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The word I've got is very powerful.

Basically, you know when you study it, you cannot be the

same. It has to.

It will change us. Basically, it will change us.

So let's look into Galatians chapter 6 and verse one.

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Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual

should restore him gently, but watch yourself or you also may

be tempted. And that verse was very, very

powerful because as I was meditating on it, it was just

coming alive. So it is talking about if

someone is caught in a sin, now it is what?

How is someone caught in a sin? It is like, you know, imagine

you are running away from the tiger or a lion, but lion is

faster, it catches you. Similarly, you are aware of the

sin and you are running, trying to run away from the sin.

You do not want to be caught by the sin.

You are running away from it, but it is faster, it catches

you. It can also mean somebody who is

caught red handed. You know the word used there

caught in a sin is basically caught in a sin red handed.

And that kind of a thing, thing you find in where is it?

John chapter 8 verses 3 to 5. In that scripture we see the

John 8:3–5

teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman

caught in adultery. They made her stand before the

group and said to Jesus, teacher, this woman was caught

in the act of adultery in the law, Moses in in the law of

Moses. Moses commanded us to stone such

women. Now what do you say?

You know this. You have to imagine when you

read that portion again in the next verse, it says they kept on

asking him, the kept on pestering him.

What is your response? What is your response like?

Let us imagine some leaders of Sadducees and Pharisees.

They bring a lady, say this lady is caught in the very act.

We found her red handed and Moses, the law of Moses says we

should stone her. But what do you say?

They want to test him and see if he says yes, we have to do it.

Then He is being very ruthless, but he says no, He is

contradicting the law of Moses. They wanted to find fault with

him. That was the main purpose.

But what did? And imagine like Jesus was

sitting there and he put his head down and he was writing on

the ground with his finger. He was writing on the ground

with his finger. And many people have preached.

There are thousands of sermons about what must be Jesus writing

on the ground. You know, it is a big question

mark. So every preacher will try to

understand what was he writing. So I did my part little bit.

So I see that initially there was a time I preached saying he

wrote on a stone because it was in the temple precincts.

I thought it must be floor is already there with stones and he

was writing on the stone. But this time when I was reading

the scripture, my attention came cord that he was writing on the

ground. So ground is soil, basically it

is soil, it is mud there, dust there.

He is writing into the dust. Remember this, Jesus is Yahweh,

the one who wrote with his finger the law of God and gave 2

stone tablets to Moses. That Yahweh is now in the flesh

and here he has come as a saviour.

He wrote once with the finger so that the whole world can be held

accountable when they sin. The 10 commandments is the basis

of every countries law system you can have even Russia.

They can tell there are no morals when there is no God.

ACC country has no morals and still they enforce moral law.

Why? What is the basis?

Recently I heard a story of a man and a woman.

Man was a Christian, now he doesn't believe in Crash anymore

and the woman is atheist. And they didn't want to marry in

the church, they had a civil marriage.

And then now that man was in touch with another lady texting,

and this lady caught him and she was insisting that what you are

doing is not right and started beating him every day or once or

twice in a week. My question is, you don't

believe in God, then what do you, how do you enforce A moral

law? What is the basis for your moral

law? You cannot tell somebody, you

cannot tell lie because that comes from the book of Exodus.

You cannot tell somebody, you cannot commit adultery because

that comes from the law. So that Yahweh has written with

his own finger on the stone tablet and gave it to Moses, and

that has become the moral law for the whole world, every

country. But now that Yahweh is in the

flesh, in the beating was the Word, and the Word was God, and

the Word was God, and Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

And now He is bedding down and writing on the dust.

What was He writing on the dust? It is a message of mercy,

because we see that in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 17, verse

Jeremiah 17:13

13. The Lord, the hope of Israel,

all who abandoned you will be put to shame.

All who turn away will be written in the dust.

But they abandoned the Lord, the fountain of living water.

When you abandon God, your name will be written on the dust.

That means you will be erased, forgotten.

If you write on the stone, it will not be forgotten.

In the town where I am, there are some hills around.

People will go and write something on it.

You take some chalk or some kind of a lime, whatever.

