't want to be surprised hey I didn't know that or boy you mean that guy was a deceiver I thought he was a wonderful preacher he was preaching righteousness 33:37 I don't I don't want to get a surprise I say Lord please reveal it to me now expose to me now the people who will lead me closer to God and the people who will lead me astray with their preaching on righteousness and miracles 33:58 and all that well I mean you'll be able to find out yourself by how much all that preaching is helping you to be free from sin in your life and in your family life it's very easy to find out do they convict you of the sins 34:19 that Jesus spoke about in the sermon on the mount I mean just read the sermon on the mount and do these people convict you about that I remember in the years when I watched all these TV preachers I never heard one speak 34:32 on the sermon on the mount because there's some difficult verses there don't be anxious three times in the sermon on the mount don't judge others how much do people speak about backbiting about total purity in our mind how many of 34:52 you are interested in total purity in your mind tell me how many of you are interested in total control of your tongue I am I'm totally interested in that I've been interested in it for many many years I want total freedom 35:10 from the love of money I've been interested in that for many many years and that's why God has shown me certain things which I find many people never see I say well I suppose they are not so interested in total freedom from sickness 35:23 as I am spiritual sickness I mean so here's the contrast the fourth hallelujah is praise God there's a bride that's kept herself from this revelation 19 hallelujah for the Lord our God 19 6 the last part the Lord our God 35:43 the almighty reigns and let us rejoice and be glad that because the bride marriage of the lamb has come the bride has made herself ready that means she's kept herself as a virgin in spite of this handsome 36:03 rich man called the world constantly tempting her throughout her life Jesus was tempted with the glory of the world it was the third temptation in the wilderness it says the devil showed Jesus all the glory of the world 36:21 I mean and it's called a temptation the bible itself calls it a temptation and it says in Luke 4 the holy spirit led Jesus to be tempted so when you're tempted remember it's the holy spirit who leads you there the holy spirit led 36:40 Jesus into temptation it wasn't the devil who led Jesus into temptation it's very clear the holy spirit led Jesus into the wilderness Luke 4 to be tempted by the devil will the holy spirit lead you into the wilderness to be 36:59 tempted by the devil don't we sing follow follow I will follow Jesus anywhere everywhere I will follow him right well here it is Jesus filled with the holy spirit Luke 4 1 was led by the spirit in the wilderness 37:19 and for 40 days he was tempted by the devil who took him into the wilderness not the devil the holy spirit after he was filled with the spirit he was taken into the wilderness by the holy spirit for 40 days to be tempted by 37:37 the devil and the devil tempted him for 40 days I don't know what all temptations he faced there but at the end of 40 days you see the three final temptations those are mentioned there one is to use his supernatural power 37:55 to feed himself turn the stones into bread same temptation I remember years ago when I was you know preaching the word God said to me never use the supernatural anointing I've given you to get 38:16 things for yourself that's the first temptation you've been anointed Jesus use your power use your supernatural power to get bread for yourself he said no don't use the anointing you have to get honor for yourself to get 38:35 money for yourself or bread for yourself anything and I find that that is the first temptation at which almost all preachers have fallen almost all that I know of they are either seeking money or honor one of the two or position 38:51 with their gift who gave them that gift God that would be like Jesus using the gift God gave him to turn the stones into bread he didn't do it that's harlotry that's the first step towards harlotry spiritual harlotry and that's 39:06 what's happened to most people you see you may not be seeking money but you can come to the church and seek honor for what you do maybe you have a little gift that you are using in the church or doing something and you want some 39:21 honor for it you want some respect for it some God given ability God gave you and you use it to get honor for yourself you're no better than those pastors who make money for themselves absolutely no better the honor that should 39:38 go to God you take to yourself it's a sin don't glory that oh I don't take money for my services in the church brother sister do you get honor you're seeking for that it's no better just the same thing it's just another type 39:56 of currency honor so there's a lot of involved in these temptations if you meditate on them you think about it the devil was very subtle and clever and then he tempted him with jump down from the roof of the temple 40:16 and claim the promises of God this is another type of stupidity that the devil tells believers to do you know when there are stairs in the temple there's no need to jump use the stairs so 40:38 Jesus said I'll use the stairs if I want to go down why should I jump why should I jump and do some type of magic to perform the angels try to protect me this is how some Christians and I had one or two cases even in CFC 40:55 in past years who say when we are sick we won't take medicine we'll trust God to heal us medicines are like the stairs God has provided to come down and be healed no we'll jump off and claim a promise stupidity now if you're 41:11 in some jungle where no medicine is available there are no stairs then jump and God will protect you he will heal you I believe that the point is use means but you say the bible says there are examples yeah there are examples 41:26 do you know in one place in Acts 8 it says God lifted Philip up took him to another place suppose you say Lord I want to travel to that place please do what you did for Philip it won't work you'll be sitting where you are 41:43 when God has provided trains and buses and many means of transport why don't you use them it's