Knowing Christ's Resurrection Power By Zac Poonen

praise the lord we give all the glory to God we have nothing that we have not received if you remember that all your life that you have nothing that you have not received from God it'll keep you on your face in the dust before him and like John when he was on his face in the dust before God says the Lord laid his hand on him I don't know whether you long for that I want the Lord to lay his hand on me and I see he does that if we keep our face in the

dust and in order to do that we have to constantly recognize that we have nothing that we have not received the second thing we must realize these are important principles to build a New Covenant Church see when we look at history I'll tell you something honestly if you study Christian history you find that there have been different movements in different countries in different centuries where God raised up usually a Man U you know Martin Luther or John Wesley some of the anabaptists William boo different people to restore to the church something that had been neglected

and uh they were usually called Heretics and false teachers in their lifetime But as time went on and towards the end of their lives whether it was John Wesley or William boo people began to recognize that God was with them but nobody could recognize at the beginning just like David nobody recognized at the beginning that he was anointed but towards the end of his life people recognized God was with him it's always been the history uh they rejected Moses when he first went to the Israelites but later on they recognized he was their leader so

but what we see in all these attempts to restore a New Covenant Church was that things lasted during the lifetime of the founder and once the founder had died every movement in history has just gone down and I've tried to understand the reason for it and I've come to this conclusion that these movements in history the founders knew God their followers knew the doctrine they followed the doctrine exactly we can say the founders built the Tabernacle with the fire of God which is most important for them the followers preserved the Tabernacle in the pattern where

the fire was missing and if the fire fire is missing you might as well throw away the Tabernacle there's no difference between an old Covenant Church and a new covenant one if the fire is not there it's the presence of Jesus Christ in in a church we said that at the beginning that's the mark of a new New Covenant Church The Mark of a New Covenant home is the presence of Christ it's not a particular pattern and so what is the solution the solution is that God in every generation seeks to lay hold of young

people I think all these great men in history that we talk about they were all laid hold of by God before they were 30 I mean they may have come into their Ministry a little later but God laid hold of them took them through tremendous amount of misunderstanding criticism opposition uh many trials to see whether they would stand and um you know they were tested with women and money and many many things and if they survived it all God could do something with them and that's why we are seeking to encourage a younger generation not

to follow a pattern but to know God and if you find God speaking to some of you younger people perhaps you're one of those whom God wants to use in the Next Generation to use another illustration see in these movements in the past the leader or founder was like an engine that pulled a train and they were going full speed you know compared to all the other churches around them which were sluggish and stopped and they were going full speed and then the founder died it was like the engine went off but because the engine

had been pulling so hard the engine was disconnected now the momentum that the rest of the compartments of the train had it went ongoing for quite a while but you know what happens when a the compartments of a train are moving without the engine just on momentum gradually it slows down and maybe 30 40 years it stops that's what's happened so God has to raise up young people in every generation in every country who've got that Vision who are like that engent under God's hand with the power of the Holy Spirit who are not just

trying to stay on the tracks I mean the tracks are like the doctrine very important but you can have the tracks and a stationary train because there's no steam there's no power needs power to move the train along the tracks which is more important for a railway train the tracks or the power you know the answer it's both so I'm not saying we should neglect Doctrine but I say it's no use having Doctrine if you don't have power and uh if you like I said if you want God's hand to be upon you you got

to recognize a couple of things one is that there's nothing that you have not received that's 1 Corinthians in chapter 4 and verse 7 what have you got that you did not receive and if you received it from God why do you boast as though you hadn't received it as though you produced it yourself and the people who recognize that you know when God brings fruit in their life they're like a branch you know that's the second thing we need to learn John 155 without me you can do nothing in both these verses 1 Corinthians

4:7 and John 15:5 this word nothing comes what have you got that you did not receive nothing and without me you can do nothing there's nothing you got which you didn't receive and there's nothing you can do without Christ it's like and he used the example there of the branch in the tree and every Branch knows that even if you have 50 years of experience as a branch you still can't produce anything without the tree the new Branch produces fruit and the 50-year-old Branch produces fruit both on exactly the same principle dependence on the tree

and the sap which is the holy spirit flows from the tree and you know when the sap stops flowing because the branch is cut or loose lost its connection it dries up you've seen that in trees all around dries up in no time at all and we've seen that also good believers who started out so well filled with the Holy Spirit you see them some years later and they've been cut the Love of Money the love of some woman some P Earthly Pursuit and the branches cut you know it doesn't wither immediately but just a

