Transformative Grace: Living a Godly Life at Home

how you behave yourself at home which is really 90 of your life that is where god wants us to become truly godly and i want to tell you that god wants to fill you with the holy spirit to make you do that let me give you one last verse hebrews and chapter four one of the things we have taught in cfc through the years is that jesus christ when he came to earth came with a man just like us and was tempted like us but he did not sin hebrews 4 15. [00:38:20]

this is the verse that helped me to overcome sin in my life when i said jesus was tempted like me and he did not sin through the power of the holy spirit then he can help me also hebrews 4 15 he sympathizes with us because he knows the struggle we have against sin but he was also tempted but he did not sin so what he say so what so what is in the next verse therefore because he did not sin what shall we do just worship him and say oh lord how wonderful you did not say no therefore don't just worship him therefore you draw near to the throne of grace [00:39:19]

and say lord give me mercy mercy is forgiveness from my past failures jesus never needed that he never sinned but we needed mercy and let's ask god for grace to help me in my time of need what is my time of need verse 15 when we attempt it so we could read it like this let us come to the throne of grace every day and say lord first of all give me mercy for all my past failures cleanse it in the blood of jesus and give me grace today in my time of need when i'm tempted to overcome because if grace is upon me romans 6 14 sin cannot rule over you [00:39:57]

it's a wonderful message for the last 45 years and more it changed my life completely it changed my married life it changed the way i brought up my children i'm very thankful now my four sons are following the lord and they are bringing up their children also in that way so so many results come when we humble ourselves and god takes care of our needs and also as we have served the lord through the years annie and i god has helped us to support ourselves so that we don't ask anybody for money we never send any prayer letters and we have trusted god and we we're not supported by anybody the lord himself has supported us through our own resources [00:40:47]

and i'm very thankful for that when god has done that and that's how the apostle paul lived you know he tried his best not to be a burden to anybody and that's what we have taught in all of our more than 100 cfc churches around the world now you know 11 countries that's what we have taught all the elders yeah support yourself and build the church and you praise god and i thank god for that you all in the church in singapore that god raised up a few years ago and through the years he's added different ones of you there and i pray for you my dear brothers and sisters that you will press on to perfection [00:41:19]

we can do nothing about the past what about if we have failed in the past maybe i should show you one more verse acts of your apostles it's one of my favorite verses acts 17 and verse 30. acts of the apostle chapter 17 verse 30 we have all failed in the past so if you look back over your life any of you and you say well in my past one or two years has not been too good take this verse god is overlooking that means he's not bothering about the time of ignorance ignorance means you knew about the lord but you didn't know how serious sin is you are ignorant about the seriousness of sin [00:42:18]

you should repent and turn to turn around repent does not mean give up sin it may take some years to give up some sins it means change your mind about it in tamil tamil translation of repent is the best translation i've ever heard in any language in the world that means the mind must turn around that is repentance not overcoming sin that's the second step first of all the mind must turn around that means my attitude to sin has changed i hate it now that's the question i want to ask you has there been a manant terrible in your life has there been a change of mind towards sin in your life [00:43:25]

say lord i want to hate sin just like i hate snakes it's like i hate poison and i hate all filthy things i want to hate it i don't want to see it just like why do you flush the toilet after you finished using it you don't want to see that anymore you want to finish it all get rid of it take that attitude towards sin lord i want to hate sin in my thoughts my attitudes and my word well from today onwards i want to take this very seriously i want a man in pyramid the change of mind even if it takes me the another whole year to overcome some sin never mind my mind has changed today [00:44:04]

i tell you if all of you do that something will happen your life will change from today onwards your married life will change your home will become a little taste of heaven yeah i can say my home is a little taste of heaven i wanted my children to grow up in a home which is a little taste of heaven i don't want my children to grow up in a home where they're fighting and yelling their husband and wife no but there's peace reigning thank you for listening patiently brothers and sisters let's pray our heads in prayer please examine your heart [00:45:05]

ask yourself one question is there anybody you need to forgive why your head is bowed forgive that person say lord i want to forgive that person that person and the other person and that person one one sentence that's all you will remember what he did all your life you'll remember but you've forgiven him today [00:45:32]