1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,320 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,320 today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,600 healing or breakthrough? Want to find out more about 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:22,600 Omega? Head to our website or Facebook 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:35,680 page through the links below. Hallelujah, we will make that 9 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:37,800 proclamation for after a long time. 10 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:43,000 The Kingdom of God is within me, let's do it again. 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,400 Kingdom of God is within me. Amen, Amen. 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:55,040 There was a Hindu professor in India who once identified one of 13 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:01,520 his students as a Christian and said to him, we can have we have 14 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,760 a slide for it. Actually, I think, Yep, 15 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:12,600 Christian. And said to him, if you 16 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,560 Christians live like Jesus Christ, India would be at your 17 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:22,880 feet tomorrow. I think India would be at their 18 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,080 feet today if we Christians live like Christ. 19 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,200 Can I hear something? Amen. 20 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,040 From the Islamic world, the Reverend Iskandar Jadil, he must 21 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,200 be former Muslim, now a Christian. 22 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,640 And he says a former Arab Muslim has said if all Christians were 23 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:49,400 Christians, that is Christ like, there would be no more Islam 24 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:54,360 today. I am telling you, not just 25 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,800 Hinduism, not just Islam, there won't be Buddhism, there won't 26 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,040 be atheism, there will be no naturalism, there will be 27 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,960 nothing. It is Christ fulfill the whole 28 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,840 world. So what does it mean? 29 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,520 What does it say? What does it communicate to us? 30 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,200 The church is failing to represent Jesus Christ, who is 31 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,960 their Lord to the world. We are not showing Christ to the 32 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,200 world. That's why world is not saved. 33 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,760 If we show Christ to the world, the world will be saved. 34 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,480 We have to show Christ to the world through our life, through 35 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,400 our obedience, through our character. 36 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:37,520 One of the things, you know, I was just looking at an article 37 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,520 by John Stott. John Stott is a very big guy in 38 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,000 the Anglican world. He's like a Pope, basically. 39 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,160 He died in the year 2011 at the age of 90. 40 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:52,000 But before four years before that in 2007 he spoke at a Kazik 41 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,360 convention. Some of you may know what is 42 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,920 Kazik convention that happens in UK. 43 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:04,680 And in that convention now he says I have thought long and 44 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:09,360 hard what is the main purpose of God for Christians? 45 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:15,080 I have come to the end of my life and now I want to share 46 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,920 that Peace of Mind that I have about it. 47 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:28,120 And he says it is to basically says Christlikeness is a will of 48 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,240 God for the people of God. What did he say? 49 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,040 Christlikeness is a will of God for the people of God. 50 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:44,240 Shall we say it again? So we have to look like who? 51 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:50,280 Christ Basically one of the scriptures says we are actually 52 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:55,040 mirroring like a mirror. We are reflecting the glory of 53 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,440 God, reflecting the glory of Christ. 54 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,120 You know, how does a how is a mirror made? 55 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,680 You you take glass and coat it on the back with silver. 56 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,360 In the olden days they used to call it Quicksilver. 57 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,400 It is one of the silver coming silver or even mercury compound. 58 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,320 And then they coat it on the back of it. 59 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:20,399 So light falls on, it reflects, and that's how you see the 60 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,440 image. Sometimes aluminum is also used 61 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,280 to do the same job, but aluminum is not the great reflector 62 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,760 compared to silver. Anyway, If you don't have that 63 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,360 back, if you take out the glass and scratch off something that's 64 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,320 there on it, the coating, what is going to happen? 65 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:41,880 You can't see. The mirror will lose its 66 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:45,560 quality. So there has to be that 67 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,080 substance in Christians that will make them like mirror. 68 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,160 If the substance is, that substance is the character. 69 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,560 If you don't have the character, you are a glass, but you have 70 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,840 the character, you become a mirror. 71 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:08,280 Sorry, I was saying people will see through you. 72 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:12,640 Yeah, they will see through you. And there's nothing there to 73 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,040 stop. It's just glass. 74 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,360 It goes through. So we need character to support 75 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,960 our life. Everybody say character. 76 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,640 We need character to support our Christian faith. 77 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,520 And you tell I am a Christian, I'm a Christian, I'm a 78 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,080 Christian. They look at you and see the 79 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,120 fruit. It is not there. 80 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:38,920 A tree is known by its fruit. Jesus said a tree is known by 81 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:41,440 its fruit. And when they look at your life 82 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,560 and look at a life and there's no, they don't find any fruit. 83 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,280 They know that you are not telling the truth, you're not 84 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,600 telling the truth, you don't reflect Christ. 