Zac Poonen - New Birth and Growth Thereafter

want to share in a few matters relation to spiritual growth you know the Bible says how we are born again and that's compared to physical birth just like a person is born into the world we need to have an experience of being born of the Spirit T John's Gospel chapter 3 Jesus said unless you are born again verse 3 John 3:3 he will not see the kingdom of God and then he compares being born again to the physical birth says in verse 6 you're born of the flesh that's physical birth and then born of the Spirit so it's very important for everyone sometimes we can assume when we come to a good church that you know we're behaving properly in not committing any great crimes and then among a lot of good people and we can assume that we are born of the Spirit but I'll tell you after watching you see churches for nearly 45 years there are many people who sit in a CFC church for years and imagine they are born of the Spirit and they are not and it's quite likely it could be some people like that right here I don't know all of you but when I go by the law of averages there must be some here who imagine we are born again but they're not is a language you know people say about being born again but Jesus spoke it's as very definite as being born of the flesh and born of the Spirit I mean you know when a baby is born physically it's just as real to be born of the Holy Spirit and there are many evidences of it for example when a baby is born into this world it comes into a world which had had never seen it was all cooked up inside the mother's womb for nine months never seen anything was all dark and then all of a sudden it comes into another world which if that baby could express itself as wow I never knew there was a world like this I thought all the world was this dark space inside my mother's womb there I could hardly move could I want to ask each one of you I'll tell you why because I believe the Lord will ask me whether I did my best to make sure that you understand what it is to be born of the Spirit otherwise I'm responsible now if I have made it clear then you're responsible but it's a very serious thing I want to say to you and through the years in talking to many many hundreds and thousands of people every spiritual leader not only me their loves what we call discernment discernment is knowing things about a person I don't mean their secret life or anything god that or anyone but to do not be fooled by a person's spiritual language not to be fooled by pious words religious words that people speak but I can say that through the years it has become essential for me to be able to discern who is just speaking religious language and who is in touch with the Lord you can know all about the theory of light and have no light at all in your house and explain it not have it so this is very very important that you have a clear witness not from man not that you convince everybody in this church that you are born again or born of the spirit that is fit for the trashcan for years I have taught the opinions of men are fit for the trashcan you know that every person in this church can think you're born again and you can still go to hell because in the final day to be discovered you or not you were just resting on your opinions of everybody who thinks oh they think I'm a good brother and nobody questions me he's sad if nobody questions I sometimes tell people directly I've had to tell people or even come to my church in Bangalore for many years I say my dear friend I want to tell you you're not born again think about it see in my own life I know from my own life how though I was born in a Christian family and I all oh my father always sent me to a church that preached about being born again I went to a Sunday School where from childhood I heard the gospel but I was not born again till I was 19 and a half what new thing did I learn at nineteen and a half which I did not know for the previous 1990s nothing I read the Bible every day I remember my parents taught me never to get out of bed before kneeling down and saying our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name the Lord's Prayer I never killed anybody I never committed adultery and never stole a bank or never did anything which people call evil but I was not saying it I was not born again I never went to a worldly Church I always went to churches that treats the new birth but I was not born again so I know from my own experience there is a world of difference between being born in the flesh and being a good person being born of the Spirit God is not making nice people but new men and women but I want to ask you have you been born and you water the Spirit has genuinely and really as one day you were born others woman you know there are two stories here and John 3 Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus who was like a bishop or would see an archbishop he was a rabbit he was a leader of the Jews it says he was in verse 1 of ruler spiritual ruler he wasn't a criminal he wasn't a man who's living in immoral life he was living a very upright life and he knew the Bible so well the Old Testament and what does Jesus tell him you must be born again otherwise you'll never see the kingdom of God I know Nicodemus you go to synagogue every Saturday and you're not doing anything evil but you are not born again and to another woman to another woman in John chapter 4 the next chapter who is the exact opposite of this archbishop Nicodemus she is a woman who's lived in sin married five times and divorced and now sleeping with someone who's not even our husband her sixth partner you would think that is the person who needs to be born again that's the person to whom Jesus said should say you must be born again but no he doesn't say that to her what he tells her is woman John 421 I want to tell you about worship about worshipping God in the spirit as a whole verse 21 to 24 now if you were asked who should be taught about worshiping in the spirit and who should