Guard against greed & Be a servant

00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 9th March 2016. Guard Against Greed and be a servant. Guard against greed and be a servant.

00:11 We hope we can fear both today and in any case. As the Lord leads. We are not going to be anxious for anything.

00:17 Give thanks in all things. Not anxious for nothing. Be anxious for nothing.

00:17 Give thanks in all things. Be contentment. Contentment with godliness is great gain.

00:27 Brothers and sisters, our heart is treacherously wicked. You better understand it would have changed in many areas. As we begin to deal with our heart in line with the word of God, which is Jesus Christ.

00:40 And as we begin to deal with the Word, with the word of God, with our heart using the word of God, our heart will change many areas and continue to change from glory to glory now. But there are many areas still unchanged or even areas that are
changed. The devil comes along and begins to tempt.

00:58 How are we tempted when we are drawn by our own heart’s desire? Now as I said, some translations will say when we are drawn by our own heart’s evil desire. No such thing. The actual original translation is when we are drawn by our own heart desire,
then temptation comes.

01:16 So temptation just simply cannot come. It will come only when we are drawn by our own heart desire. But the problem here is we all know what our heart is desiring.

01:26 We can only recognize when the temptation begins to come. Because our heart is treacherously, desperately wicked. It’s cunning.

01:35 You will not know. In fact, God says, father God says hearts are desperately wicked or treacherously wicked. Who can know it? Who can know it? It’s telling us.

01:45 You son, you won’t know it. You child of God. You won’t know it.

01:50 Father. God will know it. Because it’s the spirit plane.

01:53 It’s in the spirit world. Whatsoever the heart is, our heart is in this belongs to the spirit plane. Whatever heart desiring and all this our father God will know.

02:03 And of course the devil will know. Because it is also is a spirit being. Now.

02:09 Now the demons will use that to tempt us. They’ll use the world. They use people of the world to tempt us.

02:18 They’ll use advertisement, they’ll use Hollywood, Bollywood, all these things. They’ll tempt us. And the temptation comes.

02:24 Because they already that familiar spirit who has been assigned to us. Whenever we are born, a demon is assigned by Satan to watch us. Now this demon is many years, many thousands of years old.

02:36 So it has gone through many lives. It has brought many lives to hell. So this demon is called A familiar spirit which knows all about us.

02:45 From the day I’m born, it’s following me. And remember it’s a spirit, it’s a spirit. The demon is a spirit.

02:52 So the world operates in the spirit world. So he has got facilities and strength that we don’t have. But now in Christ we have power over him.

03:01 We have power over our heart, we have power over our body. We have power over everything. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

03:08 So brothers and sisters here the title is guard against greed. Now greed. Sometimes people say greed.

03:16 Greed for oh very greed for money. Greed for money. It’s just not money.

03:21 Now others will say greed for food, gluttony, greedy. Just want to eat and eat because the body has fallen into a trap. What’s happened? What has happened nowadays because the world as Jesus Christ already said is ruled by Satan.

03:37 Satan is the ruler of the world or the God of this world. The Bible says. And Satan uses the world to destroy human beings soul.

03:48 His game is his entire objective is to take each one of us to hell. So this is your enemy. Jesus says your enemy Satan your enemy.

04:00 The devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Swallow. So we have an enemy.

04:08 This Satan is not Jesus enemy. He’s no class to be enemy of Jesus Christ. No standing.

04:15 Jesus Christ is a creator. Satan is a created being as a Lucifer is a created as an angel of light. And then finally he rebels and is thrown down with billions of.

04:27 One third of the angels in heaven followed Satan and they became demons. And they are doing this now. They’ve been judged Satan and so don’t.

04:36 And somebody was telling me some time ago that people even felt Satan feel sorry for Satan because you feel compassion for others. Compassion for others. So they felt sorry for Satan.

04:48 No stop this. Satan is the enemy and he has been judged. He has already been judged.

04:54 That means decided. The sentence for him has been decided. He will be thrown into the lake of fire.

05:00 He and his demons will be thrown into the lake of fire. So we have been judged already. We still have a chance because we have not been judged yet.

05:03 So we have been given to now perform according to what Jesus Christ has put us on earth for. And as we do this by the power of Jesus Christ, by the name of Jesus Christ, by the blood of Jesus Christ which could only come from the suffering of Jesus
Christ suffered and spilled blood for us. And then we use them and then we become disciples.

