God's will for us is to live in victory all the time, to be always in triumph, and to overcome sin through prayer and the Holy Spirit.
This sermon emphasizes the importance of living in continuous victory as God's will for believers. It highlights the need to maintain a perfectly good conscience by immediately confessing and correcting any slips or falls, leading to a life of triumph in Christ. The speaker encourages believers to overcome Satan by quoting the word of God and to cultivate a spirit of humility and obedience to experience God's presence and victory in their lives.
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God's will for us is that we live in victory all the time. We read that in 2 Corinthians 2. 2 Corinthians 2. Chapter 2 and verse 14. Thanks be to God who always leads us in his triumph in Christ.
If you read the Old Testament, history of Israel, we learn many lessons. For example, God's will was they should come out of Egypt and enter Canaan. But for 40 years, they experienced only the first part, coming out of Egypt.
They never entered into Canaan. We can say they experienced half the gospel. That is the picture of most believers.
Their sins are forgiven, but they have never come to a life where they kill the giants in their own life. Even after they came into Canaan in the book of Joshua, from the book of Judges, till the last book of Malachi, their experience is always up and down and up and down and up and down. Sometimes they would have some victory.
Then they would be defeated by their enemies. Then they would come up and down. The book of Judges was like that.
Then the book of Kings and Chronicles, same story. Sometimes they would please God. Then they would worship idols.
Then God would send a prophet. Then they would turn back to God. Then they would go down again.
The entire history of Israel was up and down and up and down throughout their life. But that was not God's will. The Lord told them in Deuteronomy 28 verse 13.
You will always be on top. You will never be underneath any other nation. That is the same thing we read here.
Always in triumph. Do you know that is God's will for you? But like Israel, if you don't believe God, then it will be up and down and up and down and up and down. For many years of my life after I was born again, my life was also like that.
That's because I never heard about the life of victory. Nobody ever preached it. For 16 years after I was born again, I never heard it.
I never heard about the life of victory over sin. I was fed up of my life. I was fed up.
That's when I started seeking God. When you are fed up of your life, when you are fed up of your life, It's something like when your child has a fever, you may pray. But when the doctor says there's no hope your child is going to die, then you pray desperately.
So there's a difference in the way we pray depending on how serious the situation is. How will you pray if the doctor says your child has got a very serious sickness, there's no cure for it? You know God can cure anything. How fervently you will pray, you will fast, you will do so many things.
There are ordinary prayers and there are fervent prayers. That depends on how serious you think the situation is. What I want to ask you is, how seriously do you pray to be free from sin? Is sin just like some small fever or is it a very serious sickness? For many believers, sin is like some small fever.
They pray, Lord, I'd like to get victory. They pray just like they would pray if their child has got a small fever. But when you see sin as a very serious sickness, Oh, you will pray fervently.
You will fast and pray that you want to be free from sin. When you realize that to be filled with the Holy Spirit is the only way to live the Christian life, you will seek with all your heart to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And I'll tell you something, you will not be satisfied with speaking in tongues if you are still defeated in your life.
You will be satisfied only when the Lord delivers you from sin's power. Don't be satisfied with anything less than that. Remember, the name Jesus means he shall save his people from their sickness.
Some people think the name Jesus means he will make his people speak in tongues. Or they shall call his name Jesus because he will heal the people from their sicknesses. Please read your Bible more carefully.
Matthew 1.21 is very clear. You shall call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins. He may do many other things.
But this is the main thing. 99% is this. The remaining things are all small things.
But people are taken up with those small things. Even if you don't have those other things. I tell you, even if I don't have health and I don't speak in tongues, I'll be very happy if I get victory over sin.
Even if I don't have health and I don't speak in tongues, I'll be happy if I get victory over sin. Even if I don't have a ministry or a church, that's okay. That is all 1%.
99% of my life is I must overcome sin because that is the only way I can please God. 99% of my life is I must overcome sin because that is the only way I can please God. You can't please God with ministry.
