Fill Your Horn With Oil and Go | Elder Wong Kien Yiak

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. First Semuel chapter sixteen. Now, First Semuel

chapter sixty speaks about uh samuel encounter with Saul. You know the story,

right, Salmue and Saul. Saul was the first king of Israel. The

Bible says Saul was very tall. King Saul was very tall. I hit

above everyone else. Right, So once you're tall, right, people tend

to look up to you. Literally, sorry, once you're tall, right,

people tend to look up to you physically right, true right, and

you wherever you stand, you stand out more right when you are tall.

What happens in class You always get the last sea because you are blocking.

If you're sitting in front, you're blocking someone's real right photograph. Wherever they

put you there, you can see you one true or not. Tall people

always get to stand behind, but they still can see you. Right.

So when you are tall, people recognize you. The Bible says Saul was

above everyone so and also quite charismatic. Mm hmm right, So being the

first king of Israel, I mean it is quite a high calling. First

kill of Visuel, high calling. Come on, right, if you are

the first to do anything, they always remember you on for good or for

bad. They always remember you, right. Not Let's say, for example,

you're the first to bring something to Malaysia, they remember you, right.

So Saul had that cold privilege. But in Saul's journey, even though

anointed by Prophet Samuel that you think that he will follow with the love,

there's a part of him that seeks more of people's a proverb than God's approver

mm. Even though he has everything going for him. He is from quite

a well to do family, quite well to do family. So he has

everything great for him. But yet something like inside, how many of you

know that when God revealed things in your life, you have ech upon it?

Right? How many you know that God revealed things in your life you

have the eg coupony. So saw first of all, started to step outside

his boundary of calling by making sacrifices that he's not supposed to. Just because

we think we can do it doesn't mean we should. Seriously, just because

we think we can do it doesn't mean we should. For example, right

now, the things of God you saw Elie worship leading and stuff, will

say I can sing better than her now more firs. Come on, come

on, it's okay and sorry because you have like, for example, in

your life, you could say that you know Allie only saying once a week,

which is only about forty five minutes. I got three hours of karrooke

every every weekend, right, so there will call you were Ellie. I

know, please don't call me for karaoke. Okay, I'm not good all

right. My wife be asking me since the day I got married to go

karaoke. I said no. Right. So anyway, sometimes you think that

I can do it because I'm talented. I can do it because I can't

but be the things of God. There's some boundaries you cannot cross. One

if God calls you for something, If the Lord calls you for something,

you and I need to respect the boundary. For example, if God has

asked you to lead the church, therefore everything about the church falls under your

shoulder. It's not just leading a corporation. How many if you know that

leading a church also requires God or anything? Come on, requires gods or

anything without the nothing of the Lord. Friends, it is very hard to

lead the church. It is very tough to lead the church. Do you

know how many phone casts messages it comes away. Every problem comes away,

and not just our own, our own things. If you ever do it,

if we have to do it with one thousand other people's problems, not

saying it's it's without the strength of the lot, it's a burden. Come

on, come on, without the strength of lot is a burden to it.

Right, So you'll own your own businesses, right, you cannot delegate

problem with someone else. It still falls on you. I pray that today

you open your heart at this see so this Saw right, Saw decided to

make an offering when Samuel said, I will come. Samuel came on time,

but Saws it you're a bit late. So therefore God says, from

that day onwards, I'm going to look for someone else. Right now,

you would think that Profers Samuel, okay, just give you a background.

I have to give you the background. I just can't go straight into first

seven chapter sixteen, So you would think that Samuel being caught when he was

a young boy who understood everything all right, But when God decided to reject

Saw as king first Samuel. Chapter sixteen reveals where Samuel's heart is worse.

One says that, now, Lord say to Samuel, how long will you

mourn for Saul, saying I rejected him as reigning over Israel. Fill your

home with oil. I'm sending you to Jesse the beck of mic for I

provided myself a king among his son. Worst One reveals this that friends Saw

was rejected as king. Quite obvious, right, come on, obviously not

obvious because he is obey God. God say, because you did so,

maybe I cannot make you. I cannot let allow your reign longer. So

therefore I have to look for someone after my own heart. You would think,

profer Severel understood all this that go with the Lord. But worst One

say that Profets Samuel had this deep sadness because Saul was rejected, deep sadness

because Saw was rejected. I don't know how many how many times in your

journey you never understood how God moves. I don't know how many times in

your journey with the Lord that you couldn't see the hand of God clearly.

