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00:00:02 today's passage is taken from the book of 1 John 3: 4-10 everyone who sins breaks the law in fact sin is lawlessness but you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins and in him is no sin no one who leaves in him keeps on sinning no one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him dear children do not let anyone lead you astray the one who does what is right is righteous just as he is righteous the one who does what is sinful is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the
00:00:42 beginning the reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work no one who is born of God will continue to sin because God's seed remains in them they cannot go on sinning because they have been born of God this is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister this is the word of God e e e e and why because I'm a sinner I always do wrong things and I always feel that
00:03:51 maybe God will be angry at me and I come from a Bren Church a long long time ago I've been a Christian for about 30 years now and last time um when we talk about God we say God is fire you go in him you get burned you know okay that's how holy he is as well and so sometimes we may see God in a certain way and over here this judge is a very interesting person in Florida his name is John Murphy and he got so angry he actually punched the defense of Tony so sometimes maybe you think God is is very angry judge or
00:04:26 maybe some of us think that God is very holy he's totally high up above and he not someone that we can relate to and he's far far away from us it's quite interesting I put a word me Journey over here it's actually generated by AI um so it's quite interesting that artificial intelligence will say that God looks at this uh Jesus on his throne you can't see him he's totally above and he's just uh so magnificent compared to everything else now today's passage if this is the perception we have of God and as we read
00:05:02 this passage the way we read it will become totally wrong let me sh with you how we may read it the first one Aaron who sins breaks the law in fact sin is lawlessness if you're a sinner like me and when you read it perhaps the first thing you realize this oh yes I'm a sinner okay next one but you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins and in him is no sins no one who lives in him keeps on sinning no one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him immedately I start to feel guilty what's wrong with
00:05:38 me I know that Jesus died for me and yet I keep on sinning if we continue reading on verse 10 this is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister so John actually continue expounding all the way until the fact that if you continue sinning you are the child of the devil so I really have no hope and if this is the way we view God and this is a relationship with God no
00:06:08 wonder a lot of times we feel that coming to a church is really a very challenging thing to do because when I come to church I'll be told again and again I'm guilty I'm doing something wrong and I don't know what to do about it but I just love doing what I'm doing as well so how can we what can we do about it so there just a lot of condemnation in that case but what I want to share you is it's actually amazing to be the children of God it's actually awesome to be the children of God now the first point that
00:06:38 we have today is sin is lawlessness sin is lawlessness and this word sin is so desensitized we're so com we are so used to it that sometimes we don't even remember or don't even know what it really means already what is sin so when we look at sin we think that sin means going to hell if you have sin you go to hell so what so Jesus need to save you correct we always believe this sin means that we do something wrong so we have to go to hell and so we thank the Lord for saving us but not only this
00:07:14 misperception or misconception that we have is actually quite popular a lot of people don't understand sin during John's time there's this not religion called the gnosticos gnosticism and this is what a gnostics belief of sin sin is being categorize uh in two ways one is the desires of the flesh if you do things like sexual immorality gluttony drunkenness or you steal things these are okay because it's actually your body it's something do against God you have pride you're vain you are greedy these are not permitted
00:07:48 so for them they actually classify sin this way to say that the one on your left is fine the one on the on your right isn't and so sin is something that we need to really understand what is sin and so but what the text says what John says over here is everyone who sins breaks the law in fact sin is lawlessness no matter whether you sin you have the list on the left or the list on the right as long as you commit sin you are considered lawlessness what is lawlessness lawlessness means you hold your face up to God and say that I
00:08:22 don't want you to control me I don't agree with you get out of my way that is lawlessness okay so that's lawlessness so sin is lawlessness but what is really sin the word sin can be or actually is in Hebrew is Kata and in Greek is hamaa and we're going to do a bit of word exploration understand what it really means here and anyone can tell me what does sin mean you're very good one okay miss the mark okay the answer is sin means that you failed to meet the goal or you miss the mark so just like a if you Archer or
