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Mat few twenty five, verse one to forty six. So

let's read it together, amen. And in case you don't

have your Bible, we also have it flesh up on

the screen.

So here we go. These are the words and the

teachings of Jesus.

Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten

versins who took their lamps and went out to meet

the bridegroom.

Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Those who were foolish took their lamps, but took know

all with them. But the wise took oil in their

vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed,

they all slumbered and slept, And at midnight the cry

was hurt. Behold the bridegroom is coming. Go out to

meet him. That all those versions of rose and trimmed

their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, give

us some of your all, for all the lamps are

going out. But the wise answered, saying no, lest that

should not be enough for us and you. But go

rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves. And

while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those

who are ready went in with him to the wedding,

and the door was shut.

Afterward, the other.

Versions came also, saying, Lord Lord opened to us. But

he answered and said, surely, I said to you, I

do not know you watch therefore, for you know neither

the day nor the hour in which the sun of

men is coming. And everybody say, ouch, ouch, amen, let's

keep reading. This is the second example of his gifts.

For the King of God is of Heaven. Is like

a man traveling to a far country, who called his

own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to

one he gave five talents, to another two, and to

another one to each according to his own ability, and

he went on a journey. And then he who had

received the five talents went and traded with them and

made another five talents. And likewise he who had received

two gained two more also. But he who had received

one went and dug in the ground and hid his

lord's money. And after a long time the lord of

those servants came and settled accounts with them. So he

who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, Lord,

you delivered to me five talents. Look, I've gained five

more talents besides them. His lord said to him, well done,

good and faithful. Seven, you will faithful over a few things.

I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into

the joy of your lord. He also, who had received

two talents, came and said, Lord, you delivered to me

two talents. Look, I have gained two more talents besides them.

And He's lod said to him, well done, good and faithful. Seven,

you have been faithful over a few things. I will

make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy

of your lord. That he who had received the one

talent came and said, Lord, I knew you to be

a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, gathering

where you have not scattered seed.

And I was afraid and went and hit your talent

to the ground.

Look there you have what is yours, But it's lord,

and said to him, you wicked and lazy servant. You

knew that I reap where I'm not sown, and gathered

where I have not scattered seed.

So you ought to have.

Deposited my money with the bankers, and in my coming

I would have received back my own with interest, but

you didn't. So take the talent from him and give

it to him who has ten talents. For to everyone

who has more, more will be given, and he will

have abundance. But from him who does not have even

what he has will be taken away, and cast the

unprofitable servant into the outer darkness that will be weeping

and gnashing off teeth. Everybody, say, ouch, right, one last ouch?

Are you okay? Almost there? Let's cat you reading on.

When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and

all the holy angels with him, he will sit on

the throne of his glory, all the nations will be

gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another,

as a shepherd devised his sheep from the goats, and

he will set the sheep on his right hand and

the goats on the left. Then the king will say

to those in his right hand, come you, who are

blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you

from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry,

and you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you

gave me a drink. I was a stranger and you

took me in. I was naked and you clothed me.

I was sick and you visited me. I was in

prison and you came to me. Then the righteous will

answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry

and feed you are thirsty and give you a drink?

When did we see what stranger and take you in

or naked and clothes you? Or when did we see

you sick or imprison and come to you? And the

King will answer and say to them, and shortly I

say to you in a sma, as you did it

to one of the least of these, my brethren, you

did it to me. Then he will also say to

those on the left hand depart from me. You cursed

into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

For I was hungry and you gave me no food.

I was thirsty, you gave me no drink. I was

a stranger. You did not take me in naked, and

you did not clothe me sick in prison, you did

not visit me.

Then they also will answer him, saying, Lord, when did.

You see you hungry or thirsty, or stranger, or naked,

or sick or in prison and did not minister to you.

Then he will answer them, saying, surely I said to you,

inasmuch as you did not do it to one of

the leaves of these, you did not do it to me.

And these will go.

Away into everlasting punishment by the righteous, into eternal life.

Everybody say ouch, amen. I know some of you were

probably struggling to come to treachious.

Morning and you're thinking, God, I need some encouragement, let

it be good today. And then you came and then

this is the scripture that you're confronted with. So maybe

you're thinking, on the surface, oh man, what is this. Man,

I need to pick me up. I need some encouragement.

But as hard sounding as these scriptures are, I do

want to encourage you.

I do want to lift you up, and I do.

Want to see a breakthrough in your life because one

thing that we're learning about this is that God loves us,

and God loves us so much that he lets us

know in advance what he's looking for. You know you

have a good teacher, not because the teacher never sets exams.

You have a good teacher when the good teacher prepares

you for the exam, When the good teacher comes in

and the first Dame semester tells you, hey, and of

this semester there will be an exam, there will be

an assignment. I'm letting you know in advance there will

be an exam that will be a simon. That's a

good teacher and even better teacher will tell you. And

on top of that, these are some of the questions.

These are some of the topics you might need to

consider a man. How you know you love teachers like that.

I'm not sure if the v A teachers are like

that or not. But growing up, you know, I didn't

go to v A. We didn't have VA when I

was growing up. Uh, you know, but you know government

school and uh you know, sometimes they're exact times.

You know, we'll go to the teacher.

