00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 4 November 2015 Self confidence versus God confidence self confidence versus God confidence. Brothers and sisters, today this is a very important topic. Why in
fact every day when God teaches something, it is important.

00:02 Brothers and sisters, I myself, when I wait on the Lord and begin to speak, speak into this phone to record or whatever, this recorder, I find that while the words are coming out, I am either being convicted of things that I did or didn’t do. And
then the meantime I will be asking sorry Lord and changing my life. My life changes because the word of God convicts me.

00:47 And at the same time God reminds me of so many things and at the same time my life is getting better. Better because the word of God changes us. So it is also I am benefiting from doing what he told me to do.

01:00 Brothers and sisters, the words of God, they are life. They are life to us. So when the words of God are quoted from here and then some explanation I am giving as the Lord leads me.

01:13 And of course there are times I will be talking. It may not be the Lord what I experienced, I just saying to explain to people, but whatever is wrong, I asked God for forgiveness and I explained the next day I was wrong or whatever. And remember a
few weeks ago I had to even record and say I sinned yesterday.

01:33 So God wants me to be truthful to anyone, everyone. And this recording after I passed on and gone back to the Lord by God’s mercy, there’ll be people listening. They wouldn’t know that I’m not around.

01:46 So. But these things only God can do. Brothers and sisters, today the title is self confidence versus God confidence.

01:55 This has become a big issue in the business world. You know, when very young itself, we pick up information without knowing, you know, that we must be self confident. We must depend on self dependent, self dependent, self confident.

02:13 Why we must provide. Especially the boys, this generation Z boys, I don’t know what’s going on because of all the hammering they get from the EMF and the estrogen and what have you and the bombarded false information and the temptations and all the
Z generation, I pity them. They are rarely under stress and they end up following wrong things.

02:38 But even that time itself, we didn’t have this kind of temptations. But we have been built into believing that I must be self confident, I must be self dependent, I must provide. Especially the boys at that time, when they grow up, they provide for
the family, provide for our own family, parents and all that.

02:54 And therefore brothers and sisters, and now motivational books. After that I grew older. 18, 17, 18.

03:02 Reading motivational books and all that. And these motivational fellows, they taken the thing from the Bible only. But the only thing, they won’t let you.

03:10 They’ll make you self confident. Self confident, Self confidence. So today we have to see Scripture.

03:14 What is this? Is it self confidence? We must have self confidence or not? Or is self confidence good or is self confidence going to damage us? 2 Timothy 1:7 says, I’m reading from King James Version. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of
power and of love and of a sound mind. Many times that of power and of love and of sound mind is interpreted that, yes, I must be able to do because it has given me power, love and sound mind.

03:41 I must be confident. And I must do this in Hebrews 10:35. I’m reading from the Catholic edition.

03:51 Do not therefore abandon that confidence of yours. Do not therefore abandon that confidence of yours. It brings a great reward.

04:00 So can you imagine the Scripture itself here, the way it’s written? Do not abandon the confidence of yours. It brings great reward. So people begin to think that I myself self confident.

04:12 And it makes sense. Do not abandon the confidence of yours. It brings a great reward.

04:17 But let’s read that is why when we reading Scripture and trying to understand what God’s Word is, God’s word says in the Bible, line by line, precept by precept, you’ll understand him and his words. Line by line, precept by precept. First of all,
line by line, we begin to read and meditate and against the conduct, our conduct.

04:40 Only then our conduct will change. We begin to read the line of Scripture and the precept it must settle with the precept of Christ. Precept of Christ is all things are under his feet.

04:52 So now that’s one of the precepts of Christ. All things are dead. His name is higher than all names.

04:58 Therefore, confidence of yours is definitely not here. Meaning confidence of yours is not confidence in your in you, confidence in you. It’s a confidence of yours.

05:10 You have some confidence. But that confidence is confidence on what? If that confidence of yours is confidence based on what your confidence is on what is it? Confidence on you or. Or the things around you.

05:25 A confidence on the world, confidence on the job, confidence on our skill set, our professionals, our confidence on our exams, confidence on our qualifications. Confidence on our training. Confidence on our training.

05:37 Confidence on our monies that we have. Confidence on the advice we get from the various counselors doctors, lawyers and engineers and all that. And, and biologists and maybe oncologists or whatever confidence on the advice we have received.

05:58 What is the confidence on now? We’ll Go further. Romans 7:18. Romans 7:18 Is this for I know that in me that is in my flesh nothing good dwells.

06:15 Nothing good dwells. This is the Apostle Paul saying in Romans 7:18. He knows.

