Heaven Rules...Anyway

You're listening to an ex Church podcast. We hope this message will lights up

your day today. The message will be on Heaven Rules, which is our

theme for twenty twenty three, Heaven Rules. If you read the Book of

Daniel, chapter four, that's where the words come from, heaven rules.

Now I added in this word dot dot dot heaven rules. Anyway, what

I mean by that is this. Some people have come up to me and

said, you know, pasta, I prepared a message and the message goes

like this, Heaven rules if you obey. And then another person said,

past I prepared another message, heaven rules when you have faith. I love

the messages that they send me. They usually send me these are the speakers

of the ex Church. They send me the messages via email to say,

passage, this is what God has put on our hearts. Is it okay

that we share this? And usually I would say okay, because when you

seek the Lord and God gives you a message, your pastor will say go

for it. God be with you, God bless you. But as I

was weighing out the message heaven rules because you obey your faith, etc.

I realized that actually, from the general angle of Heaven rules, it doesn't

depend on and it's not determined by whether you obey or not. He still

rules whether you like him or not. He still rules whether you go to

church or not. He still rules whether you're faith or your faithless. He

still rules whether you are a common person or the king. He still rules.

God sees, God knows in cantonese is teen yawnun Heaven has eyes,

It sees, and no matter how you think people will get away with whatever,

they will never be able to get away with whatever, good or bad,

because Heaven rules. God sees, and he sees in secret. That

particular subtitle says God sees his secret. And we'll talk a little bit more

about it in a bit. But what I want to say is that this

came from my quiet time. And all those of you who went to Holmes

last Friday, you studied about quiet time, and Passandra taught quiet time at

KK one. That's my homes and I must assure you that we were having

our own quiet time while we were studying on quiet time. Because especially happens

when Parlesandra asked a question, So give me your feedback, and it's quiet,

you know, for good two minutes. And so I said, oh,

we're having our own quiet time. Now this is a joke, okay,

by the side, but yeah, So we were at homes and we

were studying on quiet time, and so I had my quiet time about maybe

eight days nine days ago, and I turned to the scripture. Matthew seven

twenty one to twenty three. We're gonna read the would have got in Matthew,

Matthew seven. Excuse me, Matthew seven twenty you want to train three.

And when I read the Word of God, something just jumped out at

me, and I knew that God was speaking, and I was so blessed,

so blessed to be reminded by God about this certain truth. How many

of you know that when we know the truth, the truth will sad.

That's free, and so it's always good to be free in our hearts,

in our spirit, no living for Jesus, loving God in a way that

pleases him. So here, let's read the Word of God together, Matthew

seven twenty one. Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord. Okay,

not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of

Heaven. Very sad statement, But this is Jesus speaking. So we want

to take heed but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

So he who does the will of my father, his will be done right.

Only those of us who do the will of God will be able to

enter. So all of us want to enter, and I pray that all

of us will enter. Event Turn to your neighbor and say, you will

enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Hey, man, we are just confessing,

all right. We are blessing each other. We are making sure that we

don't miss the boat Hallelijah. So let's take heed. Let's take heed.

This is not canna change words. These are Jesus words. So let's read

the next verse. Many will say to me in that day again, Lord

Lord, not just one Lord, A double wow passion, Lord Lord,

have we not propheside in your name, cast out demons in your name,

and done many wonders in your name? Next verse says and then I will

declare to them another's very sad verse, but very true, simply because it's

the words of Jesus. I will declare to them, I never knew you.

I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.

Okay, so look at the next slide, and let's pick up something that

I caught from the Lord when I was doing my quiet time. Okay,

let's let's look at the next slide. Okay, So I got four points

for you, and this is the first point, all starting with the letter

S for you to have easier remembrance of the points. Today, I want

to talk about God's heaven rules, whether or not you're on this side or

that side he rules. So the question should be which side are you on

it? You shouldn't worry about whether God rules or not. He rules case

clothes full stop. God rules teen young an Okay, that's in Cantonese.

