Go Into All the World and Carry the Hope of Jesus

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You in good shame and now here's your message. You're

listening to a podcast from Victory. God's mission from the

beginning has been to go into all the world, but

man's tendency is to settle. Learn more about this truth

in week one of our series All Access.

Right now, we're going to take a serious break every year.

We normally take two Sundays in order for us to

be able to talk about something that is very important

to us as a church and as a whole movement,

which is World Missions. And I like the title all

Access because it's a faith declaration. It's us saying that

there is no nation that we cannot reach by the

Gospel of Jesus Christ.

And one of the verses in.

The Bible that I really like, which became a scripture

that I really hold on to, especially when I'm facing

a difficult situation, is John chapter six, verse six. And

the setting was when Jesus preached to five thousand people

and it was getting dark and they need to send

people away because there's no food for them and it's

getting dark. And Jesus told these disciples to give them food,

and they said, there's no way we can do that.

There's no seven eleven here, there's no catering service. Five

thousand people. You're talking about five thousand people. And John six,

verse six said that he only asked them to test

Philip because you already have in mind what he's going

to do.

He already had a solution.

So it's not that God was caught by price and

doesn't know what to do, but it's just putting these

disciples in a situation where they can learn how to

live by faith, not by sight. And so all access

were saying, there's no nation, no city, no campus that

we cannot reach by the Gospel of Christ. And this

is still very much in line with our series Redefined

jesus Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus taught his disciples

what kingdom living is all about, and he thought about

kingdom values, and that's what this series is about. Also,

you know, there's this funny story that my friend told

me at the time when he was getting a lot

of promotions in his company so as a way to celebrate,

he asked some of his relatives to join him in Softel,

Okay to have a dinner buffet. So in few relatives,

some of them it was their first time to really

be in a setting like that, so it was really

awkward in a hotel buffet. They're not used to that

kind of setting. So when when they were there already,

he said, go enjoy. So was one by one they

came back and then uh, when one of her, one

of his relatives came back. Actually in Titan is a plate,

No Titan, I have a picture Loreate Choking Laureate, Savina

Tita Sabind. So although it was a five star hotel

international buffet, there's a lot of options.

To choose from.

She went back to what she's used to, what she's

familiar with, Sabi.

Jian.

So she just went back and my friend was telling

me this, and Sabia sang been a go. I paid

thousands of US. If I only knew, then we just

went to Chow King instead.

If I only knew.

Now, that's a funny story. But if you think about

it as Christians, that's also our proclivity, that's our tendency

in order for us to go back to our old

ways and sometimes go back to our old pattern of thinking.

Even though we're already part of the Kingdom of God

under the rule of Christ and the Bible is now

the standard of how we live and what we believe,

there is still this pool, and there's tendency for us

to go back to the old pattern of thinking and

way of life that we became accustomed to prior to

encountering Christ.

Soda.

I'm not sure if that will work, but this one,

I've tried it for so long, and so that's why

there's a need for us to constantly for our mind

to be renewed by the word of God and for

God to transform us from the inside out. The Bible says,

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, and

you will know and test the good, pleasing and perfect

will of God. So the Bible says, do not conform

any longer to the pattern of this world.

Whether you're aware of.

It or not, you're using a pattern when it comes

to your marriage, when it comes to your life, when

it comes to your finances, when it comes to your identity.

There is a pattern that you're using that serve us

the peg.

Picture Cole.

But God said, stop using the pattern of this world.

If you want to walk in the destiny that God

is for you. If we want to experience God, God

pleasing and perfect will, we have to embrace the pattern

of His word. And we need to align our hearts

and our lives to His word every single day. And

one of the things that need to change in our

mindset is this idea that we are not just local Christians,

we are global Christians. That you are not just a believer,

you are called to be a world changer. That's why

in the early days nineteen eighty four, one of the

sayings that we have in order to reinforce this value

is the saying of a Bible and a passport. Okay,

and our leaders would tell us and one of our.

Leaders originals Sabinian year.

But during the early years, and you belt when we

only have hundreds of students, no money, provincial students, no

excellent facility, or just a new church of one hundred

and fifty students. Yet in spite of that, at that

time they would tell the new believers students, if you

are serious about following Christ, you need two things. You

need a passport, and a Bible. You need the Bible

to know God, and you need the passport to obey God.

Because you are not just called to be a local Christian.

You are called to be a global Christian. When I

became part of Victory, when I was in college, I

think I was seventeen or eighteen years old, almost twenty

years ago, I was told the same way. I've never

been out of the country. I was a provincial student,

and our leaders would tell us, you get a Bible

and a passport because you are going to nations, you're

going to preach the gospel.

