Transformative Faith: Embracing Community and New Life

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It is very important to remember the past. God forgets our past sins, it's true. We don't remember our past in condemnation, never. We don't remember the evils that other people have done to us, never. We must remember the good that God did for us in the past. [00:27:24]

Once you come to the New Testament, as soon as you open the pages of the New Testament, you see that Jesus sent his people two by two because there is no such thing as a lone prophet in the New Testament. He may be a mighty man like Paul, but he needs a Barnabas to do the ministry. [02:05:12]

There is a core in the midst of this crowd. There is a core of a few people who are one body. That's what keeps this church going. It's not the big crowd. It never is. I never believed it was, and that inner core becomes more and more slowly, and God adds to that core. [03:49:01]

Very few go beyond the veil into the most holy place. Most people don't even know that the veil has been rent. You can go there, and that veil is the flesh of Jesus in which he crucified his self-life and has opened a way for anybody else who wants to crucify their self-light to go in. [05:03:72]

Those who are interested in Jesus himself, not activity, not doctrine, not even singing, but Jesus. There are people who come to a church for the singing. There are people who come to the church because people are very helpful and kind. There are people who come to church for the fellowship with good people. [05:37:96]

I'm interested in building the church. I'm not interested in building a crowd of people who admire good preaching. There are thousands and thousands of people who listen to my messages on the internet. There are about a thousand sermons on YouTube. Many people who outwardly oppose us as a church secretly they are listening. [07:38:84]

It's not right to keep on sinning. No, it's like we tell a child. I mean, we don't tell what we see in our little baby born. It's not right for you to keep on falling. It is accepted when you are 10 months old, 11 months old, 1 year old, 1 and obvious to struggling to find your feet. [09:56:20]

The Full Gospel is what Jesus preached in John chapter eight to a woman caught in adultery. You know, in all the people whom Jesus encountered, one of the most embarrassing and awkward, imagine being caught in adultery, not that somebody heard you commit adultery yesterday. No, no, no, no, caught in the room where you were committing adultery. [16:09:89]

I do not condemn you, number one, don't sin again, number two. That is the full gospel, John 8:11, and that is what we have preached in this church for 41 years. Not only don't sin again, first I don't condemn you. If you don't begin there, you will keep on sinning. [18:55:28]

Baptism is a picture of having being cut off from the old life of slavery to sin and fear of Pharaoh ruling you, devil ruling you, finished. You don't have to be afraid of the devil anymore. Going into the water and coming out and saying, Satan, I finished with you. [34:56:59]

The second picture is in 1 Peter and chapter 3. In 1 Peter chapter 3, it says about people who were once disobedient, verse 20, and speaking about spirits were disobedient and the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah 1 Peter 3:20 during the construction of the ark. [35:31:56]

When Noah came out to the ark, like when you come up out of the waters of baptism, Noah looked around, all his old friends had gone. They're all gone. All the old places of sin which were there were all gone, wiped out in the flood, and Noah started life afresh with those who were inside the ark. [37:33:33]

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