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Present God Unashamed

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  1. What's the serious name?

  2. Yeah, present God present God

  3. Okay

  4. That one right but

  5. Last week's sermon he finished off with one one

  6. Request to all of us. He said I remember this one so loud because he repeated twice

  7. He said it's from Habakkuk chapter 2

    Habakkuk 2 chapter mention

  8. The verse is like a climb

  9. Climb the lookout tower scan the horizon wait to look at what God says

  10. Climb the lookout tower scan the horizon and wait to look at what God says

  11. And Jacob started this series as we know the God who is present with us

  12. He's Emmanuel God. He is there with us and that's who he is

  13. He always wants to be with us and then all the promises if you write them on the paper

  14. And then if you look at all you look at God's heart in those promises

  15. You will see that he never leaves you nor forsake you in fact Jane started off this

  16. this

  17. Service saying Lord you are our face-to-face God our father is face-to-face father that he never turns his face back

  18. That's what who he is

  19. And then now we started to learn how to present this God who is with us who is present all the time

  20. His presence and then who is always with us. How can we present this God to the world?

  21. That's what we started into

  22. Learning and last week Jacob started to ask us this question. Okay, Lord

  23. How are you presenting to myself so that I can present you to the world?

  24. That's where we have looked at and now today we want to ask you a question

  25. And now today we're gonna look at today. We're gonna look at how can we present?

  26. God to the world and then what can stop us from doing that and then how can we overcome those?

  27. Okay, so for that let's let's read

  28. second Timothy chapter 2

    2 Timothy 2 chapter mention

  29. second Timothy chapter 2

    2 Timothy 2:15

  30. Verse 15

  31. Yeah

  32. Yeah, do your best to present yourself to God as one approved a

  33. worker who does not need to be ashamed and

  34. Who correctly handles the word of truth?

  35. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved a worker who does not

  36. Need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth

  37. We have to understand that these three are three different stages three different things that as a as a Christ follower

  38. We have to be aware of

  39. So the first one

  40. Approved and then the second one

  41. Unashamed and the last one

  42. Handles the word of God

  43. Correctly

  44. Handles the word of God correctly

  45. To me coming from India presenting God is one of the one of the one of the primary thing in the church

  46. Because our church the back in India the church I grew up our churches is in a community where we don't have many Christian

  47. congregations

  48. So that's where once we have we we start to experience the power of God

  49. We start to experience the experience who God is in our life

  50. We start to experience the love and then we start to sing that love to the world

  51. Every day every church every Sunday

  52. Especially my life and my brother and then my sister my family and our church Sunday school team and this is what we were doing

  53. It's like we go out and then we preach the gospel. We present God in a different different

  54. Congregations that's where we were we were doing

  55. But then after but then before doing that that's the primary thing that we every every Christian

  56. We need to every Christ follower every son

  57. We need to live in that life the first one approved and then acts 29

  58. We have lived in that love life such a wonderful time at a such a wonderful level

  59. Am I right or not

  60. Approved we start to learn the love of father that like how father accepts us his children how he never

  61. He's always chair facing God. He's always face to face God

  62. He never he's always there for us and then and then we start to live in this life. In fact in 2019

  63. We have started this this year saying access granted

  64. Because we are approved

  65. We are approved into the presence of God now we can go boldly and with confidence

  66. Because what Christ has finished on the cross we have lived in this one with such a powerful life

  67. Especially especially in my life. I have lived this one. I still struggle, but it is such a place to live

  68. Because nothing can separate me from the love of Christ because when I accept to Christ

  69. He comes into my spirit and then his spirit and my spirit become one and then they can never be separated because

  70. That is the promise and that is the seal that God has placed upon my spirit with the power of the Holy Spirit

  71. Approved you're approved

  72. You're approved into God's presence

  73. You're approved to call him as a father

  74. You are approved as his son and daughter as a much-loved child

  75. You ask him he never says anything he's always behind

  76. Whatever you say he wants to do it for you because you're approved

  77. Because you because you're approved because access is granted to his treasures

  78. In fact, the Bible says that you're approved and he has given you the keys. He has given you the keys of the kingdom

  79. You're approved. That's why whatever you unlock God is gonna open it and whatever you close and God is gonna close it

