1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned into a mega. Church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,640 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,400 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough? 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:20,920 Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,760 Get to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:34,420 The word I've got is very powerful. 10 00:00:34,420 --> 00:00:37,300 Basically, you know when you study it, you cannot be the 11 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:38,220 same. It has to. 12 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:40,380 It will change us. Basically, it will change us. 13 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:46,440 So let's look into Galatians chapter 6 and verse one. 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:53,040 Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual 15 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,920 should restore him gently, but watch yourself or you also may 16 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,760 be tempted. And that verse was very, very 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,400 powerful because as I was meditating on it, it was just 18 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,520 coming alive. So it is talking about if 19 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,120 someone is caught in a sin, now it is what? 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,360 How is someone caught in a sin? It is like, you know, imagine 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,000 you are running away from the tiger or a lion, but lion is 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,920 faster, it catches you. Similarly, you are aware of the 23 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,480 sin and you are running, trying to run away from the sin. 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:32,960 You do not want to be caught by the sin. 25 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:36,400 You are running away from it, but it is faster, it catches 26 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,760 you. It can also mean somebody who is 27 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,200 caught red handed. You know the word used there 28 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,720 caught in a sin is basically caught in a sin red handed. 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:58,040 And that kind of a thing, thing you find in where is it? 30 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,440 John chapter 8 verses 3 to 5. In that scripture we see the 31 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,640 teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman 32 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,360 caught in adultery. They made her stand before the 33 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:16,760 group and said to Jesus, teacher, this woman was caught 34 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:21,960 in the act of adultery in the law, Moses in in the law of 35 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,120 Moses. Moses commanded us to stone such 36 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,360 women. Now what do you say? 37 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,040 You know this. You have to imagine when you 38 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,680 read that portion again in the next verse, it says they kept on 39 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:38,360 asking him, the kept on pestering him. 40 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,200 What is your response? What is your response like? 41 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,280 Let us imagine some leaders of Sadducees and Pharisees. 42 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,520 They bring a lady, say this lady is caught in the very act. 43 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:53,040 We found her red handed and Moses, the law of Moses says we 44 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,040 should stone her. But what do you say? 45 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,280 They want to test him and see if he says yes, we have to do it. 46 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,560 Then He is being very ruthless, but he says no, He is 47 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,000 contradicting the law of Moses. They wanted to find fault with 48 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,760 him. That was the main purpose. 49 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,960 But what did? And imagine like Jesus was 50 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,520 sitting there and he put his head down and he was writing on 51 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,880 the ground with his finger. He was writing on the ground 52 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,080 with his finger. And many people have preached. 53 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,280 There are thousands of sermons about what must be Jesus writing 54 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,400 on the ground. You know, it is a big question 55 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,400 mark. So every preacher will try to 56 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,520 understand what was he writing. So I did my part little bit. 57 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:46,400 So I see that initially there was a time I preached saying he 58 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,040 wrote on a stone because it was in the temple precincts. 59 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:53,320 I thought it must be floor is already there with stones and he 60 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,480 was writing on the stone. But this time when I was reading 61 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,720 the scripture, my attention came cord that he was writing on the 62 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:07,360 ground. So ground is soil, basically it 63 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,320 is soil, it is mud there, dust there. 64 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:16,600 He is writing into the dust. Remember this, Jesus is Yahweh, 65 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,200 the one who wrote with his finger the law of God and gave 2 66 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,600 stone tablets to Moses. That Yahweh is now in the flesh 67 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,040 and here he has come as a saviour. 68 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,880 He wrote once with the finger so that the whole world can be held 69 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,720 accountable when they sin. The 10 commandments is the basis 70 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:47,080 of every countries law system you can have even Russia. 71 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,520 They can tell there are no morals when there is no God. 72 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,720 ACC country has no morals and still they enforce moral law. 73 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:58,080 Why? What is the basis? 74 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,040 Recently I heard a story of a man and a woman. 75 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,520 Man was a Christian, now he doesn't believe in Crash anymore 76 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,480 and the woman is atheist. And they didn't want to marry in 77 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,640 the church, they had a civil marriage. 78 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,760 And then now that man was in touch with another lady texting, 79 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:20,240 and this lady caught him and she was insisting that what you are 80 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,200 doing is not right and started beating him every day or once or 81 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,680 twice in a week. My question is, you don't 82 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,000 believe in God, then what do you, how do you enforce A moral 83 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,360 law? What is the basis for your moral 84 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,840 law? You cannot tell somebody, you 85 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:41,920 cannot tell lie because that comes from the book of Exodus. 