Somebody will write the word love, somebody will write some

his girlfriend's name, or you know, something like that.

But after years and years, it still stays.

It is never erased. It stays on what?

Because written on the stone. I tell you, God to convict us,

writes the law on the stone. But when he wants to deal with

you, he wants to deal with you in mercy.

So write it on the ground. He is a God of mercy.

Not he did not come to judge. He came to say that's why he

bent down and started writing on the dust.

So even though he's caught, things can happen in the church

also in the family. We are like a big family.

We are like a big family. Church is a big family.

So someone is caught in a sin. Is it possible to for someone to

commit sin? Yeah, it's possible.

If you are a man, if you are a woman, you share in the flesh

and blood. It is possible to commit sin

because we have two natures. We already saw in chapter 5,

sometimes the old nature, the sinful nature takes over and we

commit sin. So here he is giving you a an

example how to deal with sin in the in the church.

So he says if someone is caught in a sin, someone is caught in a

sin, how to deal with it? You who are spiritual should

restore him gently. What is the qualification?

One must be spiritual. What did he say about it in

chapter 5 was 16, he says So I say live by the Spirit and you

will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.

You have to learn to live by the Spirit.

If you are not living by the Spirit, we cannot correct

somebody. We must be first, right before

we can go and tell somebody, hey, you are doing wrong with

Jesus himself gives another example.

In the summer of the mortgages, before you look at the speck in

your brother's eye, remove the log from your own eye.

What is he trying to say? What is he trying to say?

Let's just dramatize it a little bit.

Let's say I have this book in my eye.

The whole Bible is there inside my eye and I am looking at

somebody and say, hey, this small speck in your eye, can I

remove it? What will you say?

First take off that Bible from your face before you can spot,

spot the small speck in my eye. You cannot see the small mistake

in somebody when we have a big mistake in our own life.

So it disqualifies us basically to correct somebody.

But we are all fallen vessels. We all need some kind of an

input and in the body there has to be a place for correction and

there has to be a place for receiving correction.

Otherwise we will not grow together.

It is not about criticism, it is not about putting down somebody,

but we have to do it gently. So the word restore in the

Greek, the word restore is Qatar, Qatar tizo.

Qatar Tizo, It is the Greek word.

It means two different things. Restoring is like a broken bone

being set. Let's say if my hand is broken

here, does the whole body feel the pain?

Only hand feels the pain. Why there is no response in the

church when you have one person who is unhappy, one person who

is hurt, It is like a broken bone and the whole body suffers.

Whole body suffers. I can break my leg, but I cannot

say ah, just my leg, I am happy. Who who let me sing and dance.

You can't do that because a broken bone will make you aware

that you are in pain. So the body is like the church

is like a small family and a body and that pain will be

there. But is it easy or a pleasant

experience to set the bone these days?

You know it is most of the we have got systematized hospitals.

You go there into emergency, they will take an X-ray and see

where it is broken and put it and put the caste.

But in the olden days it was not.

So you go to the person who sets the bone.

You know he sits in a shop and you go to him.

He will pull and push until he knows that it is sitting in the

right place. It is a painful experience.

No anesthesia, no anesthetics were given.

And then he will put some ointment and then put some

splinters and then bandage it so it does not move until it heals.

A very painful experience. So in the church, when there is

hurt, it is a painful experience for the church, Not for one

person, it's for everybody because that one person will

talk to somebody. You know, Ramana, don't believe

him. He stands there and preaches,

but he's not a Goodman. He said this to me.

So it goes on and there's a lot of things going on in the

church. So what is he trying to say?

Paul is when we have a similar situation.

Now second uses mending the Nets.

The same word restore is used for mending the Nets.

Suppose you are a fisherman and you got a huge net, you go cast

it and then bring in the fish. But if there is a some place

where is cut, there is a big hole, what will happen?

Fish will escape from it. So what the fisherman does after

the job of fishing is done is you look for any that is torn

areas and mend it. That is the word restore,

Katarziso. So we have to restore in love

and we have to do it spiritual should do it gently.

It has to be done gently. But no correction is gentle.

No correction is gentle. If somebody wants to tell me

your message is not good, how am I going to say you are done?

