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  1. We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast.

  2. We are a church based out of Chennai, India.

  3. We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will

  4. be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear.

  5. Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of

  6. purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus.

  7. During this year of a divine takeover, we are discovering

  8. that there are a few essentials that we cannot overlook.

  9. One of these is the fear of God. To live in awe and reverent fear

  10. of God is imperative in order for God to take over our lives

  11. and lead us in His ways according to His will.

  12. We pray that as you listen in, you would invite the Holy Spirit

  13. to give you a fresh revelation of God and that you will live in

  14. the fear and wonder of God. Wonderful to be here and it's a

  15. such a joy. Thank you gosh and Tina, thank

  16. you that they believe in me. That's wrong.

  17. Blessed are those who believe they should see my record.

  18. And Santaraj, please stand up. He is my guru.

  19. He was in the literature for many years and he's a Bible

  20. teacher and such a joy to see him.

  21. And Victor and Sunidhi, of course, are my good friends for

  22. many, many years, you know, And so it's wonderful, wonderful.

  23. So I'm getting to see many of you and few of you have read my

  24. books. And it's just interesting.

  25. I'm touched, I'm touched, I'm touched.

  26. And as you were sharing about fear and and all of that, you

  27. have to believe I was like that. I was absolutely fearful.

  28. I could not OK. When I grew up as a child, we

  29. were six of us. We were all in one bedroom.

  30. We couldn't afford beyond that. My dad was there.

  31. I was probably about 810 years and I was trying to ask daddy

  32. something. I could not form one question

  33. straight. And, and yeah, Stena is where I

  34. grew up, and I think I told the story, but I'll just say that

  35. there was a day when I had failed academically and my

  36. brother got upset with me. He actually sent me out of the

  37. house with a begging bowl in my hand.

  38. And then Christ came into my life and he can transform us

  39. completely. Completely.

  40. There were days in there used to be a now, I don't know, Basin

  41. Bridge. Do you know where Basin Bridge

  42. is when he entered into Chennai? Yeah.

  43. I used to stand in that bridge. I was 16 years old and I 16

  44. years old and I failed my 6th standard.

  45. Can you imagine that? OK.

  46. I was looking at that bridge and looking at all the people going

  47. on the train. Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, wow,

  48. this is amazing. These guys are going to Delhi

  49. and Bombay. Wow, that is my life.

  50. And then guys came into my life. I think I told this word.

  51. Anybody remember what is personality?

  52. Where the word personality comes from?

  53. Does anybody know? OK, I don't know that the word

  54. personality. Oh, I'm a shy person.

  55. Oh, I'm a fearful person. Don't, don't get me wrong.

  56. Don't get me wrong. We are all there.

  57. I was there myself. Oh, I'm like this.

  58. I'm a background person. If there was a screen, I'll

  59. stand behind the screen also. I was there.

  60. I was there and so so the word personality comes from a Latin

  61. word called mask. Did you know that the word mask,

  62. it protects me. Don't tell me to go forward

  63. because I am a very shy person. Defense mechanism is another

  64. word you could use for that. And then Christ comes I'm I'm

  65. right now I'm working only on five books.

  66. My wife says that's crazy, but I'm still working and one of the

  67. books I'm working on is called neurotheology.

  68. I was telling my friend here and and neurotheology simply says

  69. this that you can actually scientifically record the

  70. transformation that takes place in your brain when God works in

  71. it. One of the reason I wrote that

  72. book and is to tell young people particularly don't get anybody

  73. tell lies to you. Oh, oh, believe me, when God is

  74. outdated, science was very clever and brilliant nonsense.

  75. The truth is this, that scientists now are discovering

  76. what the Bible always said. I call science tube light.

  77. Don't tell them. They may get angry.

  78. And that is the truth and what now science is saying because

  79. because I'll tell you one thing, all truth comes from God and

  80. takes you back to God in worship and adoration.

  81. Francis Schaeffer said that actually that's God.

  82. And so so our personality in our life is probably because of our

  83. childhood experiences and various things that will happen

  84. in our lives. But Christ came not just to save

  85. you from your sin. That is the beginning of that,

  86. not to save you from eternal hell, which is real.

  87. And God saves us when you come to know him.

  88. He saves you from eternal condemnation and separation in

  89. hell. But that's just the beginning.