85 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:00,160 So if this is the measure and I'm telling you more than 90% of 86 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:06,360 the Christians will have nothing to boast about in their life and 87 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,880 becoming a believer, let's say somebody becomes say, ah, I am 88 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,840 born again, praise the Lord. That's what we need, the 89 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:18,200 transformation, change in the attitude towards Christ, towards 90 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,880 sin, towards self, towards the world. 91 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,960 It happens when you are born again, then afterwards what you 92 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,680 are born again, then what somebody may say, oh, we have 93 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,560 the Westminster Minister Catechism where it says what is 94 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:36,920 the chief end of man? That's the question they ask. 95 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,240 And the chief end of man is to know God and to enjoy him 96 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,160 forever. And some people summarize it 97 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:47,880 into 5 words. Love God, love your neighbor. 98 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,640 This week covered last week we, we talked about it in the 99 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,960 message. So you, you can say all these 100 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,760 different, different ways of trying to capturing what is to 101 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,360 be a Christian, but ultimately it boils down to one thing. 102 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,640 Either either you show Christ or you show a devil in your life. 103 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,720 They see it, you may not like it. 104 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:16,040 They see it when somebody comes and rubs you in the wrong way 105 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,200 and you show that anger and you show that kind of anger that 106 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,960 they know who you're showing, not Christ. 107 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,240 When the child drops something and breaks that precious thing 108 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,880 that is there are the walls or something like that in the 109 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,920 precious thing on the table and pulls it and push it on the 110 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,720 ground, it broke. What is the father going to do? 111 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,400 What's the mother going to do you brat? 112 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:46,800 And you show who you are and you say its OK son, its OK daughter 113 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:48,280 we will buy one more don't worry. 114 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:54,320 You show Christ. It is every small thing is every 115 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,560 small thing. We show either Christ or we show 116 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,480 the devil who is controlling our life. 117 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:02,920 There are no two ways. There is no neutral ground. 118 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:10,120 There is no neutral ground. So that is how it is so to so 119 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,200 all these things don't satisfy. So he says at the end of my 120 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,840 life, I would like to say I want to share with you where my mind 121 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,840 has come to rest as I approach the end of my pilgrimage on 122 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,880 earth. And it is God wants his people 123 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,960 to become like Christ. Christ likeness is the will of 124 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:34,159 God for the people of God. So how does it reflect? 125 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,919 It shows in three different ways. 126 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,320 Number one, if you are a disciple of Christ, if you are a 127 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,960 believer in Christ, then your own goal of discipleship towards 128 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,160 self is to become like Christ. That's your goal. 129 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,800 Can you achieve it in a day? We can't. 130 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:55,640 But can we achieve it in a lifetime? 131 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:00,480 Possible. The more you pray, the more you 132 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,720 pray, the more you obey God, the more you show Christ in your 133 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:10,080 life, people will keep looking at you and say, yes, this man is 134 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,560 like Christ. You know so many, some of the 135 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:16,360 missionaries, we have a missionary by name, Adori Ram 136 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:21,200 Jetson, who went as a missionary to Burma or Rangoon in those 137 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,440 days. Myanmar is the new name now for 138 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:27,920 the country, Myanmar. And when he was walking on the 139 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,120 street, some children would say Jesus is going, Jesus is walking 140 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,400 there. Can people look at us and say 141 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:39,760 Jesus is walking? I heard some similar thing about 142 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,640 a man called Sadhu Sundar Singh, a Punjabi who radically was 143 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,560 converted by vision with Christ. He left everything, family, 144 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:51,440 everything. He broke of every tie and he 145 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,680 followed Christ and he was carrying just a New Testament in 146 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,080 his hand, not the full Bible, only the New Testament. 147 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,840 You know, there are some things, some great people make some 148 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:01,400 great mistakes. So that's one of those. 149 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,080 Don't worry about it, but he 100% followed the New Testament 150 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,120 and he would carry that, cherish it, read it all the time. 151 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,440 And he went to so many parts of the world. 152 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,600 He went to UK, he went to America, he went to Europe and 153 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,040 all all over the world he travelled and in one meeting and 154 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,560 I think in in America, I mean I think in New York when he stood 155 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:27,800 up to preach, little girl said Jesus. 156 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,360 That is what we are aiming for in this world to look like 157 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,800 Jesus. Give a high 5 to somebody 158 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,240 sitting next to and say our aim is to look like Jesus. 159 00:10:49,340 --> 00:10:52,100 So the goal of discipleship towards self is become like 160 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:55,020 Christ. So now we have 3 scriptures to 161 00:10:55,020 --> 00:11:01,080 talk about it. Number one is Romans 829, Romans 162 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:07,600 829, for those who foreknew, for those God foreknew, he also 163 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,200 predestined to be confirmed to the image of his Son, that he 164 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,320 might be the first born among many brothers and sisters. 