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00:00:00 yeah morning everybody I thought it was very encouraging uh yes I think even me as a fellow Elder I need to pray God frees up my time and uh you know that uh I also make a point to go for the mission trip I'd like to invite my uh daughter up uh if ulam can give me the clicker which he stole from me thank you brother I forgive you for your sins uh few weeks ago my wife went through a very difficult operation and then uh it was very hard for me because of time uh I didn't have support so God did two things uh she came back
00:00:38 by some Divine last year she said I want to come back holiday I say this girl okay but God in the time he brought her back but I want to express my thanks during that difficult time for my wife's operation uh the the support I got from the church was very overwhelming I just want to mention a few people just quickly uh you know I was asked to be the camp speaker I've never been a camp speaker before so was very overwhelming and then my wife fell very ill had to go for operation and I struggled I
00:01:06 struggled I said I have to speak at the church camp my wife is ill I need to support her and I shared one morning after service and and Cynthia said you know what you go for the church camp you fly you then you fly you back and after that Cynthia organized a food uh food run for my wife for the family I like to thank sajana the best live group in FBC is sajana period all of you forget it all right no no talk Saj is the best they family and then like to thank a lot of the women who came forward to just uh
00:01:39 just give food it was very overwhelming the brothers who called me to say let we go out there and this is what family is you know I mean it's it's uh it's very touching you know that we may not be a perfect church but it's time like this I really feel We are family so I want to say from the bottom of my heart thank you to everybody your prayers and your support they mean a lot to me I'm going to let my daughter say a few closing words um I would just like to say that he did not give me much instructions on
00:02:07 what to do um but truly thank you all so much for the help you've given both me and my family it truly was God's planning and timing for me to come back cuz I was going to come back either ways but I could have come back at any time sooner or later so I'm just very thankful and I'm very thankful um again to anti CIA and a young family in general for the support both in terms of logistically and emotionally and spiritually um all the church people sajana life group U my fellow youths boys rate U friends you guys have been
00:02:36 the backbone of my family for these past few days these past few weeks and months so we thank you so much for the support you've given us and we thank you so much for the support you'll be continuing to give us in forms of prayers um food um yeah so thank you thank you so much okay thank you okay that right you can me sit down and thank you for being an adult she really grew up and took care of Mom all right okay uh now an apology I'm actually supposed to do The Exodus Series right but Exodus is quite complicated I I and and I
00:03:08 decided you know what uh since uh gamma is doing Ephesians I did four chapters of Ephesians up here I myself finish Ephesians and you guys going for gamma you can compare notes with me uh and see whether me and Peter are on the same page but it's great to have two sort of uh uh discussions on gamma on on efficience I'm going to finish the book then I will go to um Exodus okay let me just guide straight into this so who are these two people cannot see very clearly all right come on I don't know whether it's going to
00:03:43 happen all right but this has been on the internet for while that Mark zuker is supposed to really have a Smackdown with Elon Musk let me ask you a question how many you think who is who thinks Elon Musk is going to win in a cat fight in know they call this a cage fight with Mark zberg his much bigger right Mark zba is quite small how many you think El Mar is going to win nobody yeah serious how many of you think Mark Zug is going to win I think everybody else is different but actually Mark zuer is very fit you
00:04:15 know he trains he does Brazilian jiujitsu all right but it's a cage fight all right so today I want to talk about fights all right and to fight you need to get in shape and Mark zberg you all don't realize it his is a very disciplined man he fights and one of the things we don't realize about scripture is that scripture uses a lot of examples describe us and one thing which we we we fail to recognize one of the most repeated thing is we are either an athlete that's one but Ephesians describes it the most and it's the Final
00:04:51 Chapter you have five chapters and the last chapter describes it it's that of a warrior and chapter six when you put on the armor of God right who are you fighting are you fighting someone else actually you're fighting your own self and so today and next week I want to talk about a particularly difficult topic and it's about struggling with sin if I entitled that this morning I think people will say oh very depressing or Chabot it's hard I mean how many of you don't feel you have an issue with this
00:05:30 I think a lot of us do so I want to approach this morning with a tone of Grace I don't want to stand up here and be judgmental yet we don't want to make light of this I I want to say we all struggle together some of us feel trapped by sin some of us deny we have sin and some of us think it's okay to sin so this morning is is a difficult topic and I I hope you don't leave depressed I hope you live encouraged because you look at the tone of Paul letter Ephesians why such a great epistle he talks about this
