See Jesus (Dutch) — K.P. Yohannan

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Or today, would you raise your hand? As you leave a kiss to our borders break a stick of your hand up. Well. Quite a few new brothers and sisters are here now. There's ain't over on panilla brothers and sisters oak van avond and.

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The Missionary Burden for Those Who Do Not Know the Lord

This morning I mentioned about Brothers and sisters missionaries in India and Nepal and Pakistan many countries serving God.

There's often to have a culture spoken over sending a in India in Nepal Pakistan and all I daily from the world to be called Tardina and.

It was such a joy to meet with quite a few Brothers and sisters this afternoon that know about gospel for Asia.

They've been praying for us and they are part of this journey and it was a very good for me for me that have become Anton men's or moody or betrothed and by the work from gospel for Asia the forms bidder and it was fine on him.

I'll come to and I would ask you to please go to our website and learn more about what is going on.

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And someday when we go to heaven, we'll meet So many people my millions that made their way to heaven because of our life here on earth right now.

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There are missionaries that are going. There are those who are sending them to go.

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People that do not know the Lord. And it will you leave Raja on the here to bidde Omiya open loss to gave afford a man's to the handle. Me Kenna.

And if you like to know about how to link your life with one of those missionaries on the mission field You can still go to a table out there in the kitchen there or not dining room and get one of these cards.

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$30 per month. Then two three other people join with you to support that same missionary and I'll show you the.

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And when you sign this card give it to us you can actually get the profile.

All the details about the mission and I said you got in built. Then crack it from also can card may met the profile from these enderling by.

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We are praying someday that we will have possibly an office in netherland and the bidder that we're open dog.

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The Lord gives us the opportunity to know him and also the same time to make him known and also.

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Seeing Jesus Clearly in Hebrews

That's a read a couple of verses from the scripture. Hebrews chapter 12.

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It was gestellt it cries for dragon and the schanda for us and sit new on the rector hand from the throne of God. Did you read the words for? Read verses 3 and 4, please.

This invitation to see the Lord Jesus Christ. It says, we are in a race. And it says, look at Him. Consider Him. So that you will not give up.

Beholding Christ Through Scripture and the Holy Spirit

There is another passage of scripture in 2 Corinthians. Chapter 3, verse 18. 2 Corinthians 3, verse 18. Please read it. And then chapter 4, verse 1.

It is something you and I are called to do. Here we are told, look to Christ who is the order and the finisher of our faith. The tremendous amount of opposition and temptation for us to give up the faith.

And so when I have been talking to you about the invitation Christ gave, follow me. The question is, how do you do that? The opposition we have from Satan and the world itself is to keep us from Christ.

And the battle and opposition we can experience from Satan and the world can lead to us being removed from Christ. And so we have to continuously make a choice to keep the Lord before our eyes. How do we do that?

In the first place, by God's Word.

In 2 Corinthians 3, it says, beholding in the mirror, we see a face.

What is the mirror? James says God's Word. And in James it says, it is the mirror of God's Word. So when you read the Bible, what do you see? A lot of people see their needs being fulfilled. America is, for various reasons, a very strange place.

When I first went to America, that was 1974. That's before he was born. I went to a restaurant and asked the waitress the name of her food. She said hot dog. I ran away.

I asked her, do you, in America people eat dog meat? I didn't know what a hot dog was. Then I drank something. I threw up. It was Dr. Pepper. Americans tried to kill me. But I survived.

Consumer Christianity and the Call to Follow Jesus

But then, I began to learn about the church.

A German actually did a research and got his PhD about American church growth. That 85 of the growth of the church, actually people going from one church to the other church. It is like a supermarket.

You go around, you pick what you want. You like the preacher, you like the people. You like the preacher, you stay there. After six months, he will preach something difficult, you leave him. For the next church.

Music. The question is, what can I get from all this?

And there are thousands of choices.

And people actually are gravitating towards Christianity and church based on their needs met. What was the call of Christ? To follow Him. They had to give up all. It was not for them, but for Him.

And it was not about their needs, but it was about Him. Why has the gospel of prosperity become so popular?

I am not saying that God will not bless His people.

But is that the reason why we follow Jesus? Forgiveness of sin is very important. Escaping hell is important.

Going to heaven is important. But what about recognizing He made us and we are not our own. And God does comfort us with His word.

He gives us peace. He meets our needs. But when you read the Bible, our longing must be to see the face of Jesus.

And it says here, the Holy Spirit then changes us from within to be like the one we see in the mirror, the face of Jesus.

When you got up this morning, you looked in the mirror. Did you see my face? If you did, you need to talk to Him. So when you read God's word, you see the Lord Jesus Christ.

Removing the Veil of Sin and Self-Centeredness

But what keeps us from seeing Him?

