0:02 There's a little gadget all of us have nowadays which hinders us from hearing the voice of God. It's called a cell phone. So please turn it off so that you can listen to the voice of God and not hinder one another. Thank you. 1:35 [Music] 1:53 All around the world something about Jesus love. It's amazing. He loves us all so much with a love so strong. No one else will love us more. It's amazing. We all are little different in many 2:18 different ways. No matter where we come from, God loves us the same. None of us is perfect, so he forgives our sins. Jesus is our savior. His love never ends. All around the world, something's 2:36 going on about Jesus love. It's amazing. He loves us all so much with a love so strong. No one else will love us more. It's amazing. A little different in many different 2:55 ways. No matter where we come from, God loves us the same. None of us is perfect. So he forgives our sins. Jesus is our savior. His love will never end. All around the world, something's going 3:13 on. Our Jesus love. It's amazing. He loves us all so much. With a love so strong, no one else could love us more. It's amazing. 3:29 Jesus love is one of a kind. He loves us so much. We're always on his mind. Jesus love is one of a kind. He loves us so much. We're always on his mind. Jesus 3:48 love is one of a kind. He loves us so much. We're always on his mind. Jesus love is one of a kind. He loves us so much. We're always on his mind. All 4:05 around the world, something's going on. How about Jesus love? It's amazing. He loves us all so much. With a love so strong, no one else could love us more. It's amazing. Love us more. It's amazing. 4:28 No one else will love us more. It's amazing. [Music] 4:45 [Applause] Out in the world when 5:33 they inaugurate a new building they cut ribbons. We do it differently. We get our children to sing about Jesus love. That's how we inaugurate a new place because 5:52 the ones who are standing here are among the purest of all the people in this conference. There are a few who are purer than them and those are the newborn babies. But uh if you leave out the newborn babies, the 6:10 next to them, the purest are these. These children are different from us. They have never seen internet pornography. They've never done the dirty things that a lot of grown-up people have done. And it's most appropriate that they stand up 6:26 first. Not great preachers. You know that God looks for pure hearts more than greater preachers. Good more than for great preachers and cleverness and all that. God has revealed his truths not to the wise and the intelligent but to little babes. 6:43 If we could have got the little babies to sing that we would have got them but it's a little difficult. So this is the next best but it's very important for us you know right from the beginning when we started CFC we've celebrating our 6:57 40th year now one of the things we have stressed from the beginning is we value little children. We don't value great preachers as much as we value little children because Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me." If you get converted and 7:15 become like a little child, you can enter the kingdom of heaven. We have emphasized the new covenant in CFC and the new covenant is the kingdom of heaven and we must always bear in mind that the greatest in the kingdom of 7:30 heaven is a little child and that's why we began with that. That is the best part of the conference and if you've heard and got the message from that you really got something very important right at the outset and if you sit 7:43 through these four days with that spirit see those children haven't come here to criticize anything or to judge anything they they're so happy and what they sang today all around the world there's a message going today and we are preaching 7:59 it too the amazing love of Jesus Christ which the world doesn't know about, which many Christians don't know about. If they did know about it, they wouldn't fight with each other. If they did know about it, they wouldn't be watching 8:11 dirty things on their computer. If they did know about it, they would overcome their anger at home. If they did know about it, they wouldn't love some money so much. They would live for God. And so, we come together to celebrate what God has done in these 8:27 40 years. Many of you do not know how this work started. So I want to share something with you all of what God has done. There is a verse that you would have seen right as you enter this hall and I 8:45 want to turn to Deuteronomy chapter 8. Deuteronomy chapter 8. It's a very appropriate word verse two. Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 2 9:06 and this is the word we are trying to listen to today. You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you these 40 years. The world is a spiritual wilderness. It'll always be until Christ comes 9:25 again. The kingdom of heaven is a wilderness. But in the midst of that wilderness, there is a little pocket of the kingdom of heaven called the church. And the Lord has led us these 40 years. And shall I tell you the primary things 9:44 he has taught us in these 40 years? We'll come to how it began. But let me tell you what he taught us. First of all, see there, humility. He taught us to humble ourselves and all those who have come in touch 10:03 with us. If they have not learned that whatever else they have learned is an absolute waste of time. And when we talk about elders in our 10:20 midst, who are the elders? I'll tell you not necessarily. Sometimes those who think they are elders or appointed as elders. There may be some without the title of elders who are elders. Is those who have learned to humble 10:39 themselves the most. The real elder brother in your church is the one who has learned to humble himself the most. Who's quick to go down. Quick to take the low place. Quick to go and clean the toilet if he 10:57 finds it dirty. Quick to speak to a little child if the little child wants to talk to him. Quick to take the low place. Quick to hide the sacrifices he makes. Quick to give all the glory to God. 11:17 quick to humble himself, to be esteemed as nothing. Like the Amplified Bible says in Matthew 5:3, "Blessed are the poor in spirit. Blessed are those who rate themselves as insignificant." That is what we have taught in this 11:37 church for 40 years to rate yourself as insignificant in God's kingdom so that Christ might have the preeminence. Not all elder brothers have understood that. I hope they are learning. There's 11:56 still time. But it's very important. The effectiveness of your church for Christ depends on how much you have learned this lesson. The one who prepared the way for Jesus's first coming was John the Baptist. He 12:15 came in the spirit of Elijah. And the word of God says that before the second coming of Christ, the spirit of Elijah will again come forth. this time not in one person but in the church. The church today, 12:32 listen to me, is the equivalent of John the Baptist. When it says in Malachi 4 that I will send Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, which is the second coming of Christ, at the first coming of Christ, they the 12:48 Jews thought that was the fulfillment of that. But you know what Jesus told them? If Matthew 11 he said if you accept him then he is Elijah but the Jews did not accept him. So Malachi 4:5 and 6 is to be fulfilled again in the last days in 13:07 our day. Elijah is going to come forth in the Old Testament it was al always one man ending up with John the Baptist but today it is a body. Elijah is a body of people. No one man. 13:26 Many people haven't understood that. That's why you have had in Christian history different people thinking I am Elijah whom God has sent. Absolute nonsense. Elijah is the body of Christ in the last days where no one man gets the 13:41 preeminence. There may be different gifts. There are apostles. There are prophets but no one man is Elijah. It's the body of Christ. And what is the message with which John the Baptist came? Repent for the kingdom of heaven is near. And 13:55 that is what the last days of church of Christ is going to proclaim. Repentance. Repentance. Turning from sin. Turn from sin. Turn from sin. That was the only message he preached. And that is the only message the true Elijah will preach 14:07 in the last days. And that is hardly being preached in the world today. People are looking for comfort, money, health, and all that. But not turning from sin. If you want to be a part of that spirit of Elijah in the last days, 14:20 brothers, sister, children, teach, share with others the message of turning from sin. Teach your children to turn from sin from the earliest time in their life. Be a witness in your home and everywhere by your life to turn from 14:35 sin. That's what John the Baptist preached because the coming of the Lord is near. And secondly, there's a very important message John the Baptist said. He must increase and I must decrease. And dear brothers and sisters, 14:53 senior brothers and sisters, if you are decreasing in the eyes of others, then Christ will increase in your church. The tragedy in Christryendom is there are gifted preachers who are increasing 15:11 and increasing and increasing and making more and more money and making themselves big in the eyes of others instead of going down and disappearing so that other people may come up and that's not the spirit of Elijah which is being manifested but in the 15:29 midst of this corrupt Christendom and I don't hesitate to say christryendom is in a Babylonian And what is needed is the message of Jeremiah who stood like a prophet for 40 years. He preached and preached and preached and preached to try and save Israel from 15:46 going to Babylon. But he didn't succeed. But that's our calling too to stand up against the spirit of Babylon. And if you want to stand against it is not just in language is not by quoting scriptures. is by having the spirit of 16:01 John the Baptist which says I must decrease. You can have the most effective apostolic prophetic evangelistic any ministry you like. Whatever ministry you have, you must decrease if you want Christ to increase. So that is the first 16:20 thing. Deuteronomy 8:2, he led you that he might humble you. And if you have gone down in your own eyes and in the Lord's eyes, if the Lord can certify that you have gone down in these 40 years or however number of years 16:39 you've been in the church, then you have understood the message. Otherwise, you've just got a lot of empty theology which will just make you a better Pharisee. He led you to humble you and