It's a female teacher, we'll say chair, you know, because

sounds about more more more familiar chure, chure you can

give us tips or not help us out. You know,

it was a male teacher, say sir, sir can help

us out, you know.

And but but this.

Is Jesus, and Jesus is saying that I love you

so much, but and so I don't want you to fail.

So I'm letting you know in advance that that these

things I'm teaching it matter, these things that I mean

parting to you, I want you to catch them, and

I want you to do something about it. This whole scripture,

this whole chapter is a warning for us not to

be complacent, not to be passive.

Because I'm not.

Sure whether this is a word for our church or

just for me, but but I know it's.

Nothing from the Lord, and God is saying that.

Oftentimes, the problem of Christians is not that we don't

know scripture, but when we when we are confronted.

By scripture, we go.

Like, ah, it's okay, I got time, I'm good, Oh nice,

And I don't know what I.

Is it about?

That Is it because we have heard it so often

as come white noise, Or maybe it's a deeper issue.

Maybe we become numb. We become numb towards God. And

that's what I want to help us overcome today. So

if you're taking our notes, the title of message today

is called help I feel so numb.

Because God doesn't want us to be numb. God doesn't

want us.

To go through life knowing his word but not doing

anything worse, not being transformed by it. In every one

of these encounters. These are people who knew God. Some

knew him as the bridegroom, some knew him as Master,

some knew him as the Son of Men.

The King of kings.

They would come in glory, but despite knowing him, they

didn't allow his words to transform them.

Their lives were not changed by his word.

Instead, they were kind of like, you know, I don't know, complacent.

They were a little bit, you know, numb. Maybe all

these preaching has become white noise.

And I don't know about you, but but I don't

want that for you. I hope that nobody is coming

to church today, just going through the motions. I hope

that nobody is here today because somebody forced you to come.

But even if they.

Forced you to come, I pray that you will experience

God right here, right now. I pray that all of

us here will will begin to enter in because guess what.

Now we're at the annual September and we're essentially entering

in the last quarter.

Those of us who are in finances.

You will ze oh noq far is coming and God

doesn't want us to finish the year being numb.

God wants us to go out in the bang. God

wants us to finish well.

Turn to your neighbor, says, finish well, and we need

how do we finish well?

By allowing God's word to challenge us again?

Amen, some of us here, you know we are I

don't know, like we're like the Ten versions that of

ancient cultural contact, the Ten Virgins, you know, they they were,

you know, lack of bed. They were like the bridal party.

You know, they were like the bridesmaid. And back then,

you know, in ancient times there was no cars, no trains,

no planes.

No ways, so your eta is not fixed and you

would come by food by caravan, you know, in in chariot,

in carriage, and sometimes you know the road there will

be I don't know, a tree fall down, and then

the journey is delayed.

There might be raiders, and then you need to do

some fighting and then defend your treasure. And then there's

some delay. A person's donkey might have I don't know,

falling through well, and the charot is stuck, so there

is some delay. And so back then, what's very common

was that people go like, hey, the wedding will be

that weekend. They'll tell you a wedding hopefully will be sundown,

you know, on Wednesday, they'll.

Tell you, you know, but.

And then the expectation is for all of us to

be okay, okay, cool, we'll remember, so we'll do our things.

But the moment we hear the crime, we will get

ourselves ready to get dressed up and go. The whole

village will together, we'll celebrate with you. And so this

was a bridal party that knew of the custom, but

despite knowing, they they didn't prepare themselves.

Friends, how many of us here?

You know, you know the word of God, but you

just been hearing When was the last time you allow

God's word to come alive and breathe and change you.

What was the last time you were cut by God's

word or allowed yourself to be cut by God's word?

Amen? Or some of us here, maybe we are like.

The the servants, and you know, what you have is

a I don't know, you know, complacent. Maybe it's a

prospective issue with the Master. But God is also saying

to us, you know, without complicating it, it's as simple

as this car saying that all of us we have

something to give, and He has enabled us to have

that thing, you know, in the first service, I had

to explain to them oprahri and Free. Everybody here understand

Operah and Free because something jen Z a am or

like Oprah Who Anyway, So there's this daytime talk show

in America. She's retired now this amazing interviewer. Her name

is oprob and Free and it's an amazing fun talk show.

They have a lot of celebrity gas and stuff like

that in the old.

Days when people we used to watch TV.

Uh.

But she's also.

Known for giving away gifts and so one of her

most infamous episodes was that all the the studio audiences

were all surprised with a car, all of them that

they thought they were going for studio taping, but they walked.

Away, each of them having a car.

And it was this classic moment of like, you know

they were they were, you know, giving out one lucky

card that's a car.

And then they go like, but it's not just you.

Everybody check under your seats.

And as they checked under the seas, they go like,

oh this, everybody stop fighting, this is a key. There's

a key, and then open we had this no no, now,

it's like famous was saying you get a car. You

get a car. Everybody gets a car, and the camera pans

and everybody's like, no crazy. And Jesus was the first

opera win free. You know, he was the one that says,

you get a talent, You'll get a talent. Everybody get

a talent. But then God is saying, what are you

doing with that?

And I gave you.

