 Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for your presence. We thank you for making us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant Lord. We thank you and that sufficiency is not of ourselves. It comes from you and we thank you for this whole dynamic of being co-heirs with you, for being co-laborers with you and Master, we just want to thank you Lord for this awesome privilege that we have Lord to serve, to be part of your kingdom at the same time serve and for each other for the sake of your kingdom. God we thank you for this awesome privilege. Yes Lord we truly are blessed Lord. We truly it's it's just an Lord. It's just the work purely a work of your grace and we just want to thank you for that. Thank you for once again making us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant. We thank you. We give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Okay so without further ado, Sam is not there yet. Oh Sam is there. Okay so yeah so we have Sam and then followed by Maggie. So Sam you can take time to start if you're ready. So we have about 12 minutes so you can just be mindful of the time. Now it's what 11 or 4 and you can start right away. Okay go ahead please. Thank you. Pasha how do I share my presentation? Do I share from my screen sir? Yeah from your screen you can you can share. I think what you need to do is open up your PowerPoint presentation first and then share the screen because now actually we can see your system screen. So maybe you can stop sharing. Oh yeah we got it okay. Okay so Pasha I have like 12 minutes. 12 minutes yeah it's 11 or 5. Yeah 12 minutes. Please go ahead. Thanks. Thank you Pasha. Good morning. Good morning everyone. Thank you. Thank you Pasha and thank you everyone here for allowing me to share the present. So the title of my sermon is on the spreadsheet I put it as set apart and while I was preparing the presentation I just changed it to non-conformity the Christian lifestyle. So it's it's around it's around I think the title is a big giveaway to know what I'm speaking about. But just I just want to start with a quick backstory of the inspiration behind this. So in one of our classes Pasha asked why or when did we first come to accept a lot and how. So that got me thinking and but but I had this backstory all along which is I was born to a born in a Christian family I was born to a mother who was a very radiant who is a very radiant Christian and and she you know would always take time to get the family together and pray and worship but we had two three times. My dad even though was from a Hindu background I think my mom never preached to that but he accepted the Lord when I was about eight years old and when I was about 11 I think that's when I first came to or that's when I accepted the law as my personal savior and and you know it's I think looking at my mom's life you know but from then you know I wish I could say that I grew up as a Christian and from an early youth I devoted my life to the way of the Lord and I did everything right but unfortunately that didn't happen and and I kind of lost my way had a conflicted growing up conflicted, convicted, resisted, rebelled, all of those and finally after a long time I think since 2017 so not long ago three four years is when I fully came to my senses took some time out really asked some hard questions about what am I doing with my life and then that's when decided you know a lot of incidents happened which led to that but it gave me a strong reason to believe that that I I have to live differently I have to live a proper Christian life as is supposed to be and not confirm to the world as I have been doing on and on so that's that's the journey that I am on and and I feel this is an important message because I you know looking at my own lifestyle and I hear other people especially people who are born like my age my age little older younger generation that's it seems like a pattern or a familiar story that that many many Christians born in Christian families some even accepting the Lord at a very young age somehow tend to use their way rebel all over the place and then something happens and then come to Lord it's it's it's it's a pattern and and I'm kind of that that's something that intrigues me and trust me and and I feel very attracted towards doing something about it for me a big inspiration is inspiration as well as an exception is pastor Ashish I think he's one person who who excepted a lot at a very young age and then just hearing from all stories it looks like he never deviated from the path and that that is very fascinating because we have a living example among someone who knows I feel it's possible I'm concerned about young people who are there so young Christians so this is this is a message very close to heart so the goal of my message for today is as believers to consent that we are called to live a life of non-conformity a different life not not confirming to everything that's in the world not following not fitting and I think that's that's a big struggle for me when I look back I see a lot of my deviation came from trying to fit in with my friends time to fit in with my peer groups so if I had just understood that it's not what I'm called yeah you call to live in the world amongst others amongst unbelievers but it's really not about so so that's that's the goal so by the end of the session hopefully we will be able to really consent as believers and also and also hopefully we'll be able to see some practical ways of how do we live a non-confirming so let me start off with a key verse 12 to a very known verse which says do not be confirmed to this world or to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is good and acceptable love God so that's one and I have a couple of verses that I want to share let me put it on the chat I could quickly put us put some verses on the chat for us here so that we can go through some scriptures can someone read a verse first John 2 15 to 17 first John first John chapter 2 verse 15 to 17 yes 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 the 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 lust of it but he who does the will of God abides forever thank you thank you sister you see one more someone else could read Colossians 3 1 and 2 please don't be chat also Colossians 3 1 and 2 okay so that's Colossians 3 1 and 2 if then