Set Apart | Elder Rosalind Ang

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Do you believe that you are a prized possession of God? Yes, okay,

only some of you believe that. Some of you, like

I don't think so, right, And this is found in

the world of God.

This is in the Word of God. And I will

show it to you shortly.

And you know it's important for us to understand this,

and because it will.

Set you for this year. Is that okay?

It's gonna set you for your twenty twenty for how

you want to live it. It's gonna be different from

twenty twenty four, right, but it's important how we set

it up, all right?

Okay, So let's go to the next light. Let's go now.

The words set apart, set apart, right, It's found in

this Hebrew word called kardash. Can you say this, kardash kardash?

Okay? Great? You let one he Brew it today haradash.

Now, many times in the Bible you will see in

different parts.

What does it mean to be set apart? Okay?

You can see it's to content create. How many of

you have read this word in the Bible before? To

content create.

Do you know what it means to say, oh, you

are a clever st todent?

Okay, to set apart? What other usage is there to prepare?

Do you know? Preparation is also part of being set apart?

All right?

What else to dedicate? Have you ever dedicated anything to

the Lord in your life?

Let me children? You know what.

We dedicate our children, right, but we never dedicate ourselves.

Right You're like, okay, my children can go save the Lord, but.

What about me? Oh? Okay, getting hot sooner? Think about it? Okay,

I mean I'm gonna think about it.

Right. If you've never dedicated anything to the Lord before,

what are you going to dedicate to the Lord this year?

Okay?

That is my call to action for each of you

right now? You know the thing is right, If you

want to be effective for the Lord, you have to.

Set apart yourself for the Lord. Right.

So, if you've never dedicated anything of your life, any

part of your life to God before, I think it's

time to start, all right, Okay, to separate that is

also an act of being setting apart, all right.

So when you you know, it's like I always use

this analogy. You know, some of you at home.

You have your normal everyday plates and dishes that you use, yes, right,

the plastic one that you know broken here and there,

but it's okay, we use every day, right. But you

know that you have this special china where, right, very

special and glass and antique you know find china. Do

you use it every day in a sense? No, but

you set it apart right for special occasion because it's

precious and it's expensive. That's how you set things apart.

You separate it out. You don't put it together with

everything else. Right, Okay, you can go for anything in

your life, all right?

And finally to be holy.

Okay, Now let's go to some scriptures and the first

time this was used in the Bible. You know when

the first time this word kardash was used?

Of course you don't know.

I will tell you this is actually first time this

concept of setting apart came from God.

All right? This is not your idea, not men's idea.

This is God's idea.

So this morning we want to go and understand what

does God want?

Yeah? Is that? Okay? Do you want to know what

God wants? Oh? Actually we're not very interested. No, we

only know what we want.

We sometimes we come to God and we say, God,

you tell me about my life. God, you know, tell

me about my life? And God tell me about which

job actually take?

How many of us actually say, God, what do you think? God?

What which one would you want me to take?

Right?

And as we build our relationship with God.

I think we need to get into a place where it.

Is a real relationship. It's not just about you, right.

And many times when we put our focus on us,

then our focus is not.

On God anymore. All right?

Okay, So let's think about the first time that this

word set upons.

This is word kardash.

Okay, in English, there are many words to try to

describe the usage of it, but kardash is the same

Hebrew word again and again. All right, So let's read

the first time is being used in the Bible wage

Genesis chapter two.

Is it early and on? Oh? Very early in the Bible?

God had this idea already.

Okay, So let's read Genesis chapter two, verse three. Let's

read this together, right? Three two one? God bless the

seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested

from all his work which he God had created and made.

So what is the word for set apart.

Here, sanctified kadash is sanctified here. What do you understand

by this word scientified special something that you set apart? Right?

So I'm very blessed to know that all of you

here set apart your Sunday.

Amen, And that's why you're here. You have made okay.

So it's maybe it's wrong for me to say none

of you have said apart something. We are all here

means we are learning the principle of setting apart some things,

meaning Sundays is untouchable.

By other things. Because why God also set things apart.

You know, God work for six days, right, and he

says on the seventh day he rested, and he sanctified

this special day and until today, this principle needs to

be practiced by all of us.

Right.

Is there a setting a part of a day where

you're not focused on trying to make ends meet or

you know, doing different.

Things, but you're just saying, God fully, my focus on

this day is for you. It doesn't matter where it's

a Sunday, Saturday, Friday. Whenes say it.

Doesn't matter, okay, is setting apart one day of the

week to say God, this is for you all right,

So sanctification is setting apart. Okay, let's go to the

next usage. Let's go let's see the next verse. Now, oh, okay,

I love this verse. Let's go to Exodus chapter thirteen.

So this is all in the first parts of the Bible.

