Take Heed | Elder Rosalind Ang

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

will light up your day. I'm going to be reading from verses eight to

thirty six. And if you have the physical Bible, you will notice that

these are all the words which are highlighted or colored in what color ray?

And what does that mean Jesus's words? Okay, are you ready to hear

what Jesus wants to say to you this morning? Okay, let's go right,

and just to give you a little bit of context, starting from chapter

twenty one, verse one, it was talking about this woman, right,

a woman who gave her two minds, and Jesus saw that and commended her

for that. And of course then the disciples were asking him about what's gonna

happen next? Right, Jesus's going to happen next? You know, you

see all these buildings as they're all the temple that's there, and then they

are verse seven says and so they ask you, saying, teacher, but

when will these things be and what sign will there be when these things are

about to take place? Okay, let's go from verse eight, and he

said, this is what Jesus said, Take heed that you not be deceived,

for many will come in my name, saying I am he, and

the time has drawn near. Therefore, do not go after them. But

when you hear of wars and commotions, do not be terrified, for these

things must come to pass first. But the end will not come immediately.

And then he said to them, nation will rise against nation, and kingdom

against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines

and pestilences, and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

But before all these things, they will lay hands on you and persecute you,

delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before

kings and rulers for my name sick, but it will turn out for you

as an occasion for testimony a man. Therefore, settle it in your hearts

not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer, for I will give you

a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or

resist. Verse sixteen. You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers,

relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death, and

you will be hated by all for my names sick, but not a hair

of your head shall be lost. Amen, by your patience, possess your

souls. But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its

desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

Let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not

those who are in the country enter her. For these are the days of

vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe to

those who weep, who are pregnant, and to those who are nursing babies

in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath

upon this people, and they will fall by the age of the sword and

be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by gentiles

until the time of the gentiles are fulfilled. And there will be signs in

the sun, in the moon, in the stars, and on the earth,

the stress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring men's

hearts, failing them from fear, and the expectation of those things which are

coming on the earth. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Are you okay, Let's move on, and then they will see the Sun

of Men coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now, when

these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because

your redemption draws near. Then he spoke to them a parable Look at the

fig tree and all the trees when they are already budding. You see and

know for yourselves that summer is now near. So you also, when you

see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. Assuredly,

I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away.

To all things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away. But my

words will by no means pass away. But take heed to yourselves, lest

your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and cares of this life,

and that they come on you unexpectedly, for it will come as a snare

on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore,

and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things

that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Men.

Amen. May the Lord add to the reading of his word is that the

longest scripture that you read this week? Oh is it good to read God's

word? All right? These are all the words of God, and these

are the predictions that Jesus has taught all of us. Right. And the

very first thing that I want to highlight to you is the very first word

that Jesus said in verse And what is that word? What did Jesus say

is verse eight? Look at your bible? What's the first thing he said?

Take heat? What does it mean? Take heat? Other words?

Other words watch out? Thank you for that. That's excellent, watch out?

What is Jesus giving us a warning for? What are we supposed to

be watching out for? All right? So, this word take heat comes

from the Greek word bleepo. It means to have the oh so small So

sorry, guys, okayla, take my word for it, right, and

you cannot read it and read it out to you. It says bleepo is

to have the power of understanding. Do you understand what's happening in the world

right now? Church? Okay, only one person we will educate the rest,

okay, of what's happening in the world right now, to discern,

mentally, to observe, to perceive, and to turn our thoughts and to

direct the mind to a thing, to consider something, to contemplate something.

Are we thinking church? Are we a thinking church? Sometimes I catch myself

and I catch other Christians who are not thinking. This place between your two

ears is the most unexplored place in the whole earth. Let's not talk about

the sea, right, this part in between your two years, it's your

mind. Because most of the time I find in this generation where we are

so bombardied by information, yes, that we become like gongong you know it's

gongong or not? Uh? You know in Bahasa means like a bit border

border right in English means to your foolish we become just consumers of information.