  80. You're approved

  81. That's why when the body comes and then prays together because our prayers is approved and the God is God

  82. We are experiencing answers and that's what all the stories that we are learning today in the church

  83. because we are approved and

  84. Never miss out that day never miss out that that's what the enemy says enemy says that enemy always

  85. Confuses or brings a doubt into heart that no you're not approved because your lifestyle is completely different what God expects

  86. And never buy into that lie

  87. We don't have to prove to anyone that you're approved all you got to do is live and and celebrate

  88. What Christ has approved upon your life?

  89. You're approved

  90. You're approved not because of our actions

  91. You're approved because what Christ has done

  92. You're approved not because of your love towards God

  93. But because his love towards you because he that he is the one first who loved you

  94. you're approved and

  95. Then for weeks and weeks and then months and months over and over turnups and everything

  96. This is where we have we started to learn we started to encourage each other

  97. we started to help each other to live in this life of approval because

  98. God has approved us

  99. Christ has approved us

  100. We are approved because of

  101. His sacrifice upon cross I believe that how many of you really really trust that amen amen

  102. Amen, so today we're gonna look at this one because this one it's been

  103. In fact last week someone if you go and hear a Jacob sermon almost like 40% of the sermon lies here

  104. Because he was talking about how to handle the word of the word of God correctly in a different in a different terms

  105. And then we are learning in the house church, and this this is where we are spending time

  106. But today I want to talk about this one unashamed

  107. Unashamed how to live a life of an ashamed person how to present God

  108. How to be a worker how to be a son who does not need to be ashamed of God

  109. It's a very critical topic when God spoke to me about this one

  110. I was I was trembling I was in tears because I don't know about this the only prayer I prayed about

  111. I don't know if I can bring the right words

  112. Because you know my heart

  113. Because it's a very critical very very sensitive topic

  114. How can we live as a life how can we live as a son or daughter who is not

  115. Unashamed who is not afraid who is not unashamed of who he is

  116. I

  117. Guess to me personally personally this is something that stops me from presenting God to the world because I'm sometimes I'm

  118. I don't know. I don't know if the results are okay if the results when I present God

  119. I don't know if it comes back okay or not

  120. And to me when I go back and then check myself and then sometimes I'm not sure

  121. Maybe I may Baba you have to help me how to present you

  122. So let's look at this one unashamed how can I present God

  123. How can it be a son or daughter that can present God who can present God

  124. In such a way that I don't need to be ashamed of God

  125. I want to tell you one statement the power to present God the power to present God to the world

  126. Comes from how you present yourself to the Lord

  127. The power to present God to the outside world comes from license

  128. To the Lord

  129. The power to present God to the outside world comes from license how you present yourself to the father

  130. I started to look I started to dig down dig deeper. I started to read it from Genesis for this message. I

  131. Started to scan through Genesis. I want one question that I started to ask is Lord

  132. How have you presented yourself to the people in the first place?

  133. I know you have presented to presented yourself

  134. Us through the through Christ that I know

  135. That is amazing. But I want to see how God started to present himself in the old testament from the beginning

  136. And we know the story from the beginning

  137. I thought

  138. I when I started to read Genesis when I came to the story of Abraham

  139. If you look at the promises that God gave to Abraham

  140. He never talked about his name

  141. God did not talk about his name or his glory to Abraham

  142. All he said I will bless you. I will make your name great. I will make your descendants

  143. Great, I'll give you an inheritance. It's all about Abraham and God is standing for Abraham

  144. You want to read Abraham's blessings?

  145. Where are they Genesis chapter

  146. Yeah, Genesis chapter 12

    Genesis 12 chapter mention

  147. Chapter 12 verse 1

  148. Can someone read it for me, please

  149. Chapter 12 verse 1

  150. Uh, can someone read it for me, please

  151. And whoever presents you I will bless you

  152. Then all people on earth will be blessed too

  153. Yeah, it's not about God's name. It's about the promise that God wants to give to Abraham

  154. So he said I'll bless you I'll be with you you will going to take over the land that's a blessing

  155. That's a promise. That's a promise. I'm making with you and that's what happened for the three generations

  156. Three generations even if you read Isaac's life story Isaac's life story every time when God said something it was always about the blessing