All right, we saw Genesis, now we saw Exodus. It's

used a lot in the book of Exodus. Exodus chapter thirteen,

Verse two, he says, this right, consecrate to me all

the firstborn. Whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel,

both of men and bees, it is.

Yours, No, it is God.

What can we learned from this principle? Why did God

want the firstborn? Why do you think the first bone

is special?

Any idea? Why do you think God wants the firstborn? Wow?

I love Daniels. Can you please give him a plus?

You hear it? He says, because it is the best.

Yeah.

Oh, then or the second bond? Bond?

I oh, howladar. Sorry, I'm also second born. Okay, I'm

not firstborn. So there's second child, that child?

What about me?

No, this is firstborn to the mother. All right, every

animal sacrifice. Do you know that God is always looking

after the first in the whole Bible. Right when you

look at the history, there is always can and able.

But you see, even though there is this principle of

setting apart the first bond, then God also changes around.

And since the youngest yourself the older, right, so guess what, younger, children, you.

Also go apart to play?

Okay, don't no escape on not in God, there is

no escape. But you see the principle of first. And

do you know what tiding means? What is tidying to you?

Setting about what your first fruits? First?

It's your first ten percent, not your last and percent?

Children?

God, Yes, it's like whenever you get your salary, your

guardian for the man, the first thing.

That you do is you set apart for God.

That is the principle. Do you see that now? We

understand that in tidying. And you know, I think we

heard this before as well. People say, but what if

you know I cannot afford to give anything?

You know, I'm already earning very low. It's a principle.

And do you know that in God's kingdom, when you

practice the principle, you will read the harvest. Yeah, it's

not so much about whether you're earning ten thousand ringgate

or you're earning one hundred ringgate is the principle, right,

a principle saying God, I you know why I've learned.

I've learned that it's not so much the legalistic part

of all. It must be ten percent. It's your heart.

God is looking into your heart and he's using that

to say, Okay, I set this up to test your heart.

Do you know that God is testing us? This? Probably

don't lie, writy God, what you must test us?

I'm sure you know that.

In the story of Abraham, as he was offering up Isaac, Hello,

ready to kill his first born and that time only child,

and God said, you know, out of this child, I

will give you the nations. You know, you look at

the stars and that will be your dissenters like, hello,

now you want to kill my.

Only child, true Sarah. But Abraham just obeyed.

It wasn't obedience to God's word. That's what the commandments are.

And then as he was doing it, God says, okay,

get read.

Now I know you're serious with me a church of God?

Are you serious with God or Earth? Do you want

to see breakthroughs? You know, as we were worshiping earlier

on you know. God just told me, hey, let's get serious.

We got this yere. I think God wants to set

you free. Amen. God wants to set.

Us free from our old ways. God wants to set

us anew in His ways. And to do that we

need to have this principle of setting apart.

Do you know?

God can want God can do the breakthrough for you,

but you will have to set yourself apart first.

He cannot set you apart if you don't set yourself apart.

So you guess what. There is a responsibility. There is

a choice that we need to make now. Right, So

would you are you willing? What else is the first

first fruit of what you have? Easy to talk about money?

Right? Your salary or allowance?

Students, you also get money right, it's also your income. Right?

Are you learning the principle of setting apart for the Lord?

Another one that I want to touch on your time? Time?

How are you setting apart your first fruit for the Lord?

When is your first fruit of your time for the Lord?

Can you tell me.

When you first wake up right now, when you come

into an awareness and like.

Oh this is a new day, then what is your

first fruit? It's your first I.

Would say, even your first fifteen to twenty minutes of

the day.

How are you setting that apart for the Lord?

You think about your routine right now, what do you

do the first ten minutes of your time?

Some people say, go brush tea, right, go toiler first. Okay, okay,

do all that first. But then what after that?

What?

Tell me? Tell me all guilty?

Right, because the first thing that we will reach out

to is our and phone. Then we want to see

what's going on the whole night that you were sleeping. Right,

what's viral? Now?

What do I miss out? I don't know?

Okay, this is your choice, this is your life. I

can't see it, but the Lord sees it. So if

you want to get serious and say, God, I really

want to set apart myself for you, they say, you

think about it, right, like this year if you want

it to be different, you want to be different just

for you? Or do you want to really seriously take

charge and take territory for the Kingdom of God. It

is a choice. It's a choice because we can go

through life same, you know, and guess what, after thirty years,

you're still the same.

So let's set apart this year, right, set it a

right man said it. All right, let's move on.

Let's move on to dedicate hah, okay, let's read Exodus

chapter nineties. I told you all right, this is wor

kardash comes out so many times because it's God's idea.

We're still in Exodus, Exodus, chapter nineteen, Verse three, verse ten.

