This sermon emphasizes the primary work that Jesus came to do, which is to save us from sin. It highlights the importance of focusing on being saved from sin as the main purpose, rather than secondary blessings like earthly provisions or healing. The message urges believers to prioritize surrendering to God, dying to self, and allowing Jesus to be the center of their lives to experience true freedom from sin.

We have to see, what is the primary work that Jesus came to do? He does many other things also, but what is the main thing? Like when your children go to school, they study, they play games, they may act in some dramas. But what is the main thing? You don't send your children to school to act in a drama. You don't send your children to school to play cricket. The primary reason you send them is to study. All the other things are secondary. Supposing there is one school that does not teach them anything, but only act dramas and play cricket. You will not send your child to that school. I will not send the child to that school. Because I say the first purpose of sending a child to school is its study. Other things like playing cricket or dramas and all are secondary. So in the same way, the first primary thing the Lord Jesus does is to save us from sin. That's what it says in Matthew 1.21. You should call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sin. Along with that, he may do many other things. He may provide our earthly needs. He may heal our sicknesses. And also take us to heaven. But even taking us to heaven is not a primary thing. The primary thing is to be saved from sin. The primary thing is to be saved from sin. Sometimes, I have seen people taking their children to places in the name of excursion. Actually, sending children to school is not a primary thing. The primary thing is to study. So, in all of our churches, we need to understand what is the first thing Jesus does. Nowadays, some churches are only saying how Jesus will bless you with earthly things. All their preaching is about how Jesus will give you money. How he will heal your sickness. Or how he will take you to heaven. He may do all that. But that is like a school that only has drama and cricket and excursion. That's all. What type of school is that? The main thing is studying mathematics and science is not there. Always they have dramas and football and cricket and picnics and excursions. That is how some churches are. The main thing is missing. What is the main thing? To save people from their sin. Instead of that, there are so many other things. Which are not bad. There is nothing wrong with drama and games and excursions. But that is not the main purpose of a school. So, in the church also and in our home also and in our life, we must see what is primary and what is secondary. What about your home? What is the main thing you must teach your children? I will tell you. To love Jesus with all their heart. To love one another. That is the most important thing. To honor their father and mother. When they are small. So that when they grow up, they will learn to honor God. If your children don't learn to honor you, father and mother at home, they will not learn to honor God when they grow up. Now, if your children have gone astray. And they are not following the Lord today. It is because you did not teach them the primary thing when they were small. You can't say that I sent them to Sunday school. The Bible does not say that Sunday schools bring up the children in the fear of the Lord. No, the Bible says, fathers, bring up your children in the instruction of the Lord. Many fathers are a failure. They don't teach their children anything in the Bible. They don't teach the children the fear of God. They just send them to school and give them a good earthly education. And those children grow up to be a disgrace to the name of Jesus Christ. That's a sin. It's a sin to bring children into the world and make them live for the world and the devil. If you are not going to bring up your children in a God-fearing way, then I tell you, it is better you don't have children. See, it is like if there is a war between India and Pakistan. You are going to train your children to fight in the Pakistan army or Indian army. In the same way, in the world today, there is a war between Jesus Christ and his army and the devil and his army. And I'll tell you, Jesus Christ's army is very, very small. And Satan's army is a huge, crores and crores of people. Because to come into Jesus Christ's army, you must be free from sin. So in Satan's army, you have to love sin. So most people go there. Now my question is, are you training your children to join Satan's army or Jesus' army? There are only two armies. And whether you like it or not, they are going to join one of them. I don't want my children to live even one day fighting in Satan's army. What do you do if your children are living for the world? I have heard many parents come to me and say, brother, please pray that my children will come to the Lord. I say, are you willing to pray what I tell you to pray? If your children are worldly, living for the world, they are not born again, not interested, Shall I tell you how to pray for them? Pray that they will have a road accident. And break their legs. And be put in a hospital. And lying in the hospital, they will cry out to God. Will you pray like that? Oh no, no, no, brother, we don't want to pray like that. Then you pray, Lord, let them live for the devil, let them live for the world. Let them make a lot of money. And let them live a very comfortable life in this world. And finally go to hell. And we will be in heaven. And we will see