  90. He invites us and says, my Son, I want to give you life and I

  91. want to give it abundantly, super abundantly.

  92. None of you, none of you are ordinary people.

  93. To believe that you're an ordinary person, that is the

  94. greatest lie you can ever believe.

  95. For years I believed it. For years I believed it.

  96. Now Tina is in two books, right? 10 years ago, 15 years ago, we

  97. told you you'll write books. Will you believe that in a

  98. joker? You'll laugh?

  99. If you told me I told you about this Basin Bridge experience,

  100. standing there and saying if somebody told me that I'll go to

  101. America five times, then I'll go to Australia and I'll go to

  102. England and I'll go to and all these places.

  103. You're joking. I could not write one sentence

  104. in English when I was 16 years old.

  105. I couldn't spell the word tree. I failed in Tamil because I was

  106. born here. I went to Karnataka.

  107. I failed in Kannada because I went there to study.

  108. Hopefully at least I had in the classes there.

  109. Then I said OK, that's not a thing for me, I'll try Hindi.

  110. I failed in Hindi, then I said I'll go to the national

  111. language, and then I go to international French.

  112. I failed in French too. I failed in English too.

  113. Welcome. And then Christ into my life.

  114. One of the books I'm working on is on the ancient Hebrew

  115. language preview. Hebrew and all of that.

  116. It's almost done. Not bad for a personal fear in

  117. Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and French.

  118. And this is what you need to dream.

  119. You need to dream and realize this, that Christ came, that you

  120. and I, you know, in Ephesians we read, the light has come.

  121. Let's rise and shine, correct? You know it's there.

  122. No, in the Bible, light came shine.

  123. OK, let me say this is this. 90% of believers have not been

  124. liberated to enjoy that light. They still live in darkness.

  125. You're either liberated by the power of the Holy Spirit, or

  126. you're living in bondage, or you're travelling towards that

  127. liberation. I have some notes, and last time

  128. I was here, that's your notes were better than your preaching.

  129. Will you please keep your notes now?

  130. I'll tell you that's what happened.

  131. Now. Good to get correction from each

  132. other. That's one of the reasons you

  133. get mad at. If they told you before that,

  134. you wouldn't have got married. Who likes correction?

  135. Oh, I love correction. Oh my gosh, no.

  136. But that's how we grow. We grow.

  137. So what happened was that I, I had some notes that did not say.

  138. Then somebody told me later, Pastor, your notes were better,

  139. your pressing was not so good. And that actually prompted me.

  140. Listen to this. This is what happens.

  141. That actually prompted me to write a book on the notes that I

  142. gave, which I did not present here.

  143. That book is almost ready. That's how you work.

  144. That's how you work. OK, I'll give you another clue.

  145. I think I love your church too much, so I love my best things

  146. here. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  147. Listen to this very carefully. I don't tell this to everybody,

  148. but you look like a very good coup to me.

  149. God only gives you clues. He's not going to write it on

  150. the wall for you. Remember that.

  151. Remember that He only gives you clues.

  152. But if you had life today, God only gives you clues.

  153. You got to take it. Run with it, That's all.

  154. So and as long as it's to glorify God and as long as it is

  155. to bless people, as long as OK, I'm still not done with my

  156. introduction. OK, I'll give an introduction.

  157. I'm going to talk about hopefully finish in.

  158. I'm going to talk about Sower in the Sea, that story, OK, And the

  159. last part, OK, we'll take we'll do it to Matthew, Matthew 13

  160. chapter. So in the last part of that

  161. story, our Lord explains the story, right?

  162. And verse 23, Matthew 1323. Can someone read that?

  163. Matthew 1323. Correct.

  164. Yeah. Please.

  165. Amen. Amen.

  166. This is about the sword in the sea, right?

  167. It's some seat falls. The wayside is gone from a rocky

  168. ground. Someone thorns come and gone.

  169. And recently somebody was asking me, pastor, you were in this

  170. church for the church here in Chennai 50 years ago, now you're

  171. come. What is the difference that you

  172. see in the church? OK, now don't think I'm old.

  173. I started very young. That's why, anyway, and what is

  174. it? And I said this many things, and

  175. I said one thing. Even then I knew there were

  176. very, very few people who would really long for God and obeying

  177. God and trusting in God and growing.

  178. And I think that is true even now.

  179. You must have a real longing for God and to grow and to love Him

  180. and obey Him, must have a real desire to let God transform you.

