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And I, I want to thank him, Praise the Lord that He's given
us this grace to come to you and to speak with you this morning.
And may the Lord be his. May through His grace, speak
through me so that the word will become alive to all of you this
morning. My, my message for you is that
very simple message. And I want to go to the basics
because it's important that we truly be connected to God, that
we do all things through him who is in US.
And that understanding needs to come.
And if that understanding does not come, it's very hard for us
to live because it is him in US who helps us to live a holy,
separated life. And that understanding must
really come so that we can live through him.
It is important that that's why I chose this to say transformed
by his presence. You know, Paul was such a
religious person that he wanted to do everything right, but he
was not connected to God. He was not connected to Jesus.
The moment that he came and had an encounter with Jesus and that
at the encounter that everything around him changed.
And that's what I want to speak, that encounter truly, that
encounter that you need to have with Jesus in Romans chapter 10
and verse 10 says, for with the heart you believe.
And when we believe with the heart, what happens is that into
our hearts comes what the righteousness of God, which
comes when we believe and we live by that righteousness which
is in our hearts. And that's the most important
thing. And then what we are able to do
is that we are able to confess with our mouth, because what is
in our heart is His righteousness.
And therefore we are able to, you know, confess with our
mouth. And we are not fearful when we
are anywhere. We are not fearful because in US
this is in Him. So when we are in a public
place, we are able to confess that He is our Lord and God and
not hide behind a skirt, because truly He is God in US.
Galatians chapter 1 and verses 15 to 17 says, But when God, who
set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by His grace,
was pleased to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach Him
among the Gentiles. Now look at this.
This is important. In this verse he says my
immediate response. Whose immediate response?
The response of whom? Paul.
My immediate response was not to consult human beings.
He was not interested to consult any disciple or Peter or anyone.
But what did he do? I did not go to Jerusalem.
He did not go but to see those who were apostles before I was,
but I went to Saudi Arabia or I went to Arabia.
Later I returned to Damascus. Why did he go?
He wanted to spend time with the Lord to learn the word.
It is important that when Yes, I know Jesus, but the to know
Jesus is to know his word. And if we do not know the word,
then we don't know Jesus. And then that's the change which
has to happen and that's the righteousness which settles in
our heart. So Paul believed.
So for for Paul to believe he has to apply that in his life.
To apply that you need to have the substance in you.
If if you and I don't have the substance in US, how can we
apply? It's important, therefore we
have the substance in US. So there are two parts to the
transformation that I'm talking about today and that the
transformation is 1 is the part that we truly believe and say
yes, God, I believe you, therefore I have the
righteousness. It's like, you know, he paid the
price, he took the debt and he gets given you credit.
There is cash in your account and that's what he has given us.
And the second is that, you know, he has given that faith so
that we need to apply that. To apply, we need the substance
as a faith that I'm talking about.
I'll give you like 2 examples I want to give here.
There was a time that, you know, the first grandbaby or we
purchased a cot and I thought, OK, I can do this without a
problem. And so I started meddling around
with it and tried to fix it. I never could fix it.
You see, it took covers because why I didn't look at the menu.
I thought I can do it. It's the same.
You see, you need to know the scripture to apply it.
But when I called a person from church, the first thing that he
took he did was he looked at the menu all and he said, OK, yeah,
this is how it's this needs to be done.
And he fixed it in a moment. So it think that's one thing and
another thing is this. I'll give you another example.
You know, we, we met some friends and they love the Lord
and so they love the Lord. They believed in the Lord very
much. Beautiful people and they wanted
to buy a house and they went and saw the house.
The house was beautiful and they claimed the house.
They claimed the house and they said yes, this house belongs to
us. And they prayed and they prayed
and, and they said yes, by faith we believe.
And and then they went on a holiday and probably after the
holiday was the auction and they were now prepared to go for the
auction. But the day before the auction,
they wanted to go see the house and there was a soul board on
the House. What I'm getting to you is that
you can believe and believe and believe, but there is some
substance to it that you need to apply.
