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00:00:02 good morning everybody morning it's always such a pleasure to be here next week's sermon is Dr Peter the gospel and true wisdom and then we prepare our hearts for Good Friday um by Alex and also Easter Sunday will be by Dr Peter again and um let's go and look at the first slide can I get my first slide up okay you know you have a cloth right you ring it water comes out then you ring again summer water you Ring third time got water you know you know in the olden days before there was commentaries and
00:00:44 all these things there was only the Bible and the Puritans used to do this you know the Puritans have a bad R you think Puritan you think goody two shoes but you understand these guys they were very devoted to the word you know they can take a verse and you know write notes they do devotions and they take the same verse and write notes again but the time they finish there was 200 pages and 300 Pages then they said it to a publisher they write a book uh the heart of Christ but Thomas Goodwin is one such
00:01:13 book he wrote the entire book based on Hebrews 4:15 that's a fascinating way of uh looking at scripture where's Richard I'm going to ah there we are our ex Elders here you know he told me one day we had lunch before everybody else he said you know what every preacher gives three points right one month you have 12 points one year is 150 points how many of you remember them you can't I can't even remember my own points so what's the purpose of preaching I would suggest the purpose of preaching is to get you back to the text
00:01:48 so that if you forget everything at least you remember the verse I'm going to squeeze this verse so I did one sermon on it I'm going to do it again again today I prepared a third one for it and let's see whether we can get 200 Pages out of this so if you forget everything I say and and and you don't want to remember honor liim you remember this verse because this is such a powerful verse and the word of God becomes aive to you let's pray Lord we ask that this morning again not men but you good preaching isn't so much that the
00:02:34 sermons applicable or the exposition was very good but perhaps at the core of good preaching is that people go away remembering what scripture said and that scripture spoke to their hearts and that scripture that scripture spoke so deeply that God was real and so this morning as we meditate on this such a famous verse again we ask your word becomes life in Jesus name we say this uh let me take you to the last one in case you did not uh listen or you went around the last sermon we did a word study and I broke down the four
00:03:17 great words there love the world gave his only son belief and eternal life and go back listen to it they're great words and you have to understand what each one means we'll flash it out again as we go through this series but single most important L our lives and it took me a long time to come to this is to pursue knowing how much God loves you you want to talk about purpose your life is this you know I'm an elder I'm run my own business everything but it took me a long time this is the single most
00:03:55 important Pursuit and we miss this it's not only that God wants you to know how much he loves you and we're going to explore a bit of that today an expression of how much God loves us is manifested in the gospel we we call this for grounding our faith in the love of God if not the Bible will tell you you foreg grounded in the law and the law is not just the Torah it is whatever law you want to construct because you would believe if you follow this set of requirements of these regulations you will come to God let me give you an
00:04:37 example all right if you're a Christian friendship with God Joy asked me to read this book after last Su I thought is great this is what the author says and interestingly what the author is doing he's rewriting another puran book the Puritans really have got it right okay I think Jonathan Owens book Rewritten you know you're a Christian you should work hard and this what I'm doing nowadays to convince yourself or your father's love for you we should underline that that is the purpose of my life revealed in the gift
00:05:13 of his son do not allow your sin or fear to cause you to doubt his love for you he never changes he will notop stop loving you in Christ the father wants to have a friendship with you cented on his love and this part is important now if he seems distant or your life is marked by spiritual turmoil and upset rather than rest this is where you must begin and for a lot of us if not all of us this is where we begin let me give you an example last week the preacher up here said another Elder likes to drink
00:05:58 beer a TI of clarification is required let me make a clarification I have not stepped food in a pup for seven years he was just kidding I hope he was H I have not bought a single bottle of liquor all my liquor is given to me by contractors why no every Chinese year I get Glen Li Glen feal Scotch whiskey my house is full of it I'm dying to give them away hey anyone you want to Maan I'll bring a bottle 21y old whiskey to share with you I don't drink some of our young adults like to drink I got this yesterday from a young
