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? Get to our website or Facebook 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:32,439 page through the links below. This morning I wanted to speak 9 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:35,240 on what is salvation? What is salvation? 10 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,440 But before I go into the aspect of salvation, I want to say just 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,200 a couple of things about Mother's Day. 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,560 You know, during the worship, I was all emotional. 13 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,480 When the baby is born, the first thing the baby knows is the 14 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:58,280 touch of the mother. And when the baby is just born, 15 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,200 it recognizes the voice of the mother, smell of the mother. 16 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,240 You know, you learn what the world that is surrounding you is 17 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,800 through the mother. First contact is the mother. 18 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:23,200 And we have very less atheists and agnostics in the world 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:28,000 because of mothers. Because there is something about 20 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,360 a mother is that you will see the love of God through the 21 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,800 mother. You will see that selfless love 22 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,320 of God shining through every mother. 23 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,840 Whether the mother has done PhD or did not go to school, it 24 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,480 doesn't matter. Mother is mother. 25 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,720 In the year 2010 I lost my mother. 26 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:53,400 Mother and I was going to attend the funeral from traveling from 27 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,040 New Zealand and I was in the in the flight and I said Sima 28 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,360 reminded me, you always wanted to speak at your mother's 29 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,080 funeral. So are you going to speak? 30 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,920 I said thanks for reminding me. So in the flight I asked the 31 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,400 Lord God, what do you want me to speak at the funeral? 32 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,480 And the first thing the Holy Spirit spoke to me, you know, 33 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,880 that was the year I actually started hearing the Holy Spirit. 34 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,040 In the year 2010, I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit 35 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,440 for every week that happened, I think in June, July or May. 36 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,960 And then in August I lose my mother. 37 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,040 And I was traveling in the flight and I asked the Lord, 38 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,120 Lord, what do you want me to say? 39 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,240 He said, your mother makes all mothers proud. 40 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:35,960 Who? It took me a long time to 41 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:37,440 process it. What does it mean? 42 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:40,920 And he brought to my mind all that she did for us. 43 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,480 I'll give you 1 instance. I must be about 10 years of age. 44 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:53,840 I have two sisters, younger to me, and my mother had something 45 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,520 called herpes joister, but it's a mealie kind. 46 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,160 It looks like a like somebody has applied a paste on her face, 47 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,760 You know, it closed her eyes. She couldn't open her eyes. 48 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,760 It was just only face, no other part. 49 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:10,040 So she was taken into hospital in one place and my father was 50 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,760 in another hospital 150 kilometers apart, and I was home 51 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,640 taking care of my two sisters. I don't know anything about what 52 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:23,480 to cook, how to cook. And there's not a guy who who no 53 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,560 neighbor came and asked have you had your food? 54 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,280 Are you hungry? Can we give you some Dal or 55 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,600 rice? Not a person came and asked and 56 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:38,800 I cooked rice on a kerosene stove and there's nothing there 57 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,360 to eat. Pickle and rice. 58 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,440 You know, pickle is chili, chili powder, you know, all kinds of 59 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:50,200 the mangoes or whatever it is. And 3rd day, my mom was able to 60 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,360 open her eyes and the doctor says you are not yet ready to go 61 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,600 home. And she says I cannot be here 62 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,360 because I got three children at home. 63 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,600 They don't know how to survive. And she came running against the 64 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,400 medical advice that is the heart of a mother. 65 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,400 We were stranded in a place where that's not her language. 66 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,959 She couldn't get a job. My father lost his job, and the 67 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:25,160 only hope that we ever have is that mother. 68 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,840 So I was thinking about, you know, God. 69 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:34,920 I mean, how do you know who is God? 70 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:39,400 Look at your mother. Most of the time, most of the 71 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,880 times there are very, very few mothers who are not so good. 72 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:46,040 You know, the mothers who feed their children with alcohol so 73 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,440 that they can keep doing what they are doing, or they are 74 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,560 having affairs, or there's very few of them. 75 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:56,320 But the whole world is filled with mothers who give selfless 76 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,680 love. And I tell you, the world knows 77 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:04,680 who God is and who, what is the love of God by looking at their 78 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,080 mother. And you may think, ha, you are, 79 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,240 What are you saying? I don't think so. 80 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:18,360 Go home, sit in a chair and think about God and you ever 81 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,400 have any good idea of who God is, his love, selfless love and 82 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:26,080 you will say yes, I don't disagree with that man morning I 83 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:30,800 disagreed, but you know now I agree He is that mother's love 84 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,240 will speak volumes. Volumes. 