Assurance of Salvation and Repentance
I test those of you who are seated here. Have the assurance that you've been washed in the blood of Jesus. He died for you on the cross, not just believing, but that you have repented of your sins; that there was a time in your life that you repented of your past sin and made a complete turnaround, put things right with God, put things right with others, asked for forgiveness where you needed to. And that today, not just one day long back, but even today, you're walking in the light. As you and I have been reminded, if we walk in the light, we have fellowship with Him, and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness. That's so important.
Today, what we heard, the world has crept into the church. The church today walks hand in hand, but thankfully, we are sought to uphold a pure testimony for the Lord in CFC for 47 years. But the church is like the jungle that, you know, grows, encroaches without us even doing anything. But we have watchmen, shepherds, not masons who plaster up cracks, but shepherds who are shepherds after God's own heart, who watch out for the wolves. But with all our watching, with all our whatever we do, like Jude says, some who creep in the church unnoticed, they are marked out for condemnation and destruction; they don't take the warnings seriously.
The last breaking of bread, we heard so powerfully from Brother Charles, and they're so clear just where we are when it comes to being part of the family of God, being part of the body of Christ. That's what we've sought to build in these 47 years. We don't build a name for ourselves; the church goes on, and we thank the Lord for godly elders the Lord has given us, shepherds after His own heart.
Call to Continual Repentance
But I want to encourage all of you here, make sure that you're here because you have repented, not just once long ago, but you would live in a continual repentance every day. And then, when you are to put things right, you put things right, and you walk in the light, not just on Sundays, you know, not just once a month, but every breaking of bread. Then whatever we do and whatever we hear will really add value to our life and walk with the Lord. Otherwise, it's just you're listening to another message. And I don't have a message to give you, but I have something that has blessed and challenged my heart so much.
The Love Feast of the Lord's Supper
The Lord's Supper and the breaking of bread, it's not just that we remember the death of the Lord till He comes, as we are told, "as often as we do it," but it's a love feast. It's a love feast, whether you recognize it or not. And there are two beautiful truths the Holy Spirit reveals to us. We have heard it so often through the years that we see how intensely Jesus loves us. See how intensely Jesus loves you, and Jesus loves me. Don't lose sight of it. I'm afraid we can allow what we have heard through the years to boil down to rules and regulations and a culture, a CFC culture that we adapt ourselves to, we fit into, and we get a seat in the church. We get to see it in CFC.
But I hope you found life after joining this church, like we did more than 47 years ago when we were tired of all that was going on in the denominational church. The people didn't want to hear the truth; they didn't want the whole counsel of God. They didn't want the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He is the one; if He's not there, then we're just having meetings, we are hearing messages, and we become a congregation right from day one. But thank the Lord, it's never been like that. What happened 47 years ago, the church was born of the Holy Spirit. We had to pay a price for that, not just once, but all through our life in the church, from many sides, from family, from relatives, from unbelieving relatives, friends. There's a price to be paid, but we were gripped with something, and it was a love of Christ that brought us together. And once that goes out of your life and mine, then, like what we heard, that clip from Brother Zac, they begin to walk hand in hand. You're a stranger.
Knowing the Shepherd's Voice
Jesus said, "My sheep hear My voice, and they follow Me; this is a stranger they will not follow. They do not know the voice of strangers." You read that in John 10. They know His voice. You know the voice of the Shepherd. I hope you know the voice of the Shepherd. If you hear the Shepherd's voice, if you don't, possibly you're a stranger, and you've somehow got into CFC. And because we don't have any restrictions, we open the breaking of bread to those who are born again and baptized in water, that you feel you qualify. I want to say this to you, my dear brothers and sisters, see where you stand today, today in relation to the Lord, whether you love Him like you loved Him at the beginning.
