Answers To Young People’s Questions

The Church and the World Drifting Together

But this little poem says the church and the world walked far apart. That's the first line. If you google it you can get the whole poem yourself. It's a very long one. But I'm just going to say a few things.

The church and the world walked far apart on the changing shores of time. The shores of time were very far apart but the shores get closer and closer and the world was singing a giddy song and the church a hymn sublime.

And the Pretty world said give me your hand and walk with me this way and But the good church hid her hand and said no, I won't give you my hand. I'm not reading it exactly. No, the world said walk with me just a little bit.

Because my road is a pleasant road and the Sun is always shining and your way so narrow and thorny. Mine is so flowery and smooth and you're always looking so sad. But I move in rounds of joy. To me the sky is always blue and there's no want no hard work.

The sky above you is always dark and you can see that my road is a very broad road. My gate is high and wide. There's room enough for you and me. We'll travel side by side and This is where it begins half shyly the church approached the world and Gave him her hand.

The church is pictured as the Bride of Christ here and the world is this handsome man and the false world grasped it and walked along and Whispered first of all your dress is too simple. It's not the latest fashion.

I've got a better dress for you to wear a little more tight and something that fits your beautiful form so that people can admire your physique your shape and A lot of jewelry to deck you so that people admire you because your face is so simple without any jewelry.

The way God has made it is not good enough. Let me adorn your face with a little bit of the world and the church looked down at her plain robes and saw the dazzling world and she blushed as she saw a contemptuous smile on his lips.

Okay, she said I'll change my dress. I'll do as you say and she gave up her old dress and gave took what the world gave to all those and waved her hair in a thousand curls and then the World goes on and speaks about Many things that type of entertainment they need to have in the church, which is not there and then the angel of mercy rebuked the church is I know your sin and.

And the church looked sad and tried to gather all her children her children means her members in. But they were not available because they were busy with so many other things today I would say with many forms of entertainment and so the angel went away and the world came in and said don't worry if your your children are interested in some innocent sports, which is not innocent because they spend so much time in it and.

And So she ignored it and spent all that time in all this while out in the world countless million souls were getting lost in Sin and hell whom the church was supposed to preach the gospel to but had no time to preach the gospel.

Because all the people were involved in you know today I would say checking smartphones and so much time goes they have no time to study the Bible no time to preach the gospel to others and. So the world is perishing with hungering for truth.

Worldly Preachers and the Loss of Witness

And then the world came and said to the church your preachers are all too simple. They frightened my child with terrible verses from the Bible and things. I don't like to hear they talk about judgment and fire and hell.

No, no, no. No, I'll get you some better preachers who will. Clever people who will show you how you can live as you like and still go to heaven. Because the father is so merciful the world world said Greg good Loving and tender and kind.

Do you think he'll take one child to heaven and leave another behind? No, no, no, no. No so the church agreed and they began to get other preachers who were more gifted and educated in big Bible colleges and the plain simple old men who preached the cross were pushed out of our pulpits and then Mammon came in and money became the important thing and the world said yet worried too much about poor people.

They can take care of themselves. Don't worry about them. You take care of yourself. Go go to expensive restaurants and eat what you like. Go frequently. Enjoy yourself and Etc, etc, etc. And so the church opened her purse and began to spend in all those things and say maybe I've given too much to poor people.

Or to the church. I don't want to do that. Let me also enjoy myself a little and Like that the church the two drifted apart and the church sat down and began to enjoy everything and The world finally looked at the church and mocked and said the church has fallen this beautiful church her shame is now her pride and thus she lost her witnessing power and like the Lord said perilous times came in and she would never listen anymore and A voice came from heaven that's saying I know your works.

You're wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked you think you're rich and increased in goods. The expectant bride of a heavenly groom has become the harlot of the world you have fallen. So at last I must cast you out and remove your name from the book of life but From the side of that harlot church sleeping a small remnant came out a few people Who honored God's name?

By the word of their testimony in the blood of the Lamb. They overcame the world and they prayed and defeated the enemy. Those who walk with the Lord like that will walk one day with him in white. I Read that now and then.

