Participants: Peter Gregory
Series Code: 10AYC
Program Code: 10AYC000007
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00:16 Good morning. Good morning.
00:19 Happy Sunday. It's happy Sunday right? 00:24 Praise God. Alright you know the Bible text, 00:28 faith coming by hearing. And hearing by the what? 00:33 Word. Word of God, 00:34 faith is so important in our Christian life. 00:38 And we're told that faith is, 00:42 is opposite from what? Alright, doubt, okay, 00:47 but faith is, is opposite also from feelings. 00:53 Have you heard that before? 00:54 Yeah, faith and feelings are like the east to the west. 00:58 So, then the question is, 01:00 what should we do with feelings? 01:02 Because we do feel, right. 01:05 So, what should we do with feelings? 01:07 Do you think feelings are important? 01:10 Or should we think feelings are not that important. 01:13 We just kind of ignore it; 01:15 deny it and just kind of walk away from it. 01:20 Yes, there are times that, yes I understand. 01:22 There are times that we need to deny our feelings, 01:25 we must ignore our feelings; 01:27 we must walk away from our feelings, 01:30 but my friends, don't get confused? 01:36 This does not mean that we should live 01:39 our Christian faithful life 01:43 with totally without feelings. 01:48 We cannot become so robotic. You with me? 01:53 Yes. We cannot becomes so, 01:55 so ritual or ceremonial 01:59 because our experience should be real. 02:05 So, then what should we do with our feelings? 02:08 You know, if I can ask the ladies. Ladies, 02:12 is feeling important? Yes. Yes, guys, 02:18 gentleman, is feeling important. 02:20 Yeah. Yeah, I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. 02:25 I, I tell you, you know, we men, 02:28 we're, we're a big trouble sometimes. 02:30 Because you know, we have feelings too, 02:33 but we don't like to talk about them. 02:35 You never have guys you know, 02:38 they get together hey guys, 02:40 let's talk about feelings. 02:43 And I would be like, hey man, 02:45 I'll see you later. I'm not going there. 02:49 Yeah, but it's, but if you really break it down 02:52 my friends feelings is so important for male 02:57 and female. And, and listen, look, 03:00 we're told that when we go to heaven, 03:03 we're not going to take our house; 03:05 we're not going to take our car, bank account, 03:09 our clothes. There is only one thing 03:12 that we can take to heaven. What is that? 03:14 Character. Character so important. 03:17 Character, alright. So, be there, 03:19 so by the grace of God, by the mercies of God 03:23 may God transform my character 03:26 when I go to heaven. 03:27 Now, or before I go to heaven. 03:30 Now, but what is character? 03:35 What is character? 03:37 Character is character. What is character? 03:42 Aah, we are told that character is a combination, 03:46 alright. Combination between thoughts and feelings. 03:56 Thoughts and feelings combined, 03:59 meaning my friends. 04:01 Before we come to Christ 04:03 we have these wrong thoughts 04:08 and we've these wrong feelings. 04:11 Yes, I understand that many times temptation, 04:16 obviously temptation is not sin. 04:20 And sometimes or many times temptation 04:23 can come to you with wrong thought 04:24 and you must deny that and claim 04:29 the right thought, amen. 04:31 By the word of God. 04:34 But when you look at that character is based upon 04:37 thoughts and feeling. That means my friend, 04:40 not only we need to know how to claim 04:45 right thinking but by faith, 04:49 we also need to know how to claim right feeling. 04:56 But the problem is many times before we can 05:00 choose the right feeling; we're already confused 05:04 with our own feelings. 05:08 So, in order to understand this 05:11 we need to understand what the Bible says about 05:15 what happened to our feeling in the Bible? 05:19 So, turn your Bibles with me. 05:21 Let's study about feelings in the Bible. 05:25 In the Book of Genesis, you should know it. 05:29 In the Book of Genesis, 05:32 first of all let me introduce to you 05:36 God's feelings, divine feeling. 05:42 Question for you, 05:44 when God created everything 05:46 in the beginning almost everyday. 05:52 At the end of his creation, 05:57 at the end of the day he said, 06:01 it's good, right. And he repeated that word 06:06 good many other days. 06:11 And when everything was created 06:16 at the end of the sixth day 06:19 just before going into the seventh day 06:24 the Bible says, let's read it. 06:27 In Genesis chapter 1; Genesis chapter 1 06:33 and verse 31. And God saw everything 06:39 that he had made and behold, it was what? 06:44 Very good and evening and the morning 06:48 were the sixth day, oh my friends here is 06:53 my spiritual application for you and that is this. 06:57 It is God's plan that we should feel everyday, 07:05 we should feel good every single day. 07:10 What do you think? Yes, I believe so. 07:15 And just before we enter into the Sabbath. 