00:06:12 difficult Topic in a very gentle tone so let's come before God In Prayer Lord we ask you speak this morning to all of us let us not look towards another person and say they are sinning they have that issue they have this problem we as we have that Spirit of humility and we look in word and we look at this difficult topic of struggling with sin and we ask as we live this morning we live encourage that we hear your voice and we say ah Lord God you are with me Open the Eyes of My Heart and I want to live for
00:06:47 you Jesus name we say this Amen Let me just break down a bit of efficience since some of you may be going to GMA Ephesians is interesting and why because is is is the only episode that starts with with two prayers and and and Peter is quite right the first three chapters he lays down a very strong backbone of a theology let me just tell you what the two prayers are and you look at first prayer let me just highlight one point all right here's the second prayer okay and let me fill it up again and what is
00:07:18 the key word here look at that look at this and look at that what's the key word the word is power power the power of the cross is available to all of us and Paul's point is you as a Christian in a fight you need to access the power of the Gospel now how do we do that how do we break that down into bite side pieces that Mak sense that's where we go to chapter four let me give you a brief this is my own understanding Ephesians the first three chapters he lays down what the gospel does right the cosmic version of it how
00:08:00 he brings man and God is creating a new Humanity that draws everybody together and then he goes to the church the church must be United the church has God brought pastors leaders and then we build one another up and then we go to verse 17 which is what I want to bring through today last time I spoke I talk about up to verse 16 so let's read it right so I tell you this and insist on in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do in the fertility of their thinking they are darkened their
00:08:34 understanding separated from the life of God because the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts having lost our sensitivity they've given themselves over the sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity and therefore full of greed that however is not the way you learn when you heard about Christ and were taught in him accordance with the truth that is in Christ Jesus you were taught with regards your foral way of life to put off your old self which has been corrupted by this de seful desires
00:09:00 to be made new in the attitudes of your mind and put on a new self created to be like God in true righteousness and Holiness therefore each one of you put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor for you all members of one body in your anger do not sin do not let the sun go down while you're still angry do not give the devil a foothold anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer must work doing something useful with their own hands then they may have something to share with those in need do
00:09:28 not let any un wholesome talk come out your mouths only what is helpful for building others up according to the needs they may benefit those who listen and do not grieve the holy spirit of God from whom you were sealed for the day of redemption get rid of bitterness rage anger brawling slander along with every form of malice be kind and compassion to one another forgiving each other justce in Christ God forgave you and in in this section he mentions if you throw a stone every one of us here has this issue look
00:09:59 at look at the list of sins bitterness rage anger brawling slander UNH wholesome thought negativity anger stealing some of you say you don't steal well you may not be so sure about that all right and then he talks about laziness not doing anything and then he talks about this whole section which is really about sexual sins so every sin is thrown into this section so let me break down the verses one by one and verse 17 is interesting it says I tell you this insist of sin on the Lord that's important you must no no longer live as
00:10:35 a Gentiles do in their terrible Wicked sinfulness does he say that you must no longer live at the Gentiles dude in their despicable degradable acts does he say that you must no longer live at the gals doing all their sinful activities he doesn't say that he says no longer live at the Gentiles those in the fertility of the thinking you know what in simple English is telling you when you live don't be stupid now that's interesting and if you pick up the rest of the verses I'm just going to highlight a lot of it right and you just
00:11:20 go through it and look at what I highlight all the way to the end of it wise unwise foolishness what you the whole text is about one word which we do not use when we fight sin and what is that wisdom so fighting sin requires wisdom and the Chinese picked it up with one of the most famous books on it which business people use but in Christianity it isn't just wisdom is Godly wisdom and that's what the end of Ephesians has the aror of God you cannot take chapter 6 in isolation we know that because of some
00:12:05 of the words he uses he talks of the principalities of the rulers of the kingdom of the air that's found in chapters 2 and chapter 3 he talks about the days are evil that's found in chapter four so to really understand the armor of God you actually have to read five chapters now uh last year the Taliban kicked well the Americans left and the Taliban took over the country the American gave the Afghan Army the kind of weapons only the Americans had State ofthe art the Taliban don't even have boots they run on motorbikes and on
00:12:45 slippers you know and the Taliban kick their ass what's the point here the point is that you can have every weapon right if you don't know how to use it you will lose the wall and here's where I think uh I I'm also guilty of this you know when I was a kid I went for this conference in in Australia called struggling with sin I thought I'm going to go there and you know and all I got I felt was you can't do this you shouldn't do that you shouldn't do this you shouldn't do that you do this this what's going to happen