our children in hell. You want that? That will happen. Unless you pray something serious. That's what I would do. If my children are going astray, even one of them, if they are going astray, I will pray they will have a road accident and break their legs. Because that is better than going to hell. That is better than living for the devil on this earth. I don't want my children only to be believers and baptized. I don't want them to be disciples of Jesus Christ. Some of you may say, oh, thank God, my children are baptized. You are happy with that? Are you happy just with that? No, you shouldn't be happy. Say, Lord, they must be wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ. It's all a question of valuing the things that are important in eternity. We must flee from sin in our home. And we must not allow our children to bring sinful music into our home. Nowadays there is a thing called rock music. It is 100% from the devil. So many young people like to listen to that. Even children of believers. If your children bring that into your home, you have to tell them, in this house, the father must say, I am the head of this house. I decide what music is played in this house. When you get married and set your own home, you do what you like. But in this house, I am the head. I will not allow this music in my house. I will not allow these type of videos to be played in this house. I will not allow you to bring these type of books into this house. You are strict like that? Then your children will grow up to fear God. They may fight with you when you tell them all this. You can argue as much as you like, but I will not allow these things, because I am the head of this house. You must run away from sin in our house. You can't blame the children. They don't have enough understanding. They only learn some bad habits from their friends in school and college. They don't know how it will destroy them. But you have got sense. You must tell them. If you name the name of Jesus, you must give up all sense. That is what this verse says. So I want to explain a little more about sense. I want to explain a little more about sin. I told you how this Levite and the priest didn't care for that person lying on the street. Why was this? Why do people commit sin? Why do men like to lust after women? Why do we get angry with somebody if they cross our will? Why do you get angry with your wife and your husband? Why do you speak bad words against others? Why are you jealous of somebody who is better than you? All these sins have got a source. Yesterday I told you, the source of all these sins is pride. When I exalt myself, I want to tell you about another source from which these sins come. The source of these sins is that myself is the center of my life. All of us got a throne in our heart. And self sits on that throne. Myself. See, the devil said that in Job 2. You know, in the first chapter we read how God allowed Satan to kill Job's children and destroy all his business. And in one day, Satan killed all his ten children and destroyed all his business. Business came to zero. But Job was still worshipping God. And then God told Satan, You see, I allowed you to do all that to Job. Job 2.3 You, the last part, even though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason, yet he is holding fast to his integrity. Do you see him, Satan? He has lost his children. He has lost his business. Lost all his property. But he still worships me. And Satan said, I know what man is like. He may love his children and his property and all. But there is something he loves much more than his children and his property. There is something he loves much more than his wife. What is that? Himself. He loves himself more than his wife, children, everybody. See, verse 4. Skin for skin, all that a man has, he will give for his life. To protect his life. To protect his life. He is willing to lose everything. Have you read in the Old Testament in Genesis 20? Great man of God like Abraham. He was afraid some king would kill him because Sarah was a good looking woman, his wife. He was afraid. If I say this is my wife, the king will kill me and take her. So I will say she is my sister. The king will definitely take her then. And make her one of his wives. But see how selfish Abraham was. It does not matter if the king takes my wife and spoils her. I must be safe. Abraham was like that. And we are all like that. We care for ourselves. You may say you love your wife and your children, but you love yourself. There are some amazing stories in 2nd Kings where you read in Elisha's time. A woman used to eat their own children when they were so hungry. Can you imagine people are so hungry and there is no food? Those two women agree today I will kill my child, we will eat that, tomorrow we will kill your child and eat your child. Everybody loves themselves. That's why we get irritated with our children when they disturb us. That's why we get irritated with our husband and wife. Everything must center around my comfort. Everybody must make life very easy for me. Because self is sitting on the throne. So why do husband and wife have a fight? Because in the husband's heart he is sitting on the throne. And in the wife's heart she is sitting on the throne. And in the children's heart they are sitting on the throne. Always there is fight, fight, fight. What is the solution? What is the solution? Jesus said, we must be crucified. The husband must die. Inwardly. And Jesus must sit on his throne. And the wife must die to herself. And Jesus must sit on her throne. And we must teach the children to die to themselves. And Jesus sits on the throne. Then there is