Yes, So what is social media doing at you? It's bombarding you with

their thoughts, It's bombarding you with their messages, it's bombarding you with their

principles. It's bombarding you with desires that they want to create in you.

Yes, you don't know, ah, aren't we all victims of this?

The moment you take out your phone, you are help captive to what all

the advertisers and what all the big companies want you to do. You know

what they do not They have a team, right, who just sits out

and think about how do I keep people to stay on to have their eyeballs

on the app longer. They have a whole team and they spend baillance and

trillance in marketing just to make sure you would spend all your eyeball time on

the messaging that they want you to have. And so we we just absorb

and consume all this information. And what happens is it begins to form the

basis of how you think about life. It becomes the basis of how you

feelter everything right, Oh, I see my friend has this. I also

want to have I phone, the best android, the best I don't know.

So, without knowing, without being conscious of it, we have been

swept into this whole idea that everything else that they are telling us is important,

is important. Yes, am I the only one who who feels this.

Young people, I'm speaking to you everything that you you see, the

things right. God gave us a mind. Yes, God gave us brains,

and that means he wants you to use it otherwise you will lose it,

okay, And what he wants us to do is to discern, don't

just take in whatever that you watch as truth because we only know one truth.

Yes, where this one? This is the only truth that you need

to have in your mind. But we run to everything else and that forms

our reality and we say, God, where are you? God? You're

not real? What's happening in the world right now? God? Have you

thought about that? God? Why why are you not doing anything to stop

the war? People are dying? You know, God is God's silence on

this. But hey, if you know your Bible and if you know your

God, do you know what he's doing right now? Do you know what

he's doing right now? Don't know what is he doing right now? He

is using everything that's happening in the world to show people that all may know

that this God of the Israel, the God of the Jewish people, is

alive, He is real, and he's about to fulfill his prophecies. Yes,

I don't know how you feel about that. Some of you are like,

huh, my God is like that? Or then I would say,

I think you better go back and study the Word because this is the God

that we serve. See, the thing is right, we have a lot

of deceptions. So I want to give to you this thought. Right,

what is it that you're supposed to be watching and discerning right now. Guys,

it's not We don't have a lot of time. Can I say that

we don't have a lot of time anymore? Right? The signs are showing

us every day we are once day nearer to the coming of the Lord.

Yes, one every day once that we are one day closer to the Lord

Jesus coming back. Are you ready? Are you ready in your spirit?

Are you expecting Jesus to come back? Some of us, right, we're

like, God, I'm only sixteen, I haven't dated yet, I haven't

start working yet, I haven't gone to college yet. Don't come yet,

Jesus. I want to experience all of this first. For those of us

who have experienced a we're like, Jesus, come down, come now.

My back, very pain, my knees every pay. I want you to

come now, Jesus, experience all that readylar. But the young people's like,

no, no yet, no yet, Jesus, don't come back yet.

Right, But it doesn't matter where you are in your life right now,

what stage of life you're at, Jesus is coming back. And so

how do we prepare? How do we prepare our lives so that you remember

in verse in the very last verse, it says, right, watch there

for and pray that you may be count worthy to escape all these things and

to stand before the Son of Man. Are you ready to stand before Jesus

today? If I say, Jesus, you're here right now? Are you

ready to stand before God and account for your life? What have you been

doing the last twenty four hours? What have you been doing the last week?

What have you been doing the last forty years of your life? Are

you ready to stand before God and give and a count of your life?

Right? So, so wake up. If you've never had that sense of

urgency, I say today is the day. Today is the day to wake

up and say God, I'm gonna mean business with you. I'm gonna be

serious about this, because there's no point just doing church here, no point

just come in and out, do a little bit, give a little bit,

you know, and like I'm halfway, I'm not here, I'm not

there. Hey, if you're Forgod, you're one hundred percent for God.