00:06:42 adult couple anyone of you can recognize that man by his smile younger do tell me who that is just by the smile come on oh y frighten look I Repent some people how ever don't drink they make a covenant not to drink intentionally in their walk with God they don't drink and to come to a church where the thing the Elder likes to drink is very stumbling and if you come up to me and you say I'm very stumbled and if I'm walking with you and I'll Covenant with you I will not drink a drop again because I'm for grounded in
00:07:35 love let me give you the opposite is one thing to say you don't drink because you Covenant with God and if one day is Holier to you drinking is something want a covenant now is the period of land some of our Catholic friends abstain from meat all honor to you but you can go the other extreme you put law you don't drink alcohol and no Christian Sho and the moment you hear that this church the Elder drinks and of all things the week before we had a woman speaker wow this church must be liberal this a terrible
00:08:12 Church you have gotten into law and so we foreground our faith in love and what are we talking about today when we talk about people who like to drink don't like to drink we are talking about loving other people so let me give you the big picture today the big picture is this unless you seek to understand and experience how much God loves you the key word is this you will not have power to properly love others the word is power and how is that power manifested that power is manifested from the holy
00:08:49 spirit so I want us to do this and this something else I I'm I ever SE the mark devil conference that really talked to me I want you to open your Bible and to open it to John tree I don't know whether we should get the lights up I leave it to the lights and sound people if you don't have your Bible just Google John chapter 3 now I cannot force you to do this I'm just going to encourage you because Richard is very right the word of God and not me should come along I can put out the verses I don't want to
00:09:20 so let's go to John 3 and today we're going to look at context today we're going to look at a man called Nicodemus John 3 we're going to take 1-6 and this is a fascinating text let's start to read John 3:1 now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a member of the Jewish ruling Council which means powerful person no don't play player a member of the Jewish ruling counsel ruling counselor he's a politician this is the equivalent of of past yes they rule the country by religion that's what the text is
00:10:09 saying now this is even more interesting he came to Jesus now this is the loadest statement at night and said Rabbi we know you're a teacher who has come from God he came to Jesus at night to double down on this in John 19 John writes it again Nicodemus was the person who came to see Jesus at night why would apul to see Jesus At Night Team Keller puts it Ma want to make a deal with you how do we know that because he says this Rabbi that's all you are we know wow not I know we I'm a representative of the ruling
00:11:06 Council we come to make a deal with you why for no one could perform the miracle signs you are doing it if God were not with him in the chapter before that Jesus enters the temple and overthrows everything hey who are you man you come and you overthrow everything and the people don't do anything why because he's light and darkness cannot overcome and the motive of light and darkness is very heavy in John John 3 opens with Darkness because a member of the Jewish Council comes at night and the end of
00:11:43 this section of it before you hit to 22 is about light and darkness and the Greek word for Darkness has two implications one if you do things in darkness you are doing it because nobody knows what what does it do to you it puts you in bondage number two it clouds your thinking and so Jesus comes and the Darkness could not overcome him that's John one all right so he comes hey you don't come and overtone and create a sin at the temple you want you talk to us you know you know he's like doing you know like
00:12:18 shatan move Dubai move Jerusalem move you know you talk to us know we ruling councel you got power we got power we talk okay why because Romans oppressing us you want to use your power to overthrow and reestablish the kingdom Jesus replies is in reply Jesus declared I tell you the truth no one can see the kingdom of God now that's interesting because he's a Theocratic politician to him the kingdom is real establish back the Jewish Kingdom by force if necessary bring us back to the Glory Days of King David and put the
00:13:03 Torah front and center does that not sound familiar to you you just have to change the religion and he says one thing you cannot see the kingdom you know cannot see how unless you are born again there's something new again to him so Nicodemus said how can a man be born when he is old surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born he sees literally that is again a motive that appears throughout John when in earlier chapter destroy this Temple and I will bring it up again how does do
00:13:43 this temple with bu for decades no I'll give you the bread of life how eat of his flesh so it tells you we tend not to have spiritual eyes we cannot see things spiritually let me use a word we use today we cannot comprehend Supernatural things so Jesus answers and he says it again but now he doesn't say see the Kingdom look what he says in verse 5 I tell you the truth that's a second time verse three I tell you the truth verse five I tell you truth he doubles down no one can enter the kingdom of God not