matter of time and you can see the old Zeal and love and fervency is gone the old anointing which they had once is gone I've seen that with my own eyes in our churches and in some of the elders in some of our churches in different places it's very sad I seek to constantly exort them what do I exhort them um if you look at an article I wrote in the souvenir there are three things I mentioned there always think of yourself as an ordinary man always you're just a brother and always keep your face

in the dust no matter what happens no matter how much God uses you or doesn't use you keep your face in the dust and third think more of how much Jesus loves you more than of how much you love Jesus because you think of you love Jesus you can be proud when you say like John I'm a disciple whom Jesus loved you put yourself on the same level as everybody else because Jesus loves everybody it's very simple it's like I say the three secrets of the Christian Life are humility humility humility and that is what

a lot of young people need to learn if you want to build the church you cannot build it any other way than Jesus did it and Jesus did it by humbling himself to the death that's how he laid the foundation for the C for the church and if we had we need eyes to see that and that's why we need Revelation to see the way Jesus the first Body of Christ lived on this Earth never seeking honor seeking to obey every little thing that the father told him not just the big things every little thing

I see that right in the very first instance when the devil told him to turn stones into bread to satisfy your hunger now what is wrong with turning stones into bread if you have the power for it to satisfy your hunger I mean is it gluttony to want to eat a little bread after 40 days of fasting nobody would call that gluttony and you're not stealing anybody else's bread you're not taking money from anyone you're make not making your need known to anyone and you're only using the power that God gave you not satanic power

God's power to turn stones into bread to eat it why did Jesus say no he said that can look like a legitimate need all things are lawful but I'm not permitted to do all things there are very few Christians who live at that level I'll tell you but that's the first test of leadership the first test that Jesus had before he came out to build a New Covenant Church will you do everything lawful of course unlawful things is completely out of the question but even among the multitude of lawful things will you only select those

things that God permits you Jesus could have taken a holiday to Rome is there a sin after strenuous work for one hour one year morning till night and every day for one year to take a one week holiday to Rome there was enough money with judas's cariot to take a ticket on a ship to go to Rome just for a break why didn't he do it it wasn't sinful he wouldn't have sinned in Rome he wouldn't have sinned in any part of the earth he lived in an entirely different principle that 99% of Believers live

by a lot of believers do many things unlawful there are a few believers who are very careful never to do anything unlawful and they think they are spiritual because they do only the things that are lawful they're not spiritual many of them are solish they don't know the difference between being solish and spiritual a spiritual man is one Who Walks Like Jesus who can find a thousand things that are lawful but may do only 10 of those things because he's got permission from the father only to do 10 and um going to Rome was lawful

but it was not in that small circle of 10 that the father permitted so but Lord aren't you exhausted yeah God will give me strength so God's looking for young people like that he uses men and women to build the church but he's very strict and demanding in the type of person he uses Christian organizations and missions will pick up anybody to serve the Lord we see that all around India just go through the Bible School get your degree and your certificate and you're ready 22 years old you're ready to serve the Lord the Lord

doesn't pick people like that Jesus knew the Bible at the age of 12 better than any Bible college student in the world today better than any PhD or THD or whatever other D people get these days he knew it better at the age of 12 but he wasn't ready because the father said knowledge of the Bible is not enough you need another 18 years to be broken before you are fit to serve me and during during those 18 years is not just prayer and study it is working hard and being misunderstood and Ill treated by

your brothers and sisters and so many things that was a training and that's how we build a New Covenant Church God needs men men are always looking for better methods which is a better method better scheme God's looking for better men because like someone said men are God's method did you know that men and women are God's method so while men look for better methods God's looking for better men and women how many of you will take that challenge and say Lord I want to pay the price I'll tell you something if you listen to

me and listen to these words when you come to the end of your life and you stand before the Lord you will have no regret take my word you'll thank me at the Judgment seat of Christ but if you live the way most Believers are living you may not accomplish God's full purpose for your life you may accomplish 10 or 15% do you want to are you satisfied with that or you want to accomplish 100% of God's purpose for your life that is my passion Lord before I leave the Earth there's some prayers I made

like Lord before I leave the earth I want to finish the work you gave me to do number one I want to obey every commandment there is in the Bible number two I want to claim every promise there is in the Bible for me do you have a passion like that before I leave the earth I want to obey every single commandment in the Bible that's why I study the Bible how will I know every commandment if I don't study it how will I know every commandment in the if I spend my time watching television

