1 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,840 Hello, a big welcome to the We Are Zion Sermon podcast. 2 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,680 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,040 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,560 be refreshed, revived and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:29,320 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,760 our promise we have with us today. 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,000 Pastor Vasu, share precious insights with us on how to grow 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,480 an intimacy with God. As you listen in, would you look 9 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:43,000 deeper at yourself and see what keeps you from a growing 10 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:53,080 intimacy with your Maker? I know many of you names are 11 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,920 difficult. I'm getting better in knowing 12 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,320 names. But I call my wife darling. 13 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:05,600 Only I never get into trouble. Good, good, good, good. 14 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,800 It's a joy to be back in church. And thank you. 15 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,920 Yeah. Just continue on the theme. 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,000 What our brother sharing. I just want to read one verse 17 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:31,440 and it's John chapter 14, 12. So it's we'll read and yeah, 18 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,000 we'll get this one statement on the board. 19 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,040 I'll tell you the statement. The statement is to achieve the 20 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,960 observed, observed absurd. Absurd. 21 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,920 Yeah, that is odd and thing. You must attempt the impossible 22 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:55,040 to achieve the absurd. You must attempt the impossible. 23 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:58,720 Absurd. In other words, absurd. 24 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:05,360 What absurd, stranger? Strange. 25 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,560 OK, just write that word and let's leave this verse all 26 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,120 together. Really. 27 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:15,440 I tell unto you, who believes in me will do the works, and I do. 28 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:21,000 And they will do even greater works than this because I'm 29 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,840 going to the Father. I'll tell you a truth that you 30 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,200 need to understand. Whether you're Pentecostal or 31 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,520 you don't believe this, I don't believe that, or what, I'm not 32 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,000 concerned. Take the words of Jesus our 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,560 Lord. This is the exact word of the 34 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,600 Lord, and the Lord Jesus Christ simply says this. 35 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,960 My son, my daughter, if you love me, if you believe in me, if you 36 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,440 believe what I can make of you, you will do the things that I 37 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,760 have done and you'll do greater works. 38 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:58,000 Here is the greatest lie, the greatest lie that we have 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,400 believed. That is that we are ordinary 40 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:06,680 people. There is no ordinary person. 41 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,320 They've never been. But if you believe you're 42 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:22,200 ordinary, you'll remain and die as an ordinary person. 43 00:03:29,330 --> 00:03:33,570 My whole life changed when I began to realize I am not an 44 00:03:33,570 --> 00:03:38,810 ordinary person because of the power, the grace that can 45 00:03:38,810 --> 00:03:46,800 operate through my life. No matter what happened to you, 46 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,760 no matter what people treated you, how your parents treated 47 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,000 you, how your teacher treated you, how anybody has treated you 48 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,360 in the world and you. And, and I'm not just saying 49 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,720 that's nothing. No, no, they're all very painful 50 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,960 incidents have happened and I've experienced them a little bit. 51 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:16,000 But I want to say one thing, by experience, the intimacy with 52 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:23,120 God and knowing how deeply, deeply you're loved, your brain 53 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,200 can be rewired. The function of your brain can 54 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:32,480 change, the structure of your brain can change completely and 55 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:39,440 you can become brilliant, exciting, joyful and awesome 56 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:45,000 person. Don't even settle for us. 57 00:04:53,610 --> 00:05:10,770 Don't even settle for us. If this is true and to say, and 58 00:05:10,810 --> 00:05:15,770 Jesus Lord simply said, I came that you may have life and have 59 00:05:15,770 --> 00:05:30,800 it abundantly. None of us need to be a victim 60 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:43,490 of your past because Christ came to set us free from all grief 61 00:05:43,490 --> 00:05:51,330 and pain, rejection hurt and fill us with this love so we 62 00:05:51,330 --> 00:06:02,840 could be set free. We're able to get the 63 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:25,560 statements, I said let's see. Yeah, must because there is no 64 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:36,080 ordinary person. I'll give you a yeah. 65 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,040 One of the things that you're alive, one of the things you're 66 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,440 alive, OK, one of the things that you have been set free by 67 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,720 the Lord Jesus Christ and you have come into that abundance of 68 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:51,040 life is that you will have new ideas, creative ideas. 69 00:06:56,580 --> 00:07:00,620 And if you don't have creative ideas and new ideas, you're 70 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:17,440 dead. Because where the Spirit of God 71 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:36,660 is what is that there is Rabati. And so the the if you are truly 72 00:07:36,660 --> 00:07:39,860 experienced, the intimacy with God, which I'm going to talk 73 00:07:39,860 --> 00:07:46,720 about hopefully and finish his that in that enjoyment of God 74 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:53,680 and he is your yeah, I have a whole slide and we can see all 75 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,280 of that. But let me just say this to you 76 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:00,840 that Jesus invites us to be his best friend. 77 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:13,720 John 1515 and John 15. We will bring that word and and 78 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:19,880 yeah, we'll keep this visualizer available so you could. 79 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,360 Yeah. I no longer call you servants 80 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,720 because servant does not know his master's business. 