(The Church and Satans Wiles) 2 - as Jesus Is So Are We — Zac Poonen

Revelation of Christ as the Foundation of the Church

Yesterday evening we were looking at Jesus' words in Matthew 16 and verse 18 where he told Peter that he would build his church on the rock that he had just confessed. That was a revelation that he got from the Father as to who Jesus was.

And wherever we see a failure to build the true Church of Jesus Christ and most of what we see in Christendom today is not an expression of the body of Christ. A lot of it is just a one-man show and in many other places it's just a nice building or interesting music or something like that but not the body of Christ.

The reason is that those who have sought to build that church have not had a revelation from God as to the person of Jesus Christ. We may know Jesus is our Savior but that's good for personal salvation.

But the Holy Spirit has come to show us more and more of Christ. And when the same question that he asked the disciples, who do people say that I am? People have so many opinions but who do you say that I am?

And Peter said, you're the Christ, the Son of the Living God. And he said to Peter, you didn't get that by study or intelligence. It's my Father revealed me to you. And I will confess that throughout my Christian life my goal has been to get an increasing revelation as to who Jesus is.

Like Paul said that I may know him because it says eternal life is to know God and to know Jesus Christ. And I find that many Christians are not pursuing an increasing knowledge of Christ. I don't know how many of you are pursuing an increasing knowledge of Jesus.

And if you find a shallowness and a dissatisfaction in your Christian life, I'll tell you the answer is here. There may be many other things you are pursuing but the answer lies in knowing Jesus better.

Knowing him as to who he is, knowing him as the Holy Spirit reveals him as the answer to every need that I can face in life. There's absolutely no situation that you and I can ever face in our whole life.

It doesn't matter what it is. Whether it's freedom from sin, healing from sickness, power to serve him, power to overcome trials, financial difficulties, anything, you name it. The answer is in knowing Christ better and only the Holy Spirit can show us Jesus.

And when we see that as the rock, see so many Christians have different ideas as to what that rock is. The Roman Catholic Church says it's Peter who's the rock. That's a pretty shaky foundation because a few verses later Jesus called Peter Satan.

So that's not a good rock to be on. He's pretty unstable. The rock is this, a revelation of Christ that comes to us from God through the Holy Spirit. On this rock the church is built and that church, the mark of that church is that the powers of hell can never shake it.

It'll attack it but it won't shake it. And the church will grow from strength to strength spiritually. It's not just a question of increasing numbers. Now I was mentioning yesterday that the poison that the devil put into Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden can be described, I mean there are many ways to look at it, but basically it is the poison of seeking one's own.

Overcoming Self-Seeking and the Fear of Human Opinion

And as long as I don't get rid of this poison of seeking my own, I'm gonna have a little bit of the devil's poison in me. No matter how religious I'm on the outside, it'll make me proud, it'll make me selfish, even though externally I look like a very holy Christian.

Even though externally I have a good testimony before others, the poison of the devil still corrupts me. And this is why so many Christians are depressed and gloomy and defeated in every single denomination under the sun.

All their better so-called better doctrines don't seem to make them better people. Inside, many many Christians would be ashamed to let other believers know what's going on in their minds and what their private life is like, what their private home life is like, and the politics and the struggles that go on in their so-called New Testament church.

They would be ashamed. They try to cover it all up. That's not the solution. The solution is to deal with the root of the problem inside. I mean, if you've got leprosy, what's the use wearing long-sleeve shirts and covering it up?

That doesn't heal the disease. If you've got cancer, wearing good clothes doesn't heal the cancer. So it's very important, if you want to follow Jesus, that you decide in your life that I'm not interested in what human beings think about me.

I'm not interested in what my fellow believers think about how spiritual I am. I'll tell you this, if you make that one single decision, it'll revolutionize your life. It's one of the decisions I made many many years ago that I would not bother about what other believers thought about me.

I wouldn't bother what other people thought about my preaching. Whether they praised it or criticized it would be just the same to me. And if you take that decision, I tell you, you'll make more progress in six months than you've made probably in your whole life.

You don't know how much the opinions of men are like chains that hinder us from running the race. So keep that in mind. The devil is always trying to make us think about what will other people say. Well, I couldn't care less what they say.

What does God say? You know, many parents, for example, are concerned about how their children dress and behave. And very often it is for the parents themselves to get a good name in the church. They can tell their children you must dress like this or behave like this.