yeah the building a New Covenant Church is only for those who are serious not just for those who go to so-call go to church and have a little ease their conscience on Sunday morning just singing a few songs and listening a message and going home it's serious business because we are fighting the devil it's a bigger War than any War that's ever been fought in the history of this world greater than the first world war second world war any War a war with the Devil Himself it's not a picnic and a lot of Christians who

treat the Christian Life like a picnic they are never going to accomplish God's purposes because the Christian Life is a battle the Bible says we got to fight the devil and stands we got to have discernment about all his subtle schemes we got to have Vision to recognize when he comes as an angel of Light you know the number of believers who see an angel and think it's an angel from heaven when it's the devil masquerading as an angel from heaven and using some Heavenly name and fooling people and telling them all types of things

and these stupid Believers believe that why is that because there's something in their life where the devil finds an affinity Affinity means uh closeness and an attachment something in their life usually Pride because the devil fell through Pride and so that's why I say we must always recognize there's nothing we have not [Music] received we can do nothing apart from Christ John 155 which means put the other way around that whatever you do apart from Christ will amount to zero finally that's a paraphrase of John 155 if you can do something for the Lord in

your own strength it'll finally amount to zero because without me you can do nothing so you try to do something without Christ it'll amount to nothing finally you don't see it on the earth it looks like a massive structure of wood hair and straw but finally in the day the Lord returns and tests it with fire you discover it's zero I don't want to do that I don't want to spend 50 years building with wood hair and straw and have it all burnt up in the final day do you know that all of us are

building with our thoughts and our words and our attitudes and actions we're building something with our motives what are you building with every one of us can be a part part of this New Covenant Church everyone we're all called to be priests in the new old Covenant if you were not born in the tribe of Levi you just missed it you can't be a priest no matter how much you fast and pray but in the New Covenant we can all be priests we are if we are born again and all being priests means we can

serve God the priests taught people and you can teach people people come to your house you should be sharing God's word with them you can pray for people like the priests in the Old Testament you can offer your body as a sacrifice to God like the priests in the Old Testament did they offered animals we offer our bodies but everyone is a priest but there's a law and I want you to see that and uh then we'll understand what Jesus meant when he said I will build my church in the Gates of Hell will not

Prevail against it in the book of Hebrews we read in chapter 7 it's a beautiful verse it's comparing this New Covenant priesthood the New Covenant priests are the ones who build the New Covenant Church and you got to understand how to become a New Covenant priest like in the old Covenant the only people who were allowed to go inside that center part of the Tabernacle and do any work in the Tabernacle even in the outer Court killing the L the Lambs and The Oxen there was only one group of people who were allowed to do

any work in the Tabernacle those were the Levites you had to be born of the tribe of Levi otherwise no matter who you are you could not serve in the Tabernacle or in the temple later on but here in the New Covenant the contrast here is um in chapter 7 he's speaking about the priesthood of melchisedek the last part of chapter 6 verse 20 you know it says in verse 19 Jesus has entered through the veil and become a forerunner for us and a high priest after the order of mchis EDC most believers do not

know Jesus as a forerunner and do not know what it means to be a high priest after the order of melchisedek now when you find a difficult passage in scripture don't just skirt around it and go to the next verse it's all right if you're a baby but come back to it later otherwise you'll be like a farmer for plowing the ground sees a big rock there and just ignores it and goes around I mean he's going to lose that part of ground completely but here it's more serious we need to understand what the priesthood

of malc is in the Old Testament we read that mesc was a man who blessed Abraham he came came to him with physical food a spiritual exaltation of word of Prophecy and then disappeared he didn't want Abraham to be attached to him that's the priesthood of mesc to bless people with a word from God and then disappear so that they are attached to Christ and not to them to the preacher very rare to find people of the order of mesc noway and we read here that Jesus is called up priest after the order of mes

high priest and we're the junior priests according to that and then he contrasts these two priesthoods in chapter 7 and verse 11 there was no Perfection through the levitical priesthood that's the difference that in the New Covenant we can press on to perfection in our life which the old Covenant priesthood could not lead to then he says uh when there's a change in the priesthood verse 12 there has to be a change in the law as well and now this New Covenant priest Jesus did not come from the tribe of Levi verse 14 he came

from the tribe of Judah now don't just skip around these verses there's a great lesson coming through in a moment and Moses said nothing 7:14 about the tribe of Judah having priests why wasn't Jesus born of the tribe of Levi because there was a change of priesthood and how did he become a priest it says there is a reason why you turn back to chapter 7 and verse one it says about melchisedek verse three without father or mother without genealogy of neither beginning of days nor that means why is there in a book like genesis