What are you doing with the opportunity? I'm letting you

know that I'm gonna come back. What how are you

gonna wait for me to come back? With perseverance? Like

the five wise ones, all in foolishness, Like the five

foolish ones who didn't pack oil. They knew that the

bragroom will be delayed, but they didn't pack. Oh maybe

the I think got time. I think I can rely

on somebody else's all. I can borrow a little bit,

Canla Candler? And are we going through church like that?

Borrowing somebody else's faith, borrowing somebody else's faithfulness, you know,

building our faith on somebody else. What are we doing

with the resources and opportunities that God has given us?

You know, maybe some of us here, you know, don't

don't don't get fixated or five do I have five

that have two that I have one, all of us

on basic we have one with one life, with one life,

one shot, one opportunity. And this is again not f

on minem, but this is from the word of God.

And what are you gonna do with that one shot,

one life, one opportunity?

What are you gonna do with it?

And Jesus is letting you know in advance, I'm gonna

settle accounts with you. I'm gonna ask you about that one.

And someone say, with five what's that five that five

years in Uni, that five years in that particular school,

that five years in that company?

What do you do with that five years your company?

Do you just enrich yourselves or did you live for

the glory of God? Because that's what they did.

They went in with what God gave them and then

they maultiplied it.

They grew it.

Friends, the five years that God has given you in

that Uni, the five years that God's given you in

that school, the five years that God has given you

in that company, are you growing that opportunity or are

you just I don't know, using as a stepping stone.

The two that God gave you could be the two

people that your meant to impact the two neighbors, one

on the left, one on the right, And one day

God's God's gonna ask what did you do? Did you

grow the opportunity or did you just bury it? You see,

we should be reading this and being afraid. We should

be reading this and and and having a heart check.

And yet the problem is many times we become numb

for whatever reason we've lost it that God doesn't want

us to stay lost.

Amen. God wants us to come back to him. God

wants us to be revived. Amen.

You know some of us here we are like, I

don't know the the the goats, and I don't mean

the greatest of all times. But in God's kingdom it's not.

The goats are not good and and and the goats

are people that they hear God's work, but they're not

transformed by it. You see, Jesus is by no means

saying that we are saved by all charitable good works.

But he is saying that I am looking for fruits

and and and and.

If you say that you're my follower.

Yet when you walk past somebody who is sick, who

is broken, who's naked, who's in despair, and you can.

Just walk past them.

And justifying your heart that they don't deserve your help.

Then Jesus, then you're actually not one of mine.

Then whatever gospel you heard, whatever faith you have, that's

just membership to a church. That's not salvation, because real

salvation will resout in fruits.

The first thing that happens, friends, when you get.

Safe is that you realize it's not about you his

thing about it.

You can ask anyone the kid.

That just gave is life to Jesus and nice kids,

or the teenager or the campers student, or just even

I don't know, somebody giving their lives to Jesus on

their deathbed. They'll realize that it's not about me. I

realized now that I've squandered my life, I wasted my

opportunity because it's about Jesus and helping people to know

Him and encounter him. The greatest price in my life

is not more money. It's not me, it's not my comfort.

It's about knowing Him and being known by Him. And

yet when we read these counts scriptures, you know, it

becomes white noise. It goes in one ear goes out

the other, and that is not God's desire. For us,

because if we respond to his word like that, we're

not going to respond to anything else, you know, and

and and and and again. It sounds like I'm punching down,

but it's not. I'm here to lovely tell us that. Hey,

if if if you're reading, and you know it's it's

like you know, if you read you know in I

don't mean to trigger anyone, but you know, in the

COVID years, the dark ages, you know, you know, and uh,

you know, the symptoms were there to help you actually

and to help the people around you. I'm losing my

sense of smell. No, it's telling you. If you lose

your sense or smell, you have a high fever, if

you you're littaging, if you're having a cough, please isolate yourself,

you know, please, for the sake of other people, please

get yourself checked in, get yourself well. The symptoms are

not there to condemn you to me go like, oh really,

got no s smell or smell?

Why are you telling me some more?

Okay, I don't need to be reminded, kid, I can't smell,

can't taste, kid, is enough, it's enough. You're triggering me.

It's not meant to trigger you. It's meant to save

you and to save the people around you. And so

the word of God, this is the mercy of Jesus. Right,

all of chapter twenty five hasn't happened yet. No foolish

versions has been cast out yet, no one server has

been cast out yet, no golds have been separated yet. Jesus,

you know that in the future this will happen, So

prepare well, study well.

I don't want this to happen to you.

And so if you read what we read and you

feel like, man, I feel like this, Like me, how

come as.

I'm reading this, I'm not afraid. I think there's something wrong.

You know.

It's like you know, eating and they go like covid

you can't taste, so you can't taste. I think there's

something wrong. If you're reading this, I'm not afraid there's

something wrong. If I'm reading this and I go like, however,

I heard about the preaching, there's something wrong because this

word is supposed to check us. And I want us

to come alive, because you know, the world needs to

know of this good news. But but, but but but

Christians can be activated. Christians and believers can be mobilized.

If we ourselves are not inspired by the living word

of God. Amen, don't, don't. God wants to break us

out of numbness. God wants to break us out of

our look warmness. God wants us to break out of

our routine. God wants you to actually enjoy Him and

enjoy Churchill again.

You see, just like.

Every good teacher, everything that they teach the student is

not just to pass the exams. It's not just so

that they can get to a better school, better college.

