0:00 Good morning, brothers and sisters. 0:24 Good morning. So we want to sing a few songs to begin. We want to praise the Lord together. This is an old favorite at CFC. We're together again, praising the Lord. So the brothers, sing along with us. The sisters will sing the echo. 0:44 So we'll sing we're together again and the sisters will sing. Just follow the choir as we sing. We're together again, just praising the Lord. We're together again, in one accord. 1:09 Something good is going to happen. Something good is in store. We're together again, just praising the Lord. 1:29 Just praising the Lord. We're together again, just praising the Lord. Just praising the Lord. We're together again, in one accord. In one accord. Something good is going to happen. 1:53 It is going to happen. The best, the very best, the very best. Is in store, is in store. We're together again, we're together again, just praising the Lord. Brothers and sisters, we want to sing this song. 2:33 This is the good news, what God can do. It's a song that captures the good news that we've shared and preached in CFC over these 50 years. What he did for Jesus, he will do for you. Let's join together, clap and sing. Let's join together, clap and sing. 3:05 When bowed with burdens and with fear, your soul is in despair. You don't have to fear, God is very near. He loves you as he loved his son, and he will help you too. 3:28 Just trust his word of promise, and he will see you through. This is the good news, what God can do. What he did for Jesus, he will do for you. 3:52 With mighty power, he'll strengthen you. There is no end to what God can do. Okay, brothers, only join and sing. Oh, sin and evil fill this world, and you are overcome. 4:18 Yet God's word is true. Sin can't pray for you, and when temptation's fullness, strong God's grace will be your stay. So you can walk like Jesus, in victory every day. 4:42 This is the good news, what God can do. What he did for Jesus, he'll do for you. With mighty power, he'll strengthen you. 5:05 There is no end to what God can do. Okay, sister, sing. When pain and sickness come to you, and touch your loved ones too, God knows how you feel. 5:26 If he has brought to you, your Father will provide, and he is faithful and he is true. And as he cared for Jesus, he will care for you. This is the good news, what God can do. 5:55 What he did for Jesus, he'll do for you. With mighty power, he'll strengthen you. There is no end to what God can do. 6:19 Raise your voices. Oh, what a glorious comfort this if you have gone to the Lord. Jesus as your Lord and elder brother too. For all God has is not your own, and he won't let you go. 6:44 And now that God is for you, who can be your foe? This is the good news, what God can do. What he did for Jesus, he'll do for you. 7:08 With mighty power, he'll strengthen you. There is no end to what God can do. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Praise God for what he's done. 7:32 This last song is from Psalm 57. It's almost an exact quotation. It's a song that we sing to the Lord. Let's lift our eyes and our thoughts and our hearts to him. He says, "I will give thanks to thee. I will sing praises to thee among the nations. 7:49 For thy steadfast love is great, and thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let thy glory be over all the earth." "I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people. 8:10 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the people. I will say praises to thee among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 8:31 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 8:41 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 8:45 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. It is great to the heavens, O Lord, among the nations. And thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 8:49 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. To the heavens, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 8:52 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 8:56 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. 9:00 For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. For thy steadfast love is great, O Lord, among the nations. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens Let thy glory be over all the earth 9:28 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens Let thy glory be over all the earth 9:53 Let's sing that chorus once again Be exalted Be exalted, O God, above the heavens Let thy glory be over all the earth 10:22 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens Let thy glory be over all the earth 10:50 Let thy glory be over all the earth Amen This loving Father, we want that your name should be exalted Truly exalted Lord, we want to please you with this one desire Give us grace, we thank you and praise you 11:12 We pray in your mighty name, Jesus Amen Very warm welcome to all of you brothers and sisters and children You are important too And The reason why we are gathered is As you all know 11:33 We want to celebrate The goodness and faithfulness of our God Not for For one year or 10, 20, 30 years Half a century 50 years It's no joke For a church To remain united Like it is united 11:54 Like it has been united Like it has been united Like it has been here And in other parts of the world CFC elders Brother Zach And brother Ian Who Started They had no intention to start But God led them By the Holy Spirit baptism 12:13 They were asked To leave the Baptist church Where they were And This is the work of the Holy Spirit And The Lord brought them together And They Served together For 50 years Even before Starting CFC 12:33 They were working together In Another place So it makes it 50 years Plus So It's very unique To see Two brothers Of The same age And With Different temperaments To stay together 12:55 It's easy to stay For Some time For a few Years Initially But As they say Two big fellows Won't fit in a sack So As they keep growing Maybe when they were babies You could put them in a sack But not 13:16 When they grow bigger And bigger And bigger So in the last 50 years These brothers Have shown us The way And have Paved the path For us to follow And we are So thankful To God For the work That he has done In their lives 13:36 And We are here To celebrate God's faithfulness Not what CFC has done But what God has done Through CFC And His members The way He has Blessed Our elders And blessed us Under their teaching 13:58 And Transformed Our lives That is the most Important thing It's not just That we have Accumulated Good Bible knowledge That is there But Above all that God has Changed Our lives And that is 14:18 Something That we need To be Thankful To God For And On this Occasion I just Would like To read A psalm A brief Psalm Psalm 150 That Says You don't have 14:39 To turn To your Bible I'll just Read it Follow after me Praise the Lord Praise the Lord In his sanctuary Praise him In his mighty Expanse Praise him For his mighty Deeds Praise him According to His excellent Greatness Praise him 15:00 With trumpet Sound Praise him With harp And lyre Praise him With timbrel Dancing Praise him With stringed Instruments And pipe Praise him With loud Cymbals Praise him With resounding Cymbals And Very important To us Let 15:21 Everything That has Breath Praise the Lord Praise the Lord I'm sure We all Are breathing Today We all Have breath So It is Only fitting For all Of us To Praise the Lord Shall we 15:41 All stand Together And express Our thanks And gratitude And praise To the one Who has led Us all These 50 Years And the Glorious plans That he has For us In the years Ahead So shall We all Lift up Our voices And praise 16:01 The Lord Heavenly Father We want to Thank you Praise you Bless you And exalt you For your Faithfulness Thank you Lord That you Are Unchanging You are the Same yesterday Today And forever And what You have done For Jesus 16:19 You will do For us And Lord Jesus We are gathered Together again Just praising You Thanking You Blessing You And worshipping You Lord With our Lives And Lord With our Words With our Mouth Lord We want To We want You to 16:39 Take the Rightful Place In our Midst We want You to Be glorified And honoured Today And all The days Of our Life And every Year That you Have allotted For us And to Your church CFC We praise You Bless you Bless you For brother 16:57 Zach And labor That brother Ian Put in We want To remember Them And we Pray that You will Continue to Bless your People Bless your Servants And bless Us with Your word This morning What you Have in Store for Us Words of 17:17 Encouragement Comfort And words of Rebuke And correction Lord we Pray that You will Be glorified And magnified All through This day In Jesus Name we Commit This day And all The rest Of the Program Into your Hands In your 17:38 Precious name We pray Lord Amen Amen Please take Your seats Now we Will Eagerly We are Waiting To hear God's Word What God Has in Store for Us This morning For each One of Us So I 17:59 Call upon Brother Zach To please Come forward And share What's What God Has laid In his Heart Well praise The Lord Everyone We are Very happy That all Of you Are here And The most Important Person here Is the 18:19 Lord Jesus Christ Never Forget that Whether it's A 50th Anniversary Or an Ordinary House Meeting I fear That many Christians When they Come together They recognize One another But not Jesus When they 18:40 Sing Take my Life And let It be It's a Song It must Not be A song It must Be recognizing Jesus is Here And say Lord Take my Life And let It be Consecrated Lord to The If we Can develop That We have Learned the Greatest 19:00 Lesson Of 50 Years of CFC They hear People speak Here But they Follow Jesus And every True servant Of God Will say Follow me As I Follow Christ We don't Say Look at We don't Say don't Look at Us 19:20 We are Failures No If you are Failures You have No right To speak God's Word We are Not Perfect Yes But if You are Not Pressing On To Perfection And if You are Not Living With A Clear Conscience Nobody Has A Right To Preach 19:35 God's Word In Our Churches Keep A Good Conscience Recognize That You are A Sinner Saved By Grace Till The End Of Your Life And Press On To Perfection Acknowledging That We got A Long Way To Go To Become Like Jesus But Be 19:50 An Example And Then You Can Say To Others Follow Me As I Follow Christ And We Are Not Ashamed To Say That We Are Not Ashamed To Say Follow Me As I Follow Christ Not Like Many Other Preachers Don't Look At Me My Life Is A 20:01 Failure My Family Is A Failure But Follow Christ That Is Not Our Message That May Be The Message In Other Churches But Not Here I Say If You Cannot Be A Broken Humble Servant Of God Who Can Say I Am Not Perfect But I Am 20:14 Pressing On But I Can Encourage You To Follow Me If I Make A Mistake I Am Quick To Admit It Quick To Confess It These Are Some Of The Things We Have Emphasized From The Beginning And I Want To Read A Verse First Of All In 20:28 Isaiah Chapter 43 In The Old Testament God's People Were Taken To There Are Two Stories God's People Were In Egypt That's A Picture Of Being In Slavery To Sin And Then Brought Them Out Of Egypt 20:48 Through The Red Sea Which Is A Picture Of Baptism But They Did Not Enter Canaan The Life Of Victory So The People Of Israel Were In Three Places Egypt Wilderness Canaan Egypt Was The Life Of Sin Unconverted And It's A Picture 21:03 Of Being Born Again Coming Out Delivered From Pharaoh Picture Of The Devil Water Baptism Through The Red Sea And Then Instead Of Entering The Life Of Victory Just Like The Israelites Who Wandered For Forty Years In The Wilderness 21:14 Most Christians Wandered Around In The Wilderness Sometimes Worshipping Idols All Types Of Rubbish In The Wilderness But They Were Baptized And They Had Come Out Of Egypt And Through The Years Now 21:34 And Then God Has Raised Up Different Movements We're Not The First Many Many Movements Through The Years And 20 Centuries That Have Urged God's People Move On Don't Stay In The Wilderness Get Into Canaan The Land Of Victory 21:46 There Are Enemies There And That Land Of Canaan Is This Body The Land Of Israel Is Shaped Something Like Our Human Body Long Dan To Beersheba That's What They Called It From Head To Foot And There Are Many Canaanites That 22:04 Dwelt In Here And God Said Drive Anger Another Goliath Defeats Me That's What Millions Of Christians Said That So They Wander In The Wilderness Till 22:24 Now And Then God Has Raised Up Some People And Said We Can Bring Those Giants Down Every Goliath Can Come Down In The Name Of The Lord Every Canaanite Can Be Brought Down Lusting With The Eyes Can Be Overcome Anger Can Be 22:35 Overcome Bitterness Can Enemies We Can Bless Those Who Curse Us We Can Forgive Those Who Hurt Us Now And Then Through The Generations God Has Raised Up One Man A Few People Here And There Who Proclaimed This Message That 22:51 Has Been Rare And Very Often What Happens Is Once That Man Dies Gradually The Movement Dies Out And Then God Has Raised Up Another Generation Another Person Another Few People Start Something New This Has Been The History 23:06 Of Christianity For 2000 Years Thank God God Has Always Found Apostles And Prophets Who Have Brought God's People Back God Has Never Left Himself Without A Witness On This Earth Praise The Lord For That So Babylon Is A Picture 23:24 Of That Corrupt Christianity Egypt Is A Picture Of Living In Sin But Babylon Is A Picture Of Wandering In The Wild Isaiah 43 Verse 14 Thus Says The Lord Your Redeemer I Have Sent To Babylon And Bring Them All Out And 23:45 I Am The Lord Your Creator I Have Made A Way Verse 16 Through The Sea And A Path Through The Waters And Verse 18 Don't Call To Mind The Former Upon Things Of The Past That's One Of The Wonderful Things We Have Taught In 23:58 The Church God Blots Out The Past He Says I Will Not Remember What Is In The Past Thank God For That We Have All Lived Miserable Sinful Lives But God When We Come To Jesus And Broken Us And Say Lord I Am The Chief Of Sinners 24:11 Forgive Me You Hang For Me On The Cross And Endured Hell On The Cross For Me Come Into My Heart He Forgives Us And He Says I Will Not Remember The Past Anymore And He Fills Us With The Holy Spirit And So He Says In Verse 24:24 19 I Will Do Something New That Is What He Did Here Fifty Years Ago And He Has Done That Many Many Times Through The Centuries And It Will Spring Forth I Will Make A Roadway In The Wilderness Rivers In The Desert That Is 24:43 Exactly What We Experienced Those Who Been Here From The Early Years Will Experience That I Will Do Something New Praise The Lord For That Testimony And What Was This Something New First Of All When We Gathered Together 25:02 We Were A Bunch Of Defeated Christians Very Poor Very Very Poor I Was The Only One Who Had A Scooter From My Naval Days All The Others Came By Cycle Or By Bus We Were A Poor Bunch Of People We Were Not A Rich Group Thank 25:19 God Just Like The Early Apostles What Were They Fishermen You Go Down To The Coast Line Of India You See What Fishermen Are Like Extremely Poor So God Gathered People Like That He Did Not Gather The Big Clever People We 25:34 Didn't Have Any Bible School Scholars Or Theologians Thank God We Had People Who One Of The Things I Did Was As I Read The Bible I Saw What Other Christians Were Doing Through The Years I Had Been A Christian For Sixteen 25:52 Years Before God And Freshly Anointed Me With The Holy Spirit In January 1975 I Remember The Date January 12 1975 And Showed Me That You Have To Now Proclaim The Things That Others Are Not Proclaiming Which Are In The Bible 26:09 Which Are The New Testament So Many Christians Use The Expression Full Gospel There Are People Who Talk About Full Gospel Assembly Full Gospel Church But What Is The Full Gospel The Full Gospel Is Not Just Coming Out Of 26:23 Egypt It It Includes Overcoming Sin And The Two Primary Sins That Jesus Mentioned In The Sermon On The Mount Was Anger And Lusting With The Eyes Those Are The Things We Preached Against Most In These Fifty Years Why Because 26:42 So Many Christians Live With Those Sins And Think It's Okay It's Normal We Cannot Overcome It That Is Babylon You Can Sit In CFC And Be A Part Of Babylon If You Don't Take These Sins Seriously Remember Those Are The First 26:57 Two Sins That Jesus Mentioned In The Sermon On The Mount And Those Are The Only Two Sins Which Jesus Said Will Send You To Hell The Word Hell Is Mentioned In The Sermon On The Mount Only In Relation These Two Sins There 27:09 Are Many Sins Like You Don't Love Your Enemies You Don't Bless Those Who Curse You Or You Pray To Impress Other People You Fast To Impress Other Those Are All Sins But The Only Two Sins Which He Said Will Take You To Hell 27:19 Are Anger And Lusting With The Eyes Tell Me How Many Churches Or Preachers Have You Heard Preaching That It Was A New Message I Will Do Something New And If People Have Not Taken Those Things Seriously Well They Have Heard 27:33 The Message In The Final Day When They Stand Before The Lord The Lord Will Say To You You Heard It So Many Times And You Just Treated It Lightly Just Like Babylonian Christians May God Save Us From That Calamity So When 27:46 I And Overcoming Sin Slaying The Canaanite Giants In Our Flesh That's What We Needed To Preach And That Was Not Being Preached Because Repentance Was Not Being Preached Many People 28:07 Are Told Believe You Know That Song We Sing The Vilest Offender Who Truly Believes That Vilest Offender Who Truly Believes That 28:27 Moment From Jesus Apart And That's A False Gospel Who Repents And Believes The Apostles Preach Repentance Then Faith Everywhere And That's The Thing We Emphasize From The Beginning Because And Then When You Say Repent You 28:43 Are Telling People To Turn From Sin It's Like The Military Command About Turn So You Need To Know What You Are Turning From It's Not Just Like I Said Lusting With The Eyes And Anger Basically At The Root Of It All Is A Self 28:57 Centered Life And That's What We Proclaimed From The Beginning Every Human Being The Child Of Adam Is Born With A Self Centered Life Self Is Primary You See That In Any Little Child Growing Up He Is The Most Important Person 29:11 To Himself We Try To Cover Up And We Are Little Older By Trying To Be A Little Refined And Decent But Self Is The Center Of Every Human Being And If I Don't Put That To Death And Turn Around From It I Have Not Repented I've 29:27 Seen People Who Believe What We Preach In The Church But They Are Still Self Centered Their Whole Life Is Occupied With Thinking About Themselves You Tell Me What Do You Think About When You Are By Yourself When You Have 29:38 Nothing Else To Think About When You Finished With Your Work And Business What Do You Think About Making More Money Thinking About Yourself What Other People Think About You If You Are Honest You See You So Much Centered 29:49 On Yourself And You Have Not Turned From It That's What We Proclaim We Are Saying Everybody Who Sits In CFC And Listen To The Message Has Turned From Self But We Proclaim It Thousands Of People Listened To Jesus Eleven People 30:04 Decided To Follow Him So We Are Not Interested In Numbers But We Proclaim The Truth A Self Centered Life We Taught People To Hate That Way Of Life And To Turn Around That Is Repentance And The Second Thing We Proclaimed 30:17 Was Discipleship There Are Two Commands To Preach The Gospel In The End Of Mark It Says Go Into All The World And Preach The Gospel He Who Repents And Believes Will All Nations Then I Will Be With You Always And Teach Them 30:34 To Do Every Single Thing I Commanded You Listen To This Matthew 28 Last Verse Teach Those Who Have Repented And Become Disciples And Baptized Teach Them To Do Every Single Thing I Commanded You Beginning Of The Sermon On 30:50 The Mormon So In The Early Days When We Started We First Made Disciples The Conditions Of Disciples Were Luke 14 3 Love Jesus More Than Your Father Mother Brother Sister Wife Children If You Don't Love Jesus More Than All 31:03 Your Relatives You Are Unfit To Be A Disciple Luke 14 26 And Then We Said Luke 14 27 Second Condition Of Discipleship If You Don't Take Up The Cross Every Day You We Want To 31:23 Come Back To That If Some Of You Just Come Here To Celebrate 50 Years And You Don't Want To Be A Disciple Brother You Are Just Going To Drag On The Church But We Won't Let You Drag Us Back We We Will Just Be Left Behind 31:34 But I Hope None Of You Will Be Left Behind I Pray Every One Of You Will Enter Into God's Kingdom And Get A Great Appreciation From Christ In That Day The Second Condition Dying To Self What Does That Mean React To Everything 31:49 Like A Dead Man Here's A Dead Man You Go And Criticize Him You're Useless You're Good For Nothing You've Wasted Your Life No Change That's Death Or You Go To Him And Say Boy You're A Wonderful Man You're The Greatest Man 32:01 Alive And You're So Holy And You're A Prophet No Change That Is The Meaning Of Taking Up The Cross Your Reaction To Praise And Criticism Will Be Exactly Like That Of A Dead Man That's The Cross We Said You've Got To Take 32:13 Up You Haven't Heard It Before Hear It Today The Third Condition Discipleship Luke 14 33 Forsake Your Possessions That I Don't Cling To It And Say No No No 32:33 I Won't Let Anybody Else Have This This Is Me That Is Possessiveness You Did You Did Not Say You Can't Have Anything He Himself Had Many Things But Don't Possess Anything Be A Disciple Those The Conditions Discipleship Which 32:46 We Proclaimed The Next Thing We Proclaimed Which Was Not Being Proclaimed Properly Was The Baptism You Shall Be Immersed In The Holy Spirit That Means You Will Be Immersed 33:07 In The Holy Spirit It Will No Longer Be You That Is Seen It Will Be Christ That Is Seen Because The Holy Spirit Comes To Exalt Christ A Man Who Is Filled With The Holy Spirit His His Whole Life And Words Will Proclaim Christ 33:20 Won't Be Perfect But It Will Be More And More And More As He Walks With The Lord He Will Be Proclaiming Christ And His Only Aim In Life Will Be To Glorify Christ Like They Said About John The Baptist They Heard Him Speak 33:34 But They Didn't Follow Him They Follow Jesus But When He Come Into The New Covenant Paul Said Follow Him Because I Follow Christ John The Baptist Did Not Know Fully How To Follow Jesus You Run The Race I 33:54 Am Here To Show You How I Have Run The Race So Far And If I Am Ahead Of You Follow Me If I Am Behind You I Follow You The Baptism In The Holy Spirit Is To Give Us Power Now A lot Of People Have Different Opinions And Things 34:12 They Say As To What Is The Evidence Of The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit Not Tongues You Will Receive Power Power For What Not Part To Do Miracles Acts 1 8 Is The Clearest Word In The New Testament 34:32 Of The Evidence Of The Baptism In The Holy Spirit When The Holy Jesus Own Words When The Holy Spirit Come On You You Shall Receive Power To Be My Witnesses That's Not The End In Jerusalem Judea Is The Uttermost Parts Of 34:45 The Prophecy He Gave Us Apostles He Gave Us So Many Things But The Primary Thing Was He Gave Us Power Power To Overcome Sin Because That's How He Didn't Say Power To Bear Witness That's Different Bear Witness Means With 35:05 Words Power To Be A Witness You Know The Difference Between Being A Witness And Bearing Witness Bearing Witness Is With My Words Being A Witness Means Watch My Be Witness That Is What We Emphasized Which Is 35:25 Not Being Emphasized In Christendom And Where For Us It Was Not Jerusalem Judea For It Was Bangalore Tamil Nadu India Then The Uttermost Parts Of The Earth And By The Grace Of God In The Last 50 Years We Reached More Than 35:42 186 Countries With The Message Of The New Covenant Through The Internet Through YouTube Through Our Word For The Week Through Daily Devotion And Every Possible Means And It's Not Me It's A Wonderful Body That God Has Formed 35:55 Here In These 50 Years I Could Never Have Done It But A Wonderful Body That Has Been Formed That Has Spread This Gospel To Bangalore Tamil Nadu India And The Uttermost Parts Of The Earth We Praise The Lord For That Not Just 36:11 Bearing Witness But Being A Witness The Other Thing I Saw Was I Didn't Know For Many Years The Difference Between Mercy And Grace Hebrews 4 16 It Says About Mercy And Grace Mercy Relates To Our Past Life In Simple Words 36:27 Grace Relates To The Future Mercy Is Forgiveness Grace Is A New Covenant Word It Is Power To Overcome Sin They Never Got It In The Old Testament John 1 14 Says Grace Came Through Jesus Christ Very Clear It May Have Been 36:44 Prophesied A Little Bit In The Book Of Proverbs But It Came Through Jesus Christ There Was No Grace Before That And So Whatever They They Experienced Wonderful Things In The Old Testament But You Look At The Law The Ten 37:02 Commandments In The Law There Was One Commandment Nobody Could Keep Many Wonderful Saints Of God Could Even The Great Apostle Paul Who Was A Whole Hearted Disciple Even Before He Became A Christian He Said When It Came To 37:18 The Tenth Commandment You Shall Not Lust I Got Defeated He Was Honest It Is Those Who Are Honest To Get Victory He Was Honest Lord And Following So Many Things But When It Comes To That Tenth Commandment I Just Can't Overcome 37:33 It Thank Walk In The Light That Means Be Honest Don't Confess Your Sins To People Confess It To God But Walk In The Light With God And Be Absolutely Honest Don't Pretend Don't Pretend Before Your People That You Are Victorious 37:52 When You Are Defeated I Am Not Saying Confess Your Sins To Them But Don't Pretend That You Are Victorious When You Are Not Walk In The Light And Walk In The Light Simply Means Be Honest Do You Know To Be Honest Is The Easiest 38:04 Thing To Do That's Why Jesus Said Fellowship Is Very Easy If You Walk In The Light As He Is In The Light We Have Fellowship With One Another A Prostitute Have You Committed Sin Yes I Have I Guilty Honest You Can Have Fellowship 38:19 With God But This So Called Religious Man Who Pretends To Be Holy He Cannot Have Fellowship With God Because You Are Not Honest So To Receive Grace You Have To Come Before God And Be Honest And Second Is The Two Etches Honesty 38:33 And Humility Brother Sister This Is What We Emphasized From The Beginning If You Are Honest And You Are Humble You Got Two Legs To Stand On You Can Run If You Got Only One Of Them You Can Stumble Along Of Course If You Are 38:50 Not Humble You Will Never Get Grace But If You Got Both Legs Of Honesty And Humility Watch This All Your Life Lord I Want To Be Honest And Humble Till The End Of My Life I I'm Telling You What I Practiced I Do Not