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00:00:01 well we wait for Sam to slowly make his way down um Let Us open in prayer up there we will see the uh the next sermons next week Dr Peter un will be talking about church discipline y then will be talking about church and law so wow I really can't wait to hear that man and then gospel and marriage so all very relevant and uh practical um topics so shall we just quiet en our hearts as we come before the Lord in prayer Lord uh again you reminded us this morning nothing moves without prayer we ask right now we pray
00:00:42 we listen to your word and your word alone I pray oh Lord that it is not the men's wisdom not men's clever thoughts teach me to go in the power of the Holy Spirit teach me to go in utter humility and reverence and may your word go forth and not come back nor and I pray oh Lord that the congregation including myself will make it a habit to go back and read what was preached and to to see whether that is true L finally asked if whatever I say this morning uh offends anyone or they get upset or they think it's not
00:01:22 biblical we pray that we are that church that's able to talk nicely and that people can come and tell me brother Anor I don't agree what you say and I be the type of person that listens oh Lord teach us to be this kind of church and we say this in Jesus name amen okay I'm sorry John Lee likes to talk about business I'm a geek all right so okay for all you people say are your honor and Star Wars forgive me but this is really a great illustration all right for all you Star Wars people which movie
00:01:56 is this no Star Wars Geeks here come on someone shout it out sorry sorry Empire Strikes Back all right for all you Star Wars gigs this is the best Star Wars movie ever full stop no one comes close all you young people Millennial jenz before CGI people actually did it the old fashioned way all right now why is this show very very meaningful and really credited because deals is very heavy themes it deals with family relationships and it deals with human nature let me give you an example and this part is quite fascinating so we
00:02:33 have of course the main hero Luke Skywalker he goes to a planet called dagoba for training he has got a sea F Master called yoda before Gro as Yoda all you Mandalorian fans and so he enters a Cave against the wishes of his seafood and the seafood tells me you go there don't bring your lifesaber but he he he still brings his lightsaber this guy is a very angry young man and in the cave he meets Darth Vader and so they fight and he kills Darth Vader and one of the most telling part of the scene is
00:03:12 when he killed Dar Vader Darth Vader Falls and his helmet breaks now you must understand at this point in the movie is a second installment nobody knows who D viid is and when the helmet cracks you know what is revealed is revealed his face is very telling and the narrative is trying to tell you this if you do not deal with your anger you do not deal with the demons within you with the darkness in you it will consume you and you'll be the very enemy you are fighting it's a very powerful statement
00:03:57 and of course th v as you know the story at the The Twist at the end of it is who is his father multiple lessons here about the sins of the father passed on to the Son stories about what we struggle with and the movie basically in this episode gives you a choice you can choose to be in the light or choose to be in the darkness of course they call it the Dark Side of force in the but that's how the story runs so today we want to look at this and in many ways it's the main story of John 3 so what we're going to
00:04:38 do right now we just going to go through the text and I'm going to give you how John 316 sits in it let me give you a few things as we look at those two two texts point three light and darkness is a major theme in the Gospel of John you see it in chapter one and chapter 3 you see it in chapter 9 and chapter 12 it it links a lot of John but more importantly one of the key recurring themes in John is belief what do you mean by belief out of 250 times in the New Testament 100 of it occurs in John's
00:05:25 gospel but it's interesting he doesn't use it as a noun you know know I'm going to show it to you later and so this morning let me just recap that famous verse and you ask yourself how you understand it for God so loved the world that whosoever believes what do you mean by that shall not perish but have everlasting life and what we'll do in the next few summons is split all these words and today we're going to split the word belief and you're going to take tell me at the end of it what do you mean when you say you believe and that's
00:06:03 how we're going to take John 3:16 and really go to next few sermons and you'll find that it's really quite wonderful okay shall we take to scripture and we're going to go to John 1 all right and we just going to look at the text about light so if you have your bibles if you turn to John 1 if you don't have a heart copy Bible open your handphone type in John 1 you will get a hit called Bible Gateway click to Bible Gateway and you will get John 1 why am I doing this I believe we should get into the habit
