156 ~ CATCH THE WIND ~ Part 7

Hi, and welcome to the, we assign summon podcast.

We are local church based here in Chennai, India.

We are so glad you are with us and hope that this will

encourage Inspire. And in still, fresh faith.

In you, as we enter this New Year, our theme for the year is

Catch the Wind. Our desire is that through this

year each of us would live completely reliant on the Holy

Spirit and we'll follow him wherever he needs us.

We have guest Roman rule share God's word with us on catching

the wind to be cleansed. The holy spirit is one who

brings conviction to our hearts and thereby brings cleansing and

healing to every part of our Lives.

Will you listen in to what God has to speak to you today?

Welcome church. That's a joy and a privilege to

be in God's word. Today and even as we take some

time to dwell into God's word, I just want to First say, a quick

word of prayer so that our hearts will be open our

spiritual, be able to receive what he has and we as as his

children, be able to do what his word requires us to do.

So can we just put our heads down and just say a quick word

of prayer. A loving Heavenly Father, we

thank you Lord for this time I pray that God even as I bring

your word that you would anoint me, I pray that Lord.

Even as I speak, that it I'll be always.

That is being spoken. I pray that lot that your word

would work in us, and through us, and that will be set free.

Lord, Jesus be with us and bless us your most.

Holy name we pray. Amen!

Amen. So for those of you who've been

following us over the last month or so would be knowing that

we've been going through this entire series called catch the

wind. In fact, he started the year

with this theme called catch the wind and I believe strongly that

we as a church, we as his children.

Need the Holy Spirit more than ever before.

And I just want to reiterate in see that the holy spirit is not

a feeling. The holy spirit is not something

that, you know, is only present within the four walls of a

church know. He is a being, he is the third

person. He is the third person in the

Trinity. He is the person who was

promised by Jesus saying that, when I go from here, I will send

the comforter and he's the one who came down on the day of

Pentecost. And ever since that,

Christianity has not been the same ever since that has been

moving in and through people. He's been moving in and through

His prophets, he's been moving in and through his leaders and

it's, he who inspired his people to put down God's word, who we

have today as our Bible. And so, I would ask and courage

of each and every one of you. For those of you who've already

receive the Holy Spirit, if you can ask him for a fresh

anointing, a fresh anointing and anointing that you flow from

your head to your toe. For those of you who still have

not received, I would ask that you would Toast for him first

for him. Just being you know that how

much of you drink it's not enough you know on a summer day

you for those of you who go out and come back in you have this

thirst this I didn't. You feel like you want to drink

so much of water. I pray that we will have

something like that as a church. So that we won't grow cold, we

won't grow lukewarm. We won't come to this place of

saying, you know what, I've had enough but it would always say

Lord I want more of your spirit. And so over the last six seven

weeks, this is what we've been seeing first.

We saw that, you know, we need to live a life that is being led

by the Holy Spirit. He leads us and I follow.

It's not I followed he comes behind me, he leads us and I

follow the second week we saw what it is like when we have the

Holy Spirit, we achieve true success, not the success of the

world. But the success according to

what the Holy Spirit has laid down for us the third week, we

saw he teaches Us. He constantly is teaching us.

He's teaching us to make the right decisions.

He's teaching us to do the right things the following week.

He saw, he restores us. She doesn't want to leave us the

same, he wants to work in and through us after that, we saw

what it is. To have a fruitful life because

of the holy spirit being present in our lives.

And he saw that, you know, the world kind of like pushes this

fruit saying these are some of the foods that you need to have.

But the fruits of the Holy Spirit are extraordinarily

different, which not any changes are spec changes.

Anyone who comes in contact with us because of the one who's

staying within us and last week, He saw the Holy Spirit wants to

move in and through us where William to forgive and so that

in turn will be able to take the next step of reconciliation.

God wants to reconcile us, and I believe many a times.

The only thing that we can be reconciled will be because of

the name of Jesus, that will be the main glue factor.

And so today, whatever God has been doing in and through you in

the last seven weeks, I pray that he will not stop doing it.

