How to Build Anything for God

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your thing. This is a very cute title. When I first opened the

word of God in Exodus chapter thirty six, and that's where we're going to

in a bit. But just look at the title first. It started with

me just wanting to encourage all of us to build the house of God.

Let's look at point number one. What's the title again? The title is

how to build anything for God? How to build anything for God. The

first W that I have five ws for you today. The first W is

the word word is the word word. So the Bible says in Eccodus thirty

six that we've read verse one, shall do according to all that the Lord

has commanded. The Lord commanded, and that's why they're doing it. It's

a very good reminder this morning to build according to God's word. We all

need some reminders sometimes because in our lives there are many voices, both good

and not so good. But there are many voices, many voices, and

even sometimes you know, when you are going into internet, Instagram or Facebook,

you even get messages from there, and sometimes the sound very good.

You know, they give scripture and they sound like, wow, you know

this sounds like it's from the Lord. But I want to encourage all of

you that God is a good God. He's your father, and he wants

only the best for you. So what he does that he will put a

word in your own heart that it's personal to you. It's like a grammar

to you. It's a word that might not be easy, and usually it's

not, but it's a word from the Lord that you need to whole very

dearly too. You know, there's another scripture that says, like John chapter

fifteen, verse seven, if you abide in me and my words abide in

you, My words have got to abide in you, you will ask whatever

you desire and you will be done. For you can imagine, you can

build anything, you can ask whatever you desire, and you'll be done.

But the prerequisite is abide in me and let my words abide in you.

My question to all of us is is the word of God abiding in you?

What is that word? What is that word? So the word of

the Lord to Bazeleel and our wol yup. Actually I should back up a

little bit and say the word of the Lord to Moses was built, and

so God was going to provide. God was going to provide. And we'll

see that in a bit and show you that in life, the Christian life,

there can be situations whereby we get a word from the outside that sounds

really good, and then we also have a word on the inside that the

Lord has given us. As I said earlier, that we tend to compromise

because the word on the outside sounds so good, better even than the word

inside of you. And the word on the outside sounds so reasonable, so

normal. The word or the insights sounds so crazy. The word of the

insights sounds so radical. The word on the insight sounds like fiery revival.

And you're scared. And now you're looking for, you know, some kind

of confirmation or some kind of people around you to tell you something else besides

what God has told you. Okay, So I'm going to read this and

we will find it even in scripture. Men and women of God. Actually

most of them are men here, if not all of them men of God

have actually had a conflict before. But at the end, you know,

God wants us to be true and faithful to the word. So let's start

with David in First Samuel twenty four we'll read the word of God, and

I will just comment a little bit. And the more we read, the

less of comment. Okay. Then the men of David said to him,

this is the day of which the Lord said to you. Behold, I

will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as

it seems good to you. And David rose and secretly cut off a corner

of Saul's row. I mean, there was no right thinking men around David

who would have called Saul anointed. I'm quite sure if you said Saul was

not anointed anymore, you'll probably not be wrong. But David looked at Saul,

not with his own eyes, not with his men's eyes, but with

God's eyes. And in God's eyes he chose Saul. And so David says,

forbid, God, forbid. He is God's anointed. I cannot stretch

out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.

And there's a scripture in the Bible that says do not touch the Lord's anointed.

So there's two conflicting words now, one in David and one with his

men, who say, yeah, David, the Lord has delivered who I

use the lords Nama, the Lord has delivered you. Come on, take

him down now and you'll be free. But David knew that he will never

be free. Even after he took down Saul. He'll probably be more bound

than free. Are you with me? Bow by guilt? Bow by regret?

Bowm by. I shouldn't have because I knew what God's word was.

I knew what God's word was. My friends could say whatever, leave church

LA, or don't serve LA, or they can say whatever. But what

what does God say to my own heart? So that's the first thing I

want to say to you. Well, the next verse, I think he

just he just says this, right? What was the next verse says so

David restrained his servants with these words and did not allow them to rise against

Saul. And Saul got up from the cave and went on his way.

So you will say, oh, you're wasted. Lah is never wasted when

you're obey God, never wasted when your bay God. Next one, let's

look at the man of God, the man of God in the Old Testament,

who did great and wonderful things. If if you really on your own

time, you'll see that this man of God came and when he spoke you

know, things happen in a miraculous way. Okay, so much show that

the king invited the men of God back to his house to eat. How

many of us here will be bold enough to reject invitations from high level men

and authority, you know, just because of the word. It doesn't make

sense to your friends. Hey you gola, you go, you get contract,

Hey you gola, you get you know, favor, Hey you gola,

you get money? Hey you gola? You know? They will,

they will, they will remember you the next time. But the word of

the Lord, it's God, it's on me. I would like to go

in normal circumstance. I will go normal circumstances. This way, I will

li church like everybody else leads church. No, I want to lead according

to the command. So let's go on now. An all prophet dwelt in

Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the works that the Man

of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the

words which he had spoken to the king next one, and their father said

to them, which way did he go? For his sons had seen which

way the Man of God went, who came from Judah. Then he said

to his son, said to the donkey for me. So they said,

a donkey for him, and he wrote on it and went after the Man

of God and found him sitting under an oak. Then he said to him,

are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said

I am. Then he said to him, come home with me and eat

bread. And he said, I cannot good on you. Good on you.