where every man of God's genealogy is known right from Adam to Joseph who's the last man of God in Genesis every man of God in the new book of Genesis you know their genealogy except one person mesc you don't know his genealogy he was born of the race of Adam but you don't know who his father was you don't know who his grandfather was but you know that about every other man of God in the Book of Genesis and that is to teach us a lesson that it's almost as though he was there's no record

of his father and mother therefore he's a picture of Jesus who has no earthly father and Who Came From Heaven Eternal no beginning of you know neither beginning of days verse three nor end of life so in that way he's a picture of Jesus and if now we come to verse 15 if another priest is risen according to the likeness of melkisedek he did not become this is the important verse now verse 16 he did not become a priest on the basis of a law of physical requirement that is is to be born of the

tribe of Levi no but he did become a priest on the power of an indestructible life now that's the phrase I want you to remember the priesthood of Levi was according to the physical requirement the priesthood of melchisedek is according to the power of an indestructible life a life that cannot be destroyed all those who partake of that life can become priests according to the order of mesed it's not just studying some Doctrine attending CFC or some particular Church no no no it's not that easy any unbeliever can come and sit here and fool the

elders and even become a member of CFC and partake in the breaking of bread and there was a magician called Simon who fooled Philip the Evangelist and even got baptism from him but he wasn't even converted till somebody else with greater discernment like Peter came and saidou in the bondage of iniquity you're not converted yeah so it's it's not a question of people accepting you and thinking you're okay if you care for the opinions of men you'll never be a priest according to the order of mesc you better care only for the opinion of God

it's the only opinion that matters what is the power of an indestructible life if you get into this Satan will not be able to touch you Jesus said in John 14 but remember this phrase the power of an indestructible Life John 14 Jesus said in verse 30 the ruler of this world that is Satan is coming but he has nothing in me he cannot find a single point in me in which there's an affinity between me and him so if you look at Satan's character and you find there's something in him which you have and

which you nourish now we have a flesh all of us have a flesh the most saintly man on Earth has a flesh Paul had one till the end of his life which is in which dwelt nothing good it was a sinful flesh Jesus did not come in sinful flesh it says in Romans 8:3 he came in the likeness of sinful flesh but you and I and Paul have sinful flesh in which dwells nothing good Jesus had a will of his own but he didn't have sinful flesh Paul had sinful flesh and therefore there are things

in us which Satan has in our flesh there's Pride there there's selfishness there particularly pride and selfishness these are very difficult to discover so we can't do anything about it if we have it we inherited it from Adam but the point is do you nourish it when you see it then you are in League with Satan if you don't see it you're not responsible if there are snakes in your house hidden somewhere under some cupboard and you don't see it you're not responsible but if you see a cobra sliding around the floor in your house

and you say oh that's okay you're probably in League with that Cobra you're agreeing with that Cobra that it can go and sting your children or something like that it's like that that means you're not responsible for the snake you don't see but you are responsible for the snake you see I mean you would even kill a rat or a cockroach leave on a cobra a rat and a cockroach can do much less damage than a cobra why do we get rid of them why are we so Keen to get rid of cockroaches that never

harm us or bite us and we're not so Keen of getting rid of little sins and even big sins doesn't it indicate a height of stupidity or to use an illustration if a man's had a road accident his body is all torn up and his shirt is all torn up and he says take me to a tailor first I want to get my shirt stitched you really think the guy is a mental case well a lot of mental cases is like that in the church they got serious problem with their soul but they're more worried

about cockroaches don't you think that these are mental cases sure there serious problems in their soul what are they thinking of oh I've got a little sickness here I've got a little problem there I want to go to Jesus for this that I want a little more money I want a better house yeah Jesus said the prince of this world comes and he's got nothing in me there's not an atom of selfishness there's not an atom of Pride do you know what it means to want to be like Jesus it means I'm pressing on to

that life where there'll be not an atom of selfishness not an atom of Pride not an atom of partiality in my dealing with Believers I don't have any special friends among Believers all are the same because God doesn't have any special children all are the same you know he treats us just like he treated Jesus when he was on Earth even Jesus wasn't his favorite son that he allowed him protected him from serious Temptations or protected him from death no he allowed me to face everything that we Face God has no favorites is those who

are not like God who have got favorites favoritism many fathers have got and mothers have got their favorite child this one who's clever or this one who's good-looking or this one is a boy all the others are girls or this one is a girl and all the others are boys favorites it's all a mark of people who don't know God there are Elders who have favorites I've seen that in many many churches they show partiality to their own children or to their own friends they don't deal with them in the same way they deal with

