1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:04,320 You've tuned into. A mega church. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,120 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,560 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,560 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:14,080 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,280 And. If you need prayer for healing 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,520 or breakthrough, Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,280 Get to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,240 So we continue our study book of Galatians coming to chapter 5 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:38,720 and verses 16 to 26. Has anybody read this passage? 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,720 One hands going up to three. Are there 3 chocolates? 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,600 Yeah. Last three to go. 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:52,240 No problem. That is good, very good. 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,240 Before I go into the sermon, I want to give you a story. 15 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,879 If you understand the story, you understand the Bible passage. 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,520 Sometimes, you know, we can talk a lot, but it's difficult to 17 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,560 retain what we hear in a message. 18 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,400 If it is a story, you will not forget it. 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,760 So there is a man, let's say his name is Dan, Daniel. 20 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:28,080 Dan has been a very good manager in the sense at the work he was 21 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,880 very, very accurate in his details and efficient. 22 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,920 But also he was having bursts of anger. 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:40,280 He would burst out and hurt people who are under him and 24 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,360 because of that it was becoming difficult. 25 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:46,440 Basically, you know, for all the people are walking on egg shells 26 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,480 because we don't know when he is going to lose it and he is 27 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,160 thinking that he is a some people think he is a 28 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,480 perfectionist. Therefore he loses it. 29 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,600 And he himself thinks because he is, he wants everything done 30 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,280 accurately, perfectly and people are not doing it. 31 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,120 That's why he is trying to enforce it as a manager by 32 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,680 showing anger. So one day one lady who was 33 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,560 working under him, let's call her name Jane or some kind of a 34 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,760 name, and she has deleted one whole weeks of his hard work. 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,400 All the data she deleted by accident. 36 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,360 So she got this Daniel called her and fired her before the 37 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:33,680 whole team humiliated her and she was into tears and good for 38 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,520 nothing. Kind of a feeling she he made 39 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,840 her feel. And so far that's all OK. 40 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,360 And then he goes home in the evening and is standing is 41 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:46,360 parked the car on the driveway. It doesn't feel like going into 42 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,720 the house. Why? 43 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,760 Because of his temper, everything has been disturbed in 44 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,320 his life, relationships, children don't sit with him in 45 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,200 the dining hall or on the couch or for conversation anymore. 46 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:04,200 Wife is very unhappy with him at work. 47 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,800 People are unhappy with him. And having put down this Lady 48 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,200 Jane, he was feeling overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly 49 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,680 guilty for what he has done. So he sat there in the car and 50 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:17,960 he said, God, I have come to the end of my life, can you please 51 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,120 help me? And he opens the Bible and he 52 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,600 reads that verse, those who belong to Jesus. 53 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,640 Sorry, verse 16. So I say live by the Spirit and 54 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:33,880 you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 55 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,480 When he read it and cried out to God, the Holy Spirit ministered 56 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:42,360 to him. And then after some time, he 57 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,520 went back to, I mean, he when he goes to the office next day, he 58 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,880 called her, apologized to her. She was shocked beyond belief. 59 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,600 This man, how can he apologize? And he apologized. 60 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,320 And then after some time, the people are able, the in the 61 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,880 family, they were saying, hey, something is different about 62 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,600 that. And children were sitting with 63 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,720 him, having a chat with him and wife was connecting with him. 64 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:11,760 Well, and the employees and this whole, the same Lady Jane came 65 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,640 up to him one day and said, I want to tell you something is 66 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:17,680 different about you in a good way. 67 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:25,320 So it all began with realizing that he has anger issues and he 68 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,200 has to crucify this old nature and be ministered by the Holy 69 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,840 Spirit. And this transformation brought 70 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:35,720 everything into his life. If you like the story, shout 71 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:41,120 Hallelujah because we all need that kind of a transformation at 72 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,360 some point or the other. So in verse 16 you see here, so 73 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:49,960 I say live by the Spirit. Actually in some transit says 74 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,080 walk by the spirit. So what is walk? 75 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,480 You will see this word walk probably used 50 times in the 76 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,360 New Testament, 49 times. I am rounding it up 50 times. 77 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,360 So walk stands for your lifestyle. 78 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,800 Say walk stands for your lifestyle. 79 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,800 So your lifestyle should be characterized by what? 80 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,000 By the Spirit? Walk by the Spirit. 