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The very first thing that I want to say is, in this new year,
imitate Abraham. Let us all say it.
I will imitate Abraham in the new year.
What am I trying to say here is everyone of us with all our
problems, with all our the way we are made, we are wired up is
unique and we are called to walk like Abraham in faith.
In fact, his problems have drawn him closer to God.
His problem was very simple. He didn't have a son, he didn't
have a child. That was his problem.
He had money, he had men trained in his house.
He had a little army of 318 men at his disposal.
Anytime he want to go and fight somebody, 300 people will stand
up for him in those days. 300 is a good army, size of an army.
He had everything he wanted, Gold, silver, camels, donkeys,
sheep, name it, he had it. He was a wealthy man,
influential man, powerful man, but he did not have a child.
So the whole issue is whatever problem we have, God wants to
prove that is a living God in our life in the same situation
where we are in. But we need to have the same
kind of faith that Abraham had. When you have the same kind of a
faith, you shall overcome. You will overcome your handicap,
you will overcome your deficiency, you will overcome
your want, You will overcome the problem.
You will overcome whatever is challenging you.
Oh, you will overcome what is shaking your faith.
You will overcome your weakness. You will overcome is that
somebody will shout Hallelujah. So Abraham is a type for every
person in the whole world. Whoever wants to walk by faith,
he is a type for us. We had to look at him and learn
something. And just one characteristic of
Abraham is that he heard the voice of God and he believed it
and he followed him, he obeyed him.
That's all very simple. Everybody has a story, and your
story is valid and very important for the Kingdom of
God. I was born in a Hindu family.
I heard that Jesus is a living God at the age of 17.
Or sometimes I think I must have done mistaken calculation, maybe
16, and I said one simple sentence to God.
I said, I hear that you are a living God if you are a living
God, prove yourself living God in my life 48 years ago, still
going good. Oh yeah, I went to a Christian
camp. And where the doctrines of God
seen justification. Can we believe Jesus rose from
the dead? You know, is it credible?
All these things I heard over 3 days of time and then I knew
that they are saying that Jesus is a lie.
So I said all the Hindu gods were just.
Nobody talks about God being alive or living gods any
anytime. They just worship, that's all.
But they are all dead. Most of them are dead.
So that has drawn my attention. Oh, he's a living God.
If he's a living God, I must be able to experience there was
number Thunder or no vision or nothing like that.
Nothing happened to me. You know, I am just very most
unemotional experience is just to say to him, I want to know
you and then he takes me by my my hand and guides me step by
step. Its very simple.
You do not need to feel anything.
The whole thing is that we sometimes attach so much of
value to the feelings. No, the moment you can say no to
feelings and yes to faith, you will make big huge progress.
Like you may be very making depending on the feelings, you
may be making very tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny progress.
But the moment you say I don't care for feeling, you jump in
your life. Don't focus on feelings because
Abraham did not focus on feelings.
He knew the problem was there year after year for 2425 years
and again a God appears him at the age of 24 and he says next
year by this time you will have a son and it happened, but it
took him 2425 years of waiting before he had a son.
Not that he didn't have the sons.
He had Ishmael and he had much later.
Of course, he had many more children, but that's not the
important thing is son of a promise.
See, this is very, very key ingredient to understanding the
Gospel. The blessing is for son of
promise, not biological son. With biological son, Ishmael
would be the one who will inherit the promise.
But God said, no, I will give you a son in your own flesh.
He will be your own flesh, He will be your own blood, and I am
going to choose him to give the blessing and through you will
all the nations be blessed. That is just a big, big, big
promise, very big promise, and it is very difficult Even so
many times when I think of it. Why am I saying about Abraham is
Abraham is the father of all those who are going to believe
in God, in Jesus Christ. He is our father.
If you are believing in Jesus, Abraham is your father.
Just what a great blessing, but in a smaller way.
Everyone of us can be an Abraham to so many other people.
All your children who come out of you and all the people you
are going to share the gospel. All the people you are going to
pray for healing, all the people you are going to deliver from
the demonic attacks, they are going to be, they are going to
be a children. That is the reason why I say we
must imitate Abraham. We must imitate Abraham.
It's a big challenge. It's a very big challenge, not a
small one. The more you think about it and
more it will blow your mind. So we have started chapter 3
where Paul started answering some questions.
Some of the questions that he answered was some of the
questions he raised was why you are foolish.