I Got it many many years ago. And I said Lord, I want to be watchful. I Can't live the life for other people, but I can live the life for myself so that my ministry never compromises even if I'm a hundred years old and That I shall never lose my love for God's people.

Even when they are backslidden that I never give up on them. I'll try until the very end till Christ comes again to draw them back to yourself and Succeed with a few. I know I won't succeed with the majority.

But I will succeed with a few there will be a remnant. I believe that and that's what we live for in CFC. So now we go to these Questions. There were a number of questions about which Santosh already answered on social media.

Social Media, Distraction, and Undivided Devotion

But I want to say a few words about that before moving on about Facebook. If you find my name on Facebook, that's not me that somebody else Put a called they have a thing called a fan page where you can put the name of somebody.

Call it a fan page. I don't even look at it as Somebody told me there was something like that. So I saw it once. But I think there's nothing evil written there that somebody has put some of my messages and all that.

But I do not correspond with people on Facebook. We have no time to waste for that. I'll tell you even after 58 years. I know the Bible so little I Know the Bible so little. I don't have enough time for God's book.

Where do I have time for Facebook? I want my life to count for eternity. Time is short and I said that when I was 20 years old and I say that now when I'm nearly 80 years old. Time is short. I attend on the Lord without distraction.

It's a verse I wrote in the front of my Bible when I was 20 years old. It is from 1 Corinthians in chapter 7 two words, which I put together 1 Corinthians 7 and verse 29. The time is short and so at verse 35 Give your undistracted devotion to the Lord.

I Put those two verses together in the front of my Bible and I wrote it. The time is short. Give your undistracted Devotion to the Lord. I've tried. I can't say I've always been faithful. It's not that I don't read the newspapers.

It don't. It's not that I don't See the news on the internet. But it's in its proper place. It's like a little pickle. Not the main meal. If you make the pickle made your main meal you'll get sick. You can have a little bit of it, but keep it in its proper place.

But don't read things which are going to fill your mind. The reason why many people have bad dreams is because they fill their mind with a lot of rubbish and It's a good thing to read the Word of God before you go to bed at night instead of Seeing everything on Facebook before you go to bed.

So and the other thing is, you know, we can be friends with the wrong type of people. Do you know that there are thousands of divorces that have taken place because of Facebook there are divorce lawyers in?

England who have said that many thousands of divorces have taken place because on Facebook they link up with some old Flame they had in school. I don't know whether you all know the meaning of flame. I don't mean a literal fire, but there's something that stirred their hearts a young girl or something who is now a grown-up married person and then they link up and they Destroys the marriage it's happened again and again.

You have to be very very careful. There are people You know who chat with you and who pretend to be girls and they're not girls. And you yours a girl thinking you're talking to a girl and that's a man who's trying to get at you.

This has happened many many times particularly in the West. So you have to be careful in Facebook and also Be careful what you appreciate. You know this I Don't know whether you know the meaning of thumbs up.

I said, I want to be sure so I looked up Google to the Collins Dictionary. What a thumbs up mean? Thumbs up means Encouraging. I'm encouraging you. I approve of you. I accept you. Everything is alright.

I encourage you in that way. I approve of you. I accept you. I Indicate everything is alright Collins Dictionary on Google so when you are on Facebook with somebody who has rebelled against the church and left the church or Who's been disciplined by the church and you look at some picture?

He is posted and you put thumbs up. You know what you're telling him. Even if the elders don't accept you I accept you even if they don't approve you. I approve of you. Even if they don't say everything's alright, I say everything's alright.

There are stupid foolish rebellious people sitting in CFC who are doing that? Okay. You don't have to answer to me. I'm not your judge, but I believe one day when those people Who've gone away never come back to the Lord?

You will be answerable to the Lord because you are not faithful in telling them the truth you just encourage them when they were going astray you went to the pig farm and Encouraged him instead of telling him to repent and come back to the father's house.

One example. The other thing I want to say is In all these things the important thing is discipline. I believe Discipline is the one thing that Christians need the most but Want the least. Let me read to you in 1 Corinthians in chapter 9 The Apostle Paul the great Apostle Paul who accomplished so much in his life.

The reason he accomplished so much was not only because he was filled with the Holy Spirit not only because he spent time in prayer and Read the Word of God, but also because he disciplined his body verse 27 1 Corinthians 9 27.

