1 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,080 Hi, welcome to the Via Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,240 We are a local church based here in Chennai, India. 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,560 We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,880 encourage, inspire and instill fresh faith in you. 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,720 We have started the Advent season and are thrilled that we 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:26,160 get to celebrate Jesus for all that he is, has been, and all 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,000 that He will do. We look at Jesus, the living 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,640 Word today, the one who left heaven and walked the earth To 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,160 be one of us. As you listen in our prayer is 10 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:40,080 that you will experience the power and fulfillment that only 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,920 Jesus gives. Hi, it's such a joy and honour 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,280 to be being God's word to you. Today we'll be going to the 13 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,080 second part of our Advent series where we'll be looking at the 14 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,720 glimpses of Jesus this Advent through the book of John. 15 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,440 Typically we use Matthew, Mark, Luke, the one of those 3 gospels 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,440 to actually go through the Advent series. 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,760 But this time, even as we were preparing, we felt let's do John 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,800 because John had a distinct way of seeing Jesus. 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:11,440 And even as we look at that, we'll be able to see what he 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,760 intended for us to see through with the Scriptures. 21 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,680 So even as we look into Gospel of John last week, you saw that 22 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,520 Jesus is the word. Even as we saw these three 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,720 characters made the Zechariah and the Shepherds, we saw that 24 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,040 God's word is unfailing. We also saw that God's word is 25 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:29,440 exceedingly powerful. Today we're going to be looking 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,000 into the other aspect, into the couple of verses. 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,640 When we read through in John chapter 1, we see Jesus being 28 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,040 referred to as the life. Last week was a word, this week 29 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:39,600 is a life. So he's. 30 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,280 Referred to the word. And the life and one of the 31 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,640 verses that we're going to meditate on is from John chapter 32 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,120 1, verses three to four. And this is what it says through 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,880 Him all things were made. Without Him, nothing was made 34 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:55,560 that has been made. In Him was life, and the life 35 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:00,200 was a light of all mankind. Even as we read this John 1 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,400 verses three to four, we see that everything was created 37 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,480 through Him. There's nothing that was not 38 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,400 created through Him. And this life that John writes 39 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,400 about, when we look at the Greek word which means Zoe, it means 40 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,480 life, both physical, which is basically our present life, the 41 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,280 very moment of physical life. And it also is about a spiritual 42 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:28,560 life where it talks about the future where we when we lose our 43 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,680 life here on this earth and we close our eyes, it just doesn't 44 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,000 end here, but we continue on the future existence of ours. 45 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,880 And so even as we look at this, there is all-encompassing thing 46 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,840 that we see happen within our own lives. 47 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,520 It's the physical and the spiritual dimensions of it. 48 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:47,840 And this happens only through Jesus. 49 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,000 And John goes on to say that Jesus is the Zoe life. 50 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:56,520 And today I want us to come to a place where we all will just not 51 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,480 live our physical lives. And so today if I have to ask 52 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,800 you, how is life, we all will immediately talk about our 53 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,120 present life. You know, I time and again I've 54 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,200 met a lot of people when I ask how life is going, they 55 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,200 immediately think they just need to tell all the hardships of 56 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,920 what's happening, but they fail to understand, you know, in the 57 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:16,440 light of all that I want to see happen. 58 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,520 These things are mandatory and I'm able to push through it. 59 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,440 There's a lack of faith in our lives to talk about. 60 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,080 And I think many a times we are so caught up in our physical 61 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,200 lives where Jesus is coming to say this Christmas. 62 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,640 Hey, even as we celebrate Christmas, remember why I came. 63 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,200 I just didn't come for this physical life because then we 64 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,240 won't be any different than the people who were there to receive 65 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,280 Him, and yet they did not know him and rather we would come to 66 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,520 a place of saying God. This physical life seems hard, 67 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,280 but I'm going to pursue you. And through you I'm going to see 68 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,800 completion because there's much more beyond this physical life 69 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 into the spiritual life. And so today, even as we. 70 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,120 Look through our. Own lives. 71 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,040 I believe God wants us to examine our hearts. 72 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,560 Let's continue reading. John 111 to 13. 73 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,440 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive 74 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,320 him. Yet to all who did receive him, 75 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,640 to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to 76 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,000 become children of God, children born out of natural descent, nor 77 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,800 of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. 78 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,120 And I think this is one of the pivotal verses for us to go in 79 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,040 terms of application. John 111 to 13. 80 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,120 It says here the first thing. It says His own didn't deceive 81 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:31,920 him. What is his own? 82 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,360 Jesus was born as a Jewish carpenter's son. 83 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,080 Yes, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, but when he was 84 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,360 born, He was born into a family. And his own didn't deceive him. 85 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,480 They didn't realize that he was a Messiah because the very 86 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,440 Messiah that they thought they wanted was different. 87 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:50,880 And so today, I think a lot of times. 88 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,160 The Redeemer that we are wanting is entirely different. 89 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,000 Our expectation is completely different from what God is 90 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 wanting to fulfill in and through us. 91 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,680 And so He's coming here to set our expectations. 92 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,440 So today, if a lot of you are unable to receive Jesus, it's 93 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,160 probably our expectations which have to be changed. 94 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,520 The second thing we see is yet. To all who did receive if you 95 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,800 can circle the word receive it says yeah, he and those who 96 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,200 believe in his name. So it's just not about receiving 97 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,120 but believing he gave the right to become children of God. 98 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:26,000 And so today if you and I are wanting to experience this Zoe 99 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,760 life. We have to not only receive him, 100 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,200 so it doesn't just mean. That we accept Jesus Christ as a 101 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,000 Lord and personal Saviour, but we have to believe with our 102 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,960 hearts wholeheartedly. He gives us the right to become 103 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,040 children of God. Children not of natural descent 104 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:44,560 or a planned child like how we have in marriages. 105 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,840 And maybe it happens because of marriage, but we are born of God 106 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,840 and there's a. Distinct call on our lives to 107 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:56,320 live out this life to its fullest because we are children 108 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,440 of God. So even as we look down today, I 109 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,320 just want us to think as to what are some of the pop culture 110 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:05,480 things that we are talked about with regard to life today. 