81 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:22,000 Now how often do you do it? Do it once in a week. 82 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:27,400 One day in the morning, God take over my life and forget about 83 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:28,400 it. Rest of the day. 84 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,560 It's not going to happen like that. 85 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,960 The best phrase I have come across in my life to explain 86 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:39,480 this phenomena is lifting your empty hands by faith and 87 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:43,160 depending on the Holy Spirit, movement by movement. 88 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:45,840 Everybody say movement by movement. 89 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,560 There is no other way. There is no other way, because 90 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,840 when we are born again, you have got before you are born again, 91 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,200 you have the old sinful nature, atomic nature that causes you to 92 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:05,920 think, act in ways that are contrary to God's will, contrary 93 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,800 to God's commandment, contrary to God's character, and that is 94 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,480 the sinful nature. There is an inclination within 95 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,240 every human heart to do wrong, not right. 96 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,640 So when you believe in Jesus, now you have this old nature and 97 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:28,120 a new nature is imparted to you. God's own life is imparted to 98 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,320 your spirit. So now how many natures? 99 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:38,840 You have two natures side by side, they are side by side in 100 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:42,280 you. But when you lift your hand and 101 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:48,160 say, Holy Spirit help me, Holy Spirit help me, Holy Spirit help 102 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:53,120 me, When you do that simple prayer, you say it 100 * 1000 103 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:54,560 times in a day, it doesn't matter. 104 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:00,360 He helps and the old nature will be down and the new nature will 105 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,320 be up. Does it make sense? 106 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,320 So walking by the Spirit is depending on the Holy Spirit and 107 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:15,720 drawing your power and the motivation and the sustenance, 108 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,720 sustenance, grace by lifting your empty hands. 109 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,360 Say empty hands. Why empty hands? 110 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,920 It is not by your effort. You are not going to say to 111 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,680 yourself 100 times in a day, I don't want to be angry. 112 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:33,880 I don't want to be angry. I don't want to be angry. 113 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,040 You are not going to do anything like that. 114 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,800 You are not going to achieve victory over anger by saying I 115 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,920 don't want to be angry. No, instead you lift your empty 116 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,560 hands and say, God, I cannot do it. 117 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,160 Holy Spirit, can you please do it? 118 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:54,160 Bang, you get the power. Does it make sense now? 119 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,000 So this whole thing, you know, I can be stuck on that one verse 120 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,480 and not finish the chapter, but I want to do let's see how much 121 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,600 we can cover today. But I just want to do it. 122 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:12,640 So I say live or walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify 123 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:14,720 the desires of the sinful nature. 124 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,360 Now gratify, say the word gratify. 125 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,760 What is gratify? It is to do it or satisfy. 126 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,000 Basically there is a word in Greek which which the word is 127 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:33,280 telisete. Telisete in Greek means gratify. 128 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,760 This is from the time of your imagination in your In your 129 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:43,400 imagination you decide to do something from the thought from 130 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,120 the time of your thought till its completion. 131 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,960 That word telesete covers it. Am I communicating? 132 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:57,560 Let's say last night I really was not hungry, but there were 133 00:08:57,560 --> 00:08:59,640 muffins on that on the on the table. 134 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,760 So I said I will go help myself and eat a muffin. 135 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,760 So the thought came into my mind, I go there and I remove 136 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:13,040 that sheet of paper covering it. I said I don't need this and put 137 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:14,560 the car back. I walked away. 138 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:19,240 Let us say I ate the muffin. From the time I get thought till 139 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,840 the time you eat. That is telesated. 140 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,800 Am I communicating it? Yeah. 141 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,840 Now with God. Think about it. 142 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,120 When Christ shouted on the cross. 143 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,720 Telestai. I think it is the word. 144 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,280 Is this the same word? Greek word telestated. 145 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,480 Whatever is a Greek word, it is finished. 146 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,000 He shouted from the cross. It is finished when He said that 147 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,920 that is the plan from the ages before God created the whole 148 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,040 world. He is a lamb that is laid before 149 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,960 the foundation of the world, and that lamb entered the world and 150 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:03,360 he died upon the cross. And when he before he gave up 151 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,080 his spirit, he shouted, It is finished. 152 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,960 Felicity, that idea of God, salvation for humankind is 153 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:17,520 finished. And today when we were singing, 154 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,640 John said one word, His promises never fail. 155 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,040 We sang, He will not let me down. 156 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,200 I tell you that song is very powerful, very powerful. 157 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,240 When you sing that song again, when you go home and sing that 158 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,400 song, what is the promise that God had made to you? 159 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,920 What is the purpose of your existence? 160 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:45,000 God will not fail to do it. He has shouted from the cross it 161 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,520 is finished and it is finished for each one of us. 162 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:55,640 God's plan and purpose is finished and His purpose is 163 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,040 finished. For Omega. 