Who Or What Possess You | Pr Sandra Chin

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We want to hear what Jesus say. We don't care

what Sandra has to say. We tell you what Jesus

has to say. Amen. So I'm gonna be reading today.

The title, well, the title is something like this. If

you have the slight, Thanks see, and happy birthday to

you God bless you, We love you. Amen, young man.

It was a baby, but now, young man, that's that's

the privilege I get to walk with different people here. Amen.

All right? Who or what possess you? Okay, simple English?

Who's got your heart? Okay, all right, I just wanted

to use the word possession, possess Who possess you? Who

has your heart? All right? Who's got your heart? What's

what's you know, what's really the main leader of your heart?

So I'm taking the reading from Matthew chapter nineteen, verse

sixteen to twenty two. Are you good to go with me?

Let's turn to our bibles. Matthew chapter nineteen, verse sixteen

to twenty two. Okay, all right, you got your Bibles,

you got your verses. And also I think maybe XDV

might help us. I'm not sure, but it doesn't matter.

You have bibles, e bibles, share bibles, all right. Okay,

so this is the story that you are familiar with.

I think Pastor Kenneth has preached it so many times.

And so here we go verse sixteen. Now behold one

came and said to him, okay, all the way to

the back, and all the way to the friends family Sunday. Right,

So hello to every child, every one of our children,

ex kids. Thank you ex kids, teachers as well, thank

you for taking care of our children. We celebrate you,

and we yeah, Matthew, we are really grateful for your

ministry to our children. Amen. Now behold one came and

said to him, good teacher, right, good teacher, What good

thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?

All right? This is a young, rich, young ruler, someone

who's walking amidst He probably was, well, he wasn't a pharisee,

likely a senthedrony. We have to study that, someone of

the law. Right. And so Jesus said to him, hey,

why do you call me good? Because no one is

good but one that is God. But if you want

to enter into life, keep the commandments, all right? You

know the ten commandments. So Jesus just reminded him, will

keep the commandments. And then he said to Jesus, which one, sir? Okay?

He one day Dania, oh action, which one right? And

so Jesus leads him to this. He says, you shall

not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal,

you shall not bear false witness. Honor your father and

your mother, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The young man said to Jesus, well, ahem, all these

things I have kept from my youth. Any youth in

the house this morning, the whole room, Yes, anybody under

one hundred is a young person. All right, Okay, you'renna

call Ben uncle Ben. He's just Ben because he's a

young person. Okay. So he said, all these things I

have kept from my youth. So what do I see

you'll lack? That's very thoughtful, he said, So what do

I still like? I've I've kept them all. And then

Jesus said to him, if you want to be perfect,

go sell what you have and give to the poor,

and you will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me.

But when the young man heard what Jesus said, he

went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. He had

great everybody said, great, right, he had great possessions. Now

I want to read to you the other version, which

is from the Book of Mark. So in the Book

of Mark, chapter ten, verse seventeen to twenty two. I

just want to draw on just a few verses here,

especially this one. Now. So Jesus tells him keep the commandments.

And then he says, teacher, I've done all these things

now verse twenty one. In Mark, chapter ten, verse twenty one,

he says, then Jesus looking at him, looked at him,

loved him. Come on, everyone say, loved him, loved him

all right, and said to him, one thing you lack,

Because he asked, what do I lack? How can I

have eternal life? Sins? One thing? And what's that? One thing?

Go your way, Sell whatever you have, give it to

the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then

come take up the cross, follow me. And but you

know so. Verse twenty two says, but he was sad

at this word, and he went away. He went away

sorrowful because he had great possessions. Amen to the reading

of God's word Amen, so let's go through this slide

by slide. Thank you, Ian. The rich young rule in

Matthew came, I'm not sorry, not Ian, my dear friend

Julie all right, and her friend who are Alvira as

my friend too? Okay, all right, ma homie, all right, okay,

my ex homie okay. The side says A rich young

ruler came running in Mark, chapter ten, verse seventeen. In

Mark chapter ten, verse seventeen, this version, Mark writes, as

the young man came running, how many of you are

running after Jesus? Oh? R word? Do you know? Do

you know? The young rich young ruler didn't probably didn't

realize who he was speaking to, that this was the

son of God, this was God himself. But he didn't,

he didn't realize it. But he came running because he

was hungry. How many people are hungry this morning? Not

for cookies, but for Jesus? Amen? Are you hungry? And

this man came running, young man? How many young men

and young women in the room in the house there, Yes,

declare that over yourself you will remain young forever? Amen, Yes, Kelly,

right right, young forever? And again I told you one

hundred times this is this is me, this is your heritage.