to be taught about being born again you would say this woman needs to be taught about being born again and this Nicodemus Archbishop should be taught about worship God's ways are not our ways a lot of people who look very religious in God's eyes are worse than this five times divorced woman cuz they're so cocksure God will definitely accept me because I'm personal but as this woman had no crazy idea that she was good he knew she was a sinner and I think that is the reason why some people never come to a genuine experience of new birth because they had never had a time when they really felt they were good-for-nothing sinners I want to ask you my dear brothers sirs have you had such a time in your life where you felt you're absolutely rotten good-for-nothing sinner I'll tell you honestly I've had many such times in my life even after being born again even after being filled with the Holy Spirit you mean that is one of the marks of spiritual growth that you come closer to God and you become more and more aware of sin in your life you grow just like children go from first grade to second to third grade they learn something new they learn something new in mathematics the new son learn something new in science they learned something new in literature it's a growth in the same way a truly born again person will grow in the knowledge of sin in his life if you're not growing in that knowledge I want to request you lovingly seriously get before God and ask yourself whether you're really born of the Spirit or not see Peter says in 1 Peter chapter 1 look we are born again verse 23 1 Peter 1:23 by the Living Word of God all of us became human beings through a living seed in our mother's womb that seed produced you and me says the Word of God is like that living seed 1 Peter 1:23 born again through the Living Word of God that means not just academic knowledge of the scriptures the Pharisees knew the Scriptures much better than Peter James and John much better if you had a scripture test competition between the Pharisees and Peter John James and John the Pharisees would have defeated them out rights James Peter James and John didn't know the Bible like the Pharisees but the Pharisees were on their way to hell and Peter and James and John were on their way to the kingdom but not only on the way to the kingdom of God instruments in God's hands to lead others into God's kingdom so what is it just your knowledge of the Bible only proves that you're a good Pharisee you're a good person like Nicodemus is this would say you must be born again must be born from above and my dear brothers this is so important I don't know why the Lord has laid it on my heart it must be for so few people sitting here who for years have sat in some church and you've gone to some church they've never really told you that you need to be born of the Spirit and you'll know it it's like that baby comes out of the mother's womb and wow this is an amazing world it's all cooked up it's something like that happen in your life I'm not talking about physical experiences or tingling down your spine no no no no but spiritually it's as it were your eyes of your heart were open that you say hey I see something now which I never knew before that is God giving light in the heart so that is being born again he show you another verse in 2nd Corinthians in chapter 4 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 he compares this new birth you know Christ we say about Christ's coming into our heart Christ comes into our hearts through the Holy Spirit when I asked Jesus Christ to come into my heart you know who comes in the Holy Spirit and depending on the measure of how much I yield to him that determines how filled with the Holy Spirit I am what is the Holy Spirit that comes in and here it says in 2nd Corinthians 4 he gives the example of Genesis 1 when the whole world was covered with darkness because the highest angel became the devil that's how the world was covered with darkness you know God created the world god never creates darkness never God is a light and the people who say that God created the world in six days it's a lot of garbage never written in the Bible another thing which may surprise you God created the world in a moment Genesis 1 verse 1 in the beginning God created the heaven enough that's explained also in Hebrews 11 we read it some time God suddenly made a perfect world and some people say but when God created it it was all dark god never creates anything dark it was shapeless god never creates anything shapeless as empty god never creates anything empty how is the world dark shapeless empty because in James 1 it says in verse 17 every perfect gift comes from the father of lights there's nothing imperfect that ever came from his hand then what are those six days mentioned in Genesis chapter 1 those who carelessly read the Bible read that God created the earth in six days you read the Bible carefully in Genesis chapter 1 and you'll find the word created is never used there it's always made made made made even when the Lord told the Israelites in Exodus you must keep the seventh day holy because the Lord made the earth in six days and rested the seventh day not created a lot of people get upset when I say God did not create the earth in six days he created in a moment he remade it in six days it's true read the Bible exactly otherwise you can believe some crazy things I believe that all people who go astray go astray because they place more opinion on the word of some man than the Word of God I love the story written in acts 17 of the Burien Christians those are the people in Berea they were noble read that sometime in acts 17 because when the Apostle Paul preached in the synagogue today let me paraphrase it they went up to since Paul and said great Paul good to listen to you but we don't believe everything you said we'll check into the Scriptures and come back to you next week and tell you whether we believe it or not wonderful people even the Apostle Paul we're not going to