0:00 Девочка-пай 0:30 That they would understand that He was a holy God. 0:52 And when He told them that you are my witnesses on the earth, they were to demonstrate to the world the truth of God's holiness. But the Lord had a complaint against them. 1:20 And you read that in Romans chapter 2, verse 24. The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. This is quoted in Romans 2, verse 24. 1:47 And Isaiah 52 in the Old Testament and verse 5. The name of the Lord was dishonored in the world because of the way the Israelites were living. 2:11 The first prayer that the Lord taught us to pray was, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. I would say that most Christians do not make that number one prayer of theirs. 2:38 Many of you may be praying that Tamil Nadu will be saved. Or India will be saved. There are preachers in America who say, America must repent. 3:02 These are all people who have not read God's word. You can't go to Afghanistan and say, Afghanistan must repent. Or Iraq repent. It's just as foolish to say, America must repent. 3:25 Or India must repent. No. It's an individual who repents, not a nation. Many people have not understood the difference between Old Covenant and New Covenant. 3:45 90% of believers don't have a clue that Old Covenant has been abolished. There was a certain way in which God dealt with the world in Old Covenant times. 4:07 And that is why he would send the prophets to even preach against the nations in the Old Testament. Jeremiah and all would preach against the nations. Some message to Moab and Ammon and Egypt and all that. 4:29 But not in the New Covenant. Paul didn't have any message for Rome. He didn't even have a message for Israel. There is no message for India in the Bible. There is no message for any country in the New Testament. 4:50 Because today, the Bible says, God is calling out of all the nations of people for His name. That is the reason why God is calling people. If you understand that, it is very clearly written in Acts of the Apostles. 5:15 In Acts chapter 15, this is when the Apostles were discussing together. See here in Acts 15, 5:37 verse 16 onwards, I'm sorry, verse 14, Acts 15, 14, Simeon, that is Peter, has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among all the nations of people for His name. 6:02 That's a very important verse. God is not calling a nation. In the Old Testament, He had dealt with a nation. And He spoke to many nations. But today, God doesn't have any message for India, or Afghanistan, 6:22 or America, or anything. God's message is the same for all the people in the world. Out of all the billions of people in all the countries in the world, 6:43 God is calling out a people for His name. So, the Apostle Peter, when he preached on the day of Pentecost, there's a list of nations there. It's about 17 nations are mentioned there. 7:06 They're all listed there. And He preached to them. And He did not have a message for this nation, or that nation, or the other nation. It was for the individuals who were there. It doesn't matter which of the 17 nations 7:24 you are from. The message of the Lord is, repent. Acts 2.38 So, out of all those nations, God is calling out those who will respond to the message of repentance. 7:47 Like it says here, out of the nations, He's calling out a people. For what? Not that they might go to heaven. This is one of the biggest false teachings in Christianity and propagated 8:07 by evangelists. God's main aim is to take you to heaven. God's main aim is to save you from hell. Many people are preaching a man-centered gospel. 8:30 You need to understand you need to understand the falsehood of the man-centered gospel. That the most important thing is your interest. That is like saying, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be my name. My kingdom come. 8:50 My will be done. That is the spirit of Adam. Father in heaven, take care of my name. Take care of my kingdom. And take care, help me to do my will. That is exactly what the devil wants you to do. 9:11 Jesus taught us to pray the opposite. God's message is not how to go to heaven. No. If you are preaching that gospel, that is a wrong gospel. God is calling out a people so that his name can be hallowed 9:32 on this earth. Is that what you are preaching? Don't build a church to make getting ready people to go to heaven. God wants to make people who are becoming like Jesus Christ. 9:53 That is why we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Many times in question answer time people ask this question. Do I need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit to go to heaven? I say first of all you should not be interested in going to heaven. 10:16 You should be ashamed that you are dishonoring God's name on earth. And your aim should be to glorify God's name on earth now. Forget about going to heaven. You have dishonored God's name on earth. 10:37 Now you must glorify God's name on earth. The gospel is centered in God not in man. It's a big trick of the devil who has used so many preachers to change that center to man. and made God 11:02 a servant of man instead of man being a servant of God. there is a tale called Aladdin and the magic lamp. And you know, 11:22 if you have read it, it is like this. you rub that lamp suddenly one demon like person will come and say, master, what do you want me to do? And he says, I want a palace. And he makes a palace for him. 11:42 Anytime he wants something, he just rubs that lamp. and this big genie will come and say, what do you want me to do, master? This is the type of gospel that many people are preaching. The name of Jesus 12:02 is like some type of magic lamp. You rub it, God will come and say, yes sir, master, what do you want me to do? Do this for me. Okay, I will do it. And he goes away. Again, in the name of Jesus 12:23 and God appears, what do you want me to do? Isn't that how you pray? God must do this and God must do that. And that is how many preachers are preaching. You come in the name of Jesus. and you can come on God. 12:43 Come on, give me money. Make my church a big church. Make it a big, give me a big building. Give me a new car. And the car must be blue color. This is old Aladdin and the magic lamp story which we read as children. 