00:09:00 you are throwing darts you cannot hit the target that's called sin you are not able to reach the goal or hit the targets required uh over here in Bible project it says is to fail to miss the goal so that however may not be very helpful for us because again we hear of it so much if I ask you directly inside your mind tell me sin need to miss a mark okay it's Mis Mark so let's try to use the Greek word a bit to understand what it means the Greek for sin is hamaa okay hamaa what it means in online
00:09:35 atmology D dictionary what it says is hamaa means that you have a tragic flaw you have a fatal flaw and this causes you to fail your purpose in life so just like um this word HTI actually was firstly used by Aristotle about 300 years before the time of Jesus and when they use this word the word always means that you have a tragic flaw so the hero of the story has a tragic flaw and because of this flaw this weakness that he has he cannot achieve the purpose or his full potential in life that's what sin
00:10:13 really means now if I to share this with you I hope it helps you to a bit more on what sin is and a lot of times when you read stories you watch movies you see this happening as well so let me ask you this question okay I need your help huh when you look at the stor Star Wars how many of you like Star Wars so few men cannot be right I know even my dad generation Al supposed to watch it right Star Wars so Star Wars can you think of a person that actually has tamaa a person that didn't reach the full potential of his life in Star Wars
00:10:51 anyone again Darth Vader actually his name is not Darth Vader what's his nameer oh thank thank you so much Anakin Skywalker and this is the guy over here and this is Anakin Skywalker he's not D either he's born as Anakin and he's called the chosen one the one to bring balance to the force in the story soall it is but what happened to Anakin Anakin had a fatal flaw Anakin had a hamaa his hmaa is that he is very afraid of his loved ones dying young his mother passed away and because of that he was very
00:11:33 afraid and in the story his wife pme was um in danger he had a premonition he saw in a vision that pme would die during child birth so because of that the SI Lord at the time Palpatine told him I can help you to overcome this I can help you to save your wife and because of that Anakin this boy who actually became a a young gentleman at the time he was a Jedi Knight he was the youngest member of the council in the Jedi in the Jedi Council but because of his fear of losing his wife he turned against anti
00:12:13 entire Jedi Council and decided to fight against them and he killed uh I think is M Windu and at the end of the day his entire life was tragic he became the well-known Darth Raider so if you look at it sin is a very dangerous thing it means that you and I have a destiny that God has given us you and I were fearfully and wonderfully made God made us for purpose he had a goal in our in his mind when he made us but because of this sin this Hara that we have we are not able to achieve the goal that he desires for us
00:12:56 and so when you look at this way sin is less sin is that he desires to be somebody way more beautiful than who we are now but we are saying to God no we don't want that no we don't agree with how you are constructing the world we don't agree with the future that you're giving to me but what is the goal for us here lot of times we talk about the goal of a Christian a goal for of life and as Christians even for young believers we believe that you become a Christian because you want a ticket to heaven we
00:13:27 want to be safe we know that we are wrong and so we want to be safe but over here I went online and um this person online was saying this when we look at sin as a violation we only understanding the result of sin you only see sin as something that you did wrong you are only understanding the result of sin and not what Mark is actually being missed which means that we know when you sin the result is you be separated from God but we totally avoid and totally forget what is the Mark or the goal that God
00:13:59 has intended for us so what is the goal and Mark that God has intended to us you go back to Genesis the answer is God wants to fellowship with us God wants to live with us God wants to commune with us that is a goal of life for every single human being on so in Genesis 1:26 God said let us make Mankind in our image in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky over the livestock and all the our animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground God
00:14:31 isn't trying to punish you and control you just like that he has a destiny he has in mind for you but we need to understand that and we need to tell God do we want this or not do we want to live our own lives our own ways have lawlessness in our minds or do we want to say to God yes I want to follow your ways so that is the what we're saying sin is lawlessness so we don't want to so do we want to doubt God's goodness in our lives do we think we know better than God do we think that God needs help many
00:15:10 times the reason why we sin is because of these three things number one we don't think that God is really good maybe you've been praying for something and God is just not agreeing he's just not not been answering you and you're starting to think is God really good maybe your business fail your children are sick you have a bad relationship break up you are single whatever it is you think that maybe God isn't really good and so you strike out on your own way trying to achieve the blessing or the joy that you want or sometimes you