I Discipline my body. Which means my eyes my tongue especially. And I make it my slave. The Living Bible says I make my body. I don't allow my body to do what it wants to do. But I make my body do what it should do.

You know the difference between what your body should do and it what it wants to do. What your eyes want to see and what your eyes should see. What your tongue wants to say and what your tongue should be saying.

I Make my body do what it should do. Not what it wants to do that is discipline in very simple language. And if you don't have discipline I don't care what experience you had about speaking in tongues or being filled with the Holy Spirit.

I can tell you you will not make it in the final day. Because Paul says and he's Paul was far better than all of us. He says I If I don't discipline my body 1 Corinthians 9 27 like this if I don't make my body do what it should do.

I Will end up preaching to so many people and finally when I reach the finishing line. I'll be disqualified. He's talking about a race in verse 24 onwards take time to read it. That there are people who?

Violated the rules in an Olympic Race and When they come to the finishing line, they think they are first and finally the judges say no there along the way you were disqualified. Sorry, everybody thought you were first, but it's qualified.

You don't you're not even third or fourth or anything. You're not even last you're out and Paul says that's gonna happen to me. I've read that and I'll tell you that brings a healthy fear not an unhealthy fear.

I don't have any unhealthy fears in my life. I'm not afraid that God will punish me or hurt me, but I am afraid that I may hurt myself. I'm afraid that I will ruin myself. Not that God will ruin me, but I will ruin myself.

I'm afraid of that. I'll tell you that that's why I discipline myself so. It's important to understand these principles. Then going into some of these questions. One is a question or what does it really mean to be born again.

Endurance in Salvation and the Christian Race

What we need to do after we get saved. Because there's a widespread teaching that all we need to do is have a proper understanding of what Jesus did and Then everything is okay. See if that was all there is to it all these episodes are not needed you you take you read the episodes Romans chapter 6 and Philippians and Colossians and Galatians and Hebrews and all so many warnings about Pressing on let's run the race and right here that we shouldn't be disqualified.

What is the need for all this if I mean if you go to Paul and say hey listen Paul don't get worried man. You're not gonna be disqualified. You accepted the Lord. Remember 35 years ago on the road to Damascus.

You yielded to Jesus and then three days later Ananias came prayed for you. You'll filter the Holy Spirit. Why are you worried? You're perfectly okay. You won't be disqualified. You accepted Jesus. God will not reject you.

You're eternally saved. Remember God's love is unconditional rubbish. Unconditional that means you do what you like and he'll keep on loving you. Paul would say listen fella. That's not the gospel. I believe in that's not the gospel Jesus has revealed to me.

I Will be disqualified. That doesn't mean that Jesus did not pay a full price. But remember that word of Jesus take my yoke upon you and Learn from me and you shall find rest for your souls rest on this earth and eternal rest in heaven.

What is a yoke? We know it in the in the villages in India the farmers put a yoke on two bullocks and That is the yoke. One on one on the neck of Jesus and the one on my neck and I am the junior inexperienced young Bullock trying to learn how to plow a straight furrow in the field and Jesus is the experienced one who's done it perfectly and he says take my yoke upon you and if you walk at my speed and Don't turn left or right except when I turn you will Come to a life of perfect rest.

So the Christian life is a partnership. It's not that Christ comes into my heart and I become a robot. After that, it doesn't matter how I live. You'll never become a robot even in heaven. You will not become a robot.

You will always have free will. What a robot does not have is free will. What the planets don't have is free will. No planet can commit sin and No planet can become a child of God. The trees don't have free will.

They can't sin and they can't be children of God and If you didn't have free will to choose you could never be a child of God. You'll be like the planets. You'll never sin and you'll never be a child of God.

You'll be like this carpet on the floor. It can't sin. It can't be a child of God. You'll be like that. That is absolute nonsense. God never takes away our free will. Not even in heaven not even in eternity.

Then you may say well you mean after I go to heaven I can sin and fall away. No. Because if I really get to heaven those of you who do get to heaven the Bible says we'll become like Jesus. Do you think Jesus is a robot in heaven?