81 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:39,240 Instead I call you friends for everything that I learnt from my 82 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:47,600 father, I've made known to you. This is invitation. 83 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:54,560 This is the invitation that God gives and says, my son, my 84 00:08:54,560 --> 00:09:02,120 daughter, I want you to enjoy friendship with you that he 85 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,400 wants you to do. He wants you that. 86 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:11,920 There is some I think it is in Luke 17. 87 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:19,520 I believe there is a parable that our Lord says about he says 88 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,720 1710. I believe you got to say that 89 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:31,320 this is intimacy. This is intimacy that that God 90 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:40,800 calls us friends and and and if he's my best friend and if he's 91 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:47,440 always with me, there is not one dull moment in my life. 92 00:09:55,190 --> 00:09:57,510 If somebody your good best friend, right? 93 00:09:57,670 --> 00:10:01,390 He's your best friend who deeply loves you, right And he clearly 94 00:10:01,390 --> 00:10:09,390 cares for you and he's with you. I was doing a seminar in in 95 00:10:09,390 --> 00:10:13,030 Bangalore and with another doctor. 96 00:10:13,870 --> 00:10:19,720 And so as we were arranging and just waiting for people to come, 97 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:24,240 we arranged the mic and all of that and, and I said I think we 98 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,040 need a blackboard. It would be nice to have a 99 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:32,080 blackboard, right? And the doctor was also teaching 100 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,440 with me. He said, what pastor already 101 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:39,040 you're bored, bored and bored, you know, blackboard and bored. 102 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,280 He's playing on those words. And you know what I said to him? 103 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:51,560 I said this to him, Doctor, with Christ, I didn't. 104 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:54,200 You survive. The word I said was I have. 105 00:10:54,800 --> 00:11:00,480 I have learned never to be bored with myself for more than a few 106 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:05,280 seconds in my life. I'll say that again, OK? 107 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:15,240 I have learned not to be bored with myself more than a few 108 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:23,280 seconds in my life. He said let us sit because Eve 109 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,920 Jesus is my best friend and if he invites me to an intimate, 110 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,320 loving relationship with Him which he longs for, Hallelujah. 111 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:36,880 He longs for my company more than I ever could long for His 112 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,440 company. And if he is an amazingly 113 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:45,680 awesome person who deeply, deeply loves you in spite of 114 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:50,320 knowing everything about you and if you are in His presence, 115 00:11:50,480 --> 00:12:08,460 there is no dull movement. Cannot be, because He's 116 00:12:08,660 --> 00:12:11,660 absolutely real and he deeply loves you. 117 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,000 He knows everything about you. Every sin that you ever 118 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:28,400 committed, He still loves you. Yesterday I was talking to 119 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,720 somebody and I was saying a concept that I never knew 120 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,160 myself. But thanks. 121 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,560 I'm into counseling, and I learned a lot from counseling. 122 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,480 I learned this from a counselor who had come for counseling. 123 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,040 Gaslighting. You know that? 124 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,800 Yeah, good. How many of you have never heard 125 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,240 that term at all? Gaslighting. 126 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,360 How many? Everybody knows gaslighting. 127 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,480 Fantastic. I'll go to the next one there. 128 00:13:00,650 --> 00:13:05,130 The greatest gaslighter is the devil. 129 00:13:12,150 --> 00:13:18,310 The devil will make you feel guilty, for which you are not, 130 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,840 because if your sins are all forgiven, you don't have to feel 131 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:37,370 guilty even for a millisecond, not even for a millisecond. 132 00:13:37,490 --> 00:13:42,250 If you recognize that the devil is a gaslight in your life and 133 00:13:42,250 --> 00:13:45,730 he's manipulating you, manipulating you, and making you 134 00:13:45,730 --> 00:13:50,010 feel insignificant, unworthy, good for nothing, it's all your 135 00:13:50,010 --> 00:13:52,130 fault. Nobody can ever love you. 136 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:55,850 You are unworthy of his love. You don't fit and qualify. 137 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:58,600 Only fight for His love. That is a gaslighter. 138 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:03,560 Did I understand Gaslight incorrectly? 139 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:16,880 And once you realize that he's a gaslighter and Jesus Christ is 140 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:23,880 my best friend who loves me and has forgiven me, there is no 141 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:31,360 dull moment. Yeah, I'm dancing. 142 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:41,120 Yeah, there is no Dal moment. Gas lighting is also 143 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,960 manipulation, right? Makes you feel insignificant. 144 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:50,280 Everything is bad about you. You don't. 145 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:54,720 You are not good enough. And gas lighting. 146 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:01,600 Listen to this destroys your sense of reality, understanding 147 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,280 of reality, correct. Am I saying correctly? 148 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:14,680 And the reality is you're deeply loved. 149 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,160 The reality is that when he looks at you and me and he says 150 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:26,760 all your sins are washed away. My son, just feel my love and 151 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:32,880 embrace and feel my hug, hugs and kisses and celebrate that 152 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:37,760 and live creatively, dynamically, powerfully, 153 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:41,040 spontaneously. Hallelujah. 154 00:15:49,090 --> 00:15:51,650 I don't think you ever associated gaslighting with the 155 00:15:51,650 --> 00:15:58,930 devil, did you? And once you realize that he is 156 00:15:58,930 --> 00:16:06,120 a great gaslighter and then Christ is my best friend, you 157 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:19,530 can enjoy intimacy with God. I went for a conference in 158 00:16:19,530 --> 00:16:26,690 Singapore and it was an international conference all 159 00:16:26,690 --> 00:16:31,570 over. People had come and there was a 160 00:16:31,570 --> 00:16:36,200 speaker from Ethiopia. Wait, man, but from Ethiopia, he 161 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,240 was a mission in Ethiopia and he was giving one of the talks. 