That's how he started. You foolish Galatians, why are
you not using your brain? You have one use it.
And second thing he said is I would like to learn just one
thing from you. Did you receive the Spirit by
observing the law or by believing what you heard?
How did you receive the Holy Spirit?
That's a simple question. How do you receive the Holy
Spirit? Is it by obeying the law?
If it is obeying the law, for 1500 years they had the law and
nobody was filled with the Holy Spirit.
It is only those who believe in Jesus who receive the Holy
Spirit. So here is the thing.
Then again, are you so foolish after beginning with the Spirit?
Are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
So what is he trying to say? Sanctification is by faith, not
by works. You will become holy by
believing in Jesus and the finished work of Jesus.
It is not by striving hard is not by striving hard.
There were times in my own life I would cry out to God, Jesus,
as you are saying, this is the gospel and this gospel is set me
free from sin and Satan. Where is the victory?
Why am I not walking in victory? And I would strive and strive
and fail and fail until God in His mercy ministers victory
through the Holy Spirit. And he puts you on a different
level. That is the minister of the Holy
Spirit by faith. When you have faith that he is
the one who can give you victory over sin and death and over
Satan, all your circumstances, when you have the faith, then
the Holy Spirit comes rushing into your spirit and puts you on
a level you cannot even imagine. You have to experience it.
Only then you understand what I'm teaching right now.
So there's an invitation for you to experience that victory.
Experience a victory. I want you to receive it by
faith. Even now, as you are listening
to me, receive the victory by faith.
Stop struggling. Lust of the flesh, lust of the
pride of life. Say to them, I am not fighting
you because you are already defeated.
You are defeated. You have no right to control my
life anymore. He has set me free from your
dominion. And when you say the statement,
the Holy Spirit comes rushing into your spirit again.
Don't look to the feeling, the word it says here, I believe it.
That is very, very magical, very, very powerful.
And then he asked them the another question, Why did you
suffer for this gospel if it is really, did you suffer in vain?
Was it of no use to you? No.
All these kind of questions we dealt with in the last message.
Now he launches into the in verse 5 he says, does God give
you his spirit and work miracles among you because you observe
the law or because you believe what you heard?
This is the verse I have struggled with all this one
month. I cannot go past this verse.
Every time I want to study and prepare for message I get struck
up with verse 5. I had so many questions.
I cannot go into all the details of the questions I had in my
mind, but it would stop me from going forward and study it more.
Because this verse says that God gives you His Spirit and works
miracles among you because you believe what you heard, the
gospel of Christ. It is by faith you receive the
Holy Spirit. Just tell your neighbor it is by
faith you receive the Holy Spirit.
It begins with the Holy Spirit. Life begins with the Holy Spirit
and ends with the Holy Spirit. It is not in between.
Again, you are carried by the Holy Spirit.
It is such a gospel, is the most powerful gospel for the simple
reason it is not human effort, it is not your human striving.
It is believing in Jesus and the Holy Spirit becoming your source
of power the moment you believe in Jesus.
This is the gospel. But somehow the church has moved
away from the power of the Holy Spirit and has come to believe.
Few statements say I am a Sinner.
Is nothing anything wrong with it?
No, we are Sinner. So we have to say I am a Sinner
and say Jesus, you died for me, come into my heart, forgive me
my sins, all good. Do they talk about the Holy
Spirit? No.
When you do that, he comes in. When you do that, he comes in
the same second the Holy Spirit comes in.
When you say Jesus, you are my Lord, I surrender myself to you.
He comes into your life. I'll tell you a simple, very
dramatic example. I must have told you before when
I went to Delhi, when went to the slum area, started preaching
and after preaching and start praying for people, one guy came
and stood in front of Maine and said I have a demon inside of
Maine. That is very easy, isn't it?
I don't have to diagnose, I don't have to go after.
He himself knows there is a demon inside of him.
Basically, he said Satan is inside of Maine.
The word in the local language is Saitan.
Saitan mere me hai. That means Satan is inside of
Maine. OK, started praying for him.
There was little movement, little swinging, and nothing
happened. I asked him after prayer.
I said, have you asked Jesus to come into your heart?
He said no. I said ask him to come in and
this Satan will go out. This Satan will go out the
moment you ask Jesus to come in. So I told the pastor, make him
pray in local language, Hindi language.