others this is all I mean if and if you if you're unconscious of and you don't know it okay it's not a crime it's like a snake hidden somewhere you don't know it it's there but if you see it and you don't do anything about it's pretty serious or you're not asking God to give you light on that you're not going with a torch under every cupboard to see whether there is a snake there if you're not serious about it you're not serious about getting rid of these things from your life I'll tell you this

my brothers and sisters it's selfishness Pride partiality these are some of the terrible sins that hinder people from building a New Covenant Church you cannot do it you got to you know I remember years ago seeing a picture of a automobile company in India where they had a board on one of the walls we aim for zero defect I said boy that's a great word for the church and for my life and for my home we aim for zero defect now I don't think there's any car ever produced that has zero defect but that particular

company did pretty well because they aimed for zero defect and became a lot better than all lot of the other Indian cars that were produced I'll tell you this if you make that your motto that you aim for zero defect in your personal life in your home life in your church you'll go a long way and there's another thing from that which we got which those car companies don't have we are the opposite of that they their aim is we aim for zero defect but we aim for maximum profit but in the church we say

we aim for zero defect and we aim for zero profit zero profit from our ministry or from anything we do even our book Ministry internet Ministry CD Ministry our aim is at the end of the balance sheet when it's finally made when the Lord comes our profit is zero then we have achieved it in other words everything that came in goes on 100% for the ministry nobody's making money out of all this we aim for zero defect we aim for zero profit now that's not what the devil the devil's not doesn't have such mod and

people who are don't have such mod are in some way a little bit in League with the devil they allow a a little bit of defect it's not serious you know that little bit of defect can cause a car to crash cause your life to crash cause your home to crash it happens why is it there are so many divorces it used to be only in Western lands and it's crept into India how is that it's crept in wherever Western influences come it's because those families from day one never aim for zero defect they live

in selfishness and pride and then you always end up in divorce if you continue to live in selfishness and pride and in India where divorce is frowned upon you may not end up in divorce you just may end up with a house that is always fighting where people are fighting with each other I agree it's better than divorce because the children don't suffer but that's not a place where you can say the prince of the world the ruler of the world comes to my house and he finds nothing how many of you can say Satan

comes to examine your house and he doesn't find a filthy movie there he doesn't find any movie with corrupt sex scenes in any of the DVDs in your house you see only 5 seconds it's only 5 Seconds of that dirty sex scene but that's what the devil lays hold of burn it get rid of it don't sell it to somebody else and make him sin do what the people in Ephesus did they burnt all those things which had connections with the devil get rid of it destroy it before you get rid of it can you

say that the Devil comes to your house and he can find nothing no book no pages in any book that dishonor Christ you want to build a church you better start with your home go through it I'm told that the Israelites on the day before the Passover would go with a lamp under the beds and everywhere to see if there was a little bit of Leaven because they ate leavened Bread on other days but on the day of the Passover and the next day the Feast of unleavened bread there was not supposed to be a

bit of Leaven in the house and you know little babies or they had children they could have dropped a bit of bread somewhere and they had to go searching I love that picture aa could get a painting of that of these people looking under the beds for a bit of Leaven I wish Christians could have that picture in their mind looking in the corners of their heart for a little bit of selfishness or partiality not just saying I'm waiting for God to reveal it to me I'll tell you he'll never reveal it to you because

you're not serious those Israelites didn't sit down in their easy chairs and say Lord show us if there's any leav inside the house no God was not going to do it they had to take the lamp climb crawl under the beds to see if it was there you got to do that we're not half as wholehearted as those Israelites will you go with that lamp through your house and get rid of everything starting today and anything that dishonors God in your house so that you'll be able to say the prince of the world comes to

my house and he finds nothing there you know zakus wanted to do it it says in Luke 19 that when Jesus came to zaki's house he stood there before the gate and said Lord I'm going to I'm just imagining what he said because it says he stopped Lord you can't come to this house this is you're a holy man this house has been built with black money unjustly earned money you can't come in here I must first return to all the people I've stolen from cheated as a tax collector all the money that's given I

want to make you that promise and Jesus said I believe you the promise is good is as good as the action you don't have to wait it may take you 10 years to return it but your salvation has come to your house today I want to say I want Jesus to say is the only place in the gospels where Jesus said to somebody salvation has come to your house Luke 19 do you want Jesus to say to you salvation has come to your house today because you decided to get rid of everything over which the