162 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,240 And you know how you go for these cons, you get the big 163 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,800 files with all their notes and all that stuff. 164 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:47,760 And as he was giving the story, he said my notes are there. 165 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,640 What I prepared to give a presentation in this conference. 166 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,600 But these things that I'm sharing is not there in the 167 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,800 notes, OK, What I'm sharing is not there in the notes. 168 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,839 And then he said these words, if God has not spoken to me and 169 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:09,079 given me a new thought from the time I send the notes were to be 170 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:11,920 printed and distributed for this conference. 171 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:18,480 And now if God has not given me new thoughts, I'm not walking 172 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:30,640 with God because one of the signs that your best friend, He 173 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:41,200 will give you new thoughts. I was talking to my wife three 174 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,160 days ago. It's a very good thing, man. 175 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:52,520 We're not talking only problems. And I saw your wife and I said 176 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,440 she asked me to do some shopping and I tried to obey my wife as 177 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,960 much as possible. No, Trust and obey. 178 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:07,160 Trust God and obey your wife. OK, OK And I was walking back. 179 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:13,360 I came back home and I I said, as I was walking on the road and 180 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,480 and I asked what is the difference between me and 181 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,960 anybody on the road? What's the difference between me 182 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:23,520 and anybody on the road? OK Then I said to my wife, the 183 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:28,640 one thing that is different. There are many things and one 184 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:33,760 thing that is sure is the quality of my thinking and my 185 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:40,800 feeling is much deeper, much more joyful and happier than at 186 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,840 least a few people on the road. Why? 187 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:51,800 Because Jesus is my best friend. Jesus is my best friend. 188 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,280 Here is my definition of salvation. 189 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:00,280 Salvation is an invitation. Salvation is an invitation to 190 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:07,120 repentance and faith. To enjoy friendship, fellowship, 191 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,520 and celebration of His presence in your life. 192 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,320 That's salvation. And in that enjoyment of 193 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,840 fellowship and in the enjoyment of his intimacy and the 194 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:25,040 enjoyment of his presence in this in in your life, you will 195 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,240 read the Bible, you will witness, you'll get new thoughts 196 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:43,400 and you'll obey him because obeying him, obeying him almost 197 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,960 becomes automatic. Hallelujah. 198 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:54,160 In one John the 5th chapter, I believe it was two and three. 199 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,160 His commandments are not burdensome because of his love. 200 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:10,280 I enjoy his love so deeply. I enjoy his love so deeply. 201 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,040 That when my wife says some bad things about my sister or my 202 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:20,400 mother or my my own family, it's very painful. 203 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,640 Yeah, I get, I seem to get want to get angry with you. 204 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:30,520 That's a natural feeling. But darling, but God, you deeply 205 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,760 love me. And I choose to bless her. 206 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:38,960 I choose to forgive her. I choose to be healed of that 207 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:43,800 pain and fill me with your love. And so Lord, help me to be 208 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,600 normal and not to have a long face all the day. 209 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:58,260 Let me put it the other way. The other way is that if my if, 210 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:05,260 if I'm so close to the deep, deep, deep, deep, deep love of 211 00:21:05,260 --> 00:21:12,520 God, my automatic nervous system, my immediate responses 212 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:21,770 changes. I actually feel like cooking is 213 00:21:24,010 --> 00:21:25,890 what I feel like sometimes doing. 214 00:21:25,930 --> 00:21:33,210 And it's OK to admit that. But Lord, yeah, although it hurt 215 00:21:33,210 --> 00:21:38,130 me and I feel angry, I choose to release that. 216 00:21:38,610 --> 00:21:42,850 I want you to fill me with your love and help me to love my wife 217 00:21:42,850 --> 00:21:45,480 and my husband as you want me to do. 218 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:57,720 That's intimacy, that's celebration, and it's not 219 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:02,440 burdensome at all. And because of his deep love, 220 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:13,540 everything becomes easy. OK? 221 00:22:18,780 --> 00:22:23,360 John 14 and this comes as a result of continuous obedience 222 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:29,160 to him and which is again because of the celebration of 223 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:35,840 his intimate love, celebration of his awesome presence in our 224 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:42,680 lives and is an awesome recognition of his deep, deep 225 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,720 love. John 14 now. 226 00:22:52,680 --> 00:23:13,030 Was 23 read the message Bible. If anyone loves me, he will be 227 00:23:13,030 --> 00:23:18,790 careful and I said to you this being careful it's it's a it 228 00:23:18,790 --> 00:23:23,710 becomes a way of life. Let me just say this. 229 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:30,440 The more quickly and joyfully and willingly you listen to His 230 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,400 voice, to that extent you're mature. 231 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:42,720 Say that again, OK? More quickly and joyfully 232 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,280 willing to listen to His voice. To that extent you become 233 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:54,400 mature. OK, so when you and that's so 234 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,480 important, that's so important to enjoy the intimacy of God. 235 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:03,080 You cannot live in lust. You cannot live with pride. 236 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,160 You cannot live with anxiety and worry and fear and still enjoy 237 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:16,000 intimacy with God. He's not moving out. 238 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:28,000 You're preoccupied. You're preoccupied. 239 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,000 And when you are preoccupied, he becomes unemployed. 