Christ Centered | Elder Terence Atkinson

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Up your tea Christ centered, Christ centered. So wow, is

it very prettier? Yeah? Don't you think so? Praise the

Lord for Ai. Even an old guy like me, can

Linda use Okay, so there's no excuse for the rest

of us. Yeah, thank you, Thank you so much. Okay,

we're gonna be doing core value number two, which is

based on Acts two, verse thirty six, which reads like this. Therefore,

let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God

has made Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ

Christ centered. The thing is this, sir, that the one

who who the world tried to eradicate is the one

that the world needs. You. See, when the very first

thing that Peter opened his mouth and told the people

was this Jesus whom you didn't like, This Jesus whom

you gave up to pilot, This Jesus whom you did

not choose over a robber and a murderer, This Jesus

whom you whipped and beat, this Jesus whom you thought

you crushed. He is Lord and Savior and you need

him that's what Peter was actually telling them. You need him. Look,

Jesus has already died across He has already seen with

his father in heaven. He is our advocate. The Bible

says the Holy Spirit that we learned last week, his

dispensation is here on earth. Now. I want you to

know something. It is a privilege to know Jesus Christ.

And when those of us, if there anyone here who

chooses not to believe in Jesus Christ, that is your choice.

That is a choice you have made. And let me

tell you what does Jesus lose any sleep? No, because

he's done the work. The work is over. He has

done what needs to be done in order for you

to be saved. So if you choose it, praise the Lord.

If you don't choose it, he sheds no tears. Let

me tell you, he doesn't shed tears over those of

you that do not choose him, because he's done the work.

So I want to start off with that. I mean,

I'm a little bit different. I want to say it

like it is, okay, because that's the truth. So the

thing is this, we as a church, we try and

do what Jesus tells us to do right. Now. We

try to love people, we try to be nice, we

try to do the right thing, and guess what, we

fail all the time. We fail all the time. But

you know, it's not in actually whether we do it,

but it's in the trying. It's in the trying. As

long as we keep on trying to do what's right,

we'll get it. We will understand it, we will achieve it.

Let me tell you we as a church, we try

and do the right thing, but it is quite easy

to lose track of what's important. And why do we

need to focus on being Christ centered? Because Christ senteredness

is what is important. The Church didn't die for you.

The Church didn't die for you. The church was not

whipped for you. The Church was not ridiculed for you.

But Jesus was. Jesus was, and that is why sometimes

we as a body of believers, we try in our

best to live life like we should, to focus on Jesus.

But it's so easy to get thrown off right or not.

I don't like this church. The fellow is only playing

a cahon. What is this stupid blue box? If you

catch yourself saying that you're in trouble or you say, oh,

how come this church got some yellow lights at the top,

don't you know? It makes me kind of sicky? But

what color is this original world? My mind? I don't

like this chair. It's not like the bucket seats we

have in some of those mega churches. See is your

focus on the right thing? Because if your focus is

on your building, if your focus is on your chair.

I don't like this music. It's too loud. I don't

like this music, it's too soft. I don't like this

music is so old. Come on, get some new songs.

I don't like the guy who's playing the guitar not

handsome enough. No, no, I'm not talking about you, very handsomer.

What are we focusing on, hey, guys, very very important?

Because it's so easy to get sidetracked, so easy to

get torn away from the things that are important. And

you want to know, if we stay our mind on

what's important, we will see the results. If we stay

on minds on what's right, we see God come through

for us. But if we allow ourselves to change our

focus and focus on the thing rather than Jesus, we

put ourselves in dangerous territory. I'm not saying that you

need to like the songs truth be told. There are

some songs I do not like. I mean, we're a

human you know, you know, you know in Christian music,

now there's this this ponent that plays throughout the song.

What is it called? Tap tap pat pat patter. I

can't stand it, truthfully, because every time I hear a song,

I can hear that mosquito in the background. For I

can hear it, and it bothers me. I'm one of

those old school people. When you play the bass line,

it goes bring stops after all, I like it, like that,

but I don't like it. Mm. But you see, is

that my focus? Why do I come to church? Do

I come to church to focus on that music? Or

did I come to church to focus on Jesus when

we pray? Just now? Did you like the scripture? I'm

like a worm, Well, praise Lord, Praise the Lord, because

this worm has God looking after him. See, that's how

you got to look at things. Focus on what's right. Okay,

So who pulls us away from Christ? Can anything separate

you from the love of Christ? Can anything separate you

from Christ? You say, Ah, this bad stuff happened to me?