So he led him into the Lord by making a simple prayer of
confession, asking Jesus, forgive me my sin, I believe you
died for me. Come into my heart.
And then he stood again. I raised my hand in the name of
Jesus. They will come out and touch the
head. Bang.
He was on the floor. The devil left him and next
morning he brought 11 people and came to the church.
It was on a Saturday. I prayed.
Sunday morning he came with 11 people, wife, mother-in-law,
sister-in-law, brother-in-law, everybody.
He brought 11 people and before the same pastor would call him
for the Sunday service. Please come to church.
Then why should I come to church?
What will happen to my business? He had a couple of businesses
delivering water to different businesses.
You know, you, you don't get good drinking water in in some
place. You fill it up in a plastic
container and deliver it and they put on mount it on
something and drink water from it.
And that was his business and he had a pawn shop where he would
sell betel leaves and things like that.
He didn't bother about a business anymore.
He came to the church. So the point I am trying to make
is this, when you have an encounter with Jesus, the Holy
Spirit comes in to dwell in you. This is the truth.
We should stand upon it, but we
are not trying to. The next question I had was,
where is the place for the baptism of the Holy Spirit?
If He had already come in, why do we need baptism of the Holy
Spirit? Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a
second experience that is required for us to become tools
of God in His hand, to be empowered to receive the gifts
of the Holy Spirit, to minister to the body of Christ and to the
community. But the Holy Spirit comes
initially to give you salvation, sonship, to make you walk, to
hear his voice, to believe in him, to receive eternal life.
All these things are personal. But when it comes to serving
others, you need power to serve other people, and you need the
baptism of the Holy Spirit. Is it making sense?
Yeah. So if you have the initial Holy
Spirit really working in you, it will drive you to, I mean, long
for that power so that you can serve others.
It's very simple. Love your neighbor as yourself.
It's very hard to do it, very hard to do it.
But when you receive the power, you will do things not for
yourself. You go and lay hand on somebody,
pray for them. What is your benefit If he gets
healed? You go and say in the name of
Jesus, your day will come out and the day will comes out.
What is your benefit in it? It is to love your neighbor as
you love yourself. You want freedom, you want
salvation, you want healing, and you are giving the same thing to
other people. What can be more glorious than
that? There's nothing more glorious
than that. So we need the Holy Spirit, and
He is here to give us the power. So he begins the whole, I mean,
he begins to Marshall his arguments with Abraham.
So he says in verses, consider Abraham.
He believed God. It was created to him as
righteousness. You know, I also thought a
little bit about many other things along when I was reading
this. People have supernatural
experiences. People in general can have
supernatural experiences. Think for example, the founder
of Islam, He did not make it up in his own mind.
He had a spiritual encounter, but that was with not God, it
was not with Jesus Christ. That's the problem.
And he depended on those revelations he got and being
illiterate, did not know how to read and write.
He had to dictate his experiences and somebody else
wrote it. And that's how you have Quran.
So I asked the question myself is how do one, how does one know
that the experience they are having is from a genuinely from
God or from the devil? Buddha, he sat under a tree and
meditated and he had enlightenment.
Who gave him the Enlightenment? Not from God and that preceded
coming of Jesus. Before Christ came, Buddha was
on earth. So devil has a different way of
doing things he sometimes anticipates.
You know in a game of chess, you make a move before your opponent
makes a move. To make a winning move, you have
to make a winning move. So he did that in history by
touching this guy Buddha by after Christ came 600 years
later, he again played the same game and encountered with
Muhammad. And you have already India, more
than one, one and half, nearly one and half billion now are in
the control of the enemy because they do not have the truth.
They don't have the truth. And you've got Islam, you've got
Catholicism and everything. He has not just one angle.
He's not attacking. Humanity is 1 idea.
He has several ideas to attack, but the Gospel is only one idea.
If anybody wants real life, real eternal life, there's no other
way. Only one way that is through
Jesus Christ. Does it make sense?
But when Abraham heard the voice of God, he believed God.
He believed God, and God did not talk to him about metaphysical
realities. Look at the sun, look at the
star. You know how much distance it
is. He, Abraham, was a
mathematician, remember? And when God was a test him, he
took him outside and said count the stars.
Hey, you think you know math? Come on, count the stars.
If you can count the stars, you can count your descendants.
