The Church is a Movement

Some Missions is really an insurance for your heart. There

is nothing else I've seen in the Bible that is stronger.

That's why Jesus himself did it. So scattering is God's plan,

especially when we choose to live too comfortable a life.

What you plan you meant for evil, God men for good.

It's insurance, That's what I mean. It's really insurance. You

buy insurance and you hope that you don't really have

to use it, but just in case, some missions is

really an insurance for your heart. There is nothing else

I've seen in the Bible that is strong That's why

Jesus himself did it. Jesus himself did missions, and he

asked Paul to do it. Paul asked Timothy to do it,

and through the years right, it's follow me as I

follow Christ, because it really does.

Help our hearts stay healthy and internal internal.

Why do I say you think missions that is about

external miss Go out there, go to check my go

to Bakassi, go to London, go to No, it's.

Not just external.

Do you know those of you have been to missions before,

do you know that there are more internal issues that

going on when you're out there where we were invited

that to the leprosy colony in Indonesia. Okay, they don't

have their fingers, they don't have you know, their toes. Leprosy.

They say, leprosy is contagious at a certain stage. A

lot of people don't understand this. Only a certain stage

is contagious after a certain time is not. And so

we are supposed to go to a village that is

not contagious anymore.

But the people all look different.

So we went and we prayed like crazy, la Lord please,

they said, it's not contagious anymore. Please make sure that

is the truth. Lord, help us protect us, because we

want to show these people that you love them. You knows,

sometimes the best way to show people that you love

them is to show up, not just to talk, is

to show up and to actually reach out your hand

to a left prince person three fingers gone and say

Jesus loves you, and they know you mean it because

nobody else is visiting them. I know some of our

mission teams that when I won't mention from which country,

refuse to go because they just can't believe that God

can protect them from this. Now, did I judge them?

I said no, I said maybe you're from faith to faith.

Let's grow up. Okay, let's grow up. Let's all agree

to grow up and develop our faith, make it stronger

in the Lord.

But these people also, Jesus died for loves everybody.

Okay, internal, there are a lot more internal questions that

you will overcome than external. You gotta say, oh, I

didn't do very much the past. I only painted the church.

But you know what's happening inside. A lot more happening

inside missions is internal more than external. Genesis eleven four,

one and four. Now the whole earth had one language

and one speech, and they said, come, let us build

ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in

the heavens. Let us make a name for ourselves, lest

we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

So you know where this story comes from. Come from

the story of Babel, the Tower of Babel. See what

the people are saying, and until today people are still

saying it. We want to stay put, cannot past. Why

you keep talking about evangelism and missions. We want to

say put. We want to be comfortable, kenon Nord. Leave

us a Lord, We work so hot already. Okay, leave

us the Lord. We still want to build a nice house,

build nice furniture. We want to rest there, put our

leg up, you know, with our Pina Colada by the beach.

I don't know. Okay, you just want Okay, fine, understand. Yeah,

everybody can dream.

But I'm going to tell you right now, if you

live only for that, your heart will die.

But DC, we.

Don't want to be scattered. Please don't move us out anymore.

We want to stay. Put kennon Nord. Well, this is

what God said. So the Lord scattered them abroad from

there over the face of all the earth, and they

seized building the city.

They cease building their comfort Zona.

Basically therefore its name is called Bebel or Babel, because

there the Lord confused the language of all the earth,

and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the

face of all the earth. If you want to scatter anyone,

if you want to disunite any family, any church, any company,

you you you cause their language to be different. You

see this in family, husband and wife talking differently.

Language.

The enemy always attacks language, and God sometimes allows it.

If he really wants to disunite something. Language is always

number one. Language is a uniting factor. Or disuniting factor.

And when husband and wife talk differently, and children will

go into a mess. When boss and management talk differently

the company, you can say bye goodbye. When the leadership

of our country starts talking with a different language to

each other, God mc wan't talk this with you. M

I C M, I see what talk this way to you?

You know when what we when we have one language,

the country, the company, the church, and the family will

be strong. Father, mother always must have the same language,

talk the same language, and your children will grow up well.

So God devises the language and devises the people, scatters them,

because that is God's plan all the while. It's not

to keep us in the comfort zone, but to scatter us. Now,

some people say, pass, you shouldn't use that word. There's

a curse word.

No, it's not.

I'll show you the Book of Acts that God allowed

the people to be scattered, and wherever they're scattered, they

preach the gospel. So scattering is God's plan, especially when

we choose to live too comfortable a life.

Everyway. Okay, all right, here we go Genesis trial of

one of the tree.

Right after he's scattered them, he immediately found a man

who he could use to bring them all back. So

he said, Abram, get out of your country heart. Tell

you what, if you haven't caught it yet, please catch it. No,

every answer that God has for the earth is go,

get out.

Move, do something with your life.