  157. It was always about the promise that God has entrusted to Abraham

  158. All the Isaac's lifestyle life story

  159. It's about the promises that that God made to Abraham and then now to Isaac and it's always about blessing Isaac

  160. And then I came to Jacob and it's the same story even in the life life of Jacob too

  161. God never brought his name is like I will bless you. I will be with you

  162. I gave this promise to your fathers and I will make sure that you will live in this one

  163. But one time in Jacob's life one time in Jacob's life something happened and it's just Genesis chapter 32 verse 22

    Genesis 32:22

  164. Genesis chapter 32 verse 22 if you guys know this story, we all know this story. This is where Abraham wrestled with the god

    Genesis 32:22

  165. Do you guys remember the conversation?

  166. No, not Abraham Jacob Jacob wrestled with god. Let's read Genesis chapter 32 verse 22

    Genesis 32:22

  167. Verse 25 when the man saw that he could not overpower him

  168. He touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched

  169. As he wrestled with the man

  170. Then the man said let me go for it's a daybreak, but Jacob replied

  171. I will not let you go unless you bless me take the man

  172. The man asked him. What is your name?

  173. Jacob he answered then the man said your name will no longer be Jacob

  174. but Israel because you have struggled with god and with the humans and have overcome and Jacob said

  175. Please tell me your name, but he replied. Why do you ask my name? Then he blessed him there and then he left

  176. That's a very interesting conversation

  177. That's a very interesting incident where Jacob he left everyone

  178. He left his his wife and then and the people and all the property and all the positions that he got

  179. And then he was all alone. He was wrestling with god and then god changed Jacob's name

  180. And in fact Jacob's decision at that time was like I will not leave you unless you bless me

  181. He was wrestling for the whole night

  182. And then after he wrestled god wrestled with god Jacob asked what is your name?

  183. And the bible says that he

  184. Bible says that why are you asking my name, but he did not reply. He did not answer his name

  185. Because on that day Jacob's intention was to be

  186. To to reconcile with his brother to to get to to to get what god has promised that's it

  187. And none of them asked who he is and now let's read exodus chapter three

  188. Exodus chapter three and worse

  189. Four

  190. Words four onwards

  191. Yeah, can someone help me please

  192. Yeah

  193. Yeah, and also exodus chapter six verse two

  194. What

  195. Yeah, keep going

  196. Yeah

  197. What did he say he said I am the lord I appear to abraham to isaac and to jacob as god almighty

  198. But my name but by my name the lord I did not make myself fully known to them

  199. I did not make myself by fully known to them, but then now when he met when he met

  200. Moses he said I am the lord I am the god I am the god of abraham

  201. I'm the god of isaac. I'm the god of jacob and now I came here to redeem my people

  202. So here when god met moses he he started to reveal his name he started to reveal who he is in fact in fact

  203. Chapter three verse three if you keep reading moses says from verse 11

  204. But moses said who am I

  205. Who am I that I should go to pharaoh and bring these relates out of egypt and god said I will be with you

  206. And this will be my sign to you that

  207. Is I who have sent you when you have brought the people of egypt out of egypt

  208. You will worship god on this mountain and then moses said to god suppose

  209. I go to these lights and say to them the god of your fathers has sent me to you

  210. Then they asked me what is his name? Then what shall I say to them?

  211. And god said I am who I am

  212. I am who I am. This is what you have to say to these lights. I am has sent you

  213. So this is where god god first started to reveal reveal who reveal his name

  214. And then as the centuries goes by then you see jesus christ and then what christ has done on the cross because what christ

