0:00 [Music] We were thinking in our last session that we must end our life with spiritually speaking gold, silver 0:19 and precious stones is a result of our life and our labors. Our life must be uh on this principle of Romans 11:36 from God through God to God. Meaning that from God means everything is according to his 0:37 will for which we must know the scriptures. God has given us the scriptures so that we know his will. Jesus said Jesus summed up his whole life in one sentence. If you don't know that John 6:38, one sentence his entire 0:53 life, I've come from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. If you were to ask Jesus, why did you come to earth? Most people say he came to die on the cross. No, that was one small part of what he 1:11 came for. John 6:38 says, I came from heaven to do my father's will. You know, if God's plan for Jesus was only that he should die for our sins, he could have made Jesus just like he made Adam, you know, from the dust of the 1:27 ground. Make another man. Jesus comes into that clay figure and he wouldn't have to waste his time living for 30 years on earth making stools and benches and all that and go and die on the cross. But what would have been 1:47 missing? There would have been no connection between him and the race of Adam. It was just another pile of clay. But he had to be connected to the human race. And that is 2:05 why he had to have Mary's a part of Mary in him. That's why he had to be born in and the little part of Mary from which the you know from the part of a woman which a baby is born. He had to have that otherwise he'd 2:24 have no connection with the human race otherwise he couldn't die for us. So that's why he had to come into uh a mother's womb and grow up. And the other second reason is because he had to be an example. He didn't come to earth just to 2:39 die for our sins. He came to be an example so he could say follow me how I took up my cross every day of my life. You take up your cross every day. And he took up his cross as a child. And you can imagine how he must have been. He had four brothers and two 2:57 sisters. It says in John 7, they did not believe in him. And uh you read about four brothers and two sisters in Mark 6. And I can imagine, I used to picture in my mind, how is it living with four brothers and two sisters and they don't 3:13 believe in you. They don't believe. Mary says to them, "Listen fellas, this older brother of yours is not born like the rest of you. It's God Almighty who's come in human form." You think they'd believe that? They said, "All rubbish, 3:25 mom. Don't I fool us. We're not kids now. You could have fooled us when we were children." It says when they were grown up and they must have been 27, 25 years old, they did not believe in Jesus even though they saw him live for 3:40 at least 20 years in their home. Perfect. Imagine seeing a boy growing up is one of your own brothers, older brothers growing up in your home. Think of that. Never getting angry, never getting upset. No matter how much you irritate him, he does not 3:58 react in the way you do. never speaks a bad word, never tells bad stories, and always utterly obedient to his mother. Say when he's playing games outside and it's his turn to bat, whatever is the equivalent of baseball in those days. 4:16 And uh Mary says, "Jesus, come here. It's his turn to bat." He drops it and goes, "Mom's calling me." And all those people in the team says, "Hey, you're going to lose. your mama's boy and all those bad words they call him. 4:33 He's not bothered. He has to obey his mother. His mother says, "Jesus, I want some water from the well." He goes, draws the water from the well, comes back. By the time it's he's come back, his turn for batting is over. He's not 4:48 bothered. He has obeyed his father. This is how he lived. Imagine Jesus life for 30 years. Why did he live like that? So that he can say to even children, "Follow me." He can say to a 15year-old, "Follow me." He can say it to a 5:03 25-year-old, "Follow me." He can say to a person who's working as a carpenter earning his own living, "Follow me." I'm sure there were crooks in Nazareth who cheated Jesus in his carpentry shop. He forgave them. And if some poor widow had to get 5:17 something done, make a stool or something, he'd make it. And when she asked, "What's the price?" Say, "Forget it. It's my gift to you." That's how he lived. So he he didn't become millionaire. But he pleased the father. 5:33 He came to do the father's will. That's why he had to be born as a child. His entire life was the principle of I'll do my father's will from him. And he sought the power of the holy spirit every day through him. And the result of his life was to 5:51 glorify God. And do you know that the Bible says that even your eating and drinking must be for the glory of God? Turn to 1 Corinthians 10. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 31. 6:13 Whatever you do, whatever you do, includes every activity of your life. Whether you eat or drink, which is the most normal thing everybody does. The poorest person does it to the richest person. Eat or drink, whatever you do, 6:29 do everything for the glory of God. From God, through God to God. That's the ultimate thing. In other words, I must seek God's will for my life from God. Read the word of God. everything in my life according to God's word and then 6:43 through God means seek God for the power of the Holy Spirit to live this life so that I don't sin I don't get angry I don't get upset I don't get lost with my eyes I cannot do it without the power of the Holy Spirit some of you are still 6:55 struggling because you're not seeking for the power of the Holy Spirit every day maybe you're gloring in one experience you had in the ancient past that will not suffice the tree the branches in the tree perpetually and 7:05 yesterday's sap will not produce fruit today it needs to get sap Not only every day but every moment. That is a spiritfilled life. There is no once-forall experience. You go and ask any branch in a tree, have you had a once-for-all experience by which you 7:19 produce fruit? No. I'm in constant dependence through God and to God. Jesus gave all the glory to him. What? Imagine eating and drinking for the glory of God. What does that mean in practical terms? We eat and drink every day. You 7:35 have to be disciplined my brothers and sisters, my brothers rather in eating and drinking. Do you know that? Why do we give thanks when we eat? Why do we pray before we eat? You recognize this is a gift of God that our food is. That's why 7:49 we give thanks. Even Jesus, he always prayed before he ate. It's not to be a ritual but is an expression of gratitude number one. And there is a prayer in it. Father, the strength I get from this is to keep my body fit and healthy so that 8:09 I can use it for you. It's not just to satisfy my lust for eating. Jesus was not like John the Baptist eating locust and wild honey. You know, he was not a what they call a Spartan uh you know eating very simple food. I think you know they called him a wine 8:27 bibber that means if you gave him something he he didn't get drunk ever in his life but if you gave him something if you gave him ice cream he would take it and um he he would enjoy the meal but he wouldn't be he wouldn't 8:41 overeat he could enjoy a good meal but remember he was a person who could also fast for 40 days he was completely disciplined even in his eating and drinking and you cannot be a disciple of Jesus let me tell you If you don't discipline yourself, what 8:56 does it say here? In eating and drinking, do it for the glory of God. In other words, Lord, the reason I'm eating and drinking in this is not because just I enjoy it. God has made it such that we can enjoy a good meal. There are many 9:09 things he's given us to enjoy. He could have made food in in a tasteless way and say just eat it. It's to keep you healthy. But he's made food tasty. So many fruits and