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16/05/2026

Word For the Week

Be Saved from the Spirit of Accusation

Zac Poonen | 17th May 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/the-ministries-of-accusation-and-intercession

In Revelation 12:10, we read that Satan accuses all believers to God, continuously - day and night. This is a full-time ministry that Satan is engaged in. And he has many co-workers in this ministry — sadly, even among many believers. There are numerous believers who are working hand in hand with Satan, in this ministry of accusation.

As soon as Adam had sinned in the Garden of Eden, Satan transmitted his “accusing nature” to Adam. And so, when God came to Adam and asked him if he had eaten the forbidden fruit, the very first thing Adam did – instead of acknowledging his own sin – was to accuse his wife, saying, “She is the one who gave me the fruit to eat” (Genesis 3:12).

From childhood, all of us have learned to find fault with others and accuse people. As we have grown older, this spirit of blaming and accusing becomes more subtle and malicious in its manifestation. The sad reality is that this spirit of accusation is found among many believers — even many years after they are born again!

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.”

When we are born again, our attitude toward others should become new — the same attitude that Jesus had – that intercedes for those who sin against us, instead of accusing them. However, such a transformation in attitude will occur within us only if we cooperate with God. Philippians 2:12 instructs us to “work out our salvation” from all the wrong attitudes we have inherited from Adam. Because believers do not take this commandment seriously — “to work out their own salvation” — they continue to behave like the children of Adam, accusing others. Through this evil behavior of God’s children, both the Lord and His church get a very bad name before people.

In John 8:4, we read of the Pharisees accusing a poor woman who had been caught in adultery. They had absolutely no interest in saving her from a life of sin. All they wanted was to demonstrate their own "righteousness" and to show how terrible a sinner that woman was. Standing there, they pointed their accusing fingers at that poor woman — just as their forefather, Adam, had done, to Eve. And thereby they revealed that, in their inner being, they were in fellowship with Satan, the Accuser. That was why Jesus told the Pharisees specifically that Satan was their father (John 8:44).

Jesus came to save such women from their sins – not to condemn them. In John 3:17, we read that God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world.

There is a vast difference between accusation and divine correction. In Revelation chapters 2 and 3, the Lord instructed John to give divine correction to the failing elders of five churches. In the same way, the Holy Spirit instructed Paul to give godly correction to the churches in Corinth, Galatia, and Thessalonica. Such correction is a spiritual thing – and God calls His anointed servants at times, to give such corrections to His people. But such corrections will always be given in love.

The spirit of accusation is easy to identify. It is always delivered with a negative attitude toward those, one dislikes. You would never accuse the people you love, like that. For example, you would never accuse your own children before other people. So, you can see that it is a lack of love for people that brings out the spirit of accusation from within you.

The ministry of godly correction is entrusted by the Lord only to His faithful servants — like the apostles John and Paul. The Lord does not call everyone to such a ministry. So be careful. While you are engaging in “a ministry of accusation," you can easily deceive yourself into thinking that you are having a godly ministry of correction.

If you retain this spirit of accusation, the Lord will oppose you, just as He opposed the Pharisees. The ministry of accusation is the work of Satan, and as believers, we should have no part in it at all.

We must recognize first of all, that Satan and his demons will constantly urge us to accuse our fellow believers for something or the other that we find wrong in them. And those demons will show you many faults in your fellow-believers, in order to incite you to accuse them. If you yield to this temptation, you will expose yourself to the influences of Satanic forces. This could be one reason why many believers suffer from many illnesses.

We must be absolutely ruthless in removing this spirit of accusation completely from our lives — just as a surgeon operates and removes a cancerous growth completely in a patient. We must see clearly that the "spirit of accusation" is far worse than any cancer.

From our birth, we have all acquired this evil habit of finding fault with others. We have spent many years speaking critically of people behind their backs and finding some fault or the other in people in order to accuse them.

Finally: Let us remember what Jesus told the Pharisees that it is only those who are without sin who have the right to cast stones at others. So, none of us are qualified to accuse anyone.

May the Lord deliver all of us from this Satanic spirit completely.

Amen.

©Zac Poonen – [email protected]
http://www.cfcindia.com

10/05/2026

Word For the Week

Do Not Love Money

Zac Poonen | 10th May 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/the-glory-of-the-new-covenant/12-freedom-from-the-love-of-money-to-love-god

Jesus said, “do not lay up for yourselves treasure upon earth, where moth and rust will destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourself treasure in Heaven, where no moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves cannot break in or steal” --the reason is – “because where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:19-21). Many people do not believe it is wrong to love money. To have money is not a sin, to love money is a sin.