peace. Because in the husband's heart Jesus is on the throne. In the wife's heart Jesus is on the throne. In the children's heart Jesus is on the throne. Then there is peace. Then if somebody hurts me it's not important. If somebody speaks evil of me it doesn't matter. Because I have died. It's like a dead man here. You speak evil about him he is not bothered. You insult him don't care for him he is not bothered. This is the only way to be free from sin. In the old testament they could not be free from sin. Because this message of the cross was missing. There are two messages in the cross. One is Christ died for all my past sins. And not only that the second message is this that Jesus took me and crucified me with him on the cross. That is not to forgive my sins. To forgive my sins it was enough that he died on the cross. But the bible says Paul says in Galatians 2.20 You know that verse Galatians 2.20 Paul says I am crucified with Christ. No I don't live. Then you say Paul how are you living then? He says in the same verse. It's no longer I it's Christ living in me. Then what about Paul? Paul has died. Then who is living? Christ is living. It's like you go to some house and you say this man was living here. No he is not living here. People say he is not living here. But he was living here a few years ago. He was living he is dead and he is gone. Somebody we are new people living here. That is Christianity. Once upon a time Zach Ponnen was living inside his body. But he died. Now Jesus is living there. That is true Christianity. How did Zach Ponnen die? He was crucified by Jesus on the cross. But I thought only Jesus died on the cross. He died in order to forgive our sins. But he took Zach Ponnen also on the cross so that Zach Ponnen does not commit sin. So my question is this. You really want to be free from sin? There is only one way. Just like we tell the world there is only one way by which your sins can be forgiven. Only one way. That is Jesus died on the cross for you. For your sins. You believe that. You accept that. Somebody says no I cannot accept that. Then your sins cannot be forgiven. God won't force you. But your sins cannot be forgiven. You can try every other method your sins will not be forgiven. You have to accept that Jesus died on the cross for you. When a person accepts that Lord there is no other way. You died for all my sins on the cross. Please I turn from my sins. Forgive me. All the crores of sins I have committed in the past are all gone in a moment. That message I think all of you agree. But the second message of the cross the Lord says to you now here is the second message on the cross. The Lord Jesus says now I want to tell you not how to have your sin forgiven but how to be free from your sins. Now if you are only interested in forgiveness of sins then this one message is enough. And for many Christians that is enough. They are like babies who are always drinking milk milk milk milk. You know what you know how little baby you can't put meat into the mouth. You put meat into the mouth it will choke and die. It will spit it out because he doesn't like it. But milk it will just keep on drinking. You put a piece of meat it will spit it out. There are Christians also like that. What is the solid food? So Hebrews chapter 5 5 Everything is in the Bible. All the answers for our spiritual life are in the Bible. If you know where to find it Here the writer to the Hebrew says in chapter 5 verse 12 The time has come you are so grown up you should have been teachers. But you are still learning all the elementary lessons. And you are still drinking milk and not solid food. See it's like telling a person you are 30 years old you should be a teacher in this school. But you are still sitting in the kindergarten learning ABC. Can you imagine a 30 year old man sitting in the kindergarten learning ABC. See you are sitting here you should be a teacher in this school. That is what he is saying to these Christians. And I believe that's what the Holy Spirit is saying to some of us. You shouldn't be sitting learning just forgiveness forgiveness forgiveness. That is ABC. You sin and you ask forgiveness. You sin and you ask forgiveness. You sin and you ask forgiveness. You can't keep yourself clean. Little children are like that. They will dirty their underwears because you are only one year old. You don't know how to go to the toilet. So they will dirty their underwear. Then the mother will clean it. Then after three four hours again they will dirty their underwear. Again they have to clean it. Next day same thing. One year same thing. Two years same thing. Supposing your child is like that for ten years. What is this? He should be old enough now to go to the toilet. He is still changing his underwear. He does not know how to keep himself clean. That is how God feels about some of his children. They dirty themselves with sin and the Lord has to clean their underwear. Okay I forgive you. And after a few hours again they dirty themselves with sin. They are cleansed by the blood of Christ. Next year same thing. Next year same thing. Ten years later same thing. And the Lord says when will they grow up? That is what he is saying here. You should have been teachers by now. You should be helping your younger brothers to change their underwear but somebody has to change yours. You are still drinking milk. If somebody puts one small bit of bread into your mouth you spit it out. Only milk. How long are you going to drink milk? Five years, ten years, fifteen years you are still with the bottle? Many believers are like that. What is milk? Milk means only the message of forgiveness of sin. What is