0:07 When I look at the different people who encountered Jesus, some of them sought Jesus. Some of them like those who were sick would line up to see Jesus. And I can understand these people who 0:26 have looked for him and sought him and they found Jesus. God met with them. But there are others who did not seek for God that God went after 0:44 and blessed them. And as I was thinking about that, Lord, there's some people who didn't do anything and you took the time to go and meet with them not for something that they did. And why is that? 1:05 And the only explanation I can get is God is good and he's merciful. In most things in the world, you do something, you get a reward for that. You work, you get a paycheck. You help 1:22 somebody, they help you back. But I see with God, sometimes people don't do anything to him, but he lavishes on them. And as I was thinking about that, Lord, as it says in Romans, turn with me to 1:43 Romans, he's the one who he he son that shines the sun on the on the righteous and the wicked, the rain on the righteous and the wicked because he's good, because he's 2:03 merciful. So if we turn uh to Romans chapter 5, Romans chapter 5 verse 10. For if we were 2:21 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his son. How much more? Having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. How much more? When you were his enemy, God loved you 2:40 and he made a way to reconcile you. Now that you've been reconciled, now that you your life is set right, how much more will God do for you? And that's what I want to share with you and something that I want 3:00 to encourage myself with as well. Faith is not that I'm going to do something for God and God's going to reward me for that. Yes, he rewards those who diligently seek him, but there's a part of faith where Lord, I don't know why you're doing so much good 3:17 to me, but all I can do is receive it and say thank you. Thank you for lavishing your love on me. Thank you for having mercy on me. And so if you turn with me to Romans, we're all actually in Romans. Uh Romans Romans 3:35 9 verse 14. Romans 9:14. What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be. Verse 15, for he says to 3:54 Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. Verse 16. So then, it does not depend on the one who wills or the man who runs, but on God 4:12 who has mercy. Sometimes you think, I'm going to do this. I'm going to please God this way. I'm going to run this fast for the Lord. And sometimes I say, Lord, no matter how much I run and how much I will, there's 4:32 an aspect of your mercy that I want to believe and experience in my life, saying, "God, you're good." And if you uh go down a few more verses, verse 22, 4:50 what if Romans 9:22, what if God, although willing to demonstrate his wrath, to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction. Verse 23. And he did so to 5:08 make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy which he prepared hand for glory. And if God has had mercy on me or mercy on you, a vessel of mercy, 5:27 he looked upon me and wanted to pour out his mercy on me. It was for this reason that that vessel or that pot, that earthn pot that he's made me, he wanted to pour in his glory in it. And so he's had mercy on me and mercy on 5:47 you. And as I was thinking about it, I was thinking about there's many places in the gospels where you see that a person who did not go and ask God for help, God took the initiative to go and search them out and bless them. 6:04 And I wanted to speak on one of those examples and that's found in John chapter nine. John chapter nine. It's a blind man. [snorts] 6:25 John chapter 9 verse one. As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. As he walked by, he saw a man who was 6:45 blind at birth. That man didn't do anything. That man didn't ask anything. He didn't even ask for money. He was just sitting there. And God saw him. Verse two. And his 7:03 disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned? This man or his parents that he would have been born blind?" And some of us may have questions like that. Why did this situation happen in this person's life? 7:23 And these disciples had these this question. If I were them, I personally would not feel comfortable speaking about somebody who's sitting there about whether his blindness was because of his sin or his parents sin. I personally 7:37 wouldn't have felt comfortable, but the disciples apparently didn't mind asking that question in front of him. I don't know. Yes, he was blind, but that didn't mean that he couldn't hear. He was able to hear what they were saying. And so, 7:50 he's saying in front of them, in front of this man, who sin? And I can think of that man if I was sitting there already. I'm blind from birth, sitting here begging for money and I hear these