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Scriptures Referenced
43. Await my return—Matthew 24:42-44
Matthew 24:42-44 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Be Ready for His Coming
42 “So be alert [give strict attention, be cautious and active in faith],
for you do not know which day [whether near or far]
your Lord is coming.
43 But understand this: If the head of the house had known
what time of the night the thief was coming,
he would have been on the alert and would not have
allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore, you [who follow Me] must also be ready;
because the Son of Man is coming at an hour when
you do not expect Him.
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Render unto Caesar—Matthew 22:19-21
Matthew 22:19-21 Amplified Bible (AMP)
19 Show me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him
a denarius [a day’s wage].
20 And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”
21 They said, “[[a]The Emperor Tiberius] Caesar’s.”
Then He said to them, “Then pay to Caesar the things
that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”
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17 And these signs will accompany those who believe:
by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the
proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves. Do you not yourselves realize and
know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—
unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily. 11 March 2016. Render unto Caesar and await my return.
00:12 Await my return. Brothers and sisters, today the power of prayer. Daily there are two topics.
00:15 Render unto Caesar and the next topic. Await my return. We don’t know how much we can cover.
00:20 As the Lord leads always. Righteousness, peace and joy. Righteousness, peace and joy.
00:25 When I get up this morning, last night you should have examined yourself already. In fact, by now, those of you are sometime getting the power of Christ daily and listening and employing it, engaging it, using the word of God, turning to Christ in
everything you will already know. The Holy Spirit will convict you when you are doing some sin or going towards sin, because the Holy Spirit has sealed you for the day of salvation.
00:51 That is what the Bible says. So long as we want to follow Jesus, he is merciful. He loves you.
00:59 Now, that is still our want or not. It’s our choice. Brothers and sisters, we have examined ourselves and let’s look at it today.
01:06 Render unto Caesar. Brothers and sisters, this is in Matthew 22, verse 19 to 21. Matthew 22.
01:18 Show me the coin. This is a situation whereby they said they were questioning Jesus about money, you know, paying taxes, taxes. Showed me the coin used for the poll tax.
01:32 And they brought him a denarius, a day’s wage. That means, can you imagine one coin, a gold coin denarius is a day’s wage. And Jesus said to them, whose likeness and inscription is in this? They said, the Emperor Tiberius Caesar.
01:49 They say, Caesar, Caesar. At the time, Caesar. Caesar is the title, you know, like the king.
01:55 So at that time, Caesar was Emperor Tiberius. Then he said to them, then pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And to God the things that are God’s.
02:08 Brothers and sisters, then pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. Here is a very clear indication. When we follow Jesus Christ, the command says, obey the laws of the nation.
02:20 Obey. Obey the law of nations. Only time we cannot.
02:24 When they say, don’t follow Jesus or don’t obey Jesus, we cannot. Then by mercy we pray we are not persecuted. But if we are persecuted by mercy of Christ, we take it.
02:35 We have to take it. When they hang in there, knowing fully well our home is heaven, we are not citizens of this world. We are pilgrims.
02:43 So, brothers and sisters, today remember this obeying the laws of the land is critical. There are many who think they can just do whatever they want just because they follow Jesus. Not true.
02:54 Jesus didn’t say this. Even taxes, there are two types in the accounting world. They’ll tell you tax evasion and tax avoidance.
03:05 Tax evasion is when you evade, you don’t want to pay at all, you hide your income and all that. Let’s not do this. Why? Now you see, you think the authorities may not know.
03:16 But remember, the devil knows, God knows, and Jesus Christ already told you clearly, pay unto Caesar. What is Caesar’s. Whatever taxes are supposed to pay, you have to pay.
03:26 You’re trying to avoid. Oh, you say the tax too much. They should not be charging me so much.
03:31 All that may be true even in many countries, but it’s still the law. It’s still the law until the law is changed. You have to obey.
03:40 Now, if you cannot, then you ask Christ for more income to pay these taxes. And two, you can ask Jesus to get you out of the country to some other country where life is different or whatever. But this is all only Jesus can do for you.
03:55 We do not use our own mind and begin to make a decision and say, okay, I’m not happy with the taxes, so I will just evade the tax laws. Then the devil, knowing this, you have given him a foothold, he’ll come in and steal from you. The time is that
you’re not bothered by taxes.
04:12 He can steal anything from you. When you allow the devil a foothold, he can steal anything from you. He can steal your life, he can steal your health, he can steal your.
04:22 He can cause accidents. He can do all kinds of things. Why you have allowed the.
04:28 Jesus said, the devil, your enemy. Your enemy. The devil walks about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may swallow, you, may devour.
04:36 Swallow. So now we are giving the devil a foothold. So therefore, please, please, please do not have the mistaken things you know, mistaken understanding.
04:48 Even some people may teach this. But clearly unto Caesar, what is Caesar? You have to pay what you have to pay now. So you cannot buy a car.
04:59 Maybe you can change your car. Maybe because your taxes are that much. Taxes, you pay taxes.