It says, then the Lord say to Moses, go to

the people and consecrpt them today and tomorrow, and let

them wash their clothes.

What you learn from this? What is part of setting apart?

What is it being clean? Anyone comes without wearing wash clothes?

No? Right?

Why why is cleanliness so important?

You know? If you're very old school, right, there's this

verse that say not verse no, sorry, Not's a proverb

that says a cleanliness is next to godliness.

Jade means if you want to be godly, right, you

got to be clean. Are you clean or not? Oh? Yes, okay,

says the one who showered this morning.

Are if you don't shower this morning, it's okay, you

can repent later.

No, no, but okay, let's be serious. Why is cleanliness

so important to God? Yeah? Yeah, okay? Where are they now?

Right?

Do you? Okay?

So exodus, right is where they just came out where

they just came out of Egypt, right, they're in the

wilderness of sin right now?

Yes, all right?

And and so they are in the desert place. And it's

what have anyone experienced any desert place before?

Oh? Noah? But what can you imagine about a desert does? Does?

And the children of Israel they got a bullet train,

right that they can bring them through the Promised Land

or they got grabbed. No, those days they had to

walk walk with all their animals and produce and you know, cattle,

sheep there go and guess what what do you accumulate

as you walk in a place as full of us?

It's there that how many of you are like really

clean people like really like you know, oh okay, only

one now, only elder man, But the rest of you

are like okay, it's to okay in my household, right,

there's something called a tolerance level.

Right if you you cannot had already right.

Okay, there you have to clean the house. Okay, this

is between me and other people. Okay, so all the years, right,

or it's it's sometimes very hard, no no tolerance. Other

neighbors like cannot one back of that must cleaner ready, right,

So for us we can close eyes to many things,

but sometimes can already right. Cleliness, you know, it's it's

a mindset. You know that mindset. It's a cleanliness. And

in those days, right, if you want to come before

the Lord, do you know that you have to go

and bathe and change your clothes? And you know what

that means because in the act of bathing, right, is

very very sacred because there's no water in the desert.

Hello, No, what God, God, you know got running pipes?

Is it? Got swimming pool?

Can be?

No, don't have water is a precious resource.

And when they shower and when they take their butt

and they change your clothes, they're saying, now I am

ready to meet with my God. Do you prepare yourself

that way when you come before the Lord? It's something

to think about, right, How am I setting and preparing

myself before I meet the Lord? And of course this

is an outward expression, but there's an inward thing that's

going on as all. Right, God seas our heart. God

sees whether we're really preparing or not to come before him.

You know I heard of this testimony or not?

Estimia this this lady, right, she's she used to attend

my homes.

She's still attending my home.

So she said, when she prepares an offering, now now

everyone online on it.

Right, very easy, right, threat, that's it.

No need to prepare anything in before this, we all

had to give offering physically, right, give your cash. I

wonder what is our heart when you prepare it? So

this lady she's us very interesting in her faith, very childlike.

So she says, right, when I give an offering to

the Lord, right, I prepare it. I make sure that

iron the note so there's crisp, and then I give

it unto the Lord. Wow, talk about preparation.

No, you're thinking that har was there. It's not about

the agg but it's about the heart. Do you see that?

So how are you preparing you know, whatever that you're

setting apart for the Lord, whether it's yourself, your time,

your money, how are you giving it unto the lord?

Is it very chin chaichi?

Oh?

Yeah?

God, offering time twenty cents loose change. Let's not preparing, right,

Let's not setting apart something for the Lord. And if

you want to give something special to someone special, you

would think about it. You would really, you know, wrap

things around it, you would really prepare because it's a gift. Amen,

it's a gift. Now I want to read to you something.

Remember I said earlier that you are a gift. God

sees you as a price possession. Okay, let me go

through that. Wait, let me see if there's anything else.

Let's go on to the Okay, another one. I exert

us ninety. Let's do this first.

Exert Us nineteen verse twenty three. Are we are we? Okay?

We are still learning about the concept and the principle

of setting apart, so that at the end of the

day you will know how you can set yourself apart

onto the lot. All right, Just now we talk about

cleanliness is one part of it. We talk about consecration.

All right.

Let's look at Exodus nineteen twenty three. He says, but

Moses say to the lot. Okay, So this is when

the people told Moses to go up to Mount Sinai,

right where he was gonna give the ten commitments. Moses

said to the Lord, the people cannot come up to

Mount Sinai, for you warn us, who warn you? God

warn saying set bounds around the mountains and consecrated. Part

of consecration is creating boundaries. Are they boundaries in your life,

my dear friends.

Any boundaries or not? Or anything goes? Because if anything goes, then.

You are not set apart. You're just like everyone else.