You think he doesn't have free will. He wasn't a robot even on earth. He had complete free will on earth, but he never did it. He always said not my will but my father's will. That's why he never sinned, but he was not a robot.

It was not That he was programmed that he'll automatically do the father's will know. A person who's a robot cannot sin cannot be a child of God. A person isn't a robot can sin and can become a child Of God holy so in heaven when we become like Jesus.

Do you think Jesus will sin and fall away? Impossible. That is why I say when I become like him for eternal ages I will never sin, but I can begin that life now. That is the message of the gospel. So a person who is Says he has accepted Christ and does not endure till the end.

His fate is described in Hebrews and chapter 3. Hebrews chapter 3 and it says here in verse 14 very clear verse we become partakers of Christ if. And I wish I could have put a big capital I if one inch high in your Bible if I F if we become partakers of Christ if We hold fast.

The beginning of our assurance firm until the end. There are many people who started the race well. Who never finished it? Hebrews 12 says let us run the race with patience. The Christian life is a race.

It's not that we are put inside a ship. I go to sleep and the ship takes you to heaven. That's not Christianity. That's a false teaching. So That is where but you mean to say that I can keep myself. You can never keep yourself.

The Bible says he's able to keep you from falling. So you got to trust him. I don't believe I can keep myself. But I firmly believe that Jesus will keep me from falling and I have proof of that. How do I know that because I find my life improving?

Year by year. Not yet day by day, but year by year I find a distinct improvement in my life in control over thoughts words actions. Attitude to money becomes purer and purer more freed from it. More and more revelation on the Word of God, even though I've read it 58 years new things I see it's all an indication.

There's progress if these things are not happening in your life. There's no progress. I mean, maybe you join school, but you're still in the kindergarten. You're 25 years old and sitting in the kindergarten.

What would you think of your son if he's 25 years old and sitting in the kindergarten and You keep boasting. My son is in school. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he hasn't dropped out of school. He's still in school.

How old is he? He's 25. Which classes he's in kindergarten. He joined it about 20 years ago, and he's still there very faithful. He gets a hundred percent. He knows how to spell BAT and CAT and he knows how to add two plus two.

He's never lost. Even one mark in mathematics or English or anything. You want to be like that? When it when we compare it to the world you see your own spiritual condition. That's why we need to wake up so enduring till the end is Very important.

Jesus’ Warning About Enduring to the End

Let's take the words of Jesus himself and Matthew chapter 24. This is very important so I don't mind spending a little more time on this question because Some of those other things are not as important.

If you get this right the others will become right automatically. Matthew 24 it says here. Jesus said in the last days. This is talking about the last days when the people asked him. When will you come Lord?

The bend is a sign of your coming verse 3 and Jesus said in the last days verse 11. There'll be many false prophets who will mislead many by teaching that once you've accepted Christ. You're okay. That's a false prophet.

Because there's so much of sin. These false prophets have preached these wrong things to them. The love for Jesus that people had when they started will become cold and When love for Jesus becomes cold love for one another Becomes cold as well.

You get irritated with your wife more frequently you get irritated with your husband. These are all indications That your love for Jesus is becoming cold but If someone endures till the end He will be saved.

Those are not my words. Those are the words of Jesus. He who endures to the end Will be saved especially in the last days. It's a warning. So what is all this teaching about grace? I'll tell you In a nutshell, it's not the full teaching on grace, but two basic things that grace does for us in very simple words Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7 We have redemption through his blood.

That means we are purchased out of the slave market of sin. Redemption means purchased the forgiveness of all our sins. According to the riches of his grace. That's what grace does for us in our life redeemed forgiven completely every single sin you committed in your life because you repented and Trusted that Christ died for all your sins great then grace Gives you something more.

Romans 6 14. When you come under grace fully, that's just the beginning of grace. It's like the ABC of grace. See, you can't go to study physics and geography before you've got ABC, right? If you have never studied ABC, how will you study physics and geography and history?

ABC is essential. That's why in the kindergarten class. They don't teach you biology and science. They teach you ABC. That's why when you come to Christ, we don't talk about first of all about victory over sin.

We talk about forgiveness ABC you have to begin there. But once you get there, you don't stay there. You move on in the school and you move on in grace. Romans 6 14 when you come under grace sin will not rule over You anymore.