06:21 He says not believes. He knows that in me, in himself, in his flesh nothing good lives. There’s nothing good in our flesh.

06:30 John 15:4 6. Abide in me. Abide in me as I abide in you.

06:39 Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. Unless you live in me, unless you continue in me. 5.

06:50 I am the vine, you are the branches. That means I am the vine. Means you know, the vine of the, of the tree, wine of the.

06:58 Of the grape tree or grape plant, and you are the branches. The vine is the main trunk. Those who abide in me, and I in them, bear much fruit.

07:08 Because now this is Jesus saying, because apart from me you can do nothing. This is Jesus Christ saying to her, the husband of my soul, telling me, son, apart. Now, son means of course, the spirit man in you, sister.

07:23 So he’s calling you son also. Because the body also woman’s body, but the Father, God’s spirit in you. He’s calling you son also son, because apart from me you can do nothing.

07:33 Nothing. 2nd Corinthians 3:4 6. Such is the confidence that we have through Christ to towards God.

07:43 So our confidence is what? That we have true Christ towards God. It’s God’s confidence that’s going to settle us. It’s God’s confidence.

07:53 Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us. Our competence is from God. So our confidence must be in God.

08:03 Brothers and sisters, using these few scriptures, now let’s look at our life. Let’s say we study, study hard. So some people say, wow, that child brilliant.

08:11 No exams also clear. It’s a very false statement. And you are actually encouraging future damage.

08:19 Future damage? Why? First of all, you must remember, if only we study, we study, we study. Confidence in our own study. Confidence in our own study.

08:26 Then we must remember this. We are discounting the other players in the world, the other players in our life. There is Satan, who came to steal, kill and destroy.

08:36 And he is not staying still. He is on around the clock. He is working.

08:40 Why? The demons do not have to sleep. The fallen angels do not have to sleep. Our physical body has to sleep.

08:46 But our spirit man is not sleeping. That is why do not let the sun go down on your anger. Means don’t keep your anger and go to sleep also.

08:53 Because your anger is in the spirit world. And it is anger or spirit. It keeps whacking our spirit man while our body is sleeping.

09:01 Therefore you get up also not rested. All kinds of problems. Now brothers and sisters.

09:08 So if we say confidence, the fact confidence should be in God. Self confidence is actually sinful and destructive. Self confidence will bring self destruction.

09:18 Self confidence will bring pride. Self confidence is antichrist. Because he says, there’s nothing you can do apart from me.

09:30 John 15 Nothing you can do. Nothing. No, not some things.

09:32 Nothing you can do. That is why if you say, okay, I study hard, son. Study hard, daughter.

09:40 Study hard. Exam tomorrow. Study hard.

09:43 And then we discount God. What happens at the day of the exam? Let’s say the car accident somewhere somebody’s accident. You’re not.

09:51 Thank God you didn’t get accident. But somebody else also feels sorry for the people they got accident. Big jab.

09:57 You can’t reach the exam in time. What happens at the exam? Your brain, your head got a headache and you can’t think or you forgot things. Because that is why our confidence.

10:09 Self confidence is actually very minuscule. It has no power to support every other factor that is showing up in our daily living. Cannot.

10:20 We must have God confidence. Must go to God. You study hard because God told you to study hard.

10:25 You go and further then, Lord. That’s why before studying, you start praying. Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, have mercy on me.

10:32 I thank youk for giving me this. I command my heart and mind to only have faith in youn, not to have faith in my own self. I will study hard.

10:41 By youy power and mercy, I will study hard. I can do all things through youh, and I can do nothing apart from youm. Therefore, Lord Jesus, you must be here with Me.

10:49 I am in youn, you are in me. Make me pass this exam, Lord, and then make me settle you protect me from every danger. As I go for this exam and sit.

10:59 I pray for mercy, Lord, that give me good results. Now same thing. For instance, putting faith in man.

11:07 God said, do not put faith in man. This I’ve taught my wife from the beginning. As soon as I came to the Lord, do not put faith in me.

11:14 Does that mean she doesn’t trust me? No, she trusts me. In fact, trust me completely. In fact, I believe that because her actions clearly show she trusts me.

11:23 Completely. And I trust her completely. But I told her, you can trust me completely, but you cannot put faith in me.

11:29 Why, I am a man and I am limited. Your faith must be in Christ and you trust your husband. Yes, but your husband may not be able to do things.

11:40 You can trust your husband when I say, tomorrow, I will do this for you. Now, by mercy of God. By grace of God.

11:48 That is why in First Corinthians 15, I think 5, 10 or 15, he says, 510 or 15 10, I forgot. 5 he says. You know what Apostle Paul is saying? He’s saying, by grace of God, I am what I am and I labour more, work harder, more, you know.

