1 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,800 Hi, and welcome to the, we assign summon podcast. 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,700 We are local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,900 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:24,000 encourage Inspire. And in still, fresh faith. 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:28,400 In you, as we enter this New Year, our theme for the year is 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,500 Catch the Wind. Our desire is that through this 7 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:34,800 year each of us would live completely reliant on the Holy 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,900 Spirit and we'll follow him wherever he needs us. 9 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:42,000 We have guest Roman rule share God's word with us on catching 10 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,300 the wind to be cleansed. The holy spirit is one who 11 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,900 brings conviction to our hearts and thereby brings cleansing and 12 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:51,000 healing to every part of our Lives. 13 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:54,800 Will you listen in to what God has to speak to you today? 14 00:00:56,700 --> 00:00:59,000 Welcome church. That's a joy and a privilege to 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,300 be in God's word. Today and even as we take some 16 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:05,800 time to dwell into God's word, I just want to First say, a quick 17 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,800 word of prayer so that our hearts will be open our 18 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:14,100 spiritual, be able to receive what he has and we as as his 19 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,200 children, be able to do what his word requires us to do. 20 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,600 So can we just put our heads down and just say a quick word 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,100 of prayer. A loving Heavenly Father, we 22 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:25,800 thank you Lord for this time I pray that God even as I bring 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,600 your word that you would anoint me, I pray that Lord. 24 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:30,500 Even as I speak, that it I'll be always. 25 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:33,400 That is being spoken. I pray that lot that your word 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,900 would work in us, and through us, and that will be set free. 27 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:39,800 Lord, Jesus be with us and bless us your most. 28 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,600 Holy name we pray. Amen! 29 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:44,600 Amen. So for those of you who've been 30 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,600 following us over the last month or so would be knowing that 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,800 we've been going through this entire series called catch the 32 00:01:50,808 --> 00:01:52,800 wind. In fact, he started the year 33 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:57,300 with this theme called catch the wind and I believe strongly that 34 00:01:57,300 --> 00:01:59,800 we as a church, we as his children. 35 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,100 Need the Holy Spirit more than ever before. 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,700 And I just want to reiterate in see that the holy spirit is not 37 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:08,500 a feeling. The holy spirit is not something 38 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,400 that, you know, is only present within the four walls of a 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,300 church know. He is a being, he is the third 40 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:16,000 person. He is the third person in the 41 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,100 Trinity. He is the person who was 42 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:21,500 promised by Jesus saying that, when I go from here, I will send 43 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:24,200 the comforter and he's the one who came down on the day of 44 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,600 Pentecost. And ever since that, 45 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,200 Christianity has not been the same ever since that has been 46 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,400 moving in and through people. He's been moving in and through 47 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,900 His prophets, he's been moving in and through his leaders and 48 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:41,000 it's, he who inspired his people to put down God's word, who we 49 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,500 have today as our Bible. And so, I would ask and courage 50 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:48,200 of each and every one of you. For those of you who've already 51 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,900 receive the Holy Spirit, if you can ask him for a fresh 52 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:54,400 anointing, a fresh anointing and anointing that you flow from 53 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,900 your head to your toe. For those of you who still have 54 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:02,200 not received, I would ask that you would Toast for him first 55 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,800 for him. Just being you know that how 56 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,600 much of you drink it's not enough you know on a summer day 57 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:12,300 you for those of you who go out and come back in you have this 58 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:14,800 thirst this I didn't. You feel like you want to drink 59 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,200 so much of water. I pray that we will have 60 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,300 something like that as a church. So that we won't grow cold, we 61 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:23,900 won't grow lukewarm. We won't come to this place of 62 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:27,300 saying, you know what, I've had enough but it would always say 63 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:32,800 Lord I want more of your spirit. And so over the last six seven 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,000 weeks, this is what we've been seeing first. 65 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,100 We saw that, you know, we need to live a life that is being led 66 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:42,200 by the Holy Spirit. He leads us and I follow. 67 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:45,700 It's not I followed he comes behind me, he leads us and I 68 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:50,200 follow the second week we saw what it is like when we have the 69 00:03:50,208 --> 00:03:53,400 Holy Spirit, we achieve true success, not the success of the 70 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,500 world. But the success according to 71 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:59,100 what the Holy Spirit has laid down for us the third week, we 72 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:03,100 saw he teaches Us. He constantly is teaching us. 73 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,000 He's teaching us to make the right decisions. 74 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 He's teaching us to do the right things the following week. 75 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:14,400 He saw, he restores us. She doesn't want to leave us the 76 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,500 same, he wants to work in and through us after that, we saw 77 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:20,600 what it is. To have a fruitful life because 78 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,500 of the holy spirit being present in our lives. 79 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,800 And he saw that, you know, the world kind of like pushes this 80 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:29,300 fruit saying these are some of the foods that you need to have. 81 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:33,500 But the fruits of the Holy Spirit are extraordinarily 82 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:37,100 different, which not any changes are spec changes. 83 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:39,400 Anyone who comes in contact with us because of the one who's 84 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,300 staying within us and last week, He saw the Holy Spirit wants to 85 00:04:43,300 --> 00:04:46,600 move in and through us where William to forgive and so that 86 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,500 in turn will be able to take the next step of reconciliation. 87 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:55,800 God wants to reconcile us, and I believe many a times. 88 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,200 The only thing that we can be reconciled will be because of 89 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,000 the name of Jesus, that will be the main glue factor. 