00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today, the Power of Christ Daily 24th February 2016 Love your enemies and be perfect. Love your enemies and be perfect. Brothers and sisters, I’m led to put the title of the commandment here
because it’s easier to search.

00:20 Instead of saying part one, part two, 50 commandments of Christ, part one, part two, or whatever, it’s harder to search years later, months later, whatever. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today, love your enemies and be
perfect.

00:32 This is a commandment of Christ and It is from Matthew 5, 44, 48. I’ll be reading now, brothers and sisters again. 44 But I say to you, this is who is saying this? Jesus Christ of Nazareth is saying this.

00:46 The husband of my soul is saying this. The one who loves him so much, the one who created me is saying this. The one who died and rose again for me is saying this.

00:57 The Alpha and Omega is saying this. The Ancient of Days is saying this. That I am.

01:03 That I am is saying this. The I am. That I am is saying this.

01:07 The I am, Brothers and sisters, you are talking about who is saying this? If you take a moment to reflect and see, it’s the Ancient of Delis, the lion of Judah, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the husband of my soul, the one who is coming back
on a white horse to have vengeance against all evil. He is saying this, love your enemies and be perfect. But let’s see how he said it.

01:31 But you must take this attitude of reverence. Reverence, brothers and sisters. Therefore many people are not reverence because they’ve been taught like that Jesus is your friend.

01:39 Jesus is your friend. All that is not true when Jesus says he’s your friend. Yes, but if Jesus Christ has not said he’s your friend, better understand this.

01:47 I’m a servant. As far as I’m concerned, I’m still a servant. Yes.

01:51 I’ve not heard him say he’s my friend, so I cannot say that. If he says that, I will tell you. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth, brothers and sisters.

01:59 But I say to you, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is saying, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. 44 and love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. And love here is unselfishly seeking the best, a higher good for your
enemies.

02:17 That’s how the amplified here is defining it. After taking the meaning from the Hebrew and the Greek, unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for your enemies. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of
your Father.

02:35 Children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good and on. And makes the rain fall on the righteous, those who are morally upright and the unrighteous, the unrepentant, those who
oppose him.

02:51 Now let’s just take a moment of that one. So that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. So love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven.

03:07 This is an easy route to become children of the Father in heaven. How we love our enemies. That means unselfishly seeking the best and higher good for the enemies.

03:17 And pray for those who persecute you, people who win against you. Pray for them so that you may be. And you show yourself to be in bracket.

03:26 It says, show yourself to be children of your Father who is in heaven. That means you do this. Even the enemies will see.

03:33 They’ll be seeing you that, hey, they are different. They are not turning evil by evil. They’re not attacking me.

03:40 I did all kinds of things. These people are not. They’re actually doing what is good for me.

03:45 So that you may be children of your Father, sons of the Most High God. So that you will be the sons of the Most High God. And while your Father, he makes the sun rise on those who are evil and on those who are good, and also makes the rain fall on
the righteous, those who are morally upright, that is through Christ.

04:04 Our righteousness is from Christ. Our own righteousness is like filthy rags. And the unrighteous, that is unrepentant those who oppose God.

04:13 46. If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do that. If you love only those who love you, what reward do you have? Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the word of God.

04:29 In fact, Jesus Christ himself is speaking this to the people and telling, if you only love those who love you, what reward do you have? That is why our reward comes by loving those who don’t love us. In fact, that may be persecuting us. In fact,
they may be doing things to us, but we love them.

04:47 Then we have great reward in heaven and we be sons of the Most High God. And he’s asking, do not even the tax collectors do that? That means the fellows who collect taxes and all consider very bad their doors because they cheat them, they collect
more taxes than necessary, they abuse them, they. They Collect bribes, they force them to pay a ransom.

05:05 And all this story, more if not I take action against you. And all that. It goes on even now, all over the world, in all kinds of forms.

05:14 And yet he’s commanding us. Look here, he says, if you love only those who love you, even those such collectors love only those who love them, so what good is this? What is the reward for you? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you
doing? In bracket amplified says, wishing them God’s blessing and peace. What more than others are you doing? Jesus Christ is saying, if you greet only your brothers and sisters, wishing them God blessing and peace.

05:43 Greeting means they are wishing them God blessing and peace. What more than others are you doing? Do not even the Gentiles who do not know the Lord do that. Do not even the unbelievers do that.