It is very easy to understand whether we have obeyed this command or not. If your mind is thinking more about earthly things than heavenly things -- If you are thinking more about your earthly assets and properties than heavenly things -- you can be pretty sure that your heart is on this earth, and that your treasure is also here. The way to know whether we have obeyed this command is to ask ourselves during the day where is our heart set. In the middle of our work (or anything else), if we are terribly disturbed because of a little financial loss or excited because of a financial gain, this could indicate that our treasure is on this earth.

I remember many years ago, when somebody gave me a small financial gift, the Lord asked me a question – “Has your joy increased?” I suddenly felt convicted and confessed to the Lord that my joy did increase because I got this little money. I learned that day that I must rejoice only in the Lord and not in money. I also learned that the increase of money should never increase my joy. If it does increase my joy, it means that my joy is in money.

The Bible says to rejoice in the Lord always - and the Lord is always the same - so if you gain money or lose money, your joy in the Lord should not increase or decrease. It should be the same. If your joy decreases because you lost some money, you can be pretty sure that your heart was there. If your joy increases because you got some money, you can be pretty sure your heart was there. We must trust God. He will provide all we need for our earthly life, but we must not find our joy in these earthly things. We can use these earthly things but should not find our joy in them.

Money is a wonderful servant, but it is a terrible master -- just like fire. We cannot live without fire in our houses, to cook, for example. But if the fire in that stove becomes a master, then the house will be burnt up. It is a terrible master - capable of burning down your whole house - but if you keep it under control, then it is a wonderful servant. (When you turn the k**b say, “I am going to control when I turn you on, and when I turn you off. I am going to decide that. I, not you.” Thus you are master of the house.). Money must be like that. Just like we need fire, we need money to live on this earth, but it must be a servant. You must say, “Money I am going to decide that you are not going to control me; I am going to control you. You are not going to control my mind and make me think about you all the time. I am going to think about the Lord and things of Heaven, but I am going to use you.” This is the position of a spiritual man.

Gold is a very good thing if it is used as a servant. The Bible says there is even gold in Heaven! But there, we read about streets of gold. That means you walk on it, it is under your feet. This is the difference between a heavenly-minded Christian and an earthly-minded Christian. A heavenly-minded Christian has put gold under his feet - it does not rule him - but a carnal Christian wears gold on his head and it is on his mind all the time.

So if money is on your mind all the time, then you love it, whether you like it or not. It is like a boy who loves a girl and is always thinking about her. One who is always thinking about money is in love with money, and the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. You do not have to be rich to love money. I have never seen a beggar in India who does not love money. Every beggar loves money. If you gave them 50 paisa they would despise it. They love money and want more. Thus, it is not wealth that makes a man love money. Poor people love money too just as much as rich people.

It is also the case that you can be free from the love of money irrespective of how much wealth you have. It is a question of your attitude towards it. If you have one servant in your home, and he takes over your house, it would be terrible. You can have a little money (like having one servant), but he has taken over your house and rules your thinking. On the other hand, you can have 318 servants like Abraham had, yet they were all his servants and obeyed him. Like Abraham, you can have a lot of money, and if you rule over it, then you can use it for the glory of God.

The love of money is the root of all evil, (not necessarily having plenty of money). It is very important to understand this distinction. I have seen many poor people who love money tremendously, and I have seen rich people who do not love it. I have seen that it is not a question of how much you have, but what you love. This is what Jesus was speaking about. Your mind must be set on the things above. Lay-up treasure in Heaven. Check what are you thinking of, where your heart is, to discover what are you in love with.

Then Jesus goes on to speak about the eye in relation to money in Matthew 6:22, “The lamp of the body is the eye, and if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.” This means that it is a question of how you look at money. If your eye is bad, it means that you look at money as something very important, as most important for your life on earth, and your body will be full of darkness. “If the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is.” (v23) It is amazing that many people who have all of their doctrines right, and are good Christians in the eyes of others, who go to church services regularly yet they love money tremendously. They may even look down on other dead denominations without knowing that people in dead denominations are free from the love of money than they are, who claim to be in New Testament patterned churches.

Ask yourself some fundamental questions like these: do you get excited when you get little more money? Do you get depressed when you lose money? Then you love money. Our joy will be completely unaffected if it is in the Lord alone. If our joy is in earthly things, it will be affected by changes in our income.