13:06 Don't you admire the devil for what a work he has done that he has made Christian preachers preach about Aladdin in the magic lamp. What a fantastic person the devil is. Not only he has got his own servants, he has made 13:23 Christian preachers preach this rubbish. it's possible. And it's possible that some of you have got that gospel in your head. That God is my servant. I can ask in the name of Jesus. He will take me 13:44 to heaven. He will heal my sickness. He will give me money. wonder what preachers preaching to this. Come to Jesus. He will give you money. He will give you health. He will give you all types of earthly things. He can do 14:01 miracles for you. He can do every miracle the preacher says. He will give you money. But he can't give me money. That you have to what type of God is this. He will give you money but he can't give me money. 14:22 You people must collect and give me money. And there are stupid believers who believe this deception. Any ordinary unconverted person will see through this deception such people preaching. But you listen to all these preachers. 14:44 They all preach this on television. God can give you money. But for my money you must give a collection and give me. Can't you see the hollowness of that? The pastors who are preaching that? Because it's a man centered gospel. 15:05 God is like Aladdin's genie ready to do anything. God is calling out of the nations a people for his name. He's not calling any 15:25 nation to repent. Nation to repent means who will repent. The president has got to repent. This is not the days of Jonah where Jonah went to Nineveh and told Nineveh to repent. God is not dealing with nations today. 15:47 He's dealing with individuals. If he's dealing with a group it is the church. He can tell the church to repent. In fact in Revelation chapter 2 and chapter 3 you read that. He preaches the Lord 16:07 says to John send this message to this church this church this church and to the leaders of the church repent repent repent whom is the Lord asking to repent the elders first of all the elders and then the church he's not 16:28 asking any nation to repent but he's asking individuals in every part of repent and turn from your sin that is individuals you see the great tragedy today is that we have a whole generation of Christians who have not studied 16:47 the Bible and that is why all these television preachers can fool these Christians they can't fool me because I know the Bible and I hope you in our churches will study the Bible so that 17:07 they cannot fool you the gospel is centered in God does the gospel concern you or does it concern Jesus you need to understand that when we preach the gospel is it 17:29 for you no it concerns God's name God's name is dishonored in India name of Jesus is dishonored in Tamil Nadu and God wants a people who will glorify his name God 17:51 wants your home to glorify his name see Romans chapter 1 Paul says I am a bond servant of Jesus Christ I am not here to preach any gospel any man tells me I 18:11 say the same thing I am a bond servant of Jesus Christ Paul said I am set apart for the gospel of God this gospel was promised long ago by the prophets in the holy scriptures and 18:33 whom does this gospel concern see verse 3 it concerns his son Jesus Christ it is not a gospel about me and you which is the gospel you preach are 18:53 you following the empty traditions of today's preachers oh you must be saved from hell oh god the genie of aladdin's lamp has come ask him he will do anything for you stop preaching that gospel 19:14 tell people you have dishonored god's name in your life god's name must be honored turn back and honor his name the good news concerns his son god sent 19:34 the holy spirit on earth just like abraham sent his servant to mesopotamia in genesis 24 we read abraham sent his servant to mesopotamia to ur of the 19:54 chaldees that nation what did he go for he said go and find a bride for my son isaac that is how god has sent the holy spirit the father has sent the 20:14 spirit into the world and says find a bride for my son jesus christ christ the holy spirit has not come here to give us thrills all people say i got an electric shock the holy spirit threw me there 20:34 and made me speak in tongues that's not the primary purpose the holy spirit has come for he came to find a bride for jesus christ and abraham's servant went there and looked and 20:56 prayed to god god guide me to the right person and he found rebecca and took her back to isaac the holy spirit he didn't take all the girls and put in your bag he took one and god is 21:16 seeking for those who will be the bride of jesus christ on this earth and he's going and the holy spirit is preparing them on the journey back abraham's servant must have been talking to rebecca about isaac all the time 21:33 and the holy spirit will always speak to us about jesus in this long journey that we have to walk before that we have to go before we reach the marriage is 21:55 the holy spirit telling you more and more about jesus every day i'm so excited even in the last one or two weeks the holy spirit has shown me new things about jesus i never saw in 50 years that's the holy spirit 22:15 showing you something new about jesus some of those things are very intimate and personal how the lord shows you this area you have not yet become like jesus this is what jesus is like 22:35 and then comes a great longing in me to be like him in that area because the gospel does not concern me the gospel concerns jesus christ and he wants my life to glorify him do 22:56 you know that this is what god has always looked for on the earth you heard me say