90 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,700 And so today, whatever God has been doing in and through you in 91 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:12,800 the last seven weeks, I pray that he will not stop doing it. 92 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:16,600 And even as he stepped into this week this week, you're going to 93 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,200 see that the Holy Spirit cleanses us inside out. 94 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:25,400 He cleanses has inside out. And so today, if I have to ask 95 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,700 you, what this cleansing look like, a lot of us have different 96 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:35,500 ways of cleaning things, some of us, you know, just go brush, you 97 00:05:35,500 --> 00:05:38,000 know, with a cloth. And we think that's clean, some 98 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 of us find a speck in that. Some of us are the OCD nature 99 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,100 kicks in, and you probably rub that 45 times thinking it's not 100 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:51,200 clean enough, but within us, Ourselves. 101 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:54,700 It's important that we allow the Holy Spirit to work in and 102 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:59,700 through us and him having access to clean us inside out. 103 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,200 And so today, if there's one thing I want the Holy Spirit to 104 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:11,000 do in for us, is that I want him to Do a deep clean within us. 105 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:14,300 So passage for today is from Matthew 3:11-12. 106 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:17,300 And this is what it says, I baptize you with water for 107 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:20,700 repentance but after me comes one who's more powerful than I 108 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:22,800 whose sandals, I am not worthy to carry. 109 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:25,900 He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 110 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:29,400 His winnowing Fork is in his hand and he will clear his 111 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,500 threshing, floor Gathering his wheat into the barn and burning 112 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:36,600 up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 113 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,300 Even as I read this, Since this passage the outline of this 114 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:45,600 passage happens where John the Baptist is doing his ministry. 115 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,200 He's in the desert, he's you know, baptizing people. 116 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,800 He's telling people to repent and it's interesting in this 117 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,700 entire section when he's calling people to repent. 118 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:57,800 There are the bunch of religious folks who come the Sadducees and 119 00:06:57,808 --> 00:07:02,700 the Pharisees and they are the motives are not one of 120 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:06,400 repentance the but their motives are one of appearances to make 121 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,600 sure that you know, what they are seeing that they are They 122 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,500 also come across as you know that they are having a repentant 123 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:14,500 heart. They want to be with the crowd. 124 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,300 But John goes on to tell you here that I am baptizing. 125 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:21,700 You with water for repentance but there's a one who's coming 126 00:07:21,700 --> 00:07:23,300 after me. Who was Jesus. 127 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,900 And when he baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and fire, there are 128 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:30,900 things that cannot remain the same. 129 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,300 My idolatry cannot remain with me as a follower of Christ. 130 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:38,400 My, you know, my addictions cannot remain. 131 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:43,500 With me as a follower of Christ, my, whatever I decide to do, 132 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,900 after I received Jesus Christ, there are certain things that 133 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:52,400 disk cannot go hand-in-hand. And that is important. 134 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:57,300 Because in the day when he comes again, when the second coming 135 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:00,700 comes, they'll be a clear demarcation between what are 136 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:04,100 separated and what was not separate. 137 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,000 And so today, as much as we are, are a church here that who's 138 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,600 looking outward to make sure that we are taking the gospel 139 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,100 outside to make sure that, you know, we are his light carriers, 140 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:18,500 I would say that we are bringing hope people and all that. 141 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,900 There is a time when God will come to judge, man won't judge. 142 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:26,800 In fact, when we look at what judgment to look at. 143 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,600 We can't understand, we can't fathom even last week when we 144 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:34,200 heard, you know, the the, the parable talks about a king who 145 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,200 just forgave a man of so much of that. 146 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:42,200 We don't know what God can forgive, you know, in my life or 147 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,300 in someone else's life, when God judges, he's a right judge, his 148 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:50,800 balance is right? And so today, when John, the 149 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,100 Baptist was asking them to repent, he just didn't want them 150 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,000 to, you know, mouth it out and see, you know what? 151 00:08:58,100 --> 00:08:59,500 I am. Sorry of something. 152 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,000 Because it's something more important to that he realized 153 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,700 that they are there. Because of appearances, and many 154 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:11,100 a times, the Bible constantly reminds us that the talking that 155 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:14,800 we do is cheap, it doesn't cost us anything, you know, how many 156 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,300 of us, you know, can look into our own lives, you know, we talk 157 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:20,900 a lot, we promised a lot, but we never do anything. 158 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:26,500 I talk sometimes doesn't match what we are expected to do. 159 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,600 So, I talk ends up being cheap, and he also pointed out to the 160 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,900 fact that their hypocrisy was very real. 161 00:09:34,300 --> 00:09:37,700 They will tell the people that they have to do X Y & Z. 162 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,500 Whereas, they will take the high road and not do X, Y, and Z 163 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,300 today. The gospel that we read the 164 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:49,200 Bible that we read from end to end is one of uniformity. 165 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:53,600 There is no exclusivity. In fact, the inclusivity of each 166 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,000 and every one of us in the word of God is that we all have to 167 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,600 follow what the word of God says. 168 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,400 It's not that the leader will get a 5% discount on the laws of 169 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:03,800 God. That's ask for him to follow. 170 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:08,600 No, it's for all of us. And so today you and I cannot 171 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,900 just plus and minus certain things which are comfortable for 172 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:16,900 us, but when repentance comes, it has to be whole hearted 173 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:21,700 repentance for what we need deliverance from And that's the 174 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:24,700 power of sin. That's the cycle of sin. 175 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,100 That's the nature of sin. And so today, John was talking 176 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:34,600 to a bunch of people at that time when he says this that you 177 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,700 know you can come here and get baptized with water, but if your 178 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:42,700 repentance is true, you will also be open. 179 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,900 Do the baptism that will happen by the Holy Spirit? 180 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:50,600 The one, which would be one like fire, which Jesus will come. 181 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:55,000 And so today, many of us are content with one kind of 182 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,200 repentance. But today, can I ask you, would 183 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:01,300 you allow the Holy Spirit to come into your life so that he 184 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:04,900 can cleanse you inside out? Yes, we gave our life to Christ. 