The Book of Life

father we thank you that in you we find hope in this world we will always have tribulations but you commanded us Jesus to be of good cheer for you have overcome this world and we thank you for that we invite you here to be with us today we want to honor you in this house today in everything we do and say in Jesus name Amen amen amen [Applause] this is the Tagalog servicer I need to know how to say it in Tagalog mag and an apple upon mag and an apple there you go Shalom everyone everyone please say Shalom there you go this is you know one day we'll all reach heaven and well you're gonna have Hebrew classes I will have coffee until then I have to work on some other languages great to be here again with the new life family I'm honored to be once again in my beloved Philippines I want to tell you something I just came back from the islands in the Palau an area you have the most beautiful country in the world I was there with my daughter and some other family members and I just told my daughter she said that how can I ever explain this beauty and I said don't even try tell them that they must come over here to understand how beautiful it is and I said even if you take a picture the picture cannot really show that beauty and I hope you understand how blessed you are with God really it's almost like he took a paintbrush and he kind of painted this amazing country so you're very blessed today we want to talk about a topic that is all throughout the Bible from the all throughout the New Testament and it comes to its culmination in the book of Revelation and it is the book of life and there are a lot of you heard about it and the question is is your name written there I mean do we know and what is it exactly how many books do we even have and it's important that you understand you know God knows everything God sees everything God is everywhere God is all-powerful and so God can tell what you think before you even said something he knows you know so many times in the New Testament when Jesus sat with some people and they were thinking about something he already answered them before they even said a word he answered to the thoughts that was going through their mind God knows everything and it's hard for us to understand that because we're people that we love our privacy we don't want you know the Big Brother to know what we're doing we don't want government to intervene and arm the privacy of our life we don't want Facebook or Google to store all of our information we're so protective about we don't even know that actually they know everything about us they say that they know they know our habits more than we know our habits because we do things automatically and they record it now what record does God keep interesting God God keeps records of everything you know and I can only look I can only give you things back up by scriptures I don't I'm not gonna make up some things here for example all the works of all people everything is recorded in Heaven's every work everything you did and by the way not only the works the motives behind every word he knows now you may fool someone you may fool everyone but he can't fool him he knows and he recorded that in Revelation 20 it says then I saw the dead small and great standing before God and books were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books and uninteresting there's two groups here there's the books which is sort of like a book of the non-believers and there's the book of life not only the works of all people every Christians name is recorded in the book of life everyone's name also the number and the names of all the stars that the Bible says in Psalm 147 verse 4 he counts the number of the stars he calls them all by name wow he has a record at all of that they hairs on your heads not hands heads amazing every hair that I mean that's Matthew 10 I mean but the very hairs of your head are all numbered even your hairdresser doesn't know how many hairs you have in your head and he's a specialist God knows everything every single hair on your head is numbered all of your tears you know often times we think oh nobody knows how sad I am nobody knows how many tears I shed over this thing well God knows not only know he knows every tear that you shed he knows exactly and by the way he knows what you were crying about like if the sale was over and he knows what are the things he wished you cried about and you didn't cry over God also know the physical features of every person it's all recorded in Psalm 139 your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed before you were made before you remain that means the minute of conception before you were something that looks like a baby he already knew how he gonna look like he says before being yet unformed and in your book they were all written the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them he already knew every spoken word yeah but I have to you know the Bible says in the book of James the life and death is in the tongue every spoken word you better think twice sometimes better not to say things that to say things because every spoken word Matthew 12 but I say to you for every idle work word men may speak they will give account of in the day of judgment every godly work also he knows in Hebrews 6:10 for God is not unjust to forget your works and labor of love which you have shown towards his name in that you have ministered to the Saints and to minister every investment you in God's kingdom so many times I see in churches and I travel all around the world I see sometimes there's offering basket moving and I can see people looking around making sure everybody can see that they put something and then you know that there's others that they give in private they didn't you know they don't want everyone to put God knows everything every investment made in God's kingdom in Matthew 6 but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal and he knows all who fear God amazing in order to tackle the issue of the book of life I already told you we started with the fact that in the Bible there's two groups there's the books about all people of all times everywhere and there is the book of life and the books were also books of life incense that everyone who is being born his name automatically is being written there and I want to conclude that there are two just like many times in the scriptures the principle of duality the things that are