Oh mind, this bad stuff happened to me. Can that

pull you away from Christ? Well? It should not. If

it does, then it's your fault, right. I mean, when

I met an accident going to church and my leg

was stuck in my motorcycle wheel and I'm lying in

the middle of the on the ground, on the road,

and this yellow fluid coming out of my nose, all right,

And I look at my brother in Christ and his

first words to me were, are you okay? I said,

I'm okay. Are you okay? My leg is still stuck

in them? Did that stop me or not? Because I'll

tell you what. I didn't go to hospital after that.

Now you know where I went. I continued. I went

to church and I praised the Lord and I worshiped

the Lord and I was fine, no injury to my leg.

I don't know what was coming out of my nose,

but it stopped, you know, some kind of nasal food

it was. It was clear yellow nasal fluid. I gonna

tell you that. I guess any of you I've ever

experienced it. But God was there. You see. It did

not stop me from focusing my day. Who was my

day going to be focused on? Jesus? Jesus A lot

of the problems that we face in our lives today

is because we have taken our eyes off the very

one who can help us. So I start off by saying,

our focus is not on lights, our focus is not

on sounds, Our focus is not on likes or dislikes,

but being centered on Jesus. Okay, okay, that who pulls

us away? Okay? Yeah, war or flesh and spirit isn't

ai nice? Yeah? Yeah. I just took my notes, put

it in there and said draw for me slights. This

came out. Yeah, Praise the Lord, war, flesh and spirit.

You know, that's what we live with every day. We

live with a war of a flesh and spirit, true

or not. How many of you didn't want to come

to church today? What so holy? All of you? Okay? Truthfully,

when you woke up, you say, I'm so tired? Why

do you have to go to church? You know, if

you had that feeling and you're still here, praised the

Lord because you've won the battle of war of flesh

versus spirit. And if you and I are truthful, we

face this kind of battle every day, and you see,

you don't realize it, so you don't acknowledge it. And

then after that you think of yourself as a person

who is so bad. God looks at you differently, you know,

you know what he looks at. My child today got

up on the wrong side of the bit. He just

didn't want to get out. But you know what, he's here.

I love him, and you know what you scored. Where

the Lord is concerned, Guys, we war against the spirit

all the time I've been I've known the Lord for

forty five years. Forty seven years. I've known the Lord

for forty seven years, and in forty seven years, I

tremble when I share this word with you. I tremble

when I'm talking about Christ's sentedness because I asked the

Lord Lord, am I Christ centered enough to be able

to share this word? You know what the Lord thinks

of me. He doesn't think of me as that worm.

He thinks of me as that one he has nurtured

from the start. He thinks of me as the one

whom he spoke to my hen said, Terrence, you're not

a Christian except me now, and I received the Lord.

He looks at me as that one who prayed even

though he was a new Christian, but prayed for deliverance

cases who gave up his time. And you know I'm

still reaping the blessing after all these years. God is

continuously blessing me, you know, for through God in Jesus,

we can do all things. Through we can do all

things in Christ, who strengthen us. What is the opposite?

We can do nothing without Jesus. I can tell you

the problems that I faced all the time. I'm stuck.

I can't move. I can't move. Someone like me should

not be able to do it because it's not my training,

it's not my understanding. But I go before the Lord

and I ask him, Lord, can you help me? And

within a few minutes something drops in my spirit and

I do it and it succeeds forty seven years of

doing this. What does it tell you about Jesus? What

does it tell you about being focused on him? Guys,

don't let the enemy rob you of understanding or what

the truth is? What is the truth? As long as

you're looking to Jesus, he will help you. Will that

time come where everything we are and our being is

centered on Christ? Yes? Does it come overnight? No? Because

you and I we are a process at work. What

does the Bible say from glory to glory, he changes me.

Does it say he changed me into someone glorious. Well,

that's the case. I'm already in heaven. Man. That happens

when you go to heaven. Today, I'm alive a few

minutes later on my way to heaven. Once in heaven,

that has been achieved. He has changed me to glory.

