00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 28-11-2015 My first love, part two My first love, part two. Brothers and sisters, before we start on the daily, we remind ourselves some of the things that we
might have forgotten. First of all, mark 1617.

00:24 These signs will accompany those who believe. Those who believe in Jesus Christ, that he died on the cross and rose again and gave you his precious blood and washed your sins away and you want to follow him. He is your Lord and master now and he is
your husband of your soul.

00:42 By using his name they will cast out demons in the name of Jesus Christ. Will cast out demons? What demons? First of all, cast out fear, confusion, everything from us. Because this is a wonderful way, a powerful way to live our life.

00:56 This is why Jesus had to die on the cross to do this for us. So that we can live this life in power, not in some form of godliness. That’s what the scripture says.

01:07 In some form of godliness without the power thereof. Many live like this. Some form of godliness without the power.

01:16 The power here is from Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ will cast out a fear and any other temptation. Temptation.

01:24 Last we command the name of Jesus Christ. Command our heart not to follow the things of the world. Not to follow the temptation.

01:31 Not to cast out the spirit of anger and cast out the spirit of unforgiveness. In the name of Jesus Christ. We must remember these brothers and sisters.

01:40 And we have to do whenever some of the spirit attacking we have to do. And that you can only do when we examine ourselves. That is why we have to examine ourselves.

01:50 We have to. There’s no other way. Examination is part of us.

01:53 We do not. We need to examine ourselves daily, particularly in the bed before we go to sleep. And then we have Kalish.

02:00 And then we have another scripture which says, anybody with grace. God gives more grace to the humble. God gives us grace to the humble.

02:09 That is, in James 4:6, God gives grace to the humble, but he opposes the proud. Apostles are proud. And then in James 1:22 it said, Be doer of the word, not just hearers deceiving ourselves.

02:23 Do not, it says, be doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving yourselves. If I do not do what the word of God tells me, I just hear, hear, hear, hear, hear. God’s word says, I am deceiving myself.

02:39 And the examination is in 2 Corinthians 13:5. Examine and test and evaluate your own selves and whether we are counterfeit Faith or whatever, whether we are counterfeit, whether we are false Christians. Then in Galatians 6:3 it says, if anyone
thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

03:02 Therefore let us humble ourselves. We are all nothing. Brothers and sisters, from dust we came, unto dust we shall return only by the mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord.

03:12 Souls will go back to Him. Our Spirit will be with him. Now, in First Corinthians 8:2, those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.

03:24 That’s a simplified version. That’s easy. Easy to read version.

03:28 Those who know something, they do not know anything as they ought to know as yet. So now we may understand that whatever thing we know, that I keep applying to that myself daily, for a long time now, for years, why, there’s a danger in me that
suddenly my heart will think I know. This is a very big danger.

03:48 Suddenly the heart will think I know and I forget to control my heart. Then the thing will act funny. Then everything is going to go haywire and I’m giving the devil a big foothold for him to come and steal, kill and destroy.

04:01 And of course, love your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. And love your neighbour as you love yourself, love your neighbor as yourself, and do this and you will live. Meaning if we do not love our neighbor as ourselves, we may be
loving God.

04:15 And we do not love your neighbor as yourself means we are really not loving God. So if you love your neighbor as yourself and you will live. And of course for us, even love your enemies.

04:26 If we want to be sons of the Most High God. And we can do how in the name of Jesus Christ, we can cast out, we can command our heart and mind to do this. Now today, brothers and sisters, we are back to this, my first love, because it’s a very
wonderful topic.

04:43 Now, having said that, a wonderful topic, let’s look at the verse again, what God taught us yesterday. First, first love is the love we have for Christ. The love we have for Christ.

05:01 First must come Christ Jesus the Christ. Why? He is God, Father. God is God, the Holy Spirit, God.

05:08 Three of them are one. And this is a mystery. But the mystery or not, we can easily look at it in many, many different ways.

05:16 Like water. Water can be vapor. Water can be ice, Water can be liquid.

05:22 Now they have even found different forms of water. Scientists, you know. Now having said that, we can also look at this way to understand deeply.

05:30 The word of God was with God and in God, in Father God. When our Father God spoke The Word was the one. That is the one.

05:39 Jesus Christ is the word of God was, is and ever will be. Everything was created by Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ, through the Word, for the Word, by the Word, and then the Spirit of God. Of course, the Holy Spirit is in
Father God.

05:54 Now the Holy Spirit also is God, because it is in. Because he, the Holy Spirit is in Father God. The Word of God, Jesus Christ is in Father God.