You're just like everyone else. There's no difference if you

don't create certain boundaries in your life. Okay, I'm gonna

talk a little bit about boundaries in a short all

but let's move on, all right. And Exodus twenty eight says,

remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy? What are

the things in your life that is holy? What is

holy in your life?

Think about it.

Life is not just routine. Monday to Friday, I do everything.

Then Saturday is clean house, Sunday is churchday.

And then you go on the cycle like that.

There is this sense of what is holy in my

life every day?

What is holy? Yes? Are you able to say God?

Yes, this is the time, This is a space, this

is a place where I.

Keep holy before you? Amen, Maga, Let's move on. Let's

move on, all right.

So we spoke about this very interesting right, This act

of setting apart has this thing to it.

Right.

Exodus twenty eight, Verse three says this, so you shall

speak to all who are gifted artisans.

All right, So got it? You know this is the

reason why God gave us gift things, and it's very

clearly shown here. He says, whom I feel with the

spirit of wisdom.

Wow, all those of you who are talented gifted, can

you praise God because it is Him who has given

you the wisdom, not yourself. Okay, talent, everything that we have.

Comes from the Lord.

You know, you doing well in your world, you being

able to get that deal breakthrough is the Lord, you know.

Don't think that why very good?

Ah, It is the favor of the Lord that is

with you, and that's why you could go.

You know you can achieve success.

It is we must remember where all this comes from, right,

And so that's why this process of setting apart is

constantly saying God, this is from you, this.

Is all you, and this is for you. We forget

that part. We always forget that this goes back to Him.

We are setting our sells for who for a neighbor.

It's for God. Yeah.

He says that whom I feel with the spirit of wisdom,

that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him. Now,

Aaron was a priest, right priest that was appointed by God,

and that he may minister to me as priest. But

you see, just because he's anointed by the Lord, it

doesn't mean that he just comes up like that.

There needs to be an anointing. There needs to be

a preparation.

Again, when I talk about set apart, there's this whole

idea of preparing. And that's why we always tell our

worship team, Hey, before you can lead people into the

worship of God, you need to be worshiping at home first. Yes, extreme,

anyone who's leading, anyone who's chairing, anyone who's serving, ex kids,

even on sound. Do you know that it's not just

a technical skill that you're displayed or using. You're serving

the Lord. And so for therefore the act of preparation.

Are you worshiping at home? That becomes key, you know why,

because that's the one that's gonna make the difference, that's

gonna make the difference between us being here being filled

with the spirit of God. And that's what I really

pray for every Sunday that we come that this place

is not just a physical space, it's.

A spiritual atmosphere.

Amen it's a spiritual atmosphere that when we come into it,

we're gonna break bonds.

We're gonna set people free. Healing is gonna take place. Amen.

Do you believe it or not? Or do you come

to church just to feel up the seas? What fall?

Then just go home? You must come. You're expecting God.

You are going to move in the spirit because we

are battling not against flash, but against principalities.

Hello, can I tell you that that's very real?

If you don't see your physical eyes, then I pray

God will open your spiritual eyes.

Do you know?

Sometimes we are so bound by our habits. We're bound

by our unforgiveness. We are bound by you know, laziness.

That's a spirit you're bound.

Can a Christian be bound? Oh? Yes, oh yes, we

need to be set free.

We need to set free so that we can go

and be the person the being that God wants us

to be. A man. I don't want us to like

live back in the you know. And sometimes it's very

easy for me as well, right to fall under the

excuse of but this is who I am, this is

my background. I don't know anything better. You know, it's

so easy to fall into the excuse. But when we

come into this place of faith, we are in the

business of faith.

Church. It's all about faith. And I pray that every

time you come to church, every time.

You leave, your faith arise. Amen, it's no longer just

like it's not a rational thing.

Guys. Faith is not rational, it's irrational, but it is

of God. What a gift, Amen, Our faith is gift

is you know.

It's no matter how challenging your circumstances are, no matter

how difficult, how you might think that everything is lost, hope.

This is where you get home. Church, the people of God,

the Word of God, the Word of God.

You know, there's something special about corporate worship, about being

together like this that God. You know, God calls the

people to congregate together at the Temple of God. There's

a reason, there's a reason why we are here as

a corporate worship because God is pleased with this, and His.

Presence manifests strongly in this place. Amen.

So I pray that every time now you will have

a different mindset as you come, as you go for

your home our small groups. Do you think it's just

a time of fellowship, I pray it will not be

so because fellowship will not set you free. Fellowship will

not save you or your neighbor. Oly Jesus and the

Spirit of God, do you know what I long for?

I really pray that science and wonders will follow the

preaching of His word. Amen. I'm not a person who

says all signs and one that's long gone. Today we

just go by the rationale. No, I want to see

the dead rise. I want to see the lame heal

can walk and praise the Lord.