Yes, there is no fifty percent one you know, God says, love

the Lord with all all means. What nineteen nine percent, one hundred percent

do you desire that love God with all your heart, your mind, your

soul, your strength. Oh that's that's that's basically the whole summ right of

the Law of Jesus. But it didn't end there. It was the second

part of it. Leave your neighbor. Yes, don't just be concerned about

yourself, because the big part that equals that, the equation of the sum

is to love God and love others. But we have gotten it. Love

myself and when I got time and when I'm retired, I will love God

and love others. Ooh ouch, I touched a rona. But they God

say, only when you retire, love God with all your heart, your

soul, your strength. Yes, he say that. Ord he say,

Oh, when you're rich and successful, then love God. God's coome Mama

is love God now with your all one hundred percent. Right. So are

we watching? I won't read to you from Matthew twenty six, but it

just says watch this whole word watching. What does it mean to watch?

Remember when Jesus was in the garden of gasamini s right and he was about

to go to the cross, and what he asked his disciples to do to

watch, to watch oni, watch and pray okay, So, since that's

up, let's read the word of God Matthew twenty six, verse thirty seven

to forty one. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of

Zebedee, and he began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then he said

to them, my soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here

and watch, okay, a highlight for you already. Okay, stay here

and watch with me. So he went a little further and fell on his

face and prayed, saying, Oh Father, if this is possible that this

cap passed from me? Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you

will. And he came to disciples and found them a much i'm eerth only

right, are we sleeping here in church this morning? Yes? Thank you

for the honesty. If you find your neighbor sleeping, can you just like,

hey, hello, she's talking about you. And then he came to

his disciples and found them sleeping and said to Peter, what Jesus also got

exclamation mark? Right? What could you not watch with me? One hour?

What's the next verse? Watch and pray? Let you enter into temptation.

The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is Yes, guys, Jesus

already knows that we are weak in our flesh. We have good intentions,

yes, all of us got good intention. God, I will pray God,

I'll read your word. Good intentions, but zero action. Ooh,

you can live your entire life with good intentions. Yes, will you be

going anywhere? No? You would just sit on a lot of good intentions

and just say I hope that one day. I hope one day. Don't

hope, Okay, not that kind of hope. The only hope that we

have is the hope in Jesus. Right, and that's assurance is one hundred

percent sury. Okay. So how do we be watchful? Right? This

would watch? In Greek, there's two terms for it. One is called

grigorio and a group neo. For those of you who are Greek and studying

Greek, it means to stay awake. Hello, anyone sleeping at stay awake,

be sleepless, to be vigilant and on guard, fully alert, aware,

and intently focused. How many of you have been to camping before and

you were supposed to be on the night watch? Anyone? Anyone night watch

night? Do you tea hey? No? None? Of you're going campinger,

No boy, no, no boys, be great rangers here nothing no

one boy scouts last time, last time, last time? No ohllo,

need to bring your camping ler. But do you know that when you are

out in the woods there needs to be someone who's standing right on duty to

keep watch. And don't I'm so bad, don't be all like our guy's

laugh right, yeah, like that. This is the way they stand watch?

Right? Have you seen h can stand watch? My eyes closed?

When? And what it means is to keep your eyes open and to be

so focused? And what are you looking out for? What are you looking

out for when you're on duty, on guard? You're looking up for danger.

You're looking out for any potential threat that's coming your way. Yes,

how are you standing guard over your own life? Are you watching your own

life? Many of us just let our life pass us by. But do

you know that God has called us to be watchmen? Yes? And if

our lives are just gonna go by, we're not even watching it. How

can we be watching over this nation? How can we be watching over this

world? Basically, we've dropped our responsibilities. God has caused us to be

watchmen, and that's an Eazekiel. Right, remember the prophecy that God said

to Ezekiel, you will now be the watchman, and I will give you

the words. These are the warnings to us. Are we watching? Firstly?

Are we watching our own lives? Yes? So I give you five

points in this right. The first one, how do we be watchful?

How can we be watched? With? The very first thing that Jesus said

was and he says, right, take he okay, God says, ready,

take he be watchful. Take it of what so that you will not

be unswer It is in your Bible, to your go to the word.