So that is how God speaks. So when he spoke to him, he
spoke to me about the problem. I am going to give you the land
on which you are here right now. I have brought you from the land
of Mesopotamia which is also a place where God of Eden is
supposed to be in the area of Mesopotamia.
So from the same area he picks up a man and puts him in a
different place that is in Canaan and he says this land is
not yours but I am going to give to your descendants.
Its not going to happen in a day.
It will happen after 400 years, 4 generations.
They are going to be slaves in Egypt.
They will come back here. I will give them the land and
Abraham said I believe. What did Abraham say?
I believe you. Is he going to get it?
No. Is he going to see it?
Yes. He says walk up and down this
country the way you are, everywhere you walk, I'm going
to give to you and your descendants.
He walked, he saw the land, but he never possessed it yet he
believed. That's the reason why Abrahams
faith is very, very superior to anybody, any common man's faith.
Can you believe when you don't see what God is promising you?
Can you believe him? When we walk into this year
2026, I asked God, God, show me what?
What? What are you?
What do you want to do? What do you want to do?
In year 2026 I didn't hear anything.
I prayed day after day after day.
But what I am brought to us that God gave me a vision.
Before we started Omega, God gave me a vision and I saw a
lighthouse by a beach and big lighthouse.
There is a beach there and then I heard a voice saying tsunami
will come, it will sweep through the churches.
So I believed even today I believe, do we see it yet?
See, we only have countable number of people today.
There is nothing to boast about. That is where faith comes.
You've got to believe when you don't see it.
You've got to receive it when you don't see it.
You've got to stand up on it when you don't see it.
Then it will come. When it has to come, it will
come because God is a God who will fulfill every word.
He spoke to me in the year 2000, said build the church for me.
And he made it possible in 2019. And we started in the church,
the church in 2020. So 20 years.
So I don't know when this is going to happen, but I am
inviting this thing that God wants to do in and through
Omega, that tsunami, I stand upon it, I receive it, I see it,
I praise God for it. And I tell you, we as a family,
sometimes you, you come here and say, ah, that pastor is talking
about a vision. No, I don't care about it.
I don't believe it. I it must be his own
imagination. He thinks God spoke to him.
I will tell you it will not benefit you or the church
anyway. If you want to benefit, if you
want to be a benefit to yourself and to the church, you better
believe what the pastor is saying.
Otherwise it is of no benefit to anybody gathering here, putting
your money here, coming for prayer meeting Bible say it is
of no use. Omega has one purpose that is to
become an end time church to be a witness to Jesus Christ.
In this end times when the when the doctrinal divisions are
rampant, you open the YouTube. There are nobody there who is
really serving God. Many people, 90% of them, they
are serving Satan in the name of Christ, the healing Kasigo
demons, the prophesying by the power of the enemy, the devil.
90% You may say, how do you know?
90% because over years I have been following, studying,
looking at them, their life. When you look at their life, you
will see 4 characteristics #1 they will compromise with money,
number 2, they will compromise with sex, they will purity and
they will be compromising and exalting themselves.
I am the number one prophet. I am the major prophet.
There is nobody else in this whole world, only I am the main
prophet. You exalt yourself.
You are a false prophet. You are a false prophet.
You put these three things, four things in your mind when you
look at any anybody on the YouTube and you will after 5
minutes say this guy is a false one.
This guy is a false 1A tree is known by its fruit.
Jesus said a tree is known by its fruit.
It can be massive, it can be green, it can have branches, it
can have anything it can have, but the fruit is not good.
Then the tree is good, not good. It's very simple.
So apply these principles. Wake up, don't believe
everything you see on YouTube or Facebook or anything.
Apply this test. Are they holy?
Are they pursuing God? Are they helping people to grow
in holiness, knowing the Word of God, obeying, obeying the word
of God? And do they bear fruit, good
fruit, holiness, righteousness, goodness?
No, no, no, no. If they are only trying to
compromise about money and having multiple partners apart
from the wife and they have compressed me with money and I
want to boast about their power. No, they are false prophets.
You know, this message is going on the podcast.
Anybody who listens to this message are going to question my
message. I stand on what I say because I
believe that I am speaking for God this morning and here 2026.
I want all of us to pursue God in holiness, in reverence, in
obedience, and bearing fruit that will bring glory to His
name. Be holy, for I am holy, said the
Lord. So we had to be like that.
So here we see Abraham believed God when he had nothing to
really believe. He believed.