If you are defeated by sin. Your ministry can please God when you are also overcoming sin. A great tragedy in India today is people have exalted ministry as the most important thing.
Overcoming sin is not important. A great tragedy in India today is people have exalted ministry as the most important thing. Overcoming sin is not important.
Many preachers are thinking of ministry, ministry, ministry. I told the Lord, you can take away my ministry. I don't care if I don't speak again for the rest of my life.
I don't care if you paralyze me and put me on a bed for the rest of my life. But I want to live in victory every moment of every day. Ministry is secondary.
Everything is secondary. Because Jesus did not come to earth to give me a ministry. He came to earth to save me from my sin.
So don't be satisfied that you have a ministry. Don't be satisfied that you go to church. Don't be satisfied even that your children are all saved.
Are you saved from sin? Are your children being saved from sin? Are they free from the spirit of the world? You know if you are satisfied with little, that's all we will have. Supposing you say, Oh, I am happy. My children are all saved and baptized.
If you are happy with that, that's all you will get for your children. I was not happy when my children were saved and baptized. I said, Lord, they must live for you.
They must overcome sin. They must be filled with the Holy Spirit. They must serve you.
I am not going to be satisfied that they are saved and were baptized. We must pray for them. I have already started praying for my grandchildren that they will start serving the Lord when they grow up.
They live for God. Please don't be satisfied, Oh, my children are saved and they are baptized. Please don't be satisfied, Oh, my children are saved and they are baptized.
That's not enough. You must say, Lord, every one of my children must live 100% for you. If your children have children, pray for your grandchildren now itself.
That they will grow up to live for God. Why? Because in this world, there are very, very few people living for God. 99% of people live for the devil.
Even so many believers. They watch dirty movies, they watch filthy things on television. What type of believers are they? They waste their time gossiping and talking.
They don't know the Bible. They are deceived by all these false preachers. In the midst of all these deceived believers, God has got a few.
Who really want to live for Him. Who know the Scriptures. Who will not be deceived by the false preachers.
God wants such people. You and I must be like that. You and I must train our children, sons and daughters to be like that.
Our sons and daughters must grow up to prophesy. The Holy Spirit must come upon them. They must be filled.
That is God's will for us. That is God's will for us. There is a promise in Isaiah that says, I will put my spirit upon your children and upon your children's children.
You must claim such promises. If you don't know where that promise is, you must find out. Once a brother asked, where is this verse brother? I said, if I tell you, you will be lazy.
You find it out yourself. It is good to search the Bible. And after you search for six months, if you still don't find it, then come to me.
But in those six months, you would have studied quite a bit of the Bible. While you are searching for one verse. You know the reason why so many Christians are deceived today is because they don't study the Bible.
Dear brothers and sisters, Let's really be available to God because we are approaching the end of time. There are two things that come up in the newspapers that remind me that we are close to the coming of Jesus Christ. When I read these two things in the newspapers, I realized that we are close to the coming of Jesus Christ.
I will show you two verses. First of all, Luke 21 Jesus said in verse 24 Luke 21 verse 24 Luke 21 verse 24 That means Jerusalem will not be in the hand of Israel, but in the hands of other nations. When Jesus was there, Jerusalem was not in the hands of Israel, it was under the Romans.
Every year for 1900 years, Jerusalem was ruled by other nations. Only in 1967, Jerusalem came back into the hands of Israel. That was only 42 years ago.
For 2000 years, they did not have control over that city. Even when Jesus was there. But 42 years ago, for the first time in the history of Israel, in 2000 years, they got it back under them.
Now it has come under their rule. It shows that the time of God's work has come to an end even with non-Jews. We read in verse 32 that this generation will not pass away until everything is fulfilled.
We read in verse 32 that this generation will not pass away until everything is fulfilled. How long is a generation? 70 years? Then we are very close. The coming of Christ is very close.
It can happen at any time. So we must be ready. The second thing we read.
