Words of Life|Pastor Balan Swaminathan|HIPM

It’s time to make a shift

Luke 5:1–11 Jesus standing by the Lake of Gennesaret
- Jesus realized that staying in the land is not going to help, its time to shift His position
- Jesus realized that its time to make another shift to go deep into the sea
- Jesus made a shift that transformed Peter's life
- With that impacting change in his life Peter made another shift when he realized that it is time, 3000 got added to the church
- The right shift Jesus made on the right time impacted Peter and continued as a chain reaction.

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We're Better Together

A must listen sermon for you.

We are called to live together, grow together and serve together. Any division inside the church must be rejected. Listen to the sermon.

• Being alone is unsafe
• God's design is to live together as communities.
• We are safer together
• We are expected to grow together
• We are expected to serve together
• Any sectarianism or discrimination among us must be rejected

Once I was blind, but now I see

Three kinds of people:
1. Man who was blind from birth
2. Man who says "I was blind, now I see"
3. Those who see, but made blind

Let this be your testimony "I once was lost but now am found Was blind but now I see" - Amazing Grace

Step Out

2 Corinthians 4:5 (ESV) For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

How do we share the Gospel with different kinds of people. Listen to the sermon to know more. Different kinds of people:

1. Seekers
2. Indifferent
3. Neglected
4. Haters
5. Religious
6. Followers of other gods
7. Disobedient

Sweat kept flowing, but tears dried up

A Message that Challenges you to Love God. Must Listen Sermon.
* Why do you follow Christ?
* Why do you go to church?
* Why do you give to God?
* Why do you sing in the choir?
* Why do you play instruments?
* Why do you preach?
* Why do you serve God?

If any of these are not done out of love, you are wasting your life.

Listen to get back to your first love.

Message of Pentecost

What is the message of Pentecost?

1. Witnessing Christ
2. Preaching the Gospel
3. Baptizing people
4. Casting out demons, speaking in tongues, laying hands on the sick, overcoming oppositions

A Virtuous Woman

Proverbs 31:10-31
The Virtuous Wife
10 Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain.
12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.
13 She seeks wool and flax, And willingly works with her hands.
14 She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar.
15 She also rises while it is yet night, And provides food for her household, And a portion for her maidservants.

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Set a Pillar, Build an Altar and Pitch a Tent

This is what we learn from the life of Jacob.
• Jacob sets up the stone that will remember what God has done to Him in Bethel. What is that stone in your life that you want to set as a pillar. Do something for God in the place where you are today.
• Let us not worry about our future, let us worry about what we can do for God in the place where we are today
• If you invest your life into something while you are here, God will bring you back to see the reward of your investment.
• God is calling us to live a life that is separated from the world
• Life on this earth is temporary. Only one life, it is going to go away soon, only what we have done for Christ is going to last.

The Simplicity of Christ and the Complexity of Christianity

If churches make religion too complex and present Jesus too hard to follow, we negate the purpose of God sending His Son to the world by denying the simplicity that is in Christ. No wonder the judgment to begin at the house of God. - Balan Swaminathan

- Today Christianity is considered as the most complex religion on the face of this earth.
- You can imagine the amount of hesitation when a non-Christian wants to become a Christian.
- There is a great need to simplify everything we do.

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Give me Strength to Do what I Must Do

Genesis 22:1-12 - Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac.

2 Timothy 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose

What am I doing here in this part of the world leaving my family, parents, children, my known people, familiar environment, etc.?
- The answer is God's Purpose God everyone has already gone form this world
- my parents, my brother, my sister, my husband, my wife. Why are you keeping me alive in this world?

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