What is Your Faith Made Of?

Yes, you don't work for your salvation, but you work

your faith and then you see your faith grow. I

prayer that you don't have the same faithor that you had,

you know, twenty years ago, but that he's grown. Be

where God has meant you to be, and receive what

God wants you to receive, and use that and live

it out. All of you got faith? What kind of

faith do you have? And that faith, like a seed,

has to be cast to the ground. Faith is your

faith alive? Is your faith living? Is your faith being sold?

Or is it in your pocket? Is your faith alive?

For James two twenty six says for as the body

without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead. Also,

this is the word of the law. That means uh.

The writer of the Book of James is telling us

that faith is like the body and works. It's like

the spirit. Because body without spirit is dead. So faith

without works is also dead. So the works that we do,

the sowing of that seed, is the one that actually

brings life to your faith. Are you working your faith?

It's the next slighte everybody? Are you working your faith?

Why did God allow you to go through trouble this

last week?

There's the reason I'm telling you.

A lot of us go through problems, challenges, trouble, you know,

maybe a medical report that you was surprising to you.

You go like why God, and then you realize God

wants you and I to work our faith.

Is not to punish us.

God loves us too much, but he gives us opportunities

that often look like opposite.

I'm gonna say it again.

God gives us opportunities that often looks like obstacles to us.

But actually, if we see true God's eyes in his opportunity,

somebody say, man opportunities for what to work our faith

to sow that seed so he no longer remains a seed,

but it becomes a tree of life. You don't even

know what you will achieve by trusting a lot today

and by putting your faith in him.

You don't know. You don't.

You haven't yet seen the eleven nations. You haven't even

seen the fifty churches. You haven't even seen the souls

that will be saved. You haven't seen you know, the

young people that will lead churches and become great church

plank coordinators and you know, great worship leaders.

You haven't seen the opportunity.

My word, you know so much in stam So are

you working your faith? Next, Slight says faith works. When

we work faith, faith works. My faith doesn't work. No,

I've been a Christian idea no, for twelve years and

I haven't seen any miracle. You gotta work it. Yes,

you don't work for your salvation, but you work your

faith and then you see your faith grow. I pray

that you don't have the same faithor that you had,

you know, twenty years ago, but that it's grown.

It has to grow with me. Otherwise you'd be a

very stunted Christian.

And we know no, when we see somebody here, huh

he's thirty years old at his dead size or that height, you.

Know that something went wrong with it somewhere.

But sometimes we can't see that in a Christian because

the Christian looks all normal on the outside, but inside

you could be so stunted.

You could be a midget. And that's not totally wrong.

No, thank God for them, you love them anyway, but

you know that it's not normal. And yet we don't

see that in the mirror. We don't look in the

mirror and go oh, you know, wow, hey midia no,

my faith. You don't see that. If something is wrong,

I'm not growing. And then we blame it on the messages,

we blame it on the church. Hello, it's what you have.

You know.

One of the most powerful stories I've ever heard in

my life as a preacher. I went to a church

to preach twenty people, maybe twenty five at the most.

And it was in the house. I had to pick

up my shoes and I was preaching there. And after

I finished, I ran a fellowship with them around the table.

And there was an old lady maybe at that time,

she was sixty eight or seventy. And this was how

many years ago, probably about twenty eight twenty nine years ago.

This is about the same year I got married. I

got invited.

Twenty five people. You know. He asked me to preach

on a Sunday.

And the lady smiled at me, and I looked at

her and I said, Hi, auntie, how are you fine?

Young man?

You remind me a lot of a preacher that through

his preaching I got saved.

I said, oh, who is that?

You remind me a lot of John Sung, not the

Johnson we have in Sumangaya.

Johnson is a revivalist. And those of you who know

him will know him. You otherwise can read about him.

You remind me a lot about Johnson, said, Oh you

know john soone she said, when I was twelve, Johnson

preached one message and it was in a Methodist boys'

school area in care and it was a rally, and

she said, I got saved. John Sum spoke about love.

But she didn't tell me that. She didn't tell me

that he spoke about love. I found out from another

older lady in Binang that also was saved under Johnson's ministry,

and she said, Johnson always preaches the love of God. Okay,

So anyway, she said, you remind me a lot about him.

I said, it's a great man. He said, yeah, yeah,

you know, got used to him and I got saved

at twelve. I only heard one message, one message. I

told you this already many years before, but I can

tell you again very quickly. This is now summarized worship.