  181. You must be sick and tired of your sin.

  182. You must be sick and tired of having an ordinary life, but I

  183. mean ordinary life, not growing, not progressive, not experience

  184. the power and the presence of God, not experience the joy of

  185. God, not experience the fullness of God.

  186. You must be sick and tired of it.

  187. I'm I'm going to church and I'm marrying.

  188. Blessed are those who hungry and dust after righteousness.

  189. Blessed are those whose heart is pure, they will see God.

  190. Hallelujah. I want to purify my heart from

  191. every sin in my life. I want to God to cleanse

  192. everything that needs to be broken in my life because I want

  193. to bring forth much fruit. None of us were born to have

  194. less fruit. Anna, So what does he say?

  195. Some to bring 40, some hundredfold and 60.

  196. Here's the question, Am I progressively bringing forth

  197. much fruit? OK, I think I'll use the last

  198. slide and the last like the fruit of the when you and I obey

  199. and live Tina Gershwin, say something.

  200. If I did not mention it or forget to, you just correct me

  201. and say you said that to bring it back.

  202. OK, I want to tell that story right in.

  203. In the Jewish tradition, this is a very beautiful thing.

  204. In the Jewish tradition, this is like this.

  205. When Rabbi was asked what is the biggest thing about the 10

  206. books, the five books of the Torah, the first five books of

  207. Torah, he said two things. Listen very carefully.

  208. He said two things. In the beginning, God created

  209. heaven and the earth, full stop. In the beginning, God created

  210. heaven and the earth, full stop. And then he says I'm creating

  211. you. That's all.

  212. I'm creating you. I'm creating you and I believe

  213. that you can effect transform this world.

  214. What you were saying about the whole world, I don't know how

  215. they came up with the statistics.

  216. Everyone of us can influence 32,000 people.

  217. And with the Internet and all the films you have, Oh my gosh,

  218. there is no ordinary person. So when the Word of God comes

  219. into your life and you experientially understand that

  220. everything changes. You know, when Victor Jakaran

  221. were in our church in Indiranagar, what, 38 years ago,

  222. what, 38 years ago, right? 30 years ago, I announced in

  223. church I was the pastor. OK, we're going to have a late

  224. training program in our church. And we start announcing, I think

  225. Wednesday we went on Thursday. Was it Tuesday?

  226. Tuesday we met. OK and the 1st last time we had

  227. announced that we had 30 people, I said woo 30 people for a late

  228. training program in a method that church is phenomenal.

  229. I'm going to lead you to teach you how to do a Bible study, how

  230. to preach, how to lead a person to Christ, how to give the

  231. assurance salvation thought we signed up.

  232. Wow. So I went to my mentor and I

  233. said. You know what, I announced this

  234. late training program and 30 people have signed up and have

  235. come Yampa. I'm so excited.

  236. And you're going to VASU if we train one or two people enough

  237. VASU. Actually, that's what happened.

  238. Victor was the permanent victim of my classes.

  239. He came for all the program. Only other person.

  240. Only one other person. I can remember why I'm saying

  241. this. OK, Listen to this very

  242. carefully. The word is sown to everybody.

  243. God's resources, God's power, God's miracle is available to

  244. everybody. That's a lie.

  245. Don't be so proud. You know self pity is pride.

  246. You know that self pity is pride.

  247. You know 1 words that transformed my life and is Acts

  248. and I think it's the 12th chapter of Acts.

  249. It says with God there is no partiality, with God there is no

  250. partiality. Acts chapter 10 was therefore,

    Acts 10 chapter mention

  251. you just get into your system. The word of God is preached

  252. everybody. The Bible is available to

  253. everybody and, and, and, and, and, and when you put that into

  254. your life, God can transform your life.

  255. Can somebody do that for us? With God there is no partiality.

  256. That's all. Whatever you, I'll give you one

  257. thing, none of us are victim of the past in Christ Jesus.

  258. We all can be victims. Hallelujah, none of us.

  259. I love to say this to young people, please don't take it

  260. badly. Blaming your parents comes with

  261. an expiry date. Hallelujah.