00:13:21 you do this going to happen and I left the conference depressed I day we give very simplistic answers you know um you're struggling with this just find accountability partner stay away it's like if I give you 10 points right you're going to change your life if we could stop the things the dark things that tie us you know we wouldn't have so many people exiting the church and I think the key is this we don't know how to use the armor of God and in particularly we don't know how to use prayer and we don't know how to use the
00:14:01 word of God and we don't know how to access the holy spirit so let me break it down a bit right now in Matthew right when when when Jesus you know rebukes the Pharisees he says this all right when he talking about John the Baptist in in two verses wisdom is proved right by his deeds is it his wisdom is proved right by all his children is feminine why is it feminine you know in the end of the book of proverb they tell you of a wife of noble character this kind of wife why tell you can do everything one Super
00:14:40 Woman and so if you go online you get all these sermons about the great wife must be like that why your woman you feel very pressured you know my take care of business I love the husband my take care of kids my wake up early well cry like that the point is proverbs 31 isn't about a real woman is a metaphor for wisdom we know this because the Book of Proverbs the first five chapter describes two women the woman wisdom and Madame Folly and the point of or why he uses wife is this right let me give you at
00:15:19 the end of Ephesians when you come to it Paul says two things goodness that's moral Behavior righteousness is what God puts in you to be set apart and truth truth is wisdom you can't have goodness and righteousness without truth and what Proverbs is trying to tell you is that this goodness and wisdom are not two separate qualities two aspects of a single whole you have to be married to wisdom and I'm going to suggest why a lot of us struggle with sin is because you're not using your brains I I'm serious it took me years to pick
00:16:01 this out when I became a Christian in University Hallelujah who got up going to give up everything and follow Jesus who all my sinful things all the magazines I bought I shouldn't buy threw everything away did everything threw myself in in in in the the university Fellowship I was going to become fulltime Hallelujah Lord I think I lasted three months and what was worse when I went back I became worse and the church needs to teach people how to fight sin not lecture people you can't do this this this this
00:16:49 this we have to tell people how and fighting sin wisdom is like having faith without works that's from Peter last week and many Christians are defe heed because they don't use Godly wisdom and godly wisdom is Senter on the power of the Cross that's the first prayer and the second prayer now onto him who is able to do exceedingly more than what you think or imagine so let me break down what Godly wisdom does all right all right number two here's the first part of it we often deceive by not knowing the full devastating impact of
00:17:27 sin and again this took me years to realize because the devil's main weapon is deception that's Genesis 1 his main weapon is he's lying to you about your sinful nature and sunzu said this if you know your enemy yourself you need not fear the result of 100 Battles if you know yourself and not the enemy for every Victory gain you will suffer defeat if you know neither the enemy nor yourself you'll succumb in every battle if you do not know the devil and how the devil fights and you do not know your sinful
00:18:10 tendency you will succumb because the enemy is yourself so let me break it down today we're going to go verse by verse what we call expository Bible study Verse 18 they are darkened in the understanding as separated from the life of God right why because of the ignorance is in them because they're stupid strong word why something we're going to do when we look at Exodus due to the hardening of their hearts and so first question is is your heart hardened and when we look at Pharaoh's the story of pharaoh you see a
00:18:52 progression here's a clue to those of you who like to read Exodus there are 9 + one plages they are sets of three each those of you who want to go and read your Old Testament and there a progression now what he's trying to tell you is this you know your thinking gets clouded okay and Peter brought this up what the heart wants the mind will justify and what the Mind justify the will will act out and he breaks this up in verse 19 in three things how this works out one you lose all sense sensitivity the ESV uses the word become
00:19:32 callous you become numb that's one secondly you give yourselves over to sensuality the Greek word is Paran meaning you are going to be bounded right in simple English yeah you're going to become addicted and third you indulge in every kind of impurity so let me break it down because this is very mindblowing because what the devil tells you for some of us is that is okay the problem Christianity Christianity has kill Joy you know you cannot do lot of things you why you become Christian this also cannot that
00:20:16 also cannot a y then you come to church my act like goody two shoes behind closed door why I do a lot of thing come to church Hallelujah brother sounds very normal ah number one you be become desensitized to sin all right I'm going to use one now which is something we don't often talk about but let's be honest about it right first time a guy sees a pair of a naked [Music] woman second time he sees it T shot really you know this something you don't talk on the pit but let's be brutal about it what do you want you want more