So come in a man ahme and we come on,

let's go.

Okayamasa clueless command and we just received it by faith,

not really fully.

Understanding how it's going to happen.

But that just because we have no idea of how

it's going to happen now, it doesn't mean it can't

happen to us. Okay, If that's God's word, we have

to receive it, we have to declare it, we have

to believe it until we see it happen.

And so that's what we're going to talk about today.

If you have your Bible with you are going to

read the story and Genesis eleven beginning verse one to nine. Okay,

early days they said, we need a Bible in a passport.

And I'm sure many of us, if not all of us,

we already have one of the two requirements. We already

have the passport Bible. We're trying to work work on

that that we will not just hold our Bible, but

the Bible will get into our heart. So Genesi is eleven.

We're going to start in verse one. It says, now

the whole earth had one language and the same words.

And as people migrated from the east, they found a

plain in the land of Sheennar and settled there. And

they said to one another, come, let us make bricks

and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,

and bite themIn for mortar. Then they said, come, let

us build ourselves a city and a tower with its

stop in the heavens, and let us make a name

for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of

the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see

the city and the tower which the children of man

had built. And the Lord said, behold, they are one people,

and they have all one language, and this is only

the beginning of what they will do, and nothing that

they proposed to do will now be impossible for them.

Come let us go down.

And they're confused their language so that they may not

understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from

there over the face of all the earth, and they

left up building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel,

because they're the lord confused the language of all the earth.

And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face

of the earth. This is a famous story in the Bible,

in Genesis eleven. And they said, during that time, there's

only one language, and people are using the same word. Now,

it's just I just really enjoyed imagining how that looked

like during their time. Can you imagine you have Chinese, Germans,

you have Indians, you have all kinds of people, but

they are speaking the same language and speaking the same word.

No need for trans translators and no need for sign language.

You can just and verse with anyone you like. I

remember this story, funny story. The mom of one of

our pastors at that time was working in the United Nations,

so she's the one who told the story Sabina one

time as an elevator sla. So you can just imagine

all kinds of people working in that building. And when

they were writing the elevator, may Pino can see you again,

taps and the mom known pastor not Caucasian, came on

the closure elevator and say, so they were doing that

the whole time until at a certain floor, and then

open your elevator. Then somebody came in also PINOI you

never recognized new Caucasian looking Abare Camusta, ca, Bang nationality,

Bang languagees Pilano. Now in Genesis eleven, verse one, at

that time the whole earth had one language and same words.

And as people migrated from the east, they found a

plane in the land of Shinar, and they settled. Now,

settling down was really is really a positive thing. Sometimes

it can mean a person who's planning to get married

para settled down or planning to buy a house, or

maybe it means somebody who finally found stability in this

place of work or where they are living. So it's

not a negative thing. But the word used here meant

to stay, to dwell, and to remain. So when the

Bible said that when they saw that the plane of Shinar,

they saw it was a good land. They imagined all

kinds of possibilities and opportunities. They said among themselves, sabinila wegnataiomalistito,

let's settle here. Now that was a negative word because

the original mandate of God for them was not to settle,

but to scatter. So they're saying, let's not continue on

with the mandate of God. Instead, let's just focus here.

Let's just build our houses, our businesses, and let's.

Just take care of ourselves.

So it was contradicting God's will right from the beginning.

In Genesis chapter one, verse twenty eight, we can see

it says, and God blessed them talking about Adam and Eve,

and he said, be fruitful and multiply and feel the earth.

Genesis nine, verse one, Noah and his descendants, he said,

And God bless Noah and his sons and said to them,

be fruitful and multiply and feel the earth. When God

created Adam and Eve, God created them with the mission,

and everything that God gave them, the resources, the intelligence,

the talent, the gifting, the ability, all of it that

God has given to them was supposed to be used

to accomplish this mission of filling the earth with God's glory,

you know, in the same way with us. Maybe your

good in science and math, maybe you're an entrepreneur, a businessman,

whatever talent, whatever resources God is given to you. The

purpose of that is for God to be honored and

for us to be a blessing to the ends of

the earth. We're supposed to use that to point people

to Christ, not to us. And so that was the

original mandate, even during the time of Jesus. Fast forward

when Jesus came. The mandate never change. It's still the

same before Jesus went back to heaven. Here's jesus last

word to his disciples in Matthew chapter twenty eight, verse nineteen.

He said, go therefore, everyone say go, go therefore and

make disciples of all nations. It's never to stay or settle.

Jesus never said settle down where you are.

No, he said.

Go, go and make disciples. And that's not only God's word,

Jesus word to his disciples.

