New Eyes, New Ears, New Mouth - Part 1 | Andy Yeoh

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

pray that the word of God today will challenge, change

and channel.

You into your God given destiny. Now let's get started.

Let's continue on the series of like, how are we

going to allow God to make us new?

Amen? A happy new you.

The focus is not unhappy, because when not here this

to be happy? I don't think god ultimate purpose of

being God is to make us happy, but to make

us purpose full and joyful. But I'm just using the

word happy to mean blessed, to mean fulfilled.

Amen.

Okay, Okay, Please, I'm a boring preacher. I fall asleep

at my own preaching, so please keep me awake by responding.

Whether I say something good or bad, respond anyway.

Is that cool? All right? So let's continue today.

I'm gonna start this sort of message series called new eyes,

new ears, new mouth. So to be a happy new you,

you need to have new eyes, new ears.

New mouth. Amen. Okay.

So when we started Happy New You, we looked at

Acts chapter sixteen, the story of Paul and Silas. So

I'm just reading one verse out of the whole passage,

So if you're interested, please read in context the story

Okatain read from verse twenty two to thirty one. Let

me summarize Paul and Silas being apostles and doing what

they do. They basically set a slave girl free. There

was a girl who became a slave to some sorcerer

and she was used to kind of like tell fortunes

and all that. But Paul and Silas cast demons out

of her and she could no longer do it. So

now she cannot bring income to her bosses, and her

bosses became unhappy. Accused Pauland's somehow managed to get Paul

and Silas thrown into not just prison, but the dungeon

whipped Bruce beaten up Canna nicely for doing nothing wrong,

for setting someone free. Follow the situation so far, So

an innocent person doing something good is thrown into a

very difficult, painful situation. Now, if you were in that situation, okay,

you may react and response quite differently. Right, if someone

takes something from you, store something from you, or if

someone bad mouth of you, or someone slap you for

no reason, what do you think the general.

Reaction will be?

Slap them back, you know, keyboard, worrying them back on

Facebook or whatever.

Right?

So, It's very interesting what Paul and Silas did. Instead,

instead of the usual fight back, scull back, wag back,

they prayed and sang hymns to God, and the world

around them were listening. They were watching, observing. So I

just want to bring you attention as a Christian, especially

as a Christian, the world around you is listening and watching. Yeah,

how you deal with pain, how you deal with uh injustice,

how you deal with whatever situation in your life. You're

being watched, even if you don't realize it. And the

world around Poland Silists were watching and listening and observing

their response to a very unfair, difficult situation.

Amen, and Poland Silence.

Instead of the usual reactions, they prayed and worship God,

and if you read on, we saw that as a

result of that they were set free and the ultimately

led to the prison Gods and his family's salvation.

Amen.

Okay, Which let me just pull it all together and

say that's the post of our life. We are saved

so that we can become a good sheaf to those

who don't know Christ.

Yet.

Ultimately, how you do in your job, how you do

in your marriage, how you do in your relationship, your friendship,

your business, all of that. Hopefully it's so that you

can shine a light and people will see the good

works that you do for God and day to one

to come to God, come to know Jesus, amen so,

and a lot of things in the Bible, those details

are not there by chance. At midnight, at midnight, midnight

is that moment in the day where yesterday becomes today.

Right midnight signifies a turn, a change. We are at

the turn of a new year. We are and this

is a time where most of you write down your resolutions.

This is week number one, two three, How many you

have broken some of em? Like we all have this

new hope right happy knew you midnight midnight where things turn,

where things change. Paul and Silas had a very different response.

Instead of crying to themselves, there's a list of things

that they did in stead, somebody say in state it's

a very important word. That means that if you're got

to be a happy new you, you gotta have an

instead instead of having the attitude I would have this.

Instead of look at things that way, I will look

at things this way. They are saying that, I'll say

this instead somebody sayings that so Instead of crying to themselves,

they cry od to God. Instead of cursing, their prayed.

Instead of worrying, they were worshiping. Instead of complaining, their praise,

instead of feeling sorry for themselves. They become part of

a bigger story, bigger than themselves.

Amen.

