Examples

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I want to speak to you this morning about this.

Let's put the title up XTV. I you don't mind,

this is the title for our message today and I

hope to encourage you. Examples, Okay, examples. It's been something

that he's to me about for years now. So brothers

and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, if I hold up this

Bible now, and from Genesis to First Corinthians ten, the author,

which is Paul, Paul the apostle who wrote Corinthians is

saying that everything from Genesis to First.

Corinthians ten was written for our example.

If I asked you for our one word definition, one

word summary of this Bible that you and I follow

after with our lives. It is our example example example.

That also probably means that everything from First Corinthians ten

to today and every other day after is for example.

And if you think about that for a moment, you

will realize that the summary of your life and mind,

our vision, our mission, our goal, our aim is to

live an exemplary life. And I pray that that will

help you with your living every day, as it has

helped me. The reason why I wake up early in

the morning and spend time with God, the reason why

I treat my wife the way I treat her, the

reason why we do church the way we do church,

the reason why I planted another church at fifty two

when I should be retiring, the reason why almost everything.

In fact.

Right now, I'm doing my doctorate, as some of you know,

is a DBA that I'm being offered from and by

help University, and I'm in the middle of my thesis now,

just finished my chapter two, which was the hardest for

me because his literature review means.

I have to read other people's literature, and it's hard.

It's very hard.

But the Lord told me, Kenneth, I'm going to make

you an example that it can be done.

It can be done with God, all things are possible.

Well, so don't retire to early, don't die too young.

All right. If God has given you life, there is

a reason.

There is a purpose, and that is to be an example,

being an example when you are a teenager, being an example,

when you are young, working aout, be an example when

your grandparent. Every stage in life is to be lived

for the glory of God. And if you believe it,

say amen, do all things with that vision, do all

things with that mission, do all things with that spirit.

Everything is about example in life, really everything the whole Bible,

whole Bible, all the way. Now, let me go from

Genesis to Revelations and every day of our life it's

about example. How you stay in this church is an example.

If you're going to stay in this church, be an

example of how and why you stay. Give your best.

Don't have half hearted you know, attitude. If you're gonna

be staying, stay and give an example. If you're going

to be going, it's okay, go with an example, because

opportunities are given to us. You know, I left FGA

to help SIB, and I was SIB's first youth pastor.

As IB.

The time was eighty people. Now there are probably eight thousand,

but I was there first youth pastor. I want to

make sure that when I left FGA, I left with

an example, and that's why I get called back to speak.

I spoke in FJKL two weeks three weeks ago, this

is very important. And then when I left SIB to

start ex church, leave with an example. Oh it's so important. Guys,

I need to understand. It's not about he's bad, she's good. No,

it's about your example. You want to show people that

you can do it and do it well. You want

to stay in your company, be the best staff, be

the best, don't be there complaining and.

Still want to collect a salary. But if you want

to leave your company, leave well, leave well.

Daniel Trunk Chunk just told me his boss ask him

Jess last week, Daniel, are you happy.

Where you are?

Because your job is still available? He's only left one

here Sunway. Once we write him back, he says, achieve

very happy. I'm fulfiling. He says, okay anyway, Uh, Sunway

is celebrating our Christmas stuff, Christmas lunch. Come back and

have lunch with us. Because he left well, he left

very well.

He told me the destiminony of how he left. Is

it important?

It's not just about you frustrated and angry and therefore

one to throw. You know, the dustiness your your enemy.

You know, it's about hold on a minute in good

times in bad times. My life is to be lived

as an example. Okay, let's move on. Let's move on.

Uh oh, where did my not go to? All?

Right? Here we go next?

Like this says everything is possible as long as there

are examples. When I when I travel the country, I

realize which have a church I go to? Nineteen nine

percent of the churches have got problems. And I'll give

you just an example, have problems with young families not

serving the lot. Okay, so I go, and then the

pastor will tell me, oh, pasta Kenneth, we don't have

young people. Our teenagers are gone by Form five, Form

five finish, they're all gone. Okay, you're talking about a loostar.

We're talking about you know, all these small towns gone.

They're gone. They're gone because they go to kl for studies.

They go to Penang, maybe Singapore sometimes and some overseas,

but mainly these areas, and so they don't have young

people serving.

They don't have campus students.

For sure, and young okay anunts usually are not there

also because they find jobs here. Okay, So churches are

closing down, folks, I want to tell you right now,

I've got news from the ground that even in Pahang itself,

so many churches have closed down.

Alo Star up North Kada. You know, people don't have

the next in line. Okay.

Now, there are young families, I heard, and young families

are probably the only hope with the word young still

there to serve the Lord while you're young.

And this is the thing.