tested you. That's another thing that we have taught 16:57 Deuteronomy 8:2 all these years that God tests his people. The Lord Jeremiah says, "Oh Lord," one of the titles of the Lord, he gave us, "You who test the righteous." Do you know that God tests the righteous, you read that in the book of 17:16 Jeremiah, he tests the righteous. He doesn't test the wicked. He tells the wicked to turn from their sin. But once they have turned from their sin and become righteous, he tests the righteous. Do you know when God tested Abraham when 17:31 he was 75 years old and he was in the land of his parents, the Lord tested him saying, "Will you leave that and follow me to a land which I won't tell you where it is, but you just follow me." And he obeyed. When the Lord called us 40 years ago, we 17:48 did not know where we were going, but we said, "Lord, we're going to stand against Babylon." That's all we knew. And we were very few. Years later, 50 years later, God again tested Abraham. You read in Genesis 22, saying, "Give up your son. He's becoming 18:07 an idol in your life." So, does God test a man who has obeyed him for 50 years? Yes, he does. He tests the righteous. And very often, I want to tell you, 18:24 we don't know when we are being tested. Sometimes the test is over before we realize it. God doesn't announce tomorrow morning is the final examination. No, no, no, no. It's not like these earthly schools and colleges. 18:43 What he'll tell you was, "By the way, we tested you this morning. You didn't realize it, but you failed. That was a test what you went through yesterday." That is how God's tests are. He does not announce it. He tested you for 40 years. 19:07 And the purpose of that testing is also mentioned here in Deuteronomy 8:2. to know what was in your heart. Do you know that God, it's not that God doesn't know what is in your heart. He knows what's in your heart before you 19:21 before even you know it. But he wants you to know what is in your heart. I am so thankful that in 40 years God has shown me the corruption of my flesh. Somebody asked me once, more than once, 19:40 brother Zach, what is the mark by which you recognize that God is blessing you? I said for me primarily it is this that every day and I say every day I 19:58 mean every day he gives me light on some uncristlikeness in my life that I can cleans judge myself and cleanse myself and get rid of and 20:17 fulfill that command in 2 Corinthians 7:1. 2 Corinthians 7:1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit and perfect perfect 20:33 holiness in the fear of God. The fear of God is not an Old Testament message. It began in the Old Testament. But 2 Corinthians 7:1 says, "We perfect holiness in the fear of God." And that is by cleansing ourselves. 20:51 There is a cleansing that God does. That is when I've committed something wrong and I ask the Lord to forgive me. But when I've done that wrong thing and I ask the Lord to forgive me, then I must cleanse myself from that within me which 21:07 made me do that wrong thing so that I don't do it again. that is cleansing myself. Supposing I discover that it was my pride that made me reply to somebody in a certain way and I've committed that sin. I ask the Lord to forgive me. But 21:24 then I must judge myself and cleanse myself of that attitude so that it doesn't happen again. Otherwise, I'll keep on living like that like the rest of Christendom. Babylonian Christendom is like that. They keep on doing the 21:38 same thing. How do we know God is not blessing them? Because they're not getting light on that uncristlikeness every day. You see them 10 years later, they still get angry. They still lust after women and they still watch 21:51 internet pornography. They're not getting light on anything. They may be getting increment in their jobs, promotion in their jobs like every other non-Christian and atheist gets promotion in their jobs. That's not the mark of 22:04 God's blessing. This is the foolishness of Christians who think that if I'm prospering, God is blessing me. Do you know that every religion in the world teaches that not just Christianity, every non-Christian religion which 22:20 worships different gods, they say their god has made them prosperous. They even say their god has healed them when they go to some temple for some pilgrimage. It's not just Christians. But there's one thing that none of those 22:33 gods can do. They cannot make them Christlike. That is the blessing of the unique blessing of Christianity. He tests you to see what is in your heart. To show you what is in your heart. I want to tell you this. In these 40 years that 22:52 God has led us, he has shown us numerous things in our own heart. We don't in the olden days we used to spend time seeing what is in other people's heart. We can't even see it but we imagine we see things in people's heart. That is the foolishness of 23:08 unbelievers and the foolishness of Babylonian Christians. But once we go find this new way of discovering what is in our heart. You know what is the result has mean? It has brought a glorious fellowship between us. You know, in a simple thing 23:22 like the construction of this building and all that went on here in the last one and a half years, I tell you all those who were actively involved in it, actively involved in it, I tell you all 23:40 of us got a lot of light on ourselves and we could cleanse ourselves. I wasn't physically involved in it as much as many others. My involvement because I was traveling 23:59 so much was mostly by email. But even by email, I could get light on myself. It's amazing. You don't have to be physically present. In correspondence with people and in replies that you give and they write to you, you get light on yourself. 