Change Series - Part 1: Do You Really Want Change? (The Unsexiness of Change) | Andy Yeoh

Hey, you welcome to the Generation's Church podcast. We pray you will be

blessed by this message. Today I made a word of God both encouraged and

challenge you to be all God purpose you to be. Now, let's dive

right in. Change will cost you. It will cost you. He's now

half poorer, not just half, He's more than half poorer, because he

gave half of his goods away, and then those he gave four times more.

So it's a lot less richer than he was before. And I know

you can take my next statement and do a geological study and maybe find it

to be unbiblical. I don't know. Maybe it's by at least logical.

So I'll just say, if you have experience changed and he has not cost

you yet, maybe you haven't changed all elephants in my mind. Now this

is a you. Some of you have changed church. You've come here.

Has it cost you yet? Because it haven't cost you? You've just changed

addressed. Oh can begeme more real. You've just changed seats, you said

in it. Oh you can choose to be happy. He is it it?

Oh my gosh, you'll be happy. Don't worry again. You just

change seats. Change day of meeting. It used to be Sunday morning,

now Saturday after day. It what's the big difference? Man? If it

hasn't cost you yet, maybe a change hasn't really happened. Maybe you're like

the sexy of change. But change has un sexy side too, Because when

when Zach started meeting Jesus, I don't think he's like, Okay, I'm

gonna meet Jesus and after this I'll be porter. I don't think he planned

that. I don't think he knew that. All he knew was this Jesus

guy. He changes life. He brings miraculous into my mundane life. He

makes a difference in my life. He just he knew that. He knew

he needs to meet Jesus. He knew he needs to make make a change.

He knew exactly what until he met Jesus and he realized, you know

what, I'm not gotta give all this stuff that used to hold me down

away, this thing called money that used to like it and still to get

I gotta give it away now because this is no longer my lord, this

is no longer my master. Change will cost you. I wanted to really

think deeply about that has changed hea, have you been paying the costs for

change? Or it's just a little too comfortable at the moment. Got to

really think deeply about that. Real change will cost you. I know it

may not be money, but you'll cost you something. It'll cost your time.

Or how about this, Maybe it'll cost you your trust again? Maybe

you are funny really hard to trust again, Trust your leadership, trust your

neighbor. He said, good to see me around already he really, you

know, really wanted to see me. There were no more seats, so

he sat next to me. Now he's got to say I smell good.

I know I don't smell good. Whatever. Okay, I'm just being funny

now right, But hey, change will cost you? Has it cost you

yet? Because if hand costs you, maybe change, real change hasn't happened.

We will. We will do this all over again because we know where

God has led us, and this is where God wants us to be.

Way too many miracles and confirmations to look back and go a regret, no

regrets. But it will cost you because if hant cost you yet, maybe

hasn't. You haven't changed and you say you want change, I'm not just

talking about changing address, changing seats. You get me a changing brand.

That's the sexy part. There's a sexy pot up the Instagram. Oh new

profile? Hey, why is that line? Nothing? A course, you

just trust again. You have to trust again, which means anytime you talk

about trust, there's always the risk of your heart being broken one more time.

I don't think we can avoid being hurt. There is no way the

people who love you will ever be able to not hurt you. No freaking

way. You will be hurt. In fact, that's how you know someone

loves you. This pain is real. It's a very different thing than harming

you. If I hurt you, I hold you. No, I'm human.

If I harm you, I'm a very bad human. Run away rich

loving parent will harm their children, but proceed set traps so they'll step on

glass. No one does that. But will parents hurt their children of course,

like when the child wants to play one more hour of Mobile Legends and

the mom says no. The child gets hurt. Oh you don't love me,

all kind of strong wads and you don't love me. You don't care

about me. No, no, no, no, I care about you.

That's why I have to hurt you by way holding these privilege for not

you get what I'm saying right. Hurt is part of relationships and community.