Take it that you do not be deceived, Watch that you do not be

deceived. Now, what are some of the common ways that us right now

we are being deceived? Be wary? Be wary? The first w for

you, if you're taking notes, is to be wary of deception. What

are some of the things that you think we are falling under? Deception?

False lies? False issue? Yes, anyone? No, give me answers?

How have we fallen under the deceptions of all the lies of certain anyone?

Social media? Yeah, social media? I mentioned that, thank you,

yes, social media. What other thoughts about God that you think that

we carry in our minds, but we always think that you know, I

will have that mindset and perception, but I don't even know whether it's a

lie or not. Can you think of something? Can you think of something

a lie that you have believed? God is only good to those people who

give a lot of money? No, God is only good to those who

like just now you know. Thank you Ada for sharing that powerful testimony,

because our God is a lively man. Did you catch something of what was

different about her that caused that breakthrough for her? What was it? What

was it? Pray? Pray? How many of you believe in the power

prayer? Can I see a show of hands? How many of you?

Okay, thank you? How many of you actually pray? Pray? Thank

you? So we can say we believe in the power prayer. But every

time a trouble comes, a crisis hits. When you read news that you

don't understand, who's the first one? What do you turn to first?

Or who do you turn to first? Are you turning to God right away?

Immediately? Think about it. Think about your own personal response when something

happens. What is your first response? I pray that your first response will

be to drop everything, Get on your knees and ask God, yes,

because you see, this is how we are standing guard. This is how

we are watching over our lives because the enemy continuously tries to deceive you.

Yes, he throws in all these challenges, and you go, oh,

I feel overwhelmed. Hey, hello, you have a God, a Christ

who has conquered the grave. If you've forgotten, yes, do you think

that he cannot help you overcome even the most humanly impossible thing to do?

Do you think God cannot? That is the lie? Can you catch it

ready or not? That is the very lie that says Heaven doesn't rule over

your life, doesn't rule over a impossible situation like getting you to be graduated

without paying for your fees? True or not? Think about your own life?

What area do you think God cannot touch? You think it's impossible?

Anything, cancer? Impossible? What is it? What is it that you

feel that God? Lord you, I think you cannot lie? We might

not say it right, blessphemious, I cannot say, but we think it

act We behave as though God cannot. And therefore we go around like oh,

wor worried, scared, scared, you know, right, angry at

other people holding bitterness? Do you think that God cannot release forgiveness over the

most painful hurt in your life? You think God cannot? That's a lilah

that you've believed in. That is a deception, That is a very deception

that you have fallen under because you do not believe that Heaven rules. And

if you do not believe that Heaven rules over every single detailed, minute or

big over your life, then what's the point of praying? Right? God?

You never answer my prayer? Ana, why pray right? It's only

when you have prayed and you have tasted and seen that God is good?

Can I tell you something? Can I tell you a secret? Please?

Thank you? You want to know the secret? Right that, even Eve,

that situation had not turned around for Ada? Do you think God has

not been faithful to her? Answer honestly, answer honestly that you only will

profess and thank God and believe that He's good and faithful only if He answers

your prayers. That's a lie again that we have believed that God. If

you didn't come true for me, You're not good, You're not faithful.

Where are you God? You're silent? Is there another lie? And many

of us fall under that deception because God is the goodness of God. The

faithfulness of God is not contingent on what He does, on how your circumstances

play out, right, because many of us depend and put our faith based

on what happens around us. So it's almost very bishy washy, right it

circumstances changes, then Oh God, where are you right now? But we

have not anchored our faith on the character of God. The character of God

because even as he shuts this door, I believe that there is a better

plan for you. And so what do we do? Right? So what

do we do? So let's cut I hope I won't be able to cover

all the deceptions that we are. But can you catch yourself thinking about things

like that? Can can you go now begin thinking? Hey? Why am

I thinking about God? Do I still trust in Him? Do I believe

we sang that song? Right? You can sing all the song that you

want, But if you don't believe it, then you're paying lip service.