Therefore, you are longing for something that God has said no to. You're

hoping for something to change, right because God say no to you, by

you're hoping that no become a yes in the future. Someone was holding things

onto things when God asked us, asking you to let go. That's why

I said earlier on fasting reveals the problem. The problem is not in the

revelation. The problem is what are we going to do with God? God

reveals, I don't know how many of you have move house before, move

place to stay. But every time you remove, you have to pack.

Every time you pack, you have to ask yourself do you want to keep

this or not? Right? Not? So I shed this exico to the

company. I saw one husband telling the wife shouting okay. They're sitting across

the husband shouting the wife and just say this wife, your exercise books.

Time to give it away because the preachers saying it's time to let go.

Then the wife shouted back to the husband across okay, husband. The preachers

say that you can keep some but many times we like to keep and not

deal with the issue, not deal with the things. Guys revealed. When

God revealed to Samuel, how long will you mourn? God was try to

test every look. I know you are sad because I have to do this.

I know you couldn't let go because I have to do this. But

it's time for you to get up from where you are and move on.

Many times I've heard before people say, you know, the good old days

of Christianity, the good old days of church, the good old days.

First, if you go to keep referencing the good old days, you're never

never going to move on. I mean everyone, like I mean different people

I met say that, oh, the economies are doing very well. Right

back then was better. But we can't go turn back the clock. It's

now we are living in. We have to move forward. And many times

we in this place whereby we are continuously said, because God, why do

you do this? God? Why do you do this? God? Why

do you do this? Samuel, if you read properly, was in a

place of depression, was in the place where he opened his heart and just

say, like God, why. Maybe he had really good relationship with Saul,

even when he like saw, but he had a very good relationship with

him. Sometimes you never understood why. Some times we let go of things

are but some things still remains even though we let go of it. Physically,

Samuel wasn't besaw, but there's there is a spiritual thing that's happening there.

How do you know that God has to rute to profit? Samuel?

The Bible says that that for where you're where you're at, the point number

one is that you have to fill your horn with oil and go to Jesse.

Point number one points okay, I'm not very good. Points. I

got this from my devotion that many times in our life we have a horn,

but there's empty of oil. The Bible says horn represents strength, victory,

the bull horn representing vitality. You know, the word is majestic.

You know many times in our life, friends, our horn is thereby it's

empty, there's no oil, there is nothing, and you know what happens

after that. We speak more about the horn rather than the oil. We

speak more about the flask rather than the annoying thing. We focus more on

the external rather than the internal. We focus on everything whereby the horn is

polished, horn nicely, okay, because some things are nice to put up

on the wall. But it's empty of all friends. So God has to

come in into Samuel's life saying, look, Samuel, I know you're said,

I know you're said, but how long would you allow this to go

on? Come on right now? Some of us have allowed things to go

on for a very long time. Year after your week after week, day,

after day, and God is speaking straight in you heard this one and

saying how long would you allow these to go on? We take measurement of

our weight on a daily basis and say that one day I will lose weight,

even two killers, one day I will lose weight, but we never

actually act on it, or the word is never actually do something about it?

Right something, God is speaking to us even through our weight? How

long would you allow this to go on? Come on? In your life?

How long would you allow these to go on? Come on? How

long would you allow? For example, like you no, I've heard before,

so I'm just being very open with your How long would you allow yourself

to keep saying that it is so shallow in homes teaching? Hey, it's

okay on friends, you're in church, so I'm just being your family.

Okay, be family. There is no there is no How long would you

allow yourself to say keep saying that the teaching is so shallow? Why is

it that your education of your spiritual life is on the preacher? I shed

this one time. I say, I say, allow me to go into

your library or your books. Let me see how many Christian books you have?

Because if your spirituality is based on the Sunday preaching. That's why it's

shallow because from Monday to Saturday there is no depth. Come on, So

how long would you allow it to go on? You know, year after

year your homes is so boring. Homes is so boring. I'm not saying

how homes is boring, okay, but you know sometimes now lives homes is

so boring. Homes is so down We allow pains in our life and not

doing something about it. Therefore, what are you doing about it? Come

on you yourself? What are you? Are you going to contribuild to the

excitement of homes or are you going to add more problems? Your home leader?