You're still faithful to the word that God gave you. You're still faithful.

I cannot, I cannot go. I cannot return with you, nor

go in with you. Neither can I eat bread nor drink water with you

in this place. Next one, for I've been told by the word of

the Lord. Amen, you shall not eat bread nor drink water there,

nor return by going the way you came. Is it doesn't make sense?

How if I'm thirsty? Let how have I'm hungry? Let doesn't make sense?

But what did Ad tell you? You want to hold onto that word?

Next one, he said to him, I too, am a prophet.

So now an all experienced profit comes to you in a form of a

person or a book, or an Instagram posting or a Facebook you know,

three minute message. Wow, this old prophet. I know him, he's

really really famous, popular, and the old prophet has something else to say,

and you get so caught up, and sometimes it's very dangerous, or

to go after one posting after another, posting after another posting is very dangerous

because you're now freeing up your mind and your heart with things that may not

be from the Lord and maybe totally different from what God has showed you.

So I too, am a prophet. So he's lying now, he's lying

about God telling him, no angel he uses now. And I want to

tell you right now, even if an angel came and told you something opposite

then what God told you, Please be very very careful, be very very

faithful to the Lord. Bring him back with you to your house that he

may eat bread and drink all right, lying, he was definitely lying,

Okay, So a prophet can lie too. Sadly, the God was using

him. And the next one says, so he ran back with him.

Somebody say, I you because right after you read this verse, you know

what's going on in it. And there are a lot of times in our

own lives we have a verse like this. We know the end of the

story. Of course, thank God that he's merciful, he's gracious, he's

a god of second chances, so we can come to him for mercy.

But many of us have this line, simple line. This is one of

the shortest line we're reading. Bye enough for me, because you know the

end from the beginning. He went back, of course, of prophet,

because one other word came and said, Noah, I don't think so,

lie, No, I also heard from the Lord. Many of our regrets

come from that place of actually not going to God first and checking with him

first. It comes from a place whereby oh, I see, oh,

just because very famous name all prophet, very famous. Lie. Well,

he caught me and told me, you know, no, even then you

must take it back to the Lord and double triple check with him, say

Lord, the man might have a good word, but I need a God

word next one. Now, it happened, as they said at the table,

that the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had brought him

back, and he cried out to the man of God who came from Judah,

saying, first, says the Lord, because you have disobeyed the word

of the Lord and have not kept the commandment which the Lord, your God

commanded you. But you came back and ate bread drank water in the place

of which the Lord said to you. Eat no bread, eat drink no

water. Your cops very setter. Sometimes it's not physical death that it can

be spiritual death. It can be death to a dream, that's to a

destiny, that's to something that God actually wanted to give you. But we

short changed him and shortcut and shortsuc ated you with me. And because somebody

sticks so long, but God, it takes so long. So how long

must I wait? And what did the Lord tell you? So here we

go, Your cops shall not come back. So so it was after he

had eaten bread and after he had drunk that he said to the donkey for

him, the prophet whom he had brought back. And when he was gone,

a lion met him on the road and killed him and his cops was

thrown on the road, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also

stood by the cops. You know, when I literally this last part,

I still see you that God still honored the man. He had the lion

sit on one side of the man, donkeys sit on another side. The

lion didn't eat him up, didn't carry him apart, you know, killed

him, but you know kind of I mean, you still can give a

going away honor to people who are going away are and people who are whatever

you know, leaving the ministry or whatever, we can still honor them,

bless them. Listen, death awaits us who will go far away from the

word of the Lord. So the Bible after says that you know, we

shall do according to all that he commanded, or the word of God.

He goes. He goes on to say, Moses cop besly and hurl up,

and every gifted artisan in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, everyone

whose heart was stirred to come to do the work. And if you read

on again all the way to verse eight again, you will see the work,

the word work mentioned so many times because this is the thing. God

did not just come here to entertain us. He came here to employ us

to do his work. I want to tell you earlier so that I don't

forget to tell you this Jesus that when you read the Bible, he very

seldom talked about job. He always talked about work. He says, I

must go about my father's business. Whatever I see my father do, I

do the works that he do, I do. And then he goes on

to John fourteen, verse twelve and fourteen. He says, the works that

I do, you shall do also, not job, but not job.