165 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,120 So Jesus is the first one who rose again from the dead, and 166 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,480 all those who believe are going to be brothers and sisters for 167 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,480 with him. And what is it for God? 168 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:28,840 For those God foreknew? Everybody say 4 new, What is 4 169 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:36,600 new, you know in advance. Does knowing in advance 170 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,120 determine what is going to happen? 171 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:48,080 Not necessary sometimes, but not with God like that God, you 172 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,120 know. The best example that comes from 173 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,560 my mind is a game of chess. How many of you like playing 174 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:57,120 chess? It will be very, very few 175 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,720 people. I know it's not so when you have 176 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,800 two players A&B playing against each other. 177 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,600 Let's say the A makes 10 moves and B makes 10 moves, and after 178 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,080 some time both of them are just looking at the word for half an 179 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,600 hour or one hour, nothing is happening. 180 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:16,000 And then they agree. Let us draw. 181 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:20,560 Nothing is moved at all. They say let us draw. 182 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,800 Why they are agreeing to draw? Because this guy can imagine 40 183 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:28,160 steps. I put this, I move the Rook, he 184 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,240 will move this one and I move this one and he'll move this 185 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,920 one. After 40 steps, the board is 186 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,520 going to look like this. I will be left with one king and 187 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,520 one pawn, and he'll be left with one king and one pawn and we are 188 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,960 not going to win the game. So they draw. 189 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:50,960 That is what they are able to for know, for noise is a mental 190 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,400 process by which you are able to know it. 191 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,240 And God can know the 8 billion people on the on the planet of 192 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,480 Earth. He knows everybody. 193 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,520 He knows you're sitting now, He knows you're getting up. 194 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,840 He knows intimately, He knows what you're thinking, He knows 195 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,920 what you're feeling, and he can know what you're going to do 196 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:12,240 after five years or 10 years. We cannot make a judgment today. 197 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,480 Somebody is refusing Christ today. 198 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,520 We cannot say he is doomed to hell because tomorrow God can 199 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,520 confront him and he will become a believer. 200 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,440 Who knows? Look at Saul, who was 201 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:25,120 threatening and fuming and persecuting the church. 202 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,920 No one knew that he is going to become a martyr for Christ. 203 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:35,280 But God knew God. Those whom he foreknew also 204 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,800 predestined. Now predestined is it will make 205 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:42,120 it happen. Foreknowledge and predestined 206 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,160 people think that contradictory to each other. 207 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,480 No, Hebrew mind does not see it as contradiction. 208 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,120 It's a Greek mind that thinks it is a contradiction. 209 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,640 And we inherit the Greek mind. The Western world is all 210 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,720 patterned after Aristotle and all those kind of guys who have 211 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:05,680 made our thinking process, they are not in contradiction. 212 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:11,240 They work together and for a believer it can be a great 213 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:14,000 source of comfort. It can be a great source of 214 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,600 encouragement. It can be a grow great sense of 215 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:22,360 power because you know your God knows and he predestined you to 216 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,080 be saved. He put his hand up on you. 217 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:29,000 He put his finger in your life and make you believe in Jesus is 218 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,560 a great miracle is a great miracle. 219 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:37,080 And what is the purpose of perdition nation? 220 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,240 What is the purpose of foreknowledge that we should be 221 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,400 conformed to the image of his Son. 222 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:47,240 That's the purpose. When did you do it? 223 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,000 When did God foreknew? When did God be destined that 224 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,360 you must be conformed to the image of his Son Jesus Christ 225 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:57,240 before laying the foundation of the world. 226 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:00,120 He has done it for you already. You are not sitting yet by 227 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:09,520 accident. So what I am pleading with you 228 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,080 this morning. This plan is from the ages, is 229 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:18,200 implemented now, and we are experiencing His grace. 230 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,520 It is decided before laying the foundation of the world in the 231 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:26,640 past, not in the present. It is decided in the past. 232 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:31,280 It is known in the past, decided in the past, acted upon by God 233 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,120 in time now so that you may believe in Jesus. 234 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:45,320 The second was Second Corinthians 318 and we all with 235 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,400 unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord are being 236 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:55,440 transformed into the same image from 1° of glory to another, but 237 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,880 this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 238 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,760 Now in this I have highlighted the word transformed. 239 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:07,040 Everybody said transformed. So what is happening here is 240 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,640 this is an example. Is is falling back on the story 241 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:15,000 of Moses when he went to meet with the Lord, he used to go 242 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,720 outside the camp. The 2 million people are 243 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,120 scattered all over. There are thousands and 244 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,200 thousands of millions of tents all over. 245 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,320 Everybody standing in front of the fire is before the tent. 246 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:29,760 When Moses is walking all alone towards one tent that's outside 247 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,400 the camp, and the glory of God comes up on it, He goes inside 248 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,440 and has a conversation with the Father. 