00:15:40 think that we know better than God God doesn't know enough maybe he doesn't know the actual situation I mean he's too busy dealing with the other billions of people perhaps we think of that or we think that God needs help we need to get involved because God isn't powerful enough that's why he's so slow that's why I can't do this he needs my help so sin is lawlessness and it comes back to us what can we do with this sin that we have the second point that we have today is Jesus came to take away our hamaan I
00:16:10 purposely use the word Haman instead of sin to let you really have this inside your mind Jesus came to take away this fatal flaw that we have this inability to meet the mark to reach the goal that he has for us now but what's a big deal with sin a lot of times maybe we'll be like the gnostics some sins are serious some scenes are not so serious some things are okay but drive a bit faster why cannot uh you know I'm driving a sports car you know I'm driving a por here so you know 110 is too slow I
00:16:40 should drive faster it's very safe and I cannot die on you know perhaps be thinking about that so what's the big deal with sin let me share with you over here a quick recap sin is our haran and it's a fatal flaw that leads us away from God's plan now why do we say that sin is a fatal flaw so to give you an idea sin is basically a perversion of the love that we have or rather a wrong priority loving something more than we ought to so perhaps in the old days when we talk about Sin we think about child sacrifice
00:17:20 we said child sacrifice is sin yes how many you agree we shouldn't sacrifice children all the hands should be up the rest say you should sacrifice the child right no right right so everyone agrees I'm quite sure that we shouldn't sacrifice our children but the truth is many of us especially men do that we sacrifice our children all the time we sacrifice them for our careers are there many times that you are sacrificing sacrificing the time to meet with your children your children has a ball game has a concert has
00:17:56 something that he doing but your answer is always no I cannot attend 10 I need to be at work my work requires me to really work 24/7 work from 10: until 2:00 a.m. because I you earn money to take care of you but the truth is a lot of times maybe we sacrificing our children just for our ego or only for maybe for money that we want so we do not burn our children on altars but what we do is we sacrifice them we ignore them we neglect them until when we grow when they grow up they totally become a stranger to us a
00:18:29 person that we don't know anymore a person that is totally angry with the world and messed up how do I know that I've done it before as well when I was young not young actually a few years ago my youngest son um when he was about 2 years old he started being able to talk and when he saw me he couldn't call Daddy for a long long time I can't remember how long don't know whether my wife know how long he he couldn't really call me do you know what he calls me when he when he sees me he calls me button do you know why he calls me
00:19:06 button I'm wearing shirts like this every single day I'm working all the time so because of that he can't call Daddy he sees me he says button that's all he knows so perhaps for some of you have you sacrifice your children because of this har and this sin that we have that we over prioritize our careers or maybe for the rest of us maybe for mothers or for the for those of us who have not a very good childhood and we say we want to give the best to the children we sacrifice our children a different
00:19:40 way we become helicopter parents we overprotect them we overly emphasize things get them to go to tution after tution after tution after tution after tution after tution first we do that or we micromanager and we have all these dreams behind in for them but perhaps it's not something that they really want as well we sacrific them to fulfill our own dreams the things that we didn't achieve so when you look at it these are actually all good things careers are good having dreams for children are good
00:20:10 but this hamaa that we have causes us to over prioritize and put this as the most important thing and therefore the entire life for us and our family Get Wrecked I want to share with you and friend of mine now this is a kesab true story I gotten a permission to share this um this friend let's just call her Alice right she's a very successful lady really smart and really capable the reason why I want to share this with you is because sometimes being capable and driven itself is our fatal flaw if
00:20:43 you're smart you're capable that may be your harer what do I mean by that this friend of mine her name is Alice she is really successful and when she graduated she worked for an FNB company okay she for FNB company and this company was really growing so if you're in business the thing that you really want is product Market fit if you're in business you want product Market fit which means that you want to be able sell something that the whole world wants to buy agree you don't sell something nobody wants to buy right you
00:21:20 to sell something everybody wants to buy and this FNB business that she was in was doing extremely well the business was so good that 5:00 in the morning people started lining up to buy the products and the food that they sell and the business was so good expanded from country to Country to Country she went to Singapore she worked over there to grow the business and she didn't even have time to rest no time for lunch she survived on coffee 12 cups a day 12 cups of coffee a day kab so when she did this she said that
