Enemies of the Cross of Christ

00:00 Praise Jesus Christ of Nazareth Brothers and sisters, today the power of Christ Daily 14 February 2016 A Sunday Enemies of the cross of Christ Enemies of the cross of Christ Brothers and sisters, yesterday when I listening back after posting the
recording then I found that I cleared the blew my nose so loudly a sister has given a formula, you know, to take at night to clear the phlegm but by the time afternoon comes, even after this one hour or so I won’t have all this and fantastic, very
well, so I forget. So then the morning this thing comes and bothers me. So we will know that the enemy Jesus, the enemy our enemy Satan. Of course we’ll try to stop all these recordings and all that but thank Jesus Christ has given me the strength
to get up in the morning and do this daily, daily brothers and sisters, thank Jesus Christ because by God committing me to do this, it also gives me direction.

01:10 Every day studying something, thinking of people you know, it’s a blessing for me. Thank Jesus Christ of Nazareth. So please excuse me for this, this sudden loud blowing of the nose.

01:15 Thank Jesus Christ now praise Jesus Christ. Today brothers and sisters, many are going to church. Sunday many are going to church, but many are enemies of the cross of Christ.

01:30 That’s what the Bible says. Many are enemies of the cross of Christ. Now what is these enemies of cross of Christ? Let’s look at the scripture first.

01:38 Before that let’s look at this. There are certain fundamental scriptures we always quote in the emails. It will always be there.

01:45 One is examining ourselves. Two is doer of the Word. We have to be doer of the Word, otherwise it’s not going to work for us.

01:52 So those who are not doers of the Word, please become doers of the Word. How Looking at the Word particular, particular Word of God for that particular issue or circumstance or character building or whatever and then begin to meditate against your
conduct. And then after that telling Jesus Christ lord, I do not want this, I want dead that one you want me to become.

02:11 And then when you think like that, then the Word of God will change you. It will remind you. The Spirit of God will remind you.

02:18 When you’re going about to do that, let us say it again, anger or impatience. Because when you focus on patience and finally you begin to abort being patient, the Spirit of God reminds you, no, no, hold, stand, don’t rush or something. And you will
know in your spirit, the impression in your heart will be there and you will stop and it will be changed and you will say hey, after a few months of this After a few weeks of this, you will find that you are changing from glory to glory.

02:47 Now the other scriptures that I remind myself for myself is if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. So I better remind myself every day. I am nothing.

02:57 I am nothing without Christ in Christ. I can do all things through Christ Jesus, but without Christ, I am nothing. I deceive myself.

03:05 Then the other one is those who think they know something do not know anything yet that they ought to know. I remind that myself. Why, after knowing this and knowing that, the heart will begin to get prideful.

03:18 This is normal, the normal attack. The heart is treacherously wicked. Treacherously wicked means treason.

03:25 Treason means, you know, it actually means the right governance. Who supposed to govern me? The Spirit. My spirit supposed to govern my body, my heart and mind.

03:36 But my heart wants to govern me. My heart wants to govern my spirit, which has become life in Christ. Life by the Spirit, given life by the Spirit of Christ.

03:45 Because of the blood of Jesus washed my sins. My spirit man was dead in sin. Now it must be dead in Christ.

03:52 That means it must be alive in Christ, but dead. It must be dead to sin. Now that I am in Christ, my spirit man must be dead to sin.

04:02 It was dead by sin earlier. Sin caused it to die. My spirit man was dead because of sin.

04:08 Now I must be dead towards sin. I should not be able to be affected by sin. That is the thing.

04:16 So now how do we do this? By looking at the word of God and changing. Earlier the sin caused my spirit man to be dead. Now the blood of Jesus given me life.

04:25 Now my spirit man must be ha. I must not be tempted by these things. Won’t be because why? The spirit man is the spirit of God who has given his life.

04:35 But now the heart is not going to let me go. My heart is treacherously wicked. Want to control me.

04:40 Want to control me and follow the ways of the world. So he will talk to me. He will do this.

04:45 And I must recognize it and tell my heart to shut up in the name of Jesus Christ. You will not do this. You will obey the word of God and begin to talk to my heart in the still of the night in the bed.

04:55 That’s what the Command is. Psalm 44. Some translation very clearly will say, in the still of the night, in the bed, be still and begin to meditate.

05:04 That’s how. And talk to your heart. He says, talk to your heart.

05:06 You know the particular scripture, the particular translation. So when you begin to do this, before going to Sleep. Your life will change because the word of God will change you.

05:15 Now today we are talking about enemies of the cross of Christ. Philippians 3:17 Although people are going to church and all that they may be enemies of the now let’s check ourselves whether we ourselves have become enemies of the cross of Christ in
some areas or not. Now let’s look at that.