164 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:02,400 It will be done. There is a season, there is a 165 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,480 place, there is a time when God says He is. 166 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:09,320 If he gives a promise, he is going to do it and he has said 167 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,520 to me, I am sending a tsunami and it will sweep through the 168 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,400 churches. A revival will come. 169 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,240 Is it going to come? You do not see it. 170 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:26,440 It will come and those who wait for it and depend on God will 171 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:31,480 partake in the revival. So only what we need to do is to 172 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,200 stand on it and say God, you have said it, you told Ramana 173 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,720 that you are going to send a tsunami, you are going to send a 174 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,400 revival. We stand up on it, we receive 175 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,600 it, we see it by faith and we receive it by faith. 176 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:51,280 Telisette is that intention of God has been communicated and it 177 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,880 will be done. Does it make sense? 178 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,080 This is how you live your own life. 179 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:02,560 What is it that God promised to you? 180 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:07,480 It is done. Say it is done. 181 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:16,080 Shout it out. So here you will not gratify the 182 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,040 desires of the sinful nature. So you think of the sinful 183 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,360 nature. The idea gets into your mind to 184 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,000 do commits in and. But when you walk in the Spirit, 185 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,000 you will not gratify. You will not make it true. 186 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,000 You will not end up doing the very thing that you don't want 187 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 to do. It will not happen in the Greek 188 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,040 language when you see it, the double negative there. 189 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:44,240 No, not you will not gratify, you will not satisfy the desires 190 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,480 of your flesh. No. 191 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,200 So does he mean that you will never sin? 192 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,680 What he means here is habitual sin. 193 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,320 You do today, you do tomorrow, you do next week and you do next 194 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,360 month. You do next year. 195 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,920 That is habitually you are doing sin. 196 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,120 If you are a believer, you will not do it. 197 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,640 We have to put a stop. We can do something for 10 198 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,480 years. 20 years doesn't mean we have to keep doing it. 199 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,760 But I tell you, when we are born again, when you understand what 200 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:25,720 salvation is, there will be a deep crying out to the deep. 201 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:28,960 You will have a your spirit crying out to God. 202 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,800 Why do I fail you? Why do I sin against you? 203 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,240 Is there no victory for me? And when you are crying out in 204 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,360 your heart, the Holy Spirit says, no, no, that's not your 205 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,960 end. I will give you victory, but 206 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,680 sometimes we don't get victory until we say I have come to the 207 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:51,120 end of my rope. Will you please help me, Holy 208 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:56,000 Spirit? So Paul is writing to Galatians 209 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,960 who have been baptized by the Holy Spirit. 210 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:04,040 They were speaking in tongues, but can people who speak in 211 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,480 tongues commit sin? Can they get angry? 212 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,720 They can. What I am trying to say here is 213 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:17,000 that you are not exempt and holiness and sanctification are 214 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,560 not automatic. You just do not because you are 215 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,160 a believer. You will never get angry, you 216 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,280 will never do mistake, never, never tell a lie. 217 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,640 It does not happen, but you tell lie today, tomorrow day, after 218 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,400 every week, every month. I question whether you know God, 219 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,920 if you know that Jesus is your Saviour. 220 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,800 It cannot be a habitual 1 cannot be done all time. 221 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,880 So we have to come back to God and say, hey my Lord, please can 222 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:50,360 you give me victory over this and what happened to Daniel can 223 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,040 happen to us. You will be transformed and 224 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,600 become a source of comfort to people and blessing to many 225 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:02,160 people. Cool and verse 17. 226 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,920 There is a struggle between this old nature and the new nature. 227 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,720 Verse 17 says for the sinful nature desires what is contrary 228 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,720 to the Spirit and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful 229 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,640 nature. They are in conflict with each 230 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,520 other so that you do not do what you want. 231 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:28,160 That means there is a desire to do right, but we don't do right. 232 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,840 We are ending up doing wrong because there is a conflict 233 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,120 going on. Old nature and the new nature 234 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:42,640 but the way to overcoming nature is to let or count ourselves 235 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:47,200 dead with Christ crucified with Christ, which he talks about in 236 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,840 later verse. I think he talks about it in 237 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,320 verse 24. Those who belong to Christ Jesus 238 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:56,760 have crucified the sinful nature which is passions and desires. 239 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:05,080 It is not bland. Experience is passion and there 240 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,240 is desire which is strong to do wrong. 241 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,680 But we have crucified the passions and desires. 242 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:19,040 Basically, when Jesus died, he just did not die only as Jesus, 243 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,360 but he died as every man and woman. 244 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:28,080 He died in your place, my place. The death he died is vicarious 245 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,000 suffering. Vicarious suffering means he 246 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,760 suffer for you and me instead of we suffering on the cross. 