0:00 [Music] The keys of death and hell are to our Jesus. Lift up your heart. Lift up your heart. 0:14 Lift up your voice. Rejoice again. I say rejoice. Oh, he sits at God's right hand. 0:30 till all his foreign and bow to his command and fall in his feet. So lift up your heart, 0:49 lift up your voice, rejoice. Again I say rejoice. Oh rejoice, rejoice. 1:05 Let every tongue rejoice. One heart, one heart, one voice. Oh church of Christ, rejoice. May be seated, please. Brothers and sisters, continue to sing to him. Come people of the risen king who died to give him 1:24 praise. Come people of the risen king who delight to bring him praise. Come all and tune your heart to sing. All tune your hearts to sing. To the morning star 1:43 of praise. Let's live and sing. From the shifting shadows of the earth, we will lift our eyes to him. Where steady arms of mercy reach together 2:01 children. Oh rejoice, rejoice. Let every tongue rejoice. One hearts, one heart, one voice. 2:18 Oh church of Christ, rejoice. Let's clap and sing, brothers and sisters. Come those whose joy is God's own son and those weeping through the 2:36 night. Come those who have the battle won and those struggling in the fight. His perfect love will never change. Love will never change and his mercies 2:54 never cease. Follow us through all our things with the certain hope of peace. No. Oh, rejoice, rejoice. 3:11 Let every time rejoice with one heart and one voice. Oh church of Christ, rej. Come young and old from every land. 3:32 Come young and old from every land. Men and women of the faith. Come those with full or empty hands. Find the riches of his grace. 3:50 Over all the world. His people sing. Shore to shore. We hear them call the truth that cries to every age. Our God is all they are. Let's sing. 4:08 Rejoice. Rejoice for rej. Let every time rejoice. One heart, one voice. Oh church of Christ, rejoice, rejoice, 4:27 rejoice, rej. Let every tongue rejoice. One heart, one voice. Oh church of Christ, rej. [Music] 4:50 Continue to sing to him. Father in heaven, how we love you. We lift your name in all the earth. May your kingdom be established in our praises as your people declare your mighty works. Join with us. Let's sing. 5:06 Father in heaven, how we love you. We lift your name and all the earth. May your kingdom be established in our praises 5:25 as your people declare your mighty words. Blessed be the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is still to come. 5:44 Blessed be the Lord God Almighty who reigns forever more. Say it again from the top. Father in heaven, how we love you, Father and 6:00 in heaven, how we love you. Lift your name. We lift your name and all the earth. May your kingdom be established in our praises 6:19 as your people declare your mighty works. Blessed be the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. 6:38 Blessed be the Lord God Almighty. Praise forever more. Oh, blessed be the Lord 6:55 God Almighty who was and is and is to come. Blessed be the Lord God Almighty who reigns forever 7:18 more. You reign forever more. You reign forever more. One more time. You reign forever more. 7:33 [Music] Think about his love for us. How deep the father's love for us. How vast 7:51 beyond all measure that he should give his only son to make a wretch his treasure. How great the pain of searing loss. The father turns his face away as wounds which mar the chosen one bring many sons to glory. Let's all sing unite 8:07 our heartsite our voices. We sing in praise and thanksgiving to our father and his love for us. [Music] 8:23 How deep the father's love for us. of us beyond all measure that he should give his only son 8:47 to make a wretch his treasure. How great the pain of searing loss. The father 9:05 turns his face away as wounds which are the chosen one. Bring many sons to gloryy. 9:23 [Music] Behold the man upon the cross. 9:37 My sin upon his shoulders. ashamed. I hear my mocking voice 9:53 call out among the scers. It was my sin that held him there until 10:11 it was a compliment. His dying breath has brought me life. I know that it is finished. 10:30 [Music] Shall we all stand as we sing? I will not boast in anything, no gifts, no power, no wisdom, but I'll boast in Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection. [Music] 10:48 I will not boast in any. [Music] No gifts, no power, no wisdom. But I will boast in Jesus 11:09 Christ his death and resurrection. [Music] Why should I gain from his reward? I cannot 11:29 give an answer. But this I know with all my heart. 11:43 His wounds have paid my ransom. [Music] And you are all I need. 12:04 [Music] It's your face I see. in the presence [Music] 12:24 of your life. [Music] We bow down. We bow down. We bow down and confess. 12:44 We bow down. and confess you are Lord. You are Lord [Music] 13:02 in this place. We bow our knees. We bow down and confess you are Lord 13:25 [Music] in this place. You're all I need. You are all I need. It's your face 13:49 I see. in the presence [Music] of your life. [Laughter] 14:08 We bow down. We bow down. We bow down. We bow down. [Music] 14:26 and confess [Music] you are Lord [Music] in this place. 14:43 We bow down. We bow down [Music] and confess [Music] you are Lord in this place. 15:10 Sunday school announcement. Sunday school is for the beginners in the primary section only. Juniors will please need to stay in the hall. Sunday school children can leave for Sunday school now. [Music] 15:37 Bless the Lord, oh my soul. Oh my soul. Worship his holy name. And sing like never before. 15:56 Oh my soul, I worship your holy name. The sun comes up. The sun comes up. It's a new day, darling. 16:14 It's time to sing your song again. Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me, let me be singing when the evening 16:35 comes. Bless the Lord. So bless the Lord, oh my soul. Oh my soul, worship his holy name. Sing like never before, 16:56 oh my soul, I worship your holy name. I'll worship your holy name, Lord. I'll worship your holy name. I'll worship your holy name. Yes, 17:14 I worship your holy name. [Music] Shall we bow our heads in prayer? 17:56 Psalm 34 says, "I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear it and rejoice. Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let's 18:14 exalt his name together. Our father in heaven, we 18:32 quieten our hearts before you this morning, acknowledging you as king of all the universe. The Lord of lords, the creator of the whole universe. We bow down before you. We worship your majesty, our father. 18:51 We thank you that there is no one like unto you. May your kingdom be established on our praises this morning. Father, we thank you because you are the one who was, who is, and who is to come. We bless you, Father. 19:10 We bow down before you in our spirits acknowledging you as our Lord and as our King. We give you glory. We give you praise. We give you our life as living 19:27 sacrifice. Lord, daily accept our feeble thanks and praise this morning. We bless you, Father, because you have done great things for us. You delivered us from the enemy that that was too strong for us. Our father, we 19:47 thank you that you reign supreme. Everything is under your control and under your feet. We bless you, Father, that you have given us this privilege to be called your children. We bless you this morning. Brothers and sisters, lift up your voices and shout 20:06 for joy unto the Lord. Give him all the glory that's due unto him. Praise you, Father. We bless you this morning. Worship you, Father. Glory. Hallelujah, Jesus. Thank you, Father. Praise you. Glory to you. 20:26 Thank you, Father. Thank you. Dear father, we thank you that you love us and you loved us even when we didn't deserve it. We thank you for sending 20:44 Jesus to die in our place and for accepting us in the beloved. Our father, we pray that this morning as we come to you that you will open our hearts, our minds to see you in all your majesty and father anoint your word and anoint your 21:01 servant and minister to our hearts according to our needs and be glorified in our midst for we ask in Jesus precious name. Amen. Please be seated. Now, brother Zach, brother Zach will 21:19 bring us the word of God. The most important thing that God wants 21:42 us to experience on earth is to know him personally. Jesus defined, you know, that Jesus came to give us eternal life. And we must never forget the definition of eternal life that Jesus gave in John 22:01 17. This is the clearest definition of eternal life. Many many people think of eternal life still as living forever. That's not 22:16 eternal life because man was created to live forever. Whether he goes to hell or heaven, he will live forever. That's not eternal life. That's just living forever. 