00:14:23 only can you not see you cannot enter and then here's the key things unless he's born of water and the spirit and best to see water and spirit as one some people say water here baptism unlikely because of context very likely is a pair and if we talk about born again is about spiritual birth spiritual birth isn't a metaphor is literal is Supernatural then he says a very profound remark flesh gives birth to flesh spirit gives birth to Spirit you have to be born physically but you have to be born spiritually not
00:15:10 be surprised at my saying You must be born again and he D doubling down again on verse three and then he says you the wind blows wherever it pleases you hear it sound you cannot tell where it comes from or where it's going he's talking about Holy Spirit now during those time they didn't understand science and physics they just felt the wind now he's saying something you know you don't come here and try to control me you cannot engineer salvation the holy spirit will blow wherever like the wind you blow
00:15:47 wherever Holy Spirit can move here but what's interesting is the next verse which a lot of people miss you see Jesus isn't talking so much about the Holy Spirit he's talking about people who are born of the spirit that's a difference you know he's talking about the Holy Spirit but more importantly he's talking about those born of spirit hear this so it is with everyone born of the spirit people born of the spirit see the kingdom people born of the spirit enter the kingdom people born the spirit do
00:16:24 things which are strange you cannot control them I want you pick up that thought how do this man who is a member of the ruling Council who knows his Bible front and back his reply how can this be verse 9 Nicodemus asks you are Israel's teacher said Jesus and you do not understand these things I tell you the truth there's a third time he says I tell you the truth whenever you hear this word you know it's important we speak of what we know we testify of what we seen but still you people this is the ruling party who
00:17:04 knows their Bible very well do not accept our testimony I've spoken to you of Earthly things and you do not believe how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things no one has ever gone into heaven except the one who has come from heaven and hear dangerous words to tell to a Pharisee the son of man he's referring to himself you must understand Nicodemus just pegs him as a rabbi just a teacher who can do some magic tricks and Jesus says no I'm not I'm the son of man that's loaded if you know
00:17:44 your Daniel we don't have time to go to it that's very you say that to a Pharisee you are telling a Pharisee you're God and so he stun and then he says something very profound just as Mo Moses lifted up the snake in the desert so the son of man must be lifted up everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life now what is this story the bronze serpent the story numbers the Israelites have gone right up to the promised land the boundary they have seen the Miracles of God and then they don't believe they're like us
00:18:21 release my protection from you and as snakes are going to come and bite you and so they complain and as usually I ask when things go B they go before God and say what must to do and so Moses puts up a bronze serpent now this is quite fascinating because Jordan Peterson which is quite a famous psychologist who motivation writer and you say it was this verse that made him convince the Bible is true you see the snakes if you see a snake in the desert that's your cause of fear and death and this is a
00:18:54 psychological reading of it and what does God want you to do God wants you to look at the very thing you're afraid of but not only that I think the biblical reading is Moses put up that snake as commanded by God because when you look at it you are reminded that you grumbled and Only God will save you and then he says the son of man must be lifted up and then so that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life and then verse 16 for God so l of the world he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him repeats it again
00:19:34 shall not perish but have eternal life so in terms of exeresis here's where we miss you cannot read right we read this just now you know he's looking for a kingdom which is physical but he cannot see it he cannot enter it why because it's supernatural there's a supernatural birth that's a supernatural Kingdom right now here's where this verse connects with them God so loved the world I'm supposed to love people I'm born of the spirit born of the spirit people do things you cannot predict Supernatural birth
00:20:18 Supernatural Kingdom Supernatural love that's the point you and I do not love with our hearts our hearts are broken we love we the power of God let me explain this a bit uh I have to correct Peter a bit Peter Peter you know doctors last week he T Taylor switch ah this little girl let me explain something to Peter this little girl the tourist minister of Singapore went all the way to Los Angeles to meet her team to engineer you know concerts there he said why will people pay $800 to go and see Taylor Swift hello