And even as he stepped into this week this week, you're going to

see that the Holy Spirit cleanses us inside out.

He cleanses has inside out. And so today, if I have to ask

you, what this cleansing look like, a lot of us have different

ways of cleaning things, some of us, you know, just go brush, you

know, with a cloth. And we think that's clean, some

of us find a speck in that. Some of us are the OCD nature

kicks in, and you probably rub that 45 times thinking it's not

clean enough, but within us, Ourselves.

It's important that we allow the Holy Spirit to work in and

through us and him having access to clean us inside out.

And so today, if there's one thing I want the Holy Spirit to

do in for us, is that I want him to Do a deep clean within us.

So passage for today is from Matthew 3:11-12.

Matthew 3:11–12

And this is what it says, I baptize you with water for

repentance but after me comes one who's more powerful than I

whose sandals, I am not worthy to carry.

He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing Fork is in his hand and he will clear his

threshing, floor Gathering his wheat into the barn and burning

up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Even as I read this, Since this passage the outline of this

passage happens where John the Baptist is doing his ministry.

He's in the desert, he's you know, baptizing people.

He's telling people to repent and it's interesting in this

entire section when he's calling people to repent.

There are the bunch of religious folks who come the Sadducees and

the Pharisees and they are the motives are not one of

repentance the but their motives are one of appearances to make

sure that you know, what they are seeing that they are They

also come across as you know that they are having a repentant

heart. They want to be with the crowd.

But John goes on to tell you here that I am baptizing.

You with water for repentance but there's a one who's coming

after me. Who was Jesus.

And when he baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and fire, there are

things that cannot remain the same.

My idolatry cannot remain with me as a follower of Christ.

My, you know, my addictions cannot remain.

With me as a follower of Christ, my, whatever I decide to do,

after I received Jesus Christ, there are certain things that

disk cannot go hand-in-hand. And that is important.

Because in the day when he comes again, when the second coming

comes, they'll be a clear demarcation between what are

separated and what was not separate.

And so today, as much as we are, are a church here that who's

looking outward to make sure that we are taking the gospel

outside to make sure that, you know, we are his light carriers,

I would say that we are bringing hope people and all that.

There is a time when God will come to judge, man won't judge.

In fact, when we look at what judgment to look at.

We can't understand, we can't fathom even last week when we

heard, you know, the the, the parable talks about a king who

just forgave a man of so much of that.

We don't know what God can forgive, you know, in my life or

in someone else's life, when God judges, he's a right judge, his

balance is right? And so today, when John, the

Baptist was asking them to repent, he just didn't want them

to, you know, mouth it out and see, you know what?

I am. Sorry of something.

Because it's something more important to that he realized

that they are there. Because of appearances, and many

a times, the Bible constantly reminds us that the talking that

we do is cheap, it doesn't cost us anything, you know, how many

of us, you know, can look into our own lives, you know, we talk

a lot, we promised a lot, but we never do anything.

I talk sometimes doesn't match what we are expected to do.

So, I talk ends up being cheap, and he also pointed out to the

fact that their hypocrisy was very real.

They will tell the people that they have to do X Y & Z.

Whereas, they will take the high road and not do X, Y, and Z

today. The gospel that we read the

Bible that we read from end to end is one of uniformity.

There is no exclusivity. In fact, the inclusivity of each

and every one of us in the word of God is that we all have to

follow what the word of God says.

It's not that the leader will get a 5% discount on the laws of

God. That's ask for him to follow.

No, it's for all of us. And so today you and I cannot

just plus and minus certain things which are comfortable for

us, but when repentance comes, it has to be whole hearted

repentance for what we need deliverance from And that's the

power of sin. That's the cycle of sin.

That's the nature of sin. And so today, John was talking

to a bunch of people at that time when he says this that you

know you can come here and get baptized with water, but if your

repentance is true, you will also be open.

Do the baptism that will happen by the Holy Spirit?

The one, which would be one like fire, which Jesus will come.

