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05/09/2026

Word For the Week

Few Will Find the Narrow Way

Zac Poonen | 6th September 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/the-narrow-way-to-life

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction. Many are those who enter by the wide gate and the broad way” (Matthew 7:13-14).

Destruction is eternal hell. Did Jesus speak about Hell in the Sermon on the Mount? He certainly did. He spoke about it three times. Let us look at the way to destruction. In Matthew 5:22, Jesus said, “If you are angry with your brother, you are guilty before the court. If that anger gives expression to words of anger, then you are guilty before the Supreme Court. If it goes further to serious words of anger, then you will be guilty enough to go to hell to destruction.” Again, Jesus says in Matthew 5:28-29, “If a man looks at a woman with lust for her in his heart, it is better for him to pull out his right eye. Otherwise, you can be thrown into hell. It is better to cut off your right hand if it leads you to sexual sin.” Otherwise, Jesus says in Matthew 5:30, you can be thrown into hell. That is the way to destruction. The way of uncontrolled anger and uncontrolled sexual desire is the wide way, and there are multitudes of people walking along that way. The world is full of people who are angry and saturated with sexual lust, uncontrolled sinful sexual desire, exploiting poor women, etc. That is the broad way to destruction.

What if a man says he is a born-again Christian, but watches internet po*******hy, taking advantage of poor women being exploited? What if this Christian expresses his anger outwardly? That is the way to destruction. Whether he calls himself a Christian or a non-Christian, it makes no difference. He is on the way to destruction. It is the wide way.

The way is sometimes made wide by preachers who say we do not have to be so narrow-minded and say that only those who overcome these things are going into eternal life. No, they make the gate wider than Jesus taught. Jesus said that the way to life was like a needle’s eye. Can a camel go through a needle’s eye? No. Jesus said that it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for the man who is rich in himself to possess the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24). Our richness is not only in wealth. It could be in our intellect. It could be our intellectual arguments when we come to Scripture. We take away the seriousness of God’s words with intellectual arguments. You are not going to enter God's kingdom through the wide road that leads to destruction. But the gate is small, and the way is narrow, that leads to life. That is the way Jesus preached in the Sermon on the Mount. What Jesus is saying is, “All that I have spoken here so far is a very narrow gate and a very narrow way, but it is the way that leads to life. There are very, very few people who find it.” Do you expect multitudes of people to choose the way described in the Sermon on the Mount? Not at all.

The Sermon on the Mount is not meant for non-Christians. It is not meant for non-disciples. It is meant for those who have already laid a foundation in their life of repentance and faith in Christ, who are born again, and who have become God's children. If a person has not taken that first step when he tries to follow the Sermon on the Mount, he is like a person who is building a house without a foundation. But here, it is speaking about disciples who are seeking to follow the Lord. They will find that this is a very narrow gate, and that there are very few who find it. I do not expect multitudes of people to come rushing to obey the things written in Matthew 5-7.

When you see mega churches with thousands of people sitting there, you might wonder if these are the “few” people who have found the way to life. Or are these people being led astray by false preachers, and going on the broad way that leads to destruction? We do not want to judge any of them. I would be delighted if thirty thousand people in one little area want to obey the Sermon on the Mount and follow Jesus. I would be happy if there is a church of three hundred thousand people who want to follow Christ. I would not be happy with 300,000 people who just want to go to heaven without following Christ on earth. From what I have observed, the people sitting in most churches want to go to heaven without following Christ on earth. That is not the true church of Jesus Christ. That is a church against which the gates of hell will certainly prevail, and where the preachers have made the gate wide so that multitudes of people can get in without paying the price. The gate is wide enough so that you can love money and imagine that you love God as well. They made the gate wide and are deceiving themselves that they are making disciples of Jesus in that church.

We need to see very clearly that it is at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that Jesus explained this gate is very small, and this way is very narrow that leads to life. There are very, very few that actually find it.