00:21:07 Peter Marina s offered a package to fetch people from the airport a box seat at the cinema and a hotel you know how much was that Peter Singapore 30,000 how much is that in Malaysia reg get 10 what 120,000 only Peter they sold out number two little girl Hello Peter she was Time person of the year hi yeah no influence hello in 20118 she supported Biden last year she said in September go and vote immediately after say in Vote or 35,000 people registered this is not a little girl this is a power broker now what
00:22:03 happens when the Republican par is when conservative christans hear this this is what happens Sunny Taylor Swift is a Satanist now I'm not kidding you I'm saying this because I'm in a chat group where somebody posted Taylor Swift is a Satanist I said where do you get that and apparently she's a Satanist because of this song called Willow how many have you heard that song I didn't listen to it but because of this I went to listen to it and apparently there's a scene in it where she does a dance and it's a
00:22:38 wishcraft dance and suddenly she's an evil wish everything you see to a lot of Christians this is Supernatural I want to spend a bit about explaining what is Supernatural then we'll talk about supernatural love if you're as old as me right so the the theory here is that what happen is that she uses the videos to be with you and her boyfriend by the way uh basically plays for the Super Bowl at the Super Bowl if you follow a Mara conspiracy theorist they're going to ask people to vote for Joe Biden so now
00:23:12 music videos can entrance you know I do a lot of symbols and after they go vote Joe Biden vote Joe Biden vote Joe Biden now before we we we run this down some people really believe this if you're as old as me how many of you remember this thing called backward masking oh during my time we were very big because I was a Kaki Rock apparently the devil had a plot the plot was he take your music and if you play Backwards you had messages from the devil so a song like let Zeppelin stare away to heaven the quote is if you
00:23:49 listen very hard the song will come to you at last you play Backwards there satanic music and of course one of the most famous hotel California if you you play it backwards it says oh here's my sweet Satan the one whose little pa makes me sad whose power is Satan now I was a kid I love this man man I went to I went to I listened to the tape it was called Rock a byebye baby I tore AP All I didn't move backwards my albums are spawn my turntable but I was fascinating it was completely fascinated and of
00:24:21 course according to them you look at the inside cover the face inside there is Anon La who runs the Church of Satan because a line in the song says we have not had this Spirit here since 1969 and in 1969 Anon Le started the Church of Satan for a for a high school kid this was fascinating reading did he make me a better Christian no it was just very fascinating now here's the thing why is it in the '90s the devil did backward masking but suddenly dropped the idea and now he uses videos now I tell you what all of this
00:24:57 is this is sensational ISM it's sensationalism because part of us is very wi to this the more you do this the more the pop singers love it because controversy sells albums but you say no no no know you don't get it no you see you just look at the face of Taylor Swift so evil you know look at those eyes she's in the cage you know she's going to keep you in bondage you can read anything into this but here's the problem this isn't Taylor switch this is the cover the Cliff Richard album Devil Woman
00:25:29 are you going to say Devil Woman is from the devil CLE Richard is a Christian for goodness sake he will he will vote Republican so then what exactly is a supernatural now am I saying these things don't exist I'm saying they do but it's very easy to be drawn into it for all the wrong reasons I think Supernatural looks like this when Jesus after Matthew tells Jesus sorry uh uh uh I mean uh Peter tells him no no you you can't die you know we need you to kick off the Romans and reestablish the kingdom you do not
00:26:05 have the mind the concerns of God but human concerns if the devil is going to work he's going to do it much more simpler he's going to whisper things to you which are human he's going to tell you Christians you are Christian for all your own personal needs that's all he needs to do don't need to be so Fang and ulsh to about it well then you ask a question how does Supernatural love looks like and I'll say this is how it looks like now this Cory T boom very famous story about her we know about how
00:26:40 she saved the Jews what we don't know is another story that what happened when she was arrested and put into a Nazi concentration camp her father died and her sister died and after when she was released she met one of these Nazi officers and this is the story I remembered him and the leather crop swinging from his belt it was the first time since my release I've been face to face with one of my captives and my blood seemed to freeze you mentioned Raven's Brock in your talk that's the name of the camp
00:27:14 where her sister died and her father died I was a God in there no he did not remember me but since that time he went on I have become a Christian I know that God has forgiven me for the cruel things I did there I love to hear it from your lips a fra line again a hand one will you forgive me and if you were there would you do that here is a member of a group that caused her sister to die there's every reason for her to hate him to spit him in his face Jesus helped me I pray silently I can lift my hand I like this I can do