And so today, many of us are content with one kind of

repentance. But today, can I ask you, would

you allow the Holy Spirit to come into your life so that he

can cleanse you inside out? Yes, we gave our life to Christ.

Yes, there was a time when we were, you know, we are eyes were

open to The Sinner nature that we add and we gave our life to

Christ. You know, that is a remembrance

tone we look back and we thank God for his Redemption, but in

our everyday, Walk In following Jesus, we need the holy spirit's

fire to work in and through us. And so, this cleansing that is

being talked about here. Running the passage.

I take later will be dwelling in Psalms chapter 1, talks of, you

Psalms 1 · chapter mention

know, shaft and wheat. So Chef is basically a An outer

covering where the farmers kind of like have to either beat it

on a threshing floor, or they kind of have this mechanism in

which they casted through the air and as it falls because of

the wind, it pushes away the shaft and the heavier seeds fall

down. And today the Holy Spirit wants

to deal with every area of our life and the more I think about

it, the more I think about it when Jesus is going to come back

and when the Holy Spirit Works in us and when he's preparing us

for eternity, there is a segregation that's happening,

you know as much as we all are doing segregation now homes,

they got to garbage. That is a segregation.

Sapling, he's removing the shaft from everything from the

threshing floor. He's making sure that our

storehouses are just filled with wheat.

So today are you allowing him to do that in your life?

You know, it's interesting when you look at the shaft and the

mechanism in which the farmers do this, they are highly

dependent on the Wind. So a lot of these threshing

flows that they actually have built would be with two doors on

opposite sides so that they'll be a amount of wind that will

have, they'll be a crosswind that goes and so as they do

this, the shaft gets thrown away.

And this and the wheat falls down the husk moves away and the

wheat falls down. So today can we allow the Holy

Spirit to blow away with his wind?

Not without even with his wind the shaft and the husk that's

there in our lives because the chef is lifeless, the shaft

clings on and has to be separated this shaft.

If not dealt with becomes an additional burden to carry And

eventually, what happens is the true nature of the seed is

covered, we don't get to see it in its whole form.

So today, even as we dwelve in Psalm chapter 1, they're going

Psalms 1 · chapter mention

to see three ways in which the Holy Spirit wants to cleanse us

and the overarching image which I want us to take his a fact

that we as a Christian believer have three different important

areas within ourselves where we need to Ask the Holy Spirit to

come distinctively and cleaners. Our spirit man, our body, and

our soul because there are three longings that each of these

three different things have. And if we are not careful, be

will neglect one. Hold on to some things, which

are not what God wants us to hold on to.

So as I mentioned, can we allow the Holy Spirit to do a deep

clean in a spirit in our soul and in our body?

A deep clean, not a surface clean but a deep clean And I

pray that even as we look into God's word right now and read

someone that is revelation would come through into our lives that

we will be able to ask the Holy Spirit to do that.

The first thing his cleansing power makes me Delight in him.

His cleansing paranoid catch the wind.

When I love the Holy Spirit, his cleansing part, makes me Delight

in him. Let's read from Psalm 1:1 to do

Psalms 1:1

and I'm using the passion translation for this entire for

the entirety of Of the sermon. So if we can just follow me

along with the screen, and this is what it says, what Delight

comes to the one who follows God's ways, he won't walk in

step with the wicked. Not share the Sinners way.

Not be found sitting in this corner seat, his passion is to

remain, true to the word of I am meditating day and night on the

true revelation of his passion is to remain true to the word

of. I am the Is why I took this

translation is because there are certain ways in which the

biblical Scholars have actually put the words.

And as I've chosen, that his cleansing Pop, makes me Delight

in him. And as here, it says the passion

is, when you look at the Greek word of delight, it means desire

and want. And I believe that's very much

in tune with our spirit, a spirit desires.

A lot of things I know about you, but me.

Me, when the first inkling of Desire happens in my spirit will

be like, you know what, I think I would like to have that.