111 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,360 You and I plan our lives quite well. 112 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,080 For those of us who are in our midlife, we kind of like know 113 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:13,640 that we need to do certain things so that we are good 114 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:18,520 stewards as as God's children, We also take on the role of 115 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,800 being parents. And so we have to steward our 116 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,920 lives well so that we can take them along so that they will be 117 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,280 able to live well. They'll be able to do the things 118 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:29,440 God's called them to do. We maintain a particular socio 119 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,520 economic status so that we are able to do out everything like 120 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,800 in terms of our work, in terms of the place we've decided to be 121 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:38,840 in. But all these are still 122 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:42,480 physical. And here God is asking. 123 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,720 Us to live our best life here, right here on this earth. 124 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,920 Even as we live our physical lives, He's asking us to live it 125 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,960 to it's best. Even in our spiritual life, He 126 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,920 wants us to live it to it's best. 127 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:57,560 But pop culture has a different way. 128 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,240 I was just reading through some of these articles, what 2024 129 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,520 writers, bloggers have been talking about living the best 130 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:09,120 life yet and it says where you have your own control. 131 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,960 Three things that they I was able to conclude was your own 132 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,120 control. You are able to have your own 133 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,760 power, which means everything is under your own power. 134 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,200 You get to choose and you get your owning who you're being. 135 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:29,320 So control, power, and who you really are is all centered 136 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,040 around self. But Jesus, when he came into 137 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,280 this world, reversed that. When he came into this world, He 138 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,120 said, hey, if you want to live the life that I am calling you 139 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,440 to live, you need to receive me. Wherein we allow him to come in. 140 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,320 We believe in Him and then no longer are we living our lives. 141 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,960 We're living our lives through him. 142 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,600 There's suddenly this filter where everything passes through 143 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:55,920 him, everything passes through him. 144 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,880 And with this, I was, even as I was melting, I was like, God, 145 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,120 what is it that you want us as a church? 146 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,720 What is it you want us as individuals to do? 147 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,920 He says to live in the Zoe life, you need to be doing these three 148 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,200 things. And I just want, I've picked up 149 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,080 three things which I want us to see through the Advent stories 150 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:19,200 of how it unfolded and unpacked and how they they saw Jesus and 151 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,760 how we get to see Jesus today so that we'll be able. 152 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,520 To live it out. So today when we live, we don't 153 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,880 live with the dead end in mind where there's no path after 154 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:28,520 that. We'd rather live with eternity 155 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,880 in perspective. What does that mean? 156 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:34,240 It means that when I have my eyes fully on Jesus. 157 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,640 I know that he's wanting me to live the life that he's called 158 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,320 me here, be impactful here, so that when I close my eyes, I'll 159 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,360 be able to live the life what eternity has in. 160 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,640 Store So today, even as we live the Zoe life, there are three 161 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,080 things which I want to highlight The first thing is the Zoe life 162 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,200 can be lived when we live in submission on. 163 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:00,320 God's side, the Zoe life can be lived only when we live in 164 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,440 submission, when we are on God's side. 165 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,040 In John chapter 8 verses 31 to 34, Jesus was actually talking 166 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,120 to the people and to the Pharisees and all of them, and 167 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,680 even as He was talking to them, suddenly they started 168 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:16,120 questioning and I just wanted to draw attention to that. 169 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,960 In John 8 verse 31 onwards it says to the Jews who had 170 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,200 believed him. Jesus said, if you hold my 171 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,600 teaching, you are really my disciples, then you will know 172 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,480 the truth and the truth. Will set you free, they answered 173 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,520 them. We are Abraham's descendants and 174 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,440 have never been slaves of anyone. 175 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,920 How can you say that we shall be set free? 176 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,000 Jesus replied. Very truly, I tell you, everyone 177 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,960 who sins. Is a slave to sin even as I read 178 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:47,560 from John 31 to 34, we see when Jesus tells them you should not 179 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,680 just believe me, but you should also hold to the teaching 180 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,560 there's a thing that Jesus requires as you believe you hold 181 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:55,240 on to the. Teaching. 182 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,320 Do what Jesus tells, but the people immediately say, no, we 183 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:01,520 are not people who are bound. We are already people who are 184 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,640 free. And it's interesting how the 185 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:05,680 people understand that they are free. 186 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:09,400 They go back to Abraham. They piggyback of Abraham's 187 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,560 obedience. But Jesus is coming here and 188 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:16,240 saying each and everyone of you individually, each and everyone 189 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,240 of us are responsible for our salvation today. 190 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,880 Each and everyone of us are responsible for our belief 191 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,120 system today. Each and everyone of us are 192 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:29,960 responsible for what we have to say about who Jesus is for us. 193 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:35,760 The problem is today because we are trying to piggyback. 194 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,000 Probably today you've piggybacked of your parents 195 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,560 faith or probably of your spouse's faith or your, you know 196 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:42,600 of the person who led you to faith. 197 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,760 You're probably piggybacking. But Jesus saying, would you 198 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:46,760 start doing what I've been teaching you? 199 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,920 That's why even as we heard last week, reading His word is 200 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,640 important. We cannot, a lot of us read His 201 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:55,760 word but are unable to apply it because we don't take it. 202 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,800 We think this word happened 2000 years back and does it is spirit 203 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,200 breath, which means it has life, which means this. 204 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:09,040 The the word brings in that encouragement into my physical 205 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,000 being and into my spiritual being. 206 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,800 And what Jesus is saying here is you're trying to piggyback off 207 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,600 Abraham's faith. Abraham obeyed and because of 208 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,400 his obedience a nation got formed. 209 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,360 But then what happened time and again, because of the nation's 210 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,400 disobedience, the time and again went into captivity. 211 00:11:25,880 --> 00:11:28,240 And even when Jesus was speaking this, they were in captivity. 212 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,120 But imagine this, even though physically they are captive, 213 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,240 they somehow think they're still free because Abraham obeyed. 214 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:40,960 And today Jesus is saying, no, anyone who's sin is a slave to 215 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,840 sin. There is. 216 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,600 And in fact, when you read that entire chapter, Jesus constantly 217 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,960 keeps, you know, rebuttling them, saying you're not serving 218 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:54,200 God, you're rather serving the God who you think of this earth. 219 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,120 And that's Satan, and he blinds us with that. 220 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,240 And so today. Even as we. 221 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,720 Look into this. Jesus wants us to come to a 222 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,200 place of accepting that. We need to. 223 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,160 Personally follow his teaching yes, we've received we believed, 224 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,960 but are we personally following his teaching you know a lot of 225 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,600 us today love a personal. Discount. 