But at the universitys do a better job. It's not

just about that. It's actually to bless them and improve

their lives. Do you know that on the most basic

stuff right you learning to write that improves your life?

What job that lends you, that's between you and the interviewer,

but improves your life. You knowing how to do math

improves your life and makes you a blessing and it

protects you.

Know how to do math.

I'm just trying to use very new tra examples because

i know it sounds like you know health, I'm Briomstone,

you know. But if you know math, you go out,

you know how to pay the right amounts.

You'll be blessed.

You know, when somebody didn't give you your change back,

you're blessed. You know, when you gave too much, you're blessed. Right,

it's actually to bless you, not just to help you

pass your sbm or gess easel or whatever it is. Friends,

All of this is not to go like, hey, repent

or else. No, no, no, it's changed because God has more

in store for you. Change because God. You see the

ones that multiplied the talent. God is saying that good

and faithful I got more in store for you. The

virgins that carry on with all with perseverance, they will

welcome into the party with the bridegroom. And of course

you see that the you know, and I love the

last part because they said that. Jesus, when when did

we do this to you?

You know you will remember, right? You know some of

us here you remember.

You know, I don't know your first mission trip. You

know you'd be like and maybe like Jesse Shid earlier on. Oh,

I couldn't speak bahassa. I felt so awkward that God

used me halladeen your praise. So Lord you remember? Do

you know why they didn't remember? It's because they did

it so often that that doing good wasn't a special

mission to them. You know that that missional lifestyle, that

Jesus lifestyle that the lives of that pleases Jesus, that

that that that looks after those are less was so

common and so frequent that that it became like, huh,

you know, like like some of the stuff that you

do so often that you go like, did did I right?

Like someone's here, we drove here? And you ask yourselves

because you look the car so often, so often you

ask yourselves often this, you know, my ca, I did right?

I think I did?

And you're not doing it because you forgetful you're doing

because you die so often it's become muscle memory and

you can't recall exactly.

And that was like this, that's the response. They were like,

she just gonna do we do that? Do you mean?

And she just says, you did so often to all

of these my mine, You've been so transformed by my

word that that you lived out that that that it

didn't feel like you were like, oh wow, look at me,

I'm so sacrificing, you know. Let me sign up for

I signed for missions, praise a lot. Let me post

on social media. Sign up for missions hashtag missions hashtag

life hashtag you know guilt trip. The rest of my

home means make my home leader proud hashtag greatest place

on Earth.

No, they had no time for hashtags, no time for

social media. They just did it. They just did it

to the point where they go like, oh did we

I guess we did.

We did so often, and so we were gonna, you know,

we gotta come back to that place of going like, God,

I want to live like that for you again. I

want to live so righteously that I can't even keep

count God.

I don't want to count the church and go through

a routine again.

God, I Lord, I want to live for you because

you have so much more in store for me and

so much stuff in store for the people around me.

You know, recently I was telling someone because our church

is into discipleship right now, right not just right now,

always been to discipleship, but there's an emphasis, and they

say that I was again in trouble with the boss.

There's an emphasis now and in the UK we've been

trying to roll it out and some people say why

do I need to be disciples And I go like,

you need to be discipled even if you don't think

you need to discipled. Actually you need to be discipled

because discipleshit is for the people around you.

It's not just for you, but the people around you.

They say, what do you mean, past I said it

because you're unbearable to the people around you. You're not

a blessing to the people around you. You know, you're

not a good example of the people around you. I

want you to be a good example. I want you

to be a blessing. I want you to be their friend.

I want you to be invited to the above their party.

So get this hypo and get some Jesus in you

and be not just a hero of the world, but

a duo, a person who's transformed by the Word. So

how how do we get out of this numb state?

Let me give you three points? Okay, point number one,

wonder wonder. We need to restore our sense of wonder

of who God is. You know, I'm trying to be

as practical as possible. Right before I tell you read

your Bible pray, you just gonna just.

Go like, wait a second. I need to just you know,

I need to.

You know, we're seeing man times stand in awe of God.

Be still and know. And that's exactly what we need

to do.

We need to slow down for a bit and count

our blessing before you rush on to work or to

any other responsibilities, any other commitments.

Just just just pause for a bit.

The Bible has a word in some cross seller, just

seller for at and go like, wait, God, actually, I'm

just so grateful. Actually, God, I come to realize. You know,

one thing I come to realize as a pastor. You know,

I was by the Girt World Commission tw ten, so

now will be I think, you know, very bad with math,

but fifteen years of serving as a pastor, and you

know what fifteen years of being a pastor has taught me.

God doesn't need me, That's what you know. I don't

know if the other pastors can relate. The more I

become pastor, the more I will people, the more I

realize that God, I am so bad. I'm not the best,

I'm not the most eloquent, I'm not the most equipped.

And God actually don't need me. I got you can

use somebody else, God, why? And and that's when I

marvel and one day and go like, God, you don't

need me, God, you can use anyone else, Holy Spirit.

You can use anyone else, Holy Spirit, Why what would

you dwell in me? You know, like like like think

about it, Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity,

Why would you why would you use me?

What would you dwell in me? You know, like like like.