What will people say? Why tell my children I couldn't care less what people will say? What will God say? That's the only thing that should concern you, my boys and girls. That's what we should tell our children.

The Passing Pleasures of Sin and the Choice of Suffering

It'll help them to become spiritual. The Bible speaks about the pleasures of sin. It doesn't deny the fact that sin has pleasure. And we should not pretend that sin doesn't have pleasure. You know, if we don't face reality, we can live in a world of self-deception.

I don't pretend that sin doesn't have pleasure. Sin gives a lot of pleasure because the Bible says so. It says in Hebrews 11 and verse 25 that Moses chose to endure ill-treatment with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures, the passing pleasures of sin.

Look at that expression. To enjoy the passing pleasures of sin. There is enjoyment in sin. Let's face it. People wouldn't be pursuing it so much if there was no enjoyment in it. Men don't pursue, men and women don't pursue things that produce suffering and pain.

Why is there so much pursuit of sin in the world? Because there's pleasure in it. There's enjoyment in it. Whether it's the pursuit of sex or the pursuit of money or the pursuit of eating good food or living in comfortable surroundings, whatever it is, men pursue it because there's a pleasure in it, there's enjoyment in it.

And even if it violates God's commandments, they do it because there's pleasure in it and there's enjoyment. And it says here about Moses that he made a deliberate choice that made him the man of God he became when he decided I would rather suffer than have pleasure.

He rejected pleasure and chose suffering. Whenever a man follows that path and says yes I face up to the fact there is an enjoyment down that path, there is pleasure down that path, but I reject it and choose what is foolish in the eyes of a natural man, choose the way of suffering and ridicule, he's on his way to become a man or woman of God.

Joy and Pleasure in the Presence of God

But what the devil doesn't allow us to see is there is enjoyment and pleasure with God as well. That's one of the things I was saying yesterday, that the devil has somehow convinced people that there's a lot of enjoyment and pleasure in sin, but with the Christian life it's all boring and you know sickening.

But let me show you a couple of verses. It says in 1 Timothy in chapter 6, 1 Timothy 6, it says in verse 17, it's telling rich people here not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but to fix our hope, 1 Timothy 6, 17, on God who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

Does God give us things to enjoy? That's quite a different concept from the idea that many people have about God. The only thing that God gives us things to suffer and suffer and suffer, and the devil keeps on painting that picture before us of God till we think that, oh if I go around suffering, suffering, I'm being very spiritual.

Do you know something about the enjoyment of being a Christian? The Bible says God gives us richly, he doesn't give us spoonfuls, he pours the rain upon us, gives us richly all things to enjoy. Anything that there isn't, there's an enjoyment in God which is totally free from sin, which is totally pure, and that's what the devil doesn't want us to know.

Now let me show you another verse in Psalm 16 where it speaks both about joy and pleasure. You know those are the two things we saw in Hebrews 11 25. There's a joy in sin, there's a pleasure in sin, which the world is pursuing, and because Christians have not seen or do not proclaim by their words and by their life that there is a joy and a pleasure in God, that they're not portraying the Christian life accurately.

And so the devil succeeds with his advertisements of joy and pleasure in sin. In Psalm 16 it says, you find both those words there, joy and pleasure. Oh God thou wilt make known to me the path of life.

Psalm 16 verse 11. In thy presence is fullness of joy. I thank God for the time in my life. It took many years after I was born again, nearly 15 -20 years before I discovered this wonderful truth that there is fullness of joy in the presence of God.

If you get there, you'll have a joy that surpasses the greatest joy you can have on earth. All of us will acknowledge there is pleasure in eating tasty food, chocolates, ice cream, anything tasty. There's a pleasure and the joy in it.

And if you're one who loves good food, let me tell you there's a million times greater pleasure and joy in the presence of God. It says here, in thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. It's not that temporary pleasure you get for a moment from eating tasty food.

It's permanent and eternal. There is joy and pleasure. There is joy and pleasure in legitimate sexual relationship and sexual intimacy. There's no doubt about it. But it's nothing, it's absolutely nothing compared to the joy of being in God's presence.

And if you have not known the joy of being in thy presence, there is fullness of joy which far exceeds any pleasure you've had in marital sex. I want to tell you, you haven't known the presence of God yet.

