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Living on Purpose, Disrupted or Distracted? | Andy Yeoh

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  1. Hey there, you're listening to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray that the

  2. word of God today will challenge, change and channel you into your God given

  3. destiny. Now let's get started. Many of you would know this is this

  4. crazy thing happened. We have positimity low here, my mentor who preached the

  5. word. And of course by now you know the message he preached. What

  6. a timely message before he passed on, What a way to go right,

  7. doing what he loved and serving another church. And that is so so pasiti

  8. tim. I know some most feel almost like guilty, like what did he

  9. die in our church? He should die in his own church. His family

  10. should be the last ones to see him. And now we can process all

  11. that, all that guilt. I felt that guilty, like why else shouldn't

  12. have been us? Should have been his family in his church. But yet

  13. God chose to write the script this way that there will be that will be

  14. his testimony that he died doing what he loved. He preached the word,

  15. and he did it in another church, a small, little growing church.

  16. That's his testimony even and of course the message was about the main thing.

  17. Uh, you know, he asked me several times before Saturday about what to

  18. preach on Saturday, like he should do, right, You asked the lead

  19. pastor of the church, you know, what's just going through right now?

  20. What series are you're on? What should I preach? You know? He

  21. did that, but I somehow did not feel right to tell him what to

  22. say. Uh. I said, you know, just share what's on your

  23. heart now. Actually, when he ass the third time, I really felt

  24. like, you know what, I'll just tell you. But somehow I just

  25. said, you know what, past just preach or whatever got puts on your

  26. heart. And he came and brought that word. It's a great word.

  27. So I like to if you don't mind, like to pick up from that.

  28. Okay, let's pick up from that. Not trying to take advantage of

  29. the situation. You know, people have very weird ideas about what's going on.

  30. That's not what I'm trying to do, but to be faithful. But

  31. the team reminded us to keep the main thing the main thing. Right.

  32. That means to not be distracted, to not be be pulled away from what

  33. the main thing is. Keep the main thing the main thing. And it's

  34. from Matthew twenty eight, verse eighteen to twenty which is the great commission.

  35. That's the main thing. Go you, therefore, and make disciples of all

  36. nations. Don't forget that church. A church that forgets that mission or that

  37. commission is not a church. A church that doesn't saved, the loss is

  38. lost in itself. Remember that Matthew twenty eight eighteen to twenty Great Commission.

  39. Making disciples is the main thing. Now we can sit and debate and argue

  40. and dissect what making disciples means, because different churches has different definitions. But

  41. I like to keep it simple. Making disciples is just helping someone know Jesus.

  42. It's the process of helping somebody become more like Jesus. That's the process.

  43. Discipleship is a process. It's not an event. It's not a project.

  44. It's not a program. It's not numbers, it's not statistics. It's

  45. a process, a journey of becoming more like Jesus. Amen. He also

  46. reminded us to leave the nineteen nine and to pursue the one. Sometimes we

  47. just got to do that. Sometimes we have to say, you guys,

  48. are all right. I gotta go for the one that's lost, And that's

  49. in Matthew eighteen twelve. Plast the team said that that's how he lived his

  50. life. He would often leave the nineteen nine to pursue the one that's lost.

  51. Amen. So it's been two weeks now, can I ask us very

  52. so such a question, have we kept the main thing the main thing?

  53. Having been reminded that there is such a thing as the main thing? Have

  54. we kept the main thing the main thing? In fact, it should be

  55. a question we ask ourselves every day, a few times a day, many

  56. times a day. Have we kept the main thing the main thing? If

  57. the main thing is to make disciples? Have we made disciples in the last

  58. two weeks? Have we been somewhere along that process? I'm not talking about

  59. converting somebody in the last two weeks. That could happen, not saying someone

  60. says I want to be a pastor in the last two weeks, you know,

  61. don't have to be big dramatic changes. But in the last two weeks

  62. have we been a part of that process? What is discipleship? We define

  63. it this way in this church, facilitating one's process of becoming more like Jesus.

  64. I say facilitating because none of us can make someone else become like Jesus.

  65. It's not our jobs but we facilated our organized classes. I'll preach the

  66. word. I will pair you up with somebody or put you in the right

  67. group, whatever I need to do to help you in your process or becoming

  68. more like Jesus. Or another way to say is to journeying with someone.