Preach 39:00 What I Not Practiced I'm You Are Not Under Grace If I were to ask a person who understands English a 10 year old child son tell me 39:21 here is a verse sin shall not rule over you because you are not under law but under grace tell me what is the mark of man under law sin rules over him what is the mark of a man under grace sin does not rule over him a 10 year old will answer that Romans 6 14 and you ask him what is the mark of a man who is still under law under the old covenant from that same word 39:43 verse sin rules over him every person who sin rules over is under the old covenant he's under law according to Romans 6 14 he has not received grace and that's the other thing we preached how do you receive grace 1 Peter 5 5 James 4 6 twice it's written God gives his grace only to the humble it says in the psalms God keeps proud people far away from him I don't want to be far away from God but God keeps 40:13 proud people far away from God and I want to say I don't care which church you sit in if you're a proud person God will keep you far away from him become a zero some time ago I did a little presentation here I called about 10 people to stand here and told them to hold zeros in front of them a board with zero 40:31 health wealth ability so many human achievements zero zero zero zero you add them all it's just a bunch of zeros that's what we all are and I see you put the number one Christ in front of them suddenly zero becomes ten one brother comes in fellowship with them it doesn't become eleven becomes a hundred one more brother comes in fellowship with one more zero it becomes a thousand that is how fellowship is built 40:57 when a bunch of zeros put Christ in front and are fellowshipping one another one becomes ten becomes a hundred becomes a thousand becomes ten thousand becomes a million a billion a trillion but that one is always in front you take away take away Christ and they get a bunch of zeros 41:14 so it's not something that once I made Christ my Lord no till the end of my life I'm going to be a zero I stand here before you and say I will always be a zero by the grace of God Christ will be my Lord and he'll be in front of me 41:28 and I believe that if I do that Christ will build the church through me or through you okay the next thing we emphasize was the humanity of Christ we all believe that Jesus Christ is God the eternal son of God second person of the Trinity 41:42 who came down to earth to save us from our sins nobody else could have taken the punishment for our sin because the punishment for our sin is another thing you emphasize is not physical death if physical death is the punishment for all my sins 41:56 I can pay for my sins by dying myself when I die I pay for it I'll go to heaven every human being will go to heaven if physical death is the punishment for sin so when you say Christ died for our sins it's not physical death 42:10 because everybody can die eternal death it was not those first three hours on the cross it was the next three hours on the cross where it's so difficult to express it he endured what millions of human beings will endure 42:32 for eternity in a lake of fire picture this one person in a lake of fire for one day multiplied by eternity is one person's eternal hell then add millions and millions and millions all the billions of people who lived on the earth 42:46 eternity in hell that is what Jesus suffered on the cross unimaginable who understands that I never heard it preached I heard people preach Christ died on the cross and make people cry and the nails hit him and all that 43:02 think that you are the one who hit the nails you know I also heard that and I felt like crying when I was a kid but when I saw that it was eternal hell that Jesus suffered it changed my whole attitude to sin I saw it's a terrible thing that Christ suffered 43:16 it made me weep and weep and weep and I said Lord you went to the cross just for me and I might never go there how can I ever in my life think of living for myself even a single day how can I ever think of making money by preaching the gospel 43:32 how can I ever think of not being a servant for everybody else when you almighty God became a servant washing people's feet it's the last thing you did in your life on earth let me never go away from that place Lord at the feet of the disciples 43:46 washing the feet till the end of my life I want to follow you I don't want to just sing follow follow I will follow Jesus I want to practice it more than sing it the humanity of Christ and I saw he was tempted like me that's what helped me to overcome sin 44:00 I was thoroughly defeated by sin like every human being I was not different thoughts, words, deeds, everything and then one day I saw Hebrews 4 16 Jesus 15 44:20 was tempted in all points all means all 100% as I was not only tempted but exactly as I was and I saw that the thing that Jesus consistently did was saying not my will but thine not my will but thine for 33 years he said that 44:40 he said that as a young boy he said that when he worked as a carpenter and he said that when he was a world famous preacher or an Israel famous preacher not my will but thine and I saw that's what it means to overcome sin 44:56 that's what it means to not sin Lord I have a great desire to do this I won't do it not just relating to lust and anger what about taking a trip somewhere these are little higher levels I'm now talking about post-graduate Christianity 45:14 very few people come there but post-graduate Christianity is where you don't want to go anywhere outside of God's will Jesus could have taken a trip to Rome what's wrong in that he's worked so hard for a whole year he could say 45:31 father can I take a trip to Rome for one week just to relax and come back he would not have sinned father said no you've got a work to do there's no time for that there's nothing wrong in a holiday in the first 30 years 45:45 perhaps Jesus took many holidays it's fine what I'm saying is there's nothing wrong in taking a holiday but it must be in God's will that's the point not because I want now there are many things we do for our children that's different 45:57 for the sake of our children we take people on holidays and take our children for holidays it's not for our sake that's great I've taken my children on holidays because they are children and they're part of my responsibility 46:06 to make it good for them it's perfectly okay but Lord I don't have any lust to relax or enjoy myself that for me will be in heaven I don't have a desire to see a single place on this earth I don't have a desire for any relaxation 46:21 my relaxation like Jesus said my food is to do the will of God my relaxation is to do the will of God and God will give me enough strength as long as he wants me on the earth he'll give me strength in the last day of my life 46:32 to do his will and when I'm tempted I look at Jesus Lord you were tempted exactly like me he did not have the lusts in his flesh no because he was not born of Adam he was born of supernatural seed from the Holy Spirit but he had a thing 46:49 called my will even in Gethsemane he said not my will that is the root of sin the root of sin is not sinful flesh the root of sin is my will my will and Jesus said no to my will no to my will and I said Lord help me to say that 47:03 when somebody argues with you and you're tempted to retaliate or to say back something which you can shut him down the Lord says keep quiet let him win the argument that's happened to me many times let him win the argument 47:18 let him think he has won what do I gain by showing him that I'm smarter than him or I can shut him up no it's a little little thing this is what it means to overcome sin never to do my own will I want to go here to preach the gospel 47:34 a good thing God says no I don't want you to go okay Lord or I plan to go somewhere and he stops me he stops me perhaps with a sickness or something else accepted the next thing which he emphasized was money we saw everywhere 47:52 all of Christendom paid workers paid pastors and titles reverend right reverend most reverend and all types of reverence and we saw that Jesus never took a title when they wanted to make a king he ran away and said Lord I want to 48:09 follow you he said you're all brothers it's the only title he gave us only one brothers that's why we call ourselves brother I remember American college a good college in America sent me a letter years ago dear brother Poonan 48:25 we have read your books and been tremendously impressed by your writings we want to give you an honorary doctorate from our college I said no thank you I never want to be known as Dr. Poonan I am brother Zach till the end 48:40 of my life there's no greater title than that Jesus said you're all brothers to go down to the level of being a doctor dear me not me medical doctors can keep that but not all these honorary doctors and so we took very strong 48:55 stand against money we are about the only church that consistently stood against the dowry system in India I used to get a certificate from people getting married I have not taken a dowry I have not given any dowry my parents 49:05 have not exchanged money in this wedding I said if you don't give me that written signed certificate I will not conduct your wedding how many preachers and pastors take a stand like that in the matter of money we have done 49:16 it for 50 years these are the things we did and when we you know how can you the bible says you must give joyfully and you must give secretly you put a bag in front of the person how in the world can he give joyfully and secretly 49:30 that person may not have enough money what do you force him to give just to show that I am giving so we decided we will never pass a bag around we will never have a paid worker 50 years none of our workers have been paid 49:44 we have I don't know I have never counted the number of churches we have but I think it is between 80 and 100 or something and we have 200-300 elders and facilitators not one of them has received a salary not me nobody else 49:58 we work joyfully just like the apostle Paul somebody gave gifts to Jesus and Paul if we give gifts we receive them but we don't look for them but we work among the poor people they are so hardly able to give us gifts but we keep 50:11 a box Jesus sat in front of a box once where somebody put in two cents so we keep a box and say secretly go and give and if you go to the box you will see certain things written there are you born again if not don't give 50:23 are you in debt to somebody don't give if you are not giving cheerfully don't give if you have got somebody against you don't give and conditions like that if you are not born again etc so we are against money the other 50:37 thing we taught was something almost not taught in other churches was soul and spirit most Christians know zero about soul and spirit our human personalities are soul the holy spirit comes in initiates our spirit and the bible 50:51 and the bible says in hebrews 4 12 we need to distinguish between soul and spirit because you know i'll tell you why sometimes you watch these even on video excited singing they say worshipping god clapping singing somebody 51:05 leading up in front instruments and all that it's your soul getting excited that is not worship in the soul in the spirit jesus said we must worship in the spirit genesis sorry john 4 24 most of the worship 99.9% of the worship 51:19 i've heard so called worship is not worship first of all it's praise or thanksgiving and it is in the soul and god says he wants us to worship in the spirit how will that be possible only if i put the soul to death we've 51:33 taught that and then we taught that the local church must not be just a bunch of people meeting together but a body functioning body that means we must relate to one another we work together each person has a different function 51:43 that's the local body of christ and all this is summed up in what we call the new covenant which is different from the old covenant and so in this new covenant we had leaders but the leaders are not pastors and preachers 52:01 ephesians 4 12 says the leaders are apostles apostles are those who plant churches and oversee churches and correct them but what we saw in the world were two systems a pyramid system pastors senior pastor all the way to some 52:15 big man on top superintendent or general superintendent or moderator or something else the other was an independent system nobody's above me I'm just myself I'm under the lord and I'm on my own oh they have one or two board members 52:28 they call them elders that's not new testament either ephesians 4 12 says the lord appointed apostles prophets evangelists shepherds teachers and they and we equip the saints to build the body of christ we taught that so what I'm 52:44 trying to say is in all these things from the beginning we tried to bring people back to what we call new testament christianity the christianity found in the new testament we encourage people to read god's word we encourage 53:03 people to begin their day with god we ask people in your english bible what are the first four words in your english bible we taught people in the beginning god every day it must be like that in the beginning god in your 53:19 financial affairs in the beginning god the way you run your family in the beginning god and when you begin the day we pointed them to isaiah 50 and verse 4 it says when you wake up in the middle of verse 4 remember that it 53:35 is god who woke you up you wake up you say father we taught god taught people to call god father father you woke me up and you woke up my heart it says in isaiah 54 to listen as a disciple something i have to do so this 53:55 is how we should begin our day in the beginning god when i wake up in the morning i say lord you woke me up i want my heart to be also awake to listen to what you are saying maybe only five minutes if you have only five minutes 54:08 that's fine you have to go rush to work or rush to school five minutes you can talk to the lord talk to your father don't call him god call him daddy daddy thank you for being my daddy it brings such security it brought 54:23 such security in my life i was a very insecure person for so many years as a christian 16 years as a christian in babylonian christianity i was insecure 50 years i'm secure not because i changed because god opened my eyes to 54:37 know him as my father i praise god and i've tried to share that with others to know god as a father and it's changed people's lives dear brothers and sisters this is the wonderful thing and i want to say that god has added 54:53 us to us so many wonderful co-workers if the work of god has spread from here we were just two of us who started brother ian and myself and our families first day we met i remember it was the 17th of august 1975 two of us 55:11 kicked out by some other church because they did not want to hear the baptism of the holy spirit we said okay we'll pray together we had zero intention to start a church we said we're not apostles or prophets we're just 55:23 nobodies but you filled us with the holy spirit we were in desperate need and god met with us and we prayed together and we said okay next sunday we'll meet together gradually some people came some people left there was a 55:36 turnover people came and went and came and went and came and went finally god over a period of years gathered together met in our home for six years and then god gave us enough money to build a hall and then that first second 55:51 third floor and now you've come here and even this is getting crowded but we don't rejoice in numbers supposing we have five hundred people in a church and we count the chairs five hundred and you ask the lord how many in this 56:07 church and the lord says fifty disciples fifty disciples that's all you count lord help me not to glory in numbers how many people here are following jesus how many husbands are following jesus dying to themselves in their 56:22 relation to their wife how many wives are dying to themselves in relation to their husband disciples lord please increase that number so i will never count the chairs i have nothing to boast about what paul paul said it's a 56:36 favorite verse of mine galatians 6 14 i want to live with it till my last day on earth galatians 6 14 god forbid that i should ever boast about anything about anything 50 years no i will not boast about that cfc churches 56:53 in so many places i will not boast about that i will not boast about anything except the cross of my savior the lord jesus christ on which not only he died but he took me with him and crucified me with him so that it is no 57:10 longer i but christ that lives in me that's what we glory in and that's what i have encouraged people in our church to do thank you for listening thank you dear brother zach for the challenging word and reminding us of all the 57:28 truths that we have heard over the 50 years we want to welcome you all once again to this cfc jubilee celebration i'm polo i'm sunoj and truly we're gonna have videos video presentations skits and songs we encourage all of you 57:47 and the children to pay attention and we will also hear senior elders from different places and others who have been in cfc from the beginning of cfc it has been over three months since our beloved brother ian robson went to 58:04 be with the lord we celebrate the remarkable legacy he leaves behind for over five decades brother ian's exemplary life has served as a testament to love compassion and harmony today we present a video tribute to the unity he has 58:22 forged in cfc a legacy that will continue to inspire and guide us all we will now watch a video as soon as the day of pentecost is done you immediately see two completely opposite people 58:42 peter and john going together in acts chapter 3 it's always two never one completely different from the old covenant and then when the holy spirit begins a movement out to other places he says 59:02 separate me saul and barnabas two not one and that is how cfc also began that god brought ian robson and myself together and if 59:23 it were not two of us i would say boldly there would be no cfc bangalore we are 59:43 united jesus christ we are the soldiers of the light we don't wrestle flesh and blood but principalities of the dark we too are marching to one me crushing the enemy under our feet we are 1:00:04 mighty in our sand with god's word in our hands i learned what true fellowship is i found a friend in brother zag i found a friend in many other brothers that the lord added through the years when fellowship my dear brothers and 1:00:24 sisters is forged that word forged means it goes through the fire and that's how true fellowship is tested and that's how brother zag and i wrote with we are such different personalities we are so 1:00:45 different in so many ways and we come from different backgrounds even before cfc began when we were baptized in the holy spirit in january 1975 those bonds have lasted all through these 47 years we have had differences we have 1:01:03 had sharp differences we have disagreed on many things sharp disagreements but never never and i can say that before god has it broken fellowship between us that's because of the holy spirit that we accepted one another 1:01:17 gave each other space and joined us closer and closer to each other and brought others also right in the beginning we called ourselves christian fellowship that's what we majored on a fellowship in the holy 1:01:37 spirit i want to challenge you especially you young people to find that in the church you find that here in cfc let bonds be formed maybe just with one or two in the beginning but that can that can grow and then you make 1:01:57 the church strong in our hearts we have a vision we have made our decision to show the father's love the great power from above let us 1:02:18 reach this generation every tribe and every nation for we've overcome the world by the blood of christ the lamb we are united in jesus christ we are the soldiers of the 1:02:39 life we don't wrestle flesh and blood up upon principalities of the dark we too are marching to one beat crushing the enemy under our feet we are mighty in our stand with god's word in 1:02:59 our hand we are we are mighty i know the lord put us together i told you couple of sundays ago the lord pointed out to me you want 1:03:19 somebody to submit to here is a man that you can submit to because i was fed up of what i seen i said lord did i leave my job on the railways to see all this this rat race people climbing over each other's back trying to make 1:03:36 foreign contacts seeking for a ministry here seeking there i said lord i didn't leave my job for that i i came to serve you and i never forget the day when it was like somebody saying in my ear here is a man when we were in 1:03:55 a baptist church you can submit to i thank godhood all my heart for brother zach that i found in him a brother and a friend i didn't get attached to him i didn't get 1:04:15 joined to him i testify before the lord that he connected me to jesus he connected me to the head not to himself he was a very humble man and i've noticed that for 1:04:36 50 years there are very few people i have met in the world with the spirit of humility that my dear brother ian had and i know that better than anybody else we will 1:05:00 now request sister annie followed by brother charles to speak to us i believe we all know beloved our beloved sister annie wife of brother zach and a hero to her four sons and 17 grandchildren her four sons are serving the 1:05:18 lord in their local cfc churches sister is also a medical doctor from christian medical college velour and has freely served the poor in many villages and towns in india for several years brother charles banna is an elder here 1:05:34 at cfc bangaloo he has been with cfc for the past 43 years and we are blessed to have him shepherd us he is one of the overseers of the churches in karnataka i now welcome sister annie to come and speak to us i praise and 1:05:52 thank god for this wonderful day he has given us when we can celebrate 50 years 50 wonderful glorious years and think of the way the lord led us and met with us supplied every need and given us so much joy in our heart i praise and 1:06:13 thank god 50 years has gone so fast but the lord has been with us in the beginning when i heard about the what we just heard about the for becoming true disciples and following the lord i looked at 1:06:34 it like when jesus was taking the disciples up the mountain of transfiguration and to me it came like i'm going to see jesus in a transfigured the real jesus and i also will be transfigured change from glory to glory and 1:06:54 that challenged me these three things we heard about the true discipleship that brought such a need in my heart i said lord i want to be that kind of disciple i want to forsake all i don't want to be clinging on to my loved 1:07:10 ones i don't want to love the earthly things i want that life of being a true disciple and that challenge but then as we were climbing up and we saw little little difficulties and problems coming up the lord so wonderfully 1:07:27 held our hands i could see his compassion his faithfulness his goodness to us he never let go of us as a church he bound us together we brought we cared for each other we loved for each loved each other we thought of the 1:07:44 other more important other person's need more important than our own need it's so wonderful to have experienced the lord care all these 50 years and the lord has been so faithful compassionate to us that i don't think of 1:07:59 it like a burden or a hard way that i have we have walked i can only think of one regret i had that is that i should have expect expressed my love for the lord more done more for the lord been more faithful 1:08:19 trusted him more in situations than giving fear giving place to fear in my heart i thank the lord for the elders brother ian and my husband and all the other brothers whom i consider though they are younger in age they are my elders and 1:08:36 i thank god for each one of them and looking at the present i can only say lord time is running out so fast i want to be faithful and true i want to do my part in building the church and die to myself and think of the others and 1:08:55 let your name be glorified when i think of the future i think of hebrews 12 run the race looking unto jesus i think of looking unto jesus in two ways looking unto jesus who is sitting at the right hand of the father with 1:09:15 all authority and power and he can strengthen me and he can help me and each one of us we look at him but i also look at jesus when he was on earth in hebrews 12 i just want to read those hebrews 12 too it says that verse has 1:09:35 come so powerfully to me verses one the latter part let us run with endurance the race that is set before us fixing our eyes on jesus the author and perfecter of faith who for the joy set before him endured the cross despising 1:09:54 the shame and sat down at the right hand of god and verse 3 says he endured such hostility by sinners against himself so that you don't get weary and lose heart yes sometimes we face hostility from many people but we don't look at 1:10:12 those people we look at jesus and we don't get weary we don't lose lose heart we are encouraged our hearts are filled with joy so i praise and thank god for the challenge for all that the lord has taught us to love him to forgive 1:10:30 others not to think evil about anyone if you visit brother ian's home and you meet his children they are always talking about brother ian you know daddy was like this mommy was like this daddy this and this is daddy's bible 1:10:46 this and this and this all the time they're talking about jesus about their dad then i thought of this verse in malachi 3 verse 16 it says those who feared the lord spoke to one another and the lord gave attention and heard 1:11:04 it and a book of remembrance was written before him for those who fear the lord and who esteem his name and they will be mine says the lord on the day that i prepare my own possession and i will spare them as a man spares his 1:11:21 own son who serves him yes i want to always be with people who remember our lord jesus christ and talk about him and are encouraged by talking about him and a book of remembrance will be written about those people i want to be 1:11:37 in that crowd i want to thank each one of you dear brothers and sisters who have encouraged me my husband my children all the brothers here