07:20 We should feel what? Very good, 07:23 so if I can glean or observe to see, 07:30 what is God's plan for our feelings? 07:34 I think I can say, it is God's plan that 07:38 we should feel good everyday 07:41 and for the Sabbath day we should feel very good. 07:44 This was God's plan. What do you think? 07:48 But then something happened? Something, 07:52 something went wrong. And that was when Satan 07:56 came in the form of a serpent 08:00 and just to remind you, just to remind you that 08:03 when every thing was very good, 08:07 that came with something for the humanity. 08:13 God felt what? Very good, 08:16 but what was the feelings of Adam and Eve. 08:19 Just, just before he; they enter into the Sabbath. 08:23 Look with me what the Bible says, 08:24 in Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 2 08:29 and look with me at the end of Genesis chapter 2, 08:33 verse 25. At the end of Genesis chapter 1, 08:36 we see God's feeling, but now we begin to 08:40 observe the feelings of perfect human beings 08:44 at the end of chapter 2. Check this out, verse 25. 08:48 And they were what? Both naked, 08:54 the man and his wife and were not what? 08:58 Ashamed, and I want to suggest to you the idea that 09:03 they felt without shame. 09:07 And as I mentioned to you yesterday 09:09 that means perhaps they felt confidence 09:12 in a good way. Confidence, 09:14 feeling secure or feeling accepted, 09:20 feeling like in total peace. 09:23 They are not shame, 09:26 with this with the creation of man, 09:30 male and female. And they are not feeling shame, 09:37 with every good things around them 09:41 without shame God called everything very good, 09:49 are you with me? It is very good my friend 09:53 that we are without shame 09:58 and that's how we should feel. 10:01 If you want to, you will see the connection. 10:05 If you want to feel the power in your life, 10:11 if you want to feel the power in your life, 10:14 the energy of life my friends, 10:16 it is life without shame. 10:20 Because shame drag us down, 10:24 shame discourages us. We're depressed by shame, 10:28 we're driven by shame and you'll begin to understand 10:32 my friends that when serpent came to Eve, 10:36 yes Satan he wants Eve and Adam to sin and die. 10:45 But in the process with all of that, 10:49 he came, listen. He came to change their thoughts. 10:58 But much more their feelings; 11:03 let me show you from the Bible. Alright, 11:06 so let's look at it Genesis chapter 3 and verse 1, 11:12 I'm sure you're familiar with this story. 11:14 You read it many times, you studied it many times. 11:18 But here we go, Genesis chapter 3, verse 1. 11:21 Now the serpent was more subtle than 11:26 any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. 11:33 And he said unto the woman, Ye, as God said, 11:37 Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 11:42 You know it is very interesting obviously 11:44 I cannot use this is as a biblical proof 11:49 but it is interesting to notice, 11:51 that the word serpent means enchantment 11:58 or enchanter and the word enchanter, 12:03 English word comes from this Latin word incanto 12:10 and incanto means to sin. 12:14 Now, I thought this was very interesting, why? 12:16 Because you know Ellen White talked about, 12:20 how this serpent had a melodious voice, 12:27 melodious voice, because I don't imagine, 12:31 I don't imagine this serpent sounded very scary, 12:35 do you? Hey woman come here, 12:40 do you think God said, ye shall, oh runaway right. 12:46 I think he had a very beautiful, musical voice. 12:52 Oh! Woman did God said, ye shall not eat of, 12:58 I don't know, I don't know what he did. 13:01 I don't know what he did, but I think he, 13:04 he had this incredible musical tone. 13:08 Now I just want to point out to you that, if we. 13:12 If we observe that carefully, then yeah, 13:16 if that was true then that melodious 13:19 voice provided what? Feelings, 13:26 why do we like to listen to music. 13:29 Aha it makes us feel good that's right, 13:34 that's right. So, he the serpent was attracting her 13:38 with this feeling and what is he trying to do. 13:41 He's trying to deceive her and what is deception? 