I want to show you another verse in Revelation chapter 16. First of all chapter 9, Revelation 9. It is repeated twice in Revelation. Chapter 9 verse 14.
There are seven angels that sound the trumpet in Revelation. And the last trumpet is when Jesus comes, the seventh trumpet. And before that the sixth angel sounded, verse 13, chapter 9 verse 13.
The next trumpet is the last trumpet. Now the sixth trumpet was blown. And then verse 14, when the sixth trumpet was blown.
It said release the four angels, means the demons who are at the great river Euphrates. And those angels are demons who were angels once upon a time. And they are going to be released who are bound at the moment.
And when they are released, they will go and kill one third of mankind. And this is through war. And in that war, verse 16, there will be armies of 200 million people.
In that 16th verse we read, there will be armies of 200 million people. Now take this 16th verse. Verse 12.
The sixth angel poured the bowl upon the river Euphrates. This is all symbolic language. Now the river Euphrates goes through the middle of Iraq.
So the Lord is saying, in the last days there is going to be a lot of war around Iraq. For thousands of years there was no war in Iraq. But now the last six years or so, it is war, war, war, war all the time.
Now what does this indicate? Verse 15. I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his garment.
Blessed is the one who walks naked and men see his shame. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his garment. He is not saying blessed is the one who is born again.
The born again person must stay awake. And keep his garments from being spoiled. Otherwise he and he will walk about naked.
So I see there are two places in the world mentioned in relation to the last days. One is Jerusalem and the other is Iraq. So when I see Jerusalem and Iraq in the papers everyday, I lift up my head.
Lord this is wonderful, your coming is near. This is not the time to live carelessly. This is not the time to go to sleep spiritually.
This is the time to be awake. And alert to what the Lord is saying. And to live for eternal things.
And train our children to live for eternal things. Are you doing that? Or you are happy your children are saved and baptized? That's not enough. Are you happy that things are a little peaceful in your church? There are no conflicts like in other churches? You know there are some elders who say, Brother everything is peaceful in my church, there is no conflict.
What's the use of that if your people are not becoming spiritual? You are happy that they don't come and fight with you as elders? What a shameful thing. That I am happy that they don't fight with me. Is that enough to make you happy? In our church nobody has fought with me for 35 years.
But I am telling you today, I am not happy with people in CFC. Because many of them are not wholehearted, they are not spiritual. So I will never be happy, oh we don't have any conflict in our church.
If you are happy with that, that's all the level you will have in your church. You have to stir people on to be filled with the spirit and have the fire of God. And become spiritual.
To have their heart filled with love for Jesus Christ. To obey all his commandments. To be separate from worldly people.
See in our Bangalore church I have told young people, You see there are two types of young people in CFC. One is little worldly. The others are not.
One dress in a worldly way and behave in a worldly way. They watch worldly movies and all types of things. Why do you want to follow them? Let them go whichever way they want, let them go to hell.
I mean they hear enough in the church, if they don't hear, if they don't respond to it, I am not bothered. But then there are others, who are really seeking to follow the Lord. Why don't you follow their example? In every church in the world, there will always be worldly people.
And if you keep complaining about them and talking about them, you will also become like that. I say ignore them. If you can change them, change them.
If they are not willing to listen, forget about them and you follow the Lord. You know Joshua and Caleb decided to ignore 600,000 people and said we are going to follow the Lord. You know Joshua and Caleb decided to ignore 600,000 people and said we are going to follow the Lord.
That is the spirit we must have. Even if 600,000 people in your church live worldly, I am not going to follow them. There are only two people who are godly.
I am going to follow them. Remember this. In every church in the world, I have never seen a church where more than 50% are spiritual.
I have never seen a church in my whole life where more than 50% are spiritual. It may be like that in the beginning when they start with 6 or 8 or 10 people. Because they are wholehearted people, they are coming together.
As the church grows, somebody's brother will come, somebody's sister will come. Somebody's brother-in-law will come. Somebody's nephew will come.
