Seeing Everything From God's Point Of View (Tamil) — Zac Poonen

Renewing the Mind to Know God’s Will

We were speaking about Babylon in the last session but in this a delay Babylon a curative noun and We can say Babylon refers to a worldly church. Look a program on a sub a Babylon free created a church that has not obeyed the command in Romans 12 verse 2.

In Romans 12 verse 2 it says Don't be conformed to this world. In the province of the River Vashon. Take a woman to roam or funny. Linda Madigal. And in our lesson to the transformed that is into the likeness of Christ.

By the renewing of your mind. Manipulator the Nala Polymorphic little Parker so that you can prove. What is God's perfect will for your life. I'll put it on the a walk again to the area Paripurna system in a number they are in the woman.

And what is God's perfect will for your family life. When I couldn't walk it there would be a Paripurna system in a number they can do a number and what is God's perfect plan for the New Testament church the a part of Sabah to the area Paripurna system in a number they really go.

I'm going to understand God's perfect will. There is a requirement India Paripurna monosynthesis. Over there to a theory on the first of all we must present our body where it's one completely to God on the new.

But then I ended up with a lot of the other number. Yes I really have a day when you cook with a window like I said our mouth and our eyes and everything. And I don't judge according to what my eyes see or hears here.

Goes on from there that my mind must Stop thinking like the world and start thinking like God. It was a many a gun car that I'm going to go to the. I am a delay. What I guess in the grip or a car am I to send the car that they once in the grip or a car am I think the army.

Kevin don. There's a paraphrase of the Bible. We're one of the first paraphrases of the New Testament was written by a man called JB Phillips. The paraphrase JB Phillips. JB Phillips and There's long before the Living Bible and all came living baby into another movie.

Under paraphrase Bible under the. I'll never forget the way he paraphrased Colossians 1 verse 9. Colossians 1 Ramadhi Aram on but I'm a senator cook. I will look over a drink rather than on over a calamity.

He said that you may my prayer is that you may look at things from God's viewpoint. They would eat another today and you can come to me. I have a entry on the record. I'll edit it you know when it says we are raised up to be seated with Christ in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 2 6 a base here in the Arlen on Christopher Good at the bottom of the level of the world. We're kind of a moment a solution then in our mind. We are there even though our body is here. Nobody has set him in the boobie.

I didn't tell him good in number a monitor. No monkey room. Our spirit is there number y 'all be angry and if we allow the Holy Spirit to change our mind. We will look at everything on earth from heaven's viewpoint.

I'm the person to have you on over a number. Yeah, man I'm gonna move it. I'll know me love me move me me already a connoisseur in the park. I mean that is the secret of rejoicing always it is on cut their pull it put them some.

There's a secret of being free from Anxiety, I'll let the damage. Could you walk in the casino to the on because in heaven there rejoice always. You know that part of it will put them some the shit to go to heaven.

They are not anxious about anything no matter what happens on this earth in the boomy. They are not on the city part of the york and the colony will lay. They know that Satan has been defeated. Satan took a decapitated part of the other character of the we allow our mind to Look at things from God's viewpoint.

We will be completely free from anxiety. Nobody a monitor a day with a connoisseur in the park a Converter's a non-competitive with a mutual mark of it should be our desire that every aspect of our thinking Which has been worldly from our childhood is now Transformed to God's way of thinking.

Viewing Money, People, and Sin from God’s Perspective

The world is in a super. I am with a non-worldly syndicate. Reparama have a syndicate the monotony for the day one syndicate a part of my syndicate army. Give it to my rubber put a window. We must look at money the way God looks at money.

They want money to be proper or a day for a number park a window. We must look at pretty women the way God looks at pretty women. I don't want to steal a day one a pretty proper or a day for a number on the connoisseur.

They park a window souls to be saved. That's it. It's a Puppet a part of it. It's a couple of India or a tomato in the connoisseur park a window. God looks at people very different from the way. We look non parker of the computer.

We got some of the third day one of only a parker are a lot of your problems with dirty thoughts will disappear If you allow the Holy Spirit to change your way of thinking. Nobody a syndicate a with a day one.