Think about it? No, seriously, because when God spoke to me

that sometimes you look at when you look at people, right, this guys

got a problem. You're white. They want to show us a prayer when

your wife you're so genuine, Hey, true, just speaking very honestly here,

You're a right, is it? It? Come on some of you?

Right, Sam? Right? Sometimes we look at people. I want

to avoid this. Then you go to work, this person coming show give

me what she'll give me what you right way to toilet? Right? But

we allow we can hide for a moment, we cannot hide forever. Come

on, So when God reveals to you that the question is this that how

long would you allow things to go on like that? But Eldough, you

don't understand. I've been praying. I have been praying. I have been

praying. I have been praying. I have been praying. Yes, therefore,

take up your flask and fill with oil a lot of times? Can

you just be honest? We pray, but no action. We pray by

no action. What do I mean by dad? It's good to pray,

But I truly believe there must be a fifth element after a prayer. There

have to be a fifth element after a prayer. You know what happens?

I read the next chapter, first semechapter seventeen. Right, God life,

You all know good life, the story of good life. Right? The

Bible says in first seven, chapter seventeen, the army of Israel and the

army of physicists come up every day every day just so say bad thinks about

each other. Then to go back? Could you many for for forty days?

They've been doing that. For example, right now, I just come

up in fro Let's say I'm the phyliciing. Okay, can I say this

print is phelising? Okay, I'm felising. It's a jerve issial right right.

So therefore, every day for forteen days fourteen you all dressed up in

your armor. No come out. It's not like showing up your shop pairs

and T shirt. Okay, every day for forty you put on your armor,

you come up to each other and you just hurrt abuse only shadow only

come up, fighter, fighter, fighter, forteen days. You know,

friends, I don't know whether you get bored. I will get bort after

like thirty minutes. Because there's a reason why you're born on. The armor

is to fight, right, not the reason why the ami is to fight,

not to show you know how this armor of mine made in Japan,

yours being in China. No, come on, nobody goes to war like

they're just showing off where it's made. So therefore for forty days they're just

hurling abuses on each other, but no fight. And sometimes a Christian life

is like that. Yes, God reviews, we pray, but no action.

Come on. Why is because the spirit of good life come and put

us in the bondage. You can put out the armor of if you want.

Okay, you can have the best south system, you can have the

best seat, best air con, as long as your life is not on

the cuttinggage, as low as your Christian commitment is low, as long as

you don't step out in faith, it's already. Just come to church,

Just maintain where you are. It's okay. You know the devil will not

fear if you put in on the from belief religion cushit you right away shivers.

And that's what happened, because know what happened. Our flowers is empty,

but we are so proud of being having an empty flask. Come on,

our flass is empty, and there's too many empty flowers in church.

You know what happened with empty flushs. We buy another flask, thinking that

flash is better. Come on, we have how many flos we have at

home already? Come on, how many flowers we have at home? Isn't

it true? We buy one with flus, thinking that we'll free up this

flask because these flask can serve better, right, not? Oh this one

better? No one nicer color. As I realized as you get older,

it's not good to have things in black color because you can't see after a

while. It's that your back is black, your kids is all having black

key chen everything. After the open I can all see and that and you

happens we begin to buy or maybe get color one because you can see better,

right, isn't it true? Come on, your flowers were shine the

flowers you show people? You know, my flowers or this is what my

mother passed down to me. You know, not nothing wrong with their friends,

but the purpose of the flast is to be filed. Come on,

some of us we buy flowers because it's on sale. Sheep like out this

one. This one, okay, some of your on on on on on

social media. This one was Stanley Stanley on your brand. You know you

don't know what Stanley brand is. Okay, google Stanley sur Wi fire.

