1 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,760 We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,680 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,080 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,840 be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,040 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,760 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,120 During this year of a divine takeover, we are discovering 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,120 that there are a few essentials that we cannot overlook. 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:42,320 One of these is the fear of God. To live in awe and reverent fear 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:46,200 of God is imperative in order for God to take over our lives 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,520 and lead us in His ways according to His will. 12 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,000 We pray that as you listen in, you would invite the Holy Spirit 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,640 to give you a fresh revelation of God and that you will live in 14 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:04,920 the fear and wonder of God. Wonderful to be here and it's a 15 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,640 such a joy. Thank you gosh and Tina, thank 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,760 you that they believe in me. That's wrong. 17 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,000 Blessed are those who believe they should see my record. 18 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:20,880 And Santaraj, please stand up. He is my guru. 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,200 He was in the literature for many years and he's a Bible 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,320 teacher and such a joy to see him. 21 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:32,680 And Victor and Sunidhi, of course, are my good friends for 22 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:38,400 many, many years, you know, And so it's wonderful, wonderful. 23 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,920 So I'm getting to see many of you and few of you have read my 24 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,120 books. And it's just interesting. 25 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,640 I'm touched, I'm touched, I'm touched. 26 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:56,280 And as you were sharing about fear and and all of that, you 27 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:02,240 have to believe I was like that. I was absolutely fearful. 28 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:10,759 I could not OK. When I grew up as a child, we 29 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:12,720 were six of us. We were all in one bedroom. 30 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,280 We couldn't afford beyond that. My dad was there. 31 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:22,280 I was probably about 810 years and I was trying to ask daddy 32 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,160 something. I could not form one question 33 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:41,320 straight. And, and yeah, Stena is where I 34 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:46,960 grew up, and I think I told the story, but I'll just say that 35 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,400 there was a day when I had failed academically and my 36 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,280 brother got upset with me. He actually sent me out of the 37 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,840 house with a begging bowl in my hand. 38 00:03:03,100 --> 00:03:14,710 And then Christ came into my life and he can transform us 39 00:03:15,070 --> 00:03:19,470 completely. Completely. 40 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,280 There were days in there used to be a now, I don't know, Basin 41 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,760 Bridge. Do you know where Basin Bridge 42 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,960 is when he entered into Chennai? Yeah. 43 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:36,520 I used to stand in that bridge. I was 16 years old and I 16 44 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,560 years old and I failed my 6th standard. 45 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:39,920 Can you imagine that? OK. 46 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,880 I was looking at that bridge and looking at all the people going 47 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,600 on the train. Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, wow, 48 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,280 this is amazing. These guys are going to Delhi 49 00:03:53,280 --> 00:04:00,360 and Bombay. Wow, that is my life. 50 00:04:08,710 --> 00:04:14,950 And then guys came into my life. I think I told this word. 51 00:04:15,230 --> 00:04:16,990 Anybody remember what is personality? 52 00:04:16,990 --> 00:04:18,630 Where the word personality comes from? 53 00:04:18,990 --> 00:04:23,920 Does anybody know? OK, I don't know that the word 54 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,080 personality. Oh, I'm a shy person. 55 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,600 Oh, I'm a fearful person. Don't, don't get me wrong. 56 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:32,560 Don't get me wrong. We are all there. 57 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,360 I was there myself. Oh, I'm like this. 58 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,000 I'm a background person. If there was a screen, I'll 59 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,200 stand behind the screen also. I was there. 60 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:57,920 I was there and so so the word personality comes from a Latin 61 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:07,080 word called mask. Did you know that the word mask, 62 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,200 it protects me. Don't tell me to go forward 63 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,240 because I am a very shy person. Defense mechanism is another 64 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:30,040 word you could use for that. And then Christ comes I'm I'm 65 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,200 right now I'm working only on five books. 66 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:40,160 My wife says that's crazy, but I'm still working and one of the 67 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,120 books I'm working on is called neurotheology. 68 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:48,480 I was telling my friend here and and neurotheology simply says 69 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:55,400 this that you can actually scientifically record the 70 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:00,960 transformation that takes place in your brain when God works in 71 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:06,760 it. One of the reason I wrote that 72 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,680 book and is to tell young people particularly don't get anybody 73 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,400 tell lies to you. Oh, oh, believe me, when God is 74 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,760 outdated, science was very clever and brilliant nonsense. 75 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,600 The truth is this, that scientists now are discovering 76 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,360 what the Bible always said. I call science tube light. 77 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:30,480 Don't tell them. They may get angry. 78 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:36,560 And that is the truth and what now science is saying because 79 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,440 because I'll tell you one thing, all truth comes from God and 80 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,880 takes you back to God in worship and adoration. 81 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:51,040 Francis Schaeffer said that actually that's God. 82 00:06:51,200 --> 00:07:01,520 And so so our personality in our life is probably because of our 83 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:05,040 childhood experiences and various things that will happen 84 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:13,720 in our lives. But Christ came not just to save 85 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,880 you from your sin. That is the beginning of that, 86 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,200 not to save you from eternal hell, which is real. 87 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,840 And God saves us when you come to know him. 88 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,240 He saves you from eternal condemnation and separation in 89 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,880 hell. But that's just the beginning. 90 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:39,280 He invites us and says, my Son, I want to give you life and I 91 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:44,880 want to give it abundantly, super abundantly. 