No one can serve two masters. “Either he will hate the one and love the other.” It is quite a radical thing Jesus says here, just like Jesus speaks about hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters in Luke 14:26. Jesus was radical. Jesus says that if you want to love God, you have to hate money (Matthew 6:24). Mammon refers to money, real estate, stocks and shares. Jesus says that if you want to love God, you must hate all of that. You can use it, but your love for God must be so supreme -- like the brightness of the sun -- that your interest in money disappears as stars disappear in daylight. If it is not like that for you, you cannot serve God.

Jesus says, “If you hold onto one, you despise the other.” Put “the Word God” and “mammon” into that sentence and this is how it reads: “No one can serve God and material things (material wealth, money). Either he will hate money and love God or hate God and love money.” The implication of what Jesus is saying is that anyone who loves money, hates God. You may not have known it before, but now you do. Jesus is saying that if you love money, you hate God. You may think you love God just because you sing a lot of songs to Him, but that is not what Jesus says.

Jesus says that if you hold onto God, you will despise money, and if you hold onto money, you despise God. You can have money and earn money, but the moment you begin to love it you begin to hate God. God may have given a good job or an inheritance where you have lot of money, and that is fine. But if you love it, and hold onto it, you despise God and you hate God. It is so important for us to understand and to have a right attitude in this if we want to serve the Lord faithfully.

©Zac Poonen – [email protected]
http://www.cfcindia.com

02/05/2026

Word For the Week

Do Not Judge

Zac Poonen | 3rd May 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/dont-judge-others-judge-yourself

“Do not judge or condemn others lest you be judged and condemned yourself. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye” (Matthew 7:1-5).

Now it is a very, very common practice, unfortunately, among Christians to judge people, to look down on them, and to despise them. It is a common practice among Christians to consider yourself better than others when most of the time, you do not even know everything about them. In Hebrews 9:27 it says, “It is appointed unto men once to die and after this comes judgment.” So when does Almighty God, Creator of this universe, judge people? According to this verse, “Once to die and after this comes judgment.” So God judges people only after they die.

When do you judge people? You judge people long before they die. Why does God wait till a person dies before He judges? He may be an evil person, but God says, “I have hope for him. Maybe he will change,” and so God waits. Think of what would have happened if God had judged the dying thief on the cross who went to paradise before he died. Consider if God judged him even a few minutes before or few hours before he died. That would have been terrible. He was deserving to go to Paradise finally, but he would have been judged and sentenced to hell. God waited until he died, and then took him to paradise. This shows that God waits until a person dies before He judges him. Man is impatient and judges people long before they die. This is the foolishness of man. He doesn't know all the facts. He does not know 99% of the person's private, inner life. He does not know how much that person has struggled or prayed, but he judges him. No serious High Court judge would ever judge with such little evidence. If a judge knows only 1% of the case, he will say, “Listen, I need more evidence before I can pass a judgment. Until then, I will suspend judgment.” This is what every Christian should say too.

When we judge a person, we are really just showing the condition of our own heart. As it says in Proverbs 27:19, “As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects man.” Or like in a mirror, a man sees his own face. This means what you imagine finding in that person's heart as a bad motive is only an indication of the wrong attitudes you have in your own heart. You imagine that man cannot possibly be doing that with a good motive. You think, “It must be with a bad motive because I myself would only do such a thing with a bad motive.” You are revealing your own heart. It is very foolish to judge other people.

Think of the story of the prodigal son. In the story of the prodigal son, we read about the elder son. He was very upset when he saw the Father rejoicing over the return of the prodigal son. When the Father goes out and asks the elder son why he has not come in, see what he says in Luke 15:30, “This son of yours.” He does not even call him, “this brother of mine.” What a despising way to speak. “He has devoured your wealth with prostitutes.” How did he know that? How did he imagine that his younger brother was going around with prostitutes? Did somebody come and report that back to him? Not at all. He assumed this man, his younger brother, must have been spending money on prostitutes. It may not have been true at all. He may have been drinking and wasting his money in foolish ways, but perhaps not on prostitutes. But when you have a wrong attitude like this older brother’s attitude towards his younger brother, you can always imagine the worst about the other person. And whenever you imagine the worst about somebody else, you can recognize that the problem is with you more than with the other person. The other person may end up sitting with his Father at the dining table and enjoy the fattened calf, and you may end up outside the house.

The story of the prodigal son is a story where in the beginning of the story, the younger son is outside the house and the elder son is inside. At the end of the story, the younger son is inside the house, and the elder son is outside the house, because he is judging people. Make sure you don't end up outside the Father's house because you're judging people with insufficient information. The safest thing to do is not to judge.