00:20:59 it's like you eat an apple first time you eat apple wow very nice after eat 10 apples I need to upgrade to Duran so number two by time you go that that there's a medical thing called called dopamine no it's a neurotransmitter that is that deadly locks into temptation it pulls you you know because you need to do it after that it's not enough from looking at naked pictures you start to look at people in sexual acts let me brutal as a guy then that's not enough you know why do you think the porn industry has
00:21:45 so many subgenres to cater for every kind of depravity now before all the women say ha you husband you better listen to Arnold he he tags the last word with greed you know meaning hey women everyone has this he's not just talking about sexual sins or everything all right so it it starts off by you know it's normal to do this life because everyone's doing it you know how the internet was powered by porn traffic the internet came about because the heaviest traffic is porn I'm going to be very H to you and you guys
00:22:25 sitting out there you're struggling with it and this morning I want to speak this in Grace they did a survey in Pakistan to our friends Pakistan do you know what's the number one search there porn Islamic country now after you do that because everyone's doing it m you you you you know what you do you can't stop you wake up morning and you are scrolling social media they got to keep doing it how many likes did I get my insta account then you got to keep posting because I only got 50 likes no one likes me then you
00:23:00 you got to do more selfish you can't stop and then from porn it takes you to actual sexual acts you start visiting strip shows and go that uncomfortable right there's Grace here right I I want us to listen to this not in a judgmental tone because we are all sinners right we can take this from anything from porn to playing genin impact ah to shopping online me and my daughter went to Carousel that day we got a great deal for iPad W bet the seller save 600 bucks after that I want to shop for other things really then you end up
00:23:52 buying stuff you don't need you go to Lazada you go to shoing you go to Carousel you're hooked now don't say you don't have this you know they they call this supern normal stimuli let's go back to pawn a bit uh your ancestors uh probably saw five naked women in their life uh men nowadays the number of naked women they can see internet is exploded the body and the mind is not wired to do that your soul is like having Buffet every day what happens when you have Buffet every day you destroy your body so let's let's go a bit
00:24:34 uncomfortable before we go to Victor because I I can look at the crowd here like yo this guy sermon today very uncomfortable so I want you to look this up because this saved my life because a habit has a trigger the trigger goes to a routine the routine is a reward let's not throw to something else you come back after work you need a drink you stop by with your friends and you drink the trigger is every time you leave work you need a drink it starts with beer it moves to Glen liver 21 years one shot then the
00:25:15 scotch comes in there and before you know it every month you're blowing at least $200 because you need to do this with your Kaki the trigger goes to a routine the routine goes to a reward it backs in and he catches you into this this is Verse 18 and nothing nothing exemplify this more than the sad story of rabi Zachariah and I don't want to do this in a judgmental manner here is a man who is wise the apologist of the century who seen as a Godly example and if it could happen to Ravi it can happen to me as an elder to our pastors
00:26:05 to all our leaders to all of you and I don't want to run him down because I really didn't like it that when he was dead people start to kick him you know but let me just show the full extent of this and this was he used to run courses in England right onee courses on apologetics and all over the world people came and this lady posted this I want to read it in this fullness for you to see the extent of it she say this were 24 students of six continents who converged on Ravi zachariah's International Ministry Raima European
00:26:39 epicenter for the 201617 school year-to-year train in apologetics in evangelism was studying theology full-time Oxford University each cohort at one session with Ravi and this was our turn just before Ravi was introduced we instructed not to ask apologetics because repertoire of convening arguments could be found online in his books this child to ask anything else you want to know about his ministry life how cool I thought you know what he asked her she which is this woman is a victim of sex abuse and so she asked him this I wanted
00:27:11 this to be a teaching moment to prevent further sex scandals and she was a victim of a sex abuse in the church if nothing else at least among my peers before they could be scattered I figured RI knew a thing or two about what it takes to maintain sexual Integrity turns out I figured wrong I want you to listen to the next part carefully here the next two parts his answer took more than 8 minutes and he said all the right things it's like anal liim standing up here giving you a sermon about these things
00:27:39 mention need to be careful why he called the 3g's gold girls Glory he gave a sermon discuss the need of accountability you see all the all the right words you know in highight the time I question coning to the final report he was already in the moral mut pit the investigator determin as earlier 214 Ravi session Mis conduct was well underway now let me tell you what's so frightening about this it shows the ability of us as Christians to be double face that we put on the front is a new self but we are really the old self and