You can believe on something, but not having the substance is
not going to give you the house. I will talk a little bit more
when I just will come to applying the faith and how we
need to move by it. That we it is important that we
need to have the substance. Just blindly applying faith on
something is not going to happen unless you have the substance to
it. For transformation, we need
faith. We cannot see faith because it
is spirit. It is a spirit.
To live in the divine nature, we need faith.
So the currency of the divine nature is faith, but faith
cannot be just applied unless you have the substance.
So to live in the natural we have, you know, we have we we
see and we hear and we have the five senses.
But to live in the spiritual is our substance is faith is that's
what our currency is faith and that is credited to us and we
live by that. So the first thing that I can
learn today and can teach you as well is this, when I am
transformed by his presence, when I am transformed by his
presence, I apply faith by speaking.
I apply the faith by speaking. Matthew chapter 12 and verse 34
says for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So what's the abundant in our heart?
The abundance in our heart is the righteousness in US and that
righteousness keeps growing as we ponder and read and read the
Word. As we continue to read the word,
what happens is that the Word gets filled in our hearts to
overflow into the soul and the soul.
Therefore what happens is the soul is like a lever which
guides the word coming out. Its important therefore for us
the word. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 13 says we having
the same spirit of faith according as it is written, I
believed and therefore have I spoken.
We also believe and therefore we speak the Word.
We believe the Word and we speak the word.
So it's important that the application of our faith comes
by declaring our faith. The Word says I believed and
therefore I spoke. When we believe, we also speak
with our mouth. So faith, therefore I think it
needs to be vocalized, isn't it? It's important.
So to vocalize it, you need to know what it is all about.
So therefore it is important for us to know the word to vocalize
the faith. So Peter and John, they said
silver and gold have I none. But he said in the name of
Jesus, rise up and walk. I'll touch a little bit on that
as we go on. They vocalized it, but there was
something which happens before. When I am transformed by His
presence, I am moved and apply my faith, I am moved.
So when I am transformed by His presence, when I'm transformed,
I am moved as something which happens in me and I am able to
do. Hebrews Chapter 11 and verse 7
says by faith. Noah being warned by God of the
things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared enough to
saving of his house by that which he condemned the world and
became heir of righteousness which is by faith.
So he was moved. There was a movement in his
heart because he believed. I'll give you by an example,
which happened in my life maybe about a couple of weeks ago.
No, weren't you? A couple of weeks ago I heard
about what was happening in Israel and I just watched the
Christian news. I don't watch any other news.
So watch the Christian news. And as I watch the Christian
news and there was something which moved in my heart and I
switched it off and then started praying.
I, I started weeping and crying because it was a move by God.
There was some movement in my heart.
She couldn't believe what was happening because there was some
move, because I believed in God and God moved.
So here Nova moved, Nahimaya moved.
Why Nahimaya heard and who caused the movement?
God caused the movement for Nahimaya to pray and because he
prayed what God moved in the heart of the king to give him
everything to go and build the wall.
So there is a movement as we believe because God knows here,
here, here is my son whom I can believe and trust.
So there is a movement and and through that movement that you
can do things what God has asked for.
And when this happens, when I move by faith, we also need to
prepare. So when we are moved, we need to
prepare, we need to do something.
And that's why I'm coming back to what I spoke about earlier
about this friend whom we knew was going to purchase a house.
So few. So you're moved by faith, but
unless you have a deposit, unless you go and I'm I'm sure
Seema knows what to do for an auction, you got to go register.
You got to register and do all kinds of things I believe.
And if they are not done, no one will know that you want to
purchase a house. You need to be prepared with the
deposit which you need to put in on the day of auction and you
need to inform the agent that you are interested in that
house. Just looking at that house and
believing is not going to give you the house.
See in all good faith that is called blind faith because you
need to believe. So the substance will allow you
to prepare to act on faith. Do you get that?
What I am saying, it is important for you and I to know
that when I'm transformed by His presence, faith helps me to
endure. When I'm transformed by His
presence, faith helps me to endure.
