You Must Hate the World by Pr. Elizabeth Ouma | Alumni Homecoming 2019 | Baraton TV

Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he knows Christina [Music] our speaker this evening is a daughter of this university pasta Elizabeth OMA pasta Elizabeth OMA has graduated twice from this University of course to graduate rice means you have two different degrees she graduated in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in theology and then she graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Business Administration of his administration option past Elizabeth Romo currently works central Nyanza conference as an administrative assistant to that conference I have known past Elizabeth OMA for a long time as a very good speaker a renown speaker a sought-after speaker and many people want her to go and speak in places here and there because God has blessed her with a gift but also baritone has trained her to be a good preacher and so today just like we have done the whole of this weekend we are enjoying the Word of God from one of our own again the Lord is good and all the times with him to see that his feet I will avoid a lot of preliminaries because of time and we'll move straight to the Word of God so move with me to first John chapter 2 I'll do from verse 15 to 17 the Bible says do not love the world or the things in the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world and the world is passing away and the last of it but he who does the will of God abides forever I haven't I told the message for this evening you must hit the world you must hit the world let us pray Heavenly Father once again we feed from your word now speak to each one of us according to the circumstances of our souls is my pray in Jesus name it's a great privilege to be a Christian but Christianity brings with it a great obligation we cannot as Christians escape the obligation to be different from the one you cannot once again John sees these things as the only system in terms of black and white he's discussing a matter in which there's no neutrality a man either loves the world or he loves God it can be neutral there's no median on the road the ultimate Royce remains the same you either love darkness or light you either love the truth or error you either love good or evil you either love heaven or hell you either love eternal life or eternal doom you either love the perishing family or the eternal family our Lord Jesus says no one can solve - what - mustace for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other is what Christ is telling us but Joshua understands this concept clearly and after he has gathered all the tribes of Israel to shake him listen to what Joshua tells them he says that sees the Lord God of Israel your father's including terror the father of Abraham and the father of nahor dwelt on the other side of the river in the old times and they saw other gods on the other side then I took your father Abraham from the other side of the reed led him throughout all the land of Kenan and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac and then he goes on and says now therefore fear the Lord serve him in sincerity and in truth and put away the gods which your father's served on the other side of the river and in Asia the law and if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve whether the gods which your father's served that on the other sides of the river or the goals of the amorite in whose land you dwell but as for me and my house I will serve i place before you the same choice this evening if you think you crossed over from the world of sea to the joy of salvation then you need to choose whether you want to go back there or you want to abide in the faith of Jesus otherwise this is not a question of neutrality the world in this passage of John does not mean the world in general it means the world apart from God human society is organized on wrong principles we are talking about a human society characterized by best desires and false values and egoism we are talking about a patterned society with its false values and its false gods that is the world that John is talking about and so John presents to us three scenes which are typical of the world that we must hate and he says number one the last of the flesh to many of us the last of the flesh is sexual morality it goes beyond there the flesh is that part of our nature which when left without the grace of Christ offers a Brigid to see that is the flesh Allah what William Buckley says William Buckley says it includes the scene of the flesh but also all wanly ambitions and selfish aims to judge everything in this world by purely material standards it means to live a life dominated by the senses to be gluttonous in food effeminate in luxury slavish inflation last full and Luxan morals selfish in the use of positions regardless of all the spiritual values extravagant in the gratification of all material desires regardless of the commandments of God the judgment of God the standards of God and finally the very existence of God anyone who demands a pleasure which may be in the reign of someone else and we love it some of us would love to climb up the ladder without carrying on whose toes we are stepping anyone who has no respect for the personalities of other people in the gratification of his own desires anyone who lives in luxury while others leaving weren't did you know that that which we are blessed with and in white says it is for us to be able to share it with those around us anyone who has made a good of his own comfort and of his own ambition in any part of life is the servant of the lust of the flesh and then to says the Last of Us this bitter love house eh dog puts it dog says the tendency to be captivated by outward show it is the spirit which can see nothing without wishing to acquire and which having acquired it has to flaunt it you must know that I also have a it is a spirit which believes that a happiness is to be found in the things which money can buy and the eye can see it has no values other than the material and then finally says the pride of life a man whose conversation is a continual boasting about things which he does not possess and all his life is spent in an attempt to impress everyone he meets with his own man existent importance did you know that important people don't even talk about the importance even rich people don't say they're rich wealthy people checked into the country and they never put their photo on there what's up profit their wealthy you just went here to jump on it the whole world must know John says the man of the world is the man who judges everything by his appetites the man who was a slave of slavish all of lavish or ostentation the boastful braggart who tries to make himself out a far bigger man than he is that is the matter of the wall this kind of things must be heated because they have no future they are passing away is what John is saying and the man has any permanence but a man who has chosen to love God has given himself to the things which lasts forever praise Allah the man of the world is doomed to disappointment but the man of God is certain of lasting joy beloved we must hate the world in order to long for the world to come you cannot long for the one to come when you still laugh this world you must hate the world in order to be fitted for heaven you must hate the world in order to be homesick for the kingdom otherwise you'll be comfortable in this one if we love the world eternity is not real to us if we love the world heaven becomes non-existent if we love the world even God ceases to exist heaven and a ton of family begin here and now spirit of prophecy in the book heaven page 170 paragraph 1 as you go down says this as through Jesus we enter into rest heaven begins here when the Lord's people are filled with meekness and tenderness they will realize that his banner over them is love and his fruit will be sweet to their taste they will make a heaven below in which to prepare for the heaven heaven is to begin on this earth if you'd be a saint in heaven you must first be a saint on us the life on us is the beginning of the life in heaven education on us is an initiation into the principles of heaven that's why our philosophy of education is we are educating not just for for the year under now but also for the world that is to come the life work here is a training for their life work there it has to begin here what we now are in current and holy service is the Shuar foreshadowing of what we shall be the happiness of heaven will be found by conforming to the will of God and if men become members of the royal family in heaven it will be because heaven has begun with them on us the righteous will take every grace every precious sanctified ability into the courts and exchange us for heaven God knows who are the loyal and true subjects of his kingdom on earth for your egos and those who do his will upon us as it is done in heaven will be met the members of the royal family that is a bath certain right has written a song that I love I'm pressing on the upward we new heights of gaining everyday steel Pringles I own what Bell Lord plant my feet on higher ground low lift me ah and I shall stand by faison head even stable ah yo please then I have [Music] yeah we must hate the world to be able to long for eternal life the Lord Jesus bless us this evening in his mighty name Emma let us rise for pray Heavenly Father it is beautiful to know we have a home waiting yes we want to thank you for your love your desire to have us who we are entangled in the affairs of this world we realize we have to make a choice between this world and heaven or there's no two-way about it this evening we commit our lives unto your hands we want to pray in a special way that you will incline our hearts to thine self that we'll be able to keep your Commandments to keep your judgments and to keep your stitches prepare us for this kingdom that is to come is our prayer in Jesus name

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Length: 23min 33sec (1413 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 20 2019