Do you do you desire that or not? Do you

want to dud? It starts with a desire in mind.

We don't see it yet, but let's pray. Let's pray

that when people come they say, I'm sick, you know,

just have the healing.

Our prayer is because they believe. Do you believe or not?

Do you believe that God can do the miraculous? That's supernatural.

Don't under the natural, because if we are natural, then

we are not different from anyone else.

What's the difference? No difference? Right?

But God has caught us out of darkness into his

marvelous life.

So are we living as though we are full of light? People?

God, we need to as you go back Chinese or

this year. Let you be the light. Don't just be

anyone else. Now, let it be a difference in you. Amen,

How can you be that different?

Think about it? Assignment for you this week as you

are together with.

Your family, some of them are not believers yet, how

will you make a difference to them?

How will they experience you differently? Amen? Hallelia, let's go.

Let's move on.

And this whole process of scientifish scientification can only be

done by the Lord.

Amen.

He says this, There I will with the children of Israel,

and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by our good works,

shall be sanctified by how much I give to the church,

and shall be sanctified by God's glory. So I pray

that every day you're going to see God's glory, because

if you truly want to be sanctified, set apart for God.

Then you have to meet with him. Do you know

how Moses?

Do you know when Moses went up to the mountain

and he came down from the mountain.

What did they have to put over his face? They

have to put a real wye.

Because he was shining so bright. They're like, WHOA, I

can't Tahan. You know, I can't even see Moses face

to face because he was reflecting the glory of God.

Wow, how about that? Children of God?

You know as you go, you know, in your mountain,

you go and meet with God at the mountain. You

come down from that place and when people look at

you're like, whoa so bright? Something different about you, And

that's what's going to get them interested, because you're different

like no one else.

I'm not talking about faesk induccine. Okay. The glory, the

glory Oh God, is what sets us apart. Amen. Imen.

Now let's go on.

Now, there's three parts that I want to give you

with this whole setupart right.

The first one is our identity.

What is being set apart? It speaks about our identity.

Amen.

Okay, Let's read Exodus chapter Let me see yah, Exodus chapter.

Where is my verse? Okay?

Let's go to Exodus chapter nineteen. Okay, are we there?

Exodus chapter nineteen versus. I'm gonna read from verse one

or give you the context of it. In the third month,

after the two of Israel had gone out of the

land of Egypt, right, remember this one fresh out of

the land of Egypt. On the same day they came

to the wilderness of Sinai. All right, not sin Sinai,

wilderness of Sinai, for they had departed from Refferdin had

come to the wilderness of Sinai and camp in the wilderness.

So Israel came there before the mountain, and Moses went

up to God. And the Lord called to him from

the mountain, saying, thus you shall say to the house

of Jacob and tell the children of Israel.

This is the word of the Lord. You have seen

what I did to.

The Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagle's wings

and brought you to myself.

Wow. God wants to bring you to himself Verse five.

Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and

keep my covenant, then you shall be a.

You shall be a. You shall be a.

Is this my word? It is God's word? Whose idea

is this? God says, you will be.

My special treasure. Wow.

Can you tell your neighbor you are God's special treasure.

We don't think of it sometimes, but you know that

we are. Every soul, every person is precious to God.

And God says, you know, you know when he pronounced

it right, it's real. Do you believe God's word?

It's truth? Right, it is a truth?

And this is He says, you shall be a special

treasure to me above all people. Whoa isn't that setting

you apart? It means that you're not like the rest? Okay,

it means you're not like the eight billion people on earth.

It means you are special.

You'll elevated for all the earth is mind, is the

earth the lords?

Yes or not? It is? But you will be above

because you're God's special treasure. Let's move on to verse.

But do you know there's a condition there? I know

sometimes we go I'm you know there's this whole part

about unconditional love of God.

Yes, all right, I just want to bring some balance

to it.

Is that Okay, God really loves us, he does. But

there is a condition in this being God's special treasure.

What is that condition?

If there is an if you're my dear friends, if

you read the word of God, there is an if

so meaning if you if you.

Don't follow this part, what happens? You will not?

Yes, it's either if you follow or if you don't.

Follow, yes or not? Is it very clear? Then no

one will notice?

Right?

If you follow.

If you obey my commandments, then you shall be. So

we need to ask ourselves are we obeying the word

of God? Are we obeying all the commandments? But maybe

first you have to ask yourself, what are the commandments?

If I don't know the commandments, how to obey?

Right? Okay?

So think about that, think about it all right now.

Many of us when we talk about identity, we like

to preach from first bitter to nine?

Right? And what is first bitter to nine? Okay?

Or you know the not child d but it's not there.

