Unpacking The Vision of Acts Church-Part 4 | Eld Rosalind

You're listening to a message to go from X Church.

We hope this message will light up your tea.

So let's bring to memory again.

What were some of the things that you remembered from

last week's session?

The five seas?

Excellent, let's start with that. What are the five seas?

Conviction, condition, cooperation, community, and college excellent?

Well done everyone. Okay for those of.

You who are new, you'll probably be totally lost, right

what are all these five seas? I will briefly recap

to you what that means. Okay, but before that, I

just need to spot check a little bitter.

What is the vision of X Church?

How about Cook two fourteen, and it says, let's say

this together, for the earth shall be filled with the

knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters

covers the sea. Yes.

Yes, So everything that.

We do, we want to bring the knowledge of the

glory of God to.

The whole earth. Amen.

That's exactly what we want to do every time right

in our lives. How do we express this so that

everyone else outside of this.

Church knows about God and his glory? Amen?

All right, So that is our big vision. And so

if you are following us on the notes. We are

currently on page twenty nine. Okay, Part four, all right,

so let's take stock. All right, So this is the

five seas. Okay, I just want to recap again. The

conviction is something that Okay, no, so so you have

the first five seas that I'll talk a little bit

about that. I call these five seas the ecosystem.

Okay.

What I mean by that is we as a church,

we are constantly thinking about how to provide an environment

where all of us will capture the heart of God

and be able to express what God wants us to do. Okay,

So the conviction comes from God. Number one. The conviction

is that number two is the condition. And the condition

is how is the condition of our spiritual atmosphere? How

is the condition of our leaders? How is the condition?

What are we saying? Are we consistent or not?

All right?

The third one is cooperation. And you know that with

any vision, we cannot do it without of course, we

cannot do it without God, but we also cannot do

it without you and I you know what God can

easily just like that? Right?

Do you believe that God.

Can just in an instant change everyone's heart? He can,

but he does not face that upon us right, He

wants us to willingly wholeheartedly love him.

It's it's very weird, right. I have two.

Girls, you know, it's you know, and if I will

tell them, okay, you know my daughter, daughter one, you

know who she is, you must love me, right, It's

very different when she comes up to me herself and says, mom,

I love you.

That willingness, that obedience.

That that place from self will is very different from

a like, okay, you must do this, you must do that.

So if you have this mindset that.

God is like this head master who wants you to

just obey the rules, can I say that that is.

Not an idea of God that you should keep right

this year? Throw away that that thought.

God is not a head master trying to keep the

school running in a certain way, just rules and regulation.

God is father, a man father and child relationship is

very different. Yeah, And we want to come to that

intimacy with God this yeary man?

All right? So that's what we want to get to.

And you know that part.

Of God the Father's business is making disciples.

Amen? Do you know that not?

I don't know if you've read your Bible, but Jesus

commanded us as the last commission is to go and

make disciples. Tell your neighbor, go and make disciples. Do

you receive that or not? Your neighbor is like, I

don't want this. I don't want this commandment.

I don't want to this. No, Hello, this is the

calling of God. Right, we are called to make disciples.

And that is not only the leaders that are supposed

to make disciples. Do you recognize that you, each one of.

You, that commandment is for you. You are called to

make disciples.

And so the last thing we want right shock therapy

for you are is one day when you meet with Jesus,

and Jesus says, okay, how many disciples you made? What

are you gonna answer? Hey, the Church never told me all.

I didn't know I was supposed to do this.

I thought, if I just.

Live a quiet life, I got the church every Sunday,

I give my tithes and offerings, I serve in.

All the dream teams. I'm good.

And Jesus says, I think you missed the point because

Jesus is saying, did you love others? Did you care

for others? Did you speak truth into their lives? Did

you lead them closer to become more like me. That's

what this typo ship is. Right, if you look at

the tree as there first one is, what is the

first one?

Follow me? So if you're serious.

About following Jesus this year? Hello, do we have serious

followers of Jesus this year? Serious? Ah, we're getting down

into it now, serious followers of Jesus. We are not

just Christians, we are four lowers of Christ. Huh. Followers

means I have to follow love, follow the way right.

You cannot go set so wrong and then say, Jesus,

when I'm sixty years.

Old, I follow you.

Now I follow my own waivers. No, right, it's now

now today I follow you. I gotta feed my sheep. Hello.

If you don't.

Disciple others how you're feeding, you're only feeding yourself.

That's first step, of course.

But then you have to feed others, right, that's a

responsible thing to do. Right, whatever you have received, you

give Otherwise you become fat when you don't work out

the gift things that God has given you to bless

others right, and to become fishes of men. Wow, tell

you that Jesus says, you know, I will make you

fishes of men.

Then you're saying, cho choy.

I don't want this, Jesus, I don't want to make fish.

I don't want to be fishing for men. I want

to fish for I don't know what's what's in now, popularity, money,

I'm busy with that fishing business. But Jesus is saying,

the business that all of us should be in is souls, men, women, children,

every layer of society.