The very next thing He says is, “Beware of the false prophets” (Matthew 7:15). We need to see who these false prophets are in the context of this passage. Are these false prophets the ones who come to church but talk about some other religion, and start teaching from the holy book of some other religion? No. False prophets are those “who come in sheep's clothing.” Sheep's clothing means the appearance of being a servant of Jesus Christ and being a sheep of Christ. They come in sheep's clothing. They look like sheep. They come with the Bible in their hand, but they made the way broad. They explain away the commands of Scripture, saying, “This command is not necessary,” or “It does not mean exactly this…” These people have tried to explain away so many things in Scripture. If they come to a verse like Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always,” they say, “It does not mean 24/7. It means generally speaking, or most of the time.” When it says in Philippians 4:6, “Be anxious for nothing,” they say, “It does not mean ‘nothing.’ It means generally speaking, you should avoid anxiety.” When it says in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 that we must “give thanks in everything, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus,” they say, “that it does not really mean every single thing.”

You will discover in the final day when you stand before Jesus Christ that God meant exactly what He said. Christ meant exactly what He said. If you do not believe these words in the Bible, you must be honest and scratch them out or tear up those pages in the Bible.

You are being dishonest and hypocritical if you say the Bible is God's Word, but then you do not follow it. God is going to judge this hypocrisy. God loves an honest person. I believe God loves many atheists more than hypocritical Christians because they are honest. They do not believe there is a God. They act like there is no God. The businessman out in the world says there is no God but money. He worships money, and he is honest. But Christians, who say that Jesus Christ is the true God and the Bible is God’s Word, if they live like those worldly people, they are the hypocrites. Remember that when Christ was on earth, He condemned the hypocrites more than anybody else. The adulteress was saved. The thief on the cross was saved. The murderer was saved. But the hypocrites went to hell.

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29/08/2026

Word For the Week

Seek the Gifts of the Spirit to Serve Others

Zac Poonen | 30th August 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/using-gods-gift-for-his-glory

“Suppose one of you has a friend who visits your home at midnight, and out of courtesy and love for him, you ask him if he has eaten. If he says he has not, and you look into your refrigerator and see that there is no food there or in the rest of the house, what do you do? You go to your neighbor.” (Luke 11:5 paraphrase)

Now, this is very rare. Hardly anyone would go to their neighbor at midnight and wake him up to ask food for their friend, but this person does. He goes, knocks at his neighbor’s house, and says, “Please lend me three loaves. I will return it tomorrow, but lend them to me now. A visitor has come to my house, a very good friend of mine, and I have got no food for him.” Now, the man inside the house tells him to not disturb him or his children because they are all in bed, “You are disturbing us at midnight, waking us all up, and you keep on banging at the door.” But this person will keep knocking and will not let his neighbor sleep till he gets what he needs.

The Lord says, “Even if this neighbor does not give you anything because you are his friend, because of your persistence and because of your shameless knocking, he will get up and give you as much as you need (Luke 11:8).” What a lovely expression this is, “As much as you need.”

I remember when I sought for baptism in the Holy Spirit - for the power of the Holy Spirit to be an effective teacher of God's Word - to have utterance. I was a very shy person when I became a Christian and began to share God's Word. I knew I needed the power of the Holy Spirit, and if I got the power of the Holy Spirit, I'd be transformed into another person. And that's exactly what happened. If you seek God like that for the mighty supernatural anointing of the Holy Spirit not for yourself, but for others, and you keep on knocking, saying, “Lord, give me bread to feed these people (we saw this expression in Luke 11:8),” then God will give you as much as you need (Luke 11:13). I am referring to the Holy Spirit here. Jesus made it clear what we are supposed to ask God for. “Give me the power of the Holy Spirit to serve others. My needs are met, we have gone past Luke 18, now I am thinking about the needs of others.” That is a true Christian.

Very often, people seek for the power of the Holy Spirit to get some tickle down their spine, some electric shock or feeling, some speaking in tongues, or something for their own benefit. We need to seek for the gifts of the Holy Spirit to be able to bless other people. I remember when I sought God for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. It was to serve other people, and even if God gave me the gift of tongues, it was to keep myself fresh, because the Bible says that he who speaks in a tongue edifies himself (1 Corinthians 14:4). I wanted to edify myself so that I’d always be fresh when I am serving other people. Therefore, even the gift of tongues was to benefit others, to keep myself fresh and to build myself up. No gift of the spirit was for my own personal edification, but rather for personal edification that led to the blessing of other people.

We need to remember that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit are meant for others. The fruit of the Spirit benefit me. If I have joy or peace, that benefits me, not you. But, if I have the gifts of the Holy Spirit, whether it be prophecy or healing or any other gift, those gifts benefit others. We need both of these. You need to ask God, and you need faith.