249 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:37,120 He has a conversation with Yahweh. 250 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,400 And after he had talked to him, have received that laws and 251 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,040 commandments, what should be done, what should not be done, 252 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,880 He comes out. And when he came out his face 253 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,240 was glowing. And when they looked at his 254 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,080 face, they said we cannot look on his face. 255 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,520 It is so glorious. And when Moses learnt about it, 256 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:01,800 he covered his face with a veil. He put a cloth on his face. 257 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Why? Because this glory is going to 258 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,680 fade, is not going to remain forever until after some time, 259 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,119 after a week or so it will go away. 260 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,119 And the same Israelite looks at his face, he will say, oh, where 261 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,200 is that glory? He is gone. 262 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:20,720 So he may look down on Moses. So Moses, what he did was he 263 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:25,240 covered his face with a veil with a cloth until he went 264 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,640 inside the tent again and again his face glows. 265 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,680 But what what is the what is the sorry? 266 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,760 What is the Paul is trying to say? 267 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:38,360 Here is we all with unveiled face. 268 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,880 When you are seeing Christ without the wail, without the 269 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,560 cloth, without the covering, when you look at him beholding 270 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,920 the glory of the Lord, or being transformed into the same image 271 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,960 from 1° of glory to another, you are being transformed into the 272 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:59,240 image you are looking at. How often do you look into the 273 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,880 face of Christ? How often do you look into the 274 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,760 face of Christ? You have your Bible reading in 275 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:13,320 the morning, quiet time, you have some prayer, tell all the 276 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:20,120 list of things and you are done and dusted and you walk away. 277 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,760 I tell you that should be the time you look into the face of 278 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:30,920 Jesus Christ, the glory of Jesus, the one whose hair and 279 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,720 head better than wool, better than snow, whose eyes are like 280 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,160 blazing fire, whose face is better than midday sun. 281 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,440 This is the double sword coming out of his mouth, who holds the 282 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,760 seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden 283 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,160 lamp stands, and who has a robe at the golden Sachs around his 284 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,960 chest. And he is the one whose feet are 285 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,960 like bunnies branch. You focus upon him, you look at 286 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,200 him, you worship him, you love him, you kiss his feet. 287 00:18:53,320 --> 00:19:01,760 Then that glory gets transferred to you as you look at his face. 288 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,520 You are being transformed into his likeness. 289 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:10,800 That's the reason why I think it is Isaiah who says those who 290 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,680 worship idols are dumb like they're idols. 291 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,960 Because they are worshipping idols, they become like idols. 292 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,720 Because they have eyes, they cannot see, they have ears, they 293 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,280 cannot hear their hands, they cannot move, they are feet, they 294 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:26,280 cannot walk, and they have become like the dumb idols they 295 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,760 follow. And we who worship the living 296 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:36,080 God, we have to become like Him. If there is no transformation 297 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,520 happening, then you are not looking at His face. 298 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:41,480 If there is no change happening because you are not looking at 299 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:47,120 His glory, so the time of praying and prayer should be a 300 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:52,080 time of looking, gazing on His face, gazing on His glory, and 301 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,640 allowing the glory to wash over you. 302 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:59,400 Stand in His presence like a piece of iron that goes into the 303 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,880 strong magnet, the field of a magnet. 304 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,600 Slowly it becomes a magnet. We need to be magnetized by His 305 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,840 glory. We need to be magnetized by His 306 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:11,720 power. We need to be magnetized by His 307 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,280 compassion, by His mercy, by His love. 308 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:19,280 The longer you fix your eye on this God, you should become like 309 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:24,400 that God who you are looking at. That's what Paul is saying here. 310 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:28,480 We are being transformed into the same image from 1° of glory 311 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,640 to another, 1° of glory to another. 312 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,720 I think it is some other translation from King James, 313 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,360 translated from glory to glory, from glory to glory. 314 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,360 You're being transformed from glory to glory. 315 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,880 Today you gaze on Him, you receive that glory, and tomorrow 316 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,600 you look on him. That glory will top be topped up 317 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,320 again, and the day after you look on His glory, there will be 318 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,920 topped up again. So from glory to glory you are 319 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:58,920 growing in the glory of God because you're taking time to 320 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,840 look on his glory. You will not be the same. 321 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:18,560 So we need to look on who Jesus, how long, how often? 