185 00:11:04,900 --> 00:11:10,700 Yes, there was a time when we were, you know, we are eyes were 186 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:14,700 open to The Sinner nature that we add and we gave our life to 187 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:17,200 Christ. You know, that is a remembrance 188 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,400 tone we look back and we thank God for his Redemption, but in 189 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,500 our everyday, Walk In following Jesus, we need the holy spirit's 190 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:29,300 fire to work in and through us. And so, this cleansing that is 191 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:32,200 being talked about here. Running the passage. 192 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:37,500 I take later will be dwelling in Psalms chapter 1, talks of, you 193 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:43,700 know, shaft and wheat. So Chef is basically a An outer 194 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:47,700 covering where the farmers kind of like have to either beat it 195 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,600 on a threshing floor, or they kind of have this mechanism in 196 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,400 which they casted through the air and as it falls because of 197 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,900 the wind, it pushes away the shaft and the heavier seeds fall 198 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:04,400 down. And today the Holy Spirit wants 199 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:10,300 to deal with every area of our life and the more I think about 200 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:13,700 it, the more I think about it when Jesus is going to come back 201 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:17,300 and when the Holy Spirit Works in us and when he's preparing us 202 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:20,500 for eternity, there is a segregation that's happening, 203 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,300 you know as much as we all are doing segregation now homes, 204 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:25,700 they got to garbage. That is a segregation. 205 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:28,900 Sapling, he's removing the shaft from everything from the 206 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:31,300 threshing floor. He's making sure that our 207 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:33,500 storehouses are just filled with wheat. 208 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:39,800 So today are you allowing him to do that in your life? 209 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:43,100 You know, it's interesting when you look at the shaft and the 210 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:46,000 mechanism in which the farmers do this, they are highly 211 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,400 dependent on the Wind. So a lot of these threshing 212 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,900 flows that they actually have built would be with two doors on 213 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:55,000 opposite sides so that they'll be a amount of wind that will 214 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,100 have, they'll be a crosswind that goes and so as they do 215 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:00,800 this, the shaft gets thrown away. 216 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 And this and the wheat falls down the husk moves away and the 217 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,500 wheat falls down. So today can we allow the Holy 218 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,300 Spirit to blow away with his wind? 219 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,300 Not without even with his wind the shaft and the husk that's 220 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:20,700 there in our lives because the chef is lifeless, the shaft 221 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:26,100 clings on and has to be separated this shaft. 222 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,900 If not dealt with becomes an additional burden to carry And 223 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:33,400 eventually, what happens is the true nature of the seed is 224 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,000 covered, we don't get to see it in its whole form. 225 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:43,000 So today, even as we dwelve in Psalm chapter 1, they're going 226 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,500 to see three ways in which the Holy Spirit wants to cleanse us 227 00:13:47,100 --> 00:13:50,400 and the overarching image which I want us to take his a fact 228 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:57,600 that we as a Christian believer have three different important 229 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,900 areas within ourselves where we need to Ask the Holy Spirit to 230 00:14:00,908 --> 00:14:05,700 come distinctively and cleaners. Our spirit man, our body, and 231 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:09,900 our soul because there are three longings that each of these 232 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:13,700 three different things have. And if we are not careful, be 233 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:17,000 will neglect one. Hold on to some things, which 234 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,300 are not what God wants us to hold on to. 235 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:22,300 So as I mentioned, can we allow the Holy Spirit to do a deep 236 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:26,100 clean in a spirit in our soul and in our body? 237 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:31,800 A deep clean, not a surface clean but a deep clean And I 238 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,300 pray that even as we look into God's word right now and read 239 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:38,000 someone that is revelation would come through into our lives that 240 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 we will be able to ask the Holy Spirit to do that. 241 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,800 The first thing his cleansing power makes me Delight in him. 242 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,700 His cleansing paranoid catch the wind. 243 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:52,000 When I love the Holy Spirit, his cleansing part, makes me Delight 244 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,800 in him. Let's read from Psalm 1:1 to do 245 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,900 and I'm using the passion translation for this entire for 246 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,700 the entirety of Of the sermon. So if we can just follow me 247 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,800 along with the screen, and this is what it says, what Delight 248 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,900 comes to the one who follows God's ways, he won't walk in 249 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:13,100 step with the wicked. Not share the Sinners way. 250 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:18,600 Not be found sitting in this corner seat, his passion is to 251 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,900 remain, true to the word of I am meditating day and night on the 252 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:28,800 true revelation of his passion is to remain true to the word 253 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,300 of. I am the Is why I took this 254 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:36,400 translation is because there are certain ways in which the 255 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:40,100 biblical Scholars have actually put the words. 256 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:44,500 And as I've chosen, that his cleansing Pop, makes me Delight 257 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,700 in him. And as here, it says the passion 258 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:52,000 is, when you look at the Greek word of delight, it means desire 259 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,500 and want. And I believe that's very much 260 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:58,400 in tune with our spirit, a spirit desires. 261 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,300 A lot of things I know about you, but me. 262 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:06,900 Me, when the first inkling of Desire happens in my spirit will 263 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:09,000 be like, you know what, I think I would like to have that. 264 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:13,100 And then, I start thinking about it, I research it, I look at the 265 00:16:13,108 --> 00:16:17,800 prices across all different websites, and I think, and wheat 266 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,700 and desire it so much to the point when I can get it, and it 267 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:26,600 starts in the spirit, And today, as much as the psalmist has 268 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,900 written this, I believe it's true in our lives because what 269 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:35,300 are we Desiring? Where is our Delight, is our 270 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:40,700 Delight in God's ways because if our Delight is in God's ways we 271 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:44,000 won't choose some of the parts that are mentioned here. 272 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,900 It says, here he won't walk in step with the wicked which means 273 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:51,800 today the way the world deals with it. 274 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:57,200 I won't deal with it. The world is unkind but because 275 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,500 I Delight in him, I'll deal with it differently. 