05:03 So now what you do, you sit in Christ. Look at the words of God. Look at the words of God, Jesus Christ.
05:11 Because if you love me, keep my commandments. This is another thing. We have to love him the way he wants us to love him.
05:17 We cannot love him any which way and say, I love Jesus Christ. And then we do what we want. Say, I love.
05:23 I feel love for Jesus Christ. Some may not because of the carnal thing, the music is good or whatever. They have so much of good instruments and all that.
05:34 So that one, if you go to the symphony orchestras, you will feel good. Or so if you go to some music stadium whereby somebody that you like who sing, you go there, you will feel good also. That doesn’t mean you are loving Jesus Christ because of the
music.
05:50 If you love me, keep my commandments. We have to love him the way he told us to love. What is a sign of loving him is if you love me, keep my commandments.
06:00 This is love. Walk in my commandments. Only when you walk in his commandments.
06:04 In the commandments of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ considers that we are loving him. We just feel love and we don’t walk in commandments.
06:14 He says, no, that is not. Cut it. It’s not it.
06:16 You’re not loving me. You’re just having the feeling. Feelings from the heart.
06:21 Felt prayer. Yeah. That means you felt prayer.
06:24 Feeling must be in line with the word of Jesus Christ. Feelings that are not in line with the word of Jesus Christ is from Antichrist, is from Satan, isn’t it? You have feelings like we are married. Then you have feelings for another woman because
she’s in trouble or whatever.
06:43 Look, compassion will be there, but get your wife involved to help the other woman, because you have to help others. Get your wife involved. But if you’re having feelings other than compassion for her trouble and undue affection you are having, that
is demonic, satanic.
07:04 It is not feelings. That is righteousness in Christ. Righteousness in Christ.
07:08 Feelings. That’s why feelings also have to be identified. Is it of Christ or is it of the flesh? Is it of your flesh, your own flesh? Or is it of the world? The world is tempting you.
07:20 Good music. So a lot of times this has happened in churches, plenty of good music. And then after that, people think they love Jesus Christ when he has determined, when he instructed clearly, if you love me, keep my commandments.
07:34 This is love he has commanded and he defined it. This love means walking in my commandments. Now, this is love.
07:41 One commandment is keep unto Caesar. What is Caesar? Pay your taxes. Pay your taxes.
07:49 Now. Evasion, as I said outright, you don’t try to decline, you don’t decline income. And all this.
07:54 Now, avoidance. There also can be legal and illegal avoidance. Why avoidance? The tax department has given you certain exemptions under certain conditions.
08:05 Now, if you try to abuse the conditions, you know, try to fix things in such a manner, force in a condition, then eventually they’ll catch you in. And then, you know, there’s old saying, you cannot. There are only two things you cannot escape in
Life, debt and taxes, you cannot escape dying.
08:24 And the two, you’re going to escape taxes. And it’s a joke. But that’s how good the tax department is in every country, because it’s collection.
08:32 So if you were to avoid legally, that means you are allowed a certain exemption. Yes, better check it. And if you allow the certain exemption and you don’t check to take it, you’re not a good steward.
08:44 God says be a good steward because the money belongs to Christ. So when he pays taxes, you better pay the taxes. You have surrendered all to Christ.
08:53 The money belongs to Christ. And then even taking the best all the exemptions and reliefs they give, you have to take. If you don’t understand, you have to study.
09:04 You cannot study and don’t understand. Get counsel, get people to help you because be a good steward of the money that Jesus Christ has given you now. So everything that Tajiba allows, you must claim, you’re not claiming, you’re not that.
09:18 Then you are not good steward. Now, when you’re not a good steward, if you intently did well and then finally you didn’t make mistakes, Jesus Christ will protect you. You made mistake because you’re not intentioned, but you are doing everything.
09:31 Get the right counsel, right relief and all that. You’re studying, you’re paying attention now. If you don’t, you couldn’t be bothered.
09:40 You just do what you want. Then you are not taking the exemptions or reliefs that the government gives legally. Then you are not a good steward.
09:49 And once you are not a good steward in one area, that will spread like the leaven of the Pharisees. Remember east time spread and you will not be a good steward in every other area. After a while.
10:02 After a while, this attitude of poor stewardship will apply everywhere else in your business, in your work, in your, how you spend your money, how you care for your family. Because you’re poor steward now you are a lazy steward. It will begin to
apply everywhere.
10:19 We ought to avoid this because it’s a terrible thing. So let’s be good steward. Oh, you are very hard.
10:24 Now what is pastor telling? I am not telling you this. It’s God’s word. By the same time, it applies to me also.
10:30 But then if you ask if it’s hard, difficult, so many things happening in your home, maybe tragedy has happened, maybe there’s sickness. Yes, I’ve gone through, my family has gone through all this. My wife, my children have gone through all this.
10:44 And from time to time we go through, but we go through. And then we call on to Jesus Christ for power. Power of Christ as we begin to love Him.
10:54 Righteousness, peace and joy. You must seek the righteousness, peace and joy. When you do that, then first stop and worship.