You read that in chapter 3. A veil on our face of materialism.

Pride and arrogance. Self-centeredness. Unwillingness to give up what we want. Sins and burdens that hold us down. If any man claims himself from these things, the Bible says. So when we long for one thing, to be like Jesus.

Then the Holy Spirit will work. Why did the Holy Spirit come?

To give us goosebumps? Or to make us go crazy? Jesus said when He comes, He takes things of mine and shows them to you.

No, Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes, He takes things of mine and shows them to you.

And for Him we are willing to do anything.

He is the reason for us to live.

Choosing Jesus Above Everything

Some years ago, one of our staff from the United States went to the mission field and met this young man.

He was one of the young people studying at the Bible school.

And he came from a radical, fanatical religion that hated Christ and Christianity. And when he was studying in college, he heard about the Lord Jesus Christ and he gave his life to Him.

And he told his parents about it. They kicked him out of the house.

He had to walk away with the clothes he was wearing, nothing else. And he ended up in a Bible school. So this staff person asked about his faith.

Are you not sad that you lost everything? You lost your parents.

You lost your sister. You lost your future wealth. And education. Are you not sad? He responded. I am very sad. But, if I must choose again, I would rather have Jesus than anything and everything in this world.

You know there is a song like that in English. I rather have Jesus than anything. He saw Jesus. He became the pearl of great price. And my brothers and sisters, I just got one message. The Lord Jesus Christ.

For Him we are. Willing to give up everything and whatever it means. But the question is, do we see Him clearly? And each one of us must answer that for ourselves.

Seeing Christ in the Faithfulness of the Persecuted

I don't know if you heard the name Francis Chan.

He is a very dear friend to me. He is a very good friend of mine.

And a few years ago he went to India with his wife and children. And he said, Brother Capey, I am going to India. I would like to meet you there. I said, Francis, I am in Orissa at the moment. Do you have time to come there?

He said yes.

So he and his wife came to Orissa to attend a weekly service. And in that gathering there were 10 ,000 to 12 ,000 people.

It was a gathering of all the believers. They come once a year for this convention. And so he was ministering God's word.

Then he said, I would like to meet some of these people.

Yes, I said, talk to them. So he will have some translators and people who will help him to communicate with them in the native language. So he spent hours talking to them. Then he would say things like this.

I cannot believe. And he was talking about people he met.

And he was talking about the people he met.

You see, just before that there was persecution.

And of the churches we planted. In that persecution there were recently 1 ,000 houses destroyed by anti-Christian fanatics.

They killed my wife in front of me.

And some of them showed him the wounds on their bodies. The scars.

Because they will not deny Christ. Option was given, you deny your Jesus or this is what we are going to do to you. He said he never saw anything like this. No, God gave them grace during the persecution.

The question I ask myself.

If someone wants to kill my wife, my children, because I love Jesus, how would I respond?

In myself I wish I can tell you, oh no problem, let them kill me.

I don't have that courage. But the simple believers, having come from such darkness,.

Worshipping strange gods, they now love him. They understood the meaning of Jesus and his cross.

And they will not deny him. And today think about the Christians in Iraq. And the Syrian Christians.

Thousands of them are laying down their lives.

Thousands of Christians are laying down their lives. Yes, it is very serious, it is not nothing. But they believed in Jesus and they saw him as more precious than their own lives.

And that is what Paul says. We do not give up.

Enduring Trials by Looking to Jesus

Because we see Jesus.

I want to encourage you to pursue the Lord Jesus Christ. Long to become like him. Trials and difficulties will always be there. But in the midst of that, if he is before you, you can survive.

Look at the book of Acts. 30 years of church history. In chapter 16 we find Paul and his co-workers in prison. He is beaten up and abused. But singing,.

Praising God, I will say, Paul, what is wrong with you?

I am hurting. And it is difficult.

But Paul would say, I want to enter into the suffering of Christ, that I may know him. Some of you cannot even spend a day without eating and drinking.

Forget about fasting for a week. Our Christianity sometimes is so weak.

We cannot think about the suffering in this journey with Christ.

But I can tell you this, Jesus said, if anyone wants to follow Jesus, let him deny himself.

Take up his cross daily and follow me. Love me more than father, mother, son, daughter, even your own very life. So see him in the midst of your difficulties. I don't know what you are going through.

Maybe your family difficulties. Maybe like that dear brother in India.

Your relatives and family members don't care about you. They just don't see Jesus the way you see him. It is not physical persecution, but sometimes it is emotional and mental.

And you are alone in this journey. Maybe at your work, people laugh at you. They don't understand you. But remember, Jesus faced all suffering for us. Consider him.

And meditate on him. And the Lord will give you strength. But what happens when we fail? That is a problem. When I am doing well, it is okay. But when I sin, when I fail, what do I do? Jesus' disciples, Peter was a great leader.