You has an excellent observation, will try to change

it. Thank you very much.

Am I going to do that? I am going to.

Why is this man saying that to me?

You know, there will be some kind of unpleasantness with

correction. Always.

It is there. There is no person who can say I

am so on the top of the world because you are correcting me.

It's not that easy. But Paul says we have to do it

gently. And yeah, coming back to the

story of Jesus, he bend down and was writing and then they kept

on asking, what do you say? Somebody else in this corner?

What do you say from that corner?

What do you say Jesus? Jesus was ultimately said, stood

up and straightened up and everybody is now going to He

wanted to, they wanted to he. He lifted up his head,

straightened up and said he who has no sin through the first

stone, whoever has no sin through the first stone.

And then I started bringing down, writing down on the ground

again in the soil. Probably he was writing about

the verse in Hosea chapter 6 where it says I desire mercy,

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not sacrifice. He may be writing down on the

ground. I desire mercy, not sacrifice.

Or he might be writing the very command, very commandment that

she broke. Do not commit adultery.

But then he must be talking about.

Do not bear false witness. Do not tell lies.

Whatever commandments they must be breaking, he must be writing

down on the ground. Probably it's just only guess

work, but people can look on the ground.

What is his finger is doing? And one by one they left, until

only the lady was left before standing before Jesus.

So where are your accusers? Has no one accused you?

No one to do the first tone? Say no, my Lord, neither I want

to condemn you. Go in peace and do not sin.

Forgiveness comes with a chance not to sin again, not to do it

again. It's not a license to keep on

doing wrong. Saying sorry.

Yesterday I felt sorry, I said sorry.

Today again I do same thing and say sorry.

For 10 years I said the same thing and say sorry.

That sorry has no value. We had to change.

There has to be a change if somebody is living in sin.

And one of the main problems in the church is holiness is not

important for many people. They just come to church and

they want to do everything possible in the church.

They want to be in this choir, they want to be in the service,

they want to be in cleaning roster.

They want to be in taking care of the car park or whatever is a

large church helping in the car park.

And they want to do Bible study, they want to do prayer, lead the

prayer, you know. But nobody thinks of holiness.

If that particular ingredient called holiness is missing,

whatever you do carries no value.

Holiness is more important. God will have look at you with

favor when you pursue holiness and do something for Him.

And that is what is missing in the church.

When I say church, not just Omega, it is all over the world,

whole of the church. People want to live in sin and

still want to do the ministry. Pastors are caught in sexual

sins and they still want to preach and healers.

People who do healing ministry, they are caught in the sin and

they still stand on the pulpit and are praying for healing to

happen. So if we do that, how can we

bring God's Kingdom into the world?

It is not about how big a church is.

I know some churches are in India, 80,000 people, 100,000

people go to each service, 100,000 people and you have

volunteers. The volunteers, you will have

about 4000 or 10,000 volunteers to facilitate everything.

And on top of it, some of the churches where they have 40,000

or 80,000 people, they give you lunch after your service and it

is a huge mass event. It does not require holiness to

run a thing like that. Does it require holiness?

But God cares for 10 people who are holy and worship Him.

He is present in their midst, not among the 100,000 who are

not pursuing holiness. So that is very important.

What is ministry? Definition of ministry in our

own mind, That's very important. But every time I pray about

Omega, God strengthens me. The last week also I prayed God,

what is happening? Show me what is happening and I

see a very you know, when you see a train here, you've got 54

coaches, 4 coaches taking people in the morning, come back in the

evening, one train goes, one train comes in Christchurch.

But in India, not like that. Every 5-10 minutes you've got a

big train, 20 coaches, it's like 1 kilometer.

So in the prayer I see a big train came and just stood there.

I said, Lord, this is just your mercy.

I don't see anything now. At the moment I hardly treat

2040 people, but you are showing me this big train and I know you

will do it because you are able to do it.

You are capable, you have a plan, you have purpose.

Your timing may not be, may be different, but you will do it

because you're telling me you're going to do it.

So I praise you. I receive it by faith.

So that is how we have to live our life.