So God may have done the scattering, and the whole

earth is now divided. But God is about to move

in a mighty mission, and he starts with a man

of faith called Abram, which he changed the name later

to Abraham.

Get out.

I will make you a great nation people group. I

will bless you and make your name great. There's a

reason for that. And you shall be a blessing. So

we always say these admissions that we are blessed to

be a blessing.

You got that bonus.

Why if you are following scripture, you understand it's not

only for the new pair of shoes, not only for

the new car, not only for the new house, not

only for new new holiday. Take those things if you

have to, and live life, enjoy it, but always make

sure there's room to be a blasing because if you

spend everything on yourself, you know you're going to die

a very very very sad spiritual death.

I'm not even talking about physical death.

You know, after a while your heart will grow cold,

because where your treasure is there, your heart will be also.

So Abraham, I'm gonna bless you so much so that

you'll be a blessing. And it says in you, all

the families of the earth be blessed. So God's intention

was all the families of the earth will be blessed. Hey, hello,

he's just scattered demro Oh, God doesn't love you. I

know he totally divided my church, right, but maybe you

should ask a question, has my church been doing missions?

Because he doesn't have a reason to scatter the church

if the church was doing missions. Sometimes he doesn't.

He doesn't want us to be so comfortable that we

forget what it is really all about.

So he blesses us to be a blessing.

All right, drawing towards the last lap now, so from

then on, from from from the word that he gave

to Abram or Abraham, the people of.

God, the next light says, was always on the move.

From Genesis twelve one to three, the people of God

was always on the move. Let me tell you why

Genesis twelve, verse three is very close to my heart

is because the Bible says, and true you, all the

families of the earth shall be blessed. And before I

started a ya, the Lord just added two letters after

the word you, and it was thh. And he said

to me, Kenneth, this will be your call through youth,

all the families of the earth will be blessed. And

that's why I to do. I'm very passionate by young people.

So I believe that young people, you know, have less baggage,

less hurts in terms of like you know how sometimes

church hurts each each other and leaders each other. Young

people are more innocent. I didn't say that totally innocent,

but they're more innocent, and they're more willing and ready

use me.

Lord.

Sometimes older we get, the more burdened, you know, off

hurt and offense. And I won't work with this guy,

and I won't won't work with that guy, and I

won't won't work with that church, and I won't work

with that denomination.

So God, sometimes after a while, you won't work, so

he won't work with you.

But young people, God saying, come on, you know, keep

your heart pure, right, can you love me? And true youth,

all the families of the years we blessed, So that

was personally my word. I know the Bible tells us

not to add to God's work, so I'm very careful

about that. I don't I didn't write down on my

Bible and know it remains its you. Okay, it's a

blessing and a promise to Abraham. But in my spirit

I caught the word t H the letters T, and

I said, Lord, I know you're calling me to youth,

and let's wanted today we still do it. We love

young people very very much because we know that they

are God's plan. They are God's purpose. There are God's

strategy to reach the world, all right, and we the

adults support them. Koko, Sorry, that's not that's not English,

but wholeheartedly, you know, full, full, full, full steam ahead,

all right. Next one, AX is not just a church,

where a movement. I want you to remember that. You say,

I just keep to a church. I just want to

be comfortable. I just want to worship of fuse, dance

a little bit, give my ties an offering if I

have any uh, take communion, go home, have my Sunday

rass work starts on Monday. We're not just a church.

We are church, but not just a church. We are

a movement. And the operative word in the word movement

is moved. That's why when you catch it, you catch it. Though.

That's why I don't hear any complaints of those of

you who multiply your homes, because you already knew that's

my DNA. I keep moving. It's my dna. It's fish

in water, not walking on land. Love to just try to,

you know, a lot, to just try to be a

fish that walks on land. We must, we must continue

in the water and and and this is water. I

want to tell you. We are a movement. We keep moving.

That's why Abraham moved. Do you know that Joseph was

also moved out of his family. His brother's helped him. Hello,

there's a pit you want assume he's just do the

swimming pool for your gun.

Jose the youngest, second youngest in you go not enough

sell him as a slave.

But all that, you know what Joseph said, what you plan,

you meant for evil, god ment for good. He imagine

being sent out, send out of your family of the favor.

He has so much favor all and they tore it

and put animal blood on it to say that he

was torn by animal out there, and his father was

so distraught, but he said, God's plan, who was always there,

and so thank you for putting me in a pit,

and thank you for selling me as a slave, because

I'm able to do God's will and save all the

people of Israel.

His perspective Missions is perspective.

Moses also same thing, out of his family into the

Egyptian palace, raised as a prince, but never satisfied. They say,

some of you here when you come to church, in

your heart, you know it.

This is not it.

Coming to church every Sunday is not just. It is good,

but it cannot be everything. It's got to be people.

It's gonna be lives. It's gotta be people different than me.