We don't turn them away. And the church increases in size. And these people don't have the same passion and vision of those who started in the beginning.
I have seen this in Bangalore. What shall I do? Shall I tell them all to go away? They are coming. I hope some of them will be gripped and get converted after 10 years.
But I am not deceived that all the 300 people who sit there on Sunday morning are spiritual. Maybe about 20 people are spiritual. It's not easy to find spiritual people in any church.
Who is a spiritual person? Those who love Jesus with all their heart. They don't have any love for anything else on this earth. They are not here to please father or mother or wife or children or anybody.
They want to please the Lord. And at the same time they love everybody else. They don't hate anybody.
They don't even hate somebody who calls them bilzy book, prince of devils. Those are the whole hearted people. Who know how to love believers in other denominations.
They may not agree with them but I love them. Because they love the Lord. There are some areas I disagree with them so I can't work with them.
But they are children of God, I love them. There are many great preachers in India who I knew personally. I didn't agree with them but I love them.
I disagree with them but I am not here to judge them. I am not here to judge them but I can't work with them. I can't work with them.
But I can love them. We are supposed to love everybody. If you are whole hearted, God is number one in your life all the time.
Then you will experience what Paul experienced. Like he says here. Did you read 2 Corinthians 2? Verse 14.
Praise be to God who always leads us in triumph. Like I told you earlier. I don't say I am always going in triumph.
That is true. But see how he explains it. God is manifesting the aroma of Christ through me in other places.
God is making his knowledge manifest in every place through me. So that is the right way to say it. And to believe it.
It is God who is leading me in victory. God who is giving me the words to speak. God who is manifesting the life of Christ through me.
And here he says. God does it all the time. It is not like this old testament.
Sometimes up, sometimes down. You know many believers. The reason they look forward to a conference.
Is because they are in a back slit environment. They are in a back slit environment. Between two conferences they are in a back slit environment.
When they come to a conference they get all stirred up. They last for some time and then they back slit again. See the picture in my mind is.
One dying man in a hospital. But they give him some injection. And he jumps out of bed and he has got so much energy.
And he can even play football and everything. But as the effect of the injection wears out. He slowly slows down.
And after one week he is back in the bed again. Then what is he waiting for? Another injection. Then he can jump up again.
Many believers live exactly like that. Conference they get three four injections. Then they get up and jump about.
And they are so zealous. They are so kind and good in the house. Everybody is speaking respectfully to each other in the house.
But this injection effect is wearing out. And after one month he is back to the same old life. Or you can use the example of a battery.
You put a new battery into the torch. It is so bright. You keep burning it and after sometime it is becoming dim and dim and dim.
And after sometime the battery is over. And now it is getting dim and dim and dim. Is that your life? You know God doesn't want us to live like that battery.
He wants us to be plugged into the socket all the time. See battery will wear out after sometime. But if you plug into the socket.
Man or light or anything will burn all the time. We must plug into the socket. That is Jesus Christ himself.
So what are people like us servants of God? We are only like this extension cord. I always tell people I am not the source of power. I am only an extension cord.
You can plug into me. I plug into Jesus. But the power has to come from Jesus to you.
It may come through me. But then you must learn to plug in yourself. You don't have to always go through an extension cord.
That is how all of us must live. Always in triumph. You know this word always.
It comes so often in the Bible. See for example Philippians 4. Philippians 4. Paul says. Rejoice in the Lord always.
Again I say rejoice. That is another thing which we can have all the time. Not like the battery that dies out.
Like a plug that is plugged into the socket. And heaven's electricity is always there. It is not like earth's electricity.
God's power is always available. I can be connected to the Holy Spirit all the time. When I don't respond to his leading, then the power goes away.
You know many times in the olden days as a believer I used to get discouraged very frequently. But now I have learnt the secret of how to overcome temptations to discourage. How can we rejoice in the Lord always? Discouragement, condemning myself is all from the devil.
But in my younger days as a believer I didn't know how to overcome. I would get upset with people who did something wrong. Or somebody irritated me.
