0:34 Though some may sing to pass the night along, though some may sing to entertain a worldly, I sing because I worship God in song. It's in my heart. Deep in my 0:50 heart. It's in my heart. This mey of love divine. It's in my heart since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart deep in my heart. You ask me 1:10 how. I know his blood can cleanse alone. You ask me how. I know he sits upon the throne. And how I know he chose me for his own. It's in my heart, deep in my heart. It's in my heart. This melody of 1:30 love divine. It's in my heart since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart, deep in my heart. I may not know the skillful use of 1:48 tongue or to prove my Lord's return to unbelieving men. But this I know he's coming back again. It's in my heart deep in my heart. It's in my heart. This melody of 2:05 love divine. It's in my heart since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart. Deep in my heart to sing. It's in my heart. This mey of love divine. 2:25 It's in my heart since I am his and he is mine. It's in my heart. I cannot help but sing and shout. It's in my heart. Deep in my heart. God is building a people of 2:45 power and he's making a people of praise who will move through this land by his spirit and will glorify his precious name. Oh build your church Lord make it 3:03 strong Lord. Join our hearts Lord through your son. Make us one Lord in your body in the kingom of your son. God is building 3:19 people. God is building a people of power and is making a people of praise who will move through this land by his spirit and will glorify his precious 3:38 name. Oh build your church Lord make it strong Lord. Join our hearts, Lord, through your son. Make us one Lord in your body in the 3:55 kingom of your son. from breed that I may be sheltered from winds 4:10 that meet on thee. From puring when I should aspire, from faltering when I should climb high, from silk 4:25 and captain free, thy soldier who would follow thee from silk and captain free. Thy soldier who would follow thee from subtle love of soft days from 4:51 easy choicees weakening. Nor does our spirit. Not this way where the crucified from all that dim thy 5:10 Calary. Oh lamb of God deliver me from all that thy Calary. Oh lamb of God deliver me. You me the love that leads the way. The 5:34 faith that nothing can dismay. The hope no disappointment star. The passion that will burn like fire. Let me not sing to be. 5:53 Make me thy fuel, oh flame of God. Let me not cease to be a clone. Make me thy fuel, oh flame of God. From all that dim thy 6:12 gall, oh lamb of God, deliver me. From all that dim thy gall, oh lamb of God, deliver [Music] 6:34 me. All I want Build my life upon all this world and to hold. For I once thought gain, I 6:54 have counted loss, spent and one less now compared to this. Knowing you, Jesus. Knowing 7:13 you, there is no greater thing. You're my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my 7:27 righteousness. And I love you, Lord. Now my heart's desire is to know you more to be found 7:44 in you and know that's yours to possess by flame what I could not earn all surpassing gifts of rightuousness. 8:03 [Music] Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, there is no greater 8:19 day. You're my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my righteousness. And I love you, Lord. Oh, to know the power of 8:39 your life and to know you in your sufferings to become [Music] [Music] 9:05 Oh Jesus, I have promised to serve thee to the end. Be thou 9:20 forever me, my master and my friend. I shall not fear the battle. If thou art by my 9:35 side, nor wander from the path, if thou will be my God. Oh, let me feel thee near me. The world 9:54 is ever pure. I see the sights that dazzle the tempting songs 10:07 I fo are ever near me, around me and within. Lord Jesus drawer and shield my soul from sin. 10:29 Oh, let me hear thee speaking in essence pure and still above the storms of passure the m of 10:47 selfill. Oh speak to reassure me to hle our control. For speak and make me listen, thou guardian of my 11:07 [Music] soul. Oh Jesus, thou has promised to all who follow thee. that with the Lord in 11:24 glory there shall thy serent bee and Jesus I have promised to serve thee to the end. Oh, give me grace to 11:43 follow my master and my [Music] friend. Oh, let me see thy foot and in them plant my own. 12:02 My hope to follow is in thy strength [Music] alone. Oh guide me, call me, draw me, 12:18 uphold me to the end. and then in heaven receive me my savior and my friend. Oh Jesus Christ, grow thou in me and all 12:44 things else receive. My heart be daily thee from sin be daily free. and I work thy 13:38 living be in joy and sorrow too. Each day let the supporting light. My weakness still embrace. My darkness manage in thy 14:02 light. Thy life, my death of faith. Fill me with gladness from above. Hold me thy strength divine. Lord, let the glow of thy great 14:25 love through all my being shine. Make this for self growless and lest be thou my life and day. Oh, make me daily through thy grace for 14:49 me to bear thy name. Each day let thy supporting mind, my weakness still embrace. My darkness vanish in thy 15:10 light. Thy life, my death, the faith. Shall we all [Music] stand? God of glory, we exalt your 15:29 name. You who reign in majesty. We lift our hearts to you and we will worship, praise and magnify your 15:47 holy name. In pest splend you reign in glory. Eternal king you reign forever. 16:06 Your word is mighty, releasing captives. Your love is gracious. You are my God. Let's let's pray and commit the meeting 16:36 into the Lord's hands. Loving father, Lord, we praise you. You're a God of glory. You're exalted. You're so merciful, Lord. And you're able to give us everything we need, Lord, to live this life, to follow you. We want to 16:50 look up to you with great expectation, with great hope, Lord, with great longing, and with adoration, Lord, that you have planted in our hearts, and you're making it grow. We thank you and praise you. We thank you for this time. 17:02 We commit ourselves into your hands. Lord, we we ask Lord that you as the author continue Lord to finish the work that you've begun begun in each of our hearts even now as we hear your word. We pray in your mighty name Jesus. Amen. 17:17 Please be seated brothers and sisters. Yeah. So we would we want to hear God's word uh first from brother Vincent and after that from brother Victor We'll turn to the book of 18:03 Hebrews chapter 11. The 12th chapter we read looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith. 18:23 And before looking at Jesus, he wanted us to the Holy Spirit wanted us to look at Hebrews chapter 11 where there were many 18:38 heroes of faith lived. When you turn to the chapter 11th chapter and just see what is written about different heroes of faith. It starts 19:02 from Abel. fourth verse, fifth was Enoch and seventh verse Noah. Like that it goes on. Then Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 19:20 Moses and then so many other men of God. And sixth verse is a very important verse. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Without faith it is impossible to please God. And in this 19:42 chapter when one verse is allotted to Noah, one verse is for Abel, one verse for Enoch and for Moses five verses that is starting from 23rd to 20:00 27th verses. But for Abraham, if you count the number of verses, it starts from verse 8 and goes on up to verse 19. So how many 20:18 verses? 12 verses. So don't you feel there's a disproportionate allotment of verses to people? 12 verses. more than double of the verses allotted 20:35 Moses because this is a chapter on faith and Abraham is the father of faith. So more emphasis is given to Abraham rather the faith Abraham had. You know when people manufacture 20:57 any equipment or a car they make a prototype. Many times when we when I drive from uh well to tangur when you cross near Singi there a 21:16 place suddenly some new type of cars come all completely pasted with stickers and no uh regular name plate sir it will go fast because it is being tested. So before releasing to the 21:35 market they make a prototype and that prototype will be tested. For example a mobile company is making a mobile you know they will go to the 20th floor and they will drop from there and then they take whether it is 21:53 withstanding. They'll put it in water. They'll take it to the ice box and put it for many days 10 days and then take it out like that. It under goes lot of test because based on that test results only further manufacturing and 22:10 production sales will go on. If it fails in the prototype then no use manufacturing it because when customers buy they will return it or your company will get a bad name. So when a car is produced the prototype, every aspect, 22:28 every part is completely tested before it is released. So God wanted to take a test like that prototype is Abraham. So later on many years after 22:49 him Jesus says follow me. So being a disciple you want to follow Jesus. We have often heard the three main conditions of the disciplehip. So generally follow. So God tested that with Abraham. 