247 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:40,560 He took the suffering. He died and when he died, I 248 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,240 died. When he died, you have died. 249 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,600 That is what it is. And Paul talks about it more, 250 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,880 more in depth. He talks about it in Romans 251 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,480 chapter 6. When he was crucified, we are 252 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,760 crucified with him. When he was buried, we are 253 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:58,720 buried with him. When he was raised, we are 254 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,160 raised up with him. We are one with Christ. 255 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,480 And when you believe it with all your heart, that old nature 256 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,040 cannot have dominion over you anymore. 257 00:17:09,319 --> 00:17:13,079 You will put it under your feet and stample it down and say end 258 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:14,920 of it. I am set free from it. 259 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,960 So when he is talking in verse 16, live by the Spirit and you 260 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,319 will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 261 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,079 He is giving an assurance that as long as you depend on Holy 262 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:31,160 Spirit, as long as you lift your empty hands, as long as you 263 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,720 depend on the Holy Spirit, you will have victory. 264 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:41,320 You will have victory, but there are times you are going to fail. 265 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,440 However, you are so focused on not committing a sin, suddenly 266 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:48,200 you find yourself. You slipped and you fell 267 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,800 already. Then we have 1 John chapter 2. 268 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,760 If anybody sins, we have an advocate with the father. 269 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,320 You go to him and say, Lord, I'm sorry, I missed it. 270 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:01,360 Please forgive me. Wash me in your blood. 271 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:05,560 And he says, my son, my daughter takes you back and keep walking 272 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:12,080 with him again. Now, you know, as you age, some 273 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,160 things will not have the same kind of power they had when you 274 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:19,720 were in your 20s, when you were in teen, teen years. 275 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:24,080 Some things are very, very powerful emotions and the way 276 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,520 you get attracted to certain things, very powerful. 277 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:31,920 And it may not happen to me now in this age, but I have grown, 278 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,520 gone through that kind of a stage where I would fall every 279 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,400 day and cry out to God. Why? 280 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,040 Why? I don't want to do it, but why 281 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,400 do I do it? That's what Paul is saying here, 282 00:18:42,120 --> 00:18:44,600 because this tension is in the in the old nature. 283 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:48,200 The new nature is there. You will not, you will do what 284 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:53,080 you do not want to do. But when you reckon yourself 285 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,480 dead with crash, when you reckon yourself crucified with Christ, 286 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,680 that old nature is crucified already, is being made 287 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,560 inoperative, is being made effective, less of, no effect at 288 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,440 all, and it's been nullified, it's been cancelled. 289 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,600 And you need to count upon it. And every time you feel that 290 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,080 push, that kind of a pull, that kind of attraction, you say to 291 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,360 yourself, you Ramana, you have died. 292 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:21,040 How come you live for it again? And you? 293 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,360 Overcome because you depend on the Holy Spirit to give you 294 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:29,120 victory. OK, so we talked about the 295 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:36,280 conflict and verse 18 again, he affirms if you are led by the 296 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,320 Spirit, you are not under the law. 297 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:45,360 That means what? It doesn't mean you will break 298 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:48,080 the law. It means you fulfill the law. 299 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,440 How do you fulfill the law? You must be led by the Holy 300 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,800 Spirit. We are led by the Holy Spirit. 301 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,160 You will fulfill the law. So now in order to illustrate 302 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,480 what Paul is trying to communicate, the old nature, the 303 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,800 new nature, He talks about the acts of the sinful nature are 304 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:10,120 obvious. That means what they. 305 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,640 There are some since we commit in private, nobody is watching 306 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:20,760 you do it in your own room or. Use your physical body or your 307 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:23,440 phone or whatever it is you are engaged with. 308 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:29,640 We commit some private sins, but every private sin will 309 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,440 ultimately come into the public at some point or the other. 310 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,560 You cannot hide sin. We cannot hide our sin. 311 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,840 It will come out. It spill out into the public. 312 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,760 You do something, you say something and people know that. 313 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,120 Oh, he has a problem, she has a problem. 314 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:52,560 It will come out, It will come out. 315 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,600 So he gives you a list of things, the acts of the sinful 316 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,880 nature obvious. So he gives you sexual 317 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,160 immorality, impurity, and debauchery. 318 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,440 All three he gives are connected with sex. 319 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,680 It is all kinds. I will give you a brief 320 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,600 explanation of it. To the yeah. 321 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,240 The Greek word used here is porneia, from which you get the 322 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,240 word pornography. Porn is the Greek word porneia 323 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:31,520 that encompasses all forms of illicit sexual activity, 324 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,840 including adultery, fornication, and homosexuality. 