226 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,600 You know, if you get a personal discount it's good, but when 227 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,680 you're travelling with a family and you get a family discount, 228 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,480 you think that's even greater because you've got a bulk 229 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,320 discount for a lot of people. But today the gospel that we are 230 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,440 talking about is for each and everyone. 231 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,600 There's no group discount here. You can't say you know, I'm with 232 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,040 them and just enter. And no, it won't. 233 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,320 Work that way, it's for each and everyone of us to make this 234 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,280 decision. So today, even as we are talking 235 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:45,000 about this life which represents Jesus, he's asking would you 236 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,520 submit to him? Let's continue on reading John 237 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,160 chapter 8 verses 42 onwards. It says Jesus said to them. 238 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,480 If God were your Father, you would love me, for I am come 239 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,760 here from God. I've not come here on my own. 240 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,840 God sent me. Why is my language not clear to 241 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,600 you? Because you are unable to hear 242 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,320 what I say. Yet because I tell the truth, 243 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,560 you do not believe me. Can any of you prove me guilty 244 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:09,680 of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why 245 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:12,040 don't you believe me? Whoever belongs to God hears 246 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,760 what God says. The reason you do not hear is 247 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:21,200 that you do not belong to God. So today when I look at this 248 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,720 passage, my own heart idols come forward because I'm not able to 249 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:29,000 wholly commit myself to Jesus teaching, because forgiveness is 250 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,680 hard, because letting go of things is hard, because giving 251 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:36,600 control is hard. But Jesus is saying here, if you 252 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,760 want to experience a Zoey life, there has to be submission. 253 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,240 You know, you'll soon realize between friends, between you 254 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,080 know, between people that you move around with. 255 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,440 There's always a power struggle. There's always a power struggle. 256 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,560 People want to come off thinking that they know better. 257 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,200 People, you know, put on a show that they, you know, that they 258 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,160 know much more. And you know, there's always 259 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,040 this power struggle. But when we come into our 260 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:04,040 relationship with Jesus, we come saying, God, you are above 261 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,000 everything. There's no power struggle here. 262 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:10,320 I'm coming in submission to you, You know, between a husband and 263 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,400 wife, and there's definitely submission issues that can be 264 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,240 there. Between a parent and a child, 265 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,320 there's definitely submission issues that can be there. 266 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,440 Between a boss and a person who's working as an employee, 267 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:22,160 there'll be definitely submission issues. 268 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:28,520 But when it comes to our faith and God, we can't dictate to God 269 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,160 what he has to do. Rather we come in alignment and 270 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:34,840 saying Jesus, I believe you, I've accepted you into my life 271 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,040 and I submit to you. And one of the beautiful things 272 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,760 is we can submit to God yet be on the wrong side. 273 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,120 And I wonder is a breakthrough not coming in our life because 274 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,280 we've submitted to God, but we are on the wrong side of the 275 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,040 camp. Clearly there are two camps, one 276 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:51,680 that is of God, one that's of Satan. 277 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,000 Which camp are you in? A lot of us today are in the 278 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,520 other camp of the world and are saying is submitted to God. 279 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:02,760 Yet we've not taken our feet away from there Today God saying 280 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,280 would you move? Because when we start allowing 281 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,200 his teaching to permeate through, when we start living by 282 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,720 his teaching, it will move us from 1 camp to another. 283 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,720 We can receive and believe, but when we receive and start 284 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:19,120 abiding by His teaching, we start belonging to His Kingdom. 285 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,120 When we belong to His Kingdom, we say, God, we are here. 286 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,760 This is what you're doing. So suddenly what happens? 287 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,080 Waiting doesn't become a painful thing. 288 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,200 Suddenly the pruning doesn't become a hurtful thing. 289 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,920 Suddenly you know when God says slow down, this is what I have 290 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,240 for you for the season. You don't have to do anything 291 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,000 more. You're OK. 292 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,200 Your heart is not wandering, you're not fluttering. 293 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,960 God suddenly gives you a deep contentment, a Zoe like 294 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,880 contentment in your Christian walk because you've submitted to 295 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,240 him and you know that this is the camp I belong to. 296 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,440 You suddenly have nothing to prove. 297 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,680 Suddenly you don't have to fake your Instagram images. 298 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,400 Suddenly you don't have to create an aura around that. 299 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,960 You have everything going right for you. 300 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,000 You can be who you are because you've learned to belong. 301 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,960 This is where God is. This is where I choose to be in 302 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,680 my lack. I know God is there in my in my 303 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,080 even when my bank balances are running dry. 304 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,920 I know this is the camp God's wanting me to be. 305 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,080 So today, how are you and I treating this? 306 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:28,560 Because belonging happens only when we take Jesus invitation. 307 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,480 He says he wants to reside in us. 308 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,240 He wants to belong inside of us until we willingly allow Jesus 309 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,960 in. He cannot recite, He cannot 310 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,160 stay. What does this invitation look 311 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,080 like when Jesus says Jesus says, allow me to come in because my 312 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,000 burden is easy and my yoke is light, because I will give you 313 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,080 things far beyond what you thought of. 314 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,240 Suddenly a pursuits don't give a certain satisfaction. 315 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,040 Suddenly we realize only his presence does that. 316 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,240 So we have a deep lobby. We allow him to be our guide. 317 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:08,520 We allow him to speak to us. We allow the posture that he is 318 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,000 causing us to have at this point. 1 of surrender. 319 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,240 We love the way in which he is leading. 320 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,839 US. So this Zoe life comes from a 321 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:23,800 place of understanding that when we live in submission and we 322 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,560 near God's side, we have a complete life. 323 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,360 We don't have an incomplete life, we have a complete life. 324 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:34,120 The second thing is when we live the Zoe life, we see that he 325 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:37,640 brings dead things to life. What does this look like? 326 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:44,600 When Jesus became a human person, He was literally 327 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:49,280 embodying the word that was spoken way before all the 328 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,680 prophecies. We heard that over 300 329 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,600 prophecies that was spoken about Jesus. 330 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,480 He literally was The Walking human being. 331 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:59,480 Here on Earth. That's what the Zoe life does, 332 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,720 because there was suddenly not just a physical life, but there 333 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,040 was a spiritual life. And that's why he. 334 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:08,560 Is the only true and living God because He's the only person who 335 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,040 died on the cross, who resurrected again and is still 336 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,680 living today. The Zoey life didn't just end 337 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,320 with his death but rather continues on because he's 338 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,480 resurrected and that's why we believe him. 339 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,720 He brings dead things to life today. 