Where's Your Confidence?

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Most of us are.

Afraid that we will fail. Where is our confidence?

Really?

He will still use the poor to pull the shamder

rich and the weak to pull the shander the strong.

We want to know about confidence a little bit more today.

Let's look at the scripture.

In the fear of the Lord, there is strong confidence,

and his children will have a place of refuge.

I like that.

The fear of the law is important when you feel God.

The mable says, not only confidence, you will have strong

somebody is strong confidence, strong confidence, and his children.

Will have a place of refuge. I like this promise

because most of us are afraid that we will fail.

But when there's strong confidence, you will have refuge.

So he's a promise.

When God gives you strong confidence, he also assures you

as his children that you will always have a place

of refuge. You will be therefore safe when you are

given confidence from the Lord. Next scripture, being confident of

this very thing, that He who has begun a good

work in you will complete it until the day of

Jesus Christ. Somebody say, amen, God has begun a good

work in all of us.

Do you believe it? All of us? Everyone in his room.

God has begun a good work. But he doesn't just begin,

He will complete it.

So we are all still work in progress ahead by

God will complete and we will be more and more

like Jesus. Isn't that our goal to be more like him?

So let's talk about the first confidence. First confidence is

all of Christianity is found in one name. It is

not found in a denomination, is not found us in

a church or a church building. Is not found just

in doctrine or in religious teachings, or in your dressing

or in the in the cross you wear around your neck.

It is not It's not found in your heritage. Oh

my father is a pastor, or my grandfather was the bishop.

He's not found there. God made it very simple that

even children can not only understand, but follow, because it's

not in a practice only or a principlony. It's in

a person aliah that Christianity is found in the person.

You don't just follow a religion.

You follow a person, and in him he's found all

the authority and all the power and all the salvation

that you and I need all the healing, all the prosperity,

all the joy, all the peace.

He is the Prince of peace. It's him a man.

Now, let's very quickly read some scripture found in First Concianceept.

The Two. I would like to say that this is

one of my favorite scriptures. And I told my wife

that if I go before her and she, you know,

erects at.

Tombstone, that she can put this scripture somewhere in the tombstone,

because the last ten years I've kept going back to

this partial of scripture, because I keep being reminded by

the Holy Spirit that this is an important reminder for

me as a servant of God, but also for all

of you.

Let's read it together, and I'm rethen.

This is Paul the Apostle, writing, when I came to you,

did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom,

declining to you the testimony of God.

For I determined, I underline this whole sentence.

I determine not to know anything among you except Jesus

Christ and him crucified. I was with you in weakness,

in fear, and in much trembling. Can you imagine the

Apostle Paul being in weakness in fear and in much trembling,

and my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive

words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit

and of power, that your faith should not be in

the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Let's talk about.

Confidence in a very honest way right now, Okay? Can

I be honest? Can we be just real open? Where

is our confidence really?

You know? I think about talking with people who have

left churches and gone to other churches.

Right Sometimes they're let in a good way, let in

a god way. And I was also let out of

sib Kre. Doctor Chewing Chi was once upon a time

my senior pastor. I went from FGAKL to sib I

love FGKL, and I wouldn't have left, but God says go,

and I was offered a to be the youth pastor

of SIBKL.

And I love SIBKL so much.

The two pastors, Pastor doctor Chewing Chi and his wife,

Pastor Li Chew were so dynamic, so loving. I never

wanted to leave SIBKR. And then the Lord says, remember

the vision given you. So I left SIBKL and started

the church with two people. I told the members of

that church in Sibkl to the young people. Because I

was a youth pastor, I said, and I grew the

youth group from twelve people to one hundred and twenty

in three years, and all glory to God.

But I told all the young people you are not

allowed to follow me.

The last thing I want to do is to break

young people's hearts and also to break the church. It's

very important to understand this. Okay, the Lord told me,

don't do it. Don't allow anyone to follow you. Some

of them wonder to follow. I said, no, you are

to stay. Only two people follow me, Elder King.

Ya and another brother called Ryan, who went to start

his own church. After that. Many were seven years later.

And so the follow me out because they followed me

into sib as well, and so in fact, if in fact,

when it came to them, so I told them, you

better pray about it. Don't just follow me because you

like me. You got to know because church is where

God places you.