from different places and i praise and thank god for this wonderful day he has given us let 1:11:53 his name be glorified and let him take all the glory for all that he has done amen i want to briefly share my testimony as to how i came to cfc the lord granted me repentance to repent of my sins i came from 1:12:15 a god-fearing family i thought everything was fine with me until dave and a brother shared the gospel in a clear way proving from scripture that i too was a sinner even though i was born in a born and brought up in a god-fearing 1:12:34 family our good works our good upbringing will not make us christians will not make us children of god that was the day i broke down i knelt down and gave my life to the lord confessing my sins that was way back in 1974 and 1:12:57 from then six to seven years i wandered along here and there visiting different fellowships finding where i can hear pure word of god i found none until i i mean in the 70s i used to 1:13:18 after i was born again i used to listen to brother zack's radio messages on feeber hidden treasures and i also used to read hidden treasures monthly paper and i was much impressed by the writings and his teachings and i 1:13:37 read other books and listened to so many other preachers and different fellowships but nowhere my soul was satisfied and i met brother newton in an interview and through him i came to cfc and 1:13:59 then after i came here you know during those days in the mid 70s and 80s early 80s there was a lot of misunderstanding and misrepresentation about what brother zack was 1:14:19 teaching and people warned me against brother zack but the more i listened to him and more i read his writings i was convinced that this is the truth and then i told one of those brothers i think this is the truth and what you guys 1:14:39 are following is is heresy because they used to call him heretic i found that there were heretics and this is the truth and i came to cfc and i never looked back never regretted one day my decision and 1:15:00 i found my spiritual family here and the teachings have helped me as a man to avoid many sins that young people commit and the lord transformed my life yesterday we 1:15:22 were speaking john and i were speaking to some brothers and that saying in english goes like this that god doesn't call the qualified but he calls and qualifies that is true that god called ungifted unlearned fishermen 1:15:43 from the sea of galilee and they didn't know anything and god called them and then equipped them and made them turn the world upside down and god in a wonderful way can change us and 1:16:04 when i came to the church i was so blessed encouraged accepted and as i kept growing brother zach and sister annie proposed shoba to me and got me married 1:16:24 and i my family is blessed and i was just about six years back brother zach conducted my daughter's wedding also and he said he will conduct my grandchildren's wedding also and i 1:16:45 pray that the lord will preserve you brother till then that he will delay is coming yeah and i'm so thankful that i'm in the church among the brothers and sisters and if god could 1:17:05 change me very weak ungifted and shy timid person like me and change me completely and make me into a different man god can do that with 1:17:26 anybody whenever i see a shy and introvert person i tell him you have a friend in me i was worse than you and if god can change me he can change you that's very true and and the lord is able to do beyond our asking or thinking 1:17:45 i praise god for that thank you dear sister annie and brother charles now we are going to watch a video the video presents the vision given by god to the founding leaders of christian fellowship church bangaloo and what 1:18:04 makes cfc different we will now watch this video when cfc 1:18:26 bangaloo was founded god gave brother zach a clear vision of cfc's prophetic calling as a church in india and he faithfully obeyed that vision the leaders who worked with him and came after him at cfc bangaloo were also committed 1:18:47 to that vision our specific calling there were truths in the new testament that were not being sufficiently emphasized in india the conditions of discipleship the security that comes from knowing god as our father walking as 1:19:08 jesus walked in his footsteps the power of the holy spirit overflowing within us etc we strive to make everyone in cfc bangaloo a true disciple first one who loves jesus more than his relatives more than himself 1:19:29 life and more than his earthly possessions luke chapter 14 verses 26 27 and 33 we then seek to teach all of them to obey all that jesus commanded matthew chapter 28 verse 20 god has 1:19:50 given us grace to stick to this calling for the for the last 49 years evangelism and disciple making we have encouraged all believers to share the gospel with others personally thus many have come to christ and have been 1:20:09 added to our church in past years because we have a specific calling from god in cfc we do not get involved in other ministries because we are a growing church we have a great responsibility towards the new believers who have joined us 1:20:29 and also towards the many children who have grown up in our midst and become adults all of them need to be made disciples by the grace of god this has been our focus for the last 49 years god and money 1:20:50 at cfc bangalore we adopted a radical attitude towards money we decided not to have any paid preachers and not to collect offerings during meetings we teach that all giving for the lord's work must be done cheerfully and voluntarily 1:21:07 all our elders support themselves financially following the example of the apostle paul the offerings given to the lord in cfc are used in line with our vision to make disciples and help poor believers galatians 6 verse 10 1:21:26 by god's grace we have adhered to these new covenant standards from the beginning and for the past 49 years titles and authority cfc bangalore is led by elders appointed in accordance with the requirements 1:21:47 for elders as described in the word of god however they are all brothers and hold no titles the only titles permitted by the lord are brother 1:22:07 and servant as we read in matthew chapter 23 verses 8 and 11 god has enabled us to maintain this practice for the last 49 years submission to authority those who want to be part 1:22:28 of cfc bangalore must submit to the local elders in church matters as we read in hebrews chapter 13 verse 17 church discipline we believe in disciplining those who continue in sin as taught in matthew chapter 18 verse 15 1:22:47 to 17 however all discipline is exercised in a spirit of love with the hope of restoring the believer to the lord and the church as we read in 2nd corinthians chapter 2 verses 6 to 11 fellowship 1:23:08 with other churches cfc bangalore is not part of a denomination however we have fellowship with churches who have the same vision and we work with them elders in cfc bangalore may seek the advice of more mature elders in other cfc churches 1:23:27 or from those with an apostolic ministry we constantly seek to build fellowship among churches with the same vision so our unity becomes stronger as one family in the lord importance of family life 1:23:50 at cfc bangalore godliness in the family is of fundamental importance we hold frequent meetings to encourage families to cultivate good husband-wife relationships based on mutual love and respect and to raise their children 1:24:07 in the ways of god wives are called by god to be helpers to their husbands and we value their help immensely in building their families and supporting their husband's ministries husbands are taught to be good shepherds to their wives 1:24:24 by leading through example in every area by god's grace we have upheld these values for the past 49 years cfc bangalore's leadership the lord has given us 1:24:46 excellent leaders to lead the church right from the beginning they in turn have encouraged the younger brothers to be wholehearted so that god can give grace to some of them to become leaders and this has already 1:25:07 taken place in cfc bangalore we have brothers who have joined the church as young men just in the last 20 years and now are among the elders leading the church the elders also look out for godly young brothers with leadership potential 1:25:24 to encourage them and train them distinctives we don't consider ourselves better than other churches but we believe we are different from other churches these are the seven ways 1:25:46 we are distinct not greatness but holiness not external life first but internal not activity but obedience not making converts but disciples not giving money first 1:26:06 but body and mind not using a power but god's power not building a congregation but christ's body in short not wood hay and straw but gold silver and precious stones verses 1:26:30 certain verses in the new testament describe our vision and are frequently emphasized in our messages all things are possible if you believe mark 9 verse 23 god gives grace only to the humble 1st peter 5 verse 5 1:26:51 if you fear god you need fear nothing else isaiah 8 verse 13 if we judge ourselves we will not be judged 1st corinthians 11 verse 31 it is more blessed to give than to receive acts 20 verse 35 be merciful to others 1:27:12 just as god has been merciful to you luke 6 verse 36 conclusion in short our vision is to demonstrate and proclaim the new wine which is the life of jesus and the divine nature in a new wine skin 1:27:32 the local church as an expression of the body of christ built according to the new covenant pattern and god has helped us to be committed to this vision for the last 49 years cfc's vision can be read 1:27:53 in detail at cfcindia.com slash our vision we are going to 1:28:16 watch a skit now sit back and relax now we want to spend a few minutes thanking the lord for the work he has done in building up the families in cfc as we have heard godly homes are the strength of a church 1:28:37 over the past 50 years cfc has laid special emphasis on the home life building up of husband wife relationships and the relationship between parents and children the lord has built many godly homes in our midst we will now see 1:28:59 some scriptural principles proclaimed often in cfc that has helped build up families let's visit the home of a family in church and see how they put this verse into practice we need to come to a decision on 1:29:19 this yes dear i think you should do it this way oh you know better or us now you don't want to listen to us shh this is too much of pressure i think 1:29:40 it is tearing us apart because we are one all others must not come between us particularly father and mother the most disobeyed command in christian marriages in india is here a man must leave his father 1:30:00 and mother and cleave to his wife and that equally applies to the wife she must leave her father and mother and cleave to her husband that means not that you neglect your father and mother but you don't let them run your life 1:30:14 i realized i was so attached to my parents i needed to be attached to my husband i too was putting my parents above my wife it wasn't easy we prayed then we spoke to 1:30:34 our parents dad mom we love you and we appreciate your suggestions but please allow us to take our own decisions over time they realized that we still love them and we are there if they need our help how many 1:30:55 of our family lives have been preserved and became better when we obeyed this simple direction from god's word now let's go over to mr. and mrs. john's house mr. john is 1:31:34 suddenly reminded of the sunday message you saw paul's example as soon as he was aware that he had said a wrong word with his mouth apologize he didn't say i'll think about it i ask people if you're walking barefoot on the road 1:31:49 in your garden or something and the thorn gets into your foot a thorn how long are you going to meditate on when to remove the thorn a sensible person would take out the thorn immediately i'm really sorry 1:32:09 i should not have spoken like that please forgive me it's all right dear now you hurry or you will be late for your meeting having a clear conscience at all times is so vital to 1:32:29 an unbroken fellowship with god settling matters quickly was something the lord taught us in church so we 1:32:50 will go there and do that but i don't want to do that you never listen to me what do you mean i don't listen to you that is all i do i have had enough of this then do what you want this was 1:33:16 our home before we came to cfc there was no peace at home it was terrifying to grow up like this but after we came to cfc things changed be a woman of peace there's a man of peace and a 1:33:36 woman of peace that home will be an island of peace your children say mommy is a woman of peace don't be ready to pick a fight to have a fight with your husband Lord lord lord please make me a man of peace 1:33:56 make our home an island of peace lord please make me a woman of peace help me lord to preserve the unity of the spirit and let and let our children see me as a woman of peace 1:34:16 after much prayer i feel we should do that though i feel a little differently i believe you have considered my suggestion and prayed about it i know god will guide us i am with you 1:34:40 let's pray and commit it to the lord as we listen and obey god's word we and our children can have a taste of heaven here on earth in our homes let us now go over to brother thomas's house where a young couple mark and lily are visiting 1:35:10 brother in the past we have made wrong decisions based on my colleagues and other suggestions this tuesday we need to finalize a major financial decision and we are in much fear and tension 1:35:31 mark god has given us godly brothers who have gone ahead of us in many of life's decisions it is good to take godly counsel as the bible says in a multitude of counselors there is wisdom 1:35:53 is it okay to approach them on personal matters of course you can we have been protected by godly counsel in major decisions before our marriage how to stay within our financial boundaries 1:36:13 children's higher education and so on can we discuss all these topics with them yes dear why don't you seek the elders advice before you sign the papers on tuesday before you meet our elders 1:36:35 pray that the lord will speak to you through our elders and show you his will in the end we must take all our decisions before the lord with much prayer thank you brother 1:36:55 we already feel at rest how wonderful that god has placed us in his family and given us access to godly counsel we have found safety and protection in the church thank you father 1:37:15 for the body of christ and through the work of the holy spirit in our lives many of us have seen the blessing of the lord on our homes and families may the lord help us in continuing to give our lord jesus and the holy spirit 1:37:37 his rightful place in our homes so that the lord may be glorified thank you lord for all you have done in our families and giving us a foretaste of heaven in our homes so we want to thank 1:38:13 cfc bangalow for giving us godly principles in our marriage life let's give them a big round of applause brothers and sisters we will now have two more speakers we will now request brother santosh 1:38:33 followed by brother newton to speak to us for those of you who don't know brother santosh is brother zach's second son he was two years old when cfc started and was here until the age of 18 years he has also visited cfc 1:38:51 frequently since then brother newton has been with cfc for more than four decades he has served as an elder for 20 years he has played many roles as sunday school teacher sunday school coordinator and youth leader i now welcome brother santosh 1:39:11 to speak to us i won't tell you how i came to cfc because unlike almost all of you i didn't have a choice in the matter but for me in a sense cfc had to come full circle 1:39:31 after i left bangalore at the age of 18 and went abroad to be very honest i wanted to listen to anything except cfc just to see what else was out there and it took about nine years 1:39:51 of being a part of many different churches before the lord brought me back to cfc i left really but that i really started to see the truth after seeing the backslidden condition of my life listening to so much else that's out there 1:40:09 in my heart i came back to cfc in a true way even though i never left outwardly i was thinking as we think about fifty years as you've heard already my dad and brother ian didn't start out planning this event 1:40:29 when they left they were helpless when they started cfc they were helpless needy humble broken young and they could never have imagined that the lord would bring us to this bring them to this place and yet here they are 1:40:47 there's a saying in the world the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step and as i sat there looking up here i enjoyed that background but my mind kept coming back to this sign that's here in front of me let us press on 1:41:07 to perfection we're not perfect yet over and over again already there's a perfection that's awaiting us and as long as it takes even if it takes another fifty years god who began the good work in us in cfc is faithful 1:41:27 to perfect us let's turn to second john a very short letter another word another word that's been coming back to me is a word that paul wrote to timothy often retain retain retain 1:41:47 our godly elders who have for many years fifty years upheld the standard and i believe and i believe why god has been able to bear witness to the work that he's been doing in cfc is because they have sought to retain the standard 1:42:03 and you read that often in second timothy chapter one and first timothy five paul writes often to timothy and that's the message i'm hearing this morning from the example of our godly elders and as i look back on the last fifty years 1:42:21 santosh it's up to you to retain the standard john says similar words in verse eight in second john verse eight watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have accomplished but that you so that you may receive 1:42:41 a full reward this isn't the full reward this is a wonderful day of celebration but this isn't the full reward there's something far greater that we must press on to and there are two things that i want to leave with you 1:42:57 that the lord has planted on my heart to retain see earlier he says that he commends this church for practicing the truth he says in verse two i know that you love in truth and know the truth 1:43:17 and for the sake of the truth you abide and will be with us forever he commends them and he says verse four i'm so excited to see that you cfc are walking in truth you're walking in the truth we've upheld the truth but now he says 1:43:35 i ask you church not a new commandment but the one which we have heard from the beginning love one another retain love i think of so many over the years who have lost that love out of a lack of gratitude lost a fervent love for the brotherhood 1:43:57 lost a fervent love for their brothers and sisters and children and for their elders and for what god has done in their lives through the church retain a pure love a fervent love for the brotherhood my dad and brother ian 1:44:15 in my opinion the greatest example that i've seen of that it's wonderful that a husband and wife can love each other and celebrate marriage but for two men to live in separate homes to be as different as they are to be as different as they are 1:44:33 to walk in love for all those years and i believe brother ian is rejoicing in heaven for the celebration we're having today retain a fervent love for the brotherhood brothers and sisters and children and i look out and see that 1:44:49 so few of who were here 50 years ago or in the early 10 years let's say are here today in some way they lost their fervent love and secondly if you turn with me to first timothy chapter 6 paul says in verse 14 keep the commandment 1:45:10 without stain or reproach until the appearing of our lord jesus christ and i see that as an exhortation from the lord to me and for all of us keep the commandment without stain or reproach and what is that commandment he tells us in verse 13 1:45:29 it's the same confession that jesus made before pilot you can read about it in john 19 jesus said my kingdom is not of this world we could easily my dad and brother ian could have easily tried to make cfc a kingdom a denomination 1:45:47 but from the very beginning i heard them say our kingdom is not of this world where people have tried to fight and grab they have laid down their arms where people have tried to steal buildings from them and steal people from them 1:46:04 they have laid down their arms dear family our kingdom is not of this world if we are to retain the standard for another 50 years if the lord tarries let's determine that in every situation we will say i'm not fighting for anything here on this earth 1:46:22 you can have it if you want let's remain in love and let's remain in this confession our kingdom is not of this earth amen i want to rejoice and praise the lord for this wonderful day and for all the wonderful truth i heard in cfc 1:46:39 for five decades and i'm so happy to see the tremendous work the lord has done not only in bangalore many parts of india around the world i want to briefly highlight three things i learned in cfc jesus became glorious for me 1:47:00 i heard the amazing truth that jesus is not only a savior but also a forerunner that jesus was tempted in all points as we are yet it is not yield to sin that jesus denied his will in the time of temptation through the grace of god 1:47:19 i got hope that i too can follow jesus in the time of temptation not yield to sin by receiving grace from god the knowledge that to be tempted is not sin but to yield to temptation is sin brought liberty and it changed my life 1:47:40 jesus loved righteousness and hated sin therefore he was anointed with oil of gladness as is written in hebrews 1:9 we too can follow jesus this way and be anointed with the oil of gladness jesus overcame sin the world and the devil 1:47:59 as disciples of jesus we too can overcome sin the world and the devil and be overcomers jesus was meek and lowly of heart and by following him and by following him we too can be humble in heart i want to testify that it's wonderful life 1:48:18 to be a disciple of jesus and to be gripped by the glory of jesus more and more as is written song of solomon i can say he is altogether lovely number 2 the word of god became glorious for me i heard that jesus had a great passion 1:48:38 to fulfill the scriptures as disciples of jesus we too can have a passion to fulfill the scriptures i also heard that the mark of love for jesus is obedience to all his commandments including the sermon on the mount and obedience to all 1:48:59 that is written in the new testament i praise god for the new covenant life where god's laws are written in our heart and mind by the holy spirit first god gives us the desire to obey and then he gives us the ability to obey 1:49:19 i praise god for the tremendous encouragement i received through god's word over the years that strengthened me i am i thank god that cfc provided a feast to all of god's people in the last five decades number 3 the church 1:49:39 became glorious for me they have often heard that if the needles are hidden in a huge haystack it is very difficult to search physically and find the needles but if you had a powerful magnet these needles can be drawn by the magnet 1:49:58 brother zack has spoken often about it over the years in the same way god brought together over the last five decades all those who want to be disciples of jesus who had a desire to obey all that is written in the word of god 1:50:14 and those who had a desire for a victorious life and god built them together as a new covenant church to be part of a pure testimony for god in not only in bangalore in many other places i want to highlight one more thing 1:50:31 this morning cfc bangaloo has the distinction of having people who speak diverse languages people from diverse economic backgrounds rich and poor educated and uneducated it's amazing that people from all communities 1:50:51 have lived together in peace without any conflict or tension this is something unheard of in india there is the spirit of christ love and warmth and fellowship many have come to cfc bangalore during the past conferences 1:51:10 and have tasted wonderful spirit of fellowship god has built a precious brotherhood here and now not only in bangalore in many other parts of india and the world this is the work of god it's not a work of man we praise the lord for it 1:51:30 god raised up cfc with a specific vision to hold up the high standards of god in the scriptures and to lead god's people to a deep life in god jesus loved the church and gave himself for the church we too can love the church 1:51:47 and give ourselves to make the church glorious i read something this morning that touched my heart in god's eyes the most precious and beautiful thing in all of creation is the church the heart of god jesus is for his church 1:52:08 i rejoice that god has established many wonderful churches in many parts of india and the world i want to express my gratitude to brother zach and to many wonderful brothers and sisters for making jesus glorious the word of god glorious 1:52:25 and the church glorious may we be faithful till the lord comes and bring joy to the heart of god thank you brother santosh for reminding us about the importance of keeping the standards of cfc and thank you brother newton 1:52:41 for showing the glory of jesus the glory of word of god and the glory of the church over the years god has silently planned in love for our cfc family over 50 years he gave us three different buildings there were seemingly 1:52:59 impossible problems at different stages every single time god worked a miracle we are going to watch a video of how god worked a miracle and made this possible akka we heard in sunday school 1:53:21 about a miracle that jesus did do miracles happen even now or are they just stories god is always planning in love for his children and he is the same today he does amazing miracles to fulfill the plans he has for their lives 1:53:40 listen would you like to hear the story of what happened here at cfc and in the life of uncle zach oh yes i would love that uncle zach ponen was just 14 years old he joined the nda