There's something you're missing in the Christian life. You need to ask God to fill you with the Holy Spirit and bring you right into God's presence to taste something of that pure pleasure and joy. At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Whether it's, I don't know what you find interesting, is it music? Do you find pleasure and joy in music? The presence of God is a million times better. Whatever it is, think of the thing that gives you, think of the times in your life when you've had maximum pleasure in something.

I'm not talking about sinful things. I'm even talking about legitimate things. Legitimate eating, legitimate sex, legitimate good Christian music, or travel, or friendship, or anything you name it. It's far exceeded by the joy and pleasure you have in God's presence.

And the devil does not want us to experience it. And it's when we don't experience it that we have a tremendous problem with temptation. We were talking yesterday about the wiles of the devil. The devil is crafty.

And Paul says to the Corinthians, he says, I'm afraid that you would be, your minds would be turned away from the simplicity of devotion to Christ in the same way that Eve was turned away by the craftiness of Satan.

So, you know, the devil turned Eve away by showing her a pleasure in something God had forbidden. That's essentially how the devil turned her away. And there's no doubt that God has created a lot of pleasure in the world, which he has also forbidden.

There are many things that are very beautiful that we're not supposed to look at. There are many things that are, that give us a lot of pleasure, which we're not supposed to touch. That's, that's the way God tests us.

That's the way he tested Eve. Like I've often said, when God, when Eve stood before the, that forbidden tree, it was a test. God was asking her, which do you want more? The pleasure of my presence, the pleasure of obeying me, or the pleasure you can get from this thing I have created?

And you know that every temptation is basically that. What do you want, God says. Do you want the pleasure you can get from having a lot of money? Do you want the pleasure you can get from looking at things you shouldn't be looking at?

Yeah, there's no doubt there's pleasure in it. There was certainly a lot of pleasure in eating from that tree. And if you went to Eve and asked her after she had eaten from that fruit of that tree, did you enjoy that?

Was it tasty? If she was honest, she'd have said, oh yes, boy, that was really wonderful. And you have to admit that when you sin in some area, there is a certain pleasure in it. You've got to be honest.

When the test that came to you at that time before you sinned was God asking you, which pleasure do you want more? That which comes from being in my presence, or that which comes from what I've created?

The right hand, there are pleasures for evermore. And I believe that our responsibility as Christians is to demonstrate to this world that there's a far greater pleasure in knowing God and in living continually in his presence.

Whatever that costs, whatever I have to deny in order to be in God's presence, that should be our testimony. And people who look at our lives should be able to see that we have such tremendous joy, even though we don't indulge in all those things that they have.

Even though we don't have all that money that they have. Even though we don't commit all those sins that they have. Even though we don't watch the movies they watch. We have got far greater joy in our life.

We're not depressed like them. We're not gloomy like them. But there are very few Christians who have that testimony. And I believe that's the thing challenge we should take. What do people who know me intimately and well see about me?

Do they see the Christian life as something that produces a joy and a pleasure far exceeding anything that the world can offer? You see, it's because we don't have that enjoyment that we go after these other things.

This mic is something like some Christians. You fix them and they drop down again pretty quickly. You need constant fixing. Okay. You know when the prodigal son came back and ate the father's the fatted calf and the food in the father's house, do you think he ever had a lung to go back and eat what the were eating after that?

Not at all. But if he had been starving in his father's house, if his father had not given him proper food, then he may have longed once in a while to go and eat what the pigs were eating. Now apply that to your life.

Maybe you've come back to the father's house and you're born again. You're part of God's church. You find yourself longing sometimes for the leeks and the onions and the garlic of Egypt, for the pigs food that you used to eat once in a while.

You find you like to go back to some of those things which you once gave up because, why is that? It must be because you're starving in the father's house. That must be the reason. In other words, you're not enjoying the pleasure and joy of the father's presence.

So I want to encourage you to seek to be a testimony to the Lord concerning this matter, that the Christian life is one full of joy. I want to show you a verse in Hebrews chapter 12. It says about fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

And in what way are we to run this race? It says that Jesus set his eyes on a joy that was set before him. Jesus was also looking for joy, just like all the sinful people in the world are looking for joy.

But they look in the places. And Christians who sin occasionally, just to get a little pleasure, who want that pig's food just once in a while, it's because they haven't seen the joy that Jesus sought.