00:27:53 that much meaning she didn't feel like doing it you supply the feeling and so woodenly mechanically I trust my hand into the one stretch up to me and as I did an incredible thing took place the current started my shoulder raised down my arm sprang into my join hands and then this healing warm seem to flood my whole being bringing tears to my eyes I want us to hear this a bit it didn't come from I don't feel like doing it she didn't feel like doing it but I can do that much and what did she do she
00:28:30 woodenly mechanically took a hand she did what we call the first step the rest God did those who were able to forgive their foral enemies were able to return to the outside world and rebuild their lives no matter what the physical scars those who nurs their bitterness remain invalids it was as simple and as horrible as that and still I stood there the corners clutching my heart I I I like this you know that means she's not convinced still I stood there with the corners clutching my heart she doesn't want to
00:29:03 forgive him but I want us to hear the forgiveness is not an emotion forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of heart how does Supernatural love look like is easier to be a giver it's much more harder to be a forgiver because John 3:16 tells us God's so loved the world God loved this God God gave his son to die for that God and the gods forgiven and so we should be too you know you know something about pastors and Elders I want to say lovingly yeah you
00:29:48 ask pastors Elders deacons to go and feed the rohinga feed the Pakistani Refugee go to the Mayar Community go to the ends of the world to do it they will do it we will do it you ask me to forgive somebody who offended me correct it's easier to build a wall and forget you exist I want to say this in love every BC Grew From a division and people say don't why you always keep bringing this up because L of comfortable so I have done because I struggled with it because I was part of that I want to speak
00:30:34 generally so I reached out to some people there was one brother from the other Church who me and him a very bad fight some years ago I reached out to him over link he reached out to me he thanked me for he congratulated me for being an elder and we tried to reconcile and it was cold it's like a 1% of Corin and Bone but it was cold do you know there's two an liims there's another An Li in pantai yes so I reach out to somebody there say Hey you know I heard anol liim there what and I want to pray for
00:31:13 him this person didn't reply me I want to say this with Grace not judgment but what is Supernatural love is to be a forgiver it's not a giver and it's very very hard to do that I want to just pick this up let me give you the second point this is an interesting verse because it ties two things verse 16 whoever believes remember the first thing I want you to pack on this is Supernatural love and it's very hard to do you and I saying it's very hard okay and all those people didn't reply me I don't want to judge whoever believes the
00:31:49 text is saying you choose but verse eight you're not choosing God is choosing that's interesting right is the tension is the ever tension between the calvinist Armenian argument this is about election and free will but what he's saying is the spirit desdes God decides you can do whatever you want but God decides so the next one I want to pick out is Sovereign Love You know you know my character is the type that needs to do things on you know you know men men need to fix things I want you to think of somebody
00:32:28 you love could be your son could be your daughter could be your husband could your wife and you love them very deeply and you see they are going through something and you struggle and you done everything and you wish you could do more let's give an example you're a mom or a dad and I'm not speaking to anyone personally and your son who grew up in church one day tells you I don't believe anything anymore are you going to take a gun and force him to come to church or are you going to say well that's your choice difficult isn't
00:33:14 it what if you had a spouse or a father who doing something which you think they should not be doing and you've been doing everything to tell them don't do that they don't listen to you there comes a point where you and I really have to learn to trust God and I I I really struggle with that because the moment I open my mouth I like to tell you what to do your life and when it comes to people you love all of us have that problem and it's very hard to take those that you love the son that became gay or
00:34:01 nonbinary the partner who decided not to believe someone who's has habits whom you think is going to destroy that person and you tried everything at one point the holy spirit will just say enough the best thing you can do trust me but God if I don't he's going to end up like this well the spirit blows as he decides you cannot force anybody to be who listen to this you want him to be and God that's very hard so you can say this Supernatural love is the power to do something extraordinary that you feel you cannot