take it from you unless you show it to us in the Word of God it went home I went to the synagogue every day because they'd ever know where it printed by those those days and searched the Scriptures and came back next week and told Paul yeah Paul now we believe it if all Christians were like that never go astray but you can have such a respect for a man that you don't even consider whether it's Scripture or not give you one classic example you know it's a very common thing for many preachers to print out invitations asking people to give them money I saw this invitation from a well-known preacher in India who wrote you're invited to give at this particular address or whatever it is money and he quoted a verse from Matthew chapter 10 he who gives to a prophet will receive a Prophet's reward Matthew 10 44 or something like that now that sounds so similar to what is written there but it's not the truth as soon as I read it I knew that's not what Jesus said jesus said he who receives the profit will receive a Prophet's reward not he gives to a profit he said he who gives a cup of cold water but you can mix up the two and confuse the thing in order to get some money he who gives to a profit will receive a Prophet's reward I don't know whether many of you caught it when I said it that is not Scripture I still kept that pamphlet with me to show how people are fooled by when they don't compare scripture scripture why do we read letters to the Corinthians because there was something wrong that followed to correct why did you had to write to the Colossians there were things wrong there he had to correct why did you write to the Thessalonians there was something wrong there but understanding the Lord's coming here to correct you had to correct things to the Philippians also there were two sisters there fighting with each other Galatians they were under the lawyer to correct them why is there no letter to the barians well I'll tell you why because they never believed anybody without checking the scriptures if you are a person who will never believe any preacher except he can show it to you from Scripture you will never go astray that's why I always try to keep on quoting scripture you know I've seen many preachers in my life who quote one scripture in the beginning and then throws the Bible and then hear their own thoughts for the next half an hour well you listen to all that you'll go astray you want you extend out that just go to youtube and listen to all the sermons they're not all of them but listen to some of them and just ask yourself one question how many preachers are constantly quoting the Word of God on YouTube and how many preachers are just quoting one verse and then going on airing themselves and you sit there with the open mouth and believe it that's the way they go astray be like the Bereans the Bible says they were noble so anyway I was just saying what God made the earth perfect created it rather perfect and the angel highest angel became the devil and immediately just like the world was earth was cursed when Adam sinned the earth suddenly became like it says in Genesis went to dark empty and lost its shape and here Paul compares that to how we by the effect of sin have become dark empty and lost the image of God just like Genesis 1 verse 2 but we read in the next verse Genesis 1:3 God said left eye and that is compared here to being born again see second Corinthians four first of all we are dark signal Indians for for the god of this world has blinded our minds but then God or six who said way back in the beginning light was shining out of the darkness is the one who has shone in our hearts that's the new world and given us the light for the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ so he's comparing that light coming into darkness in Genesis chapter one to the new birth now you know the difference between light and darkness you go into a room and you know immediately you don't need ten seconds you don't even need one second to find out is is there light in this room or not it's something like that happens when you're born again it's like a dark room suddenly getting like it's not a question being born in a good Christian family and living a good Christian light you can lot of people who live so-called good Christian lives are in hell today they are in hell today because you cannot enter the kingdom of God unless you're born of the Holy Spirit I hope I have created enough doubt in your mind today that you will earnestly seek God and get an assurance from him and not from any man or from any leader in this church that you are a child of God get it from God a certificate that you get from man has absolutely no value God's kingdom I really know the difference that happened in my life when I was born again suddenly a lot of values changed in my life it was like that in a moment though many many times I had said Lord come into my heart I think I must have said that a hundred times from the age of 13 to 19 but I was not born again I know what happened when I was born again the next day I was just reading John 6:37 one day him that coming to me I'll never cast out and I said lord I come to your hundred times Lord said I didn't cast you out said lord I believe it today and I was born again no shaking nothing but something changed and I know it changed because the next day I was working in the naval base and some of my fellow officers colleagues came to be in the next day and say hey Zack let's go to the movie that is here and the naval base had its own special movie theater and I suddenly found no more interest to go to the movies particularly all these filthy ones but how could I say no to them and I was the one who took them to the movies in the olden days I could not say to them hey I'm a Christian now then I said we thought you were a Christian all along I didn't have the courage I was born again but I didn't have the courage to stand up to my friends don't go for those things now but as I was walking to the movie theater I was