Bassa Sandra pass to you young forever. You know. I'm

grandma age. But you see I'm nowhere like KC. But yeah, hello, ohay,

I still got hair. Okay, all right, I still got hair. Okay,

I don't he nachs. I think I give you a

long headaches. Okay, all right. So this young man came running.

I think it's very important to remind ourselves that somebody

came running because he saw something in Jesus. But he

didn't recognize that this was the king of kings. Amen.

If we if we knew, just if we just knew

who we were speaking to, Wow, this is the great entrepreneur.

This is you know, I don't know what's his name? Whatever?

His name is Microsoft guy? What's his name? And not

so good? No? No, okay, if Bill Gates or whatever.

Who are the big people, big time people now who

are making really doing really well in their business. If

you knew, you would you would want to go and

talk to them. Tell me how, teach me how. And

so this young ruler came in his Levi jeans and said, hey,

tell me Jesus, how can I have eternal life? Maybe

Jesus said, take one road to China. I no he didn't.

All right, no cha sorry, no rothy China. Okay. So

Jesus was impressed that this young ruler came running. He wasn't,

you know, dragging his feet. He came running, running, Running

was the song running? We are running? Okay, okay. Now

what is the question that this young man asks Jesus?

He says not in verse nineteen, in verse sixteen of

Matthew nineteen, he says, what good thing shall I do?

That I may have eternal life? He actually says, so

what good thing? I mean? The Holy Spirit this morning?

Just help us all to one, that good thing that

only Jesus can give to us wherever you're seated. I

mean the Holy Spirit put in your heart today, that

good thing that only Jesus can give to us. He says,

what good thing shall I do that I may have

eternal life? And if you look at the next light,

Jesus tells him to obey the sixth, the seventh, the eighth,

the ninth, and the fifth commandment out of you know,

because he was already okay, so the follow of God.

But these were the commandments. He said, don't murder, don't steal,

don't bear fall sweetness, you know, don't you know? Honor

your father and your mother. And he said, and all

that Jesus told him was actually about how you treat

other people. Four moments is to honor God, to obey God,

siks about loving your neighbor. And this young man said,

I've done it. I've got it, I've nailed it. But Jesus,

what do I still lack? So there was a hunger Amen.

And when Jesus told him that, he still said, after,

but I've done them all, I've kept them all. How

will I have eternal life? And Jesus and then he

says to Jesus in verse twenty, I'm just bringing these

verses out, and I wonder if we can identify what

do I still lack? Amen? What do I still lack?

And Jesus loved him. Jesus looked at him and loved him.

I want you to know, Jesus looks at you and

loves you no matter where we are, matter how far

we are, know how near we are. Jesus looks at

us every day and he loves us. He wants us. Hey,

nobody wants you. You and nobody want to employ you.

Jesus wants to employ you. No, if you think nobody

loves you, he loves you. He loves you. He loves

you with an eternal love because He gave his life

for you. It's powerful if you will only take hold

of the power of the love of Christ. Amen. Amen.

We should be celebrating every Sunday church right from the back,

not talking at the back to the front. I'm the

only one who can do this. Seriously. Yeah, so I

will push it. Yeah, yeah, I just I will have

to push it right from the back to the front. Friends,

every Sunday when we come, including myself, I really I

remind myself why do I come to worship? Not because

there's nothing better to do on a Sunday. It's not

a routine. It's an excitement to celebrate the love of

God and the purpose He has caught for me. But

more than that, I want us to understand, what can

you give to God? He's given a salvation? What are

we giving? We give our best praise, We give our

hearts to Him, in our lack, in our match, in

our trouble, in our happy days. We give to the

Lord the joy of being his children. Amen. Amen. Are

you alive eh, coma crystal belle ha, hallelujah. Do you

give your best to the Lord. That's why you serve

and she serves so faithfully. Why because we love Jesus

so much she has given to us. We just love him.

Back dressing up well, coming up early, you know, getting

ready on a Sunday Sunday Sunday morning and full ready,

and I know the one hundred things to do, like

feed the baby, how many if you got babies? To

feed your puppy, yeah, yo, your pet parrot? Yeah, all that.

You know. I'm gonna wash my laundry because tomorrow I leave. Yeah.

But you know, we get up early. We get ready

because I want to give to the Lord. I don't

just take from the Lord. Amen. We're not here to

take from the Lord. He will give you freely, and

He already gives you everything everything that we need. Do

I get an amen? Judge? Do I get amen? Right

from the back? Woo? Amen? Now I have to do

this so that you exercise your faith. Don't sit there, Church,

don't sit there. Respond respond because when you respond the

Word of God becomes alive in your spirit. Thank God,

I only come once in how many months you go life? Bassa,

Sandra are not here every Sunday. Well, that's how we

grow the church. We grow because we love Jesus. Amen.