Hebrews Chapter 11 verses 27 to 28 goes by faith.
He left Egypt not fear. In the King's anger he
persevered because he saw him who is invisible.
By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood so
that the destroyer of the first born would not trust the first
born of Israel. Beautiful, isn't it?
This is awesome. Two things happens here.
By faith, he left Egypt. He was brought up in a palace,
and what made him run away from the palace?
What made him do the things that he did to kill a Egyptian?
What made him do all that? Because of the upbringing, it is
important church as to how we bring up our children, how we
teach them the statutes of the Lord.
We were, we were on the flight and there was a lady next to us
and, and Manju was chatting away and eventually our business is
to talk about the Lord. And then Manju brought the topic
of the Lord and, and we were talking and eventually we said,
we are so and so and, and all that and, and then asked her,
are you a Christian? And oh, you know, it came to in
the conversation, it was obvious that we were trying to speak to
her about the Lord. And so she said, you know, my
grandparents, my grandparents went to church and my parents
did not probably. And she does not know the Lord.
You know, it is important that we teach our children.
New Zealand in 19 sixties 80% or 85% of Kiwis knew the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now we have maybe 10 percent,
15% who know Jesus unless we teach our children, unless we
speak to them and speak about the Lord.
You know, we are not doing what God has called us to do.
So here Moses therefore knew that his purpose, that there was
a purpose behind, he believed. And Moses did go run away from
Egypt because he believed. And Moses, because he believed
he applied the blood on the doppos.
Just imagine believing and trusting the Lord to say yes,
not seen but believed in the Lord to say if I apply the
blood, then you know the Angel of death will pass through.
Two things that we can learn here is this 1.
He knew the Lord. He had a close communication
with the Lord too. Because he knew the Lord, he was
able to hear exactly what the Lord was saying to him.
And that is what is to us for us to hear.
The Lord is the Word, and because we know the word that we
can apply the word, therefore that He applied the blood to
say, yes, the first born of Israel will be saved.
It was not a blind faith. It was knowing the Lord and
applying it because He knew the word.
Pages are not moving because of the cold.
I think when I'm transformed by His presence, fate helps me to
adhere. Faith helps me to adhere.
Hebrews Chapter 11 verses 8 and 9 goes like this.
By faith Abraham and called to go to a place he would later
receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went even though he
did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the
promised land like a stranger in a foreign country.
He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were hears with
him of the same promise. You know, obedience is something
which is very important for our walk with the Father.
When the Lord calls us to do something.
We need therefore to obey and to walk in the way that God has
called us. If we do not obey by faith, we
cannot move forward. Everything mentioned above will
happen if you truly obey and walk as God has called us to do.
Manju and I, when we were called to come to New Zealand 25 years
ago, there was a prophecy by a man and he said God is going to
take you into a country with four stars on the flag.
The man did not know about New Zealand, He never knew, but he
said it's volcanic and he said it there are two islands and so
on and so forth. 1997, we had our permanent residency,
residency, but we procrastinated.
Procrastinated until such time we came here in 1999 and you
know, and then and then we wanted to postpone our coming
and I went to the immigration and and and the immigration and
she said, I still remember this. He said many are wanting to come
into New Zealand. Why are you just going up and
down and if you don't come by this time, we will cancel your
visa and you will not able to come to New Zealand.
And then we quickly packed our bags within two months, sold
everything and we were here in 2001.
Now what I'm saying is this, I was disobedient to what God had
called me until such time. God just forced us out to say
yes, I want you there. We should have moved in 1997,
but it took us such a long time to move because we were
disobedient. God wants us to obey.
God wants us to obey His Word. If you know His Word, you will
obey His Word. How does then transformation
happen? At the beginning of the message
I said we need to have faith and also know the Word.
This would be the confirmation, I said, But there's much more,
something a little more than that, that we need to know.