devil has a claim in your house take it seriously you'll become a man of God you'll be a woman of God you don't become a man of God just by studying the Bible you don't become a man of God just by learning how to preach you got to have a life before Christ and so now we understand what Jesus said in Matthew 16 about building the church I will build my church Verse 18 and the Gates of Hell which is the powers of spiritual Darkness it says in the margin of my nasp the powers of

spiritual Darkness will not be able to over the powers of spiritual death rather the powers of spiritual death will not be able to overpower it what is it that death cannot overpower an indestructible life we come back to the priesthood of mesc the power of an indestructible life which death cannot overpower imagine having a joy which like Jesus said in John 16 nobody can take away from you that's a great verse I really LED that verse your joy no man can take away from you he said that to his disciples in John 16 sometimes you

know I don't like to say the verse because I want you to search for it we're so lazy go and search for that verse I told you the chapter a joy nobody can take away from me you'll get to know the scriptures there is a joy nobody can take away from us an indestructible Joy which the devil tries tries tries tries tries tries tries can't take it away you can search for it later please listen to me now uh a joy which nobody can take away from you it says in Philippians 4 of a peace

that passes understanding it says in Ephesians 3 of a love uh to know the love of Christ which is beyond understanding you know that love that joy that peace it's an indestructible type of thing people try to kill that love in you by hating you calling you the devil brother I still love you do you have that that people can speak evil of you and you still love them people can do evil to you you still love them people can hate you you still love them that's an indestructible love or an indestructible Joy like habakuk

says in the end of his book The fig tree doesn't Blossom there's no fruit in the vines there's no herd in the Stalls the sheep have died The Oxen have died but I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the god of my salvation that's how he ends that beautiful letter of habakuk and there's a little note at the end of it that's what I love he said please don't sing this to a monotonous tune sing it with stringed instruments with joy I like that what are we going to sing with stringed instruments

with joy there's no Harvest the sheep have died The Oxen have died sing it with joy I will rejoice in the god of my salvation that's an indestructible life habak had a taste of it we have the Holy Spirit you know it's it's called the p in other words it's called The Power of Resurrection that's the indestructible life which death cannot touch and the only way to build a church is with this resurrection power of Jesus Christ the greatest event that took place on this Earth was not the death of Christ on the cross but

his resurrection from the grave we need to understand that we've spoken about the way of the cross it is so important we spoke about it the other day seeing the way of the Cross I'll tell you having said that that is not the greatest thing that happened death to self is not the greatest thing it's only a way to Resurrection I mean all of you when you came from your home this morning you traveled by a road but if you got so taken up at the road and say boy they've paved this road this is

a great Road I just love this road and spend your time admiring that you wouldn't be here this morning the road was only a way by which you had a goal to get to CFC this morning and I've seen Christians who are taken up with the cross the cross I've got to die and it sounds pretty close to Hinduism and yoga death and death and you and look at their face faces and you know they are miserable and dead in any case because they're concentrating on death death that that that death is there but it's

a way the rent Veil is a picture of death but it's a way I'm not stuck in the veil I'm gone through the whale into the most holy place which is the presence of the father that's where I've got to live but it's through the veil I agree I mean I come I've got to come through the road to get here there is a way and the way is important but the way is not the goal the veil is not where I get stuck there is a narrow gate but it leads to a narrow way

remember that and that is my goal is the power of his resurrection the greatest event that ever happened on this Earth is the resurrection of Jesus Christ the devil doesn't want us to know that that's why like I've often said you see more paintings of Jesus hanging on the cross cross in the world then you see paintings of Jesus coming out of the Grave alive tell me in how many homes have you seen paintings of Jesus coming out of the Grave alive even the Bible story books don't have much of that but there are millions

and millions of paintings of Jesus hanging on the cross you know looking so helpless the devil wants you to see and meditate on a helpless Jesus you know little baby in Bethlehem that's another famous painting or kneeling in Gethsemane in weakness that's another famous painting or hanging on the cross it's another famous painting all this a feminite you know Sacred Heart I'll bless every home that where he looks like a woman this is not Jesus I want to see a resurrected Mighty muscular Jesus who looks like a man not like a woman are not supposed

to look like women women are not supposed to look like men but men are supposed to look like men and Jesus did not look like a woman he was a man every inch ofed him and when he was resurrected he was more of a man than ever in an indestructible life now when Lazarus was raised from the dead it was not Resurrection he was just raised from the dead in order to die again death had power over him every guy who was raised from the dead in the old test Old Testament and New Testament died

again death had power over them but Resurrection was different Jesus rose from the dead death had no power over him and Jesus says I will build my church and the powers of death will not be able to overcome it you see the connection that the church can only be built with resurrection power with this indestructible life of the priesthood of mesc that all fits in together now now we understand scripture this is what the priesthood of mesc is about this is is what the indestructible life is about and we try to build a church with

