Christians Struggle Today

I know how difficult our times. The Holy Bible mentioned about the 21st century that it's going to be a century, no other centuries are like this one. You know, the Lord Jesus spoke about two places where sin had been to the brim, like to the fullness.

One, the time of Noah, the other one Sodom and Gomorrah. The 21st century collected both and put it together. The time of Noah and Sodom of Gomorrah, both of them are in the 21st century.

What was the time of Noah? The Lord Jesus says, at the time of Noah, people were marrying and remarrying, divorcing and hundreds of boyfriends and girlfriends. And Sodom and Gomorrah, same sex marriage. Both of them are happening in our time.

People are swapping partners as if they are buying veggies. And boy with a boy and a girl with a girl, it's the norm of the 21st century. And how dare you, you say otherwise, just like what happened to Israel, Fallal or whatever his last name is.

He was just quoting from the Bible. What? Did he commit a crime? No. Temptations are surrounding us from left, right and center.

But God is ever present. Yesterday He is, today He is and forever He is. He is the ever present God.

He is with us every moment, every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every year throughout our life journey on earth. Invoke the Holy Spirit. If you haven't asked the Holy Spirit to come in your life and help you do it from tonight going forward.

Holy Spirit, lead me to the Son of God. Because He came to teach me the first subject, in Him we live. Give me the life of Christ.

Therefore, teach me how to be worthy to receive the life of Christ. And the worthiness of the life of Christ is, I don't live for myself anymore. I want Christ to be my entire life.

And this only the Holy Spirit can do for you. Not the Son, not the Father, only the Holy Spirit. Please pay attention to what I'm saying.

The Trinity, it's a complicated topic. Because when you talk about the divine, who is wise enough, big enough to fathom, comprehend, let alone explain what Trinitarian God means. But in a simple term, I'll say it as a human being, in a simple term, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, how do they operate so harmoniously, so perfectly together? The Father is all love.

The Son is all sacrifice. The Holy Spirit is all wisdom. The Father is all love.

The Son is all sacrifice. The Holy Spirit is all wisdom. God the Father loves us.

That's why He brought us into existence. When we broke His Word, God the Son became a man like us and sacrificed Himself on the cross to wash away that sin, so that God the Father, we can be brought back to Him again and reunited once again. However, to accept and to reach the Son and the salvific plan of the Son and the redemption of the Son and the precious blood that was shed on Calvary of the Son, to receive that in my life, I need the Holy Spirit to lead me to Him.

Because it requires wisdom to understand how to get to the Son. And if I don't get to the Son, I can't get to the Father. And the Father is all love.

And the source of life is love. You want to live? You better reach the Father's love. And to reach the Father's love, it's only through the Son.

And to get to the Son, it's only through the Holy Spirit. So who is living with us now? The Holy Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you wisdom, so that you know how to live the life of Christ.

The first lesson, deny yourself to gain Christ's life. Well, now when Christ's life is in you, guess what? This life is not yours, it's Christ's. No wonder the second topic is, or the second subject, in Him, we move.

Well, if you're dead, you can't move. Now to move, you need to be alive. Now, since you became alive, and that life is Christ's, is not yours.

Therefore, now you need to watch how you move, because the life that is in you is of Christ. Therefore, your move in the world has to be of Christ, no one else. But what we do as Christians, yes I'm a Christian, yes I believe in Jesus Christ, but I want to do things my way.

But you cannot move your way, because now you are not living your life to move your way, you are living the life of Christ. Therefore, you have no right to live a life of Christ your way, it's got to be His way. But we fall, we make mistakes, the Lord knows that.

I'm not trying to make it so difficult and so kind of grim, that's why we need to come back. When I make a mistake, I need to come back. When I sin, I need to come back.

When I do something wrong, I need to come back and say, Lord I'm sorry. Now when you say Lord I'm sorry, that is the Holy Spirit bringing you back to the Lord Jesus. You need to invoke Him more and more in your life.

In John 16 verses 8 to 11, the Holy Spirit provokes us in three ways. He tells us off in a simple term, in three ways. One, sin.

Two, righteousness. Three, judgment. The Lord Jesus said, when the Holy Spirit comes, He will provoke you in these three ways, or sorry, rebuke you.

That's the word. He will rebuke you in three ways. John 16 verses 8 to 11, read it.

He will rebuke you because of sin. Why sin? Because they did not, meaning the world, they did not believe in me, I Jesus Christ. Because they did not believe in me, they remained in their sin.

The Holy Spirit will rebuke you. You who have been baptized into Christ, have put on the temple of God who is Christ, and the Holy Spirit is dwelling in you. When the Holy Spirit is in you, since you've been purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ, every time you make a mistake, the Holy Spirit will rebuke you.

Say, why are you making a mistake? Don't. You belong to Jesus Christ. So He will rebuke us because of sin.

The world did not know me. He will rebuke you on righteousness because I'm going to the Father, Jesus said. What does that mean? He will rebuke me on righteousness because I'm going to the Father.

The Lord said, wherever your treasure is, that's where your heart is going to be. What's your treasure in this life? Money? Fame? Prestige, position? Self-pride? What is your treasure? Wherever your treasure is, that's where your heart is going to be. Jesus says, if I'm your treasure, guess what? I've gone to the Father.

I am in the heaven of all heavens. If you're searching for me, why are you searching for me in the dark alleys of downtown? Why are you going clubbing searching for me? Are you? Why are you searching for me in drugs and alcohol and other stuff? I'm not there. Guess what? I went up and sat at the right hand of the Father.

The Holy Spirit will rebuke you on righteousness because what is righteousness? Doing everything that belongs to Christ. Christ says, I'm in heaven. If you search, lift up your head, your heart, your soul, and look up to heaven.

That's where I am. Give up on worldly glories and live heavenly glories and will rebuke us on judgment and the Lord says, because the prince of the world is being judged and the prince is Satan. Judgment is only given to Satan and in the fallen angels, the foul spirits that became later on.

God did not put judgment for no human being. Why? Because he created us to be his own child. Will a father judge his own child and sentence him to death? Impossible.

The father will kill himself and not kill his child. So judgment was never meant to be for no human being. Judgment was only for Satan and his foul spirits.

When we listen to Satan and this become disobedient to Christ, we become under the control of Satan. Judgment is for Satan and those who are under his control. When we walk with Satan, we are under his control.

Then the judgment that is upon Satan will become upon us. The Holy Spirit will ring a bell and say, you belong to Christ. Why are you following Satan? Do not be judged.

Come back before the judgment day. Because when the judgment day comes, it's too late to say, I'm sorry. How many young boys and girls died before repenting? They were shot dead in the streets of Sydney and they didn't get a chance to say, Jesus, I'm sorry, forgive me.

They did not. We need to come back to the Lord and the way to come back to the Lord is when we ask the Holy Spirit to guide me and show me the way. Lord, Holy Spirit, make me humble.

Let me live for Jesus, not for myself. Teach me, Holy Spirit. When I walk in humility, I'm gonna move in eternity.

When I walk in humility, I'm gonna move in eternity. In Him, we move. And when you move in eternity, the final subject before after and then graduation, in Him, we will be.

In Him, we will be. That's in the next life. On earth, Christ is in us.

In the next life, we are in Him. In this world, Christ is in us. In the next world, we are in Christ.

Christ says, if you allow me to be in you, meaning you live for me and allow me to be reflected through you to the world. I am the light of the world and the world is dark. If you allow me to shine through you to this dark world, I'll make sure that you will shine through me before my Heavenly Father in the next world.

And that'll be the end subject. In Him, we will be forever.