06:03 Now what happened? Jesus Christ had to come out. The word of God had to come out and took the form of a man so that can suffer as a man and pay the sacrifice for all mankind. Whoever want to believe in him will have freedom, be set free from the
captivity of the devil.

06:19 Now thank Jesus Christ for his love that took him to suffer like that. Now, here, Revelation 2:1 5. The Word of God was saying, right, I know your works, your labour, your patience, and you cannot bear those who are evil.

06:37 You have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and found them liars. And you have persevered and have patience and have laboured for my name’s sake. Have not become weary and have not become weary.

06:50 Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore, from where you have fallen. Repent and do the first works.

07:00 Or else I’ll come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place unless you repent. Now, quite clearly, the critical word for us is this. Remember therefore, where you have fallen from is of course repent and do the first works.

07:14 That means once we have left the first love, we have to get back. To have Jesus Christ as our first love, all we have to do is repent. That means repent is what? Turn away.

07:28 Turn away from our old selves. And I’m looking for the. I’m looking for.

07:41 I will remove repent from its place unless you repent. Now. The repent is actually turning away.

07:48 Not just saying, I will turn away and all that, but actually turning away and making sure that now we do the right thing. To do the right thing. Very simple.

07:57 How to do the right thing? We are supposed to do the right thing. How? Because he said what? Very simply, he said, repent and do the first works. And what’s the work of God? We have proven in 1 John 6:28, 29.

08:12 The work of God is believing in the One whom He sent. And the work of God believing in the One whom He sent means believing in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom Father God sent, the God Almighty sent. Therefore it is easy.

08:25 It is Easy to go back to our first love. When we understand this, that we believe in the one whom he sent, we begin to put our faith, everything in Jesus Christ and not be drawn away as the heart and mind will tell us. Our training will tell us to
put our faith in what the world says.

08:40 Now let’s look some examples. Now let us say there is a job you have and then the boss or somebody, they’re having difficulties maybe in the job, the boss or somebody saying, look here, I want you to fill up these forms for the bank and I want you
to fill up with these numbers and all that which of course you know, may be fraudulent. They’re trying to put another face to the bank, trying to tell you to tell things which are not true.

09:09 Now you are the person who is supposed to fill up these forms and sign these forms even, but you know it’s wrong because you are a follower of Jesus Christ. Now this is where the first love comes. Do you love your job so much? Do you fear that you
lose your job? Love your job so much can also be fear of loss of job, you know.

09:23 Do you fear that you lose your job? All kind of fear takes place that you said, okay, Jesus Christ will understand that. I’ll just lie here for the boss, because I’m supposed to. Now we can also take scripture out of context.

09:42 One scripture says, serve your master’s well. So the devil will tell you. Your mind will tell you.

09:47 Serve my master well. So I will just fill up this form as the master says. I’m supposed to serve the master well.

09:52 Lord Jesus Christ, it is your word which says I must serve my master well. So I will fill up this fraudulent thing. No, you put your trust in Jesus Christ.

10:01 Believe in the one whom he sent. He said, all liars will burn in the lake of fire. He didn’t say, those who call themselves Christians and lie won’t burn in the lake of fire.

10:11 All liars. If you’re practicing sin, if you fell into sin now remember this, if you fell into sin, immediately there will be conviction because the Holy Spirit will convict you. You are wrong.

10:21 And all you straightaway start, sorry, Lord, Sorry Lord, and begin to rectify and settle things. But if you are practicing sin, that was Jesus very clear in John. Those who are practicing sin, they are born of the devil.

10:35 That means they don’t have this born of the Spirit yet. They do not have the first love of Jesus Christ yet. They do not.

10:43 I was practicing sin, so I am not condemning anybody here. I was practicing sin, and although I was Supposed to be some kind of Christian, which really never bothered. I was practicing sin.

10:54 And the more I was practicing sin, the more religious my wife was becoming. She’ll do all the religious activities, novenas and what have you. So when we have this situation, if you are practicing sin, brothers and sisters, today is the day to turn
and call on Jesus Christ and say, lord Jesus, I don’t want to sin anymore.

11:14 I want to be pleasing to your sight. You want to be pleasing to your sight. So therefore, and you want to be born of the Spirit.

11:22 I’ve dealt with another segment. What is being born of the Spirit? Because born of the spirit is born again. If you’re not born of the Spirit, you’re still born of the flesh.