you were raised with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand thank you thank you pastor and last one I like this one I think it's James 4 verse 4 James chapter 4 verse 4 and let me go I mean well if anyone can find that please continue yes do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God okay great thank you thank you sister James really does know how to be subtle right so let me go back to my slide so I think the Bible is very clear about how how do we how do we engage ourselves when it comes to engaging with the world right and it clearly says time and again that we're not called to confirm that the pattern of the world we're not called to live as everybody's living we're not even called to you know love the things so it clearly says that I recall for a different life so let me just quickly go through what does that mean so I think the rules of engagement as I would like to call it for believers who've accepted Jesus Christ's Lord and Savior is different and I'll just go over three I think there's a lot of different rules for us but the top three that I think one is our handbook everything that that we can derive our knowledge from we can go about I think comes from the Bible and I like to read Psalm 119 over and over again I think the whole Psalm 119 is on the importance of the scripture of word and how it can be a guiding light so that that to me is very inspirational in knowing that any time I am conflicted I want to make decisions I want to check myself I know where to refer to the other rule I think which Jesus Christ sums up in Matthew 22 37 39 is you know where he says all the commandments of the prophets and the laws are concise into this which is about loving God with everything that we have and which to me is prioritizing God over everything that's number one so everything like starting my day with how I present with the things that I'm interested about what I'm surfing on the web to my conversation that I have during the day if I am with my if God is my priority then I think mostly it will be about God I'm seeking God I want to know him more so so that's that's number one and this one the last one is where it's also inspiration for me where Peter in first Peter 211 says that we are to treat ourselves as temporary or as aliens while you're living in this world I'm sorry to interrupt but I think the time is up 1117 so but yeah just go ahead and finish this point please yeah sorry so I'll just take two minutes to wrap up yeah okay okay so I'm living for another world to treat ourselves as so join us and please so these are some rules and I think for application I think there are lots of ways where you can apply it and if I was thinking of doing this quick activity on asking everyone in the chat how we can apply ourselves and the obvious answers are not lying not stealing being truthful being honest so a lot of things come to mind right something that I was thinking for myself and interesting one was and I'll close with this activity which is around blind spots and this is from Matthew 75 where Christ talks about not being able to see the blank in one zone and trying to remove a speck of dust in someone's eye so on my slide you could see there's this sort of an optical illusion which gives you an illusion that there are a lot of black spots that constantly move around we're actually there none so this is a this is where you know we have blind spots that's one and the other one is if I could just ask you to join your hands and just be where if you stretch out your hand in front of yourself with the two thumbs touching and if you close your left eye and look at the left index finger top of the nails you're doing that with closing your left eye and if you're right and you're looking at the opposite finger and if you look properly I think you might be able to make your right finger disappear and if you can get that but that was I thought one very excited interesting exercise sometimes we see things that are not sometimes things that are there you can actually not see so the only way to get around blind spots is by asking others so that's that's what I've been trying to do so I'm now open to listening to hearing to my own blind spots over to you first to give me feedback and everyone else on how was this quick said thank you thank you Sam it was good very nice very very well presented I think your your strength is definitely you know you have a very conversational style of presenting so you should definitely you know work that you know use that for your strength so the thing is with conversation style of presenting is that everybody is you know automatically relaxed and then but the thing is they relax right so having and having a story as an introduction definitely you know that that helps because people love to hear stories so having stories whether it's about yourself or you know testimony about something else that also you know that helps so so that's good though the only thing is the you know with regard to that time and so what happens in conversational style of preaching is like we need more time you know one hour is not enough because we are narrating and there are a lot of things to share so so that's the thing so when it comes to a short format like this it's good to you know time yourself and say okay this I will speak this I will not you know or even if I'm narrating I make it in short sentences and so on take come so that's that's that's the only thing so it has the you know it has the good good side of it which is you know we which people are really drawn to immediately and but the the negative side is that you know the time factor again so so that's that's something to take note of I really like the way it was very simply simply put you know our handbook the rule and living for another world you know very easy to remember and very easy to recall and and very difficult to forget right and and top of that I think you use nice visuals for the presentation you keep the you kept the screen very uncluttered and those are some you know some of the practical side of things that you that you did that is good as well only thing is yeah so when we're doing a short format it's best not to ask people to know I was really when you did the introduction I was I was scared you know I was thinking you know with Sam be able to finish and I think I'll be put in a reminder two