24:14 I say I've become a better man at the end of this construction. I'll tell you honestly and I think all those who are actively involved in this construction will say if they have judged themselves that they become better Christians. It's 24:30 not just by listening to messages. He led us in 40 years not by listening to messages alone but through various circumstances that we faced in our family. The difficulties and sicknesses that we faced in our homes. The difficulties you faced in sometimes 24:46 bringing up children. We get light on ourselves and we judge ourselves and we become better people. The Lord dear God led you to humble you to test you to show you what is in your heart and to test you whether you would keep 25:02 his commandments or not ultimately it is that in the secret area in your heart will you keep his commandments. God created man to keep his commandments. Not because God gets some 25:18 delight in people obeying him. He's got millions of angels that are ready to obey him. Why does he want puny man? It is for our good. He's a father. When you tell your children to be careful when they cross the street, is it for your 25:38 good or their good? When you tell your children to eat vegetables or something good, it's for their good. They they may not like it, but it is for their good. When you tell them to do their homework or go to school or to avoid certain habits, it's 25:55 always for their good. The commandments good fathers give to their children is not for the fathers. It's for the good of the children. And that's a great thing to recognize that our heavenly father has given us commandments 26:10 for our good. It was a proof of his tremendous love that he gave the commandments to Israel. Let me show you a verse in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy chapter 33. Moses had some light on this. 26:30 I don't know whether you have seen this verse. Deuteronomy 33:E 2. The Lord came from Si and dawned from Seer. He shone forth from Mount Pan. He came from the midst of 10,000 holy ones. He's talking about 26:49 the time when God appeared on Mount Si and gave them a law. And in the margin of my Bible, it says at his right hand, there was a fiery law that he what it says here is flashing lightning. In verse two, in the margin, it says a 27:05 fiery law. That's the real word there. He gave them a fiery law with 613 commandments. Prove verse three. Oh, how he loves the people. That's what it proves. 27:24 Moses understood that Lord, how you love us that you gave us such a fiery law of 613 commandments and you didn't give it to all these other people in the world. How much you must be loving us. And when I read the New Testament commandments, I 27:41 say, Lord, how much you must be loving me that I must never get angry once in my life. That I must never lust after a woman once in my life. that I must not love money, that I must not be anxious because that's a lack of trust in our 27:57 father. That I must not judge others because I don't know what is in their heart. How much you love me? Look at it like that. It'll change your whole attitude to obedience. It changed mine. It's made me a supremely happy man 28:15 inwardly. Don't look for ministry my brother sister don't always look oh I want to preach to others but bless others that will come automatically if you take care of your own life the life will overflow from within effortlessly 28:33 it just flow and flow and flow and flow and bless people without number if you take care to humble yourself allow God to test you humble you further Deuteronomy 8:3. He humbled you. He allowed you to be 28:53 hungry. God allows us to go through difficulties, physical difficulties. He allows us to be sick. He allows us to go through financial difficulties to test us. I don't know whether all of 29:12 you know that every time you went through a financial difficulty, God was testing you to see what was in your heart. Whether you would trust him or trust in men and most believers fail because they trust in men. Blessed are those who trust in him. 29:29 When I was a young person, I decided that I would never get into debt by the grace of God. I'm nearly 75 today. I've never been in debt. Which means I have to be very careful with my finances. Cut down my expenditure. 