322 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,160 If the church is letting down the world, you know why? 323 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,560 Because we are not looking at Him, because we are not 324 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,560 representing Him, we are not showing Christ to the world. 325 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,240 That's why people have got all kinds of people we have in the 326 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,000 world, people, agnostics, atheists, Muslims, Buddhists. 327 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,880 Why? As I told you in the beginning, 328 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,960 if Christians are Christians, there will not be any Muslims. 329 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:48,120 If Christians will represent Christ, show Christ, there will 330 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:50,400 not be any Hindus anymore. The whole country will be 331 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,000 changed, whole country will be changed, whole world will be 332 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,200 changed. So the challenge is for us, we 333 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,560 bunch of people to become like Christ. 334 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:08,400 It is not impossible. It is not impossible, but may 335 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,120 not be 100%. We achieve that. 336 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,640 It will be gradually as we gaze on His glory, we will become 337 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,400 like Christ. Every day must take time to 338 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,400 pray. Prayer is not just giving a list 339 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,400 of things. Gazing on His glory, worshipping 340 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,920 Him and surrendering your spirit, soul and body, telling 341 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,960 Him this my spirit is yours, Lord, this my soul is yours. 342 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:34,080 This my body is yours. Any contrary spirit cannot be in 343 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,680 this body anymore, because I belong to You. 344 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,760 I kicked that thing out of my body in the name of Jesus. 345 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:46,480 It has to go, it has to go it has to go it doesn't have any 346 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,560 option so you need to say I trample it down your sickness in 347 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,800 the name of Jesus and I come and leave me now I'm too early to 348 00:22:55,040 --> 00:23:00,120 there's one more point I want to say actually 3rd scripture is 1 349 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,760 John 32. Beloved, we are Gods children 350 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:13,120 now, when? Now, and what we will has not 351 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:17,680 yet been, has not yet appeared. But we know that when He appears 352 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,960 we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is. 353 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,320 So the first thing is decided before the foundation of the 354 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,880 world. He has foreknown you, He has 355 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,880 predestined you to be confirmed to the image. 356 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:36,880 The second verse says we are as we behold His face. 357 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,840 We have been transformed glory to glory in the present. 358 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,200 You have to do it every day in the present. 359 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,800 You as you look on the glory of Christ, you are being 360 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,760 transformed from glory to glory. That's the present and the 361 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,400 future is 1 John 32. Beloved, we are God's children 362 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:56,440 now, and what we will has not yet been appeared, But we know 363 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,160 that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see 364 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,520 Him as He is in the future. We are going to look like Him 365 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,160 when He appears. If we are going to look like Him 366 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,640 when He appears. That is, will you have defect in 367 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:17,160 your hand or your leg or your head or any part of your body? 368 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,920 Will any part of your body be defective? 369 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,760 Will there be any sickness when you see Him? 370 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,480 Will there be any kind of a pain in your body when you see Him? 371 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:34,560 No. Everybody say resounding strong. 372 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,000 So in the future, if your body is going to look like Christ and 373 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,920 that body is going to look like rash, without pain, without 374 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,240 problem, without suffering, without any kind of sickness, 375 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:53,360 why should it not happen now? Why should you tolerate the 376 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:54,960 sickness? Why should you tolerate the 377 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,120 pain? If you tolerate it, it will be 378 00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:59,560 there. And when you trample down that 379 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,800 pain and you come on the Spirit that causing that pain, come on 380 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,000 the sickness that's causing the Spirit that's causing the 381 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,640 sickness to leave you because they have been defeated by 382 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,000 Jesus. I kick you now in from my life. 383 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,720 I kick you out of my life, you devil, you are going now in the 384 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:19,800 name of Jesus. How is that prayer going to look 385 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,880 like? How is that prayer going to look 386 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,080 like? If you are -30° and you pray 387 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,680 that prayer, you will buy 30° plus your body will become warm 388 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:35,840 and the power of God will invade you. 389 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,520 You don't need a coat if you were you were standing in the 390 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:47,600 wintry core of Canada or someplace Siberia -60 there if 391 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,040 you are praying that prayer, I command you devil, in the name 392 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,240 of Jesus I crush your head. You Satan, I crush your head. 393 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,680 You sail snakes, Clarkman, all the power enemy, nothing by any 394 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,880 means will harm me is written there. 395 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:04,640 So now how dare you touch me out in the name of Jesus, because 396 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,160 this body is going to look like him when he appears. 397 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:11,960 So now I command his body to function normal Indiana Jesus 398 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:17,840 name, Function normal Indiana Jesus name, function normal 399 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:26,120 Indiana Jesus name. So this is again we are to be 400 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:31,160 like Russian incarnation. One of the things is Jesus left 401 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:36,720 heaven and came into the world. He incarnated as a human being 402 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:42,720 leaving the guard head, leaving that God Ness or whatever makes 403 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,040 him God. He left everything, emptied 404 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,040 himself, became a man, even a man like a slave and died a 405 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,080 cruel death of on the cross. That is incarnation. 