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00:00:03 a movie I going be very careful my words local movie that the uh director got arrested because apparently he's playing out racial sentiments religious sentiments I better be careful but in the opening scene a person from another race opens the Bible and guess what verse he looks at John 316 went to church you know young guys want to see girls go to church all those things but this verse just overwhelms you and so I thought maybe start of the year a bit by Going Back to Basics because this is such a powerful verse
00:00:46 and we're going to see where this takes us now because it's such a powerful verse today I'm just going to preach on one verse just on one verse give a bit of context and we'll do this over two sections because it's such a great chapter we can maybe do three sermons on this but we we see where we go right so let's come before the Lord in prayer uh on a more serious matter if you follow the news I want us to pray on this uh recently there was a challenge in kantan against the provision of the Sharia law
00:01:22 and crouching into the Constitution the lawyer's name is Nick n Nick Alin and she should receive death threat death threats from this but this is something Christians need to pray over the Constitution has to be upheld and we living in times where the encroachment becomes again and again and we need one thing to love our neighbors to ensure the Constitution is enshrined you can look it up it's on Malaysia keny it's an fmt it's something every Christian should pray for it affects you and me right so uh let's come before the Lord
00:02:00 in pray prayer let me just open up so I can get the case easier for you and the name of the lawyer is Nick Ellen Zur Nick Abdul Rashid and the issue is she challenged the kalantan Sharia criminal enactment 20119 the court made a historical decision historical because the court in a ruling of 8 to1 rote 16 offenses 16 under the kantan Sharia code were null and void that's historical so we pray the government continues on this let us come before the Lord in prayer Lord sometimes uh we live in a bit of a
00:02:41 bubble we do that subconsciously we ask that U our Christianity is part of the society we live in and let us not live in a holy ghetto but to be good neighbors to love people around us and then in the meantime while we turn the other cheek we ask that we uphold our rights and so this morning we we we ask that where is the fundamental truth in all of that oh Lord and it is in this that you oh Lord you are love so I ask this morning as I go through scripture you be with me that not I speak the need
00:03:25 to Grand stand need to hear my voice but really be fear and tremble and your word will be going out and not come north in Jesus name we say this amen okay um what I would like us to do this something I'm hoping we try this year is to read the Bible ourselves okay so I'm going to encourage you to open the Bibles and I don't know whether we should get the lights on so people can read it you can go online John 3 right let's open your bibles if you don't have your Bible you you just need to go to your handphone type in
00:04:05 John 3 it will take you to Bible Gateway all right now this is a great chapter and we won't do the whole chapter we will takeing from verse 16 but I will give you a backdrop the backdrop is the man called Nicodemus comes over to see Jesus and he comes at night which is very strange Jesus Takes him through a few things the first section is about the Holy Spirit really great section if you know your theology it really is about election and predestination that really is a battlefield then after he takes him
00:04:45 through a section on on The Exodus and the serpents Who attack the Israelites in the desert and the rising up of the golden serpent we will do that next uh next session and then we come to this verse in verse 16 so again two parts to look at that's the role of the Holy Spirit and how as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert the son of man must be lifted up verse 16 okay so let's read it uh we don't need to read it out loud but if you have a Bibles let's read it or hear it with me for God so loved the world he gave
00:05:22 his one and only son I'm reading for NIV believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life verse 7 17 for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him whoever believes in him is not condemned whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only son this is the verdict let is come into the world but men love Darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil everyone who does evil
00:06:01 hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed whoever lives by the truth shall come into the light so that he may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God uh notice there's a large section about light and darkness remember Nicodemus comes at night John loves to do double play nobody comes to see a person at night all right unless you mixed motives so there's this play on Darkness the Greek word for Darkness Kazi has two meanings one
00:06:39 Darkness keeps you in bondage that's why when you do bad things you do it in darkness two Darkness clouds your thinking has a double play all right you pick that in mind all right as we go through that quite interestingly just give you a little bit when you look at uh verse 16 whoever believes in him shall not perish have eternal life is a pair the opposite of eternal life is perishing that's quite interesting because it plays into a bit on the discussion of hell that's something I'm still trying to work through and