the same as using medicine the stupidity of sort of people who want to say I want to show my faith I'm going to trust God do 41:59 something spectacular that's the aim of the devil then you can testify about it then you can talk about it and say see what I did you know there's a great temptation the basic temptation in that second temptation was do 42:14 something spectacular in the name of the Lord and then you can talk about it and say you know I jumped off the temple and the angels protected me and I came down without being harmed and the people at the bottom of the temple 42:29 would see this person descending like as if he had a parachute and they would say boy how did you come down like that get some honor but it wouldn't have happened if Jesus had jumped down he'd have broken his head he knew 42:42 that but that's what a lot of people want to do you know you do something maybe you do something wonderful and you follow Jesus in some way and then you talk about it of what a wonderful thing you did and the whole purpose 42:58 is to get some honor for yourself not to glorify God as to how great God is but you know I had faith and I did this and at the end of it everybody's admiring you for your faith or your devotion or your sacrifice or the way 43:18 you took up the cross is it right to give a testimony Paul gave a testimony and many times you read about testimonies in scripture the apostles gave but not a testimony that brings honor to oneself and if you are trying to 43:37 do something and you want to talk about it later on in a way to show other people what a man of God you are that's the second temptation it may be a wonderful thing you did wonderful thing but if you had kept quiet about 43:53 it it remained wonderful but like I often say because you boasted about it you put a dead lizard into that chicken curry spoiled the whole thing boy it was beautiful before you put that dead lizard inside it was beautiful before 44:10 you talked about it and boasted about it when you sought honor you spoiled it and it's gone it's gone there are many things God does for us maybe wonderful things God has done we need to know what among those things we should tell 44:28 others and what among those things we must never tell others have you noticed even in the book of revelation in let me see if I can find it it says here that Revelation 10 44:54 verse 4 there were seven peals of thunder and they said something and I was about to write and I heard a voice saying don't write that do you know there's something that John saw which is not written in the book of revelation 45:14 all the other things he wrote but one little thing God said don't write that that's only for you are you able to recognize the things that God tells you to share with others and the things that God says only for you I remember 45:36 once many years ago before our church started the Lord spoke something so clearly to me and he said you must only tell your wife this nobody else I've never told anybody about it till today this is what God spoke to me 37 years 45:52 ago I only told my wife that's all there's certain things he says don't tell anybody it's just for you see because we must have a private relationship with Christ that is closer than even with your husband or wife then only 46:13 you can really have a godly home then only you can really live a Christian life I mean just like you have a very close relationship with your wife there are things you tell her you don't want to tell other people things you 46:26 tell your husband you don't want other people to hear it do you have a relationship like that with Jesus there are things he tells you and he says that's only for you imagine if a wife went around saying telling everybody 46:39 everything that her husband told her it would be pretty embarrassing but we are like that sometimes in our Christianity which shows that our relationship to Jesus is not is not like a bride no these are 47:00 little little things which if you want to avoid corrupt Babylonian spirits study these temptations and say Lord don't just read them like children read Bible stories and know that David threw a stone and killed Goliath and Jesus 47:19 went into the wilderness and he was tempted like this always ask yourself how does this apply to me if you don't read the Bible saying how does this apply to me you'll never do the will of God so God told certain things to 47:34 John and he said keep quiet don't tell anybody that and he never told anything once you read in 2nd Corinthians in chapter 12 it says 2nd Corinthians 12 Paul says I knew 47:55 a man verse 2 who 14 years ago whether in the body or out of the body I don't know was taken up to the third heaven that was Paul he's talking about himself but he puts it in a third person I knew somebody who was taken up 48:13 to the third heaven and I'm sure he heard some amazing things there and he says he was caught up into paradise verse 4 that's the same paradise that was in the heart of the earth when Jesus was buried thief went but now 48:32 was taken up to the third heaven after the resurrection ascension of Christ and there he heard inexpressible words which a man is not permitted to speak do you know that when you get caught up to the third heaven you hear 48:53 things that you're not allowed to tell others I'm amazed at all these people who say I went to heaven and I heard all this and they tell stories here and there you go to the internet you'll find a lot of stories like that of 49:06 people and there are dumb Christians who with their mouth open say really amazing they haven't read scripture you won't be deceived by these people if you read the Bible do you have more respect for Paul or for these people 49:21 I'll tell you why I respect Paul I believe he went up to the third heaven because he doesn't tell us what he heard that's why I believe all these fellows who tell us what they heard I'm sorry I don't believe they may have had 49:39 a dream they didn't actually go to the third heaven I'm not saying they're liars but you know sometimes a dream can be so vivid that you think you were there and you wake up and say hey I'm still in Bangalore I thought I was there 49:52 so these guys may have had a very vivid imagination and a dream they thought they were there so anything that we want to boast about to others you can be