with the sole goal of becoming the admiral of the indian navy 1:54:02 uncle zach worked hard and won many awards and medals but god had a bigger plan for him leave the navy and proclaim my salvation in answer to god's call uncle zach gave away all the money that he earned in the navy for the building of god's kingdom 1:54:24 god joined uncle zach and auntie annie in marriage to fulfill a wonderful purpose god would make them a blessing to many people in many countries god let uncle zach and auntie annie move from bellow to bangalore they obeyed god 1:54:43 they packed all their belongings into a rented minivan and moved to bangalore they had no job no house no furniture but let's see what god's plan was god put a thought into uncle zach's father's heart uncle zach's father had an ancestral home in kerala 1:55:06 he wanted to sell the house and gift uncle zach with his share but there was a big problem the tenant refused to move out and the government supported the tenants though uncle zach's father was the owner of the house he could not sell the house and he was very sad 1:55:27 but god's plans cannot be stopped one day there was good news the government changed the law changed uncle zach's father was able to sell the house and as god had put on his heart he lefted uncle zach his share 1:55:48 but that was not all god's plan had another surprise in store god led uncle zach to a house that was for sale many people were offering to buy that house for a higher price but the lady who owned the house said mr. zach poonin is a righteous man 1:56:08 i want to sell my house to him god worked a miracle god worked a miracle he had a special plan in mind and uncle zach was able to buy this house a while later something very unexpected happened uncle zach and uncle ian had to leave the church they were shepherding 1:56:30 the people did not accept the truths they were preaching so 50 years ago on august 17th they met together and prayed together in uncle zach's house and just according to god's plan cfc was born 1:56:52 uncle zach and his family opened their home for god to do as he had planned god added to their number and they grew in oneness and unity they prayed together studied the word together they sang praises together from the very first year 1:57:12 people came to the conferences held in uncle zach's home they came by train and by bus cfc had talked with the train and bus fares they cooked their meals together the brothers stayed together god's plan for cfc started in uncle zach's home 1:57:32 with hearts that were completely his in time the church had grown so much it was time to look for another place what was god's plan this time what happened to the small church in uncle zach's home 1:57:57 this small church was growing and they needed a larger place but they did not have the money to buy land either inside the city or even outside the city limits uncle zach's father had booked a plot of land which he wanted to sell due to personal reasons 1:58:19 this plot of land was in the heart of bangalore close to uncle zach's home he was getting many good offers as people wanted to build in the center of the city but uncle zach's father wanted to give this land to cfc he had paid 20% to the owner and cfc had to pay 80% and the land registration charges 1:58:44 cfc had only half the amount which they had carefully saved over the last 4 years but this was not enough they prayed lord if it is your will for us to buy this plot of land we believe you will provide the money uncle zach and uncle yin did not tell anyone about this need 1:59:09 but pray together many times how could this small church raise such a large amount in such a short time but this small church was on god's heart and god put it on someone's heart to write a check for this small church god had planned silently in love for his precious people 1:59:32 just a few days before the final amount had to be paid an envelope suddenly arrived the exact amount was sent by an unknown person in perfect time they had never met or heard of this person before and he never sent them any money again 1:59:52 the final amount was paid in time and the land was registered in the name of christian fellowship center thank you lord for your perfect love and your perfect plan in perfect time it was an exciting time the plans were ready 2:00:12 the bricks were ready but cement was not available without a permit and building without cement was impossible uncle zach went time and time again to get a permit but every time he went he was sent away finally someone said they wanted to pay a bribe to get a permit 2:00:37 but uncle zach would not pay a bribe he waited patiently and trusted god god did a miracle once again according to his marvelous plan cement became freely available no permit was needed work began the foundation was laid 2:00:59 ground floor first floor second floor people in the cfc family were encouraged to build their lives in the same way god continued to add to their number god began to do a work through cfc in india just as he had planned 2:01:29 god added more and more people to christian fellowship church so it was necessary to find a bigger place a search began to find a plot of land to construct a building for this growing fellowship a few of the cfc brothers were informed about a particular plot of land that was for sale 2:01:53 but when they visited it it looked like a forest there was no approach road and at night it was dark and deserted further there was one more complication almost all plots of land in the area were under dispute in court the land lawyers and the land authorities thought it was dangerous to buy this piece of land 2:02:19 when they did a thorough investigation they found that this piece of land was under no dispute it was almost unbelievable so cfc wanted to purchase this plot of land but a big construction builder was also very eager to buy the same plot of land 2:02:38 the land belonged to three brothers the brothers had to come to an agreement to sell the land and also decide who they would sell it to all the three brothers had heard of uncle zach and recognize that he was a man of god 2:02:56 for this reason they were most happy to sell the land to cfc at a reasonable price so cfc purchased paradise enclave a perfect name for a perfect place that only god could have planned for us the next question was how much underground water would paradise enclave have 2:03:22 a bore well was needed uncle yid took a group of people to pray on the land together they prayed that god would lead to the particular spot where the bore well should be dug in the area most poor wells had to be dug to a depth of one thousand feet to get ground water 2:03:41 at paradise enclave water started gushing at only one hundred and seventy feet this was planned by our god of a zillion miracles the lord caused willing hearts to contribute to the construction of the new church building 2:03:59 god also gave cfc spiritual shepherds after his own heart to nurture the cfc family in god's word faith fellowship and love god also gave cfc spiritual shepherds after his own heart to nurture the cfc family in god's word 2:04:23 faith fellowship and love at the wedding of zach and annie god gave brother bhak singh a very powerful prophecy 2:04:45 and the light of god will shine brightly by their union in many parts of the world Thank you. 2:05:29 So good to see God's miracles, even in small things and even in big things. Special thanks to the team who has taken us down the memory lane in a short time. And now we are going to hear two brothers, Brother Victor and Brother Prasuttam. 2:05:50 They are the overseeing elders of Tamil Nadu churches along with Brother Vincent. Brother Victor is based out of Trikatapali. He has been in CFC for 36 years. He is overseeing a number of churches in Tamil Nadu and overseas. 2:06:04 Brother Prasuttam is based out of Kalaer Koyal. He has been in CFC for 37 years. He is overseeing many churches in Tamil Nadu. I would like to invite Brother Victor first and then Brother Prasuttam. I am thankful to the Lord for preserving me and my family in the church all these years. 2:06:23 I have learned many life-changing truths in CFC. Just a few truths that have blessed me in my life, just I want to share. As I got saved from Hindu background, I had a burden to minister for God and involved in ministry also without life. 2:06:46 After meeting Brother Zach in 1988, I stepped back from the old ministry and the church I was attending, spending nearly a year focusing on my personal walk with God. Early in my Christian life, I learned that life must come before ministry. 2:07:09 At the 1988 Tutu Green Conference, I understood the importance of restitution and reconciliation in our relationship, which helped me to lay a good and deep foundation in my life. The other thing I learned from the Zach and CFC, 2:07:31 the Lord taught me not to compromise. He strengthened my backbone, especially in my workplace. A Roman Catholic Institute, where I had previously compromised in different situations, without confessing my Bible faith, as I feared I must lose my job. 2:07:53 I attended one conference in 1988 in Bangalore. There I was challenged by what I heard. Where are Noah's? Where are Daniel's? Where are Elijah's? Don't be a compromise. I stand for the Lord. Praise the Lord. That helped me to finish my job without compromising. 2:08:16 I learned that God's ultimate goal is to build the body of Christ. Once I got the vision about the body of Christ from CFC, I stopped all my attachments with other denominations, and my focus has changed into building the body, disciple-making, 2:08:36 the area of family-related things. After reading a small booklet titled "God Needs Such Men and Such Women", my wife was convinced that her calling is to be a mother. When we look back, we can truly say, "My children are protected by this decision". 2:08:56 We praise God for the role model we found in our sister Annie. We didn't know we were going to have four children when she decided not to work. We learned the importance of resolving issues daily and going to bed in peace. 2:09:15 God helped us to set an example to our children in this area. We learned to avoid debt and live within our financial means. Brother Zach and sister Annie set a great example for us to follow in the church-related things. 2:09:34 I realized that true ministry requires brokenness, humility, and fellowship, not a spirit of independence. We saw Brother Zach and Brother Ian as a forerunners in this. Also, Brother Zach and Brother Ian demonstrate the importance of unity and oneness in the church. 2:09:56 Brother Zach's labor of love with discernment, like Apostle Paul, led us with discernment and preserved our churches. Conference in Bangalore and Tamilnadu and Brother Zach's travel have played a key role in strengthening the churches in Tamilnadu. 2:10:14 They traveled to Tamilnadu conferences for 40 years. We are really grateful. We thank God for the numerous helps received from CFC. Brother Zach's discernment, his severity, his kindness left a lasting impact on me. His faithful commitment to guarding the standard of the gospel over 50 years has set an example for all of us. 2:10:39 Thank you. I thank God for being a part of CFC. It's God's absolute mercy. 40 years back, I had to listen to Brother Zach. The first thing that appealed to me was that I must concentrate on my thoughtful life. I must be, I must be, I was a believer externally, a good believer, born again. 2:11:03 But I was concentrating on the external life only. When I listened to Brother Zach, I felt the importance of purity in thoughts, motives, and intentions. So I concentrated, I am pressing on to perfection in that area. And then in those days, when we came in contact with the CFC, the themes of many conferences would be the need to become a disciple of Jesus and being overcomers and leading a victorious life. 2:11:34 And all those things crept my heart and I saw the elders here. He was very hard working, Brother Ian and Brother Newton and many elders. And they will be tirelessly working for the people, those who are attending the conferences, to make our stay very comfortable. 2:11:52 And we will be sleeping and they will be working even till late night. And I saw that, how these brothers are working very unitedly. And I felt the need for such a church in our area. So my longing was, Lord, I need a church like this in our locality. 2:12:15 I was constantly praying the Lord, not only in Kali Argyal, but in many places in Tamil Nadu. And most importantly, I have to say that around Kali Argyal and God has raised other churches also. I am thankful to God. And I saw in Brother Zach a fatherly heart, very, very kind and compassionate, and at the same time, very strict in certain areas. 2:12:42 So his kindness and strictness has been a good example to me. And I am learning from him many things. One of the things is, whenever I approach for guidance from him or advice, immediately I will get a reply. Immediately, within seconds or minutes. 2:13:01 And if it exceeds hours, I will be worrying what happened. Because he is very quick and I am following him. And another thing is that he has testified and shared his experience that he never had been in debt even for one rupee in any one day. 2:13:20 So, even though I was a believer for more than 40 years, I listened to his message and I can say before God for the last 35 years. That is, after a few years of becoming part of Christian fellowship, the past 35 years, I can testify that I have nowhere borrowed money from anyone else. 2:13:50 So, in many areas, he is my hero and I am sincerely following him in bringing up the children. And he has guided from his wisdom how to lead the church. And when we are facing many problems, whenever I approach for him, he gave us good advice. 2:14:15 And to tell about Sister Annie, she was a very modest and humble sister that I have ever met. And in those days, when we come to the conference, we will be searching where is Sister Annie and who is Brother Zach's wife and who are Brother Zach's sons. 2:14:34 And just like a few minutes ago, Brother, Sister, I was testifying that even though many elders are younger than me, I used to respect them. I have seen that in his life, in her life. Whenever I phoned to him, phoned to her, phoned to Brother Zach for any advice, in those days there was no cell phones. 2:14:55 So, if Brother Zach is not there, then Sister Annie will be attending the phone. She will inquire about my house and family, but she will never say anything about the church. If I ask for even the meeting schedule, she will say, please speak to Brother Zach. 2:15:13 So, that was, he was staying in her boundary. So, Brother Zach and sisters and the Bangalore church members were very helpful to me in showing the right path. And, yes, guided me in all the church building and all that. 2:15:28 And, yes, encouraged me many times, supported me financially to have a church building in our area. And we are, about 200 people are gathering now. So, I am very thankful that the Lord God has raised him in my generation and be a member of his working team. 2:15:58 Thank God. Thank you, Brother Victor and Brother Parishwatham for reminding us of many distinctive truths. CFC's burden has always been to reach the hungry souls with the truths of the new covenant. New covenant. We are going to watch a video presentation now. 2:16:16 This video would highlight how CFC literature and internet ministry have helped spread the gospel across the world. We will watch the presentation now. Lord, if there is anyone seeking for a godly life around here, either lead them to us or lead us to them. 2:16:35 If you don't do either of these, then tell us what is wrong with us. CFC's burden has been to spread the unemphasized truth related to new covenant to every church group in India. The real truth sounds interesting, but what can a small 6 rupees book have? 2:17:02 How much for these books? The total is 294 rupees, sir. Okay. Here's 300 rupees. Oh, sorry, sir. I don't have 6 rupees change. You can pick something for 6 rupees to adjust. Oh, then that book, the real truth, is 6 rupees, right? 2:17:25 I'll take that. I am thankful I picked up Brother Zach's book, The Real Truth, that day, in that bookstore. The book revealed the real condition of my heart and led me to discipleship and helped me to be a part of the body of Christ. 2:17:49 Small church with a big impact. Though Brother Zach had no ability to write and no desire to be an author, God led him into a writing ministry at 30, driven by his love for young people. Brother Zach has written more than 30 books in English that has been translated into many languages. 2:18:13 Sister Annie has also written books that has encouraged many young girls, mothers, and suffering women. I'm Miona. One book that I can still vividly remember reading in my teens is A Girl's Viewpoint. I was in no way connected to CFC at that time. 2:18:35 The book was introduced by my Sunday school teacher. As a teenager, I was completely captivated by the story and read it more than once. It led me to have that personal relationship with the Lord. Also, I could feel a change in the way I treated my mom. 2:18:51 Earlier, I was disobedient, backtalker, and rebellious. But now, I could see that drastic change where the Lord helped me to rebuild my relationship with her. Another precious lesson I learned from the book I still am thankful for is that my youth belongs to God. 2:19:08 Fast forward to this day, I am very grateful for the great Christian values the book had instilled in me. God does His work slowly and steadily in ever-increasing circles. We started out in 1975 as a church, and from the beginning, we recorded our message on cassette tapes. 2:19:33 C60, C90, 60-minute, 90-minute tapes. To copy one 90-minute tape to another 90-minute tape would take 90 minutes. After one and a half hours, we'd copy one tape. You know how God cares for us? That somebody sent one of these tapes to some person in Germany whom I've never met till today. 2:19:56 They said, we are so blessed by your tapes. We don't know what your need is, but we would like to send you a fast copier, where one 90-minute tape can be copied in three minutes. That was such a relief, one tape in three minutes. 2:20:16 These cassettes reached many in India and helped many of them to know the truth. We were a Roman Catholic family, and I was just a little girl when I noticed a change in my father. It all started when he received some books and cassettes by Brother Zach from a colleague. 2:20:37 Though he was hesitant at first, he decided to give them a try. That's when everything changed for him. He said he had found the full gospel that truly satisfied his spiritual needs. Over time, my mom joined him, seeing the radical transformation in his life, 2:20:55 and they both decided to get baptized there. I'm thankful to God for helping my parents take a stand for the Lord and for the truths preached at CFC. All human inventions ultimately serve the purpose of advancing the gospel. 2:21:18 CFC has tried to keep in touch with the advancement in technology from the early days to reach the hungry people around the world. After a difficult situation, my parents were so upset with me that they even said they didn't 2:21:39 want a daughter like me. After hearing this, while I was traveling in a car, a thought came to me. What's the point of living this life like this? Let me just open the car door and jump off. But just then, an audio was playing in the car. 2:22:02 The words of the message caught my attention. Is it the right choice? To choose God above every created thing or created person. To choose God above every created thing or created person. To choose God above every created thing or created person. 2:22:14 To choose God above every created thing or created person. To choose God above every created person. That was Brother Zach's message. His words encouraged me to look at the Creator above all creations. Those words gave me hope. 2:22:29 A reason to live trusting my Jesus. Even in my broken state, Jesus loved me and He didn't want to lose me. Ever since, Jesus has never left me nor forsaken me. You know, we thought seriously of that word. 2:22:53 This gospel must be preached in all the world. Matthew 24:14 This gospel of the kingdom. Do you know what the kingdom of God is? Romans 14:17 The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 2:23:16 This kingdom gospel. This gospel that preaches righteousness in people's personal life. Perfect peace of mind in the heart and peace with all others. Rejoice in the Lord always. This gospel must be preached in the whole world. 2:23:31 And then the end will come. So we have an important responsibility. And God gave us the internet and the YouTube and our own website and a wonderful web team. That's enabled us to preach the gospel in the whole world. We get emails from Japan and Greenland and Chile and Cambodia and all over. 2:23:53 The messages we put in our website and YouTube brought in a flood of responses from believers from all over the world who listened to these messages and whose lives were transformed and whose marriages were healed. My name is Sintosh Ribero. Growing up, though I believed in God, I never understood the way of Jesus. 2:24:15 Growing into an adult, in the name of being competitive, I was soon hurting my colleagues. And I was at home, I was hurting my family. Soon my relationship with my wife started to fall apart. Before long, I was just steps away from breaking my marriage. 2:24:31 As we were going through these laws, my wife was seeking the Lord and came across Brother Zach's messages on YouTube. While she watched, I would listen in the background. Those messages began to speak to me deeply and I repented of my ways and reconciled with the Lord. 2:24:47 Seeing things heal between me and my wife and our growing faith in the Lord, One day, my daughter asked if we could visit the CFC Church. I counted the cost of leaving the Catholic Church and facing the backlash of my parents. 2:25:02 As family, we made a decision to visit CFC in January 2020. After coming here, the Lord began transforming my life and filling my emptiness with faith. I believe as in Philippians 1:6 that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. 2:25:25 God gave us the opportunity to spread the New Covenant truths to many people around the world. People whose lives were touched by these truths voluntarily contributed their time and effort to translate CFC's content into numerous languages. 2:25:41 Among them was the late brother Alois Meyer who faithfully translated all of CFC's book into German. Thus, we saw a little bit of the purpose with which God had raised up CFC. We could reach out to many hungry souls through radio, literature, cassettes, CDs and internet. 2:26:10 CFC's content is freely available on our website. Our weekly article, Word for the Week, reaches people in over 174 of the 210 countries across the globe. Bible study with Zak Poonan, a one-stop resource for Zak Poonan's Bible studies and teachings, has been a blessing to many worldwide. 2:26:40 Our daily devotion series features short 10-minute messages by Brother Zak, now available in six different languages. Thank you, Lord, for answering our prayers. God's ways are truly amazing. He works wonders when we seek only His glory and seek nothing for ourselves. 2:27:05 We want to take this time to thank all those who are involved in literature ministry and internet ministry. Your labor of love have impacted many lives across the world. We only saw a few testimonies, but there are many more testimonies like this. 2:27:27 We especially thank you, and shall we all clap and thank all those who are involved in the literature ministry and web ministry. We will hear two brothers now. Brother Vincent has been with us for the last 33 years and he is overseeing churches in Tamil Nadu, Antupuradish and Telangana. 2:27:52 Followed by that, Brother Prabhakar. Brother Prabhakar has been with us for 47 years and he is the senior elder in the church in Pondicherry. I am profoundly thankful to God that we are celebrating the 50th anniversary in CFC. 2:28:10 I came in the year 1991, much skeptical, and I don't know what was the first message, but God met with me. The thoughts of my heart were exposed. I knelt down and I wept and committed my life. 2:28:32 I said, Lord, I died to the opinions of men. God showed me how much I was seeking honor, trying to please men, and seeking their opinions. I knew this was the truth, but what about my relatives, my Christian friends with whom I was going for ministry, for preaching, and what they would say? 2:28:53 I said, Lord, I died to the opinions of men. So that was the first experience I had in CFC. I am deeply thankful to God. The same day, during the break time in the conference, I went to Brazak's house and asked him, "Why all the time you are preaching about sin? 2:29:16 Don't you find any other topic to preach?" Then he said, "People think that sin is like headache. They can take an anasin and get healed. But we want to show them that sin is like cancer. It's very serious." So that day, I realized the seriousness of sin. 2:29:40 And brother was recording through the Bible messages, and shooting was going on. One brother was there helping, and suddenly his mobile rang, and we had to stop the recording. And that brother was really shivering with fear what Brazak is going to say. 2:30:02 Brother said, "Brother, you ought to be afraid only of committing sin, not for anything else. Such a liberating statement, no?" So the seriousness of sin, understood. For other things, you need not be afraid. Because I was coming from other churches where we need to tremble. 2:30:23 The pastors and others, we would be so careful, but really, at least, we have to take sin very seriously. That was the lesson I learned. And then I had a struggle in my family. I didn't know how to be the head of the home. 2:30:42 My wife was giving some egg and asked me to eat. I said, "I won't eat." Inside, I was thinking, "I'm the head of the home." I asked when I said, "No." I said, "It is no." I was really struggling how to be the head of the home. 2:30:54 We came for a faculty retreat from our university to Bangalore. And that day, evening, all the faculty members who were left were shopping. I thought I should find an answer. This was a struggling in my family life. So, I came to Brother Zach's house and asked him, "How to be the head of the home?" 2:31:12 "Please tell me, brother." He shared that to be the head of the home, we have to see Jesus as the model. Jesus never shouted or asserted to be a head. But he was going in front as an example for the disciples to follow. 