But you and eyes, we live on this. We're going

to realize that it is a pro says okay, war

flesh and spirit. Let's read what the word says okay.

In Galatians five sixteen seventeen, it says, I say, then

walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the

loss of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the spirit,

and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary

to one another, so that you do not do the

things that you wish. That's what scripture says. So every

time we think of this word flesh, we think or

sexual things. No, not necessarily what I explained to you

just now, I got up. I didn't want to come

to church. Oh I got a headache. I'm not coming

to church. I'll tell you this. Then, my devotion to

the Lord did not depend on whether I was feeling

sick or not. There were times where I had high fever.

You know where I am in church. You know why

because the Lord is higher than my fever. I'm not

telling you to do that. I'm just saying, that's how

the Lord helped me. That's how he changed me. And

we used to believe. Okay, we were thought the only

time we do not go to church to church to

worship the Lord is if we are dead or in

a coma. If these two things conditions were not there.

We were there praising the Lord. And you say, where

does this help? How does this help my I've told

you this so many times before. Please don't do this,

because this is what we did. Okay. We talked to

Father's Day right, What a terrible father I am because

my child was crying and crying and crying and crying

and crying all through the service. How bad of me?

I didn't do anything. But you see, I don't I'm

not superman. I don't have X ray vision. I didn't

know what was wrong. I just knew that on a Sunday,

I need to worship the Lord. Immediately after service, I

took my daughter to the hospital. And they said, your

daughter has dislocated arh. She was one year old, one

and a half year old, something like that. I'm going

to get the X ray to confirm it. That's what

he said. I looked at Eld Mabel and I said,

I am not for my daughter getting X rayed at

this age, so we will pray. I was standing, she

was sitting. Ashley was sitting on her lap, and I prayed, Lord,

in the name of Jesus, heal her. In the name

of Jesus, make her well. In Jesus name, I pray,

and the moment I finished that prayer, actually reached out

with a hand and took the toy that I was holding.

Standing up. She took a toy and she started giggling

and laughing and giggling, laughing. Six hours of crying and

suddenly giggling and laughing. I just picked her up, took

her to the counter, told Nus it's all right, my

daughter is here. We're not going through with the x ray.

And both of us walked up.

Why was there?

Because we had settled in our life that we needed

to put Christ first. Now what does that mean for you?

I don't know. Please don't say her he the elder

did this, I'm going to do this. No, no, no, no,

what is the Lord telling you to do? Don't put

it on me. You are responsible for your own faith.

Christ centered. The flesh wants to know. I want you

to listen to this very carefully. The flesh wants to

know and be like, God, do you want to know everything?

Is it important for you to know everything that's going on? Oh?

I need to know? How come is like this? How

Come is like that? The only time we need to

know something and say we need to know it is

because could it be that we have the lack of

faith to believe that Jesus takes care of the situation.

Ask yourself this. Every time you've wanted to know something,

it's because there's a lack of trust, there's a lack

of faith. The room has grown very, very quiet. It's

so unlike you're but you know it's true. It is

that lack of understanding, the lack of faith that causes

us to want to know everything. Isn't it better to

just say, Jesus, I'm not quite sure what's going on,

but I do know this. You're in control, and I

will have faith and I will trust in you and

I will let nothing rob my joy? Don't you think

that pleases the Lord? Don't you think that? What is trust?

What is faith in the lawd God? Faith and trust

in the Lord is believing God when you don't see it,

when you don't understand it, when you understand it, is

that faith? No? What is that knowledge? I know the

car will run on patrol? Is that faith? No? It's knowledge?

Can I just told this to somebody the other day.

Can can a petrol car run on diesel? How do

you know? Have you tried? Have anyone have you tried?

I have tried. I only put two ringing of diesel

in my petrol tank, not paying attention, and after that

the car was joking. It danced all the way home

until I completely finished the whole tank of petrol. That

was like four hundred kilometers of doing that jerk. So

I realize you can never put diesel in a petrol car.

That is knowledge. What is faith? Faith is not having

to try it. Faith is just saying it's a petrol car.