words. Is it this man's 8:08 sin or his parents sin? How do you feel if somebody were to say that? Already you're discouraged probably in the state that you're in. But Jesus went on to say verse three. Jesus answered, "It was neither this 8:25 man's sin nor his parents, but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him." Why did God look at my in my direction? So that the works of God may be displayed in me. Was it for anything I 8:42 did? No. God happened to look at my way and see me there, see that I was in need and chose to have mercy on me. And I think, Lord, of all the blind people, what did this man do? He didn't even ask you. He didn't ask you for 9:00 money. He didn't ask you for sight. He didn't even know who you were. Yet, you took the time to go and meet with him, not because of something he did. And then you go and lavish on this man. 9:18 This is the God that we must know. One who lavishes on those who don't deserve it. And he's my father and your father, too. And I want to have faith that what he did for this blind man that he will do 9:37 for me while we were yet sinners if he reconciled me with the father. How much more now that I'm reconciled? And it goes on to say, when he had said this, verse six, he 9:56 spat on the ground and made clay with the spittle and applied the clay to his eyes. Again, this man does not know anything about who this person is. He's never seen Jesus. He's never heard of Jesus. All he hears 10:13 is it his sin or his parents' sin. He hears a man spitting on the ground making clay out of it that spit and then applying it in his eyes. And then he says one thing, 10:30 go wash in the pool of Silom. If you know Jesus when he healed people those who are blind most of them he heals the he healed them by touching their eyes right away in one place he touched the man's eyes 10:50 twice and then he was completely healed. Could he have not done that for this man too? healed him there, right there and then. He could have, but he chose to have this blind man in his blindness walk all the 11:09 way to the pool of Silom. And if you had a person who is blind and you asked them to go to the pool of Silum, what would you do? They need to go to the pool of Sylum. They're blind. What 11:27 would you do? Not a trick question. You'd help them, wouldn't you? He's blind. He needs help to go to the pool of silo. But Jesus allowed him to walk that road blind 11:45 with those that clay on his eyes all the way to the pool of Silo. Why do you think so? I don't know. But I believe there is something that God was testing. Will this man listen 12:05 when I when he doesn't understand why he's asking me to go to the pool asylum with this clay in my eyes? Is he going to listen? Is he going to obey? And that man responded. He walked down to the pool asylum struggling. I bet 12:23 people all around him. What's that clay on your eyes? There's clay on your eyes. And usually when beggars are sitting somewhere, do they sit in a place which is lonely or full of people? What do you think? 12:40 Full of people. Why? So that they can get money. And so he probably was in a place which was fully populated and walking in the midst of those places with clay on his eyes, struggling to get to the pool of Silom. But he did what Jesus told him to do 12:58 humbly. It didn't matter what other people are going to say, what other people are going to think. He walked that road all the way to pool of silo because God told him to. And because he did, his eyes were restored. What does that mean for us as well? God 13:21 may look on us, each one of us. We may have not sought him even today. Today we might feel uncomfortable sitting here. I don't feel comfortable, Lord, sitting here in the church today. But this man, 13:40 God looked down not for something he had done. He just came as he is and listen to what God told him to do and did it. Today also God may be speaking to your heart. Yes, he showed mercy on you. 13:59 But if he's speaking to your heart and asking you to do something, what must me do? You must do it. Obey it. On the other side of it, you'll understand why. 14:17 This man didn't understand why, but he did it and his sight was restored. And for each one of us, when I first heard about the Lord, there's questions. What will happen if I 14:35 follow Jesus? What if I go to the pool of Salem? What are these other neighbors and friends of mine going to think with this clay on my eyes? But the thing we must remember on the day we stand before the Lord, it's not going to matter what our friends 14:51 thought, what our neighbor thought, what our relatives thought. There's only one with whom we have to do and that's the Lord. Are we ready to meet the Lord? Is everything right between me and my Lord? And if it's not, if the Lord tells 15:10 you to go and set a matter right, do it. And I know as I was struggling, should I go? Should I do what the Lord is telling me to do? As I hear these messages of setting things right, should I do it or not? Should I go and 15:30 ask for forgiveness? What will the relatives think if I go and apologize to them? But my soul troubled me. AJ, you're not right with the Lord. You're not ready. You have to set matters right. 