2:31:31 He was an example in humility, in holiness, and in compassion. Everything he showed as an example, there's a model we need to follow. I understood the lesson of how to be the head of the home and to be a model. Same thing applies in the church also. 2:31:49 And in the church, I need to be an example and a model in being a servant and in humility and holiness. So, that has changed my life. In all areas of our life, the truth that I've heard in CFC and the fellowship, the time I spent with godly brothers has really challenged. 2:32:13 And Sister Annie is a great inspiration to my wife and also to us as a family. And my children were greatly challenged, encouraged, and to follow the Lord in this way of discipleship by seeing the sons of Brzezak. And recently, the Santoshan family were in our youth camp. 2:32:34 They were tremendously blessed through their simple spirit, humble spirit, which is very difficult. So, as a family, they are a role model. And God has given a great privilege and a blessing to be in CFC. I thank God for CFC. 2:32:50 May God be glorified. Amen. I praise God for the opportunity and mercy and grace of God upon my life to stand before you all to celebrate the 50th anniversary. I am a Hindu convert, and by God's grace and mercy, he brought me to this fellowship, CFC, in the year 1977. 2:33:18 As a young, unmarried bachelor, I came here for the 1977 year annual celebration, August 15th, in the brother Sack's home. I vividly remember how, as a young man, I testified about my conversion and my born-again experience. 2:33:46 God brought me to this fold within few months of my born-again experience, without making me wandering through various denominational waves of the sea of Christendom we see today. And I am immensely thankful to God for that. 2:34:06 Think of a young man, a Hindu convert. If I had to wander through various denominational churches, I cannot imagine. I am greatly blessed, and my protection till today is in this CFC fold of God's family. Brother, Zach and Ian, they are like a father and mother to me. 2:34:44 I got married in 78, and I came with my wife and sat in the conference in his home, and I asked many questions, how to love my wife and things like that. And he encouraged me, just now you are married, God will lead you through. 2:35:09 And he encouraged me like that. And whenever I come here, I saw Brother Zach as a father, Brother Ian as my mother. And whenever I come here for the conference. 2:35:33 I could sense that I am in a God's family. And whenever I ask any doubt for my family or for the fellowship where I come from, He will guide me, he will guide me, and I can say he nurtured me from various dangers, 2:35:59 as a young man, as a married man, and also in the small work I was doing from different places. See, there are so many Bible teachers. I also listened to many Bible teachers recently after retirement. 2:36:22 But God is my witness. Still, Brother Zach is my Bible teacher. Why, you know? At the age of 25, I came to this fellowship, and I am now 70 years old. Till today, I respect his viewpoints. And I can say, he taught me through the scriptures what I should believe, what I should not believe. 2:36:56 My firm foundation is because I listened to his teaching. And my firm foundation that I know God as my father is because I was brought up through a godly family where my father was Zach and my mother was Ian Robson. 2:37:23 Not only that, even as a young man, he urged me, whenever I come here for the conference, or if I ask any questions through letters, those days he used to send me the typewritten inland letter. I remember when I asked him about baptism in the Holy Spirit, some doubts. 2:37:48 He wrote to me, brother, you must definitely experience the genuine baptism of the Holy Spirit. The baptism of the Spirit, the Spirit upon Jesus, and the Spirit upon the Apostles, you must receive. 2:38:10 Then only, you will progress in your Christian life, otherwise, that important phrase, I remember, you will be a well-meaning yes-man. Till today, I am not a well-meaning yes-man. And I can proudly say that he led me to my father. 2:38:34 I know God as my father. And whatever happens in my personal life, in my family life, in my church life, I know God as my father. Thank you, brother. You know, from the year 1978, almost twice a year, I come here for the conferences. 2:38:59 You have the privilege of meeting Ian and Zach every day or twice a week. But twice a year, I used to come here. Even in the early years of that conference, I used to stay in the home. Sister Annie used to help my wife when my children were very small. 2:39:23 She will come with hot water, some snacks to eat, and we will never forget you, sister. I am thankful to you and your family. See, the way of the cross dying to self is not merely the doctrine or theology I learned in CFC. 2:39:49 I came here, I saw brotherhood and fellowship which produced coordination and cooperation. Every time I come here, I come here only for the conference. But two elder brothers, what they live, it is not doctrine. 2:40:10 I could see the harmonious conference being conducted, three days, four days. And I can say, God demonstrated to me, this is how I work. This is how God's work must be done. 2:40:33 Christ is the head and we are all members of the body is not a doctrine to me. Through CFC Bangalore only, I came to know, like Jesus said, come and see. I came and saw, not once or twice, every year till today, I am seeing the harmonious working of other brothers also. 2:41:01 And Christ is the head. And that is the great encouragement to me. God, I respect this, I respect this, I respect this CFC family. I had been brother Zack's co-worker for the past 45 years. And in all these years, he never imposed his views on me. 2:41:28 He never imposed his will on him. I never felt that he is my superior, yes, brother, yes, I will do that, brother. No. When I was young, he was my spiritual father, but today he is my brother. I can say, sorry brother, I am not able to agree with you. 2:41:55 That is not, I feel right. But as he said in yesterday's elders meeting, either I will do his way or he will accept my view and he is my brother to me. God is my witness. Dear brothers and sisters, till we meet in eternity, let us press on in this humility and in the race of faith. 2:42:28 And yesterday they took a photograph, more than 100 elders. When I was sitting here, the spirit spoke to me vividly. Don't rejoice in this elders photo. See that you will sit there in eternity on the right hand side of me. 2:42:52 That is what the Lord spoke to me. God bless you all. We want to praise God for the important truths that we hear in CFC. Thank you brother Vincent and brother Prabhakar for sharing. We will now watch a video skit from CFC Chennai churches. 2:43:17 We thank God for the unity between brother Zach and brother Ian that enabled CFC to thrive. God removed elders who had high thoughts about themselves. Some stepped back voluntarily and God permitted even that because they would have bossed the other elders and disrupted the unity. 2:43:50 You know about this CFC church? Please don't mention that name. They are a big headache for me. Why? We have been trying to destroy unity in the church for a long time. But we are failing miserably every single time. Yes, but today we have an excellent opportunity. 2:44:07 The responsible brothers are going to meet to discuss and plan for the conference. Let us use the age-old tactics of our master to bring division in this church. Yes, we should not miss this opportunity. Yes, we shall do it. 2:44:20 Let's do it. Before we discuss, let's have a word of prayer. Lord Kirba, could you lead us? Sure, brother. Let's all pray. Lord, thank you for bringing us together here. As we are about to discuss and plan for the upcoming conference, please grant us your wisdom and guide us in unity. 2:44:45 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you, brother. Brothers, as we all know, we need to decide on several things like transportation, accommodation and food. Why don't we start with the food preparation? Please feel free to share your thoughts. 2:45:02 If I remember correctly, I think last year we ordered food from outside. And this time I think we can cook food by ourselves with the help of our volunteer brothers. What do you all feel? I agree with brother Jay Seelan. 2:45:17 I think that is wise use of God's resources. That is a good point, brother. But I feel we should order food from outside. This will help everyone fully focus and listen to God's word. Yes, brother. I agree with brother Calvin. 2:45:32 Even if it is expensive, we can go for outside food. I do agree, brother. The conference is for three days, from Friday till Sunday. If we decide to cook, our volunteer brothers will have to take their leave on Thursday and they have to buy the groceries, do the proprietary works. 2:45:48 That will be a burden for them. Yeah, I agree with brother. Ordering food from outside would be better. All that you are saying is right. But if we can prepare it ourselves, we can save a lot of money which could be used for other needs like supporting the literature ministry or even constructing the church building. 2:46:10 But initially, I do thought preparing food internally had some advantages. But after listening to both the points of view, I feel ordering food from outside is better, brother. Brothers, please don't get me wrong. It's not all about the money. 2:46:28 I'm also concerned about the quality of food that we buy from outside. We cannot afford to put the health of the brothers and sisters at risk. I hope you get my point. You are the senior brother. You should take decisions on your own. 2:46:46 Say something and close the meeting. You have the authority. Use it. What do the rest of you think, brothers? Let us order food from outside, brothers. You are suggesting this for the benefit of the church. But they are not listening. 2:47:02 Remember one thing. Your opinions are always ignored. Do not leave this opportunity. Hold on to your views. Otherwise, nobody will respect you. Brothers, I have shared my opinion. But I still strongly feel that we should not waste the Lord's money. 2:47:23 I am not in full agreement with buying food from outside. However, I'll leave it to you all to decide. It seems we have not reached consensus. Without unity, I don't think it's right for us to hold the conference next month. 2:47:41 Let's keep praying about it. If the Lord wills, we'll have the conference after three months. Brother, can I say something? Of course, brother. Your point about being careful with Lord's money is valid. But I feel the people of Lord are more important than money. 2:48:05 Should we really postpone this conference for three months because of these food arrangements? Lord, this doesn't seem right. Please speak to me. Please give me wisdom, Lord. Lord, Iain Robson and I were the ones whom God chose to start this world. 2:48:29 Something like Paul and Barnabas. They are so different in our personalities and so different in our ministries. But this is my honest testimony. I say this before God, the honest truth. In all these more than 46 years, there was not a single day 2:48:46 when I could not look them straight in the eyes in fellowship. Disagreements we had. And when we disagreed, we said, okay, we will wait till we both agree and then move forward. Because if two of us are agreed, then the Lord will be with us. 2:49:00 We could freely express our disagreements to each other, but never broke fellowship. Not for a single day. So the devil could not come into CFC. Wherever the elders get divided, you can say the devil has destroyed the church. 2:49:16 J.C. Lynn, remember how brother Zach and brother Ian preserved fellowship among them and thus preserved CFC for these 50 years. You are right, brother. I've been thinking about it too. In the story of Solomon, that true mother did not want her child to die. 2:49:38 I'm also reminded of how brother Zach and brother Ian never broke fellowship even for one day in all those 50 years. I'm beginning to think that if the conference is hell now, there can be many who can receive salvation. 2:49:54 Broken families could be restored. And the fellowship among believers and the families will begin to grow. Exactly, brother. The Lord is indeed working in our midst. Thank you for reminding me of what truly matters. I now realize how my opinion has caused unnecessary confusion. 2:50:16 I'm sorry, brothers. Please forgive me. Brother Calvin, I'm with you. Let's buy food from outside. Praise the Lord, brother. It doesn't really matter much whether your opinion or mine is exactly correct. The Lord's name must be glorified in our unity. The Lord has restored unity in the church. 2:50:35 Amen. Let's continue to pray that this conference glorifies God and brings blessings to His people. Oh, how good the Lord is. He has restored unity among us. Brothers, let's thank Him. Dear Lord, thank you for your presence. 2:50:53 You have established victory over Satan in our midst by bringing oneness among us. Yes, Lord. You have overcome Satan. You have put him to shame. Yes, Lord. You have glorified your name, Lord. Lord, help us to remain humble and united. 2:51:07 Yes, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Oh no, we failed again. I tried to tempt that senior brother to be a dictator so that he will not allow others to share their opinions. But he allowed that was our first failure. 2:51:25 Next, I tried to tempt another brother to be proud but finally he repented and changed his opinion. So sad. We could not prevail against this church. We should not stay here. We should flee from this church. We will sing, come on and celebrate. 2:52:07 Come on and celebrate. This gift of love we will celebrate. The Son of God who loved us and gave us life. We shout your praise, O King. You give us joy, nothing else can bring. 2:52:29 We give to you our offering, celebration praise. Come on and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate and sing, celebrate and sing to the King. Come on and celebrate, celebrate and sing, celebrate and sing to the King. 2:53:01 Can we clap and sing to the King. Come on and celebrate, this gift of love we will celebrate. The Son of God who loved us and gave us life. We will shout your praise, O King, you give us joy, nothing else can bring. We give to you our offering, celebration praise. 2:53:29 Come on and celebrate, celebrate and sing, celebrate and sing to the King. Come on and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate and sing. 2:53:50 Come on and celebrate, celebrate and sing to the King. Brothers and sisters, after proclaiming God's truth throughout the land for 50 years, we are today celebrating the body of Christ. In Leviticus, God told the Israelites to celebrate on the 50th year. 2:54:11 He said, "It will be a Jubilee for you." So the next song talks about the year of Jubilee. We are proclaiming our liberty in Him, freedom from fear, anxiety and sin. So let's sing this song by faith. The Lord has given freedom, repent and just believe in me, we no longer stay. 2:54:48 And now return to Jesus, this evil light that frees us, call on Him and be saved. This is the year of Jubilee, proclaiming our liberty in Him, throughout the land we sound out, 2:55:12 the slaves have been returned to Him, released from joy, anxiety and sin, this is the year of Jubilee. In Christ a new creation, no glory, condemnation, led by the Spirit of grace. 2:55:40 Pressing up to perfection, simple and pure devotion, Lord, that fears is obeyed. We are His rich possession, all within every day. Worship the Lord, our portion, we are His rich possession, all within every day. 2:56:02 Fellowship with God's family, find grace and peace and mercy as we learn to obey. We are His rich possession, all within every day. This is the year of Jubilee, proclaiming our liberty in Him, throughout the land we sound out, 2:56:29 the slaves have been returned to Him, released from joy, anxiety and sin. The next song we want to sing is called Babylon to Jerusalem. 2:56:56 It's inspired by a Bible study that Brother Zach has done about the journey from Babylon to Jerusalem. It's one among many spiritual treasures that we've received at this church and especially relevant for this celebration. 2:57:14 So, as a church, we want to make sure we don't get stuck in Babylon when we move to Jerusalem. So, as we sing this song, when we sing from Babylon to Jerusalem, that phrase, can we all just lift our hands? That's just to say Amen. 2:57:33 Okay? So, from Babylon to Jerusalem. Brothers, left hand, free? Yeah, praise God. Okay. From Babylon to Jerusalem. Okay. Let's join in the chorus. Daniel, we learn our God is on the throne. 2:58:06 So, never compromise although you stand alone. Don't desire the gifts of man, just pray and take your stand. And God who rules all history will reveal every mystery and build his church according to his plan. Now, Ezra tells the story of the men who came from Babylonian comfort to Jerusalem. 2:58:34 While fighting schemes and lies, a tale of sacrifice. But Ezra said it is hard to reap God's burdens over his men to lead. For the good hand of the Lord was on his life. God, the good hand of the Lord, the good hand of the Lord. 2:58:58 God used such a man to raise, gates of victorious praise. Salvation falls, no compromise, no giving in to fear and lies. Joy of God is strength for all our days. While Babylon, the not so great is rushing to her dreadful faith. 2:59:18 The plans and share command, and his glory cannot stand. For it's not by money, music, or political mind. But by his Spirit, through his church, God works our bodies right. For from him, and through him, and through him are all things. 2:59:37 Forever all the glory be to him. From Babylon to Jerusalem. From Babylon to Jerusalem. From Babylon to Jerusalem. From Babylon to Jerusalem. 2:59:59 Agai said, "Don't seek your own, consider your ways." Build up the house of God is what he speaks today. Not just the foundation. Press on to perfection. I'll wait for the holiness inside. So that his Spirit will abide. 3:00:18 He'll be with us and bless us all our days. Zacharias' visions urge us to return from sin. To our God, the wall of fire and the glory within. So make your brother glorious. Don't join the accusers. And a fountain will be open for the spirit of grace and prayer to pour. 3:00:42 We'll look upon the one whom we have here. Don't call a Caisho's Babylon's a choice we make. To question God and cheat and rob and speak again. So give your best for him and honor him as king. He's purified by smelter's flame. 3:01:04 May the remnant food of God his name. And the sun will rise with healing in his wings. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. 3:01:21 May the remnant food of God his name. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. While Babylon the not so great is rushing to her dreadful faith, 3:01:54 The plans of strength of man, and his glory cannot stand. For it's not by mighty music or political mind, But by his Spirit, through his church, God works out what is right. For from him, and through him, and through him are all things, 3:02:14 Forever all the glory be to him. From Babylon to Jerusalem. From Babylon to Jerusalem. From Babylon to Jerusalem. The next song, it's a song that we know, 3:02:49 Will you let me be your servant? It is more blessed to give than to receive. And we are called to be servants. As a church, we want to hold the Christ light for each other In their dark situations. Let's sing and join with us, brothers and sisters. 3:03:10 Will you let me be your servant? Let me be as Christ to you Pray that I may have the grace to 3:03:34 Let you let you be my servant too We are pilgrims on a journey We are travelers on the road We are here to help each other 3:03:57 Walk the mile and bear the road I will hold the Christ light for you In the night time of your fear I will hold my hand out to you 3:04:20 Speak the peace you long to hear I will weep when you are weeping When you laugh, I laugh with you I will share your joy and sorrow 3:04:45 Till we see this journey through When we sing to God in heaven We shall find such harmony Born of all we've known together 3:05:09 Love, Christ, love and agony Will you let me be your servant? Let me be as Christ to you Pray that I may have the grace to 3:05:34 Let you be my servant too Pray that I may have the grace to Let you be my servant too 3:05:56 Amen I want to thank the choir for lifting our hearts this afternoon Brother Georgie Samuel Who is the elder responsible for all CFC churches in Kerala Became sick a couple of days ago 3:06:16 And so he regrets that he cannot personally be present for this celebration He has sent this message that I am reading on his behalf I thank God and all of you, my dear brothers For giving me this opportunity To be a part of this 50th anniversary celebrations of CFC Bangaloo 3:06:34 When I think of CFC Bangaloo and Brother Zach Poonin I am reminded of the words in Titus 2, verse 10 They adorned the doctrine of God our Savior in all things We have learned many new covenant truths And many teachings on discipleships 3:06:52 And taking up the cross daily, etc. Through CFC Bangaloo and through Brother Zach's messages and books We must adorn these doctrines now through our lives We can do that by giving our life totally to obeying these truths 3:07:09 If we have wholeheartedly desire to obey them Then God will help us by empowering us with the Holy Spirit's power If, however, we don't adorn these doctrines with godly lives Then we will be in danger of merely having a name 3:07:25 That we have these doctrines and that we are in fellowship with CFC churches And godly brothers Then we will be only adorning ourselves Today in Christendom, CFC has a name that it is a church following the new covenant path 3:07:41 And Brother Zach is considered as a genuine prophet And teacher who never compromises with the world or in money matters So we must be aware of the danger of adorning these doctrines with mere words In Brother Zach's book, here are my sons 3:08:00 In Brother Zach's book, he speaks about the Moravian Christians Who are a group of wholehearted Christians who lived in Europe in the 18th century Their motto was, we must win for the lamb that was slain as a reward of his sufferings 3:08:14 If we make that our motto true, then we will give ourselves more wholeheartedly to the Lord And to his work in the coming days May it be so for all of us, Amen We thank Brother Joji for sharing this message with us We will now request two more brothers to come up and speak with us 3:08:35 We will now request Brother Sanjay, followed by Brother Sunil, to speak to us Brother Sanjay is Brother Zach's eldest son He was six years old when CFC started and was here until he was 17 years old Brother Sunil is Brother Zach's youngest son 3:08:52 He was born into CFC and was here until he was 17 years old Both of them have visited CFC frequently since then I now request Brother Sanjay to come and speak to us It's a great joy, brothers and sisters, to be here at my home church 3:09:10 Like Santosh, I don't have an elaborate story of how I came to the church But I have many incredible memories of 1975 and those first few years I'm reminded of some of them even today When Brother Charles was up here and he had everybody praying at the same time 3:09:31 That was a, I would say, that was a unique aspect of CFC That I've not seen at other churches Where everyone would pray at the same time And in Revelation 19, it talks about everybody praising God Saying hallelujah, like the sound of a roaring river 3:09:52 And the sound of thunder And can you imagine the small home in 1975 First five families and then five people, then ten of fifteen And we would do that often And I think our neighbors We had actually good neighbors We had a Hindu, a devout Hindu on one side 3:10:13 We had first a devout Muslim on the other side And then a Buddhist And they actually, they were fine with the roaring The roaring river of praises In fact, I used to joke with my brothers Because the Buddhist family would do their prayer meetings 3:10:30 And I think we were too loud for them on Sundays So they changed their prayer meetings to Saturdays But all of these, great I think they were more annoyed with us actually hitting the ball into their Cricket ball into their, breaking their windows 3:10:44 Than the praise and worship in our home So these incredible memories that I have In 1975 and 76 of the early form of the church Young brothers who would faithfully come On Wednesday evenings And I learned what it meant in 1 Samuel 2.30 3:11:01 To honor God And if you honor God, God will honor you And many of these brothers were studying in colleges In the Institute of Science And would sacrifice time to come On a day that they had probably exams the next day And I learned 3:11:16 When you honor God that way God will honor you In my teenage years There were many who You know, there was a lot of pressure Because as you'd imagine Being Zach's son Everyone's watching us all the time And I resented that 3:11:34 But there were young brothers Who, and some of them actually left the church But they were a shield around me I'm grateful to the Sunday school teachers Brother Newton Brother Nitya Brother Danny All of these incredible influences 3:11:49 In the late 70s and the early 80s Were tremendous memories for me All the way to today And I'm grateful for all of you brothers Who have also been Even after I left my home At 17, 18 Who have been sons and daughters To my parents 3:12:09 Who have looked after them My dad was telling me Just recently He went on a On a train To Coimbatore And Brother Ronnie Noah Just got on the train with him I always think of Brother Ronnie Noah Like the bodyguard From my dad 3:12:25 He's like the one person I think who's actually Gotten stronger As he's gotten older But there's many like that Who have been Who have been here I think You know I miss Brother Ian In fact That tribute Was an incredible tribute 3:12:43 Earlier today We didn't actually Give the Lord a hand For Brother Ian Can we do that now He's been a tremendous I miss I miss that brother I wish God took him Four months ago And I think He's smiling down From heaven Thinking about this 3:13:04 There are many other brothers