We grow because we have so much God has given us.

I've got nothing to be unthankful for. I'm just thankful

that i can just be alive. I'm thankful for church.

I'm thankful for you have been my family, and you've

been there praying for me. I'm thankful. I don't know

what you're thankful this morning. I'm hungry for Jesus. I'm

hungry to do all that he wants me to do,

not just to play Christian. I want to live Christian.

I live as a son and daughter, as a daughter

of Christ. Amen. Amen. So Jesus said, hey, these are

the commandments. Well, I'd done it, and he says, what

do I still like? And Jesus loved him and then

said to him, boy, go sell everything, feed the poor,

come follow me, take up your cross, come follow me.

And that man was ready, I think he was. You

could have done it, but something possessed him. Come on,

the verse says, but he had great possessions, and so

to us, don't look at him, only all of us,

What holds our hearts, what possesses us? What he had

great possession. It's not so much he had it, but

the possession had him. He the possession had him that

he couldn't walk out of that. Amen. Now I want

to say to us, so all the people here thinking,

are you telling me I can't be rich? Was she?

He's just the rich and wealthy people. No, he gives

you power to make wealth so that you can bless

the Kingdom of God, be blessed yourself, bless your family,

blessed the Kingdom of God. No, that's not the issue.

That's not the issue. What possesses you? And so there

are things that can hinder us. And it's not just

about money. My next light says, it could be a person,

It could be a place, It could be a possession. Amen,

it's not just because he was wealthy. Anything can possess us. Anything,

anything that you put as priority ahead of God can

possess you, beloved of the Lord, the children of God.

And I'm serving this morning that I'm here together with you,

I ask myself, what is my priority? What possesses me? Now?

Could it be a person? A person? What is that person?

Is it is it. I don't know who that person?

Is it your husband, your wife, your child, a boyfriend.

You're thinking of a girlfriend, a man or woman in

your life that you really want? Is it the I

mean something that you want a person? All right? And

and it could be a place. Maybe you want that house.

Maybe you want to be in another country and you're

crying out, I want to be in that country. There's

a will, there's a way. Is it God's will? I

don't know, all right? But what can hinder you a person,

a place, or even a possession? All right? And so

how so? So, Sandra, what are you saying to me?

What are you telling me? Pasta? Well, it's really about

our obedience. It's about our salvation. Really, what what is

this this whole passage about. It's really about how you

look at your salvation? Do you even? Do you? And

I remember why we have been saved? And this ties

back to our theme this year. Disciple first, who is

a disciple? He who follows Christ. When you are a

disciple of Jesus and you said yes to Jesus, he

becomes your master. And everything you do you do because

you have committed it to him. You have said, Lord,

my life is in your hands. I am not my own. Listen,

I'm not my own. I've been bought by a price.

What's that price? Friends? How did he pay the price

for us? Was it by silver and gold? No, it

was by the precious blood of Jesus. I want to

tell you, our moms have spilled some blood for us

when they gave birth to us. All the mothers was saying, man,

m all right, but no, oh, body spilled blood for us.

Hung on the cross as Jesus did. It was not

an easy role to play. He was separated from God

the Father because he took all of our sin. And

so is the case about wealth? Come on, people, is

the case about wealth? No, no, it's not. It's not

just about the wealth. It's about where our hearts. And

it could be anything, anything can be what that will

take up possession of our hearts? Possess possess who possesses us?

Is it the Lord? Is it something? Is it a person?

Is it a place? Is it a possession? Something? We

all have to ask ourselves, something to reflect as we

come to the end of the year. Now, why is

this message? So Jesus spoke to this young man because

he came running and you know what, having worked with

so many of you in the last twenty five years,

is the church. But we've served more than longer than that.

I realize a lot of us like to know the minimum.

What must I do to have you done a life?

And once I've done it, they're done. Now I can

go and play. I think that's what we are all about,

isn't it right. Once we know we've done it, there's

the minimum or maximum done, and then we go out

and play. That's exactly what the children of Israel did

when Moses took forever up in Mount Sinai for forty

days and forty nights, and then they said, what, I

don't know, where is this Gila flo and do right

Mana Debrighi Sudan, but Polo hari Manadon Okay. So they're

waiting there and they're thinking he's never coming back. He's

up in that cloud. I don't know what's going on. Hey, hey, hey, Aeron,

here make us gods. And then Aaron says, okay, show

me the money. And so they gave give me, give

me your goal, gave me, gave me, give me your

gold after midnight and give the man o, give some

old song. All right, all right, so they take the

goal and then and then he actually molds the cough

and then it's an idol, and so they say, this

is your God, Israel. And so they worship. And once

they had worship, meaning they wanted to worship that it's

always a desired worship, but it's your minimum. Tell me

what I have to do minimum. And then after that,

what happened. They got up and they played. Mind you,

they did not play five stones. They did not play,

said said said Nacilla. Ma, No friends, They had some orgies.