I keep crying out to the Lord, and, "Lord, when I think back how I loved You and what I was willing to give up, nothing mattered to me. I quit my job; I was content to sleep on a mat, on a pillow in an office that paid me 200 rupees, and because I loved the Lord and gave up my ambition to become an officer on the railways, and because I loved Him, and He did something so great for me that no religion that I tried to follow did for me." So, if you are following CFC as a religion, it has not changed your life, it has not made a difference, then you're sadly in the wrong place, and you need to really repent and turn to the Lord.
Jesus' Intense Love Revealed
So, I think that two beautiful truths the Holy Spirit reveals to us: how intensely Jesus loves those who love Him, who are willing to give up everything for Him. And we read that in one of them in Luke chapter 22. Luke 22:14-20, it says, "When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. And He said to them, 'I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. I have earnestly desired.'"
He looked forward to that meal; He looked forward to that time, not with all the ones who professed to be His disciples, the 17, 70-plus people who left Him, but just 12. But even one of them, there was a traitor. But He says, "I earnestly desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." For, He said, "I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, "Take this and share it among yourselves. For I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes." And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." In the same way, He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood."
But behold, the hand of the one who is betraying Me is with Mine on the table. They began to discuss among themselves which one of them it might be. I like that, the humility that they were willing to think, "Lord, is it I?" In one place, they said, "Lord, is it me? Is it I?" Jesus had kept it so discreet; they didn't even know what Judas was up to. They didn't even know that he was pilfering from the money box. And he professed; he put on an act for three and a half years that nobody just knew except Jesus. Jesus saw through him. So, you can put on an act for three, not three and a half years, or even 30 years or 40 years, and nobody knows, but then one day it'll be revealed. But I like what He says, "I earnestly desire to eat this Passover with you before I suffer."
Jesus' Love to the Uttermost
And then the second time that we read in John chapter 13. You learn a very beautiful word there; I often think of it. John 11, 12, 13, I encourage you to read, not just read, but meditate on it. And John 11, where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, a family that He was close to. And then John 12 and 13, when He celebrates the feast of the Passover, verse 1, "Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end." And if you have a margin there, it says, "to the uttermost or eternally." He loved them to the uttermost. Somebody said, "from the guttermost to the uttermost." I know He picked me up from the gutter, and He's loved me and loved me to the uttermost. I've known that love for more than 54 years, from the guttermost to the uttermost. That's how He loves us.
Whatever your life had been, if He's picked you up from the gutter, picked you up from the street, He's brought you out from the world, He loves you intensely. Don't lose sight of that, my dear brothers and sisters. And that's what we are reminded about in the breaking of bread: that He loves us intensely. And we see that demonstrated so wonderfully there in what happened in that upper room, the Last Supper, as it's called. And that's what we celebrate as we break bread together: we love because He first loved us.
Acts of Devotion and Love
And in John chapter 12:3, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, come from God, was going back to God, and, you know, I'm not going to read that where He laid aside His garments and took a basin and washed His disciples' feet. And, sorry, that's John 13. But John chapter 12, I want you to see this. Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They made Him a supper there; this is a private meal, you know. Martha, again, was serving; they made Him a supper there. This was their home; they owned it. Somebody said that they owned the whole village of Bethany; I don't know about that. And so, they must have been quite well-to-do, but Jesus loved them, as it says there. He loved being in their home.
And Mary, the youngest, the sister, youngest sister, took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, intending to betray Him, said, "Why was this perfume not sold for 300 denarii?" That's the year's wages, it says, if you have a margin, equivalent to 11 months' wages; you can calculate what that is. It was very costly. So he said that, not because he was concerned for the poor, but because he was a thief and kept the money box and he used to pilfer what was put into it. Jesus said, "Let her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of My burial. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."
And she anointed the feet of Jesus with this. One says that she took a pound of pure nard, you know, costly perfume, anointed His feet, and wiped it with her hair. And in Mark chapter 14, I'm not getting into the theology of whether the two anointings, three anointings, but I want you to see something that has blessed my heart. In Mark chapter 14:3, it says, "While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head."