86 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,400 You cannot tell somebody, you cannot commit adultery because 87 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:51,400 that comes from the law. So that Yahweh has written with 88 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,160 his own finger on the stone tablet and gave it to Moses, and 89 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:59,360 that has become the moral law for the whole world, every 90 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,040 country. But now that Yahweh is in the 91 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,160 flesh, in the beating was the Word, and the Word was God, and 92 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,200 the Word was God, and Word became flesh and dwelt among us. 93 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,840 And now He is bedding down and writing on the dust. 94 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:20,800 What was He writing on the dust? It is a message of mercy, 95 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:29,720 because we see that in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 17, verse 96 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,880 13. The Lord, the hope of Israel, 97 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,520 all who abandoned you will be put to shame. 98 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,320 All who turn away will be written in the dust. 99 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,680 But they abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water. 100 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,400 When you abandon God, your name will be written on the dust. 101 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,880 That means you will be erased, forgotten. 102 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,960 If you write on the stone, it will not be forgotten. 103 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,120 In the town where I am, there are some hills around. 104 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,000 People will go and write something on it. 105 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,960 You take some chalk or some kind of a lime, whatever. 106 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,440 Somebody will write the word love, somebody will write some 107 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,280 his girlfriend's name, or you know, something like that. 108 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,720 But after years and years, it still stays. 109 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,120 It is never erased. It stays on what? 110 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,320 Because written on the stone. I tell you, God to convict us, 111 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,680 writes the law on the stone. But when he wants to deal with 112 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,400 you, he wants to deal with you in mercy. 113 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,960 So write it on the ground. He is a God of mercy. 114 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:42,720 Not he did not come to judge. He came to say that's why he 115 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,040 bent down and started writing on the dust. 116 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:54,000 So even though he's caught, things can happen in the church 117 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,120 also in the family. We are like a big family. 118 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,360 We are like a big family. Church is a big family. 119 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,280 So someone is caught in a sin. Is it possible to for someone to 120 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:06,880 commit sin? Yeah, it's possible. 121 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,040 If you are a man, if you are a woman, you share in the flesh 122 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,800 and blood. It is possible to commit sin 123 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,400 because we have two natures. We already saw in chapter 5, 124 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,600 sometimes the old nature, the sinful nature takes over and we 125 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,280 commit sin. So here he is giving you a an 126 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,000 example how to deal with sin in the in the church. 127 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,799 So he says if someone is caught in a sin, someone is caught in a 128 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:43,080 sin, how to deal with it? You who are spiritual should 129 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,760 restore him gently. What is the qualification? 130 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,280 One must be spiritual. What did he say about it in 131 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:56,560 chapter 5 was 16, he says So I say live by the Spirit and you 132 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,760 will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 133 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:01,560 You have to learn to live by the Spirit. 134 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,040 If you are not living by the Spirit, we cannot correct 135 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:09,840 somebody. We must be first, right before 136 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,280 we can go and tell somebody, hey, you are doing wrong with 137 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,960 Jesus himself gives another example. 138 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:19,520 In the summer of the mortgages, before you look at the speck in 139 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:23,200 your brother's eye, remove the log from your own eye. 140 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,360 What is he trying to say? What is he trying to say? 141 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,400 Let's just dramatize it a little bit. 142 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,080 Let's say I have this book in my eye. 143 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:37,280 The whole Bible is there inside my eye and I am looking at 144 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,360 somebody and say, hey, this small speck in your eye, can I 145 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,480 remove it? What will you say? 146 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:49,160 First take off that Bible from your face before you can spot, 147 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:53,880 spot the small speck in my eye. You cannot see the small mistake 148 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,080 in somebody when we have a big mistake in our own life. 149 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,280 So it disqualifies us basically to correct somebody. 150 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,280 But we are all fallen vessels. We all need some kind of an 151 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:11,000 input and in the body there has to be a place for correction and 152 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,200 there has to be a place for receiving correction. 153 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:15,040 Otherwise we will not grow together. 154 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,960 It is not about criticism, it is not about putting down somebody, 155 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:24,040 but we have to do it gently. So the word restore in the 156 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:31,160 Greek, the word restore is Qatar, Qatar tizo. 157 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,000 Qatar Tizo, It is the Greek word. 158 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:41,080 It means two different things. Restoring is like a broken bone 159 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,840 being set. Let's say if my hand is broken 160 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:50,920 here, does the whole body feel the pain? 161 00:10:52,960 --> 00:11:04,120 Only hand feels the pain. Why there is no response in the 162 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,920 church when you have one person who is unhappy, one person who 163 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:12,360 is hurt, It is like a broken bone and the whole body suffers. 164 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:17,320 Whole body suffers. I can break my leg, but I cannot 165 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:22,160 say ah, just my leg, I am happy. Who who let me sing and dance. 166 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,280 You can't do that because a broken bone will make you aware 167 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,040 that you are in pain. So the body is like the church 168 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,360 is like a small family and a body and that pain will be 169 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,080 there. But is it easy or a pleasant 170 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,080 experience to set the bone these days? 171 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:43,520 You know it is most of the we have got systematized hospitals. 172 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,400 You go there into emergency, they will take an X-ray and see 173 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,720 where it is broken and put it and put the caste. 174 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:52,800 But in the olden days it was not. 175 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,080 So you go to the person who sets the bone. 176 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,480 You know he sits in a shop and you go to him. 177 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,440 He will pull and push until he knows that it is sitting in the 178 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,200 right place. It is a painful experience. 