that the first book in the bible is the book of joe and if you have not understood the reason for that genesis 23:19 was not written by adam it was written by moses it was written 2500 years after adam adam 23:40 but the book of joe was written before that because joe lived long before moses he had no connection with israel he may have lived around the same time as abraham or melchizedek or something like that you know 24:04 in abraham's time there were other people who knew about god melchizedek was one of them and job also may have been one of them in another country and the book of joe written long before genesis is the 24:26 first book that god wrote for man and it has no connection with israel there is no mention of abraham isaac jacob israel nothing in this book all the other 65 books of the bible have got some connection some 24:47 mention of israel or something but not joe because it was written long before there was any abraham or israel and it's very interesting that when god decided to write a book for man he does 25:07 not write about a nation he writes about a man understand that when god wrote his first book he writes about a man who we can boast to satan about in the 25:28 midst of so many religious hypocrites in the people who are following the devil he can boast about one man when you read that what is it that grips your heart lord 25:49 i want to be a man like that and you and you know he could not boast about job's wife he didn't tell satan have you seen job's wife what a god fearing woman she is so don't be discouraged if your wife 26:10 is not converted don't be discouraged if your husband is not converted see if god can boast about you god did not hold job responsible because his wife is so godless he is 26:32 looking at you first of all you if you can build a good home praise the lord but you are not responsible for your wife or husband that is one thing you must learn from the book of Job but you 26:52 are responsible for your children Job brought up his ten children in a good way even though his wife was not so god fearing don't blame your husband or wife or wife if your children are not god fearing what a man 27:15 he was that he had a godless wife and he brought up his ten children in a good way Timothy's mother was like that her husband was not even a Jew a Greek businessman who was only interested in money but 27:35 Timothy's mother brought up her son in such a good way that before he was twenty years old Paul said he's good enough to be my co-worker what a wonderful thing if you and I could bring up 27:55 a son in such a way that by the time he's twenty years old the apostle Paul says he's good enough to be my co-worker in the new testament a woman all by herself without 28:16 a godless husband brought up her son in such a good way that the greatest apostle on earth said this chap is fit to be my co-worker you may not have a responsibility 28:37 for your wife or your husband but you have a responsibility for your children God will never ask you why is your wife like that why is your husband like that he will ask you why you like that and he'll ask you why didn't 28:56 you bring up your children like and you cannot give this excuse oh lord my wife did not cooperate my husband did not cooperate he'll say look at job he didn't have even the holy spirit like you have and he had ten children 29:15 more than you have so you have no excuse look at Timothy's mother she didn't have so much fellowship and bible studies and conference like you have so what excuse do you have for not bringing up your children in a godly 29:35 way and see what it says here about Job there are a number of things mentioned about him and it's very interesting remember these are the first words of scripture god is speaking from heaven first words of 29:59 scripture there was a man those are the first words of scripture there was a woman there was a man what about him he was 30:19 blameless verse 1 upright fearing god turning away from evil what type of person is god looking for blameless 30:39 that means to the best of his knowledge he is staying away from sin he is upright the devil cannot make him bend people cannot make him bend he is upright before god he fears 31:01 he fears god he doesn't fear any man he doesn't fear the devil he fears god because he fears god he doesn't fear anything else and what about his attitude to evil matter whether there's evil he turns away from it that is 31:25 the type of man and woman god is looking for job did not have a bible he had no fellowship no conference no meeting but see what he says in chapter 31 verse 1 i have 31:46 made a covenant with my eyes how can i gaze at a virgin he doesn't say how can i commit adultery no far away from that he says 32:08 how can i just look at that pretty woman just look i made a covenant with my eyes god has given me a wife i will only look at her how can 32:29 i look at another woman this is a man without bible without conference without holy spirit you think that was a small thing for god it was such a big thing that god could say to satan here is a man who turns away from evil 32:50 he cared for poor people sometime when you get time you read chapter 31 and you see what a man he was he had servants verse 13 working for him 33:10 and they could not find a single thing to complain against him what a wonderful thing that if i have somebody working for me they have no complaint against me he said i would not eat 33:30 my food alone verse 17 if there was an orphan there i would feed that orphan even my enemies verse 29 if they fell i did not rejoice in it verse 29 33:52 what a man he was remember without a bible without conferences without the holy spirit god could boast about such a man because he brought honor to his name and we 34:13 turn back to chapter 1 he had seven sons and three daughters and yet his possessions were much he was only the richest man in that area can a rich man be spiritual 34:33 job is the first spiritual