When I talk to.

People who have left, okay, not just from ex but

from anywhere, let me just be very honest with you.

Sometimes I agree with the way they left or the

reason they left.

Sometimes I go.

Because when I ask them for the reason, they will

tell me the other place I went to. The worship

is more alive, The pastor is more.

Practical.

Uh, he's funny, he connects. The teaching is deeper, right,

and so on and so forth. Do you realize, without

even thinking too much about it, do you realize that

when you say this and that, abc whatever the reason

is that you have left, you are actually also saying

that in these things I put my confidence.

Think about it for a moment.

Because as I go through the slides of you, I

just want to remind you today that your confidence and

my confidence should be in Jesus, meaning that if He

is still here, then so should you.

I don't know how. Sometimes you sell your church when

a friend comes and hey, you know, do you like

your church? Of course I love acts, and if you

give all the reasons.

Why you love, accept Jesus. I fear that your confidence

is in all the things. Because God can take away things.

He can take away lights, sound, he can allow a

pandemic to happen, and He took away everything. Some big

churches with big sound systems told me there are churches

who were like white elephants, and they have to reconsider

what is it we are building. And now more and

more senior.

Pasces are telling me past we want to be like you.

Grow small.

You know they have four thousand people in the church,

eight thousand people in the church, and some of them

have already Fga is one of those where I went

to speak there.

They took me for lunch and the.

Leader said, if you want to do like what you

have done, I think the pandemic has taught us a

lesson growing small.

Can still grow while.

In pandemic, but you are not allowed to go into

your big building. You understand, we rethink where our confidence is.

So even you at church, I pray that people ask

you why you're here. You say, because Jesus is here.

He is here, he is alive. And every Sunday when

I come, he does something in my heart.

He changes my life. You heard the testimony just now right.

Our God, our God, his name is Jesus, our God,

is in the business of transformation, with or without music.

Think about it for a moment. Now, many of us

actually like eloquent speakers.

I think if he, if.

He or she came up here and was not at

least decently eloquent with his English language, and he just

went I, I uh, good morning, my name is and

I uh I. You know, you think, you think for

a moment, because Paul the Apostle is saying that he

did not come with eloquence of speech.

Paul Apostle, So.

I wonder how because because a lot of times we

chase after speakers.

Also.

Yeah, for many years, I made it a point not

to invite speakers from overseas to come and do our conferences.

I made it a point no because I don't like

speakers for overseas. I tell you they have been a

blessing to us many, many times.

But for many years, many many years, Malaysian church.

Has been so caught up with Caucasian speakers, so caught

up with white skinned speakers.

That means like if.

You're white, you're right, because they come with their language,

they come with their accent, they come. You know, Okay,

now I know there's a white brother sitting here. You go,

oh no, no, no, no, no, okay, you're friends. But you know,

I have to say it because for years when I

was growing up, I don't know why Malaysians and maybe

even Southeast Asians maybe Asians always look.

Up to the white men, and I tell you.

Looking up is all right. But when they look up,

they look down on themselves. They look down on their

national speakers. They look down on speakers that have their

own same skin color, and they.

Have the shape of the eyes.

Thy now, hello, right, we look down. That's why I'm

telling you right now, I've studied it a little bit,

not a lot, but I'll study you a little bit.

God is allowing revivals to happen outside of white Land.

Even God is trying to give us a message. Where

revivals are happening Korea.

Africa, it's moving away from the White Land.

I'm telling you because for years and years, and it's

not that they're wrong, is that that we are.

Having a wrong perspective. So I refuse.

I say, what message are we giving to our young

people when we always celebrate only one color? And so

if we bring them, it's going to be good. If

we don't have them, it's not going to be good.

Very important. Our young people are looking up. They're trying

to catch the message that the older ones are giving them.

And so we need to celebrate more of our local

people so that they when the younger people say, oh here,

that guy that looks like me.

Can you speak to.

Oh?

He can heal too well. He can do marvelous things too.

God wants to celebrate because out of every tribe, tongue,

and nation we were standing before the Lord. Did you

say we were staying behind a different color? We will

all be celebrated, every tongue, try nation. Are you always me?