minutes so that was the that was the only thing but I think maybe you should you should just concentrate on maybe bigger formats you know workshops those kind of things where you know of course you need to be mindful of the time again but then it'll be a little more flexible okay so we have other feedback here but let me just finish a line so so you had to kind of rush through the application right so I think that that that was the thing which but I but Sam I couldn't make the connection between you know the blind spots and and what you are actually conveying you know of course we're living about non-conformity and the blind spot what was that connection I just wanted to yeah and I wanted to end by I think provoking or inspiring us to think of ways which we can like one practical thing that we could do or or even think about doing to live a life of non-conformity and what I'd imagine my mind was to ask in the chat ideas from people how how they could think one one or two things that they that believers should do and and and I wanted to conclude by talking a little bit about blind spots that you know as believers as everybody else we have but something that Jesus encourage us is to do is to before we can you know Christians come across often as judgmental people and we are very quick to criticize and look at other fine faults and and not look at ourselves so I wanted to kind of with the exercise on blind spots I wanted to say like one something that every believer should do is be aware of his or her own blind spots constantly seek feedback on how they can not not going to this zone of and perfect and just because I'm living and I'm saying that I'm living a nonconforming life that that is no mistake in my life but but that's what I wanted to conclude okay okay yeah probably that aspect can be worked on somehow I guess to to come through clearly and that is that is something so when it comes to application yeah so maybe yeah so from from the activity to say okay this is something that you can do I think that would help but yeah but that could be probably worked on to come come across up to be communicated even as a stronger clearer I think that'd be of great help yeah yeah so that's those are some thoughts that I had one thing right at the beginning was I think like when we when you read the scripture right Romans 12 and then also I think there was to my ears I don't know how it was you know it it seemed like I'm just typing it you know confirm was as confirmed you know sometimes it sounded confirmed so so to make that consistent you know to I don't know maybe you were thinking about something and then you were saying confirm because there are two two different things right so to be consistent with you know how we were saying that so yeah those are some things and I think here are some comments here beth okay I just read right at the top okay so Chris yeah Chris saying wanted you to you know yeah definitely I think we all felt that way Kennedy good wording but hard to distinguish the literal from the figurative so so I guess Kennedy is referring to the application the exercise the visual is that is that it Kennedy or is that something else I think he's answered himself he's told me exactly because of time and I think that I think there's time for us so you couldn't adapt everything right so I guess that's good wording I didn't it is good work mmm absolutely and so I have me Dave I'm sorry beth yeah yeah I think the definitely all ages but yeah specifically with youth I think that's that'll be very effective like Rose says right so good good Sam thank you and keep working at it and maybe even on this sermon you know you could expand it and and I'm sure it'll be a blessing thank you thank you I know you you your children are there in the background I think that's good so that will work well with street preaching also you know so many things happening and then you're just going ahead with that's nice okay yeah that says anyone else okay Prabhakar time was a challenge yes thank you so much so we'll somebody said anything okay so we'll move on to the next next speaker who is Maggie so Maggie if you're ready you can start is Maggie yeah Maggie so it's 11 20 hey 28 so maybe we'll take it as 11 29 when you start so yeah if you're ready do you have a presentation or something yes I do have a presentation I'll present it okay thank you thank you for giving me some opportunity to share and it is a privilege to share after someone I shared a great someone and also it's difficult because we have a similar kind of same topic where he shared on being set apart and I'm sharing on the the holiness of God so it's it's a bit difficult but my God's grace we should be able to go through it okay I'm sharing my my screen but it's taking time to load should be coming soon any moment from now but meanwhile I can I can start because of time I chose to speak on the holiness of God because it's the topic that we speak about it but we don't really understand what my screens frozen I don't know if I'm still on we can hear you Maggie very audible very clear and the presentation presentation is not on so I think are you using that button the arrow in the box to be able to present and also your presentation needs to be open for you to you know for it to come up in that list okay okay let's because of time let's see the presentation I'll just I'll just I'll just talk and if it comes up yeah just to speak about the holiness of God because it is a subject that we we hear more about holiness but we don't really understand what it is and the scripture that I'd like to read is Leviticus Leviticus 11 verse 14 it's God says for I am the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that I will be your God therefore be holy because I am holy God took Egyptian out of Israel like out of Egypt to the land of Israel so that they can be holy so so that they can be people who will worship him people be so that he's glory so I think he dropped off from the call okay let's just give him a minute to join did anyone get the reference was it Leviticus can you just put it on the chat please if you've got the reference I I heard it as Leviticus 11 14 but that doesn't seem to be the reference so I'm not too sure scripture reference that Maggie shared if he's on okay Leviticus 11 is what you heard okay 11 1920 is it okay no that is also not the reference