He sees every single thing he sees. So you want to be on the

right side. You want to be on God's side. Okay, not God

on your side, but you on God's side. Okay, who side are

you on? Okay, let's look at the next slide. So I pick

out two things from the scripture we just read. And A is this you

who practice lawlessness? All right now before we go into Massy five, Um,

we read it, you who practice lawlessness? So this is this is

this is alarming. Okay, this is what I want you to listen to

and then catch um. He said, not everyone who calls me lord Lord,

and he said it twice, Lord Lord, twice, Lord Lord,

Lord Lord. Okay, he's actually speaking to Christians. He's actually speaking to

people who come to church on Sunday, and he's speaking to them and saying

those who practice lawlessness, meaning to say, at my quiet time on that

very morning, I was wow. He's speaking to Christians, and Christians practice

lawlessness. And then he says in the middle, right, just because you

prophesy in my name, you cast out demons my name, and and and

you did wonders in my name. Just because you you think you did that,

you you say you did it, you did it doesn't mean very much

to me. Uh. And and because well, let's look at Mess two

five seventy two eighteen. First, our God, I want to just laid

the foundation here. Uh, he says he do not think that I came

to destroy the law of the prophets. I did not come to destroy,

but to fulfill. For surely, I say to you two Heaven and Earth

pass away. One jot or one tittle. We don't use it ods anymore.

Jot title Uh you got john or one tittle? Maybe the only one

that knows that word, those words are Charlene and Ballesandra. Uh. Being

an englishcholars, um will by no means passed from the law till all is

fulfill. So I want to just let you know this. Everybody here who

loves the message of grace, I know, so you really love the message

of grace so much? Goads of gracious God. He's very gracious, yes

he is. But he's also very law abiding. Oh, God is very

law abiding. There's a red light and Jesus is driving he shore stop one,

sure stop one. You will never see Jesus driving a car here on

earth and pass the red light with a bumpers pticketar back there saying Jesus loves

you. You never okay, you never see him bribe a policeman. He's

a law abiding God. In fact, I can I say this, God

is so law abiding that he sent Jesus to die on the cross. What

do I mean by that? Who was the one who required it as a

law that if you sin you have to pay? Who required it as a

law eye for eye, tooth for tooth? Who not the devil God who

said that if you sin you have to pay with your life? Who said

God? God set his own laws and you think, right, if the

boss set his laws, can the boss change it? Never? Kila kila,

all right, everybody who sin will go to hell? Right, okay,

but let me change it. La, don't have to pay so much

that, okay, Just one chicken, one rostduck. I really love roast

duck. One one nice chicken. Rice put their three apples, four oranges,

you know, and a patree ge. No, I don't know what.

Okay, on the first day the song is coming to my mine.

Okay, I just no, no, no, Actually he can change it.

Man. How many bosses you know can change? You know, they

change because they know our guys. And I want to let you know I

made a mistake. Okay, I said all of you must come by eight

t I actually had a gem. This is that. This is that,

okay, l fifteen, I changed that. This goda doesn't change one yesterday,

today forever. He had to pay his own price room life for life.

So I tell you what, La, since I don want all of

you to pay, because no one can pay right here, No one can

afford this. No one can afford this. So I paid, I order,

I set the bill, I put the bill outside. I also pay.

It's like the restaurant owner. He's the one who's charging you and also

the one paying for the charge. Why, because he's so law abiding,

he doesn't break him in his own law. So if you ever heard here

another message, he's so gracious that he can just bend here, ben there,

change it. This is not the god that meself. He is the

most law abiding god you can ever imagine. And so he will never break

a law. He will show you mercy, yes, he will forgive you,

yes, and all this beautiful thing he does. But he's law abiding,

very very law abiding, and he will pay his own price if that's

what he has to do. So Jesus is not just an act of grace.