If you look at 2 Peter chapter 1 verses 3 to 10, it gives us an
insight to the foundation. What we need to have the
foundation of faith. The Word says is divine power
has given us everything we need to a godly life through the
knowledge of Him. So the divine power of God comes
upon us. If we truly know Him, that's
when the power can come upon us. There are two things which
happens in our lives. One, when we know Him, that we
have the authority of Him because we are His sons and
daughters. We have the authority, and with
that authority that we can do all things.
And if we continue to know the word, then with that authority
we have that power as well. And that's when faith can move
through the substance which is in US.
And the word goes on to say, who called us by his own glory and
goodness. Through this he has given us his
very great precious promises. So because of we come in to know
Him, what has He given us? He has given us great promises,
and the promises are the Word. The promises are in us.
Through the Word. He has given us His divine
precious promises, so that through them, through the
promises, that's when we can live in the divine nature.
Do we get that? So living in this world is
different to living in the divine nature.
It is different. We do not seek for things of
this world, but we seek for things of Him of the divine
nature, which gives us satisfaction, joy and peace.
The world just gives us pleasure, which will just last
for a moment. How many times see you can buy a
purchase a beautiful car and you we would have spent 50,070
thousand 100,000 and the car looks so good and and you drive
it and OK the first day is nice. And when you park it, you go and
take it, park it in a corner where no one will, you know,
bend the door, you know, so the car won't get stretched And, and
you do all that you see, you do that.
And and then weeks pass by and months pass by and, or when it
rains, you park the car inside the house.
The car shouldn't get wet and you know, but after some time
there is no joy. You know, it's another car.
It's another car in the carpets get dirty and then you know that
that pleasure goes out. But transformation, living in
the divine nature, you know there is continuous joy in your
heart. It can never wither and that's
the difference. So if you want to spend
everything and that pleasure only for a moment, yes, you can
do that. But if you invest in the
promises of God, spending time with the world, then there's
continuous joy. Isn't it two things?
You can spend time with the world, and that joy won't last
all the time, but spending time with the world will give you
more joy. Isn't it beautiful?
So having escaped the corruption of the world caused by evil
desires, so the word gives us the strength to escape the evil
desires. I'm coming to the bottom line.
I'm just going to land. The plane is almost there just
to you can see the runway now we're just about to land.
So for this very reason, make every effort to add to your
faith. This is where I'm coming to.
So to add to this substance of foundation, OK, that's what I'm
calling. That's not blind faith, OK, To
faith you need to add these promises which God has given
you. What are these promises?
That is your goodness and, and to goodness, knowledge and to
knowledge, self-control and self-control, perseverance and
perseverance and godliness and brotherly kindness and love and
all this purity, all in increasing measure, so that you
will not be ineffective or unproductive in the knowledge of
God. So that when a person who is
driving a 30 kilometer speed in a 60 kilometer, 60 kilometer, I
see some smiles, yes, we go and somebody you want to get to the
airport on time, you're running late.
And there is the 60 kilometre speed limit and there is a
person driving at 30 kilometres. Oh God, where is my self-control
and patience? It has gone through the window.
It happens to me as well. These promises have to be
planted with faith. You add knowledge and
self-control and patience and godliness and brotherly kindness
and love. And that's why the Lord said, if
a person beats you on one shake, give the other as well.
Don't sit on offenses and talk about the offenses that this man
said this and that man said this, and he is this and that
and so on and so forth. No Live by the promises of God.
So foundation alone is not enough.
Transformation happens when we use the right material to build
a house. The foundation is of faith in
Jesus, which we will draw as close to God.
So transformation happens just like Jesus said, he said there
are two people who built the house in Matthew 7 and verses 24
and 27. He said, therefore everyone who
hears his words of mine hears his words, words what hears the
words, his word of mine and puts them into practice is like a
wise man who built his house on the rock.
So you hear the word, you listen to the word and apply the word
into your lives. You apply the promises.