Or spoke evil of me. It doesn't disturb me now. But it did disturb me once.
Or people promise to do something and they don't do it. It doesn't disturb me now. Now I have learnt some truths from the word of God.
See in Revelation chapter 12 we read how these people overcame Satan in verse 11. Revelation 12 verse 11 this word overcome is a New Testament word. It is not found in the Old Testament.
The word overcome is a New Testament word. It is found in the Old Testament. Nobody could overcome Satan in the Old Testament.
They could overcome Goliath, Philistines, Midianites or all human beings. But they could not overcome one demon. They definitely could not overcome Satan.
But in the New Testament it is different. We don't fight with human beings anymore. We fight with the devil.
And it says here in verse 11 they overcame him. From verse 7 to 10 you read it is talking about the devil only. He is called with many names.
Dragon, serpent, devil, Satan, deceiver of the whole world, accuser of the brethren, so many names for the devil. But here are some people who overcame Satan. First of all by the blood of the lamb.
That means when the devil accuses me of my past sin, I say Satan that has all been cleansed in the blood of Jesus. You cannot accuse me anymore. All my sins are confessed and there is no record before God of them.
So if you don't believe in the blood of Jesus Satan will accuse you. If you don't believe the blood of Jesus blotted out your past life you will always be accused. Do you find sometimes the past sin you committed 20 years ago who is telling you? God says I will not remember your past sin.
And who is the one reminding you of what you did even last week? If you have not confessed it then the Holy Spirit must be reminding you. But if you have confessed it and forsaken it then the Lord says I don't remember. Then who is remembering it and telling you? That's the devil.
When the devil comes like that you have to tell him the blood of Jesus cleanses me from all sin. I heard a man of God the devil was reminding him remember you did this sin you did this sin and this one and this one so he listened. He was listening.
Then he said Satan have you finished? No there is many more. What you said is not everything I have committed many more sins. Make the list complete.
Your first task finish that list. After that write in that list Jesus's blood has cleansed me from all sins. That is how we overcome.
Don't overcome by saying God Satan I am now living a good life. You cannot overcome him like that. By the blood of the lamb.
Secondly it says in 12.11 By the word of their testimony Now many of us have given testimony in the church but you have not given a testimony to the devil. How many of you have given your testimony to the devil? I am giving testimony to the devil all the time. You know what it means? This is talking about testimony to the devil.
This is not telling the devil on such and such a date in 1985 I was saved. That is not that type of testimony. That you can give in the church.
What testimony do you give to Satan? I will tell you what I tell him. Listen You must say this Jesus Christ is my Lord He defeated you Satan on the cross And you cannot touch me anymore You cannot touch my family You cannot touch my property I resist you in the name of Jesus Christ That is my testimony to the devil And then also I testify about what is true When many difficult circumstances come my way The devil tries to trouble me With what all is happening around me People troubling me in so many ways I say Lord You are on the throne I give my testimony to the devil All these things are happening I know God is still on the throne That has not changed He is still my father God loves me as he loved Jesus And Satan, God defeated you Jesus defeated you 2000 years ago And Jesus' blood has cleansed me from all my sins What am I confessing?
I am confessing the truth of the word of God Then the discouragement will go Satan will go That is how Jesus overcame Satan Satan came to Jesus also What did he do? The word of God says Man shall not live by bread alone The word of God says You shall not tempt the Lord your God The word of God says You shall worship the Lord your God alone He gave his testimony to Satan That is how the devil went away You and I are not better than Jesus Do what Jesus did Quote the word of God to Satan Do you know what it says there in Matthew?
Matthew 4 and Luke 3 Luke 4 rather The devil left him for a short while Then he came back It is not written in the Bible But he came back after some time He came back to Jesus and he will come back to you And me But when he came back to Satan When Satan came back to Jesus What would Jesus have done?