“If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give what is good (especially the Holy Spirit and all His good gifts) to those who ask Him?” (Luke 11:13) We need to have faith that we are coming to our Father. We are not coming to the CEO of some company, who is so distant that we have to approach him through a secretary. We are coming to our Heavenly Dad, and what will He deny us? There’s absolutely nothing good that He can ever deny us. If God does not see fit to give us something, we can be absolutely sure that it’s not good for us.

The Apostle Paul once had a sickness in his body which he called a thorn in the flesh. He prayed three times for it to be removed (2 Corinthians 12:7-9). God did not remove it, and he realized that it was for his good, because it kept him humble and broken. God always gives us what is good, and when God is good to us like that, tremendously good to us, what should we do? We need to be good to other people.

“Lord, I want you to give me that which will help me meet the need of these people whom I have to serve.” When you have a burden for the people in your church, to lead them to a Godly life, to lead them to do all that Jesus commanded, to lead them to live according to the standards of the Sermon on the Mount, you will ask for the power of the Holy Spirit, you'll ask for a prophetic word from heaven that will meet the need of those people and deliver them from the clutches of the devil and bring them to a godly life. And if you love them enough, you will be persistent.

Do you not think that this person, who went to his neighbor’s house at midnight, loved his visitor? He must have loved him so much that he was determined to get him food that night. Most of us, if we did not have food the night the visitor came, would tell him, "I am sorry, but we have no food, so let us go to bed now, I will get you something in the morning.” But this man loved his hungry visitor so much that he said, “I am going to get you something tonight, even if I have to be shameless before my neighbor.” It is a wonderful picture of going to God with persistence and saying, Lord give me the gifts of the Holy Spirit to serve these people.

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

22/08/2026

Word For the Week

Jesus is Building a Pure Church

Zac Poonen | 23rd August 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/series/the-local-church-a-pure-bride-for-christ

In our CFC churches, we do not preach on how to go to heaven when you die. Jesus told us to go and make disciples in every nation – and to teach them all that He had commanded – and not on how to escape hell and go to heaven!! But, unfortunately, a lot of the preaching of the gospel today majors on how to go to heaven when you die. I do not preach that Gospel because I am not interested in taking people to heaven. That is God's business. I seek to make disciples for Jesus Christ here on earth and then I seek to teach them to obey everything that Jesus has commanded. That is the commission the Lord gave us very clearly in Matthew 28:18-20. And that is what we have been trying to do in our CFC churches in many parts of the world, for the last 50 years.

My gospel is how to be a disciple of Jesus Christ here on earth and how to follow Him every day. Jesus said there is a small gate and a narrow way that led to life (Matt.7:14). We can enter the narrow gate by repenting of our sins and trusting in Christ’s death and resurrection. Then we are called to walk the narrow way by taking up our cross and dying to self each day, and putting Christ first in our lives, and following Him. That is the way of life and discipleship, that Jesus taught in the above verse – and that is the way of eternal life that we teach in all our churches.

In relation to discipleship, Jesus said in Luke 14:26, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, and his own life, he CANNOT be my disciple”. How often have you heard anyone preach about hating your loved ones, as Jesus said in that verse? That is the Number One condition for being a disciple of the Lord Jesus. And Jesus commanded us to make disciples everywhere – and not converts. So, if we want to make disciples, we must first teach them this Number One condition of discipleship, before teaching them anything else.

When a child joins a school, the first thing he is taught is not physics or chemistry. No. The first thing he is taught is the alphabet – ABC. In the same way, those who join our church must FIRST OF ALL be taught the alphabet of discipleship – to love Jesus supremely. Those who don't want to fulfil that condition must be told clearly right at the beginning, that they cannot be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. And there is no second class of disciples. There is only one class of disciples – those who “hate father, mother, brother, sister, wife, children and their own life” (Luke 14:26).

How are we to reconcile this demand of Jesus with other commands in the Scriptures to “honor your father and mother” and to “love your wife as Christ loved the church” and to love our children and our brothers and sisters?