No, it's like you cant eyes, you know, come on something like

what is that? You go on social media? You find out? All

right? This one very can can survived fire caught fire soon's eyes. You

know I got to buy. We buy, but now use? Come on,

we buy but never use. We buy if you're so proud with telling

people we have this but never use. But God says, come and fill

up your home with oil and go he does. Feel up your home and

just display at home when everything in white people to come in. Look at

this flask. This oil is from Jerusalem. How your oys from men are

made in Italy? Right, mind? Is from Jerusalem. More annoying thing,

Cassie, you understand what I'm trying to tell you about. Many times

you just you're so proud of the flaws and maybe the oil, but never

going, never going. It's easy to command, harder to do. Come

on, right now, Why do you think the Kingdom of God suffers not

because of the end me, It is because sometimes Christian has never taken a

step of faith to believe God and to go. It's easy to say that,

oh, the worship, the worship, the worship, the worship,

But in our personal life, if there is no worship, Come on what

I'm passionate about this because I'm turning fifty next year doing Chist for twenty five

years. Really, I told I was sorry past that. I know.

Maybe the Lord allows maybe thirty, maybe twenty years. But then that's the

end of a chapter for the church, one of the family partners, end

of the chapter for all of us. You understand, how would the church

looks like in the future if we don't start preaching our baby right now and

telling you all that we need to raise the bar. If regardless of who

is with us, we need to raise the bar. Come on, if

regardless of what song we sound, we need to raise the bar. Come

on, recad those who's sitting beside. We need to raise the bar.

Because many times you ask God, fill me up, feel me up,

feel me up, more of your love, more of your power. But

no going, no going. Come on, and forevery important to include go

in your Christian world because if not, you will be remained stagnant. And

we are so proud of the flawers the external, but no change, no

change. So how do you come out from depression? How do you come

out from this? Is beginning to allow God to speak to you first,

for God's annointing, mass be led to a purpose. You can have the

flaws, strength, but without the oie and going, there is no purpose.

You can have every thing, but without God's leading, God's guidance,

no purpose. Your purpose in life comes from the Lord, comes from the

Lord. I had a conversation with someone who was in their seventies, and

I was saying, so when are you going to retire nola retirements, I'll

die faster, true, true, Right, So I say that when it's

enough, no, lah, I'm immediately really enough for second or ten generation

to cook. Really, but just maybe a bit more. I went like,

but what's your purpose? Therefore a bit more. There has to be

more than just a bit more, right, Come on? Our life is

not just defined by ringing and sense, which is important, but our life

must fulfill the purpose why we are here on earth. There is a reason

why God has given your breath. I'm very confident why I'm still a life.

Friends, I'm very confident I to this. I believe, truly believe

that this church got one more building project. There's one more. That's it.

Then I think the Lord will come me home. Really after that,

there's one more Builliing project American Red, one more bully project. Okay,

the Baullty project is not gonna be one year, It's gonna be about five

to save seven years. But one more brelling project. Once you know your

purpose, friends, it's smaller, y'all. Don't like that, don't read

the beauty project. One comes with quickly, like less of your stash somewhere,

you earn some big coins somewhere tied to the Lord. Those are watching

one, all right, or you've got a spare building somewhere, spare length

somewhere. Okay, come speak to me, all right. But you must

know your purpose. So therefore, friends, number one is going to be

this that fill your heart, your oil, and go, because if without

going, we'll die. The point number two is going to be this.

It is that I cannot afford not I can't afford to do because it will

cost me. I'm sorry. I just got this only at four m in

the morning. All right, my wife came back. I was still awake

and this I was typing this. Also forgive the ignish and the grammar.

The Bible says the second words that you know, even though God said I

will annoy you to go worse to say that. This is what Samuel said.

But God, you must understand if Saw hurt about this instruction, it

will cost me my life. Hey, Lisa, profit Samuel, this profert

SAMUELA. This is not just another cut my own profit. Okay, profit

Samuel, say this. If Saw hurt about this, I will die you.

You got to put into context this for the same profit that ran up

to Saw and told so why did you make this offering? Come on,

Gotsi, you know, Gotsie, but why is it this time? Why

is it this time? And God gives him instructure. He's afraid if saw

hurt about this, it will cost me to my life. He was pleainly,

God, God, please spare my life. Please to ask me to

do this. Please don't you really? You have to really properly. I

just say that, Please don't change the king. Maybe he still can be

safe, maybe he still can be saved, Maybe he can still can be

turned around. We are holding on to things whereby maybe one day we can

still come back together. And I don't know how many times in our life

you're holding onto things that God's asking us to let go. It's going to

cost us because God has caught us. Come on, it's going to cost

us because God has caught us. I figured out in our journey. Right.

Why do we sing the song forever He's faithful, Forever He's good.

