Embracing Humility and Compassion in Faith

"there's nothing wrong in repeating what somebody else said there's an expression in english called stealing my thunder i don't know whether you've heard of it it means somebody already spoke what i wanted to say that was my thunder but he got it and if you're humble it won't disturb you one bit in fact that's a test of our humility can you say the same thing that somebody else said before you if the lord prompts you to say it maybe people need to hear it twice" [00:00:00]

"do you know the story of the uh jesus feeding the five thousand men and many women and children with five lows and two fish is one of the very few things almost the only thing that's repeated in all four gospels and i can imagine john wrote his gospel long after the other three were written and as he was writing it he comes to this story and he says why should i write it i mean three people have already written about it but he's prompted by the holy spirit to write it" [00:00:34]

"temptation is not sin when it says jesus was tempted in all points as we are we have to believe that temptation is not sin because he never sinned jesus was tempted to commit suicide what a terrible thing that is when the devil told him to jump from the top of the temple what was that that's suicide but he said i won't do it there are stairs if there are stairs why should i jump it was very it was common sense he refused to do it he refused to tempt god by that" [00:02:40]

"so there are many things like this where we need to recognize the difference between temptation and sin that we don't condemn ourselves oh why did that thought come to me that thought may have only been a temptation you you said no to it you don't want it in your deep down your heart you haven't sinned if you feel you did relish it a bit okay ask the lord to forgive you next time you won't relish it at all you'll gradually come to the place where you resist it" [00:03:21]

"i sometimes use this example of a a girl walking down a road a very pure girl and she's a she's a very very handsome rich man there was very well behaved courteous but unconverted calling her to himself and he's she's very much attracted to him he's such a pleasant well-meaning type of person but she doesn't give herself to him but she was attracted and if you ask her later were you attracted to that guy oh yes really deep down that's temptation did she produce a baby no because she said no" [00:04:48]

"i find so many believers well i mean there are people out in in other churches who are not even serious about victory over sin they are not bothered this message is not for them because they don't feel any self-condemnation when they fall into saying oh yeah the blood of jesus will cleanse me blood of jesus is like tap water to them why is it we are not as disturbed when our hands get dirty as when we get cancer because cancer we can't get rid of so easily but our hands get dirty 10 times a day i can go and wash water is so cheap" [00:06:15]

"jesus was tempted in all points exactly as we are one of the temptations we get is when we are sick and that's another thing i wondered lord i've got sick sometimes were you ever sick in your life i said okay let me study the scriptures for some people it's blasphemy to believe that jesus ever became sick because they think sickness means you must be a sinner jesus was not a son did he sleep was he tired was he exhausted did he perspire in fact he persuaded so much that this perspiration was like blood in gethsemane he was very very human" [00:08:19]

"i remember once when our children were very small and i was way back more than 50 years ago or sometime then um i had a sick i had a headache a very severe headache ordinary headaches we get sometimes this is pretty severe and i said lord did you ever have a headache then i realized he did how did he react to it i mean if jesus never had a headache you know how temptation becomes more intense when you have a headache and i said lord why this headache and it's very interesting the answer the lord gave me way back then about 45 years ago" [00:11:27]

"i've seen in families for example sometimes i've you know i've come across so many families with sicknesses in our churches and i see a family with a permanently mentally or physically challenged let's call it challenge they don't use the word now physically mentally challenged child is for many years i've noticed something in that family that all the other children there become very tender and sensitive and compassionate and considerate because they're growing up with a brother or a sister who is challenged and handicapped every day their character improves because they've got one handicapped child in that family" [00:13:45]

"i believe many christians sitting in our churches even in cfc churches they do not they are not daily filled with the holy spirit that's their fundamental problem they don't need more messages they don't need to go to youtube and listen to more messages they need to be filled with the holy spirit because the holy spirit will guide you into all the truth and it says one of the things he will do listen to this this is the verse i was coming to the last part of verse 14. he will take of the things of mine reveal it to you" [00:22:16]

"the holy spirit will disclose to you how to be an overcomer in every situation in your home in your business in handling money in paying taxes he gave even that uh when somebody came and said does your master pay taxes he took care of it every single thing and more than that those inner things the inner attitudes towards people when provoked as i like i said in sickness what was his attitude in different situations do you think jesus was ever hard up for money do you think jesus ever had a shortage of money when he was trying to take care of an eight member family" [00:23:36]

"the secret of the lord is revealed to those who fear him in other words the lord has certain secrets but he doesn't tell that to everybody he whispers it in the year of those who reverence him and one mark of reverence for him is a tremendous hatred for sin lord i never want to get irritated with people lord i never want to get irritated with my husband or with my wife or with my children i want to overcome i may be tempted but i'm going to be an overcomer if it takes me one year to battle and overcome it i'm getting into that battle and i'm going to overcome" [00:25:26]