H if if if you know, if President of the

United States comes to Malaysia, he's not going to be

staying with me. He's gonna be he'd be like too small,

your house is too small whatever, you know, like you know,

it's like he go to someplace else. I don't know,

you know, it's like a loves the house. Uh, like

he'll he'll he'll stay in you know what I'm saying.

Like it's not just that if like like you know anyone,

but like like you'll be a security risk to live

with me.

And yet the Holy Spirit lives in me. Do you

understand that? Friends?

And sometimes you need to not just go yeah, yeah,

I know. No Holy Spirit do me no, no, no, no,

no pause? Are you listening to yourself? The Holy Spirit?

Uh huh no, no, no, you don't get it. The

Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity.

The Holy Spirit lives, not visits.

Not hangs out sometimes, but lives not in.

There mean some expensive hotel in Malaysia right now, not

in majestic l not in Renaissance, not not in.

You know, not not in some hotel, not in some

way lagoon pyramid resort, you.

Know what I'm saying, Not that in Shangri La, but

lives in me.

And we need to take a pause and go like, whoa, whoa,

how can I take you for granted? See, sometimes we

will lose our wonder because we move too fast. We

lose our wonder of God because we forget. And God

is in the business you see scripture. God oftentimes he

in the Old Testament constantly go like, did you not

remember how I got you out of Egypt? Did you

not remember how I split the Red Sea? Don't you

remember I'm the the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

He was constantly reminding them of.

Their past, of of of how he was there for

them and how he rescued them, and how he brought

them into the Promised Land. And someone's here we need

to ask God, God, I please restore this.

Sense of wonder I've lost, Not just wonder, I've lost respect.

I've taken them for granted. And the good news is this,

You're not alone.

And the good news is this you can to God

because the first step of healing is admitting that you

need help. And this is clearly shown in Psalm fifty one,

verse twelve. Psalm fifty one, verse twelve says, this, restore

to me the joy of your salvation.

How many of you would say that I need that? Today?

I need to be reminded again, how God save me?

I restore God? I've lost it?

You see?

You see, friends, church is a place where you can

be real. This is not a place for us to

go like. I don't need no restoration. I'm fine. No, no, no, no,

this is does some say that I need it? King

de wro this is says I need restored to me

the joy of my salvation, and grant me Lord. I

don't have a willing spirit God right now. I don't

know what spirits I mean by it's not a willing spirit.

And I need a willing spirit that only you can

give me.

God, Please, I need help.

So would you say to God this morning, God, I

don't want to leave this room the same way I

walked in.

God, I don't want to be no many more. God,

I'm sick and tired of being look warm.

God restored to me to join myselfash Lord, remind me

bring me back to that place again where I first

encounter you, and help me be in alle of you again.

You know, and and and you know maybe sometimes you

know we we you know.

For me, I've been blessed because you know, with with

the birth of my son, I get to see different

things through his eyes again.

And you know, I'm blessed with a very cute boy.

I think, uh, and.

But I can't have a very real parent moment with you.

I'm not sure if the otherpends are that. If you're not,

you can pray for me by just being real. Churches

a place I can be real as cute as my

son is. Sometimes I think he's a limit too much.

And sometimes I go, like.

James, Daddy needs space.

You know that he needs to remember again that he

used to have a life, that he needs to know

that he could last time, he could go out to Mama.

You know now you know he can't.

And then as I think about that, and I certainly

am reminded that by God, you never think like that

about me. God never goes like humanity. You're a little

bit much right now, you know. Exhut you a little

bit much right now? So and that's how we think, right,

you're a bit much. So three years of silence because

I need my space, I need to remember I can

go through Mama, you know, Like, but no, the Bible

says God never leaves us or forsake us.

And the Bible says that.

Even if a nursing mom should forget the child on

her bosom, that God will not.

That's the God with sir.

And so sometimes even my child, I go like, Wow,

I'm immediately filled with the wonder of.

God's love God.

And then suddenly, you know, the beautiful thing about God

restoring a sense of wonder into your life isis that

simultaneously God is magnified and simultaneously we are humbled because

I just go like, God, you you never you never

say that to me. And I go like, oh, I'm

such a bad person to even say that to my son. Oh, God,

how passing am I? Oh if people knew and now

they know, you know, oh, they're gonna think that.

Oh they're gonna want to change.

And and and that's great because problems happen. Do you

know why the versions were foolish. You know why that

the servant barriers talent because somewhere along the line, they've

forgotten who God is and who they are. The bigger

God is the smaller I become, and I'm smaller I become.

That's the best place for me to be because I

realized that I need God more and more, and I

need to just be glad to be in his presence.

You know, like like we so friends, you know, we

just say God restored to me.

I don't know how all you were when you first

got saved.

I got saved when I was eleven, and it changed

my life. I was like, God, you did all that

for me, You died for me. I'm just a kid

from Benign. I'm not even good with my grades. No,

I'm not good at home. I feel like I'm a

disappointment to my parents. I don't think I'm you know,

I'm doing that great in school. I'm so mediocre. I'm struggling.

And yet God, you love me, and you gave your

life for me, and now you're giving me a new

I mean, how I'm I'm I'm no, tears are just

coming out just thinking about it. Maybe that's what we

need not more revelation, but but more remembrance.

Maybe we need to remember how God where.