12:10 Then in James There is James 4. He says, There are two fellows talking. We’ll go to the town, we’ll spend a year there.

12:17 We’ll do business and get some profit and all that. And God says, you fools, what happens? Your life is called tonight. Your life is called tonight.

12:25 That’s why you must say, if the Lord wills, God willing. By mercy of grace. Mercy and grace of God.

12:32 By mercy and grace of Jesus Christ. By the grace of Christ. So brothers understand, we have to get into God confidence.

12:41 Confidence in God, confidence man, be confident who also gave us our breath. I got breath today to do this. Therefore I said tomorrow I’ll get up and do this.

12:50 Brothers and sisters, it’s only by the mercy and grace of Christ. Why, suppose I really cannot get up tomorrow morning at all. My intention is good so you’ll trust me when I say I’ll do this tomorrow.

13:01 But unwritten condition is for me all the time. Even when I say or doesn’t say, I know deep in my soul it’s only by the grace and mercy of Christ I can do anything I do. Therefore when you put our trust.

13:14 We trust our husband, we trust our wives. But our faith is in Christ to settle our husband or our wife. Our faith is in Christ to settle the man.

13:25 A man says I’ll do tomorrow, suddenly he cannot do. You better have the right heart and say maybe they couldn’t do yesterday I was talking about the self seeking destruction. Oh, they never do for me.

13:36 They never do for me what they never do for me. You say maybe they had something because they are not in control of their lives. There are issues in life, brothers and sisters.

13:46 God confidence is settled through God. Confidence is actually God. We seek God.

13:51 God seeking. Not self seeking, but God seeking God confidence. God confidence.

13:59 God confidence is absolute. I am the way, the truth and life. When Jesus says something, we have confidence in that why? He is the truth and he cannot lie.

14:06 He is the truth and he cannot lie. God, only God can settle everything. So now take other cases, for instance, even whatever you do, a musical instrument.

14:20 Oh, fantastic player. This, this pianist is solid. What skill set she’s got, hey, Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

14:28 The skill set. The word God doesn’t get up when we get up in the morning. God doesn’t tell us.

14:33 You know, last night I protected you from another attack. Last night you know, there was the devil wanted to bring your roof down and kill you all. I protected you.

14:40 He doesn’t say anything, he just keeps on protecting us. But we take it for granted. You know how many things, million things that have saved me.

14:47 But I’m going on the road. He would have protected me from another car just coming and whacking me. And suddenly we see the car go by and we say, thank Jesus Christ.

14:55 Thank Jesus Christ. Because why the Lord could have knocked us. Nothing to do with our driving.

15:00 Something to do with this. The devil tries to do things, but Jesus protects us, but he doesn’t claim credit for it. But we know in our spirit God loves us and he does it.

15:11 Self confidence is destructive. Just like self seeking. Self confidence is destruction.

15:16 Self destruction, God confidence, God seeking. Give glory to God. Because without him you cannot do anything.

15:24 You cannot do. Apart me, you can. Apart from me, you can do nothing.

15:28 What do you mean? So if a person says, and you cannot go and tell this to an unbeliever and say, can you see tomorrow I will come there and see you. By God’s grace, Jesus Christ’s grace, I will see you. The unbeliever will say, what do you mean
you’re not going to turn up? Is it you don’t tell that to the unbeliever.

15:43 But if you tell that to your brother and sister, tomorrow I’ll see you brother, I’ll do this for you. By mercy and grace of Christ. If that man says what you don’t do, then he doesn’t understand scripture.

15:53 Actually he’s still having self confidence. His confidence is in man. Then you have to explain to him all these.

15:58 Give him this segment to read. Please listen to this brother. Because we must say God willing, God’s grace, God’s mercy, Jesus Christ, mercy and grace.

16:06 I will do this for you. Why we want to do. We are trustworthy, but we are not in control.

16:12 There are other elements that we are discounted. The Satan and what we sow, we reap. Oh, I will do, I will do.

16:19 We cannot take up all the issues we are showing in the study, study, study. We’re showing. But the meals you forgot to take nutritious food.

16:28 Suddenly there’s a fever or something. You cannot stop. Didn’t bother to take care of the dangly water in your area.

16:35 You cannot take everything. So therefore self confidence kills you. Because self confidence.

16:40 Okay, I’m so into study, study, study. But you’re not sowing into your health. How are you going to control that at the exam day? Brothers and sisters? Nothing like God.

16:49 Confidence. Have confidence in God, in Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Because everything is under his feet now.

16:56 The name above his name, power of Christ will see you through. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.