00:07:13 interestingly he doesn't say Eternal death eternal life he says perishing and eternal life so you got to figure that out because perishing even in the Greek has a definite ending God is love yes right so okay so God is love okay meaning he defines love you know he he is the the the the source of it now here's the thing there two things I want to pick up one we all wired to receive love and we all wired to give love would you not agree to that we're just wired to that it's in our songs in our culture
00:07:57 there one single thing Humanity pursues is this yet often we find love is very difficult so that's the first thing now here's the second thing which is perhaps more important if God is love he defines it now I think what's happening with churches is we tend to let our expectations of Love be read into our Christian culture that means we come here with expectations we want to be loved and we want to love so we want God to fit in into that you know so sometimes you go to a service and you say oh I felt the
00:08:34 presence of God I felt his love are you really feeling it or are you feeling what you want to feel so if God is love he defines it not us and here's the second thing he may Define it in a way you don't like all right I want us to pick that up God May Define love the way you love your children the way you you love your spouse the way you love your friends not the way we want now that's hard teaching and remember in that section we read what's the big chunk of it Darkness all right so let's pick that
00:09:14 up now how are we going to do this we only preach on one verse today next time we come back to this we'll do the first section of John and I'm going to break this down into four parts first we look look at this section for God so loved the world then we look at this section that he gave his one and only son then we look at this section whoever believes in him and then we will look at the last section so this whole sermon only got one point only no Four Points I'm just going to break this down for you all
00:09:48 right and I'm going to see whether uh it takes us uh a bit more deeper into this verse this verse has a lot of depth and I I I hope you leave really feeling wow I I've known this verse but I can know it better and I I what I want to do this year take us through familiar stories Samaritan woman know this story but wow it's deeper this verse every Christian knows this verse and wow it's deeper okay we're going to do something called Systematic Theology don't worry you're not a theologian but it's quite in in uh
00:10:21 it's quite interesting we read it just now if you break it down this is how you will put a title to it the first part is love then there's judgment there are two things coming out of here one again John Kelvin one of my favorite verses from him you must drink honey and you must drink wormwood wormwood is a medieval thing for very bitter lot of Christians only want to drink honey that's how you like to say John 3:16 such a nice verse why don't you make John 3:18 your verse you see nobody thinks John 31 18
00:10:55 everybody wants John 31 16 but they come in a pair you cannot have love without judgment that's one so as John Kelvin says you need to drink honey you need to drink wormwood sometime people say know you like to score people you know yeah it's true I'm trying to repent of that I try to score myself more can because we all in it together all right but I want you to look at the order the order is love comes first then judgment and then you ask yourself is this a pattern John said the woman caught in adultery has no one
00:11:33 condemned you no sir Nei do did why then judgment go and leave your life of sin love judgment all right let's look another one The Prodigal Son while he was still a long way off the father saw him filled with compassion ran to his son through his arms around him and kissed him what is that love what is this one the son said to him I have sinned against Heaven against you I'm no longer worthy to be caught your son repentance do you see a pattern why didn't the father say oh this chaa boy took my money no know in
00:12:16 Chinese culture you ask for inheritance before the father passes on in Canton it's true I think you are dead very insulting he should say well this fellow took my money and going spend it on K now he come back hya we to come here and crawl out then only I see whether I forgive him a lot of Chinese fathers who do that the father forgave him first not forg L him first do you see that then the son responded there is the act of Love first then only we see the act of you know repentance for God so loved him
00:13:01 let's look another one and and this is all over scripture 10 commandments everyone say want to be Christian now must take off some boxes I am the Lord your God who brought you out Egypt out the land of slavery what is that that's love I did this I brought you out I heard your prayers then the laws come what is the pattern we have here you notice that pattern the pattern go goes all over scripture you know again and again and again I'll give you a word the word we called This is called foregrounding foregrounding simply means
00:13:41 I'm making this the single most important thing which I filter everything I think and I do true this is a very important principle it is a principle which I have failed to live many times failed to live a a lot of it because of the church upbringing I was brought up in I'll give you an example H this man what do you think he f for grounds everything in race that's it you cannot talk anything without him filtering it through race similarly we as Christians are caught to foreground everything through