22:33 The word eternal, like I've often said, is something meaning something that has no beginning and has no end. That's eternal. Man's life is not eternal. It had a beginning. 22:50 So, it cannot be eternal. It has no end. But eternal means that which has no beginning and has no end. No angel has it. Only God has eternal life. And God sent his son so that those who believe in him may 23:08 have this eternal life. And that's the greatest thing that we can ever have eternal. There's absolutely nothing to superior to that when it says that uh God has given us great promises and above all of them that we can partake of 23:26 his nature. So in John 17:3 it says this is eternal life. Jesus defined it like this that they may know you the only true God. He was praying to the father and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. There's only one way that I can have eternal life and that is 23:45 by knowing God personally and knowing Jesus Christ personally. The measure of your spiritual growth is the measure in which you know God personally where you know Jesus 24:03 personally. It's not just the assurance that my sins are forgiven. And uh we know that knowing about a person is very different from knowing a person. To know God intimately is the greatest 24:22 privilege that we can have ever have to have fellowship with him day by day. And in a world cursed by sin because of the defilement that sin has brought 24:37 into our bodies and minds. It appears to me that there is no way in which God can bring us to a knowledge of him except through trial 24:55 and uh suffering in some way. There doesn't seem to be any other way. You can't know God by if your life is all very comfortable and prosperous. But just is like that because we live in a world which is under a curse. 25:13 So God has to allow suffering and difficulty to get us to know him. And sometimes we don't understand that. But throughout the scripture from Genesis to Revelation, that is the message. 25:29 Turn with me to James chapter 5. James 5. It says he's talking about people who are who have been exploited by others, you know, rich people. James 5, he says, 25:49 "Some of you rich people, you have not paid your laborers." Verse four, and he says, "You will be judged if you don't pay your servants properly." Then he speaks to those servants who have been illreated by their masters. 26:08 You know, maybe masters who claim to be believers and did not pay their servants properly. He's saying to them in verse 7, be patient, brothers. Don't worry if your masters didn't pay you properly. They exploited you, took advantage of 26:23 you. Don't worry. Be patient till the coming of the Lord. Just like the farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient, you also be patient. And don't complain. Maybe somebody didn't give you your pay. 26:42 Don't complain. Leave it in God's hands. God will use that suffering you go through to accomplish something in you, to help you to know him and to have eternal life. Don't complain against one another 27:01 because if if you do that, then you'll not only suffer on earth, you'll suffer in eternity because you'll be judged. It's a very serious thing to complain against others. It's so clear. Don't complain, brothers, against one 27:16 another. Otherwise, you will be judged. And if you don't want to be judged, there's a clear way to escape judgment in verse 9. If you don't want to be judged, don't complain against others. Isn't that an easy way to escape God's 27:31 judgment? I take these words seriously. That's why I given up complaining against people long ago. I want to be absolutely sure when I stand before God that there's no judgment against me. And God shown me the way that I never 27:50 complain against anybody. Even where people have mistreated me or uh made a mistake. Take for example a doctor who makes a mistake and treating you. I've experienced that seriously 28:06 more than once in my life. That's but I decided not to complain and uh it doesn't solve the physical problem but it gets you get to know God better. That's the thing. When you spend your life complaining against a doctor who 28:23 treated you badly or some man who didn't pay you or something like that, you're losing an opportunity to get to know God better. The suffering that God takes you through, his plan is so that you may know him, so that you may have eternal life. And he 28:41 says for example as an example brothers James 5:10 of suffering and patience take the prophets there was not a single prophet in the old testament who was not persecuted or who did not suffer in some 28:59 way those are the greatest men of God in the old testament they suffered a lot sometimes it's not all written down and exactly the same in the new testament the apostles and prophets got to know God through suffering. I 29:12 mean, if you read the sufferings that Paul went through in 2 Corinthians 11, imprisonments and beatings and all types of things. You think Almighty God couldn't have protected him? Of course, he could have. God has protected you and me from so many 29:28 dangers and harm that other people try to do to us. Is it difficult for God to get Paul out of a prison? He took Peter out of a prison. But God in his great wisdom knew that he had a great ministry to 29:45 accomplish through the Apostle Paul. And for that he had to know him. And the only way he could know him was, believe it or not, by being beaten, by imprisonment, 30:02 by shortage of money, a shortage of food. All of these things Paul went through. Now when God doesn't where a person does not want to have such a ministry and uh whenever God tries to lead him further, he's not bothered about a ministry but he wants a 30:20 little comfort on the earth. God will allow such a person to make a lot of money, live comfortably and as far as eternity is concerned live a useless life. He may be a good brother in CFC, but in terms of eternity, he's 30:35 accomplished zero. Don't be like that. It's possible to be here. And if you don't have your focus right, to miss out in eternity, even though you may think, "Oh, God's blessing me. My life's so comfortable. I'm healthy. I don't have any sickness 30:51 and um I got a good house. I got a lot of money. I'm okay." Make it your passion, my brothers and sisters. Please listen to me, Lord, at any cost. I want to know you. You kept me on earth that I might know you before 31:08 I leave this earth and I want I want this is my passion that I want to know you better. And he says, count, then he takes the other example. He says, we count those blessed who endured. You've heard of the endurance of Job 31:24 and seen the outcome of the Lord's dealings. See, James quotes Job and says, "See, there's an outstanding example of a man who suffered even though he was so upright." Now, you would think a man who is upright and who's faithful and 31:39 turning his eyes away from evil and fearing God. I mean, in the understanding of many Christians today, he should be so blessed. He should have plenty of property and money. But the way God blessed him was by taking away his 31:56 property and money so that he could get to know him. He even got sick and he got to know God better through that whole experience. And he says don't think of just what he went through. Think of the outcome. That means the final end 32:12 of the Lord's dealings. And these are the examples given us in scripture are to remind us that there's a final end. Sometimes when we are going through a trial as some of you may be going through right now, you can only think of 