all. Why did he put so much tasty food in this world? Because even in a sinful 9:26 world, God has not forsaken man. He wants man enjoy eating. Take sex for example. There's so much pleasure in sex. And God has allowed it. He didn't take away that pleasure of sex when sin came into the world. He could have. He 9:39 could have said as a punishment. There'll be no more pleasure in food. There'll be no more pleasure in sex. God is a good God. But don't be taken up with the pleasure of sex. That's how prostitutes live and that's how all 9:49 these immoral men live. For them the pleasure of sex is the main thing. That's how pornography and masturbation and all that comes in because the pleasure of sex it says whatever you do you must do for the glory of God from him through him and to him. So 10:07 never forget that if you take these things seriously you say life will be a bondage. Far from it my brother I'll tell you this your life will be liberated. The re for example do you know the Bible says give thanks in everything. You know why you can't give 10:22 thanks in everything? Because you don't seek the glory of God in everything. In everything we can glorify God. If you say Lord I want to give you thanks. I don't want to I'm not called here to just do what I feel like. Eat what I 10:39 like. Whatever I enjoy. Says eat for the glory of God. Everything must be under the discipline of God. That doesn't mean a bondage. In fact, it brings liberty. It brings liberty. You go go and ask a doctor, he'll tell you that if you eat 10:55 in a disciplined way, you'll live much longer. A lot of people die early because they eat very unwisely. Now, you think this you talk about eating and drinking in a church? Sure. It says here they eat and drink for the glory of God. That's in the 11:09 Bible. So, how do I eat and drink for the glory of God? I must find out if this type of food is what I should is good for me to eat. And if I discover this type of food is just going to make me fat and sloppy and useless for God and shorten my life, I 11:23 shouldn't eat it. Or I should be disciplined in my eating. It's not just exercise. As as I heard someone said, the best push-ups you can do are the push-ups from the dining table to be healthy. So we must be disciplined in 11:40 our eating and drinking as well. everything to all for the glory of God is a great promise and for that you know the we have to take the place of nothingness before God. Uh Jesus taught us in John 15 a 11:59 very great truth concerning what we can do and what we cannot do. John 15 I'll show you two sides of this coin. One side of the coin says, you know, every coin has got two sides. So one, here's a coin now. One side of the coin 12:19 says, John 15:5, the last part, without Christ, I can do nothing. You must have a coin. On one side, it says, without Christ, I can do nothing. But that's not all. That won't help you. Turn around to the other side 12:36 of the coin and that is Philippians and chapter 4. Philippians 4 and verse 13. With Christ, I can do everything. He strengthens me. These are the two sides of the coin. Never forget 12:56 it. John 15:5 and Philippians 4:13. Without Christ, I can do zero. With Christ, I can do 100% not 90%, 100% of what God wants me to do in my life. I won't have another man's ministry. For years and years, I've told 13:15 people in Bangalore, please don't try to copy Zakunan's ministry. That's not your calling. I won't be able to do your job. You won't be able to do mine. I have been equipped to do my task. Can I say for example if the hand says boy it's 13:31 wonderful how the tongue can speak and so the tongue can sing and the tongue can speak and the I'd like to be like a tongue Lord. The Lord says no you got to be a hand. The hand does so many things the tongue cannot do. The tongue will not have strength to 13:48 speak if the hand does not pick up food and put it in the mouth. God has made this body so interdependent on each other. Even the heart. The heart that is the most important thing. Do you know the heart also needs the eyes to look at the food, 14:02 the hand to take it up, the mouth to chew it, the stomach and everything else that is to digest it to give strength to the heart. So even the heart which is the most important part is dependent on all the other members of the body. 14:15 There's no member that is independent of itself and there's no member in the body which is useless or too small, unimportant. And I talk of the nails very often. The nails are perhaps one of the smallest parts of our body. But when you 14:30 feel itchy, there's no part of your body that can help you except the nails. So you can be like a nail. You know, nail is a person who we know there are parts of your back you cannot reach. You say scratch my back. You know what 14:43 scratching the back is spiritually? Encouraging your brother or sister. You know how long it takes to encourage a brother? One sentence. I often tell people when you write an email to somebody, why not add one sentence at the bottom to encourage him, 15:00 you written a wrong email answering so many things and encourage saying so many things. One sentence to encourage him or when you speak to a brother over a phone, do you ever think of encouraging? It's a great ministry. 15:14 Encourage one another daily. That's in the Bible, by the way. Hebrews in chapter 3 verse 13 in the NASB it says 15:33 encourage one another day after day. Here is a command which I think almost all believers disobey. It's almost as though it's not in the Bible. Encourage one another 15:51 daily. You know how long it takes to encourage a person? One sentence. I never forget what happened to you. I often said this more than 50 years ago. I was in a conference in one place where another country where the guy doesn't even know how to speak 16:06 English. But a godly man and he wanted to just encourage me and he knew one sentence in English that he said to me. He says, "Brother Zach, God has got a great plan for your life." I was 30 years old. He hardly knew me. I just 16:20 gone there for a conference. Somehow the Lord led him to say that he was a godly man. I have never forgotten it for nearly 55 years. Did he encourage me? Yes, he encouraged me because as a young person, I was so uncertain about the future and 16:35 I was facing so many difficulties and problems. One sentence encouraged me that it lasted forever and ever. God's got a plan for my life. It doesn't take much to encourage somebody. Encourage one another daily. Okay. Let me ask you another very 16:52 simple question. All you married people, who do you see daily? Your wife. When was the last time you encouraged her with some word? I'm not trying to make you feel guilty. I'm just trying to point you to 17:09 Hebrews 3:13. You see, there are scriptures that we read and we disobey and we don't even know it. Encourage one another daily. You can start today or whenever you see your wife 17:27 next and say, "Lord, let me You know how long it takes? Not even one minute to appreciate something that he's done. Maybe she cooks for you. You're quick to point out when something is missing in that 17:45 food. What about being quick to when it's good and she's worked hard? Oh, it's so important. Our children especially. I've seen that children need encouragement. Sure, they need correction, but they need 18:04 encouragement. Brothers around you need encouragement. So let's take this more seriously. Say Lord, I want my life to be like that. A blessing to other people. But if I want to be like that, I have to see this coin. Without me, you can do zero. With 18:22 with me, you can do everything. That's what the Lord says. So it's very difficult for us to be a zero. Moses was a great man in Egypt, ready to be the next Pharaoh, so 18:41 gifted. And God said, "I cannot use you until I make you a zero." And you know what he did? He sent him into the wilderness for 40 years, got him married to some non-Israeli woman and had to live in his father-in-law's house for 40 years. 