  262. Only parents can say Hallelujah. Blaming your parents comes with

  263. a expiry date. Please don't give that for a

  264. long time. Don't.

  265. I lost my mother when I was five years old.

  266. My dad was a very, very business, very busy person.

  267. I mean, I don't blame him. And yeah, six of us to take

  268. care. My youngest brother was seven

  269. months old and my mother died. OK.

  270. So those days there was no family and planning.

  271. There's two different things. When when my mother was

  272. expecting, my grandmother also was expecting.

  273. I always wonder where my daddy went.

  274. Did he see his mother-in-law anyway?

  275. And when my mother died, our whole world collapsed.

  276. My daddy by God's grief, he said not to get married.

  277. He and he took care of us. OK, so I do not remember my

  278. daddy ever carrying me or touching me.

  279. He had a seven months old to take care.

  280. Daddy got up in the morning at 5:30, had his prayer, went and

  281. had coffee and had break, bought some vegetables and then he

  282. probably bought breakfast for us.

  283. We, we lived in hotel food for a long, long time.

  284. And he would go to work at 9:30. He never came back till 8:30.

  285. Never. I still remember and I know the

  286. exact space spot in the street in Clemens Rd. in Purushawakam

  287. where I could stand and wait up my power.

  288. That looks like daddy. That looks like daddy, that

  289. looks like daddy. And then it'd be somebody.

  290. Hours, hours, hours. I want to say this, the greatest

  291. healing came to me when I recognized God as my daddy.

  292. God, that's my daddy. It changed every cell of my

  293. body. It changed my nervous system.

  294. It changed my brain. It changed my complete function

  295. of my brain. I'm talking pure neuroscience

  296. here, actually actual neuroscience changes everything.

  297. And then when you yeah, we'll go back to that slide.

  298. So yeah, just be the last slide that we saw and I and this is

  299. just not a complete list, but I let me say this.

  300. So when the word of God and his love.

  301. OK, bring the 2nd or the 3rd slide.

  302. OK, go ahead. Go ahead.

  303. Go ahead, go ahead. No, there's another one after

  304. that. No.

  305. OK, Anyway, it's not here. I'll give it to you as you as

  306. you say. Can you type it and bring it on

  307. the screen? Great.

  308. Now we say this is the word of God.

  309. We say this is the word of God, correct?

  310. Yeah. In Hebrew it is not there.

  311. It's not like that. OK, so Anthony, you started

  312. Hebrew, you taught Hebrew. Then I am the scholar in Hebrew.

  313. It's not there. The word, The word.

  314. Listen to this. OK, The word when you say the

  315. word in Hebrew, it is a real thing.

  316. It is a first thing, it's a real thing.

  317. Say it's a real thing. The word I've got is a real

  318. thing. Say it's a real thing.

  319. OK, so, so when I speak, I give you something that you did not

  320. have. So the Hebrew word to speak and

  321. think THING is almost saying So when I tell you God loves you,

  322. God has a beautiful plan for your life.

  323. Don't give up in life because he has engraved in the palms of His

  324. hand and you are the greatest delight to him.

  325. He dances and sings over you. When I give that word, it is a

  326. real thing. It's not Anne, it's not

  327. vibration, it's not some frequency.

  328. It's a real thing. That is all.

  329. When God says he loves you, it's a real thing.

  330. That's the first thing about Hebrew.

  331. And when you understand that as a wrong thing, everything

  332. changes. Second thing, the word to speak

  333. I speak is in Hebrew is to give a jewel.

  334. Interesting. To speak is to give a jewel to

  335. you. Now, those of you who are

  336. getting preparation for marriage or if you are married, if you

  337. don't have a jewel to give, shut up.

  338. How many marriages will be saved if you just shut up?

  339. I feel like saying idiot, I feel like shut up.

  340. If you don't have a jewel to give, what do you do?

  341. How many marriages? And that's a good preparation

  342. for marriage, actually. And to speak is to give a jewel.

  343. The last thing about speaking in Hebrew is beautiful.

  344. In Hebrew, when I say I speak, I raise you to the highest place

  345. in the branch of a tree. That's speaking, I raise you.