340 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,760 If you see the story of Advent is 1 which is of scriptures 341 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,200 being fulfilled today we see the story of Advent. 342 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,720 It's one where restoration happened generation after 343 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,440 generation. No generation was discounted, 344 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,360 for when you see the genealogy of Jesus, you see the lineage 345 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,240 where He came from. He came from imperfection, but 346 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:51,400 He was perfect. He came from sin that had 347 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,880 generations full of sin, but yet He was sinless. 348 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,880 That's all. Because He is life. 349 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,240 He is the Zoey life, His physical and spiritual match. 350 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,040 And so today, even as we read in Isaiah 96, a lot of us know this 351 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:10,040 passage, especially in this Christmas season. 352 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,000 We keep quoting it. For and to us, a child is born. 353 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,560 For and to us a son is given, and the government will be on 354 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,560 his shoulders, and he will be called wonderful counselor, 355 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,520 mighty God everlasting. Father. 356 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:27,440 Prince of Peace, this came into fulfillment when we read Isaiah 357 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,280 61. One, it says the spirit of the 358 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,280 sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to 359 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,800 proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the 360 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,640 broken hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and 361 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,640 release from darkness. For this prisoners. 362 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,040 In fact, as Isaiah quoted this, I'm reminded that when Jesus 363 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,440 ministry, whatever he did was only fulfilling this. 364 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:51,320 He didn't go about conquering kingdoms. 365 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,120 He didn't go about liberating. He didn't go about building an 366 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,440 army. No, he came down to bind up the 367 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,280 broken hearted. He gave freedom for the 368 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:00,280 captives. What freedom? 369 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,720 Freedom from sin? Freedom from eternal 370 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:08,040 condemnation, staying in hell. He gave them heaven. 371 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,200 He released people from the prisons of darkness. 372 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,240 To those who needed healing, He gave healing. 373 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,640 And when we read in Luke chapter 4 versus 16 to 21, This is why 374 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,240 I'm seeing the Zoe life where it brings dead things to life is 375 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,200 there was an audience gathered in a synagogue who was just 376 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,480 going about their weekly Sunday gatherings. 377 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,320 This is what we need the Holy Spirit today in church. 378 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,040 If this church is not Spirit filled it will become. 379 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,040 We will miss out on the God opportunities that will walk 380 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,040 past every Sunday. Every Sunday is a God-given 381 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:47,360 opportunity, which causes us to be expectant, which causes us to 382 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,560 sing God. We want to see a word being 383 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,760 fulfilled. Luke 416 to 21 says He went to 384 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,600 Nazareth where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath 385 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,360 day he went to the synagogue and was his custom. 386 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,560 He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was 387 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,120 handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place 388 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:05,920 where it is written. The Spirit of the Lord is on me, 389 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,440 because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. 390 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,160 He has sent me to proclaim freedom for sinners and recovery 391 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:16,280 of sight for the blind, and to set the oppressed free, to 392 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:17,840 proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. 393 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,120 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, 394 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:23,560 and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the 395 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,120 synagogue were fasting on him. He began by saying to them, 396 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,160 Today the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. 397 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,680 What a glorious day would it have been if we had to witness 398 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,840 that when we when the person who are reading it says today it's 399 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,960 being fulfilled because I am the Messiah. 400 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,680 I am the one who prophet Isaiah foretold. 401 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,360 Today, a couple of. Things that we need to set 402 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:50,520 right. Jesus went to temple every week. 403 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,640 He was in human form and he was God and he chose to go to the 404 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,320 temple every week, to the synagogue every week. 405 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,280 And so today, if you and I have an excuse of not going every 406 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,560 week, I think we need to inculcate a certain kind of 407 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,840 discipline. Jesus knew community was 408 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:09,920 important. Jesus knew there. 409 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,720 There are so many lessons we can learn between the Year 1 to Year 410 00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:14,800 30 of. Jesus. 411 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,840 And Jesus knew what he was called for. 412 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,240 He didn't go around trying to freelance and do something else 413 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,960 on the side. You know, he was happy being a 414 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,120 carpenter's son. He was a Carpenter. 415 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:31,320 So which means he was willing to be in that lane which he had 416 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,240 been assigned to. That was divine submission to 417 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,080 the Father's will. And even as we see this, because 418 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:42,960 of that divine submission, we see dead text coming to life. 419 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,000 And yet the people missed because they didn't believe. 420 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,840 And today it got me thinking, are we like that where we're 421 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,120 reading the scripture week in, week out where we are not being 422 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,200 encouraged to step up our faith, our faith level hasn't grown or 423 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,320 we're not encouraged to do certain things that Jesus will 424 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,280 because the teaching has stopped having impact. 425 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,560 Rather, we've chosen to be broken hearted. 426 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,560 We've chosen to be dismayed. We've chosen to be, you know, 427 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,360 grumbling, but Jesus is saying here, would you rise up? 428 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,480 Would you rise up? Because if you have the Zoe life 429 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,320 in you, I will set those things right. 430 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,760 I would cause you to move forward. 431 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,560 I want us all to come to a place where we will be able to see the 432 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,120 Scripture. According to Isaiah, this 433 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,000 Scripture was supposed to be fulfilled. 434 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:37,200 And even he was talking at a time when the Israelites were in 435 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,760 captives. At that time they were under the 436 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,160 Babylonians. There was no real freedom. 437 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,320 When Jesus is reading this, he is also talking in the same 438 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,200 context where they're under the Romans and he says the freedom 439 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,120 that you're seeking for is standing right in front of you. 440 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,520 I am the way I am the. Truth. 441 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,800 I am the life, Jesus was the real Messiah. 442 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,080 And it comes down to us today. Are we able to confess Jesus in 443 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,520 every situation? Because if we don't confess 444 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,800 Jesus. In every situation we will be 445 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,040 unable to see the text come alive. 446 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,520 His word has power. His Word has life. 447 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,200 The Zoe life that we're talking about is causing us always to 448 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:26,320 believe into eternity. It's into eternity, yes. 449 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:29,880 Is the pain, hardship real in this physical world? 450 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,240 It is. But Jesus saying, I want you to 451 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,360 rise up, rise up, you know, rise up. 452 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,800 Let dead bones come alive Today Jesus is here as a Zoe life. 453 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,760 He's saying today, have you just buried yourself in a grave? 