Amen.

So the summary of discipleship is.

To give God our very best.

You know. The thing that the Lord reminded me just

now as we're doing worship right is make it count.

Make it count, meaning make your worship just don't count.

Make your next forty minutes with me here count. I'm

giving you my best. I'm making it comet for myself.

Are you making it count for you? Because no point

you just sit here and like, okay, I heard a

great message, and then you go wait there, you would

have wasted forty minutes of your time. Oh, in fact,

two hours. Why would you want to waste your time? First,

we have no time to waste. Come on, really serious,

I'm going really serious right now. Let's make each time count.

Cost time really is not on our side. I know,

the Lord numbers our days. And do you know that

the condolence message that we had just now. She's actually

my very close friend, Jessica. We grew up together. I've

known her for more than twenty years. I know her

dad because we always when we were in Penang, we

always come down to kl and we always stay at

Jessus Motel. We call her house Jesus Motel because her

family is so welcoming. Her parents are the most generous

people that.

You would know.

They would just welcome all the straightcats like La no

place to stay. They welcome us, feed us, fellowship with us,

give us godly counsel.

That's the man that.

Mister David, the late mister David was, do you know,

and it was very sudden.

He's passing.

He was just doing something, a usual ordinary activity.

For a man his age.

He was climbing a tree and he just fell.

And the shock is real.

Right, It's like you're thinking, so healthy, you know, very healthy,

very fit, and God just call him home. So do

you know we cannot take our life for granted, So

would you make this year count for you friends, make

every day count, make today count right, every single day

today we are already eleventh January has the eleven days

of twenty twenty six countered. Did it matter? Not just

did it matter to you? But did it matter to God?

Ooh ah? Did it matter to God?

Not?

Did I make an impact in the Kingdom of God? Amen?

So that's what I want to encourage you with. Right,

So come on, we can do this together. Friends, with

God and good friends, we can do amazing things for

the Lord.

Amen. Okay.

So some of you, as we go through this vision,

you might say, ay, oh, elder Roles, I've been here

for thirteen years.

I've heard it all before.

Nothing new, right, It's okay, you know what, because we forget, right,

Remember I told you our greatest enemy we forget. We

forget and we get distracted. And so what is different

with us saying this time? Because these are the three

important things that we need to remember. Number one, what

is God saying to us? This is the conviction part? Right,

we say conviction can only come from God. So if

you believe that all that we've shared and put together

comes from the Lord, then it has to become your conviction. Yeah,

every one of us hold a conviction. So if you're

someone like I got no conviction.

Then you're like, la Lang.

Oh this today, I hear this today, I hear that.

Then you know that we will not become strong and

anchored in the Lord. Were just like Lalan, you want

to be la Lang? Not no, right, we want to

be so anchored in the world. God that our conviction

is is derived from the word of God itself. Right,

So that's conviction. What is God saying to us? And

clearly I believe wholeheartedly that whatever God has downloaded to

Passing Kenneth, our senior minister.

Is for us.

I believe that wholeheartedly. So let's believe imen conviction. Second

one is the condition. What are your leaders saying? What

are those around you who are caring for you?

What are they saying? Are we saying the same thing

or not? Are we saying?

You know? I think you know, let's get deeper into

the wood of God. Let's have our personal devotion stronger

this year. Let's worship our God with our best, lifting

off hands, clapping, shouting. Do you know this is the

things that we we say because this is the expression

of giving God our best.

That's the only way we know how right?

If you think I'm overpassionate, that's how I give got

my best, you know. So so whatever expression, let's let's

give God the very best that he deserves, not not

because of me or my personality or my you know,

whatever behavioral type I am. It's just say God, I

don't think if I'm able to shout at the stadium

or at the K pop concert, I'm learning all your

moves all the time that dances right, and can you

dance for.

Good or not? Hello?

Come on, lie, young people, you're like, I don't know,

I don't know. Let it, let it wan.

Ah. So we do that, but can we channel that

unto the Lord?

Because there's energy, you know, there's energy in your time

to learn all those dance moves and then join our

dance team, like, hey from for our dance team. You know,

we have a like we have many expressions of ministry

for you to use your gift things for the Lord,

a man to bless him. So, so what are your

leaders saying? Are we consistent or not? If some something?

If if ever you hear some of our leaders say

something else, are then please come and talk to us.

Ah.

Oh, leaders say yeah, it's okay, lie, you come in sleepers,

It's okay.

One.

Come to you know, come to church. Lad, It's okay. One.

God will forgive you and hello, you're leader. Tear you.

There are no no, no, there is grace and compassion.

But I'm saying, how is our attitude or preparation before

the Lord? You know, if you're gonna meet the king

or the president or whatever, you will really take extra effort. Right,

And today we say we meet with the King of

kings and the Lord of lords.