Where's my money going to? Where Am'm investing? Where am

I going next? With my hobies? You know, my hobies

are told me they want to go check my Yeah,

and one of the inspirations is shopping. I know you're laughing,

but it's okay because I thought myself, if I can get.

Into missions and do some shopping, why not Comela, Let's

go on.

Five days of check my three days mission, two day

shopping Hallelijah, praise God from from faith to faith. And the

next time we go to check my you be four

days missions, one day shopping, no problem. I don't worry. Okay,

shopping is off from the devil. Okay, don't worry. You

can on a puzzle dot do don't give that no, okay.

And even when you show, you show for your family

and friends, right, yeah, not for yourself.

Moses and Daniel.

Daniel at a young age was taken out of his

comfort zone, and yet he became the governor of a

foreign land. You want to see new Testament. There was

old Testament. New Testament is Jesus did the same thing.

Philip did the same thing. You know what, he says

a Philip, Philip, but was one of the evangelists, one

of the you know seven and and and Philip was

sent up and then he was said to to uh

Judea set out to Samaria. And you know what the

famous story is, he's running after the chariot. This called

supernatural power. If you want to have supernatural power, be

involved emissions and see yourselves running after Tesla and overtaking it.

Or the terrant is.

Writing her and this guy can run and no only

runner side by side her he can talk.

So what is that you're reading?

Ah?

I repety, say you know? Stop? Please?

You know I want to die idea, I need stop.

He only stopped after he asked a question, what are

you're reading? I'm reading Isaiah?

Do you know what you're reading?

I don't know. Why do you come up and tell me?

If the opion the first? If you opion, if you're

been a dark color color culture comes up, explains Jesus,

Oh my soul, so convient singer that the Ethiopian leader says, hey, water,

can I be baptized?

Now?

I know A young person in these church asks me faster,

When can I be baptist baptized? I said, immediately after

you received priest. He said, but people are telling me otherwise.

I said, come look at the scripture. Okay, don't don't,

don't worry about what other people that you look at

the word of God.

Right.

And then after he did that, Philip flew flu because

the Bible says he was taken up. You started flying.

You want to fly, go for missions, not just fly, know,

fly in your spirit. Fly so like an eagle a man, Peter,

I don't want to know I don't want know, Peter,

Peter what happened.

Peter was praying and.

A nice white sheet of cloth comes down, and in

it was KFC McDonald's. It came down and he says, Peter, Rice,

kill and eat. You know, God knows her heart. You know,

he knows how prejudices, he knows how. No, Lord, I've

never I've never wornay proud of it. I've never seince

i was young, I've never eaten anything unclean. And God says,

what I make clean, don't say I'm clean. And preparing

his heart for the encounter with Cornelius. Let's look at

some scriptures here, all right. It was the next one.

I'm going to close it. Then he said to them,

you know how unlawful? That's what Peter said. He saw Cornelius,

and the first few words out of his mouth was,

you know how unlawful it is for a Jewish men

to keep company with or go to one another nation.

You know how unlawful it is for me to fellowship

with our bit. I know how you look down on

bit like they were the trash of the world. Hello,

they also need salvation. So if you stop writing on

the road like that, you know then maybe I forgive them.

So I don't know.

Maybe you at your name, you're at your name, Jewish man, you,

Indian men, Chinese men, Punjabi men. But God has shown

me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

Somebody say a good amen, oh hallelujah. Next one, as

we draw to the last lap. The first thing the

Holy Spirit restored was our language.

So I told you right.

The first thing that destroys the Babel, the first thing

that destroys your family, destroys your company, destroys your nation,

is the way you talk. And the Lord sends his

Holy Spirit in Acts chapter two. That's a mighty sound

from heaven. And the first evident thing the Holy Spirit

changes is our language. Because even God knows that language

unites and language divides.

So I'm gonna.

Restore or before I restore the whole earth back to Jesus,

I would restore language. And the language wasn't for you.

It wasn't something I can speak menry in oh Changwai

or speak basta. No, the language that they spoke was

for others. Let's look at the next slide. And there

were dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation

under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came

together and were confused.

Why were they confused? Not because they didn't understand, but

they were confused.

Why are people who shouldn't be speaking their language were

speaking it? Everyone heard them speak in his own language.

Then they were all amazed and marvels, saying to one another,

Look are not all these who speak Galilians? And how

is it that we hear each in our own language

in which we were born. God was about to restore

the whole earth back to himself. Then before he could

restore the whole earth, he has to restore the language.

But the language was not for them themselves. The language given,

the new language given to their apostles and to the

one hundred and twenty waiting the upper room, was a

language for the world, the language for the unreach, the

language for people that hasn't yet received Christ. This language

is not just for the betterment of our own family.

This language is for the betterment of the people that

do not yet know Christ.

Can I hear good? Amen?

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