  69. I would journey with you. I'll work with you. I don't have all

  70. the answer, but I will do this with you so that you and I

  71. we can both become more like Jesus. That's discipleship. Let's go e therefore

  72. into all the world with everybody, and let's help each other become more like

  73. Jesus. If that's reading the Bible a little bit more fine, if that's

  74. sending you a devotional plan grade, if that's sending your worship song, whatever

  75. it means. But it's this journey. Have we done that in the last

  76. two weeks. I got a text yesterday and I'll show you this text from

  77. Pasta Shan. But with Pasta Sean is now the senior pastor of Every Nation

  78. Church Malaysia. He's taken over past the team's role and it's something they've planned

  79. for a long time, and he said it is today. The guy who's

  80. this yesterday today, the guy who shrinks Past the team's badminton record accepted Christ

  81. via a meeting with Pastor Joseph, the Chinese Church Pastor. He cried so

  82. much, and pass the team passed, and Passit Team has been reaching out

  83. to him. The mission continues. And I hope this joke or what I'm

  84. about to say is not sensitive, not insensitive. I was just talking to

  85. a friend and my friend said, wow, Past the team is still saving

  86. lives while he's dad. But that's what happens when your planner seed you see,

  87. you don't have to be there all the time. He planned the seat

  88. someone else waters the guy who shrinks his record someone the Passit teave meets constantly,

  89. maybe so word a sentence to a invitation to an event here and there.

  90. And although Pasit Team himself did not get to see him come to Christ

  91. with his old eyes, he's winniessing from heaven. But all the seats he's

  92. sown throughout this whole time has borne fruit. Just yesterday, give the big

  93. cleb. Come on, Allow me to say this is always insensitive. Past

  94. the team is still saving life. Date, how are we doing? We

  95. keep the main thing, the main thing the last just two weeks now,

  96. some of you mights goast. I've heard this podcast over and over again.

  97. It's just a pasta team thing, Like I can't live like him, Like

  98. what wake up five am in the morning, start my appointment at seven and

  99. at twelve every single day? That's not me? I agree. Not everybody

  100. can be past the team. Not everybody should. Amen. I wanted to

  101. be just like him until God spoke to me that at CAM I told you

  102. guys, right, we all have our own calling. I can learn from

  103. him, gather from him, be a bit like him. But I'm me

  104. and he's him, and I know not but but but please be careful not

  105. to not to discount the entire thing just because Ah, I'm not like I

  106. don't play badminton. For one, I'm not a badminton kaky, So no

  107. one's gonna ever shrink my record and get safe. Sure, but if you

  108. think this is a passiti tive thing, think again. The method may be

  109. a positive thing. He's crazy, fight seven after twelve am every single day,

  110. back to bad two hours beydminton every day. Yeah, that's that's a

  111. pass the team thing. The method may be him, but the man date

  112. is all of us, and the message is the same, the one message.

  113. We are sinners. We need a savior. There's only one savior.

  114. He lives in you. You got to share it. That's the message.

  115. I don't care if you play badminton or golf. That's the message. The

  116. Mandate is for all believers, not just someone named him. Okay, if

  117. your name is hard to pronounce, it's for you too. The message is

  118. the same a man date is for all of us, every single believer.

  119. Amen. So it's not just a passit team thing. The mandate the message

  120. where I get this from First Genesis, chapter one, verse twenty seven,

  121. twenty eight. When God created human beings, the first thing he said to

  122. them was be fruitful and multiply. A whole other teaching on this one of

  123. these days, I'll do it. But the first thing God said to human

  124. being noticed. God created male and female. He didn't mention any And so

  125. anyone thinks, oh, food multiplied, that's so adam. And if specifically

  126. know, it's when God made men and women male and female human beings.

  127. Before you say, oh, isn't this like a populate the earth and make

  128. babies thing? Because I only hear this in weddings at the third thse mm

  129. hmm yeah. Third those we you, I'm saying, we got we wanted

  130. to make babies. No, no, no no. Then then then they

  131. were suggesting you can only fulfil God's plan if you're married. No children can

  132. feelfill God's plan. And if you study those words, be fruofull. Multiply

  133. it means to be poufuo means to produce. To multiply means to make something

  134. greater. It means a baby become an a doubt. That's multiplying. When

  135. a small group becomes more many many small groups, that's multiplying. Everybody,

  136. anybody is called to do this be to be productive without life and to multiply

  137. disciples. Somebody say, a man, So for all of us, not

  138. just past the team, and not just every nation, church, generation,

  139. church, and all the other churches in the world. That's why we're here.