Again Jesus would have said It is written Satan has no power against a person Who quotes the word of God Because if there is one thing true in this world It is the word of God All of us must develop the habit of speaking to Satan Just like we speak to Jesus Because it says here They overcame him by the word of their testimony If Jesus spoke to Satan I want to speak to Satan I want to tell him You can't touch me anymore Whenever I lead a person to Christ I always make them say this Now you have accepted Christ Jesus Christ is your Lord Now speak to Satan You don't have to kneel down now Sit down and tell Satan You were defeated on the cross Jesus by Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is my Lord My sins are all forgiven God is making everything work for my good Whatever you may do God will make it
work for my good You have no power over me The word of God says God makes all things work for my good Quote scripture to him And when you quote scripture to him He will leave you But many of us don't do what Jesus did He quoted the word of God We don't quote the word of God We discuss with Satan That is the mistake that Eve made So what I want to say is this Don't accept this up and down life as normal That is not God's will for you God's will is a life of continuous victory You know like if I were to draw a line It's a line going upwards But carefully in that line There may be small ups and downs Look with a magnifying glass There are small ups and downs Very small ups and downs It's not like the old days Where up and down and up and down Not like that Those are small ups and downs But
it is going up We are not perfect You may slip up sometimes And speak a rude word But you immediately get up You confess it and come up If you don't confess it Then you will go further down Further down Then your graph will be like this Big huge things How to avoid these big big dips in our life Very simple When there is a small slip up One bad thought One bad word Immediately confess it Lord I have sinned And you come up again Then it won't keep going down Every sin Small small things You confess it There will be small small dips in your life You will find the general graph is going upwards That is the normal Christian life Nobody lives a perfectly straight life Only Jesus lived like that I will give you one example Acts 23 Here is a very good example Paul was standing before the high
priest And he said in verse 1 I have lived my life With a perfectly good conscience Before God up to this day What is the difference between Perfectly good conscience And perfect victory Big difference Perfect victory means I have never fallen Even once in my life Till this day The only person who can say that Is Jesus Christ Paul says I am not perfect In Philippians 3 But he said I have lived With a perfectly good conscience Perfectly good conscience means As soon as I slip up I confess it and come back That is like If I buy something from a shop Say toothpaste Please give me toothpaste I have to pay him 20 rupees But I am in debt For about half a minute For half a minute I have become a debtor Do you understand?
You buy toothpaste from me I have not paid him yet It takes half a minute For me to take the money Out of my pocket For that half a minute I am a debtor I am in debt The graph has gone down I am in debt I have paid him 20 rupees I am up again No debt Now on the other hand If you go to a shop If you say I will take credit And I will pay you At the end of the month I buy the toothpaste And I buy the rice And I buy various things And my graph is going down I am in horrific debt By the end of the month Even if you do that in a shop Don't do it with God With God Don't accumulate your debt Don't even wait Till the end of the day And say Lord These are all the sins I committed today Even as soon as you sin One bad thought Stop It takes only 5-10 seconds Lord I am sorry I slipped up there Cleanse me Don't forget Then these graphs Will be very very small Say you Spoke to your wife A little sharply Just one word And immediately you realize it I shouldn't have spoken to my wife Don't wait till tomorrow To apologize to her The devil will say Keep your dignity Your husband What's dignity That is satanic dignity Go to your wife And say I am sorry Very few husbands do it Maybe they will do it after one week When they have a big fight Then they will apologize But you can save those fights If you have these small Immediate confessions Do you speak rudely To a servant in your home Do you speak rudely To a servant in your home Do you speak rudely Go and apologize Do you call someone A dog or a pig That is evil Go and apologize Go and apologize Keep short accounts with God Immediately settle it that is the meaning of perfectly good conscience. Not perfect victory.
Perfectly good conscience. Then it says in verse 2, the high priest told somebody to slap him on his mouth. And Paul got angry.
Suddenly he lost his temper. God will smite you, you whitewashed wall. Do you think Paul had victory at that time? When they slapped Jesus on his mouth, what did he say? He didn't say you whitewashed wall, God will smite you.