00:06:40 of reading the Bible ourselves that's just my conscience other speakers may feel differently so if you're ready open your Bible why because we don't want you to hear what the preacher says you want the word of God to convict you John 1 and we'll read 1-13 in the beginning was the word the word was with God and the Word was God he was with God in the beginning very famous TT let me give you summary the word why because Sam mentioned it just now God says what let there be light that's the word let there be light and
00:07:19 by his word creation comes verse two through him all things were made without been weight and this is what you want to focus on in him was life and and that life was the light of man God's light brings life and he grows this in Genesis in Genesis is literal here is figurative but it's the same in Genesis God says let there be light and then he says after the fourth day it is good light brings life and the word in the darkness and what is the darkness here if you take the Genesis text he's not talking so much about Sin he developed
00:08:04 that in chapter three he's talking about chaos fuzziness disorder because Genesis 1 the spirit of God hovers the Earth and everything is chaos this is actually Chaos Theory you know your science the light shines in the darkness and the Greek is interesting but the darkness if you have your NIV has not understood it the Greek word here for understood is p which also means overcome what he's trying to tell you if you are in Darkness Darkness does two things to you one you cannot understand two you are in
00:08:48 bondage just like Luke Skywalker you get fuzzy your master tells you don't go you don't listen and then you're in bondage and what happen happens of course you follow that particular episode he fights his father and he loses right so the darkness has not understood it here's the flip thing if you are in the light you will have Clarity and you will be an overcomer all right let's pick that up all right so first what is Darkness what does Darkness do to you it clouds your thinking it keeps you in bondage on the
00:09:26 flip if you're in God's light you see better and because you see clearer you can overcome that's the lesson here right let's go on there came a man who was sent from God his name was John this John the Baptist he came as a witness to testify concerning the light so that through him all men might believe that's the first time the word belief is used and we're going to ask say what is belief he himself was not the light he came only as a witness to the light again he's talking about light the True
00:09:57 Light that gives light to every mind was coming into the world the word light repeated four times light light light light that's the emphasis and here's the interesting thing about light he was in the world and though the world was made through him now understand John 3:16 is one for God so loved what the world you must understand this is how the Tex is moving he was in the world and though the world was made through him the world did not recognize him I'm going to pick that up so so let's look at light in darkness
00:10:31 very simple summary one if you're in darkness you can't think clearly right let me give you an example that day I binge watch eight seven episodes on Netflix ho I saw this show called tree body problem I'm sorry Hi cannot put my mind on there I confess my sin I started the body by evening time my B was fuz halfway through the seventh episode I told myself I think I should just try to stop I stop I got stars in my mind you know because there's a signs to it your dopamine has just gone out of wh it FS you now there's something about
00:11:18 addiction in there and we'll deal with that in the next sermon when we thought about struggling with sin right so what happens is that Darkness confuses you that keeps you in bondage and I had to do everything to say no I'm going to watch episode 8 because tomorrow morning is church because it was 11:30 already it was episode seven very all right so that's one but here's the second thing what happens when you're in darkness the world did not recognize him you cannot recognize Jesus now that's very important on the idea of
00:11:56 belief now I'm going to just quickly go through John 2 John 2 Jesus changes water to wine all right and pick you one verse verse 11 this is the first of his miraculous sign Jesus performed at Canon Galilee he thus revealed his glory and his disciples put their faith in him or his disciples believed him all right so you can say right I saw a miracle wow this guy came he turned water to wine he's the Messiah I believe right now all of us have this thing about believe we have this thing where I made a commitment to
00:12:30 Jesus now that could be true at one point in my life I did the sinners prayer I came to know Jesus I believe okay this is what they're doing right they saw a sign they believe now I'll tell you what's very interesting further on then he goes to the temple makes a big whep and whack and clear everybody out and offends everybody and of course the Jews get very offended by him and then here's the interesting thing at the end of it of 23 now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast okay no sorry let's take
