0:00 One of the things we learn in the Bible is this, that whatever God may promise for you, it will not be fulfilled unless you believe it. 0:25 There are more than 7,000 promises in the scriptures. But you won't get all of them unless you believe. It's like if there's an equal amount of rain falling in an area. 0:50 And one man puts a cup outside, that's all water he'll get. But one man puts a big tub outside, he gets more water. So you can't say, God gave more to that person and less to this person. No, the same rain was falling everywhere. 1:19 Whenever you come to a meeting which is being led by the Holy Spirit, I don't mean just any Christian meeting. But where the Holy Spirit is moving, that is very few Christian meetings. 1:47 But if the Holy Spirit is moving in a meeting, then we can say it's like rain falling there. Spiritual rain. But in your heart, how big your faith is, that is how much you will get. 2:13 So if your faith is very little. Like a little cup, that's all you'll get. Somebody here comes with many, many drums and drums and drums, they get so much. So I'll show you a verse about that. 2:35 We can use another illustration. In the world, money is the most important thing people want. And even when people seek for position as politician or businessman, their ultimate aim is money. 3:07 So, in God's kingdom, it's His blessing that is equivalent of money here. God's grace. But God's grace we can receive only by faith. 3:28 You can take a simple illustration. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. Is there anybody in the world who can say, No, Jesus did not die for me. No. Everybody Jesus died for. 3:50 Then why is it so few have actually got forgiveness of sins? Because those are the only ones who had faith. Do you think your sins were forgiven because you were less a sinner than that other person? 4:14 What about the thief on the cross? He was one of the biggest sinners that ever lived on this earth. I can imagine that he never did one good thing. All that he did was evil. And then he hung on the cross. He didn't even have a chance to do one good thing. 4:36 But he was forgiven. Because he honestly acknowledged his sin. That is the first step. Where we honestly acknowledge our sin and say, Lord, I am a sinner. I don't blame anybody else. 5:01 That was the only good thing he did. And that is a very important thing. He did not blame other people for his sin. See, Adam blamed his wife for his sin. So he was sent out of paradise. 5:24 If you blame your wife or your husband for your fault, you will also be pushed out of paradise. you blame your parents or your neighbors or your boss or anybody. 5:44 Let me tell you in Jesus' name. There is no place in heaven for those who blame other people. That is why Jesus said don't judge. But there is a lot of place in heaven for people who take the blame themselves. 6:09 And those of you who get to heaven will discover that the only people who are there are those who have taken the blame themselves for their sin. there will be great sinners in heaven all forgiven 6:29 like the thief on the cross because they took the blame hundred percent. Hanging on the cross he said I deserve this. He did not say my parents brought me up bad or my friends led me astray or the judge 6:50 had some prejudice against me or the police caught the wrong man no I deserve this I am such a bad person I don't deserve ten years in jail I deserve to be killed Jesus heard that 7:10 and he said really you can come to heaven you can come to heaven because heaven is made for people like you what about you do you have the habit of blaming other people for your sin do you want to walk 7:33 as Jesus walked here is the number verse step what is the difference between Adam and Jesus Christ listen to this there are many differences here is one Adam could not take the blame for his own sin Jesus took the blame 7:57 for other people's sins that is one big difference from Adam and Jesus when Adam sinned he blamed his wife she is the problem she took the fruit she gave it to me and God 8:17 you gave me this wife so 50% of the blame is with the wife and 50% is with God do you say something like that have you ever said God why did you give me such a wife yeah there are husbands 8:38 who have said that God why you gave me such a husband he didn't give you you went and married don't blame God why blame God after you make a decision did God catch you by the neck and say go and marry this person it is one of the 9:00 worst habits among human beings that we do something wrong and then blame somebody else I will tell you God can forgive every wicked thing you did if you take the blame for yourself don't say 9:23 somebody cheated me somebody did this somebody did that the fault is with somebody else or God why you gave me this type of nature which makes me sin so that means God is to blame you'll never get to heaven I'll tell you 9:42 that but you can be the worst sinner in India take the blame hundred percent Lord my fault my guilt it's my guilt when something goes wrong in your home 10:02 don't always look for the fault in somebody else when something goes wrong in your church don't say it's because of that person that person take the blame and you'll see God begin to work and that is the first step if you want 10:23 to follow Jesus stop following Adam who blamed others and follow Jesus who when he hung on the cross he had never sinned but he could take the blame for the sins 10:44 of the whole work so if you don't begin there you will never progress in this life when somebody blames you keep your mouth shut it says 11:05 when they blamed Jesus he kept his mouth shut God will justify you I'm not talking about a court of law there you have to speak the truth if you didn't do