Martin you know I'm with a keyboard with a kid with a pallet of an ass with a. The trouble is that we don't want God to change our way of thinking but we want to have victory in our thought life. That is impossible.

That's an end of it. I'll be able to a syndicate. Why do you want to do that on a non-victory? Why don't you want to end up in the end of the time? But tonight I don't want to go to the answer in your body.

We're gonna allow your mind to be transformed renewed to think like God. They won't syndicate a police syndicate. We are going on a date with you. And that comes through reading God's Word meditating on it and allowing the Holy Spirit to put that into our mind.

They only want a wassup an alarm. Yeah, I put an alarm even the monosynthetic I'm gonna model a podium reader person to have you never get put an alarm in the water. Then we won't be afraid of the devil anymore because we know he's been defeated.

He's also thought that he could put an end to it. You know, let me saw say part of my bottom see in heaven. God can see the end already. What is written in Revelation 20 that the devil is cast into the lake of fire God already sees it.

When I allow God to change my way of thinking I see that already. It's happened non syndicate over the day when water in the open. Yeah, I'm not afraid of the devil anymore. I don't believe he can do anything to harm me because God makes everything work for good.

So this is a very important secret of our personal life family life and church life. When things go wrong in your life, just try to look at it from God's viewpoint and see what he thinks about the. When you lose money see what God thinks about it.

When you commit a sin see what God thinks about it. When things go wrong in your home see what God thinks about it. When there is sickness in your home try and look at it from God's viewpoint. God is in a panic.

You know what a tremendous change can come in our life if we allow the Holy Spirit to change our way of thinking. Otherwise we look at these commands like rejoice always and be anxious for nothing and say oh that is impossible in this world.

In the world. If your way of thinking is like the way of the thinking of the world I agree it is impossible. Those who have obeyed Romans 12 to and been filled with the Holy Spirit. They can handle situations.

Like it says in the Old Testament nothing will move them. I love this verse. It's a great favorite of mine. Psalm 112. Psalm 112 the blessed is the man who fears the Lord verse 1. Verse 6 and 7 especially.

He will never be shaken. He will never be shaken. Verse 7 he will not fear bad news. His heart is steadfast trusting in the Lord. He will not fear verse 8. Boy what a way to live. Get our thinking like God thinks.

Building the Church Without Depending on Money

So coming to Romans chapter 12. If our mind is renewed to think like that. Then we will know how God looks at everything that's happening around us as we seek to build his church. We want to handle money the way Jesus handled money.

And we don't want to depend on money. Rather than the Holy Spirit because Jesus didn't depend on money. He depended on the Holy Spirit. Now I told you the other thing in Babylon is music. In Revelation 18 there's a big description of Babylon.

In Revelation 18 there's a big description of Babylon. First it talks about business. In verse 22 we read about the sound of musicians. Music is a great gift of God. So we can't say that Satan didn't use it wrongly.

I'll give you another example. Even before Genesis chapter 1 God has created the bad feelings and actions in man's life. In Genesis chapter 1 Who created it? God. Who has abused it? Satan. And the minds of many Christians is polluted by the devil's view of sex.

In fact my conviction is that 99 of people in the world have got the wrong idea of sex. And possibly many of you sitting here as well. You are born again but your view of sex is the devil's view. Because your mind has been polluted by pornography, television, movies, so many things.

And it's quite a job to clean it all out. But that's a major area where we have to look at things from God's viewpoint. The same thing with music. Just like sex, music is a gift of God. But 99 of the music in the world has been polluted by the devil.

Including a lot of music in the so called Christian church. Where people are more interested in shaking their hips and tapping their feet than worshipping God. It's perfectly alright to tap your feet and clap your hands and raise your hands.

But don't let your body take over your mind. It happens in many singing meetings in the church. Where the body is in control. And the mind is maybe thinking of something else. But we are clapping, we are singing and we have sang that song 100 times.