05:30 Philippians 3:17 Brothers and sisters, this is Apostle Paul writing together. Follow my example and observe those who live by the pattern we gave you. Who gave us the apostles gave us.

05:42 Follow my example. Follow the example of the apostle. Now Apostle Paul also writes somewhere else.

05:48 He says, follow me as I follow Christ. Follow me as I follow Christ. That means don’t you say, don’t follow me if I’m not following Christ.

05:52 Follow me as I follow Christ. Follow his example as he follows Christ and the example that they set for us to observe, but the pattern they gave us, the apostles gave us. For there are many of whom I’ve often told you and now tell you, even with
tears, now he’s crying who live as enemies of the cross of Christ, rejecting and opposing his way of salvation his way of salvation rejecting and opposing his way of salvation.

06:24 19 whose faith is destruction, whose God is their belly, their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity sensuality, vanity, worldly appetite things of the world they are craving for that whose glory is in their shame. They do all kinds of
things and they think that it’s glory. They’re feeling fantastic, they’re doing fantastic.

06:44 They’re making people, impressing upon people and all, but to their shame, he says, who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things. So but 20 but we are different because we means apostles are different because our citizenship is in heaven. Now
that applies to us.

07:02 Our citizenship is in heaven. And from there we eagerly await the coming of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who by exerting that power which enables him even to subject everything to Himself, will not only transform but completely refashion our
earthly bodies so that they will be like a glorious resurrected body. Now this is a great answer here.

07:27 Our bodies will not become like angels, but our bodies will become like Jesus Christ. Glorious resurrected body Glorious resurrected body like Christ. Now how does he do that? By the power which enabled him even to subject everything to Himself, he
brought everything under his control, right? Will not only transform, but completely refashion our earthly bodies so that they will be like his glorious resurrected body.

07:54 Brothers and sisters, brothers and sisters, listen again. He is going to change each of our bodies to his glorious body Like Christ. That is, if you are willing to follow him.

08:05 Willing, no, because we can’t do ourselves. When you are willing means, you take the Word of God, meditate on the Word of God, and then the Word of God will change us, will change us from glory to glory. But we must be only willing.

08:18 Willing means. Then we say, lord Jesus, I’m willing. Make me change, Lord.

08:22 Make me obey your commandments. Make me obey. Because we love him, we keep his commandments.

08:26 He says, if you love me, keep my commandments. Make me, Lord Jesus. Make me, Lord Jesus.

08:31 In the name of Jesus Christ, I ask the Holy Spirit to make me obey the commandments of Jesus Christ. Because I want to love him. I want to love him as he wants me to love him.

08:37 I want to love Jesus Christ as the way he once has commanded me to love him by keeping his commandments. Make me do that. In Jesus Christ’s name, I ask your Holy Spirit.

08:49 I. I beg you, Holy Spirit, what will happen when you keep doing this? You will end up going and doing the right thing. Remove that so now. Because the word of God will change you.

08:58 But these enemies of the cross. Look at this. Ridiculous.

09:03 You know, because they say they’re Christians. What is Apostle Paul saying? Enemies of the cross. They say they are Christians, but actually they are enemies of the cross.

09:10 Now. Enemies of the cross. What did the cross resemble? There is crucifixion.

09:16 Everything was crucified there. Sin was crucified there. Curses were crucified there.

09:22 Our useless thing, everything that we do, all crucified there. And that’s why Jesus said, if you follow me, pick up your cross and follow me. Crucify your flesh.

09:37 Our flesh was supposed to have crucified there on the cross. Now we are supposed to crucify here. But here he is not expecting us to crucify our flesh by ourselves.

09:45 He is not expecting that. He knows we can’t do this. But Jesus said, now listen to my word.

09:52 And then the apostles said, follow the example now. When to follow? The body will reject, the heart will reject. But then we have power.

10:00 In the name of Jesus Christ, you command all temptation to get out. You command every spirit, every spirit of lust of the world. Lust of the eyes to things of the spirit of the world.

10:09 Anger, allies, deceit, adultery, fornication, sexual immortality. All the spirits you cast out first in the name of Jesus Christ. Anything your heart is being tempted means you better understand your enemy.

10:20 Jesus Christ says, your enemy, the devil, walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, whom he may Swallow. So he is my enemy and your enemy. So that’s why I am tempting my heart.

10:32 So I must first command every wicked, unknown speed to get out in the name of Jesus Christ. Every unclean spirit. Then if I know the temptation, I bind and break the hold of the spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.

10:40 I bind and break the hold of sexual immorality in my heart. Get out in the name of Jesus Christ. Every wicked, unclean spirit of sexual immorality.

10:48 Get out in the name of Jesus Christ. And not to return. I burn you by the blood of Jesus Christ.

10:58 You focus on that particular thing, on that particular sin. If it is anger, if it is now we come to that soon the list, the fruit of the spirit. Because we want the fruit of the spirit.