00:34:55 do Sovereign Love is the power to do what nothing but to sit at the feet of Jesus so let me give you what ties the whole thing together because you sit there you says you know what I'm like that guy you WhatsApp me and I think you hurt me I'm not going to call you I'm not going to reply you I feel fake you know honor is very hard to stop you very easy for you to stop but my daughter is doing that I I have to do everything I just have to and this is where I think the verse really strikes so you know we all love from a Wounded
00:35:34 Heart each and every one of us you see this is the key verse just as Moses lifted up the snake the son of man must be lifted up just as you see that which killed you it causes you fear Jordan Peterson is quite right you have to look at it you can't can't build a wall a lot of us for people hurt us the easiest thing to do is what distance yourself from them because you will go mad he heard me I put a wall what that wall does is create bitterness and what you do like the israelit in the desert you will just
00:36:15 keep looking at your soul the snake has bitten you and you're dying and you just keep looking at this at the saw and the bite marks but you want to be safe you look why because when you look you will see that you grumbled and you begin to realize God was a good God who took you out of bondage of Israel he will not forsake you your grumbling has no basis and you will say God I see my sins and I see not only that I see the snake the snake has been defeated and I'm Healed and just at the snake is raised up the son of man will
00:37:02 be raised up in Israel they did one with the snake but they turning into the cross and they put a crown and just as that snakes lifted up all your hurts all your failures in loving people when you know you should put up your hand and forgive and you don't every time you you you feel you have not loved well every time you know you should not you should let go but you don't you look at it and you believe that's the key because you and I are not going to love perfectly we love selfishly you and I going to go back and
00:37:44 we're going to sin again I'm going to go back and it's going to take my whole life to just shut up and listen to people and you going to have that problem with your mom your dad your husband your wife your kids and the next day you're going to wake up and you're going to feel you're going to feel rotten about yourself and so you look up and you believe Nicodemus leaves not believing but in Chapter 19 Verse 38 we are told Joseph Aria asked pilate for the body of of Jesus and then we told this he was
00:38:23 accompanied by Nicodemus the man who earlier had visited Jesus At Night and look at what he does here's the man ruling member of the political party bringing 75 PW of Maya he is saying what he's destroying his entire standing the Pharisees and you would imagine Nicodemus on that night in John 3 leaving saying I don't get it I know this story of in the b in the Torah in the Old Testament I don't get it and you can imagine on that day Jesus was crucified Nicodemus stood there and then he says I get
00:39:05 it and this morning the Lord is asking you do you get it you know why because you don't uh you're going to go through life just looking at your wounds you know and those wounds will tear you all of us have wounds past relationships people who hurt you people whom you have given in your life to and backstabbed you feelings of helplessness when people turn out not the way you do but we are wounded people being loved by a wounded God you know how do you and I feel about ourselves I I want you to pause and
00:39:47 think if I give you a picture of who you look like you'll be thiser there two types of people one those who feel like this you're broken you you you you you're so scar you put a wall the second You're So you you're you're so afraid you just walk away and this is the story of Jacob and Esau and Jacob cannot reconcile Esau because he tricked the brother brother wants to kill him and he's scared he runs and so he wrestles with God he says God I know you're a God of Covenant you said this but I might die my wife might die
00:40:37 my brother's coming with 400 people you know the story he wrestles with God he tells God to bless him how does God bless him changes his name but how does he bless him after that He blesses him by pulling the tenant from his leg hey what kind of blessing is that God bless me you should remove this threat of my brother God says yeah I'll bless you I'm going you know it does he wounds him like what here I'm worried for my life bless me I rested in you and you crippled me what kind of God are you and God who wound says trust me I
00:41:17 know you you know why because this guy runs when you are limping you cannot run and so he phases four 100 men coming towards his horseback for the first time in his life Jacob goes there I'm sick of running he gets on his knees and he bows seven times and he says you know what if I die I die if I live I live I trust God he's doing cortin boom putting up his hand woodenly and we know the story right Esau reconciles with him you see in many ways we feel we like this and what happens when you're like this
00:42:08 you only look at your wounds you know and but what did God do God took that wound now and turn that weakness into strength you know have you realized that very thing that uh you're troubled with that very trauma that very very anger that very bitterness have you realized those things that are wounds if you put it before the cross and you say Lord I Surrender that to you what does God do to that he does this where the wound is he puts gold this is the Japanese art of kugi in the Japanese art a broken vest So This Is