It's because it costs us something. Think about it, saying that the phrase

forever He's faithful. If God, that will come to for you in your

lowest point of your life, it costs you something to follow God. It

costs you a relationship with your friends. Sometimes it costs you somethid to say

no to your friends who are asking for teams something on Saturday Sunday morning.

Some of you has appointment to cycle on Sunday morning. Cycle cycling on Sunday

morning is very nice. No roads, no no cast on the roads.

This this is happen when you sleep right, there's no cast on the roads.

Understands you're saying no to something that you have say yes to. It

costs you and people ask you why do you have to go to church every

Sunday? Can go to something, go to any church on Saturday. Then

you can join me a cyclic on Sunday. But because you make a commitment

to the Lord to be here first, you didn't meet a commitment to the

pastor to the leader. Right doesn't mean just because it belongs attentity service homes,

you have to be here. You have a choice. We don't check

on your your attendance all right. I know one church, every member that

comes mass register the name. Think about it, that mask registered the name

because they want to check your attendance. After three times, you are after

three shop the leader will call you. Are you okay? Is there anything

I can pray for? Can come and visit you? Could you imagine enjoy

doing that to your So we were saying, please, I'll come, I'll

come, I'll cover, I'd join the visit me joy start talking. I

have to keep quiet ready because standard is so high. But friends, many

times in the world where we are more concerned about what people think about us,

the one God thinks about us. That's why it's cost God. You

must understand if I have to follow you, it's going to cost me.

We are more concerned with us rather than him. We prayed in Mental chapter

six, the Lord's prayer, your Kingdom come, you will be done.

Right, Come on, met Chapter six says your kingdom come, or will

be done on earth as in heaven. We one God's Kingdom got you to

be done in our life. But it's going to cost us. Come on,

we asked, we come out for prayer. God bless my my initiative.

Yes, God will bless. However, the blessing comes when you follow

him, not by our old strength, not by own wisdom. Seriously,

sometimes in our journey and being closer to fifty this I realized it. Regardless

of how much a person has in terms of monetary value. Hit. If

there is no Jesus, there is no purpose. Can you just say this,

I'm very confident right now, last I've used very scared. You go

more. I keep quiet now, just tell people maybe closer to fifty MA,

closer to see Jesus. Really, I can see Jesus figuring a bit

better silhouette. Right, you're more confisent, You're more confidency that if you

do not know Jesus, you've got no perpersonal life. Then you and I

need to be bold to be able to share. Samuel was scared for his

life because Saul wanted to kill him if he heard about it. I'm not

sure how many of us here, just because we think on the other person's

behalf, we change the way we walk. I don't know how many of

us we changed our commitment to the love because what point if I be like

then, what would my friends think about me? What will other people think

about me? First, Saul has not heard it yet. Come on these

conversations with who God and Samuel. If Samuel don't say, God doesn't say

nobody knows MA think about the God spoke to Samuel. Sea don't talk to

talk to other people. Nobody knows about it unless seven goes out, go

out. No, I've got Simon, you know, I got Simon from

the Lord. I'm good annoying someone else to be king. Okay, but

don't tell anybody. Friends. So if several don't say God, they will

say that nobody knows why. But sometimes we think that what But if they

find out if we change the way we walk because what happened, if they

know about it, we change the way we walk. What would they think

of me if I go to church on the prayer service day they say I'm

too ready to girl? What will my cliques think of me if I tell

her I got to go up back from office on time because there is homes.

Have your walk changed because someone you've been thinking too much about someone else?

It reminds me of David and his fellow brothers in the cave, whereby

opportunity to kill Saul King saw David cut off a piece of cloth. If

you read the Bible, the moment he cut the piece of cloth, he

said, I should have done this. I don't know how many of us

are we're actually repent because of a piece of cloth. Lot think about it.

I don't know how many of us who actually repent because it's a piece

of cloth. Can I just put your just put the name on you or

they say they ask for comman mondy whether you're coming or not coming, not

coming doesn't matter because it doesn't cost you a thing. I put down on

the cap fast they run this. So first, God, don't call down

like one friend's smile. Okay, I'm not I'm not bandying. Anybody can

smile small. I just want to share something with You're the truth over there.

It could cost you something. But friends, you think about it.