So there wasn't Instead. They could have cursed, but they prayed.

They could have worried, but they worshiped. They could have

done that, but they did this. That's what made them different.

Amen? How how can I that? Are you bleeding?

Bruce bunker Porta And in the situation in the Dungan

sang hymns brow.

Not even playing a boom? Did you sing this this?

Modern eyes?

They were older than that. Did you know the hymns

that we all celebrate?

Uh?

The words are from the writer, the tune is from

the pub Yes, okay, So.

They were singing hymns.

How when we read the Bible, we need to read

with their curiosity and saying.

God, why? How? What? When? How? Who? Amen?

So how I believe to Heaven new you? It starts

with new eyes. Somebody'sying new eyes. They saw with new eyes.

Now I don't mean this literally literally, like go and

do let's sing now, okay, or get a new peril class.

You know I mean symbolically right, new eyes, a new

or let me give you this word, a new perspective.

In other words, the way you look at life.

In twenty twenty three should be different in twenty twenty four,

because the simple premise is this. If you look at life,

and by life I mean everything about you the same

way last year as you do this year, then what

will change?

What will be better? Amen?

So new eyes the power of perspective? Do say perspective?

How have you would.

Agree that looking and seeing is not the same thing.

Everybody looks, but not everybody sees. Yep, you could be

looking at the same thing, but you see very differently. Amen,

look and seeing it's not the same thing. You can

look at something, and so we all look at the

Bible every Saturday, but we may not see what the

Bible is trying to tell us.

Right, So new eyes to see with.

You got to look at life and see differently than

you did before. Otherwise it'll be what insanity to expect

the different results when you're doing the same thing over

and over again. Albert Enstein said that yep, okay, see

this is why it's so powerful to praise God. Praise

is an act of faith. Praise is saying something true

about God, even if you don't feel it or see it.

For the moment. Amen.

That means you may not feel very good right now,

things around you may not be very good, but you

say God, you are good. That's praise, and that's an

act of faith because when you do that, when you

praise God, it gives you perspective. It reminds you you

are good, You are God, I am Man, I'm in

need of you.

It reminds you praise is good.

Yeah, when you're in the pit, usually it's praise.

It gets you out.

When Joseph was in the pit, out of all the brothers,

you know which one got him out Judah. Judah means

praise of all the brothers, was Judah who say, hey,

come on, don't leave him here, Let's get him out.

Praise gives you a perspective. It's an egg of faith.

It doesn't depends on how you feel.

Amen. So what is perspective.

It's a view, a way of looking at things and

seeing things, a mental of you, a mindset, somebody mindset.

We addressed this last year, but I feel we.

Can go deeper a mind set. So guys and girls

have different perspective.

If you haven't noticed it yet.

When we say shopping, a guy thinks shopping is this

and a girl thinks shopping is this?

It's two different things.

Yeah, a guy can say I'm going to the shopping

mall to buy a belt. The girl says, oh, yeah,

me too. But a guy goes in there, finds the belt,

buys it, and goes The girl will enjoy the whole

process comes back with an entire enxample, not just belt, shoe, tammering, whatever. Right,

Guys and girls perspective on football is different. Hey, yeah,

one is watching how the game goes there and is

watching and how hot the guy is. I know generalization,

but you get my point. Guys perspecting on love and

girls perspecting on love also two different things. Yeah, so

what's a perspective? Perspective is a way of looking at things,

a way of seeing something.

Yeah.

So with perspective, you can even see what's not there.

Something's not there, but you can see it because of

the way you're seeing. You can even you can even

not see what's there. Maybe someone is trying so hard

to show you love and care, you just can't see it.

Yeah. Church situation very common, very common.

You go, I've been a you pastor for a long

time and I hear this very very common, all right,

Because we'll have a new young person walks into the

church and everybody will talk to the young person.

Here are you? Where you from? Okay?

And then the young person will go back and then

come again after a few weeks. That young person says,

I don't feel I belong. No one talks to me.

And then you are spec your head. What even no

one talks to you? Everybody was talking to you, but ah,

you know who everybody is. It's uncle like me, uncle

like Kannish or the ancle auntie. They don't count nobody

that I want to talk to me, talk to me.