00:21:56 she just felt amazing she's capable there's so much money coming in everybody loves the products everyone to buy 5:00 they start lining up but after doing this for 9 months her body collapsed she went in hospital had a high fever doctor checked and said oh you seem okay get out the second year the business grew went to Thailand grew again open many many outlets and again the same thing happened 9 months or one year after working there her body collapsed again ran in the hospital and the doctor actually said that you shouldn't be
00:22:29 experiencing this now and when I check your body I notice that you don't have any nutrition what have you been eating answer is 12 cups of coffee and so she to understand the the doctor said you have to change your lifestyle but she couldn't understand what do you mean what's wrong with my lifestyle here I'm doing well I'm capable I'm growing business everywhere now so what's wrong but that is the Fatal flaw that we have that sometimes when you are talented you think you can do everything because
00:23:01 the truth is you can you know but promise you don't understand you're one person and when you stretch yourself like this you're going to die so you will know that I actually encountered this before myself so that's the challenge we have when you think that you're capable whether you're capable or not it's two different things you think you're capable and so you work hard but that can be your downfall as well so I just want to share with you that when it comes to all of us we need to understand that we need to think and see
00:23:36 what are we chasing after why are we chasing after for this friend of mine after that Thailand she went to Korea the same happened again but in the end she only got she only woke up when one day she was actually driving in Malaysia and the whole car drove out of the highway and landed on a tree she almost died it was on a tree okay she almost died and after that she realized oh no I really need to change my lifestyle so don't let happen to you but sin is something even more serious than what we
00:24:09 are talking about here because we have already lost the way to choose we don't even know how to choose it anymore in Romans here it says for for I have the desire to do what is good but I cannot carry it out for I do not do the good I want to do but the evil I do not want to do this I keep on doing even though I can tell you what you should do what you shouldn't do the answer is we still can't do it and that is the reason why Jesus came to save us in verse four it says everyone who sins breaks the law in
00:24:37 fact sin is lawlessness but verse 5 it says but you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins and in him is no sin so the second Point Jesus came to take away our hartian and final point I have for you today is as children of God what we the the way you can know whether a person is a children of God is basically by seeing how they live so children of God are recognized by how they live if you read verse 6 to 10 it says over here no one who lives in him keeps on sinning no one who continues to sin
00:25:18 has either seen him or known him in verse n no one who is born of God will continue to sin because God's SE remains in them they cannot go on sinning because they have have been born of God this is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are anyone who does not do what is right is not God's sh nor is anyone who does not love their brothers and sisters so if you live in God you will not keep on sinning if you keep on sinning the reason is you do not even know God how
00:25:52 do you understand this the easiest way for us to understand is it's like you are in love can you still remember your First Love or first time you went dating for those of you too young next time you find out how it is but I still remember how it was so uh with my wife actually when we first got together when she first said yes you be my girlfriend life was so good I changed totally I started putting on perfume okay until my colleagues are saying wait how perfume me okay uh I bought flowers for her at the time I
00:26:32 didn't know she didn't like flowers right I brought her to nice restaurants that I wouldn't go as a China man I go to kopia most of the time but because of her I want to bring her to nice restaurant my car my proton isvara was in a massm of time but because of her I clean it up hoping that it' be nicer when she sits in the car I buy her favorite things and most importantly the phone build went up and up and up why because I want to talk to her I want to know her I want to get to know her and just spend time together so if
00:27:08 you are children of God and if you really are in him that's how it is your life you totally transform you will not do this there's no reason why you look at other girls because you have the most beautiful woman in the world just like my wife isn't it h see all of you think she's beautiful as so therefore that's the when you're really in love you will change and I'm going to give you this question now men answer me men okay so before that okay no one who lives in him keep on sinning if you're really in
00:27:40 Christ you really know Christ you have relationship with him you will not sin but if you continue sinning you look at other women means that you are not really in love does that make sense now dating 101 man what will you do in this circumstance first one your partner likes opra you have no clue about what's Oprah what will you do what you do you Google ah you go Google maybe after they said he ding I bring you to watch this opra show then you realiz that there's no opra in Malaysia then how you spend more money I fly you there