I'm just gonna put petrol. That's it. That's faith. Because

you never tried, right, so you don't know. So I'm

telling you now now you know, it's no longer faith. Okay,

praise the Lord. So the spirit trust in God and

does what God says. Ah, there are people who say,

I will not believe in Jesus unless I see him.

Have you heard people say that? My question is, who

are you? What makes you so great that Jesus must

appear to you? Are you going to be like Paul?

Because Jesus appeared to Paul and gets what happened? Paul

wrote more than half of the New Testament. Paul had

to lose his head. So how many are you willing

to lose your head? I thank God God did not

show himself to me. But God spoke in my ear.

You know, I can't imagine what would happening if God

showed himself to me. Maybe I have to lose my head,

go into some jungle and preach the gospel. But Nolah,

he didn't ask me to do that. Thank you Lord. Yesterday,

yesterday we went and we went to do community work right,

and we went to Kerry Island and we told the kids.

I can tell you we only did classes. Therefore, we

only did teaching for one and a half hours. But

by the time I got home, I was dead. I

was gone, I was tired. It was like I had

run ten thousand miles. It was so exhausting. I want

you to know. I want you to know that God

supplies He will supply you with the energy. Okay, by

this scriptures, By this you know the spirit of God.

Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come into

flesh is of God. And every spirit that does not

confess Jesus has come in flesh is not of God.

And this is the spirit of the anti Christ, which

you have heard was coming, is and now already in

the world. You are of God, little children, and have

overcome them, because He who is in you is greater

than he who is in the world. Hey, it's very

easy for us to know whether we're living a Christ's

s centered life or not. Do we deny Jesus has

come in the flesh. Some of us don't believe it.

There are group of people who believe that he came

in the flesh, but he wasn't the son of God.

Why is it important for you to read that he

came in the flesh because he came to take our

sin away as a human being. For us to see

that it was possible to live as a human being

in the will of God. And because he lived without sin,

so when he sacrificed himself, he paid our price. And

there are people who deny that, Oh, he didn't go

to the cross. He went to India. You know that,

people who believe that that Jesus did not die in

the cross, he was replaced. It was Judas who died

in cross. There are people who believe that. Let me

tell you that is the spirit of the Antichrist. Because

what they deny that Jesus come in the flesh. Why

is it we do communion? What do we say when

we do communion? We remember what remember the breaking of

his body, We remember the spilling of his blood. Why

is it so important for us to do that? Because

without that we are not saved. That is the very

foundation of our salvation. And guys, you and I got

to realize we need to live that salvation each and

every day of our life. And how do we do

that We remember that he came down as a human

being and paid our price. Being Christ centered doesn't mean

you'll get it right. Being Christ centered means you focus

on Jesus and he will help you get it right. Okay,

are we learning something. Praise the Lord. This is actually

not a very easy thing to teach. It's a little

bit out of my realm. But you know, let's do

what the Lord has told me to do. So do

we have listen to this next line? Okay, it's very important.

Do we have to be like God? Do not put

up your hands okay, because this is a trick question.

Do we have to be like God? When the Word

says we are of Him? Do we have to be

like God? You know what is to be like God?

To be in control all the time. There's only one

being I know who is in control all of the time.

And who is that God? He's the only one I

know who's in control all of the time. I wanted,

I want to read to you from scripture in Ah Okay,

it's taken in chapter three Genesis, chapter three, and it

says this, reading from verse four. Then the serpent said

to the woman, you will not surely die, for God

knows that in that day you eat of it, your

eyes will be open and you will be like God.

When the woman ate the fruit, she wanted to be

like God. Do you and I want to be like God?

It's a problem. It is a problem. What is it

to be like God? To always be in control? Do

we want to be in control all the time? Guys, No,

we don't want to be like about what the scripture say.

Scripture says, the word says, in fact, that we are

off him. We are off Him. In fact, if you

look at one John, chapter five, verse nineteen, it says this,

we know that we are off God. Christ's senteredness is

being off God, not being like God. We are children

of God, but there's only one God, and that is God.

So we don't want to be like God. We want

to be like what scripture says. We want to be

off God? And what is being of God? Christ centered?

We want to focus our attention on Jesus. What does

christ senteredness look like? I'm talking a lot about Christ,

So what is Christ centeredness? How do we see Christ's

senteredness in our life? Okay, when all is stripped away?