454 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,240 And you're saying, this is what has been plaguing me, Jesus 455 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,600 saying, I'm willing to breathe my life into you. 456 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,920 Rise. Up, rise up. 457 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,600 Today have you talked is emotional sickness really put 458 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,320 you into a grave? Today is the hardships of life, 459 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,440 the hardship of relationship put you into a grave. 460 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,880 Today has have you gone into seasons where you're like God? 461 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,280 It's it wasn't done my way. And so I don't think I think I'm 462 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,640 done with you Jesus saying, would you come back to me? 463 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,600 Would you believe because I can bring dead things back to life. 464 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,320 I can fulfill the promises that I have given you many a times 465 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,280 you know we're holding on to promises me and my wife have 466 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,520 been you know praying fervently and seeking God for certain 467 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,600 promises and it's been delayed time after again. 468 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:35,840 But you know, one of the consolation that we have is is 469 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,120 Jesus problem when he decides to fulfill it. 470 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,080 It's not us, it's his problem when he decides to fulfill it's 471 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,960 the the ball is on his court. It's for him because when he 472 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,880 fulfills it, he gets the glory when. 473 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,320 There's a delay in getting fulfilled. 474 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,200 We still keep calling on Him because we have no one else to 475 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,320 go. We have nowhere else to be 476 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:03,240 rather than His presence, and Jesus is inviting us into the 477 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,520 world of living. In fact, the message when we 478 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,400 read this verse, it says the world of living in John 5 verses 479 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,840 24. It's urgent that you listen 480 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,640 carefully to this. Anyone who believes what I'm 481 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,120 seeing right now and aligns himself with the Father who has 482 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:22,400 in fact put me in charge and at this very moment, the real 483 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,960 lasting life that is no longer condemned to be an outsider. 484 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,680 This person has taken a giant step from the world of the dead 485 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,760 to the world of the living today. 486 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,000 God's asking, would you? Move from the world of the dead 487 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,800 to the world of the living. You know, world of the dead is 488 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,560 anxiety is yours. Let's work in, you know, 489 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,520 controlling that let's but when you come into the world of the 490 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,880 living, you say anxiety, you need to bow down to Jesus. 491 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,720 You know, depression, the world will give you a work around 492 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,960 that. But still, everyday when you 493 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,960 choose to show up in God's presence, you're saying I'm 494 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:02,840 coming back to the world of the living, which is everything 495 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,280 comes in submission to God. When you have hurt and, you 496 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,160 know, shame and guilt and so many other things that are 497 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,240 associated, you rise up from the world of the dead and you come 498 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,200 to a place saying Jesus, everything bows out. 499 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,840 Yeah, I was bullied as a kid. Even as I grow old, I have 500 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,280 latent anger issues. I am, I, I, I don't like the 501 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,120 fact that people are calling me names. 502 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:26,760 People are shaming me by my colour. 503 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,760 People look at me differently, but God, that's the world of the 504 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,600 dead. You don't look at me like that. 505 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,680 You look at me differently and I'm coming back to the world of 506 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,200 living. Bring every captive thought into 507 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,560 submission of Jesus into submission of Jesus. 508 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,560 In Romans chapter 10 verses 8 to 11, it says, but what does it 509 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,440 say? The word is near you. 510 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,720 It is in your mouth and in your heart. 511 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,360 That is the message concerning faith that we proclaim. 512 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,280 If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in 513 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,280 your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be 514 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,960 saved. For it is with your heart that 515 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,040 you believe and are justified, and it was your mouth that you 516 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,560 profess your faith and are saved. 517 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,080 As Scripture says, anyone who believes in him will never be 518 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,840 put to shame. Today, as much as we declare 519 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,880 with our mouth and believe with our heart, we need to invite 520 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:19,200 every problem and say it submits to Jesus, which means we are not 521 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,480 residing in the world of the dead. 522 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,240 We are deciding the world of living. 523 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,520 We are not going to create an atmosphere where we control the 524 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,320 whole thing, but rather say God, This is something that's been 525 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,960 really, you know, I've been carrying this baggage. 526 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,840 I bring it at your feet, whatever the lack everything 527 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,760 looks like because I'm choosing to follow this life, this if one 528 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,560 not physical but also of spiritual. 529 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,960 Suddenly perspectives change entirely. 530 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,240 Suddenly in an area where I would have had severe 531 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,040 discontentment. I'm happily content with what 532 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,120 God is doing in my life at this point, but suddenly I'm not 533 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,880 having these unearthly pursuits of actually doing much more just 534 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,880 for my personal gain, to edify my own name, my own cravings. 535 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,960 No, suddenly I'm able to understand that the fulfilled 536 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,720 life comes because in the world of living, I'm able to be 537 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,320 content in my marriage with the spouse that he's given. 538 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,120 I'm able to shoulder the responsibility that he's given 539 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,680 with regard to my children, handle everyone that's around me 540 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,040 because this is what God's called me to do. 541 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,240 So today, what is it looking like for you? 542 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,840 Probably you're. Saying you know what, I have too 543 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:30,320 many dead situations in my life, too many dead areas in my life 544 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,000 where I don't see life. Jesus is willing to speak life 545 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,480 in. Jesus is willing to breathe life 546 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,000 in. Jesus is willing to say allow me 547 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,080 to come in because it's when he allows that suddenly you won't 548 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,040 say, you know what? This caused me to not fulfill 549 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,480 God's will be like. In spite of this, I was able to 550 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,640 fulfill God's will because fulfillment will come in. 551 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,600 We allow the Zoe life to move us from a place of seeing dead 552 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,960 things come to life. Suddenly those promises God gave 553 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,080 you 10 years back will come to life because you've come 554 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,360 confessed with your mouth and you believed with your heart and 555 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,960 you said, God, I'm sorry that I just had an expiration date on 556 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,520 your promise. Rather, I'm willing to trust 557 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,160 with it. Even if it doesn't happen, I 558 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,920 will still close my eyes knowing that I'm living my life fully so 559 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,160 that when I see you, I will be. There'll be no regret. 560 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,240 So even as we live this whole life, maybe come to a place 561 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,120 where we say, Lord, I want all the dead things come a life. 562 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,440 I want freedom. Lord Jesus, for too long I've 563 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,400 given my addictions the final say. 564 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,160 I've gone back time and again. Guilt, shame has driven Jesus, 565 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,720 Say, I can give life, I can give life. 566 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,640 Would you come to me? Would you come to me? 567 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,080 I would give life to you. Would you submit? 