man in the bible and he was a rich man paul was poor but both were spiritual it has nothing to do with money it's got to do with your heart 34:53 and see further job chapter 1 and verse 4 here we read about how job's sons used to go and celebrate their birthday in each person's house and when 35:17 it was finished they would celebrate for a number of days he job would call them verse 5 he would get up in the morning and he would offer some offerings to God for them and then he would call them and consecrate 35:38 them it says in verse 5 he would pray for them now remember these are not little boys it says in verse 4 they were all living in their own house they were all grown up people he would 36:03 call his grown up sons what a man he was that his grown up children respected him say come here my sons I want to pray for you and all the seven sons and three daughters would come to Job so that he can pray 36:23 for you you really brought up your children well if when they are grown up and they've got their own houses they will still listen to you when you call them and say I want to pray for you and he 36:48 said I want to pray for you for something perhaps you may have sinned when you were having this birthday feast what a thing to tell your children perhaps you may have sinned my children you may 37:09 not have known it I don't know but I want to make sure that your sin is forgiven I am a father I have a responsibility for you and they say how could we have sinned we didn't kill anybody we didn't commit any adultery no 37:32 you may have forgotten about God it's possible that you have sinned against God in your heart no my sons it is not externally you did something I am afraid that you sinned against God 37:52 in your heart and look at the next sentence in verse 5 thus Job did continually oh I want to do that continually till the Lord takes me 38:12 home pray pray for your children perhaps they have sinned against God in their heart don't wait till they commit sin on the outside pray 38:32 for them when you don't even know perhaps perhaps they have sinned against God in their heart what a man of God he was he was not bothered whether his children were making money in their business he didn't 38:52 gather them together oh I'm going to pray for you God will bless your business and help you in your studies he may have prayed for them but that was number 10 or 12 in his list but number one prayer was this my children 39:12 you may have sinned against God in your heart I want to pray for you dear brothers and sisters let's pray for our families like that God has written in his first book of the Bible about a man like this and 39:33 then Satan comes there and the Lord says to Satan where are you coming from verse 7 and he says I'm roaming around the earth and by the way he's still doing that Satan is roaming around the earth helping 39:55 believers to accuse one another to make believers open their mouth and backbite backbite backbite against others to separate the elders in the churches to separate 40:15 husband and wife in a home to make believers fight for earthly things he's roaming around the earth and he is very successful in his work I want to tell you Satan is very successful in his work among 40:36 believers God God has raised up a few people now to stand against the devil that's you and me God has raised us up to stand against all these activities of Satan 40:56 we are not going to hold hands with the accuser of the brothers that's not our business we will pray for people if they want to go wrong way let them go we can't do anything about it but 41:18 we are going to make sure that our own family is going to grow up in a God fearing way see the first people whom God spoke about know Noah was another man like that what do we know about Noah I don't know one thing about 41:35 the sermons he preached but I know one thing that his three sons and their wives were all God fearing they respected their father and got inside the ark that's what I learned about Job 41:56 that's what I learned about Noah they were strict fathers they didn't just allow their children to grow up as they like they said children you must fear God I don't want to be a popular father 42:16 with you I want to make sure you walk in God's ways because I want to protect you from the devil and if I protect you from the devil you'll be able to protect your children from the devil so many careless fathers 42:36 and mothers in the world today remember when God wrote a book the first book he wrote about a man a God fearing man who would not gaze at women who would bring up his children in a God 42:56 fearing way and who could boast about to Satan you know God could not speak about anybody else on the earth you know I think Satan came to said God lot of people who take your name they're all hypocrites and God 43:20 you know that better than me that all your people are hypocrites they sing wonderful songs on the Sunday they're all seeking their honor and they got secret sin in their lives God says that may be true but 43:41 have you seen Job and Satan says that's only one man God says one man is enough there's a man who will be a testimony for my name on the earth it's 44:01 the same thing today Satan comes to God look at the condition of these people who call themselves believers look at their private life look at their financial matters and these so-called preachers and pastors who represent 44:20 your name God see what lovers of money they are God says yeah that's true but have you seen this person and that person and that person in that village and 44:42 that person in this city I have got a few people in Tamil Nadu I've got a few people in India I've got a few people in the world who are different from the ones you're talking about Satan they 45:02 fear me they don't gaze at women they turn away from evil they have a concern for the glory of my name they don't love money they are 45:22 blameless they are upright some of