solid food? Solid food is called in verse 13 the word of righteousness. That is solid food. It is written here. Solid food means how to live a holy life. when somebody tries to live, put the message of how to live a holy life out, you say you don't want that. no, just give me milk. I like the message that Jesus died for my sins. That is milk, brother, sister. That is milk. It's good. We need milk even when we grow up. That is good for all of us. But there is another solid food called the word of righteousness. And that message is spit out. What is that message? Not only Jesus died on the cross, but you also were crucified on the cross. That is the word of righteousness. I will say it to you in the words of Jesus. Deny yourself and take up your cross every day and follow me. What is the milk? Repent of your sins and believe that Jesus died for all your sins. Then your sins will be forgiven. Let me repeat that. What is the milk? Repent of your sins and believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose again. Receive that. That is the milk. It is very good. When we are babies, we need it. But when we are grown up, we need that, but we need much more other things also. Even if you drink milk as a grown up, you drink very little milk every day. You need to die yourself following Jesus. That is not for forgiveness of sins. That is for overcoming sins. No child can grow up to maturity if it only drinks milk. It will become sick. No child can grow up to maturity drinks milk for 10-20 years. That's the trouble with many Christians. They don't want to eat the solid food. Be crucified with Christ. Accept that and say, Lord, I want to live that life every day. All Christians preach that Christ died for our sins. That he was crucified for our sins. But how many churches do they preach that you also were crucified with Christ? Galatians 220. Or like it says in Romans chapter 6. Verse 6. Our old man was crucified with Jesus Christ. Our old man was crucified with Christ. Why? To forgive our sins? No. To forgive our sins, Jesus dying is enough. It's written here. We are crucified with Christ not for the forgiveness of our sins, but so that we don't become slaves of sins. This is one step higher. Not forgiveness of sins, but that I don't become a slave of If you want to stop being a slave of you have to accept this message. If you don't accept it, there is no other way. Just like we tell the unbeliever, you must believe that Christ died for your sins. There is no other way. says no, no, no. There are many ways. But he will never get forgiveness. There is no other way. He said, I am the way. No one comes to the father, but by me. the same way I would say to all believers. There is only one way that you can stop being a slave of sins. is only one way by which other way is to accept that you were crucified with Christ. To take up the cross means every day you say, Lord, I accept that. See, it says here in verse 11, now consider yourself to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. What does that mean in practical terms in my life? Every day, I must consider Zak Poonen is dead. He died. Then who is living here in this body? This is one new owner has come. Jesus Christ. That's what Paul said. No longer Paul. Jesus Christ. Consider your old person to be dead. This body is not us. I hope you know that. I hope you know that. Your body is only a house. Inside this house you are living. One day when you die physically, it only means you left this house and went off to heaven. What people call death is not really your death. In death, all it means is that you left this body and went off to heaven. It's like if your child got admission and got a job in America and went off to America. You don't say he's dead. No, no, He's not dead. He from India he went to America. Same way what people call death. It's not really your He left this world and went to He got promoted to glory. That is what people call death. So, what this is speaking about now is that while we live in this body, inwardly, I can die. I can die and Christ can live in me now. If you accept that, you will not be a slave of sin. What do you have to do? Consider yourself to be dead to sin. Because it is true. Because we were crucified with Christ. God does not ask us to consider something which is not true. Supposing my son is studying in some college and he gives me a phone call. Daddy, please put three thousand rupees into my bank account because you have to pay the college fees tomorrow. What do I tell him? I don't tell him. Just shut your eyes and imagine that three thousand rupees is in your account. And just give a check. Nothing will happen. I have to tell him I am sending three thousand rupees into your account today. Or I can tell him yesterday I sent that three thousand rupees to your account. No, you don't have to go into the bank and check. Just trust my word. Just trust my word. I have already verified it has reached your account. And if my son trusts me, he won't go to the bank to check up if my father sent the money or not. My father has verified it and it is true. I can write the check without going to the bank. That is what he is saying here. Jesus says, your old man was crucified with Christ. Lord, I believe that. So, I consider that I have died. That means you don't believe that Jack Conan is fit to live. so bad, he has to be killed. It's like, you know, you use your scooter for so many years, repair it. And you're using it for 35 years with all these repairs. day the mechanic says, sir, there is no hope of this scooter. Please throw it away. You need another one. That is what the Lord is saying. This Jack Conan, there