Do not judge. Jesus says even if you're judging, what are you doing, judging a little speck in your brother's eye, when you have a log in your own eye? That's what He said. What is this log that is in a person's eye? You cannot have a physical log inside your eye. But Jesus is exaggerating to show how grievous your sin is compared to his. Granted, perhaps he did something terribly wrong. But your unloving attitude towards that person is a log compared to his sin, which is only like a speck.

Maybe he went to prostitutes. Okay, that's a sin. But then even that is only a speck compared to your unloving attitude towards him. That is like a log. The Lord says to get rid of your unloving attitudes towards others. He says that unloving attitude towards that person makes you constantly want to find fault with that person. Whatever that person does, you put a wrong motive to it. That person cannot do anything good. The person is evil in your eyes, but you don't see how evil you are to have such an unloving attitude towards that person. So what does He say? Imagine a man who has very poor eyesight. Would you go to that person to pull something out of your eye? Would you go to an eye doctor who is almost blind due to cataracts and other problems with his eyes? How in the world can he look into your eyes and remove a little speck from them? I would not want to go anywhere near that person.

That is what the Lord says. How can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when there is a huge log in your eye that keeps you from seeing properly? You can damage his eyes. But the Lord says, “You hypocrite! See your unloving attitude.” Every person who has an unloving attitude towards another person and judges that person is a hypocrite according to Matthew 7:5. First, get rid of this unloving attitude, and then you will see clearly. Then that brother may come to you of his own accord and say, “Brother, could you please take the speck out of my eye?” Isn’t that wonderful when you come to that type of situation?

©Zac Poonen – [email protected]
http://www.cfcindia.com

25/04/2026

Word For the Week

A Message for Church-Leaders

Zac Poonen | 26th April 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/important-exhortations-for-church-elders

We who are leading churches must be examples to others in our churches, by walking along the way of the Cross. We must have a great longing to be their servants, just as Jesus Himself was – and not to be their leaders. Jesus said “The kings and great men of the earth lord it over the people; but among you it is different. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant. And whoever wants to be greatest of all must be the slave of all. For even I, the Messiah, am not here to be served, but to help others” (Mark 10:42–45).

We must never love our position nor any title as ‘Leader’ (Matt.23:10). We must not imagine ourselves to be greater in any way than any of the other brothers and sisters in the church. In fact, we are commanded to consider all others in the church as more important than ourselves – not as more spiritual (that is impossible) but as more important. (Phil.2:3).

We must be a fellow-brother to others first before we can be their leader. The apostle John, when writing to the churches at the age of 95, calls himself, “I John, your brother…” (Rev.1:9). Unfortunately, many leaders think of themselves only as leaders. We must always seek God for grace to remain as ordinary brothers in the church at all times. And if we are to live like this, then we must live in a close “face-to-face” relationship with God at all times.

Spiritual authority, being God-given, is not something that we must ever assert over others or force others to submit to. We must never compel others to obey us, and we must never strive with anyone (2 Timothy 2:24, 25). If God is backing us, we will never have to defend our position, because God Himself will defend us and establish our authority. If however, anyone is seeking to assert his authority over others himself, then that would be the clearest proof that his authority is not God-given.

A spiritual leader will never defend himself or seek to justify himself, when attacked or slandered. The Bible says, “Christ is your example. Follow in His steps… He never answered back when insulted; when He suffered He did not threaten to get even; He left His case in the hands of God Who always judges fairly” (1 Peter 2:21, 23).

Jesus never strove with men to assert His rule over them. He left it to God to defend Him and to vindicate Him. This is the path that all leaders in the Church must walk in. If we live under God’s authority ourselves, we can safely leave our cause in God’s Hands. We can ignore all slander and criticism and backbiting against us, for God’s promise is that He Himself will defend His servants against such attacks. No weapon formed by others to attack a spiritual leader will ever succeed (Isaiah 54:17). I have experienced the reality of this again and again in my life. It is blessed to have such experiences.

The church today suffers greatly because of the great lack of such spiritually-minded leaders. Jesus once looked out at the crowds that came to him and felt great pity for them. “The people were like sheep without a shepherd and their problems were so great and they did not know what to do or where to go for help” (Matt.9:36 - Living Bible). The situation is just the same today. We desperately need leaders who have the heart of a shepherd and the spirit of a servant, men who fear God and tremble at His Word – to help the needy people in the churches.