15:49 If you turn with me to 2 Timothy chapter 2. Second Timothy chapter 2. Verse 24. 16:12 The Lord's birth bondervant must not be quarrelome but kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged. You can also speak of the Lord as well when the Lord is gently speaking to us. 25 verse 25 16:35 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition one day. That was me. I was in opposition to God. And God was gently correcting me. AJ, your life is not right. You need to set this matter right. 16:53 Gently persuading me. Why? These two words. If perhaps if perhaps today will be the day when G when AJ humbles himself 17:11 and sets matters right. If perhaps God is saying if perhaps he's going to humble himself that God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth. I believe it's a tremendous privilege 17:31 to be granted repentance. I know that that day when I was on the fork in the road, it was between life and death. The choice I made that day would determine my eternal destiny. One, humbling myself, repenting, setting 17:49 matters right, which seemed fearful or up or saying no, I'm not going to set matters right. Everybody sins. Surely the consequences can't be as bad as they say it is. Somehow pacify my 18:08 conscience to say it's okay. And I know I was tempted to pass that day but by when God was convicting me. I don't know what would have happened if I pacified my conscience that day. If God would have given me another chance, but 18:27 I'm thankful that the Lord granted me repentance on that day. I want you to hear this from the Living Bible. This is Psalm chapter 36 in the Living Bible. And this is what the devil and sin wants to do in every person's life. 18:47 The devil has come to steal, kill, and destroy. But Jesus came to give life in all its abundance. And so read with me. I'm going to read in the Living Bible Psalm 19:02 36 verse one to verse 4. Sin lurks deep in the hearts of the wicked forever urging them onto evil deeds. It's constantly pushing them to do evil. 19:20 Verse two, I know verse one, they have no fear of God to hold them back. If they had some fear of God, it would hold them back from doing evil. But they don't have any fear of God. Verse two, instead in their pride or conceit, they 19:39 think they can hide their evil deeds and not get caught. They think they can continue in their evil deeds. They can hide it and not get caught. This is what sin tells them. This is what the devil tells them. Don't worry, 19:57 you will never get caught. What does the Bible say? Numbers 32 verse 23. Surely your sin will find you out. Everything that they say is crooked and deceitful. They are no longer wise and 20:15 good. Verse four, they lie awake at night to hatch their evil plots instead of planning how to keep away from wrong. And the most dangerous thing is that sin will tell you that everything is okay. 20:33 You won't get caught. But what is the reality? one day your sin will find you out. And so it's good when God gives us our opportunity to come to our senses. That's what it says if you go back to 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 26. And that 20:52 they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil having been held captive by him to do his will. Anytime the devil wanted them to do his will, he could trap them. Yeah. Don't apologize to them. Don't set that matter 21:12 right. Yeah. What they did was wrong, too. If they did it wrong, why do you have to go and apologize? Let them apologize. Keeping them trapped with bitterness without setting matters right, held captive to do his will. And so may 21:30 each one of us like that prodal son, he came to his senses and remembered. Let today be a day where we come to our senses and see the reality the seriousness of sin. What the devil wants to do in each of your lives to 21:48 hide the seriousness of sin. But perhaps if perhaps God may grant us repentance and we come to our senses and escape from the clutches of the devil. And so the church is also just like Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. The 22:07 church also a constant reminder. There is an eternity that we must be ready for week after week to all who will listen if perhaps God may get repentance and they may come 22:22 to their senses for each one of us. Does anyone know what this is? It's a audio cassette tape. 22:46 They used to have these a little many years ago. Uh so if you're younger, you may not have seen one of