He said, if I said what I said is right, why do you hit me? They slapped him again. He kept quiet. But Paul fell.
He had just said, I live with a perfectly good conscience. Next moment he fell. But as soon as he fell, he said, I know that was the high priest.
But God's word says you shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people. I am sure he said things right immediately with God. So his conscience was again perfect.
He didn't have perfect victory. See that example. He fell.
But he had a perfectly good conscience. Because he would immediately said it right. That's wonderful way to live.
And as we go on, those falls will become less and less in a day. You know God sees that you are very serious about every little fall. Little by little your thoughts will become more pure.
You will have more control over your words. Why? Because God is helping you. Because he is seeing that you are so serious about sin in your life.
Then you will experience God is always leading us in victory. I can tell you from my experience. You will never be discouraged in your life.
You will never be in a bad mood even one moment of your life. Because God's Holy Spirit will send forth the aroma of Christ through you. If you slip up with a bad thought, you immediately confess it.
You said it right. And God leads you on. This is how we are to live.
And little by little that victory becomes better and better as we go on. And you find you are not falling so frequently in a day. Your words, you got more ability to control your tongue.
You have more ability to control your thoughts. And little by little your life is getting better and better. Even your wife is surprised that you have become so heavenly.
And your husband is surprised that you have become so heavenly. Your children are surprised. My parents have become so heavenly.
And you suddenly begin to experience the atmosphere of heaven in your home. And if you are an elder brother, the people in your church are surprised. What a graciousness there is in our brother now.
And what an anointing there is upon his words. What wisdom he has when I go to him for some problem to give me a right answer. You should be like that.
Sisters, don't glory that you are an older sister in the church. Don't glory that you are the wife of an elder. That is all stupidity.
There are many wives of God. But if you are spiritual, even if you are a young 20 year old girl, you are a humble God fearing sister. Everybody in the church will respect you.
If you have a gentle quiet spirit, it is very precious in God's eyes. That is the spirit of heaven. And the Holy Spirit has come to bring that spirit into our hearts.
Let's believe that he will do it in our lives. And that God's church will be built and Satan will be defeated in our homes and in our churches. Let's pray.
Bow our heads before God. There are many things that God has spoken to us in these days. But whatever he spoke to you, the truth was meant to set you free.
Free you from bondage. Free you from sin. Free you from discouragement.
Free you from your self-centered life. Free you from having an unhappy home or an unhappy church. Free you from your own pride.
Free you from all the high thoughts you have about yourself. To put a thorn into your balloon and bring you down to the earth. Thank God for it.
And let's praise the Lord for his goodness to us. And let's believe that it will happen. I pray you will bless every family that's here.
Every brother, every sister. And every church. We pray that we shall be like lights for you in Tamil Nadu.
And that you will remind us of the things we heard in these days. And that we will be filled with the spirit every day. All the time.
In Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
Sermon Outline
- I. God's Will for Us
- A. To live in victory all the time
- B. To be always in triumph
- II. Israel's History
- A. A picture of most believers
- B. Experiencing only half the gospel
- III. The Importance of Victory
- A. Sin is a serious sickness
- B. We must pray fervently to be free from sin
- IV. The Role of Ministry
- A. Ministry is secondary to living in victory
- B. We must not be satisfied with ministry alone
- V. Training Our Children
- A. To live for eternal things
- B. To be spiritual and wholehearted
- VI. The Coming of Jesus Christ
- A. We are close to the end of time
- B. We must be ready and awake
Key Quotes
“God's will for us is that we live in victory all the time.” — Zac Poonen
“Sin is a serious sickness.” — Zac Poonen
“We must pray fervently to be free from sin.” — Zac Poonen
“Ministry is secondary to living in victory.” — Zac Poonen
“We must not be satisfied with ministry alone.” — Zac Poonen
Application Points
- We must pray fervently to be free from sin.
- We must seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life.
- We must not be satisfied with ministry alone, but must strive to live in victory and triumph.