Just learn the difficiate between harm and hurt. If people harm you, that's

bad. Run away people hurt you normal. We have to find a new

way to deal with hurts. Forgive better, say sorry, quicker, have

more open communication, be more understanding, give a benefit of doubt. All

those things you hear guru say, but don't practice but poorly for now the

way. Okay, change will cost you. You want change? Change your

cost you number two. Change will be uncomfortable. So in the same energy.

If you have been very comfortable, you haven't fully changed yet. You

move into a new house sometimes can be so comfortable you don't unpack your box

because that's all you know. Resetting everything. So you bought a new house,

but you haven't made a home. Changing company is changing addresses. Changing

church is the same thing. You've changed home and you changed houses. Have

you made it a home, because it'll be uncomfortable if you do. Zechists

look at chapter nineteen, verse four. I believe for three verse four,

and he sat to see who Jesus was. He wanted to change, but

he could not because he's shot and you know, so what he do he

has to run quicker than everybody, climb up higher than anybody. And there's

a lot of discomfort. It's a lot of work. So I want to

caution us. If we've been too comfortable sitting in this it's not peels but

these nice coat chairs. If we've been too comfortable, and you know what,

it's been seven months, it's time to grow, time to really change.

Don't get scared. I'm not asking you to not every night a meeting.

You know, can your sign of a fifteen ministry? We don't even

have fifteen ministry? How to sign up? You know, I'm asking you

to do all that. Don't worry where I want to shift my house,

shift a new house, new Taman, new town, just to do everything

same, of course, not so don't worry. But let's be real.

If things are too comfortable, we haven't changed. So if you really want

change, we really want God to refresh you and give you a new breath

of life. We need to be willing to be uncomfortable. Because Zakias did

that, he was a number or Kanama and a viph could have taken the

front seat if he wanted to chief text collector that turns three. I don't

know what his surname, whatever his title was. He could have, but

this was left in the story to show us change is uncomfortable. Number three.

Change will cut us. There will be some severing, there will be

some cutting away. There'll be things that need to be get get gotten rid

off, real change. You can't work for a new company with your old

company mindset. Oh begging my whole officer. I can take the pencil wherever

I want, knowing to return us. All I can photo that my church

song sheets just be the worst. You know already photo saying the song sheet

is ready copyright infringement. You can use a company want to photo says the

more for all of your worship ministry. One hundred fet people. Worse people

are do you nobody. There needs to be some severing, cut off.

We will deal with them in the coming weeks. Some things to be like

us. Allow Jesus the greatest surgeon, to remove those things. The extra

humor, you know that, the extra cancerous whatever thing rose hurt and bitterness

cut cut cut, look nineteen verse eight to nine. Then he's like your

students said, Lord, look, I give how my goods to the poor.

And if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, so he's

taken. He's carried something with him all his life that he should not have

had. Stuff he stole, stuff he carried along his whole life. You

know what I'm saying, There is a last time want money, he only

got bad ways to get it. He wants he wants something he only got

unhealthy and why it is bad silly ways to get it. Get sam.

I'm saying that is mindset. There is deep internal stuff that needs to be

cut off, cut off, whatever it takes to cut that off. Some

of us have to go through counseling, someone to go to therapy, Some

have the prayer deliverance or whatever. I don't know. Someone have to go

to fasting and prayer, whatever it takes. Those things cannot be carried forward.

He applies to companies, to applies to marriage to we all carry baggage

from our bringing in our history, and that we move into marriage and then

we expect everything to be work the way it's supposed to work, supposed to

work according to my family tradition and right. And that's why we klashma.

No that has to be gotten rid off too, and exact, Yes,

has to give away, cut away the things that used to define him,

they used to give him identity. I am filthy rich, Yes, filthy

rich. He has to get you of the filthy. And we all have

filthy bro And says, we all have filty. Right, we've all heard,

we've all been hurt, we've all been disappointed, we all have had

experienced failure. Here there, do you really want change? It cost you,

It will be uncomfortable, it will cut you. Look five thirty seven

to thirty nine, and no one puts new wine into all wine skins or

else the new wine will burn the wine skins and be spilled, and the

wine skins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wine

skins and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine,

immediately desires new for he says the old is better. Don't say it won't

happen to me. Because three million people called the Israelites were saved and delivered

from slavery. Slavery, you understand, they didn't used to own their life.

