Sermon
DREAM Malaysia: Young People want Real Stuff
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Transcript
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church.
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We hope this message will light up your tea.
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I have seen that what young people really want is reality.
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They want real stuff. So why the churches were failing,
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many were failing with regards to youth ministry, was because
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we were not giving We were not giving our young
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people real stuff. We asked them to come to arrange chairs,
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white table, clean toilet. Right do we give our young
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people a chance to worship? Lead not only in a
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youth group, but at the main church? Do we give
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them a chance to pray for the sick at our altars?
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Do we give them a chance to preach? Why haven't
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we give them things that are real? What do I
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mean by real?
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Real means that the potential or failing is high, and
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the consequences of failing is also high.
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When you give a young person something simple to do
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so that they don't break things, so that they won't
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speak the wrong thing, you know, the potential is low,
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the potential for damage is low, and so when all
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these are low, it becomes quite unreal. Real is when
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you actually get to drive a car and you couldn't
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meet with an accident, You could die or kill somebody. Right.
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But you see, when the church doesn't give their young
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people real stuff to handle, you know, see my hands
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to handle all right, to really get their faith in action,
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to to really know that, wow, you know, my partial
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just handed me a real baby, not a toy, a
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real baby. If I drop this baby, this baby could
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break its neck and could die. Right. But you know,
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the older people should actually say, I try trust you
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with this baby. I trust you with this life. I
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trust you with this expensive equipment. You see one trying
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to say, you could break it, but I trust you.
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Otherwise we'll give them twy guns and blah blah blah. Right,
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So you know why they're going into more and more
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of the video games and all these things because the
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world knows they need they need the real stuff, and
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so the world spends billions to come out with video
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games that are looking so real it looks like they
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are life. You know, once upon a time, we were
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shooting I don't know what you call it, like those
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stuff that we were shooting in the video games on
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our spaces vaders, nothing, okay, nothing, but we were all
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so excited, you know, and the worst we get is
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that you're out of bullets, you know, something like that, Okay, uh.
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And we were okay with that, all right, but after
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a while, you know, the enemy came in, uh into
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this game, and it was no longer exciting, you see.
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And uh and the church, instead of doing things with
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young people that were radical and real and dangerous and risky,
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right sending out them out to missions, the church became
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very safe. I don't even know. I'm pretty something just
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took over me, I'm telling you right now. So the
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church became safe, safe, safe, the young people won't be
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able to hurt themselves and won't be able to hurt others.
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But what we didn't realize is we took away something
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very important from young people, okay. Uh and and and
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so what happened was the world came in, right, the
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devil came in and said, we're going to make things
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very real for them. And so it went from spacing
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raiders right to I think now you say, they say
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all stuff flower, okay, anyone, counter Striker, all stuff right,
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because but because those really look like video games, counter
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Strike daughta but they moved on to like, no, they
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need to feed the want or the desire in every
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young person's life. For something real, and so they spend millions,
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if not billions of dollars causing the images and the imagery,
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and it almost looks like that person can come out
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of that screen sooner or later. Even that reality, how
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real it is in video games, will not be real enough.
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And now you just stirred up something in their hearts.
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It's like pornography or so after a while, when it's
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so real right in the in the porn movies, now
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you go like, okay, now I really want the real thing,
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And so people will go out for the real thing
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thinking that it's right. Even though we want the reality,
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we've lost all sense of reality. Do you understand this
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is important? Uh? The church really does have answers. The
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church really does have solutions, The church really does have
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wished them. The church real really does have God's word
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that even though some people call it it's all old fashioned,
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the word of God, it's old fashioned law. They say
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it's old fashioned, it's not relevant anymore. It's so relevant.
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In fact, it's getting more and more relevant in our
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day in time. It's just that we're not making the connection.
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You've got to make the connection with God's everlasting truth,
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right with the current society that we have today. Our
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passion is about nation building. What good is having a
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church on the penthouse? All right? Growing and growing with
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money that you never thought you will ever have. Your
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bank account is so big now, what is the use
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if you're not changing your country?
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this week is going to be a good week. I
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hit for you. God bless