13:47 Deception my friend is simply to introduce 13:52 new thoughts and new feeling and to change you 13:56 and to change the way you feel about God 14:00 and the way you think about God. 14:04 That's it, and so many times, we as a Christians. 14:08 We concentrate on. Okay, 14:09 this is the right thinking then, 14:11 but then we don't know 14:12 what to do with our feelings; 14:16 because our feelings are many times 14:19 stronger than our thought. 14:26 And here we have Satan in the form of serpent. 14:29 Beautiful animal, so look at this, 14:32 a beautiful animal with beautiful sound. 14:37 This is fantastic and this woman was walking 14:41 in the Garden of Eden by herself 14:44 and she was wondering, you know where 14:46 and just walking around, she came near to this tree 14:51 of the knowledge of good and evil 14:56 and she was wondering about why God said 15:00 we should not eat this fruit and this voice came 15:05 from the tree and when she turned around, 15:11 she is seeing this animal talking to her. 15:17 How did she feel? How would you feel, 15:21 you're walking down the tree? 15:23 Here comes a little dog 15:26 and the dog and this dog he runs past you 15:29 and he turns around, stops you and says 15:31 hey you got any bones. What would you do? 15:38 Maybe some ladies go, oh and faint and, 15:41 you know just or scream and run 15:43 and then guys. We may just kick the dog; 15:49 hey you're not supposed to talk. 15:54 I mean we get scared right. 15:56 But aha remember, no, no fear for Eve. 16:04 So then, how did she feel, she was feeling what? 16:12 Curious, you know curiosity. 16:16 Curiosity it's like a strong magnet, 16:21 oh! You want to know, you are so curious. 16:26 Have you ever felt, I mean, 16:27 can you imagine in the city of Sydney, 16:31 you have this long white wall. Alright 16:36 you got this long white wall 16:38 and then there is a little hole, 16:40 right and then above that hole, 16:43 it says please do not look 16:52 and when you're walking by that, 16:53 how would you feel? Oh! Man I'm dying to look at it, 16:59 I'm dying. You see curiosity, 17:02 yeah it kills you and when you look at it, 17:05 it kills you too and so this woman was so curios 17:12 and she was fascinated. You see, 17:15 you know how like TV has lot of fascinating things. 17:17 So, you know, very interesting, 17:20 so she was looking at this and just thinking Wow! 17:24 How can this, this, this animal. Yesterday, 17:28 he was not talking to me, 17:30 but now he's talking to me Wow! 17:33 So Satan got her attention 17:41 and then he begins to introduce these, 17:44 these thinking, these thoughts and continuing 17:48 the Bible says and the woman said unto the serpent, 17:52 we may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden: 17:57 But of the fruit of the tree which is 17:59 in the midst of the garden, 18:00 God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, 18:03 neither shall ye what, touch it, lest ye die. 18:08 Can you imagine how she was feeling when she said, 18:12 you know what she said, I know what God said, 18:14 she felt how. Confident, right, 18:20 she felt confident, I know what God said. 18:24 You cannot tell me, what God said. 18:26 I know what God said. 18:28 So, she was feeling this confidence. 18:32 But if she knew what God said, 18:34 why is she standing there. 18:37 She should have said I know what God said. 18:39 This is what God said, Umm! Bye. 18:45 But she's like standing there. 18:46 I know, what God said, 18:51 can you talk to me more. This is fascinating. 18:56 Do you see what's happening, 18:59 you know what God said, 19:00 you have the right thinking. 19:05 But your feeling says this is fascinating. 19:10 Pay attention to this, 19:14 so don't go after all the fantastic things. 19:19 You may end up being deceived. 19:23 So she's standing there and wanting some more. 19:25 That's, that was her body language 19:28 and the serpent continued with these words 19:30 and the Bible says: 19:31 And the serpent said unto the woman, 19:33 Ye shall not surely die: 19:35 For God does know that in the day ye, what? 19:39 Eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, 19:42 and ye shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil. 19:47 Now how was she feeling at that time, 19:50 based upon his argument, what is he saying? 19:54 Oh! If you eat this, your eyes shall be opened 19:57 and then you shall know good and evil, 20:00 you shall be like Gods. 20:03 So, basically if you eat this you will become better. 20:12 If you eat this you will become better. 20:16 How would you feel when somebody 20:17 says you can be better? 