11:10 Fruit of the Holy Spirit. Now then, what is it you command? Your heart. Heart.

11:15 You love Jesus Christ in the name of Jesus Christ. I command my heart to love Jesus Christ. And when you begin to talk this and then you begin to talk on certain scriptures where you want yourself to be changed like that.

11:26 You want to be changed from glory to glory. There is some particular work to do. Work out your own salvation means believe in Jesus Christ and he will do for you.

11:36 By believing in Jesus Christ means Jesus says you adhere to him. You cling to him, you hold on to him and then hold on to him is how. Hold on to the Scriptures because it’s the word of God.

11:47 You can’t hold on to Jesus Christ in the physical, so you hold on to Jesus Christ of the world, the word of Jesus Christ. You hold on as you keep on thinking and meditating and holding on to the word of Jesus Christ. You’re holding on to Jesus
Christ.

12:00 The Holy Spirit will take and put it in our hearts and will come. Now, for instance, next thing you see the practices of sin. Galatians 5, 1924.

12:13 Now the practices of the sinful nature are clearly evident. God is saying. The word of God is saying.

12:13 Now the practices of the sinful nature are clearly evident. I’m reading amplified. They are sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.

12:29 Sensuality means things you’re craving in the senses, all the bodily senses, not just sexual immorality senses you sense, you sense. You please your tongue, you please your mouth. The taste, the smell, the feeling on the flesh.

12:45 You want the clothes you wear. Maybe silk, only you want to wear. Since all the time you want to wear something to.

12:51 To satisfy the body, the carnal self, to taste of the food. Fantastic. More food, more food.

12:56 Expensive food, fusion food. You’re Craving for these kind of things. Total irresponsibility, lack of self control.

13:03 Now sensual, now idolatry, sorcery, hostility, anger, fight, fright, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, promoting groups, you know, small groups in the church, people begin to. I’m a gang. This is a gang.

13:20 Oh, I’m a gang. So it’s promoting heresies. That means false logic, false doctrine, having small sections in the only two, three people.

13:28 You misfit the others. All you want to misfit all. This is, God says, terrible sin, envy, drunkenness, righteous behavior.

13:37 Oh, revelry, you know, the football game nowadays, all kinds of things. The way it catches you, you go there, it’ll catch you also. Because rioters, behavior and all so, and other things like this.

13:50 I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Will not inherit the kingdom of God. Apostle Paul is warning, but the fruit of the Spirit.

14:02 The result of his presence within us is love. Unselfish concern for others. Love is what? Unselfish concern for others.

14:10 Inner peace. Patience. Patience is not the ability to wait.

14:15 But. But how we act while waiting. Patience is not the ability to wait, is defined by the amplified which is taken from the Hebrew and other meanings of Buddha.

14:24 Patience, not the ability to wait, but how we act while waiting. That means I used to be impatient. Cutting the road, you know, cutting this way, cutting that weight.

14:33 Now if I jam now I have to wait. And how I wait calmly, I have to wait. And how God makes me calm.

14:39 I call blood of Jesus. Blood of Jesus. Kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, Self control.

14:46 Now it starts with love, the fruit of the Spirit. One fruit, the various shades of the fruit. One fruit of the Spirit starts with love, ends with self control.

14:55 So when people don’t have self control, they surely don’t have the fruit of the Spirit. Those who belong to Christ Jesus 24 have crucified the sinful nature together with his passions and appetite. Those who who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified
the sinful nature together with its passions and appetites.

15:15 So those who have not done this are enemies of the cross. Enemies of the cross. Now here, can you go back and see the citizenship of heaven.

15:24 Ours right now, here. We must remember those defined here also those who keep their mind on earthly things. Enemies of the cross, he says in 19 Philippians 3:19, who focus their mind on earthly things.

15:41 Earthly and temporal things. The enemies of the cross. So if you are today going to church, yes, but if you are focusing on earthly things, man.

15:49 All the worldly lust, all the worldly how the world do iPhone 5, iPhone 25, iPhone 35, 55, 100. All that focusing on all this, it will catch you. And you are only focusing this because these are tools.

16:01 If you have the money, buy it and use it. These are tools only. But if you focus, I got a better phone, I got a better phone than them.

16:08 All kinds of things goes on because God calls them enemies of the cross of Christ. Enemies. You’re not an enemy of Christ because you cannot.

16:17 What can anyone do to Christ? But you are enemy of the cross because the cross calls for crucifixion of our sinful nature. The cross demands crucifixion of our sinful nature. But if you don’t crucify sinful nature, you are an enemy of the cross of
Christ and you are thinking of only earthly things, worldly things.

16:41 Brothers and sisters, today let’s change. Go to Philippians 3, 17, 21 and meditate. Go to Galatians 5, 19, 24 and meditate in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.