This is very important?

So we've heard about colonization and we say, oh we merdecca,

are we independent?

Think about it for a while.

So ours may be independent on the outside but still

colonize on the inside.

It is the way we see.

Yeah. Anyway, okay, I'm telling you right now. God can

use the lack of eloquence, the lack of academic background.

He will still use the poor to pull the shamder,

rich and the weak to pull the shamder.

The shock or the foolish to pull the shamder. Why

are you also doing me? I hope that you are

encouraged it. Where is our confidence?

Because I'm telling you right now, if your confidence was

just in eloquence, and because the guy has got exceent

and because I don't know, I mean sometimes I'm looking

at the past us, you know, in different places and

diferent countries.

Right now, you know they're really working out.

The body is getting bigger and the shirt is getting tighter,

and there's a sudden style.

Now skinny jeans.

I tell you what, I don't put skinn jeans on

because you guys will run away.

You'd be speaking to Bah and closing your eye and

say save us.

More.

Too much is being revealed. I tried skinny GE's one time.

Two of the legs can't even go one into one, okay,

joke aside.

I try to put you know, tight shirt on. It

really reveal different things.

I was very wavy, you know, wavy, but you know

there's a sudden style. And you and I, if you're

not careful, can like styles. I see more and more

speakers and was ship beats.

Wearing white shoes, so you know, because I also watch

to reduced somebody's views coming home. The style a style.

Turning off all the lights is a star.

We keep the lights on because I think that's what

heaven is. I mean, if you're expect to go to heaven,

it is very dark.

Jesus is so bright.

The Bible says he there's no need for son because

he will be the sun. So you know, when I

put all the lights on, I'm just training all of

you for Heaven. I'm not putting the other churches down

that are using you.

Know less it's best.

No, I'm very careful not to put other churches down

because they are all accountable to God themselves, and so

are we. Maybe they are all being God. Maybe God

did say turn off the lights. I don't know, but

he didn't tell that to me.

And we won't just copy paste, copy paste, copy paste.

We must be obedient to his voice, faithful amen everyway.

Okay, So is your confidence in having no lights? Is

your confidence in the sound system, because we're both about

it right, confidence in your top guitarists.

Top drummers. The drums don't even have drums, car on

so you can't even spell it.

And she's card John you know, Carjornithan you know. Okay,

I hope I'm getting to you.

So if poll the apostle think about this and then

I'll move on. Sat here.

And mumble and stumble because he said I have no

eloquence and what else did the scriptors say?

I came I was with you in weakness.

No preacher wants to show you weakness, because why would

you listen to them? Right?

We want to see style.

As shoes, nice cold hair, you know, maybe a nice

chain round.

And now I don't I don't know.

What what what see Jesus said about John about this?

He told the people, what did you come out to see?

Powerful Jesus is always challenging us, what did you come

out to see? Wow?

But I was with you in weakness, in fear m.

I wonder how maever you will go up to apostle

polity advice saying no, no possible. You know, don't be afraid.

He's telling you he is afraid and in much trembling.

Can you imagine a preacher here trembling. That's why they

have this big PuO pits. They have this big pool pitts.

I don't know why we don't have it because big

poopets help cover the fact.

That your knees are having close fellowship. But he's he's

here with much trembling.

So how many of us, and this would be my

last example, but how many of us would like stand

up and go to the toilet when Paul is speaking,

or scroll your phone not knowing that he is palled

the apostle whose letters you are living your life by.

But he's a good writer somewhere else pause it, they

say where his writings are amazing, But his presence, you know,

his physical presence.

I think he was bored. He shaved and took a vow.

I think he was shot.

Jilly yes day when you brought up that he spoke

and spoke and spoke and spoke until a young man died, right,

I mean just laughing I did. He could have been

a boring preacher. And the young man knows he fell

off the that flaw died and jo side. But you

know what I'm saying, he could have been boring. I mean,

would you have walked out of apostle Paul? See, the

thing is the danger is we can be walking out

of the very thing that God is gifting to you.

Just because our confidence is in all.

Other things so boring doesn't mean that God is not there.

Where is our confidence?

Really?

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