92 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,960 None of you, none of you are ordinary people. 93 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,760 To believe that you're an ordinary person, that is the 94 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,800 greatest lie you can ever believe. 95 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:13,190 For years I believed it. For years I believed it. 96 00:08:16,310 --> 00:08:20,360 Now Tina is in two books, right? 10 years ago, 15 years ago, we 97 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,920 told you you'll write books. Will you believe that in a 98 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,600 joker? You'll laugh? 99 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:32,520 If you told me I told you about this Basin Bridge experience, 100 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,679 standing there and saying if somebody told me that I'll go to 101 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,159 America five times, then I'll go to Australia and I'll go to 102 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:42,480 England and I'll go to and all these places. 103 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:47,240 You're joking. I could not write one sentence 104 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,840 in English when I was 16 years old. 105 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:59,880 I couldn't spell the word tree. I failed in Tamil because I was 106 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:02,400 born here. I went to Karnataka. 107 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,440 I failed in Kannada because I went there to study. 108 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,200 Hopefully at least I had in the classes there. 109 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,960 Then I said OK, that's not a thing for me, I'll try Hindi. 110 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,120 I failed in Hindi, then I said I'll go to the national 111 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:17,920 language, and then I go to international French. 112 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:22,200 I failed in French too. I failed in English too. 113 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:30,600 Welcome. And then Christ into my life. 114 00:09:36,450 --> 00:09:41,490 One of the books I'm working on is on the ancient Hebrew 115 00:09:41,490 --> 00:09:44,290 language preview. Hebrew and all of that. 116 00:09:45,090 --> 00:09:49,640 It's almost done. Not bad for a personal fear in 117 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,200 Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and French. 118 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,120 And this is what you need to dream. 119 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,600 You need to dream and realize this, that Christ came, that you 120 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,520 and I, you know, in Ephesians we read, the light has come. 121 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:17,000 Let's rise and shine, correct? You know it's there. 122 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,360 No, in the Bible, light came shine. 123 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:30,420 OK, let me say this is this. 90% of believers have not been 124 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:36,900 liberated to enjoy that light. They still live in darkness. 125 00:10:42,650 --> 00:10:46,490 You're either liberated by the power of the Holy Spirit, or 126 00:10:46,490 --> 00:10:50,490 you're living in bondage, or you're travelling towards that 127 00:10:50,490 --> 00:11:01,040 liberation. I have some notes, and last time 128 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:09,120 I was here, that's your notes were better than your preaching. 129 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:12,440 Will you please keep your notes now? 130 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:13,600 I'll tell you that's what happened. 131 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,280 Now. Good to get correction from each 132 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:16,320 other. That's one of the reasons you 133 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,280 get mad at. If they told you before that, 134 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,560 you wouldn't have got married. Who likes correction? 135 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,240 Oh, I love correction. Oh my gosh, no. 136 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,480 But that's how we grow. We grow. 137 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:32,120 So what happened was that I, I had some notes that did not say. 138 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,680 Then somebody told me later, Pastor, your notes were better, 139 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:44,520 your pressing was not so good. And that actually prompted me. 140 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:45,920 Listen to this. This is what happens. 141 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,560 That actually prompted me to write a book on the notes that I 142 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:52,880 gave, which I did not present here. 143 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,120 That book is almost ready. That's how you work. 144 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,080 That's how you work. OK, I'll give you another clue. 145 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,120 I think I love your church too much, so I love my best things 146 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,320 here. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 147 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:15,120 Listen to this very carefully. I don't tell this to everybody, 148 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,240 but you look like a very good coup to me. 149 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,360 God only gives you clues. He's not going to write it on 150 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,720 the wall for you. Remember that. 151 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,200 Remember that He only gives you clues. 152 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:45,600 But if you had life today, God only gives you clues. 153 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:55,320 You got to take it. Run with it, That's all. 154 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:03,560 So and as long as it's to glorify God and as long as it is 155 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:09,520 to bless people, as long as OK, I'm still not done with my 156 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,360 introduction. OK, I'll give an introduction. 157 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,400 I'm going to talk about hopefully finish in. 158 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:24,920 I'm going to talk about Sower in the Sea, that story, OK, And the 159 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,440 last part, OK, we'll take we'll do it to Matthew, Matthew 13 160 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,320 chapter. So in the last part of that 161 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:35,000 story, our Lord explains the story, right? 162 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:52,640 And verse 23, Matthew 1323. Can someone read that? 163 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:59,120 Matthew 1323. Correct. 164 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:00,040 Yeah. Please. 165 00:14:11,530 --> 00:14:20,250 Amen. Amen. 166 00:14:21,330 --> 00:14:23,250 This is about the sword in the sea, right? 167 00:14:23,250 --> 00:14:29,160 It's some seat falls. The wayside is gone from a rocky 168 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,600 ground. Someone thorns come and gone. 169 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:39,200 And recently somebody was asking me, pastor, you were in this 170 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,880 church for the church here in Chennai 50 years ago, now you're 171 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,080 come. What is the difference that you 172 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,840 see in the church? OK, now don't think I'm old. 173 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:55,840 I started very young. That's why, anyway, and what is 174 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,760 it? And I said this many things, and 175 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,320 I said one thing. Even then I knew there were 176 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:07,520 very, very few people who would really long for God and obeying 177 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,440 God and trusting in God and growing. 