We must also never allow people to become our admirers. Otherwise they will never grow up to have a personal connection with Christ as their Head. We must never attach anyone to ourselves. Instead, we should urge everyone to live before God’s face alone. They must not seek for our approval in the things that they do. And if we do find anyone becoming attached to us, we must shake him off immediately. When we give advice to others, we must also give them the freedom to disagree with us, and to do things the way they feel free to do it themselves. And if, as a result, they bungle up matters, we must be quick to help them, and never tell them, “I told you so.” That is the way a truly spiritual leader will react.

“Be filled with the Spirit….and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ” (Eph.5:18,21).

Jesus is our Example in the way He submitted to His earthly circumstances and to the authority of His earthly parents for 30 years. Only after He had been faithful in these areas, did His Father give Him this certificate at His baptism: “This is my Beloved Son in Whom I am well-pleased”. That is the way for us leaders to go too.

The Bible says “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with grief, for this would be unprofitable for you.” (Hebrews 13:17). And that command is for leaders too. We must submit to the circumstances God places us in and also to any authority that God places over us – both in the world and in the church. Then we too can get a similar testimony from God – that we are pleasing to Him.

We must never demand that anyone should submit to us. If we demand submission from others just because we are leaders, that would indicate that we are insecure and don’t really know God – because God gives freedom to people either to submit to Him or to rebel against Him – and we are not greater than God. So we have no right as leaders to demand submission from anyone. We are called to serve, not to demand submission.

We must be careful that we don’t get anyone to submit to us through the power of our personality. It is very easy for a strong-minded leader to have a hold on others in the church by the power of his personality! That is evil. Such soul-power must be put to death. People in the church must feel free to disagree with us. Nobody should be afraid of us. Jesus allowed Peter even to rebuke Him (Matt.16:22). Ask yourself if your brothers feel free to rebuke you? If not, you will need to work out your salvation from your self-exaltation and humble yourself to be like Jesus was, when He walked on this earth.

We must never run the church like a dictatorship, where the brothers and sisters live under the burden of many rules and regulations. That will make the church a legalistic club, in which truly godly brothers and sisters will never feel at home. But, instead, carnal ‘Yes-men’ (who implicitly obey you) will get power. That is evil.

We cannot produce holiness in others by making many rules in our churches. We must preach the Word, but not force people to conform to a particular pattern. If people do things merely to please us, without personal conviction, their actions will be mere dead works, even if those works look “righteous” and good in man’s eyes.

Dead works are works that are done to please or impress people. But all dead works are unacceptable to God. The works that God accepts are those that are done to please Him alone. If we are to lead the brothers and sisters to do such works, then they must be left free – as free as God Himself left Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. True holiness can be perfected only in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 7:1), and not through the fear of any church-leader.

If God raises up younger brothers in your church to a place of ministry, where people have more confidence in them than in you, then you must acknowledge this as God’s doing, and graciously give such anointed younger brothers prominence in the church. Otherwise you will find yourself fighting against God.

If you are a loving earthly father, you will definitely long that your children get more education than you did. A true spiritual father will also have a similar longing – that his spiritual children should advance beyond him spiritually. If you don’t have such a longing for those whom your serve, you are not a spiritual father. Then you are unfit to be a leader. You will then be a hindrance to the building of Christ’s Body in your locality.

Leaders who have authoritarian attitudes and who show partiality to their friends in the church may imagine that they have escaped God’s judgment for such sinful conduct. But the Lord takes note of everything and keeps an accurate record of such matters. At His appointed time, He will judge such unfaithful leaders severely. Then everyone will see that the Lord does not spare even a leader who is a hypocrite, or who lords it over his flock, or who rules over others with severity, etc. There is no partiality with God! So, “let everyone who thinks he is standing take heed lest he fall” (1 Corinthians 10:12).

Hebrews 12:26–28 tells us that “God will shake and remove all the things that can be shaken, so that those things that cannot be shaken may remain.”

Around us, in Christendom, we see great preachers falling into sin, and churches that seemed to be following the New-Testament pattern, splitting and being shaken to the core. If we are to build the Body of Christ unshakable in the midst of all this shaking that is going on today, in the midst of the worldliness and compromise that we see on the one hand in Christendom, and all the legalism and Phariseeism that is found on the other hand, then we must serve God, “with reverence and awe – because our God is a consuming fire” (Heb.12:29).

May we walk along the path of humility at all times, until the end of our life. Amen.

©Zac Poonen – [email protected]
http://www.cfcindia.com

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