So conclusion, no one talks to me, I don't feel

belong and here you are. Ah, So we perspective, if

you look at it a certain way, you can see

what's not there. You can even not see what's there.

What you see depends on where you see from. So

it's a question of focus. What you focus on you see, right?

Application pretty simple, right, if you focus on mistakes or

you see is if you focus on hurt or you

see yadi, YadA, etcetera, etcetera, dot dot.

Dot, You fill in the blanks.

So can you can you at least see at this

point in time that to change who you are, to

become a new person allowing the word of God and

is to have new eyes.

To see it.

And of course this is not psychology workshop or one

of those things. It's it's a church. What am I

saying to you, I'm saying to you have new eyes

on but do it through the world of God. That

means you gotta look at your world as how God

sees it. So if you're experiencing pain, how you see pain,

How what you focus on about the pain changes you? Yes,

So if you look at pain the way God sees pain,

it changes you too. What you focus on growth. Somebody say, amen,

let me ask you a question. It's on the slide

as well. Say you have you have a few child

If you have few children, or maybe you're a teacher,

or maybe you know your own children, but you got nephews, nieces, cousins.

I want you think of the most difficult child you have,

maybe not cooperative, maybe uh.

Slow to respond, uh, maybe rebect whatever it is.

Okay, you got three the most difficult one, you got

two the most difficult. Maybe you're among all your cousins,

among all your nephew us. Think of the most difficult.

Child you have? Question? Is this child good? All bad?

This child that comes home throw the socks underway everywhere,

never picks up. This child that always answer back when

you say something, This child that always breaks things, This

child that I don't know always cracks your password and.

Fight things with your credit card.

Sally one day got Tesla who bought this? Yeah, this

child good, all bad? Good to bad? Bad because bad?

Because I'm sure you have an explansion, right, don't mean

expectations the very definition of scene right, missing the mark?

This is good, you don't meet it, you're bad. How

many of you think, no, this child is good? No

one thinks this child is good. Anyone want to just

be the one I was saying he's good and somehow

hook up some reason for it, like, for example, the

child is good, he's just doing bad things. Can be

a good word just doing bad things temporarily. This is

generally how we think about life, theology, relationship, anything. Can

I give you a perspective the problem is not whether

this child is misbehaving or behaving. The problem is in

the question. I gave you no choice. I already labeled

a child, this child is good or bad. The problem

is the question. We do that all the time. Well,

this is suffering.

I have in my life?

Is good or better? If God is so good, then

why does this bad thing happen to me? We gave

it no choice. We have to answer it's good, it's bad,

it's good, it's bad. And if that's how we look

at even children. If this child is either just good

or bad, do you know what he affects a parenting

affects the way we see the child, or if you're

a teacher, affects how you teach. Perspective affects everything. The

problem is in the question. And when I say that,

I also mean the problem is in the perspective. Why

do you look at this and only give two options,

good or bad? What if this child doesn't pick up

his own clothes, or doesn't finish his food, or doesn't

do all his chores?

And what if you.

Change the question. What if the question is I wonder

what he's actually good at? Or what if the question

is I wonder what it would take to get him

to pick up his clothes instead of bad. Can you

catch the power perspective? Now, how would it change your parenting?

Because if it's good, you reward, If it's bad, you punish.

But what really changed? It only reinforces the label that

you already put on the child.

The child doesn't change.

But if you ask a different question, what if Wow,

I wonder what made him finish his food the last time?

Not just child? What about colleagues? What about your boss?

Bad boss? A good boss? Are what if you ask

a different question? The problem is in the question we

need to view people accurately and that the bottom line

says we can't. Only God can. Only God knows you

through and through. In other words, if you want to

view another precious human being accurately, lovingly, christianly, you've got

to view them through the lenses of God. How does

God view that rebellious answering back, dirty, untidy child? How

does God view that? And then as a parent you

view that way. As a colleague, as a friend, as

a neighbor, as an employee, you start to view things

the way God views them. You know why, every question

has a presupposition. Every question that you ask has already

a presupposition, something you already presupposed. That is why the

why question can be so hard to answer.