32:24 that. But the Lord says always think of the final end of the Lord's dealings that the Lord is full of compassion and merciful. When a person is being beaten like Paul and imprisoned or you may think, oh well the Lord's not compassionate and 32:41 merciful, he is. or when Paul had a sickness which he prayed to the Lord three times to get rid of and God said no. Imagine God's greatest servant on earth and God says no I'm not going to I'm not going to grant you a prayer. Now the 33:00 average worldly type of believer can't understand that. They think if you know God better, he'll answer your prayer. He'll give you a comfortable life. He'll give you health. He'll give you wealth. Not so. Those are people who don't know 33:13 God. And u God told Paul, I'm not going to take it away. But he got to know God better. And the same with Job. You know the end of the Lord. You must always think of the outcome. What is the Lord accomplishing in me through all this? 33:30 And let me read the paraphrase of that. You've heard of Job's staying power and how God it God God finally brought it all together for him at the end. 33:47 Our life is like a jigsaw puzzle with all the pieces scattered around. They look so strange. But when it says God brought it all together for him at the end, he put all the pieces in the right place. the trials and the sufferings and 34:05 everything else. And when we finally look at it, the outcome when the jigsaw puzzle is all complete, we say, "Wow, Lord, you did it perfectly. I couldn't understand it when I was on earth, but you did it perfectly." And here it says, 34:19 "That's because the last part of verse 11, that's because God cares. He cares right down to the last detail." That's what the message Bible paraphrases it as. And I want you to remember that my brothers and I think you will 34:38 u need you and I will need that more in the days to come. It the Bible says very clearly it's not going to be easy to be a Christian in the last days. And we are approaching those days and you must remember when such days come. Sometimes you hear a 34:56 word today which may be preparing you for something in the future. Remember in that time when you can't understand why you are going through certain things that God cares right down to the last detail. That's why Jesus often told his 35:14 disciples things to encourage them. He says the hairs on your head are numbered. Never forget that. Never forget that the care of God for you goes down to the last hair on your head. Every little hair. 35:32 And he said, "You're more value than the sparrows. God cares for them." These are real truths. And it's easy to believe that when everything's going easy. I mean, when you got comfort and money and ease and everything to say, "Yeah, yeah, 35:46 I believe that." That's not the place where you prove your faith. It is in the darkness that your light must shine. And there's an expression that says, "Never doubt in the darkness what God has shown you in the light." 36:05 Never doubt in the darkness of your life what God once showed you in the light. I mean, if you got a 100 rupee note and you saw it clearly in the sunlight and then you're in a dark room at night and you take it out and you can't even 36:21 see what what it is, you know it's 100 rupees because you saw it in the light. But in the darkness, you look at it and say, "Hey, I don't know is this counterfeit or not?" No, you saw it in the light. Never doubt in the darkness what you 36:37 have seen in the light. And God gives us understanding of certain things in times of relative ease so that in the time of trial we remember and we confess God is still my loving father. That's a tremendous testimony. 36:56 And he speaks about Job here. And I love the book of Job because as you have often heard me say it was the first book of the Bible. The first book that God wrote in the Bible was written was the book of Job written about maybe 500 years before 37:15 Moses wrote Genesis. So I've said this before and I repeat it again. When God wanted to write a book for man, he did not say I must tell them how I created the heaven and earth first. That can wait. God waited 500 years 37:37 before he wrote about the creation of heaven and earth. The book of Genesis is not the first book that God wrote. It was the book of Job. Job lived 500 years before Moses who wrote Genesis. And the reason I emphasize that is 37:56 because you see something of God's heart there that God is seeking to show us what is really his passion. What is really his passion 38:13 for man? God writes about a man who suffered. Imagine when God wanted to write the first book for the human race. He talks about a godly upright man who 38:32 suffered more than anybody else. There was nobody on earth who was more godly than him and there was nobody on earth who suffered more than him. I mean, can you combine that? Can you believe those things that the most godly man on earth 38:47 suffers the most? That's not only true in the case of Job. The greatest example is Jesus Christ himself. You see, it's a tremendous lie of the devil. This prosperity gospel, this health wealth gospel, 39:06 because if that is the gospel, then everybody should choose it. Why why do people go after another god? No. The reason why true Christianity is rejected is because the true message of Christ says if you 39:23 really want to know God, you will suffer on this earth. That's not a message most people want. But that is the gospel. And it's proved by God writing his first book about the most upright man in the world 39:43 suffering more than anybody else in the world and being misunderstood by all the other preachers of his time. Those preachers we can say they knew theories about God but they didn't know God himself. 40:02 So when they saw this godly man suffering they say hey you must have sinned. I mean there must be something wrong in your life. Just like you know when you see somebody sick you think ah there must have been some there must be 40:13 some sin in his life. I'm healthy because I follow the Lord. Look at all the terrorists in the world who are healthy who go around killing people with bombs and all that. And that it should should expose the lie that everybody who's healthy is pleasing 40:28 to God. Or look at all the criminals and crooked businessmen and crooked politicians who make millions and millions of billions of rupees. They're not pleasing to God. It's amazing how Christians don't seem to understand that 40:42 is right before their eyes. The most godly are the ones who suffer the most. And the examples are Job, Jesus Christ, Paul, all the prophets in the Old Testament or take all the apostles. 41:00 Every one of them was killed. The most godly followers of Jesus Christ were all killed. We don't know about John, but even he was persecuted. I've heard that he was put into a tub of boiling oil. John the Apostle, an old man. 41:20 That's what the story goes. I don't know what happened, but they exiled him to Patmos. There he was alone, but he knew God. When you think of all these people now in heaven, Job, Paul, 41:38 and all the apostles, and you go to them and say, "Well, what do you think about it all now? I'll tell you the answer they'll give. Every one of them, all the prophets, all the apostles. 41:56 Turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 4. 