00:14:25 this this is your starting point this is the filter through everything it is a very very important principle is a principle a lot of us including me are guilty of not following now you will say you know I do it I suggest to you in Evangelical circus this is our foregrounding nothing wrong with Doctrine Doctrine is important obedience is important discipleship is important we can add sovereignity glory of God but if you do not for ground this in the love of God you become a legalist you become authoritarian and you say oh no I'm not
00:15:15 like that okay I want to spend a bit of time in this this is called a RAR in blood they us this in Psychology in what we call free association that means if you look at this they ask you what do you first think some people say I look at a bat some people say it's a butterfly and and this is being very open some people see sexual connotations in it nothing right or wrong it is what your heart tells you they use this to treat schizophrenia it's interesting test now here you will sit here and say you know what I'm a loving person I for
00:15:52 ground everything in love I'm going to show you three photos all I ask is you tell me immediately what your heart feels when you see the photo don't process it let it let it come from here I'll show you tree and I would suggest it would reveal the condition of your heart and I'm not judging is between you and God let me show you three photos and when you look at the photo tell yourself what's the first thing you comes to your heart and your mind you you you you you see if you're honors I'll tell you what
00:16:47 a lot of us do hey you're so dirty man immoral people baby killers these people we should be protecting Israel you follow me or not because in our hearts I tell you what he reveals we do not see this is the world we do not see this is the world now I'll give you few examples uh some very clearly from that and another one personally this is Rosara Butterfield she was one of the leading gay activists She Wrote books on feminism and on LGBT she had a lover she was a professor in it some she met some
00:17:40 Christians but thankfully these Christians were not the type that were going and run you down and say you're dirty what the pastor did was why don't you come over and have dinner with me just to chat so she went over to break down the Christian arguments and the pastor just did something we all really don't know she became he became her friend became her friend and they just makan they talk they learn life and and the group was called the promisekeepers and over time she began say you know these Christians are
00:18:15 they're not so judgmental you know they're not like this you know and then after a while she became to know the Lord and she's not a fervent outspeak on this and that's why she wrote a book called The Gospel comes with with a house key meaning what we really want is conversations and friendship with people whom you consider to be like this you ask yourself how many friends you have who are like this and then we ask ourself are we in the bubble now you then say okay uh let me give you a more simple
00:18:52 example as an elder we speak to many people and we talk about frog ging love so someone shared with meet somebody was sharing the gospel with his wife shared maybe John 316 you know what the closing remarks and you tell me what whether this is foregrounded love you don't believe her you go to hell you know you don't believe you go to hell the wife never spoke to their woman ever again is that for grounding in love you may be doctrinally correct even now let let's put it aside because if she becomes a Christian she's is coming out
00:19:29 of fear here's another story that came to me it was an argument over money the guy told me I'm a Christian you know I don't lie W what are you trying to say because you're a Christian you don't lie and he's not a Christian he's a liar you see how easily we replace foreg grounding love with what self-righteousness judgmentalism legalism and I pray we do not create that culture let me go on gave his one and only son we know this verse I want you to ask yourself especially your father or mother and how you feel for your
00:20:25 children especially when your children suffer is like you suffer right have you ever thought how God felt when Jesus was hanging on the cross have you ever stopped and imagine the pain God the Father felt when Jesus hung on the cross for your sins and my sins that's one two I want to look at the next verse he gave his one only son son and then verse 17 God did not send his son meaning it's a sending Mission he gave and he send he's on a mission the mission is we are sinners and then you say well I don't
00:21:15 feel very sinful maybe other people are I maybe cheat my taxt a bit maybe occasionally I serve the net and go to certain places I shouldn't go but I'm not killer I'm not murderer but look at John 3:19 the verdict is this everyone who does evil hates the light will not come to light for fear their deeds will be exposed now it's a very telling verse about us you know what the Apostle is saying so long you they call it a sin of omission you you you purposely choose not to see you purposely choose to keep quiet you
00:21:56 purposely choose because you're scared to not do anything it is sin and the biblical position is this there are two parts one you are much more sinful than you dare to confess and two you're much more L than you imagine uh let me give you an example this is daa in Germany it's a small town just before the Allied troops came in and rescued it I think 30,000 people were gased in this concentration camp the camp is 5 minutes or 10 minutes from town and so when the allite soldiers entered they went to the town and said