240 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,800 And the reason why God told you not to be anxious? 241 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,600 You know why God told you not to be anxious. 242 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,560 You know why? Because he's anxious and worried 243 00:24:47,560 --> 00:25:01,800 about you in the right way. And when you obey him, therefore 244 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,880 I can't live in sin and enjoy intimacy with God. 245 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:20,180 Cannot. OK, let me just say this. 246 00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:24,700 None of us can live without the joy and the enjoyment of 247 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:32,400 something in your life. But if Jesus Christ and His love 248 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:37,800 becomes your greatest joy, no sin will be attractive to you 249 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:50,150 because you're already enjoying. I'll say that again. 250 00:25:51,910 --> 00:26:02,340 I'll let it explain that. OK, we all like biryani. 251 00:26:02,340 --> 00:26:05,620 I guess anyone who doesn't like biryani will tell you something 252 00:26:05,620 --> 00:26:10,280 else and like biryani. And suppose you're having mutton 253 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:16,320 biryani and then you have chicken kebab and and ghee roast 254 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:23,960 here prawns. And then you have all these 255 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:28,520 chicken mutton, mutton biryani, chicken kebab and all of that. 256 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:39,640 And you're enjoying that. Every bit of You're enjoying it. 257 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:43,200 Yeah. Why? 258 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,400 Nobody told you about this hotel before, you know? 259 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,720 Yeah. And then as you're enjoying it 260 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:56,440 and you're just enjoying every mouth of it, somebody comes and 261 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,320 offers you Mari Biscuit. You know? 262 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:03,000 Mari Biscuit, It's the most Christian biscuit in the world, 263 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,080 at least in India. I think Mari Biscuit has attend 264 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,600 more Christian meetings than any other biscuit in the world. 265 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:15,960 I believe so. Anyway, so somebody offers you 266 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,720 Mari Biscuit while you're having this chicken and kebab and 267 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,320 everything, would you like to take Mari Biscuit? 268 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:34,640 I'll tell you this, when you have enjoyment of God and this 269 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:40,720 deep, deep, deep, deep, deep love for you, every sin will 270 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:56,270 become a Mari biscuit. She hurt me, I will hit hurt a 271 00:27:56,350 --> 00:28:00,550 pan. That is true. 272 00:28:02,070 --> 00:28:08,280 But if you are in deep, deep love, you will feel the hurt, 273 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,720 you will have the temptation to kick back. 274 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,680 But can you be filled with the love and the grace and the 275 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:21,760 presence of God? Say that's OK, it hurt me, but I 276 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:27,640 choose to forgive. It hurt me, but I bless you. 277 00:28:33,090 --> 00:28:40,200 The life operates and this friendship so I just been the 278 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:48,040 message by and so intimacy of God is that this one we will 279 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,880 move right into your neighborhood. 280 00:28:53,480 --> 00:29:08,310 The is intimacy, that's invitation, that's reality. 281 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:21,920 What does gaslighting do to you? Distort reality, Distort 282 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:31,570 reality. And when my eyes are open and 283 00:29:31,570 --> 00:29:35,690 when I realise the Father and the Son has moved into my 284 00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:46,600 neighborhood and that he is right here with me, I live in 285 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:53,280 His joy and in his presence. And in his. 286 00:29:53,400 --> 00:30:03,000 In His presence there's Psalm 16, the last words, and in His 287 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,480 presence there is fullness of joy. 288 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,440 Just imagine for a minute the husband, wife, and both of them 289 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,560 live in the fullness of the joy. That's fullness of the joy. 290 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:33,400 They live in the fullness of the joy and they move and and they 291 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:39,000 share that love and enjoyment together because the source is 292 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,160 there. The source is there. 293 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:59,580 That's an invitation. Psalm 16 last verse and the 294 00:30:59,620 --> 00:31:05,740 enjoyment of celebration of intimacy with God is yeah. 295 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:21,720 Is anybody got mad? Psalm 16 last verse can be I'll 296 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:28,600 make known the part of life. You'll fill me with joy in your 297 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:35,200 presence, with eternal pleasure at your right hand. 298 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,280 Can you be dull and boring at the same time? 299 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,200 Can you? If you're dull and boring, 300 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:51,240 what's the problem? What's the problem? 301 00:31:53,760 --> 00:32:00,500 You cannot be. That's the pleasure. 302 00:32:07,590 --> 00:32:10,830 John 1010 I came that you may have life and have it. 303 00:32:11,990 --> 00:32:18,750 The devil. Kill, steal, gaslighter. 304 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,480 Go back and just read a little more about gaslighting. 305 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,320 You'll know how Satan is very much like that, and it's a 306 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,360 gaslighter. Everything is your fault. 307 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,000 Your understanding of reality is wrong. 308 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,440 You don't get it correctly. You have no capacity to 309 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:46,040 understand anything correctly. And Jesus comes on the way and 310 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,880 he says, My son, I came that you may have life and have it 311 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,000 abundantly. My son, if I set you free, 312 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,520 you'll be free indeed. My son, I've made you for great 313 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,720 things. My daughter, I've made you for 314 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,840 great things. Don't settle for less. 315 00:33:09,470 --> 00:33:24,000 Don't set me for less. I was seeing in First 316 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:30,640 Thessalonians the 5th chapter, Paul says that in everything 317 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:36,640 give thanks and but this is the rejoice ever more in everything 318 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,760 give thanks, right? You know that verse, right? 