12 Hard Truths on Calling

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We are called to preach the gospel.

Yes, we are called to make disciples, and we've got

to remember our calling because whenever you work outside your calling,

there is darkness and danger. So we have to be

very careful how we assume and presume, because if we

walk outside that calling, we walk outside our covering and

we walk outside our protection. God promises to be with

us when we are walking in his will and in

his ways. There is no promise that he will do

the same if we are walking outside his will, walking

outside his ways, walking outside his word. And I said promise,

meaning you know, unless you can find me a clear

promise that God says that even if you walk outside

my will my ways were you know that I will

still you know, know that I don't see any scripture

like that. But there's many more promises that if you

would obey me, if you would, you know, do it

my way, if you would do my will, you know,

he says, and low, I will be with you until

the end of the age. Never do anything outside your

call or rather, so I say, don't leave your call

Romans one one. Paul was very clear about his calling

Paul in Romans one one. And it's not just Romans

one one lies in a couple of scriptures or so.

Usually Paul starts like this, Paul a born servant of

Jesus Christ.

Wow.

Immediately he knew he was a servant of the Lord,

not just servant, a bond servant. And you know what

bond servant is, right. A bond servant is one who,

after he is given the chance to be free, says,

I don't want to be free.

I want to serve you forever. And the Master takes

him or her.

Usually him to the door post of the house and

nails and pierces his ear to the door post.

Right. You know that? Uh?

And it's a mark that I'm a bond I chose

to be bound to this Master. And you call, and

Paul calls himself that, and he said, called to be

an apostle. Wow, he knows, you know, clearly he's called

to be an apostle. And he said, separated to the

Gospel of God. I like Romans one one, because in

that short sentence there are three clear things. I am

a servant, I'm an apostle, and all this so that

I can preach the gospel.

Separated to the Gospel of God.

And so at the end of the day, Paul is

constantly going back to the reason why God gave him

all these things and is so.

That the Gospel can be preached Ephicients four one to three.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord Wow beseech you

to what worthy of the calling with which you were called?

Do you know the word worthy, translated in the Greek

is the words balancing the scales. In Greek, worthy means

balancing the skills. So to be worthy is to live

a life balance in accordance to God's call. So God

has called you already, that's who you are. So you've

got to measure up to that call. That call cannot

come down to your standard. You and I have to

rise up to this center. And even if it takes

you twenty years, keep going because his call will never

come down to our comfort. I'm gonna say it again,

his call will never come down to our comfort. We've

got to keep on balancing the scales. So worthy that

you talking about worthy, how are you worthy? You balance

the scales? Worthy means I measure up right now, I'm

worthy to worthy of his calling.

In a way he calls you apossibly, he means you're

a possile.

You want to call yourself maybe a postle, call yourself

maybe a possible, But you're still a possible. You get

what I'm saying. And there is no twenty percent pastor.

So you know, God says, oh you're a pastor, or

I'm fifty percent, because I'm fifty percent the church fifty percent.

You know in my company, there's no such thing. He

calls you that you are. Now all of us just

measure up by his grades. We can amen. So I'm

going to read it again. I therefore, the prisoner of

the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling

with which you were called, with all loneliness and gentleness,

with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring

to keep the unity of the spirit in the born

of peace. One more scripture, then I'll move on first

Peter two nine. You all know it, but you are

a chosen generation, wow, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,

his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises

of Him who called you out of darkness into his

marvelous light. You know, once in a while, we as

leaders and even our people in church partners have to

be reminded of our calling, that we were called by God,

because sometimes there's so many voices and so many things

that happen in our lives that we forget it's actually

that purely that you know, it's not even about whether

we agree don't agree, whether it's modern, whether it's old school.

It's not about all these things. Sometimes we argue about no,

whether people like this or not, it's about a calling.

It's really about our calling. And we continue to do

this because we've been caught. You know, I'm not sure

whether Elvin received my slides heart truths about calling. You

need to know heart truth Heart truth just means no excuses.

And let me show you very quickly. Calling doesn't need money,

meaning that it's good to have money. But even if

we don't have a you still a call, right, you

better find a way to measure up to your calling,

even if you don't have money.

Number two, college doesn't need friends.