It's still the same word for you and me today.

Go don't settle.

You know, somebody said that there are three kinds of

people in church, the quitters, the campers, and the climbers, quitters,

people don't stick with with.

With their walk with God weeks.

Lang Man's Lanta was they started out on fire, but

then along the way when they encountered inconvenience, offense and challenges,

they immediately quit.

Then the campers they settled, Sunday Church.

Beginning, Adamites campers they settled. But there's another group of people,

the climbers, and that speaks of people who are pressing

on people who refuse to settle. Yes we are blessed,

Yes we are. God has been good to us, but

we know that it's not just for us to.

Be blessed, it's for us to be a blessing. You know.

I'm so blessed. I just don't have a picture here.

One of our leaders in the seven o'clock service, who

are in their sixties, and when I was having coffee

with them, I think two three weeks ago, I'm just

blown away how God is using them running multiple victory groups.

I mean, and in one of the companies that they

are ministering to, at least fifty people already went through

victory weekend. I'm just amazed, And I said, I want

to be like that. When I reached that age. I

don't want to settle. I want to keep pressing on.

I want to keep going. I don't want just to

talk about what God did in me and through me

ten twenty years ago. I want to have fresh stories.

I want to have fresh testimonies of God. Question is

are you a camper or are you a climber? Are

you still going?

Are you still pressing on?

Genesis eleven, verse three, And they said to one another, come,

let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly, and then

let us build ourselves a city and a tower with

its stopped in the heavens. Let us make a name

for ourselves. Three times the word let us was mentioned.

And in the Bible, if a word is repeated twice,

especially three times, God was sending a message.

There is a point that he wanted to make.

So this was a huge undertaking, a big project. They

are trying to build a tower that will reach the

heaven Today, the tallest building in the world is in.

Dubai, Okay Borge Khalifa.

According to our very credible source Google, it costs one

point five billion US dollars or approximately seventy six billion

pesos to construct this building and it took twenty two

million man hours or six years in order to finish

this project. And that's with all the advanced technology and

equipment that we have today. And that's not even reaching

the heavens. It's just two seven hundred plus five two

hundred and twenty one floors. But it took them six

years in order to finish this project. Can you imagine

how difficult this project was, trying to erect a building

that will reach the heaven without the advanced technology and equipment,

manual labor. What's amazing is what God said about this

building project. Three times he said it said, let us

we're going to make bricks.

There's no enough stone. We're going to make bricks. We're

going to do it.

Yet, God said, even though they have the wrong motive,

but because they are united, one people, one language, nothing

that they proposed to do will be.

Impossible for them.

This was a negative example, but God used this to

give us a powerful lesson on the power of unity.

This is God's way of saying that there's endless possibilities

for people who are in unity. Endless possibilities are available

for people who are in unity. That's why it's important

that we fight for unity. No wonder in the New Testament,

Jesus prayed for unity. He said, Lord, I pray this

not only for the disciples you gave me today, but

for the disciples, the people who will believe you in

the future. That's talking about us. And he said, Lord,

I pray that you will make them one, just as

we are one. Jesus prayed that we will have unity.

Apostle Paul in Ephicients chapter three, I believe he said,

make every effort to protect that unity and the bond

of peace among the believers. How many of you know

it takes a lot of effort to stay united. And

that's true for married people. That's true for teams, that's

true for churches, that's true for companies. It requires so

much effort for people to be together and have one

mind and one heart and one spirit. And Paul said,

make every effort, and by the grace of God, you know,

and we say this with all humility, by the grace

of God, the past thirty three years, in spite of

us having lots of strong, highly opinionated leaders, we never

had a single church split.

By the grace of God, we stayed united.

You know why, because our leaders made a commitment that

we will fight for this relationship.

We will fight for unity, and God just show us

the power of unity.

That's why it's important as married people that we fight

for the unity of that marriage. The Bible says a

house or kingdom divided against itself will not stand. But

if you are united, there's end less possibility for you.

Whatever God called you to do, if you are together.

Everything is possible. So we fight for that. Unity is important.

And just for world missions, I'm not sure friends, if

we have a picture, it's amazing. We set out and

we show this every time we have missions caravan. But

these are the nations that we prayed for in the

past and that we are praying for.

For until twenty twenty.

In Southeast Asia, po we planted the church already in

every single nation.

Amazing.

Let's give a lot a big hand for that. Nineteen

eighty four, one hundred and fifty students. They're just praying

for the nations, not knowing where the funds will be

coming or how it's going to happen.

We only have one church and.

New built thirty three years after we planted churches and

every nation in Southeast Asia we're moving in other nations.