If Semon never go, If Salmon never go, David won'tn't be anointed,

think about it. If several didn't go, easier will not experience a brick

shoe. Sometimes you're asking for a break to for a family. It depends

on earth. Come on, we are hoping God to do that. We

are hoping and praying and wishing God will do the supernatural. So one day

we wake up. Wow, I'm so blessed. But first, it requires

you, even in the face of death, we used to follow or not

just because you made a commitment to the Lord. Reminds me of Elijah facing

the proper bowl. You know, the story. I think it's first.

I think First King, chapter sixteen. If your first King sixteen or eighteen

Elijah was one person and the profer hour was four hundred and fifty, four

hundred and fifty people against you, would you still stand for Jesus? Think

about it? Right now? The congregation here is near about goes to one

eighty sometimes three sides of this congregation, and all of your don't like me

preaching. Think about Hey, you have to imagine that. Come on you

the Bible have to mention imagine the right. You are the CEO of the

company. Your whole organizations don't like you. You see you have the lead,

ma elder, I know how to do. I seck everybody. You

can't say everybody because your company will that the next day. No productivity.

Right now, you just imagine right now, if you are the only person

in the first in front of four hundred and fifty prefers about would you still

stand for Jesus? Dot Come on, if you're the only one who needs

to carry the cross all the way to Calvary, would you carry you not?

Oh? There? So how people suspect it? Jesus in front of

pilot can a bash in front of the Chief of priests, Canna Bash in

front of the multitude. He's supposed to die for kann Abash, three big

blows in Jesus' life, but he still carried across all the way to the

very end. Some of us here really need to build resilience in our life.

Whereby it's okay, it's all right, doesn't mean that someone saying negative

things about me. I'm going to allow myself to be dictated a BYuT what

other people say. That's not God. Say okay, I'm all right.

Of course, people have toosed before and our ch Why don't you just grow

one service? One serves very nice man. Everybody is here. You can

see everybody right top a musician. But friends, God has never given us

the blue peen like that. We started off this say that's why we built

this place to be like that. When God moved in our life, the

questions are we will need to let go or when we have a golden calf.

God, you cannot touch this. You know we paid the price to

build this place, and therefore, don't touch this nice building. Don't touch.

Don't touch. For gossaid, I want to move in your life.

There's so many more other people that needs to be safe. Are you going

to take a step of faith to trust me? Not some of you?

God speaking to you all that way as well. Are you going to take

the step of faith to trust me and let go of certain things you're holding

on so clearly, so dearly in your life. And then the prophet Elijah

begin to face the prophet about and just say this that, look, you

serve your God, you worship. Okay, I know my commanment, I

know my God will come true. I will not bother the pure pressure our

Christian life. Sometimes you are so dictated by what other people say. He

said, what God says. We are so oh just because other Christians is

okay, therefore it's all right. We are so concerned. Come on,

I'm preaching a very passionate message here. We are so concerned about others in

stelf of God. And that's why something that there is no break true in

our life. There is no break true in our life. What has God

revealed in your life? Friends, Frans, There's not a message as you

do more as yourself more. No, this is message ask you to open

your heart. What has God reviewed to you? This is a message of

asking God, if you real this to me, I want to respond.

And finally, finally, it's going to be this right his kingdom value versus

our values in First seven, Chapter six, First seven, Chapter sixteen,

verse seven, I think it goes something like this. All right, So

first King eighty seven it says that the law said the seven do not look

at our appearance? Do I look at our appearance of physical appearance? Because

I refuse him. We are very attracted to the outward appearance. Come on,

we are very attracted to our appearance, our values, our values,

that our appearance, our values. For the Lord doesn't see the man sees

men looks at our appearance, but lot, the Lord looked at the heart.

You know, our journey just as close with this one final point,

it's going to be this asse. I'm going to ask the musically come on

stage. As I begin to read this, I just asked a lot of

questions in God, what is it that you want us to know? Because

if we know the scripture, but heart, really, God doesn't look at

our piers, look at the heart. Right, then, I think many

times in our journey, isn't it true over that we focus a lot of

the exterior, right, but rather than our own hearts, go deeper in

the house, lot, go deep in the hearts. We say that your

kingdom come, you will be done right. God's kingdom is internal and friends,

the values of god kingdom He's he values our heart more than external.