276 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:07,200 The world cheated me. But As a Jesus follower, I know, 277 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,400 God will fight my battles. How do I? 278 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:18,700 Come to a place of allowing that step forward is only when I 279 00:17:18,708 --> 00:17:22,099 allow his cleansing power that are going to be so many 280 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:25,200 situations in our life. And we will be in a place to 281 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,800 retaliate but until unless his cleansing power is working in us 282 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:39,200 and if I Delight is not of God, We will take the next step, very 283 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,600 next step with a person outside and retaliate the same way. 284 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,800 If someone uses foul language, we made retaliated found 285 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,900 language with someone Harbors, an intention of, you know, 286 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:53,600 Revenge. We might have something like 287 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,600 that. We may not see if you made, you 288 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,600 know, just grow that desire of Revenge. 289 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,300 Within us, we make me nil. We might speak death or someone 290 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,800 But today, God wants us to come to a placing Hound cleanse you 291 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,400 so that as you Delight in me, so many areas in your spirit man 292 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,900 are being cleansed. It says, here he won't walk in 293 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:19,000 step with the wicked. Not share the Sinners way. 294 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,500 Nor be found sitting in this corner seat. 295 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:32,400 Everything I wouldn't use. The position that I have to 296 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,400 accomplish what? I want my way. 297 00:18:34,500 --> 00:18:37,600 No, I would ask the Holy Spirit of my delight is in the Lord 298 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,600 Lord. How as a team leader, how do I 299 00:18:39,608 --> 00:18:44,500 handle people as a boss? How do I be fair as a person 300 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,600 who's called me to lead? How do I do this, right? 301 00:18:47,700 --> 00:18:52,600 If I Delight in God's word, it would come to a place of 302 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,600 understanding that he is working in me. 303 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,900 He is doing something in me. He's causing me to take this 304 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:02,700 next step. You know, today in the pursuit 305 00:19:02,700 --> 00:19:07,400 of being inclusive. We, we are trying to find this 306 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:11,000 common ground with everyone. But honestly, the more I read in 307 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,200 the Bible, it will cause us to stand separate. 308 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:20,200 We can love on all the people that God's called us to love, 309 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:25,800 but we can't share. In what they are, partaking of, 310 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:29,300 because of what God's doing in and through us. 311 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:34,300 And so, because the Delight for us is different, the Delight for 312 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:37,200 them would be different. So today Church, whatever, 313 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:42,000 you've been struggling with, and you might be like, guest room. 314 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,400 What is it that you're, you know, I'm struggling to 315 00:19:46,408 --> 00:19:49,500 understand because our spirit man desires so many things that 316 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:53,100 are Hollow. Our spirit man desires so many 317 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:56,600 things. At are lifeless today, I meet so 318 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,300 many people who are so bent on making sure that they have 319 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,400 profiles. They are there photos, they are 320 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,400 reals or all looking perfect. But what is the point when your 321 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,200 spirit is about looking perfect for a watching world? 322 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,200 What happens to you within the four walls of your home? 323 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:16,500 What happens to you within your own lives? 324 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:20,100 Where you know, that there's a lot of emptiness you're having 325 00:20:20,100 --> 00:20:23,200 peaceless - you're fighting for the wrong things. 326 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:27,500 You're In for the wrong things that's because his Delight is 327 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,600 the Delight that we need to have on him is on something else and 328 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,200 that's why it comes God's coming when he wants to separate the 329 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:37,900 shaft at the weed, he wants to do more all of the tallness. 330 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,500 I don't know. What you're, what horn is that 331 00:20:40,700 --> 00:20:44,500 your kind of carrying what are the shaft that your carry for 332 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:46,000 some of us? It's covetousness, you know 333 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 what? I don't have it. 334 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 I want what that they have. But when you look back in your 335 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,500 own life or what God's done and given you, This has so many 336 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,400 other things and let's face it today. 337 00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:01,300 We will, we can go down this path of coveting, what someone 338 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:05,000 else has. But you also have to understand 339 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,900 that they also lack something that comes when we Delight in 340 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:11,800 him. He'll show us the minute. 341 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,200 That thought comes the Holy Spirit would remind us. 342 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:18,900 But if we become numb and made the Holy Spirit numb, we will 343 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:23,800 never be in a position to see that here that or react to that. 344 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:29,200 And so here the word of God, says clearly his passion is to 345 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,100 remain. True to the word of I am. 346 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,600 Who is this? I am this I am, is the god who 347 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:40,300 is still God? He is not the God who I was. 348 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:44,400 When Moses was then the burning bush. 349 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,200 He said, I am, I Am The Great. I Am. 350 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,200 He didn't say I was the god of ignorance. 351 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,000 I am the god of Jacob, Isaac and Abraham. 352 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,100 And I'm willing to be your God if you would allow me. 353 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:03,300 And so today, I want to ask you would we all come to this place 354 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:06,700 to say, God, I want you to still be by. 355 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:10,100 I am. Here, there are two things. 356 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:13,500 He says that are meditating day and night on the true revelation 357 00:22:13,500 --> 00:22:18,300 of his light. Meditating day and night. 358 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,100 And it's interesting as I Was preparing. 359 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,000 God reminded me that are going to be Seasons. 