406 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,640 Now we need to Incarnate in this world. 407 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,920 How do we Incarnate in this world? 408 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,360 It is like one Christ came once for all, so he can make 409 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:05,640 everybody a Christ. He wants to make you like 410 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:12,160 himself. What does cross mean to Jesus in 411 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,360 his time? Cross meant humiliation. 412 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,160 Cross bent. Cross meant putting him down, 413 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,760 treating him like a slave. Cross meant dehumanization. 414 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,360 Cross meant making him less than a human and like an animal, 415 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,840 treating him like an animal and beating him with a whip until he 416 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,840 was bleeding everywhere, head to toe. 417 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,800 He was bleeding all over. There's not any soundness. 418 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,200 If Job says there was not a sound spot on his body where he 419 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,880 would scratch, I'm sure Jesus did more than that. 420 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,480 His body was bruised for our healing. 421 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,320 So this Jesus, when he's incarnated in us, we are going 422 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,920 to represent him. We are going to be like him. 423 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,040 And what did he do? One of the things he did was in 424 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,840 the book of John he says on that night when they had the last 425 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,560 night, he say he took a cloth like a servant at night towel 426 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,960 and he tied around his waist and he took a base in the water. 427 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,880 And then he went and washed the feet of every disciple. 428 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:25,160 And he said if I your master, have done this, you should do to 429 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,640 one another service. Everybody says service. 430 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,040 So where does the idea of service come from? 431 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,480 That comes from Christ act of washing the feet of disciples. 432 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,800 That is service. So many churches have a Mondi 433 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,280 Thursday and some kind of a Thursday and they demonstrated 434 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,520 they bring people forward and wash their feet in some 435 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,560 churches. Is that what we should be doing? 436 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,440 Is it going to make us like Christ in everyday life? 437 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,600 We should take that position of a slave. 438 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:03,760 Jesus took the position of a slave. 439 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,120 When he left, that goddess became a man. 440 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,960 And then he tied the towel around his waist and went and 441 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,520 washed the feet of the disciples. 442 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,640 He was saying to everybody all over the world, every, every 443 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,520 person who wants to be disciple. He's telling them you need to be 444 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,040 like a slave. Do what people don't want to do, 445 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:31,760 do what people don't want to do. When you see a need arise and 446 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:39,040 meet that need, that is mind of service, the service, mind of 447 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:44,880 service. So he took off his robes, tied a 448 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,240 towel, towel on his waist, took water in a basin, washed the 449 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,600 feet of the disciples. If then I, your Lord and 450 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,400 Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one 451 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,240 another's feet, for I have given you an example. 452 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,400 Notice the word that you should do as I have done to you. 453 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,840 He has forgiven our sin. He washes in His blood. 454 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,320 He is covering us with mercy. He is covering with His 455 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,200 compassion, He is covering with His love. 456 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,760 And we ought to do the same to one another in the church. 457 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,560 And then the Devourer will come, People will see your love and be 458 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,680 drawn to you, and you will be able to lead them into Christ. 459 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,920 So that's the reason where Ephesians says 5 two, walk in 460 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,520 love as Christ loved us and gave himself up as a fragrant 461 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,840 offering and sacrifice to God. And we should be having a 462 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:42,080 patient endurance in the present day persecutions. 463 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,520 When you live for Christ, persecution is going to come and 464 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,960 already has begun. It has begun in many, many parts 465 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,240 of the world, has begun. And yesterday I was looking at 466 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,040 Google, how many countries are there where Islam dominates? 467 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:03,800 Out of the 200 countries, 49 countries and 49 countries, 468 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,000 homosexuality is banned because it doesn't go well with Islam. 469 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,480 I said what? What is the Bible doing? 470 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:25,800 Are we making an impact? So the part of incarnation is as 471 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,920 as God sent Jesus into the world, Jesus sends us into the 472 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,000 world. He prayed the prayer in John 17 473 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,320 as you sent me into the world, I sent them into the world. 474 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,200 And then it says John 1718 as you sent me into the world, I 475 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,400 have sent them into the world. We are to be like Christ in his 476 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,520 mission. We have to be like Christ in his 477 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,600 mission. And you want to know what is 478 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:58,160 this disciple shape, this Christ likeness, this imitating Christ 479 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,440 all going to look like when you go home. 480 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:07,920 Read Ephesians chapter 4, I think from 17 or 18 to 32 and 481 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,040 chapter 5 verses 1 to 8. Read the book of Colossians 3-1 482 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,440 to 11, even chapter 2 end of chapter 2. 