325 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,320 Everything is included there. Every deviation is included 326 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,800 there. All those 3 words and 327 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,720 particularly the one word porneia includes all and then 328 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,040 impurity refers to moral uncleanness in thought, word and 329 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,040 deed. It begins in the thought and 330 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,520 then sometimes you speak and then you do. 331 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:02,680 All is coming is included in the word impurity and the lastly the 332 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,400 sensuality. Sensuality is debauchery or 333 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,400 asal. Gaya in Greek denotes a lack of 334 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,800 self restraint, often manifesting in excessive 335 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,080 indulgence in sensual pleasures. That can be too much of 336 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,560 drinking, too much of sex, too much of everything. 337 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,440 That is excessive indulgence. And that is what the third word, 338 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:29,960 sensuality, all talks about. It implies A shamelessness and a 339 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,960 disregard for decency. You, I mean, a person will stop 340 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,800 thinking about is it right or wrong, can I do in public or 341 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,440 not? They just do not forget about 342 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,960 all decency and they are drunk and they can strip themselves in 343 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,200 public because they have lost their sense of decency. 344 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,720 And the next ones is you got idolatry and sorcery, verse 20, 345 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:03,120 idolatry and witchcraft. And these two, they are false 346 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:05,080 religion based on false religion. 347 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,240 When you bow down to an idol, you are actually bowing down to 348 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,160 what is not God. So idolatry is worshipping what 349 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,240 is not God. And secondly, sorcery or 350 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,920 witchcraft is dealing with the demonic, the accord and all 351 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:25,280 these things happen because we do not have a right relationship 352 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:27,480 with God. We don't know the right God S 353 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:28,720 you end up doing the wrong thing. 354 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,680 Sometimes people are longing for authentication. 355 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,800 They are longing for self authentication. 356 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,360 That's the word psyche in psychology. 357 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:39,680 Use the word self authentication. 358 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,080 You want to feel that you are living out your life. 359 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,040 So what do you do? Do the wrong thing to feel that 360 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,360 you are existing, you have a right, you are sovereign over 361 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:53,600 the decisions you make and then you want to show that 362 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,880 sovereignty by doing the wrong thing and mess up ones life. 363 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,480 So that is the thing about about it. 364 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,880 And then this leads to a list of other things that he is talking 365 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,800 about. Enmity, jealousy, fits of anger, 366 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,680 rivalries, divisions, envy, all these things connected with 367 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,280 relationships. Every relationship, family, 368 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:23,600 spouse, children, employees, Co workers, community, everything 369 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,520 is upset there. So. 370 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,200 Enmity, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, all these things. 371 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,600 They breakdown relationships and ultimately talks about 372 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,520 drunkenness, orgies and similar things. 373 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,840 This is is talking about self indulgence. 374 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,960 It is. Completely. 375 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:51,320 You are drowning in satisfying your desires 100% You live for 376 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:58,920 yourself 100% or more 200% and that is leading to drunkenness 377 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,880 and orgies. In the Roman world it was very 378 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:07,040 common for people to drink evening, Daytime, the soldiers 379 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,800 and all, you know, they are busy doing their job, but evening is 380 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,680 the time to relax. They drunk, they get drunk, and 381 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:16,160 once they get drunk, they also go to places where there is 382 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,040 something like a dancing, strip, dancing. 383 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,920 And you know, people go there and indulge in things and they 384 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,480 lose a sense of decency and they them just strip because they are 385 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,960 drunk. So Paul is talking to his 386 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,520 generation and I tell you it is no more different today. 387 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:46,560 Today the society is no more different, it just talks to the 388 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:51,160 present time. So how do you know these are the 389 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,440 acts of the flesh or the acts of the sinful nature? 390 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,920 Can you hide any of it? Can you hide your envy? 391 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:06,160 Can you hide your pride? Can you hide any of those 392 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,440 things? Jealousy, fits of rage, it all 393 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,000 comes out. You cannot hide it. 394 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,600 You cannot be jealous about somebody and keep it private to 395 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,520 yourself. It will come out in the words 396 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:22,800 you speak, the deeds you do. It comes out and nothing can be 397 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,680 hidden there. Ambition, dissensions, factions, 398 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:30,720 You are creating division. You cannot divide silently. 399 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,000 It will spill out in the public. Cool. 400 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:39,720 Now this is acts of the sinful nature. 401 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,960 He uses the word plural acts is not act. 402 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,960 But when you want to talk about the fruit of the Holy Spirit 403 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,560 doesn't say fruits, he says fruit singular. 404 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,160 The word is. Singular one fruit, but its 405 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,440 manifestations are several. So it. 406 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,720 Manifests. How does it manifest? 