Who have passed away In the last few years I think about Brother John Ipe My father Doesn't know how to type If you notice When he types He types with one And I always thought Brother John Ipe 3:13:16 Would have liked To take my dad And put him through His typewriter institute So he could learn How to type But from that Typewriting institute Came many people Who came into The typewriting institute Thinking they were Coming here to type 3:13:28 But they got You know Attracted to CFC They got recruited To CFC Brother Babu Was one of them And he brought His family And it's amazing Stories of this kind How every one of you Have had some connection And I got to see 3:13:43 All of this happening I was in the front row seats Watching all of this happening Think about the faith That it would instill in you So for all of you Young children Who are watching this Don't take this for granted This is incredibly special 3:13:56 And I was thinking to myself You know Brother Charles also said He hopes that his children Can get married by My dad I don't know if that will happen But Brother Charles There's maybe 17 other Grandchildren of his Are also waiting 3:14:11 The youngest is here Seven of the 17 are here Xander is How old are you Xander? I think seven years old I'm not predicting When Xander will get married But Seven years plus some age We all hope that happens But imagine If we are 3:14:28 We're at the half century mark Those of you who watch cricket It's a lot of half centuries But very few Half century players Get to make a century Often a lot of people Get out between 50 and 100 And many Christian movements 3:14:43 They start to peter out After 50 years If you look at many of the And the next generation Comes in And they're not as godly They're not on fire For God And then Slowly by slowly If you think about John Wesley In the Methodist church 3:14:57 And if I was I was asking myself What would What would Jesus say About all of our churches We have some small picture Of that in Revelation 2 and 3 And there were seven churches there Two got a good grade Four got a mixed grade 3:15:12 And one got a very bad grade And If God could say these things about I want to just read a few From that Because it's a good way To reflect at that Half century point If we're I won't be around Probably 50 years from now 3:15:26 Not many people live I'm 55 So likely I won't be here 50 years from now But some of you If the Lord tarries You'll be here 50 years from now If the Lord tarries While many of us are gone And I think about Some of the things 3:15:38 In Revelation 2 In Revelation 2 It says about The church in Smyrna Which I think Has been true about CFC From the beginning I know your tribulations And your poverty What has been true About this church Is We grew up From poor roots 3:15:56 There was no Smell of riches Then it says In parenthesis But you are rich In the heavenly kingdom We are rich But in earthly Manner Every brother Who came in here Came Even some of the Brothers who came Were at the Who came into the church 3:16:11 Were on the brink Of suicide They were on the brink Of enormous amount Of debt And God brought them in And that Poorness in spirit Even the Lord May have given us More today I pray that That poorness in spirit Will continue with us 3:16:24 That's one of the churches That got it right In Smyrna Now if you go to Revelation 3 Another church That got it right Was the church In Philadelphia And that also Has some characteristics That I've seen In CFC And I pray 3:16:37 That that will be true If the Lord tarries Another 50 years from now Revelation 3 verse 8 Because you have Little power In earthly senses We were not powerful At all We were weak We had We were despised By many Now you have 3:16:55 Five, six hundred Maybe a thousand People here At this conference But we were despised We were not But you could If you put Parentheses here We had The power Of the Holy Spirit Brother Ian And Zach Spoke about that January 1975 3:17:11 Exactly 50 years ago When the power Of the Holy Spirit Anointed them That power is And then the third thing That was characteristic About this church Was it says A little further down In Revelation 3 verse 10 You kept the word 3:17:26 Of God In perseverance And that has been Incredible witness We saw all of those Incredible examples Of the cassette ministry The tape ministry I just want to Recognize and thank All of the Brothers who were involved You don't understand 3:17:45 The impact you're having In the CFC devotional I think that's run By Brother Paul Williams The CFC website Run by Shankar Kishore And his team And the audiovisual Jay Bezvetri Selvan If you are part Of one of those ministries 3:17:59 Can you stand up And can we give you A hand For the incredible Hard work That you've put in Every one of you Okay you're too shy To stand up But if you're In one of those ministries We're just so grateful For you I'll give one example 3:18:14 The CFC devotional Has become Our favorite In our home We make our children Listen to that Every day On their way to school For ten minutes And it's amazing The impact it's had Across the world So for brothers And it's all done 3:18:30 I know in your Volunteer time I'm immensely grateful To this fellowship And then I will Conclude by saying If we don't go this way It could actually Become the opposite The worst church In this list Was Laodicea And we know that 3:18:47 In Revelation 3 This was the opposite This was a church That had riches Had material riches Revelation 3.17 You say I am rich And have become wealthy And have need for nothing This is the opposite I think often When we're living 3:19:04 In today's world Many of us Have much more Than our parents had And many of you Who are growing In the second Or the third generation Of the church You have much more Than your parents Who came to the church In poverty And in weakness 3:19:17 It's very easy For us to become Lukewarm And I pray That the fire of God Will continue To be strong In CFC To the witness Of this church And all the churches That it's not a denomination But are connected In fellowship Whether it's here 3:19:35 In Bangalore Or in California Where I live That the power Will be manifest I'm really grateful For everyone Every one of you Who shared up here Brothers My mother You are heroes Of mine When I look at your life It doesn't matter 3:19:50 Whether you're younger Or older than me You're heroes of mine I will make the godly My heroes I'm very encouraged I'm very encouraged By what has been shared And I give glory To the Lord And I pray For the next generation 3:20:02 That we will All of us Who are here Whether we are The generation Following Folks like Brother Zach Or Brother Ian Or our children Who are now And their teenagers Most important thing I don't know That we'll have Another generation 3:20:17 I think the coming Of the Lord Is near But you know In Revelation It said the coming Of the Lord Was near in the first century So we have another Fifty years And we get to The hundred year mark I pray that Whoever is up here 3:20:29 Speaking here Will have that Same fire That we saw From Brother Zach And Brother Ian And many of the others Amen God bless you all Does anyone know What Brother Prabaka And I have in common We both came to CFC In 1978 That's right 3:20:50 We Of course Like my brothers Mine was not by choice Brother Prabaka's Was by choice I'm so thankful And grateful For this church I got to know Jesus as my Lord and Savior In this church As a 17 year old I met my wife In this church 3:21:09 But it wasn't Always like that I grew up For a period of time Despising it Taking it for granted Imagine being born In the ark So to speak And you don't know What's outside the ark You're like Okay This is kind of Claustrophobic 3:21:24 I wonder what's out there I got to get out of the ark To experience What it's really like And I went through that journey As a Christian As a Christian As a Christian As well And about Eight years ago I committed myself 3:21:40 To a CFC church In San Jose California And it was At that time At that time The decision I made Actually had nothing to do With who my father was Who my brothers were What my last name was It was a commitment To people Whom I saw 3:21:58 People around my age Whom I could say I want to follow Christ As they are following Christ As I saw them live their lives And they were committed To the teachings And the What I had grown up on And taken for granted From my dad 3:22:14 And from Brother Ian So I'm so thankful for that And you know For seven years I was an ordinary brother In that church Just helping build the body And learning what it is To be committed As a family And it really In a new way 3:22:27 Gave me a greater appreciation For what CFC has been All about Which I took for granted Because of Having grown up in it We sang that song About the year of Jubilee The interesting thing About what it says In Leviticus 25 3:22:42 About the year of Jubilee It says it's a year of Freedom For For prisoners But it's also a year That we're called To be holy That's what it says In Leviticus 25 The year of Jubilee Is meant to be A year of holiness And this church 3:22:57 Has stood For holiness If you read the story Of whether it be Coming from Egypt To the wilderness To the edge Of the Jordan Crossing the Jordan You read the story Of Caleb and Joshua It says in Joshua 14 I think it says 3:23:13 That Caleb How old is my dad now? Anybody know how old My dad is? 85? 85? Caleb said something When he was 85 years old In Joshua 14 He said Now I am 85 I am as strong As I was When I was 45 And what does he say? I am not content 3:23:32 With the promised land I am not content With the promised land I want the hill country Where there's bigger giants To go and conquer Where there's Much greater things That the Lord wants To accomplish And that's the attitude 3:23:47 That I have seen In my dad and brother Ian Which has never been content And that's the attitude For year 51 Is the promised land Is not enough Let's go get the hill country Let's go together And get the hill country With them 3:23:58 So I am so grateful For that attitude I've seen in my dad And many of the elders here Brother Ian And the legacy That they've passed on And it's been one As we've seen From some of the videos here That has been Full of immense sacrifices 3:24:14 That they've made We know this My dad's spoken on this before The place that the Lord Decided to build his church To build his temple Was on Mount Moriah Which And there's two major events That happened at At Mount Moriah 3:24:28 As we've heard One is in 2 Samuel 24 Verse 24 Where David Is getting this land That is being offered To him for free From a Jebusite And He says I'm not going to offer To the Lord What cost me nothing So it comes with An immense sacrifice 3:24:45 Where the Lord Builds his church And that's how CFC started With two men Giving up their jobs Giving every Naval career Career on the railways To serve the Lord And have the Lord Testify to their lives Through their immense sacrifice 3:25:01 The other event That happened On Mount Moriah Was Abraham The ultimate sacrifice Abraham getting up Obeying the Lord's call Leaving his men And his donkeys behind Taking up And Isaac asks him Where's the sacrifice? He's like 3:25:16 The Lord will provide The sacrifice And that was the answer That was the answer That Brother Ian And Brother Zach Gave 50 years ago When people asked him What are you going to do? What are you going to do For a job? What are you going to do 3:25:27 To provide for your children? The Lord will provide And here's the interesting Thing about that passage It says in Genesis Chapter 22 Verse 14 It says that After Abraham Had sacrificed He laid Isaac On the altar And the Lord 3:25:42 Stayed his arm And he found a ram In the thicket To offer it What did he name This place? It's interesting to read What he named this place He did not name this place The greatest sacrifice I've ever made In my life The story of my 3:25:56 Great sacrifice Even though the Lord Honored that sacrifice The way the men of God Saw their sacrifice Was with a completely Different lens Genesis 22 Verse 14 Says He named the place The Lord will provide And I love that picture 3:26:12 Of No amount of my sacrifice Is worth looking back on And patting myself On the back And saying Lord I've given so much to you And I never saw that attitude From Brother Zach Brother You know Any of the elders here And I want to have 3:26:25 That same attitude As I sacrifice As I Give to the Lord Say Lord At the end of the day It doesn't It's meaningless For what you've done for me You have provided And you will provide My response Has to be You will provide 3:26:42 And that must be Our response Brothers and sisters Going to year 51 Is not Just thank you For the sacrifices Of Brother Zach And Brother Ian But to say The Lord will provide In year 51 He will do What he has done for them 3:26:56 What he has done for Jesus What he has done for them That he will do For us We can carry that torch Into the next generation If you turn with me To Micah chapter 5 I just want to share this Promise That the Lord spoke to me 3:27:12 In this regard As we think about How will the Lord provide For the next generation Micah chapter 5 This is a prophecy Of Jesus being born In Micah 5 verse 3 It talks about Jesus being born In Bethlehem And verse 4 It says 3:27:30 He will arise And shepherd his flock In the strength of the Lord And the majesty Of the Lord Of the name of the Lord Is his God And in verse 5 It says We will raise up Seven shepherds And eight leaders of men And I like to think of this 3:27:49 As you know Some of these shepherds Like brother Zach Brother Ian That have been raised up To lead us And they will shepherd The land with the sword And that's what I've seen With this church It hasn't just been A shepherding 3:28:03 Of love and care And encouragement It's been a shepherding With the sword It's been a shepherding That's been fierce Against sin Against giants It's been a shepherding That has gone after The hill country The giants after the hill country 3:28:17 The giants of anger Lust, gossip The love of money Any form of compromise In our lives And here's this beautiful part Which talks about What happens after the shepherds He says Then the remnant I believe that After this generation 3:28:32 There will be a remnant There will be a remnant Of CFC The remnant of CFC We can say Will be among the peoples And there's two things That I love about The way this remnant Is signified It says This remnant will be Verse 7 3:28:45 Micah 5 verse 7 says Like the dew from the Lord Like showers on vegetation Which do not wait for man Or delay for the sons of men That's a picture Of the encouragement That the Lord Can use us to give To any brother or sister 3:28:58 That we don't have to wait For another person to give it The Lord says I've got dew I've got refreshing That wants to pass through you Just like it passed through Brother Ian To many of us You can be that dew And that refreshing 3:29:10 That shower To another brother or sister In this church That's one of the ministries Of the remnant And then the second ministry Of the remnant Verse 8 It says The remnant of Jacob Will be among the nations Among many people 3:29:22 Like a lion Among the beasts Of the forest Like a young lion Among flocks of sheep Does that make sense? A lion Among a flock of sheep? I don't think the lion Was destroying the sheep I think the lion Was destroying the beasts 3:29:35 That were threatening the sheep The wolves That were threatening the sheep And that's the spirit Of the fear of the Lord The spirit of The holiness Of the year of Jubilee The holiness That the Lord Has prescribed For this next generation 3:29:48 Of CFC That he wants from Us as a remnant Is a dew And a shower Of encouragement But the fierceness Of a lion That stands against Any compromise Any Any Babylonian attitude Of the world That would creep Into this church 3:30:05 And I pray That that will be The spirit That the Lord Carries forward In this generation I'll end with this Last verse Which I like to Consider what How I see the CFC church growing And increasing When you think about Growth and increase 3:30:23 People think about numbers The number of people In the church Acts chapter 9 Verse 31 This is talking about The church in Judea and Galilee But we can apply this To the church To the CFC church As a whole It says So the church 3:30:37 So the CFC church Throughout the land Enjoyed peace Being built up And going on In what? In two things Going on In the fear of the Lord And in the comfort Of the Holy Spirit That's been Our testimony Brother Zach Brother Ian 3:30:56 The fear of the Lord The comfort of the Holy Spirit And it continued to increase This is the way We measure increase In year 51 Of this church It is growth In the fear of the Lord Growth In the comfort Of the Holy Spirit 3:31:10 May be true In all of our churches Amen Thank you Brother Sanjay And Brother Sunil For recalling Your fond memories Of CFC And encouraging us Thank you Brothers We will now Watch another Skit Video skit From Tamil Nadu churches 3:31:29 Brothers please Play the video God raised CFC churches Through Brother Zach And Brother Ian To be a true testimony In the midst Of a compromising Christendom This skit Highlights Three areas Where God Has faithfully preserved 3:31:49 The pure testimony In our churches Over the years Purity In service I have been noticing How diligently You clean this Closed kitchen And toilet Week after week I know That you hold A very high Position at work But it is such 3:32:06 A sad state To see you do These pitiful tasks Every Sunday For so many years See around you Everyone is doing Recognizable jobs At the church And look at you Can you think Of the brothers Who came to church After you They are all 3:32:23 Leading praise And thanksgiving Singing and sharing Add to that You are doing the work When everybody Has left the church hall Who is going to Recognize you You are going to Be sitting in the corner Doing these Despicable jobs 3:32:35 Stop this For some It has been granted By God The grace And talent To sing And preach For me I only have the grace To do this And I want to be Faithful In whatever God has given Me to do I still feel So sad That you are treated 3:32:52 Like a servant Without Any respect Or honor You don't really Need a church I think You can be dignified With just God and you Don't say that This church Is my home I have seen Exemplary godly Brothers In our church Who are elders 3:33:08 In the church But they heartily Do such work And are brothers Among brothers Oh no Enough Enough Are you from The church Where the elder Used to Clean his church's Toilet And the other elder Who used to Preach fiery sermons 3:33:22 And throw me out And used to Stand in the queue To get food Yes You are in the Very same church The christian Fellowship church I am fleeing Now I don't want to Destroy the purity Of the church I want to be Very grateful 3:33:37 To god For even Giving me And my family A place in the church Purity in conduct Hello brother I want to talk to you Regarding my family Never never speak To a sister Alone Sister just give me a minute Let me call my wife 3:33:55 Suda can you please Come here Sister wants to talk to us Okay dear We have a seat Sure Please tell us sister Thank you so much 3:34:17 Thank you so much brother I was very happy To see how you Radically Draw your chair back We should be Very sensitive To the voice Of the holy spirit To keep ourselves Very pure Yes dear I want to be Very pure In my conduct 3:34:32 Till the very end Of my life As we have Heard repeatedly From brother Zach In the church Please pray for me May the lord Help you And me Purity in motives And attitudes I just saw Brother Kalamsan Standing near the theater 3:34:53 Don't tell anyone Okay Did you see With your own eyes Yes sister Please keep it To yourself Okay sister Hey sister I just happened To meet Mala's sister She told me She told me That she saw Brother Kalamsan Standing outside 3:35:09 The theater And you know The Kalams are Such garly people And it's such a pity That the sun Is so early I am just telling you This so you can Pray for them Also remember to keep it Very confidential Sister Sister You know sister 3:35:24 Mala has seen Brother Kalamsan Entering into A cinema theater Really Yes Brother Kalamsan Speaks from the pulpit As if he is a saint I know God is revealing Their true colors now Yes yes But keep it confidential Okay But 3:35:38 I feel burdened Of the Lord To inform our elder brother About this Only then My mind can be at rest Their entire family Is just pretending To be godly In the church About 10 years ago When my son was a teen I still remember 3:35:53 How this brother Kalam Came and told me About my children Misbehaving in the church During the meetings And now I should bring it to light And expose him And his family So they will have No ministry in the church Praise the Lord brother 3:36:07 There is a sister Who had seen Brother Kalamsan Entering a cinema theater I am just letting you know So you can pray for him I am very worried About how his parents Would feel If they get to know About this I am very surprised 3:36:21 And I think You could have heard A wrong information sister He is a very godly young man I too had the same feeling As you do brother But This sister has seen it With her own eyes How can I not believe Such a strong witness 3:36:35 Can you please ask That sister who saw this To call me sister Oh no brother It was shared to me Very confidentially Sister If something is brought To my notice I need to enquire It thoroughly sister So please ask That sister 3:36:50 Who informed you To call me Sister Mala So you are the one Who witnessed What Leah told me A few hours ago Yes brother I saw him go Near the theater Near the theater Or inside the theater Let me call Timmo And enquire What happened 3:37:05 Hi Timmo I just wanted to know If you are aware Of a theater Near the bus stand Yes brother Do you go near That area Often My tuition center Is there And I have to go There every single day Do you want me To help you With anything 3:37:22 From around there Brother Not at all Timmo Work hard Study well God will honor Those who honor him I got to know That Timmo Has to go to that area Every day For his tuition All your sisters Didn't like That godly family 3:37:35 Who are a blessing To the church And went around Gossiping about their son Your motives are not pure By gossiping And with your wrong motives You are destroying The purity of the church If your hearts are pure Your eyes also 3:37:47 Will be pure Please repent And turn to God Sisters Give me passion For your purity Holy Spirit Breathe new life In me Special thanks 3:38:16 To all the Tamil Nadu churches For the excellent video We'll give one more Round of applause And We'll now hear Two brothers Brother Michael And Brother Abu Isaac Brother Michael Has been with us For the last 41 years And he's overseeing 3:38:36 The churches in Chennai Brother Abu Isaac Has been with us For the last 12 years And he's overseeing Churches in Mumbai and Magarasta Brother Michael Lord you brother I'm so thankful To the Lord For giving me This opportunity 3:38:51 To share What I've learnt From CFC Bangalore And what I'm thankful To God for I came to know Brother Zach Within three months Of being born again That was in The year 1980 I heard him speak Just once And I was gripped By his message 3:39:09 I was born again Because I wanted to Be free from My life Where I'm committing A sin Confessing Taking part In breaking our bread Knowing that I'll commit The same sin I was so burdened By that And I wanted to be Free from that 3:39:24 And the Lord Gave me a hope From Jude Verse 24 That he will keep me From even stumbling And make me stand In the presence Of his glory Blameless with great joy When I was born again I got a tremendous Longing to read God's word 3:39:41 All the time I used to carry The Bible in my Toolkit And read it In the bus stand Bus, train Railway station Or even when I'm Waiting for some Customer appointment I was so much Engrossed in the Word of God That I lost interest 3:39:57 In the Tamil Cinema songs Pop songs And the movies Which I was addicted to I was so very happy But I knew That there were So many other sins Which were Defeating me That was when The message That Jesus The Holy Son Of God 3:40:14 Came in likeness Of sinful flesh Like me And was tempted Just like me And never committed A sin even once And he was willing To help me Not to commit Any sin That is what we read In Hebrews chapter 2 Verse 8 He himself was tempted 3:40:30 By which he was suffered He is able to help Those who are tempted This is the first truth I heard from brother Zach Which gave me real hope That I can lead An overcoming life But knowing this truth Alone Did not bring me 3:40:44 To a godly life The next truth Which I learnt From brother Zach Was It had a great impact In my life Was Philippians 2 14 Do all things Without grumbling Or disputing The emphasize Was on doing Everything Without exception 3:41:00 Without grumbling And arguing Brother Zach Explained that This will distinguish Between the children Of God And the grown up Mature sons of God So I sought To do all things Without grumbling Or arguing But even knowing Great truths 3:41:15 Like this Did not bring me To a godly life We lived We moved to Bangalore in 1983 And we were here Till 1985 And we saw How the church Was working Like one big Happy family And you know Enjoying the rich Spiritual food We were getting 3:41:34 Actually I heard The 16 messages In person The verse by verse Explanation of The book Revelations Which came out As a book The final triumph Somewhat After two years I had a great Longing to go Somewhere else And start a church 3:41:49 Just like the one In Bangalore I got an opportunity To move to Calcutta On a promotion In my job I was a miserable Failure I couldn't last In Calcutta More than one year All the theory I had learnt Did not work out I was grumbling 3:42:06 Arguing And sinning The Lord God was patient In dealing With me And taught me Over the years The importance Of the three Conditions of Discipleship Brother Zach Keeps repeating These truths Ever so often And I have also 3:42:21 Been teaching These three truths Very often I found that This repetition Is very essential Because you know Recently we had A baptism service And I was just Asking all the people What are the three Conditions of Discipleship 3:42:35 And many of them Did not know So I believe That you know We as parents Should ask our children What