19:00 If you any of you have lived in your father-in-law's house even for a few days, you know how humiliating it is. Here's the great man who was to be the pharaoh which is the greatest ruler in the world. God had a great plan for 19:12 him. He said I cannot fulfill that plan in your life Moses till you become a zero. And that man who thought one day I can deliver the Israelites from Egypt and tried to hit a person and kill him. And if he had gone like that killing the 19:27 Egyptians, how long would he have taken? God said, "I'll wipe him out in a moment." But he could not use him until he had become a zero. I'll tell you why he became a zero when I that how that he did become zero. Because when God called him at the 19:41 burning bush and said, "I'm calling you. You speak for me." He said, "No, no, no. I can't speak. I can't speak." How did he say that? Turn with me to Acts chapter 7. How is it when he was in Egypt preparing to be the next pharaoh pharaoh? It says 19:58 about Moses in Acts chapter 7. Let me find that verse. um getting 20:21 old. It says here he was a man mighty in word and deed. Okay. Anyway, it's somewhere there. How much? Yeah. 20:40 22. Acts 7:22. educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, a man of power in words. And yet when God meets him at the burning bush, he says, "Oh Lord, I cannot." He's God says, "You have to speak." "No, I cannot. No, I cannot. No, 20:56 I cannot speak. I'm not I'm not able to speak." You know how that happened? How did he become a zero? 40 years in the wilderness, live with your father-in-law for 40 years, you really become a zero. You great man who was ready to be a 21:08 pharaoh of Egypt. I made you zero. Now I will use you. I will use you to do the greatest work almost that is ever done at that time to deliver 600,000 men and women and children. 2 million people. I'm going to deliver 21:26 them through your hand from the greatest power in the world from the power of Egypt because you become a zero. I could not use you till now. You were too full of yourself. You are mighty in words and deeds. And dear brothers, that is the 21:39 problem with many of us. We are mighty in words and deeds. And God cannot use you till he is I hope he doesn't have to put you in your father-in-law's house for many years. But in some other way, he has to reduce you to 21:50 zero. It's always been God's way. Jacob who was the smart man who could fool his ne his brother Esau and steal the birthright. He got deceived by his father-in-law 22:08 Lean. He was in love with Rachel, the younger sister, the smart, clever man who could dupe his elder brother. And he found Rachel and uh Lean did not want to give Rachel till the elder sister was married. So, you know what he did? I 22:23 don't have time to show you that. At the wedding reception, he said, "Let's have the celebration before the wedding." Have you ever been to a wedding where the celebration is before the wedding itself? I've never been to one in my 22:37 life. It's always after the wedding you have the celebration. Jacob, the Lebanon was a smart fight. He said, "Let's have a celebration before the wedding." You know, his aim was to get the older girl married. So he gets Jacob 22:54 drunk and then this fellow is half asleep drunk and tottering around and he he gives his hand and puts the ring into the hand or he doesn't know who it is. He thinks it's Rachel because he's so drunk. It's Leah and he doesn't know till he wakes 23:09 up next morning. They're asleep asleep together as husband and wife. Next morning he wakes up and said, "Hey, did I marry you?" The man who outsmarted his brother got outsmarted by somebody. That's how God reduced Jacob to a zero. And he had 23:24 to work for 20 years there till he became a zero. And then God said, "Now I will change your name to Israel. I'll break your thigh. You'll have to wear walk with a stick. Even though you're a young man, you'll have to walk with a stick for the rest of 23:36 your life. But you will become a prince of God. Through you will come the nation of Israel. Through which will come my son Jesus." You, Jacob. It won't be Esau. God has to reduce us to zero. Now, please watch this video 23:53 for just 10 minutes and then we'll continue. Can you put that on? Now, I'm going to demonstrate something 24:11 here. What are the things we glory in? Can you come here and stand facing back? Yeah. Most of us glory in wealth. Where's that 24:37 mic? Okay. Wealth. the wealthiest man in the world. Seen him. He's number one in Forb's list of the wealthiest people in the world. Zero in God's 24:54 eyes. Okay. What are the other things we glory in? We got another brother. Here's a good-looking brother. Come here, beauty. You see how handsome he is? 25:13 I mean it zero. Okay. What's the other thing? People glory in position. Okay. Come brother. He's got a very high position 25:31 in the world. You don't recognize it. He looks humble, but he's got a very high position. Zero in God's eyes. Okay. The next one. He looks very clever. PhD 25:49 education. Zero. Okay, one more. Here's the athlete. He wins every medal in the Olympics. Sports zero. This guy is the one who's really 26:15 popular. Young people, old people, girls, everyone. He's really popular. Popularity zero. Okay. This is me, preacher. Zero. He'll represent me. 26:35 preachers, you know, people can be proud of preaching. Zero and and and there are 101 other things or a million other things that represents all 26:51 the other things you can be proud of. Okay? And the last the root cause of it all is self. Now study it carefully. See what what they are. What 27:09 Nebuchadnezzar understood. All the inhabitants of the earth are nothing. You know what gives value to them? Jesus. Now you see the value of 27:27 all these people. You take it away all the zeros. You can have all those qualities and you're still a zero. But the moment Jesus comes in, 27:44 even if it's just one person, he's got value more than all these other people just because Jesus is with him. You children remember that. Never forget it. One 28:01 person and when you get fellowship one person 10 becomes a 100. That's the wonder of fellowship. You get one more brother in fellowship. See what happens. And one more. And one more. And one 28:20 more. Fellowship. Fellowship. Fellowship. where everybody recognizes their zeros. This is the church. This is the body of Christ. And you can be a member of the body of Christ, a functioning member if you recognize like King 28:39 Nebuchadnezzar and like Paul that you're a zero and that God is everything. I hope this will be imprinted in your mind forever. And the moment you suddenly begin to think highly of yourself again, you know what 28:58 happens? You're a zero all over again. That's why you always need to keep Jesus number one in your life in every area of your life throughout the new year. Thank you, brother. All you zeros, 29:15 thank you very much. [Applause] If you want to see that, it's on YouTube. You just put Zakpun being a 29:34 zero and you can find it on YouTube. Just less than 10 minutes. But it's more than what you see there. It's something you need to recognize in your life every day. It's the thing that's helped me the most in my life. I'll tell you 29:50 honestly. You You may think it's easy to preach. It's not. And especially when you go to different audiences here and there in different parts of the world to different churches, some very clever ones and some very simple illiterate 30:05 ones to know the need there. Lord, how in the world can I do it? I don't know the need of these people. And the Lord says, you be a zero and I'll give you words to tell them. You see the secret of the Christian life is to be a zero. 30:19 And God had to reduce people to that. Like Moses, the mightiest man was built to Pharaoh was was the greatest ruler in the world in those days. And Moses would have been the next Pharaoh and he had to reduce