00:42:59 Us is patched back with gold and I tell you why this is so important you see there many days I feel like a failure I will tell you I say I I I didn't love I don't know anybody like just put a name you could there be days where you say I didn't love my husband well enough I didn't love my daughter well enough I didn't love the person whom I love I I I didn't do it you you you look up and you believe you say Lord I I take my failures give it to you I I'm not like cor 10 wom I can't live on my hand I I
00:43:35 don't how to trust you Lord you know what the Lord does to that the Lord looks down he puts gold into that wound he puts gold he will put goal only if you do one thing you say Lord forgive me and tomorrow I will do better don't be a giver be a forgiver you see the kugi art form is so intricate is not just go that place of wound is the most precious part of the vas do you believe the very weakness you have the very things that troubles you the very thing you struggle with the very thing that you feel you're a
00:44:26 failure if you look up and you place it towards God you know what God says because of what my son has done for you I don't see that failure I don't see that I see goal and I'm refining you every day to be more like Christ and so I want to challenge you with this I want to challenge you today on one thing you see every one of us has somebody we struggled to love and I want you today to think of that person could be your wife you know could be your husband I know who I'm going to think of and I want you to say you
00:45:18 know I'm not loving the person right I want you pause on that and then I want you to look up to the cross and I want you to tell tell yourself this is how God sees you what happens when you do that when you do that people see real people loving one another let me just give a simple example husband and wife never argue what do the children see I will tell you what they see yeah they see an unusual marriage because 99.9 people argue why you saying an must fight no husband and wife fight toxic marriage
00:46:06 right husband and wife fight but next day they forgive one another what do you think the children see they see wounds that were covered by gold and suddenly you no longer are identified by your scars you identif def find by the goal that covers the scar and what do you become my last sermon if you look at it again I spoke about my friend Jasmine suun who chose to become blind to bring her daughter into the world and I use that to show you unconditional love before the daughter was born she was L that's
00:46:55 us you were chosen you are deeply loved so now go and love others but beyond giving birth to her daughter Jasmine went on to serve in the church went to help with a husband to build one of the most successful loss adjusted firms in Malaysia there's only one word to describe her and she's blind blind you don't care get more wounded than that and there's one word I want to describe her which I pray it will be for all of you that you and I become a community of wounded healers going to ask the worship team to come
00:47:52 up and as they come up I want you to think of your wounds you can I either be like the Israelite who stares at the bite and get emited or you can look up and not let that thing overcome you and believe God has taken that put it on the cross because he loved you and I so deeply that he has made you go for God so loved the world he gave his one and only begotten son that if you believe and what is believing today to look up to take all your hurts and put it at a cross you will have eternal life and
00:48:37 eternal life begins now today as spirit moves in you so as we prepare this song as we quieten our hearts I want you to think of someone whom hurt you or someone you love deeply and you're so afraid of losing that person or somebody whom you wish you could do more and God is just saying why don't you just shut up and just sit there it could be a husband a wife a son a daughter it would somebody from the Past who hurt you so deeply you don't want to see the guy ever again and this is Supernatural love to do that which is
00:49:24 impossible and you just sit there God is saying love that person and you say I can't I can't I don't know what to do I hate that person I don't know what to do Lord and then he says Sovereign Love you do you leave the rest to me the spirit will blow and then you say Lord I I don't know I I I've never tried it I I I've heard then the Lord says well you take that sin and you look up you give that sin to me that sin of insecurity that sin of fear of losing that person that that sin of hate that sin of
00:50:09 I've been hurt before that sin of I I don't want my son to be gay I don't want my daughter to be like this I don't want my husband my wife and you say ah Lord I trust you I will not Grumble I will not be bitter and where you are seated right now with that wound he's going to put goal on it because when he looks down on you he sees Perfection because you don't love perfectly but in Christ listen to this in Christ you have loved perfectly for God so loved the world God so loved you he gave his one and only begotten