Don't pay lift service like guys waste your time? Why why would you do

that? Right? If you believe it, then you believe in God?

You say, God, I cannot see help my unbelief like the Father.

Right, if you do not believe that God will come true for you,

then you come to God and say, God, I do not believe.

Right now, help me overcome my unbelief. You are still coming to him

and that's the most important thing. So just to be very very very very

careful of how we are thinking, guys, we really need to watch the

way we think our deception. We Oh, my gosh, I tell you,

the devil is very clever. Okay, you think you're smart. The

devil is smarter, and we'll up with you. But praise me unto God.

We have Jesus, Yes, who overcame the devil. Amen, Can

we give praise and to God? Jesus has overcome the devils in your life?

And so don't fall under the deception. Oh, I'm like that,

you know I cannot. It is my habit, it's my genetics, is

my family issues. Ah, don't care. Jesus has redeemed all of you.

He has redeemed your family history, he has redeemed your genetics. Okay,

do you believe that? Oh, Unbelief is the biggest deception, guys.

Unbelieve is the biggest deception in your lives. So we have to cast

that out. Okay, any unbelief that you have right now, just say,

God, I repent of this unbelief, and I choose to believe.

I choose to believe. Amen. The second thing in watching is firstly to

be wary of this deception that the devil continues to temper us with. Okay,

so just be careful. Also what you watch, literally, all your

social media stuff, what are you spending your time on. You're uploading into

your brains everything that the world is saying. Of course, you will have

no room for what God has to say. Right. Although God is the

most powerful, you don't make room for him. There is no room there

for him, all right. The second one is to do is this,

do not be afraid? Yes, are you afraid? Hey? Christians,

are you afraid? What are you afraid of? Do not be terrified?

Jesus says everything that you see in this world for young people. Here,

you're looking at wars. You know we've never gone through wars. Have you

lived through wars? You hear your grandmother's story right, or you know back

in those Japanese occupation days, they live through water, they live through famine,

they live through eating one meal a day with just rice, and tell

you rice and salt, rice and so your sauce. That's it. You

get one sweet potato, you finish it. You don't say I don't like

sweet potato. You eat it because you're starving these days now, we are

so privileged, right, and we waste food. Hey, guys, come

on, if you're eating too much, but let repent. Please, I

still have to say to myself all these things we take for granted. Yeah,

food on our table. Do you know that having tree square meals a

day? You are so blessed, so blessed, And you say, God,

how come you know bless me? The very fact that you can all

come here, beautifully dressed, fully clothed, coming from your beautiful, comfortable

homes. You are so blessed, you know. And we look at all

the things in our lines and we complain, don't have this, don't have

that? Come on, guys, did you live in such a place that

you are overflowing with gratitude to God every day? God, You're so good.

God, You're so good. And when you can begin to practice this

every day, remembering what God has done for you, and even if you're

in the worst circumstances. Right, Remember your salvation, Guys that want nothing,

Nothing in this world can ever compare to that salvation that you have.

How precious is your salvation to you? Many of us take it for granted.

No, Like, yeah, I grew up in a Christian family.

My bad. My dad was a pastor, my grandmother was pastor. You

know, I grew up in church. All this time suddenly got text and

weird. But we take our salvation for granted, and we're not happy about

this. We're not happy about that. Two weeks ago, I was caught

on to minister to a lady. So what happens is ex Church partners with

Sunway Medical Center, you know, Somewhay Medical Center in Subang, right,

and to provide chaplaincy services. And what that means is usually those people who

are at their late stage of life in palliative care. Uh, and they

say, I want someone to come and pray with us, right, and

so when we can, we will come and minister. So I think just

even a couple of months back, Passissandra and doctor Ji managed to minister to

someone a French lady. I'm not sure whether you heard the story, but

long story shot is this lady. It was in the last stage of life.

She only had a couple of weeks left, and she says, I

want to know God. I want to know a French lady, I want

to know God. In her broken English, She's like, in you know,

in all my all my years, I've loved at my friends who believed

in God. They say, what is your belief going to do for you?

