Remain in the Rhema Series: The Word

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How do we know the way? How do we know

the Kingdom of God? How do we know God's Way? Well,

we go to the word. We all want to be

people of the way, but how do we be people

of the way? The Word will help us know the way,

understand the way? Amen, John fifteen seven. For this morning,

my key texts, if you abide in me, this is

Jesus speaking. This is the Way speaking. He is the

Way and he speaks. He says, if you abide in

me and my words abide in you, you will ask

what you desire and it shall be done for you.

What a promise. You will ask what you desire and

it will be done for you. Is there anyone in

this room who has any desire that only God can do?

Maybe is the salvation of someone you love and for

years you've been trying, and the more you try, the

more he goes further, she goes further. Maybe they become

anti Christian. Maybe they were Christians. And you know what,

it's harder to reach a back seating Christian because he

or she believes that they know whatever you're gonna tell

them I know, oh gong, Yeah, so they know, they.

Think they know.

So it's very hard to reach a family who once

knew in school they tasted off the love of Jesus.

Maybe it was a Christian school, a missionary school. Very hard,

very hard. But there is a promise in the Bible,

and the promise is that you will ask what you

desire and it shall be done for you if you

believe it.

Say amen, I want you to live this today.

I want you to I want I want to challenge

all of you to take this scripture and say, Lord,

I've never really lived this. So I have never really

lived this. I've been a Christian for thirty years. I've

never really asked what I desire and believe that you

would do it for me.

I'm going to take this home and say, God, I

hold you to your promise.

But this promise has a condition, and the precondition is this,

if you abided me and my words, abiding you. So

we want the promise, it is yes and amen, but

we also want to learn how to step into that promise,

how to claim that promise, how to see that promise

come to pass. Let's now study the word abide, bide

In the Greek is the word men no, men no,

and what that means is the next life will tell

you to abide, to remain, to stay.

To continue, to exist, and to persist. That's what it means.

In other words, in our today language, it means to

be faithful. Faithfulness, my dear brothers and sisters, to me,

is the most important, the most important attribute of God,

the most important.

I don't know how many of you will.

Agree the most to me. I've learned something through the years.

Someone said, no, pastor, it cannot be. God is love.

Love is the most important attribute. God is our provider,

very important attribute. But I can tell you now if

you disagree with me, you will probably give me a

word and say, past I think his love, love is

more important. I think his forgiver, forgiveness is most important.

And I can tell you this. You can throw me

any word and I'll throw it back to you to say,

if God was not faithful, he can stop doing it.

So even God is love, so love is the most important.

If God was not faithful, what is to guarantee that

he will still love you tomorrow? If God is not faithful,

what is to guarantee that he will provide that you

will forgive so to me. In the years of me

walking with the Lord, I ask the Lord Lord, what

is the most important? He says, faithfulness, Kenneth. And because

you were made in my own image, you also must

be faithful. The most important an attribute about the human

being is also faithfulness. Let's read for a second Dimody

two thirteen. If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He

cannot deny himself. Oh, he cannot deny himself. Even if

all of us in this room were faithless. He has

to remain faithful because it is his core being, it

is his dna, it is who he is.

He cannot deny himself.

But let's look at us and the reflection of us

made in the image of God. That God, when he

rewarded his servants in Matthew twenty five, said well done,

good and faithful servant.

Listen to me.

Now we all know the two wards that we will

and hopefully will be receiving in heaven. However, you want

to receive this from the Lord, and the Lord has

already said it, so all of us know what we

want to hear. We want to hear when we come

before g after life is done here on earth, you'd

meet the Lord face to face, and he says, with

a smile on his face, well done, my good and

faithful servant. And then you will scratch your head and

go God. I've always been looking forward for these two words.

I wonder why, of all the English words, you only

chose two. And he will tell you because these two

are the most important.

Good means.

The rich young ruler said, why do you call me good?

Only God is good? Only God is good means when

God sees you and says good, he sees himself in you.

Only God is good. But he calls you good because

he sees God in you. I'm calling myself. I see you,

but I see me in you. So I call the

mead I see in you the God I see in you.

I call you good, but not just good, you are

good and faithful. So many English words, so many words

he could have used. Actually he's not English, that it

is Greek. Okay, the origin is Greek. But it just

means faithful. Can you imagine the whole of your life

is lived to hear these two words. And so we

must align our lives with these two words. We must

because nothing else matters. He didn't say, well done, my

good looking. Then of course you spent as much money

as you can to go for plastic surgery, all right.