The works that I do shall do also, and greater works, and these

shall you do. I love John four thirty four because the disciples came and

said the reading, and Jesus is my food is to do the will of

him who sent me, and to finish his work. It's always been work.

And so if you ever want to build something great for God, number

one, build it on his word. Number two, focus on the work

that He has given you to do. It is not a job, It

is the work of the Lord. I want to introduce to you towards very

quickly before I go on, the gifted and the givers. The gifted are

people like Bezalel and a whole app and they were gifted because they from Heaven

got the designs to be able to do linen, cloth and silverware and gold,

and they were able to didn't need They knew exactly how, and what

God wanted was to allay the goal over the ark. They knew. They

knew because God gave them that. But it was not just to make more

money. It's not just to find a girlfriend. It's not just to find

a husband. It is the work of the Lord is very important to God.

And so the gifted were gifted for the work and the givers. So

there are some people who are not the gifted once they are the givers.

But both the gifted and the givers must come hand in hand to build God's

house and hear hood, Amen, it is the work that is our purpose,

that is why we were born. Is the work of God, not

just a job. Remember me telling you before, maybe not sending pause,

but maybe send Paus heard this illustration before so that there was two men digging

a hole, one on the left, one or right, and another man

came up to them, asking what are you doing, sir the first man.

The first man said, you can't see. I'm digging a hole.

That's my job. To the other men, who knew the plan of why

he was digging the hole, he was asked the same question, what are

you doing? He says, I'm building a great cathedral. And so I

wonder how many of you will just see your life as a big job.

And that's all to life, and that's why you see my job is killing

me. I got so much stress. I want to retire from my job.

I want to resign. And then there is a man who knows exactly

why he's building a hole, and it's so that the Cathedral of God can

be built. I'm part of the plan, I'm part of the purpose,

and it invigorates me every morning when I build her. That the whole Amen

inspires me. So let's go go on to the next slide. There's a

big difference between your job and your work. Some of you have heard this

message before, others have not, So give me a few minutes to break

this down. Too many of us are concentrated on our job when we should

be focused on our work, the work of the Lord. So let's look

at the difference. Now, your job is given by men, but your

work is given by God. That's what the next slide says. If you

can go do that, there's a difference. There's a difference. Someone offered

you a job. God didn't offer you a job. He offered you work

of the Kingdom, work of the ministry, work of getting the Gospel out

of those who have never heard it. There is a work to fill the

earth. Amen, that all may know your job, you're paid to do

your work, you're born to do. Your job gives you finances, but

your work gives you fulfillment. And that's why sometimes our job can fulfill us.

He just gives us enough to put food on our table and maybe used

to buy things that we are you know that we desire, but never get

for fullman n never get for fuman. Why because it's not supposed to be

your job that fulfills you. It's supposed to be your work. And can

you do your work in your job, yes, yes. Can you find

your work in your job, yes, but you got to find it otherwise

it's just a job. You can be fired for your job, but nobody

can fire you from your work because it's the work from the Lord. It's

forever. I retired as a senior pastor of x KL when I was fifty

years old, right, I retired. Actually, if you look at it,

if I can explain to you from a job from a day to day,

and person will tell people, who said, who will ask her,

Sandra, actually, what do your husband do? We heard that he's resigned

and retired, not resigning. I just retired And she said, well,

he's still very much part of X and he still gives vision because that's my

work. That's the work God gave me as a pastor of this church.

So I don't have to do my daily job anymore. I can retire from

that, but I cannot retire from my calling, my work. God still

gives me vision for the church. I will not retire from blessing other churches.

When you invite me to go ahead and speak, that is my work.

Don't retire from that, or you will totally short change what God has

in store. Are you still with me? Very important? Your job is

determined by your skill. Your work is determined by your gift. Why did

God give you the gift? And does that gift disappear just because you put

in your resignation at the No, it doesn't. In fact, it comes

to life. It comes alife more and more until you're sixty seventy eighty.

I did a bidow before the lock calls you home. The gift comes alive,

and you find yourself stepping into your gift in greater measures. Somebody say,

amen, I hate my job. Nobody says I hate my work.

You shouldn't say that I hate my job. Fair enough, this job is

killing me. Yeah, because job ends up with and that's why a lot

of people don't stay in their job, because you know, retirement or resionation

or changing another job will probably save you from dying out of stress, but

job does that to you. It's death at the end of the day,

no matter how you see it. You might be doing good things, you

know, producing good things, making other people happy, but your job will

never make you totally happy. But your work will everybody okay, and your

work is what brings you life. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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