00:22:43 did you not know about that camp everybody knew and they asked them did you you know they were killing people there yes we knew why didn't you do anything about it and this line in German is a standard answer you know what it is what could we do what could we do now I I I want you to pause a bit on this give you example and it shows you a heart we talked just now about what's happening in this country you know the tensions we have say another May 13 breaks out in subang and writers go and into usj 13
00:23:29 and start to hammer and go after Chinese houses what would you guys do I bet you a lot of you will have the heart to go there and try to save your neighbor why kak I turn it around Chinese writers go into kampong baru and they start to burn mle houses any of you will go there when God send his one and only son is the same as that eling son go over there those who are your enemies and die for them first John 4:7 this is love not that we love God but that he loved us same Greek word sent his son as aony
00:24:26 sacrifice for sins not that we love God it's like you telling your son son I want you go to kampong baru and save Malay and then your Chinese nebor of you won't like to say that but that's what our heart says usj 13 12 Chinese people house burning son go there now we don't like to hear this okay those of you understand my can we saying our own people but the this is Darkness we are much more sinful than we imagine and yet God saved us not because of what we did but while we were Sinners not that we love God I
00:25:16 want you to pause and think about that whoever believes in him now this is the part I think where I think John 3:16 gets distorted the most and it's due to this thing called The Sinner prayer God I'm pretty rotten I don't want to go to hell I want to go to heaven I invite Jesus into my heart thanks for that amen now this tongue and chick but the point here is that we have reduce Christianity to a few words like a mantra if I say this I'm all right I come to church then I do churchy stuff let me break the verse down for
00:25:56 you and John 1 he says this he came to that which was his own his own did not receive him yet to all who receive him to those who believed in his name so it's the same word believing means receiving and receiving here means having a relationship now we all have heard that here it doesn't get here so often even with me let me try to break this down in a story which I thought was quite interesting recently there was a version of Pinocchio which was very fascinating by a guy called gulo deloro if your
00:26:36 movie guy you appreciate this he describes himself as a laps Catholic but he say once a Catholic always a Catholic now he a fascinating quite a dark version of it so in this version his son dies you can see the photo of the Sun at the back and so he recreates the son in the image of a wooden boy you see the language which image bearing you know and so by some Angel comes and gives this wooden boy life he comes to life but he's a very naughty boy he's a sinful boy he loves Fame he disobeys the father now there's two lessons here
00:27:23 which I course interesting but what happened was people don't like him because he's wooden so the story plays up a lot about Humanity now one of the most fascinating scenes was he comes across the statue of Jesus and so the father tells him about Jesus and he says something though everybody likes him they were all singing to him he's made of wood too why do they like him and not me I mean at this point is you know what you you're supposed to be Christian you're supposed to love everybody just because I'm wooden you don't like me but
00:28:00 he's wooden and so there's one point here do you have a wooden Faith or life imparting Faith a wooden faith has no relationship you you just come to church you sit you do your religious Duty you go back and we don't like saying that we don't like to ster and criticize and score people but we need to say this being a Christian is being in a relationship with God then you say how but the first thing to start is do you have a wooden Faith are you quite happy just coming and doing your religious duty if that's
00:28:35 the case you're not foregrounded in love you're foregrounded in fear you're scared that when you die you go to hell that's why you come to church you may not like hearing that but you have to pause and ask why are you in church it's part of relationship now what is very fascinating about this version is in the Dy version Pinocchio becomes a real boy in this version he never does and the story plays about what it really means to be human you know you can be flesh and blood but you actually have a wooden
00:29:12 faith and a boy can be made of wood he's more alive than you how is he alive in the scene of the whale really like a scene from Jonah the Father and Son reconcile and the song breaks out you looked at me today my heart will feel heal so fast you help me right away I be complete at last and so a relationship happens when you feel the love of God and this is where become the crunch of it you say I don't feel God it's fair right it's a fair point I want to feel love I don't feel it I can come to church and mouth off and say all the
00:30:00 politically right words but I don't feel God's love and so I want to pick up this last verse section which I think is probably the most misunderstood I misunderstood it for years shall not perish but have eternal life the proposition is most people or many people go to church because they want to go to Heaven Sin prayer that's here right eternal life let's break down system ically what eternal life means so I'm going to give you another vers and I want you to look at the grammar and the tense verse 36