these, but this was before you had CDs, DVDs, you had audio cassettes. And this is how you would get messages or music and 23:06 things like that. And when I was in 10th grade, my grandmother's brother, who I found out is called your great uncle, my great uncle, the Lord put it on his heart to send me a box of these, me and my mother, a box 23:26 of these audio cassettes in the mail. And we got it. It had all of Brother Zach's messages on cassette. And as a 10th grade student, I was listening to it with my mom and God was 23:43 convicting me of eternity about my sin, judgment to come. Kept convicting me through those messages. And I'm thankful that God did that so that if perhaps 24:01 AJ would repent. So as I heard those messages, my grand my great uncle would have been around 60 years old at the time when he sent those messages. He was attending a CFC church similar to this. and he sent those 24:19 messages and I don't know how many people he sent those messages and books of brother Zach but that was his calling in life his calling in his life was to send the gospel give out Bibles give out books I 24:36 cannot rec recollect him sharing in the church meeting in my years of knowing him but I do remember him giving out these things. I don't know how many people he gave 24:53 Bibles to, but this Bible actually was a Bible that I used when I was in India. And in the front page, it says presented by my great uncle. I don't know who the recipient of this Bible was supposed to be. I received it 25:13 and I'm thankful that today I received it and because of that uh received the these messages and because of that I heard the gospel I came to know the Lord. But I think back, my great great uncle passed away a 25:31 couple of years ago, probably in his 90s. But I think back, what if after he gave this Bible and they returned it, if he decided he got discouraged and decided, I'm not going to share God's word 25:49 anymore. I'm not going to distribute it. What would have happened? Perhaps he may have not shared these with me. Perhaps he may have not shared it with others as well. But I'm thankful he did not get discouraged, but continued to share 26:06 God's word with many others. At his funeral, I remember the elders shared that he used to always give out the Bibles and this brother Zach's books to others. And I'm thankful that he did that. I'm one of the recipients of that. 26:25 And there's a beautiful promise if you turn with me to 1 Timothy chapter 5 verse 24. 1 Timothy chapter 5 24. The sins of some men are quite evident going before them to judgment. Meaning you've seen a little bit of their sin 26:45 but there's still so much more of their sins that you haven't seen which is going to follow them to the judgment. for others al and their sins follow after. Verse 25, 27:00 likewise also the te deeds that are good are quite evident and those which are otherwise cannot be hidden. So some people also the good that they've done for the Lord on this side of eternity, not everybody knows all of what they've 27:20 done. those also are going to follow them to that day when they stand before the Lord. And I think of my great uncle that what he did on this earth probably very little was known but the rest is going to follow him there to eternity and for 27:39 each one of us as well. The reason I share that is because many of us may have a private ministry like he did where he did something in secret. And the memory verse our little ones told us this morning. What was it? 27:57 And our father who sees in secret will openly reward you. We heard that this morning. Things that have happened in secret will one day be rewarded. And for each of you, many of you I know pray in secret. 28:16 Most of it we may not see on this side of eternity. But the Lord will keep his promise and we'll have to reward on that side. If we do not give up hope and we persevere, one day it will come to pass. There's a beautiful promise that when 28:35 God called John the Baptist to baptize, he did not give him a time saying after baptizing for 300 days Jesus will appear. All he told John the John was you keep 28:51 baptizing every day and one day Jesus will appear. If you turn with me to John chapter 1 verse 31, John 1:31. I did not recognize Jesus, but so that he may be recognized by 29:09 Israel, I came baptizing in water. John, what are you doing today? I'm going to preach repentance. And everybody who responds, I'm going to baptize them. What are you going to do tomorrow? I'm going to preach repentance and 29:28 whoever repents I'm going to baptize them in water and the day after that and the day after that. Do you know when Jesus is going to come and be revealed? I don't know. All God has told me to do is be faithful 29:45 to baptize today and tomorrow and every day. And one day when I'm baptizing, Jesus will be revealed