crying in my heart Lord somehow deliver me from this I've got to get out of this situation I don't want to go I don't have the courage to tell these people no he walked and walked and walked with his cry in my heart these two friends of mine wondering why I'm so silent today and we came to the movie theater and there was a big notice out there and believe it or not we did not receive the reel for the movie today so the movie is cancer Wow I was so excited they were wondering how I suddenly became so happy when they were spilling so miserable this is absolute truth that was the day God's showed me what he would do I really wanted to honor him but when I came home to my room the Lord said I won't do that for you next time you have to stand up yourself and say no to them otherwise you'll never grow spiritually I had to grow so the first time I was thought was it who carried me next time cuz if you go to walk now but I was so encouraged by that one experience I said sure now I go God's on my side have you had experiences like that that God shows he's your father he's your dad I don't mean that you got a promotion or somewhere luckily benefits some people the only thing we can think of is God gave me a promotion or gave me some money or allowed me to build a house it's all earthly I think spiritual born of the Spirit means spiritual reality has become more important life God who said let light shine out of the darkness shown in our hearts the light of the knowledge the glory of God in the face of Christ it's the difference between light and darkness and coming back to second 1 Peter 1 it says here an expression which is another thing which many people don't know after being born again we thought about being born again through the Word of God in 1 Peter 1:23 then it goes on to say know that you're born again chapter 2 verse 1 now you got to do something this is not something God will do for you don't ask God to do for you what he asks you to do yourself it's like a little child you know the mother carries it for a while and then says hey you got to learn to walk never mind if you stumble and fall a few times put the left leg forward and the right leg forward and keep going mommy's not going to keep on holding their legs and make the child walk it'll never learn to walk that way this is you now that you're born again chapter 2 verse 1 you put aside all malice Alice is sort of a strong word for hatred you have some strong hatred against somebody who maybe did some evil to you or harmed your family or your children or some boss who made life miserable for you malice what did we don't ask God to do it you put it aside all deceit like Ananias and Sapphira pretending to be spiritual you put it away and all hypocrisy that is pretending to be very spiritual when you're not using spiritual language to fool people Pharisees were like that hypocrisy number one sin that Jesus detested and condemned Envy you put aside all Envy feeling jealous of somebody who is better than you or more spiritual than you or who has more money than you or has got a better house than you put it aside otherwise you're proving that you're not really having the Holy Spirit's conviction you may battle with something but if you're not even convicted about sin I would question how is it the whole you say you're born of the Spirit and you're not convicted about these sins you're not convicted about feeling jealous of somebody and being that person put it aside it may take you time but at least you're convicted and you know it's wrong and put aside all slander this is something which many Christians don't take seriously speaking evil of others Jesus is called the great intercessor he intercedes that means praise on behalf of all his children Hebrews 7:25 is a great verse he ever lives to make intercession for his children I don't have time to show you those horses but look it up sometime Hebrews 7:25 Jesus ever lives he's living 24 hours a day to pray for his children and revelation 12:10 says there's somebody else who's doing something else 24 hours a day that is accusing God's children that's the devil so here are two ministries devil Jesus always praying for God's children and the devil always accusing God's children that is slander in fact the word for devil in the Greeks Diabolique which means slanderer the actual meaning in the Greek language if it was translated is not devil but slanderer that's what he is one who speaks evil of God's people but you know the devil's got a lot of human beings who help him in that Ministry of slandering others are you holding hands with Satan there what are we all slander and then like newborn babes having put our side all this here are something else that babies must do all babies drink milk from their mother drink the pure milk of the word of God I remember a Christian who was born again in one of these dead denominations I won't mention the name he was really born again but he was a member of this dead denomination that didn't even preach the new birth but somehow he got converted reading a tract or something and he was reading his Bible in his house one day when the priest of his denomination came to see him he said what are you doing he said well Reverend I'm reading the Bible he says oh no you shouldn't read the Bible but he said sir it says here or father or whatever you call him it says here that I must desire the pure milk of the word of God and he said that's right but God has appointed us priests as the milkman to give you this milk God take it yourself that was a clever argument in that this man said well sir for twenty years I used to get milk through a milk man this must have been in India he says but he always had water in the milk it was never pure milk happens all the time in India by the way so I decided to buy a cow and I get pure milk now and that's what I have has happening to me when I was sitting in your denomination for I always get this watered-down message which is never the pure milk of the word of God so I decided to go