Canji or late why.

That presupposes questions intent, It doesn't get It's not nice

being asked that doesn't ask no problem, don't being asked

fews like we're asking me why because it's a presupposition. Demesa,

you must have had a you I don't have a

good intention or bad intention? Why So to help the stitution,

we ask differently, Yeah, it's the traffic.

Okay.

Today, every question has a presupposition. Every thought has a presupposition.

We are nobody can say, Nola, I'm completely neutral, no

such thing.

What if?

So, since every question has a presupposition in the words,

every question has an assumption every time, what if we

all assume the best, always ideal? I know, But what

if we all start to assume the best, always assume

the best of each other, always assume the best of God.

God loves me.

God is perfect, He does nothing that is lacking. Therefore,

if he allows this challenge in my life, he is good.

He's perfect. This is not a mistake. He must have

a good reason for it. And then your attitude changes.

What if that person that is so bad to you?

What if we assume the best. I'm not saying it's

easy to do. I'm saying it changes things. I'm saying

it changes you. New eyes, new perspective, God's perspective. Amen,

having the right perspective is key. And by right, I

don't mean by your or my definition, but God's definition.

Only God gets to determine what is right. Amen, having

the right perspective is key. It changes everything. It is

very important. It is vital for our late relationship with

each other. Amen, we are the body of Christ, of

all people on this planet Earth. We've got to get this.

We are one body. The Bible says that's what we

didc community, the way we did it last week. From

one bottle, one sauce, one bread. We all partake together

because one body. We are called and designed to live together.

But we are different. Because some of you are hand

You like to take things with.

Some of us that the lake.

We like to kick things, We have to go places.

Some of you are the bumb You know, it just

wouldn't be every comfortable. I don't know, like we're all different,

but we are one body.

We gotta learn how to relate.

And one of the first things that needs to be

fixed or renewed or change is the way we see things,

our perspective and man.

So it's key. It's key.

So it's key for relationship with each other, it's key

for relationship with God.

Everybody okay with God.

With the right perspective, it leads us to things like

it least us to be a worshipper. When we finally

catch who God is, we don't see him as our

center Claus. Let's admit it, some of us. God is

just our center Claus. When we need something, we show

him how good we've been and he must give it

to us.

So what's God? It's just our healer.

We only go to him and not well and sick,

and we're like, okay, God, you're great healer.

Hallelujah, Priest, he'll me. So what's God? Is our comfort?

Whatever are.

Then God, it's just the thing or the person or

the entity that blesses you or gives you what you need,

what you want, just not the right perspective.

When you catch the right perspective.

And you realize amongst all things that His Savior, Shepherd, Love, Redeemer,

and our comfort teacher, all these.

Things, my alliest things.

Ultimately, he is God, oh mighty, and he is worthy

of a worship. And that should teach me you to

never think I put find her again. The offering back

so odd well, it's more than the other guy, so odden,

he's gone. Having the right perspective makes you a worshiper,

and a worshiper does things like honor. You don't think

God's name for in vain? You you don't just you

know what I'm saying. Can I see I've done just

wrong enough to I think I no longer want to

say you don't come yo, you are a bad personer

because I can't do that.

But that would lead to what, that would lead to guilt?

I mean when you are it's a Saturday and you're

in Langkawei somewhere, and I text you, hey, brohere are

you what's the feeling guilt?

Yeah? What's the found out? Shucks?

And then next week or next time you come to

church because of what?

Then guilt?

You think.

There's the emotion got ones from you? Guilty?

So I single whish of you want your child or

your wife to love you? Because I feel guilty. I

feel guilty. I didn't talk to her today. That's why

it makes you were one hundred percent of all the time.

Hi, darling, today, I'm dating you because I feel guilty.

And if you could hear that thought, which of you

wifs will feel like that's so awesome?

We think we die guilty? Wait didn't? No, but I

would say you didn't come with judge? You should come? Why?

Because you miss it? Very different?

I yeah, I missed just last week. If you so guilty, law,

so guilty? La, I need to go to just next week.

I don't want that. I yeah, I didn't go to

just last week. I miss it.