Because you're not under the old covenant law, but you're under the new covenant. So one way by which you can find out I mean I can ask a ten-year-old this question. Listen, son. Tell me just I'll read one verse to you and give me the answer.

It's a ten-year-old answering me. Listen carefully sin will not rule over you. Because you're not under law but under grace two questions. What is the proof that you're under grace my son? He'll say uncle sin does not rule over me, right?

Another question. What is the Proof that you're still under law son sin rules over me. Absolutely, right? Law is old covenant. What is the proof that a lot of people sitting here are under old covenant?

Sin rules over you. I Don't mean you fall but it rules over you. It's the difference between a child falling a hundred times a day and you Occasionally slipping and falling six months ago. You slipped somewhere and fell down as a difference.

So I'm not saying that a believer never falls into sin, but he doesn't rule over him. When sin rules over you I want to tell you in Jesus name. But no other preacher will ever tell you you are under the old covenant.

You are under law. You have not understood grace at all. You receive the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace and you took it casually. And so you continue to get angry and you don't repent.

You continue to do Unrighteous things in your office and you don't repent. You keep on watching pornography and you don't repent. What shall I say? I'm scared. You've started holding hands with the world and I don't know where it'll end up.

Wake up. The main message of the prophets in the Old Testament is wake up Israel. You're going to sleep. You don't understand your true condition. So that is grace. And another question is concerning brokenness.

Surrender, Brokenness, and Rivers of Living Water

How do we actually come into being broken? Brokenness is very important. Now a simple illustration. Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish. First principle surrender everything. That boy, you know when Jesus is feeding the multitude.

He said what do you have here one boy? He's got five loaves and two fish and He had to give everything first. He couldn't give three loaves and one fish and say I better keep something for myself. No.

He gave it all. First lesson give everything into Jesus hands. Don't be afraid. Don't be thinking starve. What faith that boy must have had my mummy packed my lunch for me. And if I give everything to Jesus, I may not have anything doesn't matter.

I love Jesus so much I give it all to him. You know, he ended up getting more than five loaves and two fish. He could get as much as he wanted later on. That is how it is when you follow the Lord. So first step is give everything.

Then ask Jesus to bless it. Jesus blessed it. Still five loaves and two fish then he broke it then it became 25 ,000 50 ,000 loaves and fish. There were 5 ,000 men plus many women and children at least 10 ,000 people there so There's total surrender.

Ask the Lord's blessings. We fill you with the Holy Spirit. It's not enough. Third step that God break you then you'll be blessed. There are many people who have given themselves to the Lord who have experienced a real baptism the Holy Spirit the only thing missing in their life is They're not broken.

They think they are a blessing. Because they do this they do that they go to this place they go to that place and they witness to this person that person and they say a few things here and there and preach in different places and Preach the message here and maybe conduct some weekday meetings and all.

Don't satisfy yourself. A few trickles are coming out of your life and some of it is dirty water. When it could be rivers I decided as a young person I will never never be satisfied. Till what Jesus said in John 7 37 will be fulfilled in my life out of his innermost being.

Rivers of living water not one river rivers in many directions will flow. This he spoke. I'm reading from John 7 37 38 of those who believe in him. I Said Lord, I believe That from my weak helpless life, and I was only 21 those days.

Just baptized. Rivers of living water will one day flow. Do you have that faith? Are you willing to give everything? When did the river flow out of the rock the rock had to be smitten? Broken then the river flowed and that's what the Lord showed me.

I have to break you. I said go ahead. And I'll tell you I don't have time to tell you the Lord did that in numerous ways. He humbled me broke me. Taught me to submit to elders who were jealous of me who would suppress me and the Lord said humble yourself.

These are the way these are days. I'm breaking you broke me later on through false accusations and being called the devil and even religious people taking me to court and Standing there like a criminal.

It's all breaking breaking breaking. I said Lord do it again do it again. Never give up on me. I need to be broken more. I need to be broken more because I want one more river to flow out. I'm not satisfied with the rivers already flowing one more one more Lord says and I to break you again go right ahead.