00:30:40 whoever believes in the son has eternal life is present continuous tza whoever rejects the son will not see life God's Wrath remains on him John 5 24 very truly a tell you whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life present continuous tense and will not be judged and cross over from Death to life you're going to ask yourself when do you cross from Death To Life 1 John 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God so that you may know you have
00:31:22 eternal life 1 John 5:13 no so here's a question it's an important question when does eternal life begin when you die and get to heaven God willing you cross your fingers when you open up after you die you say thank God I made it or does eternal life begin here on Earth it's here on Earth it's bright smack there now that's the key eternal life is now eternal life begins when you become a Christian now you see look I don't feel like eternal life in fact my life is quite hellish what eternal life now remember
00:32:09 this the the the John 3 begins with the Holy Spirit you know in fact Gospel of John talks very heavily about the Holy Spirit and what you find from scripture is God is giving you a deposit like like you buy a house earnest money give you a deposit give you a for you see the New Testament word for et means quality and I want you and I to look at the quality of life that we're having and you say well I don't have a good life I have diseases I have fear I have a financial problems problems with my marriage what
00:32:50 quality of life so let's define the quality of eternal life now okay you see what we want is this this self-actualization firstly there two things the number of people really have this is very very small right number two is very self-centered in fact I suspect no one really has this all their life and you have this and it's taken away from you you collapse you become quite useless because you can't handle pain eternal life is this John 17 that you know now this is eternal life that you they know you the only
00:33:35 true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent and this is the testimony God has given us eternal life and this life is his son what is eternal life Jesus so John Piper say this eternal life both because Christ died in our place because in him is life I'm going to break this down simpler for you you will sit there and say you know what all this sounds very fanciful but I'm struggling aror my life is difficult all right I get it I don't understand your pain but I understand that this sounds very farfetched from you let me
00:34:16 share with you a story of a person who struggles and I would propose to you her struggles are far more than almost everyone here all right let me give you first the the purpose H God does not love you so that you will be saved and have eternal life in heaven not just that H God loves you so you can live now with a four days of eternal life in Christ Jesus let me share with you a person who struggles yours PS in comparison yours and mine yesterday I was privileged to uh attend this uh it was the 7eventh
00:34:55 anniversary of Pastor Raymond's course disappearance this particular anniversaries is important because in law after 7 years what are you if you disappeared you're dead is very painful so I was there with the children husband is dead in the midst of this the wife Susanna cries out where is God have you all not felt that in your own struggles I know you talk about love and all eternal life I don't even know whether God is real in my life so let me share you a few things I hope encourages you and she's like us
00:35:41 she bleeds husband when missing government not helping one God is near he is with us in our pain he has been through it all number one God so loved you he sent his son to die for you God understands pain God the father knows what it is to be separated from the Sun Christ knows what it is to really suffer and take your sins so number one God understands your pain the Lord is near to the Brokenhearted and save the crushing Spirit that's one for what he did for us on the cross to take away our sins that's one that's not
00:36:35 enough why is it you and I still struggle and the second speaker was interesting the second speaker was Archbishop Julius of the Catholic Church you know what evangelicals like to run down Catholics by saying they're not biblical the salvation by works I'm not going to go there I will tell you his sermon last week was one the most gospel yesterday was one of the most gospel centered sermon that I heard and Pastor Ming from cdpc was sitting in front of me you can go and ask him he's as calvinist as you can
00:37:10 get and Archbishop Julius has the Catholic church has been so supportive of Susanna Co they lifted Susanna Co out of depression you know because the Catholics are very good at this and this man if you follow him he goes to the streets of Chait to and patal to feed the poor I know him personally a bit now to me a very Godly man and he said this no you know why you and I suffer because we don't take up our cross and he says this whoever wants to be my disciple must Desy themselves take up their cross and follow me and why is
00:37:49 it we can't take our cross because we do not ask for the spirit there are days I say Lord I I just so struggle and the Lord will give me a portion of His Holy Spirit and that's what it is eternal life is a holy spirit enabling you when you feel weak and who here doesn't feel weak that's the second one but is the last speaker which really struck me and I I pray that that will be helpful to you the last speaker has Spen here before his name is Dr Greg Wilton he's from the IMB the the Mission Boards of