  346. What a beautiful thing if all marriages can just follow that.

  347. I raise you to the highest place in the branch of the tree.

  348. Tell you the why I'm with you. And and so let's put in the word

  349. of God what a what is the word of God first in the Hebrew

  350. understanding it's a real thing. This chat is real that what

  351. water bottle is real real, absolutely real.

  352. God loves you, God cares for you and he has a beautiful plan for

  353. you in terms of all your disappointment, he has an

  354. appointment. Hallelujah.

  355. All your set back. All your set back are a set up

  356. for a higher raise Hallelujah. But just continue to love him.

  357. Just continue to obey him. Just continue to follow him.

  358. Just continue to know him. So when that real thing comes

  359. into your life, you obey it, you follow that.

  360. It changes everything about you. Everything about you.

  361. OK, Yeah, very good. Where is the word?

  362. I've got is real thing then the word of God to speak is to give

  363. a jewel to give a jewel and the third thing is to speak is to

  364. raise the person to the highest branch of a tree that's not

  365. speaking and this exactly what the word of God does to us.

  366. You know, my life changed completely.

  367. My life changed completely when I realized God loves me and it's

  368. a nothing. God is with me and it's a real

  369. thing. The other day I was going to A

  370. to a church, which I have not been before and the service

  371. started. I think the worship stopped.

  372. So there were ashes, very big church and there was ashes and

  373. and as I entered the Ashraf, how many of you he said you know, I

  374. said phone, but I was walking alone.

  375. Then he showed me a chair where there was four seats and he and

  376. as I was sitting going to sit. No, actually the other three

  377. person don't need chair, but they are with me.

  378. Are you with me? Because it's a real thing.

  379. The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit is with me.

  380. But they don't need a chat. It's a real thing.

  381. And then when that Word of God comes into your life, that's a

  382. real thing. Then you bring forth much fruit.

  383. It's a real thing. I didn't have a jewel.

  384. Oh, I got the jewel. I live as if I got the jewel.

  385. I live as if I have a jewel in my heart.

  386. And because of that Jewel, I live.

  387. OK, You bring the discipleship thing.

  388. It's intentional and OK. Yeah, we will go to that.

  389. Yeah. No, no, before that.

  390. Yeah, OK. Before that, Before that, before

  391. that. Can somebody read that for us?

  392. We go to the verse before that. OK, so read that one or two that

  393. read it loudly. I can read it read.

  394. Go ahead. If you want the seed to bring

  395. forth fruit, there must be discipline, there must be

  396. obedience, there must be submission.

  397. Then you bring the next slide now.

  398. Yeah, OK, All of us do that. Training.

  399. Repeated intentional practice that forms you, not perfection

  400. overnight. Formation overtime.

  401. Shall we read that again? Training is repeated intentional

  402. practice that forms you, not perfection overnight.

  403. You're getting formed into Christ, like now.

  404. That's all it is, but it has to be intentional.

  405. It has to be an everyday ongoing process of saying no, no, no,

  406. this. I cannot be thinking this way.

  407. There's a theory in, there's a practice in counseling that we

  408. learned, one of the things that we learned is called stop

  409. therapy. All of you say stop therapy,

  410. stop therapy shot again. So when you're anxious, you're

  411. OK to be anxious for a little while.

  412. If you're worried, it's alright to be worried for a little

  413. while. If somebody hurts you, it's

  414. alright to feel that anger for a little while because we are all

  415. human being. If you're worried about certain

  416. things, you put your ATM into the mission and you get the

  417. loving letter insufficient from it's a little it's OK to be and

  418. then say wow, I'm going to trust God.

  419. Stop therapy says that is all right to be worried or anxious

  420. or worried and upset or angry for a short duration of time.

  421. Somebody calls you I know him so I can go and then say it hurts.

  422. OK, here's if you say exactly the statement.

  423. Next time when Tina and Gharshan call me, I'll give you a gift,

  424. OK? Somebody hurt me.

  425. They said something just not correct recently, and then I

  426. said these words to them. As I told you, it's alright to

  427. feel anger, hurt and pain. So don't think that is wrong.

  428. It's alright. It's alright to be afraid, you

  429. know, listen to this. I told whatever you say, my joy

  430. and my peace in God is not going to be disturbed.

  431. Hallelujah. Learn it.

  432. As I said, you will feel that initially and that's OK, but I'm

  433. not going to live in anger, bitterness, unforgiveness,

  434. resentment, stop. That's the power of the Holy

  435. Spirit in the life of believer. For those of you preparing for

  436. marriage, this is a very good preparation.

