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New Covenant - Jesus Revealed Father - Part 5
Zac Poonen

Zac Poonen (1939 - ). Christian preacher, Bible teacher, and author based in Bangalore, India. A former Indian Naval officer, he resigned in 1966 after converting to Christianity, later founding the Christian Fellowship Centre (CFC) in 1975, which grew into a network of churches. He has written over 30 books, including "The Pursuit of Godliness," and shares thousands of free sermons, emphasizing holiness and New Testament teachings. Married to Annie since 1968, they have four sons in ministry. Poonen supports himself through "tent-making," accepting no salary or royalties. After stepping down as CFC elder in 1999, he focused on global preaching and mentoring. His teachings prioritize spiritual maturity, humility, and living free from materialism. He remains active, with his work widely accessible online in multiple languages. Poonen’s ministry avoids institutional structures, advocating for simple, Spirit-led fellowships. His influence spans decades, inspiring Christians to pursue a deeper relationship with God.
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of knowing God as our Father through Jesus Christ, highlighting how Jesus came to reveal the Father to us. It discusses the significance of understanding God's care for even the smallest details of our lives, like the hairs on our head, and challenges believers to trust in God's knowledge and provision for every situation. The message addresses the root of anxiety and insecurity as a lack of knowledge of the Father and encourages a faith-filled claim to our identity as privileged sons and daughters of God.
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Now I want to say to you in Jesus' name that you can know the Father. No man comes to the Father but by me. We quote that verse to the unbeliever. I tell you I have to quote that verse to believers. You fellas need to come to the Father through Jesus and know Him. That which old covenant people never knew. See this wonderful verse in John's Gospel chapter 1. John's Gospel chapter 1. See this is through the revelation of the Trinity at the baptism of Jesus. There was no revelation of the Trinity before that. No one knew that there was this wonderful Father in heaven. No one knew about it. It says in John chapter 1 verse 18. No one has seen God at any time. That means no one knew what God was like at any time. But the only begotten God, the Son of God who is in the bosom of the Father, the God who is in the bosom of the Father, Jesus, He has explained Him. What did Jesus come on earth to do? To explain the Father. You remember the old days when you used to study mathematics in school and you had say some particular problem in trigonometry or geometry or something like that you just couldn't figure out. And then one day you got someone who was a very good mathematics teacher. The mark of a good teacher is that he can make the most complicated things simple. Whether it's mathematics or chemistry or physics or the Bible. When people say something in a very complicated way, you know pretty well the fellow doesn't know his subject. But that's I've come to find that as a rule. When a man speaks in a complicated way on any subject, he doesn't know his subject. I've found that greatest scholars in any area are the people who can make amazing truths very simple. It's like that, explaining the Father. And you didn't know that particular way that particular problem was solved in geometry or something. And one day somebody explained it and you say, boy, I got it now. Do you say I got it? Knowing God as a Father. If you got it, it would change your whole life. I know that's what happened to me. There was a time in my life many, many, many years after I was born again. I got it. He is my father. He's my dad. He made all the difference in my life. I was not insecure anymore. Will you believe me today when I say I'm not jealous of a single human being in the whole world. I'm not jealous of anybody who's got more than me, who can preach better than me, whose church is bigger than ours, or whose ministry is greater than ours, who is more anointed though he's younger than me, who's got a greater fire than me, though he's much half my age. It's impossible. I'm not jealous of somebody who has got anything more than me, whose children are better than mine, or anything in the world. I'll tell you the secret. I have known my father and I've known that he made me exactly what I'm supposed to be. I'm not worried about anything. I don't worry about losing even the little hair I have. You can be worried about small things like that. I tell you, it's insecurity. The next time you get worried about falling hair, know where the answer is. Know where the answer is. You think that your Heavenly Father knows nothing about it. Jesus specifically spoke about it, and he said, the hairs on your head are numbered. I praise God for that. Jesus took the