to me and to the sons of Israel. In 1 Corinthians 30:03 1 verse 17, Paul says, "I did not come to baptize. That's not my calling. My calling is to preach." And so I'm going to preach, preach, preach until Christ is revealed. like that. My great uncle, his calling was to distribute brother Zach's 30:19 messages. Your calling in the body of Christ, whatever it is, be faithful in obeying that calling. And one day, Christ will be revealed. There's a ministry for each one of us. 30:38 God has poured his glory into the vessels of mercy. And for every single one of you, every single one of you who can understand what I'm saying, raise your hand. Don't be shy. Yes. Every one of you who raised your 30:57 hand, who understands me, can have this ministry. So if you raised your hand, you can have this ministry. And like unlike any other ministry, this ministry comes with a promise that you'll never be discouraged if you have this ministry. Turn with me to 2 31:16 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse one. Therefore, 2 Corinthians 4:1, therefore, since we 31:35 have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. We don't get discouraged because we have this ministry. But in order to find out what this ministry is, you have to read the previous verse, which is 2 Corinthians 31:54 chapter 3 verse 18. But beholding as a mirror the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as from the Lord the spirit. 32:13 God wants to transform each one of us from glory to glory. Jesus said, "If you want to follow me, you must take up your cross and follow me. You might remember it says that Jesus 32:31 was they pierced his hands and feet. And it says in Isaiah 53:5, it says they pier pierced him through. And when Jesus came to this earth, he 32:47 said, "I've come not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me." And for each one of us, God has called us to take up our cross daily and follow him. And all of you raised your hand 33:06 saying you could understand what I said. And I believe that every one of us must know what it means to take up our cross and follow Jesus daily. And there's a picture of this in the Old Testament when Gideon 33:22 Gideon came to with the 300 men. He broke a pot. And when he broke the pot, do you remember what happened? The light that was inside the pot now started to shine when he broke it. And it was a picture of something. It was a 33:42 picture of as we carrying the dying of Jesus or as we put to death the deeds of the flesh we will get life. And that's what we're called to do. Every time our flesh 34:01 rises up and says, "AJ, look at that. Isn't that something you're curious about? Why don't you read about that? I have a choice. Am I going to do my will and give into my flesh or say no? Jesus had to go this way. And 34:18 if you turn with me to Psalm the same word he it says that he was pierced through is found in Psalm 109. This might be a new verse to for many of us, but if we can remember it 34:35 always, Psalm 109:22, a verse that we can remember always. I believe it's talking about Jesus, for I am afflicted and needy, and my heart is wounded or pierced. 34:54 Pierced within me. And the word heart can also be translated as will. My will was pierced within me. This will that I wanted to do was pierced within me. Can I believe that was the life that Jesus lived 35:14 where he died to his own will and his own selfife every day. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it shall remain alone. But if it does die, it will bear much fruit. And so 35:30 as as we each one of us has a a vessel here, you turn with me to second Corinthians. This treasure it says is given to us in you can say earthn vessels or clay jars. 35:47 Verse 7 2 Corinthians 4:7. How do we have this ministry? But we have this treasure in earth and vessels so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves. Verse eight, for we are afflicted in 36:04 every way. That means every day there's going to be afflictions where we either give into our affliction or not. And it starts for us young people in the home. When your parents asks you to do something, you have a choice to do 36:24 your will and say, "No, I'm not going to do what mom and dad says." Or you could say, "You know what? I'm going to pierce through this flesh of mine and say no to it." And as you go through life and say, 36:40 Lord, you said obey your parents in the Lord so that it may go well for me. So I want to obey it. And every time you obey the Lord and not say you say no to your flesh, that earthn vessel gets pierced 36:57 little by little. Then in submission to authority, us who go to work, our boss tells us to do something. Oh yes, he's very unreasonable. On Friday night, he asked me to do something and wants it on Monday 37:15 morning. He wants me to work. Unreasonable. What are you going to do? Obey your boss or disobey him? It's going to be an opportunity. Either you're going to preserve your self-life and keep it. No, I don't want anybody to 37:29 hurt the self-life of mine. Or you're going to say like it says in 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 18, servants be submissive to your masters both to those who are good and gentle but also to those who are unreasonable. 