  437. You will have hundreds of opportunities every day, almost

  438. hundreds of that is why training is that in one way, if you want

  439. to be a good discipline to get married, you will see, you will

  440. get training. You will get training, good

  441. training. All your garbage and all that

  442. anger and everything is going to come on.

  443. Listen to this. No spiritual progress can come

  444. without you submitting, without you yielding and without you

  445. obeying the Holy Spirit. Nothing's going to happen.

  446. You're not going to become productive and what become what

  447. God wants you to be just that's not going to happen.

  448. It's intentional, it's repeated. It's a practice moment by moment

  449. and by second, by millisecond, obeying God and enjoying Him

  450. and. Following him.

  451. OK, here's something you can write this down, OK?

  452. In response to his deep love, in his in our response to his deep

  453. love, we continue to obey him and transformation takes place.

  454. Karata, you get it. In response to his deep love,

  455. you obey him and transformation takes place.

  456. That's all. It's only in that, only in that.

  457. OK. So it is a repeated intentional

  458. practice that forms you not, not overnight performance formation

  459. over time. OK.

  460. So I've been married for 38 years, nine years.

  461. You're 3040. So he's senior to me.

  462. So so and I was saying this, I'm saying that when we first got

  463. married, we fought a lot. I spoke words I should not

  464. speak. But in the last five years, six

  465. years or so, both of us have learnt this intentional

  466. obedience. That's a good one.

  467. In response to his deep love, we continue to obey and

  468. transformation takes place. Underline that into your life.

  469. And then when Nadala and myself came closer to God and and we

  470. began to realize what really counts, I want to say this, that

  471. we enjoy each other now. Then we first got married

  472. because you act OK. Write this down.

  473. My Christian experience of God's love must transform me and make

  474. me an awesome, amazing, loving person to live with.

  475. Can I say that again, my experience of God and my

  476. obedience to His response to His deep love in my life must

  477. transform me into an awesome, loving, amazing person to live

  478. with. And if that is not happening

  479. when you check with God, OK, we'll go to the next slide.

  480. Oh, you got the sentence. OK, very good.

  481. No problem, No problem. OK, so salvation means salvation

  482. means is an invitation for transformation.

  483. Marriage means invitation for transformation.

  484. In the Hebrew understanding, marriage is a born again

  485. experience. Marriage is a born again.

  486. I want put a case, one case. I was born like this and I did

  487. like this. Finally I'll be like this.

  488. Put a case manage is an invitation for transformation.

  489. Salvation is an invitation for transformation.

  490. You experience this love and say Lord, I want to be changed

  491. person Ruttle OK, so salvation is go back good.

  492. All of the readers my Christian experience loudly my yeah go

  493. ahead read loudly my Christian experience of others.

  494. You make everybody around you sick and tired.

  495. Have to be OK. OK, So yeah, dying to self and

  496. living for Christ, that's what salvation is.

  497. And in this transformation, when you accept Christ and the

  498. transformation that God is inviting us is this one.

  499. Let Christ be the Lord of our lives to Eal and say Lord

  500. hereafter not my will, but but thy will be done.

  501. That you understand the cross means everything to you, and you

  502. want to live every day for him. That's the invitation.

  503. That's the invitation God gives you.

  504. OK, let's move, let's move, move.

  505. What happens? Why sometimes the word people

  506. listen to the church. They hear Gharsham preach his

  507. heart out and they and and they listen to so many messages and

  508. so much of teaching they get. But there is no fruit and no

  509. result at all. There's no change at all.

  510. Now this is not a complete list, OK, But you have to find out why

  511. we go into rocky grounds and hearts filled with unnecessary

  512. things that are choking the world.

  513. There are rocks there that is not allowing the sea to take

  514. full growth and become what you can become and and because of

  515. these things that are occupied now, listen to this very

  516. carefully, OK, All of this occupy real estate space in your

  517. brain. And then you have a

  518. superstructure around all of that infrastructure around that.

  519. And there's buildings and there are chains and there are

  520. bondages that strongholds. That's the word the Bible uses

  521. strongholds around it. And then you listen to Billy

  522. Graham and John Piper and just start and you listen to all of

  523. these guys. Nothing.