568 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,160 Confess with your mouth, confess. 569 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,840 And so today, I don't know, for many a times you might be like, 570 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,040 you know what, every Sunday it feels like I'm hitting a hard 571 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,640 reset. But Jesus is saying, come 572 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:01,840 expectant, listen, do what the word of God says, ask Jesus, 573 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,600 Jesus, tell me what to do, tell me what to do. 574 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,840 And when you allow him, he'll take you to a place where he'll 575 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,080 cause you to do it step by step, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 576 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,720 And when you come back into the community of believers on the 577 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,800 next Sunday, you'll be able to do this, be encouraged to go 578 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:21,640 back and pursue it even harder because God wants us to see us 579 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,120 serious about the decision that we've taken to follow him, to 580 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:32,360 believe in him. So today it says anyone who 581 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:37,520 believes in Jesus 100% trust. 100% trust means there's no 582 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,440 trust in anyone else. There's no person in my speed. 583 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,080 There's no one else. I can say you know what I'm 584 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,120 going to go back to? But to say Jesus, I'm only you, 585 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,960 only you. You are my lifeline. 586 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,120 You are my lifeline. The third thing that we see is 587 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,920 with this Zoe life, there's constant momentum. 588 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,240 This constant momentum because the Spirit is moving in and 589 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:01,960 through US. You know, one of the beautiful 590 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,280 things about the Trinity is we see the Father, Son and the 591 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,000 Spirit even when Jesus came into this world. 592 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,680 When he got baptized, we see that the Spirit descended upon 593 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,880 him. Jesus was filled with the Spirit 594 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,560 and today what did Jesus do when he was here on this earth, when 595 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,800 he ascended up to saying, the Spirit will come upon you. 596 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,120 And so even as we celebrate the day of Pentecost when the Holy 597 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,240 Spirit came and today, that's why we all are moving across the 598 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,440 world through the help of his Holy Spirit. 599 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:36,080 We see that when the Holy Spirit is residing, when we have this 600 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,400 Zoe life as our focus, there's. Always a constant momentum. 601 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,600 What do you mean by constant momentum? 602 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,280 Which means there's a steady speed in which he's causing us 603 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:47,600 to move. This constant momentum. 604 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,080 There's something that he's putting on our hearts. 605 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,840 There's something that he's placing on our hearts. 606 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,400 There's something that he's saying, I want to move in this 607 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,160 direction. I want you to move in this 608 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,880 direction. Romans 8 versus 5 to 11. 609 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,680 This is what it says. Those who live according to the 610 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,560 flesh have their mindset on the flesh desires, but those who 611 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,560 live in accordance with the Spirit have their mindset on. 612 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,560 What Spirit desires? The mind is governed by the 613 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,880 flesh, which is death. But this mind governed by the 614 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:20,600 Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh 615 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,320 is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, 616 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,840 nor can it. Do so those. 617 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,240 Who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. 618 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,880 So today we can say we have this Zoe life. 619 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,160 We can profess and say, Lord, I am on your side. 620 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,120 I am. I'm submitting to you. 621 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,400 But here, where are our desires coming from? 622 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,880 Is it still coming from our flesh or is it coming from our 623 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,760 spirit? Because today we need to allow 624 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,640 the Holy Spirit to rewrite a lot of our desires. 625 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,680 A lot of our desires are very short lived. 626 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,240 It's very, you know it, it has an expiration date. 627 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,960 Like every time there's a new announcement of a new tech 628 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,080 gadget, you might see it. Until you get your hands on it. 629 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,280 And after you get your hands on it, you're aspiring for 630 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,920 something more. Or probably you wanted that 631 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,960 raise. You got that raise, but your 632 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,239 heart's not content. And so you suddenly realize to 633 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,960 live the Zoe life, you need spirit desires, not flesh 634 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,920 desires. So what today is your spirit 635 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,199 desiring? What is it that your spirit is 636 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,000 designed? Because what your spirit desires 637 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,560 will cause you to have that momentum. 638 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,880 You will move towards that. What is this, Zoe? 639 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,080 Life will give you a constant momentum so that in your, when 640 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,600 you've accepted God in your 30s and you're pursuing him in your 641 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,880 30s, in your 40s, you will still have that momentum. 642 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,440 In your 50s, you will still have that momentum. 643 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,639 It's interesting. A lot of the single people you 644 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:54,080 know who've been in church, who've served God when they had 645 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,800 their time and their, their availability. 646 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,960 The minute they get married, they say they don't have time, 647 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,880 they don't have availability. They're not available because 648 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,720 they're married, but they fail to understand that it's in 649 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:08,360 marriage that when both of them come into alignment and when 650 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,720 they are submitted to God's will and together, when their 651 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:14,160 marriage is having Jesus at the center, the desires of the 652 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:15,600 Spirit are being birthed in them. 653 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,240 They both will serve to God with double the capacity in a 654 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,440 constant momentum. And so today I want to challenge 655 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,320 you, church. Today, we are called to desire 656 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,000 through the Spirit so that we'll have constant momentum in our 657 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,040 life. I don't want to be known. 658 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,240 You know what? Geshom did so much in his 20s 659 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,840 and 30s, but in his 40s and 50s, he's faded away. 660 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,280 In his 60s, he's given up on faith. 661 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,400 I don't want that to be. I would rather say it is a 662 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:47,960 constant momentum. 20s he did this. 30s he did this. 40s he's 663 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:52,400 doing this. 50s he will do this, sixty he will do this 70. 664 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,480 I can't wait to do what he has in store. 665 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,920 That has to be and that has a birthing place. 666 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:03,240 Only when our flesh desires are burnt and our spirit desires 667 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:03,960 are. Awakened. 668 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,440 We constantly keep killing our fleshly desires and we 669 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,720 constantly love the Holy Spirit to fan into flame and that's 670 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:16,080 what he says in second Timothy chapter 1. 671 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,960 He tells Paul tells Timothy, for this reason I remind you to fan 672 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,040 into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the 673 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,000 laying of your laying of my. Hands. 674 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,480 For the Spirit. Of God gave us does not make us 675 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,040 timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 676 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,720 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of 677 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:36,920 me his prisoner. Rather, join me in suffering for 678 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,520 the gospel. By the power of God He has saved 679 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,360 us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have 680 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:44,480 done, but because of His own purpose and grace. 