Right, do you know who you're meeting or not? You're

not meeting me.

No, I am the least of the person you want

to meet.

But we are meeting with the Lord.

And so let's create that atmosphere for you and I to.

Just recognize it is God.

Is there reverence in this place? This place is holy ground.

You know when we open the altar, right, it's holy

because God's presence is here.

And we come with.

That ex expectancy and that awe and reverence. Do you

know sometimes we've lost the fear of God in our lives.

We treat me as a peal, like a friend. If

you're we stood him up.

It's okay.

When we take this kind of relationships for granted. Yeah,

I pray that you know exchange you're different, right? Come on, Actually,

we really are desiring and hungry to be with in

the presence of God. And do you know that to

invite God's presence we have to ensure that our hearts

is in the right place, you know, don't don't expect

it just comes simple, simply, and then God's presence will

be there. It's two right, two sides. And that leads

me to my third see, which is the cooperation. But

what are you saying? Can you see the slights? What

is God saying to us? What is your conviction? What

are your leaders saying to you? And what are you saying?

Do you know that after this right, the most important

thing right is what you are saying, because you can

hear what God is saying, you can hear what your

leaders tell you. But you must go away saying something

yes I believe in this or no, this is not

for me. At the end of it, the decision lies

with you because that's going to affect how you behave,

how you show up, how you serve, how you give,

how you follow Christ.

Amen. So remember that, okay, remember that all.

Of us have something to say when a So what

are you saying is basically the question. Remember that Jesus

after he was talking to Peter. Remember that Jesus is

very wise and we're following his pattern. And also Jesus

in his wisdom, he says, huh, Peter, who do people

say I am? Right?

Who do people say I am? And then Peter.

Answered, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, And

you say, okay, that's what everyone is saying. And then

he turned so personal to Peter and maybe this is

God asking you, but who do you say I am?

You have to say something.

If you don't believe that I am the son of God,

then our relationship will be very different. And what does

the son of God mean?

Wow? Just take a moment, and.

This son of God, Jesus, son of God.

Let that sinking.

You know, sometimes we just let that meditation of who

God is sinking. Then we're like, okay, I think I

know how I should align and think about my life.

You know, sometimes we forget that he's the son of God.

So this is what I tell myself now right this year,

whenever I I'm worried about something, whenever I'm getting stressed,

I'm like, no, this is son of God. He's all powerful, almighty,

oh wise, all wisdom, power and glory and honor belongs

to him.

Wow, this is my God. So why I stress?

I'm stressing because I forget who God is and think

that everything I need to do on my own I

need to be smartered. I need to be more productive. Ah,

starting at the year, I need to do this. I

need to do more marketing for those having business. But

we forget that we have the very sauce direct sauce,

you know, direct cable to the King of kings and

the Lord of lords. And he's saying, hello, why are

you not asking me?

Why are you not asking me?

I'm here, amen, Church, reminder that oh God is your God.

He's not just a god. He is the God, the one,

true and living God. He's the Way, the truth and life.

Amen.

Just remember that, friends, Remember that. Okay, that's what we

want to equip you with. Right. Just remember that this

is the community of faith. And when we say college,

the fifth se right is this is training ground, friends, Yeah,

training ground, so that after this you will go out

into the world and say, yes, I am confident that

God can resolve your marital issues at home.

I am confident that God.

Can bring healing to your sickness. A man, I believe

God's plan is greater. Can you bring hope to the

world that needs hope?

Yeah.

We live in a very hopeless world right now, very uncertain,

very scary.

But let's not live in fear.

Hello, we should be the most hopeful people on earth.

If you are not, then okay, ask God. God give

me that hope. God give me that confidence in your word,

not because of who I am.

Amen. Amen, All right, let's go.

So in order to keep this vision that the whole

shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of

the Lord, there's three els that we need to focus on.

Bolia. And as I was preparing for this, right.

I realize, Okay, can I give you this is my

personal thought. You tell me whether you agree or not not.

Top three reasons. Top three reasons why people choose to

stay or leave a church.

Number one, comfort.

You choose to go to a church or not attend

that church anymore, or leave that church because of your

comfort level. Oh I'm comfortable here, ler, I'm not comfortable there, comfida,

just think about it. Second one is convenience also convenienter, Yeah,

convenient because they don't ask me to serve ha hah.

Convenient because they don't ask anything of me. Convenient because

they don't challenge me.

Okay.

And third one is community. Are you I got no

friends here?

La?

Yay?

I got a lot of good.

Friends here, and that's why I say right and and

throughout the years of being in acts, I've been in

as for twenty years now, I cannot see you, right,

I'm I'm actually twenty five years old, condon, La, But no, so,

but that is.

Not what we're about. Okay.

So if you came to ACT thinking you're gonna find comfort,

you're gonna find it to be very convenient.

You're gonna find it to you.

Know, just build a community, and that's all that you're

looking at. Can I tell you will fail? You are?