319 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:49,280 Yeah. So in pray without seizing, all 320 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,440 of you say pray without seizing, pray without seizing. 321 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:05,040 The intimacy of God is a celebration of God every 322 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:10,280 millisecond of our life and living as friends, as a best 323 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:23,159 friend with Him. I was listening a documentary 324 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:31,600 about monastery and the journalist got the permission, 325 00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,800 special permission to go and talk to one of the monks in the 326 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,520 monastery. And this ones is way out in 327 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,040 Italy, I think it is. And they follow a different time 328 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:49,159 zone itself completely. And to get in is very, very 329 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,719 hard. The screening process is very 330 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,639 difficult because the whole monastery is committed only one 331 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:57,800 thing. When you join, you only commit 332 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,720 for one thing, to continuously pray. 333 00:35:08,380 --> 00:35:11,100 Did I mention Dallas Willard's name last time when I came? 334 00:35:12,340 --> 00:35:14,460 Yeah. Dallas Willard said a very nice 335 00:35:14,460 --> 00:35:15,620 thing. You came. 336 00:35:19,380 --> 00:35:21,260 Dallas Willard said a very nice thing. 337 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,760 Yeah. As who will go to heaven? 338 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,560 Who will go to heaven? Good question, right? 339 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,200 Normal answer. If you're born again, believe 340 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,000 we'll go to heaven. Right. 341 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,560 You accept he'll go to heaven. Yeah. 342 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,280 Now he's a philosophy. So you love a Christian 343 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,840 everything. And he said a very nice thing. 344 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,680 Who will go to heaven. OK. 345 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,600 And his reply wars. Anybody who can tolerate heaven 346 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:56,040 will go to heaven. Did you get it? 347 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Anybody who can property gold, anybody who can just say, Father 348 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,160 the Son is there and I'm just worshipping and enjoying him in 349 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,920 his presence and I can tolerate that forever. 350 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:40,880 You can go to heaven now. Not prepared for heaven. 351 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:47,080 Not prepared for heaven. Perfect health. 352 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:56,640 I want not prepared for heaven, a good job and prosperity and a 353 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,880 better Khan you know must be been the blue colour. 354 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:17,120 One thing I was to the Lord and that I will seek to be in the 355 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:22,320 house and to see the beauty. There's only one thing that I 356 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,880 thoroughly enjoy the beauty of God. 357 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:33,400 You preferred heaven. If God is your greatest joy, you 358 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:41,280 prefer heaven. And it's like that Sunday school 359 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,400 student, you know, they asked him. 360 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,480 The teacher told about the rich man in the last story. 361 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,280 You remember that story? Yeah. 362 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,080 You must say yes, as I tell the whole story. 363 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,280 Yeah. OK. 364 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,920 You want to see how many stories Jesus told? 365 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,960 So she told the story and she asked, So what do you like to 366 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,200 be? You like to be like the rich man 367 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,080 or Lazarus 1. Smart child is everywhere, 368 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,360 right? He said, Miss, I want to be like 369 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:17,040 the rich man here and Lazarus there. 90% of Christians are 370 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:25,600 there. And then God says, my son, my 371 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:31,000 daughter, will I become your greatest joy? 372 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,360 That's intimacy. That's intimacy. 373 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:46,360 OK, We'll just see one more thing and then we'll close in 374 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:56,800 one John. The 1st chapter of 1 John, John 375 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,800 is saying that you know, he, he's writing these things 376 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:08,360 because we'll bring 1 John chapter one, verse one and two 377 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:16,600 and three and yeah, yeah, next verse. 378 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,520 We have touched and we have felt that the life appeared and we 379 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:24,800 have seen it and testified and we proclaim to you the eternal 380 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,960 life which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 381 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:35,520 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that you also 382 00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:39,840 may have fellowship with us. Underline the word fellowship 383 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:48,680 with us and our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son 384 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:59,730 Jesus Christ. That's fellowship number. 385 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:10,210 Fellowship, Amari biscuit and coffee to fellowship and our 386 00:40:10,210 --> 00:40:18,320 fellowship is with the Father. And with the Son Jesus Christ, 387 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:25,480 this enjoyment of him and I do nothing. 388 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,800 He just longs for life to respond to His love. 389 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,520 That's all He wants. And as we celebrate and enjoy 390 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:44,640 his love and the presence that He gives us freely, then we rest 391 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:49,640 and relax and enjoy because you're deeply loved. 392 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,480 OK, I have to close. Blessed are those who pre short 393 00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,320 messages for they should be called again. 