But some were indignantly remarking to one another, "Why is this perfume being wasted? For this perfume might have been sold for over 300 denarii, the money given to the poor." You know who said that. And Jesus said, verse 6, "Let her alone; why do you bother her? She has done a good deed to Me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish, you can do good to them, but you do not always have Me. She has done what she could; she has anointed My body beforehand for the burial." She has done what she could. I like that word: she has done what she could.
And some say, I was doing a little study on this, and I quite agree with it, that it's the same Mary who anointed His feet with one pound of this pure nard perfume. And in Mark 14 and Matthew 26, you can look at it sometime; it's the same. It's a woman; doesn't give her name, but who brought this alabaster box of perfume where earlier she had given this, she had taken one pound of it to anoint the feet of Jesus. Now she breaks it and pours it on His head. And we are told that the whole house was filled with the fragrance, with the perfume.
Expressions of Love and Brokenness
In Luke chapter 7, you read, we're not doing a Bible study, but I'm just trying to help you to see just what these women did. Luke chapter 7, this is another woman who is a sinner. The woman we are told in John 12 was Mary; in Mark 14, there's no name, but she's not a sinner; it's just a woman who came with her alabaster box of perfume. Matthew 26 is the same woman. Just before Jesus' death, two days, six days earlier, she anointed His feet, and two days before the Passover, she brought the whole vial of alabaster perfume, broke it, and poured it over His head.
And here in Luke chapter 7, this is another woman who was a debtor who came, and we're not going to take time to read it, but you can look at it, meditate, and ask the Lord to give you revelation. That's what I asked Him. I don't get into theological discussions about this, but it blessed my heart, the message that comes through of what these women did. The Pharisee there says, one of the Pharisees requested Him to dine with him, and He entered the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner, and she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house. She brought an alabaster vial of perfume, standing behind Him at His feet, weeping; she began to wet His feet with her tears, kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.
And you know, the Pharisee, interestingly, he had the same name as Simon the leper who was healed, Simon the Pharisee, you read there. Because Jesus spoke to him directly, and Jesus answered, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he replied, "Say it, Teacher." "A moneylender had two debtors: one owing 500 denarii, the other 50. When they were unable to repay, he graciously forgave them both. So which one of them will love him more?" Because Simon the Pharisee had the right answer, like we all can have the right answer, he says, "I suppose the one whom he forgave more." And He said, "You have judged correctly. You see this woman? I entered your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has wet My feet with her tears, wiped them with her hair. You gave Me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet. You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume. For this reason, I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little." Then He said to her, "Your sins have been forgiven." Those who were reclining at the table with them began to say, "Who is this man who even forgives sins?" And He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."
You see, get the message there. What Mary did in her home when she took the pound of ointment and anointed the feet of Jesus, wiped the feet of Jesus with her hair, it was an expression of love. What was done, the same Mary who felt that she must give everything, not just one pound, and she brought that same alabaster box, broke it, and poured it on His head. And I was looking up that too; that is, it was very, very costly perfume, this spikenard, this oil of spikenard, a very costly perfume. And Mary and Martha and Lazarus probably were quite well-off, that they, that Mary probably saved up enough money to buy that box of perfume of pure spikenard. And this woman, this other woman in Luke chapter 7, was a prostitute who, with her earnings, she bought this costly perfume; either, otherwise, she couldn't buy it. And Jesus was willing; you go to the Old Testament, it says that the prostitute's earnings could not be given to the Lord. But Jesus allowed this woman who was a sinner because she repented; she saw how much it was an expression of love. She didn't feel guilty that what she had earned through her sinful life, and she broke it at the feet of Jesus in repentance, washed His feet with her hair, with her tears, and anointed it with this perfume.