to zero. And the way God used to 30:33 reduce him to zero. I told you about him and Jacob put them in difficult situations, make them live with their father-in-law or some humiliating thing like that. Reduce them to zero. and Jacob becomes an Israel and Moses 30:44 becomes the greatest prophet of his time. And you can be like that. And the reason you're not today is because you're not willing to be a zero. There's something in you that still makes you feel I'm a somebody. I'm gifted. I can 30:56 do this. I can look what all I've done in my life. I can do this. I can be tempted to feel like that, but I keep living before the Lord and I say, "Lord, I'm nothing." The secret of being a zero today, you don't have to live with your father-in-law. 31:09 You get down before the Lord's face every day. When you wake up in the morning, you say, "Lord, I want to live before you today. You'll be a zero in no time." You'll you may have very high thoughts of yours. It'll be reduced to 31:22 zero. Let me show you Daniel and chapter 4. Nebuchadnezzar was the greatest ruler of his time. And God had to reduce him to a zero because he wanted to use him. And you know how God reduced God 31:42 has different ways of reducing people to zero. In Moses case it was 40 years with your father-in-law. In Jacob's case it was 20 years with your father-in-law. In Nebuchadnezzar's case was reducing to the level of an animal. And it says he started Daniel 31:57 chapter 4 the middle of verse 32. For seven years he had to eat grass like the cattle. And uh his uh verse 33, his body was drenched and his nails began to grow like uh bird's claws and his hair like eagle's 32:16 feathers. Imagine the great ruler of the world being reduced to that state. At the end of that period in verse 34, how God has wonderful ways, let this man be reduced to the level of an animal, eating grass and not cutting his nails 32:31 and uh hair growing like eagle's feathers. And at the end of it, God humbled him. He had learned his lesson. He says, "At the end of this period, Daniel 4:34, I raised my voice to heaven." And he recognized the most high. He this heathen man recognized the 32:48 true God and he honored him and he said God's dominion is an everlasting dominion from his kingdom endures from generation to generation. And the next verse 35 is something which he understood which most believers have not 33:02 understood. All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as zero. He understood it. Moses understood it. Jacob understood it and they became men of God. Paul understood 33:21 it. He said, "I'm the chief of sinners." All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as zero. And God does according to his will on on earth and in heaven. And no one can question him saying, "What have you 33:40 done?" If you come to the place that Nebuchadnezzar without a Bible, without the Holy Spirit came to, I mean, you don't have to go eating grass and all, but if you can allow God, the Holy Spirit to humble yourself to learn this, 33:53 I believe it's one of the greatest lessons which most Christians have not learned. I've been I've taught this for years, but I find even in CFC churches, very few people have understood. Everybody thinks I am somebody. Especially if God uses them a 34:09 little bit. Maybe God uses you one day to bring one soul to Christ. You brought one soul to Christ. Boy, you're talking about it for the next few months and your head is so puffed up. God says, "I can't use this person anymore. He'll destroy himself already. 34:28 His head has become so big because he what? Brought one person to Christ. What will happen if I he brings another person to Christ? He'll gradually get so puffed up that he'll go to hell because God resists the proud. So to prevent a person from going 34:44 to hell, God has to stop using him. Isn't that unfortunate that God has to stop using a brother whom he wanted to use mightily because he got puffed up? I remember asking the Lord this question many years ago. I said, "Lord, 34:59 India's got a I said this before, I think India's got a population so many billion people. Where are the prophets? Why there was so Israel was such a small country. It had prophets. Where are the prophets in India? And the Lord said there were 35:13 number of men I called to be prophets in this country. But some of them fell in love with some girl and married the wrong girl. Some of them got a good job somewhere and went after money. Some of them I began to use them and they got so 35:27 puffed up that I could not use them anymore. And some of them I called them to this thing but they got distracted to some other ministry which paid them a higher salary and so many reasons and so they failed failed failed failed failed and 35:42 so the profits are rare. Why should a country with two billion people have no profits? Don't you think America needs prophets? Prophets who will never imagine that they are somebody who will be nobodyies. 35:59 who will be zeros will all have Christ one. He's the number one in front of them. That gives value to them. You take away that one, he's a zero again. He can have that one in front of him for 20 years and there many many zeros get 36:13 added to him and the church is being built and one day he becomes proud. The one goes away. He becomes a zero again. That's exactly what has happened to numerous people in the history of Christendom. It's very difficult for God to use a man 36:29 without the man getting puffed up. Dear brothers, will you be one of those who will challenge, take up the challenge and say, "Lord, I want you to use me and please keep me humble. I cannot keep myself humble." Acknowledge that also 36:43 when I say I can do nothing, I cannot also keep myself humble. I acknowledge that. I say, "Lord, I see how you're using me here and there and it's very difficult. I can get puffed up, but only you can keep me humble and do whatever 36:55 you want to keep me humble. Anything God will do that for you, my brother. I believe God wants to use every single one of you. If you have given your life to Christ, if you've really got repented of your sins and got fed up with 37:15 yourself, that's an important requirement. You have to be fed up with yourself. And that can sometimes take some time. You can begin to think particularly if God uses you a little bit here, a little bit there, and you can begin to think you're somebody. And 37:27 on top of that, if some brother praises you, oh boy, you're in danger then. And if some man of God whom you respect praises you, then you'll find it difficult to recover for the next one week. You have to whenever anybody appreciates 37:44 you get down before God and say Lord, he has appreciated me with a good spirit to encourage me. But I know what I am. He doesn't know what I am. I'm a sinner saved by grace. Moment by moment I'm dependent on you. Get down before 38:03 God constantly. Especially if you have some gift. Those who have gift of music, I think they are the in most in danger. Some musicians have lost their salvation because they were so gifted Christian musicians because they got so 38:19 you know people are more attracted to musicians than to preachers. You know that you have a music Christian music uh celebration summit. A lot of people go to that. So musicians standing up on the platform uh they perform exactly like the uh 38:37 these uh secular musicians. I've seen that you know how the secular musician the guitar man will stand one place the drummer will stand another place and singer will stand other place. That's how Christian musicians why can't they all stand 38:49 together? Because in the world they stand like that. We'll imitate that garbage. Where are the Christians who stand against all this nonsense of imitating the world? Very rare to find. Very rare to find men of God who stand against all 39:04 the nonsense going on in the Christian world. And that's why the church has suffered. God's work has suffered. But I pray