20:21 Oh! You can come, you can be elevated, 20:26 you can go little higher. How was she felling? 20:33 Ah! Now only curious, not only fascinated 20:37 but now maybe see felt a little flattered. 20:43 Oh! Yeah I should be, I deserve to be better. 20:47 I deserve to be better. 20:49 These feelings are just attacking her like virus. 20:56 But on top of that, on top of that 20:59 the serpent said God knows, 21:03 it's like God knows this but he is holding back. 21:07 So, there is that little bit of this is injustice. 21:12 How do you feel when you know 21:14 that something is not fair? 21:16 How do you feel? You want to? 21:20 Do something about it. You wanna do something, 21:23 it's like injustice. It's not fair. 21:27 That's a problem, if there is a problem what do 21:29 you wanna do with it. Fix it, exactly. 21:32 Can't you see, all these attacks with feelings. 21:38 Very tricky, so she is curious, fascinated, 21:42 she is feeling confidence like I am strong, 21:46 I can stand here, I can protect myself 21:49 I know what God said but at the same time 21:51 I'm curious and the serpent is saying 21:53 oh! You can be better, come up higher. 21:56 But now she is analyzing all of these things 22:01 and she is thinking this animal, 22:04 he didn't talk to me yesterday 22:06 but he is talking to me today. 22:09 Most likely he ate the fruit, 22:13 if he can talk today and got better 22:15 then oh if I eat this. 22:18 I guess I can be better. So, she had this visual, 22:26 visual evidence, audible evidence 22:32 that what the serpent was saying true. 22:38 With all these feelings she only got one thing, 22:43 I know what God said but she was overwhelmed 22:47 by these tangible feelings that were around her. 22:59 What I'm about to read to you is a shocker, 23:02 it is a, it is a shock. Look at it verse 6, 23:07 and when the woman saw that the tree was what? 23:13 Was what? Good for food. 23:21 God said it's not good, 23:25 don't eat it, but now she is telling herself what? 23:31 Good for food. And that tells me 23:35 how she felt about the fruit now. Good, 23:41 before she was harsh, she would avoid, stay away. 23:46 Don't, you know even touch it 23:48 but now it's good for food. 23:53 Her feelings changed, she is being deceived 24:00 and by the way good for food. 24:03 The serpent did not say its good food. 24:06 He didn't say that, did he? 24:08 He didn't say this food contains 24:11 20 percent proteins, five percent vitamin c, 24:14 six percent vitamin D, 24:16 you know he didn't give that fill, did he. 24:19 It's very nutritious. 24:20 What, just a little bit of evil. 24:26 He didn't say that, did he? No, 24:31 it's like she is making up 24:33 stories to convince herself. 24:36 It's like, we all this, 24:38 you know how we try to convince ourselves 24:40 when we buy something. You know, 24:42 give ourselves more reason to buy it's like okay, 24:46 and this is also good for this. 24:50 That tells me my friend her thoughts 24:52 and feelings changed and she committed sin 24:57 and she gave her sins so to speak to her husband. 25:03 And you know what happened after they committed sin. 25:06 Their eyes were open, they saw that they were naked 25:10 and notice with me from the Bible, 25:15 I know death is the result of sin. 25:21 But listen as soon as they committed sin the first, 25:28 may I suggest to you; the first change 25:31 that they felt was not so much the immediate death. 25:37 It was not like you know Adam and Eve ate the fruit 25:39 and they both going on, they both were going, 25:42 Oh what's going on, I'm feeling little, 25:46 something is wrong with my body. 25:48 No, no, no, no, no, what was the very first 25:52 change that came to them. 25:55 It was their feeling, how do I know, 25:58 the Bible says, the Bible says in verse 7, 26:01 it says and the eyes of them both were opened, 26:04 and they knew that they were naked; 26:06 and they sewed fig-leaves together 26:08 and made themselves what? Aprons. 26:13 Those aprons were what, what are they for? 26:17 To cover, so their action to cover is showing that, 26:22 now what do they feel? Shame. 26:26 Ladies and gentlemen take notice of this. 26:31 The first feeling that came to both Adam and Eve 26:39 after they committed sin. Shame, 26:44 and if you really analyze your life, our life, 26:49 we are slaves to our own shame. 26:54 We are moved and motivated, 26:57 driven by our shame. 27:01 Many, many ways 27:03 and their action to their visible shame, 27:08 their action to their, their, their reaction 27:10 to their visible shame. 27:12 What do they do? They just covered it. 27:19 Problem solved, what do you think? 