So if all your friends leave you or you're still

calling all right, sometimes we go like, oh, my friends

are no longer here, So you know, at number three. Uh,

calling doesn't need reason. Everybody's trying for a reason. No,

to fulfill your call. Your call is your reason. Number

four calling doesn't need rewards. People, What was it? What

is it in for me?

Or what? What? What is? How do you go to

the English phrase? Yeah, what's in it? What's in it

for I was speaking tongues? What's in it for me? Yeah?

Everybody's asking that. Number five Calling doesn't need success. So

how I ain't got twenty people at the end of

my time. I've just been faithfuler right, No, but you

know you're not two hundreds, so you know successful? Hello?

You know I didn't. I didn't enterity to be successful.

I entered this to be faithful.

Number six Calling doesn't need validation, and I know a

lot of people are going around here. Will validate me first,

then I serve I thought you were saving the Lord.

Now I'm not.

When I say it doesn't need that, it doesn't mean

that it's not good to have It's very different. It's

good to have money, it's good to have friends, but

it doesn't need to fulfill it.

Yeah.

Number seven, it doesn't need persuasion. People keep going persuading,

persuading people be a leader. Please be a leader, and

so on and so forth. Number eight, Colling doesn't need satisfaction.

I don't feel satisfied, law after seven years of being here, right.

I never see the Bible saying you must be satisfied

to fulfill your calling, right, I don't know how many

people have actually finished a callinger actually not fully satisfied.

So the Lord never said you must.

But I mean, because you know why in this life

we are all you know, we're working for satisfaction, you know,

so we are not satisfying the company you want to leave, Okay,

I mean, use the way of the world if you

want to.

Deal with the world.

Maybe it's not totally wrong like that, of course, it's

better to use the way of the lotler. But okay, fine, well, well,

but when you come into the church and the King

of God, you gotta you gotta go flow with a

different spirit, all right, So don't don't forget about satisfaction.

I know you might not be satisfied, but never mind,

I'm gonna stick for fill my con Number nine.

You see how fast I'm going appreciation?

Okay, maybe say with a validation, all right, so I

know we are we are you know, we're big on apprecition,

dinners and appresion this and pression that. Right Again, doesn't

mean it doesn't need that or we shouldn't have, but

it's not.

It's not the most important thing, all right.

Number nine, Number ten, Calling doesn't need comparisons really, so

you're comparing me with who you know, and so people

like to compare one church down the street, do you

know what that church is doing? Do you know what

that church is doing? But sometimes we compare, and then

that's why we don't step into our calling. Is I

cannot preach like him, I cannot sing like her. Hello,

who told you to compare? In fact, Jesus said right

when Peter was talking about John, say none of your business. No,

you follow me, right, whatever he's doing is done your business.

You just follow me. Calling doesn't need competition. I'm not competing.

Do you know I'm not competing with any church in Malaysia.

I'm not. I am not. And the time when you

come to that place where by I'm not competing neither

my music nor that my preaching, now them, you know,

I just want to follow Jesus. You know you're free,

You're free, You're free. Now we can learn from audit

you just see. Of course we can learn from other people. Yes,

I've never said no, don't write, but hey, this is

very important. No matter what they're doing. I just want

to do what God tells me to do. And yeah,

we haven't turned off lights when we do worship. Is fine,

It's fine, no, no problem. Okay number twelve calling doesn't

need retirement. Okay, everybody want to talk about retirement and

and so that they can stop and then you know.

Shake their legs, want to play golf?

Do uh nola know if we don't need to talk

about that, we just continue to serve, right, Yeah. So

some people even say, oh you you still you Some

people say ask me, know, are you still in youth

ministry past?

And all these years?

I say, so, oh you're you're You're the oldest youth

pastor in the world. Someone told me that, you know,

so said that you're still in youth mistry. I said,

you are, said I'm not said you know, you know,

but people like you talking that because they see the

ministries are stepping stone all the way to senior past

the ship who said that. Gods would never say that,

So why you know? So, No, I'm not going to retire.

God called me to this. Yeah, Pasceara is selling into

uh ex kids, and so is Pastor Letitia seventy what

is she seventy four? Still x kids see her? Poor pastor? Right,

I love that. I love that example.

Right.

Still, she's still therese Got told it to be. So

don't think about retirement life. You can retire from your career,

not from your calling. All right, But I just wanted

to make sure that we just remember that it's all

about calling. Is God's calling, you know, He called us

what the privilege to serve the Lord.

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