Jesus often used illustrations to make a point clear in His messages. So, I sought to find some illustration to understand these apparently opposite commands to love and hate my family members! And this is the illustration that has made it clear for me; I compare my love for my father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters to the light of the stars – bright and clear and without any darkness in them at all – a picture of the love we must have for our family members. But in the morning, when the sun comes up, the stars become invisible. They are still there, but we cannot see them. Even so, my love for Christ must be like the light of the sun, in which light, my love for my family members fades into insignificance. My love for my family members is still there (like the stars are still there in the morning). But my love for Christ is so great that all others are now loved only through my love for Christ. That means that my love for Christ is so great, that I will never allow my wife or my parents or anyone close to me to ever come between me and Christ. I will henceforth love everyone else only through my supreme love for Christ.

Jesus said, “I will build my church” (Matt. 16:18). Only He can build it. We are only members of His Body – one is like a tongue, another is like a hand and yet another is like a leg. And some believers who are not so prominent are like the hidden organs of the body. But Christ is the Head who builds His Body. We can only offer ourselves to Him to be ruled, controlled and used by Him as members of His Body. The hands and legs cannot do anything on their own. The head tells the hand what to do and tells the legs where to go. That's how we are to be submitted to Christ. And that is how the Body of Christ works and is built. And that is what we have sought to emphasize.

But once God begins to use someone a little and he begins to see the miracle of the Body of Christ being built in a place, the great danger is of spiritual pride. When God blesses us, pride is lurking around the corner. We can begin to imagine that we were the ones who built that local church or that it was we who brought those people to Christ. And when a servant of God or a church becomes proud, God immediately begins to OPPOSE that person and that church.

May we all fear God and seek for the power of His Spirit every day so that we can glorify God in our lives and build His church in these last days.

Amen.

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

15/08/2026

Word For the Week

Living In the Will of God (Part 2 of 2)

Zac Poonen | 16th August 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/soulish-or-spiritual-0

Jesus was a servant of the Lord Jehovah. And “the most important thing about a servant is that he does just what his master tells him to” (1 Corinthians 4:2 - TLB). He spent His life listening to His Father, and thus accomplished all His Father's will, without exhaustion or frustrated 'busyness.' He put His own human interests to death. He was not soulish. He was spiritual.

Jesus gave high priority to prayer in His life. He would often slip away into the wilderness and pray (Luke 5:16). Once He spent a whole night in prayer to know the Father's will concerning the choice of the twelve disciples (Luke 6:12, 13). The soulish Christian considers time spent in waiting on God, as wasted time, and prays only to ease his conscience. Prayer is not a desperate necessity in his life, because he is confident of himself. The spiritual man, however, is dependent on God perpetually for everything and is thus driven, out of sheer necessity, to prayer.

Jesus said that the one thing needful was to hear His Word (Luke 10:39-42). Mary of Bethany was an example of this. Martha, on the other hand, though busy in unselfish service was restless and critical of Mary. In those two sisters, we see the contrast between spiritual and soulish activity. Martha was not committing any sin in serving the Lord and His disciples. Yet she was restless and critical of Mary. This is a clear picture of soulish service. The soulish Christian is restless and irritable. He has not ceased from his "own works," and has not entered into God's rest (Hebrews 4:10). His intentions are good, but he has not realised that his own works however good they may be, are still "filthy rags" in God's eyes, even after conversion (Isaiah 64:6).

The good sheep of Amalek (the flesh) are as unacceptable to God as the bad ones (1 Samuel 15:3, 9-19). But human reasoning cannot understand this. It appears foolish to throw away the good sheep, when they could be given to God. But God requires obedience, NOT sacrifice. “To obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22). But how can we obey if we do not hear what God has to say? Hearing has to precede obedience. Hence Jesus said that the one thing needful was to hear His voice. Everything else was dependent on that.

Those who 'serve' like Martha, however sincere, are really only serving themselves. They cannot be called servants of the Lord, for a servant waits to hear what his master tells him to do, before serving.

If we are emptied of self-sufficiency, we shall pray like Solomon did, “O Lord my God, give Thy servant a listening heart to discern between good and evil” (1 Kings 3:7, 9 - margin). Jesus knew that He had to listen to His Father, if He was to discern between what was good (in its highest sense) and what was not good - between what was His Father's will and what was not.