00:38:29 of the Baptist Church he was a lecturer in the pinang Baptist Seminary he used to speak here I know him a bit so the family contacted him and said you know can we do a zoom talk to you on the seventh anniversary you know what Greg wilon told them no I will fly over he's from New Orleans you know what he did he flew over and arrived on Friday on Saturday he spoke on 40 minutes I spoke to him at L after that he flew back last night you tell me who in his right mind flies across the world gives a 40 minute sermon and it
00:39:17 flies back and the way he spoke and he gave me the last reason why and there we were Catholics Presbyterians we were in clang Methodist Church Baptists ho Baptist rler Brethren and he said all over you here because you love the family where is God's love today we are here together together I will tell you for Susanna you take away the husband nothing replaces that but what cushions the pain of a husband that was forcibly taken away by special agents special is in the suak report publicized government special
00:40:15 agents Ro agents no closure blocked again and again by the government up to now classified reports the churches who support her Catholics who come help her to go through her depression Pastor Ming from cdpc you know the Brethren assemblies I saw my brethren friends there the Methodist Church and when she sees the body of Christ and her family I know Esther a bit her daughter Jonathan is so young they see love and that's God's wish for you I pray this morning as you reflect on John 3:16 one the cross becomes real to
00:41:09 you two the holy spirit is activated in you and three you have Community I was sitting at a back and I took a quick shot there's Archbishop Julius of the Catholic Church holding hands with Reverend Gary of clang Methodist Church holding hands to another leader we are one body let me end with one story if that doesn't encourage you enough but Dr Greg ended with this I am convinced neither death nor life neither angels nor Neons neither the present nor future nor any powers neither height nor death nor anything else in our creation
00:41:57 nor your problems nor my husband had gone missing nor a lawsuit nor cancer nor broken hearts will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our lord that is the power of God's love and the eternal life God wants to give you and me John Piper says this those who believe on Christ God Wants You to Know Yourself Lov with with death conquering hardness moving Rebellion eradicating sight imparting Faith creating personal individual I love this man Invincible Covenant Love of which we are absolutely
00:42:44 undeserving and this is why this verse is the centerpiece of Christianity let me end you one story this is my old friend 40 years when I was in boys BK bint boys school you can see the older gentleman there his name is James chin that is his wife suun or Jasmine she was from asunta this is a photo of him with the three kids here's a photo of him last week uh he runs a very successful loss adjusting company he went over to Chennai to assess the Cyclone there this is him in Mumbai I want you to take a look at a wife what
00:43:30 do you notice about a wife she's blind I'm going to tell you a small story suun when young was diagnosed that she had Vision impairment she would eventually go blind but the doctors told her you will go blind when you're 50 or so one thing I love about James despite that he married her unconditionally knowing the wife of go blind uh they got married at Glad Tidings she stumbled because you know and it was a beautiful story but you know 50 years is a long time they got married in their 20s live life right then God gave them two
00:44:19 kids now at the when she was pregnant with the third child there were complications she had issues with vision they went to see the doctor the eye specialist and the eye specialist told her this you know I have some bad news for you if you go through with this third pregnancy you're going to go blind now and doctor wasn't Christian a doctor says you know what you really got a boy and a girl you know Chinese very pantang on this third one a b nobody would know live till 50 maybe signs will get better
00:44:55 and your eyesight will be even better I remember James telling me this you know suun said i' rather go to meet God blind then to abot this baby I'm going to play you a small video now the video is on the girl that James is holding her name is Jolene she would not have entered this world if the mother did not give up her eyes I want you to listen to this very short video is on YouTube the video is called cited can we play the video I think my mother was probably the first person to teach me what
00:45:55 unconditional love meant so before I was even born to be able to to sacrifice your sight and it's a lifelong sacrifice it's not a momentary thing that you give up your whole eyesight you lose for life to give that up for someone that you've never even met or something that's so small and I wasn't even tangible yet the fact that she was able to give up her sight for me that showed me what true unconditional love meant so I knew from the beginning that my I was loved from the right from the start so as's we close I want us to
00:46:41 just ask you do you feel that you're loved so can we have some keys in the same way you know suun love Jolene unconditionally before Jolene was born suun Jasmine gave up her eyes so that she will have life in the same way before you and I were born while we were still Sinners God gave up his life he gave his son so that we may have eternal life eternal life now if you watch that video it's a 40 minute video on Youtube suun says this you know I must disappear but God must increase and she say that when I