All this, both these women, what they did was an expression of love. Mary, later, two days before the Passover, she brought that same box of spikenard where she had taken out one pound and broke the whole thing and poured it over the head of Jesus. I hope you get the message: nothing is of value, my brothers and sisters, if it's not broken. However costly it may be, however costly we may, if we give everything also, but if you're not broken, giving up my job on the railways and coming out to serve Him was not enough. I had to be broken in many, many, many instances through my life and following the Lord. The Lord broke me, right now, to this very day, broken. Then whatever I give to Him is of value.
The Necessity of Being Broken
Now I want to say that that's what we are remembering as we break bread together. Have we allowed the Lord to break us in all that He allows into our lives: the trials, the temptations, what happens in the office, what happens in the home with growing children and the problems that can come with growing children, with a big family? And you know, we can get so upset; we can think God is punishing us, but no, He said, "My child, I want you to yield to Me, to allow Me to break you." Then what you give to Me is of value. And that is a picture that what is not broken, whether it was Mary, she was not a sinner; she recognized that. But she was not a prostitute. The woman in Luke 7 was a prostitute, but she was broken in repentance for her sin, and she wanted to give everything. And so, she broke that vial of perfume and poured it on His feet.
So, we must be broken, my brothers and sisters; otherwise, it's a meaningless whatever we are doing now, breaking the bread and passing the cup is meaningless if you're not allowing yourself, I'm not allowing myself, to be broken in many ways the Lord breaks us. It can be tragic sometimes; it can be the loss of one dearest to us. But it's broken people, then, God wants to build this church: broken people, a broken husband, a broken wife. Stop blaming each other; you're not going to have each other for long; you're not going to have each other forever, so stop blaming each other.
There's one word that the Lord has spoken to me through the years, and you, till today: yield, Y-I-E-L-D. That means surrender, give up, give up your will. Like we heard earlier, deny yourself, take up the cross daily, and follow Jesus. He says, "We have this treasure in earthen vessels," and we read that in Second Corinthians, in chapter 4. We heard that verse earlier: light has shone over the darkness. Did He give us the light or the knowledge? Not the knowledge of God, read it correctly. Turn there; it's a good verse too. I'm reminded of this many times. This is the promise that God gives us when He said, "Let there be light." The same light has shone in your heart and mind in season with Second Corinthians chapter 4:3, "If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, even unbelieving believers, blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ." Read it for yourself.
The Light of the Gospel
The light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, has the gospel done that for you and me? Has it shone in your heart and mind? Have I seen the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, that I can know Him as my Father? And then, like Jesus said, if we obey His commandments, He will reveal Himself to us in John 14. If we obey His commandments, He says the Father and Him will come and make home with us, just like He came to this home, and together with the Holy Spirit. I hope you see it; it blesses my heart. It's done so much to my life to see the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. But we do not preach ourselves; when we see the glory of Christ, we stop preaching ourselves, but Christ Jesus is Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said—here's this word, let it be burned into your spirit, my brothers and sisters, as God has done in mine—God who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
That's what the light has done. Has God been able to do that for you? I want to ask you; I want you to ask yourself, has God been able to do that for you? With all the problems and trials and difficulties that you have, have you stopped complaining, stopped blaming, whether it's your wife, whether it's your husband, whether it's your children, whether it's your boss? But yield and let God let His light shine in you. And it says that it was shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. And here's this word: we have this treasure in earthen vessels, just like that box of spikenard that Mary brought and broke it, and the house was full of the fragrance that came from that perfume.