  524. Because deep, deep down on your heart and soul, these are some

  525. of the things that are preoccupying your life and they

  526. are eating you from inside. Some people have lived with

  527. anxiety and if they don't, if they're not anxious, they are

  528. anxious. Why they are not anxious?

  529. I should not be like that. For years and years and years we

  530. lived in that. One of my friend's pastor was

  531. telling and he was passing by and said and then he saw some

  532. people have built their houses just near and he was asking how

  533. do these people manage to live in this place?

  534. This got used to. Listen to this.

  535. Listen to this. I want to tell you a story, but

  536. this I won't get that. Listen to this, don't get used

  537. to these nonsense things in your life that is destroying you from

  538. inside and think they are normal and you have to live with it all

  539. your life. You don't have to.

  540. That's why Christ came and he said I'll set you free.

  541. When the sun sets you free, what will happen?

  542. You'll be free indeed. It's a real thing.

  543. He wants to lift you up and you've got to find out what are

  544. the. The other thing you could have

  545. is low self worth. You could add a lot of things in

  546. this world. Low self worth is another thing.

  547. Now listen to this very carefully.

  548. I'll tell this, you can get this done, OK.

  549. What you accomplish can never be consistent with what you think

  550. about yourself. What you believe about yourself

  551. is so important because if you believe that, you are an idiot.

  552. If you believe you'll never get over your fear.

  553. If you believe that you're an ordinary person, you can't also

  554. do great things because that's what you believe about yourself.

  555. You will never race about what you believe about yourself.

  556. Then once you realise Isaiah 43 four, this was my words that

  557. transformed my life, that you are precious, you are honoured,

  558. you are loved. And when I realise that it's a

  559. real thing, I got a jewel and I live as if I have a jewel.

  560. I live that way. I live.

  561. So the person who has a PhD, some of you know my PhD right

  562. past high school, Difficult, you know.

  563. Well, at least right now, my desire is only to write 25

  564. books. I'm only going to be 70 next

  565. year. That's all you can do.

  566. OK, Listen to this very carefully.

  567. OK, Listen to this very carefully.

  568. Jesus, our Lord says these words.

  569. If you believe in me, complete that for me.

  570. If you believe in me, you will do the work that I do.

  571. And then I'm going to the Father, man.

  572. I'm going to your daddy, bedfellow.

  573. He loves you so much. He gets excited about seeing

  574. you, and then I'm going to the Father.

  575. Hey, you will do much more than I have done.

  576. Do you believe that? Is that the real thing for you

  577. or it is some vibration, some voices, some No, no, no, no, no,

  578. they are real. And when I began to realize that

  579. it's real, it changed my life completely.

  580. I only went to America five times because I believed.

  581. I believed that he gave me a jewel.

  582. OK, so we'll just close. So bring back the last slide.

  583. All of us can read this. OK, now this again is not a

  584. complete list. When the real world of God gets

  585. into your system, when the jewel gets into your system, when the

  586. real thing gets into your system, your life will change

  587. completely. OK, let's read it.

  588. You will become. Go ahead.

  589. Amen. Go ahead.

  590. Amen. Go ahead.

  591. Amen. Amen.

  592. OK, all those who can become fathers, so many of your fathers

  593. here have children with you. Can I see your hand?

  594. OK. You better become dynamic and

  595. active because your children are going to see you.

  596. They'll also become dull and boric.

  597. Better you will become a dynamic person.

  598. OK, next one who will become black.

  599. If you abide in me, you'll bring forth, I was listening to this

  600. rabbi, I was telling you what is the only one?

  601. If you have to say the most important words in the five

  602. books of the Torah, what is the most important verse in that?

  603. He says Deuteronomy 4/4. Can somebody read that?

  604. Can you bring that on the screen?

  605. Deuteronomy 4th chapter, fourth verse, to summarize the entire

  606. five books. He says this is the key and I

  607. was thinking how close our Lord was when he said if you abide in

  608. me and your my words abide in you, you'll bring forth much

  609. fruit. That's what our Lord said,

  610. correct? OK, but all of you was to the

  611. Lord. You're God and you shall live,

  612. Hallelujah, and He shall live when you continuously enjoy the

  613. experience and knowledge of Him loving you, when you continue to

  614. enjoy and celebrate the joy and the peace.