And then, I start thinking about it, I research it, I look at the

prices across all different websites, and I think, and wheat

and desire it so much to the point when I can get it, and it

starts in the spirit, And today, as much as the psalmist has

written this, I believe it's true in our lives because what

are we Desiring? Where is our Delight, is our

Delight in God's ways because if our Delight is in God's ways we

won't choose some of the parts that are mentioned here.

It says, here he won't walk in step with the wicked which means

today the way the world deals with it.

I won't deal with it. The world is unkind but because

I Delight in him, I'll deal with it differently.

The world cheated me. But As a Jesus follower, I know,

God will fight my battles. How do I?

Come to a place of allowing that step forward is only when I

allow his cleansing power that are going to be so many

situations in our life. And we will be in a place to

retaliate but until unless his cleansing power is working in us

and if I Delight is not of God, We will take the next step, very

next step with a person outside and retaliate the same way.

If someone uses foul language, we made retaliated found

language with someone Harbors, an intention of, you know,

Revenge. We might have something like

that. We may not see if you made, you

know, just grow that desire of Revenge.

Within us, we make me nil. We might speak death or someone

But today, God wants us to come to a placing Hound cleanse you

so that as you Delight in me, so many areas in your spirit man

are being cleansed. It says, here he won't walk in

step with the wicked. Not share the Sinners way.

Nor be found sitting in this corner seat.

Everything I wouldn't use. The position that I have to

accomplish what? I want my way.

No, I would ask the Holy Spirit of my delight is in the Lord

Lord. How as a team leader, how do I

handle people as a boss? How do I be fair as a person

who's called me to lead? How do I do this, right?

If I Delight in God's word, it would come to a place of

understanding that he is working in me.

He is doing something in me. He's causing me to take this

next step. You know, today in the pursuit

of being inclusive. We, we are trying to find this

common ground with everyone. But honestly, the more I read in

the Bible, it will cause us to stand separate.

We can love on all the people that God's called us to love,

but we can't share. In what they are, partaking of,

because of what God's doing in and through us.

And so, because the Delight for us is different, the Delight for

them would be different. So today Church, whatever,

you've been struggling with, and you might be like, guest room.

What is it that you're, you know, I'm struggling to

understand because our spirit man desires so many things that

are Hollow. Our spirit man desires so many

things. At are lifeless today, I meet so

many people who are so bent on making sure that they have

profiles. They are there photos, they are

reals or all looking perfect. But what is the point when your

spirit is about looking perfect for a watching world?

What happens to you within the four walls of your home?

What happens to you within your own lives?

Where you know, that there's a lot of emptiness you're having

peaceless - you're fighting for the wrong things.

You're In for the wrong things that's because his Delight is

the Delight that we need to have on him is on something else and

that's why it comes God's coming when he wants to separate the

shaft at the weed, he wants to do more all of the tallness.

I don't know. What you're, what horn is that

your kind of carrying what are the shaft that your carry for

some of us? It's covetousness, you know

what? I don't have it.

I want what that they have. But when you look back in your

own life or what God's done and given you, This has so many

other things and let's face it today.

We will, we can go down this path of coveting, what someone

else has. But you also have to understand

that they also lack something that comes when we Delight in

him. He'll show us the minute.

That thought comes the Holy Spirit would remind us.

But if we become numb and made the Holy Spirit numb, we will

never be in a position to see that here that or react to that.

And so here the word of God, says clearly his passion is to

remain. True to the word of I am.

Who is this? I am this I am, is the god who

is still God? He is not the God who I was.

When Moses was then the burning bush.

He said, I am, I Am The Great. I Am.

He didn't say I was the god of ignorance.

I am the god of Jacob, Isaac and Abraham.

And I'm willing to be your God if you would allow me.

And so today, I want to ask you would we all come to this place

to say, God, I want you to still be by.

I am. Here, there are two things.

He says that are meditating day and night on the true revelation

of his light. Meditating day and night.

And it's interesting as I Was preparing.

God reminded me that are going to be Seasons.

Where seasons were, it's clear as picture that day looks

bright. You know?