00:13:07 it back in verse uh 22 after he was raised from the dead his disciples remember that verse 11 his disciples believed Ria recalled what he had been said now this is interesting then they believ the scripture and the we words that Jesus has spoken now hang on didn't didn't they just believe earlier this right there in the text now so this is what John does again and again and again belief is a process you take an initial amount of faith based on a certain evidence but you you don't believe everything the
00:13:49 disciples believe then they struggled a lot of people later on when he says I'm the bread of life desert him but they persevere and look at this at the end then they believe the scripture they only believe this after Jesus was raised from the dead then they believe the scripture and the words that Jesus has spoken this is later you know and this occurs again H now here's another interesting about belief now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast many people saw miraculous s he was doing and believed
00:14:23 in his name believe but look at what the next line says but Jesus would not entrust himself to them hey you believe you know you said the sinners prayer you came to ABC and you said Jesus is my Lord and Savior but Jesus will not UST them to them why listen to this for he knew all man he did not need man testimony of man for he knew what was in a man do you know where is the biggest Gathering of non-Christian in a per square foot basis or in a per square in a small concentric area the church wow very
00:15:11 offensive but that's what John is saying who is the main antagonist in the Book of John Gentiles Jews Pharisees a phes atheists are Pharisees agnostics do Pharisees not know their Bible yet they are the ones who crucify Jesus now that's something to all of us and so today you sit here and you say I believe and I want to say in love this is what Jesus saying to all of us he knew what was in a man he knows your heart so now we go to John 3 and the beginning of it John is a poet is really the way he writes it now there was a man
00:16:13 of Pharisees named Nicodemus a man of the Jewish religious Council he came to Jesus at night why doesn't he come a day is deliberate John doesn't tell you but he picks it up what is John telling you Nicodemus is in darkness and then what he says Rabbi we know in Psychology we call this tribal Behavior you're of the tribe the Pharisees we know you are a teacher who has come from God what is he saying I believe that's why he's saying for no one could perform the miraculous signs you're doing it if God were not
00:17:06 him he [Music] believes and then the rest of it we know Jesus tells him unless you're born again we not going to go through that text right we're going to go through the key text so a man comes to Jesus and says we know we believe and you know what Jesus tells him you think you know actually you don't and here is you think you believe but actually you don't believe now that's quite frightening H let's pick this up and so we go to very famous for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that
00:17:46 whoever believes what is that in him shall not perish but have eternal life then he opens it up for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through him so he EXP stand it by saying God isn't an Angry God that comes a big stick to whack you he doesn't want to condemn you then there's a caveat whoever believes that's again in him is not condemned and here's the here's the part we don't like to hear whoever does not believe stands condemn already because he has not
00:18:19 believed in the name of God's one and only son you sit there say wow this is quite unfair right just because I don't believe I'm going to go into Eternal separation with God then he expands what belief means now you understand what is belief we just read it in John 1 is tied to the idea of light it's tied to the idea of recognizing Jesus it's tied to the idea of clarity of thinking it's tied to your behavior if you are not being overcome by darkness and this is how he ties it this is the verdict verse 19 and when he
00:18:55 uses the word 19 verdict he's using it in light of verse 18 condemnation is language of the courts this is the verdict light has comeing to world and here is what affects our belief but men love darkness in state of light because their deeds were evil so you and I see you say well I'm not very evil I don't go and kill people I'm I don't go and steal money from the government maybe I cheat my taxt a bit but all my sin very normal one you cannot call me evil then he qualifies what is evil you know look how he qualifies it everyone
00:19:44 who does evil hates the light will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed hey we supposed to submit our EA form right H some how many of you are using tax returns from your Uncle Auntie mother wife don't need to raise your hands do you come to your library say hey I took all these bunch of tickets which are actually not mine but I claim you know you're not going to do it right isn't that Darkness you are doing it in darkness right you know why I can say it because I'm guilty