are the three Conditions of Discipleship You can check now Even today You can check that But it's so important To be a wholehearted 3:42:49 Disciple of the Lord And you know To know the Actual meaning Of Sermon on the Mount And to learn All those things Which the Lord Teaches us And the Lord Has taught me Many truths In the way The members Are disciplined In CFC 3:43:08 I have already Told many times That I was removed From eldership Twice And I have learnt Many things By the rebukes And corrections That I have received I remember once Getting corrected By our beloved And tender brother 3:43:22 Ian Some issue Was there On a youth camp Being conducted here And I wanted To include Some people From Tamil Nadu Who knew English To be in that Camp And he rebuked Me severely He said You be within Your boundary Don't go outside 3:43:37 That is one Of the greatest Truths Which I have learnt In CFC To be within The boundary And to be humble The Lord Will expand That boundary If you are humble And continue To remain humble And for that The important thing 3:43:54 Is that we should Never get offended With any correction Don't get offended But judge yourself Have a godly sorrow Which will lead To repentance And that godly sorrow Will work out You know That vindication Of ourselves 3:44:10 I have shared This also In Tamil It says Kutram Teera Nyayam Soludal That means Prazak Or anyone May correct me For one matter But if I go Before the Lord He will give me So many things Associated with which I have to repent 3:44:29 So these are the things Which you know Really can help us Grow in godliness Which I have learnt You know As I go along Don't get offended Go before the Lord And correct yourself And then judge yourself And the Lord will expand 3:44:46 The boundary And he will really bless us I really am so thankful Today For everything that Was shown today The messages The skits The songs And the way the program Has been arranged I am so thankful To the Lord For raising up 3:45:03 CFC churches And you know Giving us This kind of An atmosphere Where we can Learn by Following the examples And learn by Receiving corrections So many things I would like to share But I wanted to Be so thankful to god For all these things 3:45:19 I have been taught Amen I want to share A few things Which I learned From CFC For which I am Really grateful And before saying That I must say That I am like A prodigal son Even though I used to Listen to Read With the sacks 3:45:39 During my college days And I have met him Several times Attended several conferences But I always To take some benefit And disappear I never learned To commit And many many years I went like a wanderer And god graciously 3:45:56 Brought me And brought me To my home In the year 2012 One thing I learned From CFC Is which Many things I learned Which I never I have been to Many other churches Which I learned Anywhere else When I said Church There should be 3:46:13 A spiritual sacrifice And I remember Maybe the first meeting Happened In this building When I came I wanted to Visit the washroom And a site I still remember A pleasant site Some very young Maybe teenagers Some young brothers 3:46:32 And sisters Waiting there With the brooms To clean the toilet That really impressed me And I also Developed a respect For their parents Who encouraged them To do anything In the church Knowing that church Is a home Rather than 3:46:48 Visible work Which People appreciate And I always say One qualification To be an elder Is willingness To wash the toilets So those Truths of Willingness To available For anything Because church Is my home 3:47:09 That really Helped me In many cases Then one thing I learned After coming to CFC Is I should learn To give close Attention To my inner life Because years I lived Fearing people In the fear of man I never learned 3:47:30 To walk In the fear of God So after Coming to CFC I learned Walk before God If we fear God We don't need To fear anybody Let your inner life Be clear And give close Attention to yourself And then only To the ministry And I also learned 3:47:48 This tremendous Truth that My Devotion to Christ Should be Primary in my life My Personal Devotion to Christ Is more important Than my ministry I never wanted To forget that All through my life Always My commitment My love 3:48:09 And devotion To Christ I should That should be Right First Before I do Any kind of Ministry Then I also learned Whatever I do Any ministry I should never Do Seeking anything For myself Any honor For myself I should not Try to 3:48:28 Impress myself Always I pray like Whenever I do Anything Lord help me Whatever I do Let it give glory To you To your name Let your name Be lifted up And also It should be My aim Should be Just to Bless others Not to Seek anything 3:48:43 For myself That I learned From CFC And I understood Another thing Is church As a body Of Christ That really Helped me I recognized I am just one Member of the Member of the body Of the body Of Christ I am not Everything 3:48:57 I can only Do what I Need to do What I am Supposed to do Faithfully So I am Part of A body And I also Learned as much As I am Dependent on The Lord I am also Dependent on Other brothers And sisters I can't do Everything myself 3:49:11 So it's a Tremendous Relief And being a Part of the Body that Brings such Security and Relief I also Learned the Importance of Honesty I am so Grateful that I learned This in At home In church I was a Hypocrite I used to 3:49:30 Tell my My wife The Pharisee Of Pharisees I used to Be And my wife Was very Patient with Me And it Took years That I Became Like a Normal Human Being So I Learned To be Honest At home That really Helped My Family Environment 3:49:47 Change And My Children Accept Me As I Am My Wife Accept Me As I Am So Honesty Is the Most Important God Accepts Others Will Accept If I Am Honest Pretension Is Something Which The Lord Hates And Another Thing Is In Family 3:50:06 Life The Importance In Family I Am Really Grateful That I Learned In CFC Because Especially I Remember Earlier Years When I Say What Fellowship All In my Mind I Need To Go To Church And Look Find Some Brothers With My Fellowship 3:50:22 So I Now I Understood I Heard Many Things I Really Blessed With Truth I Can Fellowship With My Wife My My My Can Be My Best Friend And My Prayer Partner And Genuine Fellowship I Can Have With My Wife That Is Reality In Our 3:50:36 Family Life I Really Grateful For That God Then We Often Hear This About Humility I Am Again Grateful For That God Resses The Proud We Very Powerfully Hear This Such a Tremendous Message God Resses The Proud God God Can 3:50:53 Give Grace Only To The Humble So There Is An Honest Desire Sincerity Required To Pursue Humility In All Opportunity And In Practical Matters Like Oh No Man Anything I Was Blessed Some Years I Remember 3:51:14 When I Was Convicted About That I Was I Took Some Stuff Sold Some Assets I Had And Cleared All My Debts And Ever Since Without Any Debt I Could And I Remember It Brought Such Relief Stress Free Life What A Blessing It Is 3:51:33 Which Brought In My Life Trying To Live Also With Faithfulness And Righteousness In Money Matters So The Last Thing I Want To Mention Is I Learned The Truth That God Is Our Father I Never Had That Impression About God I 3:51:52 Always Used To Imagine God As Somebody Waiting To Punish Me Or To Bring About Some Calamity If I Dobe If I Not Up To The Mark My And I Really Learned After Coming To Sissi And Little Bit I Started Experiencing That God Is 3:52:09 My Father He Is A Loving Father So I Am So Grateful To All This I Learned And I Also Recognize That All This Blessing I Enjoy As A As A Recipient Of So Which I Am Grateful I Remember I Recognize That There Is I Remember 3:52:28 Any Blessing That There Is Some Sacrifice Behind Brothers Like Brother Zach And Brother Ian Many Other Elders In Their Hidden Life Writing They Sacrifice And I Am Enjoying A Fruit Of All Those Labors Now Amen Now We Are 3:52:45 Going To Have Three Special Songs One From Sunday School Children And Next By Junior Church And Then From The Young People And The Teens Yeah I Hand Over To The Sunday School Team From The Beginning Of Time We Have Heard 3:53:02 Of Men And Women Who Have Trusted God Even When It Seemed Impossible We Read About Many Such Heroes In The Bible We Have Heard About Many Missionaries Who Trusted In God Completely And Did Great Things For God We 3:53:22 Are Thankful To God For Our Lord Jesus Christ Example Who Showed Us How To Trust In God In Every Situation And We Are Grateful For Many Such Examples That We See Around Us Today We Want To Imitate Their Faith The End 3:54:08 The End 3:54:38 The End 3:55:08 The End The End 3:55:40 The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End The End 3:56:00 The End The 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Just forgive and forget, for nobody's perfect yet. Never judge other fools, it's not cool. 3:57:03 You can help and serve somebody you know. Share your life and love wherever you go. For life can be blessed and bright, when you choose to be a light. Jesus taught us to love and give, for that's the happiest way to live. Always ask for the Spirit's heart, that's the way to obey every hour. 3:57:49 Have some days when you pray in the quiet of your room. For He knows what you need before you ask. And in all that you do, try to live the golden rule. Only one Christ has through human lives. You can help and serve somebody you know. Share your life and love wherever you go. For life can be blessed and also bright, when you choose to be a light. 3:58:30 Jesus said in Matthew chapter 5, that we are the light of the world and that we are to let our light shine before men for God's glory. We read in the Bible how we ought to live as disciples of Jesus Christ. 3:58:55 We are so grateful for all the biblical truths we hear in this church. May the Lord help us to follow all that Jesus taught us. We can follow it only by His Spirit's power. Thank you. May the Lord help us to follow all that Jesus taught us. 3:59:27 When I receive the glorious Christ. He's now my portion, grace and life. Christ has proclaimed the jubilee. This age of grace for you and me. Return to Him, be filled and free. 3:59:50 You're in the church, our family. Intending good, but failing still. I slain for sin against my will. But Christ redeemed and life in me. Reclased my wants with liberty. 4:00:15 Christ has proclaimed the jubilee. This age of grace for you and me. This age of grace for you and me. Return to Him, be filled and free. You're in the church, our family. I wandered far and far and far and far and far. 4:00:39 It's not my feet, my heart is poor. But I have found my family. Christ and the church, a place for me. Christ has proclaimed the jubilee. 4:01:03 This age of grace for you and me. From that salvation to Him, be filled and free. You're in the church, our family. Christ has proclaimed the jubilee. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. 4:01:18 You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. 4:01:25 You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. 4:01:34 You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. 4:01:51 You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. 4:02:02 You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. You're in the church, our family. 4:02:22 You're in the church, our family. We will now hear from Brother Sandeep, Brother Sandeep, followed by Brother John Pereira. He was six months old when CFC started and was here until he was 17 years old. 4:02:43 He has also visited CFC frequently since then. Brother Sandeep had to go on a business trip to Europe and just got back, so he is unable to come for this celebration but he has sent a video to express his appreciation. Brother John Pereira is an elder here at CFC Bangalore. 4:03:04 He has been a part of his church family for the past 28 years. His service and guidance have been a true gift to all of us. He is also one of the overseers of the churches of Karnataka. He will now watch Brother Sandeep's video followed by Brother John Pereira. 4:03:25 Dear brothers and sisters at CFC Worldwide, I am so grateful that I also have the opportunity to wish CFC for 50 years. You know, when CFC began, I was only eight months old and Brother Ian's son David Robson was exactly one year old. 4:03:40 So he and I have that unique connection of being just about as old as CFC. And there is so much to be grateful for. I first want to honor the elders I had growing up. My dad, Brother Ian and then later Brother Newton. They say we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants. 4:03:57 For me, I am a dwarf standing on the shoulders of many, many Christian giants. But the one who helped explain the core truths of the Bible and the New Covenant was my dad. So thank you, Dad, for that. I miss Brother Ian and I honor him for the amazing shepherd he was, 4:04:14 following the Good Shepherd and heaping grace upon grace through his ministry. I am excited to watch as he receives the unfading crown of glory when the Chief Shepherd appears. I am also tremendously grateful for Brother Newton, 4:04:28 how he inspired me to be gripped by the truth of the scriptures and to be bold for God, investing so much of his time with me. I also want to recognize and honor the wives of these elders. You know, with the church meeting in our home, 4:04:41 my mom had to make so many sacrifices to support the home church. And even I, living in the same home, saw only a small fraction of those sacrifices. And the same with Sister Vicki, who is now with the Lord. How she supported Brother Ian as he was constantly attending to the spiritual and practical needs of CFC. 4:05:00 And the same with Sister Deborah for Brother Newton. I honor the wives of all the elders and all the elders and their wives now too. And I want to thank the many young people who welcomed me every time I came back to India 4:05:11 and opened up their ears and their hearts to me. I have memories that can never be erased from so many of the youth conferences. And folks went from being teens to being singles in their twenties to being married, to being youth leaders, to having children. 4:05:27 A lot of changes. But your love overflowing for me was a constant. I'm deeply grateful for that. I also want to thank all of you brothers and sisters who have opened up your hearts to me so warmly. I have had the pleasure of interacting with literally thousands of you. 4:05:45 And what a privilege to have been treated with so much love and affection. In fact, I chose the shirt to wear because it was given to me by the dear brothers and sisters in Tamnad when I visited them once. I also like that the shirt is yellow, a symbol of the brightness of the sun. 4:06:02 Paul tells me that in Christ we were transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. And now our journey is a transformation from one degree of bright light to another. As we walk in the light and we fix our eyes and our ears and our hearts on Jesus, the light who came into a dark world. 4:06:24 That's the light of the new covenant that I really cherish. The relentless love of our Heavenly Father and the sweet life of Jesus that is available to us through the Holy Spirit. This is a lamp that must shine in the dark places of this generation and all future ones. 4:06:42 And we must do well to pay close attention to it. So that's my blessing of gratitude for you all that we will shine brighter and brighter no matter how dark it might be around us. And help share this light with others who so badly need it. 4:06:58 God bless you and hope you have a wonderful time together. I love you. Goodbye. I am overwhelmed listening to all the testimonies. It's really so true in my life. You know, I came to the Lord in the year 1996. 4:07:22 I was languishing in the world without hope, without peace. That time the Lord met with me and led me to salvation. And then after I was born again and baptized, within few months, within few months, about four or five months, in 1997, March, I happened to go to a meeting in one of a friend's house, a brother's house. 4:07:52 And there I met Brzezak and Sister Annie coming there. And they spent about four to five hours talking to all of us. And one thing stood out to me was Brzezak helped us to understand so many things. That was the first time I heard the truths with such clarity and with simplicity and with authority. 4:08:15 Because I heard from a life of a man. And after that, we were all sitting, we were 25, 30 of us, and thinking, does this brother has any church? See, in the whole of conversation, Brzezak never mentioned about CFC. He mentioned once, one brother pointed out, see, when we asked about tithing, he said, in our church we have a box. 4:08:42 Oh, that means he should be having a church. That really impressed my heart. Brother was not so interested to draw us to CFC. He was more interested as to have a relationship with the Lord. You know, what I see, what Brzezak mentioned in the beginning, when he started speaking today. 4:09:09 Who's the important person? What is important in this place? The presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. See, that is the most important thing. When I see a godly ones over the years, what they have fought for is to preserve the presence of the Lord. 4:09:28 The presence of the Lord doesn't come if I don't have clear conscience, if I'm not walking in the light, and if I'm not keeping good conscience between God and man. No. That is the fight they have fought all these 50 years, to preserve the presence of the Lord. 4:09:48 When I think about Moses. See, Moses was such a broken man. God waited for him to be broken so much, so that then he had to build the tabernacle. God gave him clear instructions. It says, I think, Exodus 39-40, where he did exactly as it was instructed by the Lord. 4:10:15 He did exactly. That's what I see the Spirit in the church over the years. And the elders have preserved that exactness, so that the focus is, Lord, we want to please you, so that your presence will be restored in this place. 4:10:33 Restored in our personal life, restored in our homes, and restored in the church. That is something which is unique, which I have seen over the years. That is the battle, brothers and sisters. When I came here, I think about that verse, Proverbs chapter 14, verse 1, the Living Bible says, 4:10:54 "Backslider gets bored." I was like that. I was bored in my life. Even after I was born again, I was in a religious group. I was not at all so happy. But when I came here, after I met Brazac, and the following week, after that meeting, we all decided to come here. 4:11:15 I really tell you, I feel like I must read that verse. It says Jeremiah 3, where it says, "Return, O faithless sons, for I am a master to you. I will take you, one, from a city, and two, from a family. I will bring you to Zion." 4:11:36 That's what I found. I found a home. In fact, further it says, "Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and who will feed you on knowledge and understanding." You know what is knowledge and understanding? That help us to cleanse ourselves. 4:11:54 It says, "Faithless sons." In Living Bible, it says, "Sinful sons." God helped us to cleanse ourselves so that we will experience the relationship with God. That's what I was thinking much. I have been so tremendously blessed over the years. 4:12:15 Preserved. See, when we think about the product, always we think which company has produced it. When I think about myself, Lord, thank you. I have been in this company of brothers who are living with you. That my life is getting better day by day. 4:12:32 I am really thankful to God that God has kept me here and preserved me over the years. And like Jude says, "Stay within the boundary where God's love can reach you and bless you." And I would like to remain there. I live in fear that, "Lord, I have all tendency to go away from you." 4:12:51 "Lord, preserve me in your boundary where your presence is there, and your godly ones are there, so that I can be pleasing to you." Amen. Thank you, Brother Sandeep for the video message and thank you, Brother Pereira for sharing with us. 4:13:06 Now, we are going to watch a skit and please pay attention. Thank you. Wow! It's been 50 years. Uncle, tell us how it all began. 50 years, that will make it 1975. But the story started much before that. A young man looked around Christendom and he realized what he saw was not what he read in the Bible. 4:13:31 He saw his own need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. A deep desire came into his heart to come out of the Babylonian Christendom. A desire to see the true body of Christ like in the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles. 4:13:58 Then what happened, Uncle? Hold on. Before I continue, let me tell you a similar story that happened centuries ago. God wants another generation to come back and repopulate Judah. He's going to bring his people back to this land. After 70 years, the Lord showed me that. And there must be a generation. I don't know whether all of you will live in the Bible. 4:14:06 It was centuries ago, centuries ago, centuries ago. God wants another generation to come back and repopulate Judah. He's going to bring his people back to this land. After 70 years, the Lord showed me that. And there must be a generation. I don't know whether all of you will live in the Bible. 4:14:09 Till then, you may die, but be true to all of you. God wants another generation to come back and repopulate Judah. He's going to bring his people back to this land. After 70 years, the Lord showed me that. And there must be a generation. I don't know whether all of you will live. Till then, you may die. But be true to all of you. 4:14:36 Till then, you may die, but be true to God. So just as Jeremiah prophesied, at the end of 70 years, Zerubbabel and Joshua went and built the temple of God. Rabbi, then why are we still here in Babylon? Rabbi, should we not be going back? 4:15:00 Yes, we should have all gone. But there is no fear of God and we are so used to the comfort of this city. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, even I want to be like Daniel, Zerubbabel and Joshua. When I grow up, I want to go back to Jerusalem. 4:15:19 Yes, make godly your heroes. May the Lord meet the desire of your heart, Nehemiah. This young boy, Nehemiah, grows up faithful in his walk, gets the coveted, influential and trustworthy post as the cup bearer of the king of Babylon. 4:15:39 Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. 4:15:46 Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. 4:15:52 Rabbi, I want to go back to Jerusalem. 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We are all brothers. Who will build with me? We will. Brothers, let us build together. Brothers, brothers, Sanbalat, Tobay and Geshem are here. What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king? Are you engineers or architects? 4:17:32 Are you going to build with these useless stones? Even if a fox goes on it, it will fall. Do not hear the words of those who say it cannot be done. If God has commanded, it can be done. Remember Joshua and Caleb. Those who doubt and spread doubt will have no place in Jerusalem. 4:18:00 Nehemiah, how high should the wall be? As high as the word of God commands, not an inch less, not an inch more. We are one in the Spirit. We are one in the Lord. We are one in the Spirit. We are one in the Lord. And we pray that all unity will one day be restored. And they'll know we are Christians by our love. By our love. Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our love. 4:18:36 Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Dehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. 4:18:50 They're plotting against us. They're planning to attack us, so that the walls will not be built. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. Nehemiah. 4:19:07 Tobias, Anbalat and Geshem. They're plotting against us. They're planning to attack us, so that the walls will not be built. We were living here peacefully. Say the opposition now. Brothers, let them plan all they want. 4:19:25 The wall is only half built. Let us not compromise. Let us build a strong and tall wall that will keep the enemy outside. The Lord is with us. Do not be discouraged. Let us persevere. Arm yourself with the sword. The Lord has given us his word. 4:19:45 Let each man hold in one hand a trowel and in the other a sword and work. If we fear God, we need fear nothing else. The Lord will fight for us. Keep one eye on the enemy and one eye on God's word. "A" "A" 4:20:05 "I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working for my Lord." "To be humble, to be faithful, to be honest, to be grateful, to be listening, to be more like you." 4:20:35 "I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working for my Lord." "I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working, I'll be somewhere working for my Lord." 4:21:15 "It is indeed the Lord's work." "Yes, who would have imagined that it took just fifty-two days." "The Lord had turned the tables on those who oppose Him, and their heads hang in shame." "Nerhemiah, the walls look fine, but what will we eat?" 4:21:39 "We have sold all we have to give it to our leaders." "We have become poor and our children slaves." "What? This is definitely not Jerusalem." "Leaders are getting rich at the cost of the people?" "Are they serving God or money?" 4:22:02 "This has become like Babylon." "We have brought shame on our Lord's name." "Brothers, let us set things right with each other, so that we can be right with God." "Let today be like the year of Jubilee." "By this they will know we are God's own, a people who love their God." 4:22:26 "We will give back what we have taken." "No strings attached." "I'm truly sorry, my dear brother." "Lord, I too will never take a salary to serve your people." "I will not serve for money, and I will not serve for honor." 4:22:45 "Lord, out of the abundance I have received from you, I will give." "Here, here." "Oh brother Ezra." "Let us not stop at just forgiveness and repentance." "Let us hear the full counsel of God." "Amen." "Thank you Lord for the prophetic word in our midst." 4:22:55 "Thank you for giving us a Bible teacher." "Thank you Lord for helping us to be reconciled with you." "Thank you for bringing back forgotten truth." 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"None of these brothers receive any salary from the churches." 