Someone say, amen, think about it, because if it's external, friends,

you know how hard this could it be? Not all of us here

must look like king Saul. Do you know how hard is it to look

like someone else? You know, externally? No matter how hard you try,

it's close impossible. For example, if I did to look like John

so pasta Johnson, I have to ask her for America for hair growth.

Not not Mika the loose we lose weight can but hair growth? Friends,

how to grow hair? Right now? How may we know that elder is

come to go ahead? Transplant? Under said? Okay, right, But

it's not just about that. You can't copy everything on the outside. But

there is no the software, the internal, the conviction. We want his

kingdom come, His will be done about that When there is no conviction,

when there's no kingdom values, That's why His kingdom never be seen in our

life or manifested in our life. That's why something that we bother on the

pressure because we are so tickn up by the external. We are so sticking

up by external. I shed one time at the church plant, they saying

that you know it is not Sometimes we ask ourself, why do we give

you the temptation? Why do we give in? What friends is not about

any temptation? Is that one thing you've always been asking for, That is

the one thing that you've always been the words that you wanted a break in

that one area. Some will could be the person that you always wanted to

meet, a seccessful person you always wanted to meet. But if the meeting

falls on a particular way, when a fit meet on Sunday, would you

go and meet not? So I was talking to Passa Jane talking about really

rich people, our experience, our journey, so that we were just actually

knows he's talking about his boss. He's not here, so I can see

he's talking about his boss. No said yea, I said, I don't

understand why my boss ID like to show me who we have dinner with?

Fun, who had dinner with? So if you're well to do, please

okay, I know you have dinner were allowed really important people. But it's

okay, okay, put us in the picture as well. We also quite

important in your life's But anyway, he said, my boss, and he

showed me that he had dinner with the president of China. He had pressed

the prime minister of this country. The country showed to me all so I

asked Passaj, So what did he do to you? Nothing good for him,

But we like to come on, we like like he'd like to use

outward affirmation to get echoics or other people. If you understand what I'm trying

to say, sometimes you want the words that feel important. By showing who

we have meal with friends, I want to let you know his kingdom can't

come if we base our value just because we have dinner with so and so

and me and fas I did, we had a good love because you know

why you say that, yeah are Sometimes we did tell people who we also

have dinner with Jesus. Vise are the community Jesus. You know that's even

more important. But as I close friends, his kingdom values versus our values.

Our values always on the external. Our values is always a the external.

Just because come on, I'm gonna say this, just because a church

is small doesn't mean it's of no use. I'm going very personal here.

A lot of times we knock down, knocked down smaller churches. Oh this

church is not growing. But you know, nineteen ninety five percent of the

churches in Malaysias below the tea people not If our church don't answer the call

to do something about it, the next fifty years, a lot of churches

in Malaysia is going to go down because there is no successor not because there's

no money, friends, money is there. There is no successor there's no

people who want to take over the church. There is no people championing the

church. There's no people say that I want to grow the church. I

want to reach people as I close right now, Friends, it's the right

musician stage his kingdom come, his will be done. His kingdom value versus

our values. We value big, we value extravagant. Yes, all this

are imported. Those are worth celebrating, worth celebrating, friends, but those

are exceptional. Dates are fewer. Could you imagine every Sunday is a reunion

Sunday for your Chice year. Every Sunday you go back for you see Chinese.

Chinese give your dinner or lunch. You'd be so bored with each other.

Right, you'll be fighting each other. Right, you you go eat

each other. Right. The same question will come along I'm not married yet

every week and ask that. Okay, I know it's elder. This like

coming to Chi every week people ask me why I'm not married yet? Friends,

do you understand what I'm trying to say? If we're you in it

Sunday his kingdom comings, you will be done. As I close friends,

I want to challenge you change your values. We want to see a brick

though. Come on, it's not a magical one that God zapped in our

lives. Then contract comes in, but the values has changed for us in

our life. See, if we never let go of friends, we won't

step up. Pastor and myself have been having a conversation about succession, talking

about, you know, because we are close to the passes fifty something.