And you know the story. He said, Oh, I will never deny you.

In the end, he denied Jesus.

Jesus Restores Those Who Have Failed

And his heart was broken. What use what use. Why should I try again? How many times.

I said I would not do it. But again and again and again. And the pride and all the other stuff that we deal with. And then the devil comes accuses us You did it. You failed. God hates you. You are rejected.

And we feel and learn and live with this guilt and condemnation. So it was with Peter. He said to the disciples the co-workers I am going to go back to my old business. So he did. And there Jesus goes after him.

Jesus didn't ask him anything.

If I were Jesus I would say something like this.

Peter what a crazy man you are.

I loved you so much. I cared for you. I forgave you.

What did you do to me? You denied me. And I will try to make him feel the worst sinner on planet earth. I don't want to go after him. But that's me. I spend about 300 ,000 air miles a year traveling and speaking.

300 ,000 air miles per year by the amount of flights I make to speak everywhere. 300 ,000 air miles.

We're good. Often I speak to pastors. Christian leaders. There are a few times deep into the night some places.

Somebody wants to talk to me. And somebody will say I'm a pastor caring for 2 ,000 people. I fell in sin. Nobody knows. I'm scared. I'm guilt-ridden. I don't know what to do. Where do I go? When I was studying in Dallas, Texas someone I admired so much happened to be Dr. Howard Hendricks teaching at the Dallas Seminary.

He's one of the world-renowned evangelical professors. And one time he said this he'd been teaching at the seminary for 40-some years. And he kept a diary of his students. The students who did PhD under his mentorship.

Hundreds of people. Some of them great businessmen and pastors and teachers all kind of things.

Then I remember correctly he said in 40 years of his keeping the log only 10 survived still following Christ. Frightening. I began serving my Lord when I was 17. Now I'm 25.

Well the truth is I'm 65. Other day I thought about it. The hundreds of people that I worked with how many divorced?

How many broken lives? How many no more walk with God? My brothers and sisters this is a difficult road. It's a narrow road.

It's a dangerous race. There will be many times you will fail.

Daily Repentance and Cleansing from Sin

Recently I was in a meeting when it was in Canada.

Speaking to a group of people so there was a question answer time. So a lady stood up and said you wrote so many books.

Oh yeah I did. And she described how wonderful her Christian life became by reading her books. And she said you are a saint now not because of my beard. So then she asked this question so you repent of any sins now?

I thought I didn't understand what she was saying. Then I figured it out. She was imagining I am an angel walking on earth. I do not do any sin. I am perfect. I said to her well here is the truth. Ten years ago every day I repented a hundred times.

Now I repent a thousand times.

The older I get the more I see my failures. And the pride and the secret sins. And I am so frightened.

About the wickedness.

Of my own heart. And many times when I end up talking to people on the phone and they see me as a Christian leader of course I am dealing with hundreds of leaders. And sometimes I am giving them advice and all kind of stuff.

Then I realize my words were not correct. I was not saying what I said in the spirit of Christ. There was anger and scolding. And I am telling you to do all kind of great things for God. But my own heart is not right.

And then I say oh Lord I failed again. Please cleanse me. Daily repentance. None of us are perfect. We all fail. But what we do when we fail? Is God rejecting us? No! He is coming after us with His love with His mercy.

He never asked Peter tell me all the problems you have. Well, psychology and psychiatrists do that usually not him.

They dissect you analyze you pick you into pieces. But the problems there do not have to put it back there again. I love watches. I have a watch 60 years old. Not this one. And sometimes I tinker with it.

One time I opened one of my old watch. I opened it up. That was the last time I opened it. I couldn't put it back to that again. Don't let yourself become your psychiatrist. Don't let the demons become the one to analyze and kill you internally.

You have failed. I have failed. And we sin not because we want to.

But we are living in the fallen world. I am not promoting you to live in sin.

But 1 John chapter 1 verse 8 and 9 says very clearly.

If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves. But when the Holy Spirit convicts us where do we go? The blood. Jesus. The cross. And we are cleansed. That's what happened to Peter. Jesus asked him one question.

The Father’s Love in the Parable of the Prodigal Son

Peter do you love me? Do you see me? And he said Lord you know I love you. There was no question asked. In the gospel of Luke chapter 15 we read about God the Father. That's what Jesus was trying to say.

And the Pharisees and the people in his time believed God is a cruel mean angry person. To give them a better understanding he describes about the father and two sons. The older son is a righteous full time Christian worker.

And he's doing everything right. But the younger boy he is a little crazy and takes his money and runs away. Then he wastes everything. He's like a tramp or a beggar now. What made the father to give him all the money for him to leave home?

It was love. You are saying why God you let this happen to me? He knew that's what it takes for us to find him. So in the end.