179 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,920 No anesthesia, no anesthetics were given. 180 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,120 And then he will put some ointment and then put some 181 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,640 splinters and then bandage it so it does not move until it heals. 182 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,760 A very painful experience. So in the church, when there is 183 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:22,120 hurt, it is a painful experience for the church, Not for one 184 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,240 person, it's for everybody because that one person will 185 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,440 talk to somebody. You know, Ramana, don't believe 186 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:30,320 him. He stands there and preaches, 187 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,640 but he's not a Goodman. He said this to me. 188 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:38,560 So it goes on and there's a lot of things going on in the 189 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,080 church. So what is he trying to say? 190 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,760 Paul is when we have a similar situation. 191 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,560 Now second uses mending the Nets. 192 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,680 The same word restore is used for mending the Nets. 193 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:55,600 Suppose you are a fisherman and you got a huge net, you go cast 194 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,640 it and then bring in the fish. But if there is a some place 195 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:03,560 where is cut, there is a big hole, what will happen? 196 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:08,400 Fish will escape from it. So what the fisherman does after 197 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,000 the job of fishing is done is you look for any that is torn 198 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,920 areas and mend it. That is the word restore, 199 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:20,080 Katarziso. So we have to restore in love 200 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:25,040 and we have to do it spiritual should do it gently. 201 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:30,120 It has to be done gently. But no correction is gentle. 202 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:35,760 No correction is gentle. If somebody wants to tell me 203 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:43,160 your message is not good, how am I going to say you are done? 204 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,120 You has an excellent observation, will try to change 205 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:47,080 it. Thank you very much. 206 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:49,040 Am I going to do that? I am going to. 207 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,960 Why is this man saying that to me? 208 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:54,040 You know, there will be some kind of unpleasantness with 209 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,480 correction. Always. 210 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,520 It is there. There is no person who can say I 211 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,320 am so on the top of the world because you are correcting me. 212 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:06,960 It's not that easy. But Paul says we have to do it 213 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:12,040 gently. And yeah, coming back to the 214 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:18,320 story of Jesus, he bend down and was writing and then they kept 215 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,840 on asking, what do you say? Somebody else in this corner? 216 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,120 What do you say from that corner? 217 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:29,320 What do you say Jesus? Jesus was ultimately said, stood 218 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,400 up and straightened up and everybody is now going to He 219 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,800 wanted to, they wanted to he. He lifted up his head, 220 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:40,680 straightened up and said he who has no sin through the first 221 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:46,680 stone, whoever has no sin through the first stone. 222 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:50,440 And then I started bringing down, writing down on the ground 223 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,080 again in the soil. Probably he was writing about 224 00:14:55,720 --> 00:15:00,520 the verse in Hosea chapter 6 where it says I desire mercy, 225 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,200 not sacrifice. He may be writing down on the 226 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,400 ground. I desire mercy, not sacrifice. 227 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:10,680 Or he might be writing the very command, very commandment that 228 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,160 she broke. Do not commit adultery. 229 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,440 But then he must be talking about. 230 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,840 Do not bear false witness. Do not tell lies. 231 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,000 Whatever commandments they must be breaking, he must be writing 232 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,280 down on the ground. Probably it's just only guess 233 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,320 work, but people can look on the ground. 234 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:37,080 What is his finger is doing? And one by one they left, until 235 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:41,480 only the lady was left before standing before Jesus. 236 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,160 So where are your accusers? Has no one accused you? 237 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:51,760 No one to do the first tone? Say no, my Lord, neither I want 238 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,520 to condemn you. Go in peace and do not sin. 239 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:02,360 Forgiveness comes with a chance not to sin again, not to do it 240 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,240 again. It's not a license to keep on 241 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,840 doing wrong. Saying sorry. 242 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,600 Yesterday I felt sorry, I said sorry. 243 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,800 Today again I do same thing and say sorry. 244 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,440 For 10 years I said the same thing and say sorry. 245 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,680 That sorry has no value. We had to change. 246 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,040 There has to be a change if somebody is living in sin. 247 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:30,520 And one of the main problems in the church is holiness is not 248 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,720 important for many people. They just come to church and 249 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,240 they want to do everything possible in the church. 250 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,040 They want to be in this choir, they want to be in the service, 251 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,600 they want to be in cleaning roster. 252 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,640 They want to be in taking care of the car park or whatever is a 253 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,840 large church helping in the car park. 254 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,960 And they want to do Bible study, they want to do prayer, lead the 255 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,040 prayer, you know. But nobody thinks of holiness. 256 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,960 If that particular ingredient called holiness is missing, 257 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,520 whatever you do carries no value. 258 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:12,920 Holiness is more important. God will have look at you with 259 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:18,119 favor when you pursue holiness and do something for Him. 260 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,480 And that is what is missing in the church. 261 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:26,160 When I say church, not just Omega, it is all over the world, 262 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,880 whole of the church. People want to live in sin and 263 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:35,920 still want to do the ministry. Pastors are caught in sexual 264 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,440 sins and they still want to preach and healers. 