23:08 When you read Genesis chapter 12, God said leave your nation, your people, your relatives, your parents, everything and then follow me. Abraham obeyed. And he got stuck in a particular place because his father was with him and then 23:28 his father died and then he started again his journey but he was obedient to his call follow me. So that part is tested successful and what relatives no you unless you hate your father your 23:46 mother we read in Luke chapter 14 unless you hate your father your mother your brother your sister Luke 14 26 your brother your sister your 24:04 children and even in your life. If you do not hate, you cannot be my disciple. The word hate is in comparison with the love we have for the Lord. So when your love for your parents, your brothers, sisters, family members, when 24:24 it is compared to the love that you have for the Lord, your God should be like hatred. It is not hating them but the explanation we read in other gospels you should not love them more than you love Jesus. Yesterday we heard Zach said even 24:40 before he married sister Annie he said you are going to be number two and he said I will also be number two. Number one is Jesus because that's a condition of a disciplehip. What he told was I am a 24:58 disciple you also be a disciple. So hating others not loving them more than I love God is the first condition of the disciplehip. God wanted to test with Abraham. He said leave your father, 25:16 mother, brother, sister. There's a meaning you read that in Genesis chapter 12. The first call Abraham gets is the first condition of the disciplehip. Genesis 12 we read. Yeah. You leave your 25:35 nation, your people and your father's family and go to the place where I show. I will bless you. I will make you as a big nation. That means like in the car company when the car is tested after that we'll start mass production we'll 25:54 invest hundreds of crores to produce thousands of cars mass production like that God is telling him yeah you go and when you prove this test I will make you into a big nation we are the nation we are the 26:10 people we are all uh the result of God testing with Abraham and then possessions whether Abraham is uh attached to possessions. God is testing. God guided them in such a way 26:30 that they went to a particular place where from where Jordan the very fertile field the sodom is seen and very easy for Abraham to have chosen that he could have told Lot you are young your wife is also young you 26:49 know we have become old so we want to settle here and you continue or if you want you can also leave the same place He could have chosen the fertile place land he could have inherited. God tested him. Though he could have chosen, God 27:07 didn't tell you allow Lot to choose, you don't choose. And all God didn't tell. When there was a dispute between Lord's herdsman and Abraham's herdsman, he said, "You choose first." So he didn't have any attachment towards 27:26 any fertile land field. So he passed the test. But Lot chose that he loved the position more than loving God's children, more than loving Abraham, more than loving the fellowship of a godly person. He loved his 27:44 positions. So Lot failed in the test. He was not a disciple. He could not be a disciple. You know how a lot family ended and now Abraham goes and later also when he had an encounter with milk 28:02 he told the king I don't want even a single thing because I don't want somebody to say that I was blessed because of this blunder from the war I don't want even sho lace so very clearly he stayed away 28:20 from the love for possessions. Second test also he passed. So that's a second condition of the disciplehip. If you you should not love your possessions more than loving God. And then his own life or his own 28:38 will. That's a third condition. Unless you hate yourself. That means denying your will and doing the will of God. denying your life and wanting to live for God. God wanted to test him. I believe two or three stages know 28:57 sometimes question paper has got part one, part two, part three. First God test by telling cast away akar and Ishmael Lord how can I do that? When God said, "I will bless 29:17 your descendants through your son," God meant Isaac, the promised son. What Abraham was telling, "Lord, Ishmael is before you. You bless him. You can carry out the same promise through Ishmael." But Ishmael was born not 29:36 according to the promise of God. Ishmael was born through the efforts of man. It was not part of God's plan. God did not give Ishmael. So we can produce something but it is not of God. It's of 29:53 our soul. It's of our flesh self. That's why self-righteousness God does not desire. God says cast him out. Self-righteousness cast him out. So that we read in Genesis chapter 17 and 30:12 verse 17 and 18. Genesis chapter 17 and verses 17 and 18. Yeah. 30:31 So 15th verse God is telling uh you will call her name Sarah no more Sarah I will bless her and I will give you a son by her then I will bless her and she shall bear she shall be a mother of nations kings of people will come 30:47 from her then Abraham fell on his face 17th verse and laughed and said in his heart will a child be born to a man 100 years old will Sarah who is 90 years old bear a child and Abraham said to God oh that Ishmael might live live before you. 31:03 But God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife will bear your son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him, an everlasting covenant." So Abraham at the very late age, he got 31:19 a son, Ishmael. He loved him and God said, "Cast him away. Drive him away." Imagine how much struggle Abraham would have had the servant made and her son. Not an 31:38 easy thing to drive them out. How many questions she would have had asked, how much she would have argued, how much he would have wept and cried. But God wanted to test him whether he wants to do his will or God's will. But Abraham 31:55 succeeded. Lord, I will do. He cast away Akar and Ishmael. And God wanted to test one uh one one more time the third part of the question uh paper. Yeah. Lay Isaac on the altar. Very tough 32:13 test. So there God wanted to find out whether he wants to do the will of God denying himself. the only son, beloved son, god-given son, promised son. Lord, why do you want him to be offered as a sacrifice? He did not give any suggestion to 32:33 God without any question, unconditional obedience. He laid him on the altar. God said, "Yeah, this prototype is tested. So he is the fit person to be the father 32:52 of faith. The father of faith. So then what is the faith he had? Disciplehip test he passed and proved. And now what about the faith? What type of faith God is 33:11 talking about expecting from Abraham? We turn to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11. 33:39 Yeah. Two things he had faith. Number one, he knew that he is nearly 100 years old and all his capability to produce a child is dead. And the womb of Sara is also dead. 33:58 No possibility of bearing a child. It was almost a dead condition that we read in 12th verse. Hebrews 11:12. But he believed yeah God who has 34:16 promised will give me a child will give a child through Sarah not through aar servant maid who is very young. So this 12th verse we read Hebrews 34:38 11:12 the therefore there was born even one of man and and him as good as dead at that many descendants like the stars in heaven. A dead person giving birth to a child or we can 34:57 say from death to resurrection. It's a type death to resurrection. He believed we also read that in Romans chapter 4 when Paul is explaining the gospel to Jewish people and Gentiles in a logical way step by step. One full chapter 35:17 chapter four he dedicated for Abraham for Abraham. So first one Abraham believed that he is not capable to produce a child and Sarah's womb is also dead. His body is also as far as bearing a child 35:34 is concerned is dead in that aspect. But he believe God can give a give me a child. He believed he thank God. Originally his name was Abraham. But God said you are going to be the father of a multitude of nations. So 35:51 your name is Abraham. When people asked what is your name? I am the father of multit multitude of