  215. Has completed and finished on the cross and then now he has fully revealed himself through the christ

  216. And that's what paul writes. He is the image. He is the visible image of an invisible god

  217. And he started to he started to know he started to explain himself he started to demonstrate his love

  218. He demonstrated his love. He expressed his love

  219. He he he shown himself fully through jesus christ to us and what a privilege it is for us to known him fully

  220. And that's where that's that's where our unashamed life begins

  221. If we want to live that life our life begins from begins at knowing who he is fully

  222. Knowing him knowing how he has loved you

  223. And that's what the approved

  224. Lifestyle starts where?

  225. When you know that when you start to live that

  226. That's where the unashamed life begins because you know him fully because he's always there for you because you know him

  227. But the beauty the beauty begins when we always trust and we always know that god is always there for us

  228. and now

  229. The lifestyle of unashamed begins when you start to say now lord i want to be for you as well

  230. You are for me, but I want to be for you

  231. You are for my existence you are for my love, but I want to be for you

  232. too

  233. And that's what sons does they do

  234. Sons always want to fulfill what the father's desires are

  235. And this is the time that the church needs to start to say yes

  236. I have lived that you are for me. I have lived that you are there for me

  237. I've lived that you're never live not for sick. You're always there and now I want to live for you too

  238. And that's what david did

  239. When david conquered the conquered he conquered jerusalem and then he was on the top of the tip of the

  240. The highest point on the jerusalem and then he looked at one side and then he looked at the other side

  241. And then he said apa your tent has followed us your your ark of covenant followed us

  242. And now I want to do something. I want to build a house for you

  243. And that's where god god steps in and then he says you won't be able to build a house for me

  244. But your son is going to build a house for me and through your descendants i'll bring messiah

  245. Presenting god

  246. If you want to start present god to the world, that's where you that's where the switch starts aba

  247. I want to live for you too. I want to live for your cause too and all the new testaments. That's what paul writes

  248. That's what peter read peter one and peter two this week if you have time and you will start to understand that how peter

  249. Encourages the body to say that aba we live for your your your desires

  250. We live for your purposes and this is how I want to step into your step into the yoke with you

  251. Knowing him fully and then trusting him that he knows you fully and then stepping into saying aba

  252. I want to partner with you

  253. I want to step into with you. I am for you, too

  254. I am for you, too. In fact, in fact, that's what jesus says

  255. He said the harvest is plenty

  256. And the workers are few

  257. He has sons

  258. Step flipping that and asking him saying him. I want to be for you too as well god help me

  259. Help me to step into this help me to step into this

  260. Next one

  261. Let's

  262. Read philippians chapter two verse 10

  263. Philippians chapter two verse 10

  264. And

  265. Yeah, we know the end now

  266. the end is

  267. At the end that day every knee will bow down

  268. Every tongue will confess

  269. Every knee after every day. There is one statement that said every knee

  270. After after after every knee

  271. Yeah, yeah, can you repeat? Yeah

  272. every knee

  273. Yes, every knee in heaven and on earth will bow down one day and every tongue will confess

  274. Every knee and every tongue will confess

  275. That means all of our friends all of our relatives

  276. Everyone in heaven and in earth one day are going to bow down and then confess that he is the lord

  277. But there is only one difference if they confess that today then they will be with him forever

  278. Never

  279. That day everyone is going to confess but some because they have seen him on that day

  280. And but some but for us we have seen him even before that and then now we start to bow down to him

  281. And that is why as a church we need to step into that and then start to present god

  282. Because one day everybody is going to come and then everybody is going to kneel down

  283. Every every tongue is going to confess but the only difference is are they going to this side or the other side?

  284. So nobody's going to escape from that day

  285. So the church's call to do step into this presenting god and then say guys one day you're going to come to the presence of god

  286. One day you're gonna you're gonna kneel down

  287. Better with that today

  288. Better be that today

  289. And i've experienced it

  290. So always keep that in your mind always keep that in your mind always put that put that put see the end because our god