265 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:45,560 People who do healing ministry, they are caught in the sin and 266 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,680 they still stand on the pulpit and are praying for healing to 267 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,920 happen. So if we do that, how can we 268 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,000 bring God's Kingdom into the world? 269 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,160 It is not about how big a church is. 270 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:03,520 I know some churches are in India, 80,000 people, 100,000 271 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:08,120 people go to each service, 100,000 people and you have 272 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,240 volunteers. The volunteers, you will have 273 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,320 about 4000 or 10,000 volunteers to facilitate everything. 274 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,080 And on top of it, some of the churches where they have 40,000 275 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,360 or 80,000 people, they give you lunch after your service and it 276 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:28,320 is a huge mass event. It does not require holiness to 277 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,560 run a thing like that. Does it require holiness? 278 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,360 But God cares for 10 people who are holy and worship Him. 279 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:46,480 He is present in their midst, not among the 100,000 who are 280 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:50,240 not pursuing holiness. So that is very important. 281 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,480 What is ministry? Definition of ministry in our 282 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:59,280 own mind, That's very important. But every time I pray about 283 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:03,120 Omega, God strengthens me. The last week also I prayed God, 284 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:07,040 what is happening? Show me what is happening and I 285 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:13,680 see a very you know, when you see a train here, you've got 54 286 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,880 coaches, 4 coaches taking people in the morning, come back in the 287 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,040 evening, one train goes, one train comes in Christchurch. 288 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,400 But in India, not like that. Every 5-10 minutes you've got a 289 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,520 big train, 20 coaches, it's like 1 kilometer. 290 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,240 So in the prayer I see a big train came and just stood there. 291 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:36,040 I said, Lord, this is just your mercy. 292 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,400 I don't see anything now. At the moment I hardly treat 293 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,080 2040 people, but you are showing me this big train and I know you 294 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,880 will do it because you are able to do it. 295 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,720 You are capable, you have a plan, you have purpose. 296 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,440 Your timing may not be, may be different, but you will do it 297 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,320 because you're telling me you're going to do it. 298 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,040 So I praise you. I receive it by faith. 299 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:02,520 So that is how we have to live our life. 300 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:09,880 Next, let's keep on going. Whenever he talks, whenever 301 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,960 Jesus talks about the ground, he talks about the human heart. 302 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,080 The ground he talks about human heart. 303 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,600 Was he doing that in the parallel of sower at the seat? 304 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:28,520 There was a man who went sowing the seat and it fell among rocky 305 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:32,600 soil and it fell into, There is no depth there, but quickly the 306 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,920 spring, I mean the seeds sprouts and then it dies because there 307 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:39,200 is no ground underneath. There is rock and you have got a 308 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:42,520 bushes, town bushes and then you have got well prepared soil, 309 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,760 four kinds of and they all have a different kind of outcome. 310 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,840 So the soil is very, very important. 311 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:55,360 When Jesus writes on the ground, He is writing on somebody's 312 00:20:55,360 --> 00:20:58,600 heart. He is writing on somebody's 313 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,800 heart and we should be able to say yes, Jesus, I am yielding 314 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,880 myself to you. Put that finger right on my 315 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,840 heart. And when he puts his finger, 316 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:15,200 your life will not be the same. Life will not be the same. 317 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:21,480 It is going to completely change how I plead in his presence so 318 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,480 many times. I see you read the Book of 319 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,760 Revelation where John, when he sees this risen Lord Jesus 320 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:32,000 Christ head and head, what does no eyes like blazing fire fires 321 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,240 better than my big day son. I fell down like one who is dead 322 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:41,760 and he reached out his right hand and put it on me and lifted 323 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,640 me up. I said, God, can you please do 324 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,680 that for me? Touch me now, touch me now, lift 325 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:54,160 me up. And when you have hunger, God 326 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,440 knows how to meet that hunger, because the one who created the 327 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,320 bread also is the one who created the hunger. 328 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,560 And when you have hunger and He knows how to give you the bread, 329 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,840 he will not leave you without being, without satisfying you, 330 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,320 because he is God, the Lord, the merciful, compassionate one 331 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,520 covenant keeping God. He will not let you go just like 332 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,600 that. And then we have this. 333 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,920 So the mending process is also is a painful process, but we 334 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,680 have to do it gently so that people can be restored. 335 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,760 It's not easy job, a difficult job. 336 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,240 And then it in verse 2, he says carry each other's burdens. 337 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,720 And in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 338 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,440 How do we have to live a lifestyle of carrying each 339 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:56,960 other's burdens? So there is a comic strips in in 340 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,120 newspapers you have got a three or four pictures and then they 341 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:03,160 will very funny, sometimes very witty, sometimes very 342 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,280 intelligent ways of communicating. 