And you're able to see everything is going good your

way. It, we can take it literally as

day and night Byron 24 hours. We need to be allowing God's

work to work to work in and through us.

But when I was thinking about the spirit, a spirit goes

through dips, when we have seasons of hardships, when you

have seasons of sickness, when you have seasons where you know,

we can't see the things, what God's called us to see and it's

in that time where he wants his, to still meditate because he

wants us to take Delight in him pursue him and so, Can we find

God in our good times? And in times when it's bright,

when things are clear. Can we also find God when things

are dark? When I don't know what the next

step is when I'm fearful because God is also a God who ministers

in the dark, God is also a God who allows us to go through

things. So that we will be able to find

him clearly in the dark. Auntie right says this those in

whom the spirit comes to live, are God's new Temple.

They are individually and corporately places where Heaven

and Earth meet. You know, if there's one thing

where we can experience heaven on Earth is in our spirit

physically, we may not able to be seeing it but in a spirit man

will be able to see it. That's why corporately, it's

important that we come gather to pray and fellowship and worship

because that's it. It's a foretaste of what heaven

on Earth looks like. When we are individually seeking

God, we have a taste of what heaven on Earth can be like.

And so as we Delight in him, She wants to cleanse us and I don't

know what area God's working in and through you probably you've

been a person who, you know, when everything is clear.

My spirit, I delight in God, but when things are unclear and

dark, I denounce God, probably God wants to clean that area

today or probably God wants to clean with the whole aspect of

delayed. What are my passion that I'm

running after that? My spirit is, you know, craving

for that, I'm not willing to settle for what God has to say.

So today can his Right. Work in and through our hearts

so that our spirit man will change.

So that we have the Delight of what God wants us to have.

And I pray, holy spirit that he would work in.

And through us, you would cleanse us inside out, you would

cleanse our spirit man that we would Delight in you.

The second thing that I want us to look at this is cleansing

Papa makes me be planted in him. Someone was three goes on to

say, he'll be standing firm like a flourishing tree planted by

God. Each design deeply rooted by the

Brooks of bliss. Bearing fruit in every season of

Life. He's never dry.

There were fainting. I were blessed ever prosperous.

As we read this, the holy spirit is clearly saying, I can only do

something in and through you. If you're planted you can grow

only. When you're planted, you can.

Be of Earthly blessing to others only when you're planted it says

here. He's never dry.

Never fainting ever blessed ever prosperous and this refers to

our own physical bodies because In the hustle and bustle of what

the world requires us to do, we are running Pillar To Post

trying to achieve, trying to establish trying to make a name

for ourselves. But the holy spirit is saying,

can I cleanse your body to a place where you'll be

comfortable, knowing your planted gone, are the days when

people were committed to one thing, people were loyal to one

thing. Today we just flip like how a

trend changes immediately and so we've become flippant in lot of

our choices. We are, we change the direction

of the wind but if we are actually allowing the Holy

Spirit to cleanses, He will allow us to be planted and

flourish where you're planted and it's a reminder for those of

you who are struggling to be planted, a lot of us are

struggling to be planted in God's community.

We you know we feel if you're planted, he have to be

accountable, we have to be you know vulnerable we have to we

have to grow but that's the part where God wants us to actually

rely on him. When we come into his community,

when we've accepted him and are part of his community.

We are seeing God, I'm amongst other believers and all of us

are in this growing stage and he wants to do a deep clean enough.

Spin your planted in him because that's where as I explained in

the whole sermon on fruitfulness, pruning happens.

That's where he shapes us. That's where he cares for us.

He's the closest when he's actually correcting us.

And so this Psalm is a clear indication of what God's

followers dis desire and what the wicked desire.

And so today the world will be pressurizing.

You you know what? Keep moving, keep doing things

your way but God might say he be planted a lot of us a tree,

highwomen jittery with regard to our jobs.

None of us can see, you know what I've been working here for

so long. That's because there's a spirit

of discontent fragment in our hearts.