We're gonna fail you? Can I tell you first?

Because our focus is completely different. And focus is the

tree els which I'm going to bring to you.

Number one the lost, Hi Church.

If you're not about the loss, then what are we about?

Lah? Hello?

The vision of X has always been about reaching the lost?

Do you know the vision? At Passa Kenneth cast it

for us right ten thousand people right now? X Church

we're about one thousand, one thousand odd lah in Klang

Dali alone, right, one thousand across our sixteen worship services,

about thousand plus people. You're included in it and passes

dream is by twenty thirty or that's how many years

level four years lever that we will be at ten thousand.

But this ten thousand is times ten right, one thousand

times ten is ten thousand. The dream that we have

is ninety percent, which means everyone else that joins.

Us is a new believer.

Whoh that is our vision? Can I just share with

you that's our vision because we don't want church transfers.

If you're visiting us, thank you very much. I'm not

saying anything. I'm just saying our desire is. I think

we've recognized that there's a lot of musical chairs going

around with the church. And do you know that the

percentage of Christianity in Malaysia has not changed for the

last donkey years. We are at ten percent and we

are stuck. And in fact, in up to twenty fifty

our percentage were declined to nine percent percentage of Christians

in Malaysia. That's the prediction now. So I think we've

got work to do. Our friends, I think all of

us have something to do. So our vision has always

been about the lost, right. The first one, if you're

writing notes, the first el the lost.

Second one is the leaders.

We need leaders to rise up right, and we believe

that everyone can be a leader, true or not? Not.

Everyone is saying yes, do you believe that everyone can

be a leader? Oh?

Very good, class excellent?

Now when you think about it, right, the first person

that you lead is who?

Correct? So can you say that you're not leader? Ready?

Straight away?

You let yourself to church this morning? That is leadership?

And do you know that when we have the lost?

Can you imagine a suddenly are two hundred students come

right now here? The laws that jump into our ship

by the grace of God, really, by the grace of God,

Who's going to lead the two hundred right now here?

I think we have about one hundred and thirty people.

Only that means ah, I alone cannot lead two hundred.

Elder Pain Whole, Elder Mabel, Ellie Lunching, We cannot lead

two hundred. It means all of you have to lead one.

You know, hey, true or not? So are we ready

for that?

If you're not ready. God will not.

Give us because you say, I give you for what.

If you cannot handle them?

Right? So we have to be ready, and that's why

we are so strong on leadership raising leaders in ex church.

It's really not about giving you a title, you know,

it's asking you, can you.

Please help us? Can you please help us? They're the

burden with us, right.

It's really that, it's just saying, we need your help Church.

We need your help to shepherd the laws because the loss.

If we really desire the laws to come, then we

need leaders to help shepherd them.

Amen.

So our dream can I share with you our dream?

Our dream is that one thousand plus people that we

have in all our church plans will become a leader,

no matter what season you're in, even if you just

celebrated your seventy fifth birthday.

Is okay, you can lead one?

Right? I think you can so. And the third one,

the third l that we're talking about is the leven.

Now do you understand this word leven or not level?

What does it mean?

Yeast?

Okay? How many of you like break bread? Like to

eat bread? Punk? Not many of you are pizza? Pizza?

You like?

Okay?

Okay, braid, braid, all kinds of break croisson, croissan, the

expensive one with the ribbon looking on, those kinds of

things you pay money for. All right, Now, where does

this come from?

Again? You're not plucking things from the air.

Okay, it's from the world of what Because Jesus himself

says in Matthew thirteen thirty three, what did he liken

the Kingdom of God? He says, the Kingdom of Heaven

is like leaven. Oh, this is Jesus teaching us that

the kingdom that he's bringing to us is like leaven,

like yeast. Now what does yeast do?

Friends?

Right? Yeast?

Is there something that.

Causes the whole lump of flower to rise up? Right?

And Jesus is telling.

Us the church is the leven that will rise up

the community, our society. Hello, do you get that we

are supposed to be like leven? There's supposed to be

like a chemical reaction that's happening. There's supposed to be movement.

Do you know when you raise something up right, there's

upward movement? How many of you have seen active years before?

Yeah? Do you know that you bubbles? There's energy?

Right? Do you know usually how much leaven do you

need for to rise up a batch of door?

Little bit?

Right? How many of you know that I mike our

door brain. If you miss that out, catch the recording anyways,

So sour door requires a certain percentage of starter. We

call it the yeast, right, And I find that it's

a very interesting process.

How can a.

Little bit, let's say, actually some of it is less

than ten percent ten percent rise up the whole door?

And that's how powerful the leaven is. Right, And Jesus

is saying to us that, you know, we need to

be like the leaven. If you read the notes there,

it says leven without the leaven.

The door doesn't rise without the leaven.

In our lives, we will remain stagnant and flat. How

many of you want a flat twenty twenty six?

No, enough of that.