nations. Hey you don't even know a single child but God has promised I'm going to have. You are 100 years old. God has promised I'm 36:04 going to have. That's the faith he had. God can bring life from death. That is his faith. Second one we read in 18th verse Hebrews 11 and verse 18 I think in English 19th verse he 36:26 considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead from which he also received him back as a type. So how Abraham had the courage to lay Isaac on the altar and he was about to sacrifice him. This is this courage. This faith 36:44 what faith God is able to raise him even after I kill him. Even after Isaac is dead, God will raise him and give give him back. God said praise the Lord. That's the faith he wanted. See this prototype I was telling 37:02 the car or the mobile or any equipment machines is easy because they don't have a self-he right side it will turn the right side when you turn left side it will turn because it is not having the will when you turn right the car says no 37:21 no no I am going to left then very difficult for us to drive such a car very difficult for us to prove such a car when my grandson was very young He wants me to take him by the cycle and that cycle has got a no he has got a 37:38 handle and in the back there's another handle master handle to control no so I will take him I thought happy I can also have a walk evening walk and I can go in his apartment so I will go he's also happy I'm also happy because both of 37:56 aligned and when we when I went to a particular place I was trying to turn this side but he was trying this side so much force I never knew he can have so much strength very difficult struggle both wheels are crossing 38:14 because there it is a basement it is going down for the cars to park he wants to go in the slide it's fast maybe he has seen somebody going like that he wants to go in that one I said no it is not safe no he wants to go 38:30 go so that's a struggle At the time I understood how much I turned this way when God wants to turn this way myself feel strong. No lord I want to go this way but Abraham was not like that. So this prototype cars and equipments they don't 38:48 have a self will so easy to be tested you can correct it. Your gear you can change but God has given the selfill to man. He will not force and change. Willingly he has to offer. Willingly he has to 39:07 offer. Abraham offered his will. Lord, not my will. I want my will to be aligned with your will. You want me to lay down Isaac on the altar and sacrifice him? I do it 100%. Yeah. It's very difficult as a father. So much 39:26 pain. So God didn't want to force him. That's why he asked him to go for 3 days journey and showed a mountain the plane somebody will walk fast. So he showed the mountain so that he walks slowly and takes time to decide. God is not going to force 39:45 anybody. He gives you time and he took sufficient time and he did not change his will. He did not turn halfway or 3/4 of the way. No Lord, I want to turn this way and go. No, I completely want align to your will 40:03 because of the faith he had on God. What faith? See, there was no example earlier for Abraham. Suppose Abraham had a grandfather who laid his grandson or not grandson, somebody on the altar and got back and he had told that story or Noah 40:22 or Enoch, somebody had told the story. There's some precedence. Yeah. Yeah. God has done. I can also do that. No presidents. See how much easier for you and me to live a Christian life. How much easier for you and me to live this 40:38 disciplehip life? Because we have so many models ahead of us. So many examples, clouds of witnesses. In spite of that, are we hesitating to commit our will to God? Is there a struggle? No, Lord. No, Lord. My way is the best way. Lord allow me for 40:56 some more time, some more years. Youngsters, I want to enjoy. Yesterday, one young boy came and asked me, "Brother, tell me how far I can go and enjoy as a believer." So I told him, you turn to 41:14 Ecclesiastes, that's a verse for you, young man. Ecclesiastes chapter 11 and verse 9. Oh young man, 41:39 enjoy your days in your youth. Let your heart gladden you. Walk in the ways of your eyes and your heart. But one thing you remember in all these things God will bring you to judgment. Before God brings you to 41:59 judgment, you judge yourself whether this enjoyment is right or wrong. Whether this enjoyment will God be pleased or not, whether this is right way or not. Yeah. God has given us sufficient light the word of God. Brothers, sisters, elders, church to 42:14 find out. So you can enjoy but everything will have to give an account to God. Okay. So, Abraham didn't have any precedence, but he believed, "Yeah, when I lay down Isaac on the altar, I will get back." So, that is what we read in 42:32 Hebrews 11 and verse 18. God is able to raise somebody from death to life. Why God is testing this with Abraham? Main thing for God to test with Abraham is whether he has the faith to 42:49 believe that God is able to raise somebody from death to life because God is planning that which is going to happen hundreds and hundreds of years after that in Jesus Christ because on that you and I have to believe our faith has to be 43:09 established. We turn to Galatians chapter 3. Galatians chapter 3. There also we 43:25 read about Abraham. Yeah. Sixth verse. Abraham had faith in God and it was counted to him as righteousness. So what faith counted as righteousness? This faith that God is able to raise somebody from 43:44 dead to life. That's a faith. So there only we get the verse the just shall live by faith. The just shall live by 44:01 faith. So by faith we can live. That's a faith we receive. So Abraham believed these two things and God tested him and said okay it is going to work. And now we come to yeah 44:17 Galatians you can read um the third chapter and I'll read uh 8th verse. Yeah 7th verse I read Galatians 3 and verse 44:33 7. It talks about the people of faith. Galatians chapter 3 and verse 7. Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. The scripture foreseeing that 44:53 God would justify the Gentiles by faith preach the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying all the nations will be blessed in you. So God seeing Gentiles. What Gentiles? We are the Gentiles. God seeing us that he will justify us by faith. He 45:11 preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying all the nations will be blessed in you. How? I through Isaac when you lay all the altar is committed to death by sacrifice. God raises him. There is a 45:29 faith foundation and through him we all are blessed who are of faith are blessed with Abraham the believer. So Christ redeemed us and blessed us. Now we come 45:47 to Romans chapter 3. before that Romans chapter 4 um verse 19 46:07 he was not weak in faith. The 18th verse there was no possibility for that hope but yet he believed. 19th verse. His own body is dead and the womb of Sara is also dead. But he did not count on that. And what was he looking at it? 46:26 20th verse. He was looking at the promise of God. He did not have any doubt. He had full faith that whatever God has promised is able to fulfill it. And he glorified God. He became strong in faith. And 22nd verse, this was 46:42 counted as righteousness. And it is not only for him. 23rd verse it is written for us. So 24th verse those who believe that the Lord Jesus Christ no those who believe in God who 46:59 raised Jesus Christ who was dead it will happen to us also. So how he relates these two things. So why father of Abraham is the father of faith. He believed on these two things. death and resurrection. God is able to 47:18 raise. Now we are going to believe what Jesus is dead and he was resurrected. Those who believe that will be saved. And now we come to Romans chapter 3 and verse 47:36 25. Why Jesus should die and then be raised? Paul is telling Romans chapter 3 and verse 25. Jesus whom God display displayed 47:58 publicly as a propitiation in his blood through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness because in the ference of God he passed over the sins previously committed. for the demonstration I say of his righteousness 48:13 at the present time so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus is the justifier. He is just and justifier. Very two important words. God the father is just and he's a 48:32 justifier. He is just. How he is just? See for so many years God is planning the plan of redemption. How shall we redeem man from the clutches of the devil from the clutches of the flesh from the clutches of the world. How can 48:47 we redeem man? So that he started planning even before Abraham even before the foundation of the