85 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,120 The times when you are trying to learn to walk you fall down. 86 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:41,280 Who comforted you? The times when you are trying to 87 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:46,480 learn to run and you skin is off your knees and you're crying and 88 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,800 there's a blood coming out? Who comforted you? 89 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,920 Who was looking after your morning breakfast, your lunch 90 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,640 and dinner and everything on time? 91 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,320 Who was washing your clothes? Who was sending you to school, 92 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,520 dropping you off, picking you up, watching your games, I tell 93 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,640 you is endless, endless kind of things they do and they are not 94 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,200 recognized. They are not appreciated. 95 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,480 They are not, you know, loud back enough. 96 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:20,680 I just don't have words to say One thing I can tell you, if the 97 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:26,640 world did not have mothers, this is the most bad place to live. 98 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:36,080 The sacrifice they make is there is no value you can put on it. 99 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:42,000 No value. So the beginning, where do you 100 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,400 begin your theology class is go home, sit down and say what did 101 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:54,400 my mother do for me and ask the next question is God, I know 102 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,760 that you have touched me through my mother. 103 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 I know that you loved me when she when she was holding me 104 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,360 close and breathes her breath on my face. 105 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,280 I know that you have loved me when you when she was holding me 106 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:13,040 in the hand, I know you are holding me and when she was 107 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:15,520 clothing me, I am giving me a bath. 108 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,960 I know it. You are the one who are caring 109 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,080 for me. You showed your love through my 110 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:28,960 mother. So of all the relationships, 111 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:36,400 there is one relationship. The most deep, deep, meaningful 112 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:46,790 is the mother. And so many times he said to 113 00:07:46,790 --> 00:07:51,470 God, I would not know you if there is no mother. 114 00:07:56,070 --> 00:08:01,030 There was a time I said there is no God, but I know he is there 115 00:08:01,470 --> 00:08:11,440 because he made mothers. So you got something to praise 116 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,680 God when you go home? Take time, take time to 117 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:23,720 understand this God, the God who is invisible, whom we cannot 118 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:28,160 touch, whom we cannot feel, who sometimes whom you cannot hear. 119 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,960 He gives you a glimpse of who He is when you sit down and think 120 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,400 about your mom and your dad sometimes. 121 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:49,440 Cool, the worship time I was just so many times wiping my 122 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,200 eyes because I was thinking about the sacrifice she did for 123 00:08:53,200 --> 00:09:03,480 us and had no relatives, no friends, no one to came and 124 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,240 asked me have you had your food for three days? 125 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:12,600 I learned to survive. Sometimes I feel I am self-made 126 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:13,880 man, you know that kind of feeling. 127 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:19,800 That's very proud words to say. But I have learned to walk on my 128 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:26,320 own from the very young age. And there was only one 129 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,000 connection, meaningful connection for me to continue to 130 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,880 exist, to think of tomorrow, to live. 131 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,240 For tomorrow is when you come home. 132 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,880 You have that mother. And she hoped that one day I 133 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:44,920 will help her. You know, And God had mercy on 134 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,520 us, and He preserved us because of one lady and those words when 135 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,920 he spoke to me. Your mother makes all mothers 136 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,920 proud. That was too much for me as I 137 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,360 didn't know God. You put so much value on one 138 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,720 mother and He put that value on every mother. 139 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,960 And I tell you, people salute the soldiers who die in the in 140 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,160 the in the war field. They go to war and die and they 141 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,480 go and salute. But I would say I would salute 142 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,280 every mother because they deserve it. 143 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,440 They deserve it. They put their life online for 144 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:28,800 the children. Praise God for the mothers. 145 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:40,920 Do we have a slide there? I think these are the words of 146 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:45,160 CS Lewis. We are more wicked and sinful 147 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:51,680 than we ever dared believe, but in Christ we are more loved and 148 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:54,600 accepted than we ever dared hope. 149 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:02,600 Profound words, very profound words. 150 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,040 It took me to three or four times to read to understand what 151 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:15,080 CS 2 is saying in these words. So in spite of all, the world is 152 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,040 full of darkness and all kinds of things. 153 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,520 But you know, the very self is very deceitful. 154 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,720 The human heart is deceitful. Who has understood it? 155 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,480 Jeremiah laments. Who has understood the heart? 156 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:30,920 It is very deceitful. It is wicked. 157 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,880 I did more since after I became a believer that I was a before a 158 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:40,440 believer. That's that speaks volumes about 159 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,960 the wickedness of heart Before I came to God, I was very sincere 160 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:49,720 boy, very innocent, but after I became a believer, I wanted to 161 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,320 experiment his sin probably at different times and I felt very 162 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,360 bad about it. I went back to God. 163 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,800 I said God I'm so sorry this is not I hear testimonies they were 164 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,960 bad and become good but here I was good and became bad. 165 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,440 You know its just not acceptable. 