The son says this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to go back home. That's what he does. He asks no questions. Just embraces him. And that's what Jesus is. And tonight if you are living with guilt and condemnation I ask you to see him.

Consider him who loves you who gave his life for you and he forgives. The key to everything again in our failure is seeing the Lord Jesus Christ. I can go on all night talk about it. But then in your life and my life.

Seeing the World Through Jesus’ Eyes

Are we able to see Jesus' heart and his face? And his feelings and emotions when we think about our world seeing the world through his eyes. That's what he told the disciples in Gospel of John chapter 4.

He said you don't see what I see? Look through my eyes.

And you will do the right thing. Yesterday I talked about this partially. I mentioned to you about two brothers who went to the mission field how brother Hussein was murdered. I told you about her father now coming from a distant village and pleading with her to come home with his grandchild.

I told you about the response of this young girl.

Father, you don't understand. The Jesus my husband loved I love him. The people that he loved Father, I love them. I cannot come home. I must raise my son to take my husband's place. That shocked the man.

And he continued to stay with her. Within the first two weeks she led him to the Lord Jesus Christ. He became a follower of Christ. Her pain and suffering her loneliness and difficulties she could think about Jesus.

A Fresh Commitment to Jesus

And she says I knew someday I would see him. I'll meet my husband. It's all worth it because of Jesus. Tonight I want to ask you the question. We so easily sing all to Jesus I surrender. All to him I freely give.

It's so easy for me to sing that. Another song my Jesus I love thee. I know you are mine. For you all the follies of sin I resign. Jesus if ever I loved you think about those words. Wherever you may be wherever you are in your journey I ask you to make that commitment to him.

Take your eyes off other people.

From your own self your failures.

And struggles your dreams and ambitions you do not know what the future is but you can be sure Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever. And he will guide you with his counsel. You may have a thousand questions.

In my native language there is a word called Otomuli. You did it well. That word means one medicine for all ills. One medicine. Whatever the problems what all the sickness one medicine. You don't need ten pills only one the Lord Jesus Christ.

I can assure you of that. In this journey of mine how many places I've been to recently one of the missionary was telling me the story about the work in leper colony. This old lady who was forgotten forsaken by her family because she contracted leprosy.

When you become a leper you lose your caste. You lose your riches. You become an outcast. You wander on the streets. You beg to make a living. You are at the mercy of others. And she ended up in this leper colony.

There she heard about Jesus from our sisters of compassion. And described to her how Jesus touched the lepers. How he embraced them. Explained to her all will die. With great health or sickness. But there is a beautiful day coming.

You will have a new body. And this missionary was describing to me about her giving her life to Christ. And when she was baptized she came out of the water like an angel. Now she is the church. She clapped her hands but she has no fingers.

Just her stump. And she cannot close her eye lid but tears when she worships Jesus. And then she says I cannot wait for the day I will see him. I will have a new body. Recently somebody said this. When we all get to heaven we are all going to be 30 or 33 years old.

And the reason they think because Jesus died at the age of 33. It could be true. I was very handsome when I was 30. You should see my photograph like a movie star. When we see him we shall be like him.

The Invitation to Follow Christ

Don't stop. Don't let anyone stop you. The two things I want to tell you if you ever gave your life to Christ if you are tired in this journey pick up the courage. It is not very long. He is coming back.

Secondly if you do not know him tonight is your invitation. He is the fairest among the ten thousand. He died for you. Heaven is a real place.

Hell is a real place. You are made for him. Say Jesus here I am. You are intellectual you may not understand all about it. I don't. But the Bible says taste and see the Lord is good. You cannot know him until you trust him.

And by faith you do that.

Prayer of Commitment and Surrender

And tonight I want us to close our eyes for a minute of prayer.

Wherever you may be there is no magic in closing your eyes but it gives you the privacy of being alone with Christ. I ask you tonight to make this fresh commitment to him. Maybe you are not struggling with any problem.

Maybe you are so successful. Everything is going well and you are content and satisfied. Can you see Jesus through the blessings? Whatever hindering you don't let it anymore. And as we spend this minute in silent prayer if your decision is saying Lord here I am either you can kneel where you are or you can stand whatever you want to do.

Do something that tells you that you are making this decision. Take a minute for silent prayer and respond to him. Lord Jesus we want to thank you tonight for your grace and mercy. Thank you for my brothers and sisters those that made that special commitment to you tonight.

Lord whether we are sitting or standing or kneeling you know our hearts.

Please create such hunger in us oh Lord that we long after you.

Thank you for loving us. Thank you for giving your life for us. Help us to return to you. With our life and all that we are to you Lord. For your forgiveness and grace we love you. Lord I pray enable us to see you clearly more and more each day in this journey.

Thank you for your grace. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord bless you. Amen.