is no hope for him. He's useless. He's going to be killed. So, I'm going to kill him. I'll give you another life. Life of Jesus. His old life was what he got from Adam. He had tried to repair it. What do you mean by repairing the life of Adam? You hear in the message, you must behave nicely. Be nicely to your wife. a few days, you'll behave nicely to your wife. This is repairing the life of Adam. Or in some other area, you try to repair the life of Adam. But again, it gets spoiled. All the bad habits come back. Then you hear some message again, then you repair it. And the Lord says, listen to me. This life of Adam can never be repaired. It is useless. It's got to be killed. That is why I killed it on the cross with Jesus Christ. All you have to do is accept it. Say that your life is so bad, it must be killed. And Lord, I accept it. And then the Lord will remove it and give you another life. The life of Jesus. See, it says here in 2nd Timothy 2. No, this message is not how to get forgiveness of sins. This is to be free from sins. This is free from to be free from sin. It says in 2nd Timothy 2.11, this is a trustworthy statement. That's how it begins. You can be absolutely sure this is true. You can trust this statement 100%. What is that statement? If you die with him, we will definitely live with him. When Jesus went to the cross, he was absolutely sure that after 3 days he will come out. He didn't hang on the cross wondering, is this the end? No. This is only for 3 days. Then I'm going to come out. He was absolutely sure. That's why he could go to the cross with such boldness. Supposing somebody is coming to kill you and you are absolutely sure after 3 days you will come out of the grave with a better body. He said, go ahead, kill me. After 3 days I'll come out with a better body. You won't be afraid. That's why the Christian martyrs and all in the olden days were not afraid to be killed. They were burnt, they were thrown to the lions. They said, we're not afraid. You kill this body, God will give me a better body. I'm not afraid. So Jesus also, he knew he would be raised up. Spiritually, the same thing is true today. Supposing you hurt me, inwardly, this inner man, you insult it, you say all types of bad things about me, you get angry with me, you curse me, you curse me, but this man is dead. I accept it, he's dead. You can't touch it, he's dead already. And another person is living here now. I'm sure, if I accept this dying with Jesus, I will live with him. Do you know why many of you have got forgiveness of sins, but you've not got the life of Jesus? Please listen carefully. I'm sure, why is it many Christians, their sins are all forgiven, but they behave like Adam? Why is it so many preachers, elders, behave worse than the non-Christians? Why is it so many Christians are so selfish and bitter and hard to get along with? Why is many Christians are so selfish and bitter and hard to get along with? Because they're not willing to die to themselves. They can't eat solid food. They keep on drinking milk, forgiveness of sins, forgiveness of sins. Why are they afraid to die? Because they think God will not give them something better. You know, supposing there was a prince coming down the road driving in his big Mercedes car and he sees one beggar woman sitting there with a tin can and he gets out of the car and he tells this poor beggar woman, I want to marry you. Then we will have a joint account in the bank. I will put my crores and you put this fifty paisa you got in your thing also there. You want it or not? What should the beggar woman say? Well, he says, no, I'm not sure. I've got to think about that. What a foolish person you are. This is a picture of how Jesus comes to us. We are all like beggars sitting on the road side with our little fifty paisa in our thing. And Jesus, the prince of heaven comes and says to us, I want to marry you. I want to give you all the riches of heaven. What have you got? Fifty paisa? Let us put it together and let us have a joint account. Actually, we don't even have fifty paisa. We've got zero. Why don't you give everything to him? Say, Lord, I don't want to live myself anymore. I want you to live inside me. Then you will have the life of Jesus. That is solid food. And just like you want your children to eat solid food to grow, God wants all of you to eat solid food to grow. Of course, it's much easier to drink milk. You put meat inside your mouth, you have to bite it and chew it and all. It's a little more difficult than drinking milk. But how many of you sitting here would rather keep on drinking milk every day and eat no chicken, no mutton, nothing? No. You like to eat all those other things. Supposing I put a glass of milk before you and chicken biryani, which do you want? How many of you will say, I want the milk? Maybe a baby. You say, no, this is better. Wait, this you have to chew and chew and chew. This is like chicken pieces and you have to bite it. Milk is just easy. And it's in a bottle also. You can just keep on sucking it and drink it. It's much easier. Why don't you take that? No, no, no. I like to chew. I enjoy this. How foolish a person will go for that milk? It's like that. This is the message of forgiveness of sins. That's easy. Lord, I'm a sinner. Please forgive me. Gone. But this, take up the cross. You got to chew it. Why don't we take it? Because the devil has told us a lie. This is not good for you. He thinks that if we make Jesus the center of our life, our life will be unhappy. No, you're already unhappy. Because self is the center of your life. You know, when Jesus taught his disciples to pray, what was the first thing that Jesus