You are the child of God, but it's not. From

first Peter to nine, it talks about you shall be

a kingdom of priest you shall be a royal priesthood,

holy nation.

Yes, yes, yes, are you sort of familiar with that

verse first Peter to nine.

But he didn't start from there, not from Peter. It

started in Exodus. Shall we read that. Let's move on

right in verse six Exodus nineteen. And you shall be

to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. These

are the words which you shall speak to the children

of Israel.

Wow.

Do you know that at the beginning when God called

the children of Israel, he already told them you are

going to be my priest, you are going to be

my holy nation. Do you know?

God set them free? And this is a phrase I

want you to think about.

God set us free so he can set us apart. Yes,

he set us free from the bondage of our scene,

from the bondage of our past, so that we can live.

Our own lives. Is it.

No, The setting apart, the setting free of us is

so that we can now be set apart for God's usage.

Before we can be set apart, we need to be

set free for us. Amen, are there free people in

the house? Are you freeing the Lord? And if you're

not free, later we will pray. And I want to

give time. I want to make room for prayer. All right,

I won't take too long. I feel people need to

be set free. There's things in our lives that you know,

only you know, but God knows.

I don't know it.

I really sense God really wants to set people free today.

Whatever it is, you know, it's own mindset. Is it

a habit?

Sometimes we have a habit of lying that's also a habit.

And God wants to set us free. God wants to

set us free from our sickness and our pain. Do

you want to accept your sickness and pain forever? You

want to just leave all? Yeah, I'm already you know

and accept it. But God says I came to kill

your diseases. I came to set you free, forgive your

iniquity and your trespasses.

That's what God wants to do. Amen. We don't have

to live under our circumstances. Amen. As children of God,

we are.

Called overcome us. We are not living under our Circumstansus.

We overcome our circumstances.

Amen. I want you to have that mindset.

I want you to say, this year Lord twenty five,

no matter what news comes, no matter what price they increase, they.

Remove subsidy for patrol.

You know, things are gonna increase, gas price, electricity price,

doesn't matter, whatever.

Comes, I will overcome. I shall overcome in the name

of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. That is what I

want to prepare you for this year. Guys.

You know why, because it's not going to be easy

this year. This year it's fraught with challenges. You want

to talk about political you know, a time and the

season of our life. This is probably the most shakeable error.

Anything that can be shaken will be shaken. Yeah, Jesus

has said that anything that can be shaken will be shaken.

So we've got to prepare ourselves for the shaking.

There are things in our life that God is saying,

I need to shake this out of you so that

I can set you apart to see that there is

going to be a greater plan that God has.

Imen. Do you know, as people of God, right when

we know the Bible, we know the word of God,

we don't have to be afraid. Why are you afraid?

We are afraid because we don't know what's the end.

But can I tell you God told us the end already?

Amen? Do you know what's the end? Okay, you're not sure.

I don't know whether I mean the church or what.

Do you know what's the end? What is the end?

Jesus will come back and he will restore everything in order.

Amen.

It might not be your lifetime, it might not be

your children's lifetime, but he will come and I.

Believe it with all my heart. Everything that is not

right he will set right. How about that?

Jesus says, right when he's back, and that when there's

a new heaven and a new earth.

There will be no more pain, no more sorrows, no

more tears. Hey, hello, that's.

Our promise, you know, that's our inheritance, that's our identity.

So we shouldn't be bogged down by like everyone else. Amen.

Our identity speaks of who we are. Amen.

There's a question around this. Let's go to the question.

Our identity is what sets you apart? So this is

one question for you. What sets you apart? How are

you different from others?

Right?

I mentioned this already in your identity? You think about

it every day. Do they know you as just a teacher?

Do they know you as just a manager, as a staff?

What do they know of you? Or they will say

this is not just another teacher. This teacher is different, different,

This is not just a son or a daughter. This

is a different daughter, a different spirit. Amen. And we

want to be different for the Lord. All right.

So that's our identity now being set apart, Like I said, right,

once you're set free. Now you're set apart. That's your

identity now, right? What is our identity?

Again?

In for Speter Tonight, kingdom off priest a holy nation?

What do priest do intercede and pray?

So children of God, this year your prayer life will

be different.

It's gotta go on another level.

You know, if you started your Christian life as I

give thanks for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and that is

the amount of prayer you have.

Can I encourage you to take it one notch up?

Can I notot? Level it up? A little bit? Level

it up?

Remember we were setting apart our first fruit in the

morning for the Lord.

What are you gonna do? Pray? Yes, pray? Do you know?

You know sometimes I battle with this myself as well, right,

this whole prayer. Then sometimes we have this mindset where

I pray.

So many times, I pray for ten years already nothing happened.