27:21 You know I was looking at this and obviously 27:24 I looked at the word apron in the original language, 27:27 it's just basically covering. 27:29 But if I go by the usual English definition 27:34 or the way we use the word apron. 27:37 Do you know what aprons look like? 27:39 Yeah basically covers the front right. 27:43 Not so much the back, 27:44 so they're thinking if that was true, 27:46 if that was true, they sowed together this 27:50 you know garden fashion, Eden fashion fig leaves 27:55 and then they covered themselves in the front, 27:57 it's like okay, problem solved 27:59 even though the back is completely open. 28:04 It's like as long as we cover the problem areas, 28:08 little embarrassing areas, 28:09 ah! Okay the problem solved. 28:12 Okay, then now they can just continue 28:14 with their happy life. 28:16 Oh! That was it, we only feeling shame, 28:18 we only feeling naked, 28:19 we only feeling a little embarrassed. 28:21 Well, that's solved their problem, 28:24 let's just cover it and how did they feel 28:28 after they covered their nakedness. 28:31 I'm sure they probably felt what? 28:33 It's like okay what, that wasn't too bad, 28:37 problem solved. Okay, but my friends 28:42 there is what we called visible shame like pimple, 28:48 zit, and there is what we called invisible shame. 28:55 When you have a visible shame, 28:56 I don't know if you're too big go get, 29:00 you know do exercise and if you have something 29:03 on your forehead you know get something to cover up. 29:06 You know, your teeth are sticking out 29:08 and go to see, go and see a dentist. 29:11 You know and, and if you don't look; 29:14 if you don't like the way you look you know go 29:16 and do some surgery and you know I tell you, 29:21 you know Asians are really getting 29:22 into this plastic surgery. 29:24 Yeah, I mean they all want to have big eyes, 29:28 yeah and eye lids and bigger nose and 29:32 when I go to Korea, I see a lot of beautiful people. 29:36 But I am wondering which one is fake 29:37 and which one is really? 29:40 And you know can you imagine you see beautiful parents, 29:44 but the children they don't look like the parents. 29:46 It's like oh man. So, we do all kinds of things 29:51 to just cover our shame to make ourselves okay. 29:55 We can now feel confident, 30:01 but then there is what we called an invisible shame. 30:06 Let's see what the Bible has to say, come with me. 30:12 Let's see what the Bible has to say. 30:15 In Genesis chapter 3, here we go. 30:19 in Genesis chapter 3, and verse 8, 30:23 and they heard the voice of the Lord. 30:27 God walking in the garden, in the cool of the day. 30:32 Adam and his wife hid themselves 30:36 from the presence of the Lord 30:38 God amongst the trees of the garden 30:42 and the Lord God called on to Adam 30:45 and said unto him where are thou? 30:50 Where are you Adam? You know if I was Adam. 30:57 I would be like, God you know where I am. 31:03 Why is God asking this question 31:05 where are you Adam? I don't know, 31:08 where are you? No, he knows. 31:13 He is asking the question listen carefully, 31:18 he is asking the question because he wants Adam 31:22 to know that he does not know where he is. 31:34 Listen my friends, look at this reaction. 31:37 Visible shame, cover it, 31:40 but when they heard the voice of God. 31:44 Voice of God, it penetrates into your own heart 31:51 revealing invisible shame in your mind 31:58 and when you begin to feel your invisible shame 32:02 what is your reaction? You cover it, 32:07 it doesn't work, you cannot cover invisible shame, 32:10 you cannot, so what you do. 32:13 Only thing that you can do is 32:15 to run away from that voice. 32:21 Because that voice is reminding you 32:25 that you are naked; 32:30 because when God said why are you hiding. 32:33 Noticed what Adam said. This is really funny, 32:35 because in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 9, verse 10 32:40 and then he said, notice the way Adam 32:43 responding to God and he said I heard thy voice 32:47 in the garden and I was what? Afraid, 32:51 because I was naked and what? I hid myself. 32:57 He say he was what? Naked. Adam, 33:01 you know if I was there, Adam come out man, 33:04 look you got the fig leaves fashion, you're covered. 33:09 What do you mean your naked, don't lie. 33:13 You're covering yourself, yeah. 33:15 Yeah he was. But then what he can do, 33:24 what he can do to cover his shame, 33:28 cannot cover his shame. 33:31 So, it doesn't matter what we do 33:33 to make ourselves good 33:35 it cannot take away our shame. 