It is so hard sometimes, you know, before I got married.
You know that I believed that this is Gods will, that I should
marry Seema, you know, and I would pray and pray and pray.
Year after year it goes on. It never was.
I had never saw a day when it is going to happen.
And there was a time I said no, it is never going to happen.
But I had no other option to stand except on that.
I said this is what you said, oh God is your will.
So I stand up on it, I stand up on it, I stand up on it.
And after 8 long years we got married.
But those eight years it was very difficult time, not easy
time. It wasn't easy time.
So what I'm trying to say here is every problem of years God
will come through to demonstrate that He is reliable, that His
hand is upon your life, that He is blessing you, that is guiding
you, that is ordained your life. There is no tear that you shed,
which is irrelevant to God. There is no pain that you are
going through. God is not concerned about.
He wants to see set you free from that pain.
The tears from your eyes, He wants to wipe it out.
He wants to prove that He is a living God and that's what He
did to Abraham because he believed in Him.
Welcome to experience this God. Open invitation to experience
this God in your own personal struggles.
He wants to prove that He is God.
He is God. So next thing that we see here
is that in verse 8, the Scripture foresaw that God would
justify the Gentiles by faith and announce the gospel in
advance to Abraham. Scripture foresaw.
This Bible foresaw what is. Can Scripture foresee
everything? What is what?
What does Paul mean when it says Scripture force?
Scripture force is God force. God force is what Scripture
force am I communicating here? Whatever you see in the Bible,
God is saying it. Whatever God is saying is in the
Bible, So Scriptures itself, inanimate book, it has no life
in itself. But the words are full of life.
The words are full of life. If you believe one single verse
in the whole Bible, your life will not be the same.
One single verse can change your life completely because there is
power in that word. It is God breathed.
Is God breathed? So you have Peter saying the
same thing, Paul saying the same thing in second Table 316.
All scripture is God breathed is used for this, this, this, this
and no, no prophecy has come by itself, but men have got were
moved by the Holy Spirit. That's what Peter writes.
So the word is having life of its own.
But what the Bible says is what God says.
So he's The Scriptures foresaw that God would justify the
Gentiles by faith and announce the gospel in advance to
Abraham. So the gospel is given to
Abraham in advance. Hey, man, don't think you are
living a life of your own. No, no, no.
You will become a pattern. You will become the forefather
of all those who believe. And the whole world is going to
believe in the salvation. I'm going to bring through your
descendant, the seed, singular seed, Jesus Christ.
And I'm going to bless the whole world through that seed.
And the gospel is given to that man because he believed in God.
I'm telling you your faith. You may think I'm a believer, I
live and I die, I'll be gone. No, you are a believer and you
are. You are.
You are becoming a partner with the living God and you are going
to impact. You are going to leave your
imprint behind you, which is going to bring glory to God.
It could be your children. It can be the colleague you
share the gospel with. It can be the man on the street
you meet and stop him and say hey Jesus loves you and that man
hard. I never knew Jesus loves me.
You have said it. Thank you very much for saying
to me. I want to believe this Jesus.
That imprint will remain and it will be rewarded.
It will be rewarded. So your life is not to be lived
in isolation, but it is inclusion.
Gods plan includes your experience, your struggle, your
pain, your joy, your everything. All nations will be blessed
through you. So those who have faith are
blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
If you have faith, that's the only ingredient you need.
It doesn't say you need to have intelligence, you need to have
money, you need to be wealthy, you need to have business, you
need to have no, no, no. These are not the things that
are qualifying anyone to receive this.
We must have faith. That's the currency of heaven
and when you have faith you are going to change the world for
yourself and for many people. The whole question is, is our
faith a living faith or a date faith?
Sometimes we are happy to have the five minute morning ritual
read ones simple portion or follow through. 5 minutes done.
You put the alarm. OK, I stop at verse 13 because I
could read only 13 verses today in 5 minutes.
That's enough for me, not more, not less.
And then say a simple prayer, God bless this day, bless my
business, bless my family, bless my children.
You get up and go and that's what you do week, day after day
after day. That's a dead faith.
I would call it dead faith. Living faith takes God at His
word and believes Him and says, what do you want to do?
Through my life? I surrender myself to you.
I yield myself to you. And when you do that, the Holy
Spirit says, yes, I have been waiting for you to say that.
I have been waiting for you to say that.