681 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,640 This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the 682 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,000 beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the 683 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,280 appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death 684 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,160 and now brought life and immortality to light through the 685 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,880 Gospel. So even as I said today, when we 686 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,760 kill our fleshly desires, when we fan, when the Holy Spirit 687 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,440 fans into flame our spirit filled desires, we suddenly have 688 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,080 a constant momentum in this Zoe life that he's calling. 689 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,400 Our physical and our spiritual life sees a match. 690 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,760 We are moving in constant momentum. 691 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,920 There's so many things he's calling us to. 692 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:29,880 And the problem is today we want a Spotify Warped, an Apple Music 693 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,520 warped, a YouTube Warped kind of page to show us what we've 694 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,240 achieved for the year. Honestly, that scares me because 695 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:41,200 what we've achieved for the year can be really insignificant. 696 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,200 You know, when you look at Spotify Warped, it shows us what 697 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,040 are we've listened, how many minutes we've listened. 698 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,000 But it causes me to think, Lord, have I been really giving into 699 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,400 your spiritual desires or I've been giving into my fleshly 700 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,440 desires because the constant momentum has been more towards 701 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,040 my fleshly desires rather than the spirit filled desires. 702 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:07,360 So today I want to ask us, because when He fans our spirit 703 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,880 filled desires, what does it do? It does not make us timid. 704 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,680 It does not make us have less faith, but rather become people 705 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,680 of power, love and self-discipline. 706 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,560 What is self-discipline? We won't overindulge suddenly 707 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,440 money. We will know how much is enough, 708 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,240 suddenly fame. We will know what is needed. 709 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,640 We suddenly will know what kind of influence we need to have. 710 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,840 We would make faithful steps. How many of us today can look 711 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,200 back and say this? 2024 has been a year where I 712 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,800 didn't take a step of faith. I've been stagnant in that same 713 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,160 place. I've allowed fear to grip me. 714 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,760 I've allowed situations to just hold me down. 715 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,160 The Spirit is God should fan into flame. 716 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,120 If you look into the Advent story, everything had a faith 717 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,680 step. Everything had a faith step. 718 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:01,240 The revelation of Jesus was not evident, but for that to become 719 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:03,440 evident, everything involved a faith step. 720 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,240 So today, if you and I are called into that faith step, can 721 00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:09,480 we do it with the help of the Holy Spirit? 722 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,920 Joseph had a faith step. Mary had a faith step. 723 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,840 The shepherds had a faith step. The minute the this, the word 724 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,320 came to them. They ran, they went. 725 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,640 To see it being fulfilled, the. Wise men of all those who were 726 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,640 learned, those who were logical. When they saw the star, they 727 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,640 moved. They moved from the East. 728 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,520 It might have looked ridiculous, but they moved trusting 729 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,440 something is happening, fulfillment is happening and we 730 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:43,320 need to be there. Where is our desires leading us? 731 00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,320 Because when we receive Jesus, we just don't receive a 732 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:54,560 complacent, a stagnant or you know what, whatever attitude, 733 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:59,200 but rather we receive the Zoe life, which says, God, help me 734 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,360 to do all that you've put in me to do. 735 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,360 The Spirit will move us to fulfill the Great Commission or 736 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,440 the call of God on our eyes. Everyone of us have a Great 737 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,000 Commission call on our lives. We do not have to go out there 738 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,360 to a remote place. You don't have to go to a 739 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:17,400 mission field. Know wherever you're at. 740 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,560 That's where he wants to fan into flame. 741 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,280 A lot of us are looking for that big mission field thinking and 742 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:25,720 to put that photo to say, you know what? 743 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,560 I'm doing missions. No, do it in the place where 744 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,960 you're at. Because if you can't do it at a 745 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,320 place where you're at, you won't sustain. 746 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,080 Wherever he takes you, you can go to all those places. 747 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,440 It will fade away. It won't make sense. 748 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:42,360 We need to go to the next cubicle. 749 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,080 We might need to go to the next store. 750 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,080 We might need to ask the next person, we might need to have an 751 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,320 intentional conversation with the person that we regularly are 752 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,480 buying things with our ironing guy, with the with the maids 753 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,960 that we work around us with, the people who help with our 754 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:03,760 housekeeping, whoever it is, am I just keeping it to myself or 755 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,280 am I really being moved to do what God's calling me to do? 756 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:12,880 You know, I was just. Spending some time reading upon 757 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,640 George Stott and he was this British Protestant Christian 758 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,960 missionary who went to China. He was part of CIM, which is the 759 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,920 China Inland Mission. And he was recruited by Hudson 760 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,440 Taylor. And you know, he, in fact he and 761 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,600 his wife, they went to this province which they say this 762 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:35,520 Venzo province where they say became nearly 10% Christians in 763 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,880 China. They say that because of him and 764 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,280 his wife going there and establishing he with another 765 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,240 friend, as a result of the starts and the work that they 766 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,760 did in North China, it became known as Jerusalem of the East. 767 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,520 Because in the entire Wenzhou municipality, which has 768 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,800 6,000,000 inhabitants, there are more than 600,000 evangelical 769 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,840 Protestants, 10% of the population. 770 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:07,160 And it's interesting, the wife talks about how he came into 771 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:13,440 faith and you know, how he didn't allow life, not the world 772 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,560 of the dead, but the world of the living, to dictate what he 773 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,920 had to do. It says this in a small excerpt 774 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,880 where she wrote about his early life. 775 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,840 It said Mr. Stott had been brought up in a farm work, but 776 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,160 when he was about 19 years he slipped on the road and knocked 777 00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,520 his knee against a stone. This simple accident resulted in 778 00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:34,680 white swelling, which two years later needed them to amputate 779 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,200 his leg. Nine months later he was 780 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,920 helpless, he was an invalid and was during this time that God 781 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,480 really worked on his heart and he accepted Jesus Christ as Lord 782 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:48,000 and personal Savior. And after his recovery, he began 783 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,960 to teach in a school. He was employed for several 784 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,840 years. And when he heard about the 785 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,880 needs of China through a friend, he signed up to go. 786 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,200 And so at that time, when they were recruiting for people to go 787 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,480 as missionaries, they thought. Hudson Taylor was actually 788 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,800 making a mistake because he was a person with an amputee. 789 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,320 You know, he he had another leg which was not functioning. 