pretty sure that falls under the category of the second temptation 50:08 and the third one you know where Jesus was shown all the glory of the world here you are take it do you want money do you want honor what are the things that come under the title glory of the world you know the things that people 50:21 seek in the world what do businessmen seek for politicians ask yourself what do businessmen seek for and politicians all people in the world even scientists honor money I think money is at the top and honor and position 50:37 and power so let's define glory like that the Lord the devil tells you do you want money do you want honor do you want power and position even in the church because that's a worldly type of honor I'll give it to you 50:57 you don't have to go anywhere else just bow down to me a little bit what does that mean just compromise a little bit in your life put the things of the world 51:18 above the things of God just a little bit in your life if you put God first in your life you won't be able to make so much money it doesn't matter just give God a place of course you must give God a place because that's 51:37 how Satan's preachers of righteousness how can Satan's preachers of righteousness tell you don't give God any place give God a place but it doesn't have to be all that important you've got to live in this world and so many 51:48 other things you've got to do you've got to get on your profession you've got to achieve something and you've got to take care of this and that and the other just bow down to me a little bit do you know that all of you my 52:02 brothers and sisters who have taken God away from first place in your life have bowed down to Satan somewhere you may not think so you say God still got a place in your life I know he's got some corner of your heart I know 52:22 he's got some corner of your house you haven't driven him out completely it's like these people who keep their old parents stuck in some corner of the house and say we didn't get rid of them we kept them you don't honor 52:38 them it's very sad when people treat God like that don't you feel sad if you go to a home and see them treating their old father or mother in a bad way I feel sad when people treat God like that but the 52:58 thing is you know God won't take that place your old father or mother may be willing to sit in some corner of your house but not almighty God I'm sorry you can imagine that you have him and that's why in times of need you find 53:17 yourself in a panic and you gotta go rush here and there and say oh brother please pray for me I'm in a problem here because God you know the Lord always said to the Israelites like this you come to me when you're in trouble 53:31 why don't you go to those idols of Egypt that you worshipped all your life they help you now that's what he says to a lot of his people today you push me into a corner most of your life because other things are more important 53:46 to you and when you're in trouble why don't you go to those other things which you're pursued after the idols the idols that you've lived for his bride has made herself ready it says she kept herself from being polluted 54:00 revelation 19 says hallelujah the fourth hallelujah the Lord our God the almighty reigns you know that's the testimony of the bride almighty God reigns he is king over my life when it says the kingdom of God has come that's what 54:21 happened on the day of Pentecost John the Baptist preached the kingdom of God is nearing Israel was living for a kingdom of earth but he says turn around from that repent for the kingdom of God is nearing and it came on 54:34 the day of Pentecost you know what the kingdom of God is the rule of God in every area of your life has it happened the rule of God in every area you know like they occupied Canaan to make sure that every nook and corner 54:52 of Canaan come under God's control but they failed you read in the book of Judges they went here they conquered a little bit but they did not drive out all these people another tribe went here but they did not drive out 55:05 all the people another tribe went to another part of Canaan but they didn't drive out all the people this is exact history of a lot of Christians they've not driven out the Canaanites from every corner of the heart and if 55:20 we cannot say the Lord our God the Almighty reigns then we will not be ready for the marriage of the Lamb I want to make sure that the Lord my God who gave himself for me reigns in every area of my life in my thought life 55:41 in my words and the way I use my time money everything it's a pursuit of perfection it doesn't matter if I haven't achieved that in one year or two years or twenty or thirty years but it's like climbing a mountain and we're 55:55 going higher and higher and higher like Paul said I've not yet achieved but one thing I do I'm pressing towards the mark is pressing on to perfection so that the rule of God would cover his whole life dear brothers and sisters 56:11 let's learn to say hallelujah for the right reasons for the destruction of corrupt adulterous Christendom from our life forget all the others and 56:31 for the pursuit of a virgin devotion to Christ in our life that will satisfy the heart of our bride room that he can look at us with great joy because in the midst of all this temptation we kept ourselves pure Jesus was 56:49 tempted with the world and so will we be the Holy Spirit led him to be tempted leads us to be tempted every day and in it the Lord is seeing who is fit to be his bride and who is not it's the only thing worth living for 57:06 I'll tell you that we don't live like hermits or sannyasis out in the jungles we live right in the middle of this world just like Jesus lived in the middle of the world but completely untouched by the spirit that is the bride 57:22 of Jesus Christ may the Lord help us so that we say praise the Lord hallelujah for the right reasons and that our life becomes one of continuous joy because the Lord our God reigns in every area of our life let's pray 57:44 heavenly father as we bow before you we want your name to be glorified in our lives we want the Lord our God the almighty to reign and rule in every 58:05 area of our life in every single area help us we pray let your name be glorified through us in our homes in our church we ask in Jesus name amen