Next, let's keep on going. Whenever he talks, whenever

Jesus talks about the ground, he talks about the human heart.

The ground he talks about human heart.

Was he doing that in the parallel of sower at the seat?

There was a man who went sowing the seat and it fell among rocky

soil and it fell into, There is no depth there, but quickly the

spring, I mean the seeds sprouts and then it dies because there

is no ground underneath. There is rock and you have got a

bushes, town bushes and then you have got well prepared soil,

four kinds of and they all have a different kind of outcome.

So the soil is very, very important.

When Jesus writes on the ground, He is writing on somebody's

heart. He is writing on somebody's

heart and we should be able to say yes, Jesus, I am yielding

myself to you. Put that finger right on my

heart. And when he puts his finger,

your life will not be the same. Life will not be the same.

It is going to completely change how I plead in his presence so

many times. I see you read the Book of

Revelation where John, when he sees this risen Lord Jesus

Christ head and head, what does no eyes like blazing fire fires

better than my big day son. I fell down like one who is dead

and he reached out his right hand and put it on me and lifted

me up. I said, God, can you please do

that for me? Touch me now, touch me now, lift

me up. And when you have hunger, God

knows how to meet that hunger, because the one who created the

bread also is the one who created the hunger.

And when you have hunger and He knows how to give you the bread,

he will not leave you without being, without satisfying you,

because he is God, the Lord, the merciful, compassionate one

covenant keeping God. He will not let you go just like

that. And then we have this.

So the mending process is also is a painful process, but we

have to do it gently so that people can be restored.

It's not easy job, a difficult job.

And then it in verse 2, he says carry each other's burdens.

And in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

How do we have to live a lifestyle of carrying each

other's burdens? So there is a comic strips in in

newspapers you have got a three or four pictures and then they

will very funny, sometimes very witty, sometimes very

intelligent ways of communicating.

SO1 character is asking another character what is the purpose of

my life? So the other one answers to

serve others. So the the second character says

to the first one, what are the others supposed to do?

What is their purpose of life? Basically you are trying to put

the blame on, OK, if my purpose is to serve others, their

purpose also serve me. But the Bible says serve each

other, serve each other. You know one of the things that

you cannot do is scratch your own back.

You need someone else to scratch your back when you feel itchy.

So you, you help somebody and somebody else will help you.

That's why you have a back. Cool.

So if anyone thinks he's something when he's nothing, he

deceives himself. Now this is a very important

one. This is self importance.

We evaluate ourselves more than what we are sometimes, and so

many times we also undervalue ourselves.

Or I am nothing, I do not know anything, I am not good, I

cannot do it. You cannot be living like that

undervaluing yourself, or you cannot be living overvaluing

yourself. You cannot say I am the best

because we do not know. Only God knows us as we are, so

it is better to have a good look at ourselves and say, God, show

me who am I? One of the things I want to tell

you, one secret thing I want to tell you, I do pray for everyone

of you and God shows sometimes who the particular person is,

but I don't tell them. I don't come and say God showed

me you are like this. I don't do that.

It's not right for me to do it also, but we, the pastor has to

pray. And when the time comes, because

God has shown me something that helps me to serve, that helps me

to serve the person because that is how you know what is their

need. Because God has shown you you

can minister. God has not shown you cannot

minister. It is good.

It is good that we must be having this heart of right

perspective of ourselves. It is very important.

So verse 3 many problems come because of that.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives

himself. Problems come because of this in

the in the in the fellowship, somebody thinks I am better than

so. And so this comparison is what

the what is going to bring problem.

Comparing yourself with somebody is the main root cause and Paul

says what is the best way to address it and how to fix the

problem was 4. Each one should test his own

actions. Then he can take pride in

himself without comparing himself to somebody else.

You don't compare yourself to somebody and feel good about it.

You must feel good in yourself. You, your reference should be

yourself, not someone else. So many times you know God has

made us all not equal. Somebody short, somebody is

tall. Somebody is more strong,

somebody is weak. Why this is not to make us feel

ah, that person is short. When when I stand beside Alex, I

may had oh, he is taller than me.

I had to feel It's not about it. God accepts us all equal.