790 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,920 People asked him why are you going? 791 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,840 Why are you going? Why are you making this effort 792 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:21,240 to go? And he said the statement, I do 793 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:24,600 not see those with two legs going, so I must. 794 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:30,360 I do not see those with two legs going, so I must the Spirit. 795 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,360 Fans into flame. The beautiful thing about his 796 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:39,280 Zoe life is he later when you read his life, he got cancer, he 797 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,040 came back to Scotland, he died, but then the wife, there was an 798 00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,800 uprising that happened in China. Then his wife went back there 799 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:47,960 for the next 20 years. Continue to the mission. 800 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,280 And the reason why I'm telling you this story is a lot of us 801 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,960 have to rewrite our family vision board. 802 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,760 A lot of us have to rewrite our family mission mode. 803 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,760 Fathers and mothers, I want to challenge you. 804 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:06,200 Would you allow your children to live the life God's calling them 805 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:11,360 to live? Don't put your burdens on them. 806 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:13,840 Don't put your heart takes on them. 807 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,280 Don't put your understanding of the world on them. 808 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,680 Let them live out the life God's calling them to live as parents, 809 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,320 as people who are living to live his call. 810 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:28,400 Maybe live in truth and in clarity, not with fleshly 811 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,000 desires, but with spiritful desires. 812 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:35,000 So even as I conclude, I just want to conclude by saying that 813 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,840 this Zoe life that you're called to live will be 1 of submission. 814 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,680 That we won't stand out and say, God do it like how I would like 815 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,760 it, but God in submission, I want to see you work because I 816 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,400 know whatever you do, you'll do it with great things in store 817 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,120 for me, which I can't even imagine. 818 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,000 And that we'll be on God's side no matter what. 819 00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,840 That we would allow his word and things that are dead in our life 820 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,000 to come to life because we trust him. 821 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:06,640 We wouldn't just put ourselves down in graves and say, God, I'm 822 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,320 done here. No, but we would rise up because 823 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,440 the Zoe, life gives life. Men can pull you down. 824 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,520 People can put you in that grave. 825 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,880 Circumstances can make you feel like you're in a grave with a 826 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,120 tombstone. But God saying, no, I have life, 827 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,480 I'm not done with you yet. And the third thing is this, 828 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,920 Zoe, life causes momentum, which causes you because the Spirit is 829 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,800 moving in and through you, which means he has to fan into flame, 830 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,840 which means that it just doesn't stop with me. 831 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,080 When I get married, we as a couple are in mission. 832 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,520 When we have a family, we as a family are in mission to doing 833 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,080 all that He's called us to do so that we'll be able to see His 834 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,000 Kingdom come and His will be done. 835 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,160 So even as I conclude with this last thing I started by saying 836 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,200 what is it the world is saying pop culture saying with living 837 00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,880 this best life yet living this best life is only about the 838 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,320 physical life. This it's very limited to 839 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,320 physical. But when we look at Jesus 840 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,040 through Jesus way. It's the Zoe life which is not 841 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,320 just physical but also spiritual, which means we are 842 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,360 not in control, but whether we are in his control. 843 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,040 Jesus control. We don't rely on our power 844 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,520 because our power is limiting. We rely on his power which is 845 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:26,080 all-encompassing, which he moves in and through us. 846 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,520 We are just not our own being. We just don't create 847 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,600 environments for ourselves, but we allow him to create 848 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,000 everything because we are his being. 849 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,560 We move into the places which he's called because he controls 850 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:42,120 everything. So Church, even as we have seen 851 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,080 this, I pray that it'll take life in you. 852 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,880 I pray that you won't give up on this Zoe life that he has for 853 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,800 you. You won't discount what he wants 854 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,400 to do with you in your spiritual life and in through eternity 855 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,640 because eternity is the goal, the Zoe life, eternity is the 856 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,880 goal. And I pray that you'll be able 857 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,560 to see it happen in your own life. 858 00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:02,840 So can we pray our loving heavenly Father, Lord, we thank 859 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,840 you, Lord, for this time. Thank you for all that you've 860 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,680 been doing. Lord Jesus, you have been good, 861 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,640 you are good. And I pray even right now, Lord 862 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,640 Jesus, that Lord, we won't be so content with our physical life, 863 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:17,360 but we'll move into the Zoe life of seeing your Kingdom come. 864 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,640 Your will be done in a physical life, in a spiritual life so 865 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,360 that our eternity will be 1 where we'll be with you. 866 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:28,280 Lord Jesus, we don't want to just get past, but we want to do 867 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,400 it well. Lord Jesus, we want to 868 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,000 accomplish the will of God in our lives well so that we'll be 869 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:35,520 able to give you the glory and honor. 870 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,440 I pray especially. For those, Lord, who've been 871 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,160 struggling to submit to you, Lord Jesus, who've been 872 00:47:42,240 --> 00:47:45,280 struggling to be on your side, that they'll be able to make 873 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,760 that step. Lord, I pray for those who have 874 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:53,560 been stuck in a position or probably life has treated them 875 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,080 so bad that they they feel like they are in a grave. 876 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,000 I pray Lord that your life would come in right now and resurrect 877 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,280 them. That they will find dead things 878 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,280 is not governing them, but rather your life giving. 879 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,120 Things are starting to take shape in them. 880 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,120 Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, move right now for those who are 881 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,920 listening and watching. I pray even right now, Holy 882 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,960 Spirit, that Lord, those who have been stuck and given up on 883 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,360 your call, that they'll be able to move into a place of momentum 884 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,920 with you, Lord Jesus, constant momentum that Lord, we'll see 885 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:24,760 you move. Lord, our eyes will be 1 where 886 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,920 we see you move. It'll be one which will be 887 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,680 filled with faith, where we'll be able to say, Lord, you give 888 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,120 me the faith and the strength and the encouragement to take 889 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,760 this. Lord, we thank you. 890 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,120 Be with us. Go before us. 891 00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,320 Lord, strengthen us, take charge. 892 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,360 I pray that, Lord, even as we come into the last couple of 893 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,480 weeks of the year, we'll finish well. 894 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,480 Lord Jesus, that you would reignite the passions. 895 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,760 Lord Jesus, that we'll have a spiritful desire. 896 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,320 Lord, I pray our fleshly desire will submit and yield to you. 897 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,280 Lord, go before us. In your most holy name we pray. 898 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:57,680 Amen. Amen. 899 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,400 So Church, even as you step out, I pray you have a blessed. 900 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:04,760 Week, God bless you all. Thanks for listening to this 901 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,840 message. We hope you were blessed to hear 902 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,600 more messages like this. 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