And eventually we are wanting to please and be something which

many a times I feel is not even in alignment with God what God

has planned. What is being routed mean here?

Because when you have to be planted, you're putting roots

in. It means I'm not going to strive

anymore. I'm only going to wait.

I'm putting my roaches, so I can please him.

I'm going to be Taking time to grow because for a lot of you

know how it works. With the plant, it takes time,

it takes seasons and so what are the seasons at God's calling you

to be here? Planted and this point is not

for me to emphasize saying you need to be planted in this

church. But where is God calling you to

be planted? This also denotes for a lot of

us who are struggling in math, And just where because things

aren't happening hobby, because we aren't in the same mind that

we think, you know what? I think.

I want something different. No, put your steaks deep in the

marriage, with your spouse. You will see things change.

Each one has to die to the desires that we individually

have and have to come in unit two.

The desire, what? God's giving us together as a

family? We have to be deeply rooted, it

says it's flourishing, tree planted by God's design.

It's not our design, it's not our way of seeing things.

And so today, being planted in him means that I'm not striving.

I'm fruitful when the season is do a fruitful.

When God wants me to be fruitful.

I'm fruit fly. Not going to strive and

manufacture my fruits know. I'm going to in my waiting, in

my distress, in my pain, in my worried, in my loneliness, in my

joy, in my doubt, I want to be bearing fruit.

Presentation, that doesn't make sense.

How can I bear fruit? And I'm worried his words will

bring life and you'll be able to bear that shoot in distress.

Your Source will be his word and his presence and that will bring

food. And so, today, we are not

talking about a world where we will have no pain.

We will have no fear. Yes, all of that will be there

but because I'm planted by God's design where he chooses me to be

planted and because he's working in and through me because when

I'm being planted, I'm allowing his holy spirit to work in and

through me and that causes me to be fruitful in Seasons, which I

least expected to the people that are around tasting it.

This is what Mark Patterson says.

Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses.

They can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit.

Some things, cannot be deduced by deductive reasoning.

They can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit.

Some things cannot be learnt by Logic.

They can only be revealed by the holy spirit.

So this 2023 Don't come to a conclusion immediately saying

the Holy Spirit doesn't have the answer.

Let him reveal it. If there's one thing he what he

reveals won't make sense because don't be logical.

What he causes us to imagine won't make, you know, for

reasoning. It wouldn't make sense at all

and what he conceives may not even be something that we can

make do with these five senses that we have and that's the

beautiful work of the Holy Spirit.

His words, his timing. And his presence causes

everything to change. So in 2023 I don't know.

Can we stop with these lame excuses?

That we have for not being planted but I filled up my

Sundays with something else. I filled up my time with other

things so that I can choose to be.

So even as I mentioned your I want us to come to a place of

seeing God I want to be planted I don't want to pressurize my

body. I don't a pleasure eyes my body

to do and Achieve something which is only making sense for a

watching world but I wanted to make sense to you and that's

what he'll cleanse. His Is our motives our desires,

our intentions, our willingness, and that's where he'll also

cleanse Us. In terms of why we are being

planted, it's for God to work in and through us, it's for God to

do his amazing work. And here when I'm talking about

the fruits that are being born here, many a times we think, you

know what I've done my part in giving my first fruits of my

salary as Tides, I've given it to God but honestly speaking

that belonged to God. So you do you do by us giving it

we aren't doing a favor to God. He gave you the work, so he

technically owns hundred percent.

He owns everything, but as we choose to be here, he's going to

be asking you to give things distinctively.

Probably a Time, w space probably a bit of your words,

your heart, your room, so that you will be able to make an

impact for others. So here in, when we go through

his cleansing, par what he does in and through us.

Causes others to think. Wow, I can't understand how they

are being good full, even in the season.

You know, we we don't have to be holding a banner saying

unfruitful, it's evidence, it's scene and God wants us to be

people like that in this world. Wherever we are planted this.

Imagine you're all planted physically in different homes,

across the city and if you fruitful in that different

areas, what a testimony does to the people who are watching to

the people are interacting So can we allow their body?