Yes, he is an act of grace. He is also an act

of law. And he said it with his own mouth. I did not

come to break the law. I came to fulfill it. Somebody say,

amen, it's good news someone paid the price. It's good news someone paid

the price. Okay. B The second thought that came jumping out of the

scriptures into my spirit, Number one was you who practice lawlessness while Christian's practice

lawlessness and will miss the boat. Don't just call him lord, lord,

don't just say, I have a few people. I have cast out demons

because God is not so interested in the external. He's interested in the in

the internal. And there we see this. He says, I never knew

you. Now, I never knew you. You gotta understand. It's not

I I got amnesia. I forgot who can actin is no? It's not

amnesia, is not dementia. Is God saying no. The word no is

so rich, you know, it's so rich in the Bible. In Genesis,

you will see how Adam knew Eve. Adam knew I got to go

to my wife now, because if I go to any other girl, So

Adam knew Eve. No is a very intimate word. Is the two becoming

one? Of course, you know talking about sex act intimacy and the two

coming one and producing life. You get a baby, you produce life out

of that. So uh, you know. So many parts of the Bible

you will see. And he knew her, and and and and all the

fathers of faith knew the wife and knew. So the word no is intimately

no. And those that know their God Daniel eleventh thirty two, Daniel eleven

thirty two, and they that know they are God, No not just up

here, no intimate knowledge of God walking with Jesus. They that know their

God shall be strong and do great exploits. Sometimes when I'm memorizing scripture,

I close my eyes because you know, I'm trying to get the scripture right.

It's all memory work. And so uh, they that know their God

shall be strong. So I want you to be strong. And the only

way you can be strong is to know God. And John A thirty two

says they those that that that know the truth, the truth will set you

free. So how many of you understand this? There are a lot of

Christians who are not free even though they know the truth. And let me

just bord his Bible. So you know, John Tree is sixteen for God's

sole love the world that he gave his only begone son, that whoever believes

in him shall not perish, might have ever lasting life. While you know

the world, you know, but you know it in your brain. But

why is still no break true in your life? Why is still no setting

free? Why no freedom? Why no liberty? Why is still bound to

this? Bound to that you know? And cursing and lying and and and

and and not good with money and last fool and all that. Why why

are so many Christians because they know it up here, but they don't really

know the two heaven become one you and Jesus one walking. You know,

Enoch was walking with God so closely that he didn't even go back. He

just walked with God? What with God? Walk with God? What we

got close? Close? What I know Jesus, I walk and talk with

him. And then Saiah, you know, I imagine God saying, what,

no, hey, we walk so far. Idea Heaven is nearer then

home, So why don't you just come up with me? So the Bible

says he was no more. He just step into heaven, right, because

you just keep walking with Jesus, walking with Jesus, and so you know,

sometimes we can throw names. I know that, and so I know

times and so we just name throwing. Oh I know Jesus, but do

you really know him? So he's saying, I never knew you. I

never had a chance to know you. We don't really know each other.

We're not that close. We're not that close. It's a very sad thing

to hear. We're not that close. Jesus and me not that close.

I know his name, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord,

Lord, but don't know him, don't really know his heart, don't really

know his likes dislikes, don't really know what pleases him. And so he

said, I never knew you. Very sad to hear that. But God

is not looking for external I cast out demons, I heal the sake I

planted exotic morning. Now it's two services in just thirteen months. He's not

just into that. He's into Okay, you think your part, say it's

a good preacher, Praise God, thank you very much. He's not just

into this. He's into what happened at home before I came. And I

you know, you know, I mean, we're all human beings. We

can confess our sins. Some of us we are so long Christian that we

know how to look Christian. And uh, you know, you are arguing

with your wife in the car for twenty minutes coming here, you know,

and then by the time you part is okay, let's put on our Christian

face and then you come out, you know, and then you smile,

you know, and you go Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, and all this

Christian jugans come out. But God is not looking just at you, pucking

your kind coming in he's looking at you on the way. He's not just

looking at demon busters. He's looking and seeing whether you're also a wife beater,

and and and many times, because we've been in Christianity long enough,

thirty over years now as a Christian, uh, he sometimes you can say,

wow, that that that past is so powerful. He can bust the

demons, he can cast out demons. But at home, you know,

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