2 Corinthians 4. Verse 16 to 18. We don't give up. 42:24 I want to read this in a paraphrase. We don't give up. 2 Corinthians 4:16. Even though on the outside it looks as if everything is falling apart. Do you feel like that sometimes in your life? that 42:43 on the outside everything's falling apart. On the inside, God is renewing us, making a new life. Not a single day goes by without God unfolding his grace to us 43:03 when outside things are falling apart. And he says, "These hard times are nothing compared to the good times that are coming. this momentary light affliction. That's what he calls it. That's what they all call it in heaven. Job, I don't know how 43:23 long you suffered. Paul, I know you suffered for 20, 30 years. And the apostle suffered many years. John suffered 60 years. But from heaven's viewpoint, he says it was only a moment. On earth, it looked so long. 43:42 But now when we are in heaven, we realize it was only for a moment. Because you know when we get to heaven, we have the eternal perspective and we see in the light of eternity where I'm going to live forever and ever and ever and ever. 43:58 Like that song says, I've got so many million years, I can't even count them. Got so many million years to live and I can't even count them. So don't ever weep for me. I've got so many million years of joy and eternity is coming in so short 44:17 momentary a moment he they call their entire life of suffering on earth as a a moment of light affliction. That's great. But Paul wrote that before he went to 44:34 heaven. And that's one of the wonderful things of being filled with the Holy Spirit. When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we get to see heaven's viewpoint. Now, that's a wonderful thing. The way I will look at things from heaven, 44:54 one day I can look at it now. And particularly in the new covenant, the new covenant apostles had followers of Jesus had a greater understanding of that than even old testament because the holy spirit had come in and shown them 45:12 heaven's viewpoint. That's one of the wonderful things when we come to know God and have eternal life that we look at everything we go through on earth is heaven's viewpoint. Do you think heaven is very excited when you got an increment in your 45:31 salary? I don't think so. Because I know a lot of people who got plenty of money and it destroyed them. I know brothers in CFC churches who were 45:50 be far better off spiritually when they were poorer. They were humbler and uh they had a greater sense of need in their life for God. And when they got plenty of money and it went well with their children, it destroyed them. 46:09 So from heaven's perspective, was that good or bad? That was bad. But from an earthly perspective, it looked very good. Oh, got a lot more money now. I can afford a lot more. My children are all well off now. Really, if they really are well off, 46:32 they'll be knowing God better. And if you know God better, I'll tell you this, the mark of a man knowing God better and better is that he becomes humbler and humbler. He, as year by year goes by, 46:50 He thinks less and less of himself. He's humbler and humbler. You see a man who's getting humbler and humbler and humbler year by year. And there you see a man who's not spending his life thinking about himself. 47:10 He's not thinking about how smart he is or how much people appreciate him because he's getting to know God. He's getting prepared for heaven. where one day when he gets there, they only sing about the lamb that was slain. 47:26 They don't sing about Paul or Job or anybody. He's getting prepared for that. Like, and so like John the Baptist, he's decreasing every day so that Christ can increase. Eternal life is for Christ to increase in us. And I'm absolutely convinced that the 47:42 reason why Christ does not increase in the lives of many believers is because they are not willing to decrease. If you are serious about being willing to decrease, Christ will increase in your life without any doubt. You'll get 47:58 to know God better. Your life will be a tremendous blessing to other people because there'll be less of you and more of Jesus. We can't bless people just with Bible knowledge or correct doctrine. Remember this. I wish I could convince you all of it. 48:17 It's not We thank God for all the wonderful doctrines of the new covenant and all that God has revealed to us. But you can understand all that intellectually. The whole purpose of the new covenant is so that we might get to know God better. 48:33 The new covenant was mentioned in Jeremiah and Ezekiel and uh it's quoted in the new in the New Testament. And I want to show you a verse in Jeremiah where he's the man who spoke about the new covenant first. 48:51 There was no prophet who used the word new covenant like Jeremiah and Ezekiel. And They he was the one who prophesied that the day is coming when he'll establish a 49:07 new covenant with God's people. And in Jeremiah chapter 9, this man who was the prophet prophesying the new covenant says this. Jeremiah 9 and verse 23. Don't let the wise man 49:28 brag about his wisdom. And don't let the mighty man boast about his might. And don't let the rich man Jeremy 3. And don't let the rich man boast about his riches. If you want to boast, there's only one 49:47 thing worth boasting about. God says that you know me that I am the Lord. Do you know that's the only thing worth boasting about on this earth? The things that even Christians inwardly 50:07 boast about. some about how good-looking they are or how clever they are, how well they did in their profession or how God honored them with money or position or honor. 50:26 It's all rubbish. It's all fit for the trash can. Never forget it. It's all fit. The only thing that's worth boasting about, God says, 50:44 is that you know me. That you know what type of person I am. That I'm full of loving kindness and justice and righteousness. That is the essence of the new covenant. If you haven't seen that, my brother, sister, you've understood a doctrine. 51:04 So make it the pursuit of your life to know God like Paul says at the end of his life. Turn with me to Philippians 3. Philippians 3. It's a great verse. Philippians 3:8. 51:28 Remember Paul is writing this from prison. He was in a prison when he wrote Philippians and he has already labored and he's raised the dead and he's planted churches and written scripture. But what does he say there? He says, 51:45 "Yeah, there are so many things I've done, but I count everything to be lost." Philippians 3:8. Everything is lost in view of the surpassing value 52:03 of knowing Jesus Christ. And I've considered everything as rubbish compared to knowing Christ. 52:20 Everything outside of Christ is rubbish. Have you seen it, brothers, sisters? Your ability, your qualifications, the things that you feel make you superior to other believers. 52:38 What is it? If we don't have the right values, it'll hinder our spiritual progress. In the paraphrase, it says, "All the things I once thought were so important 52:56 are gone from my life compared to the high privilege of knowing Jesus Christ, my Lord, firsthand. I count everything else as rubbish. And 53:12 he says, I count it like dog dung. That's the actual word. The dung on the road. See, that's how I look at it. Everything except knowing Jesus. All the things 53:30 that once I considered important, I've thrown it away. It's not only trash, it's dog dung. Only God's Holy Spirit can open our eyes to see that. And once we've seen it, the passion of our life will be to know Jesus better, to know him better and 53:50 better. And whatever trial he go takes us through that we might know him better. Had many good qualities and you and I have many good qualities. Sure. I'm sure. In fact, Job was the most God-fearing man on earth. And I 54:06 think many of us are among some of the most god-fearing people perhaps in Bangalore. I don't know. I hope so. But even if you are, even if God can point you out and say there's a God-fearing man or woman in Bangalore, 54:25 Job still did not know the Lord the way he should know him. He turned his eyes away from evil. He was god-fearing and all that, but there was something in him that was missing still. And God was such a jealous God. You know, it's like like 54:45 a father who saw his son get 90%. And says, "Son, I want you to get 100%." 90% is so good. I if you get 90% in some tough examination, you're way ahead of most of the other% 55:04 and just pass my just going to heaven and you're getting 90%. That's how Job was compared to all the other people in his day. And you may be like that because of the truths you've heard. You've taken life seriously. But God may still say there's something 55:21 in you that's still missing. Don't compare yourself with others. One of the easiest ways to stop growing spiritually is to compare ourselves with others. You'll destroy yourself. 