When I went home, I told my dad that I

received Christ. My dad says, you go upstairs, you come

down again. You you tell me that you've changed your mind,

otherwise you will live with the servants from tomorrow onwards.

So this lady has got bodyguards, servants. Their house used

to be next to the Australian Embassy. The whole piece

of land next Australi Embassy belonged to them where Public

Bank is now it belonged to them.

The family.

So every child has a car and a driver, and

a bodyguard and a servant, one servant for one child.

I don't know how rich this guy was, but it was,

you know, during the timer. And he said, you must

be kidding. Don't ever tell me in this house that

you accept the Christ. You come down, you tell me

that you were kidding. So she came down for dinner

and she said, so, what's your decision? I gave my

life to Christ. Go up, pat your bags, move to

the servants quarters. She stayed there for about four years. Father,

do you want to look at her at all until

she repents? Four yes, So from steak and all this

beautiful food, she was eating servants food and she was

telling me he.

Said, yeah, it was porrage, simple porrage.

And then we took the the the ima say, the

salted fish. Then we just dip it and suck. You know,

my father's house just in front, this is the seven carts.

My father wanted to teach me a lesson because I

didn't repent. I couldn't go to church. One message. A

lot of us complain about messages are not being fed

out of one message.

It's all about how many messages are. It's about what

you do.

With a message. One message. One message. She held on

to Christ, no Bible, nothing, She prayed every day, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

That's why we never take messages easily. This I like,

simply because one message can change people's lives forever. So

he sold her off. He sold his own daughter to

the fishmonger. Fishmonger came and collected the daughter on a bicycle,

and at sixteen years old, she got her first child,

and all together about three children. The husband was a drunkard,

and he slept with other women, and so she was

the guy left the home and went with the women.

And so this lady young and had three children. She

was washing other people's clothes this story. And she's telling me,

I don't know what to do with it. No, I

was like, I soho was? My eyes were welling up

with tears. But she's telling me, we're a smile. And

then I washed other people's clothes, and then I put

all my three children to school. God is so good.

God is so good. Got one message? Is what you

do with the message? She says, I've stayed in this

church for forty years. Now they've come and gone, come

and gone, split the church, split, the split church plate.

But I said, until this church is I mean, it's

been bigger before.

Yeah.

I know.

We went to forty and then we went back to twenty.

We keep splitting, but I will continue to be faithful

to God. God never told me to move, so I

won't move. So her husband had cancer, came back and

knock on the door. Please receive me back. I have

no one to take care of me.

She's there.

This man left to take care of two children, and

she's there one messager. She still hasn't been to church yet.

Know her husband is all allowed her to go. She

opens the door and she says, come in. I said,

why you do that? Jesus said, forgive.

I mean.

One message. You either live it or you don't. Some

people are preaching, but living it is different now. No one,

no one to take care of my husband or And

Jesus said, forgive. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, what can

you do it? One message?

H A lot? Apparently a lot. I was so privileged

I was.

I don't know, but if I was one of the

only guys who have had the privilege of because I

sat there for an hour to listen to her, and

she said, then my husband, I nursed him and nursed

him and nurs him, and nursing took care of him.

I had to wash it. He was, he was bit

ridden after a while, as to watch his body. The

same guy that stepped with all these other women and

left her family and left her to wash other people's clothes.

You know, she's washing his body. Now, forgive him, forgive him.

It's okay, Jesus said, forgive simple Faivor.

He died.

The day he died, he accepted the Lord. She said,

I let my husband de cries this wiling. So I

said to my wife and I went home.

I said. She reminded me of the two te bird's grandmother.

You know the Thibert has a granddad and not lie

every time. She said, my son one is a lawyer,

wants a doctor, and you know that one is an engineer.

They all that she's washing clothes to put the children

to school, and the Lord bless all her children. I say,

Heaven Day invited you to go overseas to stay with them. No,

God never told me to leave Malaysia. God never told

me to leave this small church. You know this one message,

it's what we do. What's your faith based on? Says

the next line. Well, the word of God says in

First Coningtians two four to five. And my speech, this

is Paul writing this. My speech and my preaching were

not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration

of the spirit and of power, that your faith should

not be in the wisdom of men, but in the

power of God. What is your faith based on? Just

another preacher? You know we follow people on YouTube, you know.

You know I think during a pandemic, there's a lady

who told me I can I can attend five different

messages on Sunday in five different judges.

I look at that and smile.