166 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,680 So I had to repent so many times. 167 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,240 Even today I repent sometimes about certain things I have 168 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,720 tried to do or thought to do. You know those kind of things. 169 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:19,400 First thing that we need is need to understand how bad we were 170 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,400 before we were saved. Salvation makes no sense unless 171 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,400 there is sin. Somebody you know that you got a 172 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,080 bumper sticker on your cars, somebody put Jesus saves. 173 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,600 Then one day he found somebody scribbled down in which bank? 174 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,680 So Jesus says makes no sense. Which bank? 175 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:48,080 So it makes no sense until you know that you are a Sinner. 176 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:54,880 The news that Jesus is a Savior doesn't make sense, so we need 177 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:59,000 to know we are sinners before we can look at God and say you are 178 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,040 a saviour. I don't know the Holy Spirit is 179 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,080 here. I think I am still feeling it is 180 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,160 here. Secondly, we need to understand 181 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:15,200 the depth of salvation. We can be saved like so many 182 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,960 times. You know, more than 40 years I 183 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,320 am following the lot. But every day I think more about 184 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,200 the salvation. I always wonder how much more is 185 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,120 there to know? How much more is there to know? 186 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,840 There's so much to know about salvation because we are not 187 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,080 yet. We are not never going to touch 188 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,680 the depths of what salvation is. We can never go and understand 189 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,480 the height of it or the width of it. 190 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:45,320 It is so profound. But that comes only when we 191 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,360 appreciate or understand how deeply we are sinful. 192 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,640 Until then, the salvation doesn't make sense. 193 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,880 Until you have experienced what is darkness, then you will have 194 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,280 appreciation for light. Until you understand what is 195 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,000 bad, you will not appreciate what is good. 196 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:15,000 So salvation makes us into it. It actually recreates you into a 197 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,800 new being, belong to a new class, a different class of 198 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,560 person. It makes you, it takes you a 199 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:27,400 Sinner destined for hell and puts on you the value son of 200 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,680 God, daughter of God, and gives you a hope that you are going to 201 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:35,040 look like Jesus when he appears. And that is a different class. 202 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:45,760 That is a different class and we need to understand that when God 203 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:51,240 is calling you, when Jesus died for you on the cross, when Jesus 204 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,960 died for you on the cross, what is really happening is He has 205 00:14:55,960 --> 00:15:02,000 seen your miserable condition and He has paid the price of His 206 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:06,040 life being poured out, His body being broken for you and 207 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,160 shedding His blood. Why? 208 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:12,880 He is seeing you as a different creature who is going to share 209 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,360 with His eternity, Who is going to share in His Holiness, Who is 210 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:21,080 going to share in His glory? And I tell you that is what what 211 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:28,480 has taken him to the cross. You you cannot appreciate the 212 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:33,880 cross until you look at yourself and see how miserable Sinner you 213 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:39,720 are. Primarily all sin is against 214 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,480 God. There is no sin that is only 215 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:48,280 affecting the man. OK, strictly speaking, every sin 216 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,800 involves God because you are breaking His law. 217 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,600 You're breaking His heart, you are breaking what is the 218 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,960 goodness He has. He has planned for you. 219 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,600 You're working against the good He planned for you, and that is 220 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,960 sin. That's basically sin. 221 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:12,360 There are certain sins like gluttony, uncontrolled eating is 222 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:13,760 sin. Why? 223 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,160 You're working against your own body. 224 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,240 You're working against your own body. 225 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,520 And suppose, I mean, I'm not trying to put down anybody here, 226 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:32,480 but you need to have a normal healthy weight that will make 227 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,320 your heart function well. Your kidneys will function well. 228 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,520 If you are not going to control the weight, you are going to 229 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,680 overburden every organ inside. Every organ inside is going to 230 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,560 be taxed more. It will work hard to work harder 231 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:55,840 than it has supposed to work. So whether it is sex, whether it 232 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,760 is food, whether it is anything over indulgence is we are 233 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,840 working against ourselves. So Sydney is in different kinds 234 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,160 of things and one of the things I have already illustrated was 235 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,760 human heart is highly deceitful, blind. 236 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:20,079 Human heart is blind, it does not see through Gods law, cannot 237 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:24,839 understand holiness of God, cannot understand how Gods love 238 00:17:24,839 --> 00:17:28,079 is so great. We can understand it. 239 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,360 The moment you understand Gods love, when you understand His 240 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:35,400 Holiness, when you understand who God is all powerful at the 241 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,040 same time He has given you the free will to do what you 242 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,800 whatever you want to do, you bowl over all together. 