00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 10 December 2015 Fear false customs and self discipline. Fear false customs and self discipline. Yesterday, brothers and sisters, this word came out rebuke.

00:19 Actually there’s no such word I picked up because I’ve been ministering to all kinds of people and some abusing this and some are sitting in my spirit deep there and it came out in my mind and maybe between a rebuke and a correction becomes a rebuke
and I think so I observed later and check and see what this. And there is a word rebuke and it doesn’t mean what we are trying to say. It’s some kind of prayer or something.

00:43 Praise Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters. Now that is why very simple, I remind myself, if I think I know something, I do not know anything as yet. I as I ought to know that’s God’s word.

00:56 And I have to follow this for myself. I’ve been doing this from the time I came to know this Word of God. I remind myself again and again if I think I’m something, when I’m nothing, I deceive myself.

01:07 So brothers and sisters do not follow man, including me, when I show scriptures and all that. You go to God, you go to Jesus Christ, you ask him, the Holy Spirit, teacher of all things, teach you. But sometimes you have to be careful also because
your mind may be speaking to you, your heart may be speaking to you, your flesh desires may be speaking to you.

01:28 And the world would have put all this in you and you begin to believe God spoke to you. Don’t you have to. It must match with the Word of God.

01:35 If it doesn’t match with the Word of God, God is certainly not speaking to you on that one. According to what you are believing, you have to listen to the Word of God. Now if you cannot, if you are unable to follow the Word of God, return and you
are trying to say, and somebody says they interpret it this way and that way they are interpreting the Word of God.

01:52 I have a rule for myself and I’ve taught this to others for more than decades now that take the harder route because the road is narrow. Jesus says the road is narrow. So therefore take the harder route.

02:10 Harder route means that harder to the flesh, whatever is harder to the flesh, that is the better route. That is a better safe way. Take the harder route.

02:18 Anything the flesh. And then people are telling you things, logic, you know, they’re using big swelling words. As I said, Bible says bombastic words.

02:26 They’ll Tell you this way, that way, and nothing but. You take the simplicity of the gospel, read it as it is. You settle in your spirit.

02:33 And then if you confuse, take the harder route to the flesh, harder thing that the flesh doesn’t want, take that route. God will bless you. Even when you are wrong, God will bless you.

02:43 Why? Your intention is to do the right thing, to pick up your cross, to pick up your cross and walk daily. He will bless you because he said, my child. Is my child believing that I said this to her or they said this to him.

02:57 I will settle because my child obeying me, thinking I have said this, and he will intervene and settle it for you. I have experienced this love and the goodness and the mercy of Jesus Christ. Whenever I am doing things, believing that what God told,
and I begin to believe, truly believe, and I’m taking the harder route, I’m taking the difficult route in the interpretation.

03:20 I’ve been always blessed. It never let me down. And I’m sure there are many in the congregation who also enjoyed this privilege of taking the harder route.

03:31 And Jesus sees them through. Take the harder route, take the narrow road. Brothers and sisters, there are few scriptures that we have to concentrate on today.

03:39 Yesterday we talked about not everything is beneficial. Today we are talking, reminding ourselves on this thing on second Timothy 1:7. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear.

03:50 This is not amplified. He did not give us a spirit of fear. Spirit of fear.

03:54 Fear is from the devil. Spirit of fear is an evil spirit. He did not give us a spirit of fear, timidity or cowardice.

04:00 But he has given us a spirit of power. Spirit of power, of love. Spirit of love and spirit of sound mind.

04:08 Spirit of sound judgment. Oh, spirit of sound mind and personal discipline. Personal discipline.

04:16 Self control is given us a spirit of self control, Personal discipline or self discipline. Now, brothers and sisters, this is an important thing to follow. He’s given us this already.

04:26 Now, whether we apply or not, then it’s our choice whether we want to follow Jesus Christ this way or not. And always our heart wouldn’t want to do this. Now, many times, this false custom, somehow we follow because of fear.

04:37 What people will say, what my neighbor will say, what my brother will say, what my sister will say, what my mother, father, brother, sister, husband, wife, all kinds, my son, all kinds of things. Just fear, you know, Let me tell you. Oh no, I don’t
fear pastor, actually.

04:54 But they will get upset. I don’t want to upset them. I want to love all just fear.

04:59 Brother and sister, you better first please Jesus Christ. What Jesus Christ will say what Jesus Christ has already said, what Jesus Christ has already written it down for you and me. You be willing to follow that first.

05:14 So don’t think of all the other people first. Think of the husband of your soul, the one who will finally judge you, the one who’s supposed to save you. Because in the one who suffered for you, to save you, the one you’re going to meet absent from
the body, to be present with the Lord.

05:28 That one. The one that I am, that I am. That one.

05:32 The Alpha and the Omega, the ancient of days, that one. The name is Jesus Christ. You better think about what he will.

05:41 Are you pleasing him now? Then anything and others are saying, you’re considering that when it’s opposite to what he has said, then your fear of man, that’s called fear of man. You say no fear, but actually fear of man. You don’t have fear of God.