Their life used to be owned by some foreigners. They told them what

they could and could not do. They are now free and complaining about going

back. So, yes, it will happen, even to the best of

us. I'm just calling it out together because we're gonna deal with this together.

We want to live healthy. Live healthy means healthy emotions, healthy spirit,

healthy mind means whatever cancerous tumor, virus, bacteria, germ de taxla.

Amen. Change will cost you, change will be uncomfortable, change will

cut you. God is pouring new wine. He wants to do a new

thing. He wants to do a new thing. Amen, not just in

this one church. In his church is his church, his body. And

I believe he has seen all the mess we have created as human beings,

and he wants he's his church. So he wants to pull out a new

spirit, a new wine, a new annoying thing. But we cannot have

all minds, old hearts, always all wine skins. Amen number four.

If you really want change, briefing paid for critics and criticisms, Verse seven

of chapter nineteen. When they saw it, they all complained, saying,

he has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.

This always happened. There's always this fall letter word th e y. They

they won't understand. They will always criticize. There is way that be aware

of the day. There's always a day when we want to change. Not

everybody understands the change that we want. I don't think the other text collectors

understood why's that case is giving money away? I don't think the understood why

what's happening? What's so cool? What is Jesus? I mean one time,

come to your house, one time try you are giving money away?

Whoa what? What? What? There will always be critics and criticisms.

Some you will choose to hear and pick the good. Because we want to

learn. We won't learn right. There's a lot of it. You just

got to not bother. You just got to keep your heart healthy. Amen.

You want change and God wants to bring changed. That's why you're here.

That's why you're here. And don't even just be in church. You're

here in your job, wherever you are. You're here in your marriage,

that in the place. You're here in your life, your personal life.

Maybe a few months before this, you're not in a very good emotional space,

but now you're you're doing something about it. Maybe you're beginning to talk

to someone about it, and that's healthy. And that place you're in right

now, there's a reason for that, because God wants to put in new

wine, new blessings. Way too quiet, guys, Okay, go ahead,

man, come on, I'm talking about wine. Who are also quired?

Who? Amen? There would be critics because uh, if no critics,

are you used to got as yourself? Have you really changed? If

it doesn't cost you, have you really changed? If you're not uncomfortable,

it means you're not growing. Have you really changed? If things are not

cut away, if you don't stop talking like you used to, stop thinking

that, you used to start doing that, you used to start living at

used to and those things are not cut away, have you really changed?

Or are we just here having changed seats and change address. That's not real

change. And so be ready for the talk, the criticisms and the critics.

Friends. Actually, change is inevitable. It will happen with or without

you, whether you want it or not. And change is necessary for growth

and progress. Amen. If your muscles to be bigger, your muscle,

when it's bigger, it's not the same size as it was before. That's

change. You want growth, you want progress, Expect change. But change

is inevitable. The world wild moved on with or without you. The question

we got ask ourself is are we changing and growing for better or for worse?

Because you can change for the worst. You can become a very unrecognizable,

unpleasant person to be around, or you can be a better person to

be around, not a better person to be around. Amen. You know

when I was in school, i'mary in school SMK lost s r K last

a clang. I was in let me see, yeah, I was in

the yellow house, Leo. They call it yellow house. But that year

yellow house was the last house in our spots, and I thought, you

know what, this cannot be my legacy. I was only in standing one.

Don't tell me I'm going to be last the rest of my life aut

no way. The next year I found a way to cheat the system and

change my house to red house. I went to I went, changing myself

red house for the rest of my school year. Last place I changed.

I don't whether I'm the cause or not, but first yell pray was number

one when I changed the last last, last, last, last, last

last, So change would change. Why are you changing for better? Orfers,

that's important a man. So three things I want to address if we

really one change, and we're willing to even embrace the un sexy side of

change, the cause, the discomfort, the cutting away, criticisms, treatings.