00:28:16 here is one of what was considered until few years ago one of the most profilic faces in the Evangelical world but it's the last line I want you to pick up and and we will carry this in next week but I want you to hear the next one and ask yourself this is FBC this let's look at the last paragraph in the past year when I talk about many times my questions and ravi's answers when he correctly exort the virtues accountability and rightly so it turns out this accountability without transparency and vulnerability
00:28:54 is nothing more than a smokes screen and here the question I asked FBC I wonder if Ravi had not been revealed with such high esteem would he have enjoyed the free reign to wck such devastating consequences before Rie Zer ran there was another man called Roy Clem who was on the Contemporary of John St older people know him together with John start they set the pillar for biblical scholarship in 1970s but privately he struggled with homosexuality and they did interview with him he say why don't you come out
00:29:30 and talk to people well I was selling books I was doing seminars if I come out and tell people I struggle with this they have cancelled all my books cancer culture started a long time ago so I want us to take a deep heart look on this so let me give you three ways how the devil deceives you and how he tells you lies and I want you to look in your heart in love one he tells tells you you can't overcome sin and if you have that you sit here he put guilt in you if only people knew what you were doing behind closed doors you know I
00:30:08 don't think I can make it to Heaven because I keep doing back the same thing that's one the second is I don't have a problem it's my it's my wife who has a problem my husband who has a problem you see all these men all these hums up guys that's called denial this two if you have it and you admit it I think there's still hope but there's one more category which Paul really really says you really really got to be careful and it's the worst of this two this two I think you throw a stone you either
00:30:44 one of this category or both but it's the third one you should be very worried about is this it's not okay so okay you say right Anna thank you very much you just depressed my morning now tell me how to get better so yes we will or Paul will this was a church service in Germany last week pack the hall some of you know this right and they had a woman up there and all of that the problem was the church service was run by AI completely run by AI now I I I have never used T gbt the reasons why I don't h but I bet you I
00:31:29 could go to chat gbt and say right write me a sermon for Sunday morning how to overcome Temptation and CH gbt will give me a sermon I will take the sermon put in some Malaysian jok blank hot VOA I can preach to you already and CH gbt because it can search everywhere we give you all the right answers what's wrong with the sermon because the voice you hearing is not the voice of God it's not the voice of Holy Spirit even though all the right words are being used it's like rabi Zachariah telling you to be accountable
00:32:03 you know is the voice of artificial intelligence and so Paul says this before it goes on and John Piper had a tremendous sermon on this that however is not the way of life way of life you learn one when you heard about Christ and were taught not the way of life you learn you heard were taught and how according with the truth that is in Jesus here's the thing you can break a lot of Temptations and do not need to be a Christian and Piper puts it this way you can be the best preacher up here you can
00:32:50 be very involved in church you can you can do all sorts of things you actually think you're quite righteous but if you do not hear the voice of God it is not godly change and this is due to the hardening of the heart which all of us struggle with including me so Hebrews puts it this way see to it brothers and sisters and this is quite interesting because paralel this none of you has a sinful unbelieving heart that's that hardening of heart that turns away from the Living God because my question is
00:33:25 this you say well listen to the voice of God don't listen the voice of AI how do I know honor speaking today is the voice of God and Hebrew picks it up encourage one another daily so long as is CAU today that's Ephesians 5 4 and 5 so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness we have come to share in Christ if indeed we hold on to original conviction that's again what we just read about listening to Jesus as he been said today if you hear his voice then he goes back to Exodus do not Harden your
00:34:00 hearts as you did in Rebellion so how do you know when you're hearing God's voice because someone say I'm hearing God voice I don't have a problem my my husband has a problem I don't have this problem someone else said in this verse do you know where you hear the voice let's look in again encourage one another daily we have come to share in Christ you come to hear the voice of God in community so here's the third one the key to fight fighting sin is deepening your relationship with Christ together
00:34:32 with others so when you look at this you sort of wonder if rabi Zachariah was in a small group you know of men and he wasn't so scared that if he was exposed everyone was going to pull the plug of his ministry you wonder whether he would say you know what um I like to go to spars and I like to collect photos of women who are naked you wonder whether he would have done that but because the Evangelical Church built a culture and pushed him up so much he hid it so well by burn phones and all of that and believe that he
00:35:11 could hide it forever so I want to talk to men in particularly all right but more so men number one before you can escape the hardness of your old life you have to listen to the voice of Jesus if not you become a moralist there a lot of people in Malaysia moralist you cannot go to a government agency unless your skirt is past the knee they put a fine for you in a certain country if they think your dressing is so no no so a lot of moralist out there you know legalist you know and the question is do you harden