05:31 We become trained, more and more disciplined and then we do his will and then we become co Rulers with him. And then he comes before that he comes and takes us. We are part of his bride.

05:43 He is the husband of our souls. Friends, this is the fantastic thing. Do not throw away this like nothing.

05:50 I don’t want to think about it or not. No, you have eternity. Whatever we are fighting and whatever you are fighting and struggling on earth to gain in all earth, you will have to leave and go.

06:02 If you just go to funerals, you stand there and watch with sadness. People, of course, people who are left behind in that family are crying and heartbroken and all. But also remember the body in the coffin.

06:15 The body in the coffin. The soul has of course left. The soul has left.

06:19 The spirit being has left the body only there. Because all men are destined to die once and thereafter judgment. The Bible says it’s clear the soul has left.

06:32 So the body is there. And everybody think focus on the body. But actually the soul has left.

06:40 If you are in Christ, absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. So we pray each of us are in Christ. And we go to Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters.

06:50 So just look at that. Everything left behind is left behind. You cannot take nothing.

06:56 That is why use whatever we have for the good. According to what the spirit of God is telling us. Use everything we have.

07:03 Not just money. Your talent, your skills, your energy, your time, your thinking, your speaking, everything use. Now supposing greed.

07:17 Greed is just want to collect more and more. If it’s money, you want to collect more and more. That means your hope is in the money.

07:24 The devil will come and steal that. And when that goes, what happens? What is your hope going to be? Your hope is in Christ. Means they cannot steal Christ.

07:34 Your hope in your money. Money can be stolen, but your hope is in Christ. Can the demons kill Christ? No go.

07:40 No way. So our hope is in Christ. And he can do anything and everything.

07:45 Because he is almighty God. Almighty God. Present everywhere, omniscient.

07:53 All knowledge, all thinking, all power. Omnipotent. All powerful.

07:58 No, all. And he is everywhere omniscient. Now brothers and sisters, today examine ourselves.

08:08 Are we greedy for something? Whether it’s food, whether for television. You may be greedy just watching TV after TV after tv, movie after movie after movie. Or some people are interested in games.

08:21 Football game after football game, cricket after cricket, wrestling after wrestling. There’s greed. Greed.

08:29 No. Your heart wants that on and on, more. Greed is simply want to have a lot of lots and lots and lots of the same thing.

08:37 Without any meaning, without any purpose. So just collecting. Are you greed for collector I’m a collector, you say A coin collector or a doll.

08:47 Dolls collector, whatever. Collecting more and more and more. Are you greedy there? So examine what your heart wants to possess and collect more and more and more.

09:00 So now the greed finally becomes an addiction. Greed, lust. It becomes a lust.

09:07 You cannot stop it. You need it. A spirit of lust.

09:10 Catch you lust for money, lust for things of the world, lust for movies, lust for television, lust for food, lust. Finally it becomes an addiction, it becomes a lust. And you cannot stop it.

09:22 Because your body is craving for it, the heart is craving for it. And when you don’t, you might have so much. And yet the next one you don’t collect.

09:31 You feel that you are lost. You feel you are lost. You need more greed.

09:36 Lust for drinks, for alcohol, for cigarettes. It’s a greed. The body wants more and more and more.

09:43 It becomes greed. So you say, God against all forms of greed. He says, watch out and guard yourself.

09:51 Luke 12:15. Watch out and guard yourself against every form of greed. For not even when one has an overflowing abundance does his life consist or nor is it derived from his possession.

10:04 Your existence is not derived, does not flow from your possession. Your life flows from Christ, from Jesus Christ, the creator of heaven and earth. So when you have this, you can overcome this greed, you can overcome this lust, you can overcome this
addiction.

10:22 But you have to go through a withdrawal. You have to go through a withdrawal, trusting Christ. You will lock yourself in or you every time will turn away.

10:30 And whatever causes man to sin, cut it off. He says, if your right hand causes you to sin, cut your hand, he says, telling you how serious it is. The guy is causing you to sin, pluck your eye out.

10:42 Now, the thing is, it’s an example he’s giving. He’s not saying, I expect you to cut your hand all off. Now listen to this.

10:48 Don’t go around doing this. Some teachings are there. It’s not God wants you to be able to overcome sin.

10:55 He said, cut off the thing, but use it as a hand or eye to let you know the seriousness, to let us know the seriousness of this sin. So if your television is causing sin, you cannot stop, unplug the television, finish, give it away, put it away in
somebody else has stopped for a while, for two, three weeks. And force yourself to.