world. That's what we read in the scriptures. So God is planning planning planning. Ultimately he said how am I going to forgive my 49:01 people? I am God. All sufficient God, all powerful God. Nobody's there to question God. Who can question God? He can do anything. He can simply say, I have forgiven the sins of all the people. Let them say this mantra or this 49:18 verse or let them go to this place. I will forgive all their sins. He can say anything but that will not be a just one. A sin has to be punished. There is a moral law. Every transgression has to be punished moral law. But if he 49:36 punishes you and me, we will be nowhere. We will be in hell. There's a punishment for sin. But God loved us. So one is the love or God's mercy and the truth, God's righteousness. How these two things will 49:55 meet? It is like the two uh bars in the rail rail two rails in the rail you know they are parallel they will never meet they will meet at infinity so one side God's mercy for human beings at the same time God's righteousness sin has to be punished 50:13 sinner has to be punished these two things are parallel and how to make them meet I want to execute both so planned plan but he cannot force his son to go and die and take the punishment of the people he cannot 50:30 force. So that's why we find when the time is ripe the right time came God wanted to give Jesus lot of time because he didn't even want to put a small pressure at the same time Jesus also waited for a long time because he 50:49 didn't want the father to even think in a small little way that I am forced voluntarily he wanted to surrender himself I will go and take the punishment I believe that's why it took so So many years. God is never in haste. So many 51:07 years. Jesus wanted to prove, wanted to say to the father, I am not going because you are compelling me. I understand your plan, but voluntarily I submit to go and die for this people. I will take the punishment of the whole 51:21 world for the sins of the whole world. So Jesus came and you know in this verse we read he was God displayed publicly as a propitiation. God wanted to display his 51:38 righteousness. The cross of Calvary is the display of God's righteousness. He displayed to the whole world. But for his display people didn't give place in Jerusalem. They said take him away from this town 51:58 city. So with reproach yesterday we heard about the reproach, shame, the cross. They said there's no place for a leper to be in the city. The leper leper has to be outside the city, outside the camp. That's the place 52:15 where lepers are there. Outside the camp where criminals are punished. We cannot make that display inside Jerusalem. But Jesus said yes. God said yes. Such a reproach shame. Jesus was made a public display 52:35 for you and me to prove that God is a justifier. He's a God of justice. That is the punishment Jesus took. Not only the pain and laggony in the cross but in his will 52:53 emotionally outside the camp he was crucified dress is removed and became a public shame. That is a way God proved himself to be a righteous 53:11 God. What a praise. his own beloved son, only begotten son. Not even a place in Jerusalem, not even a place in the city or any street or any place platform, nothing outside 53:29 the camp. We read in Hebrews chapter 13, it was made a public display that is a righteousness of God. And the father God says I am just God. I don't simply say people's sins are forgiven because I 53:49 love them or I show partiality. No, I love them but I want to do justice. So the sin is punished. The sin the punishment of the sin. Chastisement was upon Jesus. God's anger burnt on 54:06 Jesus. It pleased father to crush him not because he hated his son. He loved him but he loved us also. The love he had for you and me made the heavenly father to crush his son because that is the execution of righteousness. Now what shall we say? 54:26 Lord, you are such a righteous God. You are a just God. Because you are God, you didn't bypass any moral law. how much you love me Lord. How much you love me? How much devotion I should show to you Lord? 54:44 And he's not only a just God, he is a justifier. God has included that also in his program. Those who believe that God is a just God will be justified. Like Abraham believed, he was justified. What he 55:04 believed? death and resurrection. Now we believe Jesus died for me and he rose again. We read in Romans chapter 55:20 10, Romans chapter 10, how are we saved? Romans chapter 10 and verse 9. that if 55:50 you word of faith 8th verse talks about the word of faith that is a word of faith which we are preaching that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be 56:07 saved. What is that great? To believe that God raised him from the dead. It is to believe the righteous act of the father. Raising Jesus from the dead is part of God's plan. The righteous plan. Yeah. Sin has to be 56:25 punished. So Jesus died and then because he's God, he raised him up. There's two things. Through his death, our sins are dealt with. Through his resurrection, our future life is taken 56:42 care. Same resurrection power gives us the power to overcome our sins and temptations. So here we find that when we believe in our heart that 57:00 Jesus made him to raise from the dead, we will be saved. Now how important is it to believe that Jesus died and rose again for you and me to be saved? See the deception of the devil today. 57:20 uh one particular religion Islam spreading like anything population and what do they believe? They believe in Jesus. The Quran refers more about Jesus than 57:34 Muhammad and uh Mary is mentioned there Miam and they believe that Jesus is going to come back but they don't believe that Jesus died. devil's scheme. Yeah. I have kept salvation far away from them because they don't 57:54 believe on the death of Jesus Christ. They believe that Jesus was on the cross but he escaped and went above to the heaven and he will come back. See that is importance and we read in uh 58:11 Corinthians Paul is telling if we don't believe that Jesus died and was resurrected our faith is in vain. The whole Christianity the faith in Christianity is in vain because that is a place where God proved himself to be righteous. 58:30 So I imagine like this the center is there and there's a big circle and uh who are all inside the circle all those who believe on the 58:48 righteous act of god come into the circle and god says those come into the circle are justified they are saved they will Believe just surely by faith that is salvation. Lord I believe that you are a righteous God and through 59:08 your plan I am also made righteous and those who don't believe are outside this circle. That is the importance of faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. That's why God hates unbelief. 59:25 You can read Hebrews chapter 3. How God was very strong against the people who did not believe. They hardened their hearts. When they they were about to enter Canaan, they came to the border and the spies went to the land of Canaan 59:43 and brought back the fruits. Two people told the good news, 10 people told the bad news, but they all believed what the 10 people told. They don't have faith that God will take care. They don't have faith that God will help us to kill the giants. They 59:59 don't have fa They didn't have faith that God has given that land promised land. They could not believe. So what happened? God see God through one prototype. Abraham wanted to build bring multitude of people who will follow 1:00:16 that. But these people were dead against Abraham. Abraham's faith. Abraham believed such a hard thing. God can raise from dead but these people just going to the land step into the promised land they didn't have faith which is 1:00:32 easier to believe that God will raise Isaac even after I sacrifice him is easier or just step into the promised land God will take care of you they have soldiers they have people God has promised God is on their side they have seen so many miracles how God 1:00:50 delivered them how God split the Red Sea how the soldiers of Egypt were dead. All they have seen in spite of that they didn't have faith to enter into the land of Canaan. These people left Egypt, came out of Egypt. Egypt is a 1:01:10 typical world. Might be you have come out of this world through your salvation. You left the world and you are separated. You brought out through baptism. Red Sea crossing is like baptism. You have taken baptism and you 1:01:24 walked in the wilderness. You ate the mana. You heard the word of God and now you are at the border. Is overcoming life possible or not? Victorious life is possible or not? Entering into the land of Canaan is like a