178 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,280 And I think that is true even now. 179 00:15:23,190 --> 00:15:29,870 You must have a real longing for God and to grow and to love Him 180 00:15:30,070 --> 00:15:36,720 and obey Him, must have a real desire to let God transform you. 181 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:40,240 You must be sick and tired of your sin. 182 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:46,680 You must be sick and tired of having an ordinary life, but I 183 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:51,560 mean ordinary life, not growing, not progressive, not experience 184 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,320 the power and the presence of God, not experience the joy of 185 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,360 God, not experience the fullness of God. 186 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,200 You must be sick and tired of it. 187 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,000 I'm I'm going to church and I'm marrying. 188 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:15,080 Blessed are those who hungry and dust after righteousness. 189 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,920 Blessed are those whose heart is pure, they will see God. 190 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,720 Hallelujah. I want to purify my heart from 191 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,160 every sin in my life. I want to God to cleanse 192 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:35,200 everything that needs to be broken in my life because I want 193 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:42,960 to bring forth much fruit. None of us were born to have 194 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:58,070 less fruit. Anna, So what does he say? 195 00:16:59,110 --> 00:17:08,150 Some to bring 40, some hundredfold and 60. 196 00:17:09,390 --> 00:17:15,589 Here's the question, Am I progressively bringing forth 197 00:17:15,589 --> 00:17:20,349 much fruit? OK, I think I'll use the last 198 00:17:20,349 --> 00:17:28,800 slide and the last like the fruit of the when you and I obey 199 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:36,360 and live Tina Gershwin, say something. 200 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:39,360 If I did not mention it or forget to, you just correct me 201 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:41,960 and say you said that to bring it back. 202 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,960 OK, I want to tell that story right in. 203 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,000 In the Jewish tradition, this is a very beautiful thing. 204 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,920 In the Jewish tradition, this is like this. 205 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,400 When Rabbi was asked what is the biggest thing about the 10 206 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,520 books, the five books of the Torah, the first five books of 207 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,240 Torah, he said two things. Listen very carefully. 208 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:10,080 He said two things. In the beginning, God created 209 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:17,560 heaven and the earth, full stop. In the beginning, God created 210 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:24,280 heaven and the earth, full stop. And then he says I'm creating 211 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,880 you. That's all. 212 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:36,960 I'm creating you. I'm creating you and I believe 213 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:41,880 that you can effect transform this world. 214 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,440 What you were saying about the whole world, I don't know how 215 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,880 they came up with the statistics. 216 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:54,240 Everyone of us can influence 32,000 people. 217 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,240 And with the Internet and all the films you have, Oh my gosh, 218 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:13,310 there is no ordinary person. So when the Word of God comes 219 00:19:13,310 --> 00:19:17,470 into your life and you experientially understand that 220 00:19:18,070 --> 00:19:23,400 everything changes. You know, when Victor Jakaran 221 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,040 were in our church in Indiranagar, what, 38 years ago, 222 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,880 what, 38 years ago, right? 30 years ago, I announced in 223 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,440 church I was the pastor. OK, we're going to have a late 224 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:41,920 training program in our church. And we start announcing, I think 225 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,800 Wednesday we went on Thursday. Was it Tuesday? 226 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:49,360 Tuesday we met. OK and the 1st last time we had 227 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:55,840 announced that we had 30 people, I said woo 30 people for a late 228 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,560 training program in a method that church is phenomenal. 229 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,720 I'm going to lead you to teach you how to do a Bible study, how 230 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,080 to preach, how to lead a person to Christ, how to give the 231 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,680 assurance salvation thought we signed up. 232 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,440 Wow. So I went to my mentor and I 233 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,080 said. You know what, I announced this 234 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,400 late training program and 30 people have signed up and have 235 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:23,600 come Yampa. I'm so excited. 236 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:29,080 And you're going to VASU if we train one or two people enough 237 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:33,800 VASU. Actually, that's what happened. 238 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,240 Victor was the permanent victim of my classes. 239 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:44,840 He came for all the program. Only other person. 240 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,600 Only one other person. I can remember why I'm saying 241 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,960 this. OK, Listen to this very 242 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,720 carefully. The word is sown to everybody. 243 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:59,040 God's resources, God's power, God's miracle is available to 244 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:06,120 everybody. That's a lie. 245 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:12,880 Don't be so proud. You know self pity is pride. 246 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,680 You know that self pity is pride. 247 00:21:22,730 --> 00:21:28,530 You know 1 words that transformed my life and is Acts 248 00:21:30,050 --> 00:21:37,410 and I think it's the 12th chapter of Acts. 249 00:21:37,850 --> 00:21:48,160 It says with God there is no partiality, with God there is no 250 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,520 partiality. Acts chapter 10 was therefore, 251 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,160 you just get into your system. The word of God is preached 252 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,120 everybody. The Bible is available to 253 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,040 everybody and, and, and, and, and, and when you put that into 254 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,080 your life, God can transform your life. 255 00:22:09,670 --> 00:22:21,040 Can somebody do that for us? With God there is no partiality. 256 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,680 That's all. Whatever you, I'll give you one 257 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:30,360 thing, none of us are victim of the past in Christ Jesus. 258 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:37,600 We all can be victims. Hallelujah, none of us. 259 00:22:45,260 --> 00:22:48,420 I love to say this to young people, please don't take it 260 00:22:48,420 --> 00:22:54,200 badly. Blaming your parents comes with 261 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,920 an expiry date. Hallelujah. 262 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:03,920 Only parents can say Hallelujah. Blaming your parents comes with 263 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:12,760 a expiry date. Please don't give that for a 264 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,000 long time. Don't. 265 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,800 I lost my mother when I was five years old. 266 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,560 My dad was a very, very business, very busy person. 267 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,520 I mean, I don't blame him. And yeah, six of us to take 268 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,320 care. My youngest brother was seven 269 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,000 months old and my mother died. OK. 270 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,640 So those days there was no family and planning. 