243 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,160 Because every sin, what it does is it is going to tear you 244 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,760 apart. It will either tear you apart or 245 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,600 it is when it is done in conjunction with another person 246 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,400 it is going to tear both apart. Let's say take an example, a 247 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,360 sexual sin where two people come together. 248 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:04,280 I got 2A4 size papers here. I use some glue and stuck them 249 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,160 together. When two people come together in 250 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:12,760 physical union, you become one and if you are going to be 251 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:18,400 separated, there is no way you can have everything intact. 252 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:24,280 It is going to tear apart both and that is what we call it as 253 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,160 soul tie. A soul tie is formed whenever 254 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,040 two people come together and when they are pulled apart it 255 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:37,480 damages both. In the in the case of a rape, 256 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:44,320 the one who is perpetrating the ACT may go Scott free for all 257 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,640 external appearances and the one who is victimized will feel more 258 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:53,760 badly and the more impacted by the sin and they carry the 259 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:59,440 trauma with them forever until Jesus intervenes and sets them 260 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:05,120 free. So there is no sin basically 261 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:09,680 that is just affecting only you and every single against God. 262 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,560 And the the best example I always think about think of is 263 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:18,720 you can go to a pond that is still throw a stone in the 264 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,280 middle and you see the ripples going, spreading out until the 265 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:28,680 ripples go and touch the shore. Every sin leaves ripples in the 266 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,240 community, in your own psyche, in your own heart, in your own 267 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:35,560 family, in your own community, everywhere it is going to 268 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,880 affect. Take for example, an innocent 269 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,320 man standing on the bus stop and somebody comes and takes a knife 270 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,720 and jabs it through him and kills the man and just goes 271 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,160 because he wanted to have some fun. 272 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,880 That is sin. He has taken the life of another 273 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,160 man, which is just, very unjustly, without a cause, no 274 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,440 provocation. But back home, there's a wife 275 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,640 and the two children, and then what happens to them? 276 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,120 The only source of livelihood is cut off because that husband is 277 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:16,560 killed by a crack, a cruel guy. And then what I say here is the 278 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,360 sin has, the wickedness of sin is it has consequences. 279 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,480 And then the son and the daughter, they cannot go to 280 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:27,200 school because there is no money to send them to school or they 281 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,160 do not have food, they do not have clothes. 282 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,560 And endlessly problems come. And that boy learns that the 283 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,600 only way you can survive is being a thug on the streets. 284 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,600 You defend yourself and it becomes violent and slowly gets 285 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,200 into drugs. And then after 5 or 10 years you 286 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,760 have another criminal there walking on the streets. 287 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,600 People are afraid of him who created the criminal. 288 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,520 The first act of violence has created one more. 289 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,560 So there is a consequence that that happens like a ripple. 290 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,960 It continues to spread through and it lasts and lasts until 291 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,800 somebody shows love. That will not stop. 292 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:13,760 The consequences will not stop until somebody shows love, until 293 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:20,440 God shows love to that man. It is very, very hard to 294 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,520 explain. I'll give you a couple of 295 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,080 examples how they how these things happen. 296 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,880 There's a man called Luis Zamperini. 297 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,440 It's very difficult to pronounce Luis Zamperini. 298 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,000 He is a war hero who found Crash later. 299 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,760 Basically he was a runner and when the when the war was going 300 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,240 on to his entire time, I think they stopped him from running 301 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,520 and then other things he went as it to fight and he was a fighter 302 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:03,240 plane pilot and his plane was shot so it he had to land on the 303 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,280 waters and there were 20 people on the in the flight. 17 were 304 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,000 killed. Only three survived among the 305 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,360 three. He was one of those guys and he 306 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:18,040 had to struggle hard for 47 days to keep himself afloat, taking 307 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,960 hold of some planks or something like that, 47 days. 308 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,960 And then ultimately he touched the shores of Japan and there he 309 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:30,560 was taken captive and was put in prison for two years. 310 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,920 He was tortured and there was one God who tortured him more 311 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,360 than others and he has named him the bird. 312 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,560 Actually, this is a movie also made after about this man, 313 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,680 Louise Zamperani, the war hero who found Christ. 314 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,520 And this man, he was later on set free. 315 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,400 And when he came to America, he was he got a welcome, he heroes 316 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,280 welcome. He was a hero for all that he 317 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,640 has really done so much, but he was full of bitterness inside. 