00:20:29 I confess it to you right now but that's exactly what he's saying but whoever lives by the truth comes into light so it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God and he's not asking anything more but before this he talks about the Bron but to say look I did wrong so here I confess I I claim wrongly I I tried to do things to rebate it but okay so let me give you a few big points uh the first is about afraid to come into the life and that's something we all struggle with we just read this and the key word
00:21:04 is fear what you do repeatedly which you do not want others to know affects what you believe about God it can be anything I'm in the building line like white Kong so I don't know where to this story before I had one job they want to C te somebody mention H could be recorded so client called me say I got bag of money I'm going to put you the stuff you going and settle it not enough we give you another bag I didn't touch the money didn't touch it so that person went to C team and then some approval
00:21:51 came out we don't mention then later on you mark with the client Haya this country very corrupt that one what is this people go to jail can appeal can go har no wonder Malaysia got so very problem hey you you follow me with this or not because our thinking is affected by Darkness here's what the science tells you talking about Bing watching Netflix or let me get a bit more deeper if you struggle with pornography or any anything do you know what the science tells you you have something called a neurotransmitter
00:22:34 called dopamine it's the reward neurotransmitter first you take it high man the dopamine goes up the dopamine then shifts to be an anticipation neurotransmitter before you serve up oh the thing spikes ready so you got to serve serve serve to get the hit before that it hooks you you know you got to get more and more B watching one episode not enough watch two you watch one one series cannot One Season Two Season then three seasons you scroll scroll scroll scroll and you know what the science tells you when you do that repeatedly
00:23:14 and especially when you shut it off the brain had to regulate back to what you call Baseline you know and when it keeps having to regulate you know what it does to you you get easier Pro to depression have you realized that it's all in the science I never picked this up so if you're struggling with depression anxiety here's one thing look at what you're doing repeatedly it could be a Simple Thing as your coffee intake in the morning you know because it releases a chemical called adenosin and you'll be surprised all
00:23:55 these things affects your thinking right let's pick this up a little more so here is another check in John 12 let's break out what he means to be fearful look at John yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him he they believe but because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they will be put out a synagogue that's John 3 that's the fear coming into the light for they love human praise more than praise for men J Jesus Christ whoever believes in me does not believe
00:24:31 me only but the one who sent me because remember verse 43 you love human praise more than Praise of God the one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me here he telling him he's God and then I've come to world as a light so that no one who believes in me shall stay in darkness and the judgment is 42 you say you believe but you give to your fear you don't really believe now there is belief we just intellectual Ascent that belief that impacts the heart CS leou says I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has
00:25:06 reason not because I see it but because by it I see everything else if a light shines through a tunnel you see the darkness and the things around so two people are discussing and they saying you know China EV cars very lousy quality one all B I saw a lot of Tik Tok videos all Bop one the other guy say are you very Pro America you must have bought sh into Tesla I got b car never explod what fight argue argue argue argue after 3 hours both leave one guy believe Tesla will go bankrupt another guy believe Tesla will make a lot of
00:25:40 money because he got shares in it the next day both of them go to their do their respective lives do you think that that belief changed their life they still went to Manan they still went to cheat their tax they still went to lie they still went to love their family their belief is in intellectual Ascent so some people come tell you you Christianity why M be Christians why not all religions lead to the same truth you know you know Islam Buddhism all the same okay then let's take the logic let's take the logic you bear with me
00:26:17 all religions lead to the same proof doesn't matter whether you're Islam or Christian or Buddhist then you say okay fine then why don't you become a Christian because all religions to the same truth become a Christian and believe Jesus died for his sins they will tell you no need you try that they will tell you no need is is a contradiction thinking because that belief is purely intellectual so if someone tells you I don't believe in Christianity because of th tick tick tick tick he's not telling
