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  OPENING OUR EYES TO REALITY
  by K.P. Yohannan
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of living a life
transformed by Christ, highlighting the need to break away from worldly
influences and embrace the joy of being with Jesus, even in loneliness.
It discusses the call to live as Jesus did on earth, focusing on the
significance of allowing the Lord to break our hearts for what breaks
His heart and responding with grace. The message encourages walking in
reality, seeking to live out God's life daily, and increasing time spent
with the Lord through prayer and fasting.

Topics: "Transformation in Christ", "Embracing Loneliness for God's Purpose"
Scripture References: Matthew 16:24, John 15:19, Matthew 5:1, Psalm 51:17, Luke 9:23, James 4:8, Mark 9:29, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Proverbs 3:6

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DESCRIPTION
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of living a life transformed by
Christ, highlighting the need to break away from worldly influences and
embrace the joy of being with Jesus, even in loneliness. It discusses
the call to live as Jesus did on earth, focusing on the significance of
allowing the Lord to break our hearts for what breaks His heart and
responding with grace. The message encourages walking in reality,
seeking to live out God's life daily, and increasing time spent with the
Lord through prayer and fasting.

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CONTENT
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How do we get from knowing and becoming? In spiritual reality world,
this is exactly the same thing. The call of Christ for you and for me is
to come, die and live. How do we live this brief few years on earth as
Jesus lived? 99% of the reason why you live the way you live, it is
simply because of influence.

It is relatives, friends, Facebook, emails, books you read, music you
listen. And this reason why to be like Jesus, it's a lonely walk and no
one want to be lonely. But once you cross that border into understanding
the joy of being with him, you do not want to run away.

You know the sermon on the mount, you know, chapter 5, 6 and 7, when
Jesus saw a multitude, a huge crowd, he called his disciples and went
off and sat down and talked to them. It is not preaching. In other
words, Jesus saying the answer to the world, my disciples, it is not
anything else other than your life being transformed.

In our life journey, one of our desire must be the Lord to break our
hearts so that things are break his heart and then give us a grace to
respond accordingly, which always cost us something. You cannot enter
into the kingdom reality like this without striving, without dying to
something that we all want. So how do we experience godliness? I think
walking in reality.

One of the most significant thing we need to understand, using our life
on earth as a normal life and looking always, Lord, how can I live your
life now? And then he will show you because it's real. Just as the
disciples walked with Jesus and saw the multitudes and what was
happening, walk with the Lord to these places and faces and events, and
then ask the Lord how you must live today, tomorrow, and the days to
come. You ask the Lord for grace to increase the time you spend with him
in prayer.

Average Christians, it is said, spend less than eight minutes a day in
prayer. You cannot know God and understand his heart without being with
him. And prayer is not just talking and talking, but listening also.

See if you can add one day of the week for fasting. I encourage you to
have the Lord walk with you through your life, especially material
things.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/sXhdQfLREmY.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/kp-yohannan/opening-our-eyes-to-reality/
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