And that's why when you apply, you apply the faith through
apply it in your lives. Then the rain will come, the
streams will rise, and the winds will blow, and we will beat
against the house, and it will never fall because it is founded
on Jesus. But everyone who hears these
words, you can hear these words and go out and say, oh, it's
another Sunday, let's go. Have do what we desire to do in
pleasure. But everyone who hears his words
of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish
man who built his house on sand. The rain came down and the
streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house and
hit a big crash. So what we are trying to do this
morning is this. So what does it mean to build a
house on the sand? Building a house on the sand
would be a form of godliness, I would think.
You know, you're fooling everyone to say I'm a godly
person. I know the word, I know the
promises. And you know, but Huma, you're
fooling. You're fooling yourself.
A form of godliness, the so OK just a minute of prayer because
I know I need to pray. So let let me just pray you know
for a minute. The Bible is another reader.
Bible is another reader just another reader.
Bible is just another book. If the author does not reveal
the word to you, it's just another, another comic or
whatever, but the word, the author should speak to you.
When you read the word, then that's when the transformation
happens. When you open the book you
desire because the author, there is somebody speaking to you from
the word, That's the author. In no other book you'll get that
other just because another reader it's important church.
So for a man or a woman who builds the house is like a man
who does not fear God. We move with the crowd but are
seen in church. We like to be seen with the in
crowd who does does everything wrong.
But yes, I like to be seen on in church on Sunday as well.
A life of compromise, holding on to grudges and and no
forgiveness. Love a love, a life of pity.
Party about yourself. OK thinking about yourself.
Yes. Did this happened to me and that
happened to me and everyone pointing everything towards you
and enjoys gossip. This I would say is building the
house on the sand. The house on the rock is of
faith with God's love and promises being built on having
patience and kindness and gentleness and self-control,
purity all in increasing measure.
Church, I brought you a message from my heart.
It speaks to me first when I bring this message, it speaks to
me that I need to be transformed.
I truly need to be transformed. That I need to live a life, a
holy life separated for Him with the promises that He has given
me and given you. Today would be a day for you to
say, Lord, help me to know the promises that you have given me,
that you have given me that faith.
And Lord, to the faith I want to add goodness and knowledge and
self-control and patience and godliness and brotherly kindness
and love and purity and holiness.
Lord, I want to add this, oh God, so that this will be in
increasing measure in me. God, that's what I desire to do.
Would you do that in my life, God?
And that would be be your answer.
Would that be your answer today, this morning?
If that is so, would you stand up?
Would you stand up? Would you stand up this morning
and say, Lord, I want to live by the promises that you have given
me, God, Lord, I find it very hard to live sometimes, oh God.
But today I say, Lord, I want to walk in these promises so that
these promises will be embedded in me, God, and will flow out,
Godfather, embedded in me. That's what I desire, Lord.
Would you say that today, this morning and say, Lord, fill me,
Fill me to overflow. I desire you.
I desire you that my house will be built on the rock and the
rock the foundation of Jesus. Oh God, that I will be an
influence when people see me that they will see see me and
they can see the fruit in me and that they will be decide to have
the fruit that you have when they see you.
Would you be that when you walk out of this place, when you go
anywhere, would they see the fruit in you?
And would they come to you and say, you know, I see something
different in you? Why?
Because you know there is that beauty in you, that joy in you
that you want to pass on to others.
Let me pray for you, Lord. We thank you, God.
We want to praise you. We want to worship you.
We want to honor you. We want to exalt you.
We want to glorify you because you are God, because you're
mighty, because you're victorious.
God, everyone of them, Father, oh God, including me, we are all
standing, Godfather, today, oh God, because we want to make a
declaration to you, Father, a declaration to you that we want
to stand on your promises. We want to stand on your faith
of God, to build a house on the rock.
Oh God, I want to build my house on the rock, Godfather, on your
word, on your promises, so that, Lord, out of my heart will flow
your word into the soul, God, Jesus, so that my heart will
pump out, Oh God, your word. Wherever we go, Father, we pray,
Lord, as a church we declare today.
We declare decree today, God in your name, Jesus, that that we
will walk in your promises, that our house will be built on the
rock, that you will be glorified God and all said Amen.
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