You know, I'll tell you something, God created you to have enjoyment. God created you to have pleasure. But the pleasure he wants, and joy he wants you and me to have, is of the highest sort. He wants you to have, it's like a father who does not want his child ever to eat pig's food.

He wants him to have the best food. Don't think that God is a boring God, who's a spoilsport, who wants to make your life miserable. That's the idea people have. A lot of people have that in the back of their mind, that if you're seeking God's will concerning an easy path and a difficult path, God's will must be the difficult path, right?

That's what the devil says. If you have a choice between a pretty girl and an ugly girl, God's will must be the ugly girl. There's no doubt about it. And if God's will is, you know, for you to have a job with a lower salary or a higher salary, God's will is definitely the one with a lower salary.

Who's been telling you all these lies for so many years? Do you believe that God's a loving father? I tell you, the greatest revelation that Christians need in our time is that God is a loving father.

He's not a spoilsport. He's not one who's out to make your life miserable. He wants you to have the highest form of enjoyment and pleasure. And I thank God I discovered that. I had to discover it on my own because I never heard anybody preaching that in my younger days.

Jesus sought for joy. Here it says here, who for the joy set before him and the joy set before him he endured the cross. Why is a mother, a woman, a wife willing to go through all the trouble and pain of carrying a baby in her womb for so long and the pain of delivering it?

Why? Because of the joy set before her of having a baby at the end of it. And after having one baby we think that woman said, oh that's enough. I don't want that anymore. Why do they want to have another one?

Because of the joy of having another child and a third one and a fourth one. Why is that? Even though they know it's going to cause so much pain, they want another one. Jesus for the joy set before him endured the cross.

He said if that's the way to get there, I'll get there. Look at these students who study so hard to get a good job somewhere. Or people who work so hard to learn a trade in order to earn a living. They know that if they can go through that period of difficulty and trial, they're going to come through to a more comfortable life.

I mean all of us sitting here have faced that in some way or the other. Who for the joy set before him endured the cross. And what was the joy that Jesus sought? He was tempted in all points as we are.

He could never say to us follow me. If there was one temptation that you face that he didn't face, then he couldn't say follow me. Because I could say to him you don't understand the pressure I'm facing Lord in this particular temptation.

Do you know that there's not a single trial or temptation that you can ever face in your life? That you can ever face or have ever faced in your life? Where you could turn to the Lord and say Lord you don't understand what I'm going through.

He understands it very well. And the devil doesn't want you to know that he understands it very well. The Bible says we don't have a high priest who cannot sympathize with us. We have a high priest who can sympathize with us 100 because he's gone through it.

Christ's Example in Temptation and Suffering

Do you believe Jesus ever had a headache in his life? Well I'll tell you when I was pursuing this path of seeking a life of overcoming and I saw that the secret of godliness was in the fact that Jesus had come as a man like me and was tempted like me.

And I remember years ago when I was lying in bed with a severe headache. And I said Lord did you ever have a headache when you were on earth? Do you understand what it is? What I'm going through right now?

And why are you allowing this? It's very interesting the word I got from the Lord at that time. I believe he did have headaches when he was on earth. Otherwise he couldn't be he couldn't understand what I'm going through.

My children were small at that time. And you know how all normal children irritate their parents. That by the way is not abnormal. Unless your child is mentally challenged and in a vegetative state and just lies in bed the whole day.

I don't want any children like that. But otherwise children irritate. And I remember when I was in bed the Lord was told me well I'm working on your character. I have taught you to overcome being irritated by your children without a headache.

Now I'm trying to teach you to overcome being irritated with a headache. That's a higher class I'll tell you that. It's a much higher class than overcoming irritation when you don't have a headache. So I saw there was a purpose in everything.

And he was tempted like me too. And he overcame. And I decided I'm gonna pass. You know when you go from second grade and you pass second grade and you go to third grade. Don't you want to pass third grade too?

Because when you pass third grade you go to fourth grade. And the examinations are tougher in the fourth grade. But why is it we pursue that education? Why do you keep allowing your children to go to higher grade?

Why not remove them with all the difficult examinations they have in first grade? Say stop that's too enough for you. It's because we know that they'll become better people. So it's like that in the Christian life.