to the Bible directly now what is the result of this he will grow if you go straight to the word you will grow and it says here you will grow up to salvation have you ever thought of growing up to salvation many people say I'm already saved hang on salvation has got three tenses like we study in English past present future salvation in the past is salvation from the guilt of sin I don't have any guilt feeling now the blood of Jesus has cleansed me from all guilt of my past sin that's past tense present tense his salvation from the presence of sin or is not present from the power of sin in the future is from the presence of sin salvation from the penalty of sin that's all salvation from the power of sin that's present tense are you experiencing that it says here growing up in respect to salvation that is being saved from the power of sin which is like the power of gravity we'll pull you down any part of the world and you know the fullness of the Holy Spirit if I were to use an example is like these rockets that go up into space and you studied geography you know there's a space around the earth 200 mile you know a certain number of miles over which the earth has pulls everything down by the pull of gravity but there's a point at which the pull of the earth is no longer there and so this rocket is struggling struggling struggling against gravity and as soon as it reaches that point it doesn't need any more push it's just shooting off on its own the speed of that rocket suddenly increases to an amazing speed because it's gone beyond the pull of Earth it's a wonderful thing the power of the Holy Spirit that's what it does you know just like I said when you are born again it's almost like a new world I found the same thing when God filled me with the Holy Spirit it has another experience of being filled with the voice I was born again I need to be filled with the Holy Spirit that's another thing I find a lot of people they think they are filled with the Holy Spirit I don't know I'm not talking about speaking in tongues or getting shivers in your body no no no I'll tell you what happened to me when I was filled with the Holy Spirit I suddenly became aware of the spirit world more aware of the spirit world I was not afraid of demons anymore I was not afraid of the devil anymore spirit assured me that Christ at Concord and I also became part of a conqueror in Christ over these demons I didn't have these fearful dreams anymore even as a born-again Christian I had something sometimes fearful dreams scared but it went me you get into another realm it's like shooting out of the power of gravity and then no you don't keep going you can sink back and backslide into the pull of gravity again like many believers have fallen but if you keep going you grow up to salvation but there's a growing up to salvation till one day past present but saved from the penalty of sin austin's saved from the power of sin and one day when Christ comes back I'll be saved from the very presence of sins and will not even be able to tempt me sin tems me today a will come when I'll be saved from the presence of sin so that's growing up to salvation from the penalty of sin from the power of sin and one day from the presence of sin but until that day comes we must keep on getting saved from the power of sin like this rocket battling battling battling battling against gravity and one day it just shoots off outside the power of gravity and boy the speed increases hundred times more than what it was down here dear brothers and sisters there's a growing up to salvation there's a being born again and there's being growing up to salvation and that growth comes through grace there is a power in the New Testament which is not there in the Old Testament called grace grace is a power like the power that shoots the rocket up and it's one of the definitions of grace that's found in 2nd Corinthians 12 some people think grace is just over God just overlooks all your sins so ok never mind my child it doesn't matter if you're saying I that's a wrong understanding of grace 2nd Corinthians 12 when Paul was given a thorn in the flesh to keep him humble imagine such a great mighty man of God was in danger of pride I tell you there's anybody sitting here who thinks that you're not in danger of riot go and read that passage the great Apostle Paul was in danger of pride where do you think you and I are i am i red that i read that passage I say Lord I'm absolutely convinced that I am in danger of pride every single day of my life till you come again I want to watch out on if Paul was in danger of right towards the end of his life where are you and I and it says here in 2nd Corinthians 12:7 to prevent me from exalting myself I was given a little sickness a thorn in the flesh and I said Paul you were in danger of exalting yourself you who preached about the humility of Christ and following Christ you were in danger of exalting yourself over other believers you'd say yes my brother I have a flesh in which there's nothing good and even sometimes unconsciously I may try to exalt myself over others and not know it but right the moment I do that I lose the grace of God because God gives grace only to the humble and God did not want me to lose his grace for a single moment so what did he do the only way I can humble this man is give him a sickness now Jesus did not need a sickness to remain humble he did not need anything like that he was humbled because his wholehearted radical but I want to say even the Apostle Paul was not as radical as Jesus he needed a sickness to remain humble and you and I in sometimes need a little help like that to remain humble I'll tell you that sometimes when something like that happens they say thank you Lord that was your thorn for me to keep me humble since you're very clearly were seven to keep me from exalting myself and what was this gift that God gave him it says here in verse seven the last part a messenger of Satan to trouble me trouble-dee trouble-dee trouble-dee trouble so