We get this courage, let me say, oh yeah, prayer

doesn't work. Correct, not prayer may not work. It's either

because we are praying for the wrong things. And we

can pray for the wrong things for ten years and

still pray for the wrong things.

The only way we know that is of God is

when we pray according to His will and his word. Right,

his will and his word that one needs to be evident.

God says, Jesus came to seek and save the loss.

So if you're praying for the loss. You're on the

right track. Don't give up, don't give up. Don't give

up yet. Jesus came for them, and so our prayer

needs to be targeted. Pray for your neighbors, Pray for

your parents by name. Remember it said God, I need

to break through, you know, prayer right? Sometimes the image

that I have right, it's like, you know, there's a war.

Do you know what great Wall of China? Even if

you've not been there, can you imagine how great that

wall is? But every time you prayer, you're hitting against it.

Do you know that after many, many, many, many, many

persistent prayers, there's going to be a crack? Yeah, it

doesn't happen overnight. Right, cracks in your house? Anyone got

cracks in your house?

Oh? Yes?

Then you're saying, how come they they never built properly? Right,

my roof is leaking now, Okay. Things that you want

them to build properly, they never be properly. And then

there's a crack. Why Because there is a constant, persistent

rain or whatever it is that keeps on coming at it.

Do you know our prayer is like that, We keep

coming at it, we keep coming.

At it, against this disease, against it's saying that we

keep coming and we say God, no, no, you are above,

we are not beneath. God, Your name is more powerful

than cancer. We keep going at it, and one day

it will break, Amen.

And Jesus and received that.

Those of you who are praying for something say God,

I'm gonna continue until something breaks. I'm gonna pray until

something breaks.

Amen. And sometimes the breaking is us. Yeah, he breaks

us first. And that's not a pleasant It's not something

that you want, right.

But do you know that anything that is worthwhile is

time spent on your knees, anything that is special, anything

that is important, you will go down on your knees

for if you're desperate enough. So the question is are

you desperate? Are you desperate for the things that matters most?

You know when everything else.

Is gone and done, and that's the right.

Would have everything that you have put your time to,

would it have been useful? Did you build for yourself

a kingdom of heaven or did you build for yourself

a kingdom on earth? Right? Which is our destiny? And

the question is what are you putting yourself to? What

are you busy with?

Church? What are you busy with? I know we are

busy with work.

Yes, I understand, But in your workplace that can be sanctified,

that can be set apart. Yes, do you know that

your work is set apart for the Lord? It doesn't

matter whether you know. Sometimes it's this mindset and want

to correct that mindset, the mindset that if all you're

in full time your work is more holy. Oh you're

in business that one less holy?

Is that true? Is that true? No? It's not true, because.

What set apart is you, not what you do.

Do you know you can be a very corrupted elder

or pastor of a church. You can't. You don't believe me.

Many examples have gone before us. Sadly, you can be

the best geologian, not everything about a Bible, and still

commit adultery. It's true. Hello, I'm being very real with you.

So it's not so much about your vocation what you do,

it's who you are children of God. Being set apart

is who you are. I would rather have a very

honest butcher than a selfish leader, pastor whatever it is

true or not, And God will see I'm doing my

work with honesty instead of filled with deceit.

And lies and you know, trying to pump yourself up.

Are you enough of that?

La, don't put people on the pedestal, put God on

the pedestal.

Amen, don't, don't don't look up.

I mean, yes, we honor and we respect great men

and women who are before us, but don't idolize them

because you and I, just like them, can easily fall,

can easily fall. And that's why we need to humble ourselves.

I'm speaking to my leaders here. We need to humble ourselves.

Right.

There's this sense of like saying, God, I don't want

to judge others because next one could be me. I

could be the next one if I don't set myself apart,

if I don't obey God's commandment, guess what I'm gonna

work into the devil's trap easily easily. Okay, set about

how are you setting and do you know this process

of setting apart?

It's not just one time once a year, it's.

Not it's every day, right, which is my last point.

First one is our identity. Our identity is we are

kingdom of priests, a holy nation. Think about that as

your identity. Do people see you.

As whoa this one. It's a real prisn this one

and this lady was very holy.

And sometimes we don't want to associate ourselves be holy.

You know, you're like, yeah, very very Christina, very Chynna,

you're very common.

Yes, so one right, so holy.

This one cannot do that, one cannot do this, one

cannot touch Sometimes we are like, yeah, we're piscey pis

s you know, shy. I don't want other people to

know this, but but this is our identity. I will

already say, oh, this person cannot touch this, this person

cannot do bright because it's their principle. I know them

as a righteous Wow. How nice if your clique can

tell you this is an upright man, this is a

righteous woman. WHOA, how about that God just successful, not

very good, not just very good.

We excel, you know what I'm saying.

Not it's not just your skills. Something that wowsome is

this person is set upon.