They had some wild parties. If you're too young to

know this, close your ears to them. But they just

wild the facts of life young men and young woman. Sorry,

I have to say the truth, because save your soul.

Be careful, because that's all they wanted. They wanted to

do minimum and say I've done my duty. I've worshiped

lip service and that's it. Now I can play. But

this is not what God wants from us. He didn't

save us, so that we just give him lip service.

What do we still like? Jesus invited this young man

into a relationship. Hey girls, sister, did you just want

to have a play with the brother. Did you just

want to have companionship? That's a lie when you come

to sixty years old my age and I'm my husband's dad.

Maybe I want some companionship, but I can play with Ali. Okay,

all right right, I'll go fishing with the uncle Ben

and Tim. All right, Hey, you ain't looking for some companionship, friends,

You want something more. You want a relationship. God was

calling us, calling all of us, all men that he

has made, come into a relationship. Go sell everything and

come because you will have treasure in heaven. Come follow me,

take up your cross. And many of us. Yes, I

know we've said yes to Jesus. We're here. But are

we just doing minimum so that we can play? Because

I have to ask myself this question. I do my

quiet time, okay, ten minutes done, then ten minutes really

nothing loud. But sometimes we are rushing. Oh down my

thirty minutes quiet time is done. Friends, I'm not talking

down at you or I'm speaking to my own heart.

Am I giving lip service? Have I just sang some

songs to make him happy? I tell God of God,

I'm sorry if I just sang some songs to make

you happy. No, I want to sing because I love you.

I'm grateful. I'm thankful that you save me, you provide

for me, you give me your family like this. You

know when I'm sick, you heal me. God heals me.

You know the healings that I've had in my body

when I'm out. You know how God has unstained me

when my dad was suffering with cancer. You guys know

that I've shared this. God is more than just my healer.

He's more than just my redeemer. He's my Lord, he's

the lover of my soul. He's my master. And that

was what Jesus was giving to this young man and saying,

come and follow me. Discipleship is about handing your whole

life to him and saying, Lord, what do you want

me to do? It's about obedience. The Christian faith is

about obedience. It's really going into a deeper relationship with Christ.

That's why I said, ladies and gentlemen, when you come

into a relationship, any kind of relationship, whether it's a

boy girl relationship, man woman relationship, whether it's friends friends,

we don't just go surface. And you know, when it's surface,

that's it. But we try to go deeper. We cry

with you, We laugh with you, we walk with you.

We do your funerals, not yours. I've done none of

your funerals. There your parents and your grandparent's funerals. We've

done it. We marry you, we dedicate your babies, We

walk with you. You might not remember that are five

years down the line, ten years down the line. We

find husband and wives for you. You found them. Don't

forget you found them in ex don't curse my church.

I love my church. You love your church. You found

it in Jesus. You found it because he brought you

to this house. God is calling us into a relationship. Amen.

He wants you to flourish. He wants you to know

that following him is not the end of your rope.

It's the beginning of your life. Amen. And Jesus is

calling us to come and follow him. Amen, follow him

and be his disciples. So this is discipleship that he's

looking for. Who is that disciple? In the Greek, the

word disciple is mattetis. Mettetis means the learner, the pupil,

the one who learns. Amen, who is the one who learns?

The one? What does he do? What does a disciple

do he follows. He sticks to the way that his

master is leading him. So you and I need to adhere,

need to stick close with Jesus and do what he's

telling us to do what he's doing. We do. Then

you say, but Jesus not here, or yeah, yeah, but

that's the four Gospels. Yeah yeah, And then he sent

us Paul, you know all the letters. Those are things

we learn. So so we are following Christ. And when

you are a follow of Christ, when you say yes

to him and you follow him, you say I'm a disciple.

Then you say, my life is not my own. I

belong to you. Amen, I belong to you. And He

paid the price for us. So we don't choose those choices.

We let God choose for us. Every day as you walk,

you just say to the Lord. If you are in

your even if you're a student. Every day as you

wake up, you say, Lord, thank you for your beautiful

plans for me today. You know what who will I meet?

What will I do? This is studying. I have to study.

I know I'm a student. I'm gone back to studying.