The thing is, you get the first young couple married

and having a baby. The woman is pregnant, and the

guy thinks to himself, because there's no example in the

church that it can be done, he tells the pastor, pastor,

when we give birth to our first child, can you

please give us six months off. The pastor, of course understands,

because we are supposed to be very understanding, and we say,

of course, because first baby is very hard. It's your

first time being a parent. Blah blah blah. Six months,

six months. It turns into one year very easily, my friends,

because you get into a habit, and when he turns

into two years, and by your second year, you're.

Getting pregnant again.

And so now the second child means another one two

years and then hopefully, I don't know, hopefully you don't

get your third, but you know, but you know, because

you want to serve the Lord, and then you might

get your third, and then you find yourself ten years.

Not serving the Lord.

Okay, now listen to me, Listen my heart, because something

has got to change, But where does it start. Something

has got to change, but where does it start. Ninety

nine percent of the young families an extra serve the lot.

Nineteen nine percent.

And I'm just trying to be humble about it because

actually I think it's hundred percent, but you know, maybe not,

maybe not, but it's a high percentage. I can't remember

any young family that I know there's not one, at

least one party.

Serving the lot. But anyway, it's a high percentage.

Maybe maybe let's be let me, let's be humblebout it

as a ninety percent, okay, and in many other churches

it's going to be ten percent.

So I believe that X is blessed like.

This because we are supposed to be a blessing. Means

whenever we travel, we want to tell churches all across

Malaysia it's.

To hold one child another child and say let's go.

I told Bylexandra when we were married twenty nine years ago,

if I had a child, I will not stop serving

the law. Now I know it's tough because there is crying,

there is food, a crankiness, there is you take the

child out after fresh pampers and it pulls right as

you're closing the door of your house to go to church.

Why does it pull only when you're about to go

to church?

Right?

And I told my wife, I said, dear, whatever it is,

I know it's going to be tough. I know it's

going to be tough. But whatever it is, there is

no other option. So you must work your life around

what I call the truth. North work your life around

the unchangeable, because if you don't have that, and everything

is open up in.

Your life for a messy life.

There is no time to sleep, there's no time to

wake up, there's no time to eat, there's no time

to serve. There's nothing you with me. So I see

the thing is that I also know it's tough. I've

seen it. But in my mind that I have this,

as I said, true north, this compass, this compass that

says Jesus is right there in front of me, and

the Bible says, looking ato Jesus, the Author and the

finishing of my faith. So I got to look to Jesus.

And I'll illustrate this towards the end. But you gotta

walk this line, walk this narrow path that leads to life,

because why is the path? Why does the path that

leads to destruction? And I'll show you what it means

towards the end of this message. So the Lord God

Almighty is trying to raise up examples so that he

can bless his body, his church. He's trying to raise

up examples of it can be done, it's possible, so

that when others see, they go like, ah, now it's

getting worse though. Now the young families, or rather the

young couple that's getting married and having a baby. The

wife is pregnant, maybe it's just three, four or five months.

The bump is showing, all right, and the pastor now

goes even one step further and go like, hey, I

can see that you're having a baby. Why don't you

take six months off because we want to do better

by our understanding. And actually it actually sounds very the

most understanding pastor in the world. We might get award

at the end of the month, award at the end

of the year. Now, I also want to be understanding.

But the Lord told me to make disciples, and he

didn't have any scripture says that. And make disciples only

of people who are not pregnant. Make disciples of people

who have only one child to the second child. Don't

don't touch them. There are people don't touch senior citizens

because their retired idea. Let them do their gardening, let

them play golf.

Okay.

The g or LF is going to replace the g

o d okay, and play Sundays some more. So that's

going to be your cathedral, your new cathedral, okay. And

the worship always goes up one like hey, it goes

and it comes right down. I'm joking, I know, but not.

I'm speaking to you hard, too hard, because I'm telling

you right now, twenty twenty five is coming just around

the corner, and you can catch this. I'm telling you,

twenty twenty five can be amazing, it can be prospero Arno.

It can be good, if not great. You don't have

to retire seriously, especially from the Lord and from his calling.

You don't have to. There's so much more in stare.

If you have life and God it's given you breath.

Oh so much more, so much more. Example, example, example,

God is looking for examples. And as long as there's example,

than it is possible. God is looking for examples. The

next slide. Adam was supposed to be an example. He

failed in many ways, and because of Adam's failure, the

rest of us are in a mess. But then he

found Abraham, and Abraham was an example even until he

was ninety one hundred years old. Joseph was met by

Portifas's wife. Sleep with me, sleep with me. Every day

she says, sleep with me, and Joseph says, I can't

do this. I fear God. Moses was an example, supposed

to be the prince of Egypt. Could have had comfortable life,

but instead wanted his calling in state, chose purpose over prosperity.

David was an example, wasn't he and today is still

quoting him a.

Man after God's own heart.

Yes, even with Batdsheba he failed, but then he asked

God to forgive him, and God restored.

Esther.