Number One, cause is there a need for change? Sometimes there's no

reason to change. There's no cause. There's no real good reason. I

don't change phone. Why it's new? There's not. I mean, we

all know, there's not real. It's not need. We say I need

a new iPhone fifteen? No, no, you want you want a new

iPhone fifteen or you want So we gotta ask ourselves because you simply change around

like I change house. You can mess things up. So is there a

real cause? Is there a real need? Or is it just a popular

thing to do? Hey, friends, what is popular might not be right,

and what is right might not be popular. Number One, we could

ask ourselves, is there a cause? I have a cause to change?

It's a good cause. I shed these two weeks ago. Why generations church?

Why? And the other church? Because God wants us to reach the

whole world and not there's not enough churches to do it, and so we

just want to play our part. Yeah, Like you know, there are

some people I just can't reach, like my young people. I don't blame

my jone. You give me the putzel guys, okay, ken, So

we all reach different people? And why generation church? Why why starting other

church among a billion churches everywhere, so that we can play our part to

finish the great commission. So I told everyone in the attendants, we past

us in the crowd, I say, we are generations Church, we are

your friends. We're here to work together. Right. So I have a

cause and we want to reach the next generation because they are very easily forgotten

and sometimes not many people know how to do it. And God has given

us a grace to do it and to do it together with the family.

So it's not just young people and exclusively young people, but to with the

families. Amen. So is there a cause? Yes, this is our

cause. I have break enough a reason to make this crazy change. So

whatever change you think you are making or want to make or have made,

answer this first question? Is the need? Or is this just a one?

This is just a sexy thing? Is this just a popular thing?

Because this will this will be the this will be the thing that will keep

you together in the tough time when things are costing you and things get uncomfortable.

And things get being cut away from you, and and the criticisms come.

Oh mind when they come from all directions, WhatsApp, Facebook, twit

turn our threats to and you hear things and all the as are coming.

You need to go back to the cause because that one, that one informs

you whether it's worth it, despite the cause, despite the discomfort, despite

the cutting, despite all this, Cristians, it's worth it because the cause

is bigger than me. It's not about me, Amen. Number two,

change needs a catalyst. There needs to be a catalyst. Someone needs to

someone needs to initiate it. Unless I start moving there there is no follow

up, there's no follow through. Someone has to make the move. Someone

has to decide and say, okay, I mean a pay the price,

be uncomfortable, and then you take a first step. Catalyst. Change begins

with someone. Change begins with you, with me, with us. But

a catalyst is a personal thing that causes change. Whatever decisions you make today

in this lifetime, in this season is going to be the catalyst for your

future. But you gotta move today, amen, after you know what the

cause is. Yes, there is a cause. It is no matter how

it gets one day, It's worth it, and our will be the catalysts.

People want change, but you want other people to pay catalysts. Right

are you? You pay the price? You you you cannot embark. I

just come. But catalyst change begins with somebody. The vessel. The vessel

is the wine skin. Change. New wine skin cannot just be pought on

the ground and put everywhere we waste it. You need to be poured into

a vessel, a channel, something that will then later pour out into another

glass somewhere else, a channel someone that carries this change, this message,

this value. You're okay, so far good. The young people, you

understand, I'm too deep. Okay, your prefer when a preci You've just

okay, new wine in new wine skin. The vessel has to change.

We are the vessels. We need God to renew us. Somebody say,

amen, Romans twelve US two, do not be conformed to this world,

but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. I'll probably address this next

week about the mind. This one needs to go first. This needs to

be renewed first. The Bible says, don't don't conformed, transform, How

renew your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable? And

perfect will of God. Friends, if you're not transforming, then you're conforming.

I don't want it happening. At any given time, you're either becoming

something else or you're becoming like someone else. You're either transforming or you're conforming.

You need to choose to be the influence or to be influenced, because

if you want to influence, and the words you think can come already.

If you want to influence, then you got to be transformed. You transform

beginning with your mind. Otherwise you'll be conforming. You're being influenced, You're

just gonna fit in. So so, conforming is to blend in, become

like just blending, mit room, Okay, blending become I wish I had

that might now where you know, there's a I just learned to read.