37:49 There was a time probably around 20 years ago when I read that verse and it it pierced my heart and I said, "Lord, I had not obeyed this. I had had a complaint when there was an unreasonable request, but you said I have to obey." 38:08 I believe this is a saying in the military, but I don't know for sure. When your commander says jump, you must ask How high? How high must I jump? Not why are you asking me to jump? Why me? No. If he asks you to jump, your answer must 38:28 be how high. How high do you want me to jump? When my authority, the day I heard that, I said, Lord, whatever my boss says, he says jump. I'm going to ask him how high. And the Lord honors those who honor his 38:43 word. when we obey his word many years later because I submitted to the bosses I had they were very good to me and they worked on my I had favor with them because of that in the home 39:05 when we're called to submit every time it's either our will my will or the Lord's will which one am I going to do either earth there's going to be suffering of my flesh. There's one thing that it said of Ananas told uh told Paul 39:21 when he was uh when when he asked him to open the blind his Paul's eyes he said you're going to tell Paul how much he's going to suffer for my name how much he's going to suffer. That's how Paul was called to the service. 39:39 Paul, I'm going to call you to the service and I'm going to tell you how much you're going to suffer. And I believe that's what he was talking about in 1 Corinthians 4. So, as you go through life, oh, there's that piece of 39:50 gossip that I hear. Am I going to go and tell it to somebody else or am I going to say, "I'm sorry, brother, sister. I don't want to hear anything more about this. If you want, we can go and discuss with that person." Immediately, once you go and say you're 40:03 going to talk with the other person, guess what happens? The gossip will stop right there. I don't want to talk about that, brother and sister. Oh, the Lord said that we must mind our own business. Let's not be an overseer 40:21 of other people's affairs. When I don't be an overseer of other people's affairs, again, there's some something where it gets piercing to my will. What about our eyes? when our eyes especially when you say oh this one thing you must know click here to find 40:40 out and you're like oh I'm curious should I click on that I don't know that one thing that I need to find out should I click on it things that we read with these eyes where our flesh is tempting us either we can give in and say no I want my flesh 40:58 to be satisfied but with what I'm I see and read and here or this tongue when it wants to say something. Oh, that person said this, I'm going to think overnight of what to say back. How many of you have stayed awake? You 41:17 don't have to raise your hands. Thinking about what you're going to say the next day to somebody else. They said this, I'm going to say this. I've done it in the past. God has had mercy on me. Today I say, Lord, you've forgiven me. 41:33 You've had mercy on me. Why you looked upon my direction, I don't know, but I'm thankful, Lord, that you did. What happens when we get praised by somebody else? Do you know how you test whether gold is real or not? You have to 41:52 put it in the in the fire. Do you know how God tests our hearts? Some of you teenagers might know the answer. It's in Proverbs 27 in the way of wisdom. Proverbs 27. The way God tests us. Somebody tells something nice 42:14 and we have it. You know there's a button called repeat and goes over and over again and repeats over and again somebody says something nice to us. says in Proverbs 27 21, "The crucible or the refiner is for silver and the 42:31 furnace for gold, and each is tested by the praise that is given to him." What is this brother going to do when they praise him? What's the sister going to do when she's praised? Is it going to go to their head or are they going to 42:47 give glory to God? These two brothers and sisters, can they work together? These two brothers, can they work together in the church? These two sisters, are they going to have their preferences and they're going to stick to their ways? Or are they going 43:03 to yield to the other brother? Are they going to be in competition with one another? Two sisters in competition or two brothers or are they going to recognize that the Lord who brought two from a family and one from a