394 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,480 So I call this short. So you can imagine my long 395 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,960 messages, you know. OK, so I'll close to this One 396 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,240 South. What are the hindrances to this? 397 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:17,160 What are the hindrances to this enjoyment of intimacy with God? 398 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:23,840 I don't know if the slightest there in my presentation 5 399 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:28,800 things that prevent us from no OK no problem I'll say then you 400 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,200 can see the first thing that prevents us from enjoying this 401 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:38,160 intimacy and celebration of God. One thing is your child 402 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:45,600 rehearsal trauma and if you have been traumatized, if you've gone 403 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:50,840 through abuse and birth and rejection or if you had a father 404 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:57,600 who was very strict. And if you had a father who who 405 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:02,680 never spent time with you or never authenticated you and 406 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,440 loved you. And if you did not enjoy that, 407 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,480 and if you did not have somebody who really cherished you and 408 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,360 said the words that you're precious, you're awesome, you're 409 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:21,520 competent. And so if we have been 410 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:26,720 traumatized by child rehearsal trauma, you cannot fully 411 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:32,320 understand and enjoy the intimacy of God because you're 412 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:37,000 still stuck there. I'm unclean, I'm not good 413 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,440 enough, I'm not worthy. Nobody can actually love me 414 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,880 because my father himself did not love me. 415 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,320 So nobody spent time with me as a child. 416 00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,720 Maybe I'm not good enough for God to spend time with me. 417 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,920 Yesterday I was talking to somebody and I was saying when 418 00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:58,000 the parents spend more time outside and do not spend time 419 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:02,480 with the with the children, the message the child gets is this. 420 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,800 I'm dull and boring, uninteresting. 421 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,920 That's why my father and mother do not spend time with me. 422 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,840 So some rule in our counselling is this. 423 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:22,080 Children are the world's best recorders, but the world's worst 424 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,360 interpreters. That's why when there's a 425 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:31,240 divorce and the separation, the child blames themselves for it. 426 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,720 So you have to be healed of that, and God can heal us. 427 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:45,640 OK, God can heal us. Isaiah 61. 428 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:49,560 If you keep reading that, you'll see that the other thing that 429 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:54,920 will prevent us from experience this intimacy of God is this 430 00:43:54,920 --> 00:44:01,840 one, your thought pattern and negative thinking. 431 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,640 That's the second one. Your thought pattern and 432 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,440 negative thinking will prevent you. 433 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:15,280 That's the second point. If you have constantly thought 434 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:21,800 pattern of anxiety, fear, worry and anger and bitterness and 435 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:27,800 that has become a habit, your thought pattern and your habits 436 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:33,360 you are thinking is constantly going there, then you can't 437 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,520 enjoy your thought pattern and habits of thinking. 438 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:43,240 That's the second point. If you come from villages which 439 00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:47,480 you've seen villages and there's a forest or there's no Rd. 440 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,320 people will keep walking and then there's a path, right? 441 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,920 What do you call that? What do you call it in Tamil? 442 00:44:55,480 --> 00:45:00,720 What part of the path? Yeah, and that part is something 443 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,440 that has become a habit, right? We we walk there. 444 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:11,640 So listen to this. Your mind and my mind also 445 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:21,560 builds patterns and habits. And if God doesn't change your 446 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:26,160 thinking pattern by the power of the Holy Spirit, you'll 447 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:33,200 constantly live in pride, anxiety, worry, anger, 448 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:42,400 bitterness, and lust. And if that is your thought 449 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:47,760 pattern you get stuck to, you cannot enjoy intimacy with God. 450 00:45:53,200 --> 00:46:00,080 Some people are so, so conscious, are living in anxiety 451 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:04,280 and fear and worry. They live in anxiety in such a 452 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,320 way because that has become a pattern. 453 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:13,320 They get used to that pattern of living and if they're not 454 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:20,760 anxious, they're anxious. Why they're not anxious? 455 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:39,000 And, and some people, and some people tragically, they cannot 456 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:48,680 rest and relax. And I'll tell you one way that 457 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:49,960 you know that you are transformed. 458 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,400 I'll tell you one way. There are many ways. 459 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,680 If you are transformed, you will leave the outcome to God. 460 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,880 Now don't do a shabby job, do what you work you can do, but 461 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:05,880 leave the outcome to God. Here is another one. 462 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:12,160 Ruthlessly write this down ruthlessly. 463 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:17,240 Eradicate hurry from your life ruthlessly. 464 00:47:24,410 --> 00:47:27,530 Now I'm not encouraging you to be lazy or indifferent. 465 00:47:27,530 --> 00:47:33,360 Was like, no, no, do your point. Leave the outcome to God. 466 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:42,360 If you're if you're secure in God's love, you don't have to 467 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:49,360 win every argument. I have to prove to my wife I'm 468 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:57,880 more intelligent than her. Already your wife has already 469 00:47:57,880 --> 00:47:59,360 given up, and don't worry about that. 470 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,960 I have to prove that I am most martyred. 471 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:11,040 I'm more intelligent, Relax, I don't need to. 472 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,680 And if you have thought patterns and if you have habits of your 473 00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:21,160 thinking, now I'll tell you what, I'm not a drug addict, I'm 474 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,840 not an alcoholic, I'm not this, I'm not that. 475 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,320 I'm not addicted to that. Ray Baba, you're addicted to 476 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,800 anxiety and fear and worry and anger. 