343 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,040 SO1 character is asking another character what is the purpose of 344 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,400 my life? So the other one answers to 345 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:18,400 serve others. So the the second character says 346 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,280 to the first one, what are the others supposed to do? 347 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:28,720 What is their purpose of life? Basically you are trying to put 348 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,480 the blame on, OK, if my purpose is to serve others, their 349 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:38,400 purpose also serve me. But the Bible says serve each 350 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:44,160 other, serve each other. You know one of the things that 351 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,080 you cannot do is scratch your own back. 352 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,720 You need someone else to scratch your back when you feel itchy. 353 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,200 So you, you help somebody and somebody else will help you. 354 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:04,520 That's why you have a back. Cool. 355 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:09,640 So if anyone thinks he's something when he's nothing, he 356 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,080 deceives himself. Now this is a very important 357 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,960 one. This is self importance. 358 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,680 We evaluate ourselves more than what we are sometimes, and so 359 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,360 many times we also undervalue ourselves. 360 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,280 Or I am nothing, I do not know anything, I am not good, I 361 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:32,160 cannot do it. You cannot be living like that 362 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:37,240 undervaluing yourself, or you cannot be living overvaluing 363 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,400 yourself. You cannot say I am the best 364 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:49,080 because we do not know. Only God knows us as we are, so 365 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,360 it is better to have a good look at ourselves and say, God, show 366 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:57,240 me who am I? One of the things I want to tell 367 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,080 you, one secret thing I want to tell you, I do pray for everyone 368 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,520 of you and God shows sometimes who the particular person is, 369 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,520 but I don't tell them. I don't come and say God showed 370 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,440 me you are like this. I don't do that. 371 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:16,240 It's not right for me to do it also, but we, the pastor has to 372 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,000 pray. And when the time comes, because 373 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,600 God has shown me something that helps me to serve, that helps me 374 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,560 to serve the person because that is how you know what is their 375 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,400 need. Because God has shown you you 376 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,600 can minister. God has not shown you cannot 377 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,120 minister. It is good. 378 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:41,680 It is good that we must be having this heart of right 379 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,720 perspective of ourselves. It is very important. 380 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:49,800 So verse 3 many problems come because of that. 381 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:55,920 If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives 382 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,600 himself. Problems come because of this in 383 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,320 the in the in the fellowship, somebody thinks I am better than 384 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,080 so. And so this comparison is what 385 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,720 the what is going to bring problem. 386 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:12,640 Comparing yourself with somebody is the main root cause and Paul 387 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,960 says what is the best way to address it and how to fix the 388 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,520 problem was 4. Each one should test his own 389 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,920 actions. Then he can take pride in 390 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,480 himself without comparing himself to somebody else. 391 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,160 You don't compare yourself to somebody and feel good about it. 392 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:37,280 You must feel good in yourself. You, your reference should be 393 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:42,240 yourself, not someone else. So many times you know God has 394 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,760 made us all not equal. Somebody short, somebody is 395 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,560 tall. Somebody is more strong, 396 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:55,120 somebody is weak. Why this is not to make us feel 397 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,720 ah, that person is short. When when I stand beside Alex, I 398 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,520 may had oh, he is taller than me. 399 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:06,160 I had to feel It's not about it. God accepts us all equal. 400 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,880 There's no favoritism with God. So we should also have that kind 401 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,800 of a mindset. But the moment I say I am tall, 402 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,600 I am creating problem because somebody taller than me will 403 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,360 come, then I'll have to say I am short, isn't it? 404 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,360 So that's the reason why God has created us all, not equal, not 405 00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:30,200 the same. He didn't put in the same mould. 406 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,600 Everybody looks same, all black, all white, all tall. 407 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,640 No, it's not like that. This is to give us a perspective 408 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,840 how he looks at each one of us. He looks at each one of us as 409 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:48,080 unique, bearing his image, and that is what we should adopt as 410 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,920 a guide to appreciate the other person. 411 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,440 So Paul gives these two things in verse three and four. 412 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,760 He says don't think of yourself more than what you should think 413 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,400 and let each one test his own actions. 414 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,600 Then he can take pride in himself without comparing 415 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:14,400 himself to somebody else. The word their pride take pride 416 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,080 in himself can be used positively or negatively taking 417 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,000 pride. But the word Greek word used 418 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,160 there is different kind of a word. 419 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:35,760 This cow ke ma kokema is boasting, always positive in the 420 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,800 Lord, negative and based on self. 421 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,600 When you look at things from God's perspective, that boasting 422 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,920 will be good because God is agreeing with you. 423 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,920 But when it is self-centered, when you want to make yourself 424 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,440 the centre of everything, then that becomes selfish and sinful. 425 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,680 So if you know rightly who you are, it is good. 426 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,760 Rejoice in it. There's another English word 427 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,920 called exaltation. Exalt. 428 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,920 Exalt is you celebrate something because it is good. 429 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,560 You celebrate your kindness. You celebrate your goodness. 