God found us in that pit, in that state of

mary Clay, and then he lifted us up, not because

we are good, not because you're worth anything, but because

He's good. I'm like, God, why why do you need

a kid from Penan in your kingdom. Here's so many

other kids in much clever kids in my school.

Why me? I don't know. I'm just so glad that

God said yes, so for some of us.

Friends, Please, he meant that the key to breaking out

the run is to go like God. Help me to

remember again, God, restore the joy. Help me to remember

again that it's you, not me. It's you not me.

Part Number two. Worship their sense of wonder and awe

should then lead us to a place of worship and friends,

we need worship, We need you know. The truth is

this that we worsh All of us worship something. All

of us worship something. Some of us worship a football.

Team, We worship celebrities, We worship money, we worship sex,

we worship food, we worship comfort, we worship ourselves.

We we all worship somebody. Friends, only God satisfy us.

You worshiping and the altar of everything else were never satisfying.

They'll only take, take, take, take.

And then when you have nothing to offer, they will

spit you out and they'll offer nothing in return.

But when you worship Jesus, you'll realize that he gave, gave,

gave and gave, and because he gave, we worship.

Him, because he lived and died so that we worship him. Friends,

we need I wrote here glorious, heart felt, sacrificial, explosive worship.

And I'm not saying this to the worship team only,

I'm not saying this to worship.

Didn't go like okay, positive said that okay with us

other being her phone, more budget.

We need bigger sound system, explosive, we need a bigger screen,

you know, we need we need all this. No, no, no,

it's not.

Real worship doesn't require music even but real worship happens

when we surrender.

That's what worship is. You know, when when we come

to church and go like.

No matter the song, I'm gonna worship, no matter my mood,

I'm gonna worship. When I worship, I am saying that God,

you are my all. And I don't know about you friends.

But I'm not even sure if you worshiped this morning,

but we did. We did four songs. Yeah, you did

four songs, But did you worship? Did you worship? Because

that's a difference. Worship cannot happen without sacrifice. Oh but

Jesus is my sacrifice. Yeah, but do you know what

else you can sacrifice? Your preferences, your personality some of

us to come here to go like not my song,

not my beat, not my tempo, not my vibe. It's

just not me, not feeling it. It's not about you.

And and do you know how he can really worship

when you still live up the praises of He who

saved you, even.

When it's not your song.

That's how you show someone you love you, you know,

like like if if if you only love somebody when

I don't know when the when the mood is right,

that's not real love.

That's circumstantial, you know, Like this is this thing. Think

about it?

Right?

If my son asks me one day like that I

need some food, I'd be like not feeling right now.

You're you're you're told not quite loving it. No, No,

it's like I I I because I love my son.

I feed him rather whether he is polite to me

or not, whether he asks nicely or not, because I

love him. I love God not because of the music.

I love God because he laid it all for me.

And every Sunday I have a chance to lay off

for him. You know. In in a she Brew chapter thirteen,

verse fifteen says this he Brew thirteen fifteen through Jesus. Therefore,

let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise,

and in.

Case that's not clear, the fruit of our lips that openly.

So don't just go like I must bring no, openly

profess his name. I'm raising holy hands, profess his name.

No, bring to God a sacrifice of praise, fruits of

your lips. And I want to talk to the men

for a while here, because the truth is this a

lot of us, many in this room, are of Asian descent.

We don't have good role models in our fathers. Most

of our fathers rarely say anything. I really detached, I

checked out, silent, And whether you realize it or not,

we model ourselves after that model of manliness, and we

think that it's masculine, and we bring that to church.

And so, because your father is storic. You are storic

because your father is stuff. Don't smell. You don't smell

because your father checked out. You checked out because your father.

Don't cry. You don't to cry because your dad never

expressed emotion. You don't express emotion.

Frands.

The whole thing about the Salvation story is this that

we don't need to model ourselves after our earth three parents.

We have a heavenly father to model after. And God

the Father is expressive. He was so proud of Jesus

that he was the first one to be hollering at

his baptism. That's my son, who I'm well?

Please?

Oh? And then the Holy Spirit come upon. I might

have added the wool pap but who knows. Well, we'll

check it out internity. Replay the tapes back then. You

know they heard thunder, you know, but it was God

going like, whoa, that's my son. It's gotta baptized. And friends,

we need to come back to that place again.

Now. You can be quiet, you can be introverted. I

get that. I respect that I'm one of you.

But then there are times or we cannot afford to

when we come together the worship the Lord, we cannot afford.

To be silent. We're gonna give God the praise that

he is due. Amen.

And it is in this kind of worship, you see,

this kind of worship requires you to surrender. This kind

of worship is paid, This kind of worship is sacrificial.

We need.

Isaac sacrificeing worship. All of us.

If you're familiar with the story of Abraham and Isaac,

all of us have an isaac, something precious, something you say, God,

don't touch God, don't touch my finances.

God, don't touch my private life. God, don't touch who

I did.

God, don't tell me who I can have sex even

know I can have sex with you tell don't tell.

Me who I can marry. Don't. Don't tell me how

I spent my mean don't don't don't touch this things.

God, I love your morals, Jesus, I love your grace.