anything wrong just say I didn't do anything wrong I'm talking 11:26 about in the home where we blame one another so much in the church where we blame one another so much stop that say Lord I will not justify myself in my home or in the church I will follow 11:46 Jesus and keep my mouth shut that's the first step and then there are many promises God has for us in scripture let me show you perhaps the most wonderful promise do you know 12:08 which is the most wonderful promise in the whole Bible I told you there are more than 7000 and here is the number one it's not forgiveness of sins forgiveness of sins is only cleaning the cup why do 12:28 you clean a cup to put something inside why you don't give an empty cup to your children you clean the cup and then you put something for them to drink so forgiveness of sins is only cleaning the heart God wants 12:50 to put something inside what is that that is the most wonderful promise in the whole Bible 2nd Peter chapter 1 and verse 4 now today you are going to discover the most wonderful promise in the whole Bible first of 13:13 all it says God has granted us his precious and magnificent promises see how the promises of God are called precious and magnificent there is nothing to equal it 13:33 in the whole world and granted means given free you can't buy God's gifts God gives everything free we can say that God gives everything free God is always giving free man is 13:55 always selling and the devil is always stealing this is the three characteristics God gives free man sells and the devil steals everything God gives is free think 14:15 of this oxygen that you are breathing right now how much do you pay for it you go to the hospital and ask them for one cylinder of oxygen and see how much they'll pay imagine how much oxygen you have breathed 14:35 in your life water God gives rain free all the cities will charge you for their cooperation water man is always selling and when we 14:56 preach the gospel we can either do it God's way give it free or man's way first take a collection then preach that is not God's way that's why we don't do it 15:16 the gospel is free you don't have to pay anything for it you don't have to pay anything for it God is all his promises are free God but what is the greatest here all these promises are 15:37 in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature this is the greatest promise in scripture because there's nothing greater than God can give you than his own nature 15:57 so in order to live like Jesus lived it is not imitating Jesus on the outside that will be acting you know 16:17 like all these Hollywood film stars they can dress up like John the Baptist and behave like a holy man and he acts so well like John the Baptist you really think this is a holy man but 16:40 after the acting is over he collects some million dollars for his acting and then he goes home he's a drunkard he has divorced two three wives he's not a holy man it's only on the outside pretending 17:00 just like many people when they go to church they act so holy just like some Hollywood actor so happy so holy and after the meeting is over you go home and see how they talk to each other in their home that 17:21 is another person that is another person if you don't want to live like that if you want to live like Jesus lived 24 hours every day 7 days a week there's something you need God's 17:41 nature will help you to live like Jesus lived that is the main purpose with which God sent the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost see there are many churches that preach about being 18:02 filled with the Holy Spirit they only talk about being emotional and excited no you don't need Holy Spirit to be emotional and excited you just go and drink some whiskey or alcohol 18:22 also you'll get emotional excited but to be filled with the Holy Spirit the main thing is you get God's nature inside and when you get God's nature it is easy to live 18:42 like Jesus that's why God doesn't tell you to act like Jesus on the outside because that will be acting when Jesus said to his disciples don't 19:03 be hypocrites beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy hypocrisy means acting that means pretending on the outside to be holy that is 19:24 you know something if I were to use an illustration supposing you train your dog you know how dogs can be trained there are some very good dog trainers tell the dog to sit it sits get up go and 19:45 catch that pick up that stick amazing how they train the dog supposing you train this dog now you must behave like a cat don't say so you train and the dog starts saying 20:05 meow but it's a big struggle for the dog just like it's a struggle for you to be a Christian right because you're trying to do something which is not natural so this dog always says 20:27 meow meow and behaves very nicely and then one day on the road one dog jumps at it then the real nature of this dog comes out and it forgets about all this meow and all that just bow shows its teeth 20:49 and all that this is how many Christians are they'll come to church and they'll say meow meow meow and just think but some situation comes up somebody gets angry with them and their real nature comes up and show their 21:11 teeth and their anger and everything so that's not the solution but supposing God did a miracle with this dog and changed its nature inside into the nature of a cat then you 21:35 don't have to train it it'll automatically say meow and it'll be very difficult for it to say bow isn't that only God can do that you can't do that you can train a dog you can't 21:56 change its nature but God can do it and I want to say it's the same with you and me the trouble with many Christians is they are dogs trying to behave like cats to get