okay anyway we'll ask him to clarify okay probably you can check on the you know if it's he's on WhatsApp you can just ask him if he's if he's finding it difficult to join or maybe his internet stopped so who would be next that's Susan Nerman we just give one more minute and then if Susan Nerman is here Susan are you okay we'll just give one more minute and then if not we will start with you okay okay so I guess we'll we'll start it's 11 34 on my clock so if you if you finish I think we'll still have time to you know review so so I guess Maggie can do it in the next class so so yeah you go ahead Susan why don't you present so maybe somebody can what text him text Maggie and say that you know if he's unable since he's unable to join he could present from Sam I think you're you are still presenting I think I can see the presentation I can on your DP so can you just check and then you know not present I don't think I have the present I like if I because I see it okay I see that I can across on your DP maybe yeah now it's presenting yes okay I see still see that I can I don't know why okay okay fine I hope it's not because of me that I know I tried to present and I could so it's giving me the options so I don't think it's because of that okay so yeah Susan you can go ahead and present yes sir my topic is very simple but it's very important for believers according to me I want my believers to become bride of Christ and bride means church church means we ourselves and we get together that is a bride whom Jesus want to get wants us to get ready for his second coming he wants us to be holy and pure we see the earthly bride how she gets ready for her marriage even before two months she start getting adoning herself for her marriage and when we go to attend her marriage we can recognize her that she is a bride because of her makeup and her dress similarly when Jesus will come to take us Jesus also wants us to be like a bride we should get adorned and I can give illustrations about the wise virgins like the wise virgins who took oil in their lamps in abundance but not like foolish virgins the the sorry the bride so we have to get ready like the wise virgins and not like foolish when the bridegroom came the bride invites all foolish to turn from their foolish ways in Revelation 14 18 we see about pureness one of the pillar is our purity only those who are pure in heart according to Matthew 5th chapter 8 word only they can see God so God remains in their heart who are pure and we can remain and those who are pure and sincere under any circumstance even if there is a raging storm around them and the bride she is always fair with others gentle patient for bearing courtiers and she is never harsh those who and the bride she who are willing to receive exhortation and correction from others and she will be truly a glorious church with Jesus expects us the bride of Christ should be full of mercy and good fruits even the place where I do ministry there also I do ministry in rural areas and there also I expect them to be like bride day by day and so now they have started to come out of their bad habits they have treated their old habits like taking alcohol tobacco and in rural areas I see many bad words flowing from them out but now they have it is reduced very much and now they have started sharing gospel to others and also they don't get involved in any of idle related programs they just ignore it and also they don't contribute them in such programs they're slowly trying to come out of all this and their faith is very simple and it is also strong they believe in Jesus wholeheartedly and so it is very easy to get them molded as a bride bride watches her inner thoughts rather than her external life she longs for God's approval over her inner life yet bride is far away from perfectness but she goes on pressing and growing each day towards perfectness even we can see one word from revel revelation 21 to entering into new city called Jerusalem here also it clearly states that the bride is a holy Jerusalem Apostle John in his vision of the end age he sees the city coming down from heaven adorn as a bride meaning that the city will be gloriously radiant and the inhabitants of the city the redeemed of the Lord will be holy and pure wearing white garments of holiness and righteousness believers who are in Christ Jesus are the bride of Christ and they wait with great anticipation for the day when we will be united with our bride groom until then we have to remain faithful to him and say with all the redeemed of the Lord every time come Lord Jesus and also one word we can see in efficient fire 25 to 27 and just as there was a bit total period in biblical time during which the bride and groom was separated until the wedding so is the bride of Christ which is separated from so is the bride of Christ separate from her bride groom during the church age her responsibility during the bit total period is to be faithful to him until his coming knowing that we are the bride of Christ and the Bible states that the bride groom of Jesus bride groom or Jesus is coming up in coming again so we we are already betrothed to Christ and he has given us a friend and that is the Holy Spirit like the wise virgin who took oil in their lamps in the same way Holy Spirit helps us to remain lighted till the end and now also I pray that we shall be committed and conscious to the reality that the bride groom is coming and we nobody knows when the day will come but I assure myself and also you all that we know that he will come again and so we shall stand devoted to our bitrothed so that on the day of his coming there will be much oil in our lamps and we will be ready to meet our bride groom thank you sir thank you thank you Susan you still have I think maybe four more minutes okay but I guess you're done okay so thank you Susan yeah so that was that was good very good effort and you spoke with a lot of I think a lot of clarity conviction and you shared the personal example of you know of the from them from the ministry that you've been doing and and how you're preparing the you know the people whom you're ministering to to be the bride I think yeah so the bride of Christ you know again the topic wonderful and obviously this is for a Christian audience but you can also work on the definitely work on the title right you know or you can you know sermon topic I know