Jesus said, go and make disciples of all nations twenty thirteen,

twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen up to twenty eighteen. All of

these nations we've already sent missionaries, and we already have

ongoing church planting effort.

Amazing. It's possible by the grace of God.

But it's amazing what God can accomplish when people come

together in unity. That's why you on phrase Paul Young

saying nothing. We are better together. It's not just a

cute hashtag for us. It's a ministry philosophy based on

our understanding of the Word of God.

We are better together.

It's worth fighting for our relationship. We don't fight against

each other. We fight for each other. We overlook offenses.

We're saying, I'm committed to you.

Now.

What made this wrong because God confuse their language. They

joined together, they set out to settle, create the city

and this stower. What made it wrong was that they

started doing something for themselves rather than for God. Twice

the word ourselves was mentioned there. They said, let's let

us make for ourselves. The focus shift from God to them.

We're going to have all kinds of problem. The moment

life becomes about us, not about God. When it's about

my privileges, when it becomes my rights, when it becomes

my comfort, when it becomes my ambition, when it becomes

my goal, we will find all kinds of trouble when

it becomes about us rather than about God. Instead of

building the kingdom of God, they said, let us build

our own kingdom. Rather than making God famous, they said,

let's make our name famous. And rather than going to

different parts of the world to scatter, they said, no,

that's not a good idea.

Instead, let's gather.

So this tower was what was really the symbol of

the rebellion against God. You know, our sinful tendency is

to always deviate from the will of God, to do

our own thing.

That's our sinful nature.

Ala nat you will the Lord perro trika Bajan Lloyd

tam Aablloyd Alam Ala young bess. And you know the

struggle for us is to choose our own will rather

than choosing God's will, and our sinful tendency is to

always step out of.

The will of God.

But here's what's amazing. In Genesis chapter twelve, they failed.

But you know, the good thing about God is he

never quit, He never gave up.

When he dispersed.

God used that in order to steal fulfill his purpose.

And then chapter twelve were introduced to a man named

Abraham and his family, and God restarting again his plan

of sending out people to be a blessing to the

rest of the world.

He called about Abraham.

And you know why this is exciting as we read

verse one to three, because this was originally given to Abraham.

But you know what's exciting, This promise is given to

you as well. So in Genesis twelve, verse one to three,

it says, now the Lord said to Abram, and you

can put your name there. The Lord said to Ryan.

The Lord said to Jason. The Lord said to Francis,

go from your country and your kindred and your father's

house to the land that I will show you, and

I will make of you a great nation. And I

will bless you and make your name great, so that

you will be a blessing. I will bless those who

bless you, and him with his honors. You I will curse,

and in you all the families of the earth shall

be blessed. This is your purpose, this is your destiny.

In Christ.

God confused their language, not because it's wrong to be great.

It's wrong to be great if you're trying to be

great for yourself. They said, come on, let's make a

name for Let's make a name for ourselves, Pedro. In

chapter twelve, God said, I will make your name great.

They said, let's build a city. It speaks up their security,

Sabin the Lord.

I will bless you.

I will show you a land that will become your inheritance,

and I will bless you. And they said, let's stay here,

let's gather, and God said, I will make you a

blessing to the families of the earth. Tell me, if

you want these promises from God.

I want that.

And what they desired. In chapter eleven, God promised to Abraham.

In chapter twelve, a good thing about God is you

don't have to sin against God.

In order for you to fulfill your purpose or to

be happy.

It's in following Christ that we find her purpose and

then lasting in verse seven, it says, calm, let us

go down and confuse their language. And it's not literal

that God needed to come down. I think it's the

way of the author to really mock in a way

what they are trying to build that God needed to

go down in order to see it because it's too small.

What they thought was big. God said, it's too small.

I needed to come down to see it. You think

what your building is big, Guess what God is for

you is bigger than what you can imagine when you

can think of or imagine.

And they so that. So the Lord dispersed them.

So God took away what they have, which is the

common language, the unity that they enjoyed. Sadly, they used

the blessing of God for evil intent, so God had

to take it back.

You know, sometimes God allows us to.

Lose something in order for us to be found. Sometimes

God had to take away something in order for us

to realign again to God's heart and God's will because

it reason destructive. God's provision is not meant to be

a distraction for us. It's supposed to help us accomplish

the mission. Last Monday, I was driving and Alex with

my family going to So Big.

We're enjoying so much our conversation in our time.

That enjoying the enjoy that I lose track of the

road and missed our turn we're supposed to exit, going

to se texts, so young wife.

Signage. So we ended up in our wrong destination. We

missed our turn.