  140. And secondly, May two twenty eight was eighteen to twenty. You know

  141. this, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, all of us,

  142. all of us. John chapter four was one to forty five familiar story.

  143. So three things I want to say, Jesus'll he literally leaves the ninety nine

  144. to reach the one that's this is Jesus. And I think it makes total

  145. sense to learn from this guy, son of God, what kind of life

  146. you should live. And so I purposely did don't give you the title of

  147. today's message at the beginning and giving it to you now. And it's called

  148. living on purpose. Sentence is not done. So number one, we got

  149. three points. I want to encourage you, urge you, push you,

  150. spur you, and inspire you. All of us got to live on purpose,

  151. or another way to say is live on mission. Live like you're on

  152. a mission every single day of your life. And I'm not talking about your

  153. mission to make the next billion bucks, and I'm not even saying that that's

  154. wrong. I'm just saying that all other missions, making a million bucks,

  155. having a million followers, whatever, you know, next business plan, right,

  156. the next book, all other mission must subject and submit to this main

  157. mission or making disciples. That's it. And so when I say live on

  158. purpose, live on mission, so that your life is all about getting someone

  159. else one step closer to Jesus every day, the Badminton record guy, once

  160. upon a time was a million steps away from Jesus and then past the team

  161. shows up and say can you do my record? And after I don't know

  162. how many months or years, and that guy was much closer. And yes

  163. past the team went home to be do with a lord. But yesterday someone

  164. found this guy at just one step away and say would you like to receive

  165. Jesus? And he says yes, great with all the process. And I

  166. want us to realize that we are on mission, because if you don't realize

  167. this, you will not live intentionally. You'll miss certain opportunities. So next,

  168. next slight, please, I want to ask us to think about this.

  169. What is the purpose or mission of your life? Do you know if

  170. you struggle or don't know the answer this question, it just simply means you

  171. know you mean you may not be living a bad life. It just means

  172. that you're not living intentionally. You may not recognize certain opportunity to come your

  173. way. You don't know why it's there. You don't know why you're handsome

  174. that that has a purpose. You don't know why you have this talent that

  175. has a purpose. But can I encourage you to live on purpose? Question?

  176. Have you written your purpose statement? See? If that's my mission,

  177. then every single day, whether I'm in a grab car driving the car.

  178. I'm in a footsalt field'm playing badminton, or I'm sleeping or whatever it is

  179. I'm doing buying fruits. That will be my mission. It changes your life.

  180. Jesus lived on purpose, and it's very clear what his purpose is.

  181. Look nineteen ten says he came to seek and save the loss. That's it.

  182. Came to earth to see and save the loss. You know he did

  183. this while he was a carpenter. He wasn't a full time worker. No

  184. no, no, he didn't work for the church. It's not a pastor,

  185. not just a preacher. He was a carpenter. He was a teacher.

  186. They call him rabbi. He attends weddings, hit the water to wine,

  187. He goes fishing, He eats a lot, all that while on mission.

  188. Every meal, every fishing trip, every table is making. He gets

  189. what I'm saying, Pastor, you I think us to be pastors are No,

  190. we can't pay that many, not yet at least no, no,

  191. no, no, no. Hey. By the way, that also means

  192. numerically, it is not possible for this sapple making to be a full time

  193. job like a like a full time staff job like we will never higher enough

  194. pastors to do all your follow up for you and to do all your discipling

  195. making for you. You get that right, because we need you guys to

  196. be business man, doctors, lawyers. It could just be there and the

  197. discapple making cannot just be done by the full time. We all have to

  198. do this, amen. And that's that's why I think Jesus purposely became a

  199. campetal, just so that one day I can prec and say he was a

  200. carpenter. He went fishing. So yes, sure, don't feel givetvem and

  201. go fishing. Hopefully it's not a Saturday, but you know, but if

  202. you can help it, if you really canna help it, sure go fishing.