05:54 You do not love Jesus Christ. You are actually more concerned with what these people say. But they are human beings.

06:00 You love them, but they are confused. I was confused. Yeah.

06:05 I can love human beings in the way I write, but I must love human beings according to God’s command. Love your neighbor as yourself, willing to give your life for one another as disciples. As he has loved us, he gave his life for us.

06:17 Let’s love like that now, brothers and sisters. So do not get confused or do not. Jesus said, do not deceive yourself yesterday.

06:26 Scripture says, now, do not deceive yourself. Because he has washed us clean. He doesn’t want any blemish in us, doesn’t want a spot in us.

06:33 He has washed us clean with his own blood. And then if we go continue practicing those things, he says, you are born of the devil. You’re really not born of God.

06:40 Because you’re born of God, you stop practicing. You may fall into such sin because of sudden blow, sudden temptation, sudden weakness. But immediately there will be a conviction.

06:50 Immediately there’s a conviction. You’ll be shaken up by the Holy Spirit. You say, sorry Lord.

06:54 Sorry Lord. And then you begin to rectify, restitute, settle things. But if you are practicing like Tatida apa, that means no care in the world, no care in the world, don’t care.

06:54 And then you go about your life without considering what he has written down. Then you have to ask yourself, are you a false, counterfeit Christian? Brothers and sisters, don’t. That’s why when we follow customs and we are unable to break free, you
have to Use the power of Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus Christ.

07:23 You have to start using in the name of Jesus, commanding your heart and mind to break free from all this. Now brothers, this is. There’s another scripture that says, you know, a little leaven, a little yeast, a little yeast will leaven the whole
dough.

07:36 That means little falsehood will finally make everything fall suitable. And you won’t know because in creep into us, the world will creep into it. That’s why.

07:45 Oh this Pastor Chrissy Lutz, he very fancy. He said this one, no blemish. Go for pure, holy.

07:52 That’s his word. That’s his word. And we don’t do it by our strength.

07:57 We do it by the power of Jesus Christ. I’m not telling, I want you to do now get everything right here. Brothers, I’m not forcing anyone here to do anything.

08:06 I’m not telling you you must do. I’m just reading the scriptures and showing you and reasoning with you from the scriptures. Now you have to decide in the spirit.

08:15 You have to decide because finally each of us have to answer directly to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Now if I don’t teach you this, I will of course have to answer this to Jesus Christ of Nazareth saying, son, I showed you all this. To whom much is
given, much more is expected.

08:31 He says so he expects a lot from me because much has been given to me. And to whom much is forgiven, he loves much. Meaning I’ve been forgiven much.

08:42 You all know all kinds of sinners. Go and read my story in graceoflife.com you know how much sinning I was doing. I was a great sinner and he has forgiven me all that.

08:50 Who he has forgiven much, loves much. He says that means I end up without me realizing, I end up loving more. It’s not by my will because I want to love, it just happens.

09:02 Because his law is coming to work, his word is coming to bear fruit. He has forgiven much and automatically he makes me love much. He has given me much, he expects me much more.

09:16 Whom he has given much, much more is expected out of him. So I have to do this. Now you please use yourself, use your God given sound mind, self discipline and go for sin.

09:28 For Jesus Christ. I sometimes use the example, take a long Olympic sized swimming pool. You take Olympic sized swimming pool and somebody takes a tablespoon or teaspoon of human waste, human waste, human dung, and throws it at one end of the pool,
in the shallow end, you are at the deepest end.

09:44 There you will jump out. Once you knew that this rubbish has gone inside here. The waste has gone inside you.

09:49 You will jump out there. You won’t drink the water there. Although it’s a long sight, it takes a long while for it to diffuse and come there and now slowly, but you will not.

09:56 And for God, trying to imagine, we’re trying to imagine in my miniscule mind that sins like that, for God, it’s abomination. Why after he has given his son to die for us, we still do this? Cannot, brother. Cannot, cannot.

10:09 Now I’m going to read a scripture from Jeremiah 10:1 4. Before that, you see here, my father was in the. Was in World War II.

10:19 He was about 20 years old. He was working here and the Japanese came and all that. Now after he tells us the World War II story.

10:26 Yes, and I hear from other of his friends who are there also. Now, after a while, his generation passes away and I will take and tell the story to my children or whatever. And in fact I forget now.

10:36 There’s only. We are only something like 75 years or 70 years away from World War II. And we already got all kinds of mixture or rubbish coming in.

10:46 Knowledge is missing all that, unless they refer to some history books. But history books also has been polluted and changed according to the victor. The victor, the winners, they say, will write their own history books.

10:59 So we do not know whether this whole thing is true or not. But generally we know there was atrocities and all that going on and then how they suffered. War means suffering, suffering.

11:09 We don’t want any war. But war will come because Jesus said there will be war and rumors of wars and so. But he will see us through.

11:15 Okay, so let’s not get frightened with the wars. If it’s going to happen, you and I can’t stop it. We only go to Jesus Christ to see us through, brothers and sisters.

11:23 That is why when Jesus was walking on the earth, it’s only a few hundred years later when Constantine came into the picture. He started introducing so many other things after that and began a lot of worldly things entered there. But it’s 3, 400
years, 330 years or something.