You might have a flat twenty twenty five. But this yeal,

we declare and prophesy over you that you will rise

up in the name of Jesus. Imen, because the spirit

of God is always bubbling within our hearts, to rise

us up.

Amen.

God doesn't want us to stay flat, defeated on the ground.

So comfortable lying there, And Jesus says Hey, Hello, he

said to the paralyzed man, take up your met and walk.

Rise up. I speak that in the name of Jesus

over some of you while going through a situation where

you feel I'm just flat. I'm lying down, paralyzed for

how many years, cannot move. Jesus is coming to you

and saying, rise, take up your med and walk.

Amen.

So do you know that as much as God is

so powerful to do the miracle right cory on, Jesus

can just bring life and bring healing to that person.

But he said, you have to take up your metal.

You. I'm not gonna take up your met for you. You

have to take up the mat yourself. Right, So all

of us we have our met to take up this

year and we need to walk.

Yeah. No, no longer just lying down.

Like, oh God, how come your power never show? How

come my break ton never come? And Jesus say, hello,

is there ready? You just need to get up and walk?

Amen.

Will you steal that and say this year I will

work and man, this year I will walk. Write it

down your rose, This year I will walk. If there's

a commitment that you want to make this say this year, lot,

I will walk. Now Okay, this is very uncomfortable for

US Malaysians. Why because we are generally very very comfortable people.

Right.

We don't like our boats to be shaken. We don't

like anything extraordinary. But do you know that the crazy

thing about following Jesus is that you know that.

He's not a normal god. It is Jesus normal.

He's supernatural, and it's supernatural it means it's radical.

Do you like radical or not radical ideas? Too much?

La? You know why you're so gung hoan over passionate.

I'd rather be over passionate. I was telling someone. You

know that when I eat food right, or drink drinks,

you either give me super hot soup or super cold drinks.

You give me lukewarm. I don't want. That's just me, La,

But I marry a man who's very opposite. Never mine.

But that's just our drinks and food present. But he's

very on fire for the Lord, very very on fire. Okay,

veryvery on fire for the Lord. But I'm just saying

that God says you're either.

Be hot or cola.

If you're gonna look what, I might just speak you out.

Ooh hello, bless for me. No, this is from the scriptures.

It's from the Word of God wants us to be

passionate church. So that's why we are saying, oh, yes

and amen. That's all you're agreeing, because we are speaking

to our own spirit and saying, yeah, enough of this.

I want to speak up so that my spirit receives this.

Yeah.

Can I tell you that we are we are passionate

about you responding to the Word of God because.

This is just how you.

Engage with the spirit, and the spirit works something you

cannot see. You and you know this is a spiritual thing, right,

weapons or warfare that you cannot see. But you say

in faith, yes and amen. That's in faith you allow

the Word of God to sp into your heart and

the Spirit of God.

To do only what he can do. Amen. Agents of change. Amen.

So when you carry this bondness the Spirit of God

into your workplaces tomorrow, WHOA, You're.

Gonna leven up your place. You know, because you.

Say in the name of Jesus, and we sang that

the song in the Mighty Name of Jesus. In the

Mighty Name of Jesus, things will change, things will turn around.

The sour relationship. Will we redeem in the name of Jesus.

Do you dare believe this? Are our friends? Do you

believe that God can do this for you? Yeah?

We want to help people believe. That's our motto. Helping

people believe. That's what we're all about, right, and so

we want to believe more and more in the coming days. Amen.

Amen.

So just to let you know, radical right, radical, crazy

for the Lord in the last twenty years of ACT Church,

we started in two thousand. So in twenty twenty we

celebrated our twentieth year and we say, is this three

things that cause us to grow? Right from three persons

to one thousand plus?

And then in nations?

How many nations, six nations or more right countries that

we are represented? Is these three things? And I remember

it because it is where I live. Oh Ug.

Do you know what oug is?

Oklaani wrote there? Okay, oh Ug. Radical obedience, radical unity,

radical generosity.

These are the marks that has caused X Church to grow. Amen.

So what is it?

Is obedience, it's unity, it's generosity. Are these three things

present in your life?

Have a think?

Am I radically obedient to the word of God? Am

I so caught up with the vision of unity?

In acts? And am I generous in my spirit? Yeah?

The generous church is really a mark of the Holy Spirit. Now,

because I can tell you this, we're all selfish, and

it's only by the mark of the Holy spirital lies

that when we can turn generous with others with our time,

I will give things and I can see that move

of God over your life. You don't have to say much,

you know, I pray five times each day, you know,

I do this and that.

But through your.

Generosity, I can see whoa this one is really God's spirit.

Working in their lives. We want to see that.

Yeah, can we see that?

Amen?

Our time, talent, and treasure. Okay, let's move on. Let's

move on, all right. So the three things that then

requires us now from twenty twenty to twenty forty, right,

our next twenty years of growth if you miss, you know,

the prophetic.

Vision of our church.