destructible life with a little improved life I don't lose my temper as much as my neighbor great he got zero and you got 1% you're better than him right and you're gloring in the fact mom I got 1% I came first in my class what's stupidity do you aim for 100% like Jesus I've used this example also supposing past marks in an examination is 35% and two children doing the maths examination one got 99% and the other got 35% tell me who comes home happier who the one who got 35% he say him mom I'm

so happy I passed and the other fell 99% oh Mom I'm so discouraged I lost 100% by one Mark it's true that's the two types of Christians I'm making it to Heaven my sins are all forgiven I'm on my way to heaven and the other Christian is Weeping at night over his pillow oh Lord that little bitter thought I had against somebody it's not Christlike and weeps and the pillow is wet for what something which 99% of Believers don't even think about a little bitterness against somebody these are two types of Christians one is seeking

an indestructible life and that's the one who will build the church and I believe like I said when one generation passes on you can't just inherit that anointing nobody inherits an anointing no nobody if Peter's son wanted an anointing he had got to seek it himself I don't know whether Peter's son was anointed he was a married man he's probably had children maybe your father's anointed doesn't mean you will be you got to seek God yourself and um Moses children he had a couple of sons I don't know what happened to them I don't even

hear of them it's not anointing doesn't flow down Family Lines unless each generation see God on their own that's why you should not be partial towards your children you'll destroy them I'll tell you in Jesus name you'll destroy them urge them to seek their anointing for themselves because they cannot inherited from you just like we all understand a child cannot inherit being born again from you they got to be born again on them themselves they got to be anointed on their own they got to have a vision of the church on their own but we've

got to show them the way we've got to give them the word right from childhood show them the glory of the church and I'll tell you something if like some parents do stupidly sit around the lunch table and criticize brothers and sisters in the church and their little children hear it blame yourself if your children go to the devil go to hell blame yourself if your children never come to an anointed life to build the body of Christ because all they heard around your table was criticism maybe even criticism of the elders or criticism of

this brother that brother the other brother the other sister and this and that go ahead despite all that we hear because that is the spirit of Satan who called the accuser of the brethren in many homes Satan has got a foothold because he sees the spirit of accusation there among some people and says Ah I've got one agent there it's like these our enemies having a a spy in our country as the devil got a spy in your home maybe your wife she comes to the meetings she says she's born again but she's got the

spirit of the accuser of the Brethren make sure you can overcome it if you the head of the house by the power of an indestructible life there is a life my brothers and sisters that we can live on Earth in the power of Resurrection the Apostle Paul said at the end of his life in Philippians 3 after having known the power of His res of Christ's Resurrection for so long he says I want to know my Lord better Philippians 3:10 my desire is to know him better because that is eternal life to know God and

Jesus Christ and I want to know the power of his resurrection but hey Paul haven't you already known that in 30 years yeah but but you don't realize the power of Resurrection is like a huge fantastic power it's greater than nuclear power I've just tasted a little bit of it I want to know more that resurrection power which death cannot touch and that comes through the fellowship of Christ sufferings and being conformed to his death yeah he says I know the way the way is through death but the goal is the power of his resurrection

see what he says in 2 Corinthians 4 these are wonderful verses when you read verse 10 to 12 death and life the death of Christ and the resurrection power of Christ always always always always always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus that means the way Jesus died to himself for 33 years it's not the death on the cross I may never have Nails in my hand because people have got rid of that method of killing people now but the dying of Jesus which he bore for 33 and 1/2 years always I want

to carry it in my body so that this Resurrection Life of Jesus it's Resurrection Life That's the only life Jesus has now the Resurrection Life of Jesus can be manifested in my body and so how you understand the reason for all the trials God allows you to face we who live are constantly delivered into death that means you're surrounded by people who humiliate you you're are surrounded maybe in your home by carnal husband or wife who are irritating you you're being delivered to death that's what it says we are being delivered to death how often

constantly many times a day in my place of work through my boss when I travel in a train or a bus there are always selfish people who are delivering me to death and if I'm willing to die instead of fighting for my rights like stupid children of Adam do if I'm willing to follow Jesus in his dying what will happen the life of Jesus will be manifested in my mortal flesh I remember those days when I was younger when I used to travel unreserved in the compartments train compartments different places and uh people would be

