Are You Fake?

But you see, when Jesus represents us built on that love, he represents us all the imperfect as perfect children of God, because he is our advocate. Now the Lord says, just like I am representing you before my dad, who art in heaven, I expect you to represent me before the world. How are we representing before the world? By lying, by killing, by stealing, by using foul language.

This is not the Lord. The Lord is holy. The Lord is the light of the world.

The Lord is the truth. How are we representing the Lord? By walking in dark alleys. This is not a true representation of the Lord.

We need to reflect him in our life before the world. The world is living in darkness. The world is living in the bosom of someone who is the father of all lies, called Satan.

That's why the world gives you nothing but lies. Just like good old Winston Churchill, who happened to be the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II, and he said his powerful statement. He said, I thought the atomic bomb was the most powerful weapon in the world.

It is not. The most powerful weapon in the world is the truth. And that is why it is quite often being surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

But when you have Christ in your heart, Christ is the teacher, not a teacher, the only teacher. What will Christ teach you? Truth, for he's light. And when you are in the light, everything is vividly clear.

Everything becomes extremely clear. This is the Lord. All he knows is to speak the truth.

That's why the world hates the truth. That's why the world hates the light. That's why the world hates love.

See, some people think that love is weak. In fact, love is the most powerful thing ever to exist. Love moves mountains.

What is the definition of a true man? The definition of a true man is not the one that says, I can knock this wall down. I can break the teeth that are in your mouth. No, a true man is the one who is able to give his life for the one he loves.

That is a true man. Sacrifice. It takes sacrifice to make men.

So a man is not defined by his physical powers, but by the powers of his sacrifices. And it takes love for you to sacrifice because it is impossible to give your life for someone unless you love that someone more than yourself. That's why we see love more so vividly clear and so strong in parenthood.

Parents give their life for their children. Do they think for a moment when they have that baby, do they ever think for a moment, why am I working so hard to provide for my baby? Why am I having endless and sleepless nights for the sake of the well-being of my baby? Why is it when the baby cries, I run like crazy to my baby? When they have a high temperature, I go to the doctor and I don't look at the time, whether it be early morning or any time of the day, because all I care about, this baby is my life. He is me.

Do you ever think for a moment, parents, that who says with all the love I'm showing my baby, with all the sacrifices I'm giving my baby, who says this baby, once they grow older and become mature, who says they will respect what I've done for them? They never think. Why? Because love, all it thinks is I have to give because this baby is more precious than my own life to me. This is absent in this world.

What does the world do? I will do anything and everything in my power, even if it means I kill my own brother for me to be seen in the picture, then I'll do it. The world takes, Christ gives. The world kills, Christ revives, Christ revives.

And the name of his father was written on their foreheads. That name is L O V E, capital letters. L for Lord, L for light, L for life, L for liberty.

The Lord Jesus, who is the capital L, came to give us liberty, to give us the light, to give us life eternal. And then after he done what he did on the cross, he came back and he said, now you have the second letter O, you have an obligation to take my love with you. And wherever you go, carry this love.

Fear not for the one who is in you, much greater than the one who is in the world, because I crushed Satan. And whoever makes Satan their God, then let them know that their God is under the foot of your God. And his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

You have an obligation to take this love, which is life, which is liberty, which is light, which is the Lord himself. Take it to the world and engage in this battle based on love, not hatred, based on love and true, genuine love who came down from heaven. Take this love and engage in this battle to take the love to a place that lacks love altogether.

They will fight against you. But remember, when you have Christ with you, the end result is already predetermined before you even begin the battle. And that end result is V for victory.

And unless you are victorious, you can never be rewarded. And unless you engage in a battle, you can never find out if you were ever victorious. And unless you have the Lord with you, don't ever engage in no battle, because without the Lord, you will definitely fail.

But when the Lord is with you, then go and engage in that battle of love, because the end result is victory. And when you are victorious, the final reward will come with the capital E, Eternity. This is your home.

This is the kingdom of your father, which was made for you before the creations of the world inherit the kingdom of your father, which is eternal life. E, Eternity. L, Life.

I am the beginning and the end. I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the first and the last.

My name is love. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters. Is it still hot? Yeah? Let me make it a little bit cooler, if we can.

I know it's my presence because I'm normally hot. They named Sizzler after me, but it went bankrupt because it was not as hot as this good-looking bishop, brother. So, yes.