271 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,680 There's two different things. When when my mother was 272 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,040 expecting, my grandmother also was expecting. 273 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,400 I always wonder where my daddy went. 274 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,560 Did he see his mother-in-law anyway? 275 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,040 And when my mother died, our whole world collapsed. 276 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,120 My daddy by God's grief, he said not to get married. 277 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:11,120 He and he took care of us. OK, so I do not remember my 278 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,600 daddy ever carrying me or touching me. 279 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,320 He had a seven months old to take care. 280 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:27,640 Daddy got up in the morning at 5:30, had his prayer, went and 281 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:32,120 had coffee and had break, bought some vegetables and then he 282 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,720 probably bought breakfast for us. 283 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,960 We, we lived in hotel food for a long, long time. 284 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:41,640 And he would go to work at 9:30. He never came back till 8:30. 285 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:46,040 Never. I still remember and I know the 286 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,520 exact space spot in the street in Clemens Rd. in Purushawakam 287 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,200 where I could stand and wait up my power. 288 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,720 That looks like daddy. That looks like daddy, that 289 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,840 looks like daddy. And then it'd be somebody. 290 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:06,680 Hours, hours, hours. I want to say this, the greatest 291 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,600 healing came to me when I recognized God as my daddy. 292 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:21,200 God, that's my daddy. It changed every cell of my 293 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,760 body. It changed my nervous system. 294 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,840 It changed my brain. It changed my complete function 295 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:33,800 of my brain. I'm talking pure neuroscience 296 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:42,200 here, actually actual neuroscience changes everything. 297 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,960 And then when you yeah, we'll go back to that slide. 298 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,600 So yeah, just be the last slide that we saw and I and this is 299 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,400 just not a complete list, but I let me say this. 300 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,240 So when the word of God and his love. 301 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,200 OK, bring the 2nd or the 3rd slide. 302 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,960 OK, go ahead. Go ahead. 303 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:22,760 Go ahead, go ahead. No, there's another one after 304 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:23,480 that. No. 305 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:30,680 OK, Anyway, it's not here. I'll give it to you as you as 306 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,920 you say. Can you type it and bring it on 307 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:33,840 the screen? Great. 308 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,920 Now we say this is the word of God. 309 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,360 We say this is the word of God, correct? 310 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,440 Yeah. In Hebrew it is not there. 311 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,640 It's not like that. OK, so Anthony, you started 312 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:57,880 Hebrew, you taught Hebrew. Then I am the scholar in Hebrew. 313 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,360 It's not there. The word, The word. 314 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,760 Listen to this. OK, The word when you say the 315 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,400 word in Hebrew, it is a real thing. 316 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,520 It is a first thing, it's a real thing. 317 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,160 Say it's a real thing. The word I've got is a real 318 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,640 thing. Say it's a real thing. 319 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:25,920 OK, so, so when I speak, I give you something that you did not 320 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:31,200 have. So the Hebrew word to speak and 321 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:37,880 think THING is almost saying So when I tell you God loves you, 322 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,800 God has a beautiful plan for your life. 323 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:46,960 Don't give up in life because he has engraved in the palms of His 324 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,200 hand and you are the greatest delight to him. 325 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:56,760 He dances and sings over you. When I give that word, it is a 326 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:03,320 real thing. It's not Anne, it's not 327 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,960 vibration, it's not some frequency. 328 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:11,280 It's a real thing. That is all. 329 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:16,160 When God says he loves you, it's a real thing. 330 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,640 That's the first thing about Hebrew. 331 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,880 And when you understand that as a wrong thing, everything 332 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:38,480 changes. Second thing, the word to speak 333 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:45,520 I speak is in Hebrew is to give a jewel. 334 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:55,360 Interesting. To speak is to give a jewel to 335 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,240 you. Now, those of you who are 336 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,720 getting preparation for marriage or if you are married, if you 337 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,880 don't have a jewel to give, shut up. 338 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,000 How many marriages will be saved if you just shut up? 339 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:25,560 I feel like saying idiot, I feel like shut up. 340 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,920 If you don't have a jewel to give, what do you do? 341 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,240 How many marriages? And that's a good preparation 342 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:45,400 for marriage, actually. And to speak is to give a jewel. 343 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,000 The last thing about speaking in Hebrew is beautiful. 344 00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:02,360 In Hebrew, when I say I speak, I raise you to the highest place 345 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:13,720 in the branch of a tree. That's speaking, I raise you. 346 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,800 What a beautiful thing if all marriages can just follow that. 347 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:27,080 I raise you to the highest place in the branch of the tree. 348 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:41,080 Tell you the why I'm with you. And and so let's put in the word 349 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,880 of God what a what is the word of God first in the Hebrew 350 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:50,040 understanding it's a real thing. This chat is real that what 351 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,320 water bottle is real real, absolutely real. 352 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:00,800 God loves you, God cares for you and he has a beautiful plan for 353 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,720 you in terms of all your disappointment, he has an 354 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,480 appointment. Hallelujah. 