00:26:46 you the truth you know because you can never intellectually satisfy anyone over the claims of Jesus you can do it to a certain level the rest you walk in faith that's why the disciples believe in Kaa but when Jesus rose again they believed again and when I became a Christian when you became a Christian did you because light shines we see better but here's our danger we all like to be in darkness just like the Pharisees we are scared we are scared if we reveal our eles maybe the all the elders will throw
00:27:31 us out of church maybe we'll get judged so let me parallel Nicodemus in chapter one Nicodemus fits it and what John is doing he's trying to contrast two characters one is in darkness that's in chapter 3 and another person who's in the light one is a very well vered Bible teacher the other one the person's name is not even mentioned who are we talking about we're talking about the Samaritan woman and here is where the story is even more interesting because the Samaritan woman is hiding her past she's in darkness she's got five
00:28:23 husbands she doesn't reveal it so what's the difference the the difference is she comes open and broken and humble she doesn't come to Jesus and says hey I know you know I know she says I don't know tell me I'm thirsty give me water you're a Jew you talk to me as a Samaritan that's a difference so fear shapes our beliefs and this morning I want to challenge us what is it you are afraid of because we fear what others think of us we keep our deeds in darkness let's go a few of it one many churches don't know how to walk
00:29:14 with those struggling with sin or past hurts I for many years struggled with a sin I was in a church where the theology was fantastic and so one day I shared with a brother my struggles in know so many words he just told me you better change after day you'll go to hell so I just don't tell you anymore we don't know what we do is we are very good at lecturing people taking a stick and hitting you you know hey better don't sin H better don't sin H because we see God's light like this laser know you Imran sinner no not not
00:30:02 but don't be scared brother I love my Pakistani brother as a result we keep secrets we keep secrets we hide like the Samaritan woman we then create a church culture where people just hide and then we put on mask so I'm going to challenge Us in love this is a two-part sermon by the way there's a lot here I'm just going to take point one today I'm going to ask you do you put on a mask that means if you're unhappy can you come to church and say unhappy if I meet you and say how are you you say I'm
00:30:46 fine when you really are not that's a mask and I want to say this in the love right you see most of us think mass is that right there a common understanding of a mass I'm unhappy I put on a smile but actually I I like to suggest that's not that accurate the real way of a mask is that there's multiple faces if I if I find you're you're probing me in the area I don't like and after I size a character I will always put on a hostile face to you or I keep you at a bay you know meaning we all choose what mask we
00:31:27 want to people whom we can get something we always smiling because we want something from that person from people whom we dislike we choose a mask where is cold because subconsciously I don't want to know you and after a while the mask becomes you I I have a consultant who comes to meetings always in the mass so I ask her why always wearing a mask or Guan used to it if I meet her in the streets I wouldn't recognize her because she always has the mask on now way before the covid we were putting on
00:32:16 masks let me tell you a few of the masks we put on some we just like to wear we like to wear it because it gets what we want hey how are you my brother bro how are you bro because that friendship is advantageous ma some we don't you meet family members you cannot tahan at Chinese New Year hey Uncle homo some we are forc to wear because you feel you have to be brave in front of your children some you wear so often you're afraid if you remove it you're not going to be accepted and this morning's message God's love is saying be not
00:33:26 fearful come into the light I want to take this very slow I'm going to do this over two sermons today we just going to sit on this one point hiding in darkness but pretending to be in the light you see after while you wear a Mas because you keep doing it you get tired for me I was struggling with sin I'll come up and tell you I sat in the church with had all the theology it will reform to the to the tea so I sat in the congregation I said well if people knew what I was struggling with they probably kick me
00:34:05 out and the devil's the accuser you know do you feel that if you sit here you feel that I can't reveal my deepest Secrets because if I do they will judge me do do you feel that I see quite a few nodding heads so after all in can I become part of the Hallelujah gang just do all the right things but after a while we we get tired we go Church hopping because we are still in darkness because the the the light shines in darkness so that you can overcome it you know God is not a bad God who's here to put a stick to you