05:54 You therefore will be perfect both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life as your Heavenly Father is perfect. Most translations will say, therefore you will be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect. So by
loving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us, we will not only be children of the Most High God as sons of the Most High God, but we will also be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

06:24 This is in 48, that is 5,48, but let me read the bracket there. The explanation from the Hebrew and the Greek text, how amplified is condensed. Perfect is growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character.

06:40 Both in mind and character. Actively integrating godly values into your daily life. That’s what the perfection is talking about.

06:40 Both in mind and character, actively spiritual maturity and growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life. Brothers and sisters, let’s condense this Love your enemies and pray for
those who persecute you. You’ll be sons of the Most High God.

07:10 That is what is love. Unselfishly seeking the best or higher good for your enemy, not returning evil for evil. Now why your Father God also pours the rain on the unrighteous and also pours the rain on the righteous.

07:25 Your Father God, bless the sun rise for those who are evil. Also your Father God provides the basic love, provides for them. Now then, the question Jesus is asking even the tax collectors, they love only those who love them.

07:45 What’s the difference between you and me? He says, son Priscilla, what’s the difference between you? And then if you only love those who love you? And then he goes on to say, if you only bless those who are brethren, brothers and Sisters in Christ,
what more than them are you doing? Even the unbeliever do that unbeliever over that. They bless their own people. They only bless those who love them, are those who are their own brothers and sisters.

08:13 What’s the difference? He says so we have to be different. If we do this, if we bless those who do not bless us, if we bless those who are outside the family of Christ and our own people. If you bless those and if you love those and our reward is in
heaven, not only our reward is heaven, but will be perfect.

08:36 How perfect. How growing into spiritual maturity, both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your whole daily life as your heavenly Father is perfect. Brothers and sisters, let me dwell on some examples what happened to me.

08:50 And I’m telling these examples make it clear. I couldn’t have done it. I didn’t do it.

08:58 So I’ll tell you how it was done. Because it was Jesus Christ who done it for me. Because there’s a scripture after.

09:05 Later only I came to know. It was in Galatians 2:20, I think it says that now that I’m crucified in Christ, I now live because Christ liveth in me. I now live as Christ liveth in me.

09:21 It’s Christ who does this. I cannot do this. It’s Christ who does this.

09:26 Brothers and sisters, you may understand the scripture that what clearly is actually Galatians 2:20. I have been crucified with Christ, but it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh.

09:43 I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me. Brothers and sisters, remember this. I again telling you I’m going to give you some examples, remarkable examples, what happened to me.

09:59 But I could not have done it. It was not I who was doing it. It was Christ who lives in me was doing it.

10:05 But there’s only one thing I was doing. I was thinking about Christ. And that also it all the time in my spirit.

10:12 Because Jesus Christ keeps coming all the time in my spirit, after I’ve accepted Jesus Christ. And all the time I’m thinking of his suffering. He suffered on the cross like that for me.

10:20 He gave me peace. He gave me peace. And I did all kinds of things, four letter words against him.

10:25 And all that yet he has taken me. Come unto me and I shall give you rest. And I was having the peace.

10:30 I know peace for years, you know, for years. And then after that, peace, peace. And I also am thinking peace so whenever I do something automatically in my spirit, I don’t want to do anything against Christ.

10:44 I was not thinking anybody, I was not thinking of people I want to do to please Jesus Christ. And as I was thinking like this, it changed. For instance, one of the things that changed was I was a foul mouthful, remember I was foul mouthed.

10:58 Every few words would be folded words, very filthy words. They were worse than a sailor, they would say. And then there was drunkenness, there was violence, of course, there was adultery, sexual immorality and all that going on.

11:14 Yet the day, a couple of few days later a staff told me, boss, you’re not talking four letter words already. Then I quickly ran to him, look at the concordance and search. He went to the bookshop and started looking.

11:30 Then when I decided to buy the concordance, I realized I need this. Although it was costly even that time it was 100 over ringgit. I think now.

11:38 See, so now we can get you all the Internet free presence itself. Those days you got to buy the tick books now. The tick books are now not using because I’m using Internet searches now.

11:48 I put one tick concordance as a stand for some other item on it. Brothers and sisters now they said. So what happened? The Bible stopped, you know, Stopped.

12:01 Why? When Jesus. When I started reading the concordance, check. This is the way.

12:06 Finally I found that he takes control of my tongue for his will now. For Jesus will. So I’m not doing it right.

12:12 So that’s why I’m encouraging him now by telling my example. I’m telling you it is done by him. You only have to meditate on him.