  203. But be on mission. That sentence wies it. If you have to

  204. go, do like I do know, then your six tailor Swift concert this

  205. year alone on a Saturday, somehow it must be four o'clock. Okay,

  206. sure, but do it on mission. I don't know, find a way

  207. to the backstation, sweets. I don't know what love, You know what

  208. I'm saying, because it would be wrong if I'm preaching a message just to

  209. get you to come to you, because that's not the point. No,

  210. it's pretty important. It's very very important. But live on mission, because

  211. Jesus did that while he's eating, while he's at a wedding, while he's

  212. making tables. So whatever it is to do, live on mission, live

  213. on purpose, and I mean the purpose of God, and I mean make

  214. disciples, share the gospel, be a witness all of that. If you're

  215. gonna do business, save lives while doing it. If you're gonna play badminton,

  216. save lives while doing it. If you're gonna go to Taylor Swift concert

  217. like you're six to one this year again, safe lives or you're at it.

  218. That's the point. Look at Jesus. The Bible says he had to

  219. pass through Samaria. He had to he was going to Galilee. So you

  220. look at the map Judea, Samaria, Galilee. So he had to pass

  221. through. His direction where he's going is dictated by his purpose. He's not

  222. dictated by entertainment. What's fun, I need a break? Whatever, Okay,

  223. everything is. I need to go here because that's where my father sent

  224. me. The direction of your life is it dictated by purpose or something else?

  225. Because for Jesus, it's all where he passed by his schedule, his

  226. map, his ways is whatever. It's all dictated by purpose. First four

  227. vers ten, Dude, the girl was talking to him about like actual hate

  228. too. Oh you know understand the woman is talking to him about histe two.

  229. Oh, but Jesus somehow turns every conversation. You go, what I'm

  230. saying. You can talk to me about foodsalt and if I'm switched on,

  231. if I'm living on purpose, and we can become a purposeful conversation if you're

  232. switched on. Otherwise you will just talk about water too and satay, and

  233. then life will carry on and nothing has happened. Oh you know Sadi?

  234. Oh you like Sadi? What a sa da do you like? Oh?

  235. Chicken? Wow? Great? You know we all have our preferences. But

  236. you know it's all about the right ingredients. If you don't have the right

  237. ingredience, it's just it may be sati by his fake Have you try to

  238. fix something before? Yes? I have? Oh yeah, me too.

  239. But there's a real good one. I'm bummed. It's really good and there's

  240. only one place you can find it, and there's only one truth. There's

  241. only one way. Have you tasted my Jesus Jesus conversation all centered around his

  242. purpose. He's like, oh, you're talking about water. Ah, I'm

  243. the water. Remember he was talking about bread. I am the bread.

  244. What happens if our conversations is centered around purpose and not wasted? You know,

  245. the Bible says God would judge every idol word. What do you think

  246. is the Bible? Because God knows. God knows we will speak many idle,

  247. useless words. God wants us to be intentional. The woman answered him,

  248. I have a whole husband. Blah blah blah. You're right and saying

  249. your husband Jesus prophesies, he uses gifts for purpose. Jesus obviously had to

  250. give up prophecy. He didn't use it to make himself famous. He didn't

  251. use it to build a bigger platform. He didn't use it to gain another

  252. femal followers. No, some of us use our gifts for us, and

  253. Jesus uses gifts to reach someone. You have gifts, you have gives.

  254. You all have gifts. I texted someone this week and I say, how

  255. can I pray for you? He said, Pastor, can I pray for

  256. me busy season? Pray for me for the power to get wealth? Bro

  257. all me. We're thinking, what cannot praise that you should be praygnant your

  258. Holy Spirit touch you or something. Pray for the power to get wealth.

  259. But hey, I realize what's wrong. That's his calling. So I said,

  260. I'll pray for you to have I'll pray for you. Brother, I

  261. pray you gain profits. But with purpose. I pretty God make you very

  262. rich. But you you will be fill with purpose. You know what to

  263. do with it. We all have gifts. Come on, some of your

  264. gifts are dormanty. You're not you're not using it. Some of your gifts

  265. are not meant for in the church. So you see where it's meant to

  266. be used. Amen. But Jesus gives. He's here is the give of

  267. prophecy, word of knowledge. He used it. His focus is sharpened by

  268. his purpose. Jesus, eat my food is to do the will of God.