Self-Denial and Living for God's Glory

Who for the joy set before him endured the cross. And do you know whether you know it or not. You have applied that principle in many areas in your life. In your profession. In your education. In the way you're seeking to earn a living.

You have applied that principle where you've allowed. You've denied yourself certain things in order to get a degree. Or to accomplish something. Or learn a trade or a profession or something. You have applied that principle.

And I'm just asking you to apply the same principle in the spiritual life. Jesus realized that there was a joy. The joy of being in the Father's presence continuously. And to be in the Father's presence continuously.

There was a certain route to that. And that was to deny the temptations of the flesh. That is the same choice that Eve had. Yeah there's a tremendous attractiveness about this. There's a pleasure in eating of this tree.

But yeah Jesus said I choose my Father. Adam and Eve said I choose this earthly pleasure. There are only two choices. The way Adam and Eve went. And the way Jesus went. Now I want to tell you every single one of you.

You and me. All through our life we have made decisions. Many many decisions. In one day we make so many decisions. And every one of those decisions is one of these two. I choose the way Adam went. Or I choose the way Jesus went.

And imagine in one day if I made 25 decisions to please myself. To seek my own. Not to commit murder and adultery. I'm not talking about these horrible things. No. I'm talking about the decent type of sins that we commit.

Which don't look so ugly in the eyes of others. Where we can still maintain our reputation in the church. Where we can still consider ourselves pretty holy people. But we have made little little decisions of selfishness.

Based on seeking my own. Not followed the Word of God which says whatever you do. Do for the glory of God. Even if you eat or drink. Do for the glory of God. Don't eat as much as you want to. Eat as much as you should.

A simple rule. Because you can be healthier. I remember you know as we get older. We had to be more careful about what we eat. I think young people should also be careful what they eat. But particularly as we grow older.

And what the Lord told me was. I remember reading a little in a little book years ago. Something that I've never forgotten. That if your life is shortened. Because you know in your 30s you died as a martyr.

Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ somewhere. And you stand before the Lord with a life that was shortened on earth. Because you were a martyr for Christ. You'll have great joy. You'll have no regrets.

But if your life is shortened. Because you ate a lot of fast food and junk food. And all that other rubbish that's being offered nowadays. And you stand before the Lord. And say Lord I died too soon. Because I couldn't control my appetite.

You're gonna have a lot of regrets when you stand before the Lord. And I never forgot that. I said Lord I want to live. I don't like this rotten old earth. But there's a lot of work to do for the Lord.

And that's the only reason to live. I want to live the full length of my days. To accomplish your will. To serve. There are not many people serving the Lord in the world today. The percentage of people faithful to Christ is very very small.

And you and I are needed. I'll tell you you're needed. And if that requires denying ourselves certain types of food. Are you willing to do that? To keep yourselves fit? To serve the Lord? To keep yourself from sickness?

That comes from the wrong type of eating? Or any wrong type of habits? Because you want to be available. Not because we love this world. None of us love this world. But because the need is so great for the Lord's work.

There are many things that we may have to deny. For the joy set before us. The joy of being a blessing to hundreds and thousands of people. You want that? The joy of being able to live a life that glorifies God.

That accomplished the purpose with which he allowed you to be born out of your mother's womb one day. A plan that he had for your life. And you don't want it to be frustrated. We need to take these things seriously.

And if you're young. If you're gripped by this when you're 15, 20 years old. It's wonderful. I'm so thankful that I was gripped by this when I was 21 years old. That God had a plan for my life. I already had a plan for my life.

I discovered when I was 21 that God had a plan for my life. And he didn't tell me the whole plan. But I was absolutely convinced that his plan must be better than mine. Because I couldn't see the future.

I didn't know what would be the best. I didn't know what would be the best in relation to eternity. But my Heavenly Father knew. And I said Lord before I come to the end of my life on earth. I don't know how long I live.

I said before I come to the end of my life. I want to finish that plan. Now I want you to say that. And if it requires going taking up the cross in different situations. For the joy set before you. I promise you.

I guarantee you. I can give it to you in writing. That if you choose this way. Your life will be full of joy. We will expose the lie of the devil. I have decided to expose the lie of the devil. That the Christian life is a boring life.

The Exciting and Triumphant Christian Life

I say it's not boring for me. My Christian life is supremely happy. It's exciting. There's a lovely verse in Proverbs 14 verse 14. Which is paraphrased in the Living Bible as. The godly man's life is exciting.