city brought them 43:17 also to be a part of this family? And so you see this flesh as it gets scarred and pierced the will says no no over and over again. You look at it and you look at it. It says of Jesus he was marred more than 43:36 any other man. He was pierced more than any other man because he never ever did his will. And when it says Jesus asked us to follow him carrying his cross every day, this is what it means. This is the ministry that we all can have. This is 43:56 the ministry at the end of our life if we have will bring glory to God. What is the brightest star in the sky? What's the brightest star in the sky out loud? 44:14 Okay. Sun for the day. Very good. What What about the night? >> Sirius is, at least that's what I found out. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky at night. And it says in 1 Corinthians 15, when there's a 44:33 resurrection that happens, not every one of us will have the same amount of brightness and glory. It'll differ as one star to another. Some may be shining bright like the sun. Some might be shining bright like Sirius. Some may have it very dimly 44:51 bright. But what's going to determine how bright you shine that day for the glory of God? What's going to determine it? Tell me. I'll give you a clue. What's going to determine how bright 45:10 you're going to shine on that day? How much I allowed the Lord to pierce through my will. How much I carried my cross every day in my life. Not giving to my lust of my eyes. Not giving to the lust of my tongue to get angry, bitter, 45:28 unforgiveness. Every time that person did this to you, don't you remember? Yes. But as God has been merciful to me, I forgive him. In the presence of God, I forgive him over and over again 45:45 until this is marred. And one day when the Lord comes and his glory is revealed to the extent I was preursed will be the extent of the 46:02 glory that will be seen in my life. I don't know if you can see this, but everywhere where the vessel was pierced, the glory of Christ was revealed. And the brighter it will be, the more I allowed the Lord 46:20 to pierce through my will just like Jesus went and I followed him that way. And it says in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, yes, Jesus is revealed in us as we carry our cross and don't yield to our will day by 46:39 day. But not only that, it's not just for us. Verse 14, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also. 2 Corinthians 4:14 with Jesus and present us with you. Verse 15, for all 46:58 things are for your sake. So that the grace which is spreading to more and more. How is that grace spreading? Everyone who heard will say today Lord I also want to go this way. I also want to pierce my will so that the glory of 47:16 Christ may be re revealed in us. So as this message is spreading, thanksgiving will abound to the glory of God. As each of us go into the ground and die 47:34 will bring much fruit. This is the will of God that you bear much fruit so that my father is glorified. And so the end of all of these things is not to have just piercing our will and carrying our cross. No, as we allow the Holy Spirit 47:52 to work in our lives, there will be a vessel that we can present to the Lord. One that can radiate the glory of Christ, not only there in eternity, but here on earth. People can see our life. And as a church, as we all go this way, 48:09 when people come in our midst, what will they behold? I went there and I beheld the glory of the Lord in their midst. I saw something of the glory of Christ. May the Lord do that in each one of us. Let us pray. 48:27 Heavenly Father, I thank you Lord. Why you looked upon that man and blessed him tremendously. Gave him sight, revealed yourself to him that he had come to know you. That blind man who never sought after you, you lavished 48:47 upon him. And that's the same father here today in our midst. We also I pray that what you did for that man who didn't even seek after you. I pray that you would do for us every day that you would lavish beyond our 49:04 wildest imaginations on each of us. Not for anything that we've done, not for the will and the running, but because you are good and you're merciful and we want to proclaim it. You're a good God. And I pray that you would lavish 49:18 yourself upon each one of us, not for anything that we deserve. I pray that you would open the eyes of our heart to see this way and we want to have this ministry that you would we never lose art having received mercy that it'll be from glory 49:37 to glory in each and every one of us our lives Lord I pray that you bless every single one that we would go this way if perhaps our eyes would be opened and we'd come to our senses and walk this way. May you be glorified. May you be honored through 49:56 our lives and through our church in Jesus name. Amen.