most insignificant thing to show the intensity of our Heavenly Father's care for us. Verses that Christians don't believe. The hairs on your head are numbered. Can you tell me anything in your life that is more insignificant than one out of your hundreds of thousands of hair falling off your head? Do you think of anything more insignificant than that? Any of you, when you woke up in the morning, you saw hair on your pillow, and you got really worried? One hair. Jesus took that most insignificant thing and said, your Heavenly Father knows it. And do you know there are believers who think that if they get cancer, God doesn't know it and is not bothered? In fact, even in our churches, in CFC, many people think, God doesn't know my problems. He doesn't know about all the corruption I have to face in my office. He doesn't know. He doesn't care. He doesn't know about all the things I'm struggling to bring up my family, the needs I have. He doesn't know. He doesn't care. Verses that CFC believers don't believe. Insecurity, because there's no knowledge of His Father and my Father. All the anxiety is because of a lack of knowledge of the Father. Every day has got trouble. Jesus said that. I don't expect tomorrow to be without trouble. I don't know what it is. I don't know what I'm going to face tomorrow, but I know one thing. That my Heavenly Father knows it already. I don't know what lies ahead of me, week from now, year from now, ten years from now. But I know that every single second, anything that happens to me, my Heavenly Father knows it already. And if He knows it already, He's prepared some solution for it. Because I'm His son. In case you didn't know, I'm one of the privileged sons of the ruler of the universe. That's your position too, but you don't seem to claim it. That's your business. I claim it. And claiming it is not an act of arrogance. It's an act of faith. Whenever we try to act in faith, the devil says, aha, don't be so proud. We try to be humble and say, okay, I'm not a son of God. I'm just an ordinary sinner. But that's why you're so miserable. That's not pride. It's faith. When God says He chose me before the foundation of the world, I say, yeah, He did. You mean a rotten sinner like you? That's right, a rotten sinner like me. He chose me before the foundation of the world. Why do you think I'm so happy? Why are you so miserable? Why are you so anxious? Why are you so worried? You really believe, tell me honestly, do you really believe that the most insignificant thing in your life, like a hair dropping from your head, your heavenly Father knows about it? Do you really believe what Jesus said, that no bird will fall, die of starvation, without your Father knowing about it? Tell me. We've gone down the roads and walked here and there for many years. How many birds have you seen die dead of starvation on the ground? Can you tell me how many you saw in your life? In 68 years, I can't even count the number of birds I found dead on the ground. And most of them didn't die of starvation, even if they were there. That's the example Jesus took to deliver us from worry. So, I believe that this is a very important thing in the New Covenant. The whole purpose of Jesus coming was to make his Father, my Father, it's absolutely unbelievable unselfishness. You see, we can't even dream of this type of unselfishness, that Jesus is sitting in heaven, enjoying everything there in all eternity, and he sees us miserable people on earth, and he says, they must enjoy what I'm enjoying here. I can't bear to see them not enjoying what I'm enjoying here. Then he knows the price he'll have to pay if he goes down to try and make them enjoy what he's enjoying there. They'll treat him badly. They'll misunderstand him. They'll call him the devil. They'll kill him. He says, I'll go through it all, but at least some will come here. For some, Jesus himself said, very few find the way to life.
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Zac Poonen (1939 - ). Christian preacher, Bible teacher, and author based in Bangalore, India. A former Indian Naval officer, he resigned in 1966 after converting to Christianity, later founding the Christian Fellowship Centre (CFC) in 1975, which grew into a network of churches. He has written over 30 books, including "The Pursuit of Godliness," and shares thousands of free sermons, emphasizing holiness and New Testament teachings. Married to Annie since 1968, they have four sons in ministry. Poonen supports himself through "tent-making," accepting no salary or royalties. After stepping down as CFC elder in 1999, he focused on global preaching and mentoring. His teachings prioritize spiritual maturity, humility, and living free from materialism. He remains active, with his work widely accessible online in multiple languages. Poonen’s ministry avoids institutional structures, advocating for simple, Spirit-led fellowships. His influence spans decades, inspiring Christians to pursue a deeper relationship with God.