victorious life. There God said you 1:01:43 kill the giants one by one. Not one day you will kill all the giants because one day if you kill all the giants the vacuum is there all the wild animals will come in that is even more worse worse than the uh earlier scenario. So 1:02:00 you will slowly you will kill the giants and inherit little by little little by little little by little overnight things will not change. Yeah. You are struggling with impatience. You are struggling with anger. You are struggling with lust. Yeah, you will 1:02:15 overcome little by little, little by little. But you have to keep fighting. Whenever you see a giant, you go and fight. Whenever you see a giant, go and fight. Lord, I want to fight. The giants are the temptations. Lust in the 1:02:28 flesh which shows its head. Whenever you see fight, Lord, I believe you will give me too helped me. Lord, you saved me from the world. I was dead in my sins and trespasses. You have raised me. See why Jesus wants us to believe on the 1:02:46 death and resurrection of Jesus. We read in Romans no if we die with Christ we live with him. So there's an application of this truth. It is not going to end with death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It will continue in your life every time. 1:03:03 See this is my soul. Soul has got emotion, will and reasoning. And then you have flesh below that. Always the flesh flesh is pulling us down. That is death. Romans 8:6 the spiritual mind to be spiritually 1:03:23 minded is life and peace. To be connally minded is death. It pulls towards death. Every time your soul listens to your flesh, fleshly lust, you yield. You are going to death. Little bit of death. You are experiencing little bit of death. 1:03:40 little bit of death. Death is working in you and the spirit is becoming weaker and weaker and weaker because you are feeding the flesh. But what should we do? Lord, I refuse to listen to my flesh. I don't want to please my flesh. I don't want to 1:03:57 yield to the lust. I will listen to the spirit. And when you yield to the spirit, sometimes you are filled with the Holy Spirit. That doesn't automatically promise us a holy life. Are you yielding to the Holy Spirit? Those who are led by the Holy Spirit, 1:04:13 Lord, this is my soul. Let my soul listen to the spirit. And your spirit is joined with the Holy Spirit. And when you meditate the word of God, when you listen to the go, listen to God, a renewal takes place in your soul also in 1:04:28 your mind. We read Romans 12:2. Do not be confirmed to the world because confirmed to the world is your world will say you obey to the flesh. You yield to the flesh. That's what the world will say. Worldly confirmations. Yield to the enjoyments 1:04:44 of the flesh. But if you yield, you are going towards death. Transformation is not taking place. But we are called to listen to the spirit. Come up. Come up. Come up. Romans 8:1. The law of the life of Christ, Jesus Christ is working in 1:05:02 me. So no one there's no condemnation to those who walk in spirit. Walk in spirit means I listen to my spirit and I listen to the spirit of God. My spirit is open to the spirit of God. Lord, what do you want want me to do? What is your will 1:05:16 Lord? What shall I do Lord? So I listen. I listen. That is a victorious Christian life. So that is the call God is giving us. Where is our faith? When I when I am tempted, temptation is 1:05:34 the time where death and resurrection is going to take place. Death to myself and resurrection to the divine life. See somebody I'm not able to love. I am tempted to hate them. I'm tempted to scold them. I'm tempted to say bad 1:05:49 things at them. I'm tempted to do something which is not godly. Temptation. And mindly the my spirit is telling that's not the right way. You do good to them. You pray for them. And flesh is telling powerfully I say no to 1:06:05 the flesh. I say no to my will. I say yes to the spirit. There a death is taking place to my will and quickening is taking place with the divine character like that. See every time some new cells are being formed and old cells 1:06:23 are they are dying in our body always that renewal is taking place. The same way in our spiritual life also this renewal should take place continuously. Death, death, death, life, life, life. Yeah, I want to love them Lord. Please 1:06:38 fill me, fill my heart with love. God says, I will give the resource. Today we heard without God giving us resource, he will not expect anything because he knows we can't. That's why he is giving the power of God, the spirit of God, the 1:06:51 Holy Spirit. He wants to anoint us those who want to do the will of God. Now we turn to Luke chapter 1:07:10 18. Luke chapter 18. We read about Luke 18 and verse 14. I told you God is a just and a 1:07:34 justifier. He's a just God and a justifier of us. So 14th verse we read I tell you this man went to his house justified rather than the other. He this man went to his house justified. What about this? Who is this man? When you read 1:07:54 the parable, two men went up to a temple to pray. One Pharisee and other a tax collector. The Pharisees stood and was praying this to himself. God, I thank you that I am not like other people. I'm not like the swindlers. I'm not unjust. 1:08:08 I'm not adulter. I'm not not even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week. I pay tithes of all that I get. See this prayer. Sometimes we may not pray openly, but it may be in our attitude. Lord, I do this. I do that. I 1:08:23 read the B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B Bible. I go to church and this and that. So, I am justified. He thinks that he's justified. But he's not praying to God. He's praying to himself because he is on the throne. He's praying to himself. But 1:08:38 this person, the tax collector, standing standing some distance away, unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, "God, be merciful the sinner. God be merciful. I'm a sinner. He was justified because 1:08:56 he believed in the God who justifies. He did not believe in his works which will justify. The other fellow believed in his works. Praying, fasting, giving to God, whatever good works you do that you will not become righteous person because 1:09:10 you do those things. You do those things because you are a righteous person. But through that you don't become righteous person. That is called self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is a deception. People who are in self-righteousness, they become 1:09:25 legalist. They blame others. They find fault with others. I'm not like this tax collector. You see this person is clo standing very close to the pullpit. Maybe he's in the first row and and this tax collector is outside at the entrance 1:09:41 of the church. You know what Jesus is telling? This man went to his house rather than the other. So now tell me with this sentence the you all have Google map. So where is Jesus? Can you tell 1:10:00 me just in this line Jesus is telling this man went to his house justified rather than the other. Where is Jesus? Yeah, he's there at the entrance, not here the pullpit because here 1:10:19 self-righteous people are there. Self-righteous means you don't care about God who is a just and justifier. How much our heavenly father thought about it planned and planned and planned in love and sent his son Jesus Christ to die for us and he was 1:10:37 resurrected and those who believe on that will be justified and he thinks he can be justified because of his works. He went to church he went sang songs and he gave offering through that you'll be justified. God says this man, who is 1:10:51 this man? The tax collector who is standing at the entrance of the temple, not even um having a boldness to come to the front or middle. He's at the entrance. Lord have mercy on me. So his whole faith is in God that 1:11:09 only you can save me Lord. But this person I believe on my works. So legalist believe I do this, I do that, I study this, I study that, I so self-righteous and made righteous 1:11:26 by God. They are far apart the east and west. How can we become righteous without having faith in the God who is a justifier? So Abraham was a and completely devoted to God. his 1:11:45 devotion. He proved himself as a prototype to be a disciple to be a he's a fit person to be the father of a multitude of us in the Gentiles who are following this faith. And after that he was circumcised. Circumcision did not make 1:12:03 him righteous. His faith only made him righteous. So what a good God we have. He is the just God and justifier of those who believe him. He was made a public display hanging on the cross. That is the act of part of the righteousness of