  291. He has already shown us what's going to happen so that we can run to it so that we can walk towards it

  292. The next one let's do second quote in chapter five

  293. Second Corinthians chapter five verse 20

  294. Second Corinthians chapter five verse 20

  295. Yeah, in fact verse 19 the second part of verse 19

  296. Says he has committed to us the message of reconciliation

  297. And we are therefore christ ambassadors as though god were making his appeal through us

  298. The third one begins from trusting that he has committed you he has trusted you

  299. With this message of reconciliation the problem comes here god has already trusted you and me

  300. But somehow the world has taught us the church history has taught us that it was only it was only

  301. Set for the pastors and the preachers and the missionaries and that

  302. And somehow we missed it somehow

  303. We missed the whole picture and then we have set this one to only pastors and then only preachers and then we have set back

  304. We have we have we are like, okay, that's their job

  305. But the word of god teaches us that he has trusted us he says he has he has committed this this mission to all of us

  306. And you and I to everyone the ministry of reconciliation

  307. What are we reconciling?

  308. This to god the creation everyone is god's god's son. Everyone is god's daughter and then we are reconciling them to him

  309. And that's where we need to trust that wherever we are you and I are trusted with this ministry

  310. the ministry of reconciliation

  311. The ministry of reconciliation because you are reconciled to god and then now it's our duty

  312. So that that that's what the verse 20 says

  313. We are therefore christ ambassador as though god were making his appeal through us

  314. You're the only ambassador that god chose in your in your life

  315. In the area of where you are

  316. We have to trust that

  317. We cannot escape from it

  318. I go to work you go to work. I go to school you go to school wherever we are

  319. You're the ambassador. That's what god sees

  320. This is my son and now i'm sending him as an ambassador to there

  321. And then god wants to appeal to them through you alone

  322. That's why that's why that's why sometimes it's very hard for this life

  323. Some of the situations are very hard for us because some things I have always struggled with this in my life

  324. I've always struggled. I've always cried in the presence of god. I always have this question. Why me? Why me? Why me?

  325. Because god has trusted me with the ministry of reconciliation

  326. If not me then who can do this

  327. And that's where I have to take one more step

  328. I have to walk for two more miles with my with my colleagues or with my friends so that I can do this ministry with them

  329. I have to take extra step because because that that's where christ love falls flows out of us

  330. Take a step

  331. Trust that you are called even though you don't trust yourself

  332. You don't the problem with us is like we don't trust ourselves that we are not good enough

  333. We don't know how to share gospel. We don't know how to live this one. That's where the problem comes

  334. But put that aside and then see that god is looking you looking at you as you are the ambassador

  335. For him for his ministry right there

  336. Are you in the church are you in the are you outside in the business world you are the ambassador you have to look into that

  337. Matthew chapter 5 verse 16

    Matthew 5:16

  338. Let's let's read from verse verse 13

  339. Yeah

  340. Yeah, thank you so if you if you look at this you're the salt of what not the church

  341. You're the salt of the yeah

  342. We are very good salt for the church and church groups and the house churches me especially

  343. And we are the light of the house church, no we're the light of the world

  344. That's what jesus that's how god looks at us that's what jesus that's how when he looks at us

  345. That's what he does. It's like you're the light of the world. That's why you cannot hide yourself

  346. You're the light of the world you're the light of the salt you're the salt of the earth

  347. And that's where that's where this unashamed lifestyle begins

  348. Trusting that yes, i'm chosen for this trusting that yes god has brought me this country trusting that yes god has brought me this country

  349. Trusting that yes god has placed me here trusting that yes god has called me here about what what should i do

  350. What needs to be done in my life? How can I change this help me about that's where it comes in

  351. Otherwise, otherwise we'll be like we'll be hiding we'll be hiding and then we'll lose our saltiness

  352. There are so many christians in the church

  353. Losing their saltiness are are hiding their light

  354. What what powerful revelations that god has given to them for years and years and then young people like us the next generation