11:01 Get the righteousness, peace and joy. Joy, brothers and sisters. And in that joy, things will begin to happen for you.
11:07 In that righteousness, peace and joy, things will begin to happen for you. So first seek ye the kingdom of God and its righteousness daily. So when you do that, then you sit and look in the peace of Christ.
11:19 Anxiousness cannot kill anxiety. Before anxiety kills you, anxiousness means you begin to worship. Cast out.
11:27 Cast out spirit of anxiety. Cast out spirit of fear. And then be content.
11:32 Content with godliness, great gain. So brothers and sisters, today do the right thing. Yes, it is effort, but Jesus power will come.
11:42 Jesus love. Remember his love. He loves you.
11:45 You’re not lefty as often. So when you cry out to him, he’ll do something. He’ll do something.
11:51 But remember, many times people pray, asking, lord, give me strength. And all that is not correct. You cast out evil spirits first.
11:59 Because he said, those who believe his signs will follow. They’ll cast out evil spirits in my name. You cast out evil spirits, Evil spirit of laziness, evil spirit of bad stewardship.
12:09 Get out of me in the name of Jesus Christ. Now you begin to cast all this out. Then you begin to worship.
12:14 Then you begin to get the joy. You look at the joy he has suffered for you. He’s coming back for you.
12:20 He’s coming back for you. Then you get the joy. You walk your day.
12:24 You don’t want to do any wrong anymore. And Jesus will see you through. Now the next topic here we talked about is await my return.
12:33 Now be ready for his coming. Await my return means be ready for his coming. Now it’s very clear this thing because it’s critical.
12:40 He’s only coming back for those who are eagerly waiting for him. He said that? No, he’s only coming back with those who are eagerly waiting for him. So there he thinks about it.
12:52 And I met a decision. I told others, hey, before eating food, think of his return. So we have to think of it coming back.
13:00 Then we need ourselves check because our heart and mind is fallen nature problem. So we have to start thinking when you’re coming back, what am I doing and all that. So it’s good time to examine before eating food, you know? And then you will know
convicted.
13:13 That’s why he said what want to sacrifice thing to Christ. Leave it there, go and settle with your brother. Isn’t it now brothers and sisters, today Matthew 24:42 so be alert.
13:22 Matthew 24:42 so be alert, give strict attention, be cautious and active in faith Be alert is identified as give strict attention, be cautious and active in faith. For you do not know which day your Lord is coming. You do not know which day Jesus
Christ is coming, whether near or far then 43 but understand this, if the head of the house had known what time of the night the tea was coming, he would have been alert on the alert.
13:56 He would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. True, isn’t it? If the head of the house knew what time the tea was coming, he would have been alert and would not have allowed the house to be broken into. 44
Therefore you who follow me this Jesus saying the therefore you follow me must also be ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect him.
14:20 When you do not expect him. These are big hoohah going on in the world. You know this coming second coming, plant this plan that now all trying to identify when exactly he’ll come.
14:31 But he already said he’s only coming back when you do not expect him. So whenever people are expecting him to come back on a certain time, it’s not going to happen at that time. It’s going to happen when people are not expecting.
14:45 So brothers and sisters, today make up your mind because the Word clear. There are other scriptures to say that he’s coming back for those who are eagerly awaiting Him. Let us eagerly wait for our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ, the Archon of our
soul.
14:59 Eagerly wait whether it’s today, tomorrow, daily. We must be ready daily. That’s what the Bible is saying.
15:07 That’s what Jesus Christ is saying. Daily. Be ready daily.
15:12 That means now before you eat your food, have any food, breakfast, lunch or dinner or whatever you took. You’re praying sanctify the food. Generally we say sanctify the food because the self thinking we want to protect ourselves from any problem
with the food and we want the food to be nourishing to us and all that.
15:27 But now add one more thing. Lord Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to know that you are coming back an hour when we do not expect I am waiting for you Lord. I command my heart and mind to eagerly wait for you Jesus Christ to come in the name
of Jesus Christ.
15:29 I command my heart and mind to eagerly wait in the name of Jesus Christ. I command my heart and mind to crave for Jesus Christ to love him. Do some prayer on your own, make your own words.
15:56 Because he is a husband of your soul, you love him. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart to love him. And loving him according to the will of Jesus Christ, which is keeping his commandments.
15:59 In the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to obey the commandments of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, I command my heart and mind to love Jesus Christ, to crave for Jesus Christ, to seek his word. In the name of Jesus
Christ, I command my heart and mind to meditate on the words of Jesus Christ.
16:27 Meditate on his commands. I love his commands. I want to obey his commands.
16:32 In the name of Jesus Christ, I want to obey his command. In the name of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, make me obey the commandments of Jesus Christ so that I will please him.
16:34 I want to please him. I want to please the husband of my soul. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray something like this.
16:49 Just take two, three minutes and pray, brothers and sisters. In fact, within a minute you said this prayer. In Jesus name I pray.
16:55 So we begin to train our heart and mind to eagerly wait for him. Amen.