that some of you, God will give you the grace wherever you are in your locality. You come from many different 39:17 parts of this country. You have a tremendous responsibility. I want to say to you and I'll tell you something else. Your responsibility has increased in the last one and a half days. And by the end of this conference tomorrow, it'll 39:31 increase much more. And that's not something to be afraid of. Same thing be thankful for. Lord, I now recognize that you given me responsibility. Supposing you're working in a 39:48 company and they want to transport a huge amount of money from say here in Denver to New York to headquarters and they send one man saying here's $1,000 you got to go and 40:04 give it there and they select you to a they give you a million dollars in cash you want to go there and both of you have to take the overnight flight to go to New York. Are you going to sleep? Are you going to get involved in 40:23 a conversation with somebody who knows that you got a million dollars and want to somehow swindle you off it? You'll be so careful because you have more to lose. That guy's only carrying $1,000. You're carrying $1 million to 40:39 whom more is given, more is required. When you reach the other end, you cannot hand over 1,000 like he can. You got to hand over 1 million. And when you reach the end of your life, God's not going to expect from you the same little amount that he gave to 40:55 somebody else. He's going to expect more and more because you came for this conference. You received something. You got more than those other guys who never came for the conference. those other guys who go to some dead church where they never hear the truth 41:09 of God clearly. You got more. It's a privilege and you're very thankful for the wonderful things that challenge your heart. But dear brother, that's a tremendous blessing to have received more from God, but then your responsibility is more. Would I 41:26 rather be I say, Lord, just give me $10 so that I don't have to answer for more. Do you want to be like that? No. I say, Lord, give me a billion. I want to use my one life for the maximum possible effect because there's 41:39 no way I can show my gratitude to Jesus Christ for dying for me other than by giving up everything for him. I hope you're challenged like that. Meditate on the cross of Calvary. That's what the Lord taught me from the beginning of my Christian life to 41:56 meditate on the life of Jesus and how he suffered and so many things God opened my eyes to see of how much how he suffered in Gethsemane. There's a great verse in John's gospel and chapter 42:19 16. The ministry of the Holy Spirit, different people have different understandings of the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The brethren, I was with the brethren for many years. They say when you were born again, you got the 42:31 Holy Spirit. Okay, God bless you, brothers. I believe that also. But like I said the other day, it's like light coming into a 10 room house. The Holy Spirit came in. When I was born again, the Holy Spirit came in. One room was lit up. Is there 42:49 light in that house? Yes. Is it filled with light? No. Does he have the Holy Spirit? Yes. Is he filled with the Holy Spirit? No. As simple as that. There are nine other rooms which he has not opened up locked. He won't allow the Holy Spirit 43:05 to go in. That's why you're not filled with the Holy Spirit. He comes knocking. Just like Jesus, I stand at the door and knock. Jesus will never get into a person's life if he doesn't choose him. He says, "Can I come into 43:18 your finances room and oversee all the way you make money to make sure that I want to check your account books?" The Holy Spirit says, "Will you let me into that room? I'll check everything there ruthlessly, carefully. I want to see if you've 43:36 written exactly what you got and how you spent. Are you careless in your spending? Are you lavish and wasteful? Are you disciplined in your spending? And I want to see if you have paid all your taxes properly. I am stricter than 43:49 the IRS. The Holy Spirit says they may miss something, but I won't miss anything. You got to pay your taxes. I want you to be upright. I want you never to be in debt even for $1. If you're in some emergency, you have to borrow, 44:04 you'll repay as soon as possible. You'll deny yourself something to repay that as soon as possible. Are you like that? You think it's better to keep the Holy Spirit out of that room. It's too much of a nuisance to be controlled like 44:16 that. That room will remain dark. That's why you're not filled with the Holy Spirit. Then the Holy Spirit comes to another room. He says, "This room where you got your reading material, I want to see what all you read, what you read on the internet. I 44:31 want to see that. And there are certain things I don't want you to read on the internet. There's certain sites I never want you to go to. And there are certain what are these books and papers you're reading. And there's certain books I 44:46 want you to read. You say, "Lord, this type of control, you're going to control everything I watch in the internet. Keep them out of that room. That room will remain dark. Watch whatever you like." Like that there's room after 44:59 room. Your Lord checks how you behave with your wife is nothing to do with how your bi wife behaves towards you. That's unimportant. That's another house. Your wife is another house. The Holy Spirit takes care of the rooms in that house. 45:12 Whether she yields or not is her business. But you, how you treat your wife is a room the Holy Spirit wants to check. And it's got nothing to do with how your wife behaves. She may be the most evil. She may be a witch, but you 45:26 got to behave like Christ. You say that's too much. If she behaves like a witch, I got to teach her treat her lesson. Okay. The Holy Spirit says I won't come into that room. This is how so many believers their rooms remain 45:39 dark, dark, dark, lock. They go to meetings and say cry out, "Oh, fill me with the Holy Spirit. He'll never fill you. You locked all the doors and asking him to come into those rooms. How will he come?" He knocks at the door and you 45:49 don't let him in. And I could name room after room after room after room where you want him to come, but you don't. You yourself are locking him out. I'm not trying to condemn anybody. I don't believe my message will ever be a 46:03 message of condemnations is encouragement. Brother, you don't know what you're missing by not bringing the light into that room. Be so rigid with and say in the matter of money that you say, Lord, if accidentally I've not paid my taxes 46:23 somewhere, please make me do it. I did that once. I've tried my best all my life. I've never earned much. I used to have a very little. But even the little I got, I say, Lord, I want to pay my taxes properly. And I'd be very, very 46:36 exact, extremely careful going through it again and again and again. See, is it correct? Have I said everything? Make sure. Yeah. If there are lawful deductions, by all means, deduct them. But then I once said to the Lord, "Lord, 46:50 I've tried my best to pay all my taxes, but it's possible that there's some law I did not know. And if by ignorance I have missed out on some payment to the government, please make me pay it in some way." And you know what happened? 47:07 It's very interesting what happened to me. The answer to that prayer in India many services are not public are not private services like you have railways and many things here private telephone services are private in India 47:20 in those days everything was run by the government telephones were run by the government railways were run by the government and everything was in the government was a socialist society so once I was making a longdistance 47:37 phone call and you Phone services in India very poor in those days. It's much better now. The old phones, not not cell phones, the old phones where you pick it off the receiver and dial the number and it is way back. And after I finish this 47:54 long-distance phone call, which is a very expensive long-distance phone call, and I put it down, I always pick it up again to see if it is disconnected. It was not disconnected for some reason. Then that's part of the defective phone services in India. I 48:10 said, "Wow." Then for every second I'm paying now. What to do? Still not disconnected. What to do? You know what I had to do? Put my phone down. Go somewhere else. Call up the telephone exchange from somebody else's phone. 