The Fragrance of a Broken Life
And I want you to see that fragrance Jesus carried, not just, you know, to see the picture of it, you know. Six days earlier, Mary anointed His feet, costly perfume. And I like perfume; I use it, not to show off, but you know, sometimes some perfumes can be on your clothes for days together. You know, when somebody passes by, you get a beautiful smell, a beautiful scent, an exquisite perfume. And what comes to me, it's not the perfume we wear; that's my life. Does my life give off that fragrance? And it will not give off a fragrance, no matter if I use the best perfume, the most costly perfume in the world, if I'm not broken, if I'm not willing to be broken. We have this treasure in earthen vessels so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves. And there we have it: we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. Why? Because I always carry about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
And we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Death works in us, but life in you. That's the life we are called to live. We who live are constantly, not just, you know, one day, two days, once a month, constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus' sake. And the place where it happens the most is in the home, and the next place is the work spot, and the next place is in the church, constantly being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. And the next place is with our family; the next place is with our relatives, unbelieving or believing. It doesn't stop, my brothers and sisters.
And Jesus said of this woman, Mary, "She has done what she could." She has done what she could; she broke it. To her, nothing was of value. And that's how it must be for us. And that's why He said, "Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her." And that's why the Holy Spirit, I believe, has hidden her name there in Mark 14 and Matthew chapter 26, but I believe it was the Mary that we read of in John chapter 12. That is what my understanding; I feel that the Lord has revealed to me. But He said, "Whenever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her."
And what happened in that upper room, there was a perfume that not only came from Jesus because His head was anointed earlier with this very costly perfume; that perfume lingered on. And then, two days before He died, two days before the Passover, His feet were anointed with the same perfume, this very costly perfume. You know, the vial that contained that pound of ointment that Mary used is broken now and poured out on the feet of Jesus, and she wiped His feet with her hair. And that is an expression of love, my brothers and sisters, that is an expression of the love that Jesus has for you and me. He loves us intensely. I've begun to see that, and it has changed my whole attitude to life. But I've had to go through breakings, severe breakings for that, but it's helped me, even though our faith can take a battering. It's helped me to see how much He loves me, how much He wants me for Himself.
The Cross as an Expression of Love
We shared in the last meeting, we see the picture of the church, the bride leaning upon her Bridegroom, both of them leaning on one another. That's the picture of the church; that's the picture of you and me, that we lean on our Bridegroom because we love Him, and He loves us so much. And I hope that we see that the cross, apart from us being forgiven, apart from Jesus forgiving us our sins, dying for our sins and shedding His blood, apart from Him taking our place and paying the penalty for our sin, I hope from today, from today, you will see that the cross is an expression of the intense love He has for you and for me, intense love. "God so loved the world," it's not just an empty abstract. It was at one time, "God so loved," put your name there, "He gave His only begotten Son," and not just to believe in Him, but to surrender to Him.
Triumph Through Surrender
And one last word, Second Corinthians chapter 2:14, this is my word; I turn to, I am reminded many times, a favorite word of mine. I think of Vicky when I, and that was what I put on her tombstone, and that it says in Second Corinthians chapter 2:14, "Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ." And the actual rendering of that: "Thanks be to God, who triumphs over us in Christ." He triumphs over us in Christ. The picture there, I understand, what I read long ago, is this Roman general marching their prisoners through the streets of Rome in chains, you know, they were the victors. And that's the picture that Paul had in his mind when he wrote that through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit: "Thanks be to God, who always triumphs over us in Christ," through every trial, through every problem, through every difficulty. You having it tough in your home, having it tough with your children? God is wanting to triumph over you, my brother, my sister. He wants to triumph for you. Yield, give up your sword, stop fighting, stop blaming each other.
At least from today, decide you're going to do that: give up your sword. Let Him triumph over you. You will not be sorry; you'll not be the loser. And it manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place, the exquisite perfume. And that's what I am reminded of, the wife that the Lord gave me for 50 years, an exquisite perfume that came from her life. She never retaliated, never fought back. I was the one, but I had to lay down my arms at one time when God broke me through various circumstances, through my children growing up in the home. And then you can blame them; they go through different stages. But then God had to break me, break me, break me, till I laid down my arms, and I gave up my sword. And I thank God for a wife like that. I pray your sisters will seek to be one like that, to be a fragrance of Christ to God, an exquisite perfume to God. I can rightly say that of her, and I want it to be said of me when, before Jesus comes, if He calls me home.