318 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,200 He hated the guy who tormented him in Japan and he hated him 319 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,080 every day. He had the PTSD, post traumatic 320 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,800 stress disorder and he was going through medication and endless 321 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,280 kinds of problems he had. And he was proud of how he 322 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,720 survived for 47 days on the sea and how he was, he had to catch 323 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,280 some raw fish that's flying over and catch it and eat it and 324 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,240 drink water, the rain water he has to drink. 325 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,920 And he was very proud of the way he survived. 326 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,360 But one day he went to Billy Graham's crusade. 327 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,880 And when Billy Graham was preaching about it, he 328 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:38,920 understood that his heroism will not him help him to be saved. 329 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,600 He did great in his life, but that's not going to save him. 330 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,560 So he had to believe in Jesus to be accepted into the heaven. 331 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,000 And he had to forgive the tormentors. 332 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:55,240 He had to forgive Japanese. He had to forgive so many 333 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,120 things. He has to forgive. 334 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,160 So he decided to receive Christ that night. 335 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,880 He accepted Christ, abandoned his hatred and addictions. 336 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,320 Yeah, addictions because he was not able to cope with the 337 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,040 trauma. He got addicted to alcohol. 338 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,320 So he had to that night when he stood face to face with Christ, 339 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,320 he surrendered everything, all hatred, all the addictions, and 340 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,920 he was saved that night and even forgave his captors. 341 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:29,000 His story is told in unbroken path to redemption. 342 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,520 A book is written and a movie is made after that guy. 343 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,200 So sin comes in so many different ways. 344 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,000 The whole world is full of sin and if you have not experienced 345 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,280 much of it, praise God for His grace. 346 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:48,680 Praise God. There's another guy by name Mike 347 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,240 Lindell. He was an addict. 348 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,320 He was addicted to crack cocaine, addict for years. 349 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,720 Despite his success in business, his life was falling apart due 350 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,880 to addiction. He tried to change through 351 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,480 self-discipline and good works, but nothing worked. 352 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,680 Nothing worked. And then what happened? 353 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:13,720 In 2009 he finally surrendered to Jesus Christ, realizing that 354 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,440 faith, not effort, was a key to transformation. 355 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,120 Since then he has remained sober and dedicated his life to 356 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:24,000 helping others overcome addiction through faith-based 357 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:29,080 recovery programs. So I'm telling only one thing I 358 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:33,440 know is that salvation makes sense only when we understand 359 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,560 what sin is. Until you understand how bad it 360 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:43,120 is, until you understand how its stealing your life, how it is 361 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:47,240 stealing your joy, stealing its purpose, stealing your destiny, 362 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,520 you will not appreciate the salvation. 363 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,600 You know being a Christian for so many decades, when I wanted 364 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,360 to talk about salvation, what is salvation? 365 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:02,000 I asked myself and I I said do I know what is salvation? 366 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,160 Can I put it in the briefest words possible? 367 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,240 I was struggling for 2-3 days just to come up with the 368 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:13,000 definition of what is salvation. Salvation. 369 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:20,480 Is it an event or a process? It begins as an event, but it 370 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,800 continues as a process. You are saved from your history, 371 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:30,080 from the past. You are saved in the present and 372 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:36,640 you will be saved in the future. So salvation is all-encompassing 373 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,240 word and many of us limit our understanding of salvation to 374 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,560 deliverance from our past, hurts, sins. 375 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,560 No, that's not the only story. It's just a part of the story. 376 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,920 It's the beginning of life. It's not the end of life. 377 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,720 When Barn Haven died, Directory Barn Heifer was hanged in the in 378 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,800 the jail. Ironically, after two weeks the 379 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,000 war came to an end. But just before 2 weeks he was 380 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,240 hanged. And he said it is the end of my 381 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:18,360 life and the beginning of a new life, beginning of a new life, 382 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,640 Eternity you're going to spend with Jesus. 383 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,280 And that is what he was looking forward to. 384 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,640 And that is how it is we our perspective about death or 385 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,240 perspective about the present or perspective about suffering. 386 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,480 Everything changes when you meet with Christ. 387 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,920 It is a huge transaction. It is a huge transaction. 388 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,960 No one can take it lightly. It is not something very 389 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,800 frivolous experience. No, it is the very deep 390 00:27:46,800 --> 00:28:01,060 experience. So you have got so many times, 391 00:28:01,060 --> 00:28:03,500 you know the one of the best stories in the Bible that we 392 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:08,580 have is the prodigal son. Do you know the story? 393 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:17,100 This young son, he wanted his money. 394 00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:21,260 I don't want to go to full full-fledged preaching on the 395 00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,620 prodigal son today, but I want you to focus on one aspect of 396 00:28:24,740 --> 00:28:28,600 the story. He was worried about physical 397 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,320 pleasure. He was centered around physical 398 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,400 pleasure, nothing more. For him, that is the end. 399 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,280 That was the end is physical pleasure. 