And He takes your life over and it is going to be different.
It will not be the same. So he says about the verse 10 to
14 is all about how the law became a curse, not a blessing.
Law brings a curse, not a blessing.
So all who rely on observing the law are under a curse.
For his written cursed is everyone who does not continue
to do everything written in the book of the Law.
What exactly it means is actually quoting from
Deuteronomy, I think chapter 27. The law is given for us to obey
and it says anybody who does these things will live by.
It is not in vain. God did not give a law that will
not give life. But the problem is no one can do
it 100%. You tell lie once in your life,
the rest of your life you do whatever the law says.
You have failed already. 1 instance of breaking the law
brings the curse, not a blessing.
Now the next thing that you see here is clearly no one is
justified before God by the law because the righteous will live
by faith. See this is the the most
powerful sentence that Paul writes here is OK law is going
to bring curse. Then what is the answer to it?
The answer is no one is justified before God by the law
because the righteous will live by faith.
This is the same thing you see in Romans chapter one verse 17
that just shall live by faith. It is the same thing you see in
the book of Hebrews is the same thing you see in the Old
Testament. A prophet called Habakkuk, he
says the just shall live by faith.
So in so many different places God has put the same words
progressively making it clear to us, what does it mean to
believe, what does it mean to become righteous, what does it
mean to become righteous? And how to have faith and be
righteous? So the law, the righteous will
live by faith. The law is not based on faith.
On the contrary, the man who does these things will live by
them. Christ redeemed us from the
curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.
Now this is the most central idea that Paul is developing.
OK, you have the law. If you do it 100%, you are going
to live by it, but you cannot do it becomes a curse to you.
How do you go? You have to have faith.
The just shall live by faith. The righteous will become.
The righteous shall live by faith.
And those who walk in faith are the ones who are going to become
righteous. If that's what it is, Jesus
steps in and he fulfills the law 100% so that and he dies upon
the cross because it is written. Crust is anyone who hangs on a
tree. Was there a tree on which people
used to hang before? Yeah, they should stone people
to death first. First they will kill the person
for offending and then they'll hang up on a on a pole as a
lesson to everybody. So they should not do anything
wrong. That's what they should do in
the Old Testament times. But in the case of Jesus Christ,
He was put on the cross alive. He was not dead and then lifted
up. He was put alive upon the cross,
nailed to the cross, and He suffered and took the pain so
that that curse that comes to the law may be broken because of
His obedience. You are set free from the curse.
He became a curse by hanging up on the cross alive, not dead.
That's the difference between the Old Testament execution and
the New Testament Roman execution.
They don't kill and then hang on the cross.
They hang on the cross until they die.
So Jesus experienced it so that we can be set free from the
curse of the law. It is a costly, very, very
costly price that he paid so that we can be a blessing.
How? Not by doing the law, but by
believing in Jesus. You believe in Jesus, you
believe in Jesus. That's all you need to do to
receive this righteousness, to be accounted righteous, to be
received by heaven, received by God.
All that you need is just that faith in Jesus Christ.
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might
come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, not only for
Gentiles, even for the Jews, the same thing applicable.
Everybody has to come by faith in Jesus Christ.
That's the reason why he says, you know, when he when he talks
about Abraham, he actually saying, when did he receive?
When was his faith created as righteousness to him?
Was it before circumcision or after circumcision?
You see this verse 15-6, Genesis 15-6 Abraham believed God.
It was a record of righteousness.
Genesis 15-6 And then you have Genesis chapter 17.
In Genesis chapter 17, he was circumcised and all the family
was circumcised. Genesis 17.
I'll read from verse 23 onwards. On that very day, Abraham took
his son Ishmael and all those born in his household are bought
with his money every male in his household and circumcised them
as God told him. Abraham was 99 years old when he
was circumcised and his son Ishmael was 13.
Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on this very
day and every male in Abraham's household, including those born
in his household are bought from a foreigner was circumcised with
him. Why is going so much extensively
writing about it? Because it is what defined a
Jewish male on the if they are born on the 8th day, they will
be circumcised. They've take pride in it.
We are circumcised people and they call the Gentiles
uncircumcised people uncircumcised because they don't
have a covenant with God. They are not having a covenant.
They don't have a deal with God basically.
So he received circumcision as a seal of his faith.
He did not have, He was not justified because he was
circumcised, justified because of faith.