There's a switch where you can switch, and then you can say something through

the mind only they can hear, and then you're cannot hear. Quite cool,

right, we'll get it one day. Conform is to blending, to

become like everyone else, just blending. After a while you get found out.

But God wants us to be transformed, to become something else, something

else. The word transform actually means to change substance, the very substance.

That's why the Bible causes a new creation. Do you know the Bible doesn't

call you just a better version of your old old You know? The Bible

says you are new creation, brand new. When Christ gets ahold of you,

when he saves you by his grace, he pours new wine, new

life into you, you become a new creation. New creation means new mind,

new heart. That's what I want all of us to have henceforth.

If it wasn't before, then let's all go. Change is the only constant.

If you're not changing, you're not growing. The fact is we are

changing and being changed day by day, even if we don't realize it.

The question is what or who is changing us, and what or who we

are changing ourselves into. Amen. So Geasians two twenty says, I have

been crucified with Christ. Is no longer I who live, but Christ lives

in me, and the life which I now live I live now live in

the flesh. I live by faith the son of God who loved me and

gave himself for me. So change comes on the inside. So we all

got to determine our attitudes, and our attitudes will determine our future. You

cannot determine your future. You cannot determine what happens tomorrow. You can only

determine what attitudes you want to have. How you wake up every day,

how you go to sleep, how you treat people, how you treat the

people closest to you, how you treat people not close to you, how

you treat the people who have hurt you and backstep you and forgot your birthday,

and how you treat them. You determine your attitudes, and your attitudes

determine your future. What next year will look like will be the sum of

your attitudes today. Amen, The words that you speak, the words that

you don't speak, the mind that you have, and the mind you choose

to no longer have change. You determine your attitudes and your edited in your

future to change the world, which, by the way, is what we're

here to do. Otherwise this is a waste of everyone's time. We're here

to change the world. It doesn't have to be all two hundred over countries.

I don't mean that, I mean just change the world around you.

I mean walking to your office, and your office should be a new place,

a better place. Walk to your classroom, and it should change.

We're here to change the world. Otherwise, why waste time? But to

change the world, we need to be changed. We are that vessel.

Change needs a cause, Change needs change needs a channel. How does God

bring change into the world through the channel? You are the channel. And

if you are a corrupted, filthy, blocked bet the channel and it's not

done a very good change. Your office will be affected, your families will

be affected, your school will be affected. We need to change, Amen,

And we can change the world if we give more than we take,

love more than we hate, think before we act, and act before it's

too late. We can change the world if we give more than we take,

love more than we hate, think before we act, and act before

it's too late. Amen. If you want to make a difference, give

spad change. You can make a difference. If you want to make the

difference, give until you are change. Give to your change. Otherwise continue

giving speed change. You make a difference. But you want to make the

difference, We've gotta give of not just one ear, just give until you

are changed. Change the world. Mother phrase. I said this. It

is difficult to give Jesus to the people unless we have Jesus in our hearts.

You can give what you don't have. Amen, hallelujah. So I

speak from a heart of a shepherd, father, pastor friend. I think

it's just critical that we don't just change address and seats, we change us.

And I really believe God wants to do something very significant, very new,

very powerful in all of our lives. And you will have an impact

on your individual life. You have an impact in our corporate life. I

really believe that. But I just sense like, ah, sometimes it hasn't

happened yet, because we've got all these these comforts that we don't want to

let go of, and we say we want change, but we are not

ready for the costs. We are ready for the costs. We won't change

what. We can't handle the criticisms. But I go back to the cause.

Is there a cause? Yes, it's worth it. Yes, God

needs one, a catalyst, a channel. Am I it sure? In

some small way? God, if you choose to use me, why not?

God? Amen? So God want to use you too. You're not

in your office, on your college, or your family by accident. God

placed you there. God placed you there. You don't want to be a

bitter route You don't want to be a toxin. Amen. Thank you for

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