And how does that happen? If I allow Him to break me, if I allow Him to triumph over me in every situation. And it says there, "We are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life." And who is adequate for these things? Who is adequate? We read that, and you say, "Brother, it's not possible; you don't know what kind of wife I have." Or, "Brother, it's not possible; you don't know the kind of husband I have; you don't know what I'm going through; you don't know what I'm going through with my children." I want to say, we have gone through it, and all we can do is yield. Let Jesus triumph over you.
Adequacy Through the Holy Spirit
Adequacy comes from God. Second Corinthians 3:5, another favorite verse of mine: our adequacy comes from God, who makes us adequate through the Holy Spirit, makes us adequate as servants of the new covenant, not of the letter, not of the CFC code of conduct, not of CFC culture, makes us adequate by the Holy Spirit. Because further down, we don't have time to read it, the Holy Spirit, whenever man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away; it reveals us towards the glory of Christ. And it says, "The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." So, whenever we turn to Him, the Holy Spirit, the veil is taken away. I see the glory of Jesus; I'm changed. I'm changed one degree of glory to another; it goes on day by day as I yield to Him.
And I'm constantly being delivered to death. I see that some of you are sitting here; I've heard this, but you hear it again and again. And this word will stand when you stand on the day before the judgment seat of Christ. I don't say this to condemn anybody here; there's hope for the last one. But let there be a beginning as we move into another year of anniversary, 47 years. And if you've been here for many, many years and you have not allowed the Lord to triumph over you, will you decide, "Lord, I give up my sword; I lay down my arms"? It's not easy. As a strong man, as an angry man, there came a time I had to cry out to God, and God heard my prayer. I'm an angry man; I was a dominating, domineering man. When the time came, I laid down my arms. I began to yield. I wish I'd done it earlier, but I thank the Lord that I did it, better late than never. So those years of married life were blessed, not just blessed, but glorious.
A Call to Yield and Break Bread Meaningfully
And I end with that, my brothers and sisters. I've taken time to share that; it's not a message. It's what God has worked in my life. Whenever a man turns to the Lord, not to CFC, not to the elders—get help by all means; perhaps you desperately need help—but then turn to the Lord, the Holy Spirit. He takes the veil away; He reveals to you what I just said very briefly to you. It shows you the glory of Christ. Light has shone in your heart, but is it the light of the gospel, the glory of Christ you've seen? Or is it just message after message? I pray that this breaking of bread will be different, will begin a new chapter in your life, as I want it to begin a new chapter in my life as I go on for the days that God keeps me on earth.
Shall we bow our heads and pray? There's no condemnation for those who have heard this word, like Jesus said to that woman caught in the very act of adultery when He said, "Where are your accusers? Did no one accuse you? No one condemn you?" She said, "No one, Lord." They all walked out; at least they had their humility to do that. And He said to her, "Neither do I condemn you." There's anyone who could condemn her; it was Jesus. But He said, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." Maybe this is the word for somebody here: "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more." Lay down your arms, my brother, my sister, whether it's with your husband, whether it's with your wife, whether with your children, whatever you're going through. Let Jesus triumph over you.
"Make me a captive, Lord, then I shall be free. Make me a captive, Lord, and I shall be free." If you can yield to Him now and break bread meaningfully, because this is what the breaking of bread is, there'll be a fragrance that will come from your life from today, a fragrance of Christ. Wherever you go, like when they left that upper room, there was a physical fragrance there which was on Jesus, but much, much more than that, there'll be a fragrance of the life of Jesus that you have yielded to. Wherever you go, whichever home you visit, wherever you talk, you leave behind a fragrance, just like an exquisite perfume. May that be so, my dear brothers and sisters. Father, I pray You do that in my heart, continue to do it in my heart, and then all of us who have heard Your word today. In Jesus' name, amen.
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