So we know the words, we don't even think about it. How do I know this? Because I have done it myself. That's how I know. And I have stopped myself and said, what did I say just now to God? I liked the tune and I was clapping and I completely forgot about what I am saying to Almighty God.

Imagine going before the ruler of your country and just saying something which you don't even know what you are saying. How would you feel if you don't know what you are saying? There is a big danger in music.

If it is not kept under the control of the Holy Spirit, there is a big danger. Look at the rock music that is seen in the world today. Look at those musicians. All these people who do that, look at the covers of their CDs.

There is a very close association between rock music and demons and drugs, harmful drugs. And when foolish Christians say, let's bring rock into the church and put Christian words to it to attract the young people.

See these are people who don't believe in the power of the Holy Spirit. Did the Apostle Peter say on the day of Pentecost, let's get some musicians here and really work people's emotions up, then we will preach the gospel.

Is that how he brought three musicians to the church? Is that how he brought three thousand Jews to the Lord on that day? Let's look at the techniques they have now. When they are praying, the musicians will be behind them and when they are praying, the music will bring them to their senses.

When they are praying on the day of Pentecost, the musicians will be behind them and when they are praying, the musicians will be behind them and when they are praying, the musicians will be behind them.

Knowing God’s Ways Rather Than Following Religious Techniques

Why can't you see these things? Today's generation does not know the true power of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says in the last days Daniel 11 .32. The people who know their God will be strong. The greatest need in our day is to know God.

To know God's ways. Psalm 103 verse 7 The children of Israel could only see God's external action. But to Moses, God revealed His ways. Today most Christians, 99 of them just see God's actions on the outside.

The leaders are also like that. We need a generation of leaders who know God's ways. I urge you brothers and sisters. You young people. Get on your face before God and say, Lord teach me your ways. Then you will see that a lot of music in Christendom today has gone the way of the world.

When I was reading about the fall of the devil in Ezekiel 28. When I was reading about the fall of the devil in Ezekiel 28. We see how the devil fell from verse 13. When Ezekiel 28 .12 starts, he was filled with wisdom and was beautiful.

He was an anointed angel, verse 14. He was in the original Eden, verse 13. The Eden that was destroyed in Genesis 1 .2. The Eden was made again by God in Genesis 2. The Eden was made again by God in Genesis 2.

But this is the original Eden. Satan was an anointed angel there. There are many words to describe him. All the workmanship, etc. Pictured in picture language with precious stones, etc. Verse 13 Towards the end it says.

The workmanship of your tambourines and flutes. That's how it is in the King James Version. In the King James Version, we see flutes and tambourines. I don't know Hebrew, but I looked up the Hebrew word for this.

I looked up the Hebrew word for this. I looked up the Hebrew word for this. The correct word is Tambourine. There was some musical ability there in Satan. It's all picture language. It's trying to say that Satan had tremendous musical ability.

That's the message here. But he has abused it. Just like he abused all the other gifts God gave him. When a preacher, God gives him a gift and he uses that gift to make money. He is abusing God's gift.

When he uses that gift in order to rule over people. He is abusing God's gift. So we need to be careful about music in the Christian Church. I want to tell all of you. If you enjoy the drums and the organs and this and that and the other.

More than real the words of worship you are singing to God on Sunday. You have already gone astray. If you understand the meaning of the words of worship you are singing to God on Sunday. And if you understand the beat of the music you are singing to God.

You have already gone astray. The church in Bangalore was in my house for 6 years. We were just about 4 families. I think when we started. And even after 6 years we were about 60 people. Including children.

And we never had a musical instrument because none of us knew how to play it. We had 3 meetings a week, no musical instruments. Brother, how can you have a spiritual meeting without musical instruments?

It's like the early church had. We discovered one thing in those days. You don't need musical instruments to build the body of Christ. If you have it, good. Keep it as a servant. Money, keep it as a servant.

Do you know the difference between a servant and a master in the house? Money must be a servant. Don't let it take over the house. There is a saying that fire is a good servant but a bad master. That means if you keep the fire on the stove where you cook the food that's ok, control it.