But don't touch this, don't touch that. And God doesn't

want us to live like that. And God is saying that,

would you let me to set you? You see, the

more you hold on to your isaacs, the more numb

you'll become. But God is saying that, would you give

Because the story is this, that Abraham surrendered the Isaac

but the Isaac that he got back was was blessed

because he was willing to surrender. It was you know,

he was freed from I don't know that that sense

of control. He was freed from that idolatry.

He was freed. And and and we need to come

back to the place again and say, God, help teach

me how.

To worship you again. I want to worship you again.

I want to lift up holy hands. I wanna I

want to.

Bring fruits of offering sacrifices of praise.

The fruits I bring are fruits off my lips while

I openly confess that Jesus is king.

Friends, you need that kind of worship.

You see, I wouldn't be who I am today here

serving the Lord to the best of my ability if

not for worship.

And I don't mean music, I mean worship.

You see, oftentimes, you know, the word of God is challenging,

and the Word of God is uncomfortable, and it's meant

to be like that. The Bible cause itself a double

aged sword. And I remember in the early days of church,

you know, you you know, we will sit under the

teaching or passica week after week, and and it wasn't like,

you know, just laugh out loud moments, even though pass

cares very funny preacher, But but it was this, but

it was you know, challenging heart truths.

I used to be so afraid of missions. You know,

I never want to go.

You know that there used to be a sound that

we'll sing in church back then, you know, and it

has a line and says, send me, I will go.

And every time it comes that line, I will refuse

to sing it. But you know where that changed. Not

true counseling, but in worship. One day, while worshiping the Lord,

you know, the lorder school site. Will you keep with

holding that from me? Will you keep withholding back? And

it's in worship that that many times, not just missions,

but a lot of things, un forgiveness, addiction, a.

Lot of things that I was holding on to. God.

Don't God, don't call me outd God, don't ask me

to forgive that person.

I'm still angry. God. You have no idea how hurt God?

You know you know why you ask me to be

the first of the sason.

I don't want. I don't want. I don't want. I

have a lot of iscs. I I I is and

God is saying surrender. And it's only in worship that

the chains that the isaacs in my life had over

me were broken. Chains. No, look, warmness, it's a chain.

Your personality is a chain. Your preference is a chain.

You know. Let would you offer that to God and

let God break it? And that leads me to my

third point. First, how do we come back to the

place where we love God, where we're activated by His word?

We need to say, God, restoring me, a sense of wonder,

restoring me the jow of my salvation. God.

I want to worship you. I need to worship you.

It is in the worship that I meet you.

It is in worship that I encounter your presence, and

in your presence it's fullness of joy. In your presence,

it's liberty. I need that liberty. I need that fullness

of joy. I need you, and we need it.

All the time.

We need it yesterday, as some people say, and we

need it wherever and whenever. True intimacy cannot be scheduled.

Let me put it this way.

If I really, really, really want to get to know

elder Pinghole, you know what I cannot do.

I cannot be like, hey, go a ping Hole I

we don't get to know you better.

So let's catch up once a month, and you know,

every last Friday of the month, let's sit down and

let's have lunch, and in that two hour lunch, let's

just really better our hearts out to each other.

Okay, do you know that that.

Kind of scheduling cannot grow intimacy because if you really

want to get to know someone, it's not about last Friday.

Every month I meet you. We thought, we're not robots.

We need to get to know the person all the time.

We need to have conversations with that person all the time.

We need to uh, you know, be around that person

all the time. And so, friends, if you really want

to restore sense of Wonday and worship in your life,

then then friends, it's your quiet time is not enough.

Your Sunday worship is not enough.

You need it all.

You need your Sunday worship. You need your prayer meetings,

you need your homes, you need your handle meetings.

You need it. And that's how you might be thinking, oh,

this guy spout propaganda as if my life is not

busy enough. No, you needed friends. I know your life

is busy. That's why you need the fellowship of the Saints.

That's why you need to encounter God. And how is

God best encountered when two or three are gathered together,

His presence, his authority is there.

That's why we come together to worship.

Because when we come together to worship like this every Sunday,

we get a glimpse of God.

You see, we need we need not just quality time

of God, we need quantity. We need both.

And that's why friends come for Sunday service and don't

just come but serve. Don't see that, but excuse me.

You said that I need to worship. But if I serve,

I come worship. If I as a host, I stand

at B Tree, become worship. I've stood at B Tree before,

and then it brings your worship to hold new level.

It brings heaven to earth because have you heard the

acoustics of be Tree.

You know? You see you don't. You don't know what

I'm talking about until you bet, and then you go like,

I love you, Lor, Lor, Lor, and I live my voice.

I mean all jokes aside. You know I've been there before.

Like when you're there assuring let me, it brings your

faith life Because on one hand, there's something.

You know that wash is happening right now.

I can't wait for every church member to come on time,

so I don't need to stand more than five minutes there.

I can go up get but but I can't because

I'm here to to to welcome someone. I'm here to

help someone feel loved, even though there is a longing

for me to be upstairs. And if we can catch that,

that's how we should live our lives. I'm here on

planet Earth. There's a longing for me to be upstairs.

There's a longing for me to be in God's presence.

But I'm here for a mission.

Did you see that? Do you see your your your

worship not is moulti dimensional, It is no longer.

What you're seeing is what you're living out and what

you're expressing, and that's the gospel right there.

I'm on planet Earth, be tree.

Because somebody here needs to find the entrance to where

the presence of God is.