I said, sister, it's one thing about listening to all

these good messages. There is another thing about living it.

I gave a warning to this church many years ago.

I said, God will always hold us accountable for what

we've heard. That's why I say Please don't jump from

just a church, because if you are loyal to one church,

you will hear the message God wants you here. But

if you keep jumping, then you will have to be

accountable for that which you heard. So if God only

wanted to use you hear B is because he knew

that you can only hand up B this month. But

if you read it, hurt me A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I,

j K, and p are you with me? You can

only hand up B. But now he's saying you hurd a.

What are you doing about it? Oh God, it was.

Just a nice message. No way, no way.

He's gonna hold us all accountable for the things we heard.

So I'm telling you right now, Oh boy, it's only

for knowledging. No no on. Please, That's why I love

us A knowledge puffs up. Be very careful, be where

God has meant you to be, and receive what God

wants you to receive, and use that and live it out.

And then you say, God, you gave me A. I

did A.

God you gave me B. I did be amen, Because

God is going to hold us all accountable. So I

know I put some fear of the law into my church,

because I'm said, puzzle, you're just so you do orders

are listen to no, no, no no. If you're gonna listen,

go and listen. But take account. That's what I am

I saying to You're gotta listen to five messages. Take

account for all five and say, God, nowaday you give

me all five. I was so blessed by all five.

I'm gonna do something about it. Otherwise, please be very

fearful in handling God's word. Okay, So what's your faith

based on, not just on the word, but on the

power of God? Is your faith on fire? Let's let's

finish this last lap. Is your faith on fire? Matthew three,

verse eleven. I indeed baptize you with water until repentance,

said John the Baptist. But he who is coming after

me is mighty than I who send us. I'm not

worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy

Spirit and fire and fire. The Greek word for the

word fire is poor. P you are. It's not a

short form of poor, is just poor, and poor means lightning.

It means a lot of other things when you when

you look up poor. In the Greek it says energy

it says strength, it says power. But one word that

really caught my attention was poor is also lightning, and God,

Jesus Christ is gonna come and baptize you and I

with lightning. Lightning is pure power. I hope none if

you get struck by it. But I am told there's

just pure electricity. There's nothing, there's nothing adulterated, there's no mixture,

and it's just.

Lightning is lightning is pure power.

I might not want to get struck by physical lightning,

but I want to get struck by spiritual lightning because

He can baptize you with poor.

Do you want this, ladies and german prises, do you

want this? You want?

You want the lightning poor of God because some of

us are dragging our feet to church and dragging our

feet to witness in school. And you know, but when

you are on poorer you can see it. You can

see when your faith is on fire when you are lightning.

And don't despise lightning. Don'tly spice lightning, because as there's

a scripture that says, as the lightning goes from the

east to the west, so will the sun of men come.

And I love that scripture because in these last days,

I'm seeing more and more revival is coming from the

East to the west. In the last see the early

days the west send missionaries, when the last days the east.

And so I take it to interpreter that as the

lightning goes flashes from the east to the west. You

can see it scripture in the Bible. So will the

coming of the Sun of men be, So he will

come like a lightning. And this lightning, this power, this

anointing that will break the yoke, is going to come

from the east. If you believe it, say amen. So

that's why I got us raising up many from the east.

It is now out turn.

And now time is called reverse missionary adventure because everything

came of the west before. Now the East is rising up.

And in these last days the lightning is going to

come from the East to the west.

Amen.

The west is going to see wow. Because why we Asians,

and we from the East. You know, when we believe

in something, we really believe in it and we give

our lives to it. And for too long we've been

under the shadows. But now we're going to shine for Jesus.

Can I hear good?

Amen? Okay, as we draw to a close How is

lightning created.

Lightning is created by violent collision between high and low,

hot and coal, positive and negative charges in the thunderclouds.

So I want to encourage you because I don't have time.

I hope you understand this. I hope you understand that

when you are low, he's high. And the way to

do it is not to give up when you're law,

not to give in when you're law, not to surrender

when your law, but to come.

Before the Lord and have a violent collision with him

in prayer. Let the call. Are you called?

Are you calling your faith? Are you calling your walk

with God? Well, he's always hot. God is always on fire.

He in the Bible, in Hebrews, I think it's chapter thirteen.

You can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's somewhere

in twelve and thirteen. I think it's thirteen. He says

that God is all consuming fire. He is fire, and

so he's always hot. And so if you're ever calling

your faith, come and have a violent collision with the Lord,

even if you're the first. Sometimes I look at fasting

as a violent collision because you mean business with God.