Now that's all. So when all is away, what or

should I say? Who is left? Who is left? In

everything that we do? If we take away all the

things that we do, we take away all that glory

and all that pomp, and that grandeur, Oh the nice voice.

We take away all that fantastic music play. We take

away all those miracles that have happened to us, we

take away all these things. Who is left? That's what's important.

If you say we are left, that's not Christ centered.

That is pride. That is pride. What is being Christ centered?

When everything is removed? Who is left Jesus. Let's look

at somescription in Luke nine thirty five. And a voice

came out of the cloud say this is my beloveds Yeah,

and it's God speaking of weak voice. No, I don't

think so, because the voice I heard when he spoke

to me was really powerful. And what was his focus

when that death came down? In fact, this was actually

taken from it. Look nine thirty five is talking about transfiguration.

In transfiguration, In the transfiguration, you had Jesus, and then

after that you had Moses and Elijah appeared together with Jesus,

and it was having this conversation, and Peter got so flustered. Wow,

Moses and Elijah. I do not know how he knew

who was Moses and who was Elijah, but he seemed

to know. The scripture doesn't say how he knew. But

now of mine, maybe they told him. Believe it in that?

Why you wow? Should I build three tense one for

you each of you? He wanted to do something. Guys,

we are always running around trying to figure out what

we should do. You know what happened? The other two

disappeared and only Jesus was left, and then the war.

I said, relax, man, just hear him, just hear him.

Do we just hear Jesus? Or are we listening to

the voices of the world or are we listening to ourselves?

You know, we are the worst voice to listen to

sometimes because we are We are the voice that judges.

We are the voice that, oh no, it shouldn't be

this way, it should be that way. But who made

us judge and jury and executioner? Who put us in charge? Hey,

isn't it more? Isn't it better to be like Jesus?

And you want to know something about the Lord? The

Lord was never one to condemn.

You know.

I think if there's anything that I feel or I

treasure most is that Jesus doesn't condemn me. I mean,

if I were to measure myself against the Lord, I'm

such a rotten person who said yeah, oh you said yeah,

my wife said, yeah. By the way, she agrees that

I am a rotten person. But if I were to

mention myself, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about me. Okay.

If I were to measure myself against Jesus, I would say,

I think, Lord, something is wrong with you. Why would

you love me so much? Why would you care for me?

Something's got to be wrong with you. But I can

actually have that kind of conversation with him, and then

you know what he can answer me. He would say

something like, did you have a child out of wedlock? Know? Uh,

did you steal someone's wife? No? How about did you

plan a murder? No? I said, then he'll tell me.

But you know, there was someone in scripture who did

that and I still loved him. David did that, and

he's a man after my own heart. What did David do?

He told someone's wife he had a child out of wedlock,

and he murdered the woman's husband. But you know what

he did? He said, Lord, I'm sorry I sinned against you,

and I repent. And then the Lord said, a man

after my own heart. So you see, God is not

about catching us doing wrong, because there will be more

than enough wrong in our life. If he wants to

catch us, he doesn't have to try very hard. That

is a blessing for you. And need to know that

God is not out to get us, right or no,

So we should learn from him and not be out

to get somebody else. God is not out to get us.

He's not out to catch us. I mean, let's look

at scripture in John eighteen, verses ten to eleven, when

Jesus had raised himself up and saw no one but

the woman. Which woman are we talking about. We're talking

about that woman who was caught in adultery. You want

to know something. That man was nowhere to be seen.

Where was the man? This was a set up in

case you don't know, So who was it set up for?

He was set up to trap Jesus. Guys, the enemy

tries to set Jesus up through us all the time.

You got to understand that. So here they brought him before,

they brought her before him. And then he said those

of you without saying you cast the first tone, and

don't mess with the Lord. He started to write on

the ground, don't mess with Jesus. You can't mess with him.