477 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:38,880 If we touch you, you'll get angry. 478 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:40,240 If I don't touch you, you'll get angry. 479 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:47,920 That's what bad wipes. And if you don't change that 480 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,840 part of your thinking, enjoy intimacy with God. 481 00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:01,160 And that is why Paul says be transformed in the renewal of 482 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:07,760 your OK. The third thing that will 483 00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:14,720 prevent you from enjoying intimacy with God is the 484 00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:18,720 darkness that has come because of disobedience in your life. 485 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,280 Darkness that comes into your life. 486 00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,040 I can tell you how many times that God deeply loves you. 487 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,520 But if you have habits, I'll tell you one thing. 488 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:44,000 Every sin brings certain amount of darkness into your life. 489 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:52,040 Like I'll tell you a classic example is pornography. 490 00:49:52,040 --> 00:50:00,960 OK, Pornography. Pornography brings darkness into 491 00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:09,800 your life so intensely that you become less than what you can 492 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,480 be. I don't know. 493 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:17,640 They told you this story. Will you tell you about a rabbi 494 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,920 and a Jewish student who was writing and asking questions and 495 00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:26,080 no, no, OK, there was this rabbi who was teaching, and there was 496 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,360 a student who was writing something but also asking 497 00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,880 questions to the rabbi, and he was writing something else. 498 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,560 And he's asking questions and the rabbi's answering him and 499 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,480 all of that, and it's going on and on. 500 00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:43,200 The rabbi came around and he saw this guy who was asking the 501 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:44,920 question. He was writing something else. 502 00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,600 Hey fella, I am trying to answer all your questions. 503 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,560 Then you are writing something else, man, I thought you are 504 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:55,040 taking notes and he said no Sir, but I said I am doing something 505 00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:55,920 else. I am writing. 506 00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:57,560 But I was asking the right question. 507 00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:59,640 I was responding to you right? Yes. 508 00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:05,080 How do you do that? Then he said, OK, you give me a 509 00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:11,880 vague number, any number with 30 digits in it and I will, I will 510 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,600 look at it and I'll I'll be able to tell you the exact number. 511 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,720 Then the rabbi thought. And then he said 30, there must 512 00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:22,080 be some trick in 30, why not 34 is it? 513 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,320 And the students said 34 will be little more difficult, but go 514 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:31,320 ahead. So the rabbi actually recited a 515 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:40,080 random 34 digit number 223478677 and said the rabbi wrote it in 516 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,440 his piece of paper and he kept it. 517 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:46,880 And then the student said do you want me to recite? 518 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,120 Then he closed eyes for a minute and do you want me to recite it 519 00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:53,640 backward or forward? Backward or forward? 520 00:51:55,400 --> 00:52:02,120 Said backward 346782000834 exactly. 521 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:05,480 Then he said forward, forward correctly. 522 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,840 OK. After one week, the rabbi went 523 00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:13,080 out to a restaurant and this student was sitting there in the 524 00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,840 same restaurant. And as soon as the student, the 525 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,680 rabbi met. The student said, so you want 526 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,880 that number, right? He said, yeah. 527 00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:25,800 And the rabbi pulled it from his coat pocket and he had it in 528 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,960 front. And then he said, do you want 529 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:33,600 forward or backwards? He said forward exactly correct. 530 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:43,120 Now the rabbi was bowled over and then he said this, Sir, my 531 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:46,360 memory was little much better than this one. 532 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,200 I got into drugs and alcohol. It destroyed my memory. 533 00:52:54,480 --> 00:53:00,600 Can you imagine what can happen if you stay away from sin and 534 00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:05,680 you have holy habits and all darkness expulse from your soul 535 00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,200 and you're filled with the love of God? 536 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:13,360 You will become dynamic. That's what you're meant for. 537 00:53:19,170 --> 00:53:23,170 The fourth one that can disturb us and not enjoy the intimacy of 538 00:53:23,170 --> 00:53:24,770 God. And with this I will close. 539 00:53:24,770 --> 00:53:35,010 And is your ego and pride, your evil and pride? 540 00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,400 OK, let's talk about marriage. OK. 541 00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:47,400 And how many of you are here but not married but want to get 542 00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:55,200 married? Everybody married, OK, OK, I 543 00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,560 don't think that. OK, How many of you are married? 544 00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:03,040 And here I don't think ever told you about marriage this way. 545 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,120 Before marriage, before marriage. 546 00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,080 If somebody told you this, I don't think would have got 547 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,240 married at all. Pennsylvania. 548 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:14,800 After marriage, you lose all freedom Parvalia Before 549 00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,880 marriage, can I? I can go wherever I want. 550 00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:22,760 I can spend the money I want, I can eat whatever I want to eat, 551 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,840 I can sleep whenever I want to sleep. 