400 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,360 So it takes the money, enjoys it. 401 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:47,360 When it is all over, he comes to his senses and I mean he says no 402 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,440 livelihood, no food to eat. And he goes to the one local guy 403 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,960 and says can you give me a job? So go take care of my pigs, Take 404 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,960 care of my pigs. And probably he walked into the 405 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,800 place where all the pigs were there and he could not even have 406 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,680 the privilege of eating what the pigs were eating, because that 407 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,080 is pig's food. He cannot eat it. 408 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,760 He wasn't allowed to eat the food. 409 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,840 He can see the pigs gouging on it, having a great feast, but 410 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,560 himself, he can't touch it. And then he came to census. 411 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,440 I tell you, coming to census is one of those experiences, 412 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,200 deepest experiences, because that is going to change the 413 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,520 future. That's going to change the 414 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:33,960 future. So he realized that his father 415 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:38,200 was well off, had many servants. They had food to eat and spare. 416 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,200 So what he was looking at himself was he was seeing a 417 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,440 servant in him, in himself. He says, I will go back to my 418 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,280 father. Say, Father, I sinned against 419 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,000 you, against God. I don't. 420 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,680 I'm not worthy to be called your son. 421 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,880 Call me a servant. Let me be like a servant, like 422 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,720 many other servants are surviving in your house. 423 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,440 I want to serve you. I want to eat and live and die. 424 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,400 He was able to see himself only as a slave. 425 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:11,760 But the father saw a son. Everybody say he saw a son and I 426 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,920 tell you that is how the story changes there. 427 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,040 Why is that prodigal son story so powerful? 428 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,680 Because it is something that George suppose an individual 429 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,400 when he's obsessed with his just stomach. 430 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,320 They are obsessed with only stomach. 431 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,640 The pleasures of the world, what to wear, what to eat, what is on 432 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,920 my head covering me. When you have to be set free 433 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,640 from it, God takes you through a system. 434 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,120 He takes you through steps and makes you realize that you need 435 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,360 himself more than what you are looking for. 436 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,520 That's the time you come back to your senses. 437 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,640 So the prodigal son he is, though he was seeing a slave in 438 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,920 himself. Father saw a son in him. 439 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,040 Father saw there was a there's a song. 440 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:16,160 What is his mind? Old age, He says he came running 441 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:23,960 pardon, down the road. He came running down the road 442 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,960 with the ring and a robe. What does the ring stand for? 443 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:34,960 Authority. A robe is cover your nakedness 444 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,320 to give you protection, to give you decent appearance, to give 445 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:44,360 you the right to be a son. He is giving you righteousness. 446 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,080 And I tell you the story is just looks like. 447 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,720 So when you just read it for in 2 minutes you can read that 448 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,200 story, but you never get the depth of the story. 449 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,400 You let us sit down to think about it, maybe 10 more years to 450 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,160 think about it, to fully understand what exactly is the 451 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,160 story talking about. And I tell you all my life I 452 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,360 thought, thought about it every time I think, oh, I know what 453 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,760 I'm preaching about it. But I tell you every time God 454 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,680 speaks something new from the same story. 455 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,360 And what are you seeing in yourself today? 456 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,320 Are you seeing a slave? Are you seeing a son? 457 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:26,000 Because when you are aware of the sin, you are only seeing a 458 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,160 slave in you. But when you become aware of the 459 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,640 Father's love, then you see a son in you. 460 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,120 So now we are moving from the mother to the father, you see. 461 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,320 So once there was a person who his name was James, an elderly 462 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,960 man, and he has spent a lifetime rejecting God. 463 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,200 He said I don't want God. I have nothing to do with him. 464 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,920 Why do I need God? That's how he lived all his 465 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,440 life. But then when he was lying in 466 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:05,400 the hospital bed, his body weak, he whispered to the nurse, I'm 467 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:11,000 afraid, I'm afraid. What happens after I die? 468 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,200 I tell you that question he's asking at the wrong time, you 469 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,920 should have asked 1020 years before, What happens after I 470 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,640 die? So the nurse was a believer, and 471 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,280 he shared the gospel, explaining that Jesus had already paid the 472 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,520 price for his sins and all he needed was faith. 473 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,760 And then what did the man say? With trembling hands, James 474 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:41,760 clasped the hands of the nurse and said, Lord Jesus, if you 475 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:47,240 truly love me, I accept you now. I accept you now. 476 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:55,200 So sometimes we are waiting too long to make the decision, too 477 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,640 long to turn to God, too long. I'm saying too long if there's 478 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,240 nothing more left to experience in this life after that point. 