I miss it. I wonder what happened. I wonder what

God said.

Yeah, I wonder what the presence of God was like

last I miss it. You say the same thing to

your wife. Are you I'm talking to you right now

because I missed talking to you?

Hey? Different? Feeling right?

Don't believe me going? Try go on a date your

loved one and say I'm just doing this case.

I'm guilty, So why why would I build it? What

a plan?

Thet church and talk like that to maybe you feel guilty. No,

I want to make it sure you miss it, I

miss it, relationship, ma, I want to be in God's presence.

That's true honor.

The other version is just guilt, embarrassed, shame, point scoring,

performance based.

Right. This is God. So I love you God.

You are deserving and worthy of my love. And that

is why I obey. Not because I'm scared, because I

fear you. Goduse I obey because I love you. I

want to please you. Amen, And that's why. Except to

sixteen Paul and Silas Bruce broken falls the accused, what's

the response, God, you did this to Mina, You did

this to me god yr Phone, Why go and become missionary?

He was, I know, I know who I am. I

know who you are. I mean not understand it. Oh like,

what the why am I in a prison? But you

are gone? You were gone?

You know what I'm saying.

Paul and Silas understood that. So the perspective is very different.

I said two weeks ago about how you know some

of us we shopping seven seven eleven eleven girl whatever.

We bought something that used to be.

One thousand ring kid and then sixty percent off and

now it's only four hundred ring kid, and be so happy.

Hey, everybody, I say six hundred ring kah.

No you spend for hundred in it? You're four hundred

git border Now you know what I'm saying. No my city, No, No,

you spent four hundred. It's perspective. What if you turn

this around and make it positive. It's not work, it's worship.

It's not work, it's ship. What if removing the sick

covers it's not just work, it's worship. You can see

something as pressure or it's a pleasure, like giving. Is

it a pressure to give or is it a pleasure?

God?

I get to do this? Thank you God, you bless

me with something to give you back, even if it's

two mics. This is a pressure to don't know, to obey,

a pressure to love for pressure to be there? Or

is it a pleasure? It changes everything? It changes your mood,

you're feeling your emotion, and then you you being.

There, changes everybody else's esmostphere? Right? Wow?

What it weill live by assuming the best? It's not

time wasted, its time invested. What if your time sitting

here is not time wasted, just time passing and never

comes back.

What if it's invested. I don't know when I need

this word.

But I need to keep this word in my heart

because one day I'm gonna need this store.

Store store.

That's how banks work, right, You store money so that

one day when you need it and you go back inside, think,

got I saved you deposit so they can withdraw. Amen

with others. They having a right perspective effects and influences

your relationship with others. Amen, let me show your chat.

It's called the pig Melon. In fact, Pimeleon was a sculptor.

He he was famous for making a sculpture that he

loves so much. And then the movie is that he

became a life. He loved meone and he became a life.

So it's basically talking about how one someone's attitude or

someone's view over something so basic. He loves his old

cup so much it came to life so that you

brow wrote that myth use his name and call it

a pig mailing effect. It tells you that our beliefs

about others will influence our actions towards them. So if

I think you're undeserving on my love, what do you

think I will do? I won't greet you or what

pass you right?

You call me?

I won't pick up because you're not deserving. Why you're

a bad person, You're selfish, you are you are just

there to rob from me.

So I'm not gonna be saying.

Once you form a belief about someone, it will influence

your action towards them. So if you think I'm a

bad leader, no matter how good I actually am, But

if you think I'm bad, you will influence the way

you treat me vice versa towards each other. Two yes, yeah,

your belief or influence your action towards others and the

way you treat others. Well, then impact they believe about themselves.

If nobody loves me, maybe I'm unlovable. If everybody rejects me,

maybe I'm a reject. They start to believe how they

are treated. Put this in a parenting perspective. If you

always tell your child he's naught, nothing, nothing naughty, watch

what happens funny?

Right?

We tell them good things and we explain them to follow,

because bottomne is we want them to follow. So if

certain bad things and they follow, what You're so surprised

other people believes about themselves. It's impacted by how they

are being treated. So if I'm always love accepted, believed on.