00:34:44 remember John 3:16 flows to John 3:17 and what did John 3:17 for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world and if we all want to get better you need to get into the light because we are not that smart and our thinking is clouded so I remember I was feeling guilty or feeling shameful I but I was involved in the church this was my Australia days I could tell you all the Bible verses and then there were all the thick boxes you know in most churches is very Performance Based on you know so long
00:35:26 you're involved in a small group so long you go and do ministry people put their hands around you say hey you're really growing BS I'm telling you because inside there is turmoil two we then end up stagnant we just go to church and we build walls so at one point I came back nobody knew me ma no need to Jo anymore Ma and then you begin to realize so many people from the ocf and all those who were very Hallelujah gang came back to Malaysia all also fell away and then I realized I'm not the only one who was
00:36:09 wearing masks then you meet this guy hey he was EDG group leader no hey how are you which church are you and then he like can you get out my way because he stopped coming to church and he doesn't want you to remind him of his religious past suddenly you are in Lot 10 that time go all these place I us to go live ban and then see this and this guy sitting down there hey I think they was Center group leader leader high he used to do bible study on first J one of those years guy better go toilet I I'm not trying to be judgmental
00:36:47 I want to be real if we speak we speak real either that you become part of the church elite law what's hon Li preacher who you who honly Ministry hit you you go around Church Elder it better Elder I can tell you what to do I'll kiss my hand kiss my head come on I a sinner you are a sinner and God says come into the light and in many ways I only healed when I came to FBC you know FBC is not very good church but not very bad church and maybe you are not very happy in FBC I get it what does FBC stand
00:37:44 for First Baptist Church somebody say fine I tell you what we should not be we should not be first and best at criticizing correct because you're dead people will wear masks because the moment you say anything you can of silong already I give you example let's just say I I speak now and they say h yeah I don't like the sermon you can do a few things ma one you can whisper in darkness hey this guy sermon really CH that remember this on Judgment Day God will bring out your words or you can send me email dear
00:38:27 Elder an I find your sermon completely unbiblical I need you to repent thank you I don't say anyone does that but you could dear Elder other I think you and Peter are having a fight we ad not by the way he's one of my oldest friends I think you're slandering him can you stop slandering him I'm not slandering Peter but let just say you think that because you're new to the church because I would like to Goring Peter my calling in life is to Goring Peter that's Peter I called to G here because we're
00:39:02 very old friends he's so thick he doesn't get it anyway so you sit there say wow this fellow always W Peter wine also wack him beer W Taylor him I think this two got problem then you come and talk to me brother Anna are you and Peter having a fight I bring Peter to you say we not and then you know what we tell you and I say this in do you want me to publicly come up and make a statement because we will do it FBC shouldn't be first and best at criticizing we should be first at best at caring hallelujah oh very
00:39:45 thoughtful let me end with this you see when we think of God's light that we think God's light is this this Peter understand that you know what light is this they use it for surgery so we tend to think God's like is hey you're a sinner no what are you checking your hand on on your on your laptop come on open open your history H you deleted your history come let's go for counseling next the guy CH from church already now I'm not making light of sin I'm not making light of sin we all have our struggles we all
00:40:25 have our darknesses we all have our issues but this is a very incorrect way of looking at light why not doesn't God want to shine into the darkest area of our life and get us right he does the problem with this illustration is that who enjoys going for surgery hey tomorrow I'm going to be with they going to cut the open Hallelujah Nobody Does that you're terrified of the light correct and do you know what I got this for a sermon illustration it was so tragic the guy open up God's light is like the
00:41:05 operating table I great God this is what Evangelical Church is teaching and then we throw stones at everybody else that they are consumer-driven church and all of that let me just end with this and I want to encourage you with this do you know what God's like this in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he was with God in the beginning through him all things were made without him nothing was made that has been made in him was life and the life was the light of man
00:41:59 when you step into the sunlight it reveals everything but it makes you feel good those of you who like to sleep late at night try to wake up early and get sunlight you would I'm telling you it does a lot of things to your senses you know you see God's light is like the sunlight in fact it is the sunlight because John is going both physical and figurative and here is the thing when you step into the light the darkness will not overcome it I want to end here and I want to challenge us on this how can