355 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,240 All your set back. All your set back are a set up 356 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:23,800 for a higher raise Hallelujah. But just continue to love him. 357 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,960 Just continue to obey him. Just continue to follow him. 358 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:40,400 Just continue to know him. So when that real thing comes 359 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:45,160 into your life, you obey it, you follow that. 360 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:50,800 It changes everything about you. Everything about you. 361 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,880 OK, Yeah, very good. Where is the word? 362 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:02,080 I've got is real thing then the word of God to speak is to give 363 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:08,520 a jewel to give a jewel and the third thing is to speak is to 364 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:14,160 raise the person to the highest branch of a tree that's not 365 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:21,760 speaking and this exactly what the word of God does to us. 366 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,160 You know, my life changed completely. 367 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:31,960 My life changed completely when I realized God loves me and it's 368 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:38,800 a nothing. God is with me and it's a real 369 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,920 thing. The other day I was going to A 370 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,640 to a church, which I have not been before and the service 371 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:48,960 started. I think the worship stopped. 372 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:54,240 So there were ashes, very big church and there was ashes and 373 00:32:55,040 --> 00:33:00,000 and as I entered the Ashraf, how many of you he said you know, I 374 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,600 said phone, but I was walking alone. 375 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:10,360 Then he showed me a chair where there was four seats and he and 376 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,960 as I was sitting going to sit. No, actually the other three 377 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,800 person don't need chair, but they are with me. 378 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,160 Are you with me? Because it's a real thing. 379 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:26,200 The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit is with me. 380 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,960 But they don't need a chat. It's a real thing. 381 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,600 And then when that Word of God comes into your life, that's a 382 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,960 real thing. Then you bring forth much fruit. 383 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:52,240 It's a real thing. I didn't have a jewel. 384 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,600 Oh, I got the jewel. I live as if I got the jewel. 385 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,440 I live as if I have a jewel in my heart. 386 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:17,280 And because of that Jewel, I live. 387 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,880 OK, You bring the discipleship thing. 388 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:29,560 It's intentional and OK. Yeah, we will go to that. 389 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,560 Yeah. No, no, before that. 390 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:41,480 Yeah, OK. Before that, Before that, before 391 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:46,080 that. Can somebody read that for us? 392 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:56,760 We go to the verse before that. OK, so read that one or two that 393 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,200 read it loudly. I can read it read. 394 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:33,510 Go ahead. If you want the seed to bring 395 00:35:33,510 --> 00:35:38,110 forth fruit, there must be discipline, there must be 396 00:35:38,110 --> 00:35:42,830 obedience, there must be submission. 397 00:35:47,630 --> 00:35:48,790 Then you bring the next slide now. 398 00:35:50,550 --> 00:35:55,950 Yeah, OK, All of us do that. Training. 399 00:35:56,750 --> 00:36:03,920 Repeated intentional practice that forms you, not perfection 400 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,720 overnight. Formation overtime. 401 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:13,760 Shall we read that again? Training is repeated intentional 402 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:19,120 practice that forms you, not perfection overnight. 403 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,800 You're getting formed into Christ, like now. 404 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,200 That's all it is, but it has to be intentional. 405 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:35,640 It has to be an everyday ongoing process of saying no, no, no, 406 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,120 this. I cannot be thinking this way. 407 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,600 There's a theory in, there's a practice in counseling that we 408 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,160 learned, one of the things that we learned is called stop 409 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,840 therapy. All of you say stop therapy, 410 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:53,440 stop therapy shot again. So when you're anxious, you're 411 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,160 OK to be anxious for a little while. 412 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,720 If you're worried, it's alright to be worried for a little 413 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,000 while. If somebody hurts you, it's 414 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,760 alright to feel that anger for a little while because we are all 415 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,080 human being. If you're worried about certain 416 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,240 things, you put your ATM into the mission and you get the 417 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:21,600 loving letter insufficient from it's a little it's OK to be and 418 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,200 then say wow, I'm going to trust God. 419 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,280 Stop therapy says that is all right to be worried or anxious 420 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,440 or worried and upset or angry for a short duration of time. 421 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:47,840 Somebody calls you I know him so I can go and then say it hurts. 422 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,000 OK, here's if you say exactly the statement. 423 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,320 Next time when Tina and Gharshan call me, I'll give you a gift, 424 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,760 OK? Somebody hurt me. 425 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,480 They said something just not correct recently, and then I 426 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:10,360 said these words to them. As I told you, it's alright to 427 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,800 feel anger, hurt and pain. So don't think that is wrong. 428 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,280 It's alright. It's alright to be afraid, you 429 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:27,800 know, listen to this. I told whatever you say, my joy 430 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,680 and my peace in God is not going to be disturbed. 431 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,600 Hallelujah. Learn it. 432 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:43,760 As I said, you will feel that initially and that's OK, but I'm 433 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:49,720 not going to live in anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, 434 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,960 resentment, stop. That's the power of the Holy 435 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,880 Spirit in the life of believer. For those of you preparing for 436 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,640 marriage, this is a very good preparation. 437 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,880 You will have hundreds of opportunities every day, almost 438 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:16,960 hundreds of that is why training is that in one way, if you want 439 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,520 to be a good discipline to get married, you will see, you will 440 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,280 get training. You will get training, good 441 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:30,040 training. All your garbage and all that 442 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,840 anger and everything is going to come on. 443 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:41,200 Listen to this. No spiritual progress can come 444 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:46,000 without you submitting, without you yielding and without you 445 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,520 obeying the Holy Spirit. Nothing's going to happen. 