a good testimony how long 22:19 can you do it it's such a strain always you have to be on your guard so that I don't suddenly say bow out what a life no wonder you get headaches and all types of problems that dog 22:39 will get a headache if you keep on training it to behave like a cat brothers and sisters there is a better way the best promise in the whole Bible that God will give you his nature you know 23:02 that's the nature of Jesus Christ what will happen then in my life once upon a time I had the nature of Adam and see how perfectly I behaved like Adam I would 23:22 get angry and lust tell lies cheat seek my own be proud be jealous don't forgive others hate people I behaved like Adam perfectly did somebody 23:43 train me for that somebody train you for that how many of you train your children to tell lies how many of you train your children to fight how many of you train your children to be selfish and grab the toys for themselves 24:03 no you don't have to train your children for anything evil you have to train your children for what is good because that is not their nature and it doesn't matter which child 24:23 it is Hindu Muslim Christian Atheist same all got the same nature they all behave exactly the same there is no difference between a Christian child and any other child they all behave tell lies fight quarrel everywhere 24:47 in the world hasn't you seen every child manifesting the nature of Adam of Adam perfectly why is that nature all animals it's like that see if a 25:08 snake has a little child it will behave exactly like a snake the snake does not have to train you you sting people like a cat does not have to train its kittens you must lick yourself and keep yourself clean and a 25:33 pig doesn't have to train its little one you must always be dirty no it's just naturally dirty we see it all around us nature and that is all a lesson for us the God 25:54 who made these natures can give you his nature so you can listen to a message of living like Jesus lived and you can get it the wrong way now I have to act like Jesus you will 26:15 be like that dog trying to say meow and you may control yourself for some time but it is all hypocrisy acting we need to begin with understanding that we need to get his nature and 26:37 that is by faith faith is receiving what God is giving free free you know this wonderful promise in Ephesians 2 verse 8 by grace you are saved through faith 26:57 so let me show that to you see grace is God from heaven is giving you gift free free every Ephesians 1 3 says every spiritual 27:17 blessing God never charges for anything it costs a lot but Jesus paid the price for it so it's free for us but don't think it is cheap you know 27:38 the difference between cheap and free lot of difference a newspaper is cheap 3 rupees a diamond is very expensive hundreds 27:59 of thousands of rupees but you may have to pay for a newspaper for 3 rupees somebody may give you a diamond as a gift free that diamond is free but it's not cheap so 28:21 God's gifts are free but they're not cheap Jesus paid his blood for that so grace is God giving you the gift but you don't get it until you say thank you 28:41 lord and you take it that is faith so keep this in your mind God's grace is giving you a gift but you don't get it until you say thank you lord and take that gift then you say what about repentance now 29:02 I'll explain repentance see all of us are born facing the world and sin and the devil and our back is to God God is standing there 29:22 with all his spiritual blessings all free come and take it what do I have to do first supposing somebody is standing there with a diamond saying brother I want to give you this as a gift and I'm standing 29:42 like this what do I have to do first turn around then I can take it so the first step is repentance turning around from sin the world the devil if I 30:05 don't turn around like that like many Christians and say Lord please give me the gift you can't get it you can't get it you don't even receive a gift from a man like this but some people are trying to get God's gifts like 30:24 Lord I still love money I still love the world I still want to watch all these dirty cinemas but please give me your gift he won't give it first step is turn 30:45 around that's why you're not getting many things from God you're imagining I got it I got it you never got anything I find a lot of Christians are like that imagine I've got forgiveness I'm filled with the 31:05 Holy Spirit but look at the way you live brother he doesn't look as if you got anything from God supposing you see a beggar sitting on the street I am a millionaire I'm one of the richest people in India you'll think 31:27 he's got a screw loose in his head and when I see many Christians who live like the devil say I'm a child of God he's got a screw loose in his head also look at the way he's living that's not 31:48 the way a child of God a son of God should live will you ever see the son of a king sitting like a beggar on the street every spiritual blessing in heavenly places is ours Ephesians 32:09 chapter 1 verse 3 Ephesians 1 3 every blessing every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ God has already blessed us with read it slowly slowly 32:31 is God does it say God is going to bless us or he's already blessed us already blessed us second what type of blessing is it money blessing health blessing or spiritual 32:51 blessing spiritual third question where is it it's in heavenly places it is not in some rich earthly place every 33:13 every spiritual blessing in heavenly places is ours in Christ God is standing there giving it saying take it I have to turn around and say Lord I want it and faith is thank you I want to 33:34 show you another verse which will explain what