00:42:43 we be a church that does that you see the light today is who is the church we are that light that shines we are that City on the mountain how did I get past some of my struggles because one day I spoke to somebody and he did not judge me and that was enough and then we prayed and then the rest is a slow slow habit of getting into the light again and again again and again and the more I got into the light the more I saw clearer the more I read I read how signs can help you fight off bondages I read scripture and I read
00:43:44 that God is a good god who we have repented as an Angry God we a stick that comes and wack you and so let me end with these words again as the worship team comes up for God so loved you that whoever believes shall not perish but have eternal life and as we start off with the worship I want to do a few challenges the first is belief is more than inter ual Ascent I thought I was a Christian I sat in a church in Australia then I realized I did not give my life to Jesus as my master I had given my life to him as Savior but not
00:44:46 as Lord step into the light you don't even need to tell anyone you could have told everybody for years you a Christian maybe only today you became a Christian and that could be between you and God that's not judg some of us feel very defeated if you were like me when I was younger you were angry guilty shameful and you sat there here's God's word to you for God did not send his son to condemn and all the Lord is asking you today is find the courage first to pray to him then to talk to someone and he say Anna I find it very
00:45:33 hard it's okay don't need to be very graphic you can come up to one of us just say I struggled it's enough that's all I did I remember standing in line I went up to somebody I didn't know I told him my struggles he smiled at me and then he laid hands on me and then you say well I've done it before and I slip back and here's the good news when God looks at you he sees that Christ has taken away your sins and there is no more condemnation and then he tells you therefore go and sin no more and we will do it again and again
00:46:24 and again and we will persevere and the more more you persevere you will be an overcomer so we have a Living Hope and I'm going to let the song sing and may God minister to you I'm going to pass the time over now to chuang thank you Elder anold for the message church we arise and respond in song how great the C that laid between us how high the mountain I could not climb the desperation I turned to heaven and spoke your name into the night and through the darkness youring kindness through the shadow of my
00:47:38 soul the work is finished the end is written Jesus Christ my living who could imagine so great a mercy why not could fom such boundless Grace the god ofes step down from glory to my S and B my shame the cross has spoke I am forgi the king of kings calls me his own defuli I'm yours [Music] forever Jesus Christ my living [Music] home hallelujah praise the the one who sets me free Hallelujah Beth has lost his GP on me you have broken every chain that salvation in your name Jesus Christ my living [Music]
00:49:22 home then came the morning that still the promise your bur body began to bre out of the silence the roaring lion declare the grave has no clim on [Music] me then came the morning that seal the prise your bued body to breath out of the silence the roaring lion declare the grave has no claim on me Jesus yours is the victory hallelujah praise the one who set me free Hallelujah that has lost his cre on me you have broken andain that salvation in your name Jesus Christ my living oh sing Hallelujah Hallelujah praise the one who set me
00:51:05 free Hallelujah friend has lost his cre on me you have broken Every Chain as salvation in your name Jesus Christ my living home Jesus Christ Christ my Living Hope Oh God you are my living home we all sit down and uh let the Holy Spirit Minister Lord right now as a keyboard place a time of ministering a time for the spirit to just come in our midst and hear the word of the Lord to you and you can challenge it if you think it's not from the word of from the Lord and the word is this are you giving
00:51:59 into fear that's the word today and because you're giving into fear you come to church with a mask that is I want to throw to you the prophetic word of the Lord to the church this morning let me repeat it again are you giving into fear and to overcome that you put on a mask in church and the word of the Lord is saying you are in darkness and the Lord is not saying it in a judgmental manner the Lord is saying it in a comforting manner why are you in fear it could be some past rejection afraid of losing
00:52:43 somebody some sin you're struggling with some anger issues I'm going to ask you to to consider doing something and you may not want to do it and not going to judge if you don't do it but I have a brother two brothers in front on their knees I'm going to challenge you to come in front on your knees you don't need to do it we we not here anymore to to bring glory to ourselves but why is that important because it shows you're not afraid so I'm going to just encourage you you feel led in the spirit I know