Thank God, he is on our side. Okay, No, one

can mess with him. So when Jesus had raised himself

up and so no one but the woman, he said

to her, woman, where are your Where are these accusers

of yours? Has no one condemned you? She said, no one, Lord,

And Jesus said to her in that loving tone, neither

do I condemn you? Go and said no more? Was

it the angry I'm also not going to condemn you,

but you go, and you better not sin again. Did

he do that? No, Scripture, some of us read it

like that. That's what we think God is like, I'm

letting you off the hook. Now, don't you ever do

this again? If not, I will throw that stone. He

didn't say that. He said, with love and compassion, go,

I'm not going I'm not going to condemn you. I

love you, I believe in you, I trust you. I

know that if I give you an opportunity, eventually you'll

get it. Right. Go and sin no more? Do you

know when when those that's what I read it. When

I read that, I'm reading the heart of God. What

is the heart of God? He believes in you, He

believes it, and he knows that even if you don't

get it, because you love him he can love you back.

I mean, how many of you are Your children do wrong?

You hate them? Can I see your hands? If anyone

of you put up your hands and pray for deliverance

right now? No, when your children do wrong, you don't

hate them. You're loving them even though they're doing wrong.

And you know what in your heart you say. They

just don't see it. One day they will, But that

love in my heart cannot be erased, right a true?

Not those of your parents, fathers and mothers. Do you

agree with that? Now? You can raise your hands if

you agree with that. Okay, I see some half not sure? Okay,

praise the Lord. Yeah, so, no one, Lord before you,

no one is going to accuse me. Do you know

that doing the confession of that woman is yours and

mine to take? Before you? No one can accuse me.

So when the enemy tries to say, oh, you did

this and you did that, you go before the Lord

and say, Lord before you, no one can accuse me.

Please forgive me in Jesus' name, And you know what

he says, I will not accuse you. Go and see

no more, Go and see no more. The women the

woman brought before Jesus to stone in the end, only

Jesus was left. Do you realize good or bad? Good

or bad? Only Jesus remains good or bad? In your life?

Only Jesus remains. What is that? That is letting you

know that in your life Christ is your center. How

many of you use ways and then sometimes the thing

goes wonky and there's this button called center recenter, and

you press the buttons on your copyers. That is what

It's a poor example, but having living a Christ centered

life is always having that very defining force that keeps

you on the straight and narrow, keeps you moving right.

That's what Christ centeredness is all about. Focusing on Jesus.

What does he want for you? Okay? How am I

doing for time? Fifteen minutes? Wow, so I've already done

twenty twenty five minutes? Okay, now forty twenty five fifteen

I'm just being naughty. Okay. Let's look at what Matthew

twenty eight twenty says is teaching them. This is Jesus. Okay,

so maybe I should do the teaching voice Jesus teaching

them to observe all things that I have commanded you

in law. I am with you always, even to the

end of the age a man anyone of you here

named law? Okay, we learned because we are thought craignus.

Why is it that we have learned something because Jesus

has taught us. Our focus is on Jesus. We're looking

at it. And because we learn, we can teach. You

talk about disciples. Oh, I'm such a bad person. How

can I disciple? Hey? Did God call perfect people or not?

Look at these disciples? They were a motley bunch. I

don't know what kind of bunch they were, but they

were not the best. In fact, they were the ones

that people don't want. Who does God choose? He chooses

the ones that are discarded. Who are those us? The

ones who are really fine and good and well don't

want Jesus? There are lots of people who trust in

your wealth? Why not lots of p I got a

lot of money. I can do anything. Really, I know

one billionaire has so much of money but could do

nothing when he got cancer, and he said, better to

be a pauper in life than to be a billionaire

and a grave. Who was that person? Many of you

are holding his handphones. We learn because we are taught.

Others learn because we teach, how do we keep Christ

in the center? We've learned all how do we keep

Christ in the center? Look at what Hebrews twelve two says,

looking onto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith,

but for the joy that was set before him and

endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down

at the right hand of the throne of God. I

like this verse because it says that Jesus has started

the faith in us. He's the author, so he starts.

He's the one writing a book. You know, if Jesus

writes a book, do you think he ends in failure? Hey,

that should give you encouragement that when you focus on Jesus,

he's writing your book. What is the name of the book, Alex,

What is the name of the book, Elie? In Ellie's book,

there will be diving ten meters without tank Eli's book.

Go ahead. Today, I had a prayer, pray for me

that I have a sound mind. H So we were

praying to get today, and they were praying for me,

you know, And then I look at her the mean

and I say, I thought I had a sound mind

and my unsound The prayer came. I pray for him,

let him have a sound mind. Okay, I received that

prayer in the name of Jesus. It's okay, it's okay.