11:17 No television. If your thing is, let’s say, collecting dolls, dolls stop buying. Don’t go near there.

11:25 Get rid of all the toys, get away all the dolls. If it is wrestling after wrestling, you got video after video on this. Get rid of all the videos, why you know your soul has been stolen already.

11:39 Overcome this, overcome, brothers and sisters. Greed is a killer. It kills our soul.

11:46 It kills our existence on earth. It kills us from doing the work of God which will stand for eternity. We cannot produce fruits, we cannot produce, produce things that can last for eternity.

12:02 All our works will be destroyed because these are works of the devil. So therefore, anything that catches us, anything that has a form of a greed, a lust is growing. You cut it off in the name of Jesus Christ.

12:15 You begin to think about it, you begin to repent, you begin to confess, you begin to tell another disciple, help me, I have this problem. First, the act of humility. Act of humility.

12:27 Humility is the most important thing in Christ. And then in act of humility, everything will come. That’s why the next word is we are trying to deal with be a servant, lead by you being a servant.

12:40 He says in Matthew 20:26, he said, it is not this way among you, because the Gentiles will lord over the others. Lording over the others. Jesus Christ telling, don’t this be your way.

12:52 Don’t be lording over people. You are the boss. Oh, you are the pastor, so you are the boss.

12:58 Yes. Everybody will respect you or something because you are serving them. Or if you are lording over them, they will also get fed up eventually.

13:06 Now, if they do not know any better because they illiterate or do not know the word of God, they will shout out to you or bow to you and say, yeah, you are the greatest and all that, but your soul will be lost. Jesus will punish you for this kind of
things. First, humble yourself now.

13:22 He says, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant. So if any one of us, pastors, servants, elders, want to be great in the eyes of God, we shall be the servant of all. Whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your
slave.

13:40 He says, willing and humble. Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served by, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many the paying the price to set them free from the penalty of sin. Brothers and sisters, Jesus did not come to be
served, but to serve.

13:59 And we are supposed to be like Jesus. So we learn to serve each of the. In the congregation of the minister, I say, look, you have to serve.

14:07 You don’t come to congregation to be served, you come to serve. And as each one serves, everybody is settled. Why everyone coming with the attitude of serving others, thinking of others, they come to serve.

14:20 When they begin to Serve. Each one is serving. Everyone is served already.

14:25 Everyone is helped. Not only in just the food they bring, in the health situation, the soul situation. First in the spirit situation, to give them peace, joy, righteousness, to make sure they’re not oppressed, depressed, no sin issue.

14:39 So the serving people to make them out of bondages, out of captivity. We have to serve so humble ourselves to be servant. If you want to be great, you have to be a servant.

14:51 The, the spirit world is the Jesus world is entirely upside down than the world, you know, the world you got to be boss, put on an act, put on a jacket and three piece suit and command this and command that. But in the spirit world, in where Jesus
had decided, that is how the devil got duped. The devil thought we killed Jesus off, but they didn’t know the plan of God is opposite what the world will think, what the devil thinks.

15:17 By dying, Jesus gives life to all. Jesus gets life for himself. And Jesus Christ gives life to all by dying.

15:26 But Satan thought by killing him off, it’s over, they win. It’s by dying Jesus won. Can you imagine? This is how it was.

15:34 By dying Jesus Christ wins for us, we by serving. We win by serving. By being a slave, humble to all, thinking of others, all the time thinking of others.

15:45 You see your life prosper more and more. By caring for others, you see your life prosper more and more. But if you keep on caring for yourself, no, I must do for myself.

15:54 That is before we came to Jesus Christ. Why? We have no protector, we have nothing. We didn’t know the Creator.

16:00 So we are looking for the Creator to help. We are looking for ourselves to help ourselves. And there will be false logic to say God only helps those who help themselves.

16:09 That’s a lie of the devil. God helps those who go to him, Jesus helps those who go to him. If we can help ourselves, then you don’t need Jesus, isn’t it? We need Jesus.

16:20 So the rule of God only helps those who help themselves is a false thing. The doctrine of demons. So we remember.

16:28 To serve, to be great, to be successful in life, to be blessed in life. You think of serving all the time to others. Help them, care for them and in the process Jesus will take care of you.

16:40 So to be the greatest among you, first among you must be a slave. Brothers and sisters, now let’s do this. To prosper in life, you be a servant.

16:50 You be a servant and get rid of any form of greed and lust. In Jesus Christ’s name I pray. Amen.