God. God wanted to 1:12:23 prove his righteousness. He did not prove himself to anybody. No need even without proving he's a righteous God. But simple minds he wanted to prove. That's why he sent his own son. But with such a devote man, a lot was 1:12:41 there. And from his devotional life, what distracted him? The possessions. My dear brothers and sisters, maybe initially you are devoted to God. Might be some earthly possessions or money or something is distracting you can distract you from 1:12:59 the devotion. Simple and pure devotion you have for the Lord. So Abraham is a model for a life of a disciple. And then we come to Moses. One thing God certifies about Moses is we read that in numbers I think 1:13:17 chapter 12 Moses was faithful in all his house. House means I don't think Moses had a big house. Israel people of Israel was the house of God. He was faithful in all his house or we can say the house of God which was a tabernacle. He was 1:13:37 faithful and that is reinstated in the book of Hebrews chapter 3. You see Moses was almost compared to Jesus Christ. Hebrews chapter 3 it talks about the house of God. 1:13:59 Fourth verse, for every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later which were to be spoken 1:14:16 later. So it may be the church. So a disciple then comes to the church life where the church is built and Moses was faithful in all the house of God. Even in second verse Jesus was faithful to 1:14:35 him who appoint who appointed him as Moses was also Moses also was in all his house. See Jesus and Moses being compared in which area in the building of the house of God. Building of the house of God and how Moses was 1:14:55 faithful. Sixth verse Christ was fa faithful. We read and therefore that means it is having a connection. Seventh verse therefore. Fifth verse it says Moses was faithful. Therefore, so therefore, what shall shall we do today? If you hear his 1:15:15 voice, do not harden your heart as when they provoked me as in the day of trial in the wilderness. The same chapter 12th verse, let not unbelieving heart come to you. And as long as it is still called today, 1:15:40 so that none of you in building the house of God. God has given to us the house of God as 1:15:59 church, the body of Christ. And how to build the body of Christ? How can I involve? Think of Moses. God gave clear commands how the uh tent has to be made. Tabernacle has to be 1:16:19 made. Might be God said you take this particular wood with a thick wood for example. Take 60 in and make one frame. And so Moses calls a supervisor or a somebody who is a leader, make a 1:16:38 16-in uh Twood frame and fit it here. And he goes and tells a carpenter and carpenter searches all the reapers and he takes one it is 59 in. Okay, another one 62 in, another one 65 in, another one 55 in. So he comes and says uh to 1:16:55 the supervisor these are only we have shall we put this instead of 60 in we'll put 62 in. So they come to Moses and says brother did you say 62 in we have 60 in Moses get confused no I didn't say 62 1:17:11 or 60 please wait I'll pray maybe it has taken another 2 days or 3 days people are pressing him oh they are without work unnecessary salary is being paid please decide something no I want to listen I want to listen Lord tell me 1:17:29 what should be the size of this particular reaper it is 59 or 62. But God is seeing whether he's going to be faithful. He's listening, listening, listening. After 3 days, God says it is 60. He comes and says 60. Even if the workers have to be without a 1:17:46 job for 3 days, I want God's will to be done. 60 mean 60, not 61 or 59 like that. Another metal, another screen. Lord, one in short. Shall we put it? No problem. No. No, no, no, no. God has commanded the correct size. Bring it. 1:18:04 This will be become a waste. No problem. Bring that. Moses was faithful in all his house. And how he showed his faithful by listening to God. That's why it is recorded today. If you hear his voice, how to become faithful like Moses 1:18:21 without God telling anything, how he could have been faithful in the house of God. He would have devised his own things, everything. That's not being faithful. that is his own design. So being faithful is telling what exactly God wants me to do. So you 1:18:38 are in the part of this church. Ask God Lord what is my responsibility? What do you want me to do? Lord today I'm going with whom should I should I have fellowship with whom should I talk? What words I should share with him? Lord please tell me even 1:18:54 is going to take 2 days 3 days wait on God. I'm not asking close your door, wait 3 days on. No, but in the spirit, Lord, give me a word. Give me a word, Lord. I want the house to be built. I want the body of Christ to be built like 1:19:09 Moses. Lord, I want to be faithful. And you know Jesus Christ above this house. He is building this house now. Now we are co-workers with Jesus. God is speaking to Jesus. And Jesus is giving us commands. We are all co-workers. 1:19:24 Jesus says, "I am, let not your heart be troubled. I am going to prepare a mansion for you." I do not know what type of mansion it is. I think it'll be the presence of God. I don't know. And probably 1:19:41 whatever divine things we accumulate here, we are sending that as building material for God to build the mansion, for Jesus to build the mansion. It may be the fruit of the spirit, the love, longsuffering, patience, concern. These 1:19:59 are all things, materials I'm sending every day. Little by little, I'm sending. So Jesus is building a mansion. He says, I will come back. Jesus mentions two things. John 14 verse one, let not your heart be troubled. Have 1:20:12 faith in God. Have faith also in me. And I am going there to prepare a mansion for you. So I'm going there only for your sake and after that I'll come back to take you. And 16th chapter again he says let not your heart be troubled. 1:20:30 If I don't go the comforter can cannot come. If I go I can send the comforter. Why it is like that? Yeah. Heavenly father though is God he follows the procedure. Jesus Christ he made a public display. He shed his blood and he is our chief priest. 1:20:50 He's taking this blood to heavenly father. Lord, I have shed this blood for my son, for him. And through that blood, like Aaron and chief priest, take the blood to the most holy place as an atonement for the entire people of Israel. And their sins 1:21:07 were covered. But by the precious blood of Jesus, once for all, our sins are removed. Not covered, it's removed. And then our hearts are made clean and we are fit to receive the Holy Spirit. He can come and dwell in the hearts which are 1:21:24 cleansed by the blood of Christ. That's why Jesus says unless I go, the Holy Spirit cannot come down and remain upon you. So two things. Number one, I am preparing a mansion for you. I'm going. Number two, I'm going so that I 1:21:41 can send the Holy Spirit. Why? Because the Holy Spirit has to prepare us to be fit for the mansion. I was born in the hill station Kunor and next to our house is P Marshall Sham Manaka's house 1:21:59 Bangla and my uncle once he went there and he told me if you do not know how to walk in a very polished surface you will fall down such a polished granite and very uh differently built Bangalow 1:22:17 mansion. So if you go and simply walk, you'll fall down. You'll break your leg or head. So we have to become fit to live in that mansion. How the Holy Spirit is now preparing that the Holy Spirit is preparing the bride 1:22:36 to live with the bridegroom. So he's building the body of Christ. He's preparing the bridegroom. That's what we learned through Moses. Moses God gave him training in the field for 40 years to rear the sheep and he started 1:22:52 building the house of God the Israel and now Jesus Christ is building. So let our faith be strong and without the faith it is impossible to please God and God is a just and justifier of those who believe on him. May God bless us. 1:23:10 Amen. Should we stand up? 1:24:24 See, let's sing shepherd of my soul. We sing to Jesus. Turn our eyes and our thoughts to him. Sing to him. Shepherd of my 1:24:50 soul. I give you full control. Wherever you may lead, I will follow. I have made the 1:25:06 choice to listen for your voice. Wherever you may, I will go. Be it in a quiet pasture or by a gentle 1:25:26 stream, the shepherd of my soul is by my side. Should I face a mighty mountain or a valley dark and 1:25:41 deep, the shepherd of my soul will be my guide. [Music] Shepherd of my soul, I give you full 1:25:57 control. Wherever you may be, I will follow. I have made a choice to listen for your 1:26:13 voice wherever you may be. [Music] Amen. Please be seated. Brother Victor [Music] 1:27:02 Gospel he got a gospel message. No, faithfulness. We heard about Abraham's faith and Moses faithfulness. 