11:41 Constantine came after Christ. You’re talking about 300 years, 70 years from the World War II. We can’t remember now.

11:48 300 odd years. You think people will remember? They will just continue doing what people are telling them. So the truth is where it was written earlier, nearest to the resurrection, nearest to when Jesus, that’s the apostles, the disciples are
written there and then there are.

12:04 And some of the books occur thousand, two thousand three Thousand years before Christ was written. So we rather look at those books than human customs. Human customs are falsehood.

12:15 Now what he says in Jeremiah 10:1 4. Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you. I’m reading the Catholic version.

12:16 Jeremiah 10:1 4. Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you. That means to me.

12:26 Thus says the Lord, do not learn the way of the nations. That means, do not learn the way of the unbelievers. Or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens.

12:36 For the nations are dismayed at them. That is awe. Or be dismayed.

12:40 Today we’re not discussing the dismay in the sight of the heavens. I mean the blood moon, this and that. We are not talking about that.

12:47 Do not learn the way of the nation. Do not follow them. Do not learn them.

12:50 3. For the customs of the peoples are false, are false, are false. A little falsehood in us finally will change our whole life.

13:00 We’ll end up doing false things and other things and we don’t even realize. That’s why when I came to the Lord, I said, walls, black object, etc. For the castles of the peoples are false.

13:11 A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of an artisan. People deck it with silver and gold. They fasten it with hammer and nails and so that it cannot move.

13:22 He said, do not follow this. They are false. Now at the same time, another further scripture says, it’s like a scarecrow.

13:29 The tree is like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch. We cannot talk at this and that. Then when I read this, my son, that time was five years or six years old.

13:36 I went to him and other children, the elder children, the elder two girls. Very happy that I’ve changed, you know. That’s all.

13:42 They are so grateful. The third son and the fourth that a bit younger. This, this last fellow was six boy.

13:49 And I told him, son, Papa was doing all kinds wrong before. I don’t have any more faults in our lives anymore. Anything false, I don’t want to touch.

13:58 We just want to go to the truth. Are you willing to give up his peace and all that? He was willing to. So I went with Chak, huh, Chak now in Jesus Christ.

14:07 Thank Jesus, there was nothing I said. Everybody forgot about it. Now brother and sisters here, so you will say, oh, this fella now become religious.

14:13 He want me to use rich. Want me to cut the tree. No, no, no.

14:16 Now remember this. It’s a big, huh? Almost 1 billion US dollar worth. 4 billion ringgit worth of actual natural Trees are cut down in the US for this purpose about another 500 million.

14:30 That means US$2 billion worth in Europe and all. It’s all over. You’re talking about four and two, six, about seven, eight billion US dollars worth of trees.

14:40 Actual trees are cut down and used for this. They will again grow and use and grow and use over India, you know, big time business. Six billion.

14:48 And then they have ringgit. Ringgit. Six billion.

14:50 Seven billion. Ringgit. Six, seven.

14:53 Yeah, seven, eight billion, maybe even eight billion. Then false trees made of plastic made from the petroleum. You know, that’s another, I think two or three times more all over the world.

15:02 So you’re talking about another 2.5, 3.5 or 4? 4.

15:06 4 times 4, 16. You’re talking about 20 over billion. Ringgit of money is spent every year.

15:13 Now the green trees, green trees, fellas. No, save the trees, save the trees. They’ll come this side of Malaysia and say don’t cut the trees.

15:19 And all your stories. Here they allow themselves to cut 6, $7 billion worth of trees are grown and cut every year. If they didn’t cut it the last 10, 20 years, can you imagine how green the place will be? But no, nobody is stopping there.

15:33 Why the green fellows are not bothered about this? Because it’s from Satan, it’s from the world, it’s a way of the world. And God is saying don’t follow this now. And it’s foolish.

15:42 And why do we cut a tree and do this? And he said, silver and gold, that’s Christmas tree. But even that time people don’t listen. Now brothers and sisters.

15:50 And then maybe this one game for children. We put present under there. The children go and kneel down there to collect their presents, right? Maybe it’s a way for our children to be getting accustomed to kneeling in front of a tree.

16:02 I do not know brothers and sisters. That is why I don’t want any falsehood. Now you have to design for yourself.

16:07 Now brothers and sisters, there’s another scripture, because time running out. But he says, you know, one scripture says, Luke 14, 13, 14. I too have failed many times on this.

16:17 So I’m not putting myself in a pedestal. Luke 14, 13, 14. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you’ll be blessed because they cannot repay you.

16:28 And you shall be repaid as the resurrection of just. Brothers and sisters, if we take these monies that you are putting on this thing, if you take this money and just of course you can’t bring people to the house, to the feast nowadays. Because
crooks will come along, thieves will come along.

16:44 Give it somewhere. Help the poor, help the blind. Help this.

16:47 Wouldn’t you think we’re more blessed? And your children grow in that kind of form? Give. Luke 14. Give.

16:54 But we do decrease. Brothers and sisters, you decide. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray, amen.