Exactly. Wow.

People go like, whoa, this person cannot touch the Sundays

one at least for the first two.

Hours because it's for good.

After that work work understand, dead lines, I understand, but

do you know that we need to continue to have

this identity.

Carry around this identity, and we gotta be proud of it.

Church sometimes be very shy of people don't even know

what you do.

No, say, I'm a Christian and I'm a Bible believing Christian,

and I have values and I have principles, our identity,

our destiny.

I told you where we are hating to Church. We

are hating to something that is of God, the Kingdom

of God. I told my children this.

No, don't get so comfortable here on earth. We are

only sojour nurs we are or not asking strangers in

this land. You know you're a stranger here. You feel

like really out of place. Yeah, why because.

It's not home.

Don't get too comfortable on earth, because our final destination

is with the Lord. And do you think God will

just welcome all of you and say, Okay, We're just

gonna sing song to God every day for the last

for the next.

Three million years.

No, God says I want you to now reign over

the remember Genesis or not? What do you God say,

take dominion over the earth? Now, Christians are not having

dominion over the earth. And that's why it's messed up.

All this is messed up when Jesus comes out, he's gonna

restore the order, and he's gonna be needing people who

are set apart to be able to do that to

reign with him.

Yes or not? Do you want that destiny for yourself? Amen?

And so how do we get there? Right?

I talk about where we start our identity. I talk

about our end, our destiny. What is the process in

the middle. It's called sanctification, our sanctity, our being made holy,

our being prepared, our being clean.

Yes or not?

This is a daily thing, my dear friends. And it's

not gonna happen overnight. Just because you go to a

spa you get your your hair nicely done. Is it

gonna look like that in three days time? I wish, right,

I wish we can always wake up with like perfect

hair day. No, you have to work at it every day.

There is a sense of walking walking with the Lord.

There's a sense of saying, God clean me today. And

that's why the Lord prayers says what there's a lot

prayer says, forgive us our sins, forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass us. Give us this

day our daily break. Yes, do you know there's a

daily thing that we need before the Lord every day,

every day, sanctity through sanctification.

Amen. Amen.

So the question then is this, when we set ourselves apart, right,

what are some.

Of the things that you have to say no? Two.

There's a lot of things just how we say.

We have to say yes right, yes to God, yes

to giving him, yes to serving, yes to I don't know,

speaking words of life. Yes, But there's also a Noah.

What are the things that you have to say no

to this year? Because you remember, you were setting yourself apart.

When you're setting yourself apart, you're saying yes to God and.

No to feeling the dots.

It's very tempting to say I want everything, but that's

not setting apart. If you want everything, everything that the

world promises.

To give you, you're not setting apart.

You know, there's some there's there's you know, a personal

thing that I did for myself. You know, many years ago,

I said, because okay, we're all supposed to be velvest

with a you know, with news and be knowledgeable about

things like that. Yes, get to know what's happening. Yes,

be a global citizen. But I told myself this and

this is something. You know, God, it just really prompted me,

He says. Do you know if there's only one book

you can read in that day, is there's only one

portion of anything that you can read for the day,

Let it be the.

Word of God.

You can read all the news you want, You can

read everything that's going on on social media. Is that

going to set you free? Is that going to bring

you salvation, bring you healing?

If it's not, then why do we spend so much

time on it?

How about really saying, God, if I can go through

the word of God because I believe that the word

of God is the one that will set me free,

the word of the One, the word of the Lord,

is the one that will set me apart, then would

you make that choice to say God, I'm serious with you, Amen,

I'm going to invite the worship banner.

Hallelujah? Are you catching something?

I really want us to be set apart this year

for the Lord individually, but also as a church man.

We need to set ourselves apart. And I really, you know.

I want to see this place for feel overflowing so

that it's bringing to the food people are hungry for

the presence of God. People are waiting to come to church,

cannot wait. How about that? Would you have that experience?

You know that? When I was in South Korea, they

run five.

Services on Sunday and two or three services every other day.

They miss Monday, Tuesday, when say Thursday, Friday, Saturday God

service and people come as early as six am.

They have a six am worship. People are hungry for

the Lord? Amen? Are you hungry for the Lord? Are

you hungry to say? God?

I really want to see lives change, lives touch and transform.

I want to go.

Beyond what I just see every day. Enough enough of

the ordinary, right, I think? Yes, there's the ordinary, there's

the natural. But God wants to do the supernatural for

us because.

He called us. He called us us to be supernatural

just as He is. Amen. We are called to be

like Christ, touching people, setting people free, preaching the good news,

bringing encouragement to others. Amen. Hallelujah. Can we stand? Can

we stand before the Lord? Hallelujah? Let's minister to the

Lord in a song? Hallelujah.

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