  269. He's not saying I'm not hungry, I don't have to eat throw this

  270. food away. He's not really saying that he will eat my Jesus has shown

  271. me in the Bible that he eats a lot. He loves food. A

  272. lot of ministries around food. So yeah, he eats, he eats,

  273. Okay, but he's he's taking opportunity of the situation to say, you know

  274. what my real food. You know what feeds me, what grows me,

  275. what nourishes me, what makes me come alive. It's not Saturday, it's

  276. not fish. Is to do God will. That's my purpose. That's what

  277. he's saying. Focus, Focus, focus, fast team. I believe he's

  278. able to live that kind of schedule because he's focused. He does one thing,

  279. make disciples. So all my schedule is that his family is in his

  280. schedule too, So don't he's not just like out there. Spoken to his

  281. son Jayden. Jaden's time with his father is every Thursday morning, and they

  282. all know. Focus number two is lift, lift, focused. But I

  283. want to introduce something to you call disrupted, not distracted. Leave focus,

  284. but be willing to be distructed, not distracted. It's not the same thing.

  285. Jesus was not faced. He was focused. He knew exactly what he

  286. was doing. We read this just now. They came to say, hey,

  287. time to eat. He said, what eat? I I am.

  288. My real food is to do God's will. Jesus knew his why, and

  289. because he knew his why, it informs his what, how, Where,

  290. and when I know why I'm here, So why I'm here decides what I

  291. do, what I don't do, how I do it, where I do

  292. it, when I do it. See, God never forgets our why,

  293. but we do. God never forgets, but we do because we do.

  294. He sometimes interrupts, or even sometimes often disrupts. What if God changes your

  295. What if God changes your plans entirely? You want this job like it gives

  296. you the other one. You want to go here, he stops you.

  297. What if God changes your plan? Are you willing to be interrupted or disrupted

  298. by God? Disruption is not distraction is two different things. To live.

  299. Focused is to not be distracted. We know that right. To be focused

  300. mean I don't get distracted by I'm supposed to study, so I'm not distracted

  301. by enemy kay pop k drama mobile legends, none of that, because I'm

  302. focused. To live, focus is to not be distracted, but to be

  303. disrupted disrupted. It's not the same thing. To be disruptive while your focus.

  304. It's a good thing. To be distracted while your focus is not a

  305. good thing. Distraction is internal disturbances within ourselves. You're supposed to finish this

  306. job, but then you start feeling lazy or sleepy, or you you're you're

  307. revising, and then maybe you're at work trying to finish up your thing,

  308. and then you overhear a gossip. WHOA, why you know she was sleeping

  309. with this guy? I don't want to They're like, I just don't know

  310. him. LA. That's distraction, and then you no longer are doing your

  311. job. Interruption or disruption is external disturbances. It's without ourselves. COVID was

  312. a disruption. It's both interruption but also disruption. We realized this disruption later

  313. on the first two weeks when the government said just two weeks, we thought

  314. it's just an interruption. Let me define this further. Interruption is when something

  315. is stopped and then restarted without damage. Now you know why COVID is a

  316. disruption, no interruption, because the words never the same. The first two

  317. weeks, we hope it was interruption. Just turken down. You're watching extra

  318. doesn't work for live football, but you're watching your favorite show rain interruption,

  319. and then when it comes on, you continue where you stop and then you

  320. carry on. That's interruption. Disruption is when something is interfered with or otherwise

  321. broken or pull apart. And will not be the same as before. COVID

  322. was a disruption. Our world is no longer the same. Now you work

  323. from home, Now you work remotely. Now you do zoo meetings. Now

  324. you the world has changed. Interruption creates tagnancy. You feel frustrated when you're

  325. interrupted because you want to get back to the way things were. Sometimes that's

  326. why sometimes interruption is not going. It's not good enough for good to just

  327. interrupt your life. He wants to disrupt your life so that there is movement.