You know I can I can hear the Holy Spirit

having a good laugh. You mean to say the Holy

Spirit laughs, Yes, he does. I mean you're a father,

you have a kid, Your kid does something funny. You

don't laugh? What descriptures say we are image of God? Right?

I know there's agreement there somewhere. So we focus on

the person of Jesus. Christ is so awesome. Christ is

so why would we not focus on the best thing

in our lives. He's the best thing that ever happened

in our life? Why would we not focus on him?

Do you see me walking so fine? Now? Praise the Lord.

I can do comfork. Also, my knee is here because

of Jesus. Four months I had that dislocated me, and

that wonderful doctor who took the X ray did not

see it. But I want to praise praise the Lord

that God saw it and he killed me because I

did not allow that me to take my eyes off

trying to do what was rise. And when the Lord

saw that, I still continue. Well done, my good and

faithful son. Now is the time, and you know how

how how long the healing took he took her. You

don't worry. I'm going to talk. He did it before

he told me what he was going to do. My

knee came back in place and instantly I can walk again.

I want you to know God is like that. You've

got to focus on him doing what's what he tells

you to do. That is what being Christ sentered is.

Being Christ sentered is doing what he tells you to do,

not what you want to do. Now, if you if

what you want to do is what he wants to do,

christ centered. If what you want to do is not

what he wants to do, that is self centered. You

always want to know why I say I'm such a

rotten person, because if you ask my family members, they

will tell you when I was growing up, I was

the most self centered kid. I always thought of myself

and I you know, if God had to break through

that it took God four years. Four years of my

life is a long time. Four years in God's time

is nothing, all right, But it took four years for

him to break through. And then when he broke through,

he just spoke to me and spoke those words in

my ear, and great things have happened since then. Guys,

what's your issue? What are you facing? But is it

that problem in class? Is it that lecture you can't understand?

Is it that project that you that you can't complete.

You are a child of God. You go before the Lord.

You mean to say, God, can I help you? God

helping you doesn't mean you go to Starbucks, come back

at two three am and next day at seven am.

You got to give your project up. That is not

asking God to help. That is asking God to help

you cheat. God is not your cheat. What you have

to do. What your responsibility is you do. If your

responsibility goes against what He tells you to do, him first,

then you. But if you decide you want to drink

coffee until three four am in the morning, that's got

nothing to do with God. That's you. That's the difference

between self centeredness and christ senteredness. You mean to say

it was easy for us to go and teach kids

whom we do not know somewhere so far away. It

wasn't easy. But you know what we said, Yes, those

those of us who win my homies, We said, yes,

who are we saying yes to the church. Yes, we're

saying yes to the missing Church, but really who he

is saying yes to. We're saying yes to to Christ,

to Jesus. So in that moment, were we self centered

or Christ centered? Christ? We were looking to Him to

help us. It's so easy to know where you are

and where you stand and to answer your own questions,

am I doing right? It's so easy, but people don't

want to ask those questions because they want to keep

the door open to doing what they want to do. Guys,

you gotta love Jesus, you gotta focus on him, and

you've gotta trust him. I want to give you a warning.

In John ten ten it says this, the thief does

not come for any other reason. It does not come

except to steal, to kill, and to destroy. What do

they steal? How do they steal?

You know?

All the thief has to do is to steal Christ

from the center of your life. And he's got you.

Did you ever wonder why there are people who can

leave the Lord? Did you ever wonder why? I mean,

amable myself. We've been Christian now for forty five years

or more. You mean to say we haven't got gone

through tough things. I mean, the things that you've gone

through is so terrible. Sometimes we've really gone through some really,

really tough times. It's so easy to walk away. There

are lots of people who walk away when times get

and then they don't realize they think times are going

to get easier if they don't have Jesus. You have

no idea. You know why it seems to get easier

because the devil doesn't have to concentrate on you. He's

got you already. He's going to concentrate on somebody else

that has Jesus because he wants to get them to

So maybe you think you say, oh I'm okay, I'm better,

I'm fine. You know why, it's a lie. It's a lie.