He didn't also say, well, my chabidah.

But you know, well, Danny, can you regine?

God sees me in heaven? He didn't say, Rather, does

he see his son in me? Will God see his

son in me?

He sees? He says, good, because only God is good.

I can see God in you. Oh wonderful, but faithful.

I tell you. Every decision that you're about to make

has to align to faithful. Because it's very easy to

give up my very easy to give up, very easy

to join the towel one.

That's why we like those shows like Rocky, because he's

beaten down and he.

Climbed the rope right whoa. And then we cry.

We cry because a lot of us are would have

given up long time ago. But we know we want

that God made us in his own image, so we

want that. We want the Rocky in us, And so

we cry, and people are there by the side of.

The ring saying this, stay down, stay right. We all cry.

We cried.

Every movie that has got people showing just a little

bit more resilience. Cry every movie showing people I would

have given up wrong time of God? No, no, no, no,

we cry? Why why we do we cry? There's something

within us, made in the image of God that connects

with that movie.

We connect, we connect. It's a God cry.

I s I was like, good, were you supposed to?

I gave up so easily? Well you have a second time?

Everybody say second times. I don't know many words could

have been said about me for the last twenty four

years of leading this church. Can I just tell you this,

I'm still here. That counts your marriage. It's not always

a easy road being able to stand up and say,

by the grace of God, still here. You want to

be able to say that, everybody, Okay, I'm still standing?

Is a song?

I like, I'm still standing, but by the grace, but

by the grace of God, I'm still I'm still. Abide

in me, and let my words abide in you. I'm

still here. What's the What is the definition of abide again?

Stay?

Can that be your rally point? Everyone in this room?

Are you listening to me? Can that be your testimony?

Abide means to stay, to remain, to continue. How many

of you have been to a restaurant and a waiter

comes to you, and a good waiter waits.

What does a good way to do? Wait? What does

a good way to do? Does he run? Does he

walk away?

No? After you give the order, he goes away and

then he comes back with your order. How many of

you like a waiter that does not pay attention? I

know sometimes in Hong Kong water very like, right, you're

very efficient.

Fighting like Hong Kong Beta. Maybe no yeah, Malaysia, I'm guy.

Did no wanda no one ta no wan ta uh

huh Malaysia. Something say come to you, Macaba, want you

pay at Macapa?

Hey you you can?

Maybe maybe he's asking people to I sorted sway, Papa say,

chuck up my little eyes. Oh sorry, So that didn't

bring out because the Christian attention. Ye wait, pay attention, stay, remain.

Oh what you hold on? Hold on? Christians? We don't

buy one way, very hard to go buy. Yeah. Yeah,

those who wait on the lad shall renew their strength.

Just wait.

Don't go anywhere until you get God's order. Don't go

anywhere until you get God's order. I said, don't go

anywhere until you get God's order.

Focus on him.

The worst kind of waiter is the one that doesn't

pay attention, and it's walking around, running away, never coming back.

You press the bell five times so he doesn't come back. No, No,

you want a waiter that will wait on you.

That's so in America they will say, Hi, my name

is Kenneth, and I'll be waiting on this section your table.

Because they also want tips right at the end. But

but but basically, yeah, they're working for their tips. That's fine,

But they're saying, I'm your waiter. You don't have to

ask anyone. I will wait and they really really do

a good job. And when you do good job, you

give them a bigger tip. I mean, have you know

that the Lord has the best tip reserve for us

Halelijah who weighed upon him, And that's a tip, that's

a that's a tip.

Shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wigs

like egos.

Wow, that's cool, right, and not be weary. I think

CIGI would love that. He imagine going to a maraton

and never getting weirdy. What does a good way to do?

Faithfulness starts with faith? Okay, continues with faith, says the

next slide. We can't even spell faithful without first spelling faith.

If you take away faith from faithful, it's just full.

You know what.

The young people are so lay my disbuster. I don't

get it through or not. That's why people.

After a while, they don't no longer listener. They no

longer can be faithful because they've lost faith. In your company,

in your marriage, in your church. You tried hard. You

tried hard, probably, but you lost belief. You lost faith.

If you want to stay, you want to remain, you

want to abide, you got to be faithful. But you

can't be faithful if there's no faith. You can't have

faithfulness without first having faith, says the next life.

So then faith comes by hearing. How do you get faith?

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

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