But in her last stage, she came to a realization that I want

to come to God. How can you tell me? How can I come

to God? And so of course passes Andra and doctor You ministered to her

and says, you know, God loves you so much that he sent us

here as his missionary good News, to bring the good news to you.

That God is just a prayer away. He is your believing in him.

Would you believe in him? And she did. She accept the Lord.

Praise God, Amen, She praised. She accepted the Lord. And one

week later, doctor Jill and Passandra attended her funeral. It was a Christian

funeral because her family respected her wishes. And two weeks ago I went to

minister to another lady. Now she's only fifty two years old, a Chinese

lady. She is engaged to be married. She was engaged to be married.

She's traveled the world, you know, she's seen She's always going around

places. And when she fell sick in July this year, she had terminal

cancer. She came back to Malaysia to sick treatment, and I think a

couple of months later she gave her life to Christ. She gave her life

to Christ. And so then that's why she has. When we went there,

we met two of her sisters there who were not believe us, right,

But she was just lying there in bed, and I think when I

stepped into that room, I just had such a heavy heart. I don't

know whether you've seen cancer patience. They are in bed and she's lost so

much where I could see her bone sticking out, you know. Ah,

And when she was trying to talk, she could barely breathe. She winces

in pain and she breathes out thank you for coming. Do you know in

that in that moment, when you're seeing almost like a life and death situation,

you you begin to think about, actually, what's what's life all about?

What is life all about? You think about it because one day we

will all die. If you don't know yet, can I tell you that

that is a reality. Why must there be death and pain and sickness in

this world because of sin? Because of sin? Go back and read Genesis.

The world that we live in is messed up, guys? Why because

of sin and the sin that is still present here today? There is evil?

Do you know everything that's happening in the middle is it's evil? It's

evil. I will say, it's evil. And God is not pleased with

it. Do you know that his heart breaks more than anyone else's over what's

happening there? Our lives lost. And so with this lady we prayed.

But because she had peace, right, she has found Jesus. And she

said, can you pray for me? And we say, what can we

specifically pray for you? She said? She said, can I live longer?

I just got engaged. I want to spend more time with my family.

I want to do God's work. I want to tell them about Jesus.

And we pray for her. I think about a week later she passed

on. She just gone home to be with the Lord. But do you

know that her countenance was different because she knew of this faith in God.

She knew who she is. Right, so I pray that we never take

our faith for granted. Church. You know, we always lose sight of

the main thing and we become petty argumentative over the smallest things, you know.

And at this point of my life, I'm like, it's okay.

Anything that happens are it's gonna be okay. What is gonna be the most

important thing is that we hold on to our faith and hold on to the

end and bring others with us to faith. Do you know it's not good

enough that you just feel, oh, okay. As long as I'm saved,

that's all God, Thank you Jesus. As long as I'm saved,

my family is saved, that's enough God, That's all right. No,

God is saying the reason why we are alive today and have breath is because

He's wanting to use each one of you as a mouthpiece to share this gospel

to the so many who perishes every day every day. Look out around you,

guys. The moment you step up from this church, you will meet

the masses who are lost. What are you going to do about it?

Are you going to be apathetic? Like, oh, it's their problem.

Lah, As long as I'm safe, that's all that matters. Are we

guilty of it? I am guilty of that. It's so easy to just

live your own life, you know, ask God for all the things that

you need in your life, and don't give a hoot about your neighbors,

about your society, about the world that we live in. I don't know

where you are. I don't know what God is saying to you. But

can you do something? Church? Can you do something? You can?

But will you see? That's the thing, right? We can? We

can't do things we know we can. We can give a word of encouragement

to someone. We can text someone and say right now, hey, I'm

thinking about you. How can I pray for you? We can, all

of us can write. Is it a very hard thing that asking you to

do? No? But will you do it? You can? But will

you do it? Because otherwise it's all about us. Our life is consumed

with us, me myself and I me me me me me, Mine's miney's

miney's mine's. Why don't you try this practice or this habit that when you're

praying for one of your needs, can you pray for someone else's need?