33:37 Do you understand that? So, stop trying to do 33:42 what you can to save yourselves. Amen. 33:47 Only way to save yourselves is to not run away. 33:56 Do you understand; he was completely, 34:01 he was covered but he says I am naked. 34:03 So, look at the sequence, very interesting. 34:06 Sin brought shame; visible shame, 34:14 they covered it but then when 34:16 they heard the voice of God. 34:19 He said I was afraid. Right and then he hide. 34:29 Look at this, this is the way 34:30 we react guys check it out. 34:33 With visible shame we cover it, 34:35 but with invisible shame we have this fear within 34:41 and because of this fear, 34:43 this fear that we have, we run. 34:48 And what causes us to discover 34:53 and to be in touch with our invisible shame. 34:57 What? The voice of God. 35:01 Voice of God reveals very clearly that we are naked, 35:08 but we don't want to think that way. 35:11 That sounds miserable we don't feel that depressed 35:15 or you know just, we don't want to have, 35:17 we don't want to go there. 35:19 This is a reason why my friends I believe 35:23 many times this is the reason why 35:26 we refuse to hear God's voice. 35:30 The word of God, the Bible, 35:33 we don't want to hear his voice because 35:36 when we listen to his voice, 35:39 the Bible says you are naked, 35:43 shall I open the Bible, you are naked. Naked. 35:51 Ah! Ah! I don't want this, I don't want this, 35:53 just leave me alone, give some ecstasy 35:56 and crystal meth and give me some drugs. 35:59 Give me some marijuana, cocaine, 36:01 give me some alcohol. Let's go party and dance 36:03 and let's just listen to music. 36:05 Ah! I cannot deal with this because I, 36:08 I just want to feel happy. Yeah, with ignorance. 36:13 Just leave me alone, 36:18 don't bother me I will, I am not interested, 36:20 I don't want any literature. 36:23 I am busy watching football, leave me alone. 36:30 This is my problem I will deal, 36:32 I will deal with it, you cannot deal with it. 36:37 We cannot do brain operation hope that, 36:41 shame will just come out and just can throw away. 36:53 It gets worse; it gets worse, 36:58 so the feelings shame, 37:01 fear, hide and then discovered guilty, 37:12 convicted, the next thing. 37:18 Oh my, this is so, 37:22 it's a history of humanity look at this. 37:25 Genesis 3, look at this, verse 11, 37:29 And he said I told him that thou was naked, 37:34 oh sorry verse 11 and he said 37:37 who told you that thou was naked. 37:39 Has thou eaten of the tree where of 37:41 I commanded thee that thou shouldeth not eat? 37:44 And the man said, the biggest man I say he is; 37:50 the biggest man, macho man, 37:52 right with all the muscles. 37:55 You know, I don't, I don't think God 37:57 created him with, you know wimpy, skinny body. 38:00 I think God created with already six pack. 38:03 Not like many of us with one pack, he was just, 38:07 just you know standing straight I am a man. 38:10 I am a man said, woman caused me to do. 38:15 Poor man. What a wimp huh! 38:23 And the woman is like I am helpless, the serpent. 38:31 Blaming others, why do we blame others? 38:36 Because we just cannot stand the fact that 38:40 we have been discovered with our guilt. 38:48 We cannot face our own invisible shame 38:50 because of that we cannot handle this, 38:53 so we blame other people. 38:55 And when we blame other people in the moment, 38:58 that moment we feel good 39:02 because we pass our responsibility 39:04 to somebody else. So, that moment we feel good 39:11 and then movement you're like okay, okay, 39:14 I am not going to do that again. 39:15 I mean yes even though it's her fault, 39:18 I am not going to do it again. Okay. 39:22 So, you, you, you, you tell yourself 39:25 I am not going to do it again and you so, 39:27 you, you begin to build this little self confidence. 39:34 But the problem is my friends, 39:40 we love our sin. 39:47 So it goes something like this, sin, 39:49 shame, fear, hide, discovered, 39:59 blame, feeling guilty and then we blame 40:04 and then we, after we blame others 40:09 we tell ourselves we are not going to do it. 40:13 But then because we love our sin, 40:18 we go back and then we go through this 40:22 vicious cycle of shame. 40:26 Over, over, over, over, again, again, again, 40:33 until we are completely depressed, discouraged 40:39 and we say to ourselves I give up. 40:51 And we have these feelings, 40:53 even though we are trying to read the Bible, 40:56 even though we're trying to go to the church, 40:59 even though we are trying to witness 41:03 these feelings may come and attack your soul. 41:13 What is God's good news for this couple? 