00:35:46 your hearts when it speaks to you and this is very telling you know we have this ministry in our church run by SATs called men in the mirror years ago I I was in the first group and I didn't want to attend it I opened the syllabus W way very frightening everything a man struggles with was in there so I didn't want to go you name it sexual sins money anger family marriage go but I prayed better go so I went and the first session was very enlightening they said you know what we're going to do a covenant the coven
00:36:22 is whatever says here stays here so I say hey what if I'm a leader I say something that you judge me and then you see you better stop being a leader won't happen Hallelujah the only way men will open up is that when you put them in a group where you won't get judged and it was very difficult for me because I will tell you about men they do not reveal themselves because when they reveal they think either one you're going to tell the whole world or more so you're going to come down on them and judge them oh you better you
00:36:56 better stop being an elder you better stop being a pastor you better stop doing this no there a place for this but it's a process and when I attended the group after well you know was very good oh you also got a problem oh oh you also got a problem suddenly I'm not alone you know and then suddenly we share our struggles and when you share your struggles it is in that talking H you get encouraged because you say you know what if if he can fight it and he doesn't look much different from me ma then I also can
00:37:31 Ma and I want you to pick that up I I I want you to look at the grace of God that a fight means to persevere and you start by being open and I will say this about men men all think they are bad men they like to hide in their own caves but you're supposed to be a community and I want to challenge men to this I'm not asking to join man in the mirror but the way forward is community where you can say things and they will not judge you but they will not condone that sin and that's a process and I saw
00:38:12 wonder if Ravi was in a small group instead of everybody exalting him like an idol maybe a lot of women wouldn't have been hurt okay so let me just close with this heavy sermon but let's get to Victory and we only going to end with this verse two and he talks about the voice of Jesus you were taught with regard to formal will in life to put off your old self what does the old self does which is being corrupted by deceitful desire so one your old self is being corrupted that is continuing sensor is being daily
00:38:48 corrupted then he say to be made new in the attitude of Minds The put on a new self now the new self is interesting because it's taken from Ephesians 2 create to be like God in true righteousness in that case is the righteousness God puts in you so that no man May boast and Holiness that means set apart and Ephesians 2 God says you were created in advance to do good works this is the image of God now what do you mean by old self what do you mean by new self he breaks it down okay let me just break the two things for you and
00:39:25 then here he tells you what it is you talk about old self right here it is there's two here we'll expand it next weeker put off falsehood and speak truthfully with your neighbor I'm not a liar I know I don't have that problem maybe my wife has that problem but I don't have the problem I'm very honest one Hallelujah brother then he tells you we are members of one body hey what's it got to do with being honest it's quite interesting right he said in your anger do not sin I I I'm not angry I'm very cool one they tells
00:39:58 you don't give the devil a foothold what's I got to do with anger you you see where we going then he says anyone me stealing must I never steal no you just play with your tax on you probably only got one eyeb box at home where you can get free movies but you're not teas you're very honest people I never steal but you know it tells you share with someone in need what that going to do is stealing you see the trend it isn't I don't steal you know I don't get angry you know I don't lie you know that's old
00:40:34 self you know it's a new self are you members of one body did the devil get the foothold in you are you sharing what's that going to do with it and so you see a link he ties the second part is not enough you don't lie you need to be verse 29 you need to encourage other people don't let un wholesome talk only what helpful in building each others up so you say I don't lie but you sit down there a yeah these Elders all very CH you know all these Elders are all late people I tell I think they bully Pastors in this church all very
00:41:13 exy one you know you see where he's going with that in your anger do not see I don't get angry but why your heart verse 31 very bitter this church no one cares for me one my my family are really really bet you see where we going I don't steal and this the best but are you generous what is he telling you old self is clear you know what new self I tell you the new self H let's go one by one you don't Li Hallelujah the cross is about Community are you part of a community where you build each other up number two you don't
00:41:58 get angry Hallelujah the cross is about forgiveness if you have forgiveness you're not bitter I don't steal the cross is about Grace what is there to steal what is there you work to buy a nice house it doesn't belong to you stealing illegal why do I steal I stole to build to buy a house legal right so I decide not to steal now I work to buy a house legal but Paul is saying work to buy a house and then give the house to the poor that's what he's saying you know now this is very telling I tell you what