446 00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,240 You're not going to become productive and what become what 447 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:58,800 God wants you to be just that's not going to happen. 448 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:03,800 It's intentional, it's repeated. It's a practice moment by moment 449 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:08,760 and by second, by millisecond, obeying God and enjoying Him 450 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,880 and. Following him. 451 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,880 OK, here's something you can write this down, OK? 452 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:27,880 In response to his deep love, in his in our response to his deep 453 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:34,280 love, we continue to obey him and transformation takes place. 454 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:42,360 Karata, you get it. In response to his deep love, 455 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:50,160 you obey him and transformation takes place. 456 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:55,840 That's all. It's only in that, only in that. 457 00:41:02,110 --> 00:41:05,630 OK. So it is a repeated intentional 458 00:41:05,630 --> 00:41:13,880 practice that forms you not, not overnight performance formation 459 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,240 over time. OK. 460 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:26,520 So I've been married for 38 years, nine years. 461 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,000 You're 3040. So he's senior to me. 462 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:36,560 So so and I was saying this, I'm saying that when we first got 463 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,640 married, we fought a lot. I spoke words I should not 464 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,480 speak. But in the last five years, six 465 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:51,840 years or so, both of us have learnt this intentional 466 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,600 obedience. That's a good one. 467 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,360 In response to his deep love, we continue to obey and 468 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,720 transformation takes place. Underline that into your life. 469 00:42:07,350 --> 00:42:13,110 And then when Nadala and myself came closer to God and and we 470 00:42:13,110 --> 00:42:18,720 began to realize what really counts, I want to say this, that 471 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:25,800 we enjoy each other now. Then we first got married 472 00:42:35,790 --> 00:42:37,910 because you act OK. Write this down. 473 00:42:39,110 --> 00:42:44,150 My Christian experience of God's love must transform me and make 474 00:42:44,150 --> 00:42:49,790 me an awesome, amazing, loving person to live with. 475 00:42:50,270 --> 00:42:56,400 Can I say that again, my experience of God and my 476 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,960 obedience to His response to His deep love in my life must 477 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:08,520 transform me into an awesome, loving, amazing person to live 478 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:16,870 with. And if that is not happening 479 00:43:20,550 --> 00:43:29,920 when you check with God, OK, we'll go to the next slide. 480 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,360 Oh, you got the sentence. OK, very good. 481 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:42,120 No problem, No problem. OK, so salvation means salvation 482 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,840 means is an invitation for transformation. 483 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,720 Marriage means invitation for transformation. 484 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:56,520 In the Hebrew understanding, marriage is a born again 485 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:02,000 experience. Marriage is a born again. 486 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:14,920 I want put a case, one case. I was born like this and I did 487 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,640 like this. Finally I'll be like this. 488 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:25,600 Put a case manage is an invitation for transformation. 489 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:32,360 Salvation is an invitation for transformation. 490 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:38,000 You experience this love and say Lord, I want to be changed 491 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:49,640 person Ruttle OK, so salvation is go back good. 492 00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:57,080 All of the readers my Christian experience loudly my yeah go 493 00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:07,240 ahead read loudly my Christian experience of others. 494 00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:09,400 You make everybody around you sick and tired. 495 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:32,120 Have to be OK. OK, So yeah, dying to self and 496 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,320 living for Christ, that's what salvation is. 497 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,640 And in this transformation, when you accept Christ and the 498 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,200 transformation that God is inviting us is this one. 499 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:50,760 Let Christ be the Lord of our lives to Eal and say Lord 500 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:56,280 hereafter not my will, but but thy will be done. 501 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:06,080 That you understand the cross means everything to you, and you 502 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:12,680 want to live every day for him. That's the invitation. 503 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,280 That's the invitation God gives you. 504 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:23,080 OK, let's move, let's move, move. 505 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,640 What happens? Why sometimes the word people 506 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,680 listen to the church. They hear Gharsham preach his 507 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:39,680 heart out and they and and they listen to so many messages and 508 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,760 so much of teaching they get. But there is no fruit and no 509 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:48,320 result at all. There's no change at all. 510 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:56,720 Now this is not a complete list, OK, But you have to find out why 511 00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:00,880 we go into rocky grounds and hearts filled with unnecessary 512 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,720 things that are choking the world. 513 00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:09,360 There are rocks there that is not allowing the sea to take 514 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:20,920 full growth and become what you can become and and because of 515 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,520 these things that are occupied now, listen to this very 516 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:31,800 carefully, OK, All of this occupy real estate space in your 517 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:45,840 brain. And then you have a 518 00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,960 superstructure around all of that infrastructure around that. 519 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,680 And there's buildings and there are chains and there are 520 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:03,840 bondages that strongholds. That's the word the Bible uses 521 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:09,520 strongholds around it. And then you listen to Billy 522 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:16,160 Graham and John Piper and just start and you listen to all of 523 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,680 these guys. Nothing. 524 00:48:24,590 --> 00:48:28,670 Because deep, deep down on your heart and soul, these are some 525 00:48:28,670 --> 00:48:32,510 of the things that are preoccupying your life and they 526 00:48:32,510 --> 00:48:47,240 are eating you from inside. Some people have lived with 527 00:48:47,240 --> 00:48:52,120 anxiety and if they don't, if they're not anxious, they are 528 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,160 anxious. Why they are not anxious? 