  328. You change direction. Okay, So for example, after church, we'll

  329. suppos go for dinner, we go to charge hunting. I'm on my way

  330. there and someone comes comes to talk to me, you know, Kandesh come

  331. and talk to me, and he interrupts me, and he says, hey,

  332. I'm on my way there. When it comes to talk to me about

  333. something. And then after I'm done talking, oh yeah, yeah, sure

  334. you can do this or whatever, and I carry on my way to touch

  335. and thing. Kanesh interrupted me. Disruption will be like this, I'm on

  336. my way to judge a thing and it's definitely can say past it and ring

  337. need to talk to you, and you want to talk to you okay,

  338. great, what is it about? And whatever they tell me, we say,

  339. you know what, we need to continue this. Let's go to Chittamo

  340. and continue there because we don't want other people to hear, so we go

  341. there. That's a disruption, change of direction. So sometimes God utterly disrupts

  342. our plans to move us in a different direction. But if we don't recognize

  343. it, we may say, we may become stagnant. So, friends,

  344. are you okay? If God disrupts you, you've got changes your plan because

  345. we already have this plan. We plan our breaks, we plan where we're

  346. active, We plan what ministries you want to get involved in. We plan

  347. who we want to talk to. We have all these plans. Many are

  348. the plans in the man's heart, Bible says, but the Lord's purposes prevails.

  349. Jesus was going to Galilee, and then suddenly some area happened. The

  350. woman at the well happened. It happens to Jesus all the time. He's

  351. on the way to Gyros's daughter to heal her. And then the woman touched

  352. his hand. He was going somewhere else, and then Zaccius was on the

  353. tree. Friends, do you have room in your life for that to happen,

  354. or is your plan so water tight even God cannot change it. Thursday,

  355. I woke at five forty five in the morning, had a plan in

  356. my head as I was driving to the school. My schedule only starts at

  357. one pm that day, my first appointment. I said to myself, I

  358. will preach there, I will finish at eight thirty and then I will eat

  359. that nasty going by if for her, and I'm gonna leave the place.

  360. I'm gonna drive back home by nineteen nine forty five and sleep. I'll sleep

  361. to you twelve thirty, wake up and go for my appointment at one pm.

  362. While I'm driving, I said something. I see the text someone reach

  363. out to me, and the faster we need to meet, we need to

  364. meet. I'm not doing well. I'm like, oh, I want to

  365. sleep, lah, and this guy can say I went slept. You should

  366. understand what it is to not sleep. But I held the whole thing,

  367. say go see him. So I texted him and said, okay, bro

  368. uh, let me see so I see a night of dealer. Sure after

  369. I said yes to him ninety ty he said okay, and he said I'm

  370. going to go to a nap now later you call me okay. I'm like,

  371. okay, okay, okay, nice, you can take a nap,

  372. and then again another text, Hey, how's your day? Looking like I

  373. want to meet up. I'm like, ah, I can read me after

  374. p D. He's like, oh, then I cannot mean you because my

  375. days like that like that, but I really really want you to meet this

  376. person. This person doesn't come to come to k L all the time,

  377. and he's from another country. But I really want to mean. Okay,

  378. where will you be. I'll be in PJ. Okay, cool. I'm

  379. so happy meeting the guy the ninety one in PJ. So I say,

  380. I'll see you in PJ. So I'm there. I can meet this guy

  381. at ninetyty talk to him. He tells me he's suicidal. He's always all

  382. this plan how he's gonna do it. And I said, bro, please

  383. don't tell you, but if you're gonna do please call me first. He

  384. said, I can't promise you that, okay, but we've been in touch

  385. this morning. He told me, I'm much better. I've written some some

  386. message to the person that I'm having a problem with, and I feel lighter

  387. now. I feel better now, I'm just like, okay, God,

  388. I'm glad I was there. And then my other appointment. He guess who

  389. I met talking to this pastor and I realized his past the team's mentor.

  390. I didn't even notice he was Positivity's mentor. He was there when Postivity was

  391. still a student deciding where to plan his church that I were not. Every

  392. nation was called Eagle Point, Pasative was gonna plan in PJ and this person

  393. said, no, you got to put chung. I was able to meet

  394. this man and he was full of wisdom, and I'm so glad to be

  395. connected with him now. Sometimes God disrupts your plan. He disrupts your plan.

  396. I've got a few people in my contact list that I wonder how hard

  397. I tried, they won't come to judge. You have all sorts of reasons

  398. why you want to be there, but just God just wouldn't let me let

  399. them go. Some of these people, I've known them since they were teenagers.