48:26 Hey, please sir, my phone is not been disconnected. I finished my call long ago. And after some time, it got disconnected. By the time I paid paid paid paid paid for that which I didn't use and I say Lord I think this is the 48:41 answer to my prayer. Somewhere I have deprived the government of taxes and you have taken it from me through the phone. Praise the Lord. That was the one time I praised the Lord that I paid extra for what I did not even use. I'm telling you, if 48:59 you're so rigid with God and exact with God, he will do mighty things for you because he is exact with you, be exact with God. Say, "Lord, I will never love money to the extent that I cheat anybody." And by that, even though I've been serving the Lord 49:17 full-time and lived with great struggle sometimes in the early days and I had a wife who was willing to come along with me in those days, we're not like that now. God has provided us much. But in those days it was very very little 49:28 particularly the early months of our mar years of our marriage. But I can say this in all my life I'm 85 now. I've never been in debt for a single day even for one cent to anybody in the world. If I had little I 49:46 lived with little. If I bought something I paid for it. If I'm in a store and I want to buy something and I don't have the money and I ask a brother, can I loan something? the same day I would give it back to him. So if you're exact like that in 50:03 money matters I tell you God will be exact with you in many other things. I mentioned this because I say I find even in Bangalore I found that many people in her in CFC for many many years uh they were careless and sometimes an 50:21 elder brother has to be strict. I'm I'm sorry to say some elders are not strict. One day I got up in in CFC Bangalore because I have a responsibility. These are my children and I don't want them to go astray. I said if anybody in this 50:36 church has borrowed more than 1,000 rupees from you and more than one month has gone by and he's not made any effort to pay any benefit back, please come and see me after the meeting. And that puts a fear on people. That afternoon, some 50:53 people paid back their debt. One person did it online immediately as soon as the service was over. In other words, he had the money. Why didn't he do it? If I keep it in the bank, I can get a little more interest. Is that a Christian? Somebody else's 51:09 money? You're trying to get interest off of his money? My dear brothers, I'll tell you from my experience. Be exact with money and God will be exact with you through the power of his holy spirit. I have tried my best when I had little. We lived with little, 51:27 my wife and I. Many things we just sacrificed. I I'm not telling other people to live like I live. I was called to serve the Lord full-time. Not everybody's called to that. But according to your calling, I don't want to say all the things I did because I 51:40 don't want to be an example. God called me to with a special calling and you're not called that way. But I had to be very careful about certain things in financial expenditure which other people perhaps don't have to be. But because of 51:51 my calling I had to be I had to be very careful never not only never to be in debt but never to waste any money in unnecessary purchases. Always I would ask myself do I need that? Do I need another set of clothes when I 52:05 already have all this? Why do I need just for style or just for variety? You know, I don't buy clothes for variety of a style. It's a necessity. I mean, clothing is for covering ourselves and it doesn't have to be the latest style 52:18 and it doesn't have to be that I always had to wear some new clothes. No. So many things in the world has all these things and unfortunately many believers go by that. And what do they lose? They lose the power of the Holy Spirit. Is it 52:29 worth it? Look back over your life, my brother, and see what all you have lost in your life because you were careless in these matters. God wants to reduce us to zero. where I become zero and then he will add a one in front and then he'll add a few 52:44 more zeros after you and you'll become a billion. You'll build a church. You who thought you were such a useless person, God can use you to build a church. I remember when I was in I was 15 years old when I joined the military 52:59 academy. 15 years, 5'2 in short and very weak and thin. And I was the youngest in my class. And when they heard that I got selected to join the military academy, which is the equivalent of West Point here, they laughed at me and said, 53:15 "Zack, you're going to defend our country. Wow, we better be careful." That's how they despised me. I said, "Okay." And that's how I joined the military. And I was not a I never took part in public speaking, any such thing. God 53:31 kept me weak and helpless. And he kept me like that so that when I began to preach, I would have to depend on his holy spirit and not on my own natural ability or any such thing. So if you're weak brother, if you're not 53:46 gifted, praise the lord because then you'll depend on the holy spirit. See a poor man for example, let me give an example. Supposing a somebody's uh son or daughter is hospitalized and it's a large hospital expense. There's no 54:03 insurance. A rich man says, "What's the bill? Is it $40,000?" Takes out his checkbook. Here it is. Thank you very much. What about the poor man? The bill is $500. He doesn't even have that. He has to say, "Oh, God, please 54:20 help me." And he trusts him. He's a believer. He trusts him. He gets a gift out of the blue from someone he probably didn't even know. $500. Isn't it wonderful? I tell you that man has exciting experiences which that rich man never has. That guy only 54:36 takes out his checkbook and writes something. This chap had nothing and he got an exciting experience. I've had exciting experiences like that even financially. I'll give you one example. I won't waste your time with more 54:49 examples. We when we started the CFC, the first CFC started meeting in our house with two families 50 years ago and little by little people would come and go, come and go, come and go. Some people come just to listen to my message, not to 55:03 build the church and uh gradually people would come and go and finally after some time the number grew to 60. Wow, this is a big number. And we had to get another building and we said we have so little in we never took we never took a 55:22 collection back going around. We had a box there. anybody wants to put something. And there was a property nearby that was available and it cost so much money and in that was about 6 years of our keeping that offering box. We had only about 55:42 half that money and we had to pay that in 3 months otherwise it'd lose the property. Where are we going to get half that amount in three months which he had collected over six years and he got an equal amount in three months? 