you've I'm just looking at the at the sheet which says getting adorned with Christ like nature but you can always you know and think of creative ways of expressing the same thing even even getting ready or you know or I don't know wedding day or something like that would would would be would provoke the people would stir up the you know curiosity in people to wanting to know more so you can definitely use a you know a good title you can work on it but so these are some things that I see definitely you know very confident and with a lot of conviction with a lot of clarity yeah and good points I think you shared about readiness well the bride preparing herself two months before and that's the first time I'm hearing that and I think you know that probably emotionally physically you know there's a lot of preparation that goes and and thanks for presenting that perspective I think it's good to I mean is for me interesting to know that and also you know what you shared about you know the bride is recognizable you know you see because of the way she is adorned and you can easily identify in that crowd of you know even if it's a huge wedding you know who the bride is and because of you know what she's adorned with right and and the preparation of course during the betrothal period the preparation what I felt a couple of things you know one is when you're sharing the scripture you could like you said about revelation 14 18 I think revelation 21 to and then also you know so you could take some time to read it out you know you have time you had four more minutes so you could take some time to read out the scripture or even put it in the chat if possible so so we can look at it we can we can read it ourselves and then you know when I when I saw Revelation 21 and and verse 2 it's talking about New Jerusalem again prepared as a bride adorned you know the whole the city you know New Jerusalem prepared as a bride adorned for husband you know I've read that but I never noticed that before you know now that we were talking about the bread of Christ so it's important when you present scripture so that you you know you give time for people to to look at it so when they actually physically look at it or when you put it on the screen then you know there's then you get something you know people it speaks what I've got speaks what I've got is alive so you know I get something so you know don't be in a rush to finish but you know you time yourself and give people time to read the scripture right and also Matthew Matthew I didn't get the reference I don't know because I was trying to you know focus on Revelation 14 18 and then you know you go to that scripture also so you could slow down when you're quoting scripture the if you're not quoting you just read it out I can just say paraphrase it read it out so it makes sense the other the second thing was I just felt that so this is one about scripture you could work on the other thing is the arrangement of the of the content right so you could you could arrange it a little a little more so that it's it's even more impactful like you could let's say preparation you know what should the bride do right so you could arrange it and and draw from okay this is what the bride does so you know we are the bride of Christ so this is what we could do so practically what should we do I think you mentioned all that it's just that it needs to be arranged so like for a person like me it'll it'll be easier for me to assimilate when I think about it and then easier for me to even begin to you know walk in it so that is what I felt yeah so yeah so why did you choose the topic Susan bride of Christ is it something that you've been teaching the people or something that's yeah yeah yes when I came to know about this presentation I was praying to God and then suddenly this topic strike me about bride of Christ you can arrange this topic okay okay it is written blessed at the pure in heart for they shall see God like the bride who is who gets ready is pure from all fieldiness so church also should get ready right thank you and so where do you minister and where are you based out of okay and I think from Maharashtra one boy called Rahul Shukla was there studying there right from not to read yes so I'm ministering rural areas okay actually my husband is here in urban called inner district and I go to rural areas near about 10 to 12 villages I coordinate and I myself also goes to four to five villages okay good to hear that all the best thank you yeah okay so here are some some more comments you can just go through that feedback from Kennedy from Avni some encouragement from Avni yeah wonderful so all the best for your ministry and God bless you yeah just that arranging it would really help help me learn yeah okay okay so Maggie sorry that you you couldn't continue I think you had some internet issues yeah I couldn't present but I had my other people called puppets often and I didn't see that oh okay okay so Wednesday you know Wednesday you can do I actually put a schedule on the second page of the same sermon topics you know Google seat the second page has a presentation presentations schedule schedule I'll change that I'll just move things down a bit so you could start on Wednesday 13th October and then the others could move down so I'll fill in the other dates also yeah so what I thought was you know we are we are almost done with with ministry of the pastor evangelist and teacher and a couple more videos that we want to watch in the next session so once we finish that so we could use that for our biblical preaching class it just said I just need to know if everyone who is there in that class is also part of this class you know so I could put the link there and we could you know we could whatever the the notes that we want to go through I could teach on Mondays and then Wednesdays and Fridays we could use for the presentation and that way everyone has enough time to present right okay okay so yeah have a great weekend God bless those who are preparing for Wednesdays and Fridays you know just go ahead prepare get ready and I'm really enjoying your presentations just wanted to know it's been a it's been a blessing right and there's always some takeaway from whatever you present so thank God for that and thank you all have a blessed weekend we'll catch up again on Monday okay bye bye thank you first see you