As long as you control it, good will do good to you. The knob in the gas stove must be under your control. You can increase or decrease the flame whenever you want. What does it mean for the fire to be your master?

Where it's uncontrolled and it burns the whole house. When money is a servant which is under your control, you better stay there, you are not going to control me. I know how to turn it off. I know how to turn it to medium.

I know how to keep it in the middle. I use money for a purpose. Like fire, I use money for a purpose. If you don't know how to control it, it will destroy your house, your family and your life. I have seen money being misused in Christian ministry.

When it comes to church money, let's spend it. In a hundred years God will not anoint such people. God will anoint people who treat God's money more carefully than their own money. God will anoint people who treat God's money more carefully than their own money.

I have seen very few such people in my life. Very few, I respect them more. Many people treat church money carelessly. Who is going to spend it? It's church money brother. And I listen to these brothers speak Boring.

Because they are not faithful. Keep money under control, make it your servant. The same thing with music. A good servant but a bad master. A good servant but a bad master. Just like how fire burns a house, music has destroyed the church.

I have decided that no one should be drawn to our church by the music. I don't want them to be drawn to the church by the music. I don't want them to be drawn because of the buildings. I say people must be drawn to the church because they want to be godly.

Because they hear a message that will lead them to godliness. Satan, before he became the devil had musical abilities. Satan, before he became the devil had musical abilities. Instead of using it to glorify God He used it to lead people away from God.

Music, Worship, and the Example of Jesus

First of all, where do we read about music in human history? Genesis 4. The first man who was cursed by God was Cain. We read in Genesis 4 .11. You would have been cursed. In Genesis 3 .14 God did not curse Adam but the earth.

Did you know that? Adam and Eve were not cursed. In Genesis 3 .17 God cursed the ground. The first person to be cursed was Cain. Genesis 4 .11. And the Lord said to Cain. From now on, verse 12 You will be a wanderer on the earth.

You will just drift along. You will never have any fellowship. You will never have any fellowship. You will just drift along. You will just drift along. You will just drift along. When God blesses you, you will have fellowship.

I don't mean you will belong to a church. There are a lot of people who sit in a church who have no fellowship. I don't mean you will belong to a church. There are a lot of people who sit in a church who have no fellowship.

There are a lot of elders who don't have fellowship with each other. They are wandering like Cain. They don't even realize it. Do you know why? Because they are proud like Cain. I feel sorry for them.

It's bad when you don't have fellowship. When the Lord says you are going to be a wanderer all alone. You think you will have a ministry. It's all nonsense. And Cain produced children. And one of his children was the first one who married two wives.

One of his children. If you read in verse 23 about verse 19 Lamech took to himself two wives. And then we read In verse 21 One of the descendants of Cain Jubal. He was the father of those who play the lyre and the pipe.

He was the father of those who play the lyre and the pipe. In the generation when God cursed man and made him a wanderer. We see the lyre first. His descendants Started playing musical instruments. For what?

Did they play to glorify God? Not at all. They played to glorify God. If you read Genesis chapter 32 When they made a golden calf There were so many dances and songs. Remember one thing. I am not against music.

I believe in using it. I love singing Worship hymns to my God. Many times when I am alone by myself I love singing songs to God. I love music. But not worldly music. Not the music taught by the sons of Cain.

But worship songs to God. Where the instruments are not the main thing. But the words are the main thing. In your church. If the instruments are more important than the words You have already gone the way of Cain and Lucifer.

Do you know it says in the Bible That after the last supper Before they went to Gethsemane Jesus joined the others and sang a hymn. Jesus sang a hymn. I would have liked to be there. To listen to how Jesus sang a hymn.

I said Lord I want to sing all my life. The way you sang that night. I don't think he was taken up with the tune. I think he was taken up with the words. He was going to the cross in another 12 hours.

I said Lord. I want to sing like that. I want to be a man of God. I want to follow you. The way you lived. The way you sang. The life you lived. The song you sang. Hebrews 2 It speaks about Jesus. Verse 11.