Can or not? Attach it together? More powerful? Right? Your prayer?

Pray not just for yourself. Can you ask God to say, God,

can I begin to look out and see how can I love my neighbor?

How can I reach out to something that is what we are all about

church, that all may know that Christ is Lord. Amen? Amen,

I'm gonna run truth quickly because I want to the full breath of what watching

is. So. First one is to be wary of the deception that we

carry in our minds. Second one is to not be afraid. Do you

know the God that you serve or not? Amen? If you're not sure,

come and talk to me. We'll go through a Bible and I'll tell

you this God that we serve. We shouldn't be afraid. Guys, you

should have confidence in our God. You should have confidence. The third one

is this you can expect testings. Yes, yes, you're seeing it right

now. I know all of you are familiar with this. My life full

of first thing ready lah, So don't be surprised, la Jesus already say

God testing ready? Right? But what's amazing? He says that this verse,

I'm sure you've never read it before, in verse thirteen. If anything,

for you, read verse for thirteen. But it will turn out for

you as an occasion for money. Aida. Whatever trials and testing, you

know, challenges that you've had, it will turn into an occasion for testimony.

It's just timing, right, It's all about timing because it says,

by your patience, possess your souls. I want to release this with to

someone because I feel that some of you might need it. Right. Can

you look at verse nineteen, by your patience possess your souls? And what

does that actually mean? You know, sometimes we say we are being patient,

right, patient means why sit down and do nothing? Patience means what

let other people step all over you? A lot of us don't like this

with patience right, because we think it's all about letting people step over us.

It's about you know, you know, being being meek and gentle and

just hold onto your anger. But the meaning of patience is state fastness.

Is this work called hupo money. It means a constancy and endurance, endurance.

I know some of my homies kids just went for a Spartan challenge.

Right. You need endurance to finish the line? Right? Our thing this

year is what towards the Yeah, what do you need to finish? You

need endurance, You need to hang on all the way. That's what patients

mean. And it also means that you are anchored, you know, being

steadfast. You know the words steadfast. Yes, you are holding fast to

something, and in our case, we are holding fast to Jesus. What

are you fasting yourself on? Your skills, your abilities, your charisma,

your network or your net worth? What are you onto? We are to

be steadfast on Jesus and Jesus alone. Amen. Amen. Then the fourth

point is this to comprehend the signs. That means, guys, start reading

the Bible alongside with what you're reading the news. Okay, The Bible should

be the lens in which you see everything in your life. Can I say

that again? The Bible should be the lens and perspective of which you see

everything that's happening in your life and in this world. If you don't have

a biblical perspective, you will lose heart, You will be discouraged, you

will be afraid. Right now, what should we just run through a compound

by lend and you know, live there because the world's coming to an end?

No? Is that what we're supposed to do. You don't have a

biblical perspective of life. And therefore you're afraid, you're discouraged, you lost

hope. But our hope is in revelations. Yes, because Jesus is gonna

overcome everything. And finally, finally, the last one for you is this

h is to have a heart check. And this is taken from verse thirty

six. He says, watch there for and pray always that you may be

countered worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass and to stand.

And in verse thirty four it says this right, but take heed to

yourselves. Less your hearts be weighed down with carusing drunkenness and cares of this

life, and that they come on you unexpectedly. Guys, if there's a

lot of cares of this life that is weighing on you, then we need

to do a heart check. Yes, let's keep our hearts light. If

there is unforgiveness, if there's anger, if there's compromise, if there is

complaining and grumbling, can you let that go? All these things are weighing

you down, let those go. And that's how we watch over our lives.

Amen. It's not just good enough to watch, but we're supposed to

watch n watch, n watch, an watch and pray. There's this quote

that I like. It says watching helps your praying, and praying helps your

watching. Yes, watching helps our praying and praying helps our watching. Amen.

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