Then I tend to see myself that way too, and

they will cause their action towards you. If I always

call you you want't be nice to me? Man know right,

Because whatever I do, whatever I ask, whatever I say,

has a presupposition.

That's an assumption, and it goes around. It reinforces.

So see, I bet to you because I beg to you,

you think I'm a bad person. Anyway, you bet back

to me, and it reinforces my belief that to you,

he's a bad person. It goes around and around. Nobody changes,

nothing changes. Yep, God knows this. That's why while I'm

gonna give you about six verses about how we should

treat each other, there's plenty more, and very few of

them talks about self love. In fact, none is a misundersuconcept,

not saying self care is not important.

Self love is very different.

We'll talk about it another time, but look at this

verses how should we treat others?

First contains one ten.

I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name

of our lot Jesus Christ, that all of you agree

with one another in what you say, and that there

be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly

united in mind and thought, perspective view. Let's agree that

we're going to assume the best of each other. Agree

that the person you now are so annoyed by so

much is a child of God. Jesus died for him too,

and you're not more deserving of God's grace than he is.

Changes everything. Amen, But he's late, I know God, but.

He's still my parents will Yeah, still a child of God.

Need some grace and need to change my child God?

Praise smelly? Yeah he wait all jelly? Just now, Yes,

where's the child of God? What does a Bible tell

us to How should we live our life? How should

we live with other human beings? Do nothing out of

self in ambition? Or then conside rather in humility, value

others above yourself, not looking to your own interests, but

each of you to the interests of others. Next one,

be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,

just as in Christ, God forgave you.

Imagine we live in the world like this.

Romans twelf that next one be devoted to one another

in love, honor one another above yourself Methew seven to twelve.

The Golden Rule.

So in everything due to others, what you would have

them do to you for this sums up the law

and the prophets James one, nineteen.

My dear brother and sisters take note of this.

Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and

slow to become angry.

There's a musical called My Fair Lady. It's about this

flower girl.

And then this professor that wants to groom her and

train her to behave like a princess.

There's a scene. I don't have the clip, but in

this scene she gave this courtees.

She said, the difference between a flower girl and a

princess is not how she behaves, but how she is treated.

Now we can dissect these and agree and disagree and

all that, but the point here is this.

How we treat impact them.

How parents treat the child, how bosses treat their employees,

how brothers and sisters in Christ treat each other impacts

has an impact.

So my big question is what if? What if?

What if we live out God's word? Be kind to

one another, estingish other above our own interests, be kind

of compressions, quick to listen, slow to speak, definitely slow

to get angry. This is not making excuses for people

like if you're on the worship team and you're late,

you're late. It's not trying to make excuses about you,

but trying to think the best and assume the best

of you. But you have the responsibility to say, I'm late.

I'll do something about it, especially since my team members

treat me so nice. I hope you're motivated to change,

not motivated to do litter, so they love me up

next time, be later. That that is there is there

is a problem. That means you don't have the mental

capacity to like detect. The right response is to oh,

motivated to do better? Amen, because if they score you,

then your motivator to do better.

But out of guilt.

And guilt don't last because nobody wants to feel guilty

long long. Who wants to prolong youill? Nobody right, So

guilt cannot be the motivation must be love still must

be love. So if you're late to a meeting and

we love you back, don't get the wrong and I says, wow.

So nice, like this ship literally still love me? Or

next time, come on? I want it? Lock? They no, no,

what if?

What if we treat each other the way God wants

to treat us perspective. Amen, there's just new eyes. You

can new mouth, new years, no time. Today will continue

some other time. He said, Okay, God is just not

there to like. It's not it's not like other gods. Know,

we feed him in apple and then give us four digits.

Then were going by. Then we get a new car.

I knows it's not dead. This is not our God. Oh,

God gives you a new tesla that you don't deserve.

If that's what you need. It's a good God. But

God is not some puppet, some clown to entertain. You know,

He's God.

Having the right perspective changes and then having a right

perspective over each other.

Changes everything. Amen, even non Christians.

Even the people outside of the church, outside the body

of Christ.

The way we see affects everything.

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