  400. Today they are in their thirties. We're still in touch. Will you

  401. reason anything? I don't know. I don't know because I don't go even

  402. the agenda. Do I want them to come to of course, But at

  403. that time, as I'm sitting there having the banana leave or coffee. Do

  404. I have an agenda that he must end you must come to church? Not

  405. necessary, because then that messes everything up. Because when Jesus was there with

  406. his woman at the well, he didn't ask him to come to the Synegague

  407. man. He didn't even ask her to change her life. He's just saying,

  408. you're water. I know this water very go on. That encounter changed

  409. her life. She went and told everybody I met this person. Come see

  410. this man. He knows everything I want to court. You think future,

  411. live present. Think future means hey, what what am I leaving behind?

  412. But as you do that, live in the now. I'm with you.

  413. Now you're not ready to come to church, that's okay, I'll be your

  414. friend because because church is not just this right we can have judge, but

  415. it's a restaurant. So I think Jesus will do that because full examples he

  416. just doing this in the Bible. Well La beach lah desert, la by

  417. the lake, law in the boat ler in a strong live focused, but

  418. allow God to disrupt your plans. See now that I say this, and

  419. now that you have to you have to think about it. Maybe the next

  420. time someone texts you you think more right now, because you should. You

  421. should, You could save a life you give to the future. You live

  422. in the now. Give means you you're sewing. You're sewing to the future.

  423. Your actions, your choices, your investments are so into the future.

  424. But you live in the now. God is speaking now, Jesus says,

  425. in my two sakes, don't worry tomorrow. Worry about yourself right just today,

  426. be goes on trouble. So I paraphrases summarize. Basically, he's saying

  427. that living now thing future, but live now, living in our global provide.

  428. Amen. So so the third point is live and live a legacy.

  429. That's how we should live. We should live thinking. Okay, the person

  430. that comes after me, what is the path that has prepared for him?

  431. What example, what testimony have I left him? Look at it verse here.

  432. So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and

  433. said to the people, come see a man who told me all that ever

  434. they can, this be the Christ. They went out of the town and

  435. were coming to him, and then they themselves came a paraphrasia you can read

  436. this on your own, and they say, now we believe because we've experienced

  437. God for ourselves. So basically this is live a let's see whatever Jesus did.

  438. He deposited in the woman. The woman carried that into the city and

  439. told everybody and in the city now comes and they experience God himself, and

  440. then the whole nation changes, and then the world. Because today we're telling

  441. this story in Malaysia to this audience who's listening and being inspired by the lesson

  442. from this woman at the world. So I think we need to imagine our

  443. life having this impact. So what am I carrying? And how can I

  444. deposit into the grab driver or the padmenting record maker or he came saying,

  445. So ask yourself this question, what will your future look like if you're continue

  446. living the way you live right now? If you don't change anything, you

  447. don't let God disrupt any of your plans or interrupt any of your plans.

  448. You just live the way you live right now. Oh, your future look

  449. like something you think about. So build today for tomorrow, make disciples.

  450. Makes His suppose does not have to be complicated. You do have to have

  451. to have the message. This week I texted like fifty people past the team

  452. does fifty a day but he has a thousand member chess lah I didn't have.

  453. I mean some of you receive my text. So you know what I

  454. said, nothing nothing magical. By mean what I said, I said,

  455. how can I serve you this week? How can I pray for you this

  456. week? So one of the one of one of them was a student and

  457. said struggling with his studies. And I was able to connect and say,

  458. wow, great timing. We're having studied group is SAT today. Would you

  459. come? He came, and we have just the right people to help him

  460. with this the subject is struggling with. He started with, how can I

  461. pray for you this week? Hey? You need byle school to do this?

  462. A you can do here. If we are all the day, we

  463. all keep the mainting mainting. We all live on purpose, we all live

  464. on mission. We really can change the world and save the world together.

  465. Amen. We don't to you know, at least in these church we don't

  466. make this uppiship like some complicated nineteen point five different steps and some I don't

  467. know. You have to take nineteen courses and then you graduate and then then

  468. you you know, then you start your journey in ah. I mean,

  469. of course we have to learn something, and there's some skills and all stuff

  470. like that, but just look look at the life of Jesus and say,

  471. well, how did he do it? Aymen, thank you for listening to

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