4:30:58 "Every one of them serves the church freely and joyfully." "We never ask for any offerings in our churches." "We only keep an offering box." "As we read in Mark chapter 12 verse 41 where Jesus sat next to the offering box in the temple." 4:31:22 "And people put their voluntary offerings secretly into this box." "At the offering box, we have put a notice asking everyone to check five points before they put an offering in the box." "The first is, are you a born-again child of God?" 4:31:40 "It's a great honor and privilege to support the work of God on earth." "But that privilege is given only to His born-again children." "Secondly, do you have enough money for your own family's needs?" "You must take care of your family's needs first." 4:31:56 "Our Father in Heaven is very rich." "And He, like any rich earthly father, does not want any of His children to starve or suffer in any way just because they give Him money for His work." "Thirdly, do you have any debts to repay?" 4:32:13 "If so, clear those debts first." "God wants His children to live restful lives free from all debt." "Jesus said that we must first give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar before we can give to God what belongs to Him." "Because God does not want us to give him Caesar's money or anyone else's money." 4:32:32 "Fourthly, have you done your best to be reconciled with those whom you have hurt in any way?" "God will not accept any offering from someone who has hurt another and still not apologize to that person." "Fifthly, are you giving freely and cheerfully and not under pressure from any man or even from your own conscience?" 4:32:57 "The Bible says that God loves cheerful givers, not reluctant givers." "He does not want gifts from those who give under pressure or who give in order to fulfill some obligation or who give merely to ease their conscience or who give in order to get some reward from Him in return." 4:33:16 "So, these points are to be checked before any person gives money to God." "And we believe that God loves only cheerful givers, as I said, and who fulfill these conditions." "The church is the body of Christ." 4:33:39 "And so we have sought to represent Christ accurately according to Scripture to the world." "Jesus never asked anyone for an offering at any time, so neither do we." "All our church buildings have been built only when we had enough money to build them." 4:33:54 "Thus, all our churches have remained debt-free at all times." "Jesus never borrowed money from anyone at any time, neither have we." "We have followed this practice for the past 50 years, and God has borne witness to it by providing every need and enabling all our churches to be totally free from any sort of debt to anyone." 4:34:16 "Again, we give God the glory for this." "And thus we have proved, with the Lord's help, that it is possible to do God's work today in the same way as it was done in the first century by Jesus and the apostles." "We give God the glory for this also." 4:34:36 "Now, we invite Brother Zach to share the concluding word to us." "Those videos were just to encourage all of you to know that God is at work in many parts of the world." 4:34:59 "Most of you sitting here know nothing about it." "Because we do not advertise God's work." "And even these videos that we just saw are not going to be circulated along with the rest of this video." "The rest of this video will go on YouTube, but not those pictures." 4:35:20 "We do not believe in advertising our work." "If you go to the CFC website, anyone who does not know about our work will go to the CFC website and think there is only one church in the whole world." "Because there is no mention of any other church in the CFC website." 4:35:40 "I remember many years ago, it was in those days, in the early days, you know, we had these cameras where you put a roll of film inside, and then take 36 pictures, and then take out the roll, wind it all up." "You got to make sure it doesn't see the light and give it to a studio where in a dark room they develop it and they print the pictures." 4:36:04 "I don't know, some of you have never seen that." "But some of older people know how pictures were printed in those days." "And I remember in those days, the Lord telling me, you see, that roll of picture you see inside that camera, you have to be very careful that it does not get exposed to the light." 4:36:24 "Because everything will get wiped out in what is called a negative in that camera." "And children, I will tell you this is the old story in the ancient days when we had such cameras." "You cannot expose it to the light. It has to be taken to a dark room, and there they print it and you get the picture which you took." 4:36:44 "And the Lord said, 'Your work must be like that. Don't expose it to the light. Keep it in the dark room. One day when Christ comes, everybody will see.' "And so the work of CFC Bangalore or CFC all our churches, I myself don't know. I don't need to know. I know there are godly men and godly women in these places, sincerely serving the Lord. 4:37:15 No one interested in money, not interested in honour. Quietly serving the Lord. And I tell you, I myself will get tremendous surprises when Christ comes again." I said, "Lord, this brother, I don't even know who he was. And he did such a fantastic work here. And this other person, and this sister." 4:37:37 Boy, we are going to get a lot of surprises when Christ comes again. Many who are first will be last. Many who are last will be first. "I rejoice in that day. I rejoice in that day when the hidden members of the body will get their rightful honour and will get the reward they deserve from the Lord." 4:38:00 Boy, I say that to encourage most of you sitting here, never come into the pulpit. I want to encourage you, my brother, sister, in the coming days, till Jesus comes again. Be faithful. Are you a mother? Take care of your children. You may never get into a pulpit. Bring up your children to be godly. And in their ways they build the church. 4:38:25 You bring up your daughters in such a way that they can become good wives to some godly men. And pray for your children regularly. That every one of them will be a servant of the Lord. We must pray. My wife and I constantly pray for our sons, even now. 4:38:42 So, as we look ahead, I look ahead with total confidence. I want to say this on behalf of all of you. We don't know what lies ahead. It's all unknown. But we know that our Heavenly Father has planned everything. I read in Psalm 139. A verse that has tremendously helped me. Psalm 139. It says, "From our mother's womb, He formed me." In the verse 13, it applies to all of us. 4:39:18 And while I was not even formed, verse 16, inside my mother's womb, God had in His book, means His mind. All the days that were planned for me, were written before I was born on November 1939. 4:39:39 Before you were born, your entire life is written down in God's mind. And I say, verse 17, "How precious are your thoughts! How vast is the sum of them!" So, I don't know, little by little, God unfolds those days. And until that day, what shall we pray? 4:40:00 I'll tell you what we should pray every day. Verse 23 and 24, "Search me, O God. Don't let me judge other people. That's not my business. You are the only judge in the universe. My dear brothers and sisters, please learn something that I have learned through 65 years. Learn it quickly. There is only one judge in the universe." 4:40:24 How many people judge others? "He did this, that person did this, that person. This is why they did this. Oh, my God, have mercy on me. I've done it myself in my younger days, but I finished with it." Don't condemn. There is only one judge. He can do his job without your help, without my help. 4:40:42 In the coming days, I humbly request you, give up all judgment. Don't condemn. God can do His work without your help. Be merciful, as God is merciful to you. Forgive, as God has forgiven you. Forgive everyone. Release them. 4:41:05 Say, "I do not remember your sin anymore, like God has said to you." Your life from now on will be extremely happy, and God will use you to build this church in a hidden way, and maybe not with a lot of public honor. What you should pray is verse 23. "Search me, O God. Know my heart. Try me. Know my anxious thoughts." 4:41:29 And I like the Living Bible paraphrase of the next. "Lord, show me if there is anything in me that is making you sad." When it says hurtful way means hurting God, not hurting me. I am not afraid that God will hurt me. There are two types of fear of God. One is the fear that God may hurt me. I don't have that fear. 4:41:49 The other fear I have is that I may hurt God. Which fear do you have? That God will hurt you? Or that you might hurt God? Get rid of the fear that God will hurt you. He won't hurt you. He is a loving Father. You must have this fear that you might hurt God by something you say, something you do. Some way you judge some person, you are hurting God, hurting God. 4:42:09 We have done it enough. Shall we finish with it today? Shall we look forward to a days when there will be no more hurting God? Lord, point out anything in me that is making you sad. I want to get rid of it. I say that before God. 4:42:27 Lord, point out in me anything that is making you sad. I want to get rid of it in my life. The greatest truth in the whole Bible that God has taught me, you have heard me say this before, is John 17:23. God loves me as he loved Jesus. There is no greater truth in the whole Bible than that. If you are a disciple, God loves you as much as he loved Jesus Christ. 4:42:56 In the beginning of this whole session, we sang that song. This is the good news, what God can do. What he did for Jesus, he will do for you. As he helped Jesus, he will help you. He will strengthen you. Everything he did for Jesus, he will do for you. Because he is our eldest brother. 4:43:22 The wonderful truth to know Jesus as the eldest brother in the family. I am not telling stories. Romans 8:29. He is the first among many brothers. That is why on the day of the resurrection, for the first time, he called his disciples his brothers. They were not his brothers. 4:43:42 They were his disciples and they were his friends. But on the day of resurrection, he told Mary Magdalene, "Go and tell my brothers." That is what the resurrection did. We are younger brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. Don't fight with each other. Love one another. God loves you as much as he loved Jesus Christ. 4:44:11 What he did for Jesus, he will do for me. I have four sons and I have tried them in my human understanding to the best of my ability. I was not partial to any of them. Whatever I could do for my eldest son, I did for all my other three sons. I am a fallen person, a human being, not perfect. And if I could be so fair to do everything for my youngest, younger sons as I did for the eldest, what about God whose eldest son is Jesus and we are his younger sons? 4:44:50 Are you saying he won't do it for me? Are you saying that God is less righteous than Zac Poonin? If I could do for my, even my youngest son, everything that I could do for my eldest son, I did for him. God will do for every one of his children what he did for his eldest son, Jesus Christ. Believe it. 4:45:07 That's what made me write that song. What he did for Jesus, he will do for you. As he cared for Jesus, he will care for you in your time of need. Teach your children that when they go away from home. That as he cared for Jesus, he will care for you. 4:45:23 That is the gospel we have preached here and is almost not preached anywhere else. You tell me if there is any church that preaches that God will care for you as he cared for Jesus. I have never heard it in my life. It's like a revelation God has given to CFC. Let's live in it. And if God has been so good to us, we have to be good to others. Before we were born, he knew us as we see here in Psalm 139. 4:45:47 Psalm 139. So what if the world and Satan are all against us? Romans 16 says the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. I believe that. Not that he was already defeated on Calvary. Satan. But he'll be crushed under our feet, it says in Romans 16. I remember one day the Lord told me, as you were afraid of Satan, from now on, Satan will be afraid of you. 4:46:22 He's not afraid of me. He's afraid because Christ is living in me. He's afraid of that Christ who lives in me. And I know Christ has free way in my life because of one reason. I keep my conscience spotlessly clean. God is my witness. And as soon as I'm aware of something, I immediately clean it. Be like that. 4:46:50 And I tell you, mark my words, Satan will be afraid of you. You need never be afraid of Satan anymore. Keep your conscience absolutely clear. God is your father. But the religious world will hate you. Your brothers and relatives may hate you. 4:47:14 Let me read to you, John, what we... Jesus, members of his own family, hated him. And he said... This is a paraphrase of Jesus' words. He said, "Your brothers and sisters will turn against you." You read Matthew 10. "Even those closest to you, your brothers and sisters, will betray you and have you arrested. 4:47:39 You will be hated because you are mine." Read Matthew 10 sometime. He also said in John chapter 7 and verse 7, "The religious world hates me because I keep telling it that its ways are evil." 4:48:00 Did you hear that? The religious world The religious world Is he not talking about the Greeks and the Romans? He was talking about the Pharisees who read the Bible. And that's what I say today of Christians. Why do Christians hate CFC? 4:48:15 The religious world hates me because I keep telling it that its ways are evil. So what shall we say? Stop saying that? No, we'll say that. And the protection God has promised in Isaiah... Luke 21:16-18 is not one hair of your head will perish. 4:48:35 No weapon turned against you, Isaiah 54:17, will ever succeed. You will have justice in every courtroom when they tell lies against you. What a word! This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. Dear brothers and sisters, 4:48:58 I'll tell you from the few years that I've served the Lord, it's a wonderful thing. And every trial and difficult situation that I have faced, the Lord has allowed me to face were all planned by Him to enable me to know His power 4:49:17 and to experience His deliverance. And I'm thankful for all the ways in which He took me through different paths to prepare me to face these different things. And I tell you, don't question God in the trials He takes you through. 4:49:35 Never doubt that God will always provide for you. You little children, I wish you would remember that as you grow up. You are so insecure, you go to school, you go to college, and you are wondering what lies in the future. 4:49:50 You see everything getting so bad around you. Trust in your Father in Heaven. Call Him Daddy. He is your Daddy. Your children. We want the children growing up in CFC churches to know God as their Daddy. Talk to Him in the morning, call Him Daddy and say, Daddy, thank you, you care for me. 4:50:09 It's true. He may take us through trials. Sometimes we don't understand why God forces us to be in some situation. I've seen so many children on the first day. Haven't you seen this? I've seen this too. The first day you take your child to the kindergarten class. 4:50:26 They've never been to school, they've always been at home. And you take them to the kindergarten class on the first day. And they're crying. And they see you leaving them, then they're going. They've never seen their father do that before, or mother. 4:50:38 They cry and cry and cry. What do you do? Go back and pick up your child? Your child will never get an education. What do you do? You leave your child, you see them crying and you say goodbye, goodbye my girl, goodbye. And the child can't understand. 4:50:51 You hate him to leave him there in that school. You love him more than he realizes. That's why God leaves you in some situation. You can cry as much as you like, but He'll say, be there, be there. 15, 20 years from now, say thank you, mommy, 4:51:10 for not taking me back from that kindergarten class. Thank you. And one day you will say to God, thank you for leaving me in that situation. Leaving me as it were alone. I became strong. I became a man of God. I became a woman of God. 4:51:29 I'm not going to tell you all the things God took me through. But it made me what I am. It helped me to serve God the way I have served. I will never doubt God's provision. It says in Philippians 4:19, one of my favorite words, 4:51:46 "My God will supply all all your need according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus." Take that word with you. Whatever your need is, spiritual, physical, financial. I have proved it for 60 years almost of full time Christian work. 4:52:04 Never asking anybody, never depending on anybody for anyone. People don't know, only my wife and I know. How we have gone through struggles, sure. But never once did we have to starve. Never once did we have to tell the school, 4:52:19 "Sorry, we can't pay our children's school fees this year." Never! Never once could we have to leave our child helpless when they are sick. Every situation God provided. We could write a book about it. Many books. He will provide for you. 4:52:38 Tell you that. And one day you will grow up. Your children. And you will tell other people what I am telling you today. That's what we want. Generation after generation growing up saying, "We have a faithful God who loves us as much as He loved Jesus. 4:52:53 What He did for Jesus, He will do for us. He will strengthen me, He will never let me down. And I will never doubt God's provision." The work that you have seen here is not the work of one man or two people. Some may be highlighted in the pictures, but it has been the work of a team. 4:53:10 This work, I mean you hear me speaking now. That throw many things in our body, I don't know, I am not a doctor, but there are many things in this body that make me capable of standing here and speaking. It's exactly the same in the body of Christ. 4:53:24 In CFC we seek to build the body of Christ. Everybody is valuable. Some may not be so visible, you see my face visible. So many parts inside me you will never see in my life. I have not seen it myself. But those are the parts inside the body that are working, working, working, working, 4:53:39 and never getting any credit. The credit is given to this face. That's how it is, some people stand up in front and get the credit. There are many people behind the scenes. Be willing to be one of the liver or the kidney or so, 4:53:55 be one small blood vessel. Are you willing to be a small blood vessel in the body of Christ? I say yes. You put me up in front and gave me a prominent, but if you put me as a small blood vessel in the body of Christ, I am happy. 4:54:07 Just to keep letting the blood flow, without any blockage, which means I don't keep any sin in my life. And the Lord says, "Let the blood flow you." And I say, "Yes, Lord." Will you be that? One day God will reward you. 4:54:19 I can assure you. One last thing which I keep saying. Everywhere nowadays. Forgive others. I've been saying it for the whole last one or two years and I ask the Lord, "Lord, why are you making me emphasize forgiveness so much? 4:54:38 Are you coming soon? Is that the reason why you're laying this burden on my heart and I am feeling? Why is the Lord telling me to teach people to forgive, forgive, forgive?" Perhaps his coming is near. And he wants to prepare you so that you'll be ready. 4:54:54 And one way you can be ready is you forgive every single human being whoever did you harm in your whole life. If you haven't done that, do it today. I live like that every day. Not a single human being is there whom I have not forgiven. 4:55:10 Many people have done me harm. I'm a servant of the Lord and therefore the devil has provoked many people to do me harm. I say before God I have forgiven every one of them. Not only forgiven. I do not wish any evil for any of them. 4:55:24 I wish they will all get converted and get into God's kingdom. That is the greatest good I can wish for them. I do not wish any judgment. I say, "Lord, forgive them. Forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. They don't know that they are hurting a servant of God. 4:55:39 They don't know who I am. They think I'm a false teacher. Forgive them, Lord. Forgive them. Father, forgive them." But they don't know the seriousness of what they're doing. We know it. Now, I'm not forgiving. No, you can forgive for two reasons. 4:55:59 One is, if I don't forgive, God won't forgive me. It's like a contract with God. Okay, Lord, if that is the condition, I'll forgive that fellow. I don't hate him. But I'll forgive him. Because I want you to forgive me. That is not how I forgive. 4:56:13 I say, "Lord, that poor man. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's hurting himself when he hurts me. He doesn't know what he's doing when he hurts a servant of God. It's a crime. Worse than murder. Please forgive him. Because he doesn't know the seriousness of it. 4:56:32 I don't want any judgment to come on him. I want you to forgive him. I want to hug him. I want to see him in heaven. I don't want him to go to hell. I forgive him completely, Lord. As far as my part is concerned, he's forgiven. 4:56:46 Take that attitude. And I tell you. You will live long. You will fulfill your life's purpose on earth. God will bless you. And your children will be blessed. And he'll make you a blessing to many. The promise of Abraham will be fulfilled. 4:57:07 I will bless you and your family. Many people on earth will be blessed because of you. I pray that will be true for everyone sitting here. And all those who hear this message. Let us pray. So like I always say at the end of a meeting. 4:57:31 Let's take a brief moment. And think of even children. Is there anybody who hurt you? Whom you have not forgiven. Please forgive him right now. Before you get up from that seat. Please say, Lord. I forgive this person. Name them, name them. 4:57:51 I forgive this person. And that person. They don't know what they are doing. Forgive them. They don't know the seriousness of what they are doing. They don't know whom they are hurting. They are hurting a child of God. They are hurting the child of a king. 4:58:05 Forgive him, Lord. Forgive him, forgive him. Everyone. Name them. This person, this person, this person. Lord, and there are so many others I don't remember. I want to forgive all of them right now. I have nothing against any human being on the face of the earth. 4:58:21 You have cleansed me. The greatest sinner of all, you forgive me. I can forgive everybody. I want to get up from my seat today as a man who has forgiven every human being and has got nothing against any human being on the face of the earth. 4:58:34 And Lord, from now on, I want to trust you. I know my days and numbers are numbered and written in your book. And nothing takes you by surprise. You have planned my whole future. And no good thing will you ever withhold from us. 4:58:50 We have a loving Father. And our number one prayer is not that you will bless us. Our number one prayer, Heavenly Father, is, hallowed be your name. Let your name be respected in India and in every country. Let your kingdom come soon on this earth. 4:59:12 And let your will be done. In my life. In my family. In my church. And all over the world. Exactly as it is done in heaven. Like the angels obey you. Let it be done, Lord. Wherever in my circle, I want your will to be done. 4:59:29 And forgive us our sins. As we forgive those who sin against us. Don't let us face temptation too strong for us. We know you won't do it. But we just want to remind ourselves. Strengthen us to overcome the enemy. Make us fearless against Satan. 4:59:49 To hate sin with all our heart. Deliver us from the accusative spirit that Satan has. Of accusing the brothers. Let's finish with that. Lord, I want to live in the spirit of forgiveness. Cleanse me of all that spirit of accusation that I've had in past years. 5:00:05 I bow before you. This is not just a day of celebration of a Jubilee. But a revival. Of many people. Who are revived in their spirit. And Lord, in conclusion we pray. Fill us with the Holy Spirit. Fill us Lord, we pray with the Holy Spirit. 5:00:23 Strengthen us mightily with power from on high. So that we can be equipped to serve you and be your witnesses. We don't deserve this but we ask it. For the glory. And in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. One short final video for the day. 5:00:42 A short one. Dear brother Zach and sister Annie. Thank you so much for your labour of love to the Lord and to his church over the last 50 years. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of CFC. The CFC family would like to gift you a bedspread composed of 50 embroidered squares. 5:01:08 Based on the theme. Bloom where you are planted. This was a message given by sister Annie in 2020. Which touched so many hearts. This bedspread has been embroidered by over 240 sisters from CFC Bangalore from the ages of 6 to 86. 5:01:30 The numerous stitches on this bedspread can hardly equal the sacrifices that you have made for us over the years and the countless thank yous that we owe you. Our glory to God alone for the wonderful work he has done in many lives using you as his instruments. 5:01:51 We hope that this bedspread can in a small measure express our deep gratitude to the spiritual parents that God gave us. Thank you brother Zach and sister Annie. Brother Charles and Brother Suresh to come forward, and Brother Zach and Sister Ani to 5:02:15 come forward to receive the gift of Charles and Brother Suresh. This is the work of about 245 sisters who diligently worked with this embroidery, what we just saw, and we present this to Brother 5:02:36 Zack and Sister Ani, so that every time they use this, they will remember to pray for CFC. We want to show it to you. 5:03:01 We want to say they were bluffing. We don't need this to remember to pray for you. Thank you so much, we don't need to. We don't need this to remember to pray for you. Thank you so much, we don't need to. 5:03:23 But we're going to frame it up, and we're going to put some pictures also on it. God bless you all. No framing, you please use it on your bed. Thank you. Thank you all, brothers and sisters. The meeting is over, we can break. 5:03:43 The meeting is over, we can do it on your bed. 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