Lord take it away no this is to keep you humble Paul once he understood that he was excited what was the Lord's word to him verse 9 the Lord said to me Paul I grace sufficient for you to overcome any thorn in the flesh any calamity any problem to come out triumphant over that my grace is enough for you because my power see how grace equals power grace equals the power of God here it is because that grace is my power which will come to you when you're weak like the Living Bible paraphrase it God says my power shows are best in weak people and if God's power is not being manifest in you my brother my sister is because you don't recognize your weakness that's all I have come to see in my own life the more I recognize my own weakness spiritual weakness I mean the more I experience God's grace and God's power the more I recognize my inability to preach which you think I don't have you think I'm I have no problem preaching well then what moment I begin to think like that I'll bore everybody to death but more I recognize my inability to preach God's Word in the way it should be preached more I recognize my weakness God says my power will be made perfect in your weakness but God's ways are so different those who humble themselves will be exalted those who exalt themselves will be humbled and I've seen that happen again and again and again in the churches that I have responsibility for I've seen people who humble themselves keep on humbling that doesn't God exalting them I've seen other beloved brothers and sisters who seek to exalt themselves want to promote themselves I have seen God pushing them down I want to say to your parents please teach your children not to exalt themselves unless you want God to keep on pushing them down spiritually you can exalt yourself in the political world you can exalt yourself in the business world you can exalt yourself in the religious world but God will humble you because he humbles the proud and if you want your children to get grace from God continuously till Jesus comes I'll tell you teach them humility you heard mine after repeated saying three secrets of the Christian life our humility humility humility because then you'll get grace grace grace upon grace so he says I'm gonna boast verse nine in my weakness because then the power the grace of God will rest upon me that is how we grow up we grow in grace it's a lovely expression grow in grace but how will it happen only if you keep on humbling yourself you ask God to give you light he'll show you new ways in which you have to go down in the eyes of others go down in your own eyes and till you sink to become a zero in your own eyes and God will be able to exalt you continuously and if you remain a zero there'll be no end to what God can do through your life but I have seen wonderful young people in CFC churches in the beginning they accepted that message as God blessed them and as they got recognition in the church had began to swell and swell and swell and swell you began to think they are somebody they went right down and they can't even see the worst part is they can't even see it it's like this rocket that's crashing down to earth and it doesn't even realize it's going the wrong direction I've seen believers like that they think they're going up going down and they don't even realize it grow up to salvation means what to grow in humility okay one last worse Philippians chapter 2 in everything Jesus Christ is our example so how do we grow up to salvation by going down in the footsteps of Jesus Philippians chapter 2 verse 5 have the same attitude or mind in you that Jesus had isn't that a good example look at Jesus and see the mind he had here the three secrets of the Christian like humility humility humility it's not my invention it's the Holy Spirit's number 1 verse 6 as God he became a man first step of humility now you'd think that is enough for God to become man is such a tremendous drop no second step as a man verse 7 he became a slave not a servant the servant can get wages a slave slave was the lowest level of humanity almost in those days like the caste system in India he don't even despise them low caste slaves were the lowest they were never paid they were treated like furniture you could destroy furniture you could kill a slave you could sew not a crime slave Jesus became a slave first step God became man humility as a man he became a slave and you say boy he has reached the bottom no one more stem verse 8 he humbled himself to the point of death even death on a cross as a criminal criminals were worse than say Jesus was not a criminal but he was treated like a criminal the Romans crucified only the worst criminals the others they put in prison but the guy was really bad he said this guy doesn't deserve prison he deserves to be crucified so here he was God became man man became as a man he became a slave and he went further down and was willing to be considered as a criminal even though he's not a criminal and that was the lowest point that's why we glory in the cross everybody talks about the cross they haven't understood it all these people who hang golden crosses around their necks they don't have a clue what the cross is it means being treated like a criminal that is clear in the Roman age and because of that it says in verse seven for this reason God highly exalted him and gave him a name which is above every name at the name of Jesus every knee will bow every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord question why did God exalt Jesus after he died and he will say because he was a son of God no sir because he humbled himself to the lowest point any human being could ever humble himself therefore he's exalted to the highest position as a man every knee will bow to him and those who follow in Jesus footsteps of humility humility humility God will do the same for him like we sing in that song what he did for Jesus will do for you we grow up to salvation

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Published: Mon Nov 04 2019