29:46 Not buy things I cannot afford. These are principles. It's a m mark of God's love for us. When God allows us to be hungry, that means 30:03 lack of money, lack of health, lack of food, lack of um other luxuries other people may have. God's the mark of God's goodness. I tell you I'm very thankful that 30:21 I could not give my children everything that all the other rich children school could get. I just tell them I'm sorry I'm not they if I could afford it if I could afford it I'd give it I'm sorry I don't have it and I don't have any 30:38 complaint against God about it either. That was God's way accept the Lord. When you learn to be content with what you have and never never compare yourself with others. I can say before God in all those 15 20 years that I used to 30:56 take my children on my scooter for three years for years to school three children on a scooter. I never envied the people who had a car and would bring children in car. God bless them. Fine. When you are content, I'm not saying there's anything 31:15 spiritual about traveling on a scooter. Don't misunderstand me. I'm talking about contentment with what God has given you and not comparing yourself with others. That's my point. Don't misunderstand me. Don't think that if 31:27 you make yourself poor, you'll be spiritual. There are a lot of poor people in India who are not spiritual. I'll tell you that. And there are a lot of rich people who are spiritual. But my point is contentment. But I've never 31:38 seen a spiritual man who's not content, who's always comparing himself with other people, always wishing he had what that person had. Oh, I wish I had that. You go to somebody's house and you say, "I wish I had that." I wonder whether 31:51 you're even born again. That's what I'd say. You're always wishing what somebody else has. That's not Christianity. What has this Holy Spirit done in your life? He allowed you to hunger. It says, "He 32:09 let you be hungry." Verse three, "He let you be financially poor. He let you be sick because he didn't love you." No, because he wanted to teach you something that riches could never teach you. He wanted to teach you something that a healthy 32:29 life could not teach you. He's taught me through sickness. He's taught me through poverty. He's taught me through being taken to court. He's taught me through all types of things which are we wouldn't choose ourselves. He allowed you to be hungry. And I 32:44 praise God for the as a church also the different circumstances we have gone through in these 40 years especially in the early days. People called us heretics, false teachers. See a lot of people because of the 33:03 internet they know my name and they think I'm very popular. It doesn't bother me one bit because I know how it was in the early days. I mean people who were with us 38 years ago, 39 years ago, they know the names that everybody in 33:19 India called us false teachers, heretics, they published tracks against us. There was one tract which said the head of the serpent, it's a tract, 33:35 is in 16 Dosta Square. That's my house. They distributed it. Praise the Lord. Jesus said, "If they've called the head of the house Bily, prince of devils, how much more the members of your family? 33:54 They've called us devils. They've called me spiritual terrorist. All types of names. It's been a tremendous privilege to be known as a member of Jesus family. The head of my family was called Bilibul, 34:11 prince of devils. What are the names you've been called by? Let has the Lord allowed you to be robbed of your reputation? Have you accepted it joyfully? That is the way the Lord led us. You know today people can say boy what a 34:28 work God has done. But you know what he took us through and we accepted it. We said that's fine. We're not going to complain about it and we were greatly encouraged. Not only that Jesus was called a heretic and false prophet. It's not just by 34:46 outsiders. His own one of his closest co-workers finally betrayed him. Judas's Scariot after being with him for so many years. And we have experienced that too. People who've been with us for 30 years, co-workers 35:04 finally leave us and distribute emails against us saying we are a cult. Zack Punin is a cult leader. These are not outsiders. These are people who have been fed by us, who have learned doctrines from us, whose life has improved through our ministry, whose 35:22 home life has changed, whose children have grown up in our midst, who've been blessed in every way. And finally, they bite the hand that has fed them for 30 years. What shall we say? We shall love them. Bless them. The Bible says, "Bless those 35:41 who curse you." So these are the ways in which God allows us to hunger and go through difficulty because that's the way he gives us a ministry and these are not just things that happened 38 years ago. These are things that have happened in 35:52 the last one or two years. He never stops testing us. He tests us by co-workers turning against us. People betraying us, kissing us and betraying us. Okay? Let them do it. taking property, 36:13 going off with it. Go ahead. Jesus never fought with Judas's Scariot when he walked off with a lot of money. God's ways are amazing. He humbles us, tests us, and always his purposes to lead us to a greater height. 