He is not ashamed to call us brothers. He is my elder brother. What is he doing to be my elder brother? Verse 12. In the midst of the church He sings the praise of the father. When I sing in the church I think of Jesus As the song leader.

According to Hebrews 2 .12 He is the song leader. Leading the church in praise to the father. All of you who lead songs in your churches. Follow this example. If Jesus were here How would he lead the church in praise to the father?

Make him your forerunner. Your example. He would depend on the Holy Spirit. See what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14. 1 Corinthians 14 is speaking about the church meeting. See how he says in verse 15 last part.

I will sing with my spirit. And I will sing with my mind. If the instruments are there, praise the Lord. If the instruments are not there, praise the Lord. I can always have my spirit and my mind. That is the most important thing.

I shall sing with my spirit. And I shall think about the words I am singing. What about the instruments? They shall be servants to help me to sing with my spirit and my mind. This is New Testament type of singing.

Guarding the Church from Worldly Influences

There are so many things like this That have come and taken the place of the Holy Spirit in the church. There are so many things like this that have come and taken the place of the Holy Spirit in the church.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11 Verse 2. I am jealous of God for you. I feel like that many times when I think of the churches God has given me responsibility for. I say I want to present them as a pure virgin to Christ.

As a pure bride Jerusalem. Not as the harlot Babylon. That is what Paul is saying. I don't want this church to be a Babylon and harlot. I want to present this to Christ as a pure virgin to be his bride.

Now apply this to music. But I am afraid Lest as a servant who had experience with tambourines and flutes Deceives you That your mind will be led astray In your music. From simple pure devotion to Jesus Christ.

Let me give you an honest testimony. Even today When I sing about the cross Where Jesus shed his blood for my sins. There are tears in my eyes. Just like they were there 50 years ago. I cannot sing about Jesus dying for me without tears in my eyes.

I am sorry I cannot sing Jesus died for me and I am going to heaven. I cannot sing like that. It is too sacred for me. It was a tremendous price he paid there for my sins. That is why one of my favorite songs is this.

I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene. And wonder how he could love me. A sinner condemned unclean. And in Gethsemane when he was praying He had no tears for his own griefs. But he had sweat drops of blood for my griefs.

I sing such songs when I am alone. And when I sing them in the church It is almost as if nobody else is there but me and Jesus. I believe music is a wonderful gift. Music has helped me tremendously in my worship life, in my private life.

To worship my God. And if instruments are there, I will keep it as a servant. As far as I am concerned, I will never let it take over my life. We have a generation of young people growing up in many countries.

Many of our churches Who are very good with their instruments. They don't know the ABC of worshipping God. What are the church elders doing? Very soon Such a church Will become like Babylon. With the sound of the tambourines and the flutes and the drums.

And the worship of God has disappeared. Jesus will not be in such a church. We have to be very careful dear brothers and sisters. The Bible says in Galatians 1. The Bible says in Galatians 1 God gave himself for us.

Deliverance from the World’s Influence

There are two things mentioned in Galatians 4. Read it carefully. Because we have to build our church on this foundation. Galatians 1 verse 4. God gave himself for our sins. This is the first verse. And he also gave himself that he might deliver us out of this present evil world system.

That is the will of God our father it says. It's not only freedom from sin. He died so that the prince of this world will have no more power over my way of thinking. That the prince of this world will not determine what I have in my home and what I don't have.

Jesus died so that the prince of the world will not control what program you watch on television in your home. Jesus died so that the prince of the world will not control what program you watch on television in your home.

Jesus gave his life so that your mind will be cleansed from the influence of pornographic images. In the olden days, people used to feel shy to stand in the line to buy a ticket for a movie. Because of the fear that someone might see me.

What does Jesus say? Don't be afraid son. Don't be afraid. I will send the TV to your home. You can sit at home and watch the movie. You will never lose your testimony. Once I went to a brother's house I knocked at the door, there was a light inside.

He won't open the door. I said what happened? Knock, knock, knock. He was watching television. So he had to get a towel and put it over the television and all that before he opens the door. I am not bothered if you have a television in your home.