41:17 Total chaos, feeling wise. 41:22 And when you look them right I mean, 41:24 when you look at them before God, 41:25 I mean do they start having wrinkles in their face, 41:29 they look beautiful. 41:31 Do they have any physical problems, 41:32 their lungs are not working? 41:34 No, they look perfect. Have nice hair, 41:38 yeah, beautiful eyes, yeah they look good. 41:41 They look good, but they have this internal problem 41:47 that they cannot solve. 41:49 So, then what is God's solution for them. 41:53 What is God's solution? 41:56 Verse 15, look at this, 41:59 Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, the Bible says 42:03 look and listen to these words and we are told that. 42:09 That this is the first, this is, 42:12 this was the announcement 42:14 of the gospel for the first time. 42:16 Genesis 3:15 the Bible says 42:19 and I will what? And I will what? 42:24 Put enmity between thee and the woman, 42:30 that means he will put enmity between Satan 42:34 and God's people. What is enmity? 42:41 Hatred, that word hatred is a more thinking word 42:45 or a feeling word, I know it's both. 42:49 I know it's both. But if we have to decide just one, 42:52 which one, it's more feeling isn't it. 42:55 You see my friend the Bible says Jesus, Jesus, 42:59 he loves righteousness, he hates sin, 43:04 but we, we hate righteousness 43:07 and we love sin. 43:10 So, the very first gospel, good news, 43:14 what is good news he will put enmity, 43:17 what is enmity; hatred, 43:19 so first good news is to help you to hate. 43:27 The first good news to help you to hate. 43:29 Hating is good news? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 43:33 Yeah, it is good news. Why? It's a promise, 43:38 it is a promise my friends. 43:42 Not only God can change your behavior, 43:47 but that's not a change. Behavior modification, 43:52 that's not real change. 43:54 Yes, God can do that for you. 43:56 But the real change, God really wants to help 44:01 is to change your heart, your motivation, 44:09 your desire, your passion, 44:13 your emotions, your feelings. 44:18 God can give you the gifts, what gifts? 44:23 To deny your wrong feelings 44:27 and boldly with courage 44:31 you can clean the feelings of God. Amen. 44:38 My friends that is, 44:40 that is a wonderful gift think about it, 44:43 many times we are thinking I'm bound, 44:45 I am in bondage, I cannot get out of here. 44:47 I just cannot free myself. 44:49 I feel this way and when I feel this way, 44:52 I think this is me. 44:56 If this isn't me I should not change. 45:00 But Gods says no, no, no, no, you've been deceived, 45:04 you feel that way because 45:05 you've been deceived by Satan that feeling, 45:08 those feelings they are not yours, 45:14 because I brought you 45:18 with the blood of my own son. Amen. 45:22 You can claim new feelings. 45:26 You can get out of this vicious cycle of shame. 45:35 You don't have to repeat, 45:37 you don't have to go back come unto me, 45:42 all that hatred, all that labor had been laid, 45:44 then come unto me and I will give you rest 45:48 and this rest is not just a sleep but rest, 45:53 having peace in your mind. 45:58 Isn't this what you want? Amen. 46:01 Isn't this what you want? Yeah. 46:04 God says I will put hatred, 46:07 I will change your hearts. 46:10 Now, the question is God, 46:12 how are you going to do this? 46:14 How are you going to do this? 46:16 Well, continue reading the Bible says in verse 15. 46:20 I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 46:22 and between thy seed and her seed; 46:26 it shall bruise thy head, 46:28 and thou shalt bruise his heel. 46:31 And you know this is a prophecy. 46:32 Prophecy regarding the Messiah. 46:34 Our savior, Jesus is coming to this world to die. 46:40 So, basically what we you got here is this. Listen, 46:43 I will put hatred and then we have a prophecy, 46:46 what prophecy? Jesus someday will come 46:49 and he will be bruised for our sin, 46:53 meaning he will die. 46:55 So put it together. Check this out, 46:58 I will put hatred in your heart, 47:02 I will perform this miracle 47:07 through the death of Jesus. 47:10 You know what that means; 47:11 you know what that means my friends. 47:13 You want to have new feelings. 47:17 Yes, you want to have total; 47:20 you want to experience a miracle 47:21 of having new feelings. 47:23 How to start, you know where? 47:27 We must go to the foot of the cross, 47:30 kneel before Jesus die on the cross. 