407 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,160 The fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience, 408 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,320 kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and 409 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:10,440 self-control. Against such, there is no law. 410 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,920 What is he trying to say when he says there is no law against 411 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,240 such things? It means you fulfill the law 412 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,640 100%. When you do these things, it is 413 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,800 like you are driving in a zone of 50 kilometer speed limit. 414 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,160 You are going at 50, you don't break the law. 415 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,200 If you go at 20, you may break the law by stopping the traffic, 416 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,280 you may be pulled over by the cops. 417 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,800 Hey, why are you going too slow? But in the spiritual realm, in 418 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,720 the moral realm, there is no going slow. 419 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,280 This is only talking about more than 50. 420 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,680 You will be fined. Same way when you do the acts of 421 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,560 the sinful nature, we draw God's condemnation. 422 00:27:54,800 --> 00:28:00,200 But if you are moving in love, which is the agape, Agape is the 423 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,840 highest form of love, which is unselfish, which is other 424 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,080 centered, helpful, loving, and that is agape. 425 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,520 You do not live for yourself, but to lift somebody else, and 426 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,560 that is agape. And when you have love, that 427 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:23,400 kind of a love, and then you have joy and peace, joy and 428 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:28,000 peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, they 429 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,720 all reflect the nature of God. The more you demonstrate these 430 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,680 qualities, you look more like Jesus Christ. 431 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,840 You can never demonstrate these qualities and be condemned by 432 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,960 the community. That guy horrible, he shows so 433 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,360 much of love and no one condemns you like that. 434 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,480 But any of the other things that you do, acts of the sinful 435 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,720 nature, you will be hated by people. 436 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,320 They will condemn you for that, but if for doing the good 437 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,760 things, no one condemns you and you are fulfilling the law, that 438 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,720 is what he means. So now we come to is the clock 439 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,320 or stop? Correct. 440 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,760 I am thinking I am having plenty of time still. 441 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:24,800 So now verse 24, Those who belong to crises have crucified 442 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,360 the sinful nature, which is passions and desires. 443 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,920 Since we. Live by the Spirit. 444 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,200 Let us keep in step with the Holy Spirit. 445 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,440 Now this is a very beautiful word, keeping in step with the 446 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,800 Holy Spirit. I am sure you all have watched 447 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:50,440 when soldiers walk in unison. You know they will. 448 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,400 The stride, you know the length of the step is the same. 449 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,720 One will not put the leg like this, another just puts like 450 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,240 this, it doesn't happen. It is the keep in step. 451 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,400 One puts step and another puts next second doesn't happen. 452 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,600 All put the step at the same time. 453 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,240 That is what is being being in harmony. 454 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:18,440 So when you are keeping in step with the Holy Spirit you will do 455 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,080 right. You have to know the frequency. 456 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,480 You know the beat goes on when the when the army is marching, 457 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,560 there's a beat dumb, dumb, dumb, and everybody follows it and 458 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:37,600 keeps in step with that beat. Same way you and I must be in 459 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:43,640 tune with that beat of the Holy Spirit and walk and keep in step 460 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,640 with him. And when you keep in step with 461 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:54,400 him, everything will go OK. Everything will go OK. 462 00:31:00,820 --> 00:31:04,980 And because of that, there will be harmony IN the community. 463 00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:08,660 Because you walk in step with the Holy Spirit, it brings 464 00:31:08,940 --> 00:31:13,140 harmony IN the community. See what Paul writes in verse 465 00:31:13,140 --> 00:31:16,020 25. Since we live by the Spirit, let 466 00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:18,460 us keep in step with the Spirit. Verse 26. 467 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:23,660 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each 468 00:31:23,660 --> 00:31:27,520 other. If there is no conceit, there's 469 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,320 no pride because you're keeping in step with the Holy Spirit. 470 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,600 When there's no pride, there's no conceit. 471 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,680 There's no provoking and envying. 472 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,440 You don't provoke somebody with words or deeds. 473 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,440 Now we will be doing envying each other. 474 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,000 We don't envy somebody else and do things to hurt them. 475 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,040 We don't do it. So keeping in step with the Holy 476 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,520 Spirit is the antidote to living a useless life. 477 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,240 We are not good to anybody when we are in keeping with step with 478 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,680 the Holy Spirit. We are good for everybody. 479 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,160 You will be a blessing to everyone. 480 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,560 So this is very, very important. So now we have to sum up and see 481 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,280 some of the things. What did Jesus say we should 482 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,720 deal with? How do we deal with your own old 483 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,360 nature? In Luke 9/23 he said, then he 484 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:28,600 said to the mall, whoever wants to be my disciple must deny 485 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,200 themselves, take up their cross daily and follow me. 486 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,080 Luke 923 is very very powerful. So how do you understand denying 487 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,240 what is meant by denying yourself? 488 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,960 That is Jesus formula for living in holiness, in sanctification. 