483 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,920 It talks about things that we shouldn't be doing as disables 484 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,800 of Christ. It talks about telling the 485 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,280 truth. If you are a disabled you cannot 486 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,520 tell lies, you have to speak the truth. 487 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,840 If you are disabled, you cannot steal. 488 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,480 You have to be honestly working with your hands. 489 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,520 If you are a disciple, you cannot be indulging in 490 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,720 fornication and all kinds of sexual scenes because that is 491 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,840 not to be like a Christ, like a Christ like this at all. 492 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,160 So there's the list goes on and on and on. 493 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,240 No kind of taking advantage of people. 494 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,760 You cannot take advantage of people. 495 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,640 If you are a Christian and look at those commands and you will 496 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,800 be blown away by your mind. Your mind will be blown away 497 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,360 because there's so many things we may be doing there. 498 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,520 We may look down on people. No, you can't do it. 499 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,880 We have to honor everybody because they are made in the 500 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:08,520 image of Christ. The goal of discipleship toward 501 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:15,360 the world is a Great Commission. So the goal of discipleship is 502 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,360 towards yourself to look like Christ. 503 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,600 And the goal of discipleship towards others is to be like a 504 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,400 servant. And the goal of recipleship 505 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,120 towards the world is to follow the Great Commission. 506 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,880 Go into all the world and preach the gospel. 507 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,600 Cast out demons, heal the sick, preach the gospel, raise the 508 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,800 dead. That is the that is the 509 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,040 Commission. That is the Commission. 510 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,040 So we need to implement the Commission of Christ. 511 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,000 You want to be like Christ. Those are the three things to 512 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,960 keep in mind. And having said all these 513 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,280 things, I tell you one more thing. 514 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,240 Suffering. You cannot avoid it. 515 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,160 If we are going to represent Christ to the world, the world 516 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,240 doesn't like it, doesn't like it. 517 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,480 You can try hard. You can say I love you so much. 518 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,040 I'm doing so many good things for you, why you want to hate 519 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,880 me? They'll say we don't want you. 520 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:24,679 We don't want you at all. You know, sometimes as a pastor 521 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,960 its my responsibility to look at people and see how we can help 522 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,480 anybody. So we say, OK, please come, I 523 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,960 want to pray for you. They say no, no, no, I don't 524 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,520 want prayer. They leave the church and go, 525 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,040 what am I going to do? That's the response. 526 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,320 Sometimes we come across that's not the right response, but 527 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,600 that's the response we see. We have a heart of service. 528 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:49,320 We we want to encourage everybody to be free from 529 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,400 sickness, free from sin, free from all kinds of things. 530 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,520 Whatever is your struggle, confide with us because we are 531 00:34:55,520 --> 00:35:00,360 here to help. We are here to help, not to 532 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,400 condemn. No, that's not our business. 533 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,840 We want to go along with you, put a hand on your shoulder and 534 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,480 say it will be fine. We will pray with you. 535 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:12,480 God is going to change the situation. 536 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,040 It is going to you will overcome. 537 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,240 Now this is what we have to do to each other. 538 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,200 We have to do to each other same thing. 539 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,880 You see, somebody has a struggle with something, go along, visit 540 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,280 them, invite them for a meal or a coffee and sit down and talk 541 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:35,200 to them and pray with them because prayer can change 542 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,960 things. What you cannot do by offering 543 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:48,760 A5 meal course 2 minutes prayer will do 2 minutes prayer. 544 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,760 Sometimes you don't even know that prayer has been answered. 545 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,600 You know I just got a text last week from a lady from India and 546 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,600 she talked about her daughter not having a child. 547 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,560 And actually I didn't even speak to the lady and her husband is 548 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,200 the one and he said please pray that our daughter may have a 549 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,480 child. So I when I was visiting India 550 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,720 where to their place and then I prayed 2 minutes in the name of 551 00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,640 Jesus. I command the room to open in 552 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,360 the name of Jesus that person to be blessed with a child. 553 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,040 So after two weeks you conceive they have a child. 554 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:26,080 The child is about four or five years now, but the child is born 555 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,600 with some kind of a defect in the leg. 556 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,880 So they are asking me please pray that this will be healed. 