12:19 You have to think of the suffering. You don’t want to grieve him anymore. You don’t want to grieve anymore.

12:25 You’re only thinking of him every day. Get up. Think of Jesus Christ.

12:28 Lord, you save me. Make me do your will. Make me be a blessing to others.

12:32 Make me not blaspheme your name. Let me not insult your name by my conduct. Make me do things so people know I’m a person, I’m a child, I’m a son of the Most High God.

12:44 I start thinking of this, I must be yours, Lord. I must be yours. I don’t want to do anything that people think, why I act like this now, then it changes, you know, before I can do something, the Holy Spirit.

12:55 I didn’t know it was the Holy Spirit. The Word would come into my heart and say, don’t do this, don’t do this. I just blood of that time.

13:01 I don’t know blood of Jesus. I say, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Lord, Lord, help me.

13:04 Help me. And walk away. Now, can you imagine that is how it will be changed? For instance, the people who have done things against me, just finally I stopped because I’m suing them for what damage I’ve done.

13:15 It was lots and lots of damage. So in court. And of course they know I was violent and all.

13:22 So this one particular man. So I was walking in the court, I was walking with him. I didn’t feel anger anymore.

13:26 I didn’t feel hatred. I didn’t feel bitterness. I only felt pity for him, that he doesn’t know Christ.

13:33 So I decided to walk towards him. And I, walking towards him, he took a couple of steps back because he knows maybe I’m coming there whacking maybe, you know, because I’m so violent. So then he realized, this man realized that, you know, I’ve
changed so much.

13:48 So the same man telling others later, some months later, he become like, you know, he follows Christ. And you all go and see him if you got some issues. And I heard he can cast out evil spirit.

14:02 Can you imagine? Can you imagine? So brothers and sisters. And somebody came and told me that. I said, yeah, I thought everybody can cast out in Jesus Christ’s name only.

14:12 Isn’t it so, brothers and sisters? Now then, what’s happened? My enemy recognizes that I’m different. How this happens, how this happens is this from inside. The spirit of God will change you.

14:29 Because you’re thinking of Jesus Christ. You’re thinking how he suffered for you. You’re thinking how you messed up.

14:34 You’re thinking what wrong you have done. Now what has happened is you’ll be perfect, right? This perfect business has become some nonsense. Nowadays, for instance, there are communications.

14:44 There are churches that teach you. Come, your face will change. Your nose, your crooked nose.

14:48 You’re unhappy with your nose. God will give you a changed nose, a beautiful nose. The scripture is clear.

14:54 It’s not your inner beauty. It’s not your outer beauty. It’s not the adorning of.

15:02 It’s not adorning of yourself. Adorning a D O r N I n g adorning of yourself. It’s not a braided hair.

15:09 It’s not how you comb your hair. It’s not how you put on the clothes, what clothes you put on. It’s the inner beauty, the inner beauty that comes from the spirit of an incorruptible man.

15:21 It is inner beauty of an incorruptible man. What is inner beauty of incorruptible man. Because you are a spirit being that has become beautiful when that becomes beautiful inside.

15:31 Because the spirit of God has given you life. That is righteous spirit, because God’s spirit gave you life. Jesus Christ gave you life.

15:39 So you are a spirit being that becomes more and more beautiful because you are thinking of Christ. You are doing as Christ wants because. But that must now control our heart.

15:48 Our heart is treacherously decayed. Now, as we begin to do this, people are drawn to you because inside your chains you are. A light comes out of you.

15:57 People want to be near you. And this is one of the problems. I tell the girls in the church, young girls, I say, careful.

16:03 When people come near you, boys come near you, they’re drawn to you not because of your outer beauty. They’ll be drawn to you simply because the spirit of God inside there, they feel comfortable with you. But you must be careful.

16:15 You must now fall into being sorry for them, pity for them, and then finally you fall into a trap. Don’t do that. You better understand.

16:21 They’re drawn to you not because of your outer beauty, but because of the inner beauty of the incorruptible man that Jesus Christ has given you. You are perfect. You’re perfect.

16:31 First of all, your spirit man is perfect. And more and more you control your heart and mind by Jesus name because Jesus controls it for you. The Christ in you controls it for you.

16:39 You are changing. You are changing. He is changing you.

16:43 This encouragement, my brothers and sisters, Jesus will change you as you meditate and focus on his word. Brothers and sisters, today is a wonderful day to know this. And then you say, in the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to
crave for Jesus Christ.

16:56 Want Jesus Christ and do his will. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.