You know what is the truth. The truth is that

because we are selves, we are Christ centered. The truth

is we'll go through tough times better than tough times

now than tough times later on. Oh again, the room

is very quiet. I don't know how I else you

tell it to you, except to tell you that it's

worthwhile focusing on Jesus. That's the thing that's going to

carry you, not just for five minutes, but for five decades.

Seven decades until you meet him. That's the only thing

that's going to carry you through your tough times and

through your easy times. You know, it's so much better

to have Jesus helping you during the tough times because

your life is centered on him. You know what is

the thing that he helps you? The thing that I

was prayed for this morning? Keep my mind saying, you

know that was that was a good prayer, by the way.

You know why, you know why there was a good

prayer because during tough times, where's the attack here? So

this is where you need to send a Christ. When

you send a Christ in your heart, it will help

put your mind. It is what does scriptures say, Stay

your mind on Christ. The peace of God that passes

all understanding will come. Okay. He wants the best for us.

Jesus wants the best for us. Surrendered things that we

want to Jesus. Wow, the scripture says. A scripture says,

what is the second I have come? That they may

have life and they may have life more abundantly. Guys,

you and I want many things, right, nothing wrong with

wanting things. Do you know that God wants things for

you too? You pray and you say God, God, can

I have this? If you don't get it, He's already

answered you. The only answer he's given you is you

gotta an You gotta find out whether it's wait or no.

He gives it to you, gives it to you. La. Well,

I remember one sir, I wanted a new tennis record. Okay,

I wanted a wooden tennis record because so I wanted

a new tennis record. And that was the first time

I learned about tithing. So the money I was saving

for the wooden tennis record, I put it in the

tithe so you no money. Then out of the blue,

that very weak my father asked me, Hey, I think

I want to get you a new tennis record. But

thank you, Dad, how much do you need? I need

a Here it is and I got my new tennis

record straight away. Praise the Lord. God wants things for you.

Do you know that. But if it doesn't give it

to you, there's two reasons. One is no, I want

a Bugatti. Bugatti is the most expensive car in the world,

two three million pounds. I don't know how much that

is in ring it. Okay, Ah, why do you need

a Bugatti? How fast do you think you can go

on a Malaysian road, can go faster, cannot cannot go fast.

So what's the point really give it to you? I

don't think so. But then sometimes you say, Lord, I

need a car, and you are willing to get a

I don't want to say it, but you're willing to

get one of those cars that be made since nineteen

eighty five. Okay, but you don't get it, and you

think what God is not answered by your prayer. No,

maybe he's telling you hang on a bit. I want

to get you a better car. See that's what it

means when Scripture says I've come to give you life

and have it more abundantly as fast to say that

there is nothing that I want God cannot give. The

only criteria is does God want it for me or not?

And Ivie doesn't want it for me. I don't want it.

That's what Pastor in this section he is basically said that,

so he wants the best for us. Surrender things to Jesus.

And I think I'm coming to the end, so the

team can come up surrender things we want to Jesus,

and Ivie wants it for us. He will give the

best of it. You see, he doesn't. Shot changes. He

gives us the best. We may focus on something not

so good. He may give us something better. If not,

he is something better of a different purpose that makes

us better. Do you get it? You wonder thing, and

it doesn't give it to you. He gives you something

totally different because he wants to make you better. How

lovely is that? That's what it means. From glory to glory.

He changes me. Hey, guys, I'm not trying to well,

I am trying to sell you on this that when

you live a life that is Christ centered, you have

everything you need. Nothing can be with help from us

if God wants it from us. And I'll end with

this slight nothing is more beautiful than Jesus. If you

have forgotten everything I've said this morning, if you can't

remember any thing that I've said this morning, just remember this.

If you can live your life, if we can live

our life where nothing is better than Jesus, then we

will be Christ centered. And this is a very valuable

It is one of our twelve core values twelve plus one.

To be Christ centered. Christ centered frees us from being judgmental.

Christ centered us sentenedness frees us from the spirit of

where we are always thinking about sin in our life.

It freezes us from regret. Instead, it focuses on the

one the only one who is able to help us,

the only one who is able to change our lives,

the only one who's able to make all things new,

and the only one who makes all things beautifully. Isn't

it lovely? Isn't the name of Jesus lovely?

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