faith is if you want God's nature so that you have to stop acting like a Christian where it becomes your nature where once 33:55 upon a time when you had the nature of Adam you could hate people with all your heart now you get God's nature you can love people with all your heart and in the old days when you had 34:16 Adam's nature did you have to struggle to hate somebody did you have to struggle to hate your mother-in-law no it was so easy to hate your mother-in-law to hate people now 34:37 when you get God's nature it will be easy to love your mother-in-law and to love everybody but if you don't have God's nature then you'll be like the dog saying meow meow we need 34:57 faith to believe that God will give us his nature but if you don't have faith you won't get it so 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 we can say the promises of God when it says every blessing it's like saying God has given us many 35:16 checks a check for 24 hours joy another check to love everybody love your enemies everything it's another check to have perfect peace of mind 35:36 freedom from anxiety and fear another check to have humility another check freedom from the love of money so many checks every spiritual 35:56 blessing and also our earthly needs checks for food and clothing and shelter and children's education you think only you are interested in your children's 36:17 education do you know God is interested in that you say where does it say that in the Bible I'll tell you Jesus taught us to pray give us this day our daily breath how can you 36:37 get your daily bread in India you can get it by begging do you want to do that no you can get it by stealing you want to do that no you can get it by borrowing from other people you want to 36:59 do that no what is the other way by working by working and earning your money that you can get your own daily bread that is God's way God says in 2nd Thessalonians 3 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 37:19 here is a law of God he says in verse 10 we have given you an order when we were with you it's a law if a man 37:41 will not work he should not eat that's a good law if you don't work don't eat so you say Lord I want to work that is 38:01 a verse by which you can ask God to give you a job if you don't have a job some of you may be looking for jobs for yourself for your children you say Lord you taught us to pray give us this day our daily bread how can 38:23 I get daily bread if I don't work I'm ready to work I'm not able to get a job my children are ready to work will you give them a job go to God in faith don't say oh I don't know Lord whether you are powerful enough 38:43 to give me a job God cannot give you a job if God cannot give you a job even the president of India cannot give you a job we don't have faith so 39:04 when we pray for our children we say Lord I want my children to get an education because in India that is the only way to get a decent job you think God doesn't know that if your children don't get educated 39:24 they'll grow up living in the slum or on the streets give us this daily bread and Lord when my children grow up let them also get that daily bread so for that they need to work for that they need 39:44 to study and for that they need to get a job so there are many things hidden in that one request give us this day our daily bread so don't think God is not interested in these earthly things so second corinthians 40:04 chapter one and verse twenty this is a wonderful verse second corinthians chapter one verse twenty I told you the promises of God are like checks one check for your daily bread so 40:25 many things but it says here all the promises are yes in him you know the meaning of that that means all these checks are signed by Jesus Christ all 40:45 the promises of God signed Lord Jesus Christ go to the bank of heaven give this person 24 hours joy perfect peace of mind ability to love his 41:05 mother-in-law you you want that check or you don't want that ability to love his enemies what all checks are lying in your box now supposing you get a check for 100,000 rupees 41:25 you get so excited you frame it up and put it on the wall every day you look at it 100,000 rupees and you can live like a beggar nobody 41:48 here is such a fool just to frame up a check and put it on the wall what do you do with that check you take it to the bank sign on the back side your name and say put it to my account that's 42:09 what it says here in him they are yes which means he has signed it but that's not enough we have to put our signature it says what is that we add our amen what 42:31 does amen mean some of you know it many people think amen means you can open your eyes now the prayer is over thank god prayer is over now we can open our eyes no 42:51 amen means yes it will be mine when somebody is praying something don't say amen if you don't believe it you don't believe it don't say amen for example 43:11 somebody prays like this lord convert everybody in india convert everybody in india all 1200 million people i never say amen because i know it won't happen because 43:33 jesus said the way to life is narrow and very few will find that is written in matthew chapter 7 verse 13 so i don't believe the whole of india will be converted but if you 43:56 pray like this i prayed for nearly 30 years lord lead me to those who are seeking to live a godly life in india there may be a few some 44:16 in bangalore some in hyderabad some in tutukurin some in some remote villages in tarnard or anywhere in india or some other part of the world lead me to those few who are really wanting you lord don't 44:40 take me to those who want to go to heaven everybody wants to go to heaven have you ever seen a man on the earth who doesn't want to go to