a shadow and the things that are the substance the things that are just a hint of the things to come there's always like that did you know that there are in the scriptures two different birds and two different lives and two different debts in two different resurrections what kind of birds are we talking about the regular birth all of you how many of you were born at some point in your life all of you you see all of you were born if you're sitting right here right now but Jesus came to the rabbi's of Israel and he said let me tell you of another birth and he told that to Nicodemus in John chapter three said jesus answered and said to him most assuredly I say to you unless one is born again say that unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God because especially here my first time I came to the Philippines was 1998 I was five years old now it's just soaking but it was 1998 for the record I was 25 and somebody asked me so what are you Catholic or born-again and I'm like what kind of a question is this then I realized here born again is it's a term to differentiate you from being Catholic are you Catholic or born-again and and I realize that should not even be a question it's not a you're Catholic or born-again are you only born of the water or are you born of the Spirit also that's the question it doesn't matter if you're Catholic or do or a Muslim or a Hindu doesn't matter every person is born of the water because in look Nicodemus is a Jew he's saying wait a minute born a king how can a man be born when he is old can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and then be poor and jesus answered most assuredly I say to you unless one is born of water and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God Jesus is saying birth of water and all of us were born of the water you know that you were great swimmers for nine months in the water broke and then we came out and that's the birth of the water but it's not enough to be born of the water in order to enter into the kingdom of God you must have your water birth and your spiritual birth and that is why it is called to be born again it's another birth it can happen to you when you're 10 when you're 15 when you're 50 on your 110 but you have to have it and then the Bible records two lives what a minute what do mean two lives well Romans chapter 8 verse 11 says but if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you in other words the life that you live now is not enough this is the life of a person with a mortal body but if you really want to live the life that God wants from you you have to be born again and then the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead will be dwelling in you the Holy Spirit will dwell in you and that is how do you call this church new life you must have new life you must be born again just jesus said that and you must have new life that's what the Bible says so two births and now two lives the Bible says actually there is two deaths there's a regular death people die of old age of some disease or some accident sometimes it happens the Bible says it is appointed upon man once to die and then comes the judgment the judgment will come death is there but then Colossians 2 says buried with him in Baptism in which you also were raised with him through faith in the working of God who raised him from the dead and you being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh he has made alive together with him having forgiven you all trespasses in other words you can be alive but because you're not having this new life you're actually dead and then he gives you the new life that actually a new life that brings you back from being dead the world is full of dead men walking but in those two resurrections also what is a resurrection to resurrect must have to die first one must die in order to resurrect Elijah never resurrected because he never died Enoch never resurrected because he never died Jesus resurrected because he died you must die in order to resurrect and the Bible claims that there are two different resurrections there is the resurrection known as the first resurrection and then there is a resurrection at the end at the end of the Millennial Kingdom known as the second resurrection the first resurrection started when Jesus resurrected from the dead the Bible says he is the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep he's the first fruit no one ever in the history died resurrected and never died again Lazarus died resurrected but died again he's not alive so only Jesus died resurrected and he's still alive and then the Bible says the next phase of the same first resurrection is when us will be taken to be with the Lord the Bible says the dead in Christ will rise first and then we that are alive and remain will be caught up with them together to meet the Lord in the clouds so there is the resurrection of the rapture and then after the tribulation the Saints of the tribulation will be also resurrected so the resurrection of Christ and the church is the first resurrection and then at the end of the Millennial Kingdom God says there will be a resurrection of all mankind the sea will give us that the earth will give it and God will judge them on now which resurrection you want to have part off the first or the second you see revelation 20 says blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection over such the second death has no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and they shall reign with him a thousand years Wow amazing so I concur and I conclude that you know there's two and and there's the believers and the non-believers in almost everywhere not all men are believers not all men are saved not all men go to heaven if it was so the Bible would have been wrong the Bible tells us there's two types of books there is the books that contain every person's deeds and words and everything and there is the Lamb's Book of Life every so there's two books in revelation 20:12 and I saw the dead small and great standing before God and books were opened that amazing we're gonna be standing before God and books will be open which is the book of life and the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books there is the books and there was the book of life and the Bible says in Daniel 7 I watched till Thrones were put in place and the Ancient of Days Jesus was seated his garment was white as snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool his throne was fear flame its wheels a burning fire a fierce steam issued and came forth from before him a thousand thousands ministered to him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him the court was seated and the books were open public open trial you know with God everything is public everything is out in the open you can hide nothing he's gonna hide nothing everything you said everything you did everything you thought everything you gave it's all recorded he knows everything and one day we're gonna stand before him and thousands of thousands of people millions of people will be there and the books were open this is amazing we we don't want to think about it but there is judgment and there is only one way to escape judgment it's by putting your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ that is the only way you know for the Israelites in Egypt the only way they could escape the judgment upon the firstborn is by applying the blood of an innocent lamb on the doorposts of the houses and when God saw the blood of the innocent lamb then he passed over their house they were exempt from judgment there was a picture of Christ and when his blood is on the doorpost of your hearts and think about it I mean they sprinkled on the top and on the bottom another side almost like a a cross and the judgment of God will not even touch you I'm not going to stand here and frighten you to wait for the judgement of God if you're saved if you believe in Jesus if you follow him if you were a true believer if you have been born again if you're a spirit-filled if you serve the Lord if you love him with all your heart soul mind and body you are not going to be judged that's a given but here here the books were open and I mean you can't say I see a name here but he's a good person why don't you just deal with me instead of him and stand right like you can do that you know Moses tried when Moses came down from Mount Sinai and he's so the horrific sight of the golden calf he didn't we he couldn't even see that he said I spent 40 days on that mountain God gave me his word God's presence was there the whole mountain was burned did you know that fire came from heaven did you know that they mounted up until today and by the way all of your if you think Mount Sinai is in Egypt you're wrong Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and by the way the Bible says in the book of Galatians and Mount Sinai which is in Arabia there's a place called Jabbar laws I want you to know that until today the Saudis fenced it and it's a closed military era nobody's allowed there why because everything within that parameter shows and proves the Bible was right we found there a burnt Mountain we found there stones within with engraving of the of a Hebrew menorah we even found a gigantic rock as the size of this screen from this point all the way up that is completely split in the middle remember Moses split the rock we found it and they don't allow anyone there you want you go online and check dr. Kim he's a Korean doctor who treated one of the Royal Family's members for back pain and he was given access to go anywhere he want in the kingdom being a Bible believer that's where he wanted to go he documented everything fascinating every verse in the Bible was backed by photos there and Moses coming down from the mountain the Bible says that Moses returned to the Lord and said all these people have committed a great sin and have made for themselves a God of gold yet now if you will forgive their sin but if not I pray blood be out of your book which you have written I'll take the blame don't try to be such a match up with God God says excuse me Moses did you commit that sin because if not you I will not blot your name out and the Lord said to Moses whoever has sinned against me I will blot him out of my book Wow so first of all we see that sin leads to death death by virtue of the name death takes you out of the book of life the book of life is when you were born death takes you away so when you depart from the land of the living you are no longer in the book of life of everyone but the question is are you in the other book of life you also cannot replace names when Romans 9 was written Paul the Jewish Orthodox Jew that that was there as a believer in Yeshua in Jesus and was there interceding on behalf of his nation Israel on behalf of the Jewish nation Paul said to the Romans and by the way he's never been to Rome when he wrote those words he wrote it to a church has never been to and to a church it was comprised of a lot of Jews and he said I tell you the truth in Christ I am not lying my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit he says look what I'm about to say it's absolutely the heart of God I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart for I I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren my countrymen according to the flesh who are Israelites to whom pretend the adoption the glory the Covenant the giving of the Lord a service of God and the promises of whom are the father's and from whom according to the flesh Christ came who is over all the thoroughly blessed God amen Paul says if it could have been possible that my death or my separation from Christ could lead to the salvation of my nation I would have chosen that but he understands it there's no way I wish I could wish but it's impossible you cannot have someone holier than you interceding for you and standing and going to take the test or going to trial instead of you this is not a driving test where you can fool the authorities his book God has a book where every person who is born or may I say not just born conceived you see there's a misconception of what life is or when life begins let me tell you very very very simple biblically life begins at conception biblically there is no pro-life and pro-choice the opposite of pro-life is pro-death and if choice is having any do this the Bible says choose life so biblically God considers life from the moment of conception how do I know that someone 39 says for you formed my inward parts you covered me in my mother's womb I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made sounds like Miss Universe and then he says marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very well my frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest part of the earth your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed God's eyes can see the baby when he's yet unformed and in your book they all were written the days fashioned for me when as yet there were none of them before that baby was born before he can say he lived out in the world one day all of the days were already written you don't surprise God by the way God hates the killing of the babies so much that this is the one of the major reasons he drove out all the nations in the Land of Israel and told the Israelites go and take them leave no one because of that they used to take babies and sacrifice them to the Moloch they used to put them in a cooking pot put fire underneath play the drums so the drums were will overtake the sound of the screaming baby and thus they will worship a god or a deity that sanctifies death and not life God never wants you to kill someone to prove to him that you love him he sacrifice his son to prove to you how much he loves you the book of remembrance when we talked about the books they have different names in exodus 1714 then the Lord said to Moses write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of the Amalek from under heaven in the book of Malachi or if you're an Italian mulashi verse chapter 3 verse 16 then those who fear the Lord spoke to one another and the Lord listened and heard them so a book of remembrance was written before him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate in his name it's also called a book of the living or the book of righteousness look David himself who wrote most of the Psalms and many of the songs Psalm 69 in verse 28 when he talks about his enemies he says let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous this is a book of the living if anyone who is alive and there's a book of the righteous and who is our righteousness Jesus so that's the book of life that is the Lamb's Book of Life you know every year the Jewish people are fasting it's Yom Kippur we fast 25 hours because we're so afraid we might have missed a minute or two so just to be safe 25 hours not 24 and the one thing that we wish one another is may your name be written in the book in other words your name may have been written all the sins this year may have took your name off the book may your name be written the game in the book it's almost like every year they want their name back written in the book they understand that in the regular book of living sin brings death and same can cause you to lose your name in that book now where is your name written today I'm asking you that because everybody's name are written somewhere the question is where location location location where is your name in what book is your name written and can your name even be erased well well there's only one book that your name is automatically written there and that's their the books that we talked about that everybody's name is there anyone who is being born in this world he's recorded in that book and that's the book once you die that your name can be blotted out from this only in one book can your name be erased that book because if once you die without Christ your name is erased you're no longer alive but I want to tell you something folks the book that you want your name written in is the book where names are written not with ink but with blood and not your blood but the blood of the perfect Lamb of God that shed his blood for you for a missions of sensor you will have eternal life so your your name can never be blotted out from that book you don't lose your salvation one day I came to take your salvation away from you know what you need to ask yourself is not if I can lose my salvation am is saved because if you're saved I don't believe you can lose it one day who is in the book of life who is in the book of life let me tell you something I don't want to offend anyone here but if you belong to a specific denomination if you're a religious person if you think that you can be born born again kiss that thought goodbye the only people on planet earth that their name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life know already that the name is in the book of life Philippians chapter 4 verses 1 to 3 look at what Paul writes to the church in Philippi when he opens the fourth chapter he says therefore my beloved and long for brethren my joy and Crown so stand fast in the Lord beloved first of all he says stand fast in the Lord he's saying Christianity is not the absence of troubles Christianity is the presence of Christ you will have tribulations you will have storms stand fast in the Lord and then he says I implore idea and I implore sin TT to be of the same mind in the Lord like-minded people not divisive not intriguing and creating all sort of of issues I implore them to be like minded standfast be like minded I urge you also true companion you know what it means there are some false companions there's some people that take a ride call themself Christians give money say hallelujah but they don't care neither about Christ nor about other believers they don't have any part in God's effort or in God's kingdom to even share the good news true companion help these woman who labored with me in the gospel laboring in the gospel oh I don't know how to Oh evangelize really it's not that a big deal just tell them about Jesus tell them do you know Jesus you you will be surprised how many people never heard they never they think Jesus is still on the cross half of the Philippines think that he's still a baby people don't know he's alive and he saves tell them the truth labor with me in the gospel with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life he's basically says all those their names are already in the book of life they already know that why cuz they're true Christians they were born again they were spirit filled they are standing fast they are in like-minded they are laboring for the kingdom they are true companions their name is in the book of life they don't sit there hmm is my name there no they know in John 13 Jesus in the Last Supper talks to the disciples do you know what I have done to you you call me teacher and Lord and you say well for so I am if I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet you also ought to wash one another's feet you want to be in the book of life wash one another's feet for I have given you an example that you should do say do you should do as I have done to you most assuredly I say to you a servant is not