2 Corinthians 10 verse 12 says, "Those who compare 55:36 themselves with each other are spiritual idiots." If you want to be a spiritual idiot, just compare yourself with other believers in CFC or other places and say, "Oh, thank God I'm not like them." That's what the Pharisees said. It's 55:49 foolish. The only person worth comparing ourselves with is Jesus Christ. And uh if we there was something in Job that was missing. There was something in Paul that was missing. And that's why God had to Paul was an upright man. He once said, "I've 56:08 lived all my life with a good conscience." Something like Job. All my life I lived with a good conscience and yet something was missing. Job was a perfect and upright man and yet something was missing. You know what it was? 56:22 They were not broken. A man can be very holy and very good in many ways and yet he may not be a broken man. And God has to break us before we can come to know him better. And that's not something people seek 56:41 for. Why did God take this godly man through sickness and bring him down to poverty? only one reason. I don't think he became holier at the end of that, but he was a broken man by the time he came to the end of that 57:00 experience. And the experiences God leads us through is to break us. I I find many good people in our CFC churches. But I I can sense when I get to know them, they're not broken yet. There's not a brokenness in their life. 57:18 And that's why God is limited in what he can do through them. The greatest work you can do for God, my brother, sister, this is what somebody told me when I was about 30 years old. The greatest work you can do for God is 57:36 to fall into the ground and die. Do you believe that? Somebody told me that you want to do a great work for God in India brother. I was about 32 years old and he said if you want to do a great work for God in India fall into the 57:55 ground and die. That's not the type of teaching that most people give to young people. But if you haven't understood that, you missed out on the most important thing in the Christian life. 58:13 And I knew it was true. And I decided I was going to die. Die to my reputation and die to the use of my spiritual gifts the way I thought I should use them. Die to what people thought about me. Just like that grain of wheat fall into 58:30 the ground and die. The alternative is that you may be a beautiful Christian and you can be like a corn of wheat that's in a glass case in CFC. Everybody admires you. Wow, what a beautiful corn of wheat. You want that? There'll be no fruit in your life. 58:49 If you're interested in admiration or fruit, if you want admiration for your Christlikeness, put yourself in a glass case and all your life you'll be one grain of wheat. But if you want fruitfulness, let that thing go into the ground. Let 59:07 your reputation be ruined and spoiled and let people say what they like about you. That grain of wheat goes into the ground and people trample on it. It goes inside the ground. It cracks open. It's broken. And when it's broken, the life inside 59:21 that grain of wheat comes out. There's a life inside the grain of wheat. You know that there's a life in every seed. That's what produces the trees. But that life will never come out till it is broken open. 59:38 That's what I mean by brokenness. It's like the alabaster bottle of perfume. It may have wonderful perfume, but nobody gets it smell of it till it's broken. And that's when when the perfume was 59:57 broken and poured out, then the whole house got the order of it. It's a message right through scripture. Brokenness. Moses was a accomplished man. at the age of 40 and he thought he could lead God's people and God said he 1:00:15 got many good qualities. At the age of 40 he said I don't want to be the ruler in Egypt. I reject the honor of the world. He rejected the pleasures of sin. Imagine a 40-year-old man rich wealthy position in the best country in the world and saying I don't 1:00:30 want honor. I don't want the pleasures of sin and u I don't want anything that this world can offer me. I don't want money. And God still says, you're not good enough. Yeah. I mean, you may be like that. Say, I don't want the money of this world. I 1:00:50 don't want the honor of this world. I don't want the pleasures of sin. And you think you've made it. You know, it says in Hebrews 11 24 and 26 that God that Moses said those words when he was 40. I don't want the pleasures of sin. I don't 1:01:04 want the wealth of this world. And I don't want the honor of this world. You think such a man is spiritual? And God says, "No, that's good. Now he's got to be broken." And it took him 40 years to be broken. And then God says, "Now you're ready for 1:01:19 me." Till now you were just a admired by the world. There's a man who doesn't live for money, who's kept himself pure and who doesn't seek for honor. There you get the glory of the world. But God says, "If I am to use you, I 1:01:33 have to break you." and he took him for 40 years and broke him and crushed him till he was so broken that he said Lord I'm not fit to serve you. When Moses said I'm a wretch, he meant it. We can s sing Amazing Grace that saved a 1:01:49 wretch like me and I don't know whether you really believe you're a wretch. A broken man will feel like that all through. And it's a wonderful thing when God breaks a man so thoroughly because Moses had to remain broken for 40 years. 1:02:06 So, and that's why it says about Moses, he was the humblest man in all the earth. All your holiness, my brothers and sisters, is not enough. When you know God, you'll be broken. And that's not a message that's 1:02:24 proclaimed in most of Christianity or even in other all religions will appreciate holiness. But who understands brokenness? It it says about even about Jesus that it pleased the father to bruise him and to crush him. 1:02:44 So Job the one thing he lacked was brokenness. And you can see evidence of that in let me show you one chapter in the book of Job which says in Job 29. You know when he was going through all this suffering in the beginning he 1:03:02 reacted well but as time went on and the suffering did not stop he began to complain. When we suffer physically in the beginning, we usually react well. 1:03:21 Like Job, you say, "Yeah, I know I must give thanks to God." But I have a secret hope that if I give thanks to God, he'll sort it all out in a week or so. And when nothing happens in a week or in 10 years, then we can sink like Job and say, 1:03:39 "What's the matter now? I did all the right things. And yeah, Job in his heart, he was thinking Job 29, how it was in the days. Verse two, when God watched over me. Verse four, the friendship of God was 1:03:59 over my tent. The Almighty was with me. Verse five, my children around me. My steps were bathed in butter. I was so rich, I went out of the gate of the city. And when I took my seat in the square, the young men saw me and hid 1:04:12 themselves out of respect. The old men stood up. The princes stopped talking when I came by. The voice of the nobles, they kept quiet. When the year heard what I said, it called me blessed. He's a man who's got a ministry, a spoken ministry that 1:04:28 blessed people. People heard it and said, "Oh, how blessed." The eyes saw me, gave witness of me. I delivered the poor who cried for help and I helped the orphan and on and on and on and on. He says how he lived and the purity of his life. 1:04:46 Chapter 31 verse one I did not lust after women and I did not seek after gold or any such things. So many wonderful things. He says all that inward congratulating oneself and boasting 1:05:04 oneself is the clearest proof that a man is not broken. It was there all in his mind. Paul said forgetting the things that are behind and pressing to the things that are before. It means forgetting all the orphans I helped and forgetting all the 1:05:23 poor people I helped and forgetting all the good things I did. That's not easy. A broken man does not keep on remembering all the good things he did. Job remembers it very well. He says, "I 1:05:42 can look back over my life and see all the good things I did. Oh, I kept myself pure and I did this and I did this. Be careful of such thoughts, my brothers and sisters. Those are an indication that you're not a broken person. 