  615. He, you know I want to say this, you bring greatest delight to

  616. the eyes of God. Hallelujah.

  617. Can I say that again, you bring the greatest delight in the eyes

  618. of God and look at His eyes delighting in you and just

  619. celebrate that. Just enjoy that and just

  620. celebrate and worship for a few seconds every day, every hour.

  621. If you can do that, your brain will be transformed.

  622. How many seconds are there in a minute?

  623. You seconds of those minutes. Just enjoy.

  624. It's not about you. It's not about you producing

  625. anything. It's about his love, his joy.

  626. In Zephaniah 317, he is singing over you, he is dancing over

  627. you. Just enjoy that.

  628. Just go into that dance. It's not about you.

  629. And once you get into that dance, you're also celebrating.

  630. OK, let's complete that one. Then you'll become productive.

  631. That's all. You have new ideas.

  632. I mean, OK, you will read next one.

  633. You look very creative. I was teaching a class on

  634. happiness in a school in Bangalore and somebody said, you

  635. said if you're happy, you'll be creating, you'll be creating

  636. something. What did you create?

  637. He's asking me. OK, in front of the class I

  638. said, hey, how long have you been in school?

  639. 10 years. Did anybody come and teach you

  640. on happiness? No Sir, here I am.

  641. Oh, a story. If you're doing the same thing

  642. for years and years and years, then you're not growing the life

  643. of a believer. The life of a believer is

  644. spontaneous and unpredictable. The life of a Sinner is

  645. predictable and boring. Nobody told you that one, did

  646. they? The life of a believer is

  647. spontaneous and active in dynamic.

  648. The life of a sin is predictable and boring.

  649. OK, next one you will enjoy. Amen.

  650. You know, your business, your money, your health, all of that

  651. keeps changing continuously, for the presence of God will never

  652. change. And there's fullness of joy,

  653. Psalm 16 in His presence. God is inviting you to that one.

  654. God is inviting you to that. Next one because it is a What is

  655. the word of God? It's a real thing.

  656. It's a real thing. 2 + 2 is 4 like H2 is water.

  657. Yeah. More real is God that he loves

  658. you. He has given you a spirit of

  659. power and not of timidity. That's the truth.

  660. Real thing. OK, next one.

  661. Amen. Amen.

  662. Progressively, if you're enjoying worship, you're

  663. growing, you're becoming productive, OK, next one OK and

  664. add you will enjoy a relationship with God and with

  665. your spouse and your family. Increasingly, as you become

  666. closer to God, you will enjoy intimate relationship with God

  667. and you will enjoy your wife. You'll enjoy your husband

  668. better. You'll enjoy friendship better,

  669. you'll enjoy relationship better.

  670. Progressively you'll enjoy relationship because God made

  671. you for relationships. Time man and I am lonely.

  672. I am OK. No you're not OK.

  673. No man is an island. No man.

  674. We all need each other and they bring light into each other's

  675. life. You'll have a great sense of

  676. victory over sin in your life. Progressively listen to this.

  677. Listen to this OK in, in, in Christian experience.

  678. As you experience the love of God deeply into your system,

  679. obeying him will become your second nature.

  680. Write it down. As you experience God's love and

  681. as God becomes real to you, obeying Him will become your

  682. second nature. And that's how you realise

  683. whether you're bringing forth fruit.

  684. That's what you're talking about.

  685. Your life will be marked with obedience.

  686. I think they're bringing the communion.

  687. I need to obey to close my mouth now.

  688. We'll just take the last type one more time before this, OK?

  689. No, after that you need to see what is choking your spiritual

  690. growth and preventing the seed of the gospel taking roots, the

  691. other one, the rocks and the thing the rocks and what fear,

  692. anxiety, worry are all that list.

  693. OK, as you take in the comedian, examine what's happening, what

  694. is eating you from inside and bring it to the Lord.

  695. Say, Lord, cleanse me from that. I'm sick and tired of that.

  696. You're inviting me into an abundant life.

  697. You're inviting me into an abundant life and give me that

  698. abundant life that you have come to live.

  699. I don't want to settle for anything less.

  700. I don't want to settle for anything less.

  701. Transform my life to bring forth 1600 thousand and.

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