55:57 Impossible. And we wouldn't you know make an announcement we need so much money. We never believed in making such announcements because I knew knew that the poor people would give the rich people would be stingy. We always found 56:11 rich people are usually very stingy except rare ones who are generous. But the poor people would sacrifice and give and I say I'm not going to put that pressure on anybody in our church like that. So we never announced it. Only two 56:23 or three of us our elders knew we have to get this much money because we are not able to fit in my we house. We can't fit in there anymore. We have to find a better place. And you know what happened? Just about couple of months 56:36 before the deadline or I don't know a few days before the deadline. I don't even remember. I got a check for the church from somebody I've did not ever know till then and I've never met till today. Never met him. Somehow he had 56:53 heard about a work a believer but I've never met in my entire life. Not till today. And how much did he send in this check? The exact amount which is needed to complete this transaction. Who told him that? Do you believe in a God in heaven 57:12 who communicates with people? Now you think that's a it sounds so fake, right? This is unbelievable. Zach's telling stories. It's not a fairy tale. It actually happened. I still have that letter with me which that guy wrote with me and I've 57:31 never met him till today. He's dead and gone now. I knew about him but I never met him. Of course I wrote a letter say thank you very much but I never met him. I never knew him before. He never he heard about our work and sent us this 57:45 money. That's one experience. And I can tell you others in our family life and in our u ministry it's a wonderful thing to live by faith to trust God and I want to say to all of you particularly those who 58:02 are finding financial need difficult to meet your needs every month to the expenses in your home trust God he'll never let you down. I'm telling you from 60 years of experience. But we were willing to 58:19 sacrifice anything when I didn't have um when I got married, I could not afford even rent for a home because I had given away all my savings for the God's work two years before I got married. And when I got married, I told her I told my wife, I 58:35 have nothing. I have no income. I have no bank account. My dad is a poor pensioner but he has one spare room in his house and he's allowed us to stay there. So we stayed in one room in my dad's house for not for one or two days for 4 years because 58:52 we could not afford anything. Okay, that was difficult for me and my wife. I didn't enjoy staying in my father's house after I got married and certainly it was more difficult for my wife but my parents were exceptionally good. They 59:03 were believers and so in that sense it was easy for both of us but I never took a scent from them. I lived there but our son was born there and it was very difficult. We trusted the Lord. But I'll tell you something at the end of this, 59:15 those are the best years of our life. Now we have more and it's we don't have to trust God for so much. But those days we really had to trust God day by day, literally day by day. And those are exciting days. Today I have enough. I 59:33 can just go to the bank and use a my debit card and draw some money. It's not so exciting today. Like those days I didn't have any debit card. I had hardly anything in the bank. I had to trust God. So what I'm saying is if God puts 59:49 you in that type of situation where you lost your job perhaps. You don't know when you're going to get another one. Ah you are of all people sitting here you are blessed. That's not the type of word anybody will tell you right but you are 1:00:03 because you're only cast on God. Now it's a wonderful thing. I'll tell you from my experience, it's wonderful in those situations where I'm cast on God. There are situations where I have to go and preach and I'm cast on God. 1:00:16 Even this situation when I came here and Santosh told me, "Bro, dad, you got to speak on what is it 10 sessions in three days." I said, "Wow, I got to turn on God then." I mean, if it was just one one meeting and then this week, okay, maybe I could 1:00:34 manage it. But 10 sessions I've got to speak. Okay. I'll be cast on the Lord. And I I've experienced that before in the early days. I remember we used to have conferences in the villages and I had to speak 1 2 3 4 five sessions every 1:00:49 day for three days. But I'm older now and but I find that I'm not saying anything special. If God calls you to do it, you do it. And uh I did tell Santo I say if I get stuck somewhere, I hope you'll fill in for me. Well, well, I haven't got stuck so far. 1:01:07 But what I say is God is a good God. I'm just saying this for your encouragement. I'm not talking about myself. I'm telling you, I have always even before I came to this place for this conference, the Lord said remember what you I've 1:01:21 always taught you be the branch in the tree. It has to produce nothing but it must stay stuck in the tree. All the channels must be open for the sap to flow in. That's all. Dear brothers, this is the Christian life. I 1:01:40 am the vine. You're the branches. The branch has to produce nothing. Okay. I wanted to show you this verse in John 16. John 16. It's a wonderful verse here. the Holy Spirit when he fills you. 1:01:57 It says here, it's one of the beautiful verses. John 16, he's speaking about the spirit of truth in verse 13. When he has come, when the spirit of truth is come, verse 14 is what I want you to look at. John 16:14, he will glorify 1:02:16 me because he will take of mine and reveal or disclose or show it to you. He will take something of mine and show it to you. This has been a very precious verse to me of the gift of the Holy Spirit, more than speaking in tongues, 1:02:32 more than the ability to preach, more than any other gift of the Holy Spirit. I've not sought for the gift of healing or miracles or any such thing. But this John 16:14, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, he'll take of the things of 1:02:46 Jesus and reveal it to me. What is he going to reveal to me? That he raised the dead. I don't need the Holy Spirit. Even a non-Christian reads the Bible, he knows Jesus raised the dead. That Jesus preached the sermon on the mount. I 1:03:00 don't need the Holy Spirit for that. A non-Christian can read Matthew 5:6 and 7 and read it. What is the Holy Spirit going to reveal to me? Shall I tell you that things that are not written in the Bible about Jesus? Have you read the 1:03:16 last verses of John after the end of four gospels? At the end of four gospels describing the life of Jesus, this is how it concludes the last verse of the four gospels. This is the conclusion of the gospels. And there are also many other 1:03:35 things which Jesus did which if they were written in detail, the whole world I suppose will not be able to contain the books that would be written. Is that an exaggeration? I don't think the Holy Spirit exaggerates 1:03:52 in the Bible. Don't accuse the Holy Spirit of exaggeration. Anyway, Paul John only says, I suppose, he doesn't say it's true, but is I think that means he says there's such a lot about Jesus. It won't fit in four gospels. Would you like to know 1:04:11 that? I'm very keen. When I read that, I say, "Boy, where can I find that?" I'll tell you John 16 verse14 that's why John 16:14 is a precious word to me he will take disclose means 1:04:29 reveal the things of mine which are not written in the four gospels which all the books in the world cannot contain and the Lord has begun to show me how Jesus behaved when he was a little child I told you how we'd go to 1:04:47 the fell to draw water when he was it about his turn to bat in a game. Little things like that. How he would react when all his brothers would gang up to irritate him. You know I have you seen this in a school or in a among children 1:05:03 that when one boy is very very good always behaves well and never gets angry never gets upset. Some others who get so angry with that and want to let's tease him and irritate him, make him get angry and get happy when they've succeeded in 1:05:18 making him angry. Have you seen that type of thing in school? And I've seen it sometimes children are like they get a delight in getting this good boy to