529 00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:13,200 I should not be like that. For years and years and years we 530 00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:22,960 lived in that. One of my friend's pastor was 531 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:34,880 telling and he was passing by and said and then he saw some 532 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:41,920 people have built their houses just near and he was asking how 533 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,640 do these people manage to live in this place? 534 00:49:50,240 --> 00:49:53,400 This got used to. Listen to this. 535 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,000 Listen to this. I want to tell you a story, but 536 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:03,440 this I won't get that. Listen to this, don't get used 537 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,040 to these nonsense things in your life that is destroying you from 538 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,520 inside and think they are normal and you have to live with it all 539 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,320 your life. You don't have to. 540 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:21,280 That's why Christ came and he said I'll set you free. 541 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,680 When the sun sets you free, what will happen? 542 00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:30,840 You'll be free indeed. It's a real thing. 543 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:41,940 He wants to lift you up and you've got to find out what are 544 00:50:41,940 --> 00:50:43,540 the. The other thing you could have 545 00:50:43,540 --> 00:50:46,460 is low self worth. You could add a lot of things in 546 00:50:46,460 --> 00:50:48,620 this world. Low self worth is another thing. 547 00:50:49,220 --> 00:50:50,860 Now listen to this very carefully. 548 00:50:50,860 --> 00:50:53,740 I'll tell this, you can get this done, OK. 549 00:50:56,780 --> 00:51:02,580 What you accomplish can never be consistent with what you think 550 00:51:02,580 --> 00:51:07,720 about yourself. What you believe about yourself 551 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:13,600 is so important because if you believe that, you are an idiot. 552 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,520 If you believe you'll never get over your fear. 553 00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:20,240 If you believe that you're an ordinary person, you can't also 554 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:23,680 do great things because that's what you believe about yourself. 555 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,920 You will never race about what you believe about yourself. 556 00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,600 Then once you realise Isaiah 43 four, this was my words that 557 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:45,360 transformed my life, that you are precious, you are honoured, 558 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,120 you are loved. And when I realise that it's a 559 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:55,480 real thing, I got a jewel and I live as if I have a jewel. 560 00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:58,880 I live that way. I live. 561 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:11,320 So the person who has a PhD, some of you know my PhD right 562 00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,520 past high school, Difficult, you know. 563 00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:24,200 Well, at least right now, my desire is only to write 25 564 00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,600 books. I'm only going to be 70 next 565 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:33,970 year. That's all you can do. 566 00:52:35,370 --> 00:52:36,570 OK, Listen to this very carefully. 567 00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:38,010 OK, Listen to this very carefully. 568 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:41,720 Jesus, our Lord says these words. 569 00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:44,560 If you believe in me, complete that for me. 570 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:50,680 If you believe in me, you will do the work that I do. 571 00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:52,760 And then I'm going to the Father, man. 572 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,040 I'm going to your daddy, bedfellow. 573 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,160 He loves you so much. He gets excited about seeing 574 00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,000 you, and then I'm going to the Father. 575 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,520 Hey, you will do much more than I have done. 576 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:13,000 Do you believe that? Is that the real thing for you 577 00:53:18,240 --> 00:53:24,520 or it is some vibration, some voices, some No, no, no, no, no, 578 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:32,080 they are real. And when I began to realize that 579 00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:36,640 it's real, it changed my life completely. 580 00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:53,160 I only went to America five times because I believed. 581 00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,600 I believed that he gave me a jewel. 582 00:54:01,240 --> 00:54:07,400 OK, so we'll just close. So bring back the last slide. 583 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:15,320 All of us can read this. OK, now this again is not a 584 00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:18,240 complete list. When the real world of God gets 585 00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:22,280 into your system, when the jewel gets into your system, when the 586 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:26,200 real thing gets into your system, your life will change 587 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:30,760 completely. OK, let's read it. 588 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,320 You will become. Go ahead. 589 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:37,840 Amen. Go ahead. 590 00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:46,480 Amen. Go ahead. 591 00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,720 Amen. Amen. 592 00:54:56,680 --> 00:54:59,440 OK, all those who can become fathers, so many of your fathers 593 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,400 here have children with you. Can I see your hand? 594 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:05,040 OK. You better become dynamic and 595 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,040 active because your children are going to see you. 596 00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:09,960 They'll also become dull and boric. 597 00:55:18,190 --> 00:55:24,510 Better you will become a dynamic person. 598 00:55:25,190 --> 00:55:30,350 OK, next one who will become black. 599 00:55:33,230 --> 00:55:43,080 If you abide in me, you'll bring forth, I was listening to this 600 00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,880 rabbi, I was telling you what is the only one? 601 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,080 If you have to say the most important words in the five 602 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:53,240 books of the Torah, what is the most important verse in that? 603 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,560 He says Deuteronomy 4/4. Can somebody read that? 604 00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:59,200 Can you bring that on the screen? 605 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,680 Deuteronomy 4th chapter, fourth verse, to summarize the entire 606 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:08,680 five books. He says this is the key and I 607 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:13,560 was thinking how close our Lord was when he said if you abide in 608 00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:18,000 me and your my words abide in you, you'll bring forth much 609 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:19,120 fruit. That's what our Lord said, 610 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:28,240 correct? OK, but all of you was to the 611 00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:31,640 Lord. You're God and you shall live, 612 00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:38,520 Hallelujah, and He shall live when you continuously enjoy the 613 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,640 experience and knowledge of Him loving you, when you continue to 614 00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,840 enjoy and celebrate the joy and the peace. 615 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:52,680 He, you know I want to say this, you bring greatest delight to 616 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:54,400 the eyes of God. Hallelujah. 617 00:56:55,960 --> 00:57:03,960 Can I say that again, you bring the greatest delight in the eyes 618 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:10,760 of God and look at His eyes delighting in you and just 619 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:16,280 celebrate that. Just enjoy that and just 620 00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:21,920 celebrate and worship for a few seconds every day, every hour. 621 00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,800 If you can do that, your brain will be transformed. 