552 00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:29,120 I can see any program anytime I want to see, and I can wear any 553 00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:32,440 dress I want to wear. I can do anything. 554 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,560 OK, that's why in the Jewish system marriage experience is a 555 00:54:50,560 --> 00:55:01,400 born again experience. You have to be born again before 556 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:10,690 marriage. I was like this only before 557 00:55:10,690 --> 00:55:12,370 marriage. You want my mother, you want my 558 00:55:12,370 --> 00:55:16,090 sister. But you got married, man, Be the 559 00:55:16,090 --> 00:55:19,970 sister. Because marriage means change. 560 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:26,320 Marriage means submission. Marriage means submission and 561 00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,360 love to each other. Marriage is an invitation and 562 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:42,320 say Vanga, marriage means marriage means that I'm going to 563 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:48,840 live with you listening, hearing, changing, taking advice 564 00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:52,440 and counsel. Nobody told that about marriage, 565 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:59,000 did they? Coming to Jesus is also that 566 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,880 way. And if I don't want to submit, 567 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,800 if I don't want to give up my ego and prayed. 568 00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:14,360 If I don't want to live my life into God's hand and I go for 569 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:16,840 these meetings and I get questions asked. 570 00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,120 And a few weeks ago I was in Goa, somebody asked me a 571 00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,800 question after the meeting, a young fellow, he called me. 572 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,120 He said I didn't want to ask the question in front of everybody, 573 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,360 but I want to ask you one question, Very interesting 574 00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:32,600 question, pastor. Is it true? 575 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:36,640 Is it correct? God gives you our own will. 576 00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,760 God gives your own will. And say do my will. 577 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,880 God gives you a free will and says here after you do my will, 578 00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:58,520 OK, leave me alone man. Welcome to marriage, welcome to 579 00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:03,320 real life. And you know why he says that? 580 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,680 So they asked. He asked me what is this bastard 581 00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:10,000 not fair at all? He gives me a free will and then 582 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,640 says you do my will. So I'm stuck. 583 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,680 It's the first time somebody asked me that question. 584 00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:18,160 And then I said this. And whenever a person asked a 585 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,200 question like that, I said, God, you need to give me wisdom. 586 00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:26,480 And I said something like this. He tells you to do his will 587 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:28,880 because that's the best thing for you. 588 00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:35,040 He tells you not to be anxious because that's the best thing 589 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:38,400 for you. He tells you to forgive and 590 00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,240 bless everyone. That's the best thing for you, 591 00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:47,200 he says. Love and enjoy and receive love. 592 00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:53,040 That's the best thing for you children. 593 00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:57,160 When you have, when you're still young, the best thing is to obey 594 00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,720 your parent. That's the best thing for you. 595 00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,840 If you are not willing to give up your ego and pride, you 596 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:15,320 cannot enjoy intensity with God. Let me just close with this. 597 00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:20,480 All spiritual achievement. All spiritual achievement is a 598 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:26,880 cooperation with God the Holy Spirit when I submit to him, 599 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:32,520 submitting my ego and my pride and obeying him moment by 600 00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:40,080 moment. So I'll say that again, all 601 00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:48,880 spiritual growth, all transformation is accomplished. 602 00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:53,960 I'm using the word accomplished purposely there by the power of 603 00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,880 the Holy Spirit. Without this power we can do 604 00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:04,760 nothing but in submission of our ego and pride to listen to His 605 00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:09,720 voice and to obey Him. Then spiritual progress takes 606 00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:13,360 place. Christ's likeness is 607 00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,760 transformed. But if I stick to my ego and 608 00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:21,880 pride, nothing can happen. We are talking about land, 609 00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,800 season and what did the cross mean to us? 610 00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:29,160 It means Christ invites us and says, my son, my daughter, I 611 00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:36,360 died for you. Will you die and have abundant 612 00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,040 life? Will you obey me? 613 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:45,320 Will you humble yourself and listen to my voice moment by 614 00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:49,600 moment and enjoy the resurrected life? 615 00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:58,120 The resurrected life, life that God calls us is possible when I 616 00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:02,680 submit and surrender to Him. We're going to take the 617 01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:05,880 communion. And what does communion say? 618 01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,520 Jesus says come, let's have fellowship. 619 01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:15,520 Now let's eat together, and as you break your bread and take 620 01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:19,480 the wine, it's in the Revelation 320. 621 01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:24,680 They'd come and they would Sup, and I will Sup with him. 622 01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:31,080 Listen to this very carefully. This communion is also the 623 01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:38,520 celebration of a communion intimacy continuously after the 624 01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:43,000 communion service. Also because he's still your 625 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,400 best friend, he's still your best friend. 626 01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:53,400 So this is only a momentary celebration of that which can 627 01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:58,640 continue every day of all. Thanks for listening to this 628 01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,760 message. 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