1:27:23 God, righteousness, we heard about, you know, how father is a just God. He's a justifier and how he is a righteous God. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Even in the first session through 1:27:56 our elder brother, we heard about not just loving God, but we love one another. Um hello by submission. We heard it beautifully of 1:28:23 how through submission that we can prove our love towards God and love towards one another. We heard about how Jesus because through submission that he proved that he loved his father. That's the beauty. Submission is 1:28:46 the beauty. When our brother encouraged dear sisters that submission is a beauty difficult people we heard in the morning that you know that we express our love or we 1:29:05 prove our love by loving the difficult people difficult people. Our love is prude when we love difficult people and Matthew chapter 5 46 and 47 verse 46 and 1:29:30 47. Please read. If you love those who love you, what reward you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? If we continue to love those who 1:29:54 love us and if we greet only those who greet us, there is no use. What is better is verse 44. Um, love those love your enemies. Bless your enemies. Um bless those who 1:30:14 curse you. NB. It is short in NASB. We are read from KGB. Curse those who bless those who curse you and do good to your 1:30:36 enemies. And praying for those who trouble you or persecute you. Yes. difficult people. Sons and daughters When we There's something different. 1:31:40 You don't need to turn there. John chapter 3. John 3. And to those who believe in his son will have eternal life. John again in John 5. 1:31:57 John 14. Again in John 14 John John 8 full of verses there are so many verses which emphasize on faith. Was there any mention of love? Yes there are some mention of love demonstration of love with John 13. John 13 is how 1:32:17 Jesus demonstrated his love. Okay. But when it comes to letter he mentioned a few verses about faith. But the complete emphasis was on love. Brethren love, brethren love. Even about faith, there are 1:32:43 verses. Now who else will overcome the world other than one who believes in the lord? John gospel faith emphasis. John letter the emphasis on John. The gospel is on faith and when it came to letter that he wrote, it was on 1:33:03 love. When you have time, please take time to read and meditate on. Okay. I'd like to show a verse from the gospel and a verse from the letter. John chapter 5 verse 24. John 5:4. 1:33:19 John 5 24. John 5:24. Okay. He who hears my word and believes him 1:33:36 who sent me has eternal life. If you want to simplify the verse, to those who believe he has eternal life, then there is no condemnation or judgment for 1:33:54 him. He has passed out of death and he has come into life. See all the things that are mentioned there passed out of death. There's no judgment for him. 1:34:12 Eternal life and he has eternal life. About whom? About who believes. Okay. John 5:24. This is John 5:24. Okay. 1 John 3:14. 1 John 3:14. John. 1:34:29 What is John saying there? 1 John 3 verse4. 1 John 3:14. 14 and 15. 14 and 15. Please read. We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren. He who does not love 1:34:48 abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. Okay. 14. What is John saying in verse 14? He has passed out of 1:35:04 death into life. And he has eternal life. Eternal life. And 15 verse 15 talks about eternal life. To whom? One who loves his brother. John 1:35:22 5:24. John 5:24 says one thing. John 3:14. 1 John 3:14 saying another thing. John there it mentioned about faith. and hear about love. Believing is a easy 1:35:44 part. Many believe today faith without deed is a dead faith. Faith without love is a dead faith. John 3:14 John 1:36:03 5:24 deception. If we have uh John 5:24 and do not have 1 John 3:14, we are in deception. When we say I believe in Jesus and do not love the brethren, I am in 1:36:22 deception. I want to repeat it again. I I say I believe in Jesus, but I won't love my brother. I will close my heart to my brother difficult. I will not all love difficult 1:36:40 people. I will not allow critics. But I believe in Jesus. It won't work out. That's a dead faith. This is how I see it. I was a teacher in school. I want to 1:37:00 explain it this way. A plus two student he has to go to college. He has to take two things there. TC transfer certificate mark. He has to have a transfer 1:37:18 certificate and the marks sheet. Okay. Both. He needs both admission. In the admission they verify both. TC mark certificate one transfer certificate another mark certificate transfer certificate in the transfer certificate it's written like this 1:37:37 name school name school name date of birth date of birth is mentioned there parents name parents name all of the details are there when was he admitted into the 1:37:56 school and how long did he study in that school certificate. All of that is written in the transfer certificate and then there is another uh mention about that whether he is qualified to go into higher degree promotion. Is he qualified to go into 1:38:19 the next class? refer the mark sheet and we have a seal there. What do we seal there is refer the mark sheet we write the transfer certificate 1:38:39 when they leave the school the mark sheet refer the mark sheet and when they complete the 10th standard we write hundreds of transfer certificate And in 1:38:59 this column it says whether he is qualified to go to the next class. We seal there saying refer the mark sheet TC mark sheet. What is the transfer certificate and what is the mark certificate? John 5:24 then TC John 1:39:17 5:24 is the transfer certificate. Faith the name is written there. Robert name is Robert. This is my transfer certificate. 1:39:37 When was he born again? What is the date that he was born again? 2000. Robert in 2000. Robert was born again. Uh school name. What is the name of the school? Christian Fellowship Church. Christian Fellowship Church. Syllabus. International 1:39:55 syllabus. What is the syllabus? International syllabus. You won't find the syllabus anywhere outside state boardian international syllabus. We have so many syllabus, state syllabus, international anglodian syllabus and so 1:40:15 many other syllabus. But this syllabus is international syllabus. How long how long he has been? How long have we has he been attending this school? For 20 years, 25 years, no 1:40:33 glory. Some they glory in TC and transfer certificate international syllabus school CFC, Christian fellowship church, professors, doctors. But they glory in you know studying in CFC where there are so many doctors and 1:40:51 professors teaching them lessons. Okay. Is he qualified to go into the higher class? Not the next physically but higher class. Refer the mark sheet. All the 1:41:12 elders can only put a seal there saying refer the mark sheet. Cont. We can even go give conduct certificate saying his conduct was good. Yes, he was there in the church. Yes. Right. Good. Good. Very good. Good. Even they can give very good in the conduct 1:41:30 certificate. Everything is a column there. Everything is there. Attent it comes to attenance 100% atance fullance. Attendance full certificate, contact everything is there. The 1:41:49 attendance certificate is there, contact certificate is there, transfer certificate is there, everything is there. Okay. Now we need to go to higher class. Refer the mark sheet. Mark. Oh, I need to refer the mark sheet. Please give the 1:42:01 mark sheet. Love. 1 Corinthians 13. 1 Corinthians 13. Forgiving others. showing mercy, you know, showing peace, being peaceful. What shall we say? Marks for 1:42:22 all those things. What shall we say? If it's zero, is it not sad? Beloved, we will not be able to go to the higher class. No use just with TC. I'm in a good school. I'm studying a 1:42:47 good syllabus. Certificate. Attent certificate. Those certificate the contact certificate is doesn't matter. Have I passed the exam in the exam of love? Have I passed? 