Sermon
Remain in the Rhema Series: The Way
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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 day.
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The Kingdom of God in our lives in our church
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just means the rule and reign of God in our
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lives in our church. But for many years now, as
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I think about Kingdom of God, the Lord has always
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given me one word, one word for what the Kingdom
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of God means, and that one word is way, Way,
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the way of God. Every kingdom has its own unique way.
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When I go to Japan, Japan has its way. It's
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a way of doing things. It's a way of even
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closing doors, taking off shoes, the way they handle chopstics,
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the way they make tea, the way of the Japanese,
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the way of the Koreans. Different, can be similar, but different.
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The way of the Germans. I went by the grace
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of God to start ex Germany very different. Autoban very different. Okay,
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if you're driving at two hundred kilometers an hour, please
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drive in the middle lane because you're slow. The way
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of Autoban very different. We don't know it. We don't
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know it. Here in Malaysia, every kingdom has his own way. Agreed,
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God has his own ways. Too. The Kingdom of God
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is a way of life, is a way of living.
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Isaiah fifty five, verse eight to nine says, for my
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thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my way,
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he says the Lord. Amen. For as the heavens are
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higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
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your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. So the
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next slight says, find the way and seize the day.
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If I can go to Japan and find the Japanese way,
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I will be able to live easier, and I will
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be able to be more fruitful, happier, more profitable. But
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if I don't know the way of the Japanese or
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wherever it is I'm going the thighs, you know, the Africans.
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If I don't know the way, I will be quite miserable.
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I will remain as a tourist. And how may you
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understand when I say there are still many Christian tourists
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in the church, because while we know Jesus, we don't
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yet know his ways. Amen. So I'm going to encourage
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us to find the way, find the king. Seek ye first,
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the Kingdom of God. Right, find a way. There are
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two ways to everything and anything. We do in life
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two ways you all know it the Kingdom way or
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the worldly way, the way of God or the way
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of the world. There is a difference between world and worldly.
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World is a domain, and God put us in this
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world to have dominion over the domain. So there's nothing
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wrong with the world. In fact, God so loved the world.
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But wordly is a doctrine. Worldly is a way of life.
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Wordly is your belief system. Do you believe in the
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world's way, then that makes you wordly. You can still
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be in the world, but not off the world anyway's you? Okay,
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that's what the next slight says. In the world, there's
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nothing wrong to be in the world. Is nothing wrong
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to be in your office? Is nothing wrong to be
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in your company? Is nothing wrong to be in your college.
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You're in the world, but you don't have to be off.
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Is nothing wrong with the world. God loves the world,
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but it's wrong when you become worldly. Everybody, Okay, you
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want to be god lee, you want to be Kingdom minded.
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So don't blame the world. Okay, blame the ways of
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the world that is being taught in our schools, in
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our universities. Be careful about that. Now this also means
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that I can I can say this this, this is
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the next line, and I hope that you'll be blessed
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when I say it. I can have problems, but problems
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don't have to have me. So you think that Christians
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don't have problems, You're wrong. We have problems, but problems
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don't have to have us. Can I hear good? Amen.
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We can have pain in our body, even right now
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you're sitting down or paying your knee, pay in your back.
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You can have pain, but pain doesn't have to have you.
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You can be in the world, but not off the world.
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It's the spirit. At the end of the day, think
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about it. It's the spirit. It's the attitude. It's the
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way you see life and you and I want a
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winning attitude. I could be poor this morning because my
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wallet only has got ten dollars left ten ring it,
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but poverty doesn't have to have me. I can have
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a bad pass, but my bad pass doesn't have to
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have me. I can have sorrow, and Christians do have sorrow,
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but sorrow doesn't have to have You can be in
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the kingdom. You can be living the kingdom while on earth.
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Didn't he say your kingdom come, your will be done
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on earth. God doesn't hate the earth. Christians, don't be
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so quickly wanting to leave the earth. You with me.
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The world is terrible, the world of old Satan, who
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said God created the heavens and the earth. So be
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in your earth. Be in your world. But don't be wordly.
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Don't be earthly. Don't yeah have problems, but don't let
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problems have you. Your kingdom come, Your way come, because
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once the way of God is lived, the will of
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God will be seen. I guarantee you this. You choose
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the way of God to do your marriage, watch the
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will of God come. You choose the way of God
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to do your finances, Watch the will of God be done. Everybody, Okay,
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you choose the will or the way of God. As
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you say the Way first, the way first, the way first.
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Hasn't it always been the wafers next, light say sick first.
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The Kingdom of God first is the way, and all
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these things shall be added to you. Do you know
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that God knows your need even before you ask? But
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what does he one of us kingdom? What does he
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one of us? The way? Seek first the way, find
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the way, and seize the day God knows how needs
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even before we ask. We are citizens of the Kingdom
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of God, and the citizens of the Kingdom of God,
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as far as Sandra said on the first night, are
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called sons and daughters. So if you are citizens, and
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if you are sons and daughters, then you know what
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you what's another name for you? Another name for you?
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And me? Listen very carefully. Now we are called people
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of the way. Do you know that? Did you ever
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read that? Let's read it in the Word of God
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x nine one two. Then Saul. Then Saul, still breathing
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threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went
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to the High Priest and asked letters from him to
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the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any
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who were off the way, whether men or women, he
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might bring them bound to Jerusalem. K see one more time,
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how many hands will go up? Are you people of
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the way? Are you people off the way? Or are
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you people in the way? Don't get in the way.
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Don't just be on the way, be off the way.
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We are all people off the way. Jesus is the way,
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the truth, and the life. Can you see that they
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put way first? Why didn't they say Jesus is the
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truth or maybe the life first? Who would you like
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life first? No, because in order to have the truth,
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you must know the way. Only when you start to
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live God's way will you find truth. Only when you
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when you find truth, where you find life. You know
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in God's Word is very orderly and precept upon precept,
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lying upon lying. Are you all say with me? Jesus
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is the way, the way first? And no one comes
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to the Father John fourteen six, Right, no one comes
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to the Father except through the word, through is way.
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It goes back to talking about him as the way,
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and through this way you will come to the Father. Oh,
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this is exciting because he is It's not just a doctrine,
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you know. It's not just a book that you have
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to read. It's a person called Jesus. And I pray
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that you know him this morning, that you love him
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this morning as he loves you.
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