so selfish wouldn't allow you to sit even if they were occupying a u seed they say this is my seed and this is half of my seed and I say okay forget it I'm not going to fight with you over a little seed the journey is just three four eyes I can stand I'm a young man it's amazing you see that on the road sometimes if you can manifest the life of Jesus and die supposing somebody came and hit your scooter and instead of doing what every other caral the carnal method is whoever shouts the

most is right let him shout the most you say even though it's not your fault I'm sorry I should have been more careful suddenly he will melt oh it's okay it's okay otherwise you you start a quarrel there and you'll miss wherever you're going to it'll go on forever maybe you just got a scratch on your scooter it's not worth it no always we are delivered to death accept it the life of Jesus will be manifested through you you'll have the sweetness of the Life of Christ people will love to be with you people will

love to listen to you they like to listen to Jesus they'll never get tired of being with you you or listening to you or fellowshipping with you because it's so wonderful don't you want to be a person like that I long for it I've longed for it for many years I say Lord the most beautiful life that ever was found on this Earth was the life of Jesus I want it at any cost the Lord say you got to die sure you got to die to your selfishness you got to root out your anger you

got to root out sexually dirty thoughts and anything that provokes it yes Lord you got to root out lying completely total deception no hypocrisy just be willing to be known as you are not more spiritual than you are yes Lord hate money use it keep it as your servant but don't ever love it don't pursue after it I'll give you enough for your needs yes Lord don't ever do anything to honor for the honor of people don't tell other people of the sacrifices you make in secret yes Lord Lord don't let anybody know how much

you pray how much you fast how much you give yes Lord your life must be in secret before me yes Lord and don't judge other people leave that judgment to me I can do that without your help yes Lord I discovered that you can do it without my help so many years I thought God needed my help to judge others isn't it a great discovery that God can do it without my help he doesn't need my recommendation he doesn't need any certificates from me he say I know I know I know more than you know

great then I can spend my time judging myself we are delivered to death so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in us and finally verse 12 When Death Works in US Life Works in other people also isn't that amazing not only in me that is the most wonderful part verse 10 and 11 is only referring to me and that can be pretty selfish I want to die so that I can have the resurrected life of Jesus hang on that's selfishness too it must flow out from us to others that I die and other

people get life you know how that is the more you die the more the life of Jesus Springs up in you and bubbles out usually through our mouth because the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks flows out through your mouth and it blesses your husband blesses your wife and blesses neighbors and like that Godly Man's wife said at his funeral he says I was living with an angel he was not an ordinary man what a what a testimony I hope your wife can say that about you when you die

I was living with an angel or your husband can say that about you up to a certain point she was a devil but beyond that she she became an angel after a certain date uh she attended one meeting in CFC and boy after that date my husband was like an angel my husband was like like my wife is like an angel we were all like the devil up to a certain point have we changed there's only one way where devil will have no power over us and I want to tell you every single one of

you has got a part to play in building this New Covenant Church how do you produce life in others death in you building a New Covenant Church is giving other people Resurrection Life let death work in you and then this Resurrection indestructible life that Jesus has will come and Satan will not be able to touch you I wanted that life I wanted I remember the old days when I was scared of the devil I wanted a life where the devil would be scared of me do you want that I want that life Jesus the devil

was mortally scared of Jesus I want the devil to be scared of me that's indestructible life most Christians are living such a substandard life you know it's like people who live in the slums generation after generation bonded labor in the slums they've never known anything better they saw their father grandfather all live like that and they live like that that's it's something like that with many Christians they see other Christians around them defeated Third Rate useless defeated lives losing their temper getting anxious seeing dirty movies and having dirty thoughts and they say that's normal Christianity

it's not you can get out of that slum if you allow the life of Jesus to come through so you build a New Covenant Life a New Covenant home and New Covenant Church which the devil will not be able to touch if you want it you can have it fall down in your face before God and cry out and say Lord I want it at any cost there's a price to pay forgiveness of sins is free baptism in the Holy Spirit is free but to build a church and to build a home there's a price

to pay let's pray Heavenly Father while our heads are bowed in prayer as we have gone through these studies we pray that they will not be just Theory but reality Lord in our life reality that we can experience that part of your Resurrection in our life glorify your name help us we pray each one many here who feel they are so insignificant and worthless give them a sense of worth today because they were Redeemed by the blood of Christ not with silver and gold so that they become effective members and Priests after the order of

mesc in a New Covenant Church by the power of an indestructible life an indestructible love and an indestructible joy and an indestructible peace despite the turmoil in the world world we thank you such a life is available for us in Christ something that can even touch our bodies and bring physical healing thank you for that in Jesus name amen