00:28:15 some more okay going to swipe my credit card and get on personal loan just for you that she likes to read the Bible what will you do H okay then you start to oh I also must know the Bible all right I want to understand more what she's always reading about she doesn't not like it when you smoke she doesn't like it when you drink so what do you do you stop it you forgot her birthday I want to die really okay so what you do you make it up right but you also have remorse you feel that hey something's wrong how can I forget her
00:28:53 birthday how can I forget you know you you don't need her to score you you feel that hey this is not right how can I do that and that's the same way as God there's the same way with God how can I sin how can I do something offend him because I'm in love with him and if you want to if you had to work overseas for six months what would you do what you do resign what you do bring her very smart as you I'm just like you yeah so when I was a posted overseas I actually told my wife at the time uh my girlfriend would you like to come visit
00:29:33 me also and she came visit me over there miss SP a few weeks over there together but the answer is we want to be together all the time when you really have relationship with God you will want to be together with him you would do all the things he wants to do in fact what to share with you is this your actions are all based on love there's no calculated returns you say I must do this so I can get to heaven you know so they she'll give me a kiss no you do it because you love her right and so so because of God s because God is with you
00:30:01 you are able to totally change you will not continue to sin because God is in you because you are with God you will totally change you will not sin without remorse and as you continue to be with your girlfriend your taste your restaurant visit your lifestyle will totally change the same goes with God when you really know Christ and you really understand what the text say what he's telling us in the Bible you will change because you realize how beautiful the word of God is over here I found online this guy can't remember his name
00:30:37 really okay later you can ask me again but what he says is for a law to shape action to a desired goal that law must function in complete harmony with the mechanics of the regulate system what it means is a lot of times when you see the law the laws in the Bible Old Testament say y so many things to follow how how can we do so many things we read a new Bible New Testament so many things to follow what is this about but answer is when you really read it and you really know the heart of God you realize that
00:31:02 this is all meant for human flourishing the laws of God are beautiful is so that we can have a good Society by everyone can live together well so just take take an example of welfare in Old Testament that is Forgiven on seven year land is returned during Jubilee the corner of the field if you have F you purposely actually want to harvest only some of them and the balance of them you will actually give it back to to to the poor so it purposely Reserve certain things for the poor as well that's what it means over here can
00:31:37 I just quick check do I have 15 minutes more or zero I got 15 right okay thank you so over here the corner of few are given to the poor so what I'm trying to share with you this a lot of times when you see God's laws we say so restrictive so difficult why should we do all this but if you really spend the time to understand and know that he is good starts with this point he is good he loves us and when you see it you realize that the law of God is like this engine over here in order for Aon to work
00:32:10 properly the world to function properly the laws need to be there just like how a piston needs to be the same length and the way you connect everything together must be there even this engine you're looking at it cannot even survive it can't even be used if there's no oil pan gasket okay you can't even do that you can't even do it if there's there's no drain B if the drain B is removed all the oil actually come down the engine cannot be used the same goes for the law of God is placed there for a purpose a
00:32:36 lot of times just that we don't understand why but just like the example I told you about your girlfriend or your wife the more you understand it you realize things make sense there's a reason behind it and but here is where the analogy breaks down because when you be your wife one day when she be when you be your wife and you live together you start to realize that she has Witnesses also everybody except my wife okay okay all your wives have witnesses also right all your wies have witnesses and so then
00:33:09 you realize that hey actually why you do like that not correct you know you want me to follow this but this is not right but when it comes to God is different the more you know him the more you realize that oh he is really correct he is always right and so Jesus is the best person to be in a relationship with and for me personally these are few points I just want to share with you first one I was sharing with Dr Peter recently I don't know how to explain it but a few Smitten by God recently really
00:33:39 understanding that he's so amazing so if you really read the Bible for example you can say Jesus is amazing he turned water into Vine do you know how water is H2O hydrogen molecules and oxygen molecules how could you actually change it into wine a geek for myself over here do you know that in order for the particles for atoms to become wine require the energy of a nuclear explosion happening there and yet you have a nuclear fusion and nuclear reactor over there just like that water becomes wine and people can drink it to