1:05:58 You may sing Amazing Grace that saved a wretch like me, but you don't really believe you're a wretch because you can list at least 20, 30, 40 things, good things that you did. You're not a wretch. Yes, brokenness doesn't come easily, 1:06:13 but when it does come, there will be abundant fruit, and you won't take any credit for it. It's God's will that all of us should be fruitful. It's not only few outstanding brothers and sisters that should be fruitful. I want to say 1:06:29 to you in Jesus name what Jesus said, I have chosen you. The Lord says in John 15 and appointed you John 15:16 that you should bring forth fruit to everyone sitting here. If you're born 1:06:47 again and you have given your life to Christ, I want you to take that word from the Lord. The Lord saying to you, I have chosen you and ordained you that you should, John 15:16, that you should bring forth fruit and not fruit 1:07:03 that comes and disappears, but fruit that remains. For that you have to fall into the ground and die. that beautiful grain of wheat will lose its beauty 1:07:21 and men will despise you. Well, that's what happened to Job. He had to sit outside the gate of the city scraping himself. Men despised him, misunderstood him. Oh, this great rich man, there must have been some secret 1:07:39 sin in his life. That's why God has punished him like this. Even his wife couldn't understand. Other preachers couldn't understand. There may be other godly men who can't understand why what you're going through. Maybe your wife can't understand. Your husband 1:07:55 can't understand. But you don't defend yourself. You don't complain. You keep your mouth shut. And God does a work in breaking you. And we know that Job is broken because finally he says these words. And this is the these are the words of a broken man. 1:08:13 See what he says in Job chapter 40. And there you see, you know what James says, you know, the end of the Lord, the outcome of the Lord's dealings. What God finally accomplished in Job is this. Job 40:4, Lord, 1:08:32 I am insignificant. What can I reply to you? I boasted about how wonderful things I did. Now I lay my hand on my mouth. I've spoken once, twice, but I'll never say anything anymore because I've seen 1:08:51 what I am. I am insignificant. You know that first word of the sermon on the mount, blessed are the poor in spirit, for there's the kingdom of God. In the amplified Bible, it says, "Blessed are those who rate themselves 1:09:06 as insignificant." I want to ask you, do you rate yourself as an insignificant person in CFC? Perhaps not. The more people because some of you are serving and doing so many good things 1:09:25 and many others are appreciating you, it's very easy to begin to rate yourself as well, not so insignificant. I'm one of the significant You see? Uhhuh. Well, I pray that you will get to know 1:09:43 God. Because when you do, like when Isaiah saw the glory of God, he said, "Oh, woe is me. I'm unclean." John the Apostle when he saw Jesus at the age of 95, he fell at his feet and says, "Oh, I'm nothing. I'm like a dead 1:10:01 person." It's always the mark of broken people. They rate themselves as insignificant. It's not, you know, saying it just to act humble. It's a deep conviction 1:10:17 inside I am insignificant. That doesn't mean I have low self-esteem. Not at all. I know in God's eyes I'm a son of God. I'm a prince of heaven. 1:10:34 I have no doubt about that. I know where I stand before God and we must know where we stand before God as son or a daughter of God. But in our relation to other fellow believers, we rate ourselves as insignificant. We 1:10:52 don't desire any honor. We don't desire any recognition. And we don't question if God puts us in prison or makes us suffer or gives us a thorn in the flesh that he'll never heal or like in Timothy's case give us frequent 1:11:08 sicknesses that are never healed. You know, we read about Paul's thorn in the flesh, but a lot of people don't know about Timothy's thorn in the flesh. Paul told Timothy uh 1 Timothy 1:11:27 and chapter 5, he says, "Don't just drink water." 1 Timothy 5:23, "But take a little wine for the sake of your stomach 1:11:43 and your frequent ailments." Timothy was the most outstanding servant of God next to Paul. Paul says that in Philippians 2:19, 1:11:59 but that man had frequent sicknesses. How do you how do you understand that? That God's greatest men on earth in the first century had frequent sicknesses. That's not what today's Christians 1:12:17 understand. And you know why? Cuz they don't know God. They don't know brokenness. They don't know that God's whole purpose in keeping us on this earth for a length of time is not to make us healthy or wealthy. Dear brothers, take it from me. 1:12:36 Your wealth is no mark of God's blessing. You may have it, but it's an incident. The color of your skin. Do any of you think that because your skin is white, you're more acceptable to God? I'm sure you don't have that idea. It's exactly 1:12:54 the same. Wealth is like that. Then just because God gave you, maybe you came to CFC years ago and you were very poor and now God has blessed you so much. Blessed you in what way? I hope you're broken. Not money. 1:13:11 Not even children. No, you have many children. That's not God's blessing because any any Muslim family will beat you outright when it comes to children. Don't boast in that. It's in brokenness 1:13:30 which mark of God's blessing. You mustn't forget it. Not not that he gave you this and he gave you that and a lot of things that worldly people aspire for. That's not it. That's not it. It can be a deception. 1:13:50 And the more you think about it, the more your mind gets clouded. So think of brokenness that God is seeking to do in your life. So that you really come to know him personally. Let him who glories glory in this that he understands and knows me. 1:14:09 Turn with me again to Isaiah 53. Isaiah chapter 53, we read about Jesus. I've often meditated on this chapter. There are parts of this chapter which we can have no part in like it says the sin 1:14:28 of the world was placed upon Jesus. Verse six, and those things we have no part in. But there are many other aspects of this chapter that have a message for us. You know, we look into the scriptures to 1:14:46 see Jesus and it says the Holy Spirit makes us like him. So here is Jesus. Verse Isaiah 53:2. First of all, it says in verse one, who would have that God's saving power would look like 1:15:05 this? Who has believed our report? I mean, this whole chapter, he says, when I say it, Isaiah says, "Lord, when I proclaim this, who in the world is going to believe that this is the description of a man of God?" No, nobody can believe this is the 1:15:21 description of a man of God. He says, "Who will believe it? Who will believe that God's saving power makes a man like this?" Like what? There's nothing attractive about him. Verse two, he's looked down upon. People don't even 1:15:38 give him a second look. He's passed over. A man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turn away. Is this the description of a man of God? Most of today's preachers you see in the 1:15:56 television are like film stars. They have as much money as film stars collected from poor people and they look like film stars too. But not Jesus. Don't get fooled by all these movies about Jesus. The real Jesus is 1:16:16 here. There was nothing attractive about him. nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down upon, passed over, a man who suffered, and who knew pain firsthand. One look at 1:16:36 him and people turned away. We looked on him and thought he was scum. Scum means rubbish. Do you want to be like him? There was no man on earth who knew God better than Jesus Christ. 