  355. We need them, but they were hidden

  356. in the house

  357. And they were not they were never brought out

  358. They were never brought out

  359. Some of the stories are some of the simple points that i've learned here when i share with my friends

  360. It's like a life changing for them and i go like oh is that powerful?

  361. because they don't know it

  362. and god has revealed it and then we are hiding them under the basket

  363. And the church it's a time for us to lift the baskets and then say this is my light

  364. This is the light of the lord and this is who god is we need to do that

  365. In fact the verse 16 says in the same way let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify

  366. your father in heaven

  367. How long are we going to hide this light?

  368. How long are you going to hide the the revelations that god has done in your life or brought to your knowledge in your life?

  369. How long how long are you going to are you going to not share the stories that god has done in your life?

  370. I think it is time for us to bring this one because as I was preparing for this sermon god has

  371. He brought me a prophecy that god gave to axe 29 when chard was here

  372. The the prophecy was like god is going to give you a language a love language a new language for the church to communicate

  373. To the world that was the prophecy I wrote in my notes

  374. I think this is the time that we need to learn this new language

  375. We need to we need to lift our baskets and then show the world who the father is because we know how to live the approved life

  376. So let's go to the next one

  377. Next one

  378. Matthew chapter 11 16

    Matthew 11 chapter mention

  379. Matthew chapter 11 16

    Matthew 11 chapter mention

  380. Yeah, can someone help me please

  381. Thank you can someone read 12 verse 39 after 12 was studying Matthew

  382. Generation

  383. Thank you verse 16 and verse four

  384. Yeah, yeah, thank you uh hebrew chapter three was 10

  385. Why I was angry with that generation I said that us are always going as they and they have no not no money

  386. Yeah

  387. So if you if you check out these four verses what you can see is Jesus Christ

  388. He knows the generation where he was in

  389. He knows the generation he knows how wicked they are

  390. He knows he knows what they expect

  391. He knows the the condition of the generation he knows how perverse they are he knows how how far away they are

  392. And yet he started to bring the solution to them

  393. We are afraid

  394. Sometimes to present God because we don't know this generation. We don't know the people whom we are talking to

  395. We don't understand the generation as the church it is our duty. It is our responsibility to know which generation are we in?

  396. Now it's already generation z outside

  397. And they don't come from the families. They don't come from Christian families and one recent study a ministry

  398. They did a study and then they said the generation z the latest the new generation. They don't even know the gospel

  399. They don't even know the how many books in the bible because they do not come from

  400. The church or Christian homes

  401. They're all into virtual reality they're all into new technology

  402. But how do you meet them? How do you explain? How do you answer their questions? Because their questions are different

  403. Jesus Christ knows there's the generation

  404. We have to know the generation not just by the news or not just by the articles but by the spirit

  405. Abba i'm getting into this Abba. I'm going outside Abba. What can I do? Who are they? What can I provide?

  406. Because that's what Jacob taught last week

  407. How he has presented to you and then now going and then presenting that to others

  408. So so we have to learn we have to know about what's happening in the country we have to know about what's happening around us

  409. Canada is a great place because the whole world is in front of Canada

  410. Canada is a great place because the whole world is in front of Canada

  411. Just this morning I read an article there is a university in Kamloops

  412. hundred countries students from hundred countries

  413. Celebrated their orientation the first day in Kamloops yesterday on Friday

  414. A Kamloops university hundred countries students from hundred countries

  415. Hundreds of hundred countries

  416. The writer of the article said he he said he was just was walking through the

  417. Through the people and then he has he heard so many languages small small groups and then meeting and then they're talking

  418. Different different languages that he never heard the languages

  419. We need to know what's happening. We need to ask the Lord Lord. This is my heart and how can I step into this one?

  420. And the next one

  421. The problem one of the fear for us is

  422. Is because present in God when we talk about present in God when we talk about sharing who Christ is

  423. We only have few set methods

  424. We only know few set ways that were that were good in the in the Christian world

  425. preaching church

  426. Or maybe doing some kind of a

  427. Church or maybe doing Sunday schools or this but that's not that's never the case for God

  428. See

  429. I feel ashamed if someone asks me to go and play piano and then worship the Lord and present God to others because I don't know it