00:47:55 die I open my eyes again the first person I want to see is Christ a love so big as what God gives demands a love in return that you and I love him we're going to sing a closing song now I want you to think of people around us like Susanna Co how they go through life with the cross the Holy Spirit and the community and as we sing this song God will draw close to you let us close in prayer and I want us just to pray over this one verse let us close our eyes Lord God we ask that we for ground everything we do in your love and
00:49:02 your love is made so true in the gospel story that how you sent your son to die for us while we are still Sinners Lord that we receive you not just as a way to get to heaven but to have a relationship with you let us not have a wooden Faith but a life imparting Faith that eternal life begins now and Lord right now I I speak to every broken heart in our midst there are those with broken hearts I speak to those who just go through struggles and they may be sitting in a corner here and you you could be one of
00:49:43 those and you just feel just so hard to go on and Sunday after Sunday you see it you you you feel walls around you and I ask that the Lord give you his spirit and I pray now this verse that we just spent 40 minutes over become so real for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten son that whoever so believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life and that life brothers and sisters be begins today and God's people say amen shall We rise and sing this song and may you draw
00:50:35 close to him as we try to draw close to him thank our Elder and all draw me close to you never let me go lay it all down again he said I'm your friend you are [Music] my no one else will do [Music] nothing else could take your to feel the W of your Embrace help me find a way to bring me back you sing that verse one more time draw me close draw me close to you never let me [Music] go I lay it all down again to hear you that I'm your you are my desire no one else will do nothing else to take your
00:52:47 place to feel the warm of your grace father my lead me back to you oh Jesus you're all you're all you're all I want how me know you are you're allone you're [Music] allone you're all Ever Needed you're all I want help me know you [Music] are do you believe do you believe do you believe the holy spirit is in this room do you believe it do believe the spirit is as a wind and it blows as and when it chooses but this is where the gospel John is interesting the spirit blows as it chooses but on those who
00:54:48 believe do you believe then sit we're going to spend some time let's sit down everybody sit I want us to let the Holy Spirit just move in our midst and have a time of healing there's some here who have come anyone else leaders being front let the Lord break you as he breaks me that the time of anointing coming into this Hall you know there's a song by Kim Walker it's interesting it says how he loves you I think it's WR by John Mark Miller and the line is this when the Holy Spirit blows you are that
00:55:42 tree and we are stubborn and the wind blows and we Bend we Bend under his grace I asked right now where you Ed the Holy Spirit bends you bends our pride bend your pain bend your unbelief and all we say is this Lord God draw me near to you I sit here I have my personal pain my struggle I see at the back lord I just ask for the gospel to be so real and that these words ring true not in my mind but in my heart for God so loves me for for God so Loves Me Lord Jesus we we are that tree we ask for heaven and earth to
00:57:14 meet right now Bend us under the weight of your grace the weight of your mercy and then and all our afflictions are gone I'm unaware of my afflictions because they're overshadowed by Your glory and if you're sitting there right now and the pain you're going through the struggles of your life the worries and anxieties it could be a job it could be medical it could be relational this what God wants to do right now he wants to blow right into you overwhelm you and where you seed he wants to say my
00:58:06 child your afflictions I want to overwhelm you with you a sense of my presence would you want God to do that come Lord Jesus in our midst we are sinners we come broken we thank you for the cross where you died for us you died for us while we were still sin us you chose us although we are not we so undeserving of that love Lord Jesus let us live eternal life today we will walk out the here our problems might not disappear but our attitude might we ask for that we will walk out here today and we will
00:58:59 still have that disease and still have that broken relationship and still have that financial problem but we will have your strength not ours oh Lord blow Holy Spirit and for those of you who are in a better place be that community be that person to the hurting person do not leave this Hall by not loving as he loved us so let us love one another and God's people say amen I'm going to let uh brother chuch Chang continue and finish up the [Music] song [Music] you're you're all I want how mean are you I
01:00:05 need oh Jesus you're all our heart you're all I ever need you're all I want me know you are you're all I want you're all I want you're all I ever you're all I want how know you are help me Lord me you are here help me know you receive the benediction now onto him who is able to do exceedingly more then you ask or imagine Church let's repeat that again no on to him who able to do exceedingly more than you as to imagine May the love of God so fill your lives may you draw near to him may you want more of
01:01:48 him may you live this Hall living eternal life right now now God's people say amen the service is over please stay back if you need prayers the church leaders are here God bless you all