In summit and I'm here.

I long to be up there worshiping with them, but

I'm here with a mission with a plan.

Do you see you don't understand me? Explain you after

the service? Okay, come right? Running out of time, but

do you do you do?

You see when you when you come to church, you

worship when you serve, You worship at prayer meeting, You

worship through prayer in your own quiet time. Don't neglect

that you're worshiping God through scripture and two personal prayer.

You're doing that sample ship. You're you're worshiping because there's

unity there. And God is glorified because because you're learning

to submit, you're learning to allow somebody to speak truth

into your life, and you're learning to be transparent. You're

being changed and God is glorified. Worship is glorifying God.

And we need to do it whenever and wherever. We

need to have a lot of it, and we need

to have quality. And I can't tell you with this

last illustration.

You know, I again.

I'm saying I'm only here, but you know I'm great.

I'm not, but but I can humbly say that I'm

standing here today not because I had.

That one encounter with God.

A lot of times will come up to me, they

go like, you know, they're find it very funny, you know,

to go like what do you do for a living? Oh?

I vote for church. I as a pastor and then

people ask me, what is that? Do you know?

Someone mospiritual saying, so, how do you know your full

time calling? You know, as if they're expecting me to

have that one moment like like you know the apostle

saw on the way, you know, like like you know,

like ah, it'saw God. You know they're thinking that one moment,

and good. I I don't have one moment to tell you.

I have moments how I end up in the UK, Moments,

how I say yes, Moments, how I found courage to

to share God's word, Moments, how did you break out

of that addiction?

Moments. It's not just that one Sunday.

It was Sunday after Sunday after Sunday, and especially the

Sundays I didn't feel like coming and I didn't feel

like worshiping. It was get away and and church cams

after church cams. And by the way, there's the overnight

that coming up and you need that, friends, that there's

an overnight that coming up for for for this service

is it's November.

Please sign up. You need it because another way.

To restore wonder sometimes is to is to interrupt our

hustle and bustle cald life.

You need to get away.

You know, if you read the Old Testament, there were

there were a few feasts a year that that the

people of God were required to leave their hometowns and

make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. See, God knows a thing

or two about interrupting or a routine. There was the

reason why the original Sabbath was building such an it's

interrupt your workflow, disrupt.

There's a real disruption there.

And and it's because we need to, like, well, okay,

get out of my four walls, get out of you know,

get out of whatever it is and go to a

place and touch some grass and smell some fresh air,

and again, you know, be reminded again that God is

a god who breathed all.

The this creation into being with just one word, one breath.

You know.

That's that's how, you know, a sense of wonder. When

I go hiking, I get a sense of God's you know,

my wonder of the Lord and his all of his

majestic creation is restored not just in church, but when

I go for a hike. When when when I you know,

just enjoy nature. And so we need that overnight, you

need that getting away to worship.

I can't. I can't. You need to sacrifice.

You need it.

Friends, I'm busy. I got a business, I know, and

God loves your business. He's the one that gave you

that business. God, God loves your bank account. He's the

one that filled it. And he's saying that in order

for it to remain full to the overflow, you need him.

But a lot of us go like, oh, it needs

to remain full overflow. So I cut out God, I

sacrifice fellowship and and I I just you know.

No, no, no, you need.

You need. No meeting is it's too small for God

to meet to to move and no meeting is too

big for God to meet you in person. You need

every Sunday, you need every homes of course, I'm not

saying that. You know, you can't skip, but but it's special.

And let's not forget how special it is, how special

it is to be able to gather here. This is special.

Don't say that oh my churching, Sammie, Well, con you

meet in the cooler mall. This is special, This is special.

This is Jesus, you know, Yeah, you can meet in

the cooler mall church and TRX, why not you know,

tell Xmoud maybe they need to move there. I'm starting

your want x x trx or whatever.

But but this is so God.

A lot of people go like, oh, you know, one

time I was taking a grab and then the grab

driver say what are you doing?

Some is a dead mare.

And I remember the words of my Jesus. It's not

the healthy, it is not the sick. It's not the

healthy that need a physician.

It's the sick. It's the dead more that.

Needs Jesus the most to bring life and light into

this place of seemingly darkness.

Amen.

No, I'm just gonna invite the worship team up and

thank you for your patience, but just draw to close.

And I don't think there's anyway to draw this to close.

I said to respond to God in worship. Make no mistake,

Jesus is coming back when I don't know. He knows,

But our job is not to figure out when, so

that we can have the comfort of like, oh, I

got three more months to prepare. Jesus asks us to

live a as if he could return any minute. And

it is in that kind of preparation mode that we

are most blessed that we are best positions in life.

I know it's very different. The world says, you know,

buy a nice land, build a big house, settle down, chill.

That's the most rested you can be. But Jesus is

the most rested you can be. Is when you're ready

to go any minute. And in order for us not

to clash with God, in order for us not just

to see His word as white noise, we need to

allow God to right now interrupt us. I don't know

how this year has been for you, but if it's

been numb, if it's just been religious, yes, then friends,

even more, this message is for you today because God

doesn't want you to end the year in numbness and

in religion. He wants to restore that relationship. He wants

to restore the joy of your salvation. He wants to

make Scripture come alive again, not just for your blessing,

but so that to you others.

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