You mean business with God. You want to say God,

you know and and and it happens.

The high means the low, the cold means the heart,

and the negative means the positive because God is always positive. However,

you know that the cross is the symbol of positiveness.

Just by looking at the cross, you see plus because

He's always plus. You have Jesus in your life, you

will always have a plus everybody. Okay, there will always

be a plus in your life. When Jesus is there.

You will always remain positive because the Cross is positive.

And so our negativism. You know a lot of us

are very negative in this life. Okay, Malaysia, can Diana,

you know your examin you know coming on Monday, I

should Diona. We are so negative, right, and negativism is

filling the earth and filling our hearts and feeling our minds,

and so we need to come for a violent collision

with the God of all positives. Can I hear a

good amen? So today, before I close, I want to say,

get ready for a violent collision with God. Don't do

it on your own, don't do it in isolation. Don't say,

oh you know, I feel so down, I'm depressed. Let

depression meet the dinamism of God and thunderclouds and lightning

will be created. So the Lord said to him, next

slight says, what is that in your hand? This is

a Moses story. Moses had a rod in his hand.

He said, a rod, and he said, cast it on

the ground. Today, the Lord's gonna ask you what's in

your hand? All of you got faith? What kind of

faith do you have? And that face, like a seat,

has to be cast to the ground. It has to

be cast to the ground. But watch when a lifeless

rod falls to the ground, just like your seat falls

to the ground. It it turns into something alive. And

then it turns to something alive. Whoa, But you gotta

cast it to ground. You got to cast your faith

to the ground. You gotta cast your seed to the ground.

Let it die, because when he dies, it comes alive.

Now in the same chapter Exodus four, I love this.

After he cast to the ground, it turned to a serpent.

Of course you know the story. He picked it up

by the tale. It turned into rod again, that was

Moses rod. But the next slide tells you in Exodus

for same chapter. Now the Lord said to Moses Immedian,

go return to Egypt for all the men who sought

your life are dead. Then Moses took his wife his

sons and set them on a donkey that he returned

to the land of Egypt. And listen, ladies and gentlemen,

the rod that used to be called the rod of

Moses is now called the rod of God. And so

today I'm believing with all my heart that there can

be as the next slight says, a great exchange. A

great exchange you when you give your lod to God,

when you give your seed to God, when you give

your problem to God, when you give your troubles to God,

when you give your worries to God, when you give

your sickness and your your medical results to God. I'm

telling you right now is no longer just your medical report.

It becomes God's medical report. It doesn't become only your trouble,

your problem, your wordy becomes God's worry.

And however, you know that God doesn't worry. So same word,

but now it's called the word of God.

When you walk out of here, it will be called

the worthy of God, will be called the problem of God.

If you call God's problem it because God's trouble. Are

you with me?

That enemy, that that that fights you and wants to

bring you down. Is now God's enemy? And how do

you know that God will always overcome all these enemies.

I want you to walk out and say, yes, there

is going to happen a great exchange in this room.

Remember the five flows and two fish. The five flows

and two fish is a boy. Listen now, and listener,

I'm about to pray. A boy, a young boy, no name,

He wasn't given a name. A lad had five lows

and two fish, A lad simple in this room. My

eyes are closed now because I'm getting ready to pray

in this room. That you could feel like a no name,

You could feel like someone not important. You could feel

like you know, nobody knows me. But there was a

no name young lad who gave up his five blows

and two fish.

What do you do? He casts his five blows and

two fish to the ground like the seed that was

no use in his pocket.

You said, yeah, two fish. He could have eaten it

for lunch, that's all. He would have had your money

in your pocket lunchtime.

That's all. If that's all, then that's all.

If you're happy with that, you know, providing for yourself,

for your family and you're happy with that, then that's all.

That's all.

That's all you were ever experienced five loads two fish

to feed a young boy for a day, Ah, that's

all he were experienced. But that young boy, by faith,

decided to surrender and to cast down his five loaves

and two fish, and Jesus took it. I said, Jesus

took it, and he no longer was the boys five

lows and two fish. It was now in Jesus' hands.

It was Jesus, five lows and two fish. He looked

up to heaven and he broke the bread, and he

gave thanks to God. And he said to his disciples,

now feed the five thousand. And they fed every single person,

with remainder left over in twelve baskets. Because God is

a God of abundance.

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