360 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:29,700 Where seasons were, it's clear as picture that day looks 361 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:31,000 bright. You know? 362 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,400 And you're able to see everything is going good your 363 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,200 way. It, we can take it literally as 364 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,900 day and night Byron 24 hours. We need to be allowing God's 365 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:43,200 work to work to work in and through us. 366 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:45,600 But when I was thinking about the spirit, a spirit goes 367 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,300 through dips, when we have seasons of hardships, when you 368 00:22:49,308 --> 00:22:53,300 have seasons of sickness, when you have seasons where you know, 369 00:22:53,300 --> 00:22:57,400 we can't see the things, what God's called us to see and it's 370 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,000 in that time where he wants his, to still meditate because he 371 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,000 wants us to take Delight in him pursue him and so, Can we find 372 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,000 God in our good times? And in times when it's bright, 373 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,700 when things are clear. Can we also find God when things 374 00:23:14,700 --> 00:23:16,000 are dark? When I don't know what the next 375 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,900 step is when I'm fearful because God is also a God who ministers 376 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:26,800 in the dark, God is also a God who allows us to go through 377 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,900 things. So that we will be able to find 378 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:36,300 him clearly in the dark. Auntie right says this those in 379 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:40,100 whom the spirit comes to live, are God's new Temple. 380 00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:44,200 They are individually and corporately places where Heaven 381 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,300 and Earth meet. You know, if there's one thing 382 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,700 where we can experience heaven on Earth is in our spirit 383 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,200 physically, we may not able to be seeing it but in a spirit man 384 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,100 will be able to see it. That's why corporately, it's 385 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:02,600 important that we come gather to pray and fellowship and worship 386 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,700 because that's it. It's a foretaste of what heaven 387 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:10,800 on Earth looks like. When we are individually seeking 388 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:16,900 God, we have a taste of what heaven on Earth can be like. 389 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:22,800 And so as we Delight in him, She wants to cleanse us and I don't 390 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,900 know what area God's working in and through you probably you've 391 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:28,100 been a person who, you know, when everything is clear. 392 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:31,200 My spirit, I delight in God, but when things are unclear and 393 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:35,000 dark, I denounce God, probably God wants to clean that area 394 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,400 today or probably God wants to clean with the whole aspect of 395 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:40,700 delayed. What are my passion that I'm 396 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,400 running after that? My spirit is, you know, craving 397 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,000 for that, I'm not willing to settle for what God has to say. 398 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,500 So today can his Right. Work in and through our hearts 399 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,000 so that our spirit man will change. 400 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,600 So that we have the Delight of what God wants us to have. 401 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,600 And I pray, holy spirit that he would work in. 402 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,500 And through us, you would cleanse us inside out, you would 403 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:07,700 cleanse our spirit man that we would Delight in you. 404 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,900 The second thing that I want us to look at this is cleansing 405 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:16,600 Papa makes me be planted in him. Someone was three goes on to 406 00:25:16,608 --> 00:25:20,000 say, he'll be standing firm like a flourishing tree planted by 407 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,300 God. Each design deeply rooted by the 408 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:25,200 Brooks of bliss. Bearing fruit in every season of 409 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,100 Life. He's never dry. 410 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,900 There were fainting. I were blessed ever prosperous. 411 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,700 As we read this, the holy spirit is clearly saying, I can only do 412 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:43,200 something in and through you. If you're planted you can grow 413 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,500 only. When you're planted, you can. 414 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:53,900 Be of Earthly blessing to others only when you're planted it says 415 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:55,700 here. He's never dry. 416 00:25:55,700 --> 00:26:03,000 Never fainting ever blessed ever prosperous and this refers to 417 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:09,200 our own physical bodies because In the hustle and bustle of what 418 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,400 the world requires us to do, we are running Pillar To Post 419 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,500 trying to achieve, trying to establish trying to make a name 420 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:21,100 for ourselves. But the holy spirit is saying, 421 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:24,800 can I cleanse your body to a place where you'll be 422 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,300 comfortable, knowing your planted gone, are the days when 423 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:32,500 people were committed to one thing, people were loyal to one 424 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:38,000 thing. Today we just flip like how a 425 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:43,600 trend changes immediately and so we've become flippant in lot of 426 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,100 our choices. We are, we change the direction 427 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:52,100 of the wind but if we are actually allowing the Holy 428 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:58,000 Spirit to cleanses, He will allow us to be planted and 429 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,900 flourish where you're planted and it's a reminder for those of 430 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:05,100 you who are struggling to be planted, a lot of us are 431 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,200 struggling to be planted in God's community. 432 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,400 We you know we feel if you're planted, he have to be 433 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:18,400 accountable, we have to be you know vulnerable we have to we 434 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:24,100 have to grow but that's the part where God wants us to actually 435 00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:27,100 rely on him. When we come into his community, 436 00:27:27,100 --> 00:27:30,700 when we've accepted him and are part of his community. 437 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:35,400 We are seeing God, I'm amongst other believers and all of us 438 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,500 are in this growing stage and he wants to do a deep clean enough. 439 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:43,100 Spin your planted in him because that's where as I explained in 440 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:45,900 the whole sermon on fruitfulness, pruning happens. 441 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:51,500 That's where he shapes us. That's where he cares for us. 442 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,800 He's the closest when he's actually correcting us. 443 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:04,000 And so this Psalm is a clear indication of what God's 444 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,300 followers dis desire and what the wicked desire. 445 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,400 And so today the world will be pressurizing. 446 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,400 You you know what? Keep moving, keep doing things 447 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,000 your way but God might say he be planted a lot of us a tree, 448 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,900 highwomen jittery with regard to our jobs. 449 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:24,500 None of us can see, you know what I've been working here for 450 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:27,700 so long. That's because there's a spirit 451 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:31,300 of discontent fragment in our hearts. 