So faith preceded it. That's the reason why Paul did
not begin with Moses. He did not talk about all these
things. Oh, Moses gave us A10
commandments. He didn't start there.
Instead he started. He went back 400 years or more,
little more than 400 years and went back to the life of Abraham
because he was not having the law given to him yet.
And he was justified because of the faith.
And he becomes the role model for every man and every woman in
the world and they are going to be justified by faith in Jesus
Christ. Does it make sense?
Gospel, you know, gospel does not make sense until we
understand the Old Testament, the background because he's
embedded in it, and until we understand how God was revealing
little by little. The force of the gospel does not
come through anybody. You can stop on the road and
say, hey, Jesus died for you. He loves you.
Do you want to believe him? He says, hey, I want to believe,
OK, Ask him to come into your heart.
Ask him to forgive your sin. He doesn't fully understand the
gospel at all, but he still receives life.
He still receives life, the eternal life he receives by
faith. But you want to appreciate it.
You want to understand the depths of God's wisdom, his
power and his glory. That is by studying the all that
is there in the Scripture. And then it hits you, the
revelation hits you with power, humbles you and says, God, you
are so awesome. So what he began in chapter 3,
verse 2, what did he begin there?
In verse 2 he talks about, I would like to learn just one
thing from you. Did you receive the Spirit by
observing the law or by believing what he heard?
In verse 2 and verse 5, what does he say?
Again, verse 5, he says, does God give you His Spirit and work
miracles among you because you observe the law or because you
believe what he heard? You believe what you hear.
If you don't hear, you believe
nothing. That's the reason why gospel has
to be shared, spoken so that somebody can hear and somebody
can believe. And then now he comes down to
verse 14 and he says, what does he say in verse 14?
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might
come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith
we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
By faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
It begins with the question, have you received the Spirit?
And it ends with, if you believe, this is the, this is
the dynamics, this is the process God had gone through.
This is how he qualifies you. This is how he accomplished it.
So if you believe it, you are receiving the Holy Spirit.
I'm telling you, this is this is it.
This is the gospel in fullness, that we believe and receive the
Holy Spirit, and that Holy Spirit is given as a deposit.
And then when you say God, I need more power so that I can be
a witness for you. And you receive the baptism of
the Holy Spirit. You have dunked in the Holy
Spirit. And then you receive the gift of
speaking in tongues, which is a sign.
And the is it possible for someone to be filled with the
Holy Spirit, baptize in the Holy Spirit, not speaking in tongues?
Maybe I am not too sure about it.
I cannot say 100%. I believe that.
But you already have the Holy Spirit sometimes.
Therefore the deposit itself can do a lot more than you imagine.
Somebody can function on the deposit.
I want to, I want to function on the fullness.
Am I making sense here? You have 100,000 deposit to buy
a house and you you rest of your life.
You can think you bought the house, but the house cost $1
million, so you have to pay more, you have to put more into
it. And God says this more is here
for you to own the house. I want the whole of the money.
I want the whole of the house. I don't want to be happy with
just one hundred 100,000. Am I making clear here?
So we need more of the Holy Spirit and it comes only by
faith. You just have to come to Him and
say, God, you have promised more, come into me now.
Fill me now with your Spirit. All that you have to say.
You don't have to feel anything. I'm telling you again, you don't
have to feel anything, but God is mercy.
He gives you feelings. He gives you that warmth.
Your body will feel warm, so the top of your head to social of
it. You will feel the flushing of
the Holy Spirit and you will feel warm and sometimes you may
shake, sometimes you may jump. Sometimes something may happen
and nothing happens quietly. You feel, you feel that warmth
washing over your belly becomes warm and you, you will know that
you have been touched by God. You are touched by God and hang
on to it. Everything is by faith.
You speak in tongues by faith,
you pray for healing by faith. You cast out demons by faith.
There's nothing that you do without faith, but you have to
believe it. When you say I want the Holy
Spirit, you have to believe that he gives you the same second you
don't pray God. I want to.
I want you to dunk me, the Holy Spirit.
I don't think anything happened. Now when I was baptized, people
told me some stories about being baptized by the Holy Spirit as
well. So I expected something is going
to happen. They put me in the water, pulled
me out of the water. I didn't feel anything.
I didn't feel anything for several reasons.
One, the church in where I was baptized didn't believe.
They didn't believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
They didn't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit.