00:34:14 me that's amazing it may not apply to you but as you read the Bible as you understand more of God you see there so many amazing things about him Jesus the understanding he's totally understanding when Thomas adopted and said that unless I touch his body touch the rib I know that he is Christ Jesus didn't get angry but how would you behave if you're the manager and your staff totally disregards you and doesn't agree and don't believe you until now Jesus said come touch Jesus a compassionate at the Garden of gason
00:34:45 when he was praying and on his last night before he was being betrayed all the disciples fell asleep when the disciples fell asleep do you know what he said how will you re if let's say you are you know you're going to die with this and all the people follow you can't even do something simple for you just ask him and stay awake what he said was very simple he said that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak it still very understanding for me I wouldn't say that I would say what's wrong with you three
00:35:12 years I've been trying to help you I just one one hour from your time you still can't do that for me Jesus are humble the women the woman who was caught in adultery Jesus was humble and and I actually read or follow the sermons of Tim Keller this word humility or that um is being said here is not what we understand but Jesus was strong and Jesus was kind at the same time he was Brave he was poised he was he was he didn't Flinch when the Pharisees came and challenge him he just draw on the ground only he's not afraid at all and
00:35:48 people come and challenge him but with this same character he has he's able to speak to the woman who was being caught for adultery and tell her neither will I condemn you go and sin no more so Jesus is both gentle and kind and brave at the same time Jesus the true Shepherd he gives his life for his sheep so I all of us know that when it comes to Christ when it comes to Jesus he's willing to give up his life for us and so if you do something wrong you go and do drugs do you think your girlfriend will leave you
00:36:29 you I think the answer is very likely right because what's wrong with you why you going to do something like that but Jesus will never leave you no matter what you go through what wrong things you do what fi you've been watching what you have on your phone on your computer what business dealings you shouldn't be doing who you're talking to that's wrong or any single thing that's actually wrong no matter what you do he is in you the seat of God God remains in you and he will just continue withstanding the pain
00:37:01 that you give to him and he just continue being there at your side hoping that you will change sending people to your life asking you to change that is a God that we have that will never never leave us so when you think about God when you start to imagine or meditate on who is this God that we have I hope that you won't see that judge or Jesus sitting on a throne but you see that Jesus is like this father here always willing ever ready to forgive always there standing by your side to support you and helping you to turn to
00:37:41 remove your hamaa so that you become who he wants you to be and so all of us have heard this many times but it wasn't the news that left him there it was a news that kept him on the cross it was his love for us and this is what religion says all the religions in the world says earn your life you are wrong you have to do good in order for you to earn your life the word the society tells us you need to create your life become somebody fulfill your potential put in all your effort and become somebody that is
00:38:19 actually worthful leave a legacy but only Jesus says my life for your life no matter what you've gone through even though you are sinner even though you have your Hara and you may have done a lot of wrong things and you're at your with s and perhaps you have wasted your whole life already God still says my life for your life and because of that we will live for him not because we're going to get credit maybe not even because we want to hear thou good and faithful servant but just because we really love him because
00:38:58 of who he is so today these are three points we have sin is lawlessness we know that sin is wrong we shouldn't be raising a fist against God number two Jesus came to take away our hamaa to remove the sins so that we can go back to him to become who he wants us to be to be in a relationship back to him with him and children of God are recognized by how they live the way you know where whether you a child of God it's not because you said said a siners prayer but because your life has changed you may still do
00:39:36 something wrong you may still make some mistakes here and there but when you do that when you forget her birthday you forget something that Christ asked you to do you remember how can I forget it what's wrong with me and that will cause you to change so who do you belong to is your god the angry judge who will punch you in the face or The God that's high above on the throne that has no time for you and he doesn't even really know what's happening or you belong to Jesus who is strong and kind at the same