  430. And that's the problem that's why we are ashamed sometimes we are not comfortable

  431. We are not confident because we are stepping into someone else's shoes and then trying to present God

  432. Whereas God has prepared in a completely different way

  433. To present him

  434. So this is the time that you and I need to

  435. Look into our lives and look into how God has wired us and then how we can present God in the ways in the shoes

  436. In the in the plants and in the ways that he has created us

  437. I was I was having a coffee and then um

  438. In front of me a father and a daughter they both came a young kid

  439. They both came and they said can we sit I said sure and then he opened a book and then he's reading a book to

  440. To daughter and the title of the book is the stories of the lamb

  441. The stories of the lamb

  442. But it's actually a lamb. It's like it's like an animal story

  443. And then I was thinking I was thinking ha I wish I should ask my sister because she writes beautiful stories

  444. And then maybe I should go and encourage her to write stories that someday fathers can buy the stories of the real lamb

  445. The ultimate lamb and then read stories too because my sister knows the story

  446. That's what that's what Saul did to David Saul asked David to have the have the the armor of the

  447. Of the military of the army

  448. So that he can go and defeat the goliath, but Saul did not choose it because it's not comfortable to him

  449. He won't be able to face the giant

  450. What he knows that's what he did

  451. And then today the church if as a church if you want to take this language

  452. If you want to take who God is and present to God everyone each one of us

  453. We have to find ways that creatively that what God has how God has placed and prepared us

  454. To bring out these these stories

  455. Imagine if someone can write a curriculum for the for the third world countries people in india how who father is who god is

  456. Imagine if someone can write an article about what has what christ has finished on the on the cross

  457. Or imagine if you write your story or the miracles that god has done how god has brought you

  458. For people it's very hard to believe in miracles, but if you look at your life, you're the greatest miracle

  459. I'm the greatest miracle now. I believe in miracles because I don't know how I how can I come here? It's so impossible for me

  460. Wherever you are

  461. Wherever you are that's what that's what the the Israelites did

  462. They were as slaves and and wandering for 40 years

  463. And wandering for 40 years and then when they came to the country when they came to the promised land

  464. They had to become a nation. They had to learn different skills

  465. They had to they had to work and they had to bring out the art they had to

  466. do constructions

  467. Bring it out as father

  468. So many years there are the desires that god has placed in your heart and then you don't know how to bring it up

  469. You're like, okay

  470. Maybe i'll bring it up bring it out maybe for the next birthday or maybe for the next year

  471. But now this is the time guys

  472. This is the time that we need to bring it out because we're not going to do in the in the ways of the world

  473. Or we're not going to do in the set ways

  474. We're going to do how god has called us how god is preparing us and find find

  475. And and progress in the meaning and purpose that god has called

  476. You

  477. Strip your mind from all the past ways and past theology are the ways that that only these ways that the ministry can be done. No