489 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,320 Deny yourself. What did Peter do when he was 490 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,680 following Jesus? When when Jesus was being tried 491 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:59,040 in Hearer's house, Oregon, in any other court or priest house, 492 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,520 One lady. One little. 493 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,520 Girl will see the servant girl and look at Peter. 494 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,680 I think you are with him. You are one of the disciples, he 495 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,720 said. No, no, no, I don't know him. 496 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,480 And afterward another lady looks at him. 497 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,560 I am sure you are one of his disciples, he said. 498 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,120 Lady, I do not know what you are talking about. 499 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,400 I do not know Him at all. I do not know Him at all. 500 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,600 I do not know him at all. That is He denied Jesus how many 501 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,480 times? Three times? 502 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,760 He denied. So what? 503 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,680 We have to do is. We have to deny ourselves. 504 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,360 We have to deny. Ourselves, our old nature, our 505 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,400 sinful nature, we have to deny it. 506 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,560 I am I have I have used. This example before many times I 507 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:56,320 suppose its I talk about Augustine, Saint Augustine he 508 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:00,880 had a living relationship. Much before the time this. 509 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,920 Is not a modern times problem much before I think it was 4th 510 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:11,000 century Augustine was, I mean a great St. 511 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,760 Later on he became a great St. and he wrote a City of God. 512 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,480 He wrote many other things and one of the books he wrote is 513 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,400 Augustine's Confessions, his own confessions. 514 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,080 There is a book, you read it, it will be very enlightening. 515 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,280 So he had a child through a lady. 516 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,760 He lived. With her had a child. 517 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,320 And then he moved city for some reason. 518 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,600 Then he became a Christian and then he was walking on the 519 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,199 street one day and this lady chanced to see him and she 520 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,040 started following him, saying Oh Augustine, oh Augustine, oh 521 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:48,000 Augustine, he can recognize the voice, but he will he will deny 522 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,239 it and say I got nothing to do with the lady because it is past 523 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,719 is no more present anymore. So he kept walking without 524 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,480 shopping. So she ran and came in front of 525 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,600 him, knelt down and said, Oh, Augustine, don't you recognize 526 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,840 me? So Augustine said. 527 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,040 That Augustine is dead. And he walked off. 528 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:18,720 Denying yourself is to be like Augustine, your own nature. 529 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,920 What can be most more appealing, more than your sinful fleshly 530 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,480 demands? But you deny it. 531 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,560 Say I don't know you. I am dead. 532 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,440 It was. History it is. 533 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,520 History. It is no more belonging to the 534 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,240 present time. I have died with Christ. 535 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,920 So you deny? That is what it is like. 536 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:49,760 When you deny yourself. You are rejecting self 537 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,000 sovereignty and submitting to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. 538 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,720 What is self sovereignty? I am thing of my own life, I 539 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:04,040 have a right to do what I like. Who are you to question me? 540 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,920 I will do whatever I like, the self sovereignty. 541 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,440 But when you deny yourself you say no. 542 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,120 I submit to the lordship of Jesus and you become a servant. 543 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:24,480 Are we together OK? Whoever denies me before. 544 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,600 Men will be denied before the angels of God. 545 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,160 He talks about it again in Luke 12, nine and Matthew 1033. 546 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,880 If you don't acknowledge me before people, I will not 547 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,680 acknowledge before my Father, before the angels of God South. 548 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,840 This is a very strong. Word, very strong word. 549 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:48,680 We have to live consciously depending on Christ, lifting our 550 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,840 empty hands in faith, asking for help with the Holy Spirit. 551 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,560 Lord, I need your help. I need your help to overcome my 552 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,720 sinful nature. I need your help to not to lose 553 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:02,360 myself anymore in the areas I have lost before. 554 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,680 I want to gain victory. And you lift your empty hands 555 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,080 and cry out to him, movement by movement. 556 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,120 And He will be. He is faithful and He will set 557 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,600 you free. He will make you walk in 558 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,440 freedom. Holy Spirit is God. 559 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,440 So many. Times we think less. 560 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,080 Of the Holy Spirit in our minds, consciously or unconsciously. 561 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,280 You think Holy Spirit is just like a bonus. 562 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,600 He's there. Don't take it for granted. 563 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,240 Don't take it for granted. Last last week one night I got 564 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:39,800 into the bed, 1:00 in the night I went into the bed and I said 565 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,800 God, you are holy, Father, God you are holy, Jesus you are 566 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,160 holy, Holy Spirit you are holy, you are equal and you are Co 567 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,080 eternal, coexistent, equality, be loud, worshiped, obeyed. 568 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:55,240 I was just thinking about how Holy Spirit is God and suddenly 569 00:37:55,240 --> 00:38:01,400 I see three huge figures and I see a small fence and justice 570 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:06,160 next to the fence I see a big jet standing there. 