I'm be close to the fifty. We're just talking about like the next No,

I mean just we're really we're talking about we've got like thirty to forty

years or maybe somehow maybe twenty I'm not sure, but very fast passed by

wy No. Friends, the next thing I know, I'll see the Lord

that you will here by preaching. He could, yes, but it's not

about that. Friends, As we were talking, friends, are we just

talking about this thing? Like how when the chich started, it's always about

you and moment, it's always about you that you are. You are the

glue that glue everything together, right because without you a lot of things will

move on because you're the founder. You're part of the founding people, right,

you know how the chich works and everything like that. But as the

chis begins to grow, our friends, I don't sure how many of us

realize that we need to let go in order to step up. We need

to let go in order to step up. Come on, we need to

let go in order to step up. But stepping up although of course fearful,

of course it is tough. Of course it is challenging. Of course

it's impossible because we feel them. We never ready for it. Remember one

time past had the conversation means kept to step up, to let go of

the things. First, I love buying stuff for church. You know,

my little tissue paper. First, if you buy the tsu paper, you're

in power, okay, because then please I will don't buy the tissue paper

because people can go to other Yes, be good to be. You understand

what I'm trying to say. Come on, serve we do want to be.

Gives us a bit like kick on. You know see can you type

to let go to step up? But by familiar puss you don't stand.

I built years, invested the relationship with all the suppliers. One phone called

they come, yes, pass on other people. That's a disciple ship.

What all this knowledge goes down into the grave and these go see Jesus,

Jesus like all these knowledge come on in heaven. We supply you're going to

call for the dollar paper. I'm just being veryly so in the conversation.

If I held on to my reads pass it's okay, am content that is

that allowed me to be here, I won't see how God moves. I

won't see how God stretched my faith. I won't see how the Lord moves

in our church if you just held on to what we do earlier on sometimes

our life friends, what's holding us back is because we decided not to move

forward. When Gods bespeaking to you, come on, feel your hard we

all feel your flask with all and go and go. But we are praying

for the one perfect day God there is no one perfect day. Friends,

So next year pass is really committed to going out in Malaysia to encourage a

local church. To encourage a local church. See what as an urban church,

what else can we do to help? Our pastor has always have a

national calling for from Malaysia for the for the past three years. That no

pastor. He has never wavered in his commitment of Malaysia. Whether got money,

no money, he will still go because that's the calling of God.

Whether people say it's personal glory or not. Pasta has always been Malaysia is

my land. I am caught. And as a church, we support our

pastor. We pray for our pastor because it's never easy to go to a

local church. So how we are from smaller towns. You understand, you

go back to visit you, I see you, you see the church member

and do you know how sometimes the pressure of being a local pastor in a

smaller town. A friend of mine who retired and give up pastoring because elder,

they say, because I give up pastoring because it's ready pressing. I

see why my congressions are older people. One by one they leave the church.

One by one they leave the church. Not because they're angry with me

because God call them home. Do you know I set about funerals and birthdays?

Think about it that come on, extras, will you? Will we

continent? Just allow our church to send me about funerals or homegoing the birthdays.

It is a good time to saying no. I mean so she was

telling me that I can't think it anymore. At the pressure on my first

funerals, I get funeral, but every other week I begin to one funeral.

Friends. If it's not you, then who If it's not now,

then when the Bible says the worst one? How long would you mourn for

Saul the good old days? How long are we asked for the good old

days to come back? If you only once one service, one service,

one service will be good. One service. Everybody here, my friends are

all here, one service. But God has never led us that way.

Now, if you don't answer the call of well, I can guarantee you

God's going to call someone else that will answer the call. While we can

still exist like the army of Isel, Phrase and Goliath. But there is

no ctigation, no power, no breaks through forever under bondage of the spray

of Goliath. In our life which allow God to go deeper in our hearts,

which allow God to go deeper. Friends, it's like close right now.

My heart goes out for the church only because friends, not because we

spend twenty five years of doing the church. No, it's really at the

end of the days, our own personal journey with the Lord, our own

personal journey with the Lord. Some of us here. The first thing about

going is by your own Bible. If you have never owned a physical Bible,

first, I want to carriact you please buy one. If you grow

up in the in the seventies, you know there's a shop cost Salvation.

Come on, remember the shop cost Salvation, right, so we still got

the membership cut right, praise I d remember uh he very bought a ten

percent Scout. Very bort Hey, I'm a youth leader, got ten percent

the Scout or not? That's way back. Come on, bibles, very

first step by your Bible and read. Not asking you to give all your

money to the Lord. Friends, buy a Bible and read. We hope

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