1:16:53 You know, God's greatest men are not attractive in the eyes of the world and not even attractive in the eyes of worldly believers. You have to have spiritual eyes to see men whom God values and not just admire such men. You can 1:17:15 admire a godly man, but you may never want to pay the price to be like that yourself. Every godly man and woman that's ever been on this earth right from the time of Enoch has paid a price for it. 1:17:34 And you can be like that, too, if you're willing to pay the price. And it's worth it because in eternity when you look back you'll say, "Lord, I'm so thankful that I counted everything else as rubbish just to know you. Make it the passion of 1:17:50 your life to know you." And if you want to know Jesus, read the scriptures and ask the Holy Spirit to show you the beauty of Jesus, the beauty in God's eyes, and say, "Lord, I want to be like that." And you'll see the way of the cross that 1:18:07 was marked on Jesus' face and life throughout his life. He went went that way of the cross. That's a message that's not proclaimed in most of Christianity. I don't know whether you know that 1:18:23 Jesus was sick. I've been accused of preaching a lot of strange doctrines and this may be another one but it is in scripture. Let me give you a little twominute Bible 1:18:41 study. It says in verse four, our griefs he bore and our sorrows he carried. The word there, if you look in your 1:19:00 margin is sickness. If you got a margin in your Bible, it says our sickness he bore. But the translators did not have the courage to write sickness. They wrote griefs, but the real meaning is our sicknesses 1:19:18 he bore. And in Matthew chapter 8 and there it doesn't say griefs, it says sickness. Matthew chapter 8 quoting Isaiah. It says in Matthew chapter 8 verse 17, 1:19:37 this was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet. He took our infirmities and carried away our diseases. Now some people miscode scripture and say that is what Jesus did on the cross that he took our sicknesses on the 1:19:56 cross. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that. Those are people who read the Bible carelessly. This was fulfilled. It says read read it carefully. This was fulfilled here three years before he went to the cross. 10 when he healed all those who were 1:20:14 brought to him who were sick. He healed all those who were sick. Verse 16. And as he healed all those who were sick, the saying was fulfilled that he took away our sicknesses and our diseases. It was fulfilled there, 1:20:32 not when he died on the cross. When he died on the cross, he died for our sins that we might die to sin and live unto righteousness. And he didn't carry our diseases on the cross. You won't find a verse in scripture that says that. 1:20:51 1 Peter chapter 4, I'm sorry, 1 Peter chapter 2. Verse 24. 1:21:15 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. For by his stripes we are healed. Healed from what? Read the context. healed from sin to live to righteousness that is spiritual 1:21:34 health. So we see that the word griefs in Isaiah 53:4 he carried our sicknesses. It is sickness. Okay. The same word comes in Isaiah 53:3 1:21:54 and let me read it to you as it isn't as it should be. a man of sorrows and acquainted with sickness. This is not some strange teaching. A lot of people think sickness is due to 1:22:10 sin. That's what Job's friends thought. If Jesus was not acquainted with sickness, there's one part of our experience on earth which he never had. I will be able to say to him, Lord, 1:22:28 you don't know what I'm going through. There a lot of people who don't believe he was tempted like us. He was tempted like us, but he never sinned. I've been in times of sickness or I asked the Lord, I said, "Lord, did you 1:22:43 go through this? You see how difficult it is to overcome temptation when I sick? Even if you have a headache. I remember once when years ago when my children were small, I had a very severe headache and I was lying in bed and I 1:23:00 said, "Lord, did you ever have a headache on earth? Do you know what it is like to have a headache and to try and uh fight against sin when you got a headache?" And the Lord spoke to me. Yes, he had a headache also on earth, but he 1:23:18 never sinned. And the Lord said to me, I'm leading you to a higher level. You have overcome getting irritated with your children. You have overcome that without a headache. Now I'm taking you to a higher class where you'll have to 1:23:35 overcome that irritation with a headache. I said, "Oh, praise the Lord." That means it's a it's an education for me under greater pressure to be an overcomer. So Jesus faced temptation when he had a headache. 1:23:53 There was no sin in him. Absolutely not. You all know that death is worse than sickness. And uh we see oh sickness is the result of the curse. How could Jesus have it? Do you know that persspiring is also a result of the curse? 1:24:10 How many of you believe that Jesus when he was slogging away in a carpenter shop never persspired? Do you believe that? I believe he perspired just like you and me or death is a result of the curse. Do you believe Jesus died? 1:24:27 Perspiration, sickness, death, they're all a result of the curse. Jesus became a curse for us that we might never have a curse ourselves. But we do face perspiration. We do face death. So we face sickness too. But in it we are overcomers. And 1:24:46 God uses it to make us more like him. God used a sickness a thorn in the flesh to make Paul humble. God used frequent ailments in Timothy's body to make him the most outstanding servant of God in Paul's time. And I say, Lord, if that is 1:25:02 the price I have to pay, I'm ready for it. It's rubbish. It's a momentary affliction which produces in me a tremendous glory because my passion in life is not to be wealthy or healthy. My passion in life is to know God better as 1:25:18 my father. And if and I don't have any fear and you know Jesus nobody could ever kill Jesus before his time came. People tried to once catch him and throw him over a cliff. Could not kill him. Why? His hour had not come. Once soldiers were sent to 1:25:34 capture him to kill him. They could not catch him. One reason his hour had not come. Always the reason is his hour had not come. Not that they were not strong enough or he quickly escaped or no no no no no his hour had not come. 1:25:48 And remember this my brothers and sisters, no sickness, no attack of evil people or anything. If you're living in God's will and your only passion in life is to know God better, to have eternal life and to fulfill God's will on earth, you cannot 1:26:07 die till your hour comes. I believe that for myself. I'm immortal till my life's work is done. If my only ambition in life is to do the will of God and to finish the work he gave me, you were born on earth with a particular 1:26:26 task to be fulfilled for God and Jesus Christ. And if your aim on in life is say, Lord, that's the only thing I want to do on earth. Everything else is secondary. I can give you this promise. You are immortal till your life's work 1:26:41 is done. What more do you want? You should be the happiest man on earth. I believe I am. What a wonderful life. That's why Paul told Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:17, "Lay hold of eternal life." lay hold of eternal life. Let's look at 1:26:58 that verse in closing. 1 Timothy chapter 6 and verse 17. 1 Timothy in chapter 6, sorry, verse 12, 1:27:16 not 17. 