I give you free permission to do whatever you like. Break me with financial loss. I've experienced that also. Anything I'll tell you something my brothers and sisters if you allow God to break you and you're not just satisfied saying well I spoke in tongues, and I'm filled with the Holy Spirit.

God have mercy on you if you're satisfied with that. I've seen enough people who speak in tongues whose lives are a waste wasted. No, not even a drop is flowing out of them, and I don't know whether finally they'll be lost.

So that's brokenness very very important. Okay, now there are a number of questions concerning Relationship between boys and girls work at college and all that and I give you some general advice on it.

Purity and Relationships Between Men and Women

What advice would you give to your college going Son or daughter. Is it wrong to have good friends with girls who are good friends with boys? What quality should you look for. Well first of all remember?

All girls especially. Because you got more to lose in a friendship than a boy. Do you know that let me tell you this in the Old Testament? If a girl Lost her virginity before marriage and the husband discovered it on The wedding night he had to bring that girl out to the elders and to her parents.

And they had to stone her to death. It's God who commanded it. Because it was a very serious sin For a girl to lose her virginity but and you know God has made the female body in such a way. That you can discover if a woman has lost her virginity.

You asked your mother. He'll tell you that when you're at the right age. But a man if he has had sex with a girl. There's absolutely no way to discover it. Why did God make it like that God could have made some system?

By which a man has sex with a girl is also discovered, but he didn't do it. Well I'm not here to judge God, but I believe there's wisdom in it. See God put a tremendous sex drive in a man. It's true. The drive for sex is intense in a man.

God put it like that for the propagation of the human race one reason. And Adam had to you know produce hundreds of children and. Secondly what the Lord showed me was I Have made this drive sex drive so strong in men the Lord said to my heart.

Because that's how I can test Whether they fear me or not. And I got that from Genesis 20 where the first time the word fear of God is mentioned is in relation to sexual sin first time. The fear of God is mentioned in relation to sexual sin where you know Abraham tells the king of Imbilic I thought there was no fear of God here, so I thought he would rape my wife.

So I called her my sister the first time what fear of God is mentioned is a relation to sexual sin. The Lord showed me. There's a connection I Test whether people fear me by their attitude to sexual sin in their thoughts.

Thank you Lord now. I know whether you all fear you or not when I'm tempted. I was discovered this when I was a young man. But I'm tempted in my thoughts to even look and Keep on admiring not to lust to touch a woman's body.

No, but just to look and admire a Pretty face, it's lust. Proverbs 6 says don't let her catch you with her eyelids and I discovered that There is the time God is testing you fear me or not. If immediately if I can reject it and turn away I Prove that I fear God.

All of you men are being tested every day. Whether you fear God or not don't come here and imagine that you fear God. You're being tested By your thought life when you're tempted with an attractive woman not to have sex with her.

Just to look and admire her whether you're in her office. Or on a computer screen or in a movie screen or any such thing be careful so It's very very important that God is. I told you a woman young girl is more to lose.

So you've got to be very careful there's a strong drive in man and when I was in a young boy in studying physics in school and we went into the physics lab. I used to try and take a North Pole and South Pole magnet and Try to see how close can I bring it?

Without it touching each other. I Found it. I'd try to keep it very close. Can I keep it sort of one millimeter? My hands were not strong enough you couldn't because this if it's a strong magnet. It just touches all of a sudden.

I didn't want it to touch. I was trying to hold it with all my strength, and I'm not gonna let this magnet touch and it'll touch. That is a lesson. You as a girl and say no no no I'm not going to get close to her.

I'm not gonna get but little by little you get closer and closer like I used to bring that magnet closer and closer to that other magnet. And I didn't realize suddenly you touch and that's what's happened to many a girl and they regretted it.

Regretted it not for one or two years for their lifetime. The boy doesn't regret it he can chuck you and go and find another girl and never tell that girl what he did with you. So that's what I would tell a daughter if I had one and you are all my daughters, and so I say that.

So be very careful keep a distance. I'm not saying that we should be unnatural. In school. Boys and girls some schools. They have a double desk and the boy and a girl sitting next to each other. It's okay there.

You know how to be more careful when they grow up. But my point is you talk freely to boys and girls in school and talk freely in place of work. You don't have to become unnatural when you come to suddenly to CFC as if you cannot talk freely.