I had to add one woman's name in here. What

an example? She was going to die if the King

was angry with her for coming into his presence without

him calling her. She said, if I perish, I perish.

I just got to do what's right. Daniel, Jesus himself, Peter, Paul,

Timothy imitate me, is I imitate?

God is looking for examples. The church is.

Looking for examples because so many churches are falling around

the world, leadership problems and all that.

So we're all looking for examples.

How can you be a leader that's integris faithful. Yeah,

very very important. I can go on and all, but

my time's up. The nation is looking for examples.

The nation.

Don't just pray. Become an example is very very important.

Last time, there was one time a li Jua Bing

adubted Lijabing was the state assemblyman of subang Jaya and

Christian and he witnessed to people here in summit. And

he was trying to witness to a to a boss

here at that time, group meda group, a boss who

was not a Christian, and Liu a Bing goes to

him and says, I know a pastor called Kenna Chin

who uses Summit for his church. I want you to

meet him one day, so Liabing said to me. Kenneth passed, Kenneth,

you have time to meet with the senior man of Summit.

I just told him about you. I said, what do

you tell him?

I said, I told him there is a pastor here

who has a church in some it and he is

a man, the only man I know who does whatever

God tells him. That became my testimony here from the

mouth of a status every man to the ears of

a man who is the top guy here, and all

he could summarize about me is this is a man

who does anything and everything God tells him. So I

met him. I'm not sure that he has come to

know the Lord. But nation and leaders are looking for examples.

Everybody. Okay, yeah, our mission.

Let's draw towards the last lap, the last closure of

this message, the last you know gear. I'm moving up

to the last gear now. Our mission purpose in life

is to be examples. All of you know that as

soon as our eyes are open in the morning till

our eyes are closed at night, we have the opportunity

or the opportunities to make a real difference just by

being examples to the people around us and after us.

As a mission needs a vision, so examples need an example.

Do you understand that a mission, every mission needs a vision,

and every example needs an example. Okay, So Jesus came

to the earth to be God's example to the world.

Amen.

Let's look at the scripture John fourteen. I summarize for you.

He says this, Jesus said to his disciples, if you

have seen me, you have seen the Father.

Wow. How confident is that?

Because Jesus was said, because none of us could see

the Father. He's up invisible God. But when he came,

Jesus came, he was not invisible. He was visible. And

everything he did he did after the Father. He says,

if you see me, you see the Father.

I love it.

If you want to know the Father, see Jesus. Read

about Jesus, Read about what he's done. So our vision

an example is Jesus the author and the finisher of

our faith.

Everybody.

Okay, Amen, uh acts subang than the thing.

You don't have to remain so quiet. Tell me that

you're still alive. Am you know?

Some they use it was a phrase they use. Tell

me that you are still a life without telling me

that you're still life. Okay, Jesus is our compass, our

true north. You know, in Christianity, seldom God gives you

a map, but he often gives us a compass. All

of us want a map. Oh, exactly ready to go.

Oh he He didn't give Abraham a map. He gave

Abraham a compass, and it was called faith. And wherever

faith pointed, Abraham went. How to love my wife, how

to forgive him my husband, How to bring up my

first child, how to bring up my second. Jesus, teach

me learn that from books? Go study something. No, no, no, no, no.

Lord.

There's a lot of books out there, too much, too

much opinion, too much voice, too many voices. I just Lord,

show me, Lord, show me how to do church, how

to be a boss, a good supervisor.

No map, but compass.

There will be many voices, many opinions, many many, too many,

too many. Everybody wants to have an opinion. How you

bring up your child? Focus on Jesus and walk a

straight line towards him. This is where I'm going to

do the illustration, and I'm going to close. Remember Peter

walking on water. Why because Peter was walking on water.

So if you go like pasta, I will never walk

on water. But everyone here in this room have your

own water.

You walk on.

When I was walking into my wedding at seven pm sharp,

I was walking on and the tables that were empty

were like the storm that Peter got his eyes on

storm and then he sank.

And a lot of us sometimes don't go all the

way with what.

God has called us to because we keep looking at

other people, other things.

Other challenges are storms. Don't just keep your eyes on

Jesus and you won't sink. And even if you sink,

you know the Lord will catch you.

We're all examples in our own ways, says the next slide,

whether we know it or not, whether we like it

or not.

You know, when you come in late to church, you're

idiot example. You know what you know?

How you become a stronger example when you walk into

church late every Sunday?

Yeah, yeah, you strength, you strengthen.

Once if all all the young people here to see

all like that, whor no, and then somebody will whisper

or don't worry. He's a business man. He makes a

lot of money. So he gives to church, so then

they will learn. As long as you're rich, you can

come late. That's not what you want to leave as

a legacy. We are either examples that it can be

done or that can be done every day, as long

as we have life, live as examples in everything and

that every time until God calls us home.

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