452 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:38,900 And eventually we are wanting to please and be something which 453 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,500 many a times I feel is not even in alignment with God what God 454 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:48,300 has planned. What is being routed mean here? 455 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,800 Because when you have to be planted, you're putting roots 456 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,100 in. It means I'm not going to strive 457 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:58,100 anymore. I'm only going to wait. 458 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,200 I'm putting my roaches, so I can please him. 459 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:08,000 I'm going to be Taking time to grow because for a lot of you 460 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,400 know how it works. With the plant, it takes time, 461 00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:16,700 it takes seasons and so what are the seasons at God's calling you 462 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:19,900 to be here? Planted and this point is not 463 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:23,300 for me to emphasize saying you need to be planted in this 464 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:25,200 church. But where is God calling you to 465 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:31,200 be planted? This also denotes for a lot of 466 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:36,900 us who are struggling in math, And just where because things 467 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:42,100 aren't happening hobby, because we aren't in the same mind that 468 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:43,500 we think, you know what? I think. 469 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:48,400 I want something different. No, put your steaks deep in the 470 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,800 marriage, with your spouse. You will see things change. 471 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:55,700 Each one has to die to the desires that we individually 472 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:57,600 have and have to come in unit two. 473 00:29:57,608 --> 00:30:00,300 The desire, what? God's giving us together as a 474 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:06,400 family? We have to be deeply rooted, it 475 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,300 says it's flourishing, tree planted by God's design. 476 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,100 It's not our design, it's not our way of seeing things. 477 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:21,600 And so today, being planted in him means that I'm not striving. 478 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:26,700 I'm fruitful when the season is do a fruitful. 479 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:29,100 When God wants me to be fruitful. 480 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:31,300 I'm fruit fly. Not going to strive and 481 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:35,200 manufacture my fruits know. I'm going to in my waiting, in 482 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,000 my distress, in my pain, in my worried, in my loneliness, in my 483 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,700 joy, in my doubt, I want to be bearing fruit. 484 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:45,300 Presentation, that doesn't make sense. 485 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:48,600 How can I bear fruit? And I'm worried his words will 486 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,600 bring life and you'll be able to bear that shoot in distress. 487 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,600 Your Source will be his word and his presence and that will bring 488 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,200 food. And so, today, we are not 489 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,400 talking about a world where we will have no pain. 490 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,700 We will have no fear. Yes, all of that will be there 491 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:12,700 but because I'm planted by God's design where he chooses me to be 492 00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:16,900 planted and because he's working in and through me because when 493 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,200 I'm being planted, I'm allowing his holy spirit to work in and 494 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,400 through me and that causes me to be fruitful in Seasons, which I 495 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,400 least expected to the people that are around tasting it. 496 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:31,900 This is what Mark Patterson says. 497 00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:35,300 Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses. 498 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:37,700 They can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit. 499 00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:41,400 Some things, cannot be deduced by deductive reasoning. 500 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,200 They can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit. 501 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,600 Some things cannot be learnt by Logic. 502 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,600 They can only be revealed by the holy spirit. 503 00:31:50,600 --> 00:32:00,100 So this 2023 Don't come to a conclusion immediately saying 504 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:01,800 the Holy Spirit doesn't have the answer. 505 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:07,400 Let him reveal it. If there's one thing he what he 506 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,600 reveals won't make sense because don't be logical. 507 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,700 What he causes us to imagine won't make, you know, for 508 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:17,700 reasoning. It wouldn't make sense at all 509 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:22,700 and what he conceives may not even be something that we can 510 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,400 make do with these five senses that we have and that's the 511 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,100 beautiful work of the Holy Spirit. 512 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:35,600 His words, his timing. And his presence causes 513 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,500 everything to change. So in 2023 I don't know. 514 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:42,500 Can we stop with these lame excuses? 515 00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:45,500 That we have for not being planted but I filled up my 516 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:50,200 Sundays with something else. I filled up my time with other 517 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,500 things so that I can choose to be. 518 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,200 So even as I mentioned your I want us to come to a place of 519 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:10,200 seeing God I want to be planted I don't want to pressurize my 520 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,100 body. I don't a pleasure eyes my body 521 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:19,300 to do and Achieve something which is only making sense for a 522 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:25,500 watching world but I wanted to make sense to you and that's 523 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,700 what he'll cleanse. His Is our motives our desires, 524 00:33:28,700 --> 00:33:33,300 our intentions, our willingness, and that's where he'll also 525 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,700 cleanse Us. In terms of why we are being 526 00:33:36,700 --> 00:33:41,200 planted, it's for God to work in and through us, it's for God to 527 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:49,000 do his amazing work. And here when I'm talking about 528 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,800 the fruits that are being born here, many a times we think, you 529 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,800 know what I've done my part in giving my first fruits of my 530 00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:00,400 salary as Tides, I've given it to God but honestly speaking 531 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,700 that belonged to God. So you do you do by us giving it 532 00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:11,600 we aren't doing a favor to God. He gave you the work, so he 533 00:34:11,699 --> 00:34:13,699 technically owns hundred percent. 534 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:18,100 He owns everything, but as we choose to be here, he's going to 535 00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:20,000 be asking you to give things distinctively. 536 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:28,199 Probably a Time, w space probably a bit of your words, 537 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:32,800 your heart, your room, so that you will be able to make an 538 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,400 impact for others. So here in, when we go through 539 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,400 his cleansing, par what he does in and through us. 540 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,199 Causes others to think. Wow, I can't understand how they 541 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,100 are being good full, even in the season. 542 00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:53,199 You know, we we don't have to be holding a banner saying 543 00:34:53,199 --> 00:35:00,500 unfruitful, it's evidence, it's scene and God wants us to be 544 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:03,300 people like that in this world. Wherever we are planted this. 545 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:06,600 Imagine you're all planted physically in different homes, 546 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,500 across the city and if you fruitful in that different 547 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,700 areas, what a testimony does to the people who are watching to 548 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:18,100 the people are interacting So can we allow their body? 549 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:22,600 We planted physically so I can bear fruit and be a tree that 550 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,200 food fills his plan and purpose because it's his design. 