The first twenty years we were a Joseph church, right,

Joseph Church, and the next d dreams that God has

brought to us. The next twenty years, twenty twenty to

twenty forty is the Daniel period, right Daniel? You know

he was a man in a marketplace. Do you know

Daniel surf four kings pagan kings, meaning they are not believers.

So if you're now working for a non Christian boss,

it's okay, you're in a right try. You don't always

have to be in a Christian environment because you're there

to leven up.

Right.

If you go to a place that's really all nice

and eleven, then maybe you have another job to dola.

But we want to go to the darkest place to

bring light there, amen to shine for God there. Okay,

so we talk about this. So what is needed for

the next three years. Let's go to page thirty one

is radical ideas. I'm going to go through this and

then explain to you a little bit radical initiatives. What

is it that's tied and radical implementation? You see that

implementation we're talking about the elevener. Okay, I just give

you this concept first and then we go we move

on fasta. Now, do you know that with every great

vision there will be challenges? Do you know that when

Jesus came down to Earth to fulfill his mission, that

was a challenge. What was the challenge that he had?

Unbelief?

Right? And so if unbelief is what is challenging you, right,

now I pray in the name of Jesus, God will

help us believe the greatest challenge, one of the greatest

challenge to our vision is we cannot achieve it without

reaching the lost a man or not Cory not so

if we continue and sometimes you know, people sort of say,

a why you're always about the numbers are but because

without the numbers then we are not effectively reaching the lost,

true or not. If we have been stagnant for one

thousand for the last five years, then who.

Have we reached? Actually? And God is saying reminding.

Us again that we need to reach the loss, lots

of it, lots of it. Do do you have his heart?

If you do not have it, it's okay.

Can you pray for the desire? God give me a

hunger for the loss? Because if you follow Christ, this

is his heart, for the son of Men came to

seek and save the the loss. Luke nineteen ten. Do

you see that this is Jesus heart and as a

church we want to follow his heart. Amen, I told

you about the ten percent, there's ninety percent out there.

I know it's it's scary, but it's gonna be okay. Yeah,

we need to do this. In our church, we have

five ws, right, and this is our fifthu W, which

is called witness. And you know that the fifth has

always been our weakest link, can I be very honest? Right?

The first one is worship. I think we've got worship.

I think there's a heart out of worship here, the

word of God, the warmth. Okay, extra never dialte a

warmp Okay, come on, let's continue to bring that warmth

into our relationships with one another.

The first, fourth one is works.

This is something that we continue to ask you to

do in a sense of saying, go out and bring

life to our communities. Right.

And the fifth one is witness. So witness is.

Something that we really need to get going with this

and continue to do. All right, all right, So you

know I hit the ground running this year in fifth year,

straight away, no after Christmas and all like you know,

usually you're NNA, you slow down, slow down, But came

second generary poem. You hit the ground running. And so

I think evangelism needs to come in strong.

The loss.

I'll focus on whatever that we do, all right, Okay,

So the second greatest challenge that we have is we

can't do it with our leaders I told you that already, right,

So if you're not there to shepherd the loss, then

we are lost.

We will drown, okay.

And this is what Matthew nine says in thirty seven

to thirty eight. Then Jesus said to his disciples, what

did Jesus say? The harvest truly is plentiful, but the

laborers are few. Therefore, pray the Lord of harvests to

send out laborers into his harvest. Amen, is a problem

with the harvest, is the problem with the harvest. The

problem is with the laborers. The harvestus right, we need

labor as friends, I'm just telling you already.

The call is issued out to you. We need people

to work for.

The Kingdom of God because the harvest is there. But

if you're not willing to labor, then that's our challenge,

law right, and we will continue to be our challenge.

Imen.

And don't worry about you know, you know sometimes with

but I don't know. I'm not trained. I didn't go

by ble school. You need know, John three sixteen. But

Jesus gives us this assurance, and he says this in

Matthew four. He said to them, follow me, and I

will make you fishes of men. Yeah, God himself will

make us fishes of men. Do you know we had

homes do you know? You know, hometelles small, but how

many of you attended homes good session One of the

most encouraging things in my homes. And I was privileged

to lead that discussion. Was we had a testimony from

one of our homies. Uh. And she's this lady, very passionate,

very on fire for God. And as we are sharing,

so my question to them was, you know, let's reflect,

you know on twenty twenty five. What is it that

you hope for in twenty twenty six? Yeah, and so

different ones are sharing, you know, yeah, more discipline in lives,

you know.

Job and all the things.

And this beloved lady, this homide, she says, oh, twenty five,

I save five souls for the Lord. I'm like, whoa

if you want to talk about KPI guys, she hit

it five souls of the Lord and she were sharing about,

you know, how the Holy Spirit prompted her. She was

in the hospital and the Holy Spirit just asked her

to go and talk to that lady, you know, and

share the gospel with her. She did, and then she

wanted to follow up the next day that the lady

passed on. That was one of the salvations, did you know?