Television is like a library, you may have a library of books in your home. By the way, what you see on the computer internet is worse than television. It's not a question of library, it's a question of what type of books you have there.

It's not a question of television, it's a question of what programs you watch on the television. It's not a question of whether you have a computer or not, it's a question of what you watch on it. I don't say you shouldn't have a library, I say make sure what books you keep there.

I never say you shouldn't have a TV or a computer, but I say be careful about what you watch on it. But if you have no control over your children, over what they watch on television, then get rid of it.

So, all these are ways by which the devil seeks to control us, the God of this world tries to control our mind. So many movies that are made these days, they'll put a few seconds of something filthy. And particularly in the minds of men, five years later, you would have forgotten the entire story of that movie.

But that ten seconds of filth, that will remain in your mind. How did it get into your mind? You say it's only ten seconds, brother. The whole glass is full of milk, only one spoon of poison, that's all.

Will you drink it? Only two or three drops of poison. We are not asking you to watch pornographic movies where the whole glass is full of poison. This is all milk, brother, just two or three drops of poison, that's all.

That's the devil's way. I have a godly jealousy that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ. I have a godly jealousy that I may present you as a pure virgin to Christ. I think people who watch football and cricket are much better than these people who watch the movies.

They find a relaxation there, that's fine. I think people who watch football and cricket are much better than these people who watch the movies. What I am trying to say is, the mind is the battlefield today.

And the devil is trying to control your mind and make it conform to the world. Then you won't be able to hear God's word in your mind. If you don't understand God's way of thinking, you will not be able to build the church.

If you don't understand God's way of thinking, you will not be able to build the church. Why was there not much emphasis on the mind in the Old Testament? Because the Holy Spirit was only on the outside.

The Holy Spirit could not change the minds of people. Let me show you a verse that really challenged me. 1 Corinthians 2. It says in verse 11 1 Corinthians 2 .11. No one knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man within him.

You know that. Your thoughts, nobody else can know except your own spirit. Your thoughts, nobody else can know except your own spirit. Similarly, we read in verse 16 that no one knows the thoughts of God except the spirit of God.

Do you want other people to know your thoughts? You will share only a few thoughts with your wife. Thoughts are a very confidential secret for us. Here it says God has got thoughts. And the Holy Spirit knows all those thoughts like your spirit knows all your thoughts.

Have you understood that? That's step 1. The Holy Spirit knows all the thoughts of God. Now here is the wonderful good news, the glorious gospel. The full gospel. This spirit, verse 12, God gives us, we receive this Holy Spirit.

So that we can know these thoughts of God. I am so excited when I read that. That's what really makes me clap and jump. I can know the thoughts of God in my mind. When I am filled with His Holy Spirit.

That's why I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Not to heal the sick and make money. But to know the thoughts of God. To know the things God has freely given me. Because when I know that Verse 13 I can speak those things to other people and tell them what God has given us freely.

So that I can not only share God's thoughts with them like it says in verse 13. But those spiritual thoughts can be communicated in spiritual words. Now see verse 16, the conclusion. Who has known the mind of the Lord?

Here is the answer in the new covenant. The last part. We have the mind of Christ. Paul said that. You can't say that unless you actually have it. If you allow your mind to be polluted by all the filth you see on the computer and television.

You won't have the mind of Christ. You will not know the will of God for your life. Or your family life. Or what answer to give to somebody who has a problem in your church. Or how to advise your children when they ask you for counsel.

I wish I could convince the whole world about this. That to be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with the thoughts of God in our mind. I speak in tongues but I don't mind losing that gift. If I can have the thoughts of God in my mind, that's more important to me.

This is very important because it's the thoughts of God that can revolutionize my life. That's what will build the true church. Why do we find so much of conflict between brothers and sisters? Why do we have so many husbands and wives fighting with each other?

Why do we have so many believers whose children are wayward and living for the world? Why do we have so many young sisters dressing in a worldly way, uncovering more and more of their bodies? Why do we have so many young sisters dressing in a worldly way, uncovering more and more of their bodies?