430 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,560 You celebrate your generosity. You celebrate your being mindful 431 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:23,040 of other people. That is good because that is for 432 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,320 the glory of God. Cool. 433 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:32,440 So now I don't know why I don't finish one, one thought at a 434 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:37,400 time, coming back to again the soil and the rock. 435 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,840 You know, Jesus is very, very when he talks, you know, he 436 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,960 talks something that you can never do better than that. 437 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,560 So he talks about the long Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5-6 438 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,560 and seven of Matthew. But Chapter 7 ends with what? 439 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,000 A man who listens to me and obeys and builds his life on my 440 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,760 teaching. He's like a man who built his 441 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:04,520 house on the rock, but a man who listens to me and doesn't build 442 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,000 his life on my teaching. He's like a man who built his 443 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,960 house on the sand. So when Jesus puts down putting 444 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,320 his head down and writing on the sand, he is writing your end 445 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:22,880 already, because our life is not based on the rock. 446 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,120 So what is Jesus writing about you? 447 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,280 That's my question. I do not want you to answer it 448 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:37,640 today, right now, but when you go home, sit comfortably and 449 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,200 imagine Jesus is just sitting in front of you or standing in 450 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,080 front of you, whatever is comfortable to you, and ask Him 451 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:49,200 the same question. What are you writing, bending 452 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,000 down about me? You know scripture. 453 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,480 You have different ways of learning scripture. 454 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,760 One of the things is visualization. 455 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,200 You enter into the scripture, you enter the scripture, place 456 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,160 yourself in that place of that Lady who was accused by a mob of 457 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,880 people. She she's caught red handed, 458 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,520 stand in her place. So what do you write on the 459 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,160 ground? Stand in the place of the 460 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,600 accusers. Who are we accusing pointing 461 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:26,200 finger and what is just saying to the mob they had to leave 462 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,600 because they saw him writing something on the ground about 463 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:40,890 them? So you can be a mop one day, you 464 00:31:40,890 --> 00:31:43,450 can be in the place of the lady another day. 465 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:49,090 But I want us to know what he thinks about us. 466 00:31:49,890 --> 00:31:51,650 And that is not up to me to tell you. 467 00:31:52,290 --> 00:31:54,570 It's up to you to know what he's saying about you. 468 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,400 If he says well done, my faithful servant, rejoice, 469 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:05,640 exult, you can feel proud about it because that certification 470 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,280 has to come from Jesus. Well done my son, well done my 471 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,320 daughter. And when he says that to you, 472 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,200 you have everything to rejoice in the whole world. 473 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,200 He can dance about it, sing about it and tell you can share 474 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,360 your testimony. This is what Jesus told me. 475 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,040 But if he is writing on the sand, he is writing on the 476 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:29,640 ground and he's going to be erased, it is going to be end of 477 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,600 our life. So let's just focus on that. 478 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:39,520 I was thinking about it a lot. You know, some, some scripture 479 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,320 gets into my mind. I don't leave it like that. 480 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,080 One was the whole day. Only one was 6. 481 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,680 Chapter 6 was one. It took me whole day of 482 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,680 meditating. I said, God, how am I going to 483 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,600 please tomorrow? You know, I need to study the 484 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,560 rest of the book as well. So that is how it is. 485 00:32:55,560 --> 00:33:00,520 You have to give yourself to understand the Word and then the 486 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,680 Spirit that is behind the Word is the Holy Spirit and He comes 487 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,240 into you as you meditate upon the Word. 488 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:15,640 Am I making sense here? You make a way where there is no 489 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,640 way. When you meditate upon the 490 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,360 Scripture, when you study the Scripture, allow the Scripture 491 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,640 to speak to your Spirit. Then everything that has to be 492 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,680 blown away will be blown away like a wind blows away that dry 493 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:36,600 leaves and bares the ground. Let the Word of God blow away 494 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:42,720 what has to be blown away, and let your inner self be made bare 495 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,520 so that you can see yourself in His light through the eyes of 496 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:47,840 Jesus. Look at yourself through the 497 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:53,760 eyes of Jesus. Things will change, your life 498 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,040 will change, you will not do the same thing again and again. 499 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,000 Now to make things little more dramatic or more to communicate 500 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,320 more in a way you won't forget the sermon. 501 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:14,920 You know, this is every preacher's dream is to preach 502 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,239 and people should remember it forever. 503 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,560 That's every preacher's dream. But I wonder it doesn't happen 504 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,679 that easily because if I ask you what you heard last Sunday and 505 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:29,159 you even ask me what I preach sometimes I will be oh what did 506 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,400 I preach? You know our minds are very 507 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:36,159 having a very short span of memory sometimes, but sometimes 508 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:39,560 people are very good. Once I went to Auckland for into 509 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:46,440 a fellowship and said few things, 3 or 5 minutes but one 510 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,480 man came to me. The last time you came you said 511 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,199 this. Wow, you still remember it. 512 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,640 So some people can remember it. Now imagine a household, family 513 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,720 and there are different things in the house. 514 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:08,920 There is a flower vase. Now you put flower in it, put 515 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,600 some water in it, so flower does not fade away quickly, but it 516 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,280 does not move from there. It sits on the table or any 517 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:19,200 place you choose and you got a pitcher. 518 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,360 No one uses pitcher anymore. This is a old time story. 