Sometimes we have the tendency we enjoyed so much the

blessing that we missed the will and we missed the

purposes of God.

It's okay to enjoy the.

Blessing of God as long as we don't hold tightly

to it and remain focused on God and these purposes. Lord,

I'm enjoying this, But if you want to take this away,

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

Dispersed. That's why you and I are here today. That's

why you are where you are today. You're calling your

station in life. God placed you there because God wants

to scatter us the family that you're a part of,

the community, the campus, the company, wherever God placed you.

World mission is not just about us crossing the sea.

Sometimes it's just crossing the street. But all of us

are called for mission. World mission. We can all give,

we can all pray, but not all of us are

going to go overseas. But it doesn't mean we're just

going to give and pray. Because right where you are,

that is your mission field, and God called us to

be a blessing You have a promise from God. I

will make your name great. I will bless you, but

not just to make your life comfortable and convenient.

There's a purpose for the blessing. It's for you to

be a blessing.

You know last story, and I'm going to pray. When

I was a New Belt I told this to some

people already. But we we served in New Belt for

ten years, pastoring college and high school students. In the

first year of our marriage, no wife going nine years

who coming married? Now first year of marriage, I mean

I was so on fire for campus ministry. In my mind,

I can do this in my forties and fifties. We

have no plan of going out of u Belt. We

just want to pastor young people. But at that time

we're given a prophetic word. And a prophetic word is

somebody believing God for a word to give you that

they feel like God is saying to you. So at

that time, there's a prophetic people there that was they

gave us a word.

In our first year of marriage.

My wife was not working at that time because I

was encouraging her to be a full time mom. Just

like the people I look up to the ministry. Lantayo

you know, I know my heart cut I'm again dentist,

but let's try it out. And I'm just blessed to

have a wife who is godly. And she set aside

that dream for a year, she did not work and

we just tried to do ministry together. I just want

her to be a stay home mom. So anyway, when

first year of marriage, Imen we were prophesied. They said,

when it was my wife's turn, Sabina by Zanya, you

know you're going to minister to business people, to Chinese people.

God will give you a platform to speak in the marketplace.

It's coming Delo. It's not making any sense. We're pastoring

students a majority of Filipinos. We don't have a business,

so it's not.

Making any sense. Fast forward. You know, we've been here

in Green.

Hills for two years already, nine years after now we're

looking back and we're saying crab is the lord because

my wife owns a business. Right now, majority of the

people in our victory group are Filipino Chinese, and majority

of the people we minister to our business people. And

my wife and I are just talking every time we

pray about the business. We just said, you know, lat

Alganabini begins in the Lord. It's simply a tool to

advance the Kingdom of God. We don't have a business

just for the sake of having a business. This is

simply a platform for us. So we can bring the

gospel two different people. And I want to tell you,

whatever you have today and wherever God placed you, it's

a platform that God has given to you. God is

scattering all of us because there is a good news

we need to bring to all people. You know in

Galatians chapter three, verse nine, So all who put their

faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because

of his faith that was given to Abraham. But the

Bible says, if you put your faith in Christ. How

many of you here you're a follower of Christ. You

put your faith in Christ, the Bible says, you inherit

the promise. You share in the same blessing, you receive

the same mandate. So let's go and bear fruit. Let's

multiply and fill the earth and bring the gospel to

the ends of the earth. Don't keep the gospel to yourself,

share it to others. The gospel is not just about

our salvation. It's about God's plan of redemption. Many people

stop with salvation and they became happy campers, waiting for

their transition in this.

Life to heaven.

But God did not call you and me to be

campor God called us to.

Be pictures of the Gospel.

So use whatever platform you have as a housewife, as

a teacher, as a student, whatever station in life you're in.

God has been good to us.

Jesus died for us, but not just for us, but

for all people on earth.

Amen, let me just pray. Father God, we thank you.

We thank you for your word.

Thank you for not only saving us, but for using

us as well. Thank you for giving us the opportunity

to be part of something expansive, something unstoppable, which is

your Church.

Lord.

We thank you for realigning us. Thank you, Lord for

reminding us of who we are, reminding us of our

calling as a people. Lord, God, we thank you for

blessing us so we can be a blessing. So Lord,

use us in a greater way. We thank you for

how you've used us in the past. But Lord, we

pray you will use us in a greater and mighty way.

Father God, we thank you Lord.

Even now, Lord for instilling that sense of calling to

each and every one of us. Father, we thank you

for every blessing we receive, every blessing.

That we enjoy.

I pray Lord, you will use us so that the

people around us would be blessed, that they will come

to know Jesus, that they will receive the Gospel, and

that they will be saved as well.

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