00:42:44 he's trying to tell you the what he's trying to tell you is the attitude of the mind that's what he's trying to tell you and the attitude of the mind is that the eyes of the heart may be enlight en and when the eyes of the hearts and enlightened and you know the hope he called you the power of the cross that brings forgiveness brings Grace brings Community The Inheritance is in his people you have power to fight sin what the heart wants the Mind justifies the will exalt if your heart wants to love
00:43:19 Jesus more the Lord will renew your mind and the Holy Spirit will give you the power to do that is the key for years when before I was in this church or another church and all they taught me was you do this you're going to go to hell you know you do this is wrong you know and I sat in the Pew feeling very guilty because I struggled with sin I don't need to tell you what it is because I don't need to put my dirty L out here so I learned to hide to be a small Ravi Zachariah and I tell you what Ravi
00:43:52 Zachariah was is common and so I had Shar I struggled and then people can tell you oh you have this sin find accountability partner a flee from sin it doesn't work because the heart is not there you see what he wants you is to have obedience which is glad you know you're obedient willingly and if you fall Grace is there to say forgive how many times 70 time seven times you mean I'm going to be fighting this my whole life yes that's the only way to live so let me give you the last one which was very life-changing to me and
00:44:30 I'm not going to stand here to say that I'm completely Victorious I'll tell you I'm work in progress changing the attitude of mind is about having Godly habits Godly habits that will slowly change your mind you see the Evangelical Church is like this program The Biggest Loser you know we think people after they become Christians is like from the left side they become the right side Hallelujah you like me uni overnight I want to become a pastor 6 months die we we like to parade people up here to do
00:45:07 this but what happens after that people go back worse than they become and then they just sit in the church and the devil Whispers to them you're useless and that's why I want to say look so many churches have people who are poers who just sit in the back because they filled with shame how do you lose weight by being joining a reality program and trying to become half your size in 6 months that's Madness you know that's stupidity how do you change one pound a day a month 10 months10 20 months 20 then you go back and eat your ice
00:45:49 cream you get back but you tell the Lord I will stick on this and one day it could be 5 years it could be five months it could be 10 years you suddenly turn on the corner and you will put on the computer and you put on your Pawn I I don't know why I'm watching this and you will s it off and you put on your social media and you're scrolling and I don't care whether I got 100 likes and all the anger you had towards your family member because they stole your money they they they were so unfair to you you wake wake up one day you look
00:46:28 at a person and you know what I I I I love you that doesn't happen overnight it happens slowly so I will end with what changed my life if my wife knows you know what changed my wife let me just give you this uh let me just end with this you know in Philippians they talk about anxiety who here doesn't have anxiety do you know how you overcome anxiety he tells in verse 8 whatever is true that's wisdom think about such things put it into practice that's habit so I had a lot of negative thoughts in my life uh
00:47:12 guilt shame negativity and I I took that and I read this and I understood something so I'll tell you what saved my life and it may not work for you what saved my life was doing 10,000 steps a day you see what's I going to do with sin everything because doing 10,000 steps a day actually there's no signs to it requires some discipline you know so I wake up 6:30 in the morning my wife know plinging get up I put my shoes at the door get up and go either that I be doing other bad things and you can let your imagination
00:47:49 run what those bad things are and when I get out I see the morning sun I walk and I say God whatever is true and what is true you Jesus died for my sins and I pray and I talk and I tell God God I'm a hopeless Sinner and I've been doing this for years and as I walked I pray as I pray I read scripture and then I do 3,000 steps and when I keep doing that again and again and again one day I woke up and I wanted to do sinful things and I said hey I think I'd rather go for a walk brothers and sisters you may not
00:48:41 need to do 10,000 steps but change comes slowly little habits and it starts with an attitude and I will close with this what do you think of most of the time what you think you will become you say I'm l y I'm useless I'm shameful you're prophesizing that in your life if you sit here in the church and you say yeah the reason why I'm not Serv because if people know who I really am because the devil has told you that you're prophesizing that in your life you become what you think number two start small a small habit and let it
00:49:22 stick it could be going to the live group it could be reading your Bible for 2 minutes twice a week that's a very low bar and remember the Lord fights for you and as you do this you would realize the power of the Cross is able to do exceedingly more than what you ask and imagine I'm going to ask the worship team to come up but I I want us to know that this is a difficult sermon and we're not saying this to judge you but if you're in a place where you feel trapped by sin I pray this morning God speaks to you and you may say that