greater than his master noise he was sent greater than he who sent him if you know these things knowledge is nice you know when the blessing is coming blessed are you if you do them it's not enough to know you need to do are you a Christian that is a knower or a Christian that is a doer good who is in the book of life born a game [Music] spirit-filled doers of his will it's very simple and by the way none of them is asking himself do I have eternal life or not the Bible says that they know one of the most tragic moments in the entire Bible is in the fifth chapter of the book of Revelation you know the first three chapters of Revelation John was given a picture of the church today the different types of churches allowed to see a Philadelphia all of them but then in the fourth chapter the Bible says the angel called him come up I will show you the things to come you are looking at the presents John let me show you the future you're looking at the life of the believer on earth John let me tell you what the rapture and the life of the believer is going to be in half and John let me tell you but in order to be there you need to come up higher pazzo taken away so he was brought up to heaven and he was there standing John he's standing in heaven and he's looking and the Bible says and I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside on the back sealed with seven seals this is the book with all of our names and then he says then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals those seals were the seals of the judgment of God that we are so protected from inside but who who is going to open those seals and no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look at it John in heaven all the heavenly creatures all the angels were the wings and all the elders and all the creatures he's looking you know what it is heaven this cannot be anything wrong there no one no one could open thats role in John cried so I wept much he's crying what do you mean who is going to do that if the heavenly creatures cannot save you certainly not pastors or priests or some earthly creatures Jesus Saves a confession in a Cell will not save you a blessing of a priest cannot save you a holy water sprinkled on you cannot save you a mumbling and reciting of certain words cannot save you not even the heavenly creatures could open the scroll no one could do that but one of the elders said to me do not weep behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose it seven seals and I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and on the four living creatures and in the meats of the elders stood now look what Jesus had to go through in order for our names to be in that scroll it wasn't it wasn't he was called a lion the tribe of Judah but what is it that John saw and I saw a lamb a story it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God no wonder why the menorah has seven lamps ants and then he says send out into the earth then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne and now when he had taken the scroll therefore leaving living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the lamb each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the Saints and they sang a new song saying you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and every tongue and people and nation and have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth wow you see when you are a believer and your name is there it is so precious it is so important that only Christ Himself can ever open that scroll do you know your name is written in the if your name is written book of life and I will conclude with this because I really want you to to understand that first John chapter 5 he who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself he who does not believe God has made him a liar because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of his son and this is the testimony that God has given us eternal life and this life is in his son he who has the son has life he who does not have the Son of God does not have life these things I have written to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may what know says I'm telling you so you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God when you live your life as witness and believe in the Son of God you know that you have eternal life so I want to remind all of us this afternoon life in this world is like a vapor it's this it goes so fast you may go out right now and God forbid the car will hit you you don't know life in this wall is so fragile but the fact that your name is in the regular book of the living doesn't mean anything you want your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life and who is written there the true believers born-again spirit field laborers in the kingdom who has the testimony of the Son of God in their life that's who you are and God loves them so much that only Jesus can open that scroll nobody else can and so John who saw it in the future is writing that for us today so we will appreciate that so all our eyes are closed and our heads are bowed down take a few seconds to just think about your life today do you know that your name is in the Lamb's Book of Life do you know that you have eternal life do you know that there was a day that you have been born again do you know that the Spirit of God dwells in you because if you don't this is exactly why you're here today God wanted you to know that you must have your name written in the Lamb's Book of Life if you want to know that you have eternal life and if you want to reign with him so father we thank you for the gift of life for the amazing gift of eternal life that came to this world through the free gift of Jesus's death on the cross for all of us you wrote in Isaiah that he died for us all of us who have gone astray each and every one of us turned to his own way you also said father in the Book of Daniel that he died not for anything that he did anything wrong that he did he died for us and father today I ask that everyone here either surrender their life to you today or live with the knowledge and the peace that they know that they have eternal life in that their names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life that only he is worthy to open we pray that in Jesus name and all of God's people say a [Applause]

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Published: Wed Jan 23 2019