And when the preachers who are baptizing you don't believe in
it, you are not going to have any experience of that where you
only can receive what they have. So I didn't feel anything.
They sought it for many years and then when somebody wanted to
really pray for me, they pushed me down.
Instead of Maine falling down by the fall of the Holy Spirit,
they pushed me down. I was disappointed, but
ultimately overcame everything by faith.
I said Now I believe one day I had to tell God, I always have
doubted that you have baptized me with your Spirit.
But today, from today, I don't want to doubt that I have been
baptized by a Holy Spirit. And next evening the Holy Spirit
spoke to me 33 years afterwards. You can be a Christian for any
number of years, but we need to overcome the doubt.
We need to overcome unbelief and say here am I, I believe, I
believe, I stand on it, here they will stand up on it.
I am saved, I am delivered. You cannot have any power over
me. I stand by faith and I am going
to shake you. You cannot shake me grace
suffer, shall not be, shall not stand against me.
I am saved, I am healed, I am filled with the Holy Spirit.
I shall walk in power because the Spirit of God is living in
me. Its up to you how you arrived
there. You believe it, you take it.
No one can force you. This is a holy ground.
You have to say. I take off my shoes and step
onto the holy ground. It's by faith.
You will see the burning Bush by faith, not by your feeling.
Shall we pray? Father God, I thank you for your
word. Thank you for the challenge I've
given us for the year 2026. We thank for the vision you gave
me a few years ago that you're bringing a tsunami.
It's going to sweep through the churches, go through the
churches. It's going to shake Canterbury,
it's going to shake Selwyn. It's going to shake the South
Island. It will shake the whole of New
Zealand and spill over it to the rest of the world.
I believe, I believe, I believe you have spoken to me and I
believe you will do it in your time.
And I'm only asking you, my Father, God, the one who is the
in charge of the harvest, lot of the harvest.
I am asking that you send people here to the glory of your name.
Send people whom you have chosen, send people whom you
have chosen to shake the world. Bring them here, give faith,
fill them with the Spirit and make the mighty men and women of
God to the glory of your name, that they may go and impact the
whole city to the glory of your name.
Thank you Jesus, for the vision and let the church catch up with
the vision and say I want to see that revival come.
I want the tsunami to come. I want to be part of it,
everybody to have that hunger and thirst.
And of all, I pray that they may decide to have this experience
of being filled with the Holy Spirit and not doubt it, not
doubt it. Let them say to you, I will not
doubt it anymore. You have filled me with your
spirit and walk in faith, speak in tongues by faith, cast out
demons by faith and heal people by faith, because that's your
plan. And I worship you, honour you,
Lord Father. Now somebody here says, says no,
no, I want to make something. A remarkable thing I want to do
in my life is to say I will not doubt God anymore.
I want to believe that He has filled me with His Spirit.
Just stand where you are and I am going to pray for you.
Santakarani mahastare sharastare kasurono manarashi Bandarano,
this Tana Masakuruni. I will not doubt that I am
filling the Holy Spirit anymore. I want to walk with the Holy
Spirit. I want to be guided by him.
I want him to put his hand up on me.
I want him to steady my walk, my gate, In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, I really come.
I mean bring your children, my father.
Those who want to not doubt you anymore, they want to walk with
you. They want to see your power.
They want to be guided by you. They will be protected by you.
My Father, I pray order in this. Take their hand now put your
hand on their head and release that Holy Spirit, anointing of
the Holy Spirit be released upon you now.
Take it, take it, take it, drink it deep.
In the name of Jesus, take it deep.
Hosa Baranamanahandra rabba haiki shakti khanda basare maro
ronima rabba ronima Saba rekha shanda sakirani.
Hey. In the name of Jesus, we stand
by faith. And we trampled down Satan,
trampled down the devil, trampled down temptations,
everything in the name of Jesus. And we shall be holy people, we
shall be holy people, we shall be holy people, and we shall
challenge the enemy and throw him out from every place we see
in the name of Jesus by the Father, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit,
flood the spirit, soul and body now and give them that knowledge
that only in the inside of the Spirit they know that they are
filled with the Spirit and never doubt it, to the glory of your
name. And such people are the ones who
are going to shake the world. I pray now that that will be
this by the elimination of the Holy Spirit right now, the glory
of your name, Jesus, mighty name.
We ask. Everybody says Amen.
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