00:50:49 son that whoever believes and this morning he's asking you to believe will not perish but have eternal life and may eternal life begin again as you leave the hall this morning I'm going to let the worship team take us to a time of ministering church let us rise as we respond for God so love the that he gave his only son whosoever believes will not they shall have eternal life I shall shall hold to the cross I shall hold to God alone for his love has Salish me for his love has set me free for God so love of the
00:52:29 world and that he gave his only son that whoever believes will [Music] not they shall have eternal life I shall wait upon the Lord I shall wait upon his word and by his grace I am Rel and by his grace I am redeemed for God so love the world that he gave his only son and whosoever believes will not perish they shall have eternal life [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I sing by his Precious Blood I have been set free by his Precious Blood I have been set free for the glory of Jes Jesus
00:54:29 name I surrender all now to Christ Alone In Jesus I am sa by his Precious Blood I have been set free for the glory of Jesus name I Surrender not to Christ theone in Jesus I am saved for God so Lov the world that he gave his only son Let's sing just the voices [Music] whoever believes will not perish they shall have eternal life they shall have eternal life I want to invite all of you to sit down I want us to sit down and I want you to ask yourself do you believe the holy spirit is in our yes the Wind
00:56:00 Blows the wind blows you cannot tell where it goes and do you not want that wind to come to you it comes if you are not in darkness if you do not choose to believe what you want to choose about the narratives of your life and in our narratives we are always the victim but victims very often become aggressors we just cannot come to terms with that and as the spirit moves here I ask he breaks your heart as it should break my heart and he wants to take that wound and put gold on it and you'll be renewed we're going to do this quietly
00:56:42 as the spirit works and the first group of people seated here are those struggling with unforgiveness I want us just to sit and think of that person who hurt you is very hard and I want you as the Israelites looked up to the broad serpent in your mind with the eyes of your heart you look up to the cross and you say Jesus this Hur this bitterness this pain he cheated on me he left me she took my money he never treated me right I was a neglected son I'm divorced I'm abandoned I want you to think that and put it on the
00:57:47 cross and Jesus says I loved you and I do not see that I do not see your wound I do not see bitterness I do not see open source from a snake who bat you with Venom I see gold I want you to pause on that and he says go tomorrow and love and you see it's hard I don't know how to love and as Cory tan boom said Lord I can do this much you supply the rest so Supernatural love is not possible without Sovereign Love and you say I will at least do this I will pray for that person who hurt me you supply the
00:59:01 rest there's another group of people who feel inadequate by the way they love they feel guilty I should have loved my mom more I should have love my dad more I should have loved my husband my wife my son my daughter if I had done that they would not have ended up being left to faith became gay become nonbinary turn out like this what did I do wrong and the Lord is saying you did nothing wrong and the Lord is saying tomorrow you would fail again and I would fail again and I will not put out my hand but
00:59:45 eternity begins now and every time I fail I look up to the cross and I do not feel that Venom and I ask you right now you feel inadequate as a father as a mother as a husband as a wife you don't feel very loving I want you to take that and put it at the cross and God the Father looks down and he says I see gold tomorrow go and do better for God so loved me God so loved you God so loved your enemies God so loved the person who hurt you that he gave his one and only begotten son while we were still enemies where we
01:00:46 still far away he loved us that whosoever believes and this morning to believe is to look at the cross CR and get and take that power the holy spirit is giving and eternity life means Heaven begins on Earth the power of Heaven is in your hands Lord God we put all this in your hands we ask we do not live in darkness we do not come to you in darkness we do not come to make a deal we come to stare at our issues face on we confess our sins or building walls of avoiding people with dislike of feeling emited inadequate or
01:01:41 feeling weak insufficient insecure we confess our worry that the love we have will be taken away from us we confess our feelings of why did this happen to me Lord but Lord sometimes we need to be like Jacob we wrestle and you just wound us and when you wound us we can't run we can't run we can only get on our knees and run to you and in that process Lord make us wounded Healers and now receive the benediction now onto him who gave you his son who died on the cross for our sins now to him who gave you the holy
01:02:43 spirit so that you have power beyond what you can imagine now to him who comforts you in your time of weakness come to the father come and know you are deeply loved you are so deeply loved you are go come to him and be a wounded healer and God's people say amen the service is over if you need any prayers do stay back and talk to us let us be a church that talks and let us be a church that praise in Jesus name God bless all of you