heaven everybody wants to go heaven I've never seen you know I've seen obituary notices 44:56 in the newspaper somebody died have you ever seen underneath he went to hell no they've all gone to the lord every one of them if you read the obituary notices you think nobody is in hell everybody 45:20 wants to go to heaven I've never seen an obituary notice he died and went to hell even the one story Jesus said of the rich man if there was newspapers those days he died and he lived a good life he went to heaven but the man 45:44 is in hell from hell he sees this newspaper that he's in heaven no there are very few who are interested in living a godly life I say lord I want you to lead me to them 46:04 why because Jesus lived like that he was not trying to convert the whole world he was always alert looking for people who were seeking a godly life we saw 46:25 Peter catching fish leave that come there were so many other fishermen he never bothered about that once he went to a pool of Bethesda where there were many sick people and he went to one man there may have been 200 46:45 people there he went to one man he went away Jesus was always looking like that he saw so many people sitting in the Roman accounting office he goes to Matthew you come 47:07 the other people keep the accounts you come and follow that is how he was he would walk down the road the Holy Spirit will say stop look up in the tree there's one man sitting there he calls 47:27 him everybody thinks you're a crook but I know inside you've got a desire for godly life he was always like that he would go with his disciples from Jerusalem to Galilee and all the Jews 47:48 had the habit of bypassing Samaria and going round about to Galilee but Jesus said I feel today I must go through Samaria the disciples said Lord we Jews don't go through 48:08 Samaria oh we have to go then he goes to one deserted place there's a well there everybody's hungry now you know when we are all hungry we all go to a hotel and eat so Jesus said I'm not coming with you to 48:28 the hotel you all go and eat bring some food for me so they went he sits there by the well and there's one very bad woman who comes married five times divorced five times now living 48:52 with somebody who's not even her husband who's not even and there's Jesus knew that even though she was so sinful she had a desire to turn from her sin those are the people Jesus looking for Mary Magdalene 49:12 there's seven demons not just one inside her cast out cast out the demons there was an evil woman who had a desire for a godly life Jesus was always like that he was not trying to 49:33 convert all the Pharisees and all the Sadducees he didn't go to the Pharisees and say please please please come on come on give your life to God you have no interest in God go your way Jesus was looking for those who wanted to 49:52 live a godly life and he knew the father would lead him that is God's way and that's how we live as Jesus lived I have to do my part you have to do your part first of all you 50:12 must seek to live surrender your life to be filled with the Holy Spirit and then as you live and move around you must have a prayer in your heart oh God this godly life has made me so happy and so spiritually rich I want 50:38 to share it with others so the promises of God as I said here all are signed by Jesus Christ here is a check give this person God's nature signed by 50:58 Jesus Christ can you get it that's a promise we read it in second Peter 1 4 according to second Corinthians 1 20 it is ours then why is it not yours because you did not sign on the back side saying 51:19 Amen and give it in the bank of Amen means it will be so it will be so because God has said it we believe so many things written in the newspapers do you 51:41 believe it most of the things written in the newspapers we believe who is the Prime Minister of India Mr. Manmohan Singh I have never seen him in my life how do I know it I read it 52:03 in the newspaper do you believe it or you saw it on television or you saw it on television or before television you read the newspaper okay now here is something written in something better than newspaper do you 52:24 really believe the Bible is more trustworthy than newspaper that God has promised to give you his nature and all these promises are signed by Jesus Christ yes it says in 2 Corinthians 1 20 he's saying 52:44 yes is not enough you have to say yes then only you say Lord this is mine in Jesus name it's mine in Jesus name means that Jesus has purchased it for me in Jesus 53:05 name means this check is signed by Jesus Christ see for many people Jesus name is like a mantra to pray the whole prayer and in Jesus name do you know what it means Lord all these things I asked for it is 53:26 signed by Jesus Christ Amen that means Jesus name is there I'm putting Amen also that is how we get the promises and it's wonderful Lord here is a command of yours 1 John 2 6 53:46 all those who say they are Christians must live like Jesus lived that is the living Bible paraphrase of that verse anyone who says he is a Christian must live like Jesus lived so what 54:10 shall I do Amen Lord it shall be so by your grace I'm going to live like that let's begin there let's pray Heavenly Father please help 54:33 us to claim these wonderful promises especially the most magnificent promise of all that we can partake of your nature we know this is why Jesus died and rose again and I don't 54:57 know about everybody here but I know some are definitely interested in partaking of your nature Lord help them help us to believe that you will give this to us this ability 55:18 by the Holy Spirit to live like Jesus lived in our daily life we trust you and where we lack faith help our unbelief we pray 55:39 in Jesus name Amen