And I had goose Bum's hearing this because she knows

what it's about. She knew what really mattered. I have

to ask myself, how many soulsia I saber? Hello, it's

a real hardshat, a really painful one. I can be

so busy, you know, and yet Jesus says, what did?

Jesus says, build up and store up your treasures in

heaven because this is what really matters. This is what

really matters, you know. And she may not be in

a leadership position, but we don't need that. We need

people on the ground saving souls. Whoa amazing man. Of course,

she shared with us. She's like I also started always

so scared what people think about me, you know. And

as she continued to build her life around the world

of God, you know, she started putting in early morning

prayers in her own life, the leaven, the discipline, and

she started getting this boldness. And it's the sense of

urgency comes from the Holy Spirit, you know, when you're

walking in line with the Holy Spirit, that the sense

of urgency that I don't know who's going to go next, right,

and that this gives you that supernatural boness to just say, hey,

do you know that Jesus loves you? Hey, you know

there's some things in your life that need to change, repent,

follow God? Well, bonus, man, bonus. I'm like, oh, I'm

so inspired. I don't know if you judge, but I

feel inspired because I'm saying I want this this year.

God gave me bread and life and twenty twenty six.

Let's make it conference. Hey, hello, make it conference. If

all of us are friends, I can tell you this.

If all of us just commit to one soul twenty

twenty six, Lord, let one hundred and fifty people here

say one soul for you. Lord, I'm gonna say and

reach and pray. Guess how many more we will have

next year?

Three hundred.

We need to multiply service readly. It's doable. I'm asking

I'm not asking you to pray for ten one hundred

one friends, cannot not one? Can you just say, God

give me one name that I will reach out and

commit to this year, whatever it is. Daily, I will

just pray, pray, pray, God give me the wisdom. So

I'm gonna go then to the leaven.

Right, what is the leaven the pushing out? So what

I'm doing is I'm pushing you now, I'm levening you.

I'm challenging you. The leaven is the challenge.

Okay, it's the activation, right, and we don't like to

be activated when you know, and and you know the

thing when I'm making my sour door right, and then

my sour door sometimes very good, sometimes very bad.

My kids are.

The recipients of it. They're very kind, you know, they

never complete. They're like, okay, just eat la otherwise not

sour to eat. But I recognize that all the problems

with my sour door baking right comes from the starter,

the yeast, because it doesn't matter the conditioner, warm air, humidity.

But it was always that the starter was never active enough.

And you know, to activate us all those started, you know,

there is a I need to remove some of it

fifty percent off and add new flower and water and

shirt and give it time to rise. Some of us

are we just live with our own ways, our own habits,

our old habits.

Because you're like, yeah, very very so younger, you know,

don't want to trow away.

But do you know that to activate, there needs to

be a carving out of the old and.

The building in of the new. Right without casting.

Out of the old habits our own mindsets, our own language,

we cannot activate, be activated by the spirit because we

are already so fulmer cory.

Not if you're very full, you need some other. No,

So we say.

God, no, remove the old, remove the old habits, the

all mindset, so that I can get a new mindset

based on the word of God. This is the thing

that will activate you like never before. Friends, if you

want to be activated in your faith, come on at

in this at, in the word, the flower, at in

the water, the spirit of God.

You see you mark my words.

If you will not experience a new level of your

spiritual growth.

Amen.

So the leaven is the discipline, right, it says in

First Corinthians. Thus I run not with uncertainty. Thus I

fight not as one who beats the air. But I

discipline my body and bring it into subjection. Lest when

I've preached to others, I myself should be disqualified. Friends,

if you want to be successful this year, it comes

down to the discipline. Yeah, you want to lose weight,

it comes down the discipline don't just have a good wish, La, don't.

Just have a good dream.

You have to work at it. It means you've got

to change, you know, some of these other words that

you can think about Leven. The leaven is the doing

ah This is ah all problem. We all can dream

make resolutions, but we fail at the implementation.

The doing part.

The execution of the plan is very chunte in our

friends plan is very chunte but they're doing not so chiente.

Or we can do it for one week and then

for the fifty one weeks we forget.

It's like that.

So that's why Paul is encouraging us. I beat my

body into submission. You know, friends, if you want to

beat something this year, beat your body into submission into

christ imen. Some things we need to do. Ask some

other words for Leven, you will see the execution, the implementation,

the momentum, the habit, the custom, the culture. What are

some of the habits this year that you and I

need to incorporate? Right? For some of us is our language?

What am I saying? Am I always saying?

I cannot lie?

If you say you cannot, you cannot, I guarantee you.

You say I cannot wake up early to worship God.

I cannot guarantee you cannot, really, because you've already declared

it over yourself.

I cannot.

Do you know. One of the things that I have

to tell myself, No, I always say I'm.

Very bad with names.