Outside the Beautiful Gate of the temple in Jerusalem, Jesus often saw a lame man begging for alms. But He did not heal him, because He had no leading from His Father to do so. Later, after He had ascended to Heaven, Peter and John brought healing to that man - in the Father's perfect time - and that resulted in many people turning to the Lord (Acts 3:1-4:4). That was the Father's time to heal that man, not earlier. Jesus would have hindered the Father's will if He had healed that man earlier. He knew that the Father's timing was perfect, and so He was never impatient to do anything.

Jesus' life was a life of perfect rest. He had enough time in 24 hours every day to do all His Father's will. But if He had decided to do what appeared good to Him, then 24 hours a day would not have been enough and he would have ended up in unrest on most days. Jesus could rejoice in every interruption that came to Him, because He accepted the fact that a sovereign Father in Heaven was planning His daily schedule. And so He was never annoyed with interruptions. The life of Jesus will bring our inner beings into perfect rest too. This does not mean that we will do nothing, but that we will do only what is in the Father's plan for our lives. Then we shall be more eager to finish the Father's will than our own pre-determined programme.

Soulish Christians are so intent on doing 'their own thing' that they are frequently irritable and restless. Some of them end up having a nervous or a physical breakdown finally.

It was impossible for Jesus to have a nervous breakdown, because He was in perfect rest in His inner man. He says to us,

“Take My yoke upon you and learn from My example, and you too will find rest in your souls” (Matthew 11:29).

This is the glory of Jesus that the Spirit of God shows us in the Word and that He desires to impart to us and to manifest through us.

The Lord is our Shepherd and He leads His sheep into pastures of rest. Sheep do not plan their own programme or decide which pasture to go to next. They just follow their Shepherd. But one has to be emptied of self-confidence and self-sufficiency to follow the Shepherd like that. Jesus meekly followed His Father. But soulish Christians do not want to be sheep, and are therefore led astray by their intellects. Our intellect is a marvellous and most useful gift of God, but it can become the most dangerous of all gifts if exalted to the place of lordship in our life.

The Lord taught His disciples to pray, “Father, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven.” (Luke 11:2) How is God's will done in Heaven? The angels there do not run around trying to do 'something for God.' There would be confusion in Heaven if they did that. What do they do? They wait in God's presence to hear what He commands, and then do exactly what they are individually told to do. Listen to the words of the angel Gabriel to Zacharias, “I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of God; and I have been sent to speak to you....” (Luke 1:19). This is the position that the Lord Jesus took as well - waiting in His Father's presence, hearing His voice and doing His will.

Soulish Christians may labour hard and sacrifice much, but the clearer light of eternity will reveal that “they toiled all night and caught nothing.” But those who took up their cross daily (denied their soul-life and put it to death) and obeyed the Lord, will have nets full of fish in that day (John 21:1-6).

“Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work that I plan for Him,” said Jesus, “is not fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62 - TLB). “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfil that” (Colossians 4:17).

“Every plant which our Heavenly Father did not plant will be rooted up” (Matthew 15:13).

The question is not whether the plant is good, but who planted it. God is the only legitimate originator of anything. The Bible begins with the words, “In the beginning God.” So must it be with all our actions: They must have originated in God, and not in our minds, if they are to last forever.

“He who does the will of God will abide forever” (1 John 2:17).

All the rest will perish.

So, let us ask ourselves this question:

AM I LIVING AND LABOURING IN THE WILL OF GOD?

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

08/08/2026

Word For the Week

Living In the Will of God (Part 1 of 2)

Zac Poonen | 9th August 2026

Recommended Sermon: https://www.cfcindia.com/sermon/god-gives-us-the-desire-and-ability-to-do-his-will

“From Him are all things” (Rom. 11:36) Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven belonged to the poor in spirit (Matt. 5:3). He also said that only those who do the will of the Father would enter that kingdom (Matt. 7:21). The kingdom of heaven is eternal, and only that which has been done in the will of God will be found there. The poor in spirit are those who are conscious of their human insufficiency and who therefore submit to the will of God completely. In this sense, Jesus was perpetually poor in spirit.

He lived as God intended man to live - in perpetual dependence on God, refusing to exercise the powers of His mind apart from God. Consider His words: “The Son can do nothing of (out from) Himself......I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak as the Father taught Me.....I have not come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.....I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself Who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say and what to speak.... The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His work” (John. 5:19,30; 8:28,42; 12:49; 14:10).