I like that paraphrase. I found it to be true in my life. The godly man's life is exciting. Every day. Life is not boring. I tell you honestly. 365 days of the year. My life is exciting. And 366 days this year.

It's going to be exciting. Exciting. Because it's wonderful. Walking with God is wonderful. Overcoming Satan. It's wonderful being able to see the snares and traps that Satan has set for me. And making a fool of him.

That he didn't succeed in catching me in that trap. It's exciting. God's made our Christian life to be exciting. And if your Christian life is boring. I want to say to you. You're not in the center of God's will.

There's no doubt about it. Yes there are a lot of Christians whose life is boring. Because they've been seeking their own. They haven't fixed their eyes on Jesus. Who decided that he would only live for the glory of his Father.

And nothing else. There are a lot of Christians who want to accept Christ and go to heaven. But whose aims and goals are not much different from the aims and goals of a lot of worldly people. It's to make more money.

To live a comfortable life. And have a little bit of religion. Well I'll tell you. You're gonna have a lot of problems in your life. And your Christian life will be unsatisfying. Boring. Don't be surprised.

But if you fix your eyes on Jesus. And run the way he ran the race. Who for the joy that he was going to get. Was willing to endure the cross. Then your Christian life will be exciting. And I decided that I want to be a living testimony to the fact.

That God is a wonderful God. God is a good God. All the time. And he he's given us richly all things to enjoy. And he wants our Christian life to be triumphant. Full of true pleasure. He wants us to enjoy our Christian life.

Not endure and suffer. But enjoy it. Jesus life was full of joy. I mean when I I'm always challenged by the fact that when he knew that he was going to be crucified the next morning. At the Last Supper with his disciples.

He knew in less than 24 hours he'd be dead on a cross. Humiliated. Spat upon. Shamed. No justice given to him. And he knew that he'd be hanging there on the cross. Killed by evil men. What does he tell his disciples in John 15?

He says my I've got so much joy. I want to give it to you. My joy I give unto you. Imagine a man who is going to be sitting on the electric chair tomorrow morning. And going around encouraging people today.

And saying fellas I'm so happy today. I just want to encourage you fellas with the joy I have. And he's going to the electric chair tomorrow. He's going to be killed. That's true Christianity. It doesn't matter what's going to happen tomorrow.

It may be death. It doesn't make a difference. I'm in the center of God's will. See I tell you most Christians are so happy with the substandard Christian life they are living. And which they see most Christians around them are living.

And they accept that as normal. I want to tell you it's not normal. It's abnormal. Subnormal. If you want to know the normal Christian life. It's the way Jesus lived on earth. That's the normal Christian life.

He didn't make a lot of money. Because he didn't pursue money. I mean I'm thinking not of. I mean he didn't make a money as a Christian preacher. Which he was for three and a half years. And he didn't make much money as a carpenter.

Because I can imagine how he lived his life as a carpenter. If some poor widow had come and asked him to make a stool or a bench. He'd have just made it and gone and delivered it in the widow. And when she asked how much does it cost?

You say oh that's a gift. How rich are you going to be if you're going to be like that? If you're if you're thinking more about doing good than making money. You're not going to be a rich person. If you're thinking more about being absolutely honest and paying your taxes.

And absolutely honest in everything in life. You're not going to be very rich. I remember hearing of that the statement of. There was a great missionary to Africa in the 19th century called David Livingston.

An Englishman. He made a statement concerning his father. He grew up in a very godly home. And he said my father was so downright honest that he could never become a rich man. I've never forgotten that.

He was so utterly honest in everything. That he could never become a rich man. And Jesus was like that. I mean if you're pursuing that type of life. Or you're seeking the glory of God in everything. I'll tell you one thing.

You'll never starve. Your children will never starve. David says I'm I'm I was young and I'm an old man. But I've never seen a righteous man starving or begging for it. And I've never even seen his children or grandchildren begging for bread.

God takes care of his children. I tell you that. Those who seek his kingdom and his righteousness first. Will have all other things added to them. There's no doubt about it. If there's only one loaf of bread in in town.

It'll come to my house. Because I'm seeking God's kingdom first. It's true. You don't have to worry about retirement benefits. You don't have to worry about not having money to pay medical insurance or anything.