There's no favoritism with God. So we should also have that kind

of a mindset. But the moment I say I am tall,

I am creating problem because somebody taller than me will

come, then I'll have to say I am short, isn't it?

So that's the reason why God has created us all, not equal, not

the same. He didn't put in the same mould.

Everybody looks same, all black, all white, all tall.

No, it's not like that. This is to give us a perspective

how he looks at each one of us. He looks at each one of us as

unique, bearing his image, and that is what we should adopt as

a guide to appreciate the other person.

So Paul gives these two things in verse three and four.

He says don't think of yourself more than what you should think

and let each one test his own actions.

Then he can take pride in himself without comparing

himself to somebody else. The word their pride take pride

in himself can be used positively or negatively taking

pride. But the word Greek word used

there is different kind of a word.

This cow ke ma kokema is boasting, always positive in the

Lord, negative and based on self.

When you look at things from God's perspective, that boasting

will be good because God is agreeing with you.

But when it is self-centered, when you want to make yourself

the centre of everything, then that becomes selfish and sinful.

So if you know rightly who you are, it is good.

Rejoice in it. There's another English word

called exaltation. Exalt.

Exalt is you celebrate something because it is good.

You celebrate your kindness. You celebrate your goodness.

You celebrate your generosity. You celebrate your being mindful

of other people. That is good because that is for

the glory of God. Cool.

So now I don't know why I don't finish one, one thought at a

time, coming back to again the soil and the rock.

You know, Jesus is very, very when he talks, you know, he

talks something that you can never do better than that.

So he talks about the long Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5-6

and seven of Matthew. But Chapter 7 ends with what?

A man who listens to me and obeys and builds his life on my

teaching. He's like a man who built his

house on the rock, but a man who listens to me and doesn't build

his life on my teaching. He's like a man who built his

house on the sand. So when Jesus puts down putting

his head down and writing on the sand, he is writing your end

already, because our life is not based on the rock.

So what is Jesus writing about you?

That's my question. I do not want you to answer it

today, right now, but when you go home, sit comfortably and

imagine Jesus is just sitting in front of you or standing in

front of you, whatever is comfortable to you, and ask Him

the same question. What are you writing, bending

down about me? You know scripture.

You have different ways of learning scripture.

One of the things is visualization.

You enter into the scripture, you enter the scripture, place

yourself in that place of that Lady who was accused by a mob of

people. She she's caught red handed,

stand in her place. So what do you write on the

ground? Stand in the place of the

accusers. Who are we accusing pointing

finger and what is just saying to the mob they had to leave

because they saw him writing something on the ground about

them? So you can be a mop one day, you

can be in the place of the lady another day.

But I want us to know what he thinks about us.

And that is not up to me to tell you.

It's up to you to know what he's saying about you.

If he says well done, my faithful servant, rejoice,

exult, you can feel proud about it because that certification

has to come from Jesus. Well done my son, well done my

daughter. And when he says that to you,

you have everything to rejoice in the whole world.

He can dance about it, sing about it and tell you can share

your testimony. This is what Jesus told me.

But if he is writing on the sand, he is writing on the

ground and he's going to be erased, it is going to be end of

our life. So let's just focus on that.

I was thinking about it a lot. You know, some, some scripture

gets into my mind. I don't leave it like that.

One was the whole day. Only one was 6.

Chapter 6 was one. It took me whole day of

meditating. I said, God, how am I going to

please tomorrow? You know, I need to study the

rest of the book as well. So that is how it is.

You have to give yourself to understand the Word and then the

Spirit that is behind the Word is the Holy Spirit and He comes

into you as you meditate upon the Word.

Am I making sense here? You make a way where there is no

way. When you meditate upon the

Scripture, when you study the Scripture, allow the Scripture

to speak to your Spirit. Then everything that has to be

blown away will be blown away like a wind blows away that dry

leaves and bares the ground. Let the Word of God blow away

what has to be blown away, and let your inner self be made bare

so that you can see yourself in His light through the eyes of

Jesus. Look at yourself through the

eyes of Jesus. Things will change, your life

will change, you will not do the same thing again and again.