Jesus never acted merely because He saw a need. He saw the need, was concerned about it, but acted only when His Father told Him to. He waited at least four thousand years in Heaven, while the world lay desperately in need of a Saviour, and then came to earth when His Father sent Him (John 8:42). “When the right time came, the time God decided on, He sent His Son” (Gal. 4:4- Living). God has appointed a right time for everything (Eccl. 3:1). God alone knows that time, and so we will not go wrong if we seek the Father's will in everything, as Jesus did. And when Jesus came to earth, He did not just go around doing whatever He felt was good. Even though His mind was perfectly pure, yet He never acted on any bright idea that came to mind. No. He made His mind a servant of the Holy Spirit.

Although He knew the Scriptures thoroughly by the age of twelve, yet He spent the next eighteen years as a carpenter, staying with His mother, making tables and chairs, etc., He had the very message that dying men around Him needed, and yet He would not go out into the preaching ministry. Why? Because the Father's time had not yet come.

Jesus was not afraid to wait. "He who believes will not be in a hurry" (Isa. 28:16). And when His Father's time came, He went out of His carpenter's shop and began to preach. Often thereafter, He would say concerning some course of action, “My hour has not yet come” (John. 2:4; 7:6). Everything in Jesus' life was regulated by the timing and the will of the Father. The need of men, by itself, never constituted the call to action for Jesus, for that would have been acting out from Himself - out of His soul. The need of men was to be taken into account, but it was the will of God that was to be done. Jesus made that very clear in John 4:34,35. The need (v.35): “Look around you! Vast fields of human souls are ripening all around us, and are ready now for reaping.....” The principle of action (v.34): “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God Who sent Me, and from finishing His work.” (Living) Jesus did not do the many good things that His friends suggested, because He knew that if He listened to men and did the apparently good, He would miss the best that His Father had for Him.

Once, when men begged Him to stay in a particular place, He said He could not, because He had heard His Father's voice calling Him to go elsewhere. Humanly speaking there were very good reasons for staying where He was, because of the unusual responsiveness of the people to His message. But God's thoughts are not as man's thoughts and God's ways are not as man's ways (Isaiah 55:8). Early that morning, Jesus had gone out alone and prayed, and He had heard His Father's voice (Mark 1:35-39), before He heard Peter and the others with their suggestions. Jesus did not rely on human reasoning. He obeyed the Word which said, "Do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths" (Prov. 3:5,6). He leaned upon His Father for guidance in every matter. In a prophetic reference to the Lord Jesus in Isaiah 50:4, we read, "Morning by morning, He (the Father) wakens Me and opens My understanding to His will." That was Jesus' habit. He listened to His Father's voice from early morning and throughout the day, and did exactly what His Father told Him to do. He did not have discussions with men, to decide on what to do, but had prayer-meetings with His Father. Soulish Christians plan through discussions with men. Spiritual Christians wait to hear from God.

Jesus lived by His Father (John 6:57). To Jesus, God's Word was more important than food (Matt. 4:4). He had to receive it many times a day, straight from the Father. Having received it, He obeyed it. Obedience too was more important than His daily food (John 4:34). Jesus, lived in dependence on the Father. His attitude throughout the day was, “Speak, Father, I am listening.” Consider His chasing the money-changers out of the temple. There must have been many occasions when Jesus was in the temple with the money-changers there, when He did not chase them out. He did so, only when led to do so by His Father. The soulish Christian would rather chase out the money-changers perpetually or never at all. He who is led by God however, knows when, where and how to act. There were many good things that Jesus could have done, that He never did, because they were outside the scope of His Father's will for Him. He was always busy doing the very best things. And those were enough. He had not come to earth to do good things, but to do the will of His Father.

“Did you not know that I had to be in the things of My Father,” He asked Joseph and Mary, at the age of twelve (Luke. 2:49-Literal). Those were the only things that He was interested in accomplishing. When He came to the end of 33-1/2 years on earth, He could say, with real satisfaction, “Father, I have done everything YOU told Me to do” (John 17:4). He had not travelled around the world, He had not written any book, His followers were few, there were still many unmet needs in many parts of the world, etc., etc., But He had finished the work that the Father had appointed for Him. That, and that alone, matters ultimately.

(To be continued.)

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