please protect me from all my enemies. Please the Egyptians are chasing us. Please deliver us from them. Lord, the Syrians are now coming to attack us. Please deliver us from them. No, Lord, there's not been any rain for many days. Please give us some rain so we can have some food. Lord, we're very poor. Give us a lot of gold and silver. Or we are sick, Lord. Please heal us of this disease. deliver this Please deliver us from this disease. Please deliver us from this disease. us from this disease. Lord, give me food. Give me money. Give me healing. Deliver me from my enemies. Lord, that fellow is taking me to court. Please give me victory in Because self is on the throne. Self is in the center. Now Jesus said, from now on, pray in a different way. It's your father who art in heaven. I'm not asking about my court case or my healing. I'm not even asking for money. My first prayer is, Oh God, let my father, let your name be hallowed. I'm not asking anything for myself. Let your name be hallowed. My second prayer, let your kingdom come. My third prayer, let your will be done, not my will. See how Jesus was teaching them in prayer to change the center from self to God. When your prayer centers away from your self to God, then you become a spiritual person. When the thoughts in your heart are thinking more about God's kingdom than your kingdom, you become a spiritual person. If all your thoughts about me and my children and my family, my house, my job, my health, my future, my bank account, and the future of my children, my children's marriage, my children's education, these are the only things I think about and pray about. There's nothing wrong in it, but you're a baby. When are you going to grow up? A grown up person doesn't think of himself. See, for example, if a father is a businessman, and he's traveled to get orders for his business, after two or three months, he comes back. Then he's got a four-year-old son. What is he going to ask? He opens his suitcase and says, Daddy, did you bring any sweets for me? He says, he's not worried about anything else. Where are my chocolates? Where are my toys? But he's a 25-year-old son. He doesn't say, where are my chocolates and where are my toys? He says, Daddy, did you get some orders for our business? How is our business going? See, the difference between a four-year-old son and a 25-year-old son. What they ask their father for is different. The four-year-old is only interested, what can I get? My chocolate, my toys. But the 25-year-old son says, how is our business? Can we make some profit in our business? In all of us sitting here, we can be like that four-year-old or we can be like that 25-year-old. We go to God and all you ask is, what are you going to give me, Lord? Any new chocolate or new toy for me today? For me, my family, my health, my job, my house. I need a car now. I want this, I want that. But a person who is mature would say, father, your name is not hallowed in India. Your name is not being hallowed in Andhra Pradesh. The name of Jesus is being dishonored by the way Christians are living. The name of Jesus is being dishonored among so many non-Christian people because of the way Christian preachers and pastors are living. The name of Jesus is dishonored with all these wrong messages going on Christian television. They are not preaching about how to be free from sin. They are only telling you how to be healed and live on this earth and how to make more money on this earth. Which Christian TV preacher tells you how to overcome anger? Which Christian TV preacher tells you how to overcome the lust of your eyes? Which Christian TV preacher tells you how to die to yourself every day? They are preaching an old testament message. How to make money, how to be healed and all these type of things. Lord, your name is so dishonored by the preachers and pastors and television and everything. And your name is dishonored by all the Christians who are going and watching all these filthy movies. Oh, Lord, I am not praying you will give me better car and better house. I am praying, Lord, honor your name in Andhra Pradesh. Honor your name in India. Do something, Lord, that the Christians will honor your name in India. That is how the mission is. I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am praying, Lord, I am something more than that. Lord, I'm a little sick, please heal me. We can ask for everything. First, we must pray, Hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done. So, the Lord is not saying you should not pray for yourself. But he's saying put God first. That is the way to be free from sin. Where self is not the center anymore. This man sitting on the throne, this me, kill him and put Jesus there. Lord, now you are on the throne. I'm not going to ask what is good for me, I'm going to ask what is good for Jesus. When I'm watching a television program, if self is sitting on the throne, I enjoy that. But if Jesus is sitting on the throne, when that television program comes or some serial movie comes, not me, but Christ is living in me. Can Christ enjoy this movie? No. And I don't want to enjoy. I die, so that Christ can live in me. What a wonderful way God has made. We must be free from sin, if I choose to go this way. Let's pray. We have to see what is the primary work that Jesus came to do. He does many other things also, but what is the main thing? Like when your children go to school, they study, they play games, they may act in some dramas. But what is the main thing? You don't send your children to school to act in a drama. You don't send your children to school to play cricket. The primary reason you send them is to study.