00:40:16 time in this song that we're singing again for response I just want to emphasize a few of the verses over here he says Jesus said that if I thirst I should come to him no one else can satisfy you may be looking for many things in life but only God can truly satisfy you only God if you buy the newest iPhone I can assure you a few months later he will not satisfy you anymore Jesus said that if I fear if you're worried for things you should go to him he will be your Shield he will guide you he will protect you the storms
00:41:01 may come but he is with you Jesus said if I'm weak I should come to him if you're weak you know that you need help go to him he will be your strength because nobody else can be your strength why because the Lord is good and he's faithful he keep us day and night he his with us all the time he will not go to work and leave us at home he'll always be there every single conversation everywhere you go even you're sleeping imagine he's standing next to you watching you sleep every night that's a God that we have we can
00:41:44 always run to Jesus because he's strong and kind but the most important part is the last verse Jesus said if I am lost when you have forgotten him now you were still Sinners he will come to you he will go to you and it's not just words on the cross itself he showed to you that he really came to save us from our sins from living a life that leads to damnation so that one day we can be reconciled to him but the day doesn't start only when you die but starts immedately when you accept him because God's seed remains in you and your life
00:42:32 will totally change dear friends Brothers and Sisters in Christ I want to do a quick invitation over here not because I want to see you raising your hands but just because I know that Jesus wants to talk to you he wants to be with you and first invitation I want to ask all of you is this as uh our heads about and our eyes are closed among us over here are there anyone of us over here who still do not know Jesus you have not heard of a god like that before that's willing to be longsuffering being with you even though
00:43:20 you are not worthy you are totally not someone that he should should be you and yet he's with you if you want to know Christ and you said Lord I want you to be my life and I understand I have this hamaa I have this fatal flaw and I don't want to be Dar wither I don't want to be somebody that I'm not happy with as well and you say Lord I want to know you if that's you I would like to invite you to raise your hands on the count of tree so that we can pray with you and just to share with you about this God
00:44:04 that so beautiful and so good so on the count of tree if anyone of you wants to accept Christ or wants to know more about Christ can I invite you to raise hands on count of three one 2 three anyone [Music] here [Music] anyone okay so I trust that most of us here are believers or maybe you thinking no problem at the same time the second invitation I want to have for all you this do you know God as the judge or the one that's who totally high up or do you know him as this beautiful amazing person if you wish to know him like that
00:44:50 I just want you to to get this experience and really see him for who he is because I believe when you can see Christ as he truly is your life will be transformed is is this what you want holy spirit is talking to you and you want your life to change and you want have this joy in life can I invite you to just raise your hands and put it down again I see your hand anyone else I see your hand I see your hand okay I see your hand you can put it down on the right you're doing this I see your hand on the
00:45:29 left you can put it down anyone else I see your hand you see the thing is why we do this is not because we're trying to come keep a account that but lot but really the serious thing is is life is amazing when you really know Jesus and if you really know who he is your life will transform so one last time does anyone wants to do that do you want to really know Jesus for who he is can I invite you to raise your hands anyone else one last time I see your hand I see your hand I see your hand can put down Okay
00:46:02 can put down thank you so much at the back outside right so friends I'm going to be praying for you and after this prayer as well I I urge you to come to the front talk to the brothers and sisters over here so they can walk with you so your life can change as well because you cannot leave alone you were not made to be alone living out there let's pray together father we thank you for our brothers and sisters over here who said that they want to know you more to be able to really see who you are your magnificence
00:46:37 your your beauty Lord because Lord when they see this Lord their lives will change lot of times we we don't understand how can all the apostles how can so many people be living such radical lives when they can just give everything and go for you but the reason is because we not seeing you for who you are and Lord I pray that you help these brothers and sisters of mine who have raised their hands who said that they want to see you to have joy in their lives Lord I pray that you speak with them in their daily encounter with you
00:47:06 in the walk in the prayer in the night sleep Lord Lord I pray that you give them this encounter to see that Lord you are beautiful and Lord you love them so much that you really want the best for them Lord speak to them walk with them and help them to become this amazing person that you have actually meant for them wek thank you for this Lord in Jesus name we pray amen now receive the benediction Ben comes from Ephesians 3: 17 and 19 May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love
00:47:50 may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God service is over after moment of silence prayer you may be dismissed