Now to make things little more dramatic or more to communicate

more in a way you won't forget the sermon.

You know, this is every preacher's dream is to preach

and people should remember it forever.

That's every preacher's dream. But I wonder it doesn't happen

that easily because if I ask you what you heard last Sunday and

you even ask me what I preach sometimes I will be oh what did

I preach? You know our minds are very

having a very short span of memory sometimes, but sometimes

people are very good. Once I went to Auckland for into

a fellowship and said few things, 3 or 5 minutes but one

man came to me. The last time you came you said

this. Wow, you still remember it.

So some people can remember it. Now imagine a household, family

and there are different things in the house.

There is a flower vase. Now you put flower in it, put

some water in it, so flower does not fade away quickly, but it

does not move from there. It sits on the table or any

place you choose and you got a pitcher.

No one uses pitcher anymore. This is a old time story.

So it is a pot and the pot you carry every day to bring fetch

the water from wherever it is well bore well or whatever you

are bringing the water. And one day that pot fell from

the hand of the person was using it and broke into pieces.

So was was watching it and jumped up and said, Hooray,

that's the end of your life. You made a big mistake.

You're never going to recover from it.

It was just celebrating the fall of the pot.

But the owner, what does he think of the walls and what does

he think of the picture? Owner has sympathy, compassion

for the pot that is broken into pieces because it served them

every day. Every day the pitcher was

useful. That pot was useful to bring the

water and it feels for the broken pot.

The walls did not break. It's sitting there.

So which will have more value? Pitcher.

So in in the fellowship, sometimes somebody may fall,

somebody can make a mistake, but how do we react to that fall?

We need to have the gentleness, that compassion, that mercy.

That is what is going to bring beauty and harmony to that, to

restore that broken part. Nothing else will do.

And I will give you one more example of Peter the apostle.

What did he do? Three times?

Not once. He denied.

And the denial is the highest degree of denial.

And Jesus was arrested. He was being questioned and he

was taken inside the courts, Kaifa's house.

And this servant girl looks at him at the door.

Hey, I know you. You are one of them.

No, no, no, I am. I am not his disciple.

I don't belong to him. He goes inside and there is a

fire, and he is standing there in the light of the fire.

The lady says definitely you are one of his disciples.

What are you talking? I don't know him at all.

One more time, one more says, your accent gives away.

You are a Galilean and you have come all the way from there, for

you are his follower. I don't know him, who he is, I

don't know what you're talking about.

He cursed himself with a curse and he said, I don't know Jesus.

And from there, far away, Jesus looked at Peter and it went

straight into the heart because he already warned him.

You're going to deny me three times before the rooster crows

two times. Life is finished there for

Peter. All practical purposes, if Peter

is living in a church today, he, his whole fate is finished.

He will never be used again in the church.

He will never be used again in the church because you made a

big blunder. You deny the master.

You cannot be useful in any way. Sometimes, you know, it happens

in the church, somebody make a mistake and the police catches

them on the road driving, speeding, that they get a

speeding ticket and they tell somebody, oh, I got a speeding

ticket. And every you know, you got a

speeding ticket, you know he got a speeding ticket.

And everywhere talks about speeding ticket.

Anybody can get a spring ticket if you are not careful,

particularly with a 40 kilometer 1, you go at 5552, you get a

spring ticket. So we need to be gentle.

But suppose let's there one mistake, that one mistake one

man made and then he was criticized so much he criticized

and he started doing more bad things.

Today he told a lie. He's caught.

And tomorrow he tells a lie and he does something more.

He steals because he was not having the value or he were not

valued. And then he kept on committing

sin. One day he landed in the jail.

How did he end in end up in the jail?

Because people did not allow him to change his lifestyle and they

kept on putting him down for the mistake he made.

Simple thing, maybe a small lie, but it drove him to the jail one

day in the future because he was not accepted.

So maybe not do that kind of too much of criticism so that he

will not end up into that kind of a thing.

So what did Jesus do for restoring Peter after his

resurrection? Actually Peter says to the rest

of them, I want to go fishing. Basically what is he saying is I

want to quit my life, I don't want to follow Jesus anymore, I

want to go back to my fishing. Jesus said you are a fisherman,

I will make you fishes. Are men not fish?