479 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,360 And then that man, he died after some time, very soon. 480 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,199 He passed away shortly after, but not in fear. 481 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:16,280 He left this world saved, redeemed and embraced by the 482 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,159 love of Christ, just like the thief on the cross, just like 483 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:24,440 thief on the cross. But why should we have a life 484 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:30,120 like a thief rejecting God, revolting at God all our life 485 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:31,920 and turn to him only the last minute. 486 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,800 There are two thieves who were hung crashed was hung in the 487 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,880 middle and two thieves on both sides and one said, hey, if you 488 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,440 are son of God, save yourself, come down and save us. 489 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,679 He was also concerned about only his stomach. 490 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,199 Like the prodigal son, he is concerned about his flesh, 491 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,440 concerned about only his life. He was concerned only about his 492 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,840 breath. He was concerned only about 493 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,680 physical life. But the other thief looked at 494 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,080 Christ and looked at the thief and said, hey, shut up, you 495 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:08,880 don't understand what life is. This man doesn't deserve it. 496 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,880 We deserve what we have done, but he doesn't deserve it. 497 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,040 And he turned to Christ and said, Remember Me in your 498 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:22,320 Kingdom through the suffering, through the pain, through that 499 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,960 hanging up on the cross. It stripped him of everything he 500 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,160 was pursuing all his life. That gold, that jewelry that 501 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,720 prepare treasures, what he was trying to hunt, what he was 502 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,760 trying to steal, he was stripped of it. 503 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,760 And when he was on the hang on the cross, he could look at 504 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,280 Jesus and see that he has a Kingdom beyond the cross. 505 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,480 I tell you, you need your eyes to be open to see that. 506 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,120 And that happens when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and 507 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,280 convicts you of your sin and righteousness and judgement and 508 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,600 then gives you grace to believe in the only one, the Jesus 509 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,600 Christ of Nazareth, who can give you life and that is salvation. 510 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:13,480 You turn, you make an about turn, a 180° turn, and you turn 511 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:17,640 to God and pursue him. Pursue Him. 512 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:24,280 He is worthy of everything you see in the Book of Revelation, 513 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:27,360 people casting their crowns at the feet of Jesus. 514 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,880 They crown Him. But I tell you, it has to begin 515 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,880 now. You don't wait until you go into 516 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,600 heaven to put the crown down there. 517 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,480 You have to put whatever you have, whatever is valuable, 518 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,200 whatever you cherish, whatever you are pursuing, whatever you 519 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,520 take pride in, whatever is consuming you, whatever is 520 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,320 driving you, put it at the feet of Christ. 521 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:57,200 Then you will be saved. Then you will be saved because 522 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:02,640 that transaction is such a deep experience and it deserves all, 523 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,000 all that you have, every tissue, every fiber in your being 524 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:12,640 deserves to be submitted to this Jesus as Lord and Christ of your 525 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:20,200 life. So self destructing behavior. 526 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,800 So many things are there. So today we have read from 527 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,480 Titus. I want to conclude it now, 528 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,920 basically. So in the book of Titans, we see 529 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:36,280 at one time we two were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved 530 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,600 by all kinds of passions and pleasures. 531 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:42,080 We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one 532 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,120 another. But when the kindness and love 533 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,720 of God our Savior appeared, He saved us not because of 534 00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,760 righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. 535 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,440 He saved us through the washing of rebirth, renewed by the Holy 536 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,560 Spirit, whom He poured out US generously through Jesus Christ 537 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:04,760 our Savior, so that having been justified by His grace, we might 538 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,400 become as having the hope of eternal life. 539 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,320 This is a trustworthy saying, and I want you to stress these 540 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,560 things so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to 541 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,920 devote themselves to doing what is good. 542 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,800 These things are excellent and profitable for everyone. 543 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:27,000 Who is he writing to Paul? To Titus and who is titled his 544 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,920 son in the faith, he has come to know the Lord. 545 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,240 He nurtured him, he mentored him, he made him like a into a 546 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,400 pastor and to take care of people to run errands for him. 547 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:40,320 And he knows what the gospel is and yet he's writing what the 548 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:45,400 gospel is to that man. So it is good for us. 549 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,720 If you are a believer, praise God, but take time to evaluate 550 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,920 what you believe. Look at it fresh again. 551 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,040 Oh, what is my faith? What am I pursuing? 552 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,800 Where am I going? What is my destiny? 