We planted physically so I can bear fruit and be a tree that

food fills his plan and purpose because it's his design.

Let's move to the third thing. His cleansing par prepares me

for eternity. You know, someone was his 426

goes on to say, but how different are the wicked?

They are like shaft Blown Away by the wind.

The wicked will not endure. The day of judgment for God will

not defend them. Nothing they do will succeed or

India for long, for they have no part of those who walk in truth,

but how different it is for the righteous, the Lord Embraces

their parts as we move forward. While The Way of the Wicked

leads only to do, you know, as I was reading this, we might

think, you know what because I'm already be a follower of Jesus

doesn't make sense cuz this is talking about the wicked, but as

I looked into it clearly If I'm not ready to let go of the

shaft, these lifeless things that I'm holding onto.

I invent Lee will choose the path of the wicked.

I eventually will choose the broad path.

I won't choose the Narrow Path. And so we cannot coexist with

the chef. We cannot coexist, he wants to

blow that away. And so what are these lifeless

things that somewhere are still clinging onto our hearts.

So dear and in fact, here emphasizing specifically on

soul, Is it money? Because if you look around,

we've seen people, we know families, you know, money has

been a big deterrent work, you know, where I work.

And the name that I get through that, the family that I'm part

of Or just myself my identity. All about me and my possessions.

So today, nothing of what I said in all of this, can we take into

eternity when we die here? It's only a soul that goes

there. And so why do we strive to to

build all these things and guarded so closely that we miss

out on caring for our soul? Because our soul needs rest.

It says, you're clearly in verse 6 but how different it is for

the righteous. The Lord Embraces their path as

they move forward, and sometimes the path That we have to choose

because we are made right with God by the power of His Holy

Spirit. By the precious blood that

Christ has shed on the cross comes at a cost, which means it

will be different from the path of the wicked or will be

different from the path of what the world chooses.

So today I want us to make sure that we are not running after

things because that's where his cleansing Park comes.

He'll constantly refining that Matthew chapter 16 that we know

Matthew 16 · chapter mention

this verse in verse 26. It says and what do you benefit

if you gain the whole world? But lose your own soul.

And Jesus goes on to say earlier, and after that, you

know, he says, to those who give up their life, for my sake will

save it. So today, if there's one thing,

we as his followers have to do, is we have to pursue after him,

you have to pursue his things, you have to pursue his nature.

We have to pursue his works. That have to be done in and

through our own lives. Our soul is important.

We saw that our spirit has to take the light, a body has to be

planted and our soul has to be prepared for eternity.

Couple of facts. There is nothing.

Jesus is coming back. We don't know the time, but we

will be prepared. Our soul will be ready.

Jesus is coming back to take his church.

He's coming back for his bride. Are you ready?

Yes, we might close eyes here or we might be taken up but When he

comes, am I ready? If we can live with that, in our

mind, we will probably start hanging loose to certain things

you're holding onto it. So tight, that starting to

governess Colossians chapter 3, verse 12, for since then you

Colossians 3:12

have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above,

where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, set your

minds on things above, not on Earthly things for you died, and

your life. Is now hidden with Christ in Oh

God. When Christ, who is your life

appears? Then you also will appear with

him in glory. So, it says, here that you have

to have your heart set on things above, you have to have your

minds set on things above and then when Christ appears, we

will be able to see him in his glory.

So Church his cleansing part many a times.

Yes he'll cleanse us of our sin, you can do.

So for addictions he'll cleanse us of all the bad nature that we

have. But if we can take it a step

further and ask him, God, I want to Delight in your work.

I want to be planted and I want my soul to understand that.

This is not my permanent place the Earth, but your heaven when

I get to see you face to face. Eternity is where I'm going to

spend with you. He will cleanse us time.

And again, and that cleansing will automatically cause it to

be an overflow into other areas of our life, where we will be

able to see God in his fullness today, as a church, we're going

to keep our eyes on things above.

We are going to keep our eyes on things below.