them may not be great preachers but they are holy people turn away from evil and have you seen how this person and that person brought up his children I know many preachers that 45:43 children are all wayward yes but have you seen this one have you seen that elder and this other elder see how they brought up their children blameless upright and 46:03 the devil says but what about his wife God says don't worry about his wife see the man he's a testimony for me my dear brothers and sisters be a person like that don't care for the empty approval of people in your church 46:22 some of them think you're a great man of God the question is can God boast about you to Satan verse 8 there is no one like him 46:43 in the whole earth imagine imagine if God can say that there's no one like that person in the whole of Tamil there's no woman 47:03 like that in the whole of Tamil not if God can say that oh what more do you want do you have a longing oh God I want your name to be glorified through me in the 47:25 midst of a Christendom that's dishonoring you I want to be a person who honors you who obeys your word hundred percent who will not modify or change anything in your word in any area who 47:48 will build my home the way you want it built who will bring up my children the way you want children to be brought up and with my little ability I want to build a church even if it's a very small church it doesn't 48:10 matter if it's not a big church even if it's a small church but a church exactly according to your word in the new testament lord please help me that you can point out at least one church to the devil and say there 48:31 is a church according to my word how many of you elders have a burden like that dear brothers and sisters this should be our longing God is calling out of 48:51 the nations of people for his name don't be satisfied that you're going to heaven when you die before I go I want to glorify God's name on the earth why 49:11 do I preach so much you must be filled with the Holy Spirit all the time we need to be cleansed in the blood of Jesus Christ to go to heaven that's enough you don't need to be filled with the Holy Spirit to go to heaven 49:29 so if you are only interested in going to heaven you will never seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit why did I seek God to be filled with the Holy Spirit I'll tell you honestly it was not to go to heaven my 49:50 place in heaven was already reserved because I had turned from sin and asked Jesus to cleanse my dirty heart with his blood I sought to be filled with the Holy Spirit because I wanted to be a witness for God on the earth 50:08 and if you don't seek for that earnestly you're a selfish person who's only interested in going to heaven when you die you don't want to be a witness for God 50:28 on the earth there's only one way to be a witness for God on the earth if you're filled with the Holy Spirit every day not just once in the past I believe this is the mistake that 50:49 many Christians have made they always ask have you been baptized in the Holy Spirit born again is alright you're born again once but filled with the Holy Spirit is not once but many people have made that mistake thinking 51:07 that is once and they say yeah 25 years ago that's like asking a person were you healthy 25 years ago yeah I was very healthy 25 years ago but I'm full 51:27 of sickness now do you want to be like that no I want to be filled with the Spirit today was I filled with the Spirit yesterday that was good enough for yesterday I want to be a witness for God today 51:47 I am so disappointed when I see young brothers who should be on and sisters who should be on fire for God who are so sluggish there when you are there are there are there there you are there are there are 52:08 there are I'm 70 years old you guys should be much more on fire than me now you young people and I stand on the road and run and have a race who's going to win I'll 52:28 tell you I can't win I can't run even when I was young I was not very fast you will win definitely why can't you be more on fire for God than me then those 52:48 apostles were 30 years old and they were on fire for God God wants you to be like that God wants you to set other people on fire I'm sure that Job's influence had a great 53:08 life had a great influence on his children he may not have been a great preacher the Lord doesn't say to Job say to Satan have you heard anybody preach like Job he is looking 53:28 for godly men even if they can preach or not preach sometimes we are ambitious for the wrong thing I have told people you should never pray that God will help you to preach like me preach that 53:54 is God can give that gift to you in a moment but it won't make you spiritual you must long to be holy if if you don't see holiness in me there's nothing to copy me in if 54:15 you don't see humility in me there's nothing to imitate me in if I have not brought up my home properly it's no use imitating me don't ever long for anybody's gift say Lord 54:35 I want to be a godly person like Joe like Paul like Peter even if I can't preach even if I can't sing I want to be a godly person you are calling out of the nations of people for your name the 54:57 name of Jesus is so dishonored in India and by Christians who are the people dishonoring the name of the Lord in India Christians not non Christians they don't take the name of Christ those who take the name of Christ will 55:17 dishonor Christ in the midst of such Christians God wants you and me to live godly lives holy lives pure eyes controlled tongue uprightness in money matters 55:38 with a heart that loves others with a humility that serves others may God help help us let's pray let's bow our heads before God let's 55:59 ask God to help us you cannot live this life if you are not filled with the Holy Spirit heavenly father help us to be what you want us to be on this earth we pray in Jesus name 56:19 Amen Amen Amen 56:51 Amen Amen Amen Amen