553 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,400 What is the class of people that God wants to make out of me? 554 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,560 He, he, just you just not having flesh and blood running around 555 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,840 here and there like a you're not on the same like the goat or the 556 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,840 cow that is running around. No, He stamped you with his own 557 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,520 image. And that image, if you destroy, 558 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,960 he will not keep you alive. He will punish you for 559 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,720 destroying that image, the image He put upon you. 560 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:28,880 You need to respond to that image and honor it by turning to 561 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:32,920 Christ and affirming His love. And I tell you that is called 562 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:39,760 salvation. So we are made in the image of 563 00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,640 God, and every sin destroys that image. 564 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,960 Every sin destroys that image and there are different views 565 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,480 about it. One of the evangelical views is 566 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,680 you. When you are tempted by sin, you 567 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,040 fight against it, you speak to it, you come and leave you. 568 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,880 And there is always I tell you, the way I look at life is like 569 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,160 this. You are lust of the flesh, lust 570 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,600 of the eyes, pride of life which are internal force that inside 571 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,160 fighting against you to take your destiny from heaven to 572 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,880 hell. And outside you have got 573 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,240 principalities, powers, rules of darkness, wickedness in high 574 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,800 places. They are acting outside from 575 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,440 from outside to inside to take you from heaven to hell. 576 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:32,040 The good news is you are a soldier recruited to fight this 577 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,600 battle, internal battle and external battle. 578 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,160 When you understand salvation, you understand power. 579 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,280 Until you understand salvation, you don't understand power. 580 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:49,520 And when you want to walk in power, that God by the power of 581 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,200 the Holy Spirit, comes upon you, gives you a new vision, gives 582 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,640 you a new purpose, gives you a new power, because you cannot 583 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,360 live this life in your power. That's not good enough. 584 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,240 You need power, help from God himself. 585 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,360 And He poured out the Holy Spirit upon the whole world and 586 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:10,640 He is here to help anyone who wants to turn to God to honor 587 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,280 Him. He says, Son, let us walk 588 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,120 together and takes you by hand and walks with you for the rest 589 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,360 of your life. What a great plan God has. 590 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,080 I tell you, the more you think about it, the more it will blow 591 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,880 your brain. This is not enough. 592 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,760 Lifetime is not enough to appreciate the salvation. 593 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,280 Let's bow down our heads in prayer now. 594 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,440 Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus. 595 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,800 I just want to give a small invitation to anybody who wants 596 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:50,120 to say to Jesus, somehow I don't want to throw my life away, but 597 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:54,120 I want to give it to you. I want to appreciate your love 598 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,600 for me on the cross. Please forgive me. 599 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:00,640 Come into my heart. That's all. 600 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:05,920 It begins with that simple line. I want to know you, my Lord, 601 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,680 make yourself known to me. Come into my heart. 602 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,560 I want to experience you. If you pray that prayer this 603 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:15,680 morning, your new journey begins this morning. 604 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,960 And if somebody says, I want to pray that prayer today, just 605 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,600 slip out your right hand so that I know that you are praying this 606 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,720 prayer and I can come along at some time and meet with you and 607 00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:31,160 pray with you again. Is anybody who wants to give 608 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:35,200 their life to Jesus this morning, anybody wants to accept 609 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:40,360 the salvation? Father, we have preached the 610 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,720 word in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit, I invite you now to 611 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:48,480 convict us of righteousness, sin and judgment and help us turn to 612 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,120 Christ. And for those people who whom we 613 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,160 have saved, I pray that he'll open their eyes to see the 614 00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:01,920 greatness of salvation. To see destiny is not to live 615 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:06,680 and die and be forgotten, but the destiny is to be transformed 616 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,880 into your likeness, to become like You. 617 00:43:09,240 --> 00:43:11,680 As we look into your face, we become like you. 618 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,240 And one day we are going to be like you. 619 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,360 We are going to be light, not darkness. 620 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,840 We are going to be righteousness, but not sin. 621 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,480 And we are going to be life, not death. 622 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:24,600 And I praise you for the different class into which you 623 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,720 are changing us. By your mercy in our hearts, I 624 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:31,000 worship you. Thank you for everyone who knows 625 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,720 you may hand me upon them. Holy Spirit, I pray empower 626 00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:36,960 them. I pray that you open their eyes. 627 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,400 I pray that you put the new power in them so that they will 628 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,720 begin to live for you. You only to the glory of your 629 00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:46,400 name. Bless everyone today in Jesus 630 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:49,280 mighty name. We ask and everybody says. 631 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,520 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 632 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,440 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 633 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,760 our website or Facebook page in the links below.