  478. Find ways and ask the father

  479. Say lord, i'm ready. I'm for you. I want to do this. Is this the right way?

  480. Bring it to the body. Is this the right way? I want to bring this one out. I want to bring this truth out

  481. Is this the right way?

  482. Because he's there for you and now we can be for him too

  483. The last one

  484. Exodus chapter three

  485. One can do all of this

  486. One can do all of this anyone can do all of this

  487. Like starting from the first point where

  488. We know him he knows him and then we know him

  489. He knows us he called us by name and then I go and then say I am for you lord

  490. I want to live and then we start to live that life and then we start to be bold we start to

  491. Ask the innovative and creative ways how I can bring out the truth to the world and then I can start work

  492. I can start bringing it out. But the last one I want to say is

  493. But still you get you can meet you you you can be discouraged

  494. Because the ways and the because the things that you're doing may not be fruitful

  495. Because the ways and the because the things that you're doing may not be fruitful

  496. Let's read

  497. Exodus chapter three

  498. Okay, extra chapter six verse eight

  499. I

  500. Will bring you to the land

  501. This is what the lord said to moses. I'll bring you out bring you to the land. I'll

  502. land I swore with the

  503. Uplifted hand to give to abraham to isaac and to jacob. I'll give it to you as a position. I am the lord

  504. Or six it said go to the Israelites and then tell this one then moses reported to this to the Israelites

  505. Moses went and then reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor

  506. Moses went and then told all the Israelites. Hey, this is what the lord said

  507. We're going to go out of this place because lord the lord is going to help us to get out of this place

  508. And what is lights did was?

  509. They did not

  510. Listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor

  511. When you go and talk to your friends or when you go and then present god to the outside world

  512. They might not accept it

  513. because of the discouragement from the enemy and because of the harsh labor because of because of the torture or because of the

  514. Labor by the enemy placed upon them all these years

  515. It might not be super exciting for them because they won't be able to believe it

  516. I went and then I told in nandigama that hey god is father

  517. He loves you and then they could not believe four people came to me and then said we don't have fathers

  518. We were orphans, but how can we understand who father is?

  519. And i'm a sinner I cannot understand how father loves me

  520. Because of their discouragement happened in the life because of their condition because how the enemy tortured them for these years

  521. They cannot understand sometimes but then look what god said to moses

  522. Okay, israelites when you went and talked to the people they did not listen, but now moses

  523. Then the lord said to moses go tell pharaoh king of egypt to let the israelites go out of this country

  524. You went and you told them they did not listen then now he said go and tell the pharaohs

  525. Go and then talk to them go in and tell them let my people go

  526. Go

  527. So when we go in and talk to our talk to the people when it did when it didn't happen

  528. Then we have to go and ask the lord lord who is in charge of that

  529. Because we don't fight with the flesh and blood

  530. We wrestle we fight with the

  531. Principalities that's where we need to go. That's why the church is trained to do that

  532. That's why god has brought you here and then

  533. We we build up our muscles so that we can go and then talk to the pharaoh

  534. We can go and talk to these principalities we can pray against them and then say hey

  535. Let my people go enough is enough

  536. That's the calling that we need to step into that's the calling that god is calling us

  537. Don't worry about the discouragement that came like when people did not accept it that's okay

  538. Because we have a greater call we need to pray against the all the principalities and that's when you start to see how the

  539. How the pharaoh how the principalities there was and there were having the authority can release them

  540. Because when we pray that's what christ does

  541. Amen

  542. Now now imagine what god can do through through our church

  543. The best example I was looking I was looking in the bible and then paul he preached the gospel in different ways

  544. He brought the law and then he started explaining gospel from the law he talked to jews he talked to gentiles

  545. He was in the palaces talking to kings and he was in the prison

  546. Writing letters he found every opportunity to present the gospel in a different ways

  547. whatever possible

  548. And then now imagine if our church if the generation if us can step up into this and bring the bring the god we have

  549. experienced in a different and innovative methods

  550. To to reach the people and god is doing this in the world the bible app it was it was installed in billion devices

  551. Came from a 16 year old guy

  552. A 16 year old youth guy youth

  553. A 16 year old youth guy youth

  554. Young kid he said I want to bring this

  555. This bible to my friends and they don't want to read the paper

  556. I want to make an app and then do it and the pastor said okay

  557. Then we have some programmers in the church. We'll do it together and then now it is one of the best company in the united states

  558. The pastor received the best ceo award recently a pastor

  559. craig rochelle

  560. Started with a 16 year old kid desire to bring it out in a in a different way and that's where we need to step in

  561. Think about the amount of blessing that god has

  562. Down pour down into your life

  563. How can we bring this one out?

  564. How can we bring the truths out?

  565. The harvest is plenty the workers are few

  566. Thank you

  567. Yeah, let's pray

  568. I really want to pray for the church that that we don't hide our light

  569. Because this is the shining light the truth that we have