47:36 Stay right there, think about this, 47:39 meditate upon this, if you have to everyday 47:44 I think you should think about this, 47:48 only at the cross you can choose 47:54 a new pathway. Amen. In your thinking 47:58 and in your feelings. Amen. 48:01 Only when you see Jesus; when you see Jesus 48:05 bleeding for you, seeing him suffering for you, 48:09 not only his physical suffering although 48:11 that's so painful I know, 48:13 but you have to imagine his internal suffering. 48:20 What God had to give up for us 48:23 and when you meditate just dwelled and abide, 48:26 you forget, don't worry about breakfast, 48:29 don't worry about biology book, 48:31 don't worry about your assignments. 48:33 You just, you find your time and just sit there 48:38 and just spend time with God, one on one 48:43 and just sit there until you just let God 48:47 do his upper his operation. 48:50 Again, again, and again, 48:56 until you can begin to feel heavenly things, 49:03 heavenly feelings, even though 49:06 you are attacked by earthly 49:09 old men worldly feelings. 49:13 You can say not I but Christ, amen, 49:20 which liveth in me 49:22 and a life which I now live in the flesh. 49:25 I live by the faith of son of God who loves me. 49:34 Are you with me? Oh! My friend 49:38 and who gave himself for me, 49:43 this is the only way, the bottom line is this. 49:48 Are you, are you running away from God 49:53 your like what me; I am not running way from God. 49:55 Look at me I am, I am in the church. 49:58 I go to church, I am not running away. 50:00 No, no, no, that's not what I mean. 50:04 Do you have something to hide before God? 50:13 If you do, it means two things, 50:17 you are running away and it means you're naked. 50:26 If you have something to hide from God, 50:29 you are running away and you're naked. 50:34 In the book of Revelation, 50:35 we go all the way to the book of Revelation, 50:36 let me show you this, Revelation chapter 16, 50:39 we read something very interesting, 50:42 Revelation chapter 16 let's go there. 50:44 Revelation chapter 16 the Bible says in verse 15, 50:48 notice regarding the second coming of Jesus 50:50 it says "Behold, I come as a thief! 50:55 " Revelation chapter 16 verse 15, "Behold, 50:58 I come as a thief! Blessed is he that watches me, 51:04 or stay awake and keepeth his garments, 51:12 righteousness of Christ. Keepeth his garments, 51:15 lest he what, walk naked, and they see his shame. 51:24 " How to be prepared for the second coming of Christ? 51:29 Why are those people running away from Jesus, 51:31 hiding from Jesus, asking the mountains 51:34 and the rocks to fall upon them. Why? 51:37 Because my friends the bottom line is 51:40 they see it now or they refuse to see before, 51:47 but now they really see it that they are naked. 51:54 So, in the last days covered people, 51:59 naked people, which one are you going to be? 52:06 And the question is how do I cover myself, 52:11 what do I need? You need righteousness of Jesus. 52:16 But, before you can have the righteousness of Jesus 52:20 and you cannot earn that righteousness only by faith 52:23 and surrender, but a condition. 52:29 What condition? Before you can have 52:30 the righteousness of Jesus, 52:32 you have to repent and confess. Okay, 52:34 repent and confess, but confessing, 52:41 the word confess means to acknowledge, 52:45 it means to May I say uncover. 52:49 So then before Jesus comes, what we need to do? 52:53 We need to uncover everything. 52:59 This is the reason why we are living in a day 53:01 and typical day of atonement, 53:03 afflicting our own soul. 53:05 Searching our own heart, 53:07 this is not righteousness by works no, 53:11 this is, I love Jesus; I want him 53:16 to have everything of me. 53:22 I don't wanna hold back anything from God. 53:24 God, search me, help me to uncover everything. 53:34 Because you love me so much, 53:39 I want to hate sin, 53:43 it's so easy to say, it's so easy to say 53:45 I hate sin, in Brother John. 53:49 I hate sin in Brother Susan, Sister Susan. 53:53 I hate sin in Brother Matthew, 53:57 I can say I hate sin over there, sin over there 53:59 but I love my sin. We need to uncover, 54:06 but look at this uncover means 54:09 not only to acknowledge, 54:14 but at the same time, I'm willing to hate the sin. 54:24 Jesus I give you the permission 54:27 to do a miracle in my heart. 54:31 Grant unto me perfect hatred towards a sin 54:36 and give me perfect love for your righteousness. 54:48 Then we can live without shame. Amen. 54:56 Amen. How many of you are willing to say Lord, 55:04 help me to live a life without shame, 55:10 if you do, stand please. |
Revised 2014-12-17