519 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,800 So it is a pot and the pot you carry every day to bring fetch 520 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,400 the water from wherever it is well bore well or whatever you 521 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:37,400 are bringing the water. And one day that pot fell from 522 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,320 the hand of the person was using it and broke into pieces. 523 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:48,160 So was was watching it and jumped up and said, Hooray, 524 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,560 that's the end of your life. You made a big mistake. 525 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,560 You're never going to recover from it. 526 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,280 It was just celebrating the fall of the pot. 527 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,800 But the owner, what does he think of the walls and what does 528 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:10,760 he think of the picture? Owner has sympathy, compassion 529 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,320 for the pot that is broken into pieces because it served them 530 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:20,080 every day. Every day the pitcher was 531 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,320 useful. That pot was useful to bring the 532 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,760 water and it feels for the broken pot. 533 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,160 The walls did not break. It's sitting there. 534 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:37,560 So which will have more value? Pitcher. 535 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,880 So in in the fellowship, sometimes somebody may fall, 536 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,880 somebody can make a mistake, but how do we react to that fall? 537 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:57,760 We need to have the gentleness, that compassion, that mercy. 538 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,000 That is what is going to bring beauty and harmony to that, to 539 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,760 restore that broken part. Nothing else will do. 540 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:16,280 And I will give you one more example of Peter the apostle. 541 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:24,480 What did he do? Three times? 542 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,480 Not once. He denied. 543 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,280 And the denial is the highest degree of denial. 544 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,200 And Jesus was arrested. He was being questioned and he 545 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,920 was taken inside the courts, Kaifa's house. 546 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,920 And this servant girl looks at him at the door. 547 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,440 Hey, I know you. You are one of them. 548 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,720 No, no, no, I am. I am not his disciple. 549 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,920 I don't belong to him. He goes inside and there is a 550 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,920 fire, and he is standing there in the light of the fire. 551 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,880 The lady says definitely you are one of his disciples. 552 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,120 What are you talking? I don't know him at all. 553 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,720 One more time, one more says, your accent gives away. 554 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,080 You are a Galilean and you have come all the way from there, for 555 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,440 you are his follower. I don't know him, who he is, I 556 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,040 don't know what you're talking about. 557 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,040 He cursed himself with a curse and he said, I don't know Jesus. 558 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:25,840 And from there, far away, Jesus looked at Peter and it went 559 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,960 straight into the heart because he already warned him. 560 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,440 You're going to deny me three times before the rooster crows 561 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:39,960 two times. Life is finished there for 562 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,800 Peter. All practical purposes, if Peter 563 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,920 is living in a church today, he, his whole fate is finished. 564 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,040 He will never be used again in the church. 565 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,320 He will never be used again in the church because you made a 566 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,360 big blunder. You deny the master. 567 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:04,520 You cannot be useful in any way. Sometimes, you know, it happens 568 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,240 in the church, somebody make a mistake and the police catches 569 00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:14,360 them on the road driving, speeding, that they get a 570 00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,720 speeding ticket and they tell somebody, oh, I got a speeding 571 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:23,040 ticket. And every you know, you got a 572 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,160 speeding ticket, you know he got a speeding ticket. 573 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,080 And everywhere talks about speeding ticket. 574 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,400 Anybody can get a spring ticket if you are not careful, 575 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:40,400 particularly with a 40 kilometer 1, you go at 5552, you get a 576 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,320 spring ticket. So we need to be gentle. 577 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,560 But suppose let's there one mistake, that one mistake one 578 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:53,880 man made and then he was criticized so much he criticized 579 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,560 and he started doing more bad things. 580 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:00,040 Today he told a lie. He's caught. 581 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,160 And tomorrow he tells a lie and he does something more. 582 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,800 He steals because he was not having the value or he were not 583 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,960 valued. And then he kept on committing 584 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,760 sin. One day he landed in the jail. 585 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,920 How did he end in end up in the jail? 586 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,000 Because people did not allow him to change his lifestyle and they 587 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,920 kept on putting him down for the mistake he made. 588 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,280 Simple thing, maybe a small lie, but it drove him to the jail one 589 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,160 day in the future because he was not accepted. 590 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:36,600 So maybe not do that kind of too much of criticism so that he 591 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,080 will not end up into that kind of a thing. 592 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:43,160 So what did Jesus do for restoring Peter after his 593 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,240 resurrection? Actually Peter says to the rest 594 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:49,760 of them, I want to go fishing. Basically what is he saying is I 595 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,240 want to quit my life, I don't want to follow Jesus anymore, I 596 00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:56,720 want to go back to my fishing. Jesus said you are a fisherman, 597 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,560 I will make you fishes. Are men not fish? 598 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,680 But he says I am going back to fishing. 599 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,960 Why he does not want to follow Jesus anymore? 600 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:08,040 He has denied him three times. He has got no hope of regaining 601 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,400 his life back again, so he wants to go back. 602 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,040 It is basically emotional suicide for Peter. 603 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,000 And Jesus is standing on the shore. 