1 Timothy 6:12, fight the good fight and take hold of eternal life. 1 Timothy 6:12, fight the good fight and take hold of eternal life. What does that mean? He wasn't telling him to accept Jesus Christ. That's what some 1:27:30 people say to accept Jesus Christ, you get eternal life. He had accepted Christ years ago. lay hold of this knowledge of God to know God is eternal life to which you were called. And I would say that the same thing to you brothers and sisters, lay hold of 1:27:48 eternal life. Say, Lord, whatever the price, whatever the cost, I want to know you better. I want to know what it is to be broken so that I can know you better. Job knew God better. He said, I'm insignificant. He says, "Till now I only heard about 1:28:04 you. Now I see you." And a broken man will always repent constantly. May God help us. Let's bow in prayer. Our heavenly father, as we bow before 1:28:22 you, it's a wonderful thing that you've given us the Holy Spirit to help us to know the things that have eternal value. We live in a world where hardly anybody has that eternal sense of values. Even 1:28:41 among so-called believers, it's possible that many sitting here don't have the eternal sense of values. And it's so easy to be influenced by them. We want to be different, Lord. We want to be like Jesus. That our whole mindset 1:28:59 is a mind of Jesus. Those things that are really valuable and help us to decrease that Christ might increase in our lives in all of us. We humbly ask in Jesus name. Amen. Yeah, we want to praise the Lord for 1:29:27 speaking to us this morning. I know God spoke into my own heart and I'm sure we've been mightily challenged and strengthened and edified and we want to respond to what we heard this morning. And I want to especially challenge all the young brothers and 1:29:43 sisters. I hope you'll have a great longing to know the Lord better and in the short time here on earth to let the Lord work in us break us and accomplish his purpose and as a response this morning we want 1:30:01 to sing two songs knowing you Jesus knowing you there's no greater thing you're my all you're the best you're my joy my righteousness and I love you Lord and let's not just sing it as a song. Let's sing it from our heart as a prayer. Everyone from the 1:30:18 heart. And I hope we'll say, "Lord, give us a revival of brokenness. Really break me, Lord." That's my prayer this morning. And one more song. It's a lovely song. It says, "It'll be worth it all when we see Jesus. Life's trials will seem so 1:30:35 small when we see Christ. One glimpse of his dear face, all sorrows will erase. so bravely run the race till we see Christ. So that's what we want to do for one another this morning. We don't complain about the circumstances 1:30:51 and we just don't say hang on brother but we say let the Lord's purposes be complete completed in our lives and shall we stand up and sing these two songs from our What? 1:31:05 [Music] 1:31:33 All I once held dear, built my life upon all this world and wars to home. All I once thought 1:31:51 gave I have counted, lost, spent and worthless. How compared to this? Knowing you, Jesus. 1:32:11 Knowing you, there is no greater thing. You're my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my righteousness. 1:32:28 and I love you, Lord. Now my heart's desire is to know you more to be found in you 1:32:47 and know as yours to possess by faith what I could not earn. All surpassing gift of rightuousness. Knowing you, 1:33:10 Jesus. Knowing you, there is no greater thing. You're my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my righteousness, 1:33:29 that I love you, Lord. know to know the part of your risen 1:33:43 life and to know you in your suffering to become like you in your death my Lord 1:34:00 showing you to live and never Knowing you, Jesus, knowing you, 1:34:17 there is no greater thing. You're my all. You're the best. You're my joy, my righteousness. 1:34:31 And I love you, Lord. Oh, [Music] 1:34:56 of times the day seems long. Our trials hard to bear. We're temped to complain, to mur and despair, but Christ will soon appear 1:35:15 to keep his bride away. All tears forever over in God's eternal day. Let me take it lower. [Music] 1:35:32 Of times the day seems long. Our trials hard to bear. We're temped to complain to m and despair. 1:35:48 But Christ will soon appear to catch his bride away. All tears forever over in God's eternal day. 1:36:05 It will be worth it all when we see Jesus. Life's trials will seem so small. When we seek Christ, one glimpse of his dear face, 1:36:24 all sorrows will erase. So bravely run the race till we see Christ. [Music] Sometimes the sky looks down 1:36:41 with not a ray of light. We're tossed and driven on. No human help inside. But there is one in heaven who knows our deepest care. 1:37:01 Let Jesus solve your problem. Just go to him in prayer. It will be worth it all when we see Jesus. 1:37:17 Life's trials will seem so small when we see Christ. One glimpse of his dear face. All sorrows will erase. 1:37:33 So bravely run the race till we see Christ. Life's day will soon be over. All storms forever pass. 1:37:49 We'll cross the great divine to glory safe at last. We'll share the joys of him. The hop the home a crown. 1:38:04 The temper will be banished. We live burdens down. It will be worth it all. When we see Jesus, 1:38:21 life's trials will seem so small when we see Christ. One glimpse of his dear face all sorrows will erase. 1:38:36 So bravely run the race till we see Christ. Hello. How many of us know this song? So not many. Okay. Please be seated brothers and sisters. We learn this song 1:38:55 today. It's a lovely song. I've been tremendously encouraged by this song for the last more than 30 years and especially in the times of trials and difficulties to really be encouraged by the song. So maybe we'll repeat it 1:39:11 again. I'm not sure join us. Come along. So brothers and sisters, let's learn this song. God spoken to our hearts this morning and in the times of temptation we don't 1:39:30 let ourselves be shaken and say Lord I will endure every trial every temptation and sickness and I let myself be broken till your purpose is accomplished and then when you come to the end of life we'll say it'll be worth it all and 1:39:45 shall we sing it with joy gladness and come Of times the day seems long. 1:40:06 Our trials hard to bear. We are temped to complain to m and despair. But Christ will soon appear to catch his bright 1:40:26 tears forever over in God's eternal day. It will be worth it all. When we see Jesus, 1:40:42 life will seem so small. And we see Christ [Applause] one glimpse of f your face. All sorrows will erase. 1:40:57 So bravely run the race till we sing right. Sometimes the sky looks dark with not a ray of light. 1:41:14 We are to driven all. No human help inside. But there is one in heaven. Who knows? Let Jesus solve your problem. Just go to 1:41:35 him in prayer. Sing it along. It will be worth it all when we see Jesus. Life seems so small when we see Christ. 1:41:54 One glimpse of his new face. All sorrows will erase so greatly run the race. Till we sing Christ day will soon be old. 1:42:14 All stones forever pass. We'll cross the great divine to glory safe at last. We'll share the joys of heaven. A home around 1:42:33 the temple will be banished. Will down. It will be worth it all. When we see Jesus, 1:42:50 life will seem so small when we see Christ. One glimpse of f your face. All sorrows will erase. 1:43:05 So bravely run the race till we sing Christ. I hope you learned it now. And shall we sing the chorus once again all together? It will be worth it all. 1:43:22 When we see Jesus, life's trials will seem so small. When we see Christ, one glimpse of your face, 1:43:39 all sorrows will erase. So bravely run the race till we sing Christ. Shall we close eyes? Thank God for his word this morning. 1:43:59 Thank God for speaking to our hearts so powerfully. Heavenly Father, we want to praise you and thank you Lord for anointed word you gave us this morning. Thank you for speaking to our hearts Lord. Thank you Lord your Lord 1:44:18 here to live on this earth so that your purposes can be fulfilled so that we can be broken. And we pray this morning Lord you will work in us mightily and powerfully so that we can be a broken people here who can accomplish 1:44:36 your plans. Lord help us Lord this morning not just to appreciate the message but we pray that you will work in us to do your will and your good pleasure. And we pray Lord that you'll find amongst us a group of broken people. 1:44:53 Lord, yes Lord, help us. We pray every one of us and help us to be faithful in temptation, in trial, in the daily life that you can be glorified in all. Thank you again, Lord, for brother Zach and his life and his 1:45:12 ministry and the word we heard this morning. We give you worship, Lord. We give you thanks and we bless your name Lord in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Here we want to welcome those who are visiting us for the first time this 1:45:28 morning. 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