557 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,840 After so many years they are coming back. 558 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,040 So praise God still. So I am now, I am saying God, 559 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,000 you started a miracle, finish it now. 560 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,400 You started a miracle, finish it now. 561 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,760 You started a miracle, finish it now. 562 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,120 And do you think the God who started America is not going to 563 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,960 finish it? He will finish it. 564 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:56,680 He will finish it for His glory. So this is how it is that 2 565 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,520 minutes five years ago did I know that that is going to be 566 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,080 answered? I didn't know, but I am coming 567 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,000 to know. That's answered now after five 568 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,720 years. It happened so many times, as I 569 00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:11,360 must have told you before also, I went to Punjab and I was 570 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,400 standing there watching them making some chapatis in the mass 571 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,120 cooking. It will be 1015 ladies rolling 572 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:24,640 out chapatis, throw it on a big iron plate and then it's cooked 573 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,960 and then with a stick they'll throw like this and goes and 574 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,320 falls on a I was watching this whole process and one lady came 575 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,800 and said, Jay Masiki, that means praise a lot kind of a thing. 576 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,120 I turned around, there was a lady. 577 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,840 I said, what can I do for you? So you already have done. 578 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,400 I said what? What did I do the last day when 579 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,040 you came? I asked that I want to have a 580 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,480 son and he prayed for me. I have a son already born in 581 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,640 January. It was March or April. 582 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,080 I was visiting again, so it was already answered. 583 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,720 The prayer was answered. She had a son. 584 00:37:54,080 --> 00:38:00,560 What am I trying to say is any need you see, pray, have faith, 585 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,240 have faith, have faith that God will answer your prayer and he 586 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,160 will answer your prayer. It is faith. 587 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,200 This is nothing can come to your rescue apart from believing God. 588 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,000 Cool. So now when it comes to 589 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,680 sufferings, it doesn't make sense to other quickly conclude 590 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,320 now suffering doesn't make sense. 591 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:25,600 Sometimes I'll read out very quickly code it and boom. 592 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,960 Anybody heard that name? Yeah. 593 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,320 Finding purpose in suffering. You can go on YouTube and search 594 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,280 for Co written Boom. You'll see Finding purpose in 595 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,080 suffering, faith, undefeated hiding place. 596 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,040 There's another man called Dietrich Bon Heffer. 597 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:45,520 He's a German pastor. How he was persecuted? 598 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,960 He was killed. Basically, he was hanged. 599 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,400 Kori Tenboom, a Dutch Christian, was imprisoned in a Nazi 600 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,960 concentration camp during World War 2 for helping Jews escape 601 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,680 persecution. Despite the horror she faced, 602 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:03,760 she later realized that even in suffering, God was working for 603 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:07,360 good. She and her sister Betsy found 604 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,600 ways to share the Gospel with fellow prisoners, and after the 605 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:15,120 war, Kori became a global speaker, spreading a message of 606 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,280 forgiveness and faith. Everything works for good to 607 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:24,520 them those who love God. We talked about Romans 820-9828. 608 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:29,160 If you go everything works for good to them those who love God, 609 00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:32,680 all the bad things will also work for you where God is 610 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,680 sovereign, He can change that bad experience it a good 611 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,280 experience. He can make it a blessing to 612 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,240 yourself and to many other people. 613 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:46,120 And the story of Jim Elliot when they landed there with when Jim 614 00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,200 Elliot landed, there was four other missionaries. 615 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,560 They were holding hands and singing a song. 616 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,320 And the native people came and shot arrows and killed them. 617 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,520 All five were dead. And you think there is no hope 618 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,160 for those tribal people in Ecuador to be reached with the 619 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,480 gospel? But after a few years, his wife 620 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:09,720 went back to the same place, same tribe. 621 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,720 So Jim Millard was a missionary who, along with four of us, was 622 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:18,120 killed by the indigenous horror Horani people in Ecuador in 623 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160 1956. While his death seemed tragic, 624 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,200 his wife, Elizabeth Elliot, later returned to the same tribe 625 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,120 and helped them to come to faith in Christ. 626 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:31,040 His sacrifice led to a transformation in the community, 627 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,480 showing how even loss can be used for a greater purpose. 628 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,200 Loss can be used for a greater purpose. 629 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,560 So what am I trying to advocate in all these things? 630 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:45,520 I am saying only one thing. Life may not make sense for you 631 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,440 as you are going through it now, but after few years when you 632 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:54,440 look back it will make sense. So the English word for that is 633 00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,440 you understand life retrospectively. 634 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,800 When you look back it makes sense not when you are going 635 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,000 through it. But it is good to surrender to 636 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,840 Jesus and say, have your way. You're sovereign. 637 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,840 You made the whole big world and you made me, and you knew me 638 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,720 before the world was created. Please have mercy on me. 639 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,440 Touch me. I want to live like you. 640 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,720 I want to show you to the world. Can we pray that kind of a 641 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:29,320 prayer? 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