become bad. I can imagine these four brothers and sisters, two sisters of Jesus doing 1:05:31 that to Jesus day after day. We we tried the last whole week. He he never got angry. were going to work on him in some way. Irritate him and poke him and do all types of things day after day after day after day. He'd never lose his 1:05:48 temper, never get angry. They tell all types of lies about him. You know how children are tell Mary and Mary was just like any other mother. I think she gradually discovered that Jesus would never tell a lie. But what all he must have faced in that 1:06:06 house, the Holy Spirit, I won't tell you everything the Holy Spirit showed me because you'll miss the joy of his telling you that. But I'll tell you this. Go to John 16:14 and tell him, spirit of God, those things which are 1:06:19 written in John 21:25, the last verse of the gospels that says there are other things Jesus did. Please, can you show them to me? It said Jesus said in John 16:14, you will show it to me. I want to learn them. And the Lord will ask you, why do 1:06:37 you want to learn? I'll tell you what I said. Because I want to walk like that. I want to do that. I want to never get irritated when a lot of people irritate me, irritate you, irritate me. I never want to get irritated. That's why I want 1:06:47 to learn. I want to learn. Because I want to live like that. Is that why you want to learn? Oh, you want a message for a sermon? Please don't go to the scripture to get a message for a sermon. That is seeking honor. Say Lord 1:07:02 I want to live like that and I tell you you will learn things which nobody can teach you. I could tell you many many many things the Lord has taught me which has come into my life that this is how I have to live and it's changed my life. It's made 1:07:21 my experience in my home a little foretaste of heaven on earth. the kingdom of God coming into your life. You know, I've been challenged by this. Turn with me to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 24. Jesus said in the last 1:07:50 days 14, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world before the end comes. Question all of you brothers who study the Bible so much. What is the gospel of the kingdom? The gospel of the grace of God is 1:08:08 another thing. The Gospel of the grace of God is Christ died for your sins. Repent and you can receive him and you can be forgiven. What is the gospel of the kingdom? I never heard a single person preach that in the 64 years I've been a 1:08:22 Christian. 65 years. Never heard anybody tell me what the gospel of the kingdom is. So when nobody tells me, I find must be in the Bible. So I searched in the Bible. I thank God I find things in the Bible. So I don't get it from men. 1:08:36 Gospel of the kingdom. I said, "Where does it say about kingdom?" Okay, I search search. You can use a concordance if you like. You nowadays you get it on your phone and you it's very easy to find it. Search for kingdom in the New 1:08:47 Testament and you'll come to Romans 14 and verse 17 where it says the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking. It is three things. 1:09:04 Righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Spirit. Not righteousness, peace and joy. No. Righteousness in the Holy Spirit. Righteousness produced by the Holy Spirit. Not by your determination. Peace produced by the Holy Spirit. Joy produced by the Holy 1:09:22 Spirit. That is the kingdom of God. When Jesus said, "Seek the kingdom of God first." Some people think it is going out and preaching the gospel. Spread the kingdom of God. No, the seek the kingdom of God first and all these things will 1:09:34 be added to you. What should you seek? Seek for righteousness from the Holy Spirit, peace, joy from the Holy Spirit, all the other things will be added to you. Have you been doing that? Once I understood that, I began to seek it. And 1:09:47 then it says here, what did we read in Matthew 24? This gospel of the kingdom will be preached around the world. Then the end will come. And one reason God raised up CFC is to preach the kingdom of God, which hardly anybody else is 1:09:59 preaching. I'm sure there are people preaching it, but there are not many. There are a few. CFC is one of them. Preaching what? Not the gospel of forgiveness of sins. We preach that. Not even the gospel of victory over sin, but 1:10:11 gospel of 24 hours a day righteousness. Never doing anything unrighteous in our actions. Never speaking anything unrighteous. Never thinking anything unrighteous. righteousness, absolute 100% uprightness, no cheating in taxes, no 1:10:30 deceiving in in our conversation. Second, peace. Perfect peace in the heart. No anxiety, no fear, perfect peace with everyone as from my side. If they want to fight with me, I can't do anything. But from my side, I will not fight. I 1:10:47 have often used the example of uh if somebody wants to fight with me, the noise comes if I'm also there. But if I pull out of the way, there's no fire. There's no noise. Try as much as you like. He cannot produce. He cannot 1:10:58 produce a fight because I pulled out. And if he also pulls out, we have fellowship. So I tell a husband and wife, it needs only one person to avoid a conflict in a home. If one person refuses to cooperate, there's no sound. 1:11:13 Your home will be a home of peace. One person must cooperate. If both cooperate, it'll become fellowship. Peace. Very important peace of mind. I always test my peace of mind whether I can sleep peacefully at night. Can you sleep peacefully at night? 1:11:30 Instead of thinking what that guy did to me and what am I going to tell him tomorrow and what I going to write to him next week? You'll never get to sleep. I'll tell you that. Peace. Peace. Peace. Seek for it. Pursue after it. Peace. Seek peace with 1:11:44 all men. Peace with your wife. Don't lie down. And I've also made that mistake lying down in bed thinking what should I do here what should sometimes we not it may not be a dispute sometimes with me some plans we have to make for this wait 1:11:57 till tomorrow joy that's another important thing joy in the Holy Spirit all the time rejoice in the Lord most of the time sometimes no most of the time no you know what always means 24 hours a day 7 days a week it's not means not 1:12:17 doesn't mean I'm jumping and shouting like the charismatics. It means an inner joy. I don't believe Jesus is going around jumping around and shouting. I can't picture of Jesus like that. But he has such an inner joy that he could 1:12:28 communicate to anybody who came to him. He was a life full of joy. But it's not the type of joy you see with these charismatics on a platform. No, it was a joy that all the time overflowed. That's the life he want. Righteousness, peace and joy in the 1:12:44 produced by the Holy Spirit. That is the kingdom of God and that is what we have sought to preach. And it says in the last days God will raise up such ministries that will proclaim that gospel and then the end will come. I say 1:12:57 Lord I want to hasten the coming of the Lord. Do you know the last prayer in the go in the Bible is come Lord Jesus come soon Lord Jesus. How shall I hasten the coming of the Lord? By proclaiming this gospel of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy 1:13:13 Spirit. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. And you know how to do it. You have to be a zero and seek for the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, please help us every one of us 1:13:31 here including me. We are all needy and we can understand so much and we've understood quite a lot in these two days. Lord, help us to live it. And that's not possible. without the power of your Holy Spirit. Help us to recognize that without you we can do 1:13:49 zero and with you we can do everything you want us to do on this earth. Help everyone here Lord to be gripped by that. Thank you for what you have taught us already in Jesus name. Amen. [Music]