551 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:31,100 Let's move to the third thing. His cleansing par prepares me 552 00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:34,800 for eternity. You know, someone was his 426 553 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,700 goes on to say, but how different are the wicked? 554 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:39,700 They are like shaft Blown Away by the wind. 555 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,800 The wicked will not endure. The day of judgment for God will 556 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,700 not defend them. Nothing they do will succeed or 557 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:49,300 India for long, for they have no part of those who walk in truth, 558 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,500 but how different it is for the righteous, the Lord Embraces 559 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,600 their parts as we move forward. While The Way of the Wicked 560 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:01,200 leads only to do, you know, as I was reading this, we might 561 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,400 think, you know what because I'm already be a follower of Jesus 562 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:07,100 doesn't make sense cuz this is talking about the wicked, but as 563 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:13,500 I looked into it clearly If I'm not ready to let go of the 564 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,600 shaft, these lifeless things that I'm holding onto. 565 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,900 I invent Lee will choose the path of the wicked. 566 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,500 I eventually will choose the broad path. 567 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:28,000 I won't choose the Narrow Path. And so we cannot coexist with 568 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,900 the chef. We cannot coexist, he wants to 569 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:34,800 blow that away. And so what are these lifeless 570 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:40,500 things that somewhere are still clinging onto our hearts. 571 00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:45,700 So dear and in fact, here emphasizing specifically on 572 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:52,400 soul, Is it money? Because if you look around, 573 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,800 we've seen people, we know families, you know, money has 574 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:01,800 been a big deterrent work, you know, where I work. 575 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,400 And the name that I get through that, the family that I'm part 576 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:12,400 of Or just myself my identity. All about me and my possessions. 577 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,400 So today, nothing of what I said in all of this, can we take into 578 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,400 eternity when we die here? It's only a soul that goes 579 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,800 there. And so why do we strive to to 580 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,000 build all these things and guarded so closely that we miss 581 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,400 out on caring for our soul? Because our soul needs rest. 582 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,500 It says, you're clearly in verse 6 but how different it is for 583 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:41,600 the righteous. The Lord Embraces their path as 584 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,800 they move forward, and sometimes the path That we have to choose 585 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:49,500 because we are made right with God by the power of His Holy 586 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,500 Spirit. By the precious blood that 587 00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:57,200 Christ has shed on the cross comes at a cost, which means it 588 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,300 will be different from the path of the wicked or will be 589 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:03,300 different from the path of what the world chooses. 590 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,900 So today I want us to make sure that we are not running after 591 00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:11,900 things because that's where his cleansing Park comes. 592 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:17,000 He'll constantly refining that Matthew chapter 16 that we know 593 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,700 this verse in verse 26. It says and what do you benefit 594 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:24,900 if you gain the whole world? But lose your own soul. 595 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,500 And Jesus goes on to say earlier, and after that, you 596 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:33,700 know, he says, to those who give up their life, for my sake will 597 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:37,500 save it. So today, if there's one thing, 598 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,800 we as his followers have to do, is we have to pursue after him, 599 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:44,100 you have to pursue his things, you have to pursue his nature. 600 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:47,700 We have to pursue his works. That have to be done in and 601 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:51,900 through our own lives. Our soul is important. 602 00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:56,800 We saw that our spirit has to take the light, a body has to be 603 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,500 planted and our soul has to be prepared for eternity. 604 00:39:01,100 --> 00:39:03,300 Couple of facts. There is nothing. 605 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:08,000 Jesus is coming back. We don't know the time, but we 606 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000 will be prepared. Our soul will be ready. 607 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:13,300 Jesus is coming back to take his church. 608 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,700 He's coming back for his bride. Are you ready? 609 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:23,200 Yes, we might close eyes here or we might be taken up but When he 610 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:27,500 comes, am I ready? If we can live with that, in our 611 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,100 mind, we will probably start hanging loose to certain things 612 00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:33,900 you're holding onto it. So tight, that starting to 613 00:39:33,908 --> 00:39:38,800 governess Colossians chapter 3, verse 12, for since then you 614 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,500 have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, 615 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:46,600 where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, set your 616 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,500 minds on things above, not on Earthly things for you died, and 617 00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:52,600 your life. Is now hidden with Christ in Oh 618 00:39:52,607 --> 00:39:55,600 God. When Christ, who is your life 619 00:39:55,600 --> 00:40:00,100 appears? Then you also will appear with 620 00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:04,000 him in glory. So, it says, here that you have 621 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,700 to have your heart set on things above, you have to have your 622 00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:13,900 minds set on things above and then when Christ appears, we 623 00:40:13,900 --> 00:40:16,700 will be able to see him in his glory. 624 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:21,900 So Church his cleansing part many a times. 625 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,500 Yes he'll cleanse us of our sin, you can do. 626 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:28,600 So for addictions he'll cleanse us of all the bad nature that we 627 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,600 have. But if we can take it a step 628 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,000 further and ask him, God, I want to Delight in your work. 629 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:42,000 I want to be planted and I want my soul to understand that. 630 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,100 This is not my permanent place the Earth, but your heaven when 631 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:49,500 I get to see you face to face. Eternity is where I'm going to 632 00:40:49,508 --> 00:40:52,200 spend with you. He will cleanse us time. 633 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,700 And again, and that cleansing will automatically cause it to 634 00:40:56,707 --> 00:40:59,500 be an overflow into other areas of our life, where we will be 635 00:40:59,508 --> 00:41:05,700 able to see God in his fullness today, as a church, we're going 636 00:41:05,700 --> 00:41:07,700 to keep our eyes on things above. 637 00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:10,700 We are going to keep our eyes on things below. 638 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:14,800 We are going to see God, come through and Supernatural ways. 639 00:41:15,100 --> 00:41:18,000 We are going to ask him to do things. 640 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,900 In Supernatural ways. So, that it'll be his story. 