1:43:06 Matthew 5:44. I should have passed Matthew 5:44 critics, difficult people. I should have loved critics and difficult people and whether I am pastor or not 1:43:23 will be proved in that. Whether I have attended the good church, attended all 502 to Sundays, been in a good syllabus and have a good conduct 1:43:43 certificate in the elders, it doesn't matter whether I have passed in the exam that matters. Difficult wife, difficult husband, difficult children, difficult in-law. It may be a difficult husband, difficult wife, difficult children, 1:43:56 difficult in-laws, difficult brother, sister, difficult brother or a sister. If we have failed in that the mark certificate will not have any marks. Beloved, the transfer certificate 1:44:13 will not help. John 5:24 John 5:24 alone will not work out John 5:24 1 John 3:14 with John 5:24 1 John 3:14 should be combined then only it will work out request that you would keep this 1:44:35 truth always in your mind faith along with love faith along with deed that will help us otherwise it's useless. TC alone will not be 1:44:53 helpful like to say something in closing difficult people. We have so many difficult people. We may have difficult people in the church relatives, among our relatives, the place of work, very very very close 1:45:14 relative once. You know this is about a very close relative of mine. Very close relative. Not a distant relative. Very close relative to me. From a poor family. Very poor family. You have decided to help them in one of 1:45:35 the marriages in their family. died because of cancer and um his daughter was at the 1:45:52 marriage age close very close. The close relatives decided that we would help the girl to be married so we will pull in the money and to help her. Okay. By God's 1:46:10 grace and God's grace the expense was done for the glory of God. They were not unbelievers. They were unbelievers. Um, Roman Catholic people. They were Roman Catholic Christians. Um, after a 1:46:34 year we call it baby show there in Tamil. It was a ritual. So during the uh before the pregnant woman they will do some rituals you know before the delivery for the pregnant woman they came there came to me again 1:47:01 for money to do this ritual I told them I won't give money for this ritual I have money but for this matter there is no money. I won't give money. 1:47:22 Sorry. Myself and my wife are united in this matter and said we won't give money for this. We already have shown mercy very close. We have already decided during the time of delivery we will help them 1:47:41 help them financially. Poor poor family because they are a poor family. We thought and decided that we would help during the delivery normal delivery surgery. We don't know whether it's going to be a normal delivery or we could help to the extent that we 1:48:01 can. We have already decided about it. Now they are demanding money for ritual for a ritual ritual I told them there's no money for me for ritual so we are not the owners stewards we are not the owners of the 1:48:22 money that we have we are just stewards we are accountable to him God said don't give for this ritual whatever you do Do it for my glory. Okay. You give it for the delivery. 1:48:41 That's good. Don't give it for the ritual. Okay. We said sorry to them and sent. Okay. Now what they are saying WhatsApp within a week a message is coming in WhatsApp. What is that message? There's a rhymic message in 1:49:07 Tamil saying you know what is the use of having relatives so many different sayings they sending WhatsApp message because I didn't give money they 1:49:24 are you know poking me through WhatsApp messages like I pointed out we can keep it as a banner they will say something. What was surprising to me was 1:49:42 that they have forgotten what we did already. They have forgotten what we did for the marriage. This is the world. The spirit of the world is whenever I need or whenever I ask for it, you should give. 1:50:01 If you don't give, I will I will be an enemy to you. Whatever we do, we do it in the will of God. We should not do beyond our strength, our ability. Some are doing help to 1:50:19 others. They do it beyond their ability. Some they take a loan to help others. All that is wrong. taking a loan to help others, helping others without glorifying 1:50:38 God. We should help others in the will of God. We should do it for the glory of God. I should ask permission for the money and then give to others. The people who are outside, they won't know this principles of God. WhatsApp. The whole family spoke against 1:51:00 me. Okay. That's all they knew. What shall we say? Matthew 5:44. We should dwell in Matthew 5:44. Matthew 5:44. Beloved, till the last day of our 1:51:20 lives, let us dwell in Matthew 5:44. Not those who bless us. Now the baby was born. They didn't even inform that the baby was born. Oh, you didn't give money when the 1:51:39 when I asked for the ritual. Why should I inform you whether the baby is born or not? What is the flesh saying now? The flesh is saying I wanted to spend or give them or help them 5,000 or 10,000. 1:51:59 Now it is saving for me. I don't need to spend that money. They didn't inform that the baby was born. Leave them. Oh, you should listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. No, don't do that. Go. You and wife. Oh, even if it's a 1:52:17 surprise visit, make a surprise visit. Go meet the child. Bless the child. Poor people. Yes, definitely they are poor. Help them in some way and come. Go pray. Bless them and come. Critics, love the critics and come back. 1:52:37 WhatsApp. And those who spread bad news about you on WhatsApp, go love them and come back. What is the beauty of all of it? What did the what did God tell me before I could go? Don't go with the spirit of a 1:52:54 righteous man. This is how this is how God spoke to me. Don't go in the spirit that you are a righteous man. 1:53:14 You humiliated me but see my spirit. I'm coming here to bless you. Not with that spirit. I am coming here to put you to shame. Then all all that you're doing is waste. Defile garment. That righteousness is a defiled garment. 1:53:33 That's all they knew. I love them. Go love them. Do good. Do good to them. Bless them. Bless them. Love them and come back. Then the situation changed fully. Till today we are like this. We are very close. Dear brothers, practical 1:53:52 Christianity. Yes, brothers and sisters. This is practical Christianity. We are not beating around the bush. Matthew 5 um John 5:24 glory the glory is not in Matthew 5 John 5:24 it's not 1:54:09 in John 5:24 1 John 3:14 it should be in 1 John 3:14 may God help each of us amen Amen. Brothers and sisters, we'll just 1:54:34 uh pray and close the sessions. See u brother was mentioning that word if you hear his voice do not harden your heart. It's not a message it's his voice. I believe God has spoken to many of us. Maybe some of us he was thinking our 1:54:49 children who was growing up in this church. They want to be Christians. They're trying and trying and trying. Maybe there is something God wanted to speak to you through the first message. But maybe some of us we know that we have that assurance but we are 1:55:04 going to meet the Lord but we find it difficult to love. We find it difficult to forgive. without sanctification or no one shall see the lord. So let's fear that uh we'll not end up in end up after hearing all these things. It is to whom more it is given 1:55:24 to more it is required. So help uh seek the Lord for help and respond to God's love. There is no condemnation. Remember God's uh God is God is love. It's not truth alone. God is love. So let's respond to God's love. Dear heavenly father, we believe Lord 1:55:45 that uh it is your plan that we heard your message Lord from above. Lord, we believe you are in our midst because we heard your voice Lord. So we Lord, we want to really give you the right place Lord in our lives. I pray father that you help us 1:56:03 Lord to set our lives before you. Your word says that the love of God is poured out into your hearts through the Holy Spirit which is given to us. So we want to lean upon the Holy Spirit Lord to love those who are difficult to love 1:56:19 those who are unlovable. Lord we believe it is impossible with us but with you nothing is impossible. Lord help us fill us with the Holy Spirit. Lord, for those who seeking for assurance for salvation and forgiveness, Lord, send them with 1:56:33 that clear conviction and assurance, Lord, that you have taken away the punishment. You have set them free and give us that passion to live for you, Lord. And Lord, that pray that none of us will live for ourselves, Lord. The 1:56:46 rest of the days which you have kept for us in the earth, we will live for you alone, Lord. Thank you for your servants, Lord. We pray that lord you continue to use them, bless them and uh enlarge their boundary lord. Use them 1:56:59 mightily in the days to come. Thank you father for hearing. We also pray for the lunch. Bless the food. Bless our time together. Bless the remaining sessions. Father in Jesus precious and mighty name we pray. Amen. Thank you dear brother 1:57:14 Vincent and brother Victor speaking to us from the heart. And brothers, if there are some announcements