We are going to see God, come through and Supernatural ways.

We are going to ask him to do things.

In Supernatural ways. So, that it'll be his story.

His testimony, and His glory no longer had, does it have to be a

strategy? Which man has done and said, you

know what, we were able to do this?

No, it's his church. He'll grow the church.

It's his, it's his work. He'll grow the work.

It's his glory. He'll make his glory shine here

on this Earth through his people.

So today Church May are so long to see him face to face and

nothing else. you know many a times when when we hear of

people passing away, And we see the get to see Jesus

face-to-face, they've been moments in my life and I thought

you know what, I can't wait for that day because I don't know

what it will look like. But you know what, as much as

that's the end. The importance that God reminded

me was his to live. Right today is to live, right?

Tomorrow, is to live right the day after his to allow his holy

spirit. So he can cleanse us.

He has because we're living this world, which constantly will

challenges. But his cleansing bar has to

come in and through us to work. And so today, we'll can we allow

his cleansing Mark? So that we make me Delight in

him. And his word will make me be

planted in him. We'll make it.

Prepare me for eternity. So Church, even as we take some

time, I'm just going to close with word of prayer.

But I'm going to ask you, would you allow the Holy Spirit to

work in and through you right now?

I don't know what area you're struggling with what area you've

not allowed him to cleanse right now, but I would ask the Holy

Spirit to come down on your life so that he'll be able to work

in. And through you, he'll be able

to do his work in a three life. Loving Heavenly Father Lord.

We thank you, Lord for this time.

Thank you, Lord, for all that. You've been doing Lord Jesus in

in, through our lives. Lat, Even as we heard your word,

thank you. That Lord.

We want to be planted. In you, we want to take out the

light in you and I so Lord. Jesus longs to see you face to

face and even though I tried this preload over, the people

Lord, Jesus were watching and listening to this that your Holy

Spirit would work in and through their lives.

Lat, I pray every lifeless Obsession that we have will be

Cast Away. Lord, that you would blow your

wind lat. You would blow your wind Lord,

Jesus. I pray even right now not every

form lat. Jesus of idolatry every formula

Jesus of wanting the world. To please, the world will go

offshore, but we'll be there to please your kingdom.

I pray and speak over our people or Jesus, that lot more than the

looks and how we appear. Lord will be.

So worried about the fruits that we are generating, not the way

that we are being planted. The work that you're doing in

and through US lot because we, we don't want to be Hollow

people, not Jesus. You want to be people of

substance. We want to be people.

Jesus, who have been cleansed who've been filled, who been

anointed and out of the Overflow are being a blessing to many.

Lord, Jesus, we thank go before us Lord.

I pray work in and through US, Lord through the Seas, I pray,

you will strengthen us, Lord, you will set us apart.

You will show us who you are. We thank you, Lord.

We thank you. Go before us lat.

Go before us Lord, I pray, you would anoint each and every home

right now. You would anoint each and every

family you will anoint each and every individual.

No one will remain the same. That they will be a deep clean.

That happens in a spirit in a body and a soul.

So that we will be in fullness of you.

Lord, Jesus. We thank you.

I pray. Lord, that you would bless the

food and water of heavy home, your blood covering be upon your

children. After you lots of good health

and strength. I pray, especially not for those

who've been waiting on you for a long time that they will be able

to put their Stakes even deeper in faith holding on to your

needs. He the miracle come through lat.

Go before us, strengthen us, take charge.

Pray that you will be God over our lives.

Holy Spirit, have your way. We asked the senior most

precious name. Amen.

Amen. Such even as you all step out

today, can we step out in boldness?

Knowing that the Holy Spirit wants to cleanse us inside out?

Be clean us. So that our spirit our soul and

body are cleaned, it set free and that will operate.

Oh, the whole slope after you clean something in after you

fill it up that Overflow. What actually spill over and

that we will be able to see him fulfill all that.

Yes, that our paths will be ordained and that God's glory

will be evident in and through our lives.

I pray that you have a blessed week and God bless you and your

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