641 00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:25,000 His testimony, and His glory no longer had, does it have to be a 642 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,500 strategy? Which man has done and said, you 643 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:28,800 know what, we were able to do this? 644 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,500 No, it's his church. He'll grow the church. 645 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:33,200 It's his, it's his work. He'll grow the work. 646 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:38,400 It's his glory. He'll make his glory shine here 647 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,400 on this Earth through his people. 648 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:48,200 So today Church May are so long to see him face to face and 649 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:55,500 nothing else. you know many a times when when we hear of 650 00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:59,600 people passing away, And we see the get to see Jesus 651 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,000 face-to-face, they've been moments in my life and I thought 652 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,500 you know what, I can't wait for that day because I don't know 653 00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:10,900 what it will look like. But you know what, as much as 654 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:16,500 that's the end. The importance that God reminded 655 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:20,300 me was his to live. Right today is to live, right? 656 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:24,900 Tomorrow, is to live right the day after his to allow his holy 657 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:26,500 spirit. So he can cleanse us. 658 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,500 He has because we're living this world, which constantly will 659 00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:33,500 challenges. But his cleansing bar has to 660 00:42:33,500 --> 00:42:38,600 come in and through us to work. And so today, we'll can we allow 661 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,000 his cleansing Mark? So that we make me Delight in 662 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,700 him. And his word will make me be 663 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:48,100 planted in him. We'll make it. 664 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:52,600 Prepare me for eternity. So Church, even as we take some 665 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,000 time, I'm just going to close with word of prayer. 666 00:42:55,700 --> 00:42:57,800 But I'm going to ask you, would you allow the Holy Spirit to 667 00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,100 work in and through you right now? 668 00:43:00,900 --> 00:43:04,800 I don't know what area you're struggling with what area you've 669 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,200 not allowed him to cleanse right now, but I would ask the Holy 670 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,500 Spirit to come down on your life so that he'll be able to work 671 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:13,100 in. And through you, he'll be able 672 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:20,100 to do his work in a three life. Loving Heavenly Father Lord. 673 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:21,300 We thank you, Lord for this time. 674 00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:25,000 Thank you, Lord, for all that. You've been doing Lord Jesus in 675 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,100 in, through our lives. Lat, Even as we heard your word, 676 00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:30,300 thank you. That Lord. 677 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:35,500 We want to be planted. In you, we want to take out the 678 00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:40,500 light in you and I so Lord. Jesus longs to see you face to 679 00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:43,900 face and even though I tried this preload over, the people 680 00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:48,100 Lord, Jesus were watching and listening to this that your Holy 681 00:43:48,100 --> 00:43:50,000 Spirit would work in and through their lives. 682 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,800 Lat, I pray every lifeless Obsession that we have will be 683 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,900 Cast Away. Lord, that you would blow your 684 00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:59,800 wind lat. You would blow your wind Lord, 685 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,100 Jesus. I pray even right now not every 686 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:05,700 form lat. Jesus of idolatry every formula 687 00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:09,100 Jesus of wanting the world. To please, the world will go 688 00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:11,500 offshore, but we'll be there to please your kingdom. 689 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:15,700 I pray and speak over our people or Jesus, that lot more than the 690 00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:18,200 looks and how we appear. Lord will be. 691 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,900 So worried about the fruits that we are generating, not the way 692 00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,400 that we are being planted. The work that you're doing in 693 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,500 and through US lot because we, we don't want to be Hollow 694 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:31,000 people, not Jesus. You want to be people of 695 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,800 substance. We want to be people. 696 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,400 Jesus, who have been cleansed who've been filled, who been 697 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,400 anointed and out of the Overflow are being a blessing to many. 698 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,500 Lord, Jesus, we thank go before us Lord. 699 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:46,900 I pray work in and through US, Lord through the Seas, I pray, 700 00:44:46,900 --> 00:44:49,600 you will strengthen us, Lord, you will set us apart. 701 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,800 You will show us who you are. We thank you, Lord. 702 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,400 We thank you. Go before us lat. 703 00:44:56,500 --> 00:45:01,000 Go before us Lord, I pray, you would anoint each and every home 704 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,700 right now. You would anoint each and every 705 00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:05,600 family you will anoint each and every individual. 706 00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,200 No one will remain the same. That they will be a deep clean. 707 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,500 That happens in a spirit in a body and a soul. 708 00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:15,700 So that we will be in fullness of you. 709 00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:16,900 Lord, Jesus. We thank you. 710 00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:18,800 I pray. Lord, that you would bless the 711 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,100 food and water of heavy home, your blood covering be upon your 712 00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:23,800 children. After you lots of good health 713 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,500 and strength. I pray, especially not for those 714 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:31,400 who've been waiting on you for a long time that they will be able 715 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,500 to put their Stakes even deeper in faith holding on to your 716 00:45:35,500 --> 00:45:37,600 needs. He the miracle come through lat. 717 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,300 Go before us, strengthen us, take charge. 718 00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:46,000 Pray that you will be God over our lives. 719 00:45:46,300 --> 00:45:49,300 Holy Spirit, have your way. We asked the senior most 720 00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:51,300 precious name. Amen. 721 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:55,400 Amen. Such even as you all step out 722 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,000 today, can we step out in boldness? 723 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:03,000 Knowing that the Holy Spirit wants to cleanse us inside out? 724 00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:06,800 Be clean us. So that our spirit our soul and 725 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:12,500 body are cleaned, it set free and that will operate. 726 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,900 Oh, the whole slope after you clean something in after you 727 00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:20,200 fill it up that Overflow. What actually spill over and 728 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,700 that we will be able to see him fulfill all that. 729 00:46:22,700 --> 00:46:27,600 Yes, that our paths will be ordained and that God's glory 730 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:29,700 will be evident in and through our lives. 731 00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:34,100 I pray that you have a blessed week and God bless you and your 732 00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:36,900 family. Thanks for listening to this 733 00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:40,000 message. We hope you were blessed to hear 734 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,500 more messages like this. Make sure to subscribe. 735 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,700 Subscribe and check out our podcast channel for past 736 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:48,000 episodes. 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