But he says I am going back to fishing.

Why he does not want to follow Jesus anymore?

He has denied him three times. He has got no hope of regaining

his life back again, so he wants to go back.

It is basically emotional suicide for Peter.

And Jesus is standing on the shore.

Yes. Have you got any fish?

No, we worked all night. OK, cast your net on this side.

They get 153 fish. And then when they came on the

show, he already had kept some fish and bread on fire.

So bring the fish that you caught.

In case you think this is not real, you eat this also bring

what you caught, it is real. So he spoke to him tenderly and

they restored him gently, saying, Do you love me, Peter,

More than these? This net, this fish, other

people? Do you love me more than this,

Lord? You know I have denied it three

times, but you also know I love you.

Take care of my sheep, Peter. Yes, Sir.

Do you love me more than this? Again a second Time.

Lord, you know I love you. I cannot prove it anymore

because I had denied you 3 times.

There is no way I can prove it to you that I love you.

I have failed miserably, but I know I love you.

Take care of my sheep 1/3 time. Peter, do you love me more than

this? Follow me when you are restored.

So the point here is, he made him food, He cooked for him

breakfast. He has drawn him close and

restored him gently and gives him responsibility again.

That is restoration. You have to give the job to

somebody again. There's a sign that you're

trusting them again. You don't give them the job.

You're not not trusting them. There's no restoration

happening. And then calls him back into

ministry. He gives him the ministry back

and tells him, feed my sheep. Peter had fallen into a serious

sin. Jesus restores him with

gentleness, humility, love and responsibility.

Exactly what Galatians 61 to 6 is telling us to do.

I hope you will not forget the sermon now.

I only hope. What does Galatians 61 to six

talk about? Restoration?

How to do it gently. Who can do it?

One who is spiritual, and the word spiritual is elsewhere

talked about in Hebrews. It says someone who is not a

child feeding on the milk, but one who is mature to handle

things. So spiritual growth is

important. One who is spiritual only can

correct somebody. A newborn Christian may not be

able to go and correct somebody who is already in a high

position of rank or service or whatever it is.

So we have to know how to correct, whom to correct, how to

do it. Gentleness, mercy, love,

tenderness. Restoration is a hard job, not

easy job. But the question now want to

finish it is, are we able to face Jesus again and say, here

am I, I bring the broken parts of my life.

I missed it, but I wanted to restore it.

I want that nail, Pierre's hand, to put on that broken pot again

and bring the pieces to him. And he wants to restore it to

the original glory. To the original glory.

Shall we bow our heads in prayer?

Father, we thank you again for your word.

Thank you, Jesus, for your word. I pray now, Father, that the

Spirit of compassion, the Spirit of mercy, Spirit of love will

touch everyone of our hearts. I did not choose this passage.

It's just coming in the way as we finish chapter 5.

We went to chapter 6. But Lord, we believe that you

are speaking to us through this world to bring restoration into

our hearts and into others. And we believe, Father, that you

are doing something in this church as well.

Holy Spirit, I pray that you use this word to heal the hearts of

everyone, heal the heart of everyone, heal the heart of

everyone. Everybody who is in pain, who is

in shame, who is in criticize, who belittled or put down.

My Father, I pray that you lift up their face now and tell them

that you love them and restore them to the glory of your name,

that they will love understanding in this church in

the fellowship to the glory of your name.

Rasta Sarani maharano Kara sanda bashiro RA mahaseke Sandandarano

rono kori bashe makarose bandrano hasta corono

Rohanamanda sestak reni Risha rabhasta corono Rohasta koroni.

The Lord says if you forgive, also forget.

That is part of restoration is to forget.

We cannot keep on digging what happened 10 years ago or 20

years ago. We have to let it go.

That is how healing comes. Father, I pray put that nail

patience of your son right now on the hearts of everyone of us.

I need it and everybody here needs it.

So I pray touch us and heal us the glory of your name.

Thank you again for your word in Jesus mighty name.

We have asked and everybody says Amen, Amen.

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