622 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:33,760 How many seconds are there in a minute? 623 00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:42,120 You seconds of those minutes. Just enjoy. 624 00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,880 It's not about you. It's not about you producing 625 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,800 anything. It's about his love, his joy. 626 00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:55,520 In Zephaniah 317, he is singing over you, he is dancing over 627 00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,000 you. Just enjoy that. 628 00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,720 Just go into that dance. It's not about you. 629 00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:11,880 And once you get into that dance, you're also celebrating. 630 00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:27,360 OK, let's complete that one. Then you'll become productive. 631 00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,800 That's all. You have new ideas. 632 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:31,960 I mean, OK, you will read next one. 633 00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:40,720 You look very creative. I was teaching a class on 634 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,960 happiness in a school in Bangalore and somebody said, you 635 00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,840 said if you're happy, you'll be creating, you'll be creating 636 00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,040 something. What did you create? 637 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,520 He's asking me. OK, in front of the class I 638 00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:53,200 said, hey, how long have you been in school? 639 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,240 10 years. Did anybody come and teach you 640 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,320 on happiness? No Sir, here I am. 641 00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:02,840 Oh, a story. If you're doing the same thing 642 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:12,800 for years and years and years, then you're not growing the life 643 00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,640 of a believer. The life of a believer is 644 00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:21,440 spontaneous and unpredictable. The life of a Sinner is 645 00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:29,640 predictable and boring. Nobody told you that one, did 646 00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:34,080 they? The life of a believer is 647 00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:37,080 spontaneous and active in dynamic. 648 00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,240 The life of a sin is predictable and boring. 649 00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:55,720 OK, next one you will enjoy. Amen. 650 00:59:56,800 --> 01:00:02,880 You know, your business, your money, your health, all of that 651 01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,480 keeps changing continuously, for the presence of God will never 652 01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:10,280 change. And there's fullness of joy, 653 01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:19,120 Psalm 16 in His presence. God is inviting you to that one. 654 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:32,880 God is inviting you to that. Next one because it is a What is 655 01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:34,160 the word of God? It's a real thing. 656 01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:41,120 It's a real thing. 2 + 2 is 4 like H2 is water. 657 01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:50,840 Yeah. More real is God that he loves 658 01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:54,160 you. He has given you a spirit of 659 01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:59,480 power and not of timidity. That's the truth. 660 01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:07,280 Real thing. OK, next one. 661 01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,000 Amen. Amen. 662 01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,640 Progressively, if you're enjoying worship, you're 663 01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:32,080 growing, you're becoming productive, OK, next one OK and 664 01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,360 add you will enjoy a relationship with God and with 665 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:41,160 your spouse and your family. Increasingly, as you become 666 01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:46,160 closer to God, you will enjoy intimate relationship with God 667 01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,880 and you will enjoy your wife. You'll enjoy your husband 668 01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,400 better. You'll enjoy friendship better, 669 01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:54,720 you'll enjoy relationship better. 670 01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:00,200 Progressively you'll enjoy relationship because God made 671 01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:07,680 you for relationships. Time man and I am lonely. 672 01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,400 I am OK. No you're not OK. 673 01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,440 No man is an island. No man. 674 01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:23,080 We all need each other and they bring light into each other's 675 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,000 life. You'll have a great sense of 676 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:35,840 victory over sin in your life. Progressively listen to this. 677 01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:40,360 Listen to this OK in, in, in Christian experience. 678 01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:44,960 As you experience the love of God deeply into your system, 679 01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:49,280 obeying him will become your second nature. 680 01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:54,800 Write it down. As you experience God's love and 681 01:02:54,800 --> 01:03:01,280 as God becomes real to you, obeying Him will become your 682 01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:10,760 second nature. And that's how you realise 683 01:03:10,760 --> 01:03:12,080 whether you're bringing forth fruit. 684 01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:13,240 That's what you're talking about. 685 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,480 Your life will be marked with obedience. 686 01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:26,920 I think they're bringing the communion. 687 01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,080 I need to obey to close my mouth now. 688 01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:43,040 We'll just take the last type one more time before this, OK? 689 01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:48,960 No, after that you need to see what is choking your spiritual 690 01:03:48,960 --> 01:04:00,240 growth and preventing the seed of the gospel taking roots, the 691 01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:15,340 other one, the rocks and the thing the rocks and what fear, 692 01:04:15,460 --> 01:04:17,380 anxiety, worry are all that list. 693 01:04:18,100 --> 01:04:25,660 OK, as you take in the comedian, examine what's happening, what 694 01:04:25,660 --> 01:04:29,980 is eating you from inside and bring it to the Lord. 695 01:04:30,980 --> 01:04:35,760 Say, Lord, cleanse me from that. I'm sick and tired of that. 696 01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:39,200 You're inviting me into an abundant life. 697 01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:45,440 You're inviting me into an abundant life and give me that 698 01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:50,240 abundant life that you have come to live. 699 01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,600 I don't want to settle for anything less. 700 01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:58,200 I don't want to settle for anything less. 701 01:04:59,920 --> 01:05:08,720 Transform my life to bring forth 1600 thousand and. 702 01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,960 We hope you enjoyed today's message and we're blessed. 703 01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:19,800 If you liked what you heard and want to hear more messages from 704 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:23,320 us, you could rate US and subscribe to our podcast channel 705 01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:27,520 for more content from We Are Zion or if you would like to get 706 01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:33,400 in touch with us, you can go to We Are Zion dot In or follow us 707 01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,200 on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. 708 01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:42,280 Most importantly, remember that whoever finds Jesus finds life.