11:30 You won’t be able to overcome these temptations. So I understand the problem you’re facing. So you have to be born of the Spirit means now you have some awe and reverence for Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

11:42 And you begin to crave for the Word of God and begin to meditate on the Word of God. And you begin to overcome your overcomers. Jesus Christ is looking for overcomers and he has given us his blood.

11:54 We can say, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus. You don’t know any prayer also brother or sister. You just say, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus, blood of Jesus.

12:05 The temptation will move away from you. The fear will move away from you. You will then be able to stand boldly and say, sorry, sir, I cannot do this because I made an o oath.

12:14 I got taken an oath with Jesus Christ that I will not do any wrong. I’m not saying anything to you, sir, but please, I made an oath. If I do this, I’m breaking the oath and I will suffer.

12:27 So you have to make a stand. But you can make a stand in the power of Jesus Christ by the blood of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ.

12:34 You can make a stand because you want to do the work of God. And the work of God is your first work is what? Believing in the One Whom he sent. And that action when you do, you have come back to your first love.

12:49 Because you are believing Jesus Christ will take care of you. Whether the job is God or not God or God or whatever. Jesus Christ is a provider.

12:59 He will take care of you. You’ll begin to go and look for scriptures seeking the kingdom of God and righteousness first. And all these things will be added.

13:06 And you begin to work on that and begin to cast out the fear and stand for truth because you are a child of God. Likewise, same thing whenever we face other things. You stand for what is right.

13:20 Let us say there is a drunken husband. Remember I was drunken. Of course.

13:26 I didn’t take money from my wife because I was blessed. I spoke about the devil’s blessing. The devil was blessing me.

13:32 I didn’t know I was just taking the blessing and using the money for wrong things. The drunken husband taking money from a wife, a Christian wife follower, or the drunken son or daughter having habits, taking gambling or whatever. Then you keep
giving the money as a child of God because you’re afraid what they will do.

13:55 Some people say, keep the peace, keep the peace. That’s false. Peace.

13:59 Keep the peace, keep the peace. And you begin to give the children what they want. And all because you don’t want to get into all this problems.

14:05 So what happens, that is you have fallen from your first love. Because first love says you not support sin. You will hate everything that’s evil.

14:15 You don’t hate them, you love them. Love your husband, love your children and all that. But you cannot support the evil they are doing, so you cannot give.

14:23 My husband may bang me up. That is when the first love, your faith in Christ has to come. You are standing for Christ and standing for righteousness.

14:32 Yes, it is tough. It is. It is hard.

14:34 But this is when your faith will be tested. When you begin to hold on to Jesus Christ and say, lord, you are my first love. I just believe in you, that somehow or other you settle me, you take care of me.

14:46 Whatever it is, Lord, even if they hammer me, I take it because I do not want to sin against you. I do not want to cause sin to these people and feed their sin and damage them and cause them into damnation. You don’t want.

14:58 So you are making a stand. It’s not easy, brothers and sisters. I know that there are things I had to stand after coming to Christ.

15:05 It was not easy being drawn to the world. Drawn to the world when we have not enough money. We are drawn to the world to do some things in the world.

15:13 No. But the mercy of God helped me. So I didn’t go back and do the world work because I thought, okay, then somebody offering me general manager’s post again.

15:23 I can go back and all the income will come again. But then Jesus said, you go back there, you’ll fall into all these sins again what you were doing earlier. And I have called you into being a pastor.

15:34 I will provide for you. Then I hang on to Jesus Christ. I didn’t go and take that job like before.

15:40 And then somehow, rather, Jesus sees us through. And that is when we rejoice and say it’s a miracle how Jesus has seen us through month by month and has finally provided us more than enough. And it’s given us peace and righteousness and joy and
relationship, a loving family and a family in Christ that surrounds me.

16:00 That family in Christ is the church that I’m pastoring for Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, we must stand for the first love. It’s not easy, but you stand in faith and go back to his word, his promises and hold on, hold on.

16:15 Hold on, brother. Hold on, sister. In the name of Jesus Christ, your faith is Jesus Christ.

16:21 Your faith, your. Your hope is in Jesus Christ. Your works, that is, believing in the One Whom he sent.

16:29 Believing in Jesus Christ’s commands and the provisions and the offers and the promises. Believing in His Word. Believing in His Word.

16:37 Read the Word, meditate the Word, and you see miracles happen. And then people say, boy, this man fantastic. This woman says, jesus Christ, brother.

16:46 Jesus Christ, sister. It’s not me. In Jesus name I pray.

16:50 Amen, brothers and sisters, Amen.