00:53:26 it's so go against our culture but can I encourage you feel the Lord has spoken to you would you come before hear the front and just kneel before the Lord and if you don't thank you there's another sister and I I don't want to pressure we we're not here to play emotional games with anybody we are not here to do that we we we we are we are way past that all right but my question is why is it in charismatic churches we can do that people are not afraid to come in front and just kneel then we accuse the charismatics of
00:54:09 playing or emotions but could it be the Evangelical Church has Pride for all our theology for all our reformed Calvinism a simple Act of coming in front and getting on our knees our pride will not allow that have we have you considered that have we considered that I and again this is not a statement of judgment we are not here to judge nobody comes in front it's okay I just want you to to just consider that let me just pray for all of you Lord we want to do some soul searching this morning and we don't want to judge
00:54:52 people whether they came in front or they don't but we ask our hearts are we giving into fear do we have things we are afraid to come clean before you and we've been too long just hiding with walls in church and today is such a joyful day because there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus Hallelujah for you so loved us you gave your son to die for our sins and you just ask come into the light dear brother come into the light dear sister and he will walk with you that is God's promise he wants to break your bondage he wants to comfort
00:55:37 you he wants to love you he wants to open your mind to see past the bitterness the anger the shame the guilt and say in him there is life and here's the second word that comes out second word and that is to the church and here it is to the church that you and I are that light and I pray that after this service you and I will encourage people that I as an elder will be an encouragement to you that for you and together we will struggle because we are in the light and here's one last prayer some of you do not know
00:56:25 Jesus you think you know Jesus but belief to you is a mental exercise and the good news is salvation Has Come Today and I pray today you accept Jesus not just not just as your savior but as your lord lord Jesus Lord Jesus we thank you for for all your goodness before us we thank you that you're a good God we thank you for those who have willing to come thank you brother to just kneel and they are not afraid of what people say we thank you for those in front who have KN and we judge not anybody who doesn't
00:57:20 come so we thank those who come in front and if you don't we do not judge you but we ask for your light to come this morning in us may this be a place of anointing may this this place a place of hope may your spirit so fall on this place we feel your fire we feel your power we feel you speaking and you speak to us so powerfully this morning and you say I am deeply loved I don't just know it in my mind but consider there right now I feel the love of God through Christ Jesus and I have a Living Hope Lord Jesus make that
00:58:13 our prayer make that our desire I'm going to ask brother chuch Chang to just finish off as God's anointing continues in our midst let's just be seated here and let the wor worship team just pray and if you like come in front or stand or just be counted go back to your seat let just be seated and let let us just the word of God just go over us let's do this very meditatively hallelujah praise the one who sent me free Hallelujah L his creep on me you have broken every sh the Salvation in your name Jesus
00:59:08 Christ my living sing Hallelujah Hallelujah praise the one who set me free Hallelujah that has lost his grip on me you have broken every train the Salvation in your name Jesus Christ my living Jesus Christ my living you have broken every chain that salvation in Your Name Lord we bring before you now all the chains that so lock Us in for having experienc eternal life now some of us feel very unloved some of us feel very insecure some of us feel very ambed some of us feel very hurt some of us feel we have struggles
01:00:31 with sin we cannot break out of we step into the light now and we do not give into fear and we say to the devil away with your lies the devil can have the first word but Jesus will have the last word he is our advocate and so we step into the light today and we continue to do it oh Lord and we ask oh Lord you give us the life you want us to live for the light shines into the darkness and the Darkness cannot overcome it let us be Overcomers in this life and may we be a community that encourages everyone to be
01:01:34 Overcomers and God's people say amen thank you for all those are in front please stay back the service is over please uh GL we have some ladies in front to minister come and just share with us let us be friends we all Sinners before the cross God bless all of you have a light fied weaker head Shine for Jesus hallelujah and amen