It wasn't I declaring that all myself. I have to

tell myself, No, I am gonna remember the names. I'm

gonna remember people's names. So it's something that I have

to tell myself and to rewhire my brain to say,

I can you say you cannot?

You sure cannot.

But if you say and tell yourself, I can guess

what you can because your words have power, friends, your

words and I are so powerful.

You can't. We can't. Amen say this together we can.

We can change. We can change, and we can you know,

make these good changes.

In our lives for the glory of God. Imen.

So what we want to see is one day. You

know this is hard for us now, right like sharing

good news with a friend, inviting them, praying for them.

Even some of us find it difficult, you know, discipleship

or your dot one leadership dot one, But can you

imagine if we continue to hack at this by twenty

thirty all of us, easier, disciple can come. Let's go

for coffee, Let's build a relationship. Ask you to go

and fly here in summing. Sure, let's go do it.

Reach out to the IMC students, reach out to the

rumor caterers, reach out to.

The NSK workers.

Whoa can you imagine a day when it becomes natural

for us to do it? I want to see that

imaen all right, So the implementation coming to page thirty four. Now,

God's diet is the interpretation of how we want to express.

This in ex church.

Right. Do you know that God gives a vision to

different churches?

Right, different vision.

So this is our vision what God has given us

and he this is the way He wants us to

fulfill our purpose. Number one is the daily bread. Remember

I say the three things that brought us through twenty

years or ugi the next twenty years that we want

to see growth is the daily break the ideas. Now

what does this mean? It means every day. Do you

know our Lord's prayer, Father in Heaven, give us our

daily bread, forgive us. I think Priscilla prayed that over us. Right,

give us this day our monthly bread, yaily bread daily

that means you have three hundred and six or fifty

something days left for your daily bread this year? Are

you downloading from the law? Are you asking God? God,

what are the ideas? What are the implementations that I

can do for you? You need to download, friends, most

of us don't download from the Lord.

We just run.

Can you make time to download this year? I think

we need to download. Make a commitment after you download.

So there was this idea that God gave me this

morning about connecting more with our leaders. Right, he gave

me the idea. I'm like, okay, I better share this

with my husband. Also a countna. Whatever you download, then

the next one is to make a commitment now, right.

Make a commitment means I say to God first that God, okay, this.

Is what I'm gonna do. Once a month. I'm gonna

do this.

You have to make it concretise, friends, you have to

concretize it. Right. Upload to God, our time, our talent,

our treasure. If I'm gonna spend money, I might just

spend it on someone that I want to invest my

life into. That's what this typoshion is, right, Rather than

you go to eat a nice hot pot and bring

a friend. Now it's too expensive, that goes away cheaper.

Do you know what I'm saying? We have limited time

and resources.

So my my encouragement to us is make it count.

Can make it count today after lunch? Can you make

it count? And don't just go with your own kick la?

Can we invite our new friends on all go for

lunch together? Make it count, Canna? And finally, the leaven

is the doing it, meaning you just make it come

do it. So, if I have this idea that I've

downloaded from the Lord, I've made a commitment once a month,

I want to meet with these leaders. Guess what's the

next thing I have to do? Pull in my calender, Law,

pull in my calendar, text them and say hey, can

we meet or not this day? And then make it happen.

This is how you're gonna see change in anything and

every area of your lives. If you want to build

stronger family relationships, how can you do it?

You ask?

Offersa maybe, God says maybe every morning you'll say a

prayer together, Canna, can not. I don't know what idea

God is going to give you. Only he knows. And

then you say okay, every morning corpor prayer our family.

The father will lead it. Hello, fathers lead that prayer

in a home as the priest of the home send

them off to school.

Well, you will see that change. Amen. Amen.

So this is it, guys, as simple as it is.

Make a list, make a commitment, make it count, make

time to help others.

Make sure you remember that this is what we're all about. Amen. Amen.

So, as we draw to a close, I know my

time is up. Maybe a deep question for us to

ask and you can answer this honestly. Take this as

your journal before the Lord as you meditate page thirty five,

What is my heart for the loss?

Where is it? Okay? So do you have Are you convicted?

Are you convinced by now that there is something that

God wants us to do? If you say I don't

know what's God's be for my life, can I tell

you that God's will for your life is to reach

the loss?

Yeah?

So if you're convicted by that, and say, what is

it like? Who do I have in my midst? Who

can I go to? Maybe it could be your own family,

It could be your own parents, your siblings, It could

be your neighbor, It could be your boss, whom you

don't like.

Oh, maybe you're dad to pray for your boss. You know,

I don't know. Ask the Lord lie, I don't know.

I don't have to answer. God knows, but he wants

to give.

Us the answer if we desired of him. Right, make

that list and then you tied it unto the Lord.

Say God, thank you for this. I want to tie

this back to you. I'm gonna make a compitment to you. Right,

I'm serious, God, I am serious this year about growing

with you, about growing your kingdom.

And then you make it come. Amen.

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