Every day I'm looking at my books. I'm on holiday now,

but alveraday, I look at my bloodyard, blood yard. Every day.

You know how low you do assignment to assignment, like,

I can't wait for you to get over, and all

I'm learning, I'm learning. Remember, the process is more important

than the product. Come on, people, the process is more

important than the product because you can get all the

a's when you learn nothing. That's so sad. So we

go through the process, go to the hot knogs, get

the highs, get the lows. We just say, hey, the

highs and the lows and the highs, and I don't know.

You all say you know someone said something. Christians don't lie.

It's true. You don't lie. You just sing it. You

just sing it. You're all like one. You're all I

ever needed. Oh but Jesus, I really wanted my great

over to Australia. Oh Jesus, I just need another car.

You're all I ever need. You're more than enough for me.

I want to ask you. Is Jesus more than enough

for you? My brother, sister, Grandpa, Grandma Sandra. Is Jesus

more than enough for me? Come on? Is Jesus more

than enough for me? We don't lie, We just sing

it in worship. Now we scart to sing right.

Now?

He scart to see. Oops, don't sing that song. Choose

another song, Lorri. Oh that's easy to see. But now

when you start Dady Gate, You're all I want in

Christ alone. But I need my Mercedes, a place, my trust.

I need that job in christ alone. Give me that man.

I need a hero. I thought Jesus was your hero.

Give me, give me, give me a man after midnight.

To all the single people in the house, I'm not

being cruel. I'm being I am being I'm being honest

with you. I once for single two. No man can

meet your need. I'm telling you, Yes, a man may

give you the sex. Yeah, but that's not eternity. I

used to be a teacher. My students said to me,

we need it? You need what? Why so, Bob, you

took a purlu one. You cool? I thought you purlue

water and maccan. Yeah that too, my students, you know

you're all I need. I have to ask myself that

do I need that next lake Crusee pot? One part

not enough? No to buy another lake Crusee pot is

sitting on my head. Ever I cooked the last curry

for my husband. No, but the pot looks nice and

it's there. Jesus is gonna sell your part, CenTra, No,

go sell your part. Give it to Janets, you cook,

give it to Jenet. No, I walk away sorrowfully because

the pot has me. You put that into context. You

put that into context. Always saying is who is priority?

If you make your child your priority. I'm not saying

don't take care of a child. But if you treat

your child like a god, then Jesus will be your servant.

But he is also No, he's not. He's a servant leader.

He came to serve what's our priority? What can hinder

us a person, a place, or a possession. And you

may say I'm struggling with this. I'm struggling with that.

The best thing to overcome any struggle is to give

it up to Jesus and say, yes, Lord, here I am.

What do you want me to do? Where do you

want me to go? He looks at you and loves

you despite even if you didn't do anything, he still

loves you. That's an assurance. But as my response for

God's saving me, I'm wondering, how can I please God?

Because I look at every relationship, any relationship, we always

want to please that person, whether we're dating, whether we're married.

I try to please my husband, make sure i'm home early.

I make sure i'm there. I don't know, help be

just be there. Sometimes I'm just there. I'm like, I'm here.

What are you playing with your headphone? But you're getting reports, right,

He's so honest with his ig right, Yeah, because he's

reporting his igen and everybody knows where you are. Oh,

we know you're upstairs already. No, we try to be

there because we love that person. We want to be

there for that person. Oh you want your favorite thing,

I do that for you, or you know, whoever your

child wants that, you try to buy that. Then you

try to give them the best education. You give that.

That's how I'm just saying that we always want to

give the best. So God did not call us just

into just a registration. I'm saved. He's called us into

come follow me into that relationship. If you found your

fullness in him, then you move on with him with

full confidence that he will never leave you, not forsake you. Amen.

So he calls us to come and to follow him

to be his disciples. Hallelujah. Do you know, friends, what

you do? What you do shows what you really believe right,

what you do will show us what you really believe in.

So you can say all you want, but it doesn't

show up until you do it. So saying is one thing,

but doing it will tell us whether you believe in

it or not. Right, it's true. Right if someone said

this is the best school, Victory Academy, and if I

had a child, my child, I should be sending my

child to Victory Academy, not to Sunway International School, because

I have to believe in what I say. I'm saying, Hey, guys,

come send your kids to me to ask all and

then I take my kid and put them in Sunway

International School. What does that mean? It means something else Altogether,

I don't believe in it. Same here. If you say

you are his child, you follow him. Then what you

have said you act on it. Then you do what

God is telling you to do. You don't choose to

be here or be there. You say, this is my money,

where do you want me to invest it in? I said, invest,

not spend. There has to be returns. R Oh, I

come on, I'm not Bordo. You know. Hey, you spend,

you invest, you get returns on investment. Amen, And God

is for you not against you. Amen. So I want

to say that we are just really least stuarts, faithful

servants of the Lord for all that God has given us.