604 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:18,960 Yes. Have you got any fish? 605 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,120 No, we worked all night. OK, cast your net on this side. 606 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:28,240 They get 153 fish. And then when they came on the 607 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:32,480 show, he already had kept some fish and bread on fire. 608 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:35,880 So bring the fish that you caught. 609 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,400 In case you think this is not real, you eat this also bring 610 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:46,720 what you caught, it is real. So he spoke to him tenderly and 611 00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:50,200 they restored him gently, saying, Do you love me, Peter, 612 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,720 More than these? This net, this fish, other 613 00:41:55,720 --> 00:41:57,920 people? Do you love me more than this, 614 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,080 Lord? You know I have denied it three 615 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,240 times, but you also know I love you. 616 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:11,720 Take care of my sheep, Peter. Yes, Sir. 617 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,400 Do you love me more than this? Again a second Time. 618 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,320 Lord, you know I love you. I cannot prove it anymore 619 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:20,800 because I had denied you 3 times. 620 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,280 There is no way I can prove it to you that I love you. 621 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,560 I have failed miserably, but I know I love you. 622 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,360 Take care of my sheep 1/3 time. Peter, do you love me more than 623 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,920 this? Follow me when you are restored. 624 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:43,520 So the point here is, he made him food, He cooked for him 625 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,720 breakfast. He has drawn him close and 626 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:52,680 restored him gently and gives him responsibility again. 627 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,920 That is restoration. You have to give the job to 628 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,840 somebody again. There's a sign that you're 629 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,600 trusting them again. You don't give them the job. 630 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,240 You're not not trusting them. There's no restoration 631 00:43:07,240 --> 00:43:11,960 happening. And then calls him back into 632 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,920 ministry. He gives him the ministry back 633 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:21,160 and tells him, feed my sheep. Peter had fallen into a serious 634 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,480 sin. Jesus restores him with 635 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,480 gentleness, humility, love and responsibility. 636 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:31,200 Exactly what Galatians 61 to 6 is telling us to do. 637 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,520 I hope you will not forget the sermon now. 638 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,520 I only hope. What does Galatians 61 to six 639 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,240 talk about? Restoration? 640 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,720 How to do it gently. Who can do it? 641 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,400 One who is spiritual, and the word spiritual is elsewhere 642 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,920 talked about in Hebrews. It says someone who is not a 643 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,280 child feeding on the milk, but one who is mature to handle 644 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,400 things. So spiritual growth is 645 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,000 important. One who is spiritual only can 646 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,880 correct somebody. A newborn Christian may not be 647 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,920 able to go and correct somebody who is already in a high 648 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,320 position of rank or service or whatever it is. 649 00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,320 So we have to know how to correct, whom to correct, how to 650 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,080 do it. Gentleness, mercy, love, 651 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:22,200 tenderness. Restoration is a hard job, not 652 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:26,960 easy job. But the question now want to 653 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:40,360 finish it is, are we able to face Jesus again and say, here 654 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,880 am I, I bring the broken parts of my life. 655 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,200 I missed it, but I wanted to restore it. 656 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,400 I want that nail, Pierre's hand, to put on that broken pot again 657 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:58,480 and bring the pieces to him. And he wants to restore it to 658 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,760 the original glory. To the original glory. 659 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,160 Shall we bow our heads in prayer? 660 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,840 Father, we thank you again for your word. 661 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:14,080 Thank you, Jesus, for your word. I pray now, Father, that the 662 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:22,000 Spirit of compassion, the Spirit of mercy, Spirit of love will 663 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:27,120 touch everyone of our hearts. I did not choose this passage. 664 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,280 It's just coming in the way as we finish chapter 5. 665 00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,080 We went to chapter 6. But Lord, we believe that you 666 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,400 are speaking to us through this world to bring restoration into 667 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,200 our hearts and into others. And we believe, Father, that you 668 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,320 are doing something in this church as well. 669 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:50,520 Holy Spirit, I pray that you use this word to heal the hearts of 670 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:55,560 everyone, heal the heart of everyone, heal the heart of 671 00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,720 everyone. Everybody who is in pain, who is 672 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:02,880 in shame, who is in criticize, who belittled or put down. 673 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:09,400 My Father, I pray that you lift up their face now and tell them 674 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:14,160 that you love them and restore them to the glory of your name, 675 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,800 that they will love understanding in this church in 676 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,600 the fellowship to the glory of your name. 677 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:25,680 Rasta Sarani maharano Kara sanda bashiro RA mahaseke Sandandarano 678 00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,560 rono kori bashe makarose bandrano hasta corono 679 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:34,440 Rohanamanda sestak reni Risha rabhasta corono Rohasta koroni. 680 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,400 The Lord says if you forgive, also forget. 681 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,480 That is part of restoration is to forget. 682 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,960 We cannot keep on digging what happened 10 years ago or 20 683 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:53,360 years ago. We have to let it go. 684 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,200 That is how healing comes. Father, I pray put that nail 685 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,160 patience of your son right now on the hearts of everyone of us. 686 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:03,960 I need it and everybody here needs it. 687 00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:09,480 So I pray touch us and heal us the glory of your name. 688 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,120 Thank you again for your word in Jesus mighty name. 689 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:17,000 We have asked and everybody says Amen, Amen. 690 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,520 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 691 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,440 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 692 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,800 our website or Facebook page in the links below.