00:50:07 you know what I don't want to talk to Anor because he will judge me then talk to someone else but I give you my word the church is here to walk with you together fighting sin realize how deadly sin is it will trap you can we have some keys number two is God speaking to you now is he telling you there are certain things in your life you need to change and you rather shut him off because you've been sitting in church for the last 3 years and you're quite happy and maybe God is saying it's not okay and you do it in community you find
00:50:50 other people fight with you and thirdly one pound a month chickle away at that sin a little bit there will be days you fall and Peter asked Jesus how many times has I forgive 70 * 7 that mean the guy who sinning against him is a serious sinner no and so we ask God 70 * 7 I ask you forgive me but I will stick on that fight I want to just open to ask if you're struggling with sin God is speaking you to you right now let us just open in some moment of prayer and and and just ask we ask oh Lord that
00:51:35 this morning you speak to our hearts and that we do not get hardened and it is very easy to avoid talking but struggling with sin but first we remember the power of the Cross is available to us and we thank you Lord we meditate on this truth that you oh Lord would die for a sinner like us and we take that with gratitude and we ask we think about this daily we put this into practice and daily Lord we ask we do small little habits Godly routines that keeps our minds pure and when our minds are pure our
00:52:15 hearts will follow and when our hearts follow we will say Lord this is our desire this is my desire Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live to Worship You and God people say amen and uh sister Michelle is going to lead us to this song I ask as say you sing this you make this your prayer church can I invite you to stand as you sing the song [Music] this is my desire to H [Music] you Lord with all my heart I worship [Music] you oh I have within me I give you praise all that I adore is in
00:53:50 [Music] you Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm way Lord have your way in me sing again this is my desire this is my desire to All You Lord with all my heart I worship [Music] you all I have all I have in me I give you praise and all that I adore is in [Music] you Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm away Lord have your way in me Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul
00:55:56 [Music] I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm [Music] away Lord have your way in me can I invite all of you to just sit down slow down and let God speak to you and the Lord is in our midst today if you hear his voice do not Harden your heart and as the music plays the Lord is in our midst and I just want to ask what is he telling you for your [Music] sins and in this house there is hope there is Grace there is forgiveness there is the love of Jesus that so overwhelms us you do not
00:57:02 need to feel dirty you do not need to feel shameful you say ah Lord God here I am Take Me As I [Music] Am and In This Moment of Silence I just want to let the spirit just soak in us let us not grieve the spirit wherever you are whoever you are let's just take a moment to just sit and hear his [Music] voice today if you hear his voice do not Harden your heart and right now the Lord is just asking you to make a pledge every Godly habit begins with a small step a reaffirmation now here's the word of
00:58:00 the Lord to all of you so Church listen to this this is the words Lord to you and I will live for you Lord God church is that your prayer let me say it again Lord this is my prayer and I will live for you not for my my sins not for my struggles I will live for you if that's your prayer I want to invite you now to stand in Victory and declare the Lord shall we all stand right now and we're going to sing to the Lord and raise our voices and we say Lord we will live for you [Music] and I will live and I will live for you
00:59:16 [Music] I will [Music] live and I will live for you I'm singing I will live and I will live and I will live for you [Music] Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm aake Lord have your way in Me Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm way Lord have your way Lord Jesus have your way with us church if you are sitting there standing there the Lord is telling you do not be
01:01:02 defeated the power of the Cross is available to all of us here here in this house of God the Lord is offering you Joy the Lord is offering you Freedom the Lord is offering you the life you're meant to live to give a for Days of Heaven to not live a life wrecked in shame in secrecy in bitterness but the Lord is a gentle God he puts out his hand and right now the devil's whispering to you and you are the devil is telling you you can't you can't and the Lord says stand firm he will fight for you you just need to stand firm he will
01:01:46 fight for you and so we end this service with this words with the two prayers of Paul the power May the eyes of your heart be open that you know the hope they called to The Inheritance that in your midst among the people in The church here that will support you and that power is available to you that power the same power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead is available when and again as the body of Christ as the leadership we ask you to talk to us send us a email we give you our word to be confidential and we will not judge you
01:02:32 we will pray for you wherever you are don't let the devil tell you that if I only told this to Arnold or ulam or Yan or Peter I will be judged you will not be judged You Will Be Loved You Will Be Loved let us end with this now unto him who able to do exceedingly more Church than you ask or imagine that power is available to you both in the church and the generations to come and God's people say amen God bless you all have a Victorious week ahead and we are here for you let's be family God bless
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