And and that's why I said, it's not he wasn't

attacking your wealth or how many. No, it's being faithful

with what God has given to you, faithful servants, and

and and now it is those things that you put

what is important for you. You're faithful, then be faithful.

Don't be so faithful and then become gums. Okay, you're

so faithful with your money. I'm so faithful keeping it.

But you don't know how to bless people. You don't

know how to give every Even our church, even if

we have a lot, we have got blessed to your giving.

And if we put everything in a fixed deposit of

you should be. That's where we give out to missions.

That's why we feed the poor, that's why we plant churches.

We're not keeping to have savings because my savings is Jesus. Hey,

your savings has Jesus nothing wrong with you having money.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about how you

hear and do you say you do, amen? Make all

the money God made you give you power to make money,

to get well, do that, give you wisdom and brilliance

to create things. To it. All we're saying is who

is the master? Amen? And he's just calling us into

that beautiful relationship with him. Amen. So it is really

about obedience, Amen, It is about salvation. That young man asks,

what good thing can I do to inherit eternal life?

Jesus is just answering that question. And for us, we

need to know that we have eternal life and that

it is for eternity. We are living in a very

very fast changing world. Yeah, everything is changing very quickly,

very quickly, very quickly. It's my time up. Please tell

me somebody, No, not yet, okay, all right, run away,

okay your time more time is moving, Okay. We are

living in a very very fast changing world. Today. You

study what you studied. I tell you, our graduates will

come out and they will have jobs. You know. I'm

not scaring you. I'm not scaring you are. We just

need to be agile. We need to have critical thinking.

We need to know how to adjust. So we prepare

you not with ace, We're preparing you to holistic life.

And that's why that's why your salvation matters because in

Christ you learn to be a whole person. God's grace

is with you. Amen. Things are changing, but the one

thing that never changes, brand and sisters Aloha is Christ

never changes. He is a solid rock. He's a firm foundation.

You can put your trust in the Lord. He never changes.

He will see he's our father, If he's our master,

then I will rest in him. Amen. God. Really, he

is a father who sees and he meets you whatever

that need is. We've been through. Honestly, sometimes you may

not know all of our story. Not everyone and so

many new people in our church today. We may not

know pascanna story and my story. You don't know how

we've been through. We are not just sitting on you know,

just having you know, just asking you to serve it.

We don't serve. We don't do that. We've had our

hard days. I told you we've done the heart miles.

We continue to do the heart miles. We still have

eggs and pains. We claim God's healing. We see people

through their pain. We pray with them, believing for miracles. Yeah,

that are God heals, that are God provides. I don't

have all the answers, but I know the Lord will

supply us the answers that we need. And I just

want to be faithful to the Lord. And when God

looks at acts here, hey, I pray that he can

say what efficients verse one, how Paul greeted the church,

and Paul greeted the church in Ephesus. He says, to

the saints who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ, Jesus,

can you imagine something you know? And the Lord comes

and greets He says, wow, greeting to the faithful, the faithful. Hello,

how many faithful in the house. Yeah, we want to

be faithful to the Lord. Faithful. He greets us like that.

He loves us and he wants the best for us.

But the way of Jesus is not the same as

the way of this world. Everything is opposite. It's just

I'm sorry. It's opposite. Opposite in the sense if he

says to be to be wise is to be foolish

in a sense, I'm not so clever, but God gives

me wisdom. Right, you say, he nola take the white road,

but Jesus is take the narrow road, right, because the

white road will can do anything. Happy, Happy, And then alahmah,

crash and burn, Okay, but you take the narrow road.

No one died, lah, No one has ever died taking

the narrow road. You know what's a narrow road like? No,

I'll let me tell you. The narrow road is when

you don't do that everything that you want, you take

smaller steps and guide it. Come on. And so I

want to say it here because this is my This

is the mark that God has given to me. Please

forgive me parents, but I will say it to my

for Mamy and my woman, the young people here in

the room. How many young people here in the room.

Yeah.

I say to people, if you don't do pre marital sex,

you won't die. That's the narrow road. I used to

preach like this thirty years ago. You didn't exist. Yet

you won't die. You will die without water, you will

die without food, true, signed, students, But you will not

die if you don't have sex. So is Jesus more

than enough for you? What you do will matter. So

saying it is one thing, but acting on it. So

what does James say, you show me your faith. I'll

show you my faith by my works. So we live

out our faith. Amen, We live out Jesus is calling

us to live out with him and he will bring

us through. Amen. So examine our paths that we have

taken today. Examine it. I have to examine it. I really, brother,

you want to look into my life. Every day, I

say to Jesus if I'm rushing to do my quiet time,

to hit a quota to make Jesus happy that in

working it's like, okay, I give you ten minutes and

give fifteen minutes. I give you an hour. But I'm

not hitting a quota. I'm having a relationship with Jesus.