And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters. The Lord Jesus God works through us all in three ways. Sum it up very quickly.

Works with us in our life in three ways. And I heard a voice from heaven, the first way, like the voice of many waters. Many waters is the first way.

Second way, and like the voice of loud thunder, the third way. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. God works through those who choose him to be their Lord and Savior in three ways.

He works with you through the way of many waters. He works with you through a loud thunder. He works with you through playing of the harp.

Let's come to each one. A voice like many waters. In Revelation 1 15, John the Beloved says in the book of Revelation chapter 1 verse 15, he says, and his voice as the sound of many waters.

But before that, whose voice was the sound of many waters? Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. So, many waters is the who is the Son of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. His voice is the voice, the sound of many waters.

But before that, he said, and I saw his feet like fine brass being put through an inferno. His feet, John the Beloved saw them in the heart of fire. But he said his feet were made of fine brass, copper.

In other translations, when you expose copper to fire, it becomes stronger. If you expose silver or gold, which are more precious, they melt, they become liquid. But guess what? Copper, when you expose it to fire, becomes as hard as the rock.

Good luck breaking it. So that fire is our sin. Our sins is like that fire.

Just like the fire burns, our sins have been burning us for so long. The Lord Jesus came to take our sins upon himself. That's why he stood in the midst and the heart of our sins.

But his feet are like copper. So he came with his holy fire, the fire of the Holy Spirit. So when he entered our fire sins with his holy fire, he burned our fire.

He took away the sins of the world. So when he took away my sins, what did he do? He said his voice was like as many waters. See, when somebody gets burned, what do you do? You put cold water on that burn to cool you down now and make you feel comfortable.

After my sin is forgiven, I need to be comforted. What is that comfort? I need to be proven to me that I am still his son. You see, when I sinned, I lost that sonship.

So when he came and forgave my sins, I'm still not sure I'm still his son. Maybe he doesn't love me anymore. Maybe I am no longer that son that he loved once upon a time.

The Lord will come back with his voice, that cooling, soothing water. He will come and say you were my son, you are my son and will always be my son. So the moment I took you out of the fire of your sins, I reinstated in you that confidence.

You have never lost that position. You're still my beloved son whom I love the most. So what is the sound of many waters? Jesus Christ who is the word of God, Logos, as the sound of many waters, he is your friend.

He walks along with you. He comforts you. He taps on your shoulder and he says, I still love you.

You're still my child. So this is a friendship walking together. But the voice of a thunder, it is the same word.

But that thunder, my beloved, this time comes from above, from heaven. And it comes through what? The thunder, my beloved, it is an accumulation of electric charges in the atmosphere. When that accumulates and then when the clouds come and hit one another, an explosion happens in heaven.

Now what is this cloud made out of? Water. There is water below and there is water above. The cloud is also water.

But how did this water get up? The sun strike the ocean. From the heat, the water of the ocean started evaporating. When the water turned into vapor, vapor is lighter water than liquid water.

So the vapor started going up. As it went up, the air is much cooler up there. When the air hits this vapor, that vapor that got struck by that cold air, it turned into a cloud full of water.

It's still water. But his voice is like many waters below. Below, he is your friend.

He's walking with you. He is washing away your sins. He is comforting you.

But as long as you are following him, he will always comfort you as many waters. But the day that comes, you break his word and you start doing things against him, those many waters will turn will turn into a thunder, a cloud above full of waters. What is the cloud above? His very word, the same word that befriended you, it's gonna rebuke you, discipline you and break you.

The Lord says, you accept my word, I'll set you free. You reject my word, I'll break you in order to make you. Therefore, my beloved, when the Lord is good with you, never leave him.

And when the Lord is disciplining you and breaking you, never leave him. Both ways remain with him because the one who is your friend and the one who is a thunder to you, breaking you is the one who died for you. You will never find anyone that loves you more than Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The day we walk away from the Lord and start doing things our way, he'll come as a thunder and the thunder will shake us, break us and then make us. But if you come and repent before him and say, Lord, please take me. I don't want to live for the world anymore.

I want to belong to you. He is the many waters. He'll come and say, come my child.

I'll put you in the core of my heart while I give you eternal peace and internal peace. See, the world gives you external peace and everything that is external is temporal, but everything that is internal is eternal. The invisible is eternal.

The visible is temporal.