36:33 It's not just Jesus. I was greatly encouraged. The Apostle Paul also went this way. Paul said, "Follow me as I follow Christ." We'd like to follow Paul in being an apostle, planting churches, healing the sick, and all these type of 36:48 things. But let me show you another aspect of Paul's life. Acts 24 and we read in verse 14. Acts 24:14, he's standing before a king towards the 37:05 end of his life as a prisoner, falsely accused by the Jews. Jesus was falsely accused by religious people. Paul was falsely accused by religious people. I have been falsely accused by religious people. And if you have been 37:21 falsely accused by religious people, you're going in the right direction. Paul when he was falsely accused by religious people said I admit Acts 24:14 that according to the way Christianity in those days was called the way the 37:37 narrow way that led to life according to the way which they call a sect or in today's language a cult what other people call a cult. I admit that's the way I go. You can call us 37:54 what you like. Imagine they called Paul a cult leader. Were you afraid of that title? The greatest men of God in history have been called by that name according to that way which they call a 38:12 cult. And I'll tell you he says he says you can call me what you like but here is what I do and this is what we do also. Number one I serve God. For him it was the God of our fathers. For us it is the God and father of our Lord Jesus 38:27 Christ. And secondly, I believe everything written in the word of God. For him it was the law and the prophets. For us it is the Bible. 66 books and especially the new covenant. I believe everything 38:44 written in the Bible. everything written in the new covenant that if you keep on getting angry, you will go to hell. I believe it. That if you keep on lusting after women, you will go to hell. I believe it. That when you're anxious and worried, 39:01 you're proclaiming to the world that you've got an unreliable father in heaven. I believe it. I believe everything written in the scriptures. And I have a hope verse 15 that there will definitely be two 39:21 resurrections. I don't know whether you all believe that. I believe with all my heart there'll be two resurrections. One a resurrection of the righteous when Jesus comes and years later a resurrection of the wicked. There are 39:35 only two categories. The righteous and the wicked and they will not be resurrected at the same time. There will be a resurrection of the righteous and a resurrection of the wicked. And because I want to be in the resurrection of the righteous, this is 39:51 what I do. Paul said this and I say this verse 16. I keep my conscience clear all the time. Always means 24/7. I keep my conscience clear 24/7 before God and before men. He's not 40:09 saying I never slip up. No, he says, "When I do slip up, I immediately get up." Just like, you know, if you slip and fall, you don't even wait 5 seconds. You get up immediately. Paul says, "If I slip up, I get up immediately and I confess it to 40:22 God. Lord, I slipped up. Cleanse me and I immediately apologize." There are very few husbands and wives who apologize to each other immediately. Very few. I'm sorry to say, even in CFC churches, I'll tell you why. 40:39 They don't fear God enough. They don't value fellowship with God enough. Because you don't realize that the moment you have got something wrong in your relationship with somebody, your fellowship with God is broken. Whether 40:52 you feel it or not, it's broken. The lights have gone out. The wire is cut. But you can carry on in the darkness because you don't value fellowship with God. If you did, you would immediately apologize. You will immediately clear 41:09 your conscience before men because you want to be in the resurrection of the righteous. I say what the apostle Paul said. I want to be in the resurrection of the righteous and I don't say ah I accepted Jesus 55 years ago. I will 41:21 definitely be in the resurrection of the righteous. That is not my doctrine. I say what Paul said. I want to be in the resurrection of the righteous. So I keep my conscience clear 24/7 before God and before men. And therefore I have a 41:33 confidence that I will be in the resurrection of the righteous which proves that my faith is a genuine faith which proves that I don't treat the blood of Christ lightly. I don't crucify the son of God aresh by treating sin lightly. Every person 41:49 who treats sin lightly is treating the blood of Christ like tap water and is crucifying Christ aresh. Paul didn't follow Paul didn't do that and I don't do that either. Let's turn back to Deuteronomy chapter 8. You shall 42:06 remember all the way the Lord led you in these 40 years. And Lord, we never want to forget it. Further, Deuteronomy 20, sorry, Deuteronomy chapter 8. He humbled you, let you be hungry, 42:24 and he fed you. Deuteronomy 8:3 with mana which you did not know nor your fathers know. Do you know that every morning the Israelites had to go out into the wilderness and take this bread that came from heaven 42:40 and if you went out too late the mana would melt like ice. You know when ice falls, snow falls after a while you go it's all melted. It's gone into the ground. Mana was like that. It was solid good food. It was a special type of food that would 42:58 melt when the sun's heat came up and then you couldn't get it. If you were too lazy, your family would go hungry the day and you if that happened to you one day, you'd never do it again. You'd get up early and go and get your mana. 43:13 And they got it and they knew it came from. Isn't that wonderful? And I'll tell you something else. God never changed the ver taste of that manner in 40 years. Imagine you parents if you had children, you gave them the same 43:33 exactly the same quantity and taste of food every single day. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Rice and curry. Rice and curry. Rice and same curry. No change. Rice and curry. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or whatever your food is in your part of the world. 43:50 Tomorrow morning the same thing you know what the children will say what is this mommy that's what the Israelites said what is this and the word in Hebrew was mana oh okay we'll call it mana that's how the name mana came by the way you read in the 44:08 book of exodus what is this same thing every day he gave them the same do you think god could have changed the variety taste a little bit every day different taste every day different eyes, different color just for right you know he who 44:22 made the flowers also different don't think he could have changed the taste and shape of the mana but he had to teach them something and that's what he tries to teach us contentment with whatever god has given teach your children to be content 44:40 very important brothers I'm not saying you should become poor or sell everything and become poor I say teach contentment You may live in a big house. You may have four cars. Whatever it is, but teach your children to be content. 44:56 It's the greatest lesson that Christians need to learn. Never comparing ourselves with others and saying, "I wish I had that. I don't wish I had anything other than what God has given me." That's sanctification. Sanctification is 45:12 not just keeping free from these external sins. Godliness with contentment is great gain. What about godliness? 1 Timothy 6:45 6. What about godliness without contentment? There is no such thing as godliness without contentment. It 45:29 doesn't exist. There is no such thing. Godliness is always with contentment. It's like if you take the coffee powder out of the hot water, it's just water, hot water. It's not coffee anymore. You 45:48 take contentment out of godliness. It's not godliness anymore. You can think it is. Everyone here who is thinks he's godly because he's better than other believers, but has got something in your life you're a little discontented about. I want to tell you, 46:04 dear brother, sister, you're not really godly. You're fooling yourself. There is only one godliness which is genuine. It is with contentment in our earthly circumstances. Contentment with our our shape and height and appearance and perfect 46:23 contentment. I have no complaint Lord about anything. I will not say why the same tasting thing every day. Contentment is one of the great lessons God taught them for 40 years by giving the same taste of food 46:38 every single day for if means not that Bible every day that's not the point but that he obeys the Bible every day that's what it means to live by the word of God I'll tell you honestly it doesn't disturb me so much if I was so busy and 46:53 I didn't read the Bible one day it'll disturb me tremendously if I small thing for us it is the word of God there are also big commands commandments like don't kill, don't steal, don't commit adultery. But it makes no difference to us whether 47:08 it's a big commandment or a small commandment. I would clean it any day. I've done it and I'll do it again. And there are others who feel ah that's a little beneath my dignity. You know, I'm a sort of educated type of guy. Well, 47:23 God bless you if he can. I'm not sure whether he can anyway because they love money too much. Show me a pastor like that. Pastors run after the big executives and people have a lot of money. That is Babylon 100%. 47:42 That's so much turned with said Lord that's how I want to do it. And that's how Paul lived. Nobody like him the only one. Lord, we want to raise a bunch of people like Timothy who are not concerned about aren't we in 48:00 a in a partnership here. I said, Lord, it's wonderful. You know, it's wonderful to have a joint account with Jesus Christ. Whereas he's he is one signary and I am the other signary and I put in my one rupee and he puts in 48:18 his billions and says, "Let's have a job." I say, "Sure, that's great. It's wonderful to have a joint account with Jesus to build the church. Most people will not build the church unless they have paid for it. Jesus wasn't paid. He sacrificed. 48:37 And that's why we have seen a quality of church coming up which those who follow Babylonian principles will never see. Even if they come us, observe us and try to sing the same songs, preach the same doctrines. It will not work till you get 48:52 people to have the spirit of sacrifice that Jesus We've also got many many churches that could have supported us. We could have said, "Hey, you got to give me this and you got to give me." That's how a lot of people operate. But 49:01 not Jesus. Money is the great test of whether a work is a work of God or not. I found just want to make use of our money. So in building fellowship together which they never had in Old Testament times 49:19 that's the other great thing that we have sought to verse 11 last part an offering that is pure an offering that is sacrificial an offering that is pure and then great that's the word the Lord 49:38 gave us when we started our work God is looking for a pure offering we speak speak in tongues. We've seen demons cast out. We have seen sick people healed. We've seen even couple of people almost raised from the dead and many many 49:54 people healed some instantaneously. We don't talk about it.