So I want to spend time, and I know I'm rushing.

There are days I'm rushing. I'd rather not do it, honestly,

just give lips of hisce I want to give from

my heart. I don't know if you can identify with me.

I don't want to do lips of his I just

want to give to the Lord the time that I have.

I give to him the words I'm going to say.

I got to say it from my heart to Jesus

and then out of that outflow will come out to

the ministry that we do with one another. Amen. So

I want to ask you, would you consider the path

that you have chosen because some things can hinder you

to the greater breakthrough, the greater to the greater purpose

and the plans that God has. Is there a person,

is it a place, and is it a possession that

is hindering you from saying yes to Jesus for the

next next level of faith? Up? Amen, we are believers,

but even believer us, we have to guard our hearts. Amen,

with a lot of things happening around us. I'm talking

to someone in another plan the other day, and you know,

I'm trying to encourage you church to say that the

economy is going funny, right, you know it's gonna go funny.

Then this person say, yeah, I'm thinking what age I

should retire here and how much money I should say?

I don't know. I'm not a fortune teller. I don't

know when you should retire. I ain't retiring. I ain't retiring.

Don't you tell me to retire. I wanna work as

far as I can, as far as I can serve.

I'm gonna carry out. I don't know how much money

to save. I don't have. I really don't have. Whoever

comes goes goes out. That's it. Yes, Amen, But our

eyes is on Jesus, and maybe Jesus send you this morning.

Go leave that thing on the at the feet and

come follow me. Are you worried about this situation? Are

you struggling with that? Are you dealing with that issue

with that person? Are you still thinking about that place?

Are you thinking about owning that lecro save port? Leave

it down there and come follow me. I know I'll

have to sell mind to general, give it to her,

not sell all right, So Jesus is what is he challenging? You?

Leave that situation, put that person for on hold first,

put yourself in the hands of Jesus and say, Lord,

I commit my life to you. Amen. Don't fear. You

never fear when you're in God's hands. Amen. Friends, don't

be afraid to trust Jesus. The path will be different,

not the way you imagine. But God won't let us down.

I've not seen him let us down. I've not seen

him let us down. We have come this far. You

and I we've been here. We've come this far. In

your individual lives, you experience some miracle of God. In

our corporate life, we've experienced our miracle of God. He

has never left us, not for sakeres We've been out

and down, but God still loves us. You might say, oh,

I failed him. Hey, you know what, He loves us

because we failed, and so that he can we can

find strength in him. If we've done well, praise the lot,

keep rising up with him. But if I'm down, let's

not down. People down some more. Let's lift them up. Amen,

Let's lift them up so that they can also write

on the strength of God. Amen, hallelujah. I tell you

we need to strengthen our faith. We need to hold

on to Jesus because things are going to come around.

You read it in the news, you see here and there.

But until you have your faith anchored in Christ and

keep following him, you might be tossed to and fro.

We cannot be tossed to and fro. Don't allow anyone

to toss to and fro your life. Amen. Come on,

you cannot cannot. You can make a choice to your

own personal economy. What how much time you spend scrolling lot?

That is your attention? Where is your attention? You scross?

Gross grows grows, growl. You gave attention to some phone,

to somebody else making money on your behalf true? And art. Yes, yes,

I just taught our students. There you scroost go thirty

minutes one hour gone. What are you? You and I

are looking at the moon, shoppy and we didn't buy anything.

We just gave our eyes and our time. And with

that time you could have set it aside and let

us go and do something to enrich your life, to

enrich another person's life. Amen, hallelujah. So friends, what good

things should you do so that you can inherit eternal life?

Come on, just give your heart to Jesus, give your

life to him. You will have eternal life in him

and the beautiful plans that He has for each and

every one of us. Yes, even if I have to

sell my pard, actually I have to give it away.

No imagine you want it? Ah ha ha ha I

like you say, okay, So what is our priority? What's

taking priority? Is Jesus the master? Or are you the master?

Or is that woman? The master in your life? Is

that man? The master of your life? Is that country?

The master of your life? Is that thing? What do

we need to do to change? Come on, church, brother sisters,

pass us, eld us in the house, leaders in the house,

brothers and sisters, what is that one thing? Today? As

you reflect, that needs to change? How you treat your wife,

how you treat your husband, how you love your children,

how you love your wife, how you love your friend,

how you love God's house? Come on, reflect on these

things to say, God, what do you want me to do?