571 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,160 I said this. Is amazing is. 572 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:13,400 Amazing say when you lift up the name of Jesus, when you connect 573 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,720 with the Holy Spirit, when you say you are God, what you are 574 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:21,120 saying is that I want you to take over my life and then He 575 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,280 will show you what He wants to show you about your future life. 576 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,960 We have. Reading the Bible, it's very 577 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,960 dull, boring experience. I had to read it. 578 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,400 I will go on Facebook for a while, you know, or do something 579 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:47,520 on YouTube. That's more appealing. 580 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,160 That's I. Would have if I if Paul is 581 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:56,560 writing today, he would put that there social media. 100% is one 582 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,680 of the. What do you call them? 583 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:04,760 Acts of the sinful nature. It comes there very much, but I 584 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,000 tell you. When you feed on. 585 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,600 This word, when you feel on the word and say, My Lord, this is 586 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,240 bread for me. This is my. 587 00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,120 Bread I'm eating. It now it's like honey, I'm 588 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:20,080 going to enjoy it and then it releases life into you Bible. 589 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,480 Reading will not be boring. Anymore I just, you know. 590 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,760 That one word. Changed my whole week. 591 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:30,320 Gratify. Telicity means from the time of 592 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,480 thinking to its completion. That word describes it, and God 593 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,520 does everything in that way. Felicity, before the foundation 594 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,400 of the world, He has seen you. He has called forth that you may 595 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,000 believe in Jesus, that you may become like Jesus, that you may 596 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,880 walk in Him, that you may keep in step with the Holy Spirit, 597 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,960 that you will overcome the sinful nature, that you will 598 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,840 walk in holiness, and you will be like Jesus and impact your 599 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,520 community. Felicity, it is done already. 600 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,560 He has decreed it. Do you want? 601 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:09,200 To keep in step with. Him shall we go? 602 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,840 Ahead in prayer. Thank you, Lord. 603 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:17,880 Thank you Jesus. It is saying no to the sinful. 604 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,520 Nature and yes, to the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 605 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,440 It is not just one thing. All nine things we have to grow 606 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,480 into it. That is a test. 607 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:32,520 The test is are we growing in the fruit of the Holy Spirit? 608 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,120 If you are not growing in the fruit of the Holy Spirit, then 609 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,640 we are indulging in the sinful acts. 610 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:40,320 So. We have. 611 00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,800 It's time. To come to God and say my Lord I 612 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,960 want to change. I am not having victory. 613 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:52,360 Please Holy Spirit help me. I cannot strive in my strength 614 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,560 anymore. I have come to the end of my 615 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,160 fight. Please take over. 616 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,840 And that's your cry and you want to reflect Jesus in your own 617 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,840 heart in your life. You want to bear this fruit of 618 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,160 the Holy Spirit. Just stand where you are and say 619 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,080 to the Holy Spirit, come Holy Spirit, take over my life. 620 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:18,520 I want to pray with you. You surrender to absolutely 621 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,800 surrender and we. Had the first song. 622 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,200 Create in me a clean heart. Oh God, that should be our cry. 623 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:31,840 It should be the cry like the second song with sung as a deer. 624 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:35,920 Pantas for the cool water. So my soul pantas after you, 625 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:39,280 longs for you, and that's your cry. 626 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,480 And you want the Holy Spirit help just stand where you are. 627 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,480 And I want to pray with you. Savarasi sektari mahasarani 628 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,040 bandarano hora boshi samarani sektarasta koroni. 629 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,160 The Lord says whoever is grabbing me now, I am breaking 630 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,520 your chains and breaking the barrier and breaking what is 631 00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,720 holding you back in the name of Jesus. 632 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,800 Re sabasta re sando honama sakte rahari marasa kurando samarana 633 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,600 sestre shabasta row horako Sheikh tanamasta kurani robust 634 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,680 sonamasta kurani. The Lord says I will fight your 635 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,800 battle, I will set you free from satanic attacks, I will make you 636 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,840 into my likeness and I will give you strength. 637 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:22,680 Thank. You, Lord Father, for your. 638 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,120 Words Now, Father, those who want to be touched by you, now I 639 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,600 invite the Holy Spirit, whoever is crying out in his heart, I 640 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:34,800 pray Holy Spirit, you will touch them now, touch them now, touch 641 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,320 them now, touch them now, touch them now. 642 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,960 Holy Ghost, Come with power upon them, come with power and glory, 643 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,120 power and glory, power and glory, power and glory. 644 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:47,400 Let your glory come, let your glory come, let your glory come. 645 00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:49,760 Touch your children now in the name of Jesus. 646 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:55,640 Thank you Lord again. We praise your Father, Bless 647 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,760 this word. In Jesus mighty name we ask, 648 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,800 Amen. Amen. 649 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,320 Thanks for joining us at Omega. If you need prayer for healing 650 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,240 or breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to 651 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:12,560 our website or Facebook page in the links below.