How could I beat that vessel of blessing? I'm in need,

but my need? Lord, if I keep looking at my need,

I'll go down right. So I will look at what else?

What else or who else I can bless? Let me

bless that person, Let me send that money to that person,

let me give it to missions. Let's feed the refugees.

I don't know. It will lift you up. That's what

Jesus is saying. Go let go of that thing and

come follow me. Carry across with me. Follow me. Now

you will have eternal life. Don't let the devil rob

you of your eternal life. Come on. It's he who is.

Jesus restores for us, and Jesus sets us on a road,

a highway of freedom and of truth and of life,

of healing, and he gives us the confidence to live

every day. Stand with me, Church, hallelujah. Did you take

back something have you caught something this morning? Amen? Come on,

what you do shows what you believe. What you do

shows what you believe. Amen. So I do what I

do because I believe right, you know that, right when

I'm on full energy, is because I believe in Jesus

and what He's given to me. I'm excited to live.

You might be asking, passa, do you do this at

home with your husband? Yeah? I try that. Hey, may

let's serve the lot, all right. I'm excited for what

we have been given. So why I want to encourage

my dear brother sisters. Some of you took a break,

took a break from serving, from the leadership, from different things.

Can I ask you, Holy Spirit, speak to your heart?

Is it time to stand up again? Rise up again?

If you haven't been going to home, start going to

Holmes again. Hey, if you haven't been doing anything and

you feel because so many things that weighed you down,

maybe take a step of face and say, how can

I how can I do something for my community? How

ask your leaders what you can do? You know I'm down?

Why not cheer someone else up? Have lunch with somebody today.

Don't sit on your own, Just get outside of yourself

This is what Jesus saying, Go sell, Go let go

of your bitterness. Are you let it go? That's what

he's saying. He's asking go sell right now, ask you

go sell your bitterness. Do don't give it to me.

Don't give me your bitterness. Go sell your anger. I

don't want it. Just give it the feet of Jesus.

Leave it. I'm tired. Take your tiredness and live it.

You're feeling a heaviness in your mind and your heart.

Take that heaviness and bring it to the feet of

Jesus today. Stop walking in it and stopping stop yourself

from letting God use you. That's what Jesus says, carry

across follow me, But we don't want to carry the cross.

We're waiting when everything is perfect. It ain't gonna be perfect.

I'm not perfect and I'm still serving. I'm a broken person.

I have failures. I don't do things. I don't say

things perfect. My colleagues will tell you that, but that's

one thing they know. There's fire in my bones. I

won't be the perfect speech giving person. I will blow

my mouth out and tell you as it is. You

look like a fat face, yes, but I'm just telling

you the truth. Nolla, I won't say that to you. Love,

I'm just saying sometimes just say out at it. Then

oh my, my colleagues are my associates think, Oh my god.

There she goes again. Well, I'm sorry, I'm just telling

you the truth. Then I go back and reflect. I'm like, oh, Lord,

forgive me, and so what I do, Jesus says, go

sell that pride, Go sell that anger, Go sell that disappointment,

Go sell me give it at the fate of Jesus.

Just give it up and take it on. Take on

what Christ has for you. Amen. Now I'm gonna ask

you Church. I can't imagine in my heart for you

to leave this room. Go song. You were either scrolling

your phone or you shut off because you said. This

woman is preaching. She's mad, she's screaming. No, I just

have fire. But I want to ask you today. Jesus

is calling you into a relationship, a renewed relationship, a

love relationship. He loves you. You felt like running away,

you felt like giving up. You didn't like that the

way the person spoke to you. Just now, you don't

like what's happening in the office. It's been tough a

lot of things weighing down on you. Your dreams haven't

all come true yet. But Jesus says, come follow me,

take up your cross and follow me. Amen, He will

give you eternal life. Hallelujah. I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna

ask us to sing the song in the mighty name

of Jesus. And if you want to lay down any pain,

any thing that is wrecking your heart and mind right now,

we're gonna ask in the name of Jesus. Lord. The

blood of Jesus is over me. And I'm selling my pot. Okay,

whatever